channel. >> hello. and a very warm welcome to gb news sunday. thank you very much for your company this lunchtime . i'm darren this lunchtime. i'm darren grimes, and for the next two hours, i'll be keeping you company on tv, online and on digital radio. coming up in this houn digital radio. coming up in this hour. suella braverman has slammed rishi sunak, saying the local and mayoral election losses are the consequences of his decisions . the former home his decisions. the former home secretary says the prime minister needs to own the results and therefore needs to fix it . we'll be discussing fix it. we'll be discussing what, if anything, the conservatives can do to save themselves. it's claimed meghan markle will stay away from the uk this week. are you delighted with insiders saying she's worried she'll be booed by the public? but what will the response be to harry as he commences his trip for the invictus games? and is it a welcome return for the prince and rochdale mp george galloway

has stormed out of an interview today after he was challenged on comments he made last week about gay marriage and actually same sex relationships in general. we'll be taking a closer look . we'll be taking a closer look. but as you well know by now, this show is nothing without you and your views. let me know your thoughts on all of the stories me and my panel will be discussing today by visiting gb news. com forward slash your say. join the conversation there or message us on our socials. we're @gbnews. first of all though, here's your news headunes though, here's your news headlines with ray addison . headlines with ray addison. >> thanks, darren. good afternoon . 1:01. our top stories afternoon. 1:01. our top stories this hour. former home secretary suella braverman has told gb news that mr sunak needs to urgently change course following

dire local and mayoral election results . the prime minister dire local and mayoral election results. the prime minister has promised to take the fight to labour despite losing 397 council seats and losing control of ten councils. miss braverman says mr sunak must make bold decisions. >> there's no time to change leader, so the prime minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. what he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem, these terrible results, and quickly and urgently change course. so make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from . put a can feel and benefit from. put a cap on legal migration. take us out of the european convention on human rights so that we actually stop the boats and make sure that we reclaim our streets back from the extremists . back from the extremists. >> well, we also spoke to transport secretary mark harper. he told us it's time to rally around the leader. >> i think all conservatives now

need to get behind the prime minister as the chairman said in his article this morning, and take that message to the country. we see from the analysis that experts have done that the results show that the position is closer than the polls are suggesting. so it's everything is delightful for the next election and we're absolutely up for that fight. >> sadiq khan is beginning his third term as london mayor after securing a majority of 275,000 over conservative rival susan hall. mr khan has accused the tories of running a campaign of fear mongering and non—stop negativity. he also said that london had rejected hard right wing populism . miss hall is wing populism. miss hall is urging him to reform the met police and make london safe again. mccann says he's excited for the future. >> londoners want to see a change in government and what they're excited about is the chance of a labour mayor working with a labour government led by keir starmer. i'm excited. the last time that happened was 20

years ago and us working together. keir, the cabinet and labour mayor londoners will see a transformed city. i can't wait i >> -- >> sir keir starmer says he's determined to win back the trust of voters who turned away from the labour party over its stance on gaza. they lost some council seats to independents and to george galloway's workers party of britain . pat mcfadden is vice of britain. pat mcfadden is vice chair of labour friends of israel . he chair of labour friends of israel. he told us the party will support palestinians whilst in government, but two things have guided our position all along. >> one is the one that you just mentioned, which is israel's right to defend itself. after the appalling attacks on october 7 that will remain. we will stick up for that . but we also stick up for that. but we also want to see a better future for the palestinian people. and if we were to be elected at the coming election, that would be a big foreign policy priority for us. >> us. >> some news just in, one child has died and four other people have been hospitalised after a

house fire in bradford. emergency services were called to kingsdale drive in the early hours of this morning. a woman and three children managed to escape the property with non—life threatening injuries. west yorkshire police say a fourth child was pronounced dead at the scene . the cause of the at the scene. the cause of the blaze is not yet known . on to blaze is not yet known. on to more news now and more than 8500 small boat migrants have crossed the english channel so far this year after more than 250 made the illegal journey on saturday, gb news can reveal that another small boat crossed into uk waters this morning, with at least 50 people on board this yean least 50 people on board this year, crossings are now 35% higher than the same period of 2023. ministers have blamed the increase in numbers on a surge increase in numbers on a surge in migrants from vietnam . around in migrants from vietnam. around 32,000 properties are still without running water in east sussex due to a burst pipe there. southern water has issued an apology to customers in saint

leonards on sea, hastings and westfield as they enter their fourth day of disruption. in a statement, the firm said that they hope the supply will start to gradually return throughout today and finally , australian today and finally, australian police say a 16 year old boy killed after stabbing a man in perth had been radicalised online. the teenager was shot dead on saturday night after stabbing a victim in the back with a kitchen knife . he then with a kitchen knife. he then rushed at police officers. authorities say the attack indicated terrorism and there were signs of mental health issues to write. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's back to . darren. to. darren. >> thanks as ever, ray. let's get stuck into today's topic, shall we? it's been a dire weekend for the tories. i think

that's safe to say, with the party losing close to 500 councillors in the local elections, including high profile casualties like the conservative mayor of the west midlands, andy street , who lost midlands, andy street, who lost to labour's richard parker in a knife edge vote, rishi sunak said he was disappointed but determined to press ahead with his plans to deliver a brighter future for the country. well joining me now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley , who's in westminster, and utley, who's in westminster, and gb news reporterjack utley, who's in westminster, and gb news reporter jack carson utley, who's in westminster, and gb news reporterjack carson . gb news reporter jack carson. who's in the west midlands, olivia , i'll start with you in olivia, i'll start with you in westminster. the reaction to these losses, do you think the conservatives are accepting that actually, things ain't looking too rosy for them ? too rosy for them? >> well, i think the conservatives are being very realistic about this. they know that the results over this weekend have been truly, truly disastrous . the question is, disastrous. the question is, what do they do about it? of

course , there is a little band course, there is a little band of plotters at the centre of westminster , conservative westminster, conservative plotters who would like to see rishi sunak overthrown before the next election. guys who would like to try their luck with a different leader. but that doesn't seem to be the consensus opinion. most conservative mps think that , conservative mps think that, however bad it's looking at the moment, changing leader having a fifth leader, i think it is in as many years would be an even worse look for the party. so they're sort of reluctantly sticking by rishi sunak. they're sort of reluctantly sticking by rishi sunak . there sticking by rishi sunak. there is a question over what policy direction the party should take to andy street. the very well respected mayor of the west midlands who lost his position yesterday, and that knife edge vote, said in no uncertain terms in his very gracious resignation speech that the conservatives must not tack to the right. meanwhile, you've got politicians like suella braverman , who's appeared on the braverman, who's appeared on the media rounds this morning on gb news this morning, saying that the conservative party needs to

do exactly that, needs to move to the right. so i think that's going to be a question which is going to be a question which is going to be on the lips of many conservative mps over the next few days and weeks. and i think what we could start to see is, rather than a, fight for the leadership of the party, we could see a fight for the sort of soul of the party. what message is the conservative party going to give voters at the next election? in the short term, though, it very much feels as though conservatives have accepted already defeat at this general election in 2024. what they're looking at now is damage limitation . they want to make limitation. they want to make sure that they don't lose the next election two, and that they don't have an opposition so weak in the next parliament that a labour government can get through anything it likes. so that's what they're thinking about now. they're not even talking about winning anymore. >> yes, olivia, i just have to reassure our viewers that you're not actually wearing a crown. and it is indeed the london eye that's behind your head there, but jack carson , i'm going to but jack carson, i'm going to bnngin but jack carson, i'm going to bring in you. it was a very

dramatic scene, actually, in the west midlands with a recount and then going through it, and it was a very close in the end. just how disappointed must andy street be? >> well, in a very simple word, after the result , andy street, after the result, andy street, you know, put it quite bluntly that he was devastated to have lost this election. he thought he'd been quite a successful mayor over the two terms that he held this position. i mean, he was the first mayor here in the combined authority for the west midlands. much of what it is today has been shaped by him. he thought, and stood in the election, that he could stand on his personal record, bringing in billions of pounds worth of funding to the west midlands, extending things like the metro tramway here, investment into housing and brownfield first. but unfortunately it just wasn't enough , you know, there was enough, you know, there was criticism of andy street in the campaign that it was all about brand andy. but he knew, of course, that the national picture with the conservatives could well be damaging to him . could well be damaging to him. and in that very much has seemed to be the case here, losing more

than 10% of the share of the of the vote on on on the change from on the last election of 2021 and labour not really improving just in terms of actually that lack of support from conservatives showing out for andy street, it was a lower turnout and also as well reform getting a few percent, really making the difference because labour's richard parker won only by 0.3% of the vote, just 1508 votes in it working out, really, if one more person each ballot box in this , authority had voted box in this, authority had voted for andy street, he he would have actually clinched it. but yes, it was on a knife edge. it was too close to call all night. speaking after the results, keir starmer also hotfooted it to the west midlands. here's richard parker and keir starmer talking yesterday . yesterday. >> but we haven't only won for our people and the labour members and labour councillors and labour mps in this region. we've won for all those people that have had their hopes and their livelihoods taken away and

so badly damaged by this tory government and this tory mayor, and we will change it. it's time for a fresh start working with the labour party. we'll deliver that and we start on monday. >> what a way to end the local elections in 2024, general elections in 2024, general election year. we we started in blackpool with a 26% swing. and we've ended in the west midlands with our new mayor richard parker. as the west midlands mayor >> of course, a devastating night for andy street, but some elation, of course, on the face of keir starmer to have taken this mayoralty. i mean, working with the likes of andy burnham as andy street did, they'll be hoping that that connection between the west midlands and greater manchester, now that they're both controlled by labour mayors, might well be stronger . and richard parker, stronger. and richard parker, i'm sure, has a tough job in the next few years ahead . next few years ahead. >> all right. thank you very much. jack and olivia there.

