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Company. Weve also got an exclusive interview today from an Oldham Councillor who tabled an Oldham Councillor who tabled a motion for an investigation into the grooming gang scandal into the grooming gang scandal in the town, and it was blocked by two things. First, a 30 minute snack break for ramadan next, a 30 minute debate on a ceasefire in gaza. In Oldham Council not giving him enough time to table his motion, which he thinks is an absolute scandal. Does it show . Weve totally lost sense of all priority in british politics . You would not want to miss that gb news with a great exclusive. Gb news with a great exclusive. Also, chris hope spoke to liz truss about half an hour ago about her plans to protect young girls in toilets, single sex spaces, huge row broken out because the labour party are blocking it. Well have the news of that hot off the press from chris hope is just join me in the studio. I want to hear from you. Email me gbviews gbnews. Uk from the usual way, and ill from all the usual way, and ill read out comments read out the best comments throughout the but before throughout the show. But before all that, your all of that, heres your headunes all of that, heres your headlines tatiana sanchez. Headlines with tatiana sanchez. Martin. Thank you. Your top stories from the gb newsroom. The Prime Minister has suffered a blow, with another tory mp announcing he wont run at the next general election, citing personal reasons. James heappey says hes standing down to prioritise his family and to pursue a different career. Downing street says hell be greatly missed in parliament. Hes also expected to resign as Armed Forces Minister by the end of this month. More than 60 tory mps have now signed there have now announced theyre leaving the commons as speculation mounts when the general mounts over when the general election will be held. The Prime Minister has ruled out the 2nd of may. Lib dems leader sir ed davey has accused him of running scared. Scared. I think people are really fed up at this conservative government and want to see the back of it, and elections cant come enough for the come quick enough for the liberal and i think liberal democrats. And i think the of our country, when the people of our country, when those elections whenever those elections come, whenever rishi sunak decides to go to the palace. Liberal democrats are ready. Fantastic ready. Weve got fantastic candidates local candidates who are local champions in their areas. Were campaigning on things like the nhs and the need to tackle the crisis there. Cost of living crisis there. The cost of living and things like sewage. And things like sewage. Labour has accused the Prime Minister of being too chicken to call an election. As a result, call an election. As a result, a group of activists dressed as chickens clucked outside downing street demanding the Prime Minister name the date. Now, labour added rishi sunak needs to stop squatting in number 10. A £5 million donation from frank hester has not yet been given to the conservatives, with senior Party Sources telling gb news talks about the funds are still underway. The businessman has already given the party £10 million, is accused of being racist after he allegedly said mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women. The Prime Minister, whos in sunderland with the chancellor today, is under pressure to return the donation. Jeremy hunt says the donation. Jeremy hunt says the conservative party follows due process when it comes to declaring funds. We absolutely are transparent. We follow all the rules , the regulations. We rules, the regulations. We believe in that transparency. Many of the laws about it. We actually passed ourselves and the conservative party fully complies with all the requirements to be transparent about our donations. The defence secretary has warned russias president not to try it on while he was on a nato visit in Eastern Europe. Gb news has been given exclusive access to a Training Exercise in poland, where British Forces are working with their allies, preparing for any possible attack by russia. Its part of attack by russia. Its part of steadfast defender, the Largest Military exercise since the cold war. Grant shapps says nato allies are ready and willing to protect themselves from any threat. Threat. This exercise is designed to make sure that we can operate with other countries like poland and be interoperable. Most and be interoperable. Most importantly of all, sending a very clear signal to putin or any other despotic leader that we will stand up for ourselves and dont try it on. Meanwhile, voting is underway in russia to elect the countrys next president. Ballots are being cast over three days. Even though Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win. He appealed to voters yesterday, including in annexed parts of ukraine, to be unhedin annexed parts of ukraine, to be united in determining his countrys future. Ukraine says any russian vote in the donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia and kherson regions will be void. Kherson regions will be void. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. She told gb news she was frustrated by the opposition parties stalling tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and i am absolutely furious about that. They dont even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. They dont want to talk about how we stop children being able to access puberty blockers that would actually stop their development. So they have spent today filibustering my bill and stopping it being talked about, even though over the last few weeks i have had a huge amount of public support from concerned parents, concerned teachers, from young people themselves who want these bills, measures put into law. Into law. Millions of pounds worth of drugs and eight xl bullies have been seized during county lines raids. Raids. Play. Play. Play. Hundreds of weapons were also found, including rambo knives and machetes. Every police force across the country took part in the raids last week, resulting in more than 1800 arrests. Phone lines used to distribute drugs from cities to towns and villages were also shut down. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. Or you can go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Martin. Back to. Martin. Thank you tatiana. Weve got loads to get stuck into, so lets get cracking. And we start with some very strong words from liz truss. Shes accused labour of deliberately stopping her private members bill on a new transgender law being debated. Well, im joined now in our studio by Political Editor chris verhoef, whos just come back from the commons, and that interview , chris, about half an interview, chris, about half an hour ago, it went out. Liz truss is furious. What happened . Theres liz truss, former Prime Minister is trying to bnngin Prime Minister is trying to bring in a private members bill. Thats a friday when they sit in the house of commons to try and find a legal way to protect girls and women. Women only spaces in schools and pubuc only spaces in schools and public buildings, because currently some of these loos are being turned into mixed loos with cubicles. And theres a real worry and shes experienced a real worry, i think, from people, mum, mums and dads, writing and saying my daughter isnt safe at school. Heres what she had to say. Biological sex. Sex means biological sex. Its the sex you are born as. Thatis its the sex you are born as. That is how children should be treated until theyre 18 and theyre old enough to make their own decisions and what it will mean is it will protect single sex facilities like toilets, single sex sports like girls sports. And i have a huge number of parents writing to me saying how important this is for them and how worried they are about their children at the moment. Thats liz truss saying, well, the problem is and what happenedin well, the problem is and what happened in the commons today and why shes so cross is theres this attempt to protect young girls. Says was young girls. She says was frustrated by labour mps talking about other issues, other non important issues in comparison. She was she would describe it, which meant that this bill hasnt got through the commons today furious. Today and shes furious. They filibustering in so they were filibustering in her so wasnt able to be her opinion so wasnt able to be fully debated. But was that a deliberate attempt to not give it the oxygen thereby she said some quite comments about them. We have gone to labour for comment. Well bring them back. Her their comment back this her their comment back in this Programme Get it. But programme when we get it. But clearly real clearly theres some real concern. I think, amongst tory mps are putting mps that labour are putting other issues. There may be the principle having shared principle of having shared spaces over the safety of young girls. Thats what the tories think a great many people, think and a great many people, chris, that this the chris, believe that this is the red line them. Red line for them. Endanger potentially young girls, toilets and girls, especially in toilets and mixed spaces. Something gets parents very, very upset. Well hear an interview in the hour another tory the next hour from another tory mp robin miller. He says mp called robin miller. He says hes heard from from parents telling young girls telling them that young girls are mixed toilets are not going to mixed toilets to to the lavatory because to go to the lavatory because boys are in there and because they arent going there, therefore not drinking at school. Now, if young girls arent drinking because theyre afraid go to the loo , theres afraid to go to the loo, theres afraid to go to the loo, theres a problem. There is a problem, and its one we definitely need to talk about. Well done chris, well have more on that in the next houn have more on that in the next hour. But before that, youve got for on the got a new line for us on the frank hester donation round that rumbles indeed. Hes rumbles on. It does indeed. Hes a donor who gave £10 million to the the biggest ever the party, the biggest ever record donation the tory party. We know the remarks about diane were him diane abbott that were made him by him 2019. The guardian by him in 2019. The guardian reported them tuesday. A big reported them on tuesday. A big row where they racist or not, he said he felt he wanted to shoot diane abbott and hate all black women because of her, number 10. Eventually said they were racist after Kemi Badenoch said they were racist until that point, they hadnt said anything. Today, its been reported that theres further million theres a further 5 million donation frank hester, but donation from frank hester, but i can reveal that that money hasnt been handed over yet, and that might explain why theres a pause saying that the pause before saying that the words were, in the pms view, racist. Of course. Frank hester says hes not racist, and in fact, to his tummy he isnt racist. But they were clumsy language and he regrets all offence caused. Might find at this so you might find at this point, being accused of point, if hes being accused of being by the prime being racist by the Prime Minister he doesnt want give minister he doesnt want to give him million. Minister he doesnt want to give hinthat million. Minister he doesnt want to give hinthat nbe on. Minister he doesnt want to give hinthat nbe why there was that may be why there was a delay in calling it out on tuesday. I mean, im only speculating. We dont know that. But happened . I mean, but what happened . I mean, certainly quite harder to certainly its quite harder to give over boss give money over if the boss of the saying the remarks the party is saying the remarks were sunak is were racist, as rishi sunak is doing, saying were going doing, hes saying were going to move on. Were not paying the money its time to money back. Its time to move on. He regrets the on. He mr hsi regrets the remarks and lets move on. Want to watch . Superb and more bad news for rishi sunak want to watch . Superb and morimorning. Vs for rishi sunak want to watch . Superb and morimorning. James1ishi sunak want to watch . Superb and morimorning. James heappey k this morning. James heappey defence minister. Guy, is defence minister. Hes a guy, is it . Barrel defence minister. Hes a guy, is it . Certain barrel defence minister. Hes a guy, is it . Certain defeat. Barrel defence minister. Hes a guy, is it . Certain defeat. Use barrel of certain defeat. Use a military metaphor. So hes pulled ripcord. Off pulled the ripcord. Hes off 10,000 majority. Hes his because in hes lost his seat because in a up hes getting a new a shake up hes getting a new seat. He also divided by four. Hes his 40s. Hes a young hes in his 40s. Hes a young man. Honourable. Former man. Hes honourable. A former armed officer, absolutely armed forces officer, absolutely. So i would say an exemplary parliamentarian. Number 61 of the tories to leave 1 in 6 tory mps elected in 2019 are now leaving at the end of this election. It looks like looks election. It looks like looks like a panic measure. Maybe that all that number are going or they all have individual reasons. James heappey is doing it for his family. But i would say that this is the last planned election was 2015. There hasnt since then. The hasnt been one since then. The ones you fought in in ones which you fought in in 2017, 2019 were not planned. And thats why makes it a bit thats why it makes it a bit different. But i think in different. But i think 1 in 6 mps standing down is not a good look for the pm. Perhaps charitable interpretation. Im just being fair. Im just being fair. Yes you are. Okay, lets move on. Im joined now by the former conservative mp neil parish. On. Im joined now by the former consewelcomep neil parish. On. Im joined now by the former consewelcomep ithe parish. On. Im joined now by the former consewelcomep ithe show. I. Neil, welcome to the show. Always pleasure to always an absolute pleasure to have you, sir. So now its 60. Then there were 60 tory mps now not going to stand up at the next election obviously. Neil, the talk will be of the fact. Well they know theyre going to lose so theyre getting out while they can. James ipp the latest casualty. Whats your take . Well, james has been an excellent mp. You know local one as well. Its a sort of wells of small city. And then its got a lot of rural area and hes really got a good reputation. Good Armed Forces Minister, excellent. I dont necessarily think hes going because he would lose his seat, because i think the boundary changes actually should technically make the seat safer. Technically make the seat safer. Not that im not sure where the safe tory seats are at the moment. I accept that. But, you know, thats the position politically , i think hes politically, i think hes probably of an age where he wants to probably further his career in the military side. And career in the military side. And of course, thats why he will step down as a minister, because hes got to be out of that ministerial role for some time before he can take up another job, you know, to do with defence outside of parliament. So i suspect all of these things, coupled with the family, are involved and i know theyre all mps at the moment on the tory side , must be apprehensive tory side, must be apprehensive about the election. You know, i will be the first to accept that. And neil, chris hope in a pseudo with martin. Ive got to ask you, are you standing there . Were you told me a while ago, youre looking at coming back after you resigned as an mp. Causing that by election is a need for more parish in this parish. Yeah, im trying to persuade my dear wife that, you know, going back to parliament would be a good idea. I have yet to convince her. Actually, bless her. And she really supported me all through my political career , especially my political career, especially the way i ended it. So, like, i said, i do have to take her very much into consideration. There are days when i really want to go out and sort of cause a revolution and get on with it, especially rural one, and, especially a rural one, and, home rule for the west country is what im after, but seriously, i havent decided yet, and i wont yet , but, yet, and i wont yet, but, i wouldnt rule it out, but i think, you know, i will have to do it through having the support of my, my dear wife, because she supported me all the way through my political career, not only in westminster, but but in, in the european parliament. So. And when i was a local councillor, she was teaching and helping me sustain an income on the farm at the same time as, as being a councillor. So we go back a long way. Our combined, political approach. Yes. Thank you. Approach. Yes. Thank you. Okay, neil. So if you want to, join a revolution, then why not join reform . Not join reform . Yes. Im not quite reform, you see, im a sort of a im a centre right tory. And so while l, centre right tory. And so while i, you know, i like some of reforms policies, i cant go along with all of them. If i stand, i think it will be definitely as an independent. Ive always been very independent. So there is a certain attraction to going out there and just saying what you think, standing what you think, you, you know, you believe in and going for it. And of course, i know parliamentary process as i know parliamentary process as i know parliamentary process as i know about how to set out a campaign and put out leaflets, all of those things. So all of thats there in my head, ive just got to get the sort of the right moment to, to, to launch a campaign and go for it. But, christopher, i know youve always been winding me up on this one, but it doesnt take a lot to wind me up. I think when the when the when the cannons fire, you know, and you could smell that gunpowder, will i be able will i be able to resist it . Im not sure. Well wait to see. Youre an old soldier, neil pansh. Parish. We were talking about. Were talking about an ex Armed Forces Minister, you see. So its a good analogy, i reckon , dont you . Okay, neil parish. Well, when youre ready to go up the ladder , make sure you contact us first for the exclusive. Thank you very much. For the exclusive. Thank you very much. Neil for the exclusive. Thank you very much. Neil parish, former very much. Neil parish, former tory mp in form there. Tory mp in great form there. Now, lets quickly talk about your podcast. Choppers your new podcast. Choppers podcast is back. Of course. It used to run when you were at the telegraph. Now its going back telegraph. Now its going back on gb news. Thats right. Had thats right. Weve had a first, today. Its first, interview out today. Its available on apple podcasts, first, interview out today. Its available ourapple podcasts, first, interview out today. Its available our own 3 podcasts, first, interview out today. Its available our own gbdcasts, first, interview out today. Its available our own gb newss, youtube, our own gb news website, course, spotify. Website, of course, spotify. Its called choppers political podcast. First guest Holly Valance , of course made a big valance, of course made a big noise at the popcorn event. Popular conservatism with that amusing reason why shes no longer a lefty and is fascinating to hear her say that. And she has. Well have more of that interview later in the show. Ive got to quickly tell you what labour is saying about truss, theyre getting about liz truss, theyre getting about liz truss, theyre getting a as asap, but a statement out as asap, but they saying to us at this they are saying to us at this hour that more tory mps and hour that that more tory mps and labour earlier labour spoke in the earlier animal debate. So Animal Welfare debate. So theyre wasnt us it theyre saying it wasnt us it wasting time in parliament, it wasting time in parliament, it was tory mps and if indeed was tory mps two and if indeed it was wasting time, great stuff. It was wasting time, great stu� fresh hot off the press. You fresh hot off the press. You can see your phone steaming there chris. Great start to there chris. Over great start to show. Thank you very of show. Thank you very much. Of course. Much on later course. Much more on that later in show. Get labours in the show. Well get labours reaction tory mp reaction to another tory mp quitting at 4 00. 