national. thank you. our top . national. thank you. our top story today, the prime minister is travelling to northern ireland this evening amid speculation that a deal could be close over the northern ireland protocol . rishi sunak has made protocol. rishi sunak has made the journey with northern ireland secretary chris heaton—harris to hold talks with political parties. the uk and the eu have been in intense talks to secure improved rights to the post—brexit trade deal. now expectations are growing that new terms could be set out in the next few days . details of in the next few days. details of that, of course , when we get that, of course, when we get them . now, the royal college of them. now, the royal college of nursing says it's going to reduce england's nhs services to an absolute minimum when new strike action takes place next month , which will include a&e month, which will include a&e staff . more than 120 nhs staff. more than 120 nhs employee hours will be affected on march the first, with staff walking out for 48 hours. previous strikes lasted forjust

previous strikes lasted for just 12. they'll also include staff working in previously exempted departments, including emergency and intensive care . the health and intensive care. the health secretary, steve barclay, is calling the action a significant escalation, but says the government is working with nhs england on contingency planning . sir keir starmer has made a surprise visit to ukraine today to meet with president zelenskyy. the labour leader, pledging that support for key will continue if his power party comes to power. sir keir also visited the cities of buka and air pen where he was shown evidence of alleged atrocities committed by russian troops . committed by russian troops. dufing committed by russian troops. during the trip, he called for russia to face justice in the hague. russia to face justice in the hague . throughout the conflict, hague. throughout the conflict, the labour party has stood unhed the labour party has stood united with the government and the united kingdom to show our support for ukraine and we will have an election next year and there may well be a change of

government. but should there be a change of government next year in a general there will in a general election there will be in the position of be no change in the position of support for ukraine, both during the conflict in the course the conflict and in the course for justice. lancashire police forjustice. lancashire police has referred itself to the police watchdog over contact. they had with nicola bully prior to her disappearance. the force says it met with the missing mother on january the 10th and that comes after detect has revealed the 45 year old was vulnerable and that she'd struggled with alcohol and the menopause earlier. ms. bully's family said the public focus was more now about appalling speculation into her private life and actually finding her. the police watchdog is reopening its probe whether forces failed to investigate the serial rapist david carrick. the former met police officer has admitted 85 serious offences . against women serious offences. against women over a 710 year period. he was

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channel time for fast. good evening. well keir starmer is in kiev today. he's made it absolutely clear he 100% supports the position of the conservative government and that is that we go on arming ukraine in a very, very big way. there'll be no change if there's a labour government next year. but just think about this. we've sent 10,000 anti tank missiles. we've sent 82,000 helmets. we've sent 200 armoured vehicles . sent 200 armoured vehicles. we're about to send 14 challenger tanks , 100,000 challenger tanks, 100,000 artillery shells with another 100,000 on the way. on the first seeking helicopters , i have seeking helicopters, i have arrived in ukraine and it seems inevitable that we're going to be sending some jets. incredibly, we now have a shell crisis , a shortage of shells. it

crisis, a shortage of shells. it could be 1915 all over again . could be 1915 all over again. and there are many that think we've rendered ourselves virtually defenceless by giving away this amount of kit. now, bofis away this amount of kit. now, boris johnson has been the great cheerleader for this. he said he can't see much point in all of this being on soulsby plain. indeed, he actually wanted to send over a hundred aircraft, basically the entirety of the raf capacity. he wanted to send to kyiv but it's about time, i think we asked ourselves the question, can we simply go on doing this without a big ramping up of military expenditure? and this is a very important point given that jeremy hunt's budget will be on the 15th of march. so i want to ask you that question. you at home watchers listeners , you at home watchers listeners, me, do you think we've given too much to ukraine? farage gb news dot uk and i think we need to be very, very careful about this . very, very careful about this. well, joining me down the line is rear admiral chris parry .

is rear admiral chris parry. chris, good evening. good evening to nigel. chris, good evening. good evening to nigel . good to see evening to nigel. good to see you again, chris. i mean, the inventory of military equipment we're sending to ukraine is growing very , very rapidly growing very, very rapidly indeed. growing very, very rapidly indeed . mentioned a moment ago, indeed. mentioned a moment ago, you know, the shell crisis that we've got a shortage of artillery shells . but let me ask artillery shells. but let me ask you a question . from a simple you a question. from a simple military point of view . can we military point of view. can we afford to take the risk of going on with this ? nigel, the simple on with this? nigel, the simple answer is yes, we can. geography quickly. we're the furthest from russia buying land in the whole of europe . we've got the best of europe. we've got the best tank trap in europe called engush tank trap in europe called english channel. we might not be able to keep dinghies away, but we certainly keep tanks away we can certainly keep tanks away . right now, we don't need those shells . there's somebody else shells. there's somebody else who really does need them, and thatis who really does need them, and that is ukraine. and if the ukraine can hold out for long enough, we can manufacture and we get from other countries