we'll be coming back to you later on. thank you. ever so now, earlier today, folks, the former home secretary, suella braverman , she was highly braverman, she was highly critical of the prime minister. there's no time to change leaders. >> so the prime minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. what he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem, these terrible results, and quickly and urgently change course. so make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from . put a can feel and benefit from. put a cap on legal migration. take us out of the european convention on human rights so that we actually stop the boats . i actually stop the boats. i wonder what my panel think of that. the political commentator joe phillips and the leader of the heritage party, david kurten, joining me now. joe, i'll start with you. where do you stand? because alison says, absolutely. the conservatives must tack to the right the silent majority that either didn't vote or voted for brexit. that's exactly what they want. and if the conservatives stand

any chance, you're going to have to move to the right and swiftly and quickly, well, i don't agree with alison. >> i think, you know, compare and contrast suella braverman with andy street. andy street, who has been a very good mayor in the west midlands, has forged relations ships across political parties, including, as jack said , just there with andy burnham, his counterpart in manchester. he's worked very hard for the people of the west midlands and in his defeat last night he was dignified, magnanimous and he put out a very strong warning that if the tory party drifts to the right following the reform votes, as it has done, you know, following ukip and brexit and everything else, it will lose that core ground, that centre ground. and i think, you know what you're seeing is, suella braverman, frankly, might as well join reform and just go there and be done with it . there and be done with it. >> she's not helpful. the things

that she's just talked about, darren. you know, tax cuts. yes. well we'd all like tax cuts. but you know , we'd probably like to you know, we'd probably like to see some money clawed back from the people who've broken this country, like the water industry , for instance, the people who've ripped us off during covid on dodgy contracts. she talks about, you know, leaving the european convention on human rights. and she talked about the cap on migrants. i mean , yeah, cap on migrants. i mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. what is really clear from these elections is that people have metaphorically stuck their fingers in the ear and gone, la la la la la. we're not listening to the tories . the tories, to the tories. the tories, really. as olivia just said, this isn't about how they win. they've got to work out what they stand for and who they're talking to. >> i mean, david, the problem is joe is right that i think that and i'm sure you would agree that voters have put their fingers in their ears and are simply blocking out anything the conservatives say. rishi sunak has lost these audience, but it's joe right to say that actually the policy direction that suella braverman sets out

would be the wrong one for the conservatives to go for. >> not at all. i mean, i would say she's half right. i would say she's half right. i would say she's half right. i would say she doesn't go far enough, you know, she's not particularly socially conservative in some areas, but she is talking about areas, but she is talking about a cap on migrants, which is very good. >> she's talking about pushing the boats back to france, coming out of the echr, which we need to do, getting rid of this net zero nonsense, this climate alarmist nonsense which the conservatives have followed. and you can't put a cigarette paper between them and labour and the greens and the lib dems on this thing, on many of these policies. and they're not conservative anymore. that's the problem. and it's not just a new issue that starts with rishi sunak. it goes right back to david cameron since he became leader in 2005, and he started talking about the big society, and he started becoming more communitarian . and, you know, communitarian. and, you know, the one nation conservatism that you've got, it really they've left their base, they've left the true conservative voters . the true conservative voters. and that's continued with theresa may, with boris johnson, and now with rishi sunak as

well. so the problem for the people, the problem, the conservative party has is that their members are completely disconnected from the mps, or maybe the, i should say the other way round, the mps that you've got the vast majority of them are doing things which most of their members and most of their voters really don't want. so, you know, i would say the opposite of what joe said is that they need to go back to true conservatism if they want to do anything in the future . to do anything in the future. >> well, i just to pick up on david's point about the westminster disconnect, which i think is the same for all parties, actually. but these were local elections. and, you know, the mayoral elections are also local. >> well, there was a there was a blackpool south, there was a by—election. so we can clearly see that the same thing happens in general terms. >> you know, people were voting for their local councillors and the conservatives lost seats. now those local people who, you know, represent the conservative party across the country on local councils are clearly not

there. people want delivery. and that's what andy street kept saying . you know, people want to saying. you know, people want to see the government or a party deliver something. 14 years in government . and rishi sunak is government. and rishi sunak is saying, let me get on with my vision for we don't know what your vision is. >> well, hang on, hang on. do we know what the labour party's vision is? do we know what they actually stand for? because it strikes me that they're just saying we're going to let the conservative party implode and float our way to go. >> and i think that is a fair point, actually, darren. and i think, you know, the next election, the general election, whenever it comes, it is the labour party's to lose. and i think there is very clear evidence that although people are utterly fed up with the conservative party, for all the reasons that we all know and have rehearsed many, many times, there's not an absolute overwhelming thing we want. keir starmer, you're not in the same position that you were in 1997, and they probably will win. they might not win a landslide. and there is no doubt there are good people in the labour party, as there are in other political

parties across the board. but i think what the labour party is trying to get across is that we need to get a grip on public services now, you know, i think people are grown up enough and sensible enough to know that that does mean there's not going to be tax cuts. and probably there are going to be, you know, there are going to be, you know, the quid pro quo of how you pay for that . but we've got, you for that. but we've got, you know, in stockport patients have been evacuated from hospital because the roof fell in. you know, you've got kids who are still sitting in portacabins . still sitting in portacabins. you know, these are the real bafics you know, these are the real basics. and i think if you can't get them on your local doorstep and you can't get those councillors back in, the conservatives are in real trouble. >> david, do you think actually it's as simple as the conservative party turning round as some have suggested and saying if you vote for us, we'll give you a referendum on leaving the echr or do you think policies like that would actually bring people to them? >> they've lost trust on that because they could have left the echr at any time in the last 14

years. >> and now rishi sunak is saying, oh, we might do that if we get back in in 2025. >> and suella braverman is saying we need to leave the echr, but they haven't done it and they're not going to do it . and they're not going to do it. they're certainly not going to do it in the last six months. and i think people have the game is up with them because what they try to do before every election is go back to sounding conservative, promising all these conservative things. but if they get back in, then they just revert to being what i call the uni party is like conservative, labour, lib dem, green. they all have essentially the same policies on 90% of things and then they ignore their base. and what you know, what i would say about this is you can see from the blackpool south election that, you know, there was no sort of rush towards labour. i mean, they're not inspiring. in fact, they won by default because the number of votes they had went down by 2000. but the number of votes the conservatives had went down by 13,000. so they lost , which by 13,000. so they lost, which would suggest the conservatives just stayed home. >> right? yeah. they just didn't

go out to the they're disgusted with them and they're not voting anymore. i mean, joe, do you think do you see long term, do you see problems for the labour party around the issue of gaza? do you think actually, you know, right now we're looking at them as a unified bloc. but i wonder how fractious that could actually become? >> well, i think it is fractious . and i think there is no doubt that there are many, many people across the country and not just muslims, who feel very strongly that, you know, as a country, we have stood on the sidelines saying israel's got a right to defend itself. the attacks quite appalled the whole world. but we've stood back and let israel and the israeli defence force, led by benjamin netanyahu , carry led by benjamin netanyahu, carry out atrocious attacks on innocent victims. we've now got full scale famine in the gaza strip. and netanyahu says he is still going to attack rafah. so, you know what people see. and i think when people see the real suffering and the death and destruction, you know, how do you ever begin to rebuild that?

and you've got donald trump's son in law already trying to sell plots of real estate, jared kushnen >> yeah. now, do you, do you agree with joe on that point? i mean, do you see this being a fork in the road for the labour party, where actually the on the same issues we've got suella braverman saying the conservative party needs to go to the right and the streets saying they need to go to the centre , the labour party are centre, the labour party are saying, you know, we need to actually be more robust because jeremy corbyn wasn't when it comes to the around the jewish people and the state of israel and then others saying, well , and then others saying, well, actually we need to be unapologetic in our stance around gaza , you know? around gaza, you know? >> yeah, i mean, on this particular issue, i would agree with joe here. obviously, what happened on the 7th of october was appalling. but the response from the idf from netanyahu has been even worse with, you know, 30, 35,000 people now killed in gaza , mostly women and children gaza, mostly women and children believe the hamas figures. well, i mean, they seem to be quite, you know, reasonable and

verifiable by the un and so on. so, you know, aid agencies and obviously, you know, this is now feeding into the this country. this is you know, i try to stay out of middle east politics, but now it has become an issue here in this country. and you know, obviously you've got a muslim bloc in certain areas like oldham, like rochdale, like kirklees . kirklees. >> we'll get on having more of that a bit later on, but we'll leave it there for now. david curtin and joel phillips, thank you very much. for now , folks. you very much. for now, folks. you're with me. darren grimes on gb news sunday. lourdes moore coming up on today's show including this, prince harry makes a return to the uk this week. are you excited? but is he a welcome visitor? well, i'm going to speak to the royal biographer , angela levin after biographer, angela levin after this short .

