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what do you make of that chat with tom tugendhat ? tugendhat? >> yeah. morning, stephen. some quite interesting remarks about the story of today's story, which is about the issue of, of soaring energy bills, there are choices being made by this government which are interesting. i think we're seven weeks in. a choice have been made to remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners and make it means tested . 800,000 pensioners tested. 800,000 pensioners haven't yet claimed that benefit , haven't yet claimed that benefit, and perhaps they should do because that was worth £300 from november. now the today's bad news from ofgem is that all our energy bills are going up by £149, it's not a way which sir keir starmer may have wanted to mark his 50th day as prime minister, which falls today by tonight. by the way, 6:00 pm. raise a glass. he will have beaten liz truss, her record as prime minister so there's a start for this new labour prime minister, there are political problems all over the place today for the labour party. he had said , hadn't he, keir had said, h

and you see that in tom tugendhat to you. i see it very much.y much in david cameron very much. and i see the same thing in tom tugendhat. >> he's an heir to rishi or an heir to cameron. is that the problem, >> i think so, but i don't believe it's actually going to believe it's actually going to be an a. i do think that he also. i don't think he'll be in the final two, if i'm honest. >> okay. but let's let's take it on his own terms. he might be he, tom tugendhat said in an interview available on podcast platforms overnight and tomorrow morning. he talked about the choices made by the labour government to pay billions more to public sector workers and then to take away the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners. does that make you uneasy, stephen pound? not. >> not really, because it basically he's just downloading the last newspaper headlines for the last newspaper headlines for the last newspaper headlines for the last six weeks. so there's nothing original. >> well, he's not wrong about it. yeah. that's the point. >> do you agree w

read out a couple of those comments that i mentioned to you there, chris hope, kathy says this, tom tugendhatarage, how deluded he's just lost my party member vote. angela how dare you blame nigel. mr tugendhat, you and your government are entirely to blame for what is going on in our country, and labour are doing exactly the same. all politicians blaming other people. this is lazy governing, but there are some fans in the inbox. but there are some fans in the inbox . gary says this very good inbox. gary says this very good speech by tom tugendhat and connor says the sensible centre right back starts now . and right fight back starts now. and is that the point? chris hope, the answer no to nigel farage. there's a clear demarcation happening here. this is the battle to get that centre ground back and if anybody thought there was going to be a deal with nigel farage to get nigel back into the party, the conservative party, that seems to be a withering prospect . this to be a withering prospect. this seems to be setting out clear blue water between the conservative party of the future and the co

tate. >> well, that was tom tugendhat putting the boot in.dow housing secretary kemi badenoch is under fire for comments made on the house of commons back in 2018, in which she supported relaxing immigration rules for high skilled workers. and she's now distanced herself from those comments. but will it damage her chances? well, who has the early lead in this race? well, joining me now is the former tory mp and minister sir john redwood. me now is the former tory mp and minister sirjohn redwood. sir john, always an absolute pleasure to talk to you. so the early shots have been fired. tom tugendhat, let's start with him having a severe dig at nigel farage for his reckless rhetoric. does he have a point? >> well, i think it would be better if the leadership candidates and the conservative party concentrated on what the government got wrong and why it was that so many people either went to vote reform or stayed at home, because i certainly found dunng home, because i certainly found during that election and the polls bore it out, that the tory v

going back to tom tugendhat, i think the really interesting thing about tom, who i am supporting, so put it out there, is that actually what he has done rather than what he said he voted against lockdowns, further lockdowns. he didn't support boris johnson when boris johnson sought to put up national insurance. he, like me, opposed that, saying the conservative party should be a low tax party. the danger for us in this leadership election is we allow the definition of who is good or bad, right wing or left wing still to be dominated by brexit. almost a decade after the british public have had their say on it. just because you were in favour of brexit, well, just because you're in favour of brexit doesn't necessarily mean you're right wing. i think that's the reason that people regard kemi badenoch as being a staunch right winger is because of her. her position on brexit. but if you look at her voting record, i'd say tom tugendhat is the only one that i know about who voted against lockdown. he's the only one who campaigned with me to stop taxes going up against our own government. bu

