Implosion of the tories. State of the nation starts now. Ill also be joined by my most intellectual panel, former conservative mp and commentator paul goodman, and gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. As always, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial hear from you. Its a crucial part of the programme. Email me at gb news. Com but now its what youve all been waiting for. The news of the day with sophia wenzler. Jacob. Thank you. Good evening. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. The gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. The Prime Minister has ruled out holding a general election on the 2nd of may, amid speculation he could choose to go to the polls early. In an interview with itv, rishi sunak was asked if there would be an election on the same day as the local elections, which takes place on the 2nd of may. He replied there wont be an election on that day. Previously, hes been reluctant to make a definitive statements about the general election,
Just guarantee anything, people do go away, because you just you . Guarantee anything, can you . Em em can you . If you were lucky and i mean, if you were lucky and you week of sunshine in you got a week of sunshine in pembrokeshire, there is nowhere better be. Better to be. Exactly. Its gods own country, same cornwall country, same as cornwall houday country, same as cornwall holiday days holiday abroad these days because my in laws getting because my in laws are getting on and they dont like on a bit and they dont like flying in so much flying anymore. In fact, so much so my passports ran out. I havent even got a functioning passport. Havent . Yeah. How passport. You havent . Yeah. How disorganised that . Well, 7 well, it . Well, it could take you a long to get it as well. Long time to get it as well. And keeps putting me and that keeps putting me off, i think it takes so off, though. I think it takes so long. Whats the point . And the net cant go abroad. Net result is i cant go abro
Saying only that its his working assumption. It will take place in the second half of the year. Michael place in the second half of the year. Michael gove place in the second half of the year. Michael gove has named some of the groups to be investigated under a new definition of extremism, which he says will mean the government can express more clearly than ever who poses a risk to britain. Some of the groups included are alleged to have islamist views, with others described as neo nazi. See described as neo nazi. See todays new extremism definition will be used to assess whether some groups should be marginalised or blocked from pubuc marginalised or blocked from public funding. But michael gove insists its not about silencing those with private and peaceful beliefs. Beliefs. We have to be clear eyed about the threat we face, precise about where that threat comes from and rigorous in defending our democracy. That means upholding freedom of expression, religion and belief when they are
That manipulated photograph of her and her kids released on mothers day, saying she was simply experimenting with editing. Well, now shes facing calls to release the original. Well have all the latest on this huge ferrari, and thats all coming up in your next hour. Welcome to the show. On the start of a week, that could be absolutely monumental in british politics. Been talk a long, long time. Scurrilous rumours of time. Scurrilous rumours of defections from the conservative party to reform. And now that day is upon us. First up the ladden day is upon us. First up the ladder. Lee anderson, mp for ashfield. Will others follow ashfield. Will others follow rumours of nine others who are the reform . Nine ill have all the reform . Nine ill have all the inside gossip, but i want you to get in touch. Email me gb you to get in touch. Email me gb views at gb news. Com what does this say to you about your voting intentions . Will you vote for reform now . Lee has crossed oven has for reform now
Given to infected blood victims for the most urgent cases, while the final scheme becomes operational. Since the 1970s, 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through contaminated blood products and transfusions. Around 3000 have transfusions. Around 3000 have since died , and a conservative since died, and a conservative mp has spoken to gb news about his battle with sepsis, admitting hes extremely lucky to be alive. Craig mckinley is returning to parliament for the first time tomorrow after suffering a life threatening episode of sepsis in september, which led to the amputation of his hands and feet. The mp for south thanet has spoken out about his road to recovery and wants to be known as the first bionic mp. Bionic mp. Everything was starting to shut down, it was quite serious and my wife was told that theyd very rarely see people who have this amount of illness in the hospital and perhaps prepare for the worst, maybe they could have saved a bit of a foot. But my surgeo