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GBN Tonight | Tuesday 12th MayAdded:
So, it's going to turn quite chilly, but as the showers in the north become more widespread, we see the winds picking up a little bit, we're actually going to see temperatures lifting a little bit.
So, first thing tomorrow morning for many, it's not going to be quite as chilly as it has been through some recent starts. Nonetheless, in some places, it could be a bit fresh, a bit cool. For example, across some parts of Scotland, temperatures may drop low enough for a touch of frost. But the big talking point will be the fact that there are going to be so many showers around. Plenty of blustery showers towards the northwest. Frequent showers across many other places. Some of them falling a sle snow over higher ground.
Showers across parts of Northern Ireland, much of England and Wales. Some of them will be heavy. Some of them could turn thundery as we go through the day, especially towards eastern parts.
And whilst there will be some drier, even brighter weather in between, sunshine is going to be pretty limited.
Now, as we go through the day, we are going to see winds strengthening particularly down the western side of the country. So, watch out for some blustery conditions here. They're also around parts of the southwest. And those blustery winds will make it feel cooler at times, especially seeing that temperatures are down a few degrees compared to today for many of us. More showery weather to come as we go through the next few days. So, Thursday's also looking quite showery. Perhaps inland areas seeing fewer showers, but many coastal parts towards the west are seeing plenty of them and the showers becoming a bit more widespread really as we go through the day. Friday maybe a drier day for many of us. And we stick with that drier theme at least to the start of the weekend and temperatures should rise a bit as well.
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Very very good evening to you and welcome to GBU tonight with me your host Martin Dorby. Coming up on tonight's action-packed show, >> my view hasn't changed. I think it's the right thing now for the prime minister to set a clear timetable for his departure from the job.
Well, so far the prime minister is resisting those calls, but a growing number of his own MPs urging him to resign. The number now stands at 92.
>> The prime minister says he's staying put today is battling for his political survival. But where did it all begin?
Well, it all began right here on GB News with a brash attack. Labour MP Jonathan Brash was the very first brick in the red wall that shook the very foundations of Sakir Stormer's majority and tonight we'll be bringing you his very first interview since the local elections and trust me it's utterly eviscerating. Also tonight the herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves it moves as the prime minister today faces his own downfall. I'll be joined by the former chairman of the 1922 committee, Lord Brady, who knows almost more than anybody else about a prime minister's end of days. And also tonight, >> Andy Burnham should never have been blocked. It was a mistake that the leadership of our party should put right.
And as the end for Sakir Stalmer's edges ever closer, we'll also be looking at what the road to number 10 down the street could look like for the Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and revealing that Reform UK and the Green Party will be throwing everything they can in an allout war to stop him. That's all to come on tonight's show. But first, here's your headlines with Sophia Wler.
Martin, thank you and good evening. Your headlines at 1 minute past 7. West Streeting will be meeting with Secure Star tomorrow morning. He will reportedly ask the prime minister how he plans to get us out of this mess after nearly 100 MPs have called for Star to step down. Meanwhile, the Home Secretary Shabban Mammud will not resign from her position and is cracking on with the job. That's according to her spokesperson. Deputy Prime Minister David Lami has also been speaking outside Downing Street saying the prime minister has his full support. It comes as four ministers have now resigned from Saki Starama's government as the prime minister fights for his political future. An ally of West Streeting, Health Minister Dr. Zubir Ahmed is the latest to quit while Alex Davies Jones, Jess Phillips, and Miata Fanbula all announced they were quitting today. Saki Darmama is defying mounting calls for him to leave, telling a meeting of his cabinet earlier that the Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered and insisted he would continue governing.
Meanwhile, sources say more than 100 Labour MPs have signed a statement saying this is no time for a leadership contest.
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Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump is beginning his journey to China for a highly anticipated state visit with Xi Jinping. He said he will have a long talk with the Chinese leader about Iran, but doesn't think he needs his help.
A man has been shot dead by police after presenting a weapon during an armed standoff in Bedford. The force confirmed it was initially called to reports of a vehicle being damaged in Alsbury Road at about 10:40 p.m. on Monday. It said that despite sustained efforts over a number of hours to engage with the man and bring the incident to a safer resolution, the man presented a weapon before police fired at about 9:30 a.m.
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It comes as the last passengers have now disembarked the virus stricken cruise ship. There are currently nine confirmed cases and two further suspected cases of the Her virus. Italian authorities have said they're monitoring the condition of a 25-year-old man who is showing symptoms of the virus after he shared a plain seat with one of the three people who have died in the outbreak.
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>> Welcome back to GB News tonight with me Martin Dorman. Tonight has been another nightmare on Downing Street for Saki Star.
>> Where's Jilling? DO YOU WANT TO BE PRIME MINISTER? WILL YOU CHALLENGE KIA STAR?
WHERE'S JILLING? DO YOU WANT THE JOB OR NOT?
