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[00:04:00]>> Welcome to Friday night with me, Matt Goodwin on GB News, the People's Channel, where I speak up for you, the forgotten majority. Coming up on tonight's show, Britain is in uproar over the murder of 18-year-old Henry Novak. But why has our political elite in Westminster taken such little notice?

[00:04:18]Also tonight, new figures show that for every one young British person, 27 young foreign workers are being hired right here in the UK. I want to ask a question tonight. Is immigration fueling our unemployment crisis? And coming up, a bombshell investigation into the vast people smuggling network that is now operating from Calala and the defiant smallboat kingpin who refuses to stop.

[00:04:43]Also tonight, new figures show that more than one in every three births in the UK are to mothers who were themselves not born in the UK. Just how fast is demographic change taking place in our country?

[00:05:06]Now, I'll also be joined tonight by my panel, head of communications at the Adams Smith Institute, Joanna Marshon, and journalist and commentator Kai Kai Wilshaw, pardon me. But as ever, I want to know your views. You can reach us at gbnews.com/yousay.

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[00:05:47]Thank you very much, Matt. Good evening to you. Our headlines at a minute past 8, two men have been jailed for causing a fatal crash after filming themselves driving at almost 140 mph. A warning, some viewers may find this footage distressing. Footage on their phones captured U Hussein and Usman Mahmood speeding through the streets of Manchester running red lights and weaving through traffic while inhaling laughing gas before they hit Sylvester Abiomi. The pair were sentenced to a total of nearly 25 years in jail.

[00:06:17]Greater Manchester Police said the crash is one of the worst disregards of speeding the force has seen. It marks the first time a passenger has been convicted for aiding in a betting causing death by dangerous driver.

[00:06:30]Sylvester's partner Denise described the 50-year-old as the most caring soul and the most gentle person you could ever meet. He will be sadly missed.

[00:06:41]Courts decided against a retrial in the case of two brothers accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester airport two years ago.

[00:06:47]Muhammad Faher Amaz and Muhammad Ahmad were charged with using a high level of violence against PC Zachary Marsden.

[00:06:55]Both men denied the charge, claiming they were acting in self-defense. Amaz was previously found guilty of assaulting other officers during the same incident in July. In 2024, he'll be sentenced at the end of June. The brother's lawyer spoke outside court earlier. In our democracy, we have a right to expect that those in uniform act according to the law and any force used must be reasonable, legitimate, and proportionate. Since the two brothers were charged in 2024, they have been subjected to an orgy of race hate.

[00:07:26]Social media posts viewed by millions created a highly prejuditial atmosphere in which a lynch mob mentality that was racist, anti-Muslim called for deportation, riots, the death penalty, and the hanging of the two brothers if they were acquitted. Even their sister and their newborn baby were threatened.

[00:07:47]>> A Canadian man who sold lethal substances online to people across the world has admitted 14 charges of aiding suicide. Authorities said 60-year-old Kenneth Law posted around 1,200 packages of poison to recipients he met in online suicide forums to dozens of countries around the world including 112 to the UK. British families including the sister of 21-year-old Amy Walton who died in 2022 say they are angry at the decision by British prosecutors not to charge law over fears he could have challenged any extradition requests due to double jeopardy laws.

[00:08:23]An Iraqi asylum seeker has been sentenced to 6 and a half years for rape. 30-year-old Ysef Al Maliki attacked a woman in August last year while staying in a migrant hotel in West London. Prosecutors claim the defendant, who denied the charges, was previously deported, but came back to the UK in September 2024.

[00:08:43]Donald Trump says he's holding a meeting to have a final decision over signing a new ceasefire deal with Iran. The US president posted on social media the agreement contains major concessions from Tran, including opening the straight of Hormuz for unrestricted shipping traffic and the elimination of the country's nuclear program. Iran says its program is not up for negotiation and described Mr. Trump's latest comments as a mixture of truth and lies, adding that a final agreement has not been reached.

[00:09:13]>> The question of trust. Finally, pharmacists in England will be allowed to prescribe medication for some conditions from the autumn. It means people will be able to seek treatment without being referred back to their GP.

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[00:09:54]Welcome back to Friday night with me, Matt Goodwin on GB News. Now, I want to start tonight by asking you all to imagine this, a thought experiment. A white British boy is found guilty of stabbing to death a black British boy.

[00:10:07]The police handcuffed the black British boy when he is bleeding out and dying and his last words are, "I can't breathe." The police later issue a weak apology saying that they were lied to by the perpetrator, but no heads roll, nobody is fired, nobody's sacked, and the police body camera footage is not released. Now ask yourself, what would K star, David Lambie, I bet Cooper, Sadi Khn, Jess Phillips, and countless other MPs and celebrities be doing right now?

