Are you an extremist . Next. Are you an extremist . Next. Im Polly Middlehurst and the top story in the gb newsroom tonight i at 9 01, Birmingham City council has approved a wave of budget cuts that have been described as a devastating double whammy of tax cuts and fewer public services. The fewer public services. The labour Led Authority is planning a 21 increase in council tax over two years, and £300 million worth of cuts to public services. Council leader john cotton, unrwa , vividly apologised to the unrwa, vividly apologised to the citys residents , blaming tory citys residents, blaming tory austero , 80, birminghams austero, 80, birminghams conservative leader, said though the cuts will mean streets arent clean and broken, street lights arent repaired and jeremy hunt is expected to ask councils to cut wasteful spending on equality and diversity programmes as he announces britains budget tomorrow. Its being suggested tomorrow. Its being suggested he could announce a £0. 02 in the pound cut to National Insurance contributions. Hes aiming to put the uks economy and rishi sunaks popularity back on the road to recovery. Thats despite road to recovery. Thats despite the fiscal watchdog suggesting the fiscal watchdog suggesting the governments little scope for tax cuts. And, as youve for tax cuts. And, as youve been hearing, Suella Braverman has told gb news she doesnt believe the former tory mp lee anderson is islamophobic. Todays exclusive interview with the former home secretary comes after mr anderson claimed islamists had got control of the london mayor. He is not racist, he is not islamophobic. Hes calling out very poor performance by the mayor of london, who is completely failed to hold the met commissioner to account, and which is why weve seen emboldened islamism in the streets of london. Weve seen an mp hounded out of office because of islamism. Of islamism. Meanwhile, gb news understands that the policing of a pro palestinian protest in london for this weekend remains unchanged. Officers will reportedly use existing public order and anti terror laws, but its after rishi sunak called on the police to crack down on extremist behaviour. A extremist behaviour. A government minister has paid damages to an academic after suggesting she supported hamas , suggesting she supported hamas, but the cost of that payment is covered by taxpayers. The science secretary, michelle donelan, has now retracted her comments about professor kate sang after a government investigation found the allegations were baseless. And allegations were baseless. And finally thousands of staff at greggs are to get, shall we say, a slice of the profits. More than £17 million in bonuses. Evidently, its after the high street bakery saw profits rise by 27 in the last year, so staff can expect to see their extra dough in their pay packets at the end of this month to recognise their hard work, and its all the icing on the cake for the workers, who already get a share of the profits each year for the very latest news stories, do sign up for gp news alerts. Scan the qr code on your screen to gb news. Common screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Welcome along a message alerts. Welcome along a message to the Prime Ministerjust boots out the jihadis. Its not hard. France are doing it. Theyve just kicked out a hate cleric called mahjoub. Mahjoub for saying that the french flag was satanic and stirring up hatred against women and jews. 15 Police Officers and jews. 15 Police Officers turned up at his house and eight hours later he was on a plane back to tunisia. Despite living in since the 1980s, bish in france since the 1980s, bish bash bosh i he then said this bash boshi he then said this would never have happened in britain. Were you damn right it wouldnt. In britain hed be outside parliament every saturday a megaphone. Last saturday with a megaphone. Last friday, rishi sunak stood outside downing street and said ineed outside downing street and said i need to speak to you all this evening because this situation has long enough. He also has gone on long enough. He also said this to the police. Said this to the police. We will back you when you take action, but if we are asking more of the police, we in government must also back up that call with action. In response , the met police in response, the met police just ignored it and said theyd carry on doing what theyre doing, which is not a lot. But were he not, rishi sunak has told michael gove to come up with a new definition of extremism. It will come as tremendous comfort to jews and able walk freely. That able to walk around freely. That able to walk around freely. That a new definition of extremism is on the way. The victims of the Manchester Arena bombing will sleep easy now. A new definition of extremist is on the way. Heres the mad thing because we now live in a society where a politician cannot possibly just single out islamist extremism, we now end up with guff like this. The new definition of extremism is, quote, the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on intolerance, hatred or violence that aims to undermine the rights or freedoms of others. It will include those who seek to undermine or overturn the uks liberal system of democracy and democratic rights , and any groups or rights, and any groups or individuals who intentionally create a permissive environment for extremism would be banned from working with government bodies. Yes you heard that last one correctly. It turns out that taxpayers have been giving money to key figures in organisations funded by our Counter Terror programme , prevent, who are programme, prevent, who are alleged to have supported the taliban , defended militant taliban, defended militant Islamist Groups banned in the uk and hosted hate preachers. But there is another problem with this new definition of extremism. The fact is that it might now make you an extremist. Do you believe in women only changing rooms . Youre an changing rooms . Youre an extremist. Are you pro life . Extremist right . Are you a member of a concerned religious group . Extremist right. There is going to be a new government unit, another layer of taxpayer funded bureaucracy by the way, to determine whether individuals