break. welcome back to gb news sunday with me. darren grimes on your tv, online and on digital radio. now prince harry will jet back to britain for a special ceremony at saint paul's cathedral for the 10th anniversary of the invictus games on wednesday . now, while games on wednesday. now, while the duchess of sussex won't join her husband in the uk, the pair will be reunited for a trip to nigeria later in the week. so will harry reconcile with other members of the royal family dunng members of the royal family during this whistle stop trip to britain? well, joining me now is the royal commentator and biographer angela levin. angela, thank you for your company as ever. thank you for your company as ever . do you see any hope of any ever. do you see any hope of any reconciliation right now, or do you think harry will ostensibly just be in and out? >> well , i just be in and out? >> well, i think he will be in and out, but that is possibly because nobody really wants to see him. >> king charles will because he's a father and fathers love their children, even if they go

way off and behave very badly. but, i can't see how it can happenin but, i can't see how it can happen in the time he's here, last time he was here very quickly and rushed out and saw his father for some people say 20 minutes, some people say half an hour , but this time it's an hour, but this time it's going to be particularly awkward because the service at saint paups because the service at saint paul's cathedral is going to finish at 6:00, which is exactly the time that the garden party, the time that the garden party, the first garden party of the yean the first garden party of the year, which, king charles is going to go to, it also finishes at six. now that lasts 4 to 6. the party. and if you imagine he is vulnerable and he will go around shaking hands with goodness knows how many, i think 300 people are coming. he won't get round, which he usually does in these occasions, but i imagine that he's going to be exhausted. and after that he's going to have a talk with the

prime minister so i can't see how that can be squashed in. he's not going to see somebody very late. he used to go to bed very late. he used to go to bed very late, 1 am, 2 am. because he was working, but i don't think he will at all. i also know that queen camilla, will not let harry talk alone to his father. she was there last time. he can't be trusted. and i think king charles's vulnerable. he might say something about his health, which you can absolutely bet will go around everybody. because it will make harry a lot of money. and i'm sorry to be so cynical here, but i think that he is, in a place that's really still full of resentment. he can't move on. yeah. >> angela, i want to ask you about that because you haven't always been critical of prince harry, right? you've documented and followed him for many years now. i don't wish to sound impertinent, but i wonder the

invictus games that was that was probably , i would argue, one of probably, i would argue, one of the greatest things that the prince ever did right or has done and continues to do . do you done and continues to do. do you think, actually the nation has forgiven often that all too easily? or do we struggle to see past what the prince has done ? past what the prince has done? >> well, i was with, for harry, 15 months to write his biography, not 2017, 2018. and |, biography, not 2017, 2018. and i, i thought he was gorgeous. he was wonderful. he was so clever . was wonderful. he was so clever. he made people who had been wounded in the invictus games feel that they could have a life . and he managed to do that somehow in 2 or 3 minutes, with each of them. it was incredibly impressive. meghan's arrived and all that's gone out the window, of course. what the many of the people who were going to go to the next one, which is in canada , have emailed me and said, can

you do anything to stop them coming? of course, i can't stop my business, but, they feel that it's turning into a royal party, they don't like the fact that meghan gives speeches now and that she walks in front of people who've won prizes at the invictus games, but who have been badly hurt in one way or another. and she walked in front as if she was at some dior, musical thing, and, these people just didn't , don't like it. and just didn't, don't like it. and they don't want her speeches, you know, that she's sorry she's three days late because she had to give her children a milk, something something with milk. anyway and i just think that, they feel it's gone too much towards that and not enough to have its original aim, which is that you feel you can live again. you can do things because these women and these women are men are really damaged that they feel they were they used to a

certain life and now they've lost it. and harry was good at that. but now it's too full of too much about, being royal and who's leading things. >> all right. angela. well, thank you very much for that. i mean, it's said that the prince is going to be wearing his medals and all the rest of it when he's in town. and it's a reminder, a sad reminder of what we've lost, angela. but thank you as ever, angela levin there with her expert royal analysis. you're with me, darren grimes on gb news sunday. plenty more to come on today's show, including what exactly do those historic local and mayoral results mean for keir starmer ? is he a dead for keir starmer? is he a dead cert? now, as we approach a general election? first of all, though, here's the news with ray addison . addison. >> thanks, darren. coming up to 1:33, our top stories. former home secretary suella braverman has told gb news that mr sunak

needs to urgently change course following dire local and mayoral election results. the prime minister has promised to take the fight to labour despite losing 397 council seats and losing 397 council seats and losing control of ten councils. miss braverman says rishi sunak must make bold decisions. >> there's no time to change leader, so the prime minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. what he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem. these terrible results, and quickly and urgently change course . so and urgently change course. so make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from. put a cap on legal migration. take us out of the european convention on human rights. so that we actually stop the boats and make sure that we reclaim our streets back from the extremists . back from the extremists. >> more than 8500 small boat migrants have crossed the engush migrants have crossed the english channel so far this yeah english channel so far this year. that's after more than 250

made the illegal journey on saturday, gb news can reveal that another small boat crossed into uk waters this morning, with at least 50 people on board this year, crossings are now 35% higher than the same period of 2023. ministers have blamed the increase in numbers on a surge increase in numbers on a surge in migrants from vietnam . around in migrants from vietnam. around 32,000 properties are still without running water in east sussex due to a burst pipe . sussex due to a burst pipe. southern water issued an apology to customers in saint leonards on sea, hastings and westfield as they enter their fourth day of disruption. in a statement, the firm said they hoped the supply will start to gradually return throughout today. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code. it's on the right hand side of your screen right now, or go to gbnews.com/alerts as

i >> -- >> 2024 a battleground year. >> 2024 a battleground year. >> the year the nation decides. >> the year the nation decides. >> as the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. >> who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives? >> who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together. >> let's find out together. >> for every moment. the highs, the lows , the twists and turns. the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. >> gb news is britain's election . channel. >> welcome back to gb news sunday with me, darren grimes on your tv, online and on digital radio. loads of you have been sending in your thoughts. thank you very much . it's you very much. it's gbnews.com/yoursay on suella bravermans comments on the prime minister, gwynne says love her or loathe her, i believe suella speaks for the majority of britain. i think she's what this

country needs. anita says. i'm 80 years old and i as far back as i can remember. i've never, ever known any prime minister or prospective mp at pm as rubbishy as rishi sunak and flip flop starmer . not as rishi sunak and flip flop starmer. not even cameron. and that's saying something . we need that's saying something. we need to ditch both parties, take a leap of faith and vote reform. michelle says. and this is going to lead nicely onto our next guest , folks. michelle says if guest, folks. michelle says if labour win, starmer will not be in his position for long. the hard left and corbynites will oust him. labour getting anywhere near number 10 will be anywhere near number 10 will be a national disaster. well, joining me now, who can answer that question is the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards. peter is michelle right? >> no, i don't think so. >> no, i don't think so. >> i mean, the chances of a coup against keir starmer are pretty much zero. >> and you've got to bear in mind , whether left or right, mind, whether left or right, anyone who takes their party from opposition to prime

minister, immediately that happens, they become more powerful that the peak of their authority. bear in mind, jeremy corbyn is no longer a labour mp. of course, there'll always be a spectrum of opinion in the labour party, just like at the tories. but the prospect of labour winning election, which we hope will happen, and then keir starmer facing a coup, is basically below 1, if not zero. >> i mean , peter, do you do you >> i mean, peter, do you do you give any truck any credence to the argument that actually there will be a split in the party, just like there is in the conservative party right now over the perceived direction or lack of direction of that party. do you think the issue of gaza and the issue presented by many muslim voters who voted in these local elections , do you see that local elections, do you see that being a real problem for sir keir starmer to actually try and navigate? >> well, what's happening in gaza and what happened in israel in october is a tragedy. and obviously, just like you, darren, my thoughts are primarily with the victims of what's going on and this absolute crisis. but in terms of westminster party politics, you

know, think about this idea of party unity. there can be unity and there can be a consensus , and there can be a consensus, but you never get a uniformity of opinion. you know, like a dictatorship. there's a massive range of opinion under the different tory leaders we've had. and think back to tony blair, he won the biggest majority for labour ever, but it was still a backbencher called jeremy corbyn and a backbencher called john mcdonnell, who were distinct voices. but they didn't really have any power at all. and they were known for not having any power at all. when the labour party was in government. so, labour can't be complacent. it's not guaranteed to win the election. but if we do, i don't really have any fears about the leader, being dragged left . there'll be an dragged left. there'll be an internal debate, as there always is. but he will be at the peak of his authority if he wins. >> yeah. and i mean, so you don't see that falling apart very quickly, right? you don't see that coalition that he will have built with a left that perhaps minded to vote for the green party , potentially. we've green party, potentially. we've seen that in some parts of the country at these local elections. you don't see that