As the crowd bathes for the prime minister's blood, the prime minister's career is surely on life support. But is there any hope of any resuscitation?
Well, early today, a group of more than 100 Labourbacked benches signed a letter backing them and the prime minister. In the face of more than 90 calls, 92 now in fact, for the prime minister's resignation, including four resignations from the government ministers, Saki Starma is simply holding on to power.
He's refusing to go. But where did all of this begin? Well, it began with the brash attack. The first brick and the red wall that set the foundations tumbling for security, the blue Labour MP Jonathan Brash right here on GB News.
>> It's got to the point now where I genuinely think that, you know, as far as the prime minister is concerned, it's not a case of if, it's when yes, it was the blue labor backbencher Jonathan Brash who was the first to call for Star to go. the very first domino to fall. But before we bring you our exclusive sit down with Jonathan Brash, his first interview since those disastrous local elections for the Labour Party, I'm joined now by GB News's national reporter Will Godley who joins us live from Downing Street. Will Godley, it's been a nightmare on Downing Street for the Prime Minister today. And the breaking news line now we understand the man of the moment perhaps the big challenger Wes Streeting set to have a showdown meeting with the prime minister first thing in the morning. way. He meant when it's convenient for the prime.
>> Well, it's certainly been an incredible 24 hours, hasn't it, Martin, for British politics, but also a very busy 24 hours for those inside 10 Downing Street here, fighting to keep the prime minister's premiership alive. Right now, he can still call 10 Downing Street his home, but one thing is for clear is clear. He is presiding over an increasingly divided Labor party. We know on the one hand you've got a hundred or more MPs in his party telling him to stay and not have a leadership contest, but you've got almost the same number of MPs on the other side calling for him to resign. As of right now, it's about 92 Labor MPs calling on his resignation, including four government ministers. Today, we've heard from Mata Farm, the communities minister, health minister, Zabur Ahmed, victims minister Alex Davies Jones, and Jess Phillips as well. safeguarding minister or more or less using similar language to call for the same thing. The prime minister's resignation telling him to act in the country's interest and exercise his national duty to step aside. But the prime minister talking to cabinet earlier telling him he will not resign. He told his cabinet that the country expects us to keep on governing and he says that's what I'm going to do and we must do as a cabinet. And he also crucially told the cabinet that the process to initiate any leadership challenge has not yet been triggered.
For that to happen, the prime minister would either have to resign. He said he's not going to do that. Or any one candidate would need a fifth of Labour's MPs to back them. The prime minister is banking on the fact that no candidate yet has that support. He's effectively told them, "Go on, challenge me." He doesn't feel that they can do yet. And at the moment it seems we're in a bit of a Mexican standoff where there's a lot of talk, not much action. And amid all of this, the deputy prime minister this afternoon has urged his MPs to stop this infighting.
>> He has my full support. And what I'd say to colleagues is look, let's just step back, take a breath. Let's remember that we have the king speech. We are in government to do a job of work. It's been 24 hours now and nobody has come forward to put themsel forward in the processes that exist in the party. No one seems to have the names to stand up against K star. And for those who are uh suggesting that he should stand down, they should say which candidate would be better. Let's get on with the business of running this country and government.
That's what I've been doing today.
That's what the prime minister's been doing.
>> Well, publicly any challenges have been very quiet, but in private, lots of action has been going on behind the scenes. And as you say, Martin, this evening, it's been reported that West Streeting will hold talks with the prime minister in Downing Street right here tomorrow morning. Will he tell him he'll be looking to take his job? Well, we'll have to wait and see what he'll say tomorrow.
>> Well, Godly, an astonishing day in British politics and it's not over yet.
Thank you very much for joining us live from downry. Just to recap, 10 resignations in 24 hours. Four government ministers going today alone.
92 now in total moving against the prime minister. The man of the moment, West Streeting, Ben Simmons tomorrow morning to Downing Street. The prime minister very very much not out of the woods by a long chalk. And now it's time for GB News's exclusive interview with Jonathan Brash, the first Labour MP to call for scared armor to walk away.
Well, I'm joined now by my panel, the former Conservative MP and the Minister Srano J. Wner and the journalist and the former press secretaries Patty Ashdown, Joe Phillips. Before we get to our interview with Jonathan Brash, the man of the moment, as it were, the first one to call for sec to go, let's pause and look at where we are. It's been an it's been a calamitous day. Some might say disastrous since last Thursday when the Labour Party shed hundreds and hundreds of seats. The party has been spiraling towards oblivion. Now the move against the prime minister. We were told this government would end the psycho drama.
End the chaos. This is the embodiment.
It's a nightmare on Downing Street.