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Britains news channel gb news is the home of free speech. We were created to champion it, and we deliver it day in, day out. Free speech allows us all to explore and debate openly the issues most important to us, our families. And of course , the british and of course, the british people having challenging conversations enlighten each other. Which is why we hear all sides of the argument. We are the peoples channel. We will always stand by the freedom to express yourself on tv, radio and online. This is gb news, britains news channel. News channel. Welcome back. 323 is your welcome back. 323 is your time youre watching or listening to Martin Daubney on gb news. Now later in the show, ill tell you why. Meghan markle is once again being criticised. Now do mps deserve any more money . Well, theyre set to get a few extra pennies worth more than four grand a year, lining their royal pockets. The inflation busting pay rise was granted by the independent parliamentary watchdog, but many are now asking is this fair . Especially with so many in the pubuc especially with so many in the Public Sector striking over their own wages . Well, joining me now to discuss this is the former chief executive of the Royal College of nursing, doctor peter carter. Welcome to the show. Doctor carter. Always a pleasure. So mps pay will go up to £91,346. Do they deserve it . To £91,346. Do they deserve it . Martin, i dont want to give your viewers a confusing message. I actually think we need to pay i actually think we need to pay our mps more, because frankly, whilst there are some outstanding mps on all sides of the house, the calibre in many parts and im sorry to say is really mediocre, and i think if we paid people more wed get a better product to put it like that. Now, having said that, if i can just set that to one side, i also think that this government have made huge mistakes, particularly in relation to nurses pay, where years of austerity are now coming back to hurt the Health Service , let hurt the Health Service, let alone her nurses themselves who are not well paid at all. So its a mixed message. So lets try and get some better calibre politicians and perhaps , things politicians and perhaps, things might be run better, but nurses will see this with a very heavy heart because theyve seen a lot of people get rich, during covid and people making millions of pounds whilst nurses were turning in day in, day out to the very place that most people were trying to avoid in 2020, 150 nurses died and all of those nurses had a covid related illness. Theyve also seen the miscreant behaviour in number 10 downing street, so the government have hardly led by example. So i dont know if that is coherent enough. I nurses need to be better paid, we do need to be better paid, we do need a better calibre of politicians, even though there are some very good mps. But its not overall the case. Okay, doctor carter, its fair to point out again in terms of equity and clarity that this is an index linked Public Sector pay is an index linked Public Sector pay rise that mps got in line with inflation. And in fact, nurses themselves were offered a 5 pay rise for 23 2024 as well, alongside two one off payments of over £2,000. And thats an equitable increase. Admittedly on a lower salary as compared to the mps. But nurses at one point were demanding a 23 pay rise. That was beyond the realms of credibility, wasnt it . Credibility, wasnt it . Well, my understanding is that my older organisation , that my older organisation, which im very proud of, the rcn opened up with a 19 bid. That was their opening gambit. I dont think they ever expected to get that. The issue is that whats being missed out, martin, because your your facts are correct in terms of the pay awards. But remember where there had been years of austerity and the analysis is quite clear that since 2010, nurse the average nurse has lost £37,000, whereas mps year on year have had index unked mps year on year have had index linked pay rises. So mps year on year have kept pace with it. People like nurses are way behind and thats why, sadly, were losing so many, particularly to countries like australia, new zealand, canada and the middle east. So what i would say to this government and anybody whos aspiring to get into government is do something really tangible about bridging all of that pay thats been lost. Theyre never going to catch up, and thats the reality. But you could do a lot more to ameliorate the gap that theyve had to endure. Theyve had to endure. Isnt the problem with all of this, though, and everybody would love more pay. And a lot of people would certainly agree that frontline nhs and that frontline nhs staff and nurses definitely deserve more paper. Nurses definitely deserve more paper. We havent got any money. Paper. We havent got any money. The is on its knees with the country is on its knees with £2. 6 trillion in debt and in fact the nhs budget last year was £182 billion. And thats an increase of 6 per year. And an extra £6 billion was thrown at the nhs in the spring budget. And weve had a 42 increase in nhs staff numbers. A report came out yesterday in the past ten years, so a huge amount of money has gone into the nhs with the output with the net result is 7. 8 million with record waiting lists. So perhaps doctor carter, the answer is an endless money after all. But maybe look at restructuring things. Restructuring things. Well i dont think anybody is going to argue that the nhs can always become more efficient, but the responsibility for that does not lie with frontline nurses. The responsibility lies nurses. The responsibility lies in terms of government policy and some of the ill thought out schemes that they embarked on. Particularly, i was thinking, in the early years of the cameron government, where they had a massive reorganisation, that was a waste. Now in relation to the money, i agree with you. Look, weve got over £2 trillion worth of debt. Its not going to be paid in off in my lifetime, paid in my off in my lifetime, martin, or in yours. So what we have to do is accept that weve got a long term debt, but what do we do about it . Meanwhile, look at the scandalous waste that seen. Look at the scandalous waste tha look seen. Look at the scandalous waste tha look at seen. Look at the scandalous waste tha look at hs2. Look at hs2. Look at hs2. It started off with a budget of 40 billion. It overspent to well over 100 billion. Look at the money. Michelle mones husband on the back of a failed contract. A quarter million pounds. But, doctor carter, there is also huge waste within the nhs itself before we start looking for wastage elsewhere, a report again came out today that half of nhs staff now arent even medically qualified, as a huge amount of bureaucracy in the nhs. Surely you should get your own house in order. First look for savings and leniencies there and then. We can all agree front line nurses should get a whopping pay rise. But martin, look, this this is not the responsibility in an a e department this afternoon, nurses will be working their socks off in care. Care of the elderly wards. I mean, i could go on about it. District nurses overstretched. Okay i mean, the responsibility for the overall efficiency does not lie with frontline nurses or indeed other clinical staff. What i would say is, if you were to pay them more, you would lessen the attrition rate. You would not have to be spending so much on Agency Nurses , and we wouldnt Agency Nurses, and we wouldnt be losing so many nurses who are choosing to simply walk away from the job, who are going overseas. So again, i know it sounds like a mixed message. Im saying, yes, of course the nhs needs to get more efficient, but youre not going to get more efficient by keeping nurses overall on a low pay band. Okay. Superb, sir. Thank you for that impassioned response there. Doctor peter carter , there. Doctor peter carter, former chief executive of the Royal College of nursing. Thanks Royal College of nursing. Thanks for joining us on the show. Great. Now theres lots more still to come between now and 4 00. Find out whats happened when australian pop star Holly Valance met nigel and valance met nigel farage and donald trump. You wont want to miss that. But first, its time for your latest News Headlines with sophia wenzler. Thanks, martin. Its 331. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Newsroom. Your headlines. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. She told gb news she was frustrated by the Opposition Party stalling tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and i am absolutely furious about that. They dont even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. They dont want to talk about how we stop children being able to access puberty blockers. That would actually stop their development. So they have spent today filibustering my bill and stopping it being talked about, even though over the last few weeks i have had a huge amount of public support from concerned parents, concerned teachers , parents, concerned teachers, from young people themselves who want these bills , measures put want these bills, measures put into law. Into law. James heappey has announced he wont stand as an mp at the next general election, saying he wants to prioritise his family and pursue a different career. Hes also expected to resign as Armed Forces Minister by the end of this month. More than 60 tory mps have now announced theyre leaving the commons , a theyre leaving the commons, a £5 million donation from frank hester has not yet been given to the conservatives, with senior Party Sources telling gb news talks about the funds are still being held. The businessman, whos already given the party £10 million, is accused of being racist after he allegedly said mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women. The prime hate all black women. The Prime Minister is under pressure to return the donation. Return the donation. Millions of pounds worth of drugs and eight xl bullies have been seized during county lines raids. Raids. Hundreds of weapons were also found, including rambo knives and machetes. Every police force across the country took part in the raids last week, resulting in more than 1800 arrests. And for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Alerts. For stunning gold and silver coins, youll always value rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news Financial Report , the gb news Financial Report, and heres a quick snapshot of todays markets. The pound will buy you 511. 2741 and the pound will buy you 1. 2741 and ,1. 1702. The price of gold is £1,697. 29 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 7741 points. Rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news Financial Report. Report. Thank you sophia. Now finally, a London Council is going to remove palestinian flags from its streets after hundreds of complaints from local residents, including jewish people. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains welcome back. Its 337. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news. Later this hour, ill bnng gb news. Later this hour, ill bring you an exclusive interview with defence secretary grant shapps, whos got a warning for Vladimir Putin. Must be quaking in his boots next, the muslim mayor of a London Borough Council has announced that palestinian flags will be taken down from its buildings because theyve been making jewish people feel scared. Tower people feel scared. Tower Hamlets Council in east london has had hundreds of complaints from local residents and after being threatened with legal action, mayor Luthfur Rahman took down took what he called a difficult decision to remove those flags. Well, lets cross live now to Tower Hamlets and speak to our national reporter, Theo Chikomba theo , welcome to Theo Chikomba theo, welcome to the show. I travel through Tower Hamlets whitechapel area. These flags have been up for absolutely months. Nothing has absolutely months. Nothing has been done. A lot of people have been done. A lot of people have been complaining and now at last, theres some action. Yes. Well, in recent months, weve all seen the action that people have been taking following the beginning of the israel hamas war. Now, here in this community, its a Diverse Community with people from all backgrounds and all walks of life. But this week, the mayor life. But this week, the mayor has decided to take decisive action, which he has said has come at a difficult time. And this is a u turn actually, because beforehand the mayor had said that this action wasnt going to be taken. But now we are expected to see a palestinian flags like the one just over my right shoulder, being taken down from council property. And this comes at property. And this comes at a time when members of the community here, hundreds of them, have put in complaints to them, have put in complaints to the borough council. Now, in recent months, we have heard of protests taking place in this area, and some of those have been continuing in the heart of london in recent months. But lufta rahman , the mayor of this lufta rahman, the mayor of this inner london borough, has said its a difficult decision and one that he didnt take lightly. Now the council have spoken to me today saying they are working with people who are who live in this community to ensure that if the action is taken in the next couple of days, its going to be done. So, sensitive and theyre not just going to do it forcefully, but its one people have found a contentious in recent months. And of course, its going to be a difficult one when this action is taken. But as youve said, youve seen when youve passed through this area today, though, ive gone to the town hall and theyve had to take down some of those flags. So that work is beginning to now take place. But of course, well see in weeks to come. What this will mean for residents who live in this local area. In this local area. Okay. Thank you. Theo chikomba live from Tower Hamlets and i reckon if they go down, theyll get put back up by residents. You watch that happenedin residents. You watch that happened in leyton at the Barclay School overnight and when residents complain there, they feel very they were made to feel very unsafe indeed. Now we have a statement from lutfur rahman, whos mayor of tower whos the mayor of Tower Hamlets, read out. He hamlets, to read out. And he said this, these flags are symbols of solidarity and sympathy those enduring sympathy for those enduring extreme suffering in gaza. We must not forget that over 30,000 people have now been killed , 70 people have now been killed, 70 of whom are women and children. The flags certainly have an impact and made residents views clear. Now, still to impact and made residents views clear. Now, still to come, ill bnng clear. Now, still to come, ill bring you a clip from the brand new podcast with our brilliant Political Editor, christopher hope. Hes been speaking to a woman who not only had a number one hit, but also has some very Strong Political views, but first in a gb news series , first in a gb news series, innovation britain, were looking at the success of british manufacturing around the country. Over the years, the engineering and manufacturing environments have often been perceived to have been dirty and polluted, but so much has changed in recent years. James, why is that . Why is that . I think there was generally an acceptance that that was the atmosphere that people were having to work in. There was nothing could do it. Nothing they could do about it. People would come into work and just well, thats thats my people would come into work and jusin well, thats thats my people would come into work and jusin life. ell, thats thats my people would come into work and jusin life. However,. Thats my people would come into work and jusin life. However,. Tiyou my people would come into work and jusin aboutiowever,. Tiyou my people would come into work and jusin about it,ever,. Tiyou my people would come into work and jusin about it, this,. Tiyou my people would come into work and jusin about it, this,. Tthis my people would come into work and jusin about it, this,. Tthis is1y think about it, this is this is not really acceptable. And not really acceptable. And certainly in todays environment, taking you environment, taking office, you wouldnt be expecting work in wouldnt be expecting to work in an full of smoke, mist an office full of smoke, mist and dust. And dust. People be walking out people would be walking out and are thinking, well, and people are thinking, well, hold i shouldnt have to do well, i shouldnt have to do the same in a in a manufacturing environment. People want a cleaner and people want a cleaner place work. Place to work. How are you managing to and how are you managing to do this . Well, filter mist manufacture a that extract a range of products that extract oil, dust and fume at oil, mist, dust and fume at source settings source from industrial settings around we make around the world. And we make them here in the midlands. Them right here in the midlands. Had your record yeah yes we weve continued yes we have. Weve continued to our exports to over 60 to grow our exports to over 60 countries worldwide. But one of our biggest growth areas has actually of the actually been the uk. One of the reasons that sell reasons for that is that we sell a to the machine tool a lot to the machine tool sector, who are fitting our equipment to their machines and selling turnkey selling a complete turnkey package, clean package, which includes clean air. Air to their customers. Meanwhile, governments meanwhile, the uk Governments Health executive have health and safety executive have focussed more on clean air in the workshop, but most of all, people are just wanting. And why wouldnt you want work in a wouldnt you want to work in a cleaner environment . Earlier 7 earlier on 7 earlier on breakfast, you might have thought this is the time to sort of get ready for a spnng time to sort of get ready for a spring election. But it is not going to happen, is it . Well, i think rishi sunak is running scared, isnt he . And i think its a real shame because people around country are people around the country are sick tired of this sick and tired of this conservative government who deserve that choice. Deserve to have that choice. They the, you they have. They have the, you know, to be able to know, they deserve to be able to vote change that they vote for the change that they want. Just do not see in the sussex world how that wouldnt have with a bit of an have come up with a bit of an amber flag. Alex, are you, as an says, a lazy snowflake from six . Its breakfast on gb news. Its breakfast on gb news. Welcome back. Its 346. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news now at 4 00. Ill tell you why liz truss say shes absolutely furious with labour after todays events in the house of commons, the uk defence secretary is warning russias president dont try it on. As nato forces continue to train in Eastern Europe, gb news has been given exclusive access to a nato Training Exercise in poland, where british and polish forces are working together to plan for any possible attack by russia. Any possible attack by russia. Its part of steadfast defender, the Largest Military exercise since the cold war, and a message to putin that nato allies are ready and willing to protect themselves from any threat. Our reporter, ray addison, joined the exercise and sent this report from poland. Sent this report from poland. They move from room to room , they move from room to room, breaching , clearing. These nato breaching, clearing. These nato soldiers may not speak the same language, but they are fluent in the art of urban warfare , the art of urban warfare, working together to neutralise the enemy. And as the tip of the the enemy. And as the tip of the speah the enemy. And as the tip of the spear, theyre ready to roll against russia in a matter of hours. Lieutenant colonel ben hawes is in command. My major observation is soldiers are soldiers and no matter what language they speak, we all understand the nato drills that we have to go through, and weve been able to, after a very short period of practice , execute some very practice, execute some very complex operations. This is just the latest exercise involving british troops. British troops. Defence secretary grant shappsis defence secretary grant shapps is here to show his support. I would say back home, most people are unaware of this enormous nato exercise , not just enormous nato exercise, not just large, the biggest since the cold war. Cold war. 20,000 are taking part in operation steadfast defender, with another 70,000 from all 32 nato allies. Its designed to nato allies. Its designed to send a very clear message to the russian president dont push us too far. Too far. Putins end game is to carry on expanding russia. You dont have to take my word for it. Its what hes said himself many times. Nato its what hes said himself many times. Nato isnt trying to expand into other peoples territory. We are simply here to defend our values of freedom and sovereignty and democracy. And sovereignty and democracy. And we should be proud of what these guys have been doing here, making sure we can exercise together. Most importantly of all, sending a very clear signal to putin or any other despotic leader that we will stand up for ourselves and dont try it on with russias war in ukraine now in its third year, the defence secretary is urging western allies not to get fatigued but to treat putins ongoing invasion as a wake up call, a message that we must have the resolve to spend what is required on defence, if not, it will only embolden those who may wish to test our resolve. Meanwhile, these nato forces stand ready to deploy within 48 hours. Though no nato country wants war, putins illegal invasion of ukraine has reminded the west that it can never show weakness. And there is certainly weakness. And there is certainly strength in numbers. Ray addison gb news. Great stuff. Now if youre watching or listening to gb news yesterday, then you know that ray addison had quite a dramatic trip to and from poland. Viewers can see an image of ray sat next to grant shapps on the raf plane that had its gps system jammed by russia. Now the flight lost gps navigation and Internet Access, both flying to and from poland, but fortunately mr shapps was assured by pilots that the safety safety of the aircraft and our man, ray addison, was never at risk. As gb news writes, at the heart of the action. Now, as promised, i can bring you that exclusive interview with Holly Valance. The actress and singer was the first guest on gb news Political Editor christopher hopes brand new podcast, and heres what holly had to say about the time she spent with the man who could be the us president later this year. Yeah trump. Trump. Yeah, what was it . There was a photograph online of you meeting him. You and nick met him, i think. Whats it like . Unreal. Him, i think. Whats it like . Unreal. Hes fabulous. So we were all in miami and, nick had said to nigel, at some point, listen, if you go to mar a lago, count we want meet the count us in. We want to meet the big and so , nigel was big guy. And so, nigel was going, and we all went together , going, and we all went together, and he was incredible. He gave us an hour of his time in the office. I couldnt believe how much time and, interest he gave us. He wanted to know all about where we were from, what we do all about nicks businesses. I just it was not what i was expecting. I thought maybe somebody a bit more brash, a bit more cocky and loud. And he was more cocky and loud. And he was extremely warm, extremely gentlemanly and very interested in everything that was going on in everything that was going on in the uk, asking us all about politics. It was great to have nigel there. Him and nigel are fantastic friends. I nigel there. Him and nigel are fantastic friends. I think thats really important for us as well Going Forward into the next election in america that we have these friendships. Have these friendships. And nigel, for uk ambassador to america, i think hed be a fantastic ambassador. Itd be great. Yeah, trump was well, he wasnt the ogre who was well, he wasnt the ogre who was painted by his critics. I mean, also, he has said its a pretty general remarks about women to that put you off or do you raise it with him . Harden up. People say nasty things all day. Ive had Disgusting Things said to me. Absolutely Disgusting Things that would floor you if i said them out loud on his microphone right now where you have to call police. I cry . No. Police. Did i cry . No. So toughen up. So toughen up. Well , as my so toughen up. Well, as my friend, my friend put it to me the other day , if put it to me the other day, if you were hiring an attorney, do you were hiring an attorney, do you want the nice guy that smiles nicely, is polite to everyone . Or do you want the pitbull . And ultimately the attorney is him. Hes your attorney. You want the guy thats going to go and fight for you , for america. You, for america. You mean . You mean . Yeah. Yeah. Verbal stage and yeah. Verbal stage and yeah. So just because you dont like someones disposition all the time i actually dont the time and i actually dont mind because i like mind it just because i like straight dont straight shooters who dont talk, dont problem talk, i dont have a problem with it. Superb stuff. Now you can listen to choppers political podcast every friday on apple, spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts, or watch the full video on gbnews. Com. Thatll be a cracker. Now ive got plenty a cracker. Now ive got plenty of emails coming in. I asked you for them, and one thats really got you going is the lowering of the palestinian flags in Tower Hamlets after hundreds of complaints from jewish residents who who felt so unsafe, some were going to move out of the area. Nick gibb has said this. Area. Nick gibb has said this. Heres my prediction. Those flags will be put back up by residents overnight, with stepladders, and the police wont do a damn thing about it. Weve seen that happen before and i predict it will happen again. And you know what, nikki . Thats exactly what happened outside that school in leyton, also in east london, the berkeley primary school. And that was was forced to close down after a mob appeared outside and there were threats against the head. They demanded for him to be removed from the school. So this is something that will not go away. On liz truss, david said this. Shes been talking about single sex spaces and protecting girls. Spaces and protecting girls. Martin im100 behind spaces and protecting girls. Martin im 100 behind liz truss, she was speaking common sense. Karen says this on liz truss nicely. Truss being useful for once and not just costing me fortunes and. And brilliant here. Damn says this on truss. Brilliant reforms from liz truss. Hopefully this will be progressed by the government asap. So thats it. Thats all for this hour. But please, please stay in touch. In the next hour ill be asking a royal commentator what they think about Meghan Markles poorly timed new business lunch. Im timed new business lunch. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news channel but first time for your weather with alex burkill. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello again. Im here with your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. Todays showers are largely going to ease as we go through later today, taking us into a bit of a chilly night because the low Pressure Centre that has brought some blustery and showery weather today is clearing the clearing away towards the northeast with a bit of a ridge of High Pressure building from the west. There will still the west. Yes, there will still be showers as we go through be some showers as we go through the the afternoon, the end of the afternoon, particularly across eastern parts, drier and parts, but turning drier and clearer west, and with clearer from the west, and with clearer from the west, and with clear and a bit of a clear skies and a bit of a northerly wind, were likely to see temperatures dropping see our temperatures dropping tonight. Be chillier tonight. It will be chillier than been through. Some than it has been through. Some recent could just a recent nights could dip just a bit freezing across bit below freezing across northern parts. Touch of frost northern parts. A touch of frost possible. There may possible elsewhere. There may be a pockets mist and fog a few pockets of mist and fog otherwise, though. Saturday gets off a fine start for many off to a fine start for many areas across the north and areas and across the north and east, were going to hold on to the blue skies through the blue sunny skies through much day, but in the much of the day, but in the south and west it will turn south and west here it will turn increasingly cloudy and there will be some wet weather at times too, something bit times too, with something a bit more rain more persistent and heavy rain wise into northern wise pushing into Northern Ireland later. Temperatures will wise pushing into northern ireilifting ter. Temperatures will wise pushing into northern ireilifting as. Temperatures will wise pushing into northern ireilifting as we mperatures will wise pushing into northern ireilifting as we go eratures will wise pushing into northern ireilifting as we go through will wise pushing into northern ireilifting as we go through the be lifting as we go through the day, a chilly start we day, so after a chilly start we should see highs quite widely in the mid teens celsius. The low to mid teens celsius. Wet weather then its way wet weather then pushes its way through we go through through as we go through saturday into sunday, saturday night into sunday, clearing towards east. Saturday night into sunday, clea so; towards east. Saturday night into sunday, clea so sunday owards east. Saturday night into sunday, clea so sunday itselfs east. Saturday night into sunday, clea so sunday itself actually;t. And so sunday itself actually looks largely many looks largely dry for many places, albeit with a scattering of and therell be some of showers. And therell be some strong winds monday should strong winds too. Monday should be just a few be mostly dry, just a few showers to watch out for before some rain arrives on some more rain arrives on tuesday. Thats it for me. Ill see you later. That feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. A very good friday afternoon to you. Its 4 pm. Welcome to the Martin Daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. Today. Ill tell you the uk. Today. Ill tell you why. Former Prime Minister liz truss is utterly furious with labour after todays events in the commons, and Meghan Markle launched a new luxury lifestyle brand at just the precise moment an event in honour of the late Princess Diana was taking place. Was this just pure coincidence, or a cynical move by meghan to once again hog the limelight . And theres an exclusive report from poland, where british and poush from poland, where british and polish forces are working together to plan for any possible attack by russia. And thats all coming up in your next hour. Welcome to the show. Next hour. Welcome to the show. Its always a pleasure to have your company, especially on this friday afternoon. Now, as ever, i want to hear from you today. Eamonn please gbviews gbnews. Com. Shortly well look at a clip from liz truss, who spoke to our Political Editor, chris hope, in the commons a short while ago after a debate where she claims the labour party talked down the clock so she wasnt able to table a motion to protect young girls in toilets at school, mixed toilets , with claims that mixed toilets, with claims that some girls are now too afraid to go to toilets and as a consequence, theyre not even Drinking Water at school in the daytime is this something that concerns you . Has it affected your child . Do you know of any incidents like this . Please get incidents like this . Please get in touch. All the usual ways. Vaiews gbnews. Com. But first its vaiews gbnews. Com. But first wsfime vaiews gbnews. Com. But first its time for your latest news headunes its time for your latest News Headlines with sophia wenzler. Martin. Thank you. Martin. Thank you. Its 4 01. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. It was due to be discussed in the commons today, but mps appear to waste time to delay her debate. She told gb delay her debate. She told gb news she was frustrated by the Opposition Party stalling tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and im absolutely furious about that. They dont even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. They dont want to talk about how we stop children being able to access puberty blockers. That would actually stop their development. So they have spent today filibustering my bill and stopping it being talked about, even though over the last few weeks i have had a huge amount of public support from concerned parents, concerned teachers , parents, concerned teachers, from young people themselves who want these bills, measures put into law. Into law. Now, the Prime Minister has suffered a blow with another tory mp announcing he wont run at the next general election , at the next general election, citing personal reasons. James heappey says hes standing down to prioritise his family and to pursue a different career. Downing street says hell be greatly missed in parliament. Hes also expected to resign as Armed Forces Minister by the end of this month. More than 60 tory mps have now announced theyre leaving the commons as speculation mounts over when the general election will be held. The Prime Minister has ruled out the 2nd of may. Lib dems leader sir ed davey has accused him of running scared. I think people are really fed up with this conservative government and want to see the back of it and elections cant come quick enough for the liberal democrats, and i think come quick enough for the libepeople1ocrats, and i think come quick enough for the libepeople of rats, and i think come quick enough for the libepeople of our, and i think come quick enough for the libepeople of our country,1ink come quick enough for the libepeople of our country, when the people of our country, when those elections come, whenever rishi sunak decides to go to the palace. Liberal democrats are ready. Got fantastic ready. Weve got fantastic candidates who are local champions areas. Were champions in their areas. Were campaigning on things like the nhs and the need tackle the nhs and the need to tackle the crisis there, the cost of living and things sewage. And things like sewage. And labour has accused the Prime Minister of being too chicken to call election. As chicken to call an election. As a result, a group of activists dressed as chickens clucked outside downing street, demanding the Prime Minister name the date now, labour added rishi sunak needs to stop squatting in number 10. A £5 million donation from frank hester has not yet been given to the conservatives, with senior Party Sources telling gb news talks about the funds are still underway. The businessman , whos underway. The businessman, whos already given the party £10 million, is accused of being racist after he allegedly said mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women. The Prime Minister whos in sunderland with the chancellor today, is under pressure to return the donation. Jeremy hunt says the conservative party follows due process when it comes to declaring funds. We absolutely are transparent. We follow all the rules, the regulations we believe in that transparency, many of the laws about it, we actually passed ourselves and the conservative party fully complies with all the requirements to be transparent about our donations. In other news, the defence secretary has warned russias president not to try it on while he was on a nato visit in Eastern Europe. Gb news has been given exclusive access to a Training Exercise in poland , Training Exercise in poland, where British Forces are working with their allies, preparing for any possible attack by russia. Its part of steadfast defender, the Largest Military exercise since the cold war. Grant the Largest Military exercise since the cold war. Grant shapps says nato allies are ready and willing to protect themselves from any threat. This exercise is designed to make sure that we can operate with other countries like poland and be interoperable. Most importantly of all, sending a very clear signal to putin or any other despotic leader that we will stand up for ourselves and dont try it on. Meanwhile, voting is underway in russia to elect the countrys next president. Ballots are being cast over three days, even though Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win. He appealed to voters yesterday , including in voters yesterday, including in annexed parts of ukraine, to be unhedin annexed parts of ukraine, to be united in determining his countrys future. Ukraine says any russian vote in the donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia or her son regions will be void. Millions regions will be void. Millions of pounds worth of drugs and eight xl bullies have been seized during county lines raids. Play hundreds of weapons were also found, including rambo knives and machetes. Every police force across the country took part in the