we can get from other countries the shells the ammunitions, the shells and the ammunitions, the shells and the ammunitions, the munitions that we need. there another thing . quite a there is another thing. quite a lot of the things you lot of the things that you mentioned are that we don't need anymore. lots anymore. frankly we've got lots of old challenger tanks, we've got armoured vehicles we don't use anymore and all this hysterical talk about sending jets needs to be calibrated somewhat . you can't throw somewhat. you can't just throw jets out there and expect people to fly them . i've been saying to fly them. i've been saying that we need to look around for sort of mig 29 aircraft that . sort of mig 29 aircraft that. the ukrainians are used to perhaps some f—16s that we can upgrade with avionics and missiles , more modern ones and missiles, more modern ones and that's about it. we're not in the business of sending typhoons and f—35s . we need them. as you and f—35s. we need them. as you pointed out . and secondly, it pointed out. and secondly, it takes a long time , people and takes a long time, people and the war could be over by then. so what we're doing in some is we're sending stuff we can afford to give people . and we afford to give people. and we are recalibrating our own capability to make it more modern more relevant for what needit modern more relevant for what need it need to have in the

first century. well i'm slightly sceptical, chris, about the fact we can replace this kit because there are now 28 countries giving military and as you well know, you know, setting up new production lines in factories to manufacture, for example, artillery shells. these are not things that be done simply things that can be done simply overnight. i understand your point that you're making , that point that you're making, that there a military priority there is a military priority there. but as we've learned through history, you know, wars , upsets, invasions can happen very, very quickly. isn't there a bigger debate to be had here and that is all across europe . and that is all across europe. we're seeing significant increases in military expenditure in america on a trump's time and continuing. a big, big increase in military expenditure. isn't it about time that we in this country got real and added quite a significant amount to the defence budget ? amount to the defence budget? well, yes, of course. i mean, you and i discussed this before. we're a coalition of china, russia and iran who are

basically trying to dominate the whole continent of eurasia in the waters around it. you know, i've been one of those sirens that have been this for about six or seven years. so, yeah, we do need to increase our defence budget, otherwise we won't get to make choices about things. you know , i was talking to you know, i was talking to somebody today who said, oh, we need to deal with our infrastructure, energy in the sun. and i said, look you look at ukraine, they are not decisions about their infrastructure and energy. it's been made for them by. missiles hitting their facilities because they aren't able to defend their energy and infrastructure from russia missiles. you know, we've got some deficiencies. i mean, those same missiles can hit the united kingdom from where they're launched now . so, you they're launched now. so, you know, we've got to deal with and you got all sorts of other things to deal with. and long as we look at the framework for the integrated review that we had last year and the frameworks pretty good, you know, you look at it, it's balanced and we stick to it and. we don't learn false lessons from ukraine. and

i point out to you in the i would point out to you in the viewers, i would say that ukraine is the last war of the 20th century, not the first war of the 21st. and we take false lessons from that as long as our politicians are prepared to equip man and resource that review , then we've got the time review, then we've got the time to be able do that. and i think last point is my point. 2% of gdp on defence during the cold war to keep these people away, we're way below that . yeah, no we're way below that. yeah, no we're way below that. yeah, no we are. absolutely. chris barrie , as ever. thank you forjoining , as ever. thank you for joining me here on gb news james gaze, a special project partners. we're talking there , chris parry, talking there, chris parry, about defence expenditure . you about defence expenditure. you know, we know ben wallace , the know, we know ben wallace, the defence secretary, is lobbying for another tender billion. whether he gets it from jeremy hunt, we simply don't know. really quite shocking. what i'm seeing this morning that the french military capability mean you were a naval officer.

they've got more frigates. we've got they've got more sailors . got they've got more sailors. we've got they've got more soldiers than got the french military forces. they may not be technologically quite as good as ours , but they're actually far ours, but they're actually far bigger than ours. and they do all of this on a reduced budget. they don't spend as much as we do, and they have a bigger force. so my thought is , if we force. so my thought is, if we do put 10 billion into our defence budget on budget day on the 15th of march, are we going to spend it properly? well as even to spend it properly? well as ever, nigel, this is less about strategy than it's about politics. politically it seems to be expedient to send material oil to ukraine, but not strangely enough to say that we're going to be providing it to our own. it's important also to our own. it's important also to recognise that the president of france said only a couple of weeks ago that a seven year settlement , a seven year