>> Yes. Um and it brings me no pleasure to say that because actually it's not in the national interest for this to happen whether it was under our watch or indeed now under Labor. And uh you know I think um having lived through two of these moments uh under Boris and under Liz um uh you know it's not pretty for anyone involved. But the point here is that you know Labour MPs have heard um from their constituents from counselors who have fallen uh in the local elections last week and they feel really strongly about it. Um the difference um between them and Conservative activists who might have done the same um is that the Labour Party doesn't have an easy way to get rid of a leader. Um the Conservative Party has the 1922 committee. We'll hear from Lord Brady later. Um but the Labour Party doesn't have that mechanism and so it's very hard to unseat an incumbent leader.
>> Okay, let's now now go to our sitdown with Jonathan Brash. It's time for a brash attack.
>> My view hasn't changed. I think it's the right thing now for the prime minister to set a clear timetable for his departure from the job. I think that speaks to the issue at hand is this is not some, you know, fringe effort on behalf of a small number of MPs. This is right across the party and representing views right across the party. Now, they believe we need a change. And the reality is, you know, we're see starting to see ministers resign now. a prime minister can only govern you know if he has his team behind him and I think the question mark now is how long he will be able to command the confidence of ministers of the PLP you know we have the king's speech coming tomorrow you know this Labor government cannot get reelected without red wall constituencies like Harley it cannot deliver beyond 2029 without those uh areas and I think you know party members can be pragmatic and I think they have to understand that this is this is about the soul of the tree.
>> It was Jonathan Brash sat down with GB News's Gloria Deiro earlier on. Joe Phillips are going to bring you in now.
I think Jonathan Brash raises an excellent point there and that is the the red wall completely abandoned by this party. Sakius Dharma throwing Brexit land under the bus in his speech yesterday. A complete abandonment of the working class and a prime minister who seems addicted to getting closer to Brussels.
>> Well, there are many many things to unpack. First of all, I would say that Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, and Rishi Sunnak all saw losses of more than a thousand seats during council elections when they were prime ministers and they didn't resign because of it. I think the Labour Party needs to grow up. Um, this is not in the public interest. We saw the chaos that happened with Boris Johnson with Liz Truss um and the shenanigans that were going on when um Ran's party were in office and it doesn't do anybody any good. We're be you know Georgia Maloney for goodness sake the prime minister is Italy has been in power for longer than any of our last prime ministers and Italy always used to be the basket case and we need that stability now. There is no >> got stability. The opposite.
>> We're not going to have stability when there is no obvious contender to take over.
>> Well, I think there are some obvious contenders. Some of them have been putting themselves about. Others uh we can guess.
>> Well, maybe. But you know, Andy Bernham, who we may discuss in more detail later, he can't stand because he's not an MP.
Um >> under the Labour Party's rules, not under the constitution.
>> No, but under the Labour Party rules. It may be the sensible thing to do is that Kama says right okay I will have an orderly transition and I'll go in the autumn at party conference and then they've got to work it out but you know there are too many serious things going on Martin there are two wars there's Ukraine and the Middle East the the country is on tent hooks all the time the economy is in a mess and we need the government to actually get on with the stuff that they I've promised to do.
>> The British electorate aren't focused on the war in the Middle East or Ukraine.
They're focused on the cost of living.
They're focused on this government imploding. They're focused on being called far right for for complaining about immigration. That's the point.
Never here is obsessed with foreign policy. Sort Britain out.
>> Well, the effect on the cost of living from the war in the Middle East is being felt by every single person who has to fill up their car with or their van with petrol or diesel. We are all paying the price for that as we did with shortages of food and fertilizer coming from Ukraine when that war first broke out.
So, you know, we can't say let's live in Little England and pretend these things don't affect us cuz they do.
>> But, you know, that argument could well have then equally been deployed uh when K Star himself was calling for Boris Johnson uh to resign. So, you know, the Ukraine war had begun. Um and one of the arguments at the time was well you can't change a prime minister in the midst of this um real crisis.
>> The reason Boris Johnson had to go with he was a liar and he lied to the public and he lied to parliament and he lied to the queen.
>> Well I would look I would observe that Kama whipped his MPs to stop himself being investigated by the privileges committee. That's just a matter of fact I'm not casting any Boris Johnson is a serial lawyer. But I think that the the point here is that Labour MPs um have concluded having heard from constituents and heard from a lot of counselors who've lost their seats. And I think that's where the emotional case for this uh has come from. Um they've heard from those people that actually we've got to change the direction of the party otherwise we've got no hope of winning councils back in the future but also holding Labor Party seats that have been held for generations. But I would just observe some of the stuff around cost of living.
Well, yeah, but actually it's not all about foreign policy. It's because taxes have gone up. It's because, you know, more people are now on benefit and therefore, you know, actually government spending's had to go up. It's because there's higher youth unemployment, fewer young people in work, which is causing >> things that the government should have dealt with, you know, those are the things that they promised to do. But they promised to do it and and you know he was um cowed and forced to retreat. I mean you know the first thing he could do actually is get rid of Rachel Reeves.
