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Well, for the latest stories , do well, for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com alerts. Now, though, its back to. Nigel. That game of parliamentary ping that game of parliamentary ping pong is happening once again. Yes, the house of commons again. Yes, the house of commons and the house of lords voting the next big vote, i believe in the next big vote, i believe in the house of lords at 10 00 this evening, and the house of commons will then to vote two hours later. Will the peers back down. 7 will they do as the elected house by a very clear majority, wants . Well that remains to be seen. Those of you that watch this show regularly will know i did pretty much predict the house of lords would make this as difficult as they possibly could , so nothing on possibly could, so nothing on thatis possibly could, so nothing on that is very surprising. But that is very surprising. But ill tell you what was surprising. And that was the speech today by rishi sunak standing behind the lectern with stop the boats on it. And bear in mind its now more than two years since Boris Johnson went to lydd airport in kent and unveiled the rwanda plan. So far weve spent over £150 million and not a Single Person has gone. But just have a listen to what rishi sunak said this morning and to his tone , i can morning and to his tone, i can confirm that weve put an airfield on standby , booked airfield on standby, booked commercial charter planes for specific slots and we have 500 highly trained individuals ready to escort Illegal Migrants all the way to rwanda with 300 more trained in the coming weeks. This is one of the most complex operational endeavours the home office has carried out, but we are ready , plans are in but we are ready, plans are in place and these flights will go come what may. No Foreign Court will stop us from getting flights off. Did you hear that . No Foreign Court will stop us from getting these flights off as indeed the European Court of human rights in strasbourg did last time round. Now that is a very bold statement for a british Prime Minister to make. Hes basically minister to make. Hes basically saying whatever is said by that court in strasbourg, we are simply going to ignore it. But he knows that half his own party, certainly half his own mps, would be appalled by that because they think the European Court of human rights is a good thing. What he didnt tell you is, even if we were to ignore the European Court of human rights, which i believe to be very, very unlikely indeed, wed still have something called the human rights act of 1998, which incorporated the very convention thatis incorporated the very convention that is used by that court in strasbourg into british law, which would be used by british judges. This this idea that those planes are going to rwanda in 10 to 12 weeks time, come what may. Folks, believe me , it what may. Folks, believe me, it isnt going to happen. And ive isnt going to happen. And ive been right about this consistently for the last four years. Sorry to sound a bit big headed, but literally i have been right about this. I predicted the crisis. Ive said all the way through rwanda wouldnt work , and because of wouldnt work, and because of that, ive rather changed my view today or something quite significant. If youd ask me first thing this morning before that speech, whether there would be a summer general election, not an autumn general election, id have said, well, i reckon its two thirds on it being an autumn election , a third on it autumn election, a third on it being a summer election. I have now shifted my view today, particularly given the words that sunak used. No Foreign Court will stop these planes from leaving. I would now say its two thirds likely that were going to have a general election at the end of june or early july , however well or early july, however well or badly the conservative us may do in the elections coming up next week on the 2nd of may. And bear in mind, weve got some big mayoral elections, weve got london, weve got the west midlands, and indeed weve got, you know, tees valley as well, which is pretty big stuff, for both parties , frankly. Now, the both parties, frankly. Now, the reason i think theres going to be an early election is because you cant keep upping the ante on stopping the boats and sending people to rwanda and keep failing. He must know. His advisers must know that all the while the human rights act is there in law. Therell be there in law. Therell be lawyers on behalf of people who are going to be deported and who will go to the courts. And british judges will find in their favour and not allow them to go to rwanda. So rather than wait for what is seen to be his flagship policy to disintegrate , flagship policy to disintegrate, hell call a general election before it, making promises that he cant deliver. Thats my thought. You tell me, will there be an early election . Farage gbnews. Com. Lets get to the palace of westminster and that ongoing game of ping pong. Im joined by Christopher Hope , gb joined by Christopher Hope, gb news political editor. What news from the palace . From the palace . No news yet since those votes about just over an hour ago or so, nigel, when we saw, of course, the house of commons sent back those two amendments to the house of lords, these are two attempts to weaken the safety of rwanda bill, trying to bnngin safety of rwanda bill, trying to bring in a new rule that rwanda must be pronounced safe, regularly called a safe country, and also stopping the risk of any afghans who arrive here illegally being flown to rwanda if they have seen military service with the uk forces in afghanistan. Those are both backed with the laws and theyre voting at 10 pm. Tonight. I can reveal to you that the pm, the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, is hosting drinks with his backbenchers in the office of the chief whip at 9 30 pm. Tonight, and thats to try and get them all going, get them all galvanised for what could be a late night. We think if the lords do not fold at ten, whether we could be back at midnight for votes in the house of commons to try and put it back into the lords camp, how many crossbenchers are Still Standing wanting to vote by that point . Well wait and see. That will be a 2 am. Reversal, and some think it might hang over into tomorrow. Theres time booked in the house of commons timetable for tomorrow, and that could even risk delaying a trip to poland and germany by the Prime Minister if that happens. So it could be quite dramatic night, certainly the most dramatic since 2005, when there were five iterations of the so called ping pong process , so called ping pong process, over Anti Terrorism laws. It could have been avoided. This, i think, if the pm had pushed harder for these votes before the before the easter recess, or 3 or 4 days there, he could have used and he didnt. I think youre right, though, your Central Point there saying, he said that no Foreign Court will stop us from getting flights off. No one here, no tories im speaking to. And of course, theyre the ones who would know are saying they want an early election. At least two of them said tonight they want six months more pay, nigel, by holding out till november, they get paid for longer than losing their seats in july. Which which you might enjoy. But that was that was what two of them told me tonight, and indeed the other big thing youre missing