called in to see the prime minister at that time, rishi sunak, after the home secretary, then suella bravermanas there a moment where you thought i might walk out of this meeting either not in the job or not wanting to carry on doing it? there is a legal process to sack a commissioner and if they want to invoke that then we will work through that process. on big, high—risk operations it 0n big, high—risk operations it is routine to be briefing the mayor and the home secretary and sometimes the prime minister. i have done it many times in counterterrorism operations, we do it on counter protest operations. we did it over the summer. it protest operations. we did it over the summer.— over the summer. it was an unusual— over the summer. it was an unusual meeting, _ over the summer. it was an unusual meeting, though. i over the summer. it was an - unusual meeting, though. some conversations _ unusual meeting, though. some conversations are _ unusual meeting, though. some conversations are robust. - unusual meeting, though. some conversations are robust. i- conversations are robust. i respect, i wi

we know that suella braverman tried to get rid of these things or tone them down and make them much moreble. yvette cooper has brought them back, but now this is embarrassing them a bit. so they're having to say something and this looks like it's going further into it, saying that actually there was like an extensive operation about this tweet, and now there's this ridiculous kind of circular pattern going as well, where the police have complained to the press complaints commission because allison pearson wrote, treated them unethically. they said she treated them unethically. they're the real victims. >> won't someone think about the police as the real remembrance sunday, which i happen to think is like particularly nasty because they know who she is. she might have been at home. >> i think they're making a point, though, obviously. >> yeah. it's disgraceful. it's pure projection. this hate business is always projection. it's them. who is who are seething with resentment. and you're right. absolutely. >> and then she posted online what had happened. and then, like you said, the police c

tonight, i'll be speaking to former home secretary suella braverman, who has said the reduction is becauseng for when in government. plus, reform uk has announced that former tory mp dame andrea jenkins is its new surprise candidate for lincolnshire mayor. meanwhile, the assisted dying bill is to be voted on tomorrow night as nigel farage was saying after my interviews with a tory mp and a labour mp on it for chopper's political podcast will be debating that topic. plus, after closure of centuries old smithfield and billingsgate markets in london, icaught billingsgate markets in london, i caught up with city of london councillor and lawyerjames councillor and lawyer james tonbridge, who voted against that controversial decision. state of the nation starts right now . how. now. i'll also be joined by my panel gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, and the journalist and conservative peer paul goodman. the email remains the same. mail @gbnews .com. send me your thoughts about immigration, assisted suicide and smithfield and billingsgate markets. but first, here are the headlines

suella braverman, welcome to state of the nation.you want to issue an apology to viewers and voters and listeners to this program about the scale of migration on your party's watch ? party's watch? >> absolutely, chris, you're right. this is why i've been apologising for several months, actually, because we failed on immigration. it's been an unequivocal failure by the last conservative government. it's one of the big reasons why we were booted out of office in such an emphatic way by the british people. and we made promise after promise to lower migration and instead we reached and oversaw unprecedented levels of net migration. and so, yes, the conservative party does need to bow its head to the british people and say, we got it wrong in the past and we need to try and rebuild that lost trust. >> we heard just that very language, didn't we, from kemi badenoch, the new leader of your party. yesterday she said, we got it wrong. what will the damage be here? there's lots of comparisons. i think with the chaos over the liberal democrats

now when suella braverman kwasi will know about this.n suella braverman was home secretary, she thought these non—crime hate incidents were bad because they impacted on freedom of speech, right? because they had a chilling effect on freedom of speech. so she wanted to get rid of them. apparently, rishi wasn't keen on taking that kind of decisive action, so they came in with a code of conduct to tell the police to exercise common sense proportionality. is this in the pubuc proportionality. is this in the public interest, to go around to allison's house and tell her that she's done this thing? yes. is this thing that's been done going to genuinely incite hostility? is it going to have real life repercussions in the world, rather than just being something stupid that millions of us say on social media every day now, that was supposed to be enforced and these non—crime hate incidents were supposed to be the police were supposed to stop doing them. they're doing more

notably, there's no suella braverman or tom tugendhat on the list and they're coming for your cuppa. >> the national energy system operator has warned brits will have to reduce power consumption at peak times by 2030, all thanks to ed miliband's net zero plans. will traditional british tea time become a thing of the past.7 >> midnight tea, tom and let's tackle a prince. that was the playful cry of south african children as they played rugby with prince william in cape town. we'll join the future king live in south africa as he promotes his global earthshot environmental prize . environmental prize. >> now we can't ignore the big story that's going to be dominating today. it's going to be dominating all of the newspapers tomorrow. it is an ocean away, but it does affect all of us here in britain. yes. >> and tom's very excited. he's going to be helping with all the coverage overnight. i wonder who at home is going to be staying up to find the election results. how motivated are you to find out who is going to be the president of the united states? i imagine some of you will be staying

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governments have tried to do this because we have both reported on priti patel as home secretary, and suella bravermanhave got to _ worked, and they have tried. they have got to keep _ worked, and they have tried. they have got to keep trying because we have got to keep trying because we have seen— have got to keep trying because we have seen in the last few weeks after— have seen in the last few weeks after what happened in southport, this could — after what happened in southport, this could potentially be very dangerous and can feed into public perceptions about two tier policing and we _ perceptions about two tier policing and we do — perceptions about two tier policing and we do not want people to start losing _ and we do not want people to start losing confidence in the police. can i make losing confidence in the