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what back in a jiffy tugendhat, has said sorry, but for ?jiffy tugendhat, has said sorry, but for ? what , secondi jiffy tugendhat, has said sorry, but for ? what , second to ffy labour yeah, yeah, second to the labour party. all it needs is a little twitch of the dial and we get wiped out. we're not stupid. we can add up. but above all, it's a question of fairness. we cannot have 100,000 people swirling around in this country being undocumented , not working, being undocumented, not working, just a drag on the nation. let's get them documented. let's get them sorted out, get them sent back. if they've got to go back to albania, let's get them sent down the job centre. >> do you want to hear more from the labour government on understanding the concerns about immigration? >> i'm hearing that from yvette coopen >> are you hearing that? yeah. >> are you hearing that? yeah. >> but how are you going to get the documents as well? >> because we've just taken on an extra. >> oh, sorry, but are we going to get their documents? you know, they could sa

the reckless rhetoric as mr tom tugendhat put it, julie says this.n nigel farage. they're scared to death because they know that farage and the reform party could trounce them at the next election . and you told me, election. and you told me, chris, earlier about an astonishing report, an astonishing report, an astonishing poll, which says people don't even care who the next conservative leader is. tell us more . tell us more. >> that's right. martin. yeah. so i'm here in rusi, the royal united services institute . it's united services institute. it's a building on whitehall where a couple of hours ago, we heard from tom tugendhat. he's one of the six individuals fighting to be the next leader of the tory party. he took aim at nigel farage in terms, he said, that the remarks by nigel farage questioning what the police were telling us after the killing of those three children in southport, last week or two weeks ago now, i think it was, was not leadership. it was deeply irresponsible. and dangerous, he said in a wider speech. he talked about, he felt

tugendhat tugendhat.hat, which i don't know why she says that, i don't know. she's probably watching now. why would you say that? >> maybe that's his nickname. >> maybe that's his nickname. >> i know, ijust think >> maybe that's his nickname. >> i know, i just think it's a no. i don't think it's a nickname. i just think it's. anyway, so i find it very hard not to say tom tugendhat , but not to say tom tugendhat, but there you go. next time we have him on, i'm going to ask, is that when you see christopher hope, do you want to see chopper? yes. sometimes. >> yeah . similar thing, >> yeah. similar thing, >> yeah. similar thing, >> i want to say what i want. i want to say when i see you, it's an entirely different . an entirely different. >> yeah. it's probably not safe for air. i can imagine, now let's look at the bbc, shall we? because scandal at the bbc, match of the day. and one show host, jermaine jenas has been sacked, effective immediately. well, the news broke yesterday afternoon while he was on air

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

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 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

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

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

conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has accused the prime minister, sir keir starmer, of alure of leadership over the disorder. over the last two weeks, the former security minister said the disorder seen on the uk's streets was completely unacceptable and he condemned racist thugs as he opened a speech in central london. >> 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 ukraine, president volodymyr zelenskyy has told the russian leader that the war is coming home in his most direct challenge to vladimir putin since the conflict began. >> it comes a week after a surprise counter—attack on the kursk region of russia . kursk region of russia. ukraine's military says it does now control a 1000 square kilometre border area . kilometre border area. meanwhile, all of ukraine is currently under an a

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

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

i think most i think kemi badenoch is impressive. >> tom tugendhat is impressive.think, you know, i think there's a few actually. what 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 y

but but i absolutely want to support, as i say, i hope tom tugendhat.of the tory party is with ideas, with a thought of how the conservative party can make itself relevant again, it's got to do it on the economy. as i say, essentially. but also there are other issues. labour's terrible decision, on the winter fuel allowance has, out of the blue and with no , out of the blue and with no, forewarning at all, alienated 10 million pensioners. this government is vulnerable and over a few years will be vulnerable to a competent, well led tory party. >> this government is vulnerable. a very optimistic message there from a former conservative mp. thank you very much , damian green. really, much, damian green. really, really good to speak to you. thank you . and coming up next thank you. and coming up next i'll be joined by lieutenant general sir simon mayall as the situation in the middle east seems to us. and welcome back to the camilla tominey show on gb news with me olivia utley. now i'm joined in the studio now by former deputy chief of defence staff, lieut