out, maybe, is that people in the tory side are waiting for Something Else to happen. You know, theres going to be probably, as ive been saying for a few months now, therell be a budget in september. There will be more tax cuts promised for after the election. So the promises vote for us and get these tax cuts in september. And you know how time and politics can change so quickly, if you had a 5 or 6 months to wait, why not wait that longer . And also youre missing out on the very point, nigel, that, rishi sunak, his two Year Anniversary as Prime Minister, is up in october now, rather than be Prime Minister for 18 months, if you can say ive been in charge for two years, that has more meaning to it. I mean, these people in downing street, nigel, are writing the first line of their obituary all the time. The most important job hell ever have is being Prime Minister. So why not . Why . Why give it up so quickly when you dont have to . And if he goes early, just finally, then and they go to a big defeat, as the polls suggest, it is all his fault. The party will not forgive him for not holding out for what might happen. And for all those reasons, i am still banking on a november election. Chris, i get the logic of every single point that youve made. I just feel that if your flagship policy, if youve upped the ante as high as he has, as high as he has today, when you know in the back of your mind the human rights act can be used against you, that would lead to utter humiliation. All im saying is the balance of probability has shifted today with the upping of the ante. Chris youre in for a very, very long evening, and viewers , you long evening, and viewers, you can catch chris hope live up until midnight and maybe later than that. Thank you very much indeed. Im joined by doctor mike jones, executive director of migration watch uk. Well, of migration watch uk. Well, weve had David Cameron , weve weve had David Cameron, weve had theresa may, weve had Boris Johnson saying if you come to britain illegally, you wont be allowed to stay. We then got the big speech just over two years ago at lydd airport from boris. This was the strongest rhetoric yet , wasnt it . Yet, wasnt it . It is. Thats correct. But theres always a gap between rhetoric and reality and migration. Politics not just in in the uk, but also in the us and western europe. Politicians and western europe. Politicians talk a good game, but they deliver very poor results, results that are out of sync with the British Public. And this is just another classic case study. The number of migrants crossing the channel illegally this year is higher than it was last year. No mention of that. No mention of that. Of course not, were very close to 2022 numbers, which is the highest , close to 2022 numbers, which is the highest, year on record in terms of numbers , so clearly the terms of numbers, so clearly the stop the boats policy isnt working. And as you say, at the working. And as you say, at the root cause of this is the human rights act and the legal architecture. Yeah. Weve we focus so much on echr because it was an unnamed judge at 10 00 at night that stopped that flight going to rwanda. But the human rights act is potentially a massive problem, isnt it . Absolutely. I mean, we were members of the Strasbourg Court, the European Court of human rights, long before we had the human rights act. Yeah. Now, interestingly, if you look at the number of cases issued against the uk by the Strasbourg Court , theyve gone down year court, theyve gone down year after year since the introduction of the human rights act. Now ask yourself, why is that . Thats because domestic that . Thats because domestic courts are just as zealous. Yeah, we dont need the mention. Yeah, we dont need the mention. We dont need strasbourg anymore because our own judges are working off the same rulebook effectively. Absolutely. And its the thing is, constitutionally, you can ignore the judgements of International Courts because the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, you cannot ignore domestic courts because then the home secretary would be in contempt of court. So is the human rights act. In a sense, the absolute nub of this problem when it comes to deporting people, its the root cause. Yeah. I mean, there are issues with the Strasbourg Court. Dont get me wrong. There court. Dont get me wrong. There are particular arguments regarding case law , the regarding case law, the interference of International Courts and so on. But the human rights act is absolutely fundamental to this. Its the root cause of the problem. And the tories have tried to circumnavigate around it. Theyve introduced, you know, sticking plaster after sticking plaster, legislation after legislation. But they they legislation. But they they didnt listen to people like dominic raab, for example. They dominic raab, for example. They should have got to the root cause and they didnt. And in the view of migration watch, will those planes be taking off this summer . Taking off this summer . Maybe. But lets just say hypothetically, some of them did. The numbers are going to be very small and people arent talking about this because this is on the request of kigali, the rwandan government. They only want a few hundred removed and deported in the first few months because they want a bedding in period. So we deport 51 day and its a nice day in june or july and a nice day in june orjuly and 500 come the next day. Yeah i mean, the times report, the numbers could be as low as 200 for the first two months. Thats not going to act as a deterrence. And of course, the election will be done and dusted by then, which is one of the reasons i think it could be early, not late, but who knows . I could be wrong. Mike, as even i could be wrong. Mike, as ever, thank you very much indeed. And the idea that a couple of members of parliament, conservative members of parliament, say to Christopher Hope they want it to go on to the autumn because they want six months more pay. What a bunch of weasels. What about the National Interest . Never mind. In a moment we discuss a really quite dramatic fall in our confidence in the police. But then when activities like shoplifting have effectively become decriminalise , is it any surprise . We keep being told that crime is falling. But thats not the perception of many of us. And our support and confidence in the police force is falling pretty quickly. Only about a third of us really now have confidence in the police. And crimes like shoplifting have literally doubled over the course of the last year. But in london in particular, some of the statistics out in a survey today are really, really alarming. And im pleased to be joined. Minor keith by nikita malik, who works for the centre for social justice, the think tank that have produced this evidence. Nikita, thank you for evidence. Nikita, thank you for joining me on the program. I was really , really stunned, actually really, really stunned, actually , that your polling revealed that 1 in 4 londoners had been attacked or threatened with violence in the last five years. Thatis violence in the last five years. That is an astonishing figure. That is an astonishing figure. Yes, absolutely. And i think whats interesting here is , as whats interesting here is, as you said in the beginning of this segment, the perception versus the numbers. So while we see that the numbers of knife crime offences have decreased over the last five years, we have to keep in mind there was a