The you know the other thing he could do is >> another body goes under the bus.
>> What about admitting it's the captain of the ship?
>> He is not the most popular prime minister we've ever had it. um you know and there is no doubt about it and I'm sure for Labour you know activists and counselors and people who are and lots of these MPs Martin are on very wafer thin majorities but they're also very inexperienced and that I don't think it does the party of government >> much good to put themselves first.
>> Okay Joe Rana we have to leave there.
Thank you very much indeed. Now, as the prime minister faces his downfall, I'll be joined by the former chairman of the 1922 committee, Lord Brady, who knows more about the end of Prime Minister's days than most people on the planet.
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And welcome back to Jubile News Tonight with me Martin Dora as sec continues to fight to save his premiership, his very political life against a wave of resignations and call for him to get the job. It is of course reflecting on it is of course worth reflecting on what has now come to be known as the Tory psycho drama.
>> It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister. But as we've seen at Westminster, the herd instinct is powerful. When the herd moves, it moves.
And of course following Boris Johnson's resignation then came the swift ascent and descent of the lettuce Liz Truss before culminating in Richie Sunnak overseeing one of the Conservative Party's worst defeats in electoral history.
>> I will shortly be seeing his majesty the king to offer my resignation as prime minister.
To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry.
Well, Tory leader after Tory leader, they fell. And throughout all of that period, one man operating behind the scenes was my next guest, Lord Graham Brady, the then chairman of the 1922 committee, the group that sets the governing rules of the party. I'm delighted now to be joined by the Conservative peer and the former chairman of the 1922 committee, Lord Brady. Lord Brady, it's a pleasure to have your company. Well, you've certainly seen them come and you've certainly seen them go. How do you think the calamitous state of Sakia Storma now faces up to some of the ones you've seen go out the door?
>> Well, I I think the most remarkable thing is that we're far less than 2 years in from a general election where Kia Star and the Labour Party secured a massive landslide. Now, of course, as we know, it was the famous loveless landslide. Very few people actually voted for them. It was people fed up with the Conservatives and fed up with other people voting against people rather than for them. But nonetheless, to have that massive majority in the House of Commons and to be facing this kind of turmoil now is utterly astonishing. Uh so yeah, I've seen some pretty remarkable things go on over the 14 years I was chairman of the 22. Uh I've never seen anything quite like this. You know, so Boris Johnson of Boris Johnson may pawn obviously said when the herd moves, the herd moves. The herd is certainly moving now going towards some kind of stampede 92 and demanding Sakir Stalmer goes. Do you think with all your vast experience Lord Brady the time has come come for Sakir Starma to do the longest walk?
>> Well, it's very hard to know and you know I think from my point of view as a conservative I'm worried that you might see whoever takes over being just as bad or worse. The real problem is the socialist policies that are being implemented which are doing enormous damage to the country and are stopping the economic growth which is supposedly the central mission of the government.
But if you look at the numbers, sure, 92 calling for him to go, it's still less than a quarter of the parliamentary Labor Party. And if you look back to the rules that we had in the 1922 committee, if you had 15% uh writing to the chairman of the 1922 committee calling for a confidence vote, that vote would take place. It happened twice. It happened once when Theresa May was prime minister and once when Boris Johnson was prime minister. It was difficult always for anybody to get to that threshold. Uh and even when they did, both of those confidence votes resulted in the incumbent winning, albeit not a commanding majority, but they both got about 60% of the parliamentary parties supporting them.
And I suspect that Karma's looking at these figures and thinking it might be much the same that he's got about a quarter, bit less than a quarter, of his parliamentary party publicly calling for him to go. Although some of them want him to go now and some would quite like it to be several months in the future.
Uh perhaps when they have another candidate they might prefer available to elect. Uh but he might think that that is uh the whole of the evident dissatisfaction with him within the parliamentary labor party. So you know again you've got what four ministers now residing mostly pretty junior ministers um not really legends in their own households. Um, and you compare that to what what what brought uh Boris's time to a close when he had over 50 members of the government, including senior cabinet ministers, uh, resigning over a period of a day or two. Uh, so I I think probably Karma is looking at what's going on at the moment and thinking it might be containable.
>> Wow. Thank you very much for joining us and sharing your expertise. As ever, that's a conservative peer and former chairman of the 1922 committee, Lord Brady. Thank you for your time, sir.