tom tugendhat pointed out. tom tugendhat pointed out.in the wake of that islamist terror, we started talking about whether people should be nice to each other online. again, moving away from the substance of what went on into perhaps the comfort ground of politicians . of politicians. >> i thought that was a very powerful point from tom tugendhat to i think it struck a lot of people around the country as strange that so quickly after david amess murder, the conversation shifted to safety onune conversation shifted to safety online rather than the actual motives of the murderer. and thatis motives of the murderer. and that is something which tugendhat is clearly very keen to pick up on. the idea that britain too often sort of brushes the motives of violent crimes under the carpet. and, you know, you could argue in another way that that that this is the same as what's happening now. we're having the riots. why are those riots happening, the far right riots. we're seeing people on the streets furious about immigration. and yet again , about

i mean, i'm not having a go at tom tugendhat , having a go at tom tugendhat, who if he gets into the, i might actually vote for. but it's pretty difficult for these conservative leadership candidates to stand up and say they're going to control the migration because voters are going to be asking, what were you doing for the last 14 years? and i think that's a very hard question to answer. >> the credibility question, how do you build up credibility in question in opposition? how did keir starmer build up his credibility to the extent that he did? >> well, i mean, it's a matter of it's a matter of performance. it's things like like prime minister's questions and being reasonable there also, i think that he gradually put policy together over a period of time. they didn't rush it out. i appreciate he went back on some of his ten pledges that he thought the leadership, all of them. well, not quite all, but anyway. almost. yeah, almost all, but but it was a gradual development of policy. labour were initially criticised when he took over for not having any policy. so they thought about it

conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has accused the prime minister, sir keir starmer, of alure of leadership over recent disorder on the streets. the former security minister said that violence across the uk was completely unacceptable and condemned what he called racist thugs as he opened a speech in central london earlier. >> this has been the government's first real test and the prime minister fell short when we needed a strong government, we got a party in the mindset of opposition. we needed a leader. we got a lawyer waiting for the case to reach court. you have to be determined and aware throughout. you have to be ready to do the job from day one. >> in ireland, ten prisoners are being treated tonight for suspected drug overdoses. the irish prison service has secured additional opioid antidote kits and said extra vigilance is being taken well to prevent further contraband from entering the port lait's jail. the searches of cells have been increased and the canine units focus on deliveries is reportedly being enhanced . a reportedly being enhanced. a breaking developme

and the tom tugendhat.ose a four day working week, but it does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, not reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised the proposals , claiming the proposals, claiming businesses are concerned about potential costs. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more 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 forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's a quick report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. >> the pound will buy you $11,147 and >> the pound will buy you $1.3147 and ,1.1874. the price of gold is £1,912.34 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is 8395 points. >> cheers ! britannia wine club >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly the gb news financial rep

on on the second question, i hope that the next leader is going to be tom tugendhat. ot the mixture. he's as security minister background in the military. he's he's absolutely up there on all security affairs, which is what really matters in a difficult and increasingly dangerous world. but also he's producing domestic policies that i think are really interesting. he gave an interview to the daily telegraph yesterday talking about family policy and how we need to find ways to use the tax system to effectively encourage people not to wait as long as they are now to wait as long as they are now to have families that actually would, you know, would we need to do something about that which all sound like very sort of sound conservative ideas. >> but the truth is rightly or wrongly, tom tugendhat has a has a reputation among the party membership and among more right wing conservative mps for being a little bit wet. do you think he can brush that off and how can he go about doing that? because at the moment it doesn't really look, even if he does make it onto the final two a

tom tugendhat said i said that yesterday.means that all of the six successive two, hopeful to rishi sunak, have said they will not allow any engagement with farage. all six, all six. so the door has been closed on him. farage himself says it is of no interest to me whatsoever, so this is in contrast to mr sunak, who told gb news twice late last year that his party was a broad church and he would allow farage to join if he wanted to, he also had a go at farage over his remarks that mr farage made in the wake of the killings in southport. of those those three young, young girls, he said then, didn't he? i wonder whether the truth is being held from us. i don't know . whether the truth is being held from us. i don't know. in whether the truth is being held from us. i don't know . in the from us. i don't know. in the interview, mel stride told gb news that that could have put more officers at more risk. here's what i had to say now. >> is it helpful when you've got police officers going out there risking their lives in a rioting

. >> tom tugendhat is impressive. i think, you know, i think there's a few actually.at do you think, josh. >> i my vote if i was would go with kemi badenoch. we're finding more about her. i just think she's the best speaker that she speaks the most plainly. yeah. >> she's always well briefed on everything. >> yeah, she's a good communicator. yeah, in terms of getting across there, but it's. but it is a bit like the kind of rachel ross from friends will they won't they, in terms of, like , new tory leaders, it just like, new tory leaders, it just it's like, oh, we've been here before. are we going to have to go through this whole storyline again? yes. >> i think pretty sure, just a bit too controversial to the public. i think she's upset too many people, even if you agree with her. i think that too many people got upset with her talking about the policing and so on, and being very critical. >> we're allowed to base our judgement on beauty. not that kemi badenoch not tom tugendhat is beautiful. >> what are you getting yourself into here? >> rectifying politicians? frank

priti patel is fighting kemi badenoch james cleverly robert jenrick mel stride and tom tugendhat to bee next conservative leader. do any of those guys take your pick ? but has she just take your pick? but has she just blown it with that rather tone deaf answer on immigration to our political editor, christopher hope? that full clip coming shortly, but next, harry and meghan's immense security detail in colombia revealed helicopters, drones, 14 police cars and a flurry of vans to boot. cars and a flurry of vans to boot . so who's paying for it boot. so who's paying for it all? nick peiser, the senior global reporter at the man online, is the ground in for us next. he's live. this is ben leo tick. welcome back to ben leo. tonight only on gb news. i was about to say we're going to cross to bogota in colombia to speak with the mayor, don lie—ins, senior global reporter on the harry and meghan faux royal tour. but apparently nick's been, i don't know, kidnapped by some cartels or something because he's having some trouble connecting with us. so we're going to go back to our panel now. nina,

thank you very much. >> well, we're now joined by the conservative party leadership candidate, tom tugendhat we've got to start on this question of the railways, because this is a pretty large pay because this is a pretty large pay offer. is it, in your view, the right thing or the wrong thing? >> look, i think this is, again, the labour party feeding the union paymasters that they've always obeyed. >> and i'm afraid what this isn't focused on is the real need for massive investment that we need to make a commitment to in order to make sure that people, the travelling public, those people who are actually delivering the jobs and the opportunities that the british people need to survive and to do to deliver the greater future that we have, that they actually have the full opportunity to enjoy the services that we need. now that's where the challenge comes. now, whenever we've done pay comes. now, whenever we've done pay rises, as conservatives, we've always asked for productivity benefits. we've always asked for transformations in working environments to make sure that we're getting more bang

badenoch, tom tugendhat, do you say tugendhat or tugendhat?gendhat. >> tugendhat. >> tugendhat i've learned that parrot fashion. >> i don't know, you definitely don't say tommy, though. >> i say whatever i like. actually, mel stride and tommy two girl, so this is the former home office minister says he's open to capping immigration and wants to reimpose the rwanda scheme, which is i think there's at least two other candidates who are basically going to say the same thing there anyway. it's not going to make him stand out much. i think he needs to, first of all, say a bit more. that makes him stand out. and secondly, tell us how he's going to approach that. any differently to what was said when it didn't work, because otherwise it looks like he's just revitalising it, and it doesn't make much sense. >> the rwanda scheme never made sense. also, i was listening to an interview with dominic cummings today. he said the rwanda thing was always boris just coming up with a bit of nonsense, because he didn't really want to tackle the hard work. this wa

tom tugendhat was this policy.hat was very keen on it and it was to make china in the enhanced tier, which was a thing recommended by m15. so they would be seen as the highest level of security threat, which would mean that you'd have to give if you were working for the chinese government, you'd have to sign up for this , this first to sign up for this, this first thing, which is foreign influence registration scheme. but what labour apparently want to do is kind of reduce the threat to just political influence level, which is sort of a less severe level. and it's kind of it's a bit of a strange it's like a softening on china, which as your link sort of implies, maybe it's not surprising because apparently she wants to meet up with starmer for some tips on how to oppress his people. >> yeah. very funny. lewis i think we should be concerned about china, but there are much more dangerous people who are living right in this country that we should be concerned about. >> we should be concerned about china. yeah. even me

. >> conservative leadership candidate tom tugendhat has apologised for record migration figures duringe in power. he's been sitting down with our political editor, christopher hope, for this exclusive interview . exclusive interview. >> on immigration, how do we finally , once and for all, deal finally, once and for all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come? >> absolutely. look absolutely. and, you know, we've all got to stand on our record. >> was it wrong then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? >> no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and british society. and what's your level? can integrate? well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. >> police have now caught two dogs that were on the loose that were believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in