there's a future. well, argument to be had. internal vie that may well be borne out in public. >> there'll always be a debate in public, because obviously, as soon as you become the governing party, if that happens, then you're in a position to do stuff rather than just talk about doing stuff. but if you're talking about actually if you set aside the parliamentary labour party and think about the voters at large, what you see is you see a change of government if they're fortunate enough , the if they're fortunate enough, the new party often wins a couple of terms in power. and then different parts of their electoral coalition around the country begin to challenge them or resist some particular policies. and it happened to tony blair, particularly over foreign policy . it tony blair, particularly over foreign policy. it happened to david cameron over environmental policy and gay marriage. so the longer you're in power, the more , perhaps scepticism you face from the electorate. but, i mean, that's just a fact of politics in every country. but the thing that good leaders do is, listen, i think tony blair was good at that most of the

time. and i think keir starmer showed he's good at listening to people and not trying to railroad through policies and blindly. >> all right, peter edwards, i'm going to bring in the panel. now, david, i'm going to start with you. i wonder that the rhetoric you had earlier about the uni party and saying, there's no real difference between the two, you know, peter, they set out his case for laboun do peter, they set out his case for labour. do you still think that? >> yeah, i do, i still think there isn't much difference in terms of policy between what i call the fake conservatives and laboun call the fake conservatives and labour. i mean, they're both adherent to the net zero ideology, climate alarmism to one extent or another. i mean, labour says they're going to bnngin labour says they're going to bring in a ban on cars by 2030 or new petrol and diesel cars . or new petrol and diesel cars. sorry. and the tories say they're going to do it by 2035. i mean, the end of the day isn't going to make much difference by both of them. want to run down our coal power stations, our oil power stations, etc. they both woke to varying degrees and they both support escalation of war in ukraine. and they both have

the same opinion on gaza . so the same opinion on gaza. so there isn't really much difference on the big issues here. and they're both allowing immigration. i mean, you know, that's that is a massive issue . that's that is a massive issue. and while the conservatives say we're against mass immigration, they're the ones who facilitated far more even than tony blair and gordon brown did. so, you know, i think voters are going to see that. and obviously , you to see that. and obviously, you know, labour will come in, keir starmer will keep the borders open. starmer will keep the borders open . he'll keep going for net open. he'll keep going for net zero and these kind of things. and i think that a lot of the old working class are traditionally support. labour are not going to vote for laboun are not going to vote for labour. this is why their vote is actually going down. but as i said, the tories vote is going down more. but the danger here is that they have got a lot of, people in power in some areas because they've become muslim areas , you know, sort of oldham, areas, you know, sort of oldham, rochdale, blackburn, kirklees , rochdale, blackburn, kirklees, etc. and those are areas where they are losing muslims as a bloc votes. and you can see that happening. >> george galloway in the. >> george galloway in the. >> yeah, yeah, he's got four seats in the local councils. isn't he. yeah.

>> joe do you think tony's just written in and tony agrees with with david because he says things will never change under the uni party. it's you know, he's saying both political parties are the same. do you see differences between the two parties? >> and i think the biggest problem is that, you know, we are very impatient. we want things done. yesterday you know, we don't give and, you know, part of it is if you think about it, darren, we've had something like 16 housing ministers in the last ten, which is ridiculous, which is utterly ridiculous . which is utterly ridiculous. we've had god knows how many people shifting through department s, so nothing gets done, nothing gets done. everybody wants to make an impact. everybody comes up with an announcement. but nobody follows through 14 years. that's his exactly what happened. and you can take it right back to david cameron. you know, la la la la la. we'll have a referendum . but don't worry, i'm referendum. but don't worry, i'm not going to make any plans because we won't lose the referendum . yeah, that was referendum. yeah, that was arrogant in the extreme, arrogant in the extreme, followed by the supreme arrogance of boris johnson. you know, we'll get brexit done.

well we haven't. what we've ended up is a ghastly mess where we've managed to annoy and irritate our closest geographical partners and neighbours. and i think what we need to do is have something where it's actually for long term . term. >> okay. yeah. hold that thought. i'm going to come back to you, i promise. but we are going to a break now. that was peter edwards before and that's david kurten and joel phillips. thank you very much to both of them. you're with me darren grimes on gb news sunday. lots more coming up, including this. we'll be discussing the leader of the workers party of britain, george galloway , who stormed out george galloway, who stormed out of an interview this morning . of an interview this morning. find out why after this short

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tv, online and on digital radio. now, donald trump's hush money trial. and as its third week in new york tomorrow. what a circus . the former president is accused of falsifying business records over hush money payments made to the adult entertainer. shall we say stormy daniels , to shall we say stormy daniels, to cover up their alleged affair. now trump has denied all wrongdoing. i'm still joined in the studio by my panel political commentator joe phillips the studio by my panel political commentatorjoe phillips and the commentator joe phillips and the leader of the heritage party, david kurten . now, how damaging david kurten. now, how damaging could this trial prove to actually be for donald trump and his hopes of winning the presidential election? i mean, i think both of you, it's fair to say, have some scepticism about this being relevant to a british audience and would prefer we were talking about things that were talking about things that were relevant in this country very assumption. but whilst we do talk about it, and i think, you know, he will be the leader of the free world, might be,

could be, yes. where do we stand on this being a witch hunt? do either of you think , by the either of you think, by the politics of it that this is a new york judiciary and therefore biased against the president, former president of the us? >> well, i think so. i do totally agree with you. i mean, this is not the only case that's been brought against him. there seems to be case after case after case and movement after movement. even when he was president to impeach him. and now to get him convicted of something . and so he's taken out something. and so he's taken out of the presidential race. and i think this is just a such a small issue. i mean, this stormy daniels, you know, litigation has been going on for years and years and years. they haven't found something. i mean, i'm amazed that they're coming back with this, you know, more intricate and details about this to try to pin something on him and i think, you know, it isn't going to affect his base . his going to affect his base. his base is just going to see this as an attempt to smear him and to get him out of the race. and it's going to make them for vote

him all the more, because they're going to see him as someone who is being victimised by his political opponents. and yeah, i look at it from across the atlantic, obviously. and you know, this doesn't have a particular interest to me, but i think, well, you know, leave the guy alone, you know, and stop, stop like, you know, making a mountain out of a molehill. >> it's the worry, joe, that actually moderate america to if you can use that language, centrist america, whatever you want to say. look at the trial that's taking place. several of them. as david says, you know, there are several going on and they think, i don't actually like what my nation is doing to this man. do they feel sympathy for him, i don't know. i mean , for him, i don't know. i mean, you know, i personally think donald trump should not hold office. and i think, you know, he is sexist. he is , basically he is sexist. he is, basically deranged. he's dangerous , he is, deranged. he's dangerous, he is, his international relationships are bizarre in the extreme, the world was quieter , certainly,

world was quieter, certainly, when he was in charge. >> yeah, but since then, look what's happened , but i just what's happened, but i just think he's, you know, he. this is a man who tried and encouraged people to go and storm capitol hill because he didn't agree with the outcome of the last presidential election. you know, we talked about andy street. i know you can't compare the west midlands former mayor with the president of america, but you have to be magnanimous in defeat. the fact that he encouraged people to go and riot. >> no, no, he he didn't. he actually told them not to do that. but that was on the day twitter cancelled his account so people couldn't see it. but he actually said, don't do this on the day. no, he's definitely he didn't want this to happen. i don't, but i mean i mean some of the things you've said, i mean, we're going to fight for it. >> i mean, he's no fool, unfortunately, and he knows the language that he can use, which is to whip people up into a frenzy. so you've got that sort of that maga . of that maga. >> so that's why you don't want him back. >> i think he's very dangerous. and i find it appalling, darren, that out of a country that is so

vast , 300 i that out of a country that is so vast, 300 i mean, you said hang on a minute, that the two people who are running for president are probably, you know, where's the next obama or reagan? >> i'm sorry. you didn't just say he was dangerous . you said say he was dangerous. you said he was deranged, which is a real bad smear. he's not here to defend them. >> there are many people that would argue joe biden is pretty. >> he doesn't seem to have his head screwed on at all, does he ? head screwed on at all, does he? >> books and been written by people who worked very closely with donald trump. you will see. >> well, you have to question whether they are on his side or not or whether their political opponents have gone in and they're deliberately smearing him because they're not on his side anymore . but i mean, he's side anymore. but i mean, he's got he's got good policies for america . when he was there, he america. when he was there, he created jobs. he came out of the paris climate agreement. he got oil flowing again. he reduced pnces oil flowing again. he reduced prices and these kind of things. and that's why people like it very much. >> there. we'll come back to the panel very shortly with me, darren grimes and gb news sunday. lots more coming up. first of all though, we're going to get a look at what the weather is going to be like this bank holiday weekend .