Back to my panel now of course I'm still joined thank you sir by the former conservative MP and minister Srano Jay a winner and the journalist and former press secretary to Patty Ashdown Joe Phillips Srano I shall start with you the thing that defined Saki Starma in opposition was that gleaming halo the sanctimonious glow demanding anybody quit leave their post resign for any indiscretion no matter how small what's it going to take for this guy to fall on his sword >> you you're absolutely right to highlight ite the double standard and I think that's what people up and down the country have been so angry about since almost day one. Um people will remember Angela Raina and Karma both attacking Boris on taking free wallpaper for the Numberton flat. Not something he could then take with him I might add. So that was given to the taxpayer in effect. But um then one of the first things that they did was to take free suits, free glasses, free trips. Um and that really jarred with people the sense of double standards, hypocrisy. So I think that's right. Um also I think people are really clear that uh what was promised um has not been delivered. Um so there's a sense there was promise of economic growth but what we've seen is an economy flatlining and now performing less well than many other countries uh around the world. um we've got the highest youth unemployment um that we've ever had, higher than Europe for the first time ever. And those are the sorts of things that are concerning many people across this country. So, it's no surprise that people voted um against Labor, but that's the factor, isn't it? People are voting against things now. They voted against the Conservative Party, not necessarily for Labor. And that's perhaps why Labor escaped a lot of scrutiny prior to the 2024 general election. It was about getting the Tories out. And I think Labour lent into that, but the chickens are coming home to roost.
>> Are we now, Joe Phillips, as you said, in this doom cycle, if you like, of two-year prime ministers at max, you know, people just are sick to the back teeth of of of prime ministers very, very quickly. And in particular, one who was, let's face it, seems to be so sanctimonious and now hypocritical. He's in power doing all of the things he accused Boris Johnson of, but he won't resign. He won't walk. He's clinging on to power for for dear life.
>> Let's see. I mean, I thought Graham Brady put everything into a very good perspective. You know, it is less than a quarter of the parliamentary Labor Party at the moment. Um, >> look at the votes on Thursday.
>> Yeah, but >> car crash.
>> But it doesn't mean anything, Martin.
They're local elections. It wasn't a general election. And yes, Ronald's absolutely right.
>> You don't think it was a referendum on Sec.
>> It shouldn't be. It should have been a vote on um on >> it should have been a vote for local councils but of course councils always come up as a thing and that's partly because of people like us in the media who say it's a vote on Kharma or Nigel Farage or Kemmy Benog or Ed Davyy or Palanski.
>> We heard that time and time again all across Britain.
>> Yes, we've heard that. It's wrong because the things that people were voting on are not in many cases the things that local government has got the power um or the money like Palestine or the Green Party banged on about that.
>> Precisely. So, you know, a local authority has got no power on that. So, actually it's a fairly pointless vote.
It's a protest vote. I think Ronald's point is absolutely right. People are voting against things. But we've also got the a public that I think you know in a sense the public we get um the politicians we deserve. Politicians do not always come up front and Kier said he would. He didn't do it when it came to welfare reform. He didn't you know face down his backbenches who were going oh no you can't cut that. He he won't come out and say you know we've got to cut the triple lock. But what they did, the first thing they did was to cut the winter fuel allowance out of nobody knew about it.
>> Yeah. Winter fuel farmers disastrous choices after disastrous choices. We have to leave it there. Thank you to my panel. Coming up in just a moment's time.
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As the end for ski armor edges ever closer, we'll also be looking at what the road to number 10 down streets could look like for the Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. There's been all out war promised from Reform UK, from Nigel Faroj, and from the Green Party. That's next.
>> Hello, very good evening to you. I'm here with your GB News weather forecast from the Met Office. Lots of showers to come as we go through the next 24 hours and a bit of thunder and some strong gusty winds perhaps towards the west as well. Currently, there is a front that's making its way southwards across the country. It's brought a bit of cloud, bit of rain, but also cooler, fresher air across the bulk of the country. And so, as a result, we start the night across England and Wales with clear skies. So, it's going to turn quite chilly. But, as the showers in the north become more widespread, we see the winds picking up a little bit. We're actually going to see temperatures lifting a little bit. So, first thing tomorrow morning for many, it's not going to be quite as chilly as it has been through some recent starts. Nonetheless, in some places, it could be a bit fresh, a bit cool. For example, across some parts of Scotland, temperatures may drop low enough for a touch of frost. But the big talking point will be the fact that there are going to be so many showers around. Plenty of blustery showers towards the northwest. Frequent showers across many other places, some of them falling a little snow over higher ground. showers across parts of Northern Ireland, much of England and Wales, some of them will be heavy, some of them could turn thundery as we go through the day, especially towards eastern parts.
And whilst there will be some drier, even brighter weather in between, sunshine is going to be pretty limited.
Now, as we go through the day, we are going to see winds strengthening particularly down the western side of the country. So, watch out for some blustery conditions here, also around parts of the southwest. And those blustery winds will make it feel cooler at times, especially seeing that temperatures are down a few degrees compared to today for many of us. More showery weather to come as we go through the next few days. So, Thursday's also looking quite showery. Perhaps inland areas seeing fewer showers, but many coastal parts towards the west are seeing plenty of them and the showers becoming a bit more widespread really as we go through the day. Friday maybe a drier day for many of us and we stick with that drier theme at least to the start of the weekend and temperatures should rise a bit as well.