and interestingly, you saw tom tugendhat, he launched his campaign.icle in the telegraph saying that the uk might pull out of the european convention on human rights. so he's trying to appeal to the right. so what you've got is different mps here are appealing to different wings of the party and using us in the media. >> yeah. do you think pretty perhaps. i mean, the argument is she got the tone wrong, even if you think that, even if you believe what she's saying, she believed it. do you not think she should have just said. yeah, i know we broke some election promises, and i understand that. and we'll try harder next time. it just seems to be a bit politically naive . politically naive. >> or honest ben, or honest ? i >> or honest ben, or honest? i mean, suella braverman we know. we know what she says. suella braverman says. i tried to do it. the treasury stopped me cutting back on on migration earlier, i wrote letters to the prime minister. they weren't properly answered. you know, we know what suella would say. and of course, she was kind of almost

speech in westminster earlier, the shadow security minister and conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhate of leadership" over the disorder of the last two weeks. this has been the government's first real test. and the prime minister fell short. when we needed a strong government, we got a party in the mindset of opposition. we needed a leader, we got a lawyer waiting for the case to reach court. these are early days for the government, and government isn't easy. but government isn't a game either. it is more than press releases and retweets. you can't be wise with hindsight. something labour asked of the opposition. you have to be determined and aware throughout. you have to be ready to do the job from day one. let's speak to our political correspondent helen catt. hello to you. tell us a little bit more about the criticism and what he said he would have done differently? this is the shadow security minister, he gave a speech this afternoon in westminster and as you heard fair, he was quite critical of sir keir starmer�*s response to the riots. in effect he said that he could have done t

the other candidates, of course, kemi badenoch, tom tugendhat and others.. this is the first of several of these launches and we will bring them all to you live on gb news >> absolutely fascinating, chris, just 40 minutes to go. we'll be back with you at 3:00. >> it's terribly glossy looking leaflet he has there in his hand didn't he. now three us citizens are back on american soil after being freed in a russian west prisoner swap. but our next guest argues that one man that it will prove to benefit the russian leader, vladimir. putin. good afternoon, britain . it is good afternoon, britain. it is almost 2:30 now. >> three us citizens are back on american soil after being freed in a russian western prisoner swap, the largest in decades . swap, the largest in decades. >> evan gershkovich, paul whelan and al su kumacheva are among the 24 detainees from seven countries involved in an historic deal that had been more than 18 months in the making. >> however, despite the seemingly positive news, there are warnings of a darker side to this story, namely that vlad

that came after tom tugendhat said the same thing.en i asked him at that press conference yesterday . that means that all yesterday. that means that all six of these candidates are saying there is no room for farage in our party, and that is interesting because i think some would say what does the next leader do to reunite the right? arguably it's try and draw farage in, you know, put the warm embrace, the clammy, the clammy hands of a warm embrace around him. try and get him on side. talk to those who the 4 million or so who voted reform at last month's election instead. it's a firm no from all six. also mel stride in the interview was quite firm on his criticism of nigel for farage questioning whether the truth was being held from us after those dreadful attacks in southport. farage said on on x on his on his x account i don't know where the truth is being withheld from us. i don't know. here's what mel stride had to say about that. >> was it helpful when you've got police officers going out there risking their lives in a rioting si

conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat is expected to accuse labour of having no plans and novision to improve the country, in a speech he's due to make later today. it suggested the shadow security minister will also allege the government is being dishonest about its tax choices. tax choices. he wants to make it clear that labour are, he says, pretending they have no option because of a so—called financial black hole . experts are warning black hole. experts are warning we could face a surge in measles cases as children return to school in the coming days. the uk health security agency is urgently asking parents to make sure their children are protected against the illness. figures show outbreaks since the autumn of 2023 have resulted in the highest number of cases in the highest number of cases in the country since 2012. the world food programme says it's pausing the movement of workers in gaza until further notice. that's after some of its staff came under fire there. it happened close to an idf checkpoint just after the team had delivered humanitarian aid into the central

tom tugendhat said no yesterday. mel stride said no yesterday. mel stride said no yesterday.said no to gb news today. jenrick said. robert jenrick has said no. james cleverly hasn't answered our question on this but had said no on the 10th of june. kemi badenoch says no and priti patel says no. they all don't want him back, in which is interesting because although it might be a multi—car pileup, as henry hill suggested there from conservative home, but what? where does the party go? it can't afford to have a split right? and beat labour. so does it. how does it get into the kind of farage 4 million who voted for reform uk by not doing any deal, even discussing farage, doing anything with the tory party. it's interesting and it means if you go towards the middle ground, you get squeezed by labour and lib dems and so, so that is a dilemma for tory mps, who will put two on the short list for the members to choose. >> yeah, totally. >> yeah, totally. >> i think that the fact i mean, i think nigel farage hasn't helped himself with some bellicose remarks about the tory party and, y

