And this week the labour leader keir starmer raised him in Prime Ministers questions, demanding to know whether he would rejoin the Conservative Party whilst Behind The Scenes worried tory mps discuss whether he might return to the front line leading the reform party. Nigel farage, welcome back to political thinking. Thank you. You are back where you like being, arent you . The centre of attention. Well, ive always been a bit of a show off. I mean, there is some truth in that. Yeah, its a funny thing, but i think Current Affairs, politics and Current Affairs in the uk today has such a dearth of personalities that i find myself at the centre of debates, whether im trying to or not, i sort of get dragged into things. There are some people listening to the radio or watching the telly now who are saying, why on earth are they talking to nigel farage . Hes not a party leader. Youve not been elected to anything for a very, very long time. Well, thats not quite true, actually. Who cares what
Is indeed. We are hearing from the i must run Health Ministry that they were more than 80 People Killed overnight in the gaza strip, most of those actually apparently waiting for aid in gaza city when witnesses there say that there was shelling by israeli tanks. And still an unclear picture about what has happened there. But overall, now this really grim milestone has been passed. The Health Ministry in gaza is really the only official source of data that we have four casualty numbers. And it is the one that is relied on for the un and others and is saying that the majority of those who have been killed are women and children since the 7th of october. And also more than 70,000 people have been injured as well. These figures rely on bodies being brought in to hospitals or seen by medical workers so they can be properly registered. But actually it is thought that the real death toll is going to be much higher than this because there are several thousand people who are still considered as
Return to the front line leading the reform party. Nigel farage, welcome back to political thinking. Thank you. You are back where you like being, arent you . The centre of attention. Well, ive always been a bit of a show off. I mean, there is some truth in that. Yeah, its a funny thing, but i think Current Affairs, politics and Current Affairs in the uk today has such a dearth of personalities that i find myself at the centre of debates, whether im trying to or not, i sort of get dragged into things. There are some people listening to the radio or watching the telly now who were saying, why on earth are they talking to nigel farage . Hes not a party leader. Youve not been elected to anything for a very, very long time. Well, thats not quite true, actually. Who cares what he thinks . Well, thats not quite true, actually, is it . Because in may of 2019, you know, i led a party that was been alive forjust less than six weeks, that won an election, a european election, so dramatic that it
Exactly, bbc one taken over for three hours. The only thing we would ever have in common withjoe rogan. Serious subject first. We have an inquiry out today, or the first part of an inquiry, that was looking at how Wayne Couzens, the serving metropolitan Police Officer who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 in london, could ever have been a metropolitan Police Officer. What was it like for you, as somebody who has got political oversight of that force, reading that report . Because in every single page there was something really bad that had gone wrong over decades . Can i begin the conversation by speaking about sarah, Sarah Everard and her family, her parents and her siblings . It is important to remember her in the context of this conversation. I remember vividly the days after sarah disappeared because i live not far from where sarah disappeared from, and it was during the pandemic and my wife and daughters would go regularly for walks in and around that area. So it brings it all back,
is accused of shooting dead eight children and a security guard at a school. as rehearsals continue for the coronation, police warn of swift action against any protestors on the big day. erling haaland, looking for this record here. he s done it. and erling haaland breaks the record for most premier league goals in a season as manchester city return to the top of the table. on newsnight at 10.30pm: did ukraine fly the drones at the kremlin that humiliated russia, and what will putin do next? and how a brand of beer has become the latest target in the us culture wars. good evening, russia has accused ukraine of trying to kill president putin by launching two drone strikes on the kremlin. unverified footage on social media appears to show an object flying over the kremlin before a small explosion. ukraine says it had nothing to do with it. russian officials say they disabled the drones and have described it as a terrorist assassination attempt. our russia editor, steve rosenber