or groups have met the above criteria. Theyre also drawing criteria. Theyre also drawing up a list of foreign hate preachers who will be banned from entering the uk. Great from entering the uk. Great apart from that, does absolutely nothing to change the fact that we cant deport the ones who are already here. If they came already here. And if they came across a small boat, theyd across on a small boat, theyd just anyway. So in just get to stay anyway. So in summary , the police are ignoring summary, the police are ignoring our Prime Minister, our Prime Minister is admitting that the taxpayer has been funding radical extremists for years , as radical extremists for years, as the solution to that is to turn ordinary people into extremists. Ordinary people into extremists. Conceivably, 85 year old marjorie from number 42, who doesnt believe in gay marriage, is now in the same bracket as a hook handed al qaeda cleric and were not actually deporting anyone , rearranging, decking the anyone, rearranging, decking the titanic. But lets get the thoughts of my panel now. It is gb news presenter nana akua. Im also joined, of course, by conservative stoke on trent nonh conservative stoke on trent north mp Jonathan Gullis, an author and broadcaster. Amy nickell , neil turner , jonathan, nickell, neil turner, jonathan, ill start with you. I mean , ill start with you. I mean, seriously, can we not just deport the jihadis and be done with it . I mean, thats the real issue, isnt it . Well, i never thought id say this, patrick, but its time to be like the french, which be more like the french, which is that should all is something that we should all terrify weve got to terrify us, that weve got to that point. But you were bang on the money that whilst im perfectly happy see full perfectly happy to see the full detail and it and engage detail and review it and engage with Prime Minister with the Prime Minister regarding a new definition, ultimately in ultimately we have already in place you cant place laws that say you cant incite or hatred, you incite violence or hatred, you cant discriminate. We have the human equality human rights act, the equality act regard. Obviously, human rights act, the equality act cant regard. Obviously, human rights act, the equality act cant also ard. Obviously, human rights act, the equality act cant also have bviously, human rights act, the equality act cant also have the usly, human rights act, the equality act cant also have the terror you cant also have the terror act. So for those inciting terrorism, and we have the ability prescribe, we ability to prescribe, as we already ut tahrir already saw with hizb ut tahrir very added to very recently being added to that for me, its that list. So for me, its actually about looking at what laws already have and laws we already have and ensuring are enforced ensuring that they are enforced and that chief and making sure that chief constables clearly told and constables are clearly told and police crime commissioners, there consequences to there will be consequences to actions being taken on the actions not being taken on the front line because its not the bobbies on the beat. Theyre the ones who want to impose it. Its the managers in their cushy offices all offices who are all too seemingly happy pander to the seemingly happy to pander to the twitterati, which is the last thing us do. Thing any of us should do. Mean, no, no, we do yeah. I mean, no, no, we do already have laws here like being a jihadi. Well yeah, exactly. The problem to me, the problem is, to me, theyre just trying to make themselves busy. So they themselves look busy. So they want us to want to feel they want us to feel that theyre actually doing something theyre something about it, but theyre just around the edges just tinkering around the edges because laws projecting, for example, you know, horrible slogans i think, slogans on big ben is i think, the act of people who are being extremist. But they werent tackled at all. Also, i think when you start changing definitions, all youre doing is youre changing where whos determining what is extreme because, for example , to me, because, for example, to me, a man cannot be a woman, a woman cannot be a man. Youve gone from one extreme of a man to a woman, which is another. That to me is an extreme thought that you believe is true. Yet me is an extreme thought that you ielieve is true. Yet me is an extreme thought that you i wille is true. Yet me is an extreme thought that you i will be is true. Yet me is an extreme thought that you i will be seen true. Yet me is an extreme thought that you i will be seen asre. Yet me is an extreme thought that you i will be seen as the et me is an extreme thought that you i will be seen as the gender me, i will be seen as the gender critical one. Yet i am. I am telling the truth and then theres final thing theres the final thing that when start changing when you do start changing definitions, it starts to encompass so for encompass other things. So for example couple of years example, about a couple of years ago, changed the definition ago, they changed the definition of woman to include men who identify which identify as women, which means now a man who now it legitimises a man who says hes woman in a female says hes a woman in a female only space. I was to only space. If i was to complain, then im the extremist. I think these are extremist. And i think these are the issues. Its not necessary. We have the laws in place. Theyre tinkering theyre just tinkering around the look busy. Yeah, the edges to look busy. Yeah, im going to pick that im going to pick up on that because is just about because i think it is just about looking busy, isnt it . Do already have these we do already have these laws. Absolutely no laws. There is absolutely no need we can see need whatsoever. We can see things going on right now before our need rishi our eyes. We do not need rishi sunak up with sunak to come up with a framework here. We and i agree with i think that with you actually, i think that this just because theyve this is just because theyve seen the, the palestine marches over the weekends and theyre panicking. Theyre panicking about what to do it. So they think a to do about