Miss it. Lots to get through, folks. But first, the news with Karen Armstrong. Karen armstrong. Very good evening to you. It very good evening to you. It is a minute past nine here in the gb news room. The libyan coast guard has been accused of deliberately ramming and sinking a migrant boat in the mediterranean , leaving dozens of mediterranean, leaving dozens of people and some of people in the water and some of them are still missing. Mayday, mayday, mayday , mayday, mayday, mayday, mayday, relay, mayday , relay, mayday, relay, mayday, relay, mayday, relay, mayday, relay, mayday, relay. People in the water. This dramatic footage gb news has acquired was taken by the sea watch ngo. It was off the sea watch ngo. It was off the coast of benghazi in the west of libya. It shows a large migrant inflatable boat beginning to sink. The libyan coast guard is sink. The libyan coast guard is close by one large vessel and a rigid inflatable two dozens of people. You can see them in the water. Theyre using inner tubes as makeshift lifejackets and we have a statement from the sea watch spokesperson who said this. The so called coast this. The so called libyan coast guard the guard rammed and caused the sinking a dinghy overloaded sinking of a dinghy overloaded with least 50 people. Some of with at least 50 people. Some of them certainly captured and them were certainly captured and deported libya. The survivors deported to libya. The survivors cannot be found. More on this story as soon as we get it. The policeman who killed an unarmed man during a foiled prisoner escape more than seven years ago must face disciplinary proceedings. Jermaine baker died dunng proceedings. Jermaine baker died during a met Police Operation that thwarted a plot to free two prisoners being taken to court in 20 1718. He was unarmed. Prosecutors decided that the officer shouldnt Face Criminal Charges , as in 2017. But now the charges, as in 2017. But now the iopc, an independent police watchdog, has told Scotland Yard he must face gross misconduct proceedings. The met, though, says its reviewing the decision. Theres some more breaking news. The teenage girl who died after a school coach crashed on the m53 motonnay in the wirral on friday has been named as jessica baker, a coach driver also died when the bus overturned. Pupils were on their overturned. Pupils were on their way to colleagues range and west kirby grammar schools earlier today. The bus was carrying 54 people when it collided with a car and struck a central reservation. Ten children were reservation. Ten children were taken to hospital , two of them taken to hospital, two of them with serious injuries. A 17 year with serious injuries. A 17 year old boy charged with the murder of a 15 Year Old Girl has been reprimanded in custody after appearing in court. Elianne andam was stabbed to death in croydon on wednesday when she was on her way to school. The teenager, who cant be for teenager, who cant be named for legal reasons , also legal reasons, has also been charged possessing a knife charged with possessing a knife. Second person has been arrested in connection with the felling of a famous Sycamore Tree next to hadrians wall. The tree next to hadrians wall. The tree next to hadrians wall. The tree in northumberland was cut down on thursday in what Police Believe was a deliberate act of vandalism. A man in his 60s has vandalism. A man in his 60s has now been detained , along with now been detained, along with a 16 year old who was arrested 16 year old boy who was arrested yesterday. The sycamore gap tree yesterday. The sycamore gap tree featured in the 1991 film robin hood, prince of thieves. A man hood, prince of thieves. A man has been charged in las vegas with the murder of the rapper tupac shakur. The 25 year old was killed. What in 1996, from 27 years ago, in a drive by shooting in las vegas. Well, a shooting in las vegas. Well, a grand jury in nevada has indicted the 60 year old dwayne cepheidae davis on a charge of murder with use of a deadly weapon. Davis has long been weapon. Davis has long been known to investigators and previously admitted in interviews he was in the cadillac when the shots were fired. And rail passengers are fired. And rail passengers are facing a week of travel chaos as a result of fresh strikes and overtime bans. There will be almost no services in england tomorrow and also on wednesday, as members of the aslef , a union as members of the aslef, a union at 16, Train Companies target the beginning and the end of the tory Party Conference. Wales and scotland will also be affected. Scotland will also be affected. Passengers have already faced disruption today because of an eight day overtime ban that began earlier and much of the London Underground will be closed next wednesday and friday in a separate strike by the rmt. This is gb news on tv, on digital radio, and on your smart speaken digital radio, and on your smart speaker, too. Ill be back with more a little later. Now its over to. Mark over to. Mark my thanks to Aaron Armstrong. Welcome to mark dolan tonight, in my big opinion , unexpectedly in my big opinion, unexpectedly good news for the country. Find good news for the country. Find out more shortly. And let me tell you, it will annoy all of the right people in the big story following outrage after her speech in america are her bold speech in america are Suella Braverman critics out of touch with the publics views on immigration . Ill be speaking to the politics professor who says the politics professor who says the liberal elite need a reality check. The liberal elite need a reality check. My mark meets guest is check. My mark meets guest is a true showbiz legend star of stage and screen, including those classic carry on films anita harris in my take a ten with a new set of rules giving us their highest paid stars. Us their highest paid stars. Freedom to be political , the bbc freedom to be political, the bbc have given up any pretence of being impartial. The only winner is saint gary lineker. Plus in the newsmaker, will the establishment close down . Gb news. Ill be speaking to a top fleet street insider in just