settlement, a seven year settlement, a seven year settlement for defence in france would average out at around settlement for defence in france would average out at aroun d £51 would average out at around £51 billion per annum, which compares relatively well with the £48 billion that we spent. but you make the point very well, it's how it is spent. yeah, that matters. yeah i mean, look around half of that spending. if you if you also include r&d is on material. so we must be doing something about that. yeah, we must. i mean basically we're very close to the point where the french become the second partner in nato to the americans and us. and strategically, i think that would be a mistake. just my confidence in whitehall, i have to say to spend this money well is particularly strong . how do is particularly strong. how do you assess how do you assess the politics you've set yourself? you know , got a chancellor who you know, got a chancellor who is under massive pressure in all directions, raising taxes, etc. national that soared to 2.5 trillion. these all very real

issues. you know growth running at zero for the last quarter of last year. how do you assess the political chances of defence getting that 10 billion as over. this is about the communication of what's occurring . the fact is of what's occurring. the fact is that defence spending is not just about what people see. it's actually about diplomacy . it's actually about diplomacy. it's about foreign policy. it's about britain's place in the world. and this is not being adequately communicated. if we look at, for example, yougov polling, defence and security comes out almost the bottom of the chart every week on the continuous poll of the things that people would like to see the government spending. the irony is the first duty of government is the protection of its citizens. absolutely correct. so it is incumbent upon the services themselves , personnel and, themselves, personnel and, indeed politicians to recognise that whilst there might not be an understanding ending in the

population of the necessity of defence, surely the situation on the very borders , the european the very borders, the european union and nato. the very borders, the european union and nato . what do we need union and nato. what do we need to demonstrate value of defence? more than that . okay. so you more than that. okay. so you think it's justifiable? send the military equipped with sending on the future promises that we've made. you think is the right to or do you right thing to do? or do you feel spent too much feel we've spent too much documents lodged in the house of commons yesterday? say commons library yesterday? say that we pu t £2.3 billion worth that we put £2.3 billion worth of material into ukraine. i assume that also includes the training we've doing since 2015. now does that come from the defence itself? now that defence budget itself? now that is a whole lot more. yeah no it is. no, it is. it is, it is. but ..._ is. no, it is. it is, it is. but in terms of shells, anti—tank missiles, etc, our stocks now very low. does that make sense ? very low. does that make sense? whilst it's true to say that in certain areas there are challenges, there are always challenges, there are always challenges in any organisation , challenges in any organisation, any type. but we have to have a

serious conversation about defence in this country. it has to be a greater priority. we must fund it properly and we must fund it properly and we must reallocate funding, other areas of spending and allocate it to our own safety . all right. it to our own safety. all right. james, thank you very much indeed. both of expert there, indeed. both of my expert there, both of them feel we're doing the right in sending that equipment to, ukraine, and that we haven't overdone well, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust 't overdone well, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust keep�*rdone well, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust keep an ne well, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust keep an on. well, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust keep an on. it well, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust keep an on. it iszll, equipment to, ukraine, and that we hjust keep an on. it is all let's just keep an on. it is all i can say . well, we got the big i can say. well, we got the big shock news yesterday. even though we knew it was coming, it was still a shock of sturgeon's resident nation. at moment resident nation. at the moment we did she achieve we analyse what did she achieve in her eight years as first minister of scotland .

so your thoughts on ukraine? well, john says yes , absolutely. well, john says yes, absolutely. are spending too much money in ukraine. we need to take another

look at this, but we certainly need john a good think about this . i'm not need john a good think about this. i'm not sure we're doing much of that at the moment. socrates says to me , it's not socrates says to me, it's not what we've been giving ukraine. it is because . successive it is because. successive governments have underfunded and betrayed the military. well i have to say, socrates, i rather agree with one more thought. peter nigel, it's time to look after number one. it's really interesting . absolute unanimity interesting. absolute unanimity interesting. absolute unanimity in that building behind me that we must do everything we can to support that ukraine are going to win , that the war could be to win, that the war could be over quickly. that's what parliament seems to believe. and yet i think the war is going to go for on years years. mr. go for on years and years. mr. putin not about to give up putin is not about to give up and whatever we've sent in terms of kit to ukraine thus far we're going to need to send a whole lot more and i think a lot of people in the country are saying it is it really worth it? well once again, our politicians , the once again, our politicians, the centre of gravity of public opinion , i think, are in rather

