he s good at maths. yeah, they are. they are now coming down. laughter. they are now coming down. 7.2 when you said you d get them down 7.2 million they re now 7.5 million. i d like you to explain how they re coming down. because they are coming down from where they were when they were higher. 7~2~~~ laughter. and they re now on their way down. laughter and applause. they are down, right? yes, because the nhs was impacted by industrial action. 0h! groaning. and if it wasn t for that, half a million appointments would have been saved. so it s somebody else s fault. so this is the picture with waiting lists in england. you can see they go up quite significantly after the pandemic reaching 7.8 million waits a few months ago. now, as you can also see at the end, it goes down a wee bit, but the levels are higher than when rishi sunak took over as prime minister. he says that s down to strikes, and it s true to say they had an impact. but this is where you get the claim both that wai
they re now 7.5 million, he says they re coming down and this is the guy who says he s good at maths. yeah, they are. they are now coming down laughter. they are now coming down 7.2 when you said you d get them down 7.2 million they re now 7.5 million. i d like you to explain how they re coming down. because they were coming down from where they were when they were higher. 7.2. laughter. and they re now on their way down laughter and applause. they are down, right? yes, because the nhs was impacted by industrial action. 0h! groaning. and if it wasn t for that, half a million appointments would have been saved. so it s somebody else s fault. so this is the picture with waiting lists in england. you can see they go up quite significantly after the pandemic reaching 7.8 million waits a few months ago. now, as you can also see at the end, it goes down a wee bit, but the levels are higher than when rishi sunak took over as prime minister. he says that s down to strikes, and it s tru
and he says they are coming down. and this is a guy who says he s good at maths. yeah, they are now coming down. they are now coming down. 7.2, when you said would get them down, 7.2 million, they are now 7.5 million. i d like you to explain how they are coming down. because they are coming down from where they were when they were higher. and they are now on their way down. laughter so who is right on that. here s verify s ben chu who has been looking at the numbers. in effect, the prime minister and keir starmer were both right. we ve got a verified chart to walk you through it. this is nhs waiting times in england, which is the target they are talking about. you can see here, it did peak last september at about 2.8 million, and it has come down. sorry, 7.8 million down to 7.5 million now. so, the prime minister is right that waiting lists have come down, but this is what keir starmer was talking about. he was talking about when rishi sunak made his pledge to get waiting lists down, w
equation? john: congressman, we don t have a total updating number you said 10 million people illegally, 7.8 million came illegally in the last 3.5 years and you combine that with people who are already here we are well above 10 million. thank you, congressman for hanging with us we appreciated. sandra: thank you. thank you john and sandra. john: let s bring bill melugin life from the border did you hear anything, bill, that gives you any confidence that the daily traffic of illegal migration that you have seen since you started on this beat three and a half years ago is going to obey to any degree? john, real quick one thing that jumped out to me in the statement you just made is it seems like it was one of the first times he acknowledge the american people as a whole are really starting to sour on his handling of the border. he said hey, to anybody out there who disagrees with the order and putting in place today, be patient.
but we are now making progress. the waiting lists are coming down. but what keir starmer didn t mention to you, which you did, julie. waiting lists were at 7.2 million. they re now 7.5 million. he says they re coming down and this guy says he s good at maths. yeah, they are. they are now coming down. 7.2. when you said you get them down at 7.2 million, they are 7.5 million. i d like you to explain how they re coming down, because they were coming down from where they were when they were higher and they re now on the way down. they are down, right? you can actually see where they re both coming from here. this is the picture when it comes to waiting lists just for england, by the way. you can see they go up quite significantly after the pandemic. they reached 7.8 million. you can see it s come down a bit here, but the levels now are higher than they were when rishi sunak took over as prime minister. he says that a lot of this is down