[00:10:39]Well, we know what they'd be doing. Or we might guess what they would be doing.

[00:10:44]They would be protesting, marching, screaming, demanding that the footage be released and dropping one video and statement after another on social media.

[00:10:54]Now have a look around at what politicians are doing about the Henry Noakat case. Henry was arrested and handcuffed by police as he lay bleeding to death. Took his killer's word, his claim that Henry had been racist as gospel. The 18-year-old student begged police officers for help, but it appears his pleas were at least at first ignored before first aid was provided. The IOPC are now investigating the actions of the police and they must get to the truth of what happened and take action where necessary. But where is Westminster on this? The majority of our politicians are completely disinterested. Time and time again, when the violent crime does not fit their narrative, they switch off. Do you know how many times Henry Novak has been mentioned in Parliament?

[00:11:45]Once. One time. What about Rianna White, the young mother who was murdered by an asylum seeker at the hotel that she worked at in a case which stunned the nation? Do our politicians care? She was mentioned four times in Parliament. And that list goes on and on and on. These people paid the ultimate sacrifice for the decisions taken by our political elites. No wonder they don't want to discuss them. Whereas George Floyd, a career criminal for Minneapolis, has been mentioned in Parliament 19 times. A career criminal who once pressed his gun against a woman's stomach. But his death fits the narrative, doesn't it? It fueled a cultural revolution which burned across the world. It took only 15 days after the death of George Floyd for Saki Star to take the knee. It's been 177 days since Henry Novak was murdered and our prime minister has not even mentioned him at all. There is two-tier justice, two-tier politics everywhere you look in this case. The differing rules on knives being allowed in public, for example, as Henry Novak was murdered with a seek ceremonial knife. One rule for them, another for everybody else.

[00:13:05]And let's not forget another humiliation. The mother of the killer, who has been found guilty of assisting an offender by removing the weapon from the scene, is an Indian citizen. Is this an example of another foreign criminal on British soil, playing us all for fools? But punishing the perpetrators isn't enough. We must take a look at our own authorities, our own rotten institutions. It is time for the police to release their body camera footage in full. And most importantly, it's time for the Westminster bubble to show some interest in the well-being of British people. Well, I'm joined now to discuss this case by the host of the Winston Marshall show, Winston Marshall.

[00:13:47]Winston, what do you find particularly significant or striking about the Henry Novak case?

[00:13:54]>> I can't breathe. Those were his last words. This is both heartbreaking and blood boiling. And obviously heartbreaking for this family that have lost their son, a British lad. But blood boiling because if you are white in this country, apparently you can be stabbed five times, be breathing your last breaths, and if your murderer calls you racist, the police will handcuff you.

[00:14:26]I'm upset. Not just because of that. Not just because of this double standard that we've seen time and time again, but look at how, as you say, the prime minister has reacted. He hasn't mentioned Henry Novak once. As you say, when it came to George Floyd, he was very quick to respond. But it's not just the Labour politicians. It's the it's the whole elite. When I was in 2020 back then in the music industry, everyone erupted because of the George Floyd video.

[00:15:02]Where is that? What? It's not just the politicians. There is a cultural double standard here. Where is the anger from the music industry, from the cultural elites, from all those institutions that BLM flags up immediately that said, "You know what? It doesn't matter that there's a pandemic. Go out in the streets. Racism is the real pandemic.

[00:15:22]Where where where is that now? This double standard is through every part of our society and it's sickening. And by the way, you say as you mentioned that the the mother of the killer uh who's been convicted of assisting the murder, she should be deported. She should not be in our country. If you come to our country and you are involved in this sort of crime, you should be immediately deported, never to return. Why is she still here?

[00:15:53]>> I was also struck, Winston, by the parallels in this case, the Henry Novak case with the grooming gang scandal, the Manchester Evening News bombing, the Nottingham stabbings, the Southport atrocity. It struck me today that what they all have in common is that at some point they either could have been stopped or their damage minimized had it not been for public officials being worried about being seen as racist. Uh you look at Southport mental health service worker didn't want to intervene with Axel Ruda Cabana. You look at Manchester Evening News Arena, the Islamist bombing, a security guard didn't want to intervene because of his fears over racism, the grooming gang scandal. Obviously, one public official after another didn't want to intervene.

[00:16:42]And here we have the police who took the accusation uh about Henry Novak at at face value and did not administer uh we are led to believe initially first aid uh when perhaps that could have made a difference. Who knows? There seems to be a pattern. It doesn't seem to be just one case.

[00:17:01]>> When it comes to Novak's death, we don't know because we haven't seen the videos whether he could have been saved. But if he could have been saved, obviously the police did absolutely everything wrong in that circumstance. But you are right to point out all of all of this is political correctness, literally killing. I also think of the Manchester Arena attack when a security guard didn't intervene with the terrorist attack that ended up killing two dozen young Manchester girls because he didn't want to be called racist. As you say, it's the same with the grooming gangs.

