Firing line. So two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. Lots to get through. First the news headunes through. First the News Headlines hour and armstrong. Headlines an hour and armstrong. Thanks, mark. Very good evening to you. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. Iran risks provoking an uncontrollable regional escalation. A warning from World Leaders following last nights attack on israel. G7 leaders, including lord cameron, have been meeting to discuss the crisis in the middle east. Theyve condemned irans attack and stand ready to take and say they stand ready to take further measures. They say israel. Israel says it will extract a price from iran when the time is right, describing the time is right, describing the Islamic Republic as the greatest threat to regional stability and world order. Iran, meanwhile, says it will launch a much larger assault if israel retaliates. President biden has warned his israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu. The us will not take part in any retaliatory strikes and white house Spokesman John Kirby says israel must decide on the next move. We need to see what the war cabinet decides in terms of the whatever next step they want to pursue, and thats a sovereign decision, course, our decision, of course, that our israeli to israeli counterparts have to make. I would just say this, make. I would just say this, president biden, the president biden, since the beginning this conflict, has beginning of this conflict, has worked hard to keep this worked very hard to keep this from broader regional war. Well, earlier, rishi sunak confirmed raf planes did shoot down a number of iranian drones and missiles in what hes described as a dangerous escalation in the region. Shadow foreign secretary david lammy is urging the government to issue sanctions against irans revolutionary guard. This highlights once again the extreme danger of the i. Argc and the iranian guard. We argc and the iranian guard. We have said that we think that it should be prescribed , and it is should be prescribed, and it is for the government to come forward with new plans to prescribe them and to deal with this issue of state actors that would behave in this appalling way, that wreaks terror on a wider community. More than 250 survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing are taking legal action against m15. Taking legal action against m15. 22 people died in the explosion in may 2017 and hundreds more were injured. Lawyers representing injured survivors have confirmed theyve submitted a group claim to an independent judicial body. An inquiry found the bombing may have been prevented if m15 had acted on intelligence received in the months leading up to the attack last year. M15s director ken mccallum said he was profoundly sorry that they were unable to prevent the atrocity. A cabinet prevent the atrocity. A cabinet minister has insisted the governments rwanda plans on track, with flights due to take off within weeks. Health off within weeks. Health secretary victoria atkins says the home office is ready to go, despite the troubled bill still making its way through parliament. No airline has been named to transport the Asylum Seekers after rwandas state owned carrier turned down a request. The Prime Minister has request. The Prime Minister has repeatedly said the flights would take off by spring, although no date has been set. Although no date has been set. Well have more in our later bulletins, or you can get more information right now on all of our stories by scanning the qr code on your screen. The website has more details. Thats it for the moment. Now its back to. Mark. Thanks, aaron. Welcome to mark dolan tonight. In the big story, is britain being dragged into an all out war in the middle east . As the boss of m s expresses deep concerns about some of their policies. Expresses deep concerns about some of their policies. Would a some of their policies. Would a union loving Labour Government bankrupt britain . Ill be asking bankrupt britain . Ill be asking former minister Edwina Currie in my take at ten whatever happened to huw edwards why the bbc are still paying him half £1 million . Ill be breaking the conspiracy of silence around one of the corporations biggest stars. Thats at ten. Ill be exposing some shocking information. You wont want to miss it. Well also bring you mark meets Ann Widdecombe and liz trusss favourite policy guru, with me tonight. My top punst guru, with me tonight. My top pundits emma webb, neil parish and nigel nelson. Plus the most important part of the show your emails, your comments, get in touch gbnews. Com yoursay and this show has a golden rule we dont do boring. Not on my watch. I just wont have it. A big two hours to come. Ill be deaung two hours to come. Ill be dealing with huw edwards at ten. Where he . But first, my where is he . But first, my big opinion. Poor old Angela Rayner opinion. Poor old Angela Rayner. She used to be so talkative. If politicians were in hot water like Boris Johnson during partygate , she was out of the partygate, she was out of the traps like an eager greyhound chasing the stuffed rabbits of a political scandal. Well, shes political scandal. Well, shes always going around talking about her working class credentials, even though a leading commentator on this very show last night, doctor lisa mckenzie, begs to differ. Angela rayner is guilty of hypocrisy and of being a class traitor. Ouch. Traitor. Ouch. Now, angela reportedly loves teasing colleagues about how she used to distract Boris Johnson by crossing her legs provocatively at Prime Ministers questions, revealing what she has allegedly described as the ginger growler and this most vocal of politicians made no apologies for calling her conservative opponents scum. So conservative