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Want to hear from you GB news Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it’s 12:00 on Wednesday the 3rd of January out of the traps reform UK becomes the first party to launch its general election campaign claiming labor and the conservatives are two sides of the same socialist coin firing the starting gun leader Richard Ty Reveals All to our
Political editor Luke versus Luke will Luke the nuke ller the 16-year-old Dart Superstar beat Cool Hand Luke Humphries the world number one we’ll be live at Ali Pali as excited crowds begin to gather could ler score big no regrets Junior doctors insist they are doing the right thing as record-breaking Mass walkouts threaten
To hospitals during their big busiest week of the year but have these trade unionists abandon their patients and their colleagues at their time of Need and that’s a big and impactful question yes there’s there’s darts going on today there’s general election seems closer than ever but today people going to the hospital perhaps needing to go to A&E perhaps expecting to receive an operation they’re going to be impacted by the longest strike in NHS history yes
There will be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who may well have been waiting by the phone for weeks already to find out when their appointment is when their surgery will be and then to be told today tomorrow the next day the next day that actually
It’s being canceled because there’s not enough staff and the other thing the the other doctors the nurses who’ve accepted the pay settlement the uh what was it over 8% pay rise the doctors of course the the most Junior of Junior doctors have been offered over 10% pay Rises
That was good enough for the nurses seemingly not good enough for the doctors but it’s those other medical professionals in hospitals that will be left in the Lurch oh absolutely well let us know if you’ve been impacted by these strikes or do you have a relative perhaps who has been who’s been waiting
Yonks for an operation to be told that it’s yet again delayed let us know gbvs atgb news.com but before all of that let’s get the headlines with Tatiana Tom thank you and good afternoon this is the latest from the GB Newsroom the NHS could be stretched to breaking point today as Junior doctors and England walk off the job in the health services longest ever strike an unprecedented six days of indust industrial action has begun after talks
Between the government and the BMA Union broke down junior doctors W to 35% pay rise which would restore their real earnings to levels seen in 2008 the government says that’s unaffordable but insisted late yesterday that the door remained open for further negotiation Dr Robert lawrenson is the bma’s junior
Doctor’s committee co-chair he says the strikes will continue until pay has improved we’re very happy to talk about restoring our pay over a matter of years we we’re very happy to do that over a period of time frame and we don’t necessarily need it Allin one go we’re
Happy to sit down and have a collaborative conversation with the government but they’ve pushed us out of the negotiation room they don’t want to talk with us and the fact of the matter is the nurses rejected their pay deal the nurses are still in dispute with the
Government and the government and to be honest the whole country have abandoned our nursing colleagues as well meanwhile commuters are being warned of severe travel disruption next week due to strike action on the London Underground members of the rmt Union are staging another walk out over pay with
No Services expected on the whole network from Sunday until Friday talks between the union and transport for London are continuing lebanon’s heavily armed hasb group says the death of a top Hamas official in Beirut will not go without a response Salah alari died in what Israel called a surgical strike against the
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Am this is GB news across the UK on TV in your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Tom and Emily good afternoon Britain major developments in the world of politics today as all parties are set to gear up for that heavily expected 2024 election yes so Richard TI has been hosting a reform UK press conference in London today where he slammed both rishy sunk and K starma as expected he accused the
Government of betraying the British people on immigration and he also announced Ben khabib as the Party’s candidate for the Welling BR byelection meanwhile SED Davey the leader of the liberal Democrats has been laying out their plans as his party currently sits at around 11% in the polls he also
Refused to rule out a possible Coalition with K starmer’s labor party curious now our political editor Christopher hope and political correspondent Olivia rutley join us now with the latest Olivia you’ve been watching both the liberal Democrats and the reform UK gear into action well absolutely I’m in Guilford
Today where the libdems are very much bringing the fight to the conservatives Ed Davy was sounding very very chipper this morning he has his sight set on not just Guilford where the Tories have a majority of 3,300 but lots of other seats in Su including woking and Jeremy Hunt
Constituency of East s now Hunt’s constituency has a majority of just over 8,000 he said that in normal times that probably wouldn’t be a Target seat but this time round it most certainly is and they’re even looking at Michael Gove seat up the road which has a majority of about
18,000 they are sounding very enthusiastic very excited and they’re not ruling out a coalition with labor here’s what Ed Davey had to say when I asked him about it focused on a general election I announced today that we think the general election should be on May
The 2nd uh and it couldn’t come soon enough we’ll be tbling a uh bill in Parliament next week which would give MPS the chance to call the general election rather than rishy sunak running away and hiding away let’s have that general election now people need that
Change people are fed up of waiting and I’m really uh really pleased and and proud that the liberal Democrats are ready for that election whenever it comes so yes to a coalition with labor I’m focused on the general election there are many many conservative MPS that liberal Democrats can defeat across
The whole of the south of England parts of London parts of Manchester parts of Yorkshire in Scotland in Wales liberal Democrats are really on the March we’ve shown with our historic byelection victories and our amazing local election results across the country that we are now a amazing campaigning force in
British politics and I think uh when the election comes we will be the surprised of the election so not ruling out a coalition with labor but what ever happens Coalition wise what’s certain is that there is a tacit agreement between the liberal Democrats and labor a sort of
Agreement for nonaggression so in seats like this here in Guilford where the where the lip demems are advancing far far quicker than labor there won’t be too much of a labor threat now in the last election lib Dems didn’t do too well since then they’ve achieved four pretty magnificent by-election victories
Libdems of course are on very good ground fighting byelections they’re very very very good at sending their resources to the right place and people are willing to vote uh against the government in byelections purely for a sort of protest vote things will look very different in a general election but
From what Ed Davy has been saying this morning the libdems are feeling very very confident and that is in those blue wall seats those seats around the south of England where traditionally the Tories do very well indeed it’s not just about the red wall anymore it’s not just
About those seats where uh labor usually but that people lent their votes to the conservatives in order to get brexit done the Tories probably have accepted quite a long time ago that many of those are going to go now they’re having to fight for their own heartlands in the south of
England really interesting stuff thank you Olivia coming there from us from a bustling Guilford High Street looks like one of looks like we talk a lot about the death of the High Street probably not in that constituency it’s a nice High Street Charming yeah um should we
Cross now to Christopher hope um who is who has a couple of guests for us uh with regard to reform UK’s announcement today that’s right Tom and Emily I’m here in central London a ston throw from Westminster where Richard Ty the leader of Reform has turned his fire on the
Labor party he’s called uh the prospector of Labor government starmageddon he said the party labor party want more taxes they want to get closer to the sclerotic recessionary European Union more spending more 9 state regulations and to betray the working class it’s in that final line about the working class that’s the clue
For What’s Happening Here reform is having a go at the possibility of a labor party we do know they’re drawing support away from the Tory party 10% in the polls and Rising but they’re going off to labor now and that’s what makes this launch more interesting that you
Might expect from the reform party with me now is Richard Ty and benhabib now benhabib is a candidate for the party in the Welling B elction but Richard ties to you first isn’t a vote for reform a wasted vote because you don’t know where voters live it’s completely the opposite it’s
The only way actually to save Britain that is the truth the crisis facing the country is so serious the main two parties are two forms of socialism high taxes wasteful government spending dared EU regulations the government has betrayed people Mass immigration a huge betrayal by the Tories labor want more
Of and we are now the only party of the working class of tens of millions of people who feel completely abandoned and let down and we’re the only party that will get rid of the job destroying deeply damaging Net Zero policies and that’s why I think people will vote for
Change the press conference there was packed uh most of the lobby reporters that were there hearing what you have you have to say but weren’t they really waiting for Nigel farage what you worried about the questioning about Nigel farage he of course founded was a big player in ukip then the brexit party
The more people talk about Nigel and reform UK the better it does our job for us of raising brand aware Wess because we’re a relatively new brand but as more people hear about us they say who’s this lot and they like what they hear they look at our policy say ah thank God
Someone’s talking Common Sense I’ll vote for those guys so that’s great and I’m very clear the more help Nigro can give the better but he’s got some important decisions to make and a good poker player always keeps their cards close to the chess until the perfect moment but
That perfect moment is coming soon how soon or when will najja farro declare his intentions and what will he do with your party do you want to stand as to be an MP I think that’s the least likely thing is that Nigel would stand under a first pass the post system in a
Constituency he’s consistently said that he wouldn’t and look we want proportional representation that’s the right and fair and proper way so look but um who knows we’re getting ready for a May election so we haven’t got that much time but as I say Nigel’s got to
Work out what help he can give when he can give it and it’s a big job saving Britain that’s literally what we’re doing because starmageddon will be a catastrophic cocktail for this country we’ve got to avoid it we’ve got to wake people up there is a genuine alternative
To socialism and that’s reform UK okay now benhabib you’re the party’s Deputy leader you’re standing for the party in the in the in the lightly shortly to be announced Welling for a by elction you were ukip the comparable election of 2015 was second can you win it well I
Think there’s every chance of winning it it a very different environment to 2015 I think there was still some hope that the governing of this country would deliver the country to Prosperity but we’ve seen you know Richards described starmageddon we’ve actually had suneka geddon haven’t we he’s taken the country
We’ve already experienced it he’s taken the country to the economic Brink he’s taken it to the cultural Brink he’s taking it to the political and constitutional Brink he’s floated off Northern irand without so much as a you know off you go with our blessing no this man is awful starma is equally bad
If you want to change the way this country is governed you have to vote for it how and we will we will get the so to answer your question what we need to do what I need to do is to is to get the Tory voters out there are 32,000 Tory
Voters voted for Peter bone in the last election 13,000 for labor I suspect labor will get slightly less all I need to do my single challenge is to convince those toies and those labor voters who are small C conservative of which there are many to come out engage with us
Recognize what our policies are and if they’re sick of these two which they should be and I’m sure they are vote for us do you worry though you don’t know where voters live I’ve covered enough byelections with Y kit back in 15 years ago 10 years ago the problem was the
Party would wander around seats and not know where the supporters are and the other Legacy parties know where the voters live well again again the landscape’s very different you know we can reach people through social media in a way that we couldn’t reach them in 2015 we are going to penetrate people
Psyche we’re going to get our message out there and then it’s up to them to decide how they vote but I aim to win this seat I aim to be a thorn in sunx side until that general election is called how big a deal will brexit be
Brexit was a reason why you keep do so well in 2015 will you drive home what some see as the brexit Betrayal a absolutely brexit is huge brexit is not some kind of esoteric political Obsession brexit would have delivered for the people of Welling BR Prosperity
It would have got rid of Net Zero it would have increased uh it would have given the government the ability to reduce regulations which they’ve shirked it would have given the government the ability to cut taxes all of this would help the people of Welling BR and we
Will show them how brexit would have delivered for them brexit’s a huge issue and back to your Rich very briefly if an election was held today how many MPS would you win as many as possible the more people the vote for us then the more we get and people are very very
Concerned about the way the country is being run and as Ben quite rightly said this listen if you want to vote for change so if you want change you’ve got to vote for it okay there we have it Richard Tyson Ben be full of the joys of January lots of the words gedon
Starmageddon sunak gedon back to you in the studio Tom and Emily well let’s hope it’s not a good afternoon Britain aedon I don’t know how many gedon we can do is that a suffix that we can attach to any word these days but Christopher hope thank you so much seddon definitely
Works better than soon and NAA geddon too many syllables too many syllables but there you go very interesting you’ve got the lib Dems trying to get at those BL blue wol seats and then the Reform Party going after workingclass votes well let’s get another perspective now joining us is the under secretary for
Business and trade uh Kell Kevin Hollen rake Uh Kevin first of all we’ve been talking a lot about semantics and sunak gedon but let’s put that charge to you are the Tores just as bad as the labor party as reform UK has been saying well if you follow what reform
Was saying you’ll end up with no seats for reform and you’ll if you vote for them and you will end up with starmageddon that’s a reality you’ll get you you’ll get um K Dharma in number 10 because that will undermine our vote clearly and um so if you want to bring
That about if that’s what you want to do then that’s the CH choice you want to make but this nonsense to say we’re not turning the economy around that you brought I think it was is an economic disaster to this area I think benhabib was saying I we cast your mind back a
Year ago Tom you had 11% inflation 11.1% inflation you had uh forecasts of deep recession for the UK you know all those things have been turned around your Rising interest rates all those things have been turned around you’re seeing inflation now below 4% that’s what rishy
Committed to do is uh the economy is growing again that’s what richy committed to do we’ve reduced the numbers of Small Boat Crossings the number of people this whole year by 36% and that’s against a backdrop of rising numbers across Europe what we’re doing is working what we need to do is
Continue to deliver on this and of course keep making our case to the British people were the right solution but Kevin isn’t it unfortunately the case for your party that an increasing number of people are looking to reform workingclass voters brexit backing don’t approve of mass imigration feel let down
By the conservative government that’s why they’re looking to vote for a party like reform a party that they feel uh addresses their concerns more I I do understand that we’ve been through a difficult time economically because of because of covid of course and the cost of living crisis which has
Not been a domestic issue it’s been an international issue I understand people in those situations feel they want change but they are getting change we’re seeing real wages now growing in real terms say we inflation coming under control I think what people need to see
Is what they if they do fall for the reform message they will simply deliver secure starit into number 10 Downing Street that will be an economic disaster that will be disaster in terms of political correctness you will see all the things that those voters hate implemented across this country all
Those transgender issues all those things that people talk to me about so people have got to be careful what they wish for if they want to see a center right party run this country they need to vote for one one that’s going to return MPS the next election which is a
Conservative party now Kevin you’re right that the country has so far avoided recession the OB last year said that 2023 would see a 1.4% contraction in the economy in fact we saw 0.6% growth but I put it to you that 0.6% growth is not much to write home about
Yes we’ve avoided recession but we have not grown particularly quickly and the perhaps the party leader who’s talking most about growth these days is sakir starma well Talk’s cheap Tom isn’t it anybody can say that the reality is since 2010 we’ve grown faster than France and Germany as you know and since
Brexit we’ve done that of course we want to see faster growth that’s why the Chancellor’s brought about tax cuts while people across the economy but also for businesses to encourage them to invest we know business investment is is lacking in the UK compared to other areas we’ve made those reforms we are
Seeing as you’ve acknowledged faster growth than people had envisaged this year against the backdrop of people were predicting a recession we think we can build on that of course we want to see growth of two and 3% where we need to be productivity increases of course we need
To see that I’m doing lots of work in the business department with the SEC my secretary of state to try and bring that about some very exciting things going on Advanced Manufacturing in terms of free trade agreements around the world in terms of simplifying regulation which we are doing billions of pounds of
Regulation coming off businesses um so many things we are doing to to make it easier for businesses to drive the economy forward that’s what we need to do put businesses first and they’ll drive the economy forward and Kevin just lastly I was reading this morning how
You are calling for the former Chief of the post office uh Paula venel to hand back her CBE you’re also backing prosecutions this is all relating to the horrendous Horizon it Scandal that Afflicted so many postal workers tell us a bit about how what’s happening here
Now well you’re right to bring this up obviously many people would have been absolutely appalled but also captain ated by the program it’s on the on ITV the Bates versus post office program there are three things we’re trying to do get money out the door as quickly as
Possible to PO postmasters who have been affected by the Scandal we’ve already paid out 148 million pounds and settle the majority of cases we are trying to make sure those H those claims are settled fairly and put people back into the place they were but also we’ve we’ve instituted this inquiry the statutary
Inquiry so when Williams is undertaking that it hasn’t finished it reached its conclusions yet when it does we want to see people identified who responsible for what happened the appalling circumstances the appalling actions of the post office but also there’s people held to account and if possible through
Prosecutions but I as I’ve said this morning I do think that if I was Paula venel who got a CBE for her services to the post office in 2020 I’d be reflecting on that very carefully and thinking was that the right thing to accept at that point in time given that
What’s happened subsequently um I think it would be sensible for her to voluntarily return that CBE and and um and that would be the right thing to do right now I think many many people would agree with you there uh Kevin Hollen rake thank you very much for joining us
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Causing substantial disruption to Services yes discussions on salaries between the government and the British Medical Association have reached a point of stalemate Health secretary Victoria Atkins has appealed for the strikes to be called off but warns the BMA needs to be realistic well our London reporter Lisa hartle is at St Thomas’s hospital
For us Lisa can you bring us the latest from the picket line are BMA are the doctors out there hello well the the the picket line was here they’ve uh finished now uh there was about 70 doctors Junior doctors in attendance at that picket line earlier on on uh but obviously this
Is the busiest time of the year for the NHS with um lots of people uh Contracting respiratory illnesses like uh flu and covid so one of the big concerns is the fact that Junior doctors make up almost half of all the doctors within the NHS and this is just going to
Be more pressure added on at a time when the NHS is even more stretched than it normally is so if we look at what the doctors Junior doctors are asking for they’re asking for a 35% pay rise that means they’re on about roughly between 15 to
An hour at the moment they want that to be increased to around 20 to 21 an hour now earlier on we were speaking to some of the junior doctors on the picket line as well as members of the public and this is a little um look at what they had to
Say I’m striking because I am tired of the low energy of everyone being upset with how much we’re getting paid and how little it is and how it’s being eroded and the fact that I mean I I was when I was in 2008 I was very young but the fact that they’re
Making the same amount that that we did I don’t understand that and the fact that I am a doctor I’m obviously a Canadian that’s why my voice sounds like best but I trained here in the UK and I would like to stay here I saw it on the
News14 an hour that’s terrible he just it’s appalling it’s £4 $28 an hour Kentucky Fried Chicken is a casual on a weekend you make heaps more than that I think on a weekend we make up to $40 an hour $50 an hour on public holidays
Which is £ 25 here lots of my friends are in Australia um they’re settling down there and don’t want to come back and to me it seems the wrong way to do things to spend a lot of money training Us in this country in the NHS to then have people moving
Away it’s interesting that we spoke to some people from Australia there and some other Junior doctors mentioning AUST Australia because this all ties in to why the junior doctors say they want to see that pay rise because they say they need to retain Junior doctors that
Uh within the NHS so many are leaving to go to places like Australia where the working conditions are better they’re paid better uh and the other reason they say that they want to see this um the pay rise is to attract more people to the profession because there’s so many
Vacancies within the NHS and as long as there are vacancies then the doctors the junior doctors who are working they’re stretched because they’re doing uh two peoples or beyond that uh job so there’s more pressure for them which then would encourage them to leave so it’s like a
Cycle that they say they need to stop and this is one of the ways that that can uh be helped is by bringing in this uh this pay rise however uh as you said there the government have said that they won’t be uh going into negotiations whilst there are more strike days uh
Going on we’ve got another five now after today and uh and then there’s no ending sight at the moment between either of the parties really interesting to hear from the those on the picket line Lisa thank you very much for your time Lisa hartle our reporter at St
Thomas’s Hospital in London do you know what’s fascinating to me what’s your take the number of BMA Trade union activists who then say we’re going to move to Australia a country without an NHS a country with a significant Private health care System where if you’re in the top income bracket in Australia and
You don’t take out private healthcare you have a tax penalty play on you you’re encouraged to take out private healthcare so there’s so much more money swimming around the Healthcare System but it shows it’s not about the NHS as a as a model is it it’s about um you know
They want more pay which is which is fair enough maybe things we should learn from Australia maybe in this country we should say you really should be if you can afford it take out private healthcare that’s what Australia says yes but it’s a bit unfair because then
You’re paying Oodles of tax for other people to use the NHS but not for yourself which I think is unfair too let us know what you made of uh what those uh activists those Junior doctors had to say outside the hospital there very interesting that one of them was
Canadian one Australian um and then a British one I I I thought was there too interesting to hear I think the strongest point they have is that people are abandoning the NHS and going off to other countries but is that an argument for wider reform of the NHS I would
Argue so let us know what you think gbvs atgb newws docomond of flood warnings remain in place in the wake of storm Hank we’re live in some of the affected areas after your latest headlines with Tatiana good afternoon this is the latest from the GB Newsroom Junior doctors in England are on strike putting unprecedented strain on the NHS during one of its busiest periods six days of industrial action has begun this morning after talks between the government and the BMA Union broke down junior doctors
Want to 35% pay rise which would restore their real earnings to level C in 2008 the government says that’s unaffordable but inist the door remains open for further negotiation Dr Robert lawrenson is the bma’s junior doctors committee co-chair he says the strikes will continue until pay is improved we’re
Very happy to talk about restoring our pay over a matter of years we we’re very happy to do that over a period of time frame and we don’t necessarily need it Allin one go we’re happy to sit down and have a collaborative conversation with the government but they’ve pushed us out
Of the negotiation room they don’t want to talk with us and the fact of the matter is the nurses rejected their pay deal the nurses are still in dispute with the government and the government and to be honest the whole country have abandoned our nursing colleagues as well meanwhile commuters are being
Warned of severe travel disruption next week due to strike action on the London Underground members of the RM from T Union EST staging another walk out over pay with no Services expected on the whole network from Sunday until Friday talks between the union and transport for London are continuing hundreds of flood warnings
Remain in place after storm Hank battered parts of the UK last night parts of Birmingham Leicester and Northampton are particularly at risk of floods while transport delays are expected as the cleanup continues one man died after a tree fell on his car while he was driving in gler police say
The 50-year-old died near kemell and Luke littler Will Make History tonight when he becomes the youngest player to compete in the final of the world darts championship at just 16 he beat Rob cross 62 in the semi-finals last night he showed nerves of Steal as he closed out the match in
Style continuing his dream run into tonight’s big tournament when he takes on the new world number one Luke Humphries you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website Gnews.org in gloucestershire on Tuesday that was as strong winds and heavy rain battered to the UK during storm Hank yes and more than 300 flood warnings remain in place across the country and commuters face major transport delays in the wake of the storm which battered parts of the UK
Overnight yes train Services have struggled to get back on track and the national highways said several major roads in England have been closed due to floods and trees blocking them well let’s go live to one of our reporters now Jack Carson is in Upton on seven and will Hollis is in northamptonshire uh
Will let’s start with you uh how has this part of the country been affected yes well it’s usually the water that attracts people here to billing aquadrome near Northampton but for the last couple of days that’s the thing that’s been pushing away people that holiday here and the residents that live
Here as well you can see behind me a load of cars from the car park as well as narrow boats a lot of Moorings here but in the trees behind that’s where there are around a thousand Caravans where people were celebrating the start of the new year and that’s where they
First heard sirens telling people yesterday to evacuate and to get out of their properties now we’ve been seeing today uh more rescues that have been going on the police have been here as well as local Northampton fire and rescue service and from some of the things that we’ve been seeing people
That were trapped essentially that live on their narrow boats but couldn’t get away from their narrow boats the usual walkways completely blocked off by flood water people with pets some people that were um disabled as well people in wheelchairs having to be taken away on dingies by the local fire service now
There was a severe flood warning in place for this part of the Midlands here in North hamptonshire that has recently been downgraded to a regular flood warning now a flood warning means that that you have to act that if you’ve got some sort of a flood plan in place then
You should start acting on that flood plan that means by getting away from the area where you were at risk and and taking yourself to safety so it has been downgraded storm Hank has now moved on but there are lots of people here that have been affected by storm Hank and
That is the same story across the Midlands and parts of the south of England now I’ve been speaking to one of the people who was evacuated A lady called Debbie and she was telling me about her experience see the water levels were getting higher and higher
And um I went to work and I it was touching go if I should go work but I thought work for Northampton healthc care trust so we went and um my family was um contacting me saying the levels were getting higher and higher so I
Thought in the end I’ve got to come back to get the car off and get the two dogs out so quickly packed um a case and went off and um then we heard the fire well not the fire alarm the sirens going um and then the rest what I know is they
Had to evacuate once the flood breached it’s just knowing what everything’s wrecked inside really and um yeah that’s it all mud and all the freezers and well items of furniture I suppose well for Debbie and the other people that have been evacuated from billing aquadrome they’re told that they
Cannot yet return to site they’ve been turned away by security and the people that work here in a business that has been in ad Administration they’re saying that communication hasn’t been what they would expect but uh billing aquadrome the organization that runs this holiday park say that they’re going to be
Updating uh the local residents as soon as they have something that they can tell them thank you very much will will is in Northampton show let’s pass over to Jack Carson who’s in Upton on seven how has the storm wre havoc in this area yeah well certainly here in this
Lovely little leafy village with the with the boats mored along the River s it has bur its banks once again speaking to locals here today that is not anything out of the ordinary and they say over the past few months they’ve really been battered by the constant storms here meaning the increasing River
Levels here on the river 7 um which this Village sits alongside means it’s continuing to Burt its banks the road behind me Hanley Road here and up to the pon s is one of the main roads through the village here and it’s of course closed down the petrol station a little
Bit further down the road um of course not only for safety but because they are they are FL they are they are they are flooded their four quarters is flooded the river 7 which is Flowing um to the side of me is Flowing very very quickly
And um the med off is warning that of course we could still see a peak we haven’t really maybe possibly seen the peak until later today particularly if the rain as it has done in the last kind of 10 15 minutes or so starts to come
Down it had been very much of a of a dry morning which was good news for these residents that they might thought that they had already seen the peak but as the rain comes down and lots of water still to come from further up on the sever still to come down and flow
Through the these areas with already of course bursting its banks um that could see a problem for residents a little bit later on now according to some of the people that I have spoken to since I’ve been here they say the river at the moment is about 10 feet higher than it
Has been um on previous on previous occasions so certainly um there is some worry about whether this road behind me can of course get cleared and can get pump there are flood defenses here which they say the residents here certainly they are thankful for but what other res
Complaining about the management of the river and how one man said to me that he hasn’t seen the river dredged in a while and that Builder was silt on the bottom of the uh on the bottom of the river he thinks um of course is not happy that
That he doesn’t feel this area has been properly managed because of how frequently it has flooded in the past now across more of the West Midlands the West Midlands Ambulance Service urging people not to drive into floodwater they had to Rescue five people from four separate incidents yesterday so that
Warning going out from them if people are of course reaching those flood waters um as they’re driving on the road networks thank you very much Jack Carson from Upton on seven Great to talk to you I mean yes this sounds very minor considering the storm has reached so
Much havoc and now we’ve got flooding and of course sad death due to the winds but the winds yesterday were extraordinary even here in in London when I left the studio yesterday afternoon I thought I was going to be blown away and it’s incredible what Jack was saying about sort of the aftershocks
Of it all even though the storm is now passed all of the water that fell in a wide disperate area now rushing together and and the peak of the sort of flooding might be still yet to come that’s I can see why residents are you know frustrated because it always seems that
We’re we’re taken by surprise by floods and the defenses just aren’t up to scratch but anyway lots of you have been getting in touch about the historic Junior doctor’s strike which has started today sadly Martin says the NHS Cash Cow rolls on this week my private appointment with a cardiologist was
Cancelled because he’s covering for striking Junior doctors that won’t be cheap and a nice big bonus for him at the start of the year and Danny adds that the NHS is beyond repair I’m now 60 years of age and I’ve tried getting a GP appointment for months with no luck
Months that’s really bad if that if that’s the case John says make it that any doctor cannot leave in the NHS for the first 10 years would that put off people from training that’s that’s an issue as for pay put doctors in two new pay bands where one new doctor in their
First two years of working I I also think it’s quite misleading to bracket so many doctors as Junior doctors it’s about half of the workforce they’re not all sort of year one year anyone who isn’t a consultant it it’s huge huge part of the of the workforce but also
They we Al s s they should have a pay rise of course they should have a pay rise they’ve been offered an almost 10% pay rise but but they want 35% not enough Tom Anthony this one’s quite good and I iend to agree with this Anthony says that that they have finished for
The day at 12:30 and they’re supposed to be on strike if they’re on strike they should pick it for 24 hours no excuse what a load of useless strikers yes it does seem that we often at this time on the show we go to the picket line and they’ve already left gone they’ve
Already gone they turned up for 10 minutes in the morning took their photo for Twitter and then on their bike so what are they doing for the rest of the day nothing I guess watching Netflix watching Netflix watching GB news watching watching GB news yes to see if
They were you know in our Vox pop there very good um well keep those views coming in we do in enjoy them particularly I think we we we both very much agreed with Anthony where on Earth did the picket line go but um in other news the zero emission vehicle mandate
Comes into force today with the government requiring 22% of all new car sales to comprise of zero emission vehicles I think that should say comprise zero emission vehicles and if you think that sounds tough the threshold will rise annually with a target of 100% of new car sales being
Electric by 35 now this is key failure to abide by the rules will result in a requirement to pay the government £15,000 per polluting car sold above the limit so manufacturers if they sell uh less no if they sell too many polluting cars they will have to pay the
Government money H okay well let’s let’s try and work all of this out joining us now is James Court the CEO of the electric vehicle association England uh and thank you for making the time for us this afternoon I suppose there is wide sort of understanding of the 2035 ban on uh
Petrol and and diesel vehicles perhaps what there’s less General understanding on is the taper to get there what’s the reasoning behind that in your view so I mean we’re starting from a base of around 16 17% last year of cars and we need to get to 22% this year uh
The theory is you can’t Really Leave It All until the last uh year so we need to get to 100% by 2035 and I think it’s 80% by 2030 so uh it’s it’s it’s a level sort of uh graph going upwards rather than trying to rely on a huge amount of
Heavy lifting uh at the end which obviously gives huge amounts of confidence for car manufacturers for chargers for consumers uh this sort of small increments up I think is a much more senseful way of doing it and puts the UK in a position where we can uh
Hope hopefully steal the lead on the manufacturing jobs that come with this James Why Can’t This be left to the market though as you say 16 to 17% of new car sales are electric already that sounds like we’re making decent progress not too far off 22% so why can’t this be
Left to the market and personal choice James did you hear me there no I I think we’ve lost James let’s see if we can reestablish some audio ction we’ll get our technical Wizards to do that but I think it is an interesting point because there is astonishing growth in
Electric vehicles not least and he’s not the most popular figure in the world but Elon Musk sort of made them quite cool Tesla’s are quite cool cars and I think in the way that perhaps 15 years ago people looked at electric vehicles and thought they’re really dorky I don’t
Think people think that really anymore I like some of the most attractive cars on the market are electric vehicles well some would disagree with you on that one there’s something about driving a uh you know traditional petrol or diesel car that you know have you seen enjoy a
Tesla Model I think it’s Model S they are with the Gullwing doors that open up like Back to the Future we’ve got another guest that’s appeared we’ve got motoring journalist and used car dealer Danny Kelly Danny thank you very much now you’re a little bit more skeptical about this transition to electric
Vehicles do you think it’s right that the government is putting in these sort of arbitary regulations and targets I don’t and not only do I not think it’s right I think it’s supresses of freedom of choice for the consumer and your last contributors correct the total electric sales account for about
16% they need to get to 22% some manufacturers are better at producing and selling electric cars than they uh others for example scoda Europe Europe wide scoda their electric car Sals account for around about 7% sense Mazda they’re massive on plugin hybrids but of course that’s no good it needs to be
Completely electric and they only have one model in the range BMW they do about 16% electric sales so it’s going to put massive pressure on manufacturers and it’s going to get to a stage Emily and Tom where consumers are going to be denied this is my belief I can’t speak
On behalf of the manufacturers but consumers are going to walk into a scoda dealership and they’re going to say I want to buy a petrol scoda please but the salesman is going to say to them well unfortunately we’re not going to sell you one because we haven’t hit our
22% Target Danny by your logic as well many car manufacturers who aren’t so efficient at making electric vehicles uh could simply go out of business or move to countries and manufacture cars in countries where there aren’t these rules look I’m Em I’m in business myself
And if I know that it’s going to cost me £15,000 as a punishment because because I haven’t hit my Target and I want to sell someone a diesel scoda I’m simply not going to produce rightand Drive petrol or diesel scoas because I’m going to go out of business uh it’s it’s all
Academic potentially as well Tom and Emily because if richy sunak sorry if K starma doesn’t deep with the next general election he’s going to rot back on the 2035 anyway he’s going to take it back to 2030 so this is all academic I don’t know how the manufacturers are
Going to feel about it but it’s it’s bad for the consumer it’s counterintuitive to what we stand for in this country and that’s being fairly reasonable when we want to purchase something that we want to purchase Danny is it the case that everyone in the world is doing this of
Course the European Union’s Bans are all 2035 our ban was originally 2030 it caused quite a lot of consternation when Rishi sunak delayed it for 5 years taking us more in line with the EU making that taper less steep uh isn’t this just the way that the world’s
Going without a doubt it’s the way that the the world is going but whether the consumer wants to follow it is completely different Tom it’s my view that unless you live in a detached house with a drive and electric charging point then you can have a 60 70 grand Tesla or
Indeed a 25 Grand Renault Zoe because that’s how cheap they are but if you live on a tight Terrace Street somewhere in the northwest or the Northeast where you can’t guarantee a parking space outside your house how the hell are you supposed to charge you with cables
Overnight it’s a tripping Hazard this is disaster waiting to happen the the motorway ser stations they’re they’re actually experiencing something called charge range where owners of electric vehicles are having to wait hours and hours and hours and unless the infrastructure is there it’s all very well talking a good game but from a
Consumer’s point of view I take you back to a consumer’s point of view the choice needs to be there and if you’re forced into buy an electric car you need to know that you’re going to be able to charge it and at the moment that just
Isn’t in place thank you very much Danny Kelly strong staff motoring journalist used car dealer thank you for your your time I have to say I saw a story about this last week which was uh about the r someone had objected to a charger being installed outside his house a few years
Ago wrote to the council saying this is awful this is anti-health and safety they got the things stopped being built anyway fast forward to this year he’s bought an electric car no way he wants a charging Point outside his house but the council won’t build it because of his
Previous objection saying health and safety was the reason this can’t be built well I just think the government messing around with all these regulations changing them every day it seems is is probably having an impact on that economic growth that doesn’t seem to be happening possibly uh well a completely different story now
16-year-old darts sensation Luke ler produced another stunning display last night to reach the world darts Championship final beating Rob Cross by 6 to2 yes I don’t know about you but I’ve never been so excited about darts he’s the youngest ever player to reach the final of the Premier darts
Tournament and faces Luke humph Luke V Luke in tonight’s Clash at Alexander Palace right should we speak to our reporter Ry who is there Ry tell us well commentators say that if Luke ller lifts the Sidwell Trophy this evening it will be the greatest story in
The history of darts and of course for every Sportsman or woman routine is absolutely key and Luke the nuke has been very clear about his routine he wakes up every day at midday whether he wants to or not uh he then goes out and eats a ham and cheese omelette and then
He heads here to the Alexandre palace in London if we just pan around Ollie we can see the the steps those are the 26 steps that Mr ller will have to walk up uh as he arrives here today he’s then going to go through this door behind me
And he is going to immediately no not start practicing he’s going to have a pizza and then he will start practicing that’s the routine that he’s been doing every day for the last two weeks and he sees no reason to change it of course you mentioned that amazing semifinal
Victory over Rob cross last night rather stunning fashion it has to be said uh during that match he showed absolute composure uh maturity Beyond his years as well getting 16 treble 20s produced uh three 130 plus checkouts and averaged with three darts uh well over 106 now it’s important to remember he
Only qualified uh for the this tournament by winning the world youth championship in November so it’s been a rather amazing winter for him and now he’s just one win away from completing His World Championship dream world youth championships and in a matter of months winning potentially the World Championships incredible we’ll be
Back with so much more in the next hour looks like things are heating up boxed boilers sponsors of weather on GB news hello again it’s Aiden MCG here from the Met Office with the GB news forecast blustery showers will continue for most of us during the rest of the day some
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Regrets Junior doctors insist they’re doing the right thing as record-breaking Mass walkouts threatened to hospitals during their busiest week of the year but have these trade unionists abandoned their patients and their colleagues at their time of need Luke versus Luke will Luke the nuke littler the 16-year-old Darth Superstar beat
Cool Hand Luke Humphries the world number one we’ll be live at Alexandre Palace as excited crowds begin to gather could littler score Big have to say I’ve never been excit more excited about I’ve never watched a darts game in my life but this might be never never not not one this might be the first it’s definitely unique for a a sporting event and I know there’s a debate about
Whether it is a sport or not whether it’s a game but it is it is technically a sport and this is the World Championships we’re all awaiting and this is very exciting indeed and the fact it’s at Alexandre Palace which is very uh you know iconic broadcasting as
Well the original home of the BBC or one of the original homes of the BBC it wased and um I was I got into reading about it this morning the split in the ’90s between the British Dart Federation and the world darts championship and and they’ve all they’ve come back together
And they’re playing nice now after the pandemic but my goodness there’s a there’s a there’s a whole history here I had no idea of you know what just imagine Luke sort of rolling out of bed at midday he is still 16 years old so very much a teenager running out of bed
Getting his ham and cheese omelette then you know doing a bit of practice having a pizza then leaping up those 26 steps and taking the wi and just casually winning as a 16 he only won the youth Championship a couple of months ago but but it is remarkable that his parents
Have taught him to play Dart since just about the moment he he left the womb so this this has been his life and uh it’s really quite exciting to see and a Donna kebab and a pint of coke to uh celebrate oh well or he’s 16 so if it’s with a
Substantial meal he could even have a beer now I know not all of you at home will be darts fans but I think I think we can all get a little bit excited about this one it’s lovely to see a 16-year-old do so well let’s hope he
Makes it to the end and uh takes the trophy yes well GB viws at gbs.edu with Tatiana good afternoon 2 minutes past one this is the latest from the GB Newsroom Junior doctors in England are on strike putting unprecedented strain on the NHS during one of its busiest periods six days of industrial action has begun this morning after talks between the government and the BMA Union
Broke down junior doctors won to 35% pay rise which would restore their real earnings to levels seen in 2008 the government says that’s unaffordable but insist the door remains open for further negotiations Dr Robert lawrenson is the bma’s junior doctors committee co-chair he says the strikes will continue until
Pay is improved we’re very happy to talk about restoring our our pay over a matter of years we we’re very happy to do that over a period of time frame and we don’t necessarily need it Allin one go we’re happy to sit down and have a collaborative conversation with the
Government but they’ve pushed us out of the negotiation room they don’t want to talk with us and the fact of the matter is the nurses rejected their pay deal the nurses are still in dispute with the government and the government and to be honest the whole country have abandoned
Our nursing colleagues as well meanwhile commuters are being warned of severe travel disruption next week due to strike action on the London Underground members of the rmt Union are staging another walk out over pay with no Services expected on the whole network from Sunday until Friday talks between the union and transport for
London are continuing hundreds of flood warnings remain in place after storm HK battered parts of the UK last night the West Midlands ambulance service is warning people to take extra care after several people had to be rescued from Cars caught in flood waters parts of Birmingham Leicester and Northampton
Particularly at risk of floods while transport delays are expected as the cleanup continues meanwhile one man was killed when a tree fell on his car while he was driving in glosser ship police say the 50-year-old died near kemell the Eurostar has been given a slap on the r by the advertising
Watchdog after promoting special fairs that were available to very few people the train company invited customers to soak up every second of Summer with a European getaway for just £39 but the advertising sers Authority found only a very small portion of seats available at that price describing the
Promotion as misleading Eurostar says it takes complaints seriously and will ensure the scenario doesn’t happen again more young people are making the switch to non-alcoholic drinks a study carried out by Yuga found 44% of those aged 18 to 24 consider themselves to be either occasional or regular drinkers of
Alcoholic Alternatives that’s up from 31% in 2022 it also found younger Generations are now the most sober age group overall with 39% preferring not to drink at all it’s after a survey in November found one in 10 British drinkers feel they have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and Luke ller Will Make History
Tonight when he becomes the youngest player to compete in the final of the world dance championship at just 16 years old he beat Rob cross 62 in the semi-finals last night he showed nerves of Steal as he closed out the match in style continuing his dream run into
Tonight’s big tournament when he takes on the new world number one Luke humph and the history making finalist had some words of wisdom for anyone who dreams of following him unbelievable like I’ve only I only set my goals to win win one game and come back after Christmas and
I’m still here well I don’t have any gcses everyone’s probably got more than me in fact I did pass me spot but yeah um Young D young dark players hopefully they do look up to me and if you if you do practice then you could be where I
Am this is GB news across the UK on TV in your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Tom and Emily now major developments in the world of politics today as all parties started to gear up for that heavily expected 2024 election yes so Richard Ty there has been hosting a reform UK press conference in London today where he slammed both Rishi sunak and kiss starmer as you might expect he accused
The government of betraying the British people on immigration and he also announced benhabib as the Party’s candidate for the Welling bro by election meanwhile s ed Davy has been laying out the liberal Democrats plans as his party currently sits at 11% in the polls he also refused to rule out a
Possible Coalition with Karma’s labor party yes so our political editor Christopher hope and our political correspondent Olivia rutley join us now Olivia you’re in Guilford I understand Ed Davey has had a quite a busy day this morning at least he’s out campaigning in Jeremy Hunt and Michael go
Seats well absolutely Ed DAV has had a very busy day and I’ve rarely seen the leader of the liberal Democrats looking so uh happy and excited the lib Dems very much have their eyes set on this town of Guilford the conservatives here have a majority of just over 3,000 and
It looks pretty likely uh that the libdems will snatch it off them but they also have their eye on Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt’s constituencies both also in the S area Jeremy Hunt has a con has a majority of just over 8,000 Michael Gove has a majority of over
18,000 and although numbers like that might might be considered safe tour seats in normal times these are not normal times and it does feel quite possible that the limb libdems could manage to take them the problem for the conservatives of course is that this this is very much their own territory
These are the blue heartlands the blue wall as Ed Davy is calling it there are those seats in the in the North in the red wall which have traditionally always been labor where in 2019 voters lent their votes to Boris Johnson in order to get brexit done those seats the Tories
Have probably resigned themselves to losing well at least some of them but these seats in their heartlands will be much more of a problem and of course the Tories can’t really afford to go losing cabinet members if they’re planning to Rise From the Ashes after what people
Are assuming will be a general election defeat they want to keep all of that experienced MPS there ready to start all over again if Ed Davy gets his way that’s not going to be possible of course the other issue is tactical voting what’s going to happen when it
Comes down to labor or libdem seats the labor and libdem seem to have some sort of tasset non-aggression agreement whereby in areas where the lib Dems stand a chance of doing well places like s labor won’t be too aggressive and vice versa and there’s also of course a
Chance that in the event of a hung Parliament there could be a labor libdem Coalition this is what Avey had to say when I asked him about that focused on a general election I announced today that we think the general election should be on May the 2 uh and it couldn’t come
Soon enough we’ll be tbling a uh bill in Parliament next week which would give MPS the chance to call the general election rather than rishy sunak running away and hiding away let’s have that General elction now people need that change people are fed up of waiting and
I’m really uh really pleased and and proud that the liberal Democrats are ready for that election whenever it comes so yes to a coalition with labor I’m focused on the general election there are many many conservative mpes that liberal Democrats can defeat across the whole of the south of England parts
Of London parts of Manchester parts of Yorkshire in Scotland in Wales liberal Democrats are really on the March we’ve shown with our historic byelection victories and our amazing local election results across the country that we are now a amazing campaigning force in British politics and I think uh when the
Election comes we will be surprise of the election so absolutely not ruling out a coalition with labor there the Tories have problems on their hands in the north where labor are advancing and it seems they have problems in the South too where the lib Dems are hot on their
Heels let’s see how rushi sunite responds when we hear from him later this week thank you very much Olivia the liberal Democrats on the March yes and it seems to be that the lib Dems are usually on the march in particularly picturesque parts of the country wherever there’s a byelection a Charming
High Street it seems that the lims are there Olivia thank you for that let’s turn to Christopher hope now in Westminster but earlier today you’re at a press conference with reform UK you’ve been announcing some things this morning that’s right Tom it was a packed press conference all the ma broadcasters
Journals were there which shows the interest I think in reform UK Livia’s there with lib Dems they’re on 10 points in the polls but so are reform UK the difference is reform UK have no MPS lib Dems have of course well Baker dozen probably more than 12
And that’s the point about the lib Dems and the frustration for reform is they have all this support this interest 10 points in the polls but no actual MPS yet now Richard TI to the the leader of the party has unveiled uh plans today to
Be seen as um coming off the labor party they’re saying they they they warn about starmageddon um if Le win the election they’re saying that uh the party reform will will um contest every single seat of the election in England Scotland and Wales um they say they’re the party of
The working class and they’re going after these um brexiteer supporters who came to who were disaffected with the Troy party would have been for labor party they think reform can get those um but the question is where they go next the big question at this press conference um was what about Nigel
Farage um later Mr Ty made very clear to me at GB news that him standing to be an MP is the least likely option it sounds more likely that Nigel farage might take a role running the campaign taking overview being the front of house person but not actually running for a seat of
Course he’s he’s lost eight times trying to be an MP so it might be he says with GB news a bit longer and Christopher are we hearing something about uh Henry Bolton the former ukip leader who made well coincidentally is joining us on the panel in just a few moments Christopher
Are you there yes that’s yeah Emily that’s right Henry Bolton of course he was the successor to Nigel farage as leader of ukip he ran the party for six months from 2017 to 2018 now Henry Bolton has tried to join the Tory party he was turned down by his local party in
Kent he went to a neighboring constituency which accepted him he then applied and paid his money was going to join the T party but it was turned down by Richard um Holden who’s the new Tory party chairman um Henry Bolton is upset by this because he sees perhaps
Correctly that Richie sunak did say the part is a broad church when we’ve asked whether someone like farz someone from the right poit politics can join the Tory party it seems clear that isn’t always the case and Mr Bolton has told GB news it shows that this idea that the
Tory party is a broad church is for the birds I think you may may have more to say about that with you at 1:30 Christopher what did Richard Holden specifically say was the reason why Henry Bolton couldn’t join in in the leaked email seen by GB news which was being published um parts
Of it on the website shortly at GB news he said that it was a political decision by the party chairman in office in in accordance with the terms and conditions on the party’s join website I’ve asked the party this morning why this happened they have confirmed on background that
Mr Bolton has been turned down for membership of the Tory party and they’ve made very clear on background that high-profile defectors can be more trouble than they’re worth but it does draw into question I think the claimed by Mr sunak twice to GB news in October and December last year that he would
Accept someone like njel farage joining because the big problem the toy party has got is people supporting the Reform Party feel the toy party is no longer longer their home now clearly the leader is trying to address that by saying we welcome everybody but not in the case of
Henry Bolton very interesting I’m very interested to uh hear what Henry Bolton has to say at about yes as you said about 1:30 135 will be sitting down with him and our other panelists to uh question why the conservatives would make that decision high-profile Defector more trouble than he’s worth there’s
This about politics policies or personalities well I suppose we’ll find out in due course but also uh junior doctors in England are currently engaged in the longest NHS strike on record it’s spanning six days and of course is going to cause substantial disruption to Services yes discussions on salaries
Between the government and the British Medical Association have reached a position of stalemate Health secretary Victoria Atkins has appealed for the strikes to be called off but warns that the BMA needs to be realistic yes so joining us now is is former director of the wh cancer program Professor Carol sakur Carol very
Depressing reading uh this morning just about how many appointments really have been cancelled delayed rescheduled as a result of this strike action people saying up to a million appointments in the last year because we’ve had so many days of strike action just in the past year where does this come to some kind
Of resolution from what I can see Victoria Atkins the health secretary says she’s ready to sit down and negotiate the BMA say they’re ready to sit down and negotiate uh so what’s actually happening it’s an amazing situation as you say a very sad situation for the many people waiting for something and
There are probably about eight million people waiting for something and this isn’t going to help it isn’t going to help not because the junior doctors are going to do everything but the Consultants have been pulled out of the routine work that they normally do to plug the emergency gaps where the
Doctors the junior doctors are not there I mean you know for someone of my generation it’s Unthinkable that doctors could strike at all I remember when I was a junior doctor there were strikes going on in other European countries and we were horrified by it on the other
Hand you know 35% is a hell of a whack to expect in one go and I think it was very telling the spokesman on the news program just before here on GB news said he they’ll negotiate over a period of years to get their standards back to
2008 that’s the clue negociation I can’t understand why it hasn’t come to an end these doctors don’t like being on strike and the politicians it’s embarrassing that they can’t solve it something has got to give I suppose one of the really interesting points here is that nurses to some extent have accepted their
Settlement actually they were offered smaller pay increases uh than Junior doctors have been offered on average Junior doctors have been offered uh fairly decent pay increase uh 10.1% for those that are on the earlier years down to just over 8% for those who are a little bit more
Senior why is there this discre discrepancy between how doctors are reacting to these offers and nurses I know and the Consultants have sort of settled they’re not finally agreed but they it looks as though they’re going to agree to the settlement which is more than the nurses but less
Than what the junior doctors want to get I mean that that’s the whole problem with it all there are so many different professional cabal silos if you like in the NHS that each one’s negotiating separately I mean everyone wants to have good health care there’s no doubt and to
See what’s going on now at a time when for no fault of itself the NHS is really on its knees postco backlogs never had the capacity beforehand now it really doesn’t have the capacity it’s just so sad and uh you know it just pushes into a two-tier system where those that can
Pay for things privately and those that can’t have to put up with the delays that that’s the tragedy of the whole thing I’m sure Mr bevon is turning in his grave when he sees scenes like this so and my bosses when I was a junior doctor I don’t know what they’ say
They’d shout at me I’m sure we can’t do that now of of course so Carol just just quickly is the isue settlement will come how long it’s going to take and how much suffering we don’t know yeah Carol is the issue the uh the the unions is the
RCN a little less intransigent is it the BMA that are particularly militant as a trade Union because I don’t believe they put this latest pay offer to the doctors have they sorry I couldn’t hear the uh don’t worry we’re going to have to there anyway thank you very much indeed
Professor Carol sakur wh cancer program former director of um yes because is it the BMA that are just particularly inrent particularly militant not putting the offer to the their members I think the RCN has always had a bit of that reputation but then the leadership of
The RCN accepted the offer but then the membership of the RCN rejected the offer and then when the RCN had to ballot again to extend the period at which they could strike they failed to meet the threshold so was the ordinary nurses who thought you know what we don’t really
Want to withdraw our labor much more anymore so it ended up settling but it was incredibly messy H yeah I just doubt that every single Junior doctor wants to be out there striking no I don’t think I don’t think they do either but of course
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Have criticized charity un women UK for selecting a transgender model as its UK Champion as one of its un UK Champions yes organizations including fair play for women and sex matters have labeled Bergdorf unsuitable B and highlighted previous online posts made by Monroe which were in quotes homophobic and
Racist leading to childline dropping her as an ambassador in 2019 well joining us now is the co-founder and executive director of sex matters Maya for starter and thank you for making the time for us this afternoon I suppose many people will be thinking that the un uh is a is a
Credible organization that must represent all types of of people and and I suppose the the question is is there not room in the UN women tent to have one of its ambassadors being a transgender woman I think we need to be clear about the language here when you say a
Transgender woman what you mean is a man who wishes he was a woman um and a man who dresses up in women’s clothing um and wants to be treated as a woman but that doesn’t make someone a woman that’s not what being being a woman means and
You if you if you were to look at Monroe bered off walking down the street would would you think that this individual is a man she’s someone who has secondary sex characteristics of a woman she looks like a woman she is a woman in the eyes of UK
Law Bergdorf looks like a man’s sexual fantasy of what a woman is um I don’t know if saw Bergdorf walking down the street uh whether I would clock him but I think I probably would um it’s quite difficult to see from you know sort of Glamour Shots the size the way someone
Moves the way they sound but in any case um women shouldn’t be having to make those kinds of judgments when they’re using single sex spaces and un women is campaigning against women being sexually harassed and for women to have uh what they call Safe spaces and the question
About whether a man convincingly looks like a woman or whether he just thinks he does is not something that women should have to worry about Maya why do you think uh this un charity has chosen uh this transgender woman to represent British women why do you think they’ve done
That um I don’t know you’d have to ask them I think they’re trolling British women they’re saying there are 33 million women in Britain and none of them are good enough for this job so let’s get a man who dresses up as a sexual fancy of a woman I think it’s an
Insult mayam are some of the Charities that have written about this and have objected to this have uh drawn on some of her more cont controversial um opinions and social media tweets what else is out there that people have objected to um I mean as I say the the basic
Objection is that Monro Bergdorf is a man um but there are also things in his history that are concerning um for example asking children who are gender confused to DM him and contact him um personally this is why he was dropped as a um Ambassador for the nspcc because
That is absolutely against safeguarding uh you know whether he was doing it with the best of motives or or not uh you don’t ask children to get indirect contact with strange adults on the internet you just don’t do that Maya you keep saying him and and I just wonder if
If if you’re trying to sort of bring people with you oh no this a let’s let’s hope we can get the sound reestablished here because I think this is an important point because there are of course legitimate debates to be had in terms of terms everyone has a right to not use
Someone’s preferred pronouns a right in law but I’m asking whether or not it’s polite or even May fundamentally believes that men can’t change their gender and become a woman and that is her right to believe that she’s director of sex matters she obviously finds this massively insulting that we’d have a
Representative of women who’s not a biological woman and I think that’s a fair enough point of view I I I I wonder because there oh Myers back fantastic I’m sorry that we dropped out with the sound there uh because what I was going to ask I suppose is do you think it’s
Particularly effective for your cause trying to bring as many people with you as possible because there are legitimate debates to be had about access to spaces or indeed sporting facilities but by insisting on calling trans women men and saying he rather than she do you think that’s where most people are do you
Think that’s going to be the best way to bring people with you why are we unhappy that Monro Bergdorf is uh has been appointed to this post it’s because he’s a man why do we not want people who call themselves trans women competing in women’s sports it’s
Because they’re men why do we not want them in women’s spaces it’s because they’re men if we can’t say that how can we protect women’s rights well obviously they’d argue that they’re not men that they go out of their way and go through a pretty
Time to not be men and and perhaps there are many trans women in the United Kingdom who face exactly the same sort of cat calling who face the same sort of sexual assault who face the same sort of misogyny that many women do going about their daily lives too I’m not sure
You’re right on that one Tom no I I don’t think you’re right and and that you know I have no idea what it feels like to be a man who wishes he was a woman and a man who wishes he as a woman has no idea what it feels like to be a
Woman he doesn’t go through anything to do with having a woman’s body pregnancy fear of pregnancy fear of men who are much bigger and stronger whatever they’re wearing uh those are not experiences that a man can can have whatever he’s wearing however good his makeup well there you go thank you very
Much indeed Maya forat co-founder and executive director of sex matters and not going to budge on that with you Tom no I we’re going I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree there but I do I do think there is there is a point
That there are lots of trans women who aren’t 6′ five there are lots of trans women who uh go through life and do face the same sort of Tom you’re you’re a very rational and logical person you know there is a difference between a biological woman and a and a transgender
Woman you do know that there is I know there’s a chronal difference I’ve heard you argue that actually um biological men uh transgender women should be able to compete in in women’s sports um on a Case by casee basis so I think you I think you should so for example if
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Who want to subscribe to our IDE to our values it was of course being asked by our political editor whether he’d welcome Nigel farage into the party well swap Nigel farage for another ukip leader uh Henry Bolton has just been denied membership of the conservative
Party uh and he makes up half of our panel today so Delight coincidentally I must say by Henry Bolton and the former labor MP Ivor Kaplan um Henry we’re going to have to start with you what’s the story behind this when did you decide to try and join the Tories well
In my view um I was going to disagree with me I’m sure but the priority are twofold immediate priorities one is to prevent a a socialist labor a victory in the next general election and if that can’t be prevented then to retain a strong opposition to mitigate that
Victory and the second thing which is connected is to deliver on reducing immigration and you know I have a I have an extensive track record in doing precisely that and in Border management and I felt that I could use my skills uh my political knowledge my political experience and my technical experience
In trying to deal with borders at a strategic level to try and help the conservative party I think the conservative party the are the only people at the moment who can do that the conservative party are in government and if there’s an election in October next
Year we we’re nine 10 months away um so there is time to make an impact should the party wish to now having not been a member of any political party since 2018 um I I felt that you know there should not be a problem I am a died in the wall
Conservative I joined ukip when I did because of my belief that we were better off out of the European Union the conservative party was in a very different place at that time and was not an appropriate home for me um and I I worked to support the brexit campaign
The referendum c campaign uh to leave so um and now you know so that was the motive behind all of this that I felt that we need to act now we need to act decisively um on the on the center right of British Politics the people to do
That now are the conservative party they’re failing to do it I thought I might be able to help well Henry why do you think they rejected you then you know spoken Christopher hope mentioned high-profile Defector you know is that good enough reason as any not to on
Board I don’t know whether a defections quite right because I’ve not left political party to try and join the conservative party um but I I think what this says quite clearly is that what rishy sunak has said to to Chris hope um that the conservative party is a broad
Church is for the birds and I think one of the reasons he’s been saying that is because he has a referend a Rwanda vote coming up on the Rwanda Bill and he is trying to appease the center right of or the if you like the real conservatives
In the conservative party over that vote and I think some people are want to believe him well they can’t um it is not a broad Church it is not conservative party under the way under its present leadership and the way it’s constituted the leadership of the conservative party
Needs to change the constitution of the conservative party needs to change the Constitution at the moment I mean look you know well it sounds like you would have been a bit of a troublemaker as a member that’s probably why they didn’t either do you think does that not say at
All Emily that you know I believe that the purpose of the conservative party any any party really but certainly a conservative party is to further the interests of the United Kingdom and the British people to build confidence optimism prosperity and security for everybody living in these islands and to
Preserve our history Our Heritage our culture our institutions as the foundations on which we should Society can grow and evolve it is not doing that and I think I honestly believe I I got no response apart from a rejection I’ve contacted cchq three times asking why um I’ve just I’ve received no response
Whatsoever they’ve not engaged with me at all um and I can conclude that where I want to go to in the way that I’ve just described um is not where cchq and Rishi sunak wants wants to go if the conservative party are going to stand a chance in the next election they don’t
Need to be going after the center ground they need to be going after the traditional conservative cultural and social conservatives Iva what do you make of this why do you think conservative Campaign Headquarters have made the decision they have it’s not especialist subject to M appreciate that
Both of you you think they were or Henry about I did empathy with him earlier by the way in outside um look it’s a difficult decision for for Henry but I’m not going to say that the Tores should do this this all that it’s their it’s
Their thing we we had all that situation you know from the mid uh mid 10s with with people leaving the party because of the anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbin and you know that uh change that we had to make which Kia sta has led on since
Uh uh April 2020 has allowed us to bring people back in and people who’ maybe left us we’ve welcomed them back and I would say in a more General political thing than than criticizing the conservative party is that I think that’s where politics is right to bring
Allow people to rejoin you see you see the labor party has been welcoming people back and certainly there are high-profile cases of people rejoining the labor party who left under the Corbin years there are also some pretty high-profile cases of people on the left of the labor party being forced out the
The the mayor of the of the Northeast Jamie Driscoll is a is a pertinent example there are many more who would align themselves on the coronight wing who feel like starers kicked them out with not much excuse it’s not about kicking people out if if you mis if you
Um if if there is a situation that you have make comment on and that that comment is outside the rules of the labor party whatever those rules are in in most times then you can get expelled we we have expelled you know hundreds and hundreds of people for instance
Uh in and around where I am just because they are anti-sites and those people we would not tolerate in the party so if we have to do that then we do it in a proper way it’s dealt with by the legal people and then the people are
Exposed one example just take that one example Tom uh that you just made that’s true but the point with with that example of that particular mayor is he didn’t get into the qualification for me Members voting now that’s happened all over the country while we’ve been selecting candidates and that happens
When you get to the last thing your members are going to make a decision we don’t have to have people in there is it just a little bit convenience that sometimes and this happened in the late 90s and it’s happening again now that sometimes these selection short lists
Which essentially Chosen and and then members get to vote sometimes they seem to align very very closely with the people right in the middle of the party and perhaps there’s been some criticism that there’s not so much internal democracy anymore I I think I might put it slightly differently 2010 2015
2019 labor completely out out of the game and we have to make decisions then that are different and change things around um you know I I stood in a know four four people in in hve uh for the candidacy in 1996 and I won well obvious
I want but but the point is that I had to go through that as well what the what the rules now do is make it the same so in the 91 constituencies in the southeast of which I have a responsibility for in the party then that means that all the constituencies
Are being treated the same and yet they all Moan by the way that they’re not every single constituency that there isn’t a current MP moans about what they’re what they’re being off it’s that’s how it is in the you know I mean Henry what happens next because I
Don’t know in my mind perhaps I know richy sunak said it’s a broad Church the part is a broad church and I can completely understand why you might be disgruntled by this decision I don’t know if there’s an appeals process perhap you no respon whatsoever it’s interesting but I mean you clearly don’t
Have a huge amount of uh well maybe you have respect for Rishi sunak but you don’t rate him as a leader so do leaders and I this is probably is not richy sunak decision of course but is it probably not the best idea to have to have troublemakers who have been political
The conservative party wants to deal with immigration and borders well I was described by Durham University as one of the world’s leading experts in developing and implementing National border strategies to do just this um the a previous prime minister put me forward for an OB for securing borders in other
Countries so you know but there but outside that look um the conservative party has a problem at the moment it is really of almost going back to your point Tom I think um it’s got what I would call a conservative Wing which are being called the right wing which they’re not they’re the
Conservative wing and it has got what I would call a Centrist Wing which are being called moderates they’re not moderate if you know Damen green you know he’s not a moderate he is very very passionate and digs his heels in incredibly firmly he’s so there’s nothing moderate about might might there
Be might there be an interesting point of view here which which which might not be the immediately obvious one uh which is that people of your expertise and position are welcome in the conservative party but the conservative party might not want the sort of history that you come with
Having led ukip the profile of that and frankly the way in which you were forced out as ukip as well yeah indeed which was partly the doing of the conservative party um so you know and I myself there is absolutely no allegation against me that’s stuck none I never said anything
That was out of order whether you call it racist or anything else I have never written it I’ve never uttered such such words um and they know that but there was the person you were associated with who said some things and I removed that person from the party that person
Apologized that’s a matter for them um as I see it um and fair enough but you know even if you if you even if you take that as a as a as a rationale that was back at the beginning of 2018 okay we are now six years down the
Road and you know we have priorities in this country which I feel that I can contribute towards and I I feel that my I’ve always been a conservative I joined UK as I said because I was passionate about leaving the European Union the conservative party was in a very
Different place at that time on that issue um and uh I I felt absolutely passionately that there’s something that’s still missing which is no politician no leader has stood up and provided a vision for the United Kingdom post brexit this is what we where we want to be 2025 years from now for
Example and this is the trajectory we need to follow to achieve that the so that’s that’s something that I was passionate about trying to deliver I I kicked out effectively 6,000 members who were anti-immigration anti-islam and nothing else I incurred the WTH of the national executive of ukip for doing it
Um because they were tending that way none of them supported me in the leadership election although the members did so I was fighting a battle with them so I was figh ask Richard dice um but no I I believe that at the moment the conservative party are the only people
That can stop labor from winning the next election they are right now the only part because they’re in government that can deal with immigration and deal with some of the serious border issues and other issues that we’ve got they’re in power now I wonder either is there an
Issue here we’re focusing a lot on what’s going on in the right of politics all the while the labor party has a higher vote share if we believe the polls than reform and the Tories put together yeah what’s going on there might the Tories perhaps need to look
More at why people are looking towards K sta or is it just sort of uh as some people allege that while everyone else scraps he can stand still and win by default well I don’t think it’s going to be by default I think there is a genuine
View in large parts of the country now that and we’ve seen it in by elections for instance uh in the last six nine months and I think that shows that that labor has a saying with those sort of groups of people who as I said earlier
You know if you look at the liberal Democrats obviously if we’re in second place in a seat and the liberal Democrats are in third with maybe 20% of the vote then that’s where we focus our our aims and our Ambitions in order to try and win those seats that has
Succeeded byelections are one thing the general election is a completely different one and as I’ve said before on on on here you know that not a single vote has been cast yet in the general election we have to be conscious of that there is time still in that whether it’s
In May or October and and and do I think labor will win yes I have every belief that labor will win the olymp now we’re in our final minute and Henry I know you want to get a little word in just very briefly because Emily asked what what so
What next well I’m going to continue to fight for conservative politics social cultural conservatism in the United Kingdom and for furthering the interests of the United Kingdom and the British people at large and that includes preservation of our our culture Our Heritage our our way of life on our
Institutions so to adapt and grow upon um but I think it’s important also to note because talking about democracy that there is a problem with the conservative party already before this of course um this is minor in comparison um that they appointed a leader of the conservative party without even
Referring to its members the constitution of the conservative party needs to change because if you can’t respect democracy within your party how can the public this is something that comes up time and time again in the inbox that’s for sure we got lots more to come in the next hour thank you very
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Their time of need out of the traps reform UK becomes the first party to launch its general election campaign claiming the labor party and the Tories are two sides of the same socialist coin we’re live with our political editor with the latest Luke versus Luke will Luke the nuke ller the 16-year-old Dart
Superstar beat Cool Hand Luke Humphries the world number one we’ll be live at alip Pali as excited crowds begin to gather could littler score Big now this week is generally considered to be the busiest week of the year for the NHS because it’s the week after the Christmas period the week after the Christmas break some people have delayed things other people are just getting things checked out and of course you’ve got all the winter bugs
The flu the covid the everything else um sort of flying around it’s the peak point of pressure for the NHS do you know what else this week is Emily no I don’t Tom the week that Junior doctors have decided to strike for the longest walk out for the longest period of time
In NHS history yeah and it it does sound like it’s going to be absolutely catastrophic hundreds of thousands of appointments and surgeries and uh key treatments just canceled just canceled I think a million plus just in the last year or so since these strikes started lots of you have been getting in getting
In touch David has had to say the junior doctors complain about a starting pay of around £15 per hour which is low because of all of the they’re studying but everything they have learned at University is mostly the theory once they’re released into hospitals they are like apprentices who are learning their
Trade well I think one of the massive issues is that huge level of debt they acrew through studying so I’ve seen I’ve seen some Junior doctors with £80,000 worth of debt and then and then it doesn’t really tick down and and effectively that adds 9% to their income
Tax I mean a lot of a lot of these issues might be fixed by you know cutting people’s tax that that might help but um but uh John has said NHS deserves more money but surely not at the mercy of patience surely there must be another way of getting more pay but
Not with striking and yet the NHS has seen its pay seen seen the amount that we spend on it rise by 40% in the last 13 years 40% well this is what annoys me I think a lot of us at home would like um some of that money to be going to pay
Going to Frontline workers but it’s being you know used elsewhere lots to say about NHS reform I could talk about it all day let us know what you think have you been actually affected or do you know people who have been affected by these Junior doctor strikes by these
Walkouts because it does look as though thousands and thousands of appointments are going to be cancelled we’ll get on to that and many more stories after your headlines with Tatiana Tom thank you and good afternoon this is the latest from the GB Newsroom doctors have warned that medical professionals may vanish from the NHS and less pay is dramatically improved six days of industrial action began this morning after talks between the government and the BMA Union broke down some of those
Striking have warned that countries including Australia are targeting them with advertising in an attempt to attract disgruntled British doctors to jobs overseas Junior doctors want to 5% pay rise which would restore their real earnings to level seen in 2008 the government says that’s unaffordable but insist the door remains open for further
Negotiation Dr Robert lawrenson is the bma’s junior doctors’s committee co-chair he says the strikes will continue until pay is improved we’re very happy to talk about restoring our pay over a matter of years we we’re very happy to do that over a period of time frame and we don’t necessarily need it
All in one go we’re happy to sit down and have a collaborative conversation with the government but they’ve pushed us out of the negotiation room they don’t want to talk with us and the fact of the matter is the nurses rejected their pay deal the nurses are still in
Dispute with the government and the government and to be honest the whole country have abandoned our nursing colleagues as well meanwhile commuters are being warned of severe travel disruption next week due to strike action on the London Underground members of the rmt Union are staging another walk out over pay with
No Services expected on the whole network from Sunday until Friday talks between the union and transport for London are continuing the sister of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed while watching New Year’s fireworks in London has criticized false claims that he was part of a gang Harry Pitman died after what
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Carried out by Yuga found 44% of those aged between 18 to 24 consider themselves to be either occasional or regular drinkers of alcohol Alternatives that’s up from 31% in 2022 it also found younger Generations are now the most sober age group overall with 39% preferring not to drink at all it’s
After a survey in November found one in 10 British drinkers feel they’ve got an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and Luke ller Will Make History tonight when he becomes the youngest player to compete in the final of the world dance championship at just 16 he beat Rob cross 62 in the semi-finals
Last night he showed Nerfs of Ste as he closed out the match in style continuing his dream run into tonight’s big tournament when he takes on the new world number one Luke Humphries and the history making finalist had some words of wisdom for anyone who dreams of following him unbelievable like I’ve
Only I only set my goals to win win one game and come back after Christmas and I’m still here well I don’t have any GCS everyone’s probably got more than me in fact I did pass me sport but yeah um Young D Young D players hopefully they
Do look up to me and if you if you do practice then you could be where I am this is G news across the UK on TV in your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Tom and Emily now major developments in the world of politics today as all parties start to gear up for that 2024 election yes Rich TI he’s been hosting a reform UK press conference in London where he slammed both rishy sunak and kiss Arma he accused the government of betraying the British people on immigration he
Also announced benhabib as the Party’s candidate for the Welling BR byelection meanwhile sir Ed Davy of the liberal Democrats is being laying out his party’s plans as they currently sit at around 11% in the polls he also refused to rule out a possible Coalition with Karma’s labor party H well our political
Editor Christopher hope and political correspondent Olivia rutley join us now with the latest Olivia lots of liberal Democrat action campaigning in Guilford today well absolutely the liberal Democrats are usually very cheerful it has to be said but they did seem particularly cheerful this morning here in Guilford Guilford has a conservative
Majority of just over 3,000 and the Liams are very hopeful that they will be able to overturn that at the next election they also have their eye on a number of other seats in Su some of which have much bigger conservative majorities uh Jeremy Hunt’s seat is in
Their ey line he has majority of just over 8,000 and so is Michael Gove seat who has majority of just over 18,000 liberal Democrats also did not rule out a coalition with labor when asked about it multiple times and whatever the status of uh any sort of
Talks about a coalition there does seem to be a sort of non-aggression pact between the lib demems and labor so in seats like this where labor is trailing behind in the polls but the libdems are doing pretty well we’re expecting labor not to put up too much of a showing that
Gives the lib Dems access to a lot of the Southwest and the the southeast that’s bad bad news for the conservative these These are their Tory heartlands places like s have always voted conservative the fight now for the Tories isn’t just in those red wall seats those seats that lent their votes
To the Tories in 2019 it’s also fighting to retain their own heartlands I was chatting to some people out in Guilford today about what they make of the next general election who they want to see win this is what they had to say well it’s uh been a bit on and off recently
Um I haven’t been F uh following the conservative party uh quite closely but uh I do support uh our prime minister and uh our local conservative mp uh no who would you like to see oh labor I’m a labor member um I was a teacher for a number of years and I actually
Live in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency he’s actually a very good local MP but I still won’t vote for him no I proba prefer somebody else to win rather than notorious uh yes I would yes not really a very good job but there’s no one else to choose unfortunately unless something
Wonderful happens and somebody new pops up but uh it’s the lesser of all the evils um I think it’s about time for a change and uh I would like to see what labor can do I’d like someone us so I don’t know cuz it’s all a shambles and
It’s all a mess you know so probably the most positive message there for the conservatives was I don’t think they’ve done a very good job but there’s no one else better pretty Stark message here in Guilford today will that play out at a general election we’ll
Have to wait and see oh amazing I loved the woman who was a labor member but said oh but Jeremy Hunt’s very good isn’t he that was but I absolutely will not vote for him chle chle oh well Olivia thank you so much for bringing us
Those voices is uh down there in the Southeast Let’s cross now to Westminster and Christopher hope who’s been following reform UK today that’s right Tom reform UK set out their plans in Westminster quite a full press conference showing interest from other journalists about what reform might do maybe they’re drawn there by
The appeal of Nigel farage of course the star of the jungle on ITV but the party pulled out a new tag here attacking the labor party talking about starmageddon coming to a place near you um they’re worried about the the Labor’s leading the polls of course if there were an
Election tomorrow it looks like labor could win a landslide the reform itself is on 10 points in the polls most recently the same as the Liv Dems who are with Olivia of course today and and the question is what do they how what do they do next they are really trying to Target
Disaffected labor voters and trying to boost that number towards 15% to become a real player of the next general election the all the focus though despite the efforts by Mr TI the leader to talk about what it would do in in government and those policies include
Lifting the base rate of income tax to £20,000 uh aing uh 5% of all government spending spending and trying to save money and having a onein one out immigration policy so those are the ideas they might try and do if they got into Power which is unlikely um but more
The focus really was on Nigel farage for many of the questions what would he do I understand it’s unlikely we’re going to hear about his plans whether he might be trying to stand to be candidate or not until as little as two months before the next general election and Insider
Telling me it’s more likely he would seek to have some kind of overseeing role of the campaign for the Reform Party rather than to stand to be an MP for the ninth time seems a lot of this is about uh teaching the conservatives a lesson because presumably the rise of uh
Reform they’re not going to necessarily get an MP elected but they will take a lot of votes for the conservatives which does make a labor government even more likely so what is the actual benefit for small C conservatives Tom well let’s turn that was crystal
There if I can if you want me to answer yes I mean the point about reform is to draw the party the Tory party back into the the right of Center politics that they feel the party should be espousing and that hasn’t been happening of course
The risk is that you do get maybe 8 n % of the vote in election and zero MPS it happened didn’t it back in 2015 when the party amassed millions of votes and just one MP Mo the Douglas Carwell who then eventually flipped went to a different
Party so I do think that there that’s a real risk that maybe holding Nigel far’s pen on agreeing to be a candidate does he want to lose again for the ninth time or try and just oversee a party which will cause damage to the Tory party and
Yet isn’t this one of the biggest problems for reform UK If n n farage even Nigel farage with the profile and the following that he has is perhaps thinking behind the scenes he couldn’t win a seat under the reform UK Banner what hope does any other candidate
Have well there could be opportunities I mean benhabib was unveiled he’s the party’s Deputy Deputy leader unveiled as the Party’s candidate in the Welling BR by elction now in the last comparable general election the last planned one in 2015 ukip came second to Peter bone of
Course we don’t know his plans yet we and we expect this Welling by election a seat held by 19,000 by bone at the last election to be held probably in late February or early March so that will be a real test I think and the party sees
That as I was described to me by an Insider as the canary in the coal mine if they can see a big boost in numbers there then that might change and indeed if the pole position changes um and indeed if were Farah to come back and take over a leadership role in reform
Rather than being the honorary president then it might see the the party’s support going to into the low 20s I mean all all things are possible at the moment in politics we live in quite a fraught um time I should say also by the way that Rich sunak has been trying to
Open overtures to reform um supporters he told us twice on GB news in October and December last year that he the parties a broad church when I said would you accept njel farage as a member well we revealed today at lunchtime today on on your program of course how Henry
Bolton who was a who was um chosen by n faros to succeed as ukip leader um back in 2017 2018 he’s been denied a membership by Richard Holden the party’s chairman which is quite interesting I think about how much the party really wants to appeal to disaffected reform
Supporters and of course the fact that uh Henry Bolton the former ukip leader not getting that membership that he so craved as you were uh breaking in the last hour uh do you think that will have any impact well I think for some people I mean
Henry TOS told us didn’t he that it shows this this suggestion that Mr sunak welcomes those from the right is for the birds um we we may see more on tax cuts at the budget in March we may see even a pledge at the next election ofor party
To pledge to cut taxes every year for five years as was moted in some reporting over the weekend so that may change but as things stand many on the right don’t see themselves as comfortable with some of the policies that the Tory party’s got but indeed some of those ideas that reform offer
Today are probably unaffordable um but they might attract people as a protest vote away from the Tory party and that’s why I think not allowing Henry Bolton to join when he wants to help the Tory party he wants to be supportive is interesting and will question those who
Think the part is open to right- wiers like Bolton well Christopher hope thank you very much for bringing us all of that it is feeling like this general election campaign is really getting underway yes indeed now moving on 16-year-old darts sensation we’re going to hold that story because there is some
New news coming in today which is that two explosions have been uh heard have been felt have uh gone off in Iran uh let’s cross now to our correspondent Charlie Peters to tell us more at least 103 people killed and that’s coming in from the Tas in Iran a state aligned broadcaster
There this explosion happening in Kerman a city about 820 kilm southeast of Tran the capital and it’s occurred at the tomb of former irgc commander kasum suani who was killed in a US drone strike four years ago today so a significant date on the anniversary of his death the irgc the
Islamic revolutionary guards core is the asymmetric Warfare unit of the Iranian regime he also commanded its cod’s Force now this unit links the Shia power with its allies and its proxies not only in West Asia but indeed around the world it had links to Europe and solomani was a
Almost mystical figure in Iran and throughout the Middle East for his anti-American so-called Anti-Imperialist resistance but he was killed in that drone strike four years ago as ordered by then president Donald Trump and the significance of this explosion which is being described by local Governors as a terroristic incident without further elaboration is
That it comes less than 24 hours after the Israelis launched a surgical strike on senior Hamas leaders in a Hezbollah stronghold in a Southern suburb of Beirut in Lebanon the Lebanese Capital some five or six people killed there by a drone strike the IDF would not confirm
To me last night if they were involved in the attack but it’s hard to see who else could have actually conducted that kind of operation or who indeed would have the motive to do so so this explosion happening in the last few hours on the fourth anniversary of
Soloman’s death there are a twin explosion as he said Tom so the first explosion appears to have happened some 800 M away from the tomb and then 15 minutes later a second bomb has gone off this uh two attack method is common by Terror groups in order to attack
Emergency Services as they attend the scene it is a particularly brutal strategy now who could have done this uh it’s highly unlikely I think at this stage for any foreign power to have deliberately carried out this attack Israel has conducted some attacks within Iran in the last half decade or so but
Those are usually surgical strikes related to Iran’s nuclear capabilities they do not carry out these sort of mass mass casualty attacks on innocent civilians so there’s a realistic possibility at this time and this is very soon after the bomb has gone off of course but this is involving internal
Strife there are of course several challenges to the Tran regime it is not the all powerful uh much adored regime as it likes to present and since late 2022 there have been significant protests against Tan in particular after the death of 22-year-old Mara amini that woman killed amid a wider revolutionary
Surge in protests in favor of women’s rights I’ll have all the latest throughout the program should this develop thank you very much indeed Charlie Peters for bringing us that latest news it’s absolutely fascinating because up until now resistant movements within Iran have been peaceful there been people dancing in the streets in
Protests against uh laws there but if this is turned into some sort of new threat that destabilizes the region further other questions of course could it be Saudi Arabia could it be other um countries in the region that practice Sunni rather than Shia Islam there are
Lots and lots of questions and uh no doubt we’ll be uh we’ll be digging around to find out precisely what could have caused this mass mass casualty yes indeed but coming up we’ll have the latest in the aftermath of storm Hank here in the UK okay numerous areas of
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9:30 on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it’s 26 minutes past 2 and 16-year-old Dart sensation Luke ler produced another stunning display last night to reach the world darts Championship final beating Rob Cross by 6 to2 yes ller is the youngest ever player to reach the final of the Premier darts tournament and
Faces another Luke Luke humph in tonight’s Clash at Ali palali well joining us live from Alexandra Palace is our reporter Ray Addison and Ry there’s so much EX I don’t think I’ve ever seen more excitement from the British public about a world darts championship yeah he’s really caught the imagination
Of the entire UK and in a matter of a few hours this area where I am now where we’re standing will be absolutely filled with up to 10,000 people all waiting to go through these doors here to watch night now this area of course will have been absolutely packed with revelers
Last night after that amazing surprise win uh somebody leaving behind their glow stick I’ve nicked that I’m going to get the party started a little bit later on if we look over to our right hand side we can just see uh the amazing view
That um a lot of people come here to see as well from Alexandra Palace that view over North London then if we pan around as well we can see these banners that people get to see as they’re coming in there’s none for uh Luke the nuke liter
But we’ve got Nathan the ASP aspinal and then over to the left there we’ve got uh we got Peter snake bite right and Rob voltage Cross of course Rob cross who was beaten in the semi-final last night at 62 rather stunning fashion uh by lukee um as he showed quite surprising
Um maturity for his age of course just 16 I think um 19 days off his 17th birthday he got 16 treble 20s and he produced three 130 plus checkouts as well and of course he qualified back in November when he won the world youth Championship uh and now of course U this
Is just one win for him one win tonight would seal His World Championship dream of course he is the youngest ever player to reach the final uh of the what is the Premier Dance tournament in the world now is opposition if he wants to win he’s got to get past Luke humph first
He’s 28 years old he is the world number one in fact he became the world number one while he was uh competing and while he was winning uh here in those victories that he had um he came into this tournament by winning three of the last four uh majors in darts and he
Absolutely whitewashed uh Scott Williams 6 nil uh in his semifinal so he is in very very good form at as well however a lot of the crowd as you were saying guys 10,000 of them could well be cheering for Luke ller no really really fascinating and he’s going to he could
Win a whopping 500,000 big ones couldn’t he if he wins yeah absolutely and what what an amazing prize that would be for a young man but that would just be the tip of the iceberg as well I’m hearing that people are starting to talk about the potential
Uh movie rights for this and who could play him in the movie uh maybe James Cordon somebody like that be interested to see what you guys think as well but it’s sure it’s sure it’s sure to be uh one of those things that’s in the cards we’ve seen with other players young
Players doing remarkable things like Emma ranu and this is just the latest and it’s really caught the imagination of uh the whole of the UK isn’t isn’t he also being offered kebabs for Life maybe there’s a long-term partnership there absolutely fantastic R adderson thank you so much for bringing us all of
That I have to say though if I was Luke ller 16-year-old Luke ler and James Cordon who must be going on 40 now was was chosen to play me I might be a little bit little bit annoyed by that um but no FC have you seen I don’t think
He’ll be annoyed about anything I mean if he wins this Happy Days Happy Days although we say it’s half a million it’s it’s not really the tax rate in the UK it’s half that oh really even if it’s a prize o Ah that’s a really good point is
It taxed let us know we’ll find out and bring that to you uh but but before all of that we’re going to get to much more on the show including returning to this story about a un charity picking a transgender model as one of its UK Champions lots of you have been getting
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Want to hear from you GB news Britain’s News Channel okay well earlier we brought you the story that women’s rights groups have criticized charity un women UK for selecting a transgender model as its UK Champion for women’s rights now we have received a lot of views and that is an
Understatement uh lots and lots of views coming in Derek says until a man can undergo complete surgery to enable procreation that man is still a man um Jean says I’m totally insulted this person is a transom no problem with that but not a woman uh whereas Melanie has said that
Trans women are women uh simple as and Harry has said that trans people are human beings and as long as they abide by the law they deserve respect well there you go and also I got a very angry email actually um someone who’s mistaken me for Emily Thornbury actually and said
That I uh showed my bigotry which I would absolutely deny and say that I have absolutely no problem with transgender people existing and having the same rights as everyone else but I do think think that uh Perhaps Perhaps biological woman would have been better placed for this particular role Emily I I think
You’re you’re many things and you have many attributes and many talents but um I didn’t realize that you were also shadow shadow attorney general uh which which I believe is Emily Thorn’s current role I mean that’s remarkable uh shall we open up this to our panel of course
Joining us again is Henry Bolton the former ukip leader and the former labor MP ivore Kaplan uh now um I all this has created a lot of consternation in the inbox we read out perhaps what wasn’t quite a representative sample I think more people were uh emailing in saying
For saying that the the the UN women UK group should not have chosen a transgender model as one of its ambassadors yeah well look the UN is the UN and it’s allowed to choose whoever it likes and and that’s not a matter for the UK government or anyone else really
And they tend to appoint people who have experience and history within which I think this particular woman does have uh some experience of working with the UN I think four or five years ago so it’s not unusual that people get that um just let me say a bit about the trans isue I
Think it’s way way overplayed I mean in Brighton and hope we have the biggest trans community in the United Kingdom and we’re a very happy City and uh you know we say to all trans people and anyone else who wants to comment on any of these things that look everyone is
Individual everyone is a person and that should be the principle of that and uh that in general terms seems to work uh across across the board in in Brighton hover I’m sure people can ring in and say no I live in Brighton and it’s not the case but we’re not talking about
Individuals we’re talking about the greater good of what goes on in a city I think you’re absolutely right I think you’re absolutely right that most people are Live and Let Live and it does not bother them at all this issue in practice in their day-to-day lives transgender Community a very very small
Community it there there are areas there are areas of policy and the way women’s rights versus transgender rights can interplay which make things rather a bit more complicated which is why you have the rise of groups like sex matters who worry about women in sports can I say
One wor about women’s spaces about this because this is actually quite critical in that the most of the people who uh are worried about the sporting issues in particular are people who have a history in sport but the numbers are tiny absolutely tiny the numbers and so it’s
Not about Ordinary People Who wish to be transgender men or women it’s actually about the sport issue and I think if we focused on that then sport all the sports can deal with that issue and deal with it but for a long time people were
Told that it was um bigotry to even talk about the issue of transgender women in sports and about how there might be an unfair Advantage the debate has opened up now quite a lot where you’ve had a lot of female athletes talking about it not least Sharon Davies but a lot of
Others talking about how there is an unfair advantage and so the debate has shifted because there have been quite a lot of Brave and vocal women who have come out and said actually this isn’t fair I I don’t think it is fair and I I I agree that the numbers are very small
And but the problem is that actually it is unfair and to me it is the activist Community which again is small uh dominating the agenda and actually um creating a situation in sport where women who were born female uh are are disadvantaged there’s no doubt about
That and I I rather feel that about the the UN women UK who’ve appointed this this lady as as their representative for women their UK represent Champion for women um look I I’m I’m sorry and I may get a lot of criticism but I don’t think
She is a woman she has had surgery hormonal treatment whatever I’m not an expert on this to change her but um that’s you know that doesn’t make you a woman in all respects and if you’re not a woman in all respects people talk about the lived experience well fine be
A representative for transgender women you know in that sense but but not for women because you haven’t had that lived experience of going through you know as a female as I haven’t through through female puberty and and all the rest of it and all the the various things that
Go on I think the point Henry we could argue about this all afternoon but but I think in general terms with the numbers as I’ve just said and the fact that sport is at it its height really in this matter across the UK and across other
Countries of course but I think in the general terms of someone working for the UN the first and principle there is someone who’s capable of doing that kind of job and I think any woman is I I I I agree that should be the principle but I
Wonder I would question and this is the problem isn’t it I would question that she is now it’s for the UN to make the appointments they make but uh if you like from a political point of view surely you’ve got to think about the implication and I suspect that what un
Women UK are trying to do here is Advance the core cuse of transend transgenderism rather than Advance the cause of I might be speaking that’s how I feel about I might be revealing my ignorance here sorry I think I think that does a disservice to women and to the transgender Community because it
Creates this skewed kind of this emphasis where the numbers are small that we actually give it undu attention I might be revealing my ignorance here but I can’t name a single other un women UK Champion for any year I wonder if didn’t even know they existed EXA
Exactly not women I wonder I mean this this seems like this is this is this is a this is a post that has presumably existed for some years that literally no one in the media has noticed or talked about is is the is the point perhaps that people are talking about I don’t
Think you understand as three men on this panel how some women feel as though being a woman a biological woman is being erased that might sound like hyperbole but you see it when we talk about that’s my point Emily that’s my point as if you want a representative of
Women get a woman who’s always been female to do the job also I don’t have any problem I think it demeans women I don’t have any problem with a transgender woman having a position and I don’t even I’m not even that bothered particularly about this case of the
Charity it’s the broader question of talking about things as they are and reality let me just that’s what that’s what gets me sorry Emily I was just about to say that this matter actually broke about three months ago in the and in British press but I see that
The telegraph finally thought it should run the story with uh something from one of its uh well there was a there was a letter there was a letter written by a number of yeah yeah um we do actually have uh some news uh just come in now uh
Which is that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of the murder o over the death of this 16-year-old Harry Pitman in Primrose Hill North London on New Year’s Eve this tragic tragic uh incident yes so a 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of 16-year-old Harry
Pitman that was in Primrose Hill North London on New Year’s Eve Henry Bolton a 15-year-old this is shockingly Young it is shockingly Young and what we are seeing ac across the country but mainly in our cities um and and particularly in London is we are seeing a horrific rise
In knife crime we’re seeing a huge rise in drug in in Gang Related crime and at the at the the older end of of the offenders in the sort of 19s 20s um we’re seeing it very much related to drugs um there’s a gang culture that’s
Growing we are not dealing with it we have we all know it’s there and as a former police officer some of us were warning about this 2025 years ago and it’s still not being recognized for what it is particularly I feel in London and I think that’s there’s a real problem
It’s the the victims and the offenders are becoming younger and younger and younger and you know we’ve Society needs to deal with this the politicians and I’m not being party political about this the politicians the police the schools the families and the communities as well
Because there is a habit and I say this again as a police officer even 2025 years ago of communities trying to blame everybody else um where actually I’m oldfashioned I think that the communities and the families also have a role to play in making sure that people
Of this age understand that it is utterly unacceptable to be behaving in this way to be carrying a knife or to be part of a gang but it’s seems to be what you expect your children to do I it does feel like a lot of young people young
Boys in particular probably fear quite fearful yeah of of walking walking about and that’s why there’s so much carrying of knives going on this is a terrible case uh let’s just say that I I think Henry is broadly right I think there are issues but obviously in London you got 9
Million people you’ve got you know more problems than than than anyone else has and the police do as much as they can but it is very very diff difficult to find a way to getting this right with that group of people i’ say 14 to 18
Would be a real Target group I don’t know how we can do that at the moment I I have to say and I don’t think politicians do just being realistic both at Westminster and elsewhere it’s not just an issue for politicians is it as Henry said their families parents wider
Communities I think there’s too much the police have taken um a police liaison Community approach too far I think I think there needs to be and I think we’ve had this discussion on a previous occasion there needs to be respect for the police and that means that when you cross the
Line somebody comes down on you with a ton of bricks um but everything is done to make sure that you know where that line is um but that’s it doesn’t happen there seems to be no line particularly some might even say we need to be tough
On crime as well as being tough on the causes of crime either you were elected under that slogan I can’t think where that came from Tom on a day like this um but but nevertheless I think it was you know at the time it was right I think
It’s still right today and I think most you know people in Westminster and other parts of the UK would say that is true and we we have to do something I don’t know what the answer is and I I I don’t know it’s a very very
Very s you’ve got a difficulty with stop and search that’s still a contentious issue um and you know when I was policing there was a situation where uh police chiefs were losing their jobs Chief constables because they were speaking out that different types of crime often related to different
Communities that’s not saying one Community was worse or But but so one Community might be more active in the vehicle crime area another in the in the class B drugs area another in the class A drugs area every it’s it’s just one of those things and it varies from from City to City
Um but if you canot if you’re not allowed to talk about that then how can you actually address that that is a fact of of of crime and of policing and you’ve got to recognize it and because otherwise you can’t engage with those communities in the right way you can’t
Take the the the appropriate policing measures to counter it um both in a prevention from a prevention point of view and and from dealing with the detections and the subsequent arrests and chargings so we’ve got to have a more Frank and honest conversation about this rather than steering away from it and saying
Well you know the white Community is you know we can’t talk about what they’re doing we can’t talk about what the Pakistani Community is doing or the West Indian Community or the whatever because they may may take offense and then they’ll get all you know whatever there
Is a fear of the response from communities which I think is is deterring honest debate m and there therefore is an obstacle to address well something massive is certainly going wrong at the moment with this Spate of very violent crimes from very young people but we should say that we don’t
Know the details other than the fact that this is a 15-year-old talking generic individual we very generically um but but I suppose one of the shocking things other than the the the very young age of the perpetrator who has been charged here is the fact this happened
On Primrose Hill like a place where 100, thousand of people had gathered to watch the fireworks this this wasn’t some back alley this was this was a a public space yeah I mean I suppose you know as sadly as the case emerges into uh court and
Etc etc we will find out more about this uh it’s it’s it’s very worrying when you know people are people are enjoying themselves the family were probably all together you know he was 15 16 and and this happens it it’s terrible to think of but we’re seeing a lot of this in
Public spaces I mean on the streets in shops um you know we’re seeing blatant shoplifting you know people simply walking in shops filling their arms with things are walking out um there is this there is this a lack of Shame there’s a lack of Shame there’s a lack of respect
For the fact that these belongings these are belongings belonging to somebody else and and there’s a cost implication for people often there’s an emotional element even your free shopkeeper if if your if your shop is subject to a crime like that then it’s it’s traumatic and I
I know that because I’ve I’ve tried to help people are victims of these things in the past but how do you build up that sense of respect of of of order of of of of being a civilized member of society very very difficult to know however much
You do in schools it’s it’s what’s happening outside of schools it’s not the schools themselves I think you know schools generally have a great reputation of of helping young people to understand what they should and shouldn’t do but when they get outside there’s not that necessary someone’s
Just written in to say we’ve almost become numb as a result of all these the knif the knife crimes the knife crimes are really really violent and horrible things compared almost to anything else that we’ve ever seen and and and stabbing injuries are are particularly nasty in all sorts of sort of yeah
Medical trauma man ways as well but I I think there’s there is something called The Boiled frog syndrome which is which is a horrible expression I won’t go into describe it what happens is something terrible happens and you think God that’s terrible and then it happens again that’s terrible and then gradually
It becomes common place and you become numb to it I’m afraid we are running to the end of the show but uh Ivor and Henry thank you so much for talking us through all of those big issues of course Henry Bolton the former ukip leader and ivil Kaplan former labor MP
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