kemi badenoch dame priti patel, mel stride tom tugendhat, james cleverly and mrjenrick himself.do think that it's likely to be someone like kemi badenoch robert jenrick possibly, maybe. tom tugendhat might get there, but i think that's where the kind of base of the party is, is broadly left, is left or centre ground at the moment, compared to being a right wing party in last parliament. and that does mean they might try and push out some of the right wing candidates , which could cause a candidates, which could cause a problem. i think with the base of the party, which is quite much more right wing. so that kind of schism is a problem. but we heard it from robert jenrick. he said he would like to bring back maybe the rwanda plan that's workable if he becomes prime minister after the next election, he would look to leave the european convention on human rights. he says the party has got to stop promising and delivering on net migration, a huge failure there and also on taxation. so i think he's trying to find a way to here rebuild the party's confidence after the disastrous elect

. >> and tory leadership candidate tom tugendhat has apologised for record migration figures during the's time in power. he sat down with our political editor, christopher hopein political editor, christopher hope in this exclusive chat. >> on immigration, how do we finally, once and for all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come through the door? >> look . absolutely. and you >> look. absolutely. and you know, we've all got to stand on our record. >> was it wrong then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? >> no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and british society. and what's your level can integrate? well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and sort of 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. >> and police have now caught two of the three dogs that were on the loose, which were believed to have attacked a man found dead in th

yesterday i was at an event with tom tugendhat. yesterday. i'll bnng tom tugendhat. yesterday.y . bring you to what expect shortly. >> and west midlands police have launched a murder investigation after a 13 year old has been found stabbed to death at a house. jack carson has the latest . latest. >> well, as forensic officers here investigate the property behind me in the last few moments, flowers and tributes laid to that 13 year old boy fatally stabbed , more flexible fatally stabbed, more flexible working . working. >> all staff will be granted the right to demand a four day week. in a move championed by labour deputy prime minister angela rayner and a picture of pettiness, sir keir starmer has removed a portrait of margaret thatcher from downing street as he found it unsettling. workplace health checks. now the nhs will go into offices, pubs and building sites to measure awayyou. would you welcome that? >> are . >> are. >> are. >> so i'm not i don't i don't want a set of scowls in the newsroom to start weighing myself at the moment. thank you very much. >> i don't care how

so the latest figure there, 100,000 from tom tugendhat.et back to sir keir starmer, the prime minister. the grim tally of 7000 illegal migrants over the channel since the labour party came into power and the popularity of sir keir starmer has gone off a cliff, it's fair to be said since that general election, down 27 points to —16. cronyism allegations. the perhaps a bumper tax raid in october, austerity that might make george osborne blush in the nhs and in education. winter fuel allowance has been plundered for pensioners, while asylum seekers are being pampered. two tier policing allegations. it's been a torrid time , james. for sir keir time, james. for sir keir starmer thus far, all these popularity ratings, early term blues or indication of something more to come . more to come. >> well before we come to keir starmer, martin, i don't think any asylum seeker has been pampered that i can see. i don't think that's the experience at all. so i have to challenge that off the bat. however, keir starmer's popularity rating you're absolutely

tom tugendhat, dame priti patel, kemi badenoch, robert jenrick and james cleverly have all previouslylcome. well, thank you to my panel welcome. well, thank you to my panel. up next, the british army are facing a serious recruitment crisis. yet highly trained afghan soldiers who previously trained with british forces or being blocked from joining. i'll being blocked from joining. i'll be talking about this with jamal barrack, who has worked closely with afghan forces in the past and welcome back now. afghan soldiers are being blocked from joining the british army for five years. despite the current recruitment crisis in our armed forces. the eligibility rules mean that elite afghan troops who train with the uk's special forces are now left either unemployed or working as cleaners, and even takeaway delivery drivers. now the mod is facing pressure to change those rules to try and ease issues with that lack of personnel. and joining me now to discuss this is one of those soldiers, jamal barrack, who worked alongside the british army from 2002 to 2016, in afghanistan. jamal, welcome to t

by everybody and those taking part are expected to be met with the full weight of the law and tom tugendhate minister and those two conservative leadership candidates. but going back to what the prime minister said, but going back to what the prime ministersaid, it but going back to what the prime minister said, it was a fairly short but a strong statement and he said he can guarantee that those taking part in this violent disorder will regret it and he said, this is not protests, it is organised, violent thuggery and he described the people who have attacked the police and have broken into that hotel in rotherham, he has described them as marauding gangs, intent on lawbreaking and he said that people in this country have a right to feel safe. he also made it very clear, he said, if you are targeting someone because of the colour of their skin, you are far right. we have heard over the past couple of days that far right label and some people at this protest saying they don't feel comfortable being labelled as that and indeed, we have seen people over the past couple of days you haven't been