a few minutes from now. Weve got few minutes from now. Weve got tomorrows front pages at 1030 with three top pundits who havent been told what to say and who dont follow the script tonight. Gb and who dont follow the script tonight. Gb news and who dont follow the script tonight. Gb news presenter and who dont follow the script tonight. Gb news presenter Albie Amankona iona, a brand new star on mark dolan tonight former labour special adviser Paul Richards and a very good friend of mine, author and journalist emma wolf. Of mine, author and journalist emma wolf. Tonight ill be asking the pundits will ending the war on motorists a win rishi sunak the next election as waiting lists grow for obese patients, are we letting down fat britain and our attractive people more trustworthy . I people more trustworthy . I wouldnt know. Plus, the most wouldnt know. Plus, the most important part of the show , your important part of the show, your emails, they come straight to my laptop. Mark at gbnews. Com. And let me tell you folks, this show has a golden rule. We dont do boring. Not on my watch. I just wont have it. Also its friday night. So you want big debate. Night. So you want big debate. You want big stories, you want big guests , but you want a bit big guests, but you want a bit of a laugh as well and a bit of fun. Of course you do. Its 9 00. Lets hope youve cracked open beer. Maybe open a bottle of beer. Maybe youve fired up the kettle. Maybe youve opened those custard whatever it custard creams. But whatever it is, have two hours of fun is, lets have two hours of fun and let me tell you that at 10 00 on the hour , ill be 10 00 on the hour, ill be making a special statement about gb news at ten. Oh, you wont want to miss it. So lots to get through, but we start with my big opinion. Thoughts and big opinion. Thoughts and prayers for those whose full time job is to talk the country down. The uk economy has performed better than france and germany since the pandemic, according to revised data released data. Dont these people get anything right . Statistician jones now believe that the british economy is 1. 8 larger than before covid struck. This according to the office for national statistics. This France National statistics. This france is believed to have grown by just 1. 7 since covid and germany , 0. 2 wait. So our germany, 0. 2 wait. So our economy has grown more than france and germany and we had brexit. But i thought brexit was really bad and we were the sick man of europe, germany and the eurozone are now in recession. Im so confused. What is going im so confused. What is going on . Well, as usual, hard data, reality and the facts have this annoying habit of contradicting the prescribed political narrative, which is that leaving the European Union has been a catastrophe and we should get back in as soon as possible. Well, although lets not forget, there are a few arguments in favour of remain. Favour of remain. If the other countries seem to have recovered a lot better from it than we have germany is in recession, though, and were not. So how is that true . So how is that true . So how is that true . Im not an economist. Im not an economist. What else do you miss about the, urn. Oh no. The, urn. Oh no. Oh, no. I like the comedy gold on a friday night, day after day, week after week , after day, week after week, month after month. Month after month. Those who seize on any bad news for the country and who are now motivate for us to fail are being proved wrong. Time and time again. There are plenty of remainers like myself who accepted the result of brexit immediately and who are now happy to not just acknowledge the fact that britain is blossoming outside of the bloc, but are happy to celebrate it. If you look at the Economic Performance of the country , it performance of the country, it would appear i made a would appear that i made a terrible mistake. Voting remain and im almost inclined to apologise to everyone, but i think weve had a few too many apologies on the channel this week. We have the aukus defence deal with america and australia , a trade deal on the way with india and a market of a billion people. The city of london is planning reforms that could deliver a £200 billion boost to the economy. Were members of the economy. Were members of the economy. Were members of the cpp ipp, which i thought was a cough mixture but which is a trading bloc with some of the Fastest Growing economies in the world and which represents a bigger market eight than the whole of the eu. Were growing whole of the eu. Were growing more outside of the bloc than those Member States currently in it. Whisper it folks. Brexit is it. Whisper it folks. Brexit is working. Eu wouldnt believe it your reaction mark at gbnews. Com mark dolan tonight is the home of diverse opinions, so get your thoughts over to me whether you agree or disagree, ill get to your email shortly. But tonights top pundits gb news presenter albion ancona, a brand new star to mark dolan tonight former labour special adviser Paul Richards and author and journalist emma wolf. Well, there you go, paul. Welcome to there you go, paul. Welcome to the show. Hello. Thank you. Were going to have a roller coaster ride. Looking fonnard to your input this. Look your your input on this. Look the data doesnt lie. Brexits working. My question would be to anyone watching this and gb news viewers out there, do you feel better off than you did a few years ago . Do you feel more prosperous, more secure, feel . Is very irrational word, feel is very irrational word, isnt it . Im talking about the numbers here. Know what their gas people know what their gas bill they know how much it bill is. They know how much it takes a they takes to fill a car. They know that their have flatlined that their wages have flatlined. Mortgage. They know that their mortgage has. Has gone up. And thats happening in and thats only happening in britain. European britain. No other european countries, care countries, well, we dont care what the other. What happens in the other. Its about isnt it . Its only about us, isnt it . The point is, know, the whole point is, you know, i