[00:17:30]They didn't intervene because they didn't want to be called racist.

[00:17:34]Political correctness is deadly. It's got to stop this. We've got to support police from the top. We've got to tell them they'll be supported to administer the law properly and equally across the board. This cannot go on. It's it's it's evil.

[00:17:51]>> We do have a statement here. A spokesman for the Independent Office for Police Conduct said, "Our investigation, which began following a mandatory referral from the force that we received the same day, remains ongoing, and the officers involved are currently being treated as witnesses." Hampshire Police's deputy chief constible, Robert France, has apologized for his officers handcuffing the teenager, Henry Novak, as he bled to death. Well, let's hear. sorry that Henry's life couldn't be saved that night and I'm sorry that he was handcuffed and arrested in the moments before he lost consciousness. When his killer made that call to police and he called the police, not the ambulance service, he lied on that call.

[00:18:32]>> Well, let's hear from my panel now. Head of communications at the Adam Smith Institute, Joanna Marong and journalist and commentator Kai Wilshaw. Kai, if I can come to you first. There will be lots of people out there tonight, this weekend, looking at this case, reading about this case, viewing it as the latest example of two-tier Britain.

[00:18:49]>> Well, I can understand why lots of people find this really harrowing and we need to have more information. That's what the IOPC investigation hopefully will yield. Just to do a bit of factecking here, you know, to defend the police on this, they were trying to make the best of what is a very complicated situation. We've heard that time and time again. And the police always put themselves uh by you know by dent of their job in really difficult circumstances at the time when they realized after 3 minutes what was going on had a better sense they did administer first aid and tried to save his life but the pathologist said as we know that it wouldn't have saved his life the injuries were so so severe to say that political correctness kills is just nonsense right to to I agree I agree that to you know if that played a factor that definitely will come out in the investigation and can't be the case. And if if there is a learning about political correctness being a factor, then just like the grooming gangs, as you say, that needs to be understood across the country by other police forces so that things like this don't happen. But what's clear is that a knife killed Henry Noak. Let's be very clear about that and not tarnish the police officers who will try to do their best with limited information and who probably will live with this for the rest of their lives. Joanna Marong, do you think people on the left would have said the same about policing when it came to George Floyd that they were just doing their best?

[00:20:11]>> I think it's it I have a problem with probably paralleling what's happened here with what's happened in America, right? Two very different situations, two very different types of policing.

[00:20:22]But what we can't get away from, whatever parallel we want to draw, is that the situation we've seen here with this boy and it's not an adult. he was 18 years old, barely an adult um child was wrong in all factors of imagination.

[00:20:37]Wrong. The fact that you could be a police officer on the scene looking at the level of harm, a rac a racist kind of slur maybe at the height of a racist kind of abuse attack versus a man on the floor bleeding out after five knife wounds. Look at the level of harm. Why wasn't that the first thing? I don't care if he's a racist. He's bleeding out >> because for the liberal class, claims of racism have become the ultimate form of harm.

[00:21:08]>> But I'm not I think the point is that that it wasn't that clearcut. I don't think they would have made that value judgement.

[00:21:15]>> It was dark. He was he was spluttering for words. Obviously, what we need are the transcripts at least or the video to to be released and then we can get rid of this kind of like back and forth. How bad was it? Cuz right now I'm thinking the worst. I was looking at the tribute videos today. He looked like a really lovely boy doing Tik Tok videos, dancing with his family, his sister, like he was just at university. I don't understand how this man could be seen as a threat.

[00:21:41]He He didn't look threatening at all.

[00:21:43]>> Well, indeed. And obviously, the nation will continue to follow the case closely, and I'd like to take the opportunity to offer my condolences to the family of Henry Novak. It's a truly harrowing case. We are going to move on because coming up, for every one young British person that companies are hiring in this country, they're hiring 27 foreigners. Are we betraying our young generation? This is Friday Night with Matt Goodwin only on GB News. We'll be talking about that shocking research in two moments.

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[00:25:56]Well, moving on. It's been revealed that companies in Britain are hiring 27 young foreign workers for every one young Brit amid a growing unemployment crisis. With over 1 million young British people now outside of work, training, or education, is this government openly pushing them aside? Well, I'm joined now to discuss that research in the studio by 21-year-old podcaster Elliot Berwick.

[00:26:22]>> Welcome, Buick.