years on, we've got, you know, so—called one nation candidates in the leadership contest, like tom tugendhatleave the european, hasn't gone further than rishi sunak. >> i mean, if you look at the wording there, he's done it in very caveated wording. >> but i thought that was quite telling that someone from the one nation wing of the conservative party would even want to embrace that subject. but i think the fact that he has chosen that subject, you've changed the weather. something to talk about is a reflection of how we've moved the debate and shifted the overton window. when i said multiculturalism wasn't working last year, i did so because it was the important thing to describe and observe in our country. again, none of the members of the cabinet backed me up and i was shunned . but, you up and i was shunned. but, you know, six months on, you know, a lot of people, i think would agree with that analysis. when i said that the police were being too soft on the pro—palestinian protesters, i lost my job for it. >> that was the opinion piece appeared in one of the newspapers, the telegraph. >>

meanwhile, conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has pledged to introduce a legally binding cap on the net migration of 100,000 if he becomes leader. delivering a speech on public services, this afternoon, the former security minister said high levels of population growth fuelled by immigration could not continue. >> conservative party, under my leadership will commit to a legally binding annual cap on non—british annual net migration of 100,000. we cannot sustain the hundreds of thousands it is today. >> in other news, a man has been jailed for physically threatening to kill former labour leader ed miliband on a street in doncaster. michael donaldson shouted threats at miliband and his staff, leaving them shaken before being arrested in march. the 56 year old, who appeared intoxicated , old, who appeared intoxicated, dismissed the incident as a joke but later pleaded guilty. today he was sentenced to three years in prison at sheffield crown court and oasis fans can finally rejoice as ticket prices for the band's highly anticipated reunion tour have been announced, along with ad

mel stride tom tugendhat and james cleverly all polled under 5%, with members surveyed now in campaignith almost 58% of panellists satisfied or very satisfied with this campaign, while all other candidates scored less than 40%. however, in a sign of growing discontent between the conservative parliamentary party and its own members, an overwhelming majority of 76% have little or no confidence in tory mps, putting the right to final candidates to the membership . mark, you're in part membership. mark, you're in part responsible for this. go on. >> i am my outfit's responsible for this. we're trying to get to the bottom of what party members think about the leadership race. it's important to underscore that for your viewers. patrick, we're only asking conservative party members because it is they who will have the final say . the who will have the final say. the mps will cut it to down two out of these six, god only knows which two they'll pick. i was discussing with a former cabinet minister earlier today, and we were postulating that you might find all six candidates get about 20 mps e

. >> wes streeting there, speaking earlier, well, conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has accusedister, sir keir starmer, of a failure of leadership over the recent riots. the former security minister said the disorder, seen on the uk's streets was completely unacceptable and has condemned what he called racist thugs as he opened a speech in central london earlier. >> this has been the government's first real test and the prime minister fell short. when we needed a strong government, we got a party in the mindset of opposition . we the mindset of opposition. we needed a leader, we got a lawyer waiting for the case to reach court . you have to be determined court. you have to be determined and aware throughout . you have and aware throughout. you have to be ready to do the job from day one, 5000 migrants have crossed the english channel and arrived in the uk since labour came to power. >> former head of border force tony smith told gb news this morning that sir keir starmer's plans to smash the gangs will be, he says, very difficult to achieve. >> we expect the uk to be able to sma

office, but at the moment, if you look at the various candidates who are there, you either go, tom tugendhat's leaving the echr thing is a bit odd. that's not. or you go mel stride james cleverly there safe pair of hands, then you've got pretty. you may have the attack dog that in fact that, susanna's just talking about. >> that's a good point. that nigel makes is that if priti patel does fall into that category of attack dog, insofar as, you know, she's pretty candid. >> yeah, she does, she she does actually. and i think again, she'd be a very good candidate and again, probably annoy labour for the same reasons that i said that kemi would as well. so, it's interesting. no, i'm not a member of the conservative party enhen member of the conservative party either. so i think both me and nigel are talking about things that we've not really got any skin in the game, but of course we've both got skin in the game about how our country turns out and how it's how it's run over the next. it's not this five years and the next five years. >> we've all got skin in the game insofar as we have the future