Illegal migration at record highs, dissatisfaction with the governments handling of the issue is now at its highest level since before the brexit referendum. The controversial referendum. The controversial Online Safety bill goes through its final stages as reality tv stars are set to descend on downing street to support the controversial new regulation. Controversial new regulation. And well be bringing you the very latest weather updates with alex burkill. Alex burkill. Good morning. A bit of rain good morning. A bit of rain around today and it will feel cooler than of late, too. Ill have more details later. Have more details later. Look forward to that. Unfortunately as always, paul coyte will be here with the latest from the world of sport. And what are we looking at there, paul. 7 well, i dont know whether actually bother telling you. You know, frankly, i dont think know, i frankly, i dont think i care. Paul pogba, hes on all sorts of trouble after testing positive testosterone. And positive for testosterone. And its anniversary game its the 150th anniversary game of scotland tonight i yeah. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Pogba is testing positive for testosterone. Could that mean hes highly charged . Well , charged . Well, youll charged . Well , youll know when charged . Well, youll know when you see the amount that it actually means. Hes more highly charged than legally than a be highly charged. Okay. Whereas by the way, ive tested negative this morning. No performance enhancing anything for me today i well, well, no comment from eamonn i see how youre enhanced today. Let us know. You can join today. Let us know. You can join in any of our discussions. So you were saying, whats the anniversary of the england 150th 150th year . Thats in glasgow tonight glasgow. To look tonight in glasgow. To look forward so the forward to that. Okay. So the old enemies meet tonight. Your views, your memories. Gb views the gbnews. Com or tweet at. The gbnews. Com or tweet at. Gb news. So our top story this morning, questions have been raised over the uks china policy after a british Parliamentary Researcher was arrested on suspicion of spying for beijing. Well, this comes as the business secretary Kemi Badenoch claims that britain cannot afford to cut ties with china and insisted that a row over spine should not result in any breaking off official communications with beijing. Communications with beijing. The Prime Minister, meanwhile, has told the house of commons that the sanctity of westminster must be protected following these events with the Parliamentary Researcher in question denying all question strenuously denying all allegations, i love, i sort of makes it that its a church or a cathedral or religion. The sanctity of this place is nothing too much holy going on there. But what is going on . There. But what is going on . Lets go to our Political Correspondent, catherine foster, whos westminster for all whos in westminster for all the developments. Careful what developments. Be careful what you catherine. Somebody is you say, catherine. Somebody is probably. Probably listening. Yes , indeed. Good morning, yes, indeed. Good morning, eamonn and isabel. So this huge row about china is really rumbling on. Theres a lot of angen rumbling on. Theres a lot of anger. Theres a lot of concern from mps. Theres some fear that from mps. Theres some fear that this man who has been arrested back in march, important to say, not charged with anything as yet , and that they fear that he might be the first of many, that there might be several other people working in westminster for the Chinese State and of course, if that turns out to be the case, it wouldnt be the first time that china has interfered in our affairs. First time that china has interfered in our affairs. Lets interfered in our affairs. Lets have a little look. Have a little look. The idea that china may have recruited a British National to work as a spy may come as a shock, but its not entirely a new thing. Back in 2023, new thing. Back in 2023, journalists were expelled from the uk for allegedly working as chinese agents, while posing for one of the countrys press agencies. Meanwhile mi5 issued a rare security alert last year, warning that this woman, Christine Lee , is a spy. Lee Christine Lee, is a spy. Lee rejected the accusation. And in july this year launched legal action on former minister sir ian duncan. Smith claims that ministerial cars may well have been tracked by the Chinese Government and uk ministers have been banned from using tiktok , a been banned from using tiktok, a social media platform being run by a Chinese Company and was deemed a risk to security. But deemed a risk to security. But its not only china that poses a challenge in the human intelligence space wars. In march last year, the uk, together with the us and other allies, exposed historic cyber hacking by Russias Federal Security Service , which replaced security service, which replaced the kgb. Meanwhile, back in the kgb. Meanwhile, back in february , a British Embassy february, a British EmbassySecurity Guard was jailed for spying for russia. Spying for russia. Important , spying for russia. Important, important to say. I think that Christine Lee, who had very strong connections with labour mp barry gardiner, was subsequently not actually charged. But clearly theres charged. But clearly theres lots going on and we probably know only a very, very tiny fraction now this, of course, has reunited the ongoing debate within the conservative party about how how tough we should be with china , the language that we with china, the language that we should use , rishi sunak said should use, rishi sunak said that at the g20 he spoke very strongly to the chinese pm and said that this sort of behaviour was absolutely unacceptable. Was absolutely unacceptable. While we dont know whether the foreign secretary, james cleverly, who of course went to china in the last few weeks, the first such visit in about five years, addressed this directly or not, but massive pressure on the