[00:26:24]>> Now, welcome to the show. Thank you, Elliot. One of the things that struck me from the Center for Social Research uh finding >> you've got for every job going to for every one young Brick getting a job, 27 are going to young people from outside of Europe. Is this something you are actually experiencing trying to enter the labor market or in your economic reality? Because looking at the research, I've got to say if I was a young British person looking at this and I'm would no longer probably classify myself as a young British person, it would be terrifying. It would also be incredibly depressing.

[00:26:55]>> Yeah, I've been lucky that I've had a job going into the media space and I think there should be more young people going into the media space. There are loads of jobs for you there because frankly this story that we're discussing misses the point completely. We've had this breakdown in the system of university as a whole. About 30% of young men and women were experiencing negative returns on their degrees in a 2020 IFS survey. So the bigger question is why are young people at record highs of unemployment and why is university not working? We are living in the midst of a fundamentally broken system. And I want to speak about the media situation a little bit more. Spinning stories like this. I don't want to undermine them. I think this is a really important point.

[00:27:35]this 27 versus one stat. But at the same time on platforms like GB News, it's always to push a certain agenda, a certain narrative rather than getting into the substance of arguments. I look down at you guys titles on YouTube recently, Star's migrant armada. It's all so cheap. And I think that's what we're missing. We need to kind of make politics and these discussions boring again. If you don't have the time to watch a two-hour podcast about immigration and get into the nuance, um, like an episode I'm releasing on Sunday, by the way, around table with someone who's pro mass migration, someone who's anti. If you don't have the time to get into the substance and you want cheap fixes of dopamine at other people's expense, then you just shouldn't have an opinion on this stuff. Just just to be clear, the Center for Social Research is a serious Westminster think tank that's done a lot of research for decades and the analysis that they've drawn together was not previously made available by the British state. In fact, Alan Milburn's report this week on the declining prospects facing young people basically dismisses the role of migration altogether. He says, "Well, there might be a little bit of evidence, but we're not really sure." Here you have a group of researchers who have put their heads above the parapit and shown that actually yes it is having a big impact.

[00:28:50]What exactly is the problem with discussing that? I think that's really important and I think for young British people who are trying to get ahead I think it's critical that we understand the extent to which the British state is actually prioritizing other people. I completely agree with a lot of your points, Matt, and I think other panelists would disagree with my take on this, that we shouldn't be propping up our economy based on migrant workers coming in and taking entry-level jobs from young people. I would agree with you on that.

[00:29:15]>> So, you agree with them?

[00:29:16]>> My bigger question is the continual narrative that's spun by platforms like GB News or alternative media podcasters that miss the fundamental broken system that's favoring adults rather than young people at the moment. and how your generations have kicked the can down the alley for us to deal with. I I literally GB News from Miriam Kates to uh other shows is constantly talking about generational unfairness. I do not recognize that interpretation at all.

[00:29:45]But Joanna% of all broadcasts um they of all broadcast coverage of migrants and Muslims came from GB News in a study across two years. 17,000 mentions of Islam and Muslims. Why are you talking about why do you think that that some channels might want to talk about that given the lack of attention to those issues in say the state broadcaster?

[00:30:07]>> There is a massive lack of attention and I agree the BBC have been captured ideologically Sky News and I'm glad that you guys provide an alternative opinion.

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[00:30:17]>> Right. Okay. Interesting. Um right Joanna Marong Kai Wilshaw.

[00:30:23]>> I have nothing to add.

[00:30:24]>> What a great intervention.

[00:30:27]Uh go on you genuinely I think this story is about we need to bring it back to what it's about right young people are suffering they can't get jobs >> nearly you know so many people not in education um training are needats basically >> so not in education employment training >> also another 300,000 of them are needs but not on any kind of benefit record so they're just lost in the system what we have to do is focus on that the Milbourne report. It was a good first step from Labor and what it did was highlight the amount of people on benefits, the rise, it's about 7 70% rise in 18 to 24 year olds on that. It it highlighted the fact that apprenticeship roles have been lost because it's it's a bad classification.

[00:31:13]>> And what we need now are solutions that clearly show where where we need to where we need to be.

[00:31:20]>> I've been hearing about appren I've been hearing about apprenticeships for 20 years. Everybody has said expand apprenticeships, expand apprenticeships.

[00:31:28]And what tends to happen is the government of the day, Labor or Tory, never supports businesses to the extent that's required to allow them to take on more apprentices.

[00:31:37]>> The problem with apprenticeships is, and this was in the Milbour Milburn report as well. They are not classified as students, they're classified as adults.

[00:31:43]So when you have young people from lower income backgrounds whose families might be on benefits working but on benefits they lose out more if their child gets an apprenticeship because even though that child is only 16 to 17 they are classified as a working age adult. The money flow changes. So obviously kids are less incentivized to take those apprentichips. Businesses are responding to a lack of demand and that's why they're not supplying them. and come back to the whole scenario. Minimum wage has increased, employment rights act has been introduced and um the national insurance increase. Young people are the people affected most by this and if we can't address those economic uh growth levers then they will never benefit.