opinion, i think, are in rather different places now . eight different places now. eight years she was there as first minister. and you got to say one thing about nicholas sturgeon her ability to do well for the snp in elections was truly stunning . if you go back to 2015 stunning. if you go back to 2015 where they managed to win 56 out of 59 seats in scotland , with of 59 seats in scotland, with approaching 50% of the vote and there were ups and downs but all there were ups and downs but all the way through. you know , even the way through. you know, even right up to the last set of scottish parliament which took place last year , you know, they place last year, you know, they were still getting 48% of the popular constituency . so in popular constituency. so in terms of and winning elections, nicholas sturgeon no question, was a spectre tacular success. but what's her legacy? what she really left behind in scotland were joining is henry hill deputy editor of conservative home grace an election whose

whopping majority is the delivery, perhaps failing some ways? oh, in all sorts of ways. i mean, it's actually quite hard to list them all in any reasonable period of time. think about the just the priorities the scottish government set itself. closing attainment itself. closing the attainment gap richer and better gap between richer and better and well—off and less well—off people's completely nhs completely failed nhs performance down school performance down school performance . the scottish performance. the scottish government has actually opted out international out of all of the international measures the basis on measures and change the basis on which collects which it collects the statistics. know statistics. so we don't know exactly doing but exactly how bad it's doing but down. and then you've down. yeah. and then you've failing ferry services there , failing ferry services there, scottish island communities which dependent on ferry which are dependent on ferry services medicine . services for food, medicine. those failing the those ships are failing the contract apparently politically awarded years late. the awarded it's years late. the ships are a year late. there's a utany ships are a year late. there's a litany of failures. it's actually hard to point any area of actually governing scotland where the snp is a success through a drug test, the highest in europe life expectancy down by couple of years. i mean that's a very very very bad measures they're having to guess precisely. nearly all precisely. they're nearly all bad and they focus the bad measures and they focus the most thing nicholas

most thing is that nicholas sturgeon cultivated this reputation the great reputation as the great progressive great you progressive, great leader, you know, compared know, especially compared to jeremy moderate jeremy corbyn, a nice moderate female , but actually it's the female, but actually it's the least well—off in scotland who have the most . yes. have suffered the most. yes. i mean , the desire to be seen, to mean, the desire to be seen, to be progressive , this was the be progressive, this was the great sort of, you know, really really of the major really one of the major characteristic of her time, because in the end , pushing that because in the end, pushing that trans debate too far and the guy that commits to rapes says he's a woman, get sent to a women's prison , people said, no, enough prison, people said, no, enough . do you think the snp bubble has really burst? well well, the snp have a huge advantage the tories used to enjoy. for example, after 2016, which is that they have basically the 45% of the scottish electorate who supported the behind them, hence that string of amazing victories that string of amazing victories that that you just said that you that you just said nicola sturgeon's tenure the challenge the is that challenge the snp is that they've kept going by they've kept that going by constantly next constantly saying the next referendum around corner referendum is just around corner guys, next year that's out of road. and the question road. and so the question is what yes. and what happens then. yes. and polling call it polling and i won't call it independence. i refuse it's separation time , you know that.

separation time, you know that. well, because they want join well, because they want to join eu. that's debate. eu. but that's another debate. yeah 12 points yeah i know they're 12 points behind so every marker. behind and so on every marker. she's failed . she set out to do she's failed. she set out to do it . feel to me that, you know, it. feel to me that, you know, they could lose 20 or 30 seats in westminster at the next general election . it feels that general election. it feels that way to me. question is, henry, who were the beneficiaries? were the corks popping in concert out of central office last night or not? so labour would be the most obvious beneficiary just because scotland used be very heavily laboun scotland used be very heavily labour. the snp landslide . i labour. the snp landslide. i think in blair's time there were 44, scottish labour . yeah. 44, 45 scottish labour. yeah. but there are two possible countervailing factors to that. first is that the snp's first breakthrough came in conservative seats were for previously in previously conservative seats in scotland conservatives scotland and the conservatives did winning did quite a good job of winning those like the those back areas like the northeast of scotland. the second was after second is that there was a after the referendum lot of working the referendum a lot of working class unionist started class unionist voters started flocking tories, lanark flocking to the tories, lanark and almost went and hamilton east almost went conservative recently. so there's a chance the conservatives could could continue to win over that kind of hard unionist vote. the

danger for the tories, of course, is if the threat of independence seems to be a separation seems to be receding, then voters who holding their nose perhaps to tory to nose perhaps to vote tory to save union might go back to save the union might go back to labour and i have to say, i thought yesterday was keir starmer's actually. starmer's birthday actually. and many, you he many, many ways, you know he says out and says corbyn, you're out and i think you know you know what called home that corbyn was a very big factor in that last general election . absolutely in general election. absolutely in 2019 then we've got this potential implosion of snp. good times for starmer. i was out the other night with a few conservative members of parliament. they're all looking for jobs. they're all assuming forjobs. they're all assuming they're going to lose their seats. i mean, are they headed for a complete disaster? the sort of national. yeah. it looks like it currently. you do ? like it currently. you do? sometimes i speak to the mp, for example, on the red who report that their patch is better. and you can't rule out that in cases a hard working local mp or local will make a difference. but if the where they are and