government who are resistant to calling china a threat because is, of course, their second biggest economy in the world. Weve got huge economic ties with them. Keir starmer ties with them. Keir starmer asked yesterday , wouldnt call asked yesterday, wouldnt call china a threat either. He also took to that word challenge. But took to that word challenge. But real pressure on the government now. And deputy Prime MinisterOliver Dowden yesterday in the house of commons did suggest that there was a strong case for adding china to whats or to an enhanced tier of what they call the foreign influence registration scheme. Now, registration scheme. Now, basically that would, if that happens, would designate china as a potential risk to uk safety or interests. And it would mean that anybody who was working at the direction of china or for, you know, state owned Chinese Companies would have to register that and declare what they were doing and failure to do so could result in five years in jail. But i suspect this story has still got a long way to go. And we probably are only at the beginning of it. But this row about china completely reignited yet again. Yet again. And catherine, another element in all of this is the secrecy that its been shrouded in lots of criticisms of the decision of the speaker of the house of commons, Lindsay Hoyle , to keep that arrest back in march just to a minimum of people being informed, mps saying they had a right to know that and indeed dont we as a society as well , who put these society as well, who put these people into parliament and also Lindsay Hoyle yesterday coming out and urging mps not to name the individual and also not to give details of this case, which some people would say this is a police state. If were keeping secrets about arrests and certainly the prosecution isnt it, theyre worried about compromising the prosecution if there is going to be a prosecution. Thats thats the trouble. Thats thats the trouble. Mike. Catherine and catherine. Well, i cant hear you very well. So i if youre if you dont worry. Okay. Dont worry. Catherine, thank you. From here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And well make it up the way the government makes it up as well. I laugh. Sunak getting up yesterday, all pompous and sanctimonious. The sanctum of this house, the sanctity and sanctity is a religious term. I just took objection to that. But anyway, it says here, he says when he was at that g20 summit, they said that china had to be in the room with the uk. And in the room with the uk. And rishi sunak argued that speaking frankly and directly with beijing was in the countrys national interest. Now, what i say is i frankly and directly did you speak little rishi and your little suit going into the room to the chinese president . Room to the chinese president . But the chinese president was sweating on that one. He said, hold on here comes rishi. Hide me behind this desk. You dont have to be tall to be intimidating. Most of the dictators in the tyrant. But i dont believe putin, whoever it might be, napoleon. Theyre all very small dont think very small men. I dont think his size is relevant. Smaller rishi. Smaller than rishi. Smaller than rishi. Similar height, probably similar height, actually, was actually, if there was a line up, i doubt it. Line up, but i doubt it. But i dont believe you mean i dont believe that rishi went in oh, you know, do in and say, oh, you know, you do any more with us and any more business with us and ill your off, you ill knock your block off, you know, not at all. And you know, he totally doesnt to that doesnt want to take that approach. Anything, wants approach. If anything, he wants to keep them as sweet as to try and keep them as sweet as possible. All this pragmatism, i mean, defining mean, this epoch defining challenge, even challenge, what does that even mean . Sunak clearly there are threats. What is an epoch, a period in time like a eunuch, like unicorn. Its a period in time. Its the time we live in an epoch defining challenge. Who thought that one up . Oh, look, bottom line is we need chinas money according to this government. Well, they need it. They need. They do, too. Yeah they need. They do, too. Yeah yeah. So. So basically theyre not going to do anything to annoy chinese at and but to annoy the chinese at and but there we go. Your views are very welcome in this. These are just us airing, venting a few frustrations like this observations , observations to observations, observations to all you eunuchs out there epochs. What are they . What are the epochs. I dont know what they are, but we were referring to epochs. Gb views gbnews. Com or you can a certificate us or at gb news us. But you cant really say exit. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. I mean, have you seen all the details about his new autobiography thats out all by ography . Whichever it is were talking about elon musk here. I mean, his latest child that he didnt tell just found tell us about. Weve just found out hes had an 11th child. Hes got an another extraordinary name. Called tao name. I think its called tao for short, but two very strange names. So no wonder hes called names. So no wonder hes called twitter something a little bit odd because hes got a thing about funny names. Anyway tweet us. Well stick with the us. Well just stick with the old phrase. Us. Well just stick with the old yeah, phrase. Us. Well just stick with the old yeah, thats. Hrase. Us. Well just stick with the old yeah, itlls. Hrase. Us. Well just stick with the old yeah, itll alwayse. Us. Well just stick with the old yeah, itll always be yeah, itll always be twitter, i suppose. Home office twitter, i suppose. Home office data reveals that since the European Union referendum, there has been an eight fold increase in the number of Asylum Seekers being housed in in conservative areas , which may make it even areas, which may make it even worse. Woise. Worse. And according to other research, dissatisfied action among the British Public, the governments handling of immigration is at its highest