opponents scum. So in the end, this lively and compelling political figure who ive always liked is never backwards about coming forwards. But for weeks now , the ginger but for weeks now, the ginger growler has lost her bark. Its growler has lost her bark. Its rough. Perhaps she was hoping that the Political Drama around whether or not she lived at one address or another ten years ago would go quietly away. Wishful thinking is a meagre currency in the world of politics. Now we dont need to get into the details of the story. Shes very clear that shes done nothing wrong, and there is a Police Investigation ongoing and we need due process. The problem is need due process. The problem is this investigation could take months, which is a political headache for rayners boss, sir keir starmer. Now its my view that following wrong positions on brexit lockdown and trans rights, his support forjeremy rights, his support for Jeremy Corbyn, Energy Security and his aborted green revolution in sir keir starmer is a man of extremely poor political judgement. I think youll see it when he inevitably becomes Prime Minister and in his steadfast support for rayner, he may once again pay a heavy political price not because shes guilty or not guilty, but because so many questions remain unanswered. Now, rayner has said that she has legal advice confirming that she acted properly , but she she acted properly, but she hasnt shown that legal advice to her boss, sir keir starmer. And he hasnt asked to see it. Im so confused. First of all, as labour leader, surely he would be interested in seeing this evidence and hes a former top lawyer. Hes always telling us, isnt he, that hes a former top lawyer. Plus his mother was a nurse and his father a toolmaker. Have you not heard every day the rayner plot thickens. This drama is lengthier than the film oppenheimer, and with just as much explosive material , with much explosive material, with todays mail on sunday reporting that her former chief adviser matt finnigan, has given a statement to Greater Manchester police, effectively calling her a liar, he told the force that her actual home was with her then husband, not at the former Council House where she was registered on the electoral roll. Now, who knows what the truth is . This could be right. This is . This could be right. This could be wrong. Im not going to take sides. Angela rayner could be as innocent as they come and as pure as the driven snow. But the double standards at play here politically are beyond reasonable doubt. If the high heel was on the other foot, Angela Rayner would be calling for her opposite number to step down. And its my view that a conservative minister under similar circumstances would be long gone. But of course, fence sitter in chief starmer doesnt want to rock the boat with different factions in his own party. Hes already in enough hot water with his stance on israel and his efforts to modernise the party and adopt a blairite agenda. But this is a damaging drama that chips away at the credibility of the people who will likely form our next government. Angela rayner remains in post for now, but with more Unanswered Questions than a game of trivial pursuit. Your reaction . A brand new way to communicate with the show. To communicate with the show. Gbnews. Com yoursay ill get to your thoughts very shortly, but with me tonight, my top pundits ringside action for the big stories of the day. Im delighted to welcome none other than writer and broadcaster emma webb , former conservative mp and webb, former conservative mp and farmer neil parish and gb news very own senior political commentator nigel nelson. Great to have all three of you with me. Neil parish , let me start me. Neil parish, let me start with you. I do think that this story raises many Unanswered Questions. It does. It does. And of course , Angela Rayner, and of course, Angela Rayner, as you rightly said, shes an attack dog. Basically shes a rottweiler. She has a go. Shes a bit of a growler, isnt she . Yeah she does. And so therefore, you know, some i would give more sympathy to angela. Would not because angela. I would not because i think at the end of the day shes dished it out on everybody i did she dish it out on you at all when you were feeling the heat a few months ago . Clearly, nothing personal. No. But very good at, no. So but she is very good at, you calling for peoples you know, calling for peoples resignations is going for the jugular. Time , you jugular. And so this time, you see, you take on friday, you had keir starmer going out announcing that he will not only keep but hell enhance the nuclear deterrent. And he would use it unlike Jeremy Corbyn, remember, who had a deterrent. But he wouldnt use it, not a not really a deterrent at the end of the day. So he was putting the defence of the realm, importantly was keir starmer. But of course, on the same day keir starmer wanted Jeremy Corbyn to prime Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister and corbyn not be minister and corbyn would not be led press led on whether hed press the nuclear now keir starmer is mr but now keir starmer is mr nuclear almost like a u turn . Yes, exactly. But also the point im trying to make, mark, too, is that you see, on the same day that hes announcing all of this strong defence position, youve got the position, youve got the position of Angela Rayner being raised. Which house was raised again. Which house was she in . Has she she living in . Was she has she committed offence or not . And committed an offence or not . And in politics, in a way it doesnt altogether matter whether youre guilty or whether youre innocent. How long the innocent. Its how long the story continues. And so if it continues , theres a lot more continues, theres a lot more then i suspect she will have to stand down. But of