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

at last month's election, behind cleverly and tugendhat.e ones to watch who could be in the final two to go to the membership in the back end of october. but there are six runners and riders. they'll go down to four in the first week of september. around the 4th of september, and then just after the party conference, just two final candidates. it's quite a big deal . final candidates. it's quite a big deal. this leadership campaign. each candidate can raise up to £400,000 to enter the race. they've got a guarantee they can pay cchq £200,000. i think after 2:00 i'll show you around the set of the generic launch. it is pretty glitzy, pretty american looking, which i think you might find quite surprising what he'll be saying though robert jenrick is his party. his party has a mountain to climb and that mountain to climb and that mountain may as well be mount everest. given the scale of labour's landslide win last month and the paucity of mps at the tory party has in the house of commons, he'll say the labour government is already tired. he'll

mr tugendhat is of denial.expected to accuse the prime minister of a failure of leadership, and urge the police to use uncompromising force in deaung to use uncompromising force in dealing with violent disorder, the prime minister has warned iran not to attack israel during a rare phone call with the country's president. it follows a joint statement issued by the uk, us, france and germany seeking to de—escalate tensions in the middle east. sir keir starmer told the iranian president he is deeply concerned amid growing fears iran will retaliate against israel over the killing of hamas leader ismail haniyeh . ukrainian ismail haniyeh. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has told russian leader vladimir putin that the war is coming home in his most direct challenge to putin yet. that's a week after ukraine first stormed the kursk region of russia , in the kursk region of russia, in what is the largest counterattack on putin's territory since the war began. ukraine's top commander has said. kyivs forces now co

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,

earlier, you both interviewed tom tugendhat.nts to be the next leader of the tory party. and he had this to say. >> 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 . comes. >> now, this deal, of course, is subject to a vote of aslef members, but there will be those worrying about the impact on inflation. now inflation ticked up to 2 to 2 point just 2%. this in august. it should go maybe as high as 2.75% before the end of the year, then back towards 2%. 2% being the bank of england's inflation target. and there will be a worry t

is it going to be tugendhat? is it going to be tugendhat? is it going to be pretty?nwhile, the streets were alight. they're doing absolutely nothing to challenge starmer on any of his policies whatsoever. and everything starmer is doing right now is against anything . right now is against anything. he would have told us 6 to 8 weeks ago, because he would have told you that we need to have less sentencing, we need to have fewer people going to prison. we need to let people out of prison soonen need to let people out of prison sooner. we need to have more community based punishments. none of this is happening as a result of this. they're not saying, oh, we need to give these people some sort of social or community based punishments. they're giving them ten years. now, look, we have to let's just let's just for all three of us tonight so we can get on with the rest of the show. right wing thuggery exists within this movement, and it has undermined the whole problem. it's bad and they should go to prison. >> speak for yourself . so no, >> speak for yourself. so no, no. a

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

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

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 also to an extent tom tugendhat. so, so genenc an extent tom tugendhat.o generic was immigration minister, but he actually quit because he was angry at the way the government was going. so he can say that. and then tugendhat wasn't senior enough within the government to sort of be marked by it all, but fundamentally, i mean , don't forget, you know, mean, don't forget, you know, they're not running an election campaign right now, so i'm not even sure how much they're going to have to defend their record that much. i think what they have to do is present a vision of what they're going to do next. right? >> yeah. it's interesting. stephen kenny's been in touch this morning and said pretty is blown it. the country feels overcrowded and overwhelmed and i mean and that's what she does seem to be missing in all of this is that whatever the arguments were in place for doing it, that, as you say, we didn't know about at the time, it doesn't negate the fact that that the country feels overcrowded and overwhelmed . overcrowded and overwhelmed. according to a lot of

. >> 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

tom tugendhat, dame priti patel, kemi badenoch, robert jenrick and james cleverly have all previouslywelcome. 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

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

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

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