level since before the brexit vote. Lets look at the figures 66 of those questioned across england , scotland and wales said england, scotland and wales said they are dissatisfied with the way politicians are dealing with this issue. This issue. Well, lets go to former brexit party mep ben habib. Are you one of those dissatisfied people . Morning well, not me. Down with the feather. The british people are upset that weve got open borders. Extraordinary. And just borders. Extraordinary. And just picking up on rishi sunaks comment, the sanctity of our sovereign state has been invaded by these people coming across both illegally and legally. Lets not forget legal migration is completely out of control. Is completely out of control. What we were told before brexit was that we would take control of our borders, that we would have a points based guild, a skill based point system which would allow us to ensure that only skilled people came into the uk. But actually what weve doneis the uk. But actually what weve done is completely turn our back on our domestic labour market. We fill jobs with cheap labour from abroad. Weve dumbed down the skills required in to order qualify to come to this country and weve got completely open border britain. This is not what people voted for in 2016. Its not good for the economy short term. Its not good for the term. Its not good for the economy , medium or long term. Economy, medium or long term. Rishi sunak and jeremy hunt need to get a grip and have a holistic approach to how they how they deal with our labour market. They just havent got a clue at the moment. And meanwhile, this public dissatisfaction really presents a huge opportunity for the labour party would then very much , if youll pardon the much, if youll pardon the expression, parking their tanks on traditional right territory with, you know , keir starmer with, you know, keir starmer heading off to europol tomorrow to try and talk to them about beefing up can be done in beefing up what can be done in the channel is to off i think is a conference in montreal at the end of the week where hes talking to members of the left. Theyre saying this shouldnt be a right wing issue, this should be, you know, centre left as well. And this the this is well. And this is the this is a huge challenge for the conservatives, not only in deaung conservatives, not only in dealing with but in holding dealing with it, but in holding on. On to power. I mean, isabel, actually the labour party should have championed this right from the start. The protection and start. The protection and promotion of British Labour rights is what theyre all about , right . But, you know, unbridled migration cuts the legs out from underneath the british worker. But it was tony blair who took us down this path. And starmer is the tony blair new labour cut. And you know, if we think the conservative party has been bad, you wait until labour get in, they will. They will completely throw open the doors if theyre not already completely open. So i dont trust anything coming out of starmer to the extent that hes saying the right things, its to only curry favour with the electorate. Once he gets into power, assuming he gets into power, he will be the same as the predecessors. Weve had both in the conservative and labour party. They dont have joined up thinking on how to get britain working again. They will point to low unemployment figures and say , actually look figures and say, actually look at that. Havent we done a good job . But unemployment figures dont pick up all those who are not seeking employment. We have not seeking employment. We have a record 6. 2 Million People on some shape or form of universal credit thats double what it was in 2019 and six times as much as it was in 2018. The country is simply not working , literally simply not working, literally not working. Not working. And when you say that sunak and hunt should get a grip of the labour market, what do you mean by that . Well theyve got mean by that . Well theyve got to theyve got to promote policies which encourage people to go back into work. To go back into work. Weve got 2. 4 Million People not even looking for work at the moment. As i mentioned 6. 2 million surviving on a sort of subsistence level. And the most obvious way to do it, the easiest way to do it, is to cut taxes on the working and middle class. The median wage in this country now is just over £30,000 a year after tax. Eamonn, thats a year after tax. Eamonn, thats very close to what you can get sort of on benefits. Its sort of on benefits. Its without having to lift a finger and i dont say that in a prejudicial sense. Im not denigrating those who arent working. It just simply doesnt make sense at the moment to come into the workforce and be, for example, an ambulance driver. Example, an ambulance driver. You enter the workforce on about £22,000 a year. The average ambulance driver gets £28,000 a yeah ambulance driver gets £28,000 a year. Net after tax. That is less than what you get on benefits. Why would you work . Weve got to remove the tax burden from the working in middle classes. Burden from the working in middle classes. Weve got to middle classes. Weve got to stop putting a sticking plaster over our failure to get them working by taking in cheap unskilled labour. And thats what were doing. Weve got to stop it. Ben habib weve got to stop you there. Thank you very much indeed for outlining that very crystal clear. Thank you. You heard what ben habib has had to say. Are you feeling . The say. How are you feeling . The tax you get ready for tax burden as you get ready for work today and head out that work today and to head out that doonisit work today and to head out that door, is it worth your while , door, is it worth your while, really at the end of the month when you look at how much of your is taken in your salary is taken away in terms of tax . And i think i know the answer to this question already, but ill out there anyway. Ill put it out there anyway. Are of two thirds of are you one of the two thirds of british peopl