cant compare well being and cant compare my well being and income with some bloke in germany and think, oh, well, thats okay. I have to buy thats okay. Then i have to buy things this country. Have things in this country. I have to here. So the to pay for things here. So the numbers are youre arguing about less of some of less than 1 of some of some of these gdp. These gdp. It is marginal. It is marginal. It is marginal, but the point is people feel better off is people do not feel better off after they feel worse after brexit. They feel worse off. The reality. You off. And thats the reality. You talked about reality , but you talked about reality, but you cant have a sentence. Thats about how people feel. And reality. These are the and then reality. These are the numbers were if we left numbers we were told if we left the European Union, there would be the pound. The be a run on the pound. The economy crash and wed be economy would crash and wed be the of it the poor man of europe. It hasnt happened. Is hasnt happened. Germany is in recession. In recession. The eurozone is in recession. The eurozone is in recession. And look at that growth germany had. Is growth germany have had. What is it, 0. 0 or 0. 2 versus ours . Almost 2. This is the this is the narcissism of small differences, isnt it . Frankly . I mean , you isnt it . Frankly . I mean, you know, if you look at your gas bill, its an order of magnitude more the german economy. If more than the german economy. If you mortgage, are you look at your mortgage, are you look at your mortgage, are you that were you seriously saying that were better were two better off than we were two years somehow the years ago, that somehow the economy is growing . And if economy is growing . And even if it growing its not it is growing slightly, its not being distributed it is growing slightly, its not being whole uted it is growing slightly, its not being whole ute|is it through the whole uk, is it about to cancel hs2 . It would seem that sections of the seem that whole sections of the uk being cut off from any uk are being cut off from any potential growth. Paul right okay. Emma wolf is paul right to chips . To piss on the chips . I wouldnt use such language and i. I certainly wouldnt use such language. And i hate to disagree with paul, but i have to say youre absolutely right. This is exactly , exactly my this is exactly, exactly my reaction every time you quote me these growth statistics, gdp, economic data, people are not feeling it. They are not feeling it in their wallets, mark. They are not feeling it in their wage packets. They are not feeling it in their mortgage and rent costs. They are not feeling it on the supermarket shelves. Feel it more. Were in. If we were in. If we were in. Inflation is off the scale and i dont disagree with that. And is you know, it doesnt and this is you know, it doesnt matter. But they would feel it more in recession, more if we were in recession, which we are not. And germany are. And germany are. Would feel more if we they would feel it more if we were in recession. Therefore, its that are its okay that people are struggling were struggling and that were heading winter that the heading into winter and that the nhs its knees and this nhs is on its knees and this country falling that country is falling apart, that people struggling. People arent struggling. That these what im saying is that these statistics kill narrative statistics kill the narrative that has disaster for. I dont think brexit was a disaster , but i think way disaster, but i think the way that has the opportunities that it has the opportunities have mismanaged and have been mismanaged and mishandled wasted , not that mishandled and wasted, not that badly mismanaged. Our economy has grown more in the last two years than germany and france. Think paul and emma i think that paul and emma have made some reasonable points i what im actually more concerned about and interested in is how all of these forecasters, whether it was the ons, whether or not there was a lot of the economists ons, whether or not there was a lot of the economist s were saying the economy was going to be in recession or growth be in recession or the growth was be as high. And was not going to be as high. And all of those estimates were totally wrong. These totally wrong. It was these estimates to led liz estimates which to led liz trusss not working very trusss budget not working very well people saying well because people were saying that going to have that we werent going to have enough pay for tax enough money to pay for the tax cuts that wanted to cuts that she wanted to implement. Estimates implement. Its these estimates which our spending which all of our spending predictions so predictions are based upon. So why that forecasters , why is it that the forecasters, time after time underplay the growth of the british economy . Yes, people might not be feeling it in their pockets, but the simple fact of the matter is those what the those numbers are what the economic budgetary forecasts are made upon. So and if we were and if the forecasts were correct, then perhaps the government, the perhaps the government can make different spending so perhaps the government can make diffnnumbers1ding so perhaps the government can make diffnnumbers and] so perhaps the government can make diffnnumbers and the so perhaps the government can make diffnnumbers and the forecasts m atter. People know. But people dont know. But people dont know. I said. And thats not what i said. And what i said was what i said was, is that the numbers , the way is that the numbers, the way that they have been forecast has been wrong. And the been has been wrong. And the forecasts that are made decide that the spending commitments that the spending commitments that the spending commitments that the government can make. But liz truss and business that the government can make. But also russ and business that the government can make. But also business business that the government can make. But also Business Sentimentzss that the government can make. But also Business Sentiment as and also Business Sentiment