[00:32:26]Doesn't matter.

[00:32:26]>> There is something in that Kai is 15% >> people getting higher wages.

[00:32:29]>> No no it's 15% more expensive for small medium firms to hire people. And when I was in campaigning, for example, I constantly came across businesses who say, "I'd love to hire my nephew, my cousin, the lad down the street. It's just too expensive to do that."

[00:32:44]>> Yeah. Look, I accept the point that uh the Melbourne report dodges some uncomfortable truths, right? It doesn't look at the impact of immigration, and no doubt there has been an impact on immigration. It dodges also the measures that this government has taken on employers. Equally, some other hard truths that we need to uh really need to really need to take a look at here. Employers aren't neutral.

[00:33:08]If this if if indeed one in every 27 job went to a non-EU national, why is that?

[00:33:15]>> Well, they're 27 times more likely to be added to pay.

[00:33:18]>> So, presumably employers aren't neutral in this, right? So, why is it that they think maybe they can take advantage of cheaper labor, different labor? I think that the employment rights act, one of the thing that does is make it easier to tighten up the employment market. So stopping people on zero hours contracts and so on. But also can I just make the point you said that this is this government's fault when in fact we know that if these stats are true >> that is what we're seeing is the impact of the Boris wave more than anything.

[00:33:46]I'm the last person to defend the impact of this.

[00:33:48]>> I'm the last person to defend Tory or Labor government. So there we go. Now listen, one of the largest people smuggling networks in Europe has been exposed and I'm going to be joined by the very journalist who just spent the last year tracking them down. We'll be speaking to him in just 2 minutes. This is Friday night with Matt Goodwin. Only on GV News.

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[00:35:08]And in the southeast, it's going to stay quite dry through much of tomorrow and quite hot. But further west, we're going to be under the influence of a weather system that's currently making its way in. Before that, we have had some rain around today, but the showers in the southeast, they're going to clear away through the next few hours. And the rain across parts of Scotland will become largely confined just to Ornne and also Shhatland through the early hours of tomorrow morning. Elsewhere, lots of dry weather. Just that front I mentioned starting to push its way into western parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland.

[00:35:36]Temperatures for many will be a touch lower than they have been through some recent nights. Perhaps a bit more comfortable for sleeping, not as warm, not as sticky, not as humid. Then into tomorrow, a largely bright start across much of England and Wales. Plenty of sunshine towards the east. A bit more cloud further west. As we head north, we're going to wake up to a pretty wet start across Northern Ireland. That front pushing its way across and that rain could turn a bit heavy at times. A quite a cloudy morning across much of Scotland. There will be a bit of rain around eastern parts, more persistent rain coming in from the west. And that whole frontal system is going to gradually shift its way northeastwards through the day. So much of Scotland and Northern Ireland having outbreaks of rain. And actually, as we go into the afternoon, some of that rain could turn quite heavy, could be thundery downpours as we see some showers breaking out, particularly across western parts.

[00:36:26]Across the bulk of England and Wales, however, staying fine and dry, lots of sunshine and temperatures up on today.

[00:36:32]We're looking at highs of around 28 or 29 Celsius towards the southeast. Sunday set to be a showery day for many. The showers will be heaviest and most frequent with the greatest chance of thunder towards the north. The further south and southeast you are, the greater chance you have of staying dry and avoiding most of those showers, but one or two can't be ruled out. More changeable and at times unsettled weather to come as we head into next week and the start of meteorological summer with a drop in temperatures as well.

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[00:38:05]Well, welcome back to Friday night with me, Matt Goodwin on GB News, the people's channel. And you've been getting in touch with us. Dave says just knowing that companies have hired 27 migrants for every one British person since 2021 should be enough for the government to act urgently to change this. And John says there are too many university graduates that expect a top job rather than starting at the bottom.

[00:38:28]Well, moving on. on a new investigation has unmasked the leader of a huge people smuggling gang stretching from Iraq to France responsible for sending illegal migrants to Britain in the small boats.

[00:38:40]The kingpin Abu Hussein said his boats launch every week from Dunkirk and insists that nothing will stop them from crossing. Well, to discuss this, I'm delighted be delighted to be joined now by Mitchell Deran, one of the journalists who worked on the investigation who will be able to give us more details. Mitch Mitchell, tell us please.

[00:38:59]>> Thank you. Well, we have an Iraqi individual, Abu Hussein Alrai. This is obviously a fake name. Abu Hussein is a generic name. It's not saying John Smith, the Englishman.