it. So they think a broader thing, this definition, we down more easily on we can clamp down more easily on people very people with actually very acceptable not extreme beliefs. And we can put them all under an umbrella of extremism. More easily. And i think the people that this will affect are groups such as the palestine solidarity campaign, the Muslim Council of britain have expressed their concerns over this broadening. Concerns over this broadening. They have of the definition. And they have of the definition. And even groups like just stop oil, they they could fall under this. Theyre not extremists. Well, theyre not extremists. Well, you dont think that they are extremist for me. No, they are for me. No, they are for me. Extremism has to entail the target people. Violence at the end of it. It has to create violence. Wouldnt you say . Wouldnt you say . Standing, i think democratically protest thing is very different. And weve seen this with the curtailing of protest laws already not climbing on the prime personal Prime Ministers personal residence. Do you residence up in richmond. Do you mean that was greenpeace, wasnt it . An it . Well thats thats an extremism itself. But but extremism in itself. But but it was an extreme act. Was was an extreme act. It was an extreme act. It wasnt extremist. Just on the old greenpeace stuff that active case. So stuff that is an active case. So we will leave that one. Sorry, patrick. Ill get in trouble every week and he was out. So. Yes. Yes. So obviously remains to be seen exactly what the outcome of that case is. However, the point still stands about forms about some other forms of extremism. Like, oh, i dont extremism. Im like, oh, i dont know, stop oil our extremists. Well, are i think well, they are i think theyre extremists. Obviously well, they are i think theyprobablyiists. Obviously well, they are i think theyprobablyiists. wanthly well, they are i think theyprobablyiists. want the law they probably dont want the law to or definition to be to be or the definition to be changed, then theyll changed, because then theyll definitely be in there. But the things anyway are illegal. The thing is, i dont get but the thing is, i dont get why was about to say, i think why i was about to say, i think the one thing we all agree on ultimately, is that by broadening it to be such a big umbrella, there will people broadening it to be such a big umbsimply1ere will people broadening it to be such a big umbsimply1ere have people broadening it to be such a big umbsimply1ere have differences who simply just have differences of opinions. Yes, they get caught up in this im worried about this and im very worried about who what who gets to determine what extremism is the tsar is extremism is. Who is the tsar is appointed and why is their worldly view more than worldly view more correct than anyone very anyone elses . Its all very subjective, the end, but subjective, this at the end, but the interesting thing is that rishi one saying rishi sunak is the one saying this a conservative this is a conservative government about these government talking about these British Government talking about these britthis a minister who this is a Prime Minister who stood and in my opinion, said stood up and in my opinion, said something very extreme, which is transphobic, his transphobic, which was his comments a man can comments about, oh, a man can never woman and this never be a woman and this transphobic agenda. Interesting, a lot of so its interesting, a lot of people those margins, the people on those margins, on the level the same. People on those margins, on the levibut the same. People on those margins, on the levibut the the same. People on those margins, on the levibut the problem the same. People on those margins, on the levibut the problem to he same. People on those margins, on the levibut the problem to suggest. But the problem to suggest that this is going to clamp down on critical is very not. Youve just proved the problem by saying that, he said. You what said, a you said that what he said, a man cannot be a woman. A woman cannot a its cannot be a man. Its transphobic. Its its the transphobic. Its not. Its the truth. Now, if biological reality, its a reality. If were going to take that as a definition extremist, then definition of an extremist, then im im telling im one. Yet im telling the truth. Reason i would y n the reason i would say that is because real world is because the real world consequences are the impact on trans which have been trans lives, which have been violent. Call it violent. So thats why i call it extreme evidence, because hate violent. So thats why i call it extrethaveience, because hate violent. So thats why i call it extrethave gone because hate violent. So thats why i call it extrethave gone up cause hate violent. So thats why i call it extrethave gone up tenfold ate crimes have gone up tenfold since transgender. Since this whole transgender. There no evidence there is absolutely no evidence that rights have been that womens rights have been amended eroded in any way. Amended or eroded in any way. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest that womens rights have been eroded. Okay. Do you want to hit back on the that theres women . The idea that theres women . Theres evidence womens theres no evidence that womens rights have been eroded in any way . I think that thats absolute poppycock. And you must know that women evidence it that well, me evidence okay. Well, let me evidence it. Okay. Lets take leah lets take lets take leah thomas, whos swimming in lets take lets take leah tiwomens whos swimming in lets take lets take leah tiwomens game . s swimming in lets take lets take leah tiwomens game . College ming in lets take lets take leah tiwomens game . College in ng in a womens game . College in america. Well, youve for america. Well, youve asked for some evidence. America. Well, youve asked for soncanvidence. America. Well, youve asked for soncan you1ce. America. Well, youve asked for soncan you give us a uk based example . Okay. You want a uk based example . Well, let me have a think about one. All right. Lets okay. Lets take isla bryson. Okay. Ill that is a uk ill bryson, that is a uk example of somebod