bank holiday weekend. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello! welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. still staying rather cloudy in the north tonight. sunny spells and showers on monday and then something a little bit more settled, but back to the here and now. we've got low pressure dominating, especially across southern parts of england, bringing outbreaks of patchy rain and cloud. and this patchy outbreak of rain and cloud is generally going to fizzle out across southern parts of wales through the night. but across northern ireland and scotland we're still seeing some cloudy conditions and often some heavy showers still affecting norther eastern parts of scotland. but in between any clearer spells we still we may see some mist and murk developing, but otherwise with a lot of cloud around temperatures not really falling tonight, lows of around 10 or 11 tonight, lows of around 10 or 11 to start bank holiday monday , to start bank holiday monday, then cloudy conditions remaining across northern ireland. parts

of scotland, northern ireland perhaps turning dry into the afternoon . but across afternoon. but across southeastern england, that's where we see quite a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain that could turn quite heavy at times elsewhere , with sunny spells elsewhere, with sunny spells developing, but this will also allow some showers to break out. some of these could be quite heavy, but in the sunshine we should see temperatures rising up to around 18 degrees. so feeling quite warm through tuesday. then a lot of dry weather to start the day. but we will hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across northeastern parts of, of the coast of england. but as we go into next week, high pressure is dominating, plenty of sunshine, settled weather and also a rise in temperatures. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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news sunday. thank you very much for your company. this lunchtime. i'm darren grimes, and for this next hour, i'll be keeping you company on tv, onune keeping you company on tv, online and on digital radio. coming up in this next hour. suella braverman has slammed rishi sunak, saying the local and mayoral elections losses are the consequences of his decisions. the former home secretary says the prime minister needs to own the results and therefore he needs to fix it. we'll be discussing what if anything, the tories can do to save themselves . and it's do to save themselves. and it's claimed meghan markle will stay away from the uk this week, with insiders saying she's worried she'll be booed by the public. oh dear. but what will the response be to harry as he commences his trip ? and is it a commences his trip? and is it a welcome return for the prince ? welcome return for the prince? and the rochdale mp? george galloway has stormed out of an interview today after he was challenged on comments he made

last week about gay relationships and gay marriage. we'll be taking a closer look . we'll be taking a closer look. now, as i hope you're well aware by now, this show is absolutely nothing without you and your views. let me know your thoughts on all of the stories we'll be discussing today by visiting gbnews.com. forward slash yours. i'm in it or join the i'm in it orjoin the conversation on our socials where @gbnews. first of all though, it's the news headlines with ray addison . with ray addison. >> james. darren. good afternoon. 2:01. former home secretary suella braverman has told gb news that rishi sunak needs to urgently change course following dire local and mayoral election results. the prime minister has promised to take the fight to labour, despite

losing 397 council seats and losing 397 council seats and losing control of ten councils. miss braverman says mr sunak must make bold decisions. >> there's no time to change leader, so the prime minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. what he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem. these terrible results, and quickly and urgently change course. so make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from. put a cap on legal migration. take us out of the european convention on human rights so that we actually stop the boats and make sure that we reclaim our streets back from the extremists . back from the extremists. >> well, we've also been speaking to transport secretary mark harper. he told us it's time to rally around the leader. >> i think all conservatives now need to get behind the prime minister as the chairman said in his article this morning, and take that message to the country. we see from the

analysis the experts have done that. the results show that the position is closer than the polls are suggesting. so it's everything is delightful for the next election and we're absolutely up for that fight. >> sadiq khan is beginning his third term as london mayor after securing a majority of 275,000 over conservative rival susan hall . mr khan over conservative rival susan hall. mr khan has over conservative rival susan hall . mr khan has accused the hall. mr khan has accused the tories of running a campaign of fear mongering and non—stop negativity. he also said that london had rejected hard right wing populism . miss hall is wing populism. miss hall is urging him to reform the met police and make london safe again. mayor khan says he's excited for the future. >> londoners want to see a change in government and what they're excited about is the chance of a labour mayor working with a labour government led by keir starmer. i'm excited. the last time that happened was 20 years ago and us working together. keir, the cabinet and labour mayor londoners will see a transformed city. i can't wait

judnh a transformed city. i can't wait judith raanan. >> sir keir starmer says he's determined to win back the trust of voters who turned away from the labour party over its stance on gaza. they lost some council seats to independents and to george galloway's workers party of britain . pat mcfadden is vice of britain. pat mcfadden is vice chair of labour friends of israel . he chair of labour friends of israel. he told us the party will support palestinians in government , but two things have government, but two things have guided our position. >> all along. one is the one that you just mentioned, which is israel's right to defend itself after the appalling attacks on october the 7th that will remain. we will stick up for that . but we also want to for that. but we also want to see a better future for the palestinian people. and if we were to be elected at the coming election, that would be a big foreign policy priority for us. >> now, one child has died and four other people have been hospitalised after a house fire in bradford. emergency services were called to kingsdale drive in the early hours of this morning . a woman and three morning. a woman and three children managed to escape the

property with non—life threatening injuries. west yorkshire police say a fourth child was pronounced dead at the scene. the cause of the blaze is not yet known . now more than not yet known. now more than 8500 small boat migrants have crossed the english channel, so far this year, after more than 250 made the illegal journey on saturday, gb news can reveal that another small boat crossed into uk waters this morning, with at least 50 people on board this year. crossings are now 35% higher than the same period of 2023. ministers have blamed the increase in numbers on a surge increase in numbers on a surge in migrants from vietnam . around in migrants from vietnam. around 32,000 properties are still without running water in east sussex due to a burst pipe southern water issued an apology to customers in saint leonards on sea, hastings and westfield earlier as they endure their fourth day of disruption. in a statement, the firm said they hoped the supply will start to return throughout today and

australian police say a 16 year old boy killed after stabbing a man in perth had been radicalised online. the teenager was shot dead on saturday night after stabbing a victim in the back with a kitchen knife. he then rushed at police officers. authorities say the attack indicated terrorism and there were signs of mental health issues . write for the latest issues. write for the latest stories. sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or go to gb on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now let's get straight back to gb news. sunday >> cheers as ever. ray. let's get stuck in to today's topics. well, as you know by now, it's been a dire weekend for the tories with the party losing close to 500 councillors in the local elections , including high local elections, including high profile casualties like the conservative mayor of the west midlands, andy street , who lost

midlands, andy street, who lost to labour's richard parker in a knife edge vote, rishi sunak said he was disappointed but determined to press ahead with his plans to deliver a brighter future for the country . it was future for the country. it was a different picture for labour, of course, with sir keir starmer's party celebrating gaining just under 200 councillors and sadiq khan's historic third term as london mayor. well, joining me now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley, who's in westminster and gb news reporter jack carson, who's in the west midlands. let's start with olivia. olivia. a horrible set of results for the prime minister >> an awful set of results. and the final blow was losing andy street, the very popular, hard working mayor of the west midlands, yesterday. the question now is where does the conservative party go from here? there are a group of plotters who would like rishi sunak overthrown, but there isn't sort of mainstream appetite from that in the main party as you saw from suella braverman there. most people think there simply

isn't time. so what do the conservatives do? well, what i think we're going to see a lot of in the next few weeks and months is a fight for the soul of the party. as andy street departed , he said that the departed, he said that the conservative party must stay in the centre . mustn't tack right. the centre. mustn't tack right. meanwhile, you've got people like suella braverman saying that that is exactly what the country, what the party does need to do . it does need to need to do. it does need to appeal to the right and quash that reform vote. so i think we're going to see a lot of conservative infighting in the next few weeks, and it could get quite ugly. yeah >> jack, i mean, what's the response? been in the west midlands? it must have been a pretty big hammer blow. >> well, it certainly is for the likes of andy street and the conservatives here, of course, who had two terms as mayor of the, of the west midlands. he was the first one to lead that combined authority. much of what it is today is because of how andy street has shaped it, bringing in billions of pounds worth of investment for this region , which it certainly region, which it certainly benefited from. he was very much

focusing his campaign across the last few weeks on what his record was here as mayor of the west midlands, trying to step away from that national brand of conservative ism, which, you know, he knew might well damage him in the end , it wasn't enough him in the end, it wasn't enough for andy street as, of course, as richard parker and the labour party won here late last night. it was literally on a knife edge, only 0.3% of a percentage point in the vote here, and 1500 voters here. i mean, there was some criticism of labour, of course, here many muslim communities voted for the independent yaqoob, which will probably and we've seen could be a problem for labour over the course of the next few months, heading towards the general election with that vote. but yeah, andy street standing on his platform, criticised for being too much brand. andy but in the end that damage that the conservatives to that conservative vote across the country is ultimately what lost him. the election here. >> yeah. very interesting set of results. thank you very much olivia and jack. now moving on.