course, dont forget keir starmer cant under labour policy. You know, the labour policy. You know, the labour way the labour party runs itself cant just fire her because he has. Shes elected, as you know, by the party. And thatis as you know, by the party. And that is also a problem. And so but you know, lets see how it plays out. Lets see how the investigation takes place. But you know, i dont think in westminster , dare i say it. Is westminster, dare i say it. Is there a huge amount of sympathy. Certainly not from from the conservative side, the tory side. But i suspect even on her own side and perhaps some people would not be weeping too much if she was to go. Emma webb, great to have you back on the show. Your reaction to this story now we want to have due process on mark dolan tonight, right . Everyone is innocent guilty and innocent until Proven Guilty and therefore the Police Investigation is ongoing. The essence of my big opinion monologue is about the politics of and the political double of this and the political double standards. I think was standards. I think if it was a conservative counterpart, theyd have been gone weeks ago. Yeah so normally i would say with this kind of thing, i think people are sick of it. I think people are sick of it. I think people are sick of it. I think people are sick of the kind of westminster bubble, almost westminster bubble, it almost comes gossip, even , comes across as gossip, even, you know, like cake gate, but the issue with Angela Rayner is, of course, the hypocrisy. And i think thats what makes it impossible to have sympathy with her, she has the her, because she has been the person been calling person whos been calling for other publish their other people to publish their tax resign. Shes tax returns, to resign. Shes tried to herself out to be tried to make herself out to be madame ethics in parliament, and she have made an error. It she might have made an error. It seems unlikely that this is some this is something that you could an error that you could honestly make. And i think its quite make. And i think its quite interesting that she the way she phrased her. I will resign if was quite canny. Its very, very specific. If shes found to be criminally culpable essentially is the circumstances under which she would resign. So i think shes trying to leave the door open , because of course, theres open, because of course, theres a i think is it is it a statute of limitations . Theres a certain amount of after certain amount of time after which. So not going to be which. So shes not going to be prosecuted made prosecuted even if she has made a so i think a mistake. And so i think politically, this is going be politically, this is going to be very for starmer very difficult for keir starmer because no way in which because theres no way in which she can back and try to she can come back and try to make demands for the calibre of the way that the house conducts. It conducts itself without it being levelled, that shes a hypocrite and just in terms of the politics of it, i think that this is just a small glimpse of what we will see when if we have a Labour Government, because, you know, weve obviously had a lot more focus on the conservative party because theyre in power. But once the labour party are in power, all of these fault lines will become very, very clear and therell be a more scrutiny. And im not a lot more scrutiny. And im not sure they hold up to that. Nigel nelson, if the shoe was on the other foot and this was a conservative minister, sir keir starmer over them starmer would be all over them like a rash. Yeah, im sure they would. And thats politics, so ive no doubt about that. And i think that emma and neil have identified the real problem with the Angela Rayner story is what she said about other people. However this is this is substantially different that the police decided it wasnt worth their time or trouble to investigate this. So so thats what happened to an ordinary person. Angela rayner is not an person. Angela rayner is not an ordinary person. And suddenly we get james daly, the tory vice chairman, making a complaint to the police. The police are in a situation whereby they cant be seen to be politically partisan, so they must conduct this investigation. And im fairly investigation. And im fairly sure at the end of it nothing will will come of it. Angela rayner will carry on being deputy leader and become deputy Prime Minister, but yes, i mean, deputy leader and become deputy primeiinnister, but yes, i mean, deputy leader and become deputy primeis this er, but yes, i mean, deputy leader and become deputy primeis this , r, but yes, i mean, deputy leader and become deputy primeis this , this,t yes, i mean, deputy leader and become deputy primeis this , this, this, i mean, deputy leader and become deputy primeis this , this, this trickyan, there is this, this, this tricky bit. I think in the future she might be a bit more careful about calling for resignations of tory ministers. Why doesnt keir starmer want to the advice to see the legal advice that shes received . Hes one of the countrys top lawyers. Yeah, didnt to, yeah, it didnt need to, i mean, the reason that it hasnt seen it. No, he hasnt seen it and need to see. And he didnt need to see. You want a wouldnt you want to have a glance at well, maybe glance at it . Well, maybe a couple of paragraphs, but Boris Johnson the bafics im suspicious, and i think the advice probably isnt the legal advice probably isnt that good, so if hes seen it, then , of course, if it turns out then, of course, if it turns out not to be so good, he is then culpable of seeing it. I dont think he wants to see the legal advice in case this is politics again, because if it does turn nigel. Keir starmer will want this. Nigel. Nigel. Angela rayner hasnt shown it to her boss and h