raids last week, resulting in more than 1800 arrests. Phone lines used to distribute drugs from cities to distribute drugs from cities to towns and villages were also shut down. And for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Martin. To. Martin. Thank you sophia. Now we start this hour with the former Prime Minister liz truss, whos accused labour of deliberately stopping her private members bill on a new transgender law from being debated. With this legislation , shes hoping to legislation, shes hoping to stop children accessing damaging puberty blockers and makes it clear in law that sex means biological sex. Well, im joined now by our Political Editor, chris hope, who interviewed liz truss shortly a while ago in the commons. She was livid. What happened . Happened . Shes furious. Shes furious. Shes furious. She is trying to. Thats liz truss is trying to get new legislation passed by parliament to protect safe spaces. A lot of these public buildings, schools are now got shared , lose shared are now got shared, lose shared toilets where you have cubicles you go into. But weve heard from or she has heard from lots of local people in her constituency. Mums dads saying my daughters dont want to go there, they dont want to share a loo with a boy. They boys go in there, everyones got phones nowadays can what, nowadays. You can imagine what, what, might happen in loos. What, what might happen in loos. Its great. And earlier we its not great. And earlier we spoke to liz truss in her fury that lay , in her view, labour that lay, in her view, labour mps talked out other mps had talked out other legislation , so theres no time legislation, so theres no time for her attempt to protect children and young girls. Heres what had say. What she had to say. Policy should really hang their shame today for their heads in shame today for what theyve done in stopping a bill that have actually bill that would have actually helped children, helped young people and helped women. Well, ive had discussions with labour mps who privately tell me they agree with me, but theyve been told not to support the bill because of their party whips. Theyve been theyre concerned about the pressure from left wing activists. And that is the problem with the labour party. Is that over their shoulder, theyre looking at the extremist activists, whether its on gender ideology , whether its on gender ideology, whether its on support for hamas, and theyre afraid to say what they really think and theyre afraid to stand up for the rights of children. And that is very, very concerning. Now weve gone to labour for a full comment. Martin, they a full comment. Martin, they have sent a line at the moment. Theyre being very clear. Theyre being very clear. Theyre theyre saying that theyre pointing out that more tory mps than labour mps spoke in an earlier Animal Welfare debate. So despite what liz truss some tory are truss says, some tory mps are also spending parliamentary time discussing other things. I also spoke to robin miller. He is the tory mp for aberconway. He was down here to talk about this. He said some shocking things. He said some shocking things. He said he heard of young girls said he has heard of young girls who are not drinking at school, so they dont need the loo because they dont want to go to the loo because boys are in the loos. Heres what he had to say. Approach this issue a few years ago when started years ago when people started contacting me, was a little contacting me, i was a little bit cautious. I thought was contacting me, i was a little bit old ious. I thought was contacting me, i was a little bit old feministiought was contacting me, i was a little bit old feminist debate, was contacting me, i was a little bit old feminist debate, the; the old feminist debate, the old rehashing feminist issues. The old feminist debate, the old reh what] feminist issues. The old feminist debate, the old reh what ive feminist issues. The old feminist debate, the old reh what ive realisedissues. The old feminist debate, the old reh what ive realised is ues. The old feminist debate, the old reh what ive realised is its not. Its just one front in a much bigger battle. If you like a struggle thats being opened up across our schools, across society, in our schools, in our universities, in prisons, in our universities, in prisons, in hospitals, everywhere in in hospitals, everywhere you look, struggle being is look, this struggle is being is being opened up. And where i feel my feeling is that where people lost the Democratic People have lost the democratic argument, theyre pushing it into cultural spaces. Now, into these cultural spaces. Now, the line is that culture the old line is that culture lives upstream of politics, and when you cant win a vote, what you try and do is change society around it. And i feel this is whats happening here, and thats why its important thats why its so important thats why its so important that we back, because the that we push back, because the things change, the things they want to change, the norms, the behaviours, the standards, the institutions which define us, our understanding of ourselves in society, were society, thats what were fighting for. Not the fighting for. Its not the britain that recognise. I want britain that i recognise. I want to it. I am a conservative. To keep it. I am a conservative. I to conserve these things. I wish to conserve these things. Thats today, to thats why im here today, to speak it. Speak against it. Its not the britain i recognise. I think a lot of recognise. I think a lot of people listening in, chris would agree with that. You know, how have we got the situation where young dont to drink young girls dont want to drink water in case they go to a loo, where there may be a boy and they feel afraid . Yeah. Im father of daughters. Im a father of daughters. I can understand exactly why that might school. Might happen at school. And parents are going well, what on earth . The school earth . Why is the school prioritising thing . You know how it and over the keeping it looks. And over the keeping young girls safe and feeling safe when they go to the loo . The most basic function we do as humans. Now moving on. You have a fresh line on the frank hester racist donation. Really, really brief. Its friday afternoon, but basically this guy frank hester gave £10 million, the biggest donation ever to the tory party the guardian revealed he made some really dreadful remarks about diane abbott, the reported. He then helped himself apologise for saying their their remarks. They were called racist by number 10 downing street. So he said, for example, he makes them. She makes him want to hate black women. He wants to shoot diane abbott. Clearly, clearly appalling today has appalling remarks. Today has been revealed by other other broadcasters , other media groups broadcasters, other media groups that hester, they claim, had given an extra £5 million but hasnt yet been declared by the electoral commission. We, we can reveal, i can reveal at gb news that, in fact, that money hasnt yet been handed over. So the tory party is in talks with frank hester about an additional £5 million. That may explain the delay number saying that delay in number 10, saying that the remarks, as reported, were racist when they were first revealed by the guardian. I wonder if youve been and i wonder if youve been called the prime called racist by the Prime Minister, withhold minister, you might withhold that £5 billion that much of an incentive, is it . Well, quite so. They want to get past this and try and get the money. The money get past this and try and get th no, i think that i think theyre going to hang on to it for dear life. And even before we knew about this extra 5 million that we did know that frank hester was bankrolling the tory party, £0. 20 and every pound that they were raising. So its an awful lot of money to give back during election year. This is where politics gets totally cynical. Rishi sunak may talk about integrity, but what it comes down to a bit of dosh, hes going to hang on to it. Okay. Nigel, this row has rumbled on into the diane abbott situation. We heard astonishing news. I felt anyway, yesterday, Angela Rayner saying that diane abbott should have the whip restored, be welcomed back into the labour party. As if because she feels shes been treated in a racist manner that somehow gets rid of her comments where she said that that white people, jewish people, travellers, irish people cant understand racism because they havent experienced it their entire lives. Surely it their entire lives. Surely the fact that shes experienced what she perceives as racism herself doesnt just get rid of what shes done in the past. No, i think thats probably right. And we do have to actually divorce the two things. So youve the youve got so youve got the youve got what frank hester said about her and what youve got. There is and what youve got. There is a letter which was extremely clumsily written that she wrote to the observer. Now, labour launched an investigation. That was 11 months ago. Why you need 11 months to investigate a letter is beyond me, i agree with Angela Rayner. I letter is beyond me, i agree with Angela Rayner. I do letter is beyond me, i agree with Angela Rayner. I do think with Angela Rayner. I do think the whip should be returned to diane abbott, in the same way, i also think it should be returned to Jeremy Corbyn that the that, labour should be a broad church. Labour should be a broad church. And these are two people who will never get jobs. Will never get jobs. Nigel. Nigel. Hang on. Corbyn and diane abbott were both kicked out of the party for a huge backlash to what many, many people thought were racist or anti semitic comments. You cant just simply wave that away because theyve been on the theyve been out of the party for 11 months. Oh, its okay. Its all over, surely . No. But think that when it no. But i think that when it comes down to Diane Abbotts letter, obviously she did. Letter, im obviously she did. She withdraw it immediately she did withdraw it immediately afterwards, difficult to afterwards, its difficult to know what she was trying to do. The letter itself didnt really make much sense. So thats make very much sense. So thats not to say that diane abbott didnt blot her copybook by what she was doing , but now here we she was doing, but now here we are in election year. At the moment, shes being denied the chance to stand as an mp. And it seems to me, for the offence that she actually committed. And that she actually committed. And again, we dont know quite what she meant by what she said. I think that probably it is time to restore the whip to her. Isnt it funny, nigel, not being funny . But isnt it funny how the Labour Party Just absolutely jump on any minor perceived indiscretion around racism . And yet youre saying racism . And yet youre saying Jeremy Corbyns party was investigated for racism . The second only party after the bnp p by second only party after the bnp p by the Equalities Commission and now youre saying, oh, its fine. He served his time in perjury, fine. He served his time in perjury, now hes allowed back in. What kind of message does that send out . Especially at a time when weve got 700 boom in anti semitism in britain . Anti semitism in britain . Well, martin, youve actually made Keir Starmers argument that what hes what he said was that what hes what he said was that he would root out racism, root out racism and anti semitism in the party. Well, yes, i know, but what i was saying is that were talking about two people in Diane Abbotts case as 11 months, and Jeremy Corbyns case is a lot longer. Were talking about two longer. Were talking about two people whove been, out of the party for some time. It seems to me that that now is the time to let them back in. Now youve been you may not agree. Keir starmer in a degree, but there is a sort of feeling that because they are the old left wing, keir starmer is very keen to purge labour of that left wing. Wing. Well, he wont purge him of the left wing if he lets them back in, you know, for, for, for anyway, chris hope is here and he likes to fire a question about a different topic. Nigel, its chris in the studio here with martin. A quick question to you. Why do you think labour mps are in the words of liz truss and robin millar mp , frustrating efforts millar mp, frustrating efforts to try and protect young girls in schools who feel they cant go into shared spaces because theyre worried about their own safety. I havent, i havent actually seen this, this particular debate, so i dont know how they were operating when it came down to talking it out , i mean, what to talking it out, i mean, what liz truss is talking about, i think is broadly , the direction think is broadly, the direction of travel anyway, is that if you are like me and believe that a trans woman is a woman, that doesnt then confer all the rights that a biological woman would have. And i think its really important that women do have safe spaces, you dont want somebody in a changing room or a lavatory , if youre a woman and lavatory, if youre a woman and that person has got male genitalia. So i get that. Totally. But also we are we are moving to do something about this that we now know that puberty blockers are going to be banned on the nhs, that was an announcement from yesterday. So things are more or less going in the direction of travel that liz truss has tried to do. But nigel, on the one hand you said you believe you just said you believe a trans woman is a woman, but then youve just said that a biological man with a penis shouldnt be allowed into a girls toilet or changing room, thereby you admit theyre not woman. Well , they are officially well, they are officially that. Under the laws of this country, the gender recognition act , which is country, the gender recognition act, which is probably a bit out of date now, as its 20 years old, if you are a trans woman and you meet the requirements of the gender recognition act, you will be a woman on your passport. Youll be a woman on your birth certificate. So officially you become a woman. But i do take the point that cant confer every single right a woman has. It is right that its being looked at in womens sport. Even chesss is banning trans women from taking part in womens events. Im not quite sure why that one, frankly, but but anyway. So the right the but anyway. So the right the rights are not are not quite the same. But that doesnt mean a trans woman is not a woman. Trans woman is not a woman. But, nigel, this kind of row would make. I think our viewers tear their hairs out. Weve got an mp. You havent heard the debate. Robin miller mp saying that girls are not that young girls are not drinking at school, so they wont need the loo, so they wont need the loo, so they wont have to go and mix with boys in those loos. I mean, whatever you say about the rights of different groups in society, that is completely wrong. And yet labour, it appears, dont want to sort out the problem. According to liz truss. Well, as i say, thats according to liz truss and i didnt see what labour mps are doing. So i dont know what what what is actually behind that, but i mean, certainly, as ive just said, when it comes down to schools, which have to sort out the situation in their own schools themselves, how they will deal with pupils who who want to, change gender, but again, i do think and i think that in this point, liz truss is right, that what you dont have is that biological men in womens spaces. But that doesnt mean a trans woman is not a woman. Okay. Well, i think to a lot of people, this is going to be about as clear as mud. And certainly i think nigel nelson, moving forward, we are in for one heck of an interesting time. If the labour party gets into power and all of these things come to pass. Thanks forjoining come to pass. Thanks for joining us. Thats gb news senior us. And thats gb news senior political nigel of Political Editor nigel nelson of course, chris hope, absolutely fantastic. Now ill have fantastic as ever. 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Meghans managed to overshadow both of them and once again make it all about her. Im Martin Daubney on gb news britains news channel welcome back. Its 426. Im Martin Daubney. Welcome back. Its 426. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news. Martin daubney. This is gb news. Later this hour, ill bring you a warning from grant shapps of Vladimir Putin as the defence secretary attends a nato exercise involving british troops. Now, yesterday we talked about the events dedicated to the memory of the late Princess Diana and how Prince William and harry couldnt even bring themselves to share the same stage. But clearly, meghan couldnt stand not to be the centre of attention. Even just for one day, just moments before the ceremony began, she launched a lifestyle brand on instagram. I wish you bluebird birds in the spnng i wish you bluebird birds in the spring to give your heart a song to sing and then a kiss. But more than this, i wish you. Love. You. Love. So i zoned out there now to make sense of this, im joined by royal biographer and commentator angela levin. Angela once again, even at this intimate moment about the late Princess Diana , a cherished Princess Diana, a cherished member of the royal family, it was all about Meghan Markle. Yes, i mean, it actually turns your stomach hearing, ill do it my way. Do it my way. You know, shes certainly always does. I think its disgraceful, actually, in so many ways. One way which is very important is that i dont believe harry had any say. If he did, i dont think she listened because he adored his mother and it was very, very important to him about these, charity for her to give people prizes every two years. And its been going for on 25 years. He hasnt missed it. Its very important. And she it. Its very important. And she has stolen the, as you say, the interest because its all about her. I dont know how any wife can do that to a husband they love because its really, really spiteful and nasty. But not only that, but when she had the engagement after their interview, she was singing the praises of diana. How wonderful she was. And she feels shes inside her and shes talking to her and all that. And harry was saying, you know, his mother would adore meghan and they would adore meghan and they would be best friends. And so he sort of encouraged her. And she even went to find where she was lying in peace. And she lay on the floor and she said, you know, help me all this. You think to yourself, thats a completely phoney way of behaving , and then you cant behaving, and then you cant just as you just said , wait just as you just said, wait a day and let the two things be different. She has to win. She different. She has to win. She has to be in charge. I mean, its appalling. And the queen, of course, the late queen, she didnt want she made them promise that they wouldnt use their royal titles to make money. And they what they would seem to agree, but obviously it hasnt lasted. And to actually deliberately go against that is to shocking, so disrespectful. We saw that terrible curtsy in, in her netflix where she leans over and she makes a silly voice about the queen. But then, you know, that was bad enough in itself. And now, to absolutely dismay anything she says, the other thing i feel im sorry i can rant about this. The other thing i feel is that shes taken advantage of the illness that is going around the royal family at the moment. You know , the king the moment. You know, the king whos got cancer, he cant afford to take all these, nasty pieces that are going on. You know, hes got a lot to do. Hes trying to keep up with the paperwork and its very difficult. I imagine , to start difficult. I imagine, to start leaving all that to deal with. Meghan breaking promises to the queen. And of course, catherine is not well. Shes been very jealous of catherine. And this im sure , is a triumph over im sure, is a triumph over catherine. And also william, its to say, you know, i can do anything better than you. Well, angela, that was certainly an impassioned monologue. I thought your curtsy at one minute, there was going to break out into a glasgow kiss onto the camera. Andrea levin. Excellent. Always a pleasure to have you on the show. And a fantastic weekend. Theres lots more to come between now more still to come between now and 5 00. And ill tell you why. Driving britains busiest driving on britains busiest motorway will be than ever motorway will be worse than ever this something to look this weekend. Something to look forward to. But first, its time forward to. But first, its time for your latest News Headlines with wenzler. With sophia wenzler. Thanks, martin. Its 431. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your headlines. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. It was due to be discussed in the commons today, but mps appeared to waste time to delay her debate. She told gb news she was frustrated by the opposition parties stalling tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and i am absolutely furious about that. They dont even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. They dont want to talk about how we stop children being able to access puberty blockers that would actually stop their development, so they have spent today filibustering my bill and stopping it being talked about, even though over the last few weeks i have had a huge amount of public support from concerned parents, concerned teachers from young people themselves who want these bills, measures put into law. James heappey has announced he wont stand as an mp at the next general election, saying he wants to prioritise his family and pursue a different career. And pursue a different career. Hes also expected to resign as Armed Forces Minister by the end of this month. More than 60 tory mps have now announced theyre leaving the commons. Mps have now announced theyre leaving the commons. A £5 leaving the commons. A £5 million donation from frank hester has not yet been given to the conservatives, with senior Party Sources telling gb news talks about the funds are still being held. The businessman, being held. The businessman, whos already given the party £10 million, is accused of being a racist after he allegedly said mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women. The Prime Minister is under pressure to return the donation and millions of pounds worth of drugs and eight xl bullies have been seized during county lines raids. Hundreds of weapons were also found , including rambo also found, including rambo knives and machetes. Every police force across the country took part in the raids last week, resulting in more than 1800 arrests. And for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Gbnews. Com alerts. Thank you sophia. Now weve got an exclusive interview with the defence secretary, grant shapps, and find out what he said about Vladimir Putin as nato forces continue to train in Eastern Europe. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news welcome back. Its 436. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news. Now. The defence secretary, grant shapps , has secretary, grant shapps, has warned Vladimir Putin. Dont try it on. As nato forces continue to train in Eastern Europe , gb to train in Eastern Europe, gb news has been given exclusive access to a nato Training Exercise in poland, where british and polish forces are working together to plan for any possible attack by russia. Now its part of steadfast defender , its part of steadfast defender, the Largest Military exercise since the cold war , and a since the cold war, and a message to putin that nato allies are ready and willing to protect themselves from any threat. Our reporter, ray threat. Our reporter, ray addison, joined the exercise and sent this report from poland. Sent this report from poland. They move from room to room , they move from room to room, breaching , clearing. These nato breaching, clearing. These nato soldiers may not speak the same language , but they are fluent in language, but they are fluent in the art of urban warfare , the art of urban warfare, working together to neutralise the enemy. And as the tip of the the enemy. And as the tip of the speah the enemy. And as the tip of the spear, theyre ready to roll against russia in a matter of hours. Lieutenant colonel ben hours. Lieutenant colonel ben hawes is in command. My major observation is soldiers are soldiers and no matter what language they speak, we all understand the nato drills that we have to go through, and weve been able to, after a very short period of practice, execute some very complex operations. This is just the latest exercise involving british troops. Defence secretary grant troops. Defence secretary grant shappsis troops. Defence secretary grant shapps is here to show his support. I would say back home most people are unaware here of this enormous nato exercise. Not just large, the biggest since the cold war. Since the cold war. 20,000 are taking part in operation steadfast defender, with another 70,000 from all 32 nato allies. Its designed to send a very clear message to the russian president dont push us too far. Putins end game is to carry on expanding russia. You dont have to take my word for it. Its what hes said himself many times. Nato isnt trying to expand into other peoples territory. We are simply here to territory. We are simply here to defend our values of freedom and sovereignty and democracy. We should be proud of what these guys have been doing here, making sure we can exercise together. Most importantly of all, sending a very clear signal to putin or any other despotic leader that we will stand up for ourselves and dont try it on. With russias war in ukraine now in its third year, the defence secretary is urging western allies not to get fatigued but to treat putins ongoing invasion as a wake up call, a message that we must have the resolve to spend what is required on defence. If not, it will only embolden those who may wish to test our resolve. Meanwhile, these nato forces stand ready to deploy within 48 hours. Though no nato country wants war, putins illegal invasion of ukraine has reminded the west that it can never show weakness and there is certainly strength in numbers. Ray addison gb news. Great stuff there from ray addison. Now to get reaction to what grant shapps said, im now joined by Major General chip chapman. Hes the former head of Counter Terrorism at the ministry of defence. Always a pleasure to have you on the show, chip. There we have grant show, chip. There we have grant shapps staring down the barrel of a sniper rifle on the on manoeuvres with nato. How much of a threat or how much of a warning do you think this sends out to people like Vladimir Putin . Or will he just look at it and kind of roll his eyes . Well, i think you have to go back to the 50s. And montgomerys line about the test matches indefinitely matches postponed indefinitely due strength due to the, deterrent strength of western alliance and the of the western alliance and the fact grant was in fact that grant shapps was in poland , which, of course, is the poland, which, of course, is the closest country to russia to ukraine, and therefore russia, along lithuania and along with latvia, lithuania and estonia, means that were taking deterrence seriously. Deterrence seriously. And you can either have deterrence by denial, being there , which british troops are there, which british troops are in both and estonia , not in both poland and estonia, not on just the exercise steadfast defender, but as part of the enhanced forward presence which came out of the 2016 nato summit, because for poland, russia is has always been an existential threat because of 1939, all you can do deterrence by punishment, by going to war. And its far cheaper to do deterrence by denial than deterrence by denial than deterrence by denial than deterrence by punishment. Deterrence by punishment. And can i ask you about the incident, the 30 minutes where the craft carrying grant shapps and also gb news radisson had its signal jammed for 30 minutes . Do you think this was a targeted , offensive or is this targeted, offensive or is this a routine blocking of airwaves that would happen across that territory . Anyhow on any craft . Well, it came from kaliningrad , which is russian kaliningrad, which is russian territory. Also worth saying that kaliningrad, of course, was a german, had a german population until they were kicked out after the second world war. To answer that question, you really have to understand the electromagnetic spectrum. A spectrum. And there were a number of ways that you can do this in terms electronic this in terms of electronic attack, and there are a number of ways that you defend in of ways that you can defend in terms electronic protection. Terms of electronic protection. Now, the worst case, people would this is terrible. You would say this is terrible. You know, signal was lost for know, we the signal was lost for 30 minutes. If you take the other side of the coin, youre actually saying that the russians illuminated, you russians have illuminated, you know, frequencies that their know, the frequencies that their electronic gizmos have know, the frequencies that their electrout gizmos have know, the frequencies that their electrout to gizmos have know, the frequencies that their electrout to you. Gizmos have know, the frequencies that their electrout to you. Theyre have given out to you. Theyre disclosing their tactics, techniques and procedures. And techniques and procedures. And therefore, in future, you would know how to kill them, either in a soft kill, posed by your own counter electronic measures or by a hard kill that is physically destroy them because you know where that emanated from. So i wouldnt take it as from. So i wouldnt take it as all doom and gloom on what happened, because at the moment were in the sort of preliminary stages of the world cup. Were not in the world cup final. Okay suburbs a font of knowledge suburbs of a font of knowledge as ever. Major general chip chapman , Major General chip chapman, thank for joining thank you very much for joining us the show. Now, experts are us on the show. Now, experts are warning of carmageddon when a busy stretch of the m25 is closed this weekend. The man in closed this weekend. The man in charge of the work has told us all to decorate the bathroom or play all to decorate the bathroom or play in the garden. Yeah. Cheers. Im Martin Daubney on gb welcome back. Its 446. Im Martin Daubney. Welcome back. Its 446. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news. Martin daubney. This is gb news. Now, if you live in or near london, youll know only too well that driving on the m25 can be an utterly soulless and miserable experience. But its miserable experience. But its going to be a whole lot worse this weekend. And thats because a five mile stretch of the motorway in surrey will be closed in both directions, an experts are warning it will cause utter travel chaos as well. The project leader at national highways, jonathan wade, has some interesting advice for the public. He told the independents travel podcast. Please, if you can either avoid travelling completely. Find something to do at home, decorate the bathroom or something, or play in the garden if you must. Go travel by train, walk, use a bicycle. I dont mind really what you do. Well, there we go. And im joined by the man who spoke to jonathan wade, the independent travel journalist. Of course, the legend that is simon calder. Simon, thanks for joining the legend that is simon calder. Simon, thanks forjoining us. Simon, thanks for joining us. Well, that advice was about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. Motorbike. Well, well, what . Well, well, what . I think jonathan wade, whos the man who is responsible for closing the m25 this weekend . And can you believe on four more occasions over the coming yeah more occasions over the coming year, what he meant was, look, its going to be horrible. We dont have any choice. And so therefore, please, adjust accordingly. Accordingly. It is going to be miserable. You can have anything up to 6000 cars, trucks and buses, an hour. And if you want to visualise that, just imagine 100 vehicles would normally be using that stretch every single minute and instead, as you showed on that diversion map, they are going to be going through leafy surrey andifs be going through leafy surrey and its going to be quite an interesting, diversion. Theyre going to be meandering off towards london. Im speaking to you from the a3 , which is the you from the a3, which is the affected junction, then wandering back through byfleet , wandering back through byfleet, west byfleet. Its going to be a lovely drive, except theres going to be quite a lot of traffic there and talking to people who live in the area, they just say its going to be utter mayhem. One person said look, cant even cope, cope look, they cant even cope, cope with the school run, let alone having the entire weight of the m25 here. And dont forget, starts at 9 pm. Tonight. Goes right through till 6 am. Monday morning. Jonathan wade from national highways did assure me that actually it is going to open on time. So dont worry about the monday morning commute i and i guess on the one hand, the national Highways Agency will have stopped more traffic on the m25 than just stop oil. On the m25 than just stop oil. Hardly a crumb of comfort. Why are they doing it . Well, because they say the a3 and m25 junction is really dangerous. Lots of collisions dangerous. Lots of collisions there. It was built in the 19805, there. It was built in the 1980s, opened by Margaret Thatcher 29th of january 1986. I was actually there at the time. Yes, i was very young. Thanks anyway, since then, its been obviously the huge amount of traffic has grown and it simply cannot cope. So theyre widening the junction. Theyre making it safer. They say its going to be better, martin, for the environment, because they will be allowing traffic to flow more freely. But to do that theyve freely. But to do that theyve got to widen it. To do that theyve got to demolish a bridge and they cant just sort of knockit and they cant just sort of knock it down and hope for the best. It is going to be a really serious operation, getting rid of this bridge. Then they can start then start winding it and then well, by year people by this Time Next Year people will a wonderful , smooth will have a wonderful, smooth journey, just as they do journey, just as they always do on the m25. On the m25. Thank you so much, simon connoh thank you so much, simon connor, for joining thank you so much, simon connor, forjoining us. And connor, for joining us. And youre almost taken out there by a of young scamps on a couple of young scamps on a lime bike. Well done. Always roadside, bang on the roadside, always bang on the money. You very much, roadside, always bang on the money. Caldeh you very much, roadside, always bang on the money. Caldeh now, ery much, roadside, always bang on the money. Caldeh now, as much, roadside, always bang on the money. Caldeh now, as promised , simon calder. Now, as promised, i can bring you that exclusive interview with Holly Valance. The actress and singer was the first guest on gb news Political Editor christopher hopes brand new podcast. Holly lives in new podcast. Holly lives in london now, and heres what she had to say about the time her phone was stolen. It was out of control. All of it was out of control. All of us have been robbed on kings roadin us have been robbed on kings road in our area. Yeah. What were you, rob . I just had my phone taken out of the pram like she was stealing office. Stealing off a mum with her baby in the pram was pretty low stuff. No, i wasnt hurt, fortunately, but yeah , ive had fortunately, but yeah, ive had friends get belted for their phones and watches and home raids and trying to kick in doors and its in chelsea. Yeah particularly in chelsea because they know people are Walking Around with probably a nice watch on. Yeah. And the police are helpful. And the police are helpful. They rob me. Theyre in for a nasty surprise. Im usually in a swatch down the street. No offence to swatch. None and one offence to swatch. None and one of the police who were very helpful, they they dont really turn up. You can call them , but i you can call them, but i dont ever see a bobby. Its like kids point and stare now and you see a policeman on the street. Look, mum, a real live police person. Person. So pc policeman to person and police person. Police person. Give me a break. Policeman officer. Yeah. Yes. Well they are the government. The government, uk government is investing more in police in england and wales maybe. So theyre meant to be more around to. To reassure. It would be nice to. I think its a deterrent at the very least. And dont least. And i also dont understand this day and understand how in this day and age, such technology, age, with such cheap technology, for instance so for instance with cctv, so anyone ring camera anyone can stick a ring camera anywhere £150, why, for anywhere for £150, why, for instance , our high street instance, our high street doesnt have any cctv cameras. Now im not a big person that wants a lot of cameras around , wants a lot of cameras around, but on a high street where everyones being robbed blind , everyones being robbed blind, it might be a nice idea. And it doesnt cost much. So then why . Why dont we have that . Yes well, thats Holly Valance. There certainly shooting from the hip and in reply, a spokesperson for the mayor of london, sadiq khan has said this, this was clearly a frightening and distressing experience. While homicides, gun crime and the number of young people being injured with knives have all fallen since 2016, Violent Crime remains far too high. Theres much more to do. The mayor is determined to continue making progress by supporting the police and on that matter, the metropolitan police said this in westminster and kensington and chelsea, officers are regularly deployed into known hotspot locations using innovative tactics and conducting high visibility patrols to keep the community safe. And of course, you can safe. And of course, you can listen to choppers political podcast every friday on apple, spotify or wherever you normally get your podcasts. Or, of course, you can watch the full video on gbnews. Com now. Liz truss says labour deliberately stopped her members private members bill on a new transgender law being debated in the commons today. And on that topic, ive had a few emails come in. Lets go through them now, liz says. This please bear in mind that young girls are using lose for reasons other than going to the toilet, especially in schools. And jo says this my daughter is in a mixed sixth form college. The toilets are gender neutral. The girls absolutely hate using them as they have to clean up male urine first. They think the boys do it on purpose. This is do it on purpose. This is unacceptable and the girls are stopping using these toilets. Marianne quickly says this i think liz truss is absolutely right in what she says about the trans bill. Womens rights are being eroded and it is utterly shameful. There we go. Absolutely fantastic stuff. Please get in touch with all of your emails. Well read out the best before the end of the show. Dont forget weve. Liz truss is talking and shes saying that labour specifically and deliberately filibustered her talk. So we werent able to get to the end point. And we heard to the end point. And we heard from an mp earlier who was saying robin miller, who was saying, now girls are too afraid to even drink water at schools because they dont want to go to the loos. Surely that cant be right. Im martin on gb right. Im Martin Daubney on gb news britains new channel. But first here. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on. Solar, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello again. Im here with your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. Todays showers are largely going to ease as we go through later today. Taking us into a bit of a chilly night because the low Pressure Centre that has brought some blustery and showery today is and showery weather today is clearing away towards the northeast of a ridge northeast with a bit of a ridge of High Pressure building from the west. Will still the west. Yes, there will still be showers as we go through be some showers as we go through the of the afternoon, the end of the afternoon, particularly eastern particularly across eastern parts, drier parts, but turning drier and clearer the west with clearer from the west and with clearer from the west and with clear skies and a bit of a northerly wind, were likely to see our temperatures dropping tonight. Will be chillier tonight. It will be chillier than has been through than it has been through some recent could dip just recent nights. Could dip just a bit below freezing across northern touch of frost northern parts. A touch of frost possible elsewhere. There may be a pockets of mist and fog. A few pockets of mist and fog. Otherwise though, saturday gets off start for many off to a fine start for many areas and across the north and east, were going to hold on to the sunny skies through east, were going to hold on to the of sunny skies through east, were going to hold on to the of the ny skies through east, were going to hold on to the of the day, ies through east, were going to hold on to the of the day, butthrough east, were going to hold on to the of the day, but inough east, were going to hold on to the of the day, but in theh much of the day, but in the south west here it will turn south and west here it will turn increasingly cloudy and therell be at times be some wet weather at times too, with something a bit more persistent and heavy wise, persistent and heavy rain wise, pushing into Northern Ireland. Later be later temperatures will be lifting through the lifting as we go through the day, after a chilly start we day, so after a chilly start we should highs quite widely in should see highs quite widely in the mid teens celsius. The low to mid teens celsius. Wet then pushes its way wet weather then pushes its way through as we go through saturday night sunday, saturday night into sunday, clearing the east. Clearing away towards the east. And actually and so sunday itself actually looks largely dry for many places, albeit with scattering places, albeit with a scattering of therell be some of showers. And therell be some strong winds too. Monday should be dry, just a few be mostly dry, just a few showers to watch out for before some rain arrives on some more rain arrives on tuesday. For me. Ill tuesday. Thats it for me. Ill see later. See you later. Looks like things are heating up. Boilers sponsors of up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. A very good friday afternoon to you. Its 5 pm. Welcome to the Martin Daubney show on gb news. Broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. All across the uk. Today. Ill tell you why. Former Prime Minister liz truss is absolutely furious with the labour party after todays events in the commons. The labour party after todays events in the commons. Also, the events in the commons. Also, the nhs stands accused of putting green credentials above medical patients as it prepares to transition on to new electric ambulances. Is net zero being ambulances. Is net zero being prioritised over Patient Safety . Coming up after that, thousands of people a month are being deemed incapable of working due to Mental Health problems. Can the tories get a hold of britains long term sickness crisis . And the gb news crisis . And the gb news sensational exclusive. Find out sensational exclusive. Find out what happened when australian p0p what happened when australian pop star Holly Valance met nigel farage and donald trump. Thats all coming up and your next action packed hour. Welcome to action packed hour. Welcome to the show. Its always a pleasure to have your company, especially on this friday afternoon. Liz truss has spoken to gb news earlier today. She said that the labour party were counting down the clock in a debate. She was trying to table to try and protect girls in schools in mixed toilets. She says that should be stopped. Girls should have their own safe space as the labour party, she claims, wouldnt let that debate go ahead. Weve had lots and lots and lots of emails coming in. Its fair to say youre not. Not at all happy about what you see as the endangerment of young girls. In the as the endangerment of young girls. In the name of what . Trans equality. Let me know your thoughts. Email me gbviews gbnews. Uk. Com but lets gbviews gbnews. Uk. Com but lets crack on now its time for your latest News Headlines with sophia wenzler. Thanks, martin. Good afternoon. Its 5 01. Im sophia afternoon. Its 5 01. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. It was due to be discussed in the commons today, but mps appear to waste time to delay her debate. She told gb news she was frustrated by the opposition parties stalling tactics. Tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and i am absolutely furious about that. They dont furious about that. They dont even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. They dont want to talk about how we stop children being able to access puberty blockers that would actually stop their development, so they have spent today filibustering my bill and stopping it being talked about, even though over the last few weeks i have had a huge amount of public support from concerned parents, concerned teachers , parents, concerned teachers, from young people themselves who want these bills measures put into law. Now, the Prime Minister has suffered a blow, with another tory mp announcing he wont run at the next general election, citing personal reasons. James citing personal reasons. James heappey says hes standing down to prioritise his family and to pursue a different career. Downing street says hell be greatly missed in parliament. Hes also expected to resign as Armed Forces Minister by the end of this month. More than 60 tory of this month. More than 60 tory mps have now announced theyre leaving the commons , as leaving the commons, as speculation mounts over when the general election will be held. General election will be held. The Prime Minister has ruled out the 2nd of may. Lib dems leader sir ed davey has accused him of running scared. Running scared. I think people are really fed up at this conservative government and want to see the back of it, and the elections cant come enough for the cant come quick enough for the liberal democrats. And i think the of our country, when the people of our country, when those elections come, whenever rishi to go to the rishi sunak decides to go to the palace. Democrats palace. Liberal democrats are ready. Fantastic ready. Weve got fantastic candidates who are local champions in their areas. Were campaigning on things like the nhs the need to tackle the nhs and the need to tackle the crisis. The cost of living crisis. There the cost of living and like sewage. And things like sewage. Meanwhile, labour has accused the Prime Minister of being too chicken to call election. As chicken to call an election. As a result, a group of activists dressed as chickens clucked outside downing street, demanding the Prime Minister name the date. Now, labour added rishi sunak needs to stop squatting in number 10, a £5 million donation from frank hester has not yet been given to the conservatives, with senior Party Sources telling gb news talks about the funds are still underway. The businessman, whos underway. The businessman, whos already given the party £10 million, is accused of being racist after allegedly saying mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women. The Prime Minister, whos in sunderland with the chancellor today, is under pressure to return the donation. Jeremy hunt says the donation. Jeremy hunt says the conservative party follows due process when it comes to declaring funds. We absolutely are transparent. We follow all the rules, the regulations. We believe in that transparency , many of the laws transparency, many of the laws about it, we actually passed ourselves and the conservative party fully complies with all the requirements to be transparent about our donations. Transparent about our donations. In other news, the defence secretary has warned russias president not to try it on while he was on a nato visit in Eastern Europe. Gb news has been given exclusive access to a Training Exercise in poland, where British Forces are working with their allies, preparing for any possible attack by russia. Any possible attack by russia. Its part of steadfast defender, the Largest Military exercise since the cold war. Grant shapps says. Nato allies are ready and willing to protect themselves from any threat. From any threat. This exercise is designed to make sure that we can operate with other countries like poland and be interoperable. Most importantly of all, sending a very clear signal to putin or any other despotic leader that we will stand up for ourselves and dont try it on. Meanwhile, voting is underway in russia to elect the countrys next president. Ballots are being cast over three days, even though Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win. He appealed to voters yesterday , including in voters yesterday, including in annexed parts of ukraine, to be unhedin annexed parts of ukraine, to be united in determining his countrys future. Ukraine says any russian votes in the donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia or her son region will be void and millions of pounds worth of drugs and eight xl bullies have been seized during county lines raids. That. Place been seized during county lines raids. That. Place hundreds of weapons were also found, including rambo knives and machetes. Every police force across the country took part in the raids last week, resulting in more than 1800 arrests. Phone lines used to distribute drugs from cities to towns and villages were also shut down. And for the latest stories , sign and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Now its back to. Martin. Back to. Martin. Thank you sophia. Now lets move on into this hour. Lets start with the former Prime Minister, liz truss. Well, shes accusing the labour party of deliberately stopping her private members bill on a new transgender law being debated. Transgender law being debated. With this legislation, shes hoping to stop children accessing damaging puberty blockers and makes it clear in law that sex means biological sex. Well, im joined now in the studio by our Political Editor, christopher hope. Chris, you interviewed liz truss earlier andifs interviewed liz truss earlier and its fair to say she was livid with the labour party about what she said was them talking down the clock and not allowing her debate to get forward, and in particular, protecting girls in same sex toilets. She was saying vividly and in terms that she has heard from parents in her constituency whose children cant go to the loo if theyre their daughters, because they were the boys are in their boys and boys have cameras. They might take them into the loos. Its a very vulnerable situation to be in, and girls just dont feel safe. Youll hear the anger in her voice if you listen to this clip right labour party right now, the labour party should hang their heads should really hang their heads in shame for what theyve in shame today for what theyve done stopping a bill that done in stopping a bill that would have actually helped children, young people, children, helped young people, and women. And helped women. Ive had discussions well, ive had discussions with labour mps who privately tell me they agree with me , but tell me they agree with me, but theyve been told not to support theyve been told not to support the bill because of their party whips. Theyve been theyre concerned about the pressure from left wing activists and thatis from left wing activists and that is the problem with the labour party. Is that over their shoulder , theyre looking at the shoulder, theyre looking at the extremist activists, whether its on gender ideology, whether its on gender ideology, whether its on gender ideology, whether its on support for hamas, and theyre afraid to say what they really think, and theyre afraid to stand up for the rights of children. And that is very, very children. And that is very, very concerning. Concerning. Yeah. Well, youre shaking your head, martin. Well come to shake your head in a minute. But with on the point on labour, labours come back to us and said very clearly they think that tory mp spoke earlier, dunng that tory mp spoke earlier, during an Animal Welfare debate. If were really so concerned if they were really so concerned about would pipe about this issue they would pipe down Animal Welfare and down on Animal Welfare and thought issues raised thought about the issues raised by liz truss. Im shaking head because im shaking my head because i think im echoing the sentiments of great people whove of a great many people whove whove their views into us whove sent their views into us here. I want to read out a couple of them to you, chris, because i we should be the because i think we should be the peoples channel. Think peoples channel. People think this the culture doesnt this is the culture war doesnt exist. Exist. Its real. Exist. It does exist. Its real. And are in touch and parents are getting in touch with here. Joe says this. My with us here. Joe says this. My daughter in mixed sixth daughter is in a mixed sixth form college. The toilets there are girls are gender neutral. The girls absolutely as absolutely hate using them as they clean up male urine they have to clean up male urine first. The boys think its funny. They do this on purpose. The girls think theyre doing it specifically to spite them. This is unacceptable. My daughter and is unacceptable. My daughter and her friends now hate using these toilets isnt the point. Of course we should protect vulnerable members of society. Of course. Stand up for confused Young Children. But are we sacrifice the ordinary rights of young girls on in the process of that . Chris well, thats the point. And thats the point at the heart of this, the it comes from the right place. I think in schools they try to look after Young Children who are confused about their sexuality, want to want to transition into a different sex. Maybe. But the price of that appears to be not looking after or thinking about young girls and using these these lavatories. I also spoke to robin millar, mp for aberconwy. He had a shocking thing to say about People Living in his constituency. Heres what in his constituency. Heres what he had to say. The tories im hearing are of young girls who will not use an effectively a shared toilet space. What does that mean . It means that they wont drink either in before school or dunng either in before school or during school. That leads to other complications and problems. So their whole schooling experience is being affected by this politically correct agenda which is being rolled out in schools and in wales in particular. Thats the case. Robin millar there, tory mp in parliament, wanted to try and support this measure by liz truss and couldnt. He says young girls are not drinking in schools so they dont have to go to the loo because boys might be in the loo and hes saying that now not drinking is bad if youre our age, you know. But if youre our age, you know. But if youre a young child trying to develop properly, not drinking is completely and it is completely wrong. And it seems, know , were yet to seems, you know, were yet to hear why labour didnt allow this to go ahead. The government , of course, the number 10. I asked in the lobby meeting this morning. They said are taking morning. They said we are taking measures and deal with measures to try and deal with the raised by liz truss the issues raised by liz truss are obviously sympathetic. We have badenoch, are obviously sympathetic. We hav equalities badenoch, are obviously sympathetic. We hav equalities secretary. Adenoch, are obviously sympathetic. We hav equalities secretary. She |och, the equalities secretary. She tweeted support for tweeted out her support for what liz is trying to do, but liz truss is trying to do, but i think there are lots of battles being fought by our viewers, our listeners the country listeners around the country with governing bodies in schools. Its to put schools. Surely its time to put the girls first. The young girls first. You know, chris, im having a bit of a moment here. Its like a minute ago i was quite cross about this, and now i just feel an unimaginable wave of sadness. Just came over me. Ive got a daughter, you know, shes nine years of age. And thought years of age. And the thought that anybodys daughter is that that anybodys daughter is too afraid to drink water because they dont want to go to the loo in case something happens to them. Weve lost the happens to them. Weve lost the plot. This we have to protect everybody. And there are far , everybody. And there are far, far more, you know, ordinary girls. Then there are people girls. Then there are people identifying as trans , but it identifying as trans, but it comes from the right place. Is it the schools and authorities are trying to find a way to look after everybody, even the small minority of children who are trying to, to move into a different gender or different sex. So by trying to help everybody, even that tiny minority, it seems in some places that, you know, girls who, lets face it, are either , who, lets face it, are either, you know, a big chunk of our School Population are not drinking because they dont want to go to the loo. Its insane. And they should be protected and nurtured and helped. You cant learn if youre too afraid to drink. No you cant. And i mean, i do. One would hope that robin millar, these people part of the people are are part of the governing one would hope governing party. One would hope that number hearing at that number 10 is hearing at least being said on gb least whats being said on gb news and might some action, news and might take some action, but comes to the right place. But it comes to the right place. I mean, labour are trying to think about the rights of everyone, be everyone, but there must be a concern that by looking after the rights of everybody, you have large numbers of have these large numbers of people arent people who arent, who arent drinking at school. I mean, thats wrong. Drinking at school. I mean, tha and wrong. Drinking at school. I mean, tha and theres rong. Drinking at school. I mean, tha and theres lots. Drinking at school. I mean, tha and theres lots of confusion and theres lots of confusion in schools. So my boy is 14, lives a school a lives in a school in a relatively modern building. So they separate cubicles. So they have separate cubicles. So there issue there. But there isnt an issue there. But if youre trying retrofit if youre trying to retrofit this dogma into schools where they have traditional loos, as we know, and you are having these communal spaces and theyre abused, and, you theyre being abused, and, you know, got here like know, weve got people here like its what liz said. Please also bearin its what liz said. Please also bear in mind that young girls use loos for reasons other than going to the toilet, especially in schools, and thats it cant be a safe space just to be a wave. Be with other women away from boys for a bit. For whatever reason it might be. The government did look at changing the building regulations, so New Buildings have to have individual lavatories for boys and girls, men and women. But the problem, as you say, its a retrofitting idea. Its a problem. Its not the only thing happening in politics today. Ive got to talk to you about frank hester. Thats right, hes obviously this donor who gave £10 party £10 million to the tory party last year, then hes been, last year, and then hes been, reported to have said dreadful remarks about diane abbott saying she should be shot and he she makes him want to hate all black women that emerged in the guardian think on guardian on on i think on tuesday. He apologised for tuesday. He has apologised for some some of the remarks. Theyve been called racist eventually by number 10, it emerged today were reported emerged today that were reported today he gave another £5 today that he gave another £5 million to the tory party, and it has yet to be declared , we it has yet to be declared, we can on gb news after id can reveal on gb news after id done journalism on this in done some journalism on this in fact, partys talks with fact, the partys in talks with frank about this £5 frank astor about this £5 million donation. Sources in the party say to say to me, hes not a racist, and they hope he can actually donate the money in the future. Its quite hard, though. You might think, if the pm has said that what he said was racist. So clearly that might explain why theres a long delay between saying it, but between number 10 saying it, but heanng between number 10 saying it, but hearing the remarks hearing about the remarks and saying racist, racist, saying they were racist, racist, even only doing so even in fact even only doing so after badenoch, after Kemi Badenoch, the equalities secretary who is black, of course, that black, of course, made that point. Chris hope youve had a fantastic week, but i think youve peaked today. Great reports. Seriously, two great reports. Seriously, two great reports and particularly the liz truss stuff. You know, it gets me really, really emotional. It really, really emotional. It really and, these are the really does. 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Now patients could be forced to wait longer for ambulances to arrive as the nhs is set to introduce electric ambulances. Is this yet more net zero madness . Im Martin Daubney on gb news. Welcome back. Its 521. Im Martin Daubney. Welcome back. Its 521. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news. Martin daubney. This is gb news. Now. A shocking two thirds of brits are out of work and claiming benefits for Mental Health problems. Ill be putting this to a tory mp shortly. But before that , the nhs is set to before that, the nhs is set to introduce electric ambulances , introduce electric ambulances, raising concerns that the drive for net zero is being put above Patient Safety reports say electric ambulances will take up to four hours to charge with a limited average, thats a range of 70 miles. So is the nhs prioritising net zero over Patient Safety . Well, joining me now is the director of the climate media coalition, donald mccarthy. Danica welcome to the show. Its always a pleasure. Now we can all agree clean air is a good thing. We can all agree thats being cleaner all around is a good thing but is a step too far. Donald when we have electric ambulances, they can take four hours to charge. Well, theyd be no use sat there idle while patients are suffering Health Crisis and with a range of over 70 miles, many rural ambulances cover twice that distance in a shift. Surely this is a step too far . Well, 83 of the uk population, martin live in cities and towns, so electric ambulances make absolute sense in cities and towns because theyll be cleaner and cheaper , theyll be cleaner and cheaper, more efficient to run. So obviously for rural areas they will not be used until the range is suitable for those journeys. So i think this is a story in a teacup. And what we should be focusing on is the, the, the amazing, three levels of, of pluses this brings. Itll bring cleaner air to our towns and cities, 30,000 people a year dying prematurely of pollution in the united kingdom. Secondly, in the united kingdom. Secondly, it will save the nhs money. One of the biggest problems with the Ambulance Service is its underfunding by the government. This will save around 60 million a year, helping to fund more ambulances. Thirdly, ambulances. And thirdly, of course, climate crisis, the course, the climate crisis, the w. H. O. Course, the climate crisis, the who. Has said that the going over 1. 5 degrees will be the greatest impact on human health in human history. And the nhs as a health body must play its role in helping to keep temperatures below that theo walcott two points there. The first one is, many people have to wait eight, nine, ten hours for an ambulance to go out to their houses on what planet is it a good idea to have ambulances that need to be out of commission for four hours to recharge them . When a regular vehicle can simply have its tank filled in mere minutes . Well, you also wont be charged saying that the ambulances at peak hours when the when the when the when the needis the when the when the when the need is there at peak hours. However the issue is are we using should our ambulances be contributing to deaths rather than saving lives and i would argue it needs to be doing both. It needs to be efficient. It needs to be effective and also needs to be effective and also needs to be contributing to cleaner air in our cities. But, but but they will contribute to deaths if theyre not operational, cant not operational, if they cant attend because attend an emergency because theyre being charged, theyll be how can be out of commission. How can that help save peoples lives if theyre idle charging by theyre stuck idle charging by theyre stuck idle charging by the power point . If an ambulance is in the middle of the night, when . When its recharging, when a uses is low, thats not going to impact on service. And the nhs would not adopt this process if it is going to impact on their delivery. And clearly theyre using these in urban and rural urban areas. Theyre not proposing to use them in rural areas until the technology is adequate to deal with it. Okay. You could also ask you okay. You could also ask you one quick question. You say it makes Financial Sense, but on what planet is it Financial Sense to scrap perfectly good ambulances that already are in commission and get this, get the elements out of the ground for the batteries. Build a new ambulance from scratch. How is that more efficient when you have to replace a perfectly usable vehicle with one from scratch . No, that will cost a huge amount more than a regular petrol powered ambulance because electric vehicles always cost more. Well, actually checked before i came on and they have just bought a new fleet of ambulances in london that actually use petrol, and the cost of them were 150,000 per unit. And my understanding, were 150,000 per unit. And my understanding , the proposal in understanding, the proposal in the West Midlands for these electric ambulances , they cost electric ambulances, they cost 150,000 as well. It makes sense, as you say , as the as were as you say, as the as were replacing the fleets that we replace them with modern technology, not all technology, to to all dump the new to dump to all dump the new ambulances in london that are petrol powered would be insane. And not proposing to and but theyre not proposing to do as replace the do that. But as we replace the fleet, we should replace them with and efficient with cleaner and more efficient and cheaper to run ambulances. But agrees. And cheaper to run ambulances. But agrees. Im and cheaper to run ambulances. But agrees. Im sure but everybody agrees. Im sure most human martin myself agree they should not be using them in rural areas until the technology is good enough for them. Okay, superb. Thanks for your input as ever. Thats the director the climate media director of the climate media coalition, donald mccarthy. Let us know what you think out there are electric ambulances a good idea or a net zero step too far . Now, grant shapps has warned Vladimir Putin. Dont try it on. As nato forces continue to train in Eastern Europe, gb news has been given exclusive access to a camp in poland where british and poush camp in poland where british and polish forces are working together to plan for any possible attack by russia. And its part of steadfast defender, the Largest Military exercise since the cold war , and a since the cold war, and a message to putin that nato allies are ready and willing to protect themselves from any threat and our reporter, ray allison, has sent this report from poland. They move from room to room , they move from room to room, breaching, clearing. These nato breaching, clearing. These nato soldiers may not speak the same language, but they are fluent in the art of urban warfare, working together to neutralise the enemy. And as the tip of the the enemy. And as the tip of the spear, the enemy. And as the tip of the spear , theyre ready to roll spear, theyre ready to roll against russia in a matter of hours. Lieutenant colonel ben hawes is in command. My major observation is soldiers are soldiers and no matter what language they speak, we all understand the nato drills that we have to go through, and weve been able to, after a very short period of practice, execute some very complex operations. This is just the latest exercise involving british troops. British troops. Defence secretary grant shappsis defence secretary grant shapps is here to show his support. I would say back home most people are unaware of this enormous nato exercise , not just enormous nato exercise, not just large, the biggest since the cold war. Cold war. 20,000 are taking part in operation steadfast defender, with another 70,000 from all 32 nato allies. Its designed to nato allies. Its designed to send a very clear message to the russian president dont push us too far. Putins end game is to carry on expanding russia. You dont have to take my word for it. Its what hes said himself many times. Nato isnt trying to expand into other peoples territory. Into other peoples territory. We are simply here to defend our values of freedom and sovereignty and democracy. We sovereignty and democracy. We should be proud of what these guys have been doing here, making sure we can exercise together. Most importantly of all, sending a very clear signal to putin or any other despotic leader that we will stand up for ourselves and dont try it on with russias war in ukraine now in its third year, the defence secretary is urging western allies not to get fatigued but to treat putins ongoing invasion as a wake up call, a message that we must have the resolve to spend what is required on defence, if not, it will only embolden those who may wish to test our resolve. Meanwhile, these nato forces stand ready to deploy within 48 hours. Though no nato country wants war, putins illegal invasion of ukraine has reminded the west that it can never show weakness and there is certainly strength in numbers. Ray addison gb news. And thats a fantastic report there from gb news ray addison. If you are watching or listening to gb news yesterday, youll know that ray addison had quite a dramatic trip to and from poland, and viewers can see an image of ray now sat next to grant shapps on the raf plane that had its gps system jammed by russia. The flight lost gps by russia. The flight lost gps navigation and Internet Access , navigation and Internet Access, both flying to and from poland. Both flying to and from poland. But fortunately mr shapps was assured by pilots that the safety of the aircraft and indeed of ray addison, was never at risk and we spoke to chip chapman earlier. He said this is actually a learning moment because britain can now read the russian radar and learn how to deal with it next time. So theres always a bright end to that story. Now. Theres lots more still to come between now and labour draws up and 6 00, and labour draws up plans for a new uk eu defence body. But Emmanuel Macron is pushing back. Hes not happy, he never is. More on that very soon. But first, your latest News Headlines with sophia wenzler. Wenzler. Thanks, martin. Its 530. Im sophia wenzler in the gb news room. Your headlines. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. It was due to be discussed in the commons today, but mps appeared to waste time to delay her debate. She told gb news she was frustrated by the opposition parties stalling tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and i am absolutely furious about that. They do not even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. 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The price of gold is £1,696. 22 per ounce, and the ftse 100 closed the day at 7727 points. Rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news Financial Report that. Report that. Thank you sophia. Now new data reveals that a shocking two thirds of brits are out of work and claiming benefits for Mental Health problems. Well, were putting that to a tory mp next. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news channel welcome back. Its 537. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news news. Now. Thousands of people are not working. Claiming its because of their Mental Health. And thats according to official figures from the department for work and pensions. In fact, its been revealed two thirds of incapacity benefit claims are now for Mental Health, with the cost of ill Health Benefits for people of working age projected to rise by tens of billions of pounds over the next parliament, an astonishing situation. And join me now to discuss this is the conservatives deputy chair, rachel mclean. Rachel, welcome to the show. Always a pleasure. To the show. Always a pleasure. So you recently wrote that you thought bad nerves are the new bad back, and we are now seeing an astonishing 2. 8 Million People on long terms sick. Thats an increase of 200,000 this year alone. Two thirds of them are claims for Mental Health. Health. Rachel, help me make sense of this. Make sense of this. Yes, martin, thanks for having me on. It is a subject that im very worried about. I, i made a speech in Parliament Last week, obviously welcoming a lot of the work the government is doing. Theres a huge amount of work going into getting people back work getting people back in to work because i believe and because obviously i believe and the government does too, that the government does too, that the best thing for people with Mental Health problems usually is for them to be in work. Thats actually the best therapy provided theyre supported, etc. And its done in the right way. Thats the best therapy for people, and that is what a good workplace should look like. And thats what a good benefit system should like. Benefit system should look like. There are some but i think there are some problems need addressing, problems that need addressing, one the that really one of the things that really jumped out at me when i started looking at this was this phrase, bad nerves. I mean, ive got two bad nerves. I mean, ive got two psychology i do psychology degrees. I do understand a lot about Mental Health and mental ill health. Bad nerves is not a clinical condition. I mean, martin, frankly, im having bad nerves. You know, when i go on live tv, thats something that would give me bad nerves. I mean, im sure most people watching this will have bad nerves if theyre going for an interview running interview or even just running around meet an around trying to meet an appointment get to work. Appointment or get to work. What even is bad nerves . And what even is bad nerves . And what even is bad nerves . Just a meaningless its just a meaningless phrase. We shouldnt be using this sort psychology. This sort of cod psychology. Using proper language. We are going to be and if we are going to be able to target help to people, which should do, we to which we should do, we need to understand what their conditions are. So anxiety, depression, of course, these are conditions that and have that are understood. And we have treatment therapy for them. Treatment and therapy for them. But get the treatment but lets get the treatment right. Its right. Lets make sure its focussed on right things. Focussed on the right things. Rachel in terms of the and rachel in terms of the financial implication of this, this report says the benefits bill is set to soar by tens of billions of pounds under the next government, and this is simply unaffordable if you already look at where the majority of the tax break the tax take goes, is the nhs, and then its benefits, its going to bankrupt the country. So surely if we have so many people on benefits , well, clearly it needs benefits, well, clearly it needs to be turned around and there is there is a plan, and a lot of there is a plan, and a lot of the things that are going on are good. I mean, the jobcentre there is a great example. What youll find there is, is programs to support people back into work, whatever their condition i think there condition is. But i think there is a sort of general concern that, that some of us have in that, that some of us have in that we are over medicalizing some things that are just part of life. I mean, the human condition is full of pain and suffering and difficult things , and a lot and difficult things, and a lot of these do lead to Mental Health conditions. But of these do lead to Mental Health conditions. But part of being alive and being human is deaung being alive and being human is dealing with with sadness and depression and very difficult situations that people find themselves in when ultimately we dont we cannot expect to be happy every minute of every day , happy every minute of every day, and, you know, thats just not the reality of life. And, you know, people used to turn to the church and to spiritual, well, solace to help them deal with that. Solace to help them deal with that. Unfortunately, that that. Unfortunately, that doesnt happen anymore. And a lot of people dont have that. So therefore theyre looking for the government to fix this thing. It cant be fixed. Being alive and the human condition , alive and the human condition, is not something that can be fixed by government benefits. So i think thats a slightly broader point. But i think in broader point. But i think in terms of yes. Is it is it a high, is it a high cost to the country . Yes it is. And if people are working very hard, that that those that group of people are working and paying their taxes into the system. Their taxes into the system. And so, rachel, i need to ask you a tough question and please try and answer as honestly as you can. Do you think a lot of people are gaming the system here . We talk about a bad back, in the in the past, that was a byword for we cant really prove it. I can say what i want, i can get signed off on the never, neveh get signed off on the never, never. Is that happening in this case . Think lot of case . Do you think a lot of people saying, well, mental people are saying, well, Mental Health, the thing to have health, thats the thing to have now to benefits and you now to get benefits and you cant prove otherwise. I want to be careful how so i want to be careful how i talk Mental Health, talk about Mental Health, martin, understand martin, and youll understand why. Really why. Because of course, i really am sympathetic with people am very sympathetic with people have genuine Mental Health difficulties. A difficulties. But its like a lot isnt it . Lot of these things, isnt it . Its that is very hard its something that is very hard to or disprove, it to prove or disprove, because it is something thats individual and personal to that individual, so look, not im definitely so look, im not im definitely not making a blanket comment that everybody. And itd be very , very wrong for anybody watching to take this from watching this to take this from my comments that everybody is, is genuine. But is not being genuine. But i think actually i have more problems with the system itself because you design a system because if you design a system where the word like bad nerves in, who would blame anyone in, then who would blame anyone for responding incentive . For responding to the incentive . Youve get the system youve got to get the system right in the first place and then target help and make then target the help and make sure that people are able to avail themselves that help , avail themselves of that help, but, and i think in but, you know, and i think in general , weve had but, you know, and i think in general, weve had a but, you know, and i think in general , weve had a situation general, weve had a situation where people have been encouraged to talk about their Mental Health, and is good Mental Health, and that is good up a point. But i would also up to a point. But i would also like see that going along like to see that going along with the recognition, that that actually full of, of actually life is full of, of pain and fear , you know, as many pain and fear, you know, as many of our playwrights and great works of art and literature remind us, life is hard , and remind us, life is hard, and bleak. And that doesnt necessarily mean youve got a Mental Health condition. Okay. Were going to have to leave it there. Thanks for your time and input. Always time and your input. Always a pleasure. Conservatives. Deputy chair thanks for chair rachel mclean, thanks for joining on the show. Now joining us on the show. Now labour draws up plans for a new uk eu defence body. But is labour draws up plans for a new uk eu defence body. But is this a ploy for the uk to rejoin the eu . More on that very soon. Im eu . More on that very soon. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, welcome back. Its 546. Were on the final furlong. Im Martin Daubney. This is gb news now. Daubney. This is gb news now. The labour party are drawing up plans for a uk eu defence scheme. Under the new guidelines, a body would be set up to oversee defence ties, including joint operations and acquisition of weapons. But is this a ploy by labour to get the eu back into europe via the cat flap . Well, europe via the cat flap . Well, joining us now is former labour special adviser paul richards. Paul special adviser paul richards. Paul, welcome to the show. Its always a pleasure to have you. So david lammy has been quite clear that he said the first thing he would do, if labour party get into power, is have talks with brussels to get them closer in terms of military alignment, is this the first move of many we can expect to see from the labour party . Is this sir keir starmer cosying up to brussels . To brussels . Well, if labour were to form a government in the next few weeks or months, then theyre going to inherit an incredibly volatile world. And today putin is having this landslide election and hell be there for another 4 or 5 years, theres war in ukraine and the world is a really unsafe place. So labour is going to have to put defence front and centre in a way that we havent had to do for an awfully long time, i dont think you should see this through the prism of, you know, closer or further away from brussels or, you know, through the prism of brexit. Its about securing our safety and our defence by any means necessary. And if that means closer collaboration in europe, so be it. Alongside our collaboration with the americans, because we have to defend ourselves. And have to defend ourselves. And the world is a really, really dangerous place right now. Yeah but we already have nato. We dont need to be cosying up to the european union. Perhaps a strong Prime Minister, sir keir starmer, could tell macron to cough up his gdp share to nato. Thats what donald trump has been saying. The answer isnt a closer alignment with france. Answer is with france. The answer is france pays its way in nato. Surely well, i think those two things are not, inconsistent. Things are not, inconsistent. You know, i think all the countries should be paying up their full whack to nato and taking their defence seriously. And the alliance has to be strong. But can do that as well but you can do that as well as working closely with the people are just across the people who are just across the channel you know, geographically, is where channel you know, geo key hically, is where channel you know, geo key allies, is where channel you know, geo key allies have is where channel you know, geo key allies have to where channel you know, geo key allies have to be. 3re channel you know, geo key allies have to be. And, our key allies have to be. And, places like, estonia are on the front line now, and we need to be close to anyone in that position. I mean, ive known john healey for about 30 years. Hes a man of incredible strength and integrity, and hes not going to play fast and loose with defence, so if that with our defence, and so if that means, you know, talking to our european neighbours and having stronger defence alliances with them, then great, you cant you cant let your distaste for europe to get in the way of britains defences. Surely. Martin. Surely. Martin. Okay, paul, while i have you here, could i ask you to comment on liz trusss comments earlier today . That the labour today . She said that the labour party filibustered she party filibustered a debate she was protect was trying to have to protect girls toilets in schools. Well, i think liz truss is a widely discredited backbencher and i dont think this is this private members bill had no hope of being a law any time soon. Anyway. I think she was just engaging in culture wars and not it wasnt really a very serious attempt to discuss issues attempt to discuss the issues around trans rights and womens safe spaces and all the things that we do need to talk about in a dispassionate way, and then she to blame the labour she wanted to blame the labour party well, you know, party for that. Well, you know, i think theres an election in the there . The air, isnt there . But she also said that privately, many labour mps have said agree with said to her that they agree with her but they dont her position, but they dont feel voice in case feel able to voice that in case they are chastised as being transphobic the labour transphobic by the labour party top brass. Again, if labour forms well, again, if labour forms a government, going a government, it is going to have series have to construct a series of laws and regulations that balance these different rights and that everyone and to make sure that everyone feels , whether theyre feels safe, whether theyre trans else. Trans or anything else. You know, is just and, you know, that is just one the jobs of government is one of the jobs of government is to the ring and make sure to hold the ring and make sure every citizen is guaranteed rights law. Its rights in law. But its not beyond to do as beyond our wit to do that, as long as do it in long as we do it in a dispassionate and lawyerly fashion, rather than getting a bit irritated, liz truss was bit irritated, as liz truss was doing today. Doing today. Okay. Thank you very much for joining us. Paul richards, former special adviser. Former labour special adviser. Always you always a pleasure. Thank you very promised, very much. Now as promised, i can bring you exclusive can bring you that exclusive interview valance. Interview with Holly Valance. The actress and singer was the first guest on gb news Political Editor christopher hopes brand new podcast. And heres what holly had to say about the time she spent with the man who could be the us president this Time Next Year. Next year. Trump. Trump. Yeah, what was it . Yeah, what was it . There was a photograph online of you meeting and nick of you meeting him. You and nick met whats it like . Unreal. Hes fabulous. So we were all in miami and, nick had said to nigel at some point, listen, if you go to mar a lago, count in. We want to meet the count us in. We want to meet the big and so. So, nigel was big guy. And so. So, nigel was going, and we all went together , going, and we all went together, and he was incredible. He gave us an hour of his time in the office. I couldnt believe how much time and, interest he gave us. He wanted to know all about where we were from, what we do all about nicks businesses. I just it was not what i was expecting. I thought maybe somebody a bit more brash, a bit more cocky and loud. And he was more cocky and loud. And he was extremely warm, extremely gentlemanly and very interested in everything that was going on in everything that was going on in the uk, asking us all about politics. It was great to have nigel there. Him and nigel are fantastic friends. I nigel there. Him and nigel are fantastic friends. I think thats really important for us as well Going Forward into the next election in america that we have these friendships. Have these friendships. And nigel, for, uk ambassador to america, i think hed be a fantastic ambassador. Itd be great. Yeah trump was well, he wasnt the ogre who was painted by his critics. I mean, also, he has said some pretty general remarks about women to that put you off or do you raise it with him, harden up. People say nasty things all day. Had Disgusting Things day. Ive had Disgusting Things said absolutely said to me. Absolutely disgusting that would Disgusting Things that would floor you if i said them out loud on this microphone right now where you have to call police, did i cry . No so toughen up. So toughen up. Well, as my friend , my friend well, as my friend, my friend put it to me the other day , if put it to me the other day, if youre hiring an attorney, do youre hiring an attorney, do you want the nice guy that smiles nicely and is polite to everyone . Or do you want the pitbull . And ultimately the attorney is him. Hes your attorney. You want the guy thats going to go and fight for you, for america. You, for america. You mean . You mean . Yeah. Yeah. Verbal stage and yeah. Verbal stage and yeah. So because dont so just because you dont like disposition like someones disposition all the i actually dont the time and i actually dont mind just as like straight mind it, just as i like straight shooters dont talk, i dont shooters who dont talk, i dont have a problem with it. Have a problem with it. Well, that certainly was straight talking. And you can listen to choppers political podcast every friday on apple, spotify or wherever you normally get your podcasts. Or you can get your podcasts. Or you can watch it in full on be news. Com. Now, ive got a few emails to read out before the end of the show and on the topic in particular of single sex toilets has really got you going. Noel says this all the parents should take their children out of these schools and refuse to go back until the situation is sorted out. Martin aziz im appalled at this move by labour. Disgraceful. I know my granddaughter and her friends are disgusted at having to use toilets with boys. She is having her period and is so upset at having to share these toilets. She tries not to go to school at those times. I just find that heartbreaking that girls will want to skip school because theyre too afraid to use toilets during that time. I just find that heartbreaking. Sally find that heartbreaking. Sally as this absolutely disgusting that this wont be allowed to be debated in parliament. Its affecting children when it means some girls wont even drink water, so they dont have to go to the toilet because the boys might go in there and harass them. Yeah what an emotional topic, you know. Thank you so much for getting in touch this week. Its been a fantastic week week. Its been a fantastic week after me. Its dewbs co of course, 6 to 7 pm, but first of all, its time for your weather with alex birchall. Thank you very much for joining with alex birchall. Thank you very much forjoining me with alex birchall. Thank you very much for joining me this week. Ill see you monday 3 to 6. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello again. Im here with your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. Todays showers are largely going to ease as we go through later today, taking us into a bit of a chilly night because the low Pressure Centre that has brought some blustery and weather is and showery weather today is clearing towards the clearing away towards the northeast, a bit of a ridge northeast, with a bit of a ridge of high building from northeast, with a bit of a ridge of iwest. Building from northeast, with a bit of a ridge of iwest. There lding from northeast, with a bit of a ridge of iwest. There will| from northeast, with a bit of a ridge of iwest. There will stilln the west. Yes, there will still be showers we go through be some showers as we go through the of the afternoon, the end of the afternoon, particularly eastern the end of the afternoon, particlbut. Y eastern the end of the afternoon, particlbut turning eastern the end of the afternoon, particlbut turning drierarn the end of the afternoon, particlbut turning drier and parts, but turning drier and clearer from the west with clearer from the west and with clearer from the west and with clear skies and a bit of a northerly wind, were likely to see our temperatures dropping tonight. It will be chillier than has through some than it has been through some recent could dip just a recent nights could dip just a bit below freezing across northern parts. Touch frost northern parts. A touch of frost possible be possible elsewhere. There may be a pockets mist and fog. A few pockets of mist and fog. Otherwise, though, saturday gets off start for many off to a fine start for many areas and across the north and east, were going to hold on to the sunny through the blue sunny skies through much day, but in the much of the day, but in the south and west. Here it will turn increasingly cloudy and there some wet weather there will be some wet weather at with something at times too, with something a bit persistent heavy bit more persistent and heavy rain pushing into northern rain wise pushing into Northern Ireland. Temperatures will ireland. Later temperatures will be lifting as we go through the day, so a chilly start we day, so after a chilly start we should quite in should see highs quite widely in the mid teens celsius. The low to mid teens celsius. Wet weather then pushes its way through we go through through as we go through saturday into sunday, saturday night into sunday, clearing towards east. Clearing away towards the east. And itself actually and so sunday itself actually looks largely dry for many places, with a scattering places, albeit with a scattering of. And therell be some of showers. And therell be some strong monday should strong winds too. Monday should be dry. Just a few be mostly dry. Just a few showers to watch out for before some rain arrives on some more rain arrives on tuesday. Thats me. Ill tuesday. Thats it for me. Ill see you later. See you later. That warm feeling inside from boxt , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on and then my boss got wind of it and told me to get my backside into the office. So here i am. Guess what though . I might join forces with the Civil Servants that are now preparing for strike action. Why . Well, because brace yourself, everybody. Theyve been asked to return the office a massive return to the office a massive two days per week. So im asking you, is this work from home culture a help or a hindrance . Your thoughts and its all going on politically again today. I think. Now on politically again today. I think. Now were on to our 62nd tory mp, who says that theyre not going to stand at the next election. Weve got rumours of more confidence letters in more no confidence letters in rishi being submitted. And rishi sunak being submitted. And meanwhile a brood chickens meanwhile a brood of chickens have at downing street have rocked up at downing street to sunak for not calling an to mock sunak for not calling an election. Yeah, you heard all that your thoughts on it, that right. Your thoughts on it, please. By way, its no please. And by the way, its no better of the border better north of the border because from next month in scotland, youll to drop scotland, youll be able to drop into shop an into a sex shop to make an anonymous accusation hate anonymous accusation of hate crime against someone. Basically, dislike , and basically, dislike, and potentially the accused basically, dislike, and potentiup. The accused basically, dislike, and potentiup. I the accused basically, dislike, and potentiup. I speak, accused basically, dislike, and potentiup. I speak, ofcused basically, dislike, and potentiup. I speak, of course , locked up. I speak, of course, of the new hate crime and public order act. On earth is order act. What on earth is going with politics in our