the leader of the workers party of britain, george galloway , he of britain, george galloway, he stormed out of an interview today claiming he was being ambushed about comments he made regarding gay relationship and gay marriage. let's remind ourselves of what the rochdale mp said last week when speaking about what his children were being taught in school. >> my other two school children, are are taught in england things that i don't want them to be taught, that gay relationships are exactly the same and as normal as a mum, a dad and kids. >> i want my children to be taught that the normal thing in britain, in society, across the world, is a mother, a father and a family . a family. >> so i asked on gbnews.com forward slash or say, where do you all stand on george galloway

saying in an interview that he didn't think gay relationships were as normal as a mum and dad and kids, and owen says he's right , they're not as normal. right, they're not as normal. that does not mean they should be banned or whatever else . just be banned or whatever else. just in the grand scheme of things, we evolve to reproduce and have a family and children. so if it's an issue of semantics, joe phillips, does that mean george galloway had a point ? not. galloway had a point? not. >> george galloway is one person who knows about semantics. i mean, one of the things that has made him quite a big figure in politics over the last few decadesis politics over the last few decades is his use of language. i mean, he many people, many viewers will remember his fawning over saddam hussein , you fawning over saddam hussein, you know, and holding him up and talking about people , accusing talking about people, accusing people of being a popinjay and things. george galloway is a stuntman, and the only thing that george galloway cares about is himself. i mean , this was is himself. i mean, this was a man who was prepared to debase himself on national television as a cat, as a cat licking milk

out of a saucer, but now wants to be taken seriously as a politician . i mean, just to go politician. i mean, just to go back really just to the point that jack was making about the results in the west midlands when george galloway won rochdale, you know, and there are many reasons why labour got that so spectacularly wrong, not least all they went for an election so quickly. but the person who became second to george galloway was not a member of a political party, and he did very respectably . and he was very respectably. and he was a local businessman. and i think that tells you what people want and what people care about, which goes back to what we were talking about in the last hour about, you know, the local issues on the doorstep. yeah. and i think people from the workers party will soon realise that actually , george galloway that actually, george galloway isn't interested in anything that doesn't give him a platform. >> all right. i mean, david, bringing you in the helen's written in and helen says, i could reply to the question i asked, but she says i would get deactivated. so i assume she's got some robust words for george galloway. but she says george

galloway. but she says george galloway needs to get himself in the modern world. do you agree? >> well, i don't know. quite know what that means . >> well, i don't know. quite know what that means. i mean, he is he is in the modern world. he is he is in the modern world. he is living and he's an mp . no, i is living and he's an mp. no, i totally agree with what he said on novara media last week. that was a clip from there . and i was a clip from there. and i think what i'm looking into this in detail , think what i'm looking into this in detail, and i think what he was complaining about this morning is that on the lbc, wasn't he. he was on this morning. they showed that clip that you've just shown there. but he said more. he mentioned gender ideology as well . and he gender ideology as well. and he mentioned his kids education in scotland. so there was a lot more than he wanted to say and put across. and they clipped it in a way obviously he didn't like. you know, you can't you can't take your pick whether you go on a show. but you know, he is he's saying now things that i've been saying for many, many years and what he was talking about specifically is this relationships and sex education, which is in schools, comprehensive sexuality education. it's various,

brandings around, around the world and kids now, even in primary schools are taught things which are blatantly and overtly sexualising in a way that never happened before. so there's all this gender ideology where they're taught there's 79 genders and they can pick what they are in any day of the week. and also there's this other idea which some people think is more benign, but it's not that there's all different kinds of families and children need to be taught this because it's inclusive. and i think what george galloway said is what millions of parents around the country would like to say, but they're afraid of saying because they're afraid of saying because they're put down and smeared. if they're put down and smeared. if they say, this is, i just want my kids in school to be taught that a family is a mother and a father and kids not, you know, two men or three women or two men or woman and a donkey and that's absolutely right. >> do you think that's abnormal? same sex relationships ? same sex relationships? >> well, it's a lower percentage. >> i'm asking you, do you think it's abnormal? >> i'm answering in the way that i want to answer, and it's a

lower percentage than heterosexual relationships. now, there are some people who do have homosexual relationships for whatever reason . there's a for whatever reason. there's a lot of evidence to suggest that childhood abuse can cause a change in sexual orientation. and this is borne out by research. when george galloway didn't mention that , i mentioned didn't mention that, i mentioned that seven years ago and i got i got in pink news, they wrote a whole piece on me. i'm not surprised, but i mean , it is a surprised, but i mean, it is a normal family, is a mother, father and children. and he's right to say your opinion. >> joe, i just want to ask you, do you think actually that there will be a split on the progressive left around these issues because george has has made himself the champion of gaza in britain? or he'd like to think so. anyway, he's got an ego big enough, and he's now saying, all of these, these sentiments that may well with, dare i say , a lot of the muslim dare i say, a lot of the muslim electorate enamour him to them . electorate enamour him to them. so will there be a split within the progressive left , because we

the progressive left, because we had green party politicians winning on gaza tickets yesterday? yeah. standing up shouting allahuakbar and all these things that counts. will there be a fork in the road for there be a fork in the road for the progressive left? >> i think i think well, two things. one is i think george galloway is very canny about tapping into the disaffection in the left , particularly. i mean, the left, particularly. i mean, he's going to get far more from the left, if you like , than he the left, if you like, than he is from the right, even though some of his views would in my view, be incredibly right wing, not least of all his views on on same sex relationships. but i think, you know what you've also seen is you rightly say the greens picking up quite a lot of it. i think what's really interesting, and i've had this conversation with richard tice actually on gb news, it's one area that we do agree on that our current voting system, the first past the post, doesn't truly reflect the differences of opinions. and so you are seeing independence. you're seeing the greens, you're seeing the lib dems, you're seeing probably david's heritage party. you're seeing other parties or no

parties picking up votes . and parties picking up votes. and what the public, the voting electorate have have learned to live with, i suppose, and to use their votes is if they want to get rid of somebody, they need to be less tribal and vote for tactical. exactly so they need to be more canny, which i think people are. but i think there is a feeling now that, you know, there are so many votes that are not for the person who actually gets elected. there are more people voting against or not voting for that. it's not a fair reflection. so i think, you know , it is time. maybe it's not a priority for keir starmer or for the next tory leader, but it is something we need to look at. i think that same question to you, david, but also mark has replied and mark says, to be honest, i think galloway is pandering to his targeted audience . his targeted audience. >> is that what this is? >> is that what this is? >> certainly. i mean, he stood for rochdale , didn't he? and in for rochdale, didn't he? and in rochdale there are a lot of muslims and they're concerned about gaza and they're concerned about gaza and they're concerned about relationships and sex

education in schools. and that's what he mostly campaigned on, because that was the target audience. he got the votes and he got elected as an mp . and now he got elected as an mp. and now you can see many of his candidates are from the muslim community and the workers party of britain is targeting that audience in those areas, because i know that you'll be as concerned as i was. concerned as i was. >> concerned as i was. >> am that three years on from the batley grammar school incident , showing a cartoon of incident, showing a cartoon of mohammed that the teacher is still in hiding and has absolutely no plans to ever come out of hiding because he's so scared for his welfare . do we? scared for his welfare. do we? are we as a nation heading down a really divisive and dangerous path? >> yeah, i mean, you can see this happening. this has been happening for decades now, obviously with mass immigration coming in and then there are areas where there are big muslim communities. i mean , i would communities. i mean, i would have some common ground with them, obviously, on, you know, protecting children from these kind of things that are coming into them in schools. but then into them in schools. but then in the area of freedom of

speech, everyone should have freedom of speech, you know, to say what they want. but i do think when you're in schools, when you've got other people's kids, that you need to use your freedom of speech wisely, you know , which is something that know, which is something that maybe, you know, the whole issue of the batley grammar school that hasn't been talked about, but, you know , i mean, it's but, you know, i mean, it's appalling, of course, that there's a teacher still in hiding. and why aren't the police, helping that person to be able to live a normal life? obviously but no, this is something we're going to see more and more of as the percentage of muslims in the country increases . and george country increases. and george galloway is going to capitalise on that . on that. >> i must just take issue with the fact that you see. >> oh, sure, you will take issue. >> that's why we're here, isn't it? >> i mean, but just to, you know, infer that it is muslims who are responsible for attacks and violence . and violence. >> who cares? i didn't say that. i didn't say i didn't say, i never said muslims are all solely responsible for attacks and violence. so that's that. that's a nodded. you're inferring that i didn't say that. >> i am inferring it. therefore

it isn't. >> but you're incorrect. >> but you're incorrect. >> that's a semantics. well, i'm not, who killed jo cox ? somebody not, who killed jo cox? somebody you know, a right wing person who was apparently someone who had mental health problems. >> well, you know , say that. >> well, you know, say that. >> well, you know, say that. >> say who killed sir david amess. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> but , >> absolutely. >> but, i mean, i think, you know, the point of it is that to a certain extent, you know, we who appear on the media, particularly gb news, have to be as responsible as anybody that it's ever so easy to whip up. and it goes back to what we were saying about trump. now, you might agree with him , i don't, might agree with him, i don't, but it social media is like that i >> -- >> well, let me ask both of you. let me put it like this. if a christian varne candidate who was arguing , christian varne candidate who was arguing, well, christian varne candidate who was arguing , well, actually, was arguing, well, actually, dare i say we have one right now. okay, well heritage party. okay. and some were david to stand and say as he has that he thinks it's wrong that , gay thinks it's wrong that, gay relationships are shown as being. i don't know if you would use the language, but normal. do you? yes. yes yeah, i would use

slightly different language, but i wouldn't want that to be taught to children in schools. like so being displayed to children in schools, david would be against that. where david, as a christian, to say that he would be treated differently to george galloway saying it if he's targeting different voters, why is there that double standard, exactly the same reason that there are communities of very, very orthodox jews who are allowed to have and i can't, to my shame, remember the name of it, but it allows them to have a barrier around where they live in order for them to be able to shomrim, isn't it? >> i think no, it begins with an e, but oh no, sorry, no wrong there so that they can follow their religious faith and practices and nobody criticises that. but if a muslim group wanted to do something like that, there would be uproar. and you're absolutely right, darren. there are double standards and there is terrible hypocrisy. and i mean, the conversation you were having with arlene foster earlier, you know, if you're a

christian, then you're seen as unelectable in many cases. i mean, tony blair famously said, we don't do god, or at least alastair campbell did. so i think we are guilty. all of us are guilty of double standards in hypocrisy. >> so can i ask then, do you do you recognise that double standard? can george galloway get away with saying things that you simply couldn't know? well, he has said things, and i think he's right to say that, you know, he's obviously getting a lot of kickback for it. >> but i said those things exact same thing seven years ago, and i got a lot of kickback against me. so to be honest, i got a lot of kickback against me. soto be honest, i think it is , lgbt activist groups like is, lgbt activist groups like stonewall and others, you know, related to this whole complex, who would my problems with them for sure. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> pushback. yeah. he was giving the problem. >> i think it's just the language that galloway used personally . like i language that galloway used personally. like i think language that galloway used personally . like i think there personally. like i think there was a better way of putting it. i think an age appropriate education is important . but, you education is important. but, you know, viewers will he should know, viewers will he should know better. >> he's deliberately stirring

what he's doing because we're all talking about it. >> john says you should keep playing the interview with galloway to the general to public, show how dangerous he is, so that john's got a view. keep your views coming in, folks. thank you very much to joel phillips there and the leader of the heritage party, david curtin. you're with me. darren grimes on gb news sunday. lots more coming up. we're going to return to prince harry and his whirlwind trip back to britain. but will you be welcoming him back with open arms? see you after this short

break. welcome back to gb news sunday with me. darren grimes on your tv, online and on digital radio. now, before the break, we were discussing those controversial comments made by rochdale mp george galloway. lots of you have been sending in your thoughts. adrian says it does not matter whether a child is in a household with gay or straight

parents, as long as they're in a loving home. jane says what galloway said is true only men and women can reproduce. but having said that, there's nothing wrong with men and women having a family , and the same having a family, and the same with women and women. keith says a normal family is a father and a normal family is a father and a mother and children, but that doesn't make other families abnormal. they're your views. thank you very much for giving your thoughts. continue to do so on all the stories we've been discussing today by visiting gbnews.com forward slash your say and join that conversation or message us on our socials. where @gbnews now prince harry will jet back to britain for a special ceremony at saint paul's cathedral for the 10th anniversary of the invictus games on wednesday . now, while games on wednesday. now, while the duchess of sussex won't join her husband in the uk, the pair will be reunited for a trip to nigeria later in the week . so

nigeria later in the week. so will harry reconcile with other members of the royal family dunng members of the royal family during this whistle stop trip to the uk? well, joining me now is the uk? well, joining me now is the former bbc royal correspondent michael cole . correspondent michael cole. michael, always a pleasure, my friend. i'm wondering, i explain all of this nonsense with nigeria . meghan has found, nigeria. meghan has found, hasn't she? some, ancient heritage that she has with with nigeria . i'm heritage that she has with with nigeria. i'm being heritage that she has with with nigeria . i'm being slightly nigeria. i'm being slightly facetious. and they gave her a plaque that described her as a warrior princess. >> good afternoon darren. i'm sure the pleasure is entirely mine . i think sure the pleasure is entirely mine. i think the sure the pleasure is entirely mine . i think the first thing to mine. i think the first thing to say is that praise for prince harry, for the initiative of the invictus games, could not be high enough. invictus meaning unconquered. it's often said that nobody comes off the battlefield unwounded and the

casualties of 22 different nafions casualties of 22 different nations are now taking part in these brilliant invictus games, which of course, were initiated in 2014. that was all pre meghan. and, it's interesting that the website of buckingham palace talks in very measured tones about this and it says paying tones about this and it says paying tribute to prince harry. he did it with the help of the ministry of defence and also the royal trust of the prince and princess of wales, as at the time they were the duke and duchess of cambridge. so his brother and sister in law were involved at the outset. in the invictus games. and of course now he is not on speaking terms with them because of all the unkind , cruel, unjust and unkind, cruel, unjust and unjustifiable things that he and his wife meghan have said or had had said on their behalf in books and on television programs

about the royal family. but deaung about the royal family. but dealing with your very cogent point about nigeria because, prince harry is coming here this week and i'm sure we'll welcome him , and i'm quite sure he will him, and i'm quite sure he will see his father, the king. but his wife will not be coming. and it is said , and i believe it, it is said, and i believe it, that maybe that's because she feels she might be booed in the streets. >> oh, absolutely . >> oh, absolutely. >> oh, absolutely. >> that did happen before, when they arrived at, saint paul's cathedral, there was some booing on another occasion, but she's going straight to nigeria now. meghan, who of course is of mixed race, she does claim nigerian ancestry. i'm not quite sure what percentage it is , but sure what percentage it is, but what happened was that, the duke and duchess of sussex met the minister of defence of nigeria, and somehow he invited them to go on a visit. and so they're going and of course, it's the most populous country in africa.

i think there will be seeing exactly what a huge country in africa looks like and what the people, do and how they do it, and i hope probably well, in fact, almost certainly they'll see some of those poor children, those poor girls who are abducted by boko haram terrorists a couple of years ago and went through a terrible ordeal . so that's the situation. ordeal. so that's the situation. it will be an interesting week because while prince harry is here at saint paul's cathedral, two miles away at buckingham palace, the king will be hosting a garden party when i'm sure he'll be saying thank you to a lot of people who made the coronation, which, the first anniversary is tomorrow, monday , anniversary is tomorrow, monday, thanking them for all their work. and there we see the king and the queen doing what they do best, and leading the country and the king looking so very relaxed and so very happy. and those moving scenes at a cancer

care centre at university college hospital in london, mixing with people who are going through what he is and doing , through what he is and doing, what they do so well, relating to people , and showing to people, and showing leadership. what is courage but grace under pressure. somebody said, and i think that's about right. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i've been deeply impressed, i must say, with their prince, with prince charles. i was about to say they i can't get over it. i can't get out of it, do you think actually, public perception of queen? the queen consort has changed as well over this period ? this period? >> completely differently. i'll tell you one thing, darren. if you have a moment, i was at the windsor horse show with my wife in 1994, and we were invited to a marquee where the queen was going to be at a reception . and going to be at a reception. and while we were just inside the entrance, a woman came in and she said, would it be all right

if i stood with you? i would it be okay? will we be in the way? will the queen come over here? and she was shaking like a leaf, and that was mrs. parker bowles. and she she that was the first time ever she was in the presence of the queen. and she was worried that the queen would absolutely . i was there and it absolutely. i was there and it was part of the introduction of her into royal circles. that was 11 years before those two people got married. on a very cold day in april in windsor. and of course, the queen and the and the duke of edinburgh did not attend the actual wedding ceremony. so that's how far we've come . and as i've written we've come. and as i've written today in the sunday express, the transformation from the mrs. parker bowles, who was hated by many people to the stay and comfort which she quite clearly is to the king. she's playing a more prominent role, and she's doing brilliantly at a time when he is undergoing his cancer treatment. and i commend her and

congratulate her. >> all right. michael calder, thank you very much for your thoughts as ever , my friend. thoughts as ever, my friend. right. i'll be getting the thoughts of my fantastic panel on harry's return. first of all, we're going to get your latest headunes we're going to get your latest headlines with ray . headlines with ray. >> thanks, darren. it's 234. our top stories. former home secretary suella braverman has told gb news that rishi sunak needs to urgently change course following dire local and mayoral election results . the prime election results. the prime minister has promised to take the fight to labour despite losing 397 council seats and losing 397 council seats and losing control of ten councils. miss braverman says mr sunak must make bold decisions. >> there's no time to change leader , so the prime minister is leader, so the prime minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. what he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem. these terrible results , and quickly

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i >> welcome back to gb news sunday with me. darren grimes on your tv, online and on digital radio. we've got loads more coming up on this show. but before that, everyone needs their nana. especially on a sunday. nana akua shows on it 3:00 and she joins us now. gnaana what's coming up? >> well, we have my typical panel discussion and debates for the first hour of the clash, but coming up at four, i've got nana, nigel, and i'm sort of having a niggle about sadiq khan for not shaking hands with suzanne hall, which is pretty childish . and considering he's

childish. and considering he's supposed to be representing a city that should be united and uniting, which is what he should be a uniting force, i just thought i'd have a niggle at that, really. it was a bit childish and a bit silly. plus, we'll be talking all about labour and whether we think because looking at some of the policies again, looks like they're going to be u—turning on yet another policy to do with employment. so we're talking about that. and i have an incredible mystery guest. she's a well, i can tell you a little bit about her. she's told the fortunes of some incredible stars like princess diana and also george michael . also george michael. >> wow. you haven't brought mystic meg back, have you? >> nah , she wasn't really a >> nah, she wasn't really a fortune teller, was she? >> she's a. i won't say what she was, but she made it up, didn't she? >> all right, nana akua, we can't wait. thank you very much. as ever . can't wait. thank you very much. as ever. right, can't wait. thank you very much. as ever . right, folks? stay as ever. right, folks? stay tuned for that. but first of all, police have been slammed for not warning members of the pubuc for not warning members of the public about a fugitive after a father of two was stabbed. so this was a 17 year old who

couldn't be named due to his age , and norfolk police refused to even offer a description of him. now the boy in question has been charged , but it opens up a wider charged, but it opens up a wider conversation. does it not, about whether these kinds of decisions could endanger members of the public? well, joining me now is former police detective peter bleksley peter. always a pleasure. where do we draw the line, peter , between public line, peter, between public safety and the anonymity of a in legal sense , a child? legal sense, a child? >> well, public safety must always be very much at the forefront of all policing. every decision an officer has to make , decision an officer has to make, every operation they launch, everything they do . it's about everything they do. it's about the protection of life and property because that's what policing is for now, because somebody is charged. i'm going to be extremely cautious here. of course, i would want any of us to get into any trouble .

us to get into any trouble. >> but what i suspect may have happenedis >> but what i suspect may have happened is that because the alleged offence that may have been committed here was said to been committed here was said to be by somebody known to the fugitive , a police officer may fugitive, a police officer may have made the decision that this fugitive did not pose a risk to the wider public. >> possibly. and i'll leave that there. but let's look at a hypothetical situation , perhaps, hypothetical situation, perhaps, where a young person, a child in the eyes of the law , aged 17, the eyes of the law, aged 17, for example, goes on the rampage. and let's hope this doesn't happen. but in a public space and injures a number of people , something similar to the people, something similar to the dreadful situation that we saw tragically in hainault on tuesday . yeah, if a situation tuesday. yeah, if a situation like that were to occur with a 17 year old. so a child in the eyes of the law and that person was wanted , in other words, had

was wanted, in other words, had not been detained by the police , not been detained by the police, then surely the police are going to say we name this person, we give a description of this person . there is a further risk person. there is a further risk to the public. that person must be caught. >> well, absolutely. and i mean, peter, as you well know, there are more and more cases of kids in the legal sense doing this kind of thing. >> oh yes. we only have to look at our young offender institutions and our prisons to see how many young people who are jailed for very, very serious crimes, particularly in london, but further afield in bristol recently and other places, we have teenagers killing teenagers. yeah, it's a far too regular occurrence. so what? i don't want is this decision by norfolk police to become some kind of precedence that over all else , a child's that over all else, a child's identity will be protected. that

would be a very dangerous precedent to set what we need to do, what the police need to remind themselves of, because to do otherwise would be reckless at all times. public safety is the number one priority. >> all right. peter bleksley . >> all right. peter bleksley. we'll leave that there. i'm going to, thank you very much for your insight there. expert as ever. i'm going to be getting the opinions of a very eager panel after this very short break. i promise you're with me. darren grimes on gb

sunday. welcome back to gb news sunday with me, darren grimes . on your with me, darren grimes. on your tv, online and on digital radio. now before the break, we were joined by a former met police detective speaking about how a police force has been slammed for not warning members of the pubuc for not warning members of the public about a fugitive after a

father of two was stabbed. now i'm still joined in the studio by my panel, political commentator joe phillips by my panel, political commentatorjoe phillips and the commentator joe phillips and the leader of the heritage party, david kirton . now david, where david kirton. now david, where have you stood on on that? because the public, you've got to get the balance right between protecting a the well, the an anonymity of a 17 year old who is under the age of 18 but also protection of the public. do you not? >> absolutely. and i think in every case, public safety should come first. but i think in this situation , when the police were situation, when the police were put in a bit of a difficult quandary because i understand there was a reporting restriction on the identity of the boy, 17 year old boy who did this stabbing by a court so they couldn't name him. but the thing is, then the question is, well, if you put out a photofit picture of him or give a description , will then that lead description, will then that lead to him being identified, so could they then find themselves

in contempt of court, not for naming him, but by putting out a picture which would lead people to, you know, work out his identity. so it's a difficult situation, but i think really if you you want to protect public safety and you know, someone is a former criminal, even if they're underage , you know, if they're underage, you know, if they're underage, you know, if they're 15, 16, 17, perhaps the laws should be changed or the rules should be changed so that a warning can be given about somebody like this before they're arrested. >> and, joe, there's always ummon inaya in is there not about whether to release the description or identity of a suspect. yes. >> i mean, i think peter blakeley. blakeley and if you are not watching this on television and listening at home on a radio, you might have thought it was ray winstone. >> well, he'll be delighted to hear that. >> but he explained it really well that, you know, we understand that the victim was known to the alleged perpetrator and so to identify either would have clouded what was is going to be a court case at some point because a charge has been made ,

because a charge has been made, the incident that or the hypothetical incident that peter mentioned was somebody goes on the rampage and is deemed to be a potential threat to the general public, the wider public, that's a different case. and of course, there would not necessarily be any reason for the police or security services to know the age or anything more about the potential person that they're looking for. i mean, i think it's very difficult, but i think it's very difficult, but i think from what peter said, i think from what peter said, i think it makes it clear. >> right. okay i mean, so tom has written in and tom said if the minimum age for criminal responsibility is ten, why on earth can't they be named if they're old enough to be held responsible ? they're old enough responsible? they're old enough to be named, yes. >> but i think, you know, going back to the point, because it appears that he knew that the victim was known to the alleged perpetrator. i think it gets into a whole clear. and i think it's one thing that because of charges and because of legalities, we shouldn't speculate. >> right now. throughout the show, we've been discussing

prince harry jetting back to britain for a special ceremony at saint paul's cathedral for the 10th anniversary of the invictus games. i don't often say nice things about harry, but i do think that that was one of the most important things he's ever done. he's coming back on wednesday this week. now i'm going to ask royal aficionado david turner about welcoming prince harry with open arms. >> i think you're being a little bit ironic there. i mean, honestly , harry and meghan, i honestly, harry and meghan, i have no interest in them at all. but you know, this is a nice thing. it's a positive thing. harry set up invictus games. it helps a lot of people and you know, that's a good thing. so you know, it's great for him to come back over and do that. i won't be going. i won't be taking any notice of it. but if people want to do that, that's fine. you know, it's a free country and you know, all the best to it. >> so what do you i know you're not into the royals, but would you welcome meghan markle back? >> well, i'm not such a fan of meghan markle because she tends to be, you know, quite woke. and she tends to make all of these pronouncements on climate alarmism, which i totally disagree with. so, you know, i

certainly wouldn't go anywhere near her, but, you know, she's got her fans and it's a free country. she's got a free speech. but i would sort of quite often disagree with what she says. all right. >> well, david can't expect a jar of her special jam in the cold £15 jam, george. i mean , cold £15 jam, george. i mean, this is his biggest achievement, is it not? yes. it is, i have to say, i can't believe that it's a year ago that we had the coronation. >> yeah. tomorrow. it's amazing, isn't it ? and what a lot has isn't it? and what a lot has happenedin isn't it? and what a lot has happened in the u.s, i think invictus games was great. and i think, you know, as angela levin said earlier and as michael cole alluded to, you know, that really felt like that , that really felt like that, that harry had found a role and a good role and one that really meant something to him because of his military service and his connection. and then along comes meghan, and it's me, me, me, which i think is a real shame and i think, you know, in the last year since the coronation the king has had cancer or has still got cancer. is being treated for cancer. and princess

of wales, catherine is being treated for cancer. so, you know, they swanned off now he's coming back. meghan is going to not come because she might be booed. it's not about you, love. it's about actually you know and it's about actually you know and i think if you look at, and you alluded to it a bit with the conversation with michael, look at camilla, she was the hated woman, you know, because she was seen to be the, you know, the straw that broke the camel's back of that very fragile marriage of diana and but she put up with it, didn't she? but she put up with it and look what she put up with it and look what she has turned out to be. and look how she has stepped in and just worked. and she's kept going and she's solid. she's reliable. she's, you know , and reliable. she's, you know, and she looks normal. you know, she's got nice hands that look like they've been gardening. i mean, david lean as the panel's royal superfan , queen camilla, royal superfan, queen camilla, have you changed your mind on her or did you were you not bothered about the diana saga? >> i mean , it's not a case of

>> i mean, it's not a case of camilla putting up with diana and charles. >> diana was married to charles, so she's the one who had to put up with this affair that was going on. i mean, if you're a husband to a wife, you should be faithful to your wife and you shouldn't be seeing another woman. you give that up, so, you know, i think diana was the wronged party in all of this , wronged party in all of this, but, you know, diana died. what is it? 27 years ago? we've moved on since then. no, camilla is generally dignified. so, you know, she's got some support. >> all right, we'll leave it there. >> thank you very much. to my panel >> thank you very much. to my panel. that's joe phillips there. and david kirton, thank you very much. now you've been with me, folks . darren grimes on with me, folks. darren grimes on gb news sunday. i thank you very much for doing so . don't go much for doing so. don't go anywhere though, because there's plenty more coming up on gb news today in just a moment. it's fiery debate with nana akua. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers is sponsors of

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that's where we see quite a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain that could turn quite heavy at times elsewhere . sunny spells times elsewhere. sunny spells developing but this will also allow some showers to break out . allow some showers to break out. some of these could be quite heavy, but in the sunshine we should see temperatures rising up to around 18 degrees. so feeling quite warm through tuesday. then a lot of dry weather to start the day. but we will hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across northeastern parts of, of the coast of england. but as we go into next week, high pressure is dominating. plenty of sunshine , dominating. plenty of sunshine, settled weather and also a rise in temperatures . in temperatures. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler as sponsors of weather on

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