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Welcome back to GB J tonight with me Mson Dorby. Now as the prime minister battles to save his embattled premiership Andy Bernham has rapidly emerged as one of the favorites to replace Saki Thmer despite not even holding a seat in Westminster. He's not even of course an MP. Now, the mayor of Greater Manchester was spotted at Houston station in central London today, further fueling speculation. He could be plotting a route, a return to Westminster, even cancelled an event, setting tongues wagging. He's on maneuvers. But here's the big point. His path back to the Commons and potentially next number 10 is far from straightforward. This afternoon, both Reform UK and the Green Party are expected to throw absolutely everything at a potential bi-election and wage allout war to block Burnham. I'm delighted now to be joined in the studio by the chairman of the London Green Party, Eugene McCarthy, as well as my panel and of course the former Conservative MP and Minister Sran Jner and the journalist and former press secretary to Patty Ashdown, Joe Phillips. Eugene McCarthy, let's start with you. People are saying, "So, so where is this mythical safe seat that Andy Bernham could simply plop into, swivel up the votes, and be anointed as an MP and next the challenger to Sakia Star?" I put it to you, there's no such thing as a safe seat for Labor Party anymore. Reform UK would gun for them in places like Manchester, his own manner.
They did tremendously well to the locals and your party, the Greens would be gutting for him in any so-called leftwing seats. I'd be inclined to agree there. We saw in the local elections the places where Labour seemed to hold on and even make gains were in some of the leafiest most wellto-do parts of the country like certain parts of London.
So, I think if Andy Bernham were to try to find a seat, the electoral maths would say that would be the place to go.
But even in those places, you know, forget Greens and the reform, the Conservatives are also going to be out to get him. If in certain parts of London, for example, some of the seats that I've seen um on the short list for where Andy Burton could stand in places like Norwich South historically, like very strong Labour seats that has Clive Lewis there who previously >> 75% Green Party likelihood of victory there.
>> Exactly. Exactly. a lot of these seats that they're lining up as potential places for Burnham to go. We're already on track to win with the current polls and that's not even including a ground campaign and we showed in the local elections that where we campaign we can be ferocious campaigners and where we get our message out we really do win people over. So that it's going to be very difficult for Andy Burnham to find anywhere really that's a safe seat for him to come in.
>> I think you're exactly right. Now though, we've got some breaking news for you and it's this bit of a news treat.
GB News's very own Beth Turner has called up President Donald Trump and asked him whether he thinks Sakia Star can stay in the job and I'm delighted now to be joined from the White House by GBN News presenter Bev Turner. Bev, once again, you've had the ear of the president. Once again, he's steamed into star. Tell us more.
>> Thank you, Martin. Yeah. Well, there are a few journalists in this town who have President Trump's direct mobile phone number. Extraordinary as that is, it is a fact. And so earlier today with all of this going on, I watched GB News in my apartment. I was watching you actually Martin earlier and I put a couple of boiled eggs on for my lunch and I thought I'll just try the president and see if he picks up. And he did. So it rang a couple of times and then he picked up and said hello. And I just reminded him uh who I was. I said, "It's Bev Turner from GB News. I'd just like to ask you a question about the situation in the UK if you don't mind terribly as we said I don't have long but go ahead uh so I asked him why did he think the prime minister has lost the support of the country recently and he said this Martin let me tell you what he said word for word he said his two biggest problems are energy and immigration those he said are his two big problems he should open up the North Sea immediately and get your energy running the right way and he's got to stop illegal legal migration. President Trump has been categorical about this for the last almost two years now that Storm has been in office. He claims that these are the two reasons. Now, he would say that without a decent energy policy, our bills are going to be so much higher. Our energy in the UK, we on pay on average three to four times what they pay here in America. And of course, that's affecting lots of businesses. The President Trump's given us his solution to that. and illegal migration. It's an issue that he's fixed convincingly, categorically here in America, and he looks across the pond and thinks that Kharma should do the same. So that's his opinion today. He's actually just left the White House in the last few moments.
He's got on to Air Force One. He's heading over to China for a two or three day visit there with President Xi. He has lots of meetings uh with the two of them lined up. Lots of formalities we're going to see over in China in the next 3 days. But that Martin is what he told me and GB News just a few moments ago about the situation that Kier Starmmer finds himself in.
>> Bev Turner, I always knew you're a hardboiled journalist, but please tell me you managed to switch your eggs off.
>> It was a very short call, Martin. the eggs weren't the eggs were still running when I got back to it. Um, but you know, he he he's he supports uh the UK as we know. He's constantly saying what a big place in his heart the prime minister that he has for the United Kingdom that his mother was Scottish. He wants our country to do well. It was relatively diplomatic in terms of the response that you can sometimes get from President Trump. We'll be discussing it of course all later this evening on the Late Show Live as well from Midnight UK.
Magnificent Bev Turner there from midnight on GB News just phoning President Trump but he just picked up and spoke to you. Amazing stuff. Thank you very much indeed Bev Turner. Back to the studio now still joined by the chairman of London Green Party Eugene McCarthy as well as my panel. Eugene let's start with you Donald Trump there.
All of our problems could be solved if we just drill baby drill and close the borders. Two policies I think you're completely dead against. I think to be honest if K star could just change those two things and you know make everything all of his problems go away he'd be very very happy but I mean the list of problems that this Labor government is facing is probably too long to recall.
They've got a Labor parliamentary Labour party MPs who seemingly can't agree with the prime minister on anything. We've had coup after coup. We've had U-turn after U-turn on a variety of things from welfare and disability, the winter fuel allowance. We've got a housing crisis that is particularly affecting my generation. There's so many issues. I think, you know, it it might in Donald Trump's view help if um the Labour Party started drilling in the North Sea again.
It wouldn't I I don't think it would affect hardly anything. We have so so many issues in this country and the public are very much letting Karma know as they did with the local elections last week where Labour got a walloping.
>> Okay, thank you very much Eugene. Joe Phillips, I can see you there rolling your eyes as once again Donald Trump is with a waft of the wrist solving all of our problems here.
>> I'd have rather heard from the boiled eggs, frankly. I mean, frankly, who cares what Donald Trump thinks? Um, he, you know, he doesn't want anyone criticizing his government or his administration for all the appalling things they've done like shooting people, rounding people up, detaining people, separating children from their families. But he feels he's got a right to criticize our government. He hasn't.
He's got an opinion which he's entitled to. I wish he'd keep it to himself. And I'm surprised he didn't take Beverly to China.
>> Well, maybe he might. Don't give him an ideas. S does have a point though. I mean, a huge backlash at the local elections and no doubt at the next general election will be the ability the inability that this government has to control our borders and the impoverished nature of our energy sector and our addiction to net zero drill, baby drill and closing the borders to me sound eminently sensible.
>> Well, I think for the first time ever I'm going to agree with Eugene and say that I think you know if Saki Starama was able to say I'll fix these two problems and I will be saved. Um he would be very happy. Um, and the list as we discussed earlier goes far uh longer than that. But on energy, it comes back to the point Joe made at the top of the show that the cost of living is a big problem. Part of that is um uh the fact that so many people are out of works.
Part of that is the tax rates that people are paying, but part of it is what are people using their income on?
And that's energy. And energy is a significant cost. We pay some of the highest energy bit bills in um Europe uh if not the world. And that's that is a challenge for um this government and indeed any future government not just also importantly not just on cost of energy but on energy security. So um you know it's absolutely right and maybe I'm going to agree again with the green party you're on the team but which is perhaps we disagree on the outcome but we need to provide energy security and we've got to diversify the supply of energy that we have.
>> So right now Joe Eugene McGathi thank you to you all. Well, now coming up in just a moment's time, we've taken a look ahead to tomorrow morning where a rumored showdown. A crisis meeting between Sakia Star and Westing is expected. That's next.
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Yes. Welcome back to G News Tonight with me Martin Dorby. It's a nightmare on Downing Street special edition.
>> DO YOU WANT TO BE PRIME MINISTER?
>> WHERE STREING? ARE YOU MEASURING THE CURTAINS? DO YOU WANT THE CASE TO NUMBER 10, MR. STREING?
>> The journalists, they baze for the prime minister's blood. And that was West Streeting earlier on today and breaking this evening. Reports suggest that the health secretary will return to Downing Street tomorrow morning for crunch showdown talks with Sigir Stalmer ahead of the king's speech. Now Mr. Streeting is expected to meet the prime minister what's been described as a showdown meeting as the Labour civil war over the prime minister's future deepens and deepens. I'm joined in the studio by my panel. Uh that is of course the former Conservative MP and minister Srano J.
WER and the journalist and the former press secretaries to Patty Ashdown, Joe Phillips and of course Hoving View as a vision of course as ever sir Jacob Reesemog states to the nation is up next but sir Jacob I like your take please on let's face it now it's that word it's a psycho drama it's a total psycho drama it's a nightmare on Downing Street and this is precisely the kind of thing in opposition Takis demanded resignations over and yet in power he's clinging on for dear life >> he's clinging on for dear life and where streeting has a big decision to make and I think we can always find a quotation from Shakespeare and we've got one I've got one particularly for streeting today which is I am in blood steeped so far that should I wade no more returning was as tedious as go that he has pushed this to the limit he cannot now retreat without being ruined if he doesn't man his candidature it means he hasn't got the numbers if he hasn't got the numbers he is never going to be leader of the Labour party, he must declare and frankly put the nation out of its misery and then we can see if others come forward. Hanging on for Andrew Bernham is bonkers because there is no bi-election in the world that he can win. They would have to create a special constituency for him with only one voter and he'd probably lose that. I mean it is ridiculous never neverland. So they've got to crack on with it.
Streeting is the man of the moment. He needs to say this to Stalmer's face tomorrow and then we need to get on with having leadership election and get some >> Star says to streeting right either put up or shut up >> which is what John Major did of course very famously and it worked for him >> but here's the big point to throw back to Shakespeare will reading to be or not to be the prime minister. I mean he he's wanted it he's been desperate for it for years but when is he going to just where's where's get on with it. Yes. And surely he's got the 80 supporters by now. And we're nearly a hundred who say they haven't got confidence in the prime minister. And very often of those hundred, there'll be many who don't particularly mind who it is as long as it's somebody a little bit more credible than the current leader. They're just desperate to get rid of Stalmer. And then the letter signed by a hundred saying they support Starmmer. First of all, they don't announce the names. And then a number who were supposed to be supportive of it have said, "Well, it wasn't me." So even his supporting effort is chaotic. Star's finished.
She's just got to recognize this. And I I appreciate it's difficult. I was in the bunker in the last hours of Boris and I was very very supportive of Boris and would have liked him to go on and would have backed him if he' chosen to do so. But Boris had the wit to realize that the game was up.
>> And is that the difference ran that Sakir armor he seems to be utterly tinered to reality?
>> He's focused on the legal argument once again. And the legal argument is until someone actually puts forward a nomination backed by 80 MPs, he believes he is safe. And that, I'm afraid, sums up uh why we are where we are. That he's focused on the legal argument, whether it was on Chaos or uh or anything else uh through to this leadership contest.
It's always been about the law.
>> Okay. Well, State of the Nation is up next. We got a minute left, Sir Jacob, as well as this latest nightmare. Ooh, someone just photobombed this.
>> Nice.
>> What's on your menu, sir?
>> What are we going to be talking about?
Well, of course, we're going to be talking about all that's going on. The king's speech tomorrow. Does the great paniply of state in force give any sucker to Kstarma's position? I very much doubt it. I've got Aubrey Aligretti from the Times to tell us what he thinks and the Times is very well connected. So we'll give us all the inside gossip and scoops but also Andrew Bowie and John Crier Lord Crier who will be my panel and again John Cry is intimately connected with the Labour regime. He knows what's going on. He'll know the mood of people. I think he's known where treating since Wes was a 16-year-old. So he really does know stuff. So we're going to try and get into the details of what's happening. Try and understand what happens next and wait for the king's speech tomorrow. I I fear that the calf died in vain for that piece of vellum that needed to be produced for the king's speech to be written on. We mourn the poor calf that gave up its life hoping for a constitutional world.
>> Super. We have to go. Thank you, Joe.
Thank you, Seno. Stakes the nation is up next with Jacob Reese Mog and I'll see you tomorrow at 3 p.m. Stick with him.
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Hello. Very good evening to you. I'm here with your GB News weather forecast from the Met Office. Lots of showers to come as we go through the next 24 hours and a bit of thunder and some strong gusty winds perhaps towards the west as well. Currently there is a front that's making its way southwards across the country. It's brought a bit of cloud, a bit of rain, but also cooler, fresher air across the bulk of the country. And so, as a result, we start the night across England and Wales with clear skies. So, it's going to turn quite chilly. But, as the showers in the north become more widespread, we see the winds picking up a little bit. We're actually going to see temperatures lifting a little bit. So, first thing tomorrow morning for many, it's not going to be quite as chilly as it has been through some recent starts. Nonetheless, in some places, it could be a bit fresh, a bit cool. For example, across some parts of Scotland, temperatures may drop low enough for a touch of frost. But the big talking point will be the fact that there are going to be so many showers around. Plenty of blustery showers towards the northwest. Frequent showers across many other places. Some of them falling a little snow over higher ground. Showers across parts of Northern Ireland, much of England and Wales. Some of them will be heavy. Some of them could turn thundery as we go through the day, especially towards eastern parts.
And whilst there will be some drier, even brighter weather in between, sunshine is going to be pretty limited.
Now, as we go through the day, we are going to see winds strengthening, particularly down the western side of the country. So, watch out for some blustery conditions here, also around parts of the southwest. And those blustery winds will make it feel cooler at times, especially seeing that temperatures are down a few degrees compared to today for many of us. More showery weather to come as we go through the next few days. So Thursday is also looking quite showery. Perhaps inland areas seeing fewer showers, but many coastal parts towards the west are seeing plenty of them and the showers becoming a bit more widespread really as we go through the day. Friday maybe a drier day for many of us and we stick with that drier theme at least to the start of the weekend and temperatures should rise a bit as well.
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