the polls are where they are and they don't close, then yes, we're getting to the point where first past the post goes from a full switch, large parties to one large parties . one that murders large parties. interesting. hill, thank interesting. henry hill, thank you . thank you. but you very much. thank you. but all i folks, if they're all i can say, folks, if they're outed, thoroughly deserve . outed, they thoroughly deserve. sorry, but what i think. sorry, but that's what i think. in a moment, get an update in a moment, let's get an update on nicola bailey on the nicola bailey case, something really has something that really has gnpped something that really has gripped the nation .

well, i'm joined by danny shaw from the bbc, home affairs correspondent . danny, before we correspondent. danny, before we get to the nicola bully case, which is really gripping the nation, i know in the green room here every night this week, this is what people are talking about. before we get to that. last friday in knowsley, in merseyside , there was a protest, merseyside, there was a protest, a community protest. it was about a particular video that we saw of someone talking to an underage girl.

saw of someone talking to an underage girl . residents said underage girl. residents said this had been going for some months. they launched a peaceful protest . there was a protest. there was a counter—protest that took place from care for kayleigh . then from care for kayleigh. then some real yobs , dangerous people some real yobs, dangerous people turned with sledgehammers, balaclava vans . and yet you're balaclava vans. and yet you're a seasoned professional of the media. and how portray stories ? media. and how portray stories? it was pretty much wall to wall that. you the far right in knowsley probably most leftwing constituency in britain but somehow all of these people that protested were labelled as far right . you know, 180 charities right. you know, 180 charities got together to say the government should condemn any protests of any kind at all. i just felt and we did have a couple of people on the show when knowsley residents who spoke to us not on camera they were concerned about doing that . how one sided can the media be on some of these home affairs stories? well i would just say that whenever there is a

demonstration whether . it's to demonstration whether. it's to do with asylum issues , whether do with asylum issues, whether it's in london, to do with stop the war or whatever might be or anti—police protest when it normally starts peacefully. yeah, you know, it's normally dunng yeah, you know, it's normally during the day. there's peaceful, it's normally sort of good natured. and then you you the troublemakers perhaps coming in the evening and the headlines afterwards are all the trouble. they don't reflect . the peaceful they don't reflect. the peaceful nature of the protest . so nature of the protest. so i don't think there's anything that unusual about the media in that unusual about the media in that sense about the protests in knowsley. it focussed on the trouble the disorder and all the rest of it, which was really, you know, serious. yeah, but i just i just felt the very right for residents to protest about these hotels was being called into question . well i can't into question. well i can't speak for all the media councils, but i think that, you know , there is probably an know, there is probably an argument to say that. some of

that has been sort of clouded the right of people to protest has been clouded. the police have put out a statement subsequently saying that there was a lawful protest and were militating that a lawful protest and it was then subsequent be sort of taken over by troublemakers etc. now, you know, but it's inevitable that the focus is going to be on the trouble. but, but, you know , but trouble. but, but, you know, but i would just question its absolute people have the right to protest . of course they do. to protest. of course they do. but going outside accommodation, be it a hotel or wherever it is , where people who are in this country and are being accommodate dated a protesting outside that, is that really the best? shouldn't they take their protest to the home office? well a it's a long way knowsley but but yeah, i get your point. some would see it as being provocative , but we'll see. provocative, but we'll see. there's another protest planned in cornwall this saturday. we'll see how that and lots and lots

of these protests taking place in ireland . now, the nicola in ireland. now, the nicola bully case, it really gripped the nation in the most extraordinary. how on earth can this simply have got missing all sorts of private investigators and tik tok is not adding much , and tik tok is not adding much, i don't think to the whole story . but why on earth did the police decide to ? tell us that police decide to? tell us that miss burley had a drink problem , a menopause problem that they visited her on the 10th of january. why do we need why did we need to know this personal information it right that we were told it looked very unusual for police to disclose that information. my sense is i think there were two possibilities. the first is that the information have been circulating on social and was going to be picked up by the press, by reporters. i know how reporters work and journalists work. they will have combing that area, looking for titbits, looking for angles and so on. and it is possible that it going