[00:39:10]>> This individual claims that he's visa hanging. This terminology means essentially that he is employed in France by a company that either does not exist or one that's employing him fraudulently so he can stay in France while meanwhile he has this entire business empire stretching from France all the way back to Iraq. We have various people in Turkey, the Balkans, they have various money people who can take your finances to how to pay for it all the way back in Egypt in some cases.

[00:39:40]And I mean, how much do we think this guy's making from the small boats and from the kind of network that he's been putting together?

[00:39:48]>> So he charges if you want to come from Turkey to Greece and then get a plane on a fake passport from Greece, that's €10,000.

[00:39:56]If you want to do it cheaper, like through the back of a lorry or a van, that could be around €1,200.

[00:40:02]>> Depending on the driver, you may have some sort of security fees or other fees you may.

[00:40:07]>> You've worked on this investigation.

[00:40:09]Forgive me for asking the obvious, but if we're able to track these people down and paint this picture like you've been doing and come up with names and photographs, as I've seen in the media today of your investigation, why is it taking the British state so long to find these people? This was Karma's whole strategy. Smash the gangs, find the leaders, find the kingpins.

[00:40:30]>> Well, they're still operating. Well, the thing is they know who he is cuz I actually done a story on this in November and the Home Office put a statement out saying, "Oh, we will deal with this and deal with the loopholes that they're exploiting."

[00:40:42]>> We're now in May 2026, right?

[00:40:44]>> And they've done nothing about it. They know who he is. Essentially, um, when we had that big statement from Kama, we're going to give the police 662 million in France to deal with this issue. Eight days later, Abu Hussein Alaraki was on the beach with eight French police officers around him in close proximity like I am to you filming it saying, "I get people from France to Britain."

[00:41:11]>> Joanna Marong, it's completely and utterly absurd. We know who these people are. We know how they're operating. Yet still, they're just doing it in our in front of us.

[00:41:20]>> This is and any money we throw at it for these kingpens, we're we're it's like whack-a-ole technique for the for the government. It's not working. We've had in the year 2025, we had 41,000 small boats cross that channel.

[00:41:34]Over 80% of them picked up with like irregular um members aboard. 76% of them were men. This is the level we're operating in. We're throwing money at France. We've just extended our deal with them. We've sent them tens of thousands um to maintain the border. And it's it's not worked. They actually take up British money and what they've done is use it to enforce the border they have with Italy to stop migrants on that side. So we have to think about what is the British government actually doing?

[00:42:03]Labour said that they wanted, you know, stop the boats, crack down on this.

[00:42:08]What's the result of that?

[00:42:09]>> Kai wish Andy Bernham's come out today uh actually just a couple of hours ago saying that he's going to potentially trigger a clause around the use of asylum hotels. and he's talked about essentially uh fasttracking the closure of those hotels. But I'd suggest what the the government and people making those noises and not telling people at home is that even if the hotels were to close um a lot of those people would just be moved into HMOs, housing for multiple occupants and they'd be put into the community just in other forms.

[00:42:41]>> Yeah. Well, that is part of the problem.

[00:42:42]Look, as Joanna says, it is a bit whack-a-ole with these gangs. I think it is the right approach to try and tackle the gangs. Um, and it sort of is a vindication of that initial messaging from the government, isn't it? That 1/5if of small boats arrivals might be from this one this one gang. But in the story there, which is an amazing story, by the way, it's sort of extraordinary.

[00:43:03]There are a lot of things that actually vindicate some of the measures the government is taking. So he says, "Oh, believe me, there's no deportation."

[00:43:10]Well, clearly there needs to be a scaling up of deportations. there's been more than under the the previous Conservative governments. The other thing is, you know, a week ago he says, I sent some young people and families to they're now in hotels. Well, closing down the hotels clearly does then have a downstream impact of how it's seen to apply for asylum in the UK. And similarly on asylum, you know, in comparing Switzerland to the UK, uh this guy sort of says, "Oh, well, don't bother with Switzerland. Try the UK."

[00:43:39]Well, that's why Shabbat Mammud is overhauling the asylum system. They're doing the right things. It'll take a while to take effect. As Joanna says, you know, actually the French deal, the new French deal that she signed, Shabbat Mammud, it's only just come into force, so time will tell.

[00:43:51]>> Just just briefly, Mitchell, if you put yourself in the shoes of Abu Hussein and these kingpins, is there anything we could do that would actually get them to take notice and stop sending people here illegally?

[00:44:04]>> It's really hard without the French. I did have a thought, which I think could aggravate them. A lot of their business structure is based online on these messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. We have a whole part of the British army that specializes in cyber warfare.

[00:44:19]Why aren't we hacking their phones, dodoing their websites, and using our offensive cyber capabilities to just disrupt them and make their lives more miserable and doing this?

[00:44:28]>> Yeah. Well, indeed. There you go. Some uh fresh tips. Karma and Shabbana Mammud, if you're watching. Well, coming up next, we're going to be looking at some new evidence on just how quickly Britain's population is changing and the demographic revolution that is underway.

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[00:47:56]Welcome back to Friday night with me, Matt Goodwin on GB News, the People's Channel, where you've been getting in touch. Steve has said, "I have no doubts that the illegal migrants coming into the country already have connections over here." And Alf says politicians on both sides want these illegal migrants here. They could stop it if they wanted to. Well, welcome back to Friday Night with Matt Goodwin. Britain's demographic change and the scale of that change I think will shock you because according to brand new figures the percentage of births in the UK where one or both parents were born outside of the country has reached a new record high of 40.2% with seven of the most common countries of origin for foreignb born mothers being outside of Europe including countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria. Well, to discuss the new data which comes from the Office for National Statistics, the official body, I'm joined now in the studio by journalist Michael Murphy. Michael, what do you think people out there need to know about these figures? What do you find particularly significant about what the ONS has just released?

[00:49:04]>> Well, thank you for having me, Matt. Uh, as you'll your viewers will be well aware by now, this has been ticking up uh gradually over the last 15 to 20 years. the number of foreignb born uh uh mothers in the country is going to you know demography is destiny it's going to determine the future of our country the fabric of the people in it and um I think that the the groups that you've mentioned there are interesting because they are non-European uh not groups that we have great cultural proximity to and we know that um over time these groups tend not to um assim imulate but if anything the cultural uh differences tend to uh become exaggerated >> uh as time goes on. I I remember reading recently a book by the scholar Garrett Jones which is called the culture transplant and what he has often argued is migration is not just the migration of people it's the migration of cultures and essentially looking at the the top 10 countries of origin for foreignb born mothers in the UK now seven are outside of Europe so what you're saying is we're importing cultural habits traits practices that are not integrating into our own >> I think that's quite clear We took a gamble uh some sometime after the Second World War that um we would uh bring people in and they would breathe in the English air and become as English as anybody else. And that's clearly not been the case. Uh we uh we we we've run this experiment, the data is in. We realize now I think uh most most people do that um uh people from the developing world do not uh acclimatize well to to our way of life.

[00:50:53]>> Looking at where the figures are going.

[00:50:55]So 40% now of all births have at least one or both parents being born overseas.

[00:51:01]Um, is there anything a government that did want to do something about this, that did want to slow the pace of change, halt the pace of change, reverse maybe the direction of travel? Is there anything they could do to do that?

[00:51:18]>> Well, the lowhanging fruit would be to um abolish indefinite leave to remain. M um you know there's however many million people uh are going to be granted hundreds of thousands of people going to be granted that in the next few years uh we would place much more pressure on people who are in social housing in London at the moment I think it's more than 50% of social housing is uh foreignb born uh head of house >> uh you would the boats would be an obvious example as well and uh basically just it's incentives and disincentives. So you reduce the pull factors which are benefits and uh uh you know uh the the inducements that we pay that we offer people to come to this country and and and increase the push factors.

[00:52:09]>> Indeed. Well, let's bring in the panel head of communications at the Adam Smith Institute, Joanna Marong, and journalist and commentator Kai Wilshaw. Kai, what do you make of these uh stats? four in 10 births to one or two parents born outside of Britain.

[00:52:25]>> Well, number one, it's interesting to break down what the mix of parentage is.

[00:52:30]So, actually 40% of that uh group have one British parent, right? Um it's also interesting to just note that this is only up less than 1% from last year. So, it's not the kind of >> That's quite a big change in one year though.

[00:52:46]>> It is. It is. And I think a lot of that we can and I have sympathy for this um you know the idea that the scale and the type of immigration we've seen in the last few years in particular is quite different to what we've seen in the past decades. But it referred to the the sort of settlement that we've had post World War II and that this sort of experiment that you called it hasn't worked. The cultures haven't acclimatized to British culture in the same way. I I would I think a lot of people would disagree with you that many people from different cultures all across the world British now British Indians uh people from uh different colonies that Britain had across in Africa in the Caribbean that they have become pretty integral to British culture and that it's more a distinction between that immigration where integration is quite strong compared to the kinds that we're seeing now. But it it seems like you're doing making a different argument.

[00:53:44]>> I am. Yeah. I would and I would look at how people vote with their feet and where they live. For example, um if you look at places like Tower Hamlets or um Bradford or Olden, uh if you look at the way that people choose to associate freely in this country, it is mostly among their own kith and kin. And we have made a wager that um of of a sort of that that people are going to dissolve in a melting pot that we that we we we bought people over on the basis that they would act as individuals >> and actually what we've I I think what's happened is that we've tribalized as a society.

[00:54:26]>> Joanna Marshall, >> I um I I think we're like muddying the water on what these stats are, right?

[00:54:33]What we're seeing is that a lot of a lot of um what we're what we're actually seeing is a result of a low fertility rate in in the UK, an aging population, and the fact that the young people we do have are are worse off. I think it's wrong to actually say all kind of migration. The migration we're talking about and the people foreignb born mothers don't actually mean non-British.

[00:54:57]By the way, the people as Kai said, 40% of them their partner is British. Also, the child that they raise in a British household, basically in British institutions and schools, >> but also some will be raised within households that will be resistant to embrace.

[00:55:13]>> But we've had two different kinds of migration. To say migration as a whole, it's very wrong. When you talk about Tower Hamlets, when you talk about Olden, very different types of migration and different places where they're from, there's also a religious different. So, I don't think we should demonize loads of different cultures and put them all into one kind of melting pot. I think that's wrong.

[00:55:31]>> Just briefly, Michael, your response to that, that perhaps uh suggesting these findings are problematic is uh missing the wider story.

[00:55:40]>> Sure. I mean, uh it's it all depends on what your perspective is, right? If you're um a you know white British person living in a place where in within your lifetime you've become a minority uh and you have essentially you know the the ground has moved from underneath you I think that it's completely understandable that you would not like uh that that trajectory to go on.

[00:56:04]>> Well as always on GB news the people's channel the debate will go on uh indeed on this show in many weeks and months to come. Thank you uh to my guests, to my panelists for joining me this evening.

[00:56:15]Thank you to everybody at home for joining me this evening. Now, if you're a friend of GB News, and I know there are many of you out there, well, you have been voting tonight and of course you've been voting in our you decide poll and today today we were asking, do we have a two-tier justice system in Britain? You'll never guess what the result is. You'll never guess. 99% of you say yes. We are living in a two-tier justice system. 1% say no. I'd be interested to have a drink with the 1% one day soon. Coming up after me is Patrick Christ tonight. Patrick, what have you got coming up on your show this evening? Well, hello everybody. Thank you to my live studio audience. How are you? Brilliant. Another full house here this evening. I can't wait to get stuck into this. Does a Does a single person in this room believe Nicholas Sturgeon?

[00:57:07]>> No, I'm not sure. The least curious wife of all time, Nicholas Sturgeon, shortly.

[00:57:11]So, we'll talk about that. Also, we're going to be talking about what's gone on in the Manchester airport case. I don't think the CPS were right not to go for a third retrial there. And Britain's George Floyd moment involving Henry Novak. I'm not really sure that white lives do matter in Britain anymore, sadly. Oh, and has anyone tried to get through to HMRC recently? No. cuz you're not trans. You would have got a special hot lines. We'll talk about all that and more.

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[00:57:50]>> Good evening. It's time for your GBN News weather update coming to you from the Met Office. Through the next 24 hours, there will be a drier spell for many. And in the southeast, it's going to stay quite dry through much of tomorrow and quite hot. But further west, we're going to be under the influence of a weather system that's currently making its way in. Before that, we have had some rain around today, but the showers in the southeast, they're going to clear away through the next few hours. And the rain across parts of Scotland will become largely confined just to Ornne and also Shetland through the early hours of tomorrow morning. Elsewhere, lots of dry weather.

[00:58:21]Just that front I mentioned starting to push its way into western parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland.

[00:58:26]Temperatures for many will be a touch lower than they have been through some recent nights. Perhaps a bit more comfortable for sleeping. Not as warm, not as sticky, not as humid. Then into tomorrow, a largely bright start across much of England and Wales. Plenty of sunshine towards the east. A bit more cloud further west. As we head north, we're going to wake up to a pretty wet start across Northern Ireland. That front pushing its way across and that rain could turn a bit heavy at times. A quite a cloudy morning across much of Scotland. There will be a bit of rain around eastern parts, more persistent rain coming in from the west. And that whole frontal system is going to gradually shift its way northeastwards through the day. So much of Scotland and Northern Ireland having outbreaks of rain and actually as we go into the afternoon, some of that rain could turn quite heavy, could be thundery downpours as we see some showers breaking out, particularly across western parts across the bulk of England and Wales. However, staying fine and dry, lots of sunshine and temperatures up on today. We're looking at highs of around 28 or 29 Celsius towards the southeast. Sunday is set to be a showery day for many. The showers will be heaviest and most frequent with the greatest chance of thunder towards the north. The further south and southeast you are, the greatest chance you have of staying dry and avoiding most of those showers, but one or two can't be ruled out. More changeable and at times unsettled weather to come as we head into next week and the start of meteorological summer with a drop in temperatures as well.

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