to emerge subsequently. the family, nick, nicola have made a statement explain that they knew that the police were going to put that information out there saying that they, you know, nicola wouldn't have wanted the information there, but they want all speculate to all the speculate to stop. so i think that may have had something do it. i think something to do with it. i think the is because the second reason is because i think the police are sort of boxed themselves a bit of a corner. a of weeks corner. you a couple of weeks ago, said their main ago, they said their main working theory was nicola working theory was that nicola had the water and had gone into the water and i think that they come under think that they have come under increasing to try and increasing pressure to try and justify that and explain why their main of inquiry and their main line of inquiry and so on to the exclusion potentially of others and. i think by saying she's high risk and by saying that she's got an alcohol problem and, she's had complications with the menopause and so on, may have sort of added a factor that has led them towards that theory that she's she's gone into the water and so i think that may have been also contributory factor i think that was potentially think the way

that they've done it the way the messaging, the communication is, i think has been poor in this case. again brings into question the integrity of the and the ability of the police to do a good. absolutely. this is a time when, you know, trust in the police confidence in the police has really taken a serious knock because of, you know, episodes in the met have been very well documented . here is an inquiry documented. here is an inquiry high profile , very difficult. i high profile, very difficult. i actually think from everything i hear from the police and the information they've put out there, doing a thorough there, they're doing a thorough that, know , consulting will that, you know, consulting will be experts expect them to be experts you'd expect them to consult title experts environmental experts search analysts and so on. but i think the commissioner patience and the commissioner patience and the messaging hasn't consistent. we weren't told earlier that that nicola had any help concerns at all, an image or was painted of something different really. and think that and also the police boxing themselves into that corner with that theory about the river not making available i think has as

as they should have been i think has been very difficult and communication is so important. you've studied home affairs for decades. how common is it for people to go missing and never be found again ? pretty uncommon. be found again? pretty uncommon. i there are thousands of missing persons reports every year. the majority of people turn up within 48 hours. there's a small percentage that aren't found after a couple of weeks . sadly, after a couple of weeks. sadly, nicola is in that category and obviously the longer it goes on, you know, the bleaker i suppose the prospects get that she's going to be found safe and well, i guess that's right. danny, thank you very much indeed for joining gb news. in a joining us here on gb news. in a moment, a very, very marked change of tone of all the serious stuff we've for the serious stuff we've done for the first we'll be first 40 minutes. we'll be joined scouse comedian stan joined by scouse comedian stan boardman. your hats. boardman. hold onto your hats. coming up on dan wootton tonight, as the dust settles on

nicola sturgeon's bombshell resignation , has the scottish resignation, has the scottish separatist dream evaporated and will her removal signal the end of polarising nationalist politics? plus as he turns against his former master, jeremy , is keir starmer being jeremy, is keir starmer being honest when he says labour is no longer the party of the hard left. and does protesting against illegal migrants make you racist? and far right? join sarah vine. kelvin mackenzie and more of britain's top commentators on dan wootton tonight 9 pm. to 11 pm. on gb news news

before i introduce my talking pies guest, here's a little clip of him in action . i got stopped of him in action. i got stopped by the police today. i'm doing like on two mile an hour and i'm in the red light. he pulled me off. he said they didn't. you see the air that the flashing lights us a bit too. i said, but my wife ran off with a policeman about 20 years ago, and i

thought you were bringing her back. steph boorman joins. he's been talking it's stand not very good to see you the good to see you. he was you know, you've had this amazing career, fame , this amazing career, fame, success, all the rest of it. but you had a prettyt success, all the rest of it. but you had a pretty t tough start in life. big family, lots of kids . and of course liverpool kids. and of course liverpool and the world comes . and you had and the world comes. and you had and the world comes. and you had a pretty, pretty grim experience as a young . yes. well. i was as a young. yes. well. i was three and a half. we have to go into shelters and the shelters into shelters and the shelters in liverpool was down at the bottom of the under the road and they weren't on the ground. they were on top because he'd never got any damage before or no bomb. and before . so they didn't bomb. and before. so they didn't really know about . and the brick really know about. and the brick shelter with a concrete block about a foot that eye on top so when the blast which was a

landmine came down they took away and the poor people in the shelter got the brunt of it . i shelter got the brunt of it. i was deciding just to go off in liverpool every night we all left to rush to the shelter and it makes me think now. when i was three and a half ukraine people, the way they're softening and i now after two weeks, a little girl being brought out three years of age. and i look at that. i go, that was me . yeah. and now i don't was me. yeah. and now i don't know who picked me up as rubble, but it have been anyway. wouldn't somebody member of the pubuc wouldn't somebody member of the public and they sat me on a slate and i can remember the grit and every i get a better grit and every i get a better grit and every i get a better grit and me teeth it goes back to that day when we got bombed out . the girl who to that day when we got bombed out. the girl who had told me, mary monroe, she used a babysitter . she was 12 mary monroe, she used a babysitter. she was 12 and a half and she was killed. she put the blast on to her and she was

. and my little brother , it was . and my little brother, it was six. tommy sat next to me . mum. six. tommy sat next to me. mum. he was killed as well . so i lost he was killed as well. so i lost my brother and i lost my baby sister . you know, i was my brother and i lost my baby sister. you know, i was very lucky to be alive . i mean, lucky to be alive. i mean, mother, i read all course and deafness and what makes me think , you know, i'll be. you fellows. me dad was in royal artillery down in london , artillery down in london, aldershot, and he was on the guns. what he was saying when he got the telegram from the commanding officer said get back to liverpool , your house commanding officer said get back to liverpool, your house is being bombed, you've lost your house, the shells have been bombed, his sons being killed and they're all in stanley hospital in liverpool . now is hospital in liverpool. now is that i look at ukraine, it goes back to that day , you know, and back to that day, you know, and then met i came home from the army . could you imagine them army. could you imagine them getting out alive station

walking down scotland road and, seeing all the houses broke, trying to find this house and that and trying to find us. they were and that's what happened. and now no, they were obviously terrible days and stuff . that's terrible days and stuff. that's the thing, isn't it? we sort of you know, we look at all of this and we kind of realise that nothing better the nothing gets better in the world. we don't seem to particularly in through as human beings, learn beings, we don't seem to learn anything the same old mistakes get time and time again. get made time and time again. but course in the end , the but of course in the end, the war comes to end. you get on with the school career all the rest of it , with the school career all the rest of it, and it's after national service. you have had no choice, did you? hey, go . he no choice, did you? hey, go. he said that's no service medal. very very good. that's the water. water up sludge which fish? obviously this one is a national service , but two years national service, but two years in the royal engineers and never forget, you know, the 23625 260, 65 to 7 nine suffer of the royal

engineers. sir did you enjoy it? i did . i met a engineers. sir did you enjoy it? i did. i meta lot engineers. sir did you enjoy it? i did . i met a lot of engineers. sir did you enjoy it? i did. i met a lot of great fellas in their good comrades . fellas in their good comrades. i've got my own mate and at glasgow , he's up there in glasgow, he's up there in glasgow. alex nice to see you, alex custis. i've got bad legs at the moment. never be able to get on the top bunk because he had the top guns and i had the bottom 100 of them days we failed. we sort of comrade staff. we were all brought in. we had to go national service with two years. was it a good thing for the country staff? i think it was a brilliant the country. we were all ready to go to war if we wanted to. we ready to war if we wanted to. we ready to go and at that time, the berlin wall was going to russia was going to send them over to america , all that sort of thing. america, all that sort of thing. so we were ready to go, you know, like our gods did, doves and our grant shapps first world war, second world war. we went out to protect the country and the national service lads were there from our wounded. no i

just think we should bring back . that was the reason i asked the question. was it good for the question. was it good for the country? i tell you what, it isn't going to happen. don't think it isn't going to happen. but it might do. a lot of people quite a lot of good said you were a good footballer as a kid. yep well, i was. i played for liverpool. we to play in liverpool. we used to play in the streets with little ball the streets with a little ball and i went and got a trial for liverpool and i signed on for liverpool and i signed on for liverpool two years on the there's a couple of managers then and i to bill wasn't a manager when i was but the manager when i was but the manager there . then i asked him manager there. then i asked him why didn't he pick me for the team. i won't mention his name. he said, we never picked the team. he said that the directors picked the team and that was that's what happened until shankly came and picked the team. then you know . and then team. then you know. and then i was there for two years and then i got my call of papers, national service , germany national service, germany overage for two years and.

somebody watch me playing in germany . and it was bradley germany. and it was bradley spnng germany. and it was bradley spring which a german football team and they asked me with a play team and they asked me with a play for them and they gave me £10 a week to throw ,10. well, it marks my wish. yeah, yeah. but amazing thing about your life start is you become a were you always a bit of a joke. we always with jack lalanne we were always with jack lalanne we were always the one with the stories, always the one with the stories, always in the classroom. i was the only one. and then days got the only one. and then days got the stuff by bang. he'll come out. you just dropped in the class. i i and you probably were but yeah but we, we are. i mean, i'm with you know we are the education because ten days it was just after the war and 4550 and you know how many kids in the class now it's 1720 my class 46 in liverpool road school 46 and that's why was sick . yeah.

and that's why was sick. yeah. no don't know by the time they called it veggie said it was playtime group to teach you to say what comes after a sentence on the on the kidnappers and it was like you make an appeal the way you become a comedian now the stories been told it is you're on holiday in pwllheli butlin's butlin's pwllheli with the kids. i had two kids then. yeah. and what happens and well it went down there and i yeah i've got enough money to have three days not a week. three days. and i went down and it was raining for three days and we went into the theatre and they said does any dad's complain jokes and my little gal andrea and paul stood up. i mean , think and paul stood up. i mean, think of it, we complain. so the ideal and i won the competition and it went to the london palladium and i want it there as well . i want it there as well. suddenly istanbul. but eurostar and opportunity knocks really great and then we an amount of

frank castle now which johnny hamp from the comedians so that changed my life from the dole i was on the dole for two years then we had two kids. fantastic yeah it really, really it's a great story . and of course the great story. and of course the war becomes a source of and bob dole chippies this is a big step but but isn't it fully engulfed by my chippies . i was just by my chippies. i was just saying that was going round that, you know, there was a chip shop on a corner and that disappeared . so that was one of disappeared. so that was one of my catchphrase. and also another one which you probably won't be able to say on television. yes, i the one you're talking about, because as you know about aeroplanes. so yeah. wolf. yeah the yeah well i was on that doesn't you want me to tell you that little. let's put it like this. you were cancelled stad before we even knew what was were . good. it was a funny , it's

were. good. it was a funny, it's a bit early in the evening for us to do it. i think i get what chairman had to play in this. i start swing i mean, i'm going to you got television on now and every night it's on meet the and nobody says a word and then two years later , the little i don't years later, the little i don't know what you support me. i got lambasted on the cosby show. you did? telling a joke about it, but that was in 1987. but now, you know. yeah, you went quiet for bit. i know, but the whole point what is why do you make people laugh , i think is because people laugh, i think is because maybe in that shelter with them bncks maybe in that shelter with them bricks come down. i probably got a couple hit me on the head. you know i'm serious. i've come up with this clothes on. how will this . but with this clothes on. how will this. but you're all smartly dressed and all that. and i look at you and i'm, you know , it's at you and i'm, you know, it's like your tongue or your tie . like your tongue or your tie. well, it's a bit of colour, is it? you know, tell you that

covid because i, i, i got cold. yeah. three times. i have the, i had the three jobs, i had the ask coach up , had the three jobs, i had the ask coach up, i had the as a job and at the end they were what was that. the punjab that you see this is you guys . was that. the punjab that you see this is you guys. i'm allowed to say that you guys never ever stop the but you know what i'm there in the same me out there. i'm right in there. and she give me the needle there right covm and she give me the needle there right covid was. and you wouldn't believe what it was. schweizer i want to jam and well , now fancy think giving me the jam. well i'm sitting i say going to go home. she said, no, sit there. so i had to sit down for 10 minutes before i could move and i sat there then all of a sudden, yeah , i'm started a sudden, yeah, i'm started going, i got to get back . now going, i got to get back. now you say, are you allowed to do that? but you see, the thing is, you don't know about the joke, about the podium job. you're not

allowed to talk about wolves. i mean, what is happening to comedy? being comedy? these it's being absolutely don't absolutely hemmed in. i don't know you think, but think know what you think, but i think generally people to work in offices, people would laugh and joke in the street. we're losing all humour, i think. all sense of humour, i think. well i think that you've got to really be careful because we are now as a generation, well in the eighties and seventies and eighties and seventies and eighties tell jokes eighties we could tell jokes about english, anything , the about the english, anything, the irishman, scotchman, the welshman. and now if telling a joke about anybody looking over your shoulder to see if it's saying the right thing . you saying the right thing. you know, we as comedians not want to go out to where anybody right ? we tell the joke that was hard and people a joke is a joke. right and you know, if it gets a left, it gets a laugh but too not half people. yeah. and working on the book. i understand. i got a book. yep and i'm going to tell you what. it's called is back. right. okay the wolf is an aeroplane for

anyone that is getting confused . these are going to get me into trouble , but i'm not going to trouble, but i'm not going to allow it to take this life. it is live. so that's all right. you go see your plate. the you got. you have a crash. you got ideal crashed. was it a wolf? yeah. no, it wasn't. it was, it was. it was right. it was a villager. it was a villager, stan. lockdown must have been nightmare for you, for all performers . you back out performers. you back out entertaining . yes, i am. funny entertaining. yes, i am. funny enough , last week i was in enough, last week i was in blackburn in skegness. the week took two days before tonight's tomorrow afternoon and with i missed the ip restaurants with chung come see the boxer. oh, he's great. so john has been picked now as the variety club golf captain . yeah, i have golf captain. yeah, i have a little bit of the. well we had

joe, you've got your tie. well yeah. well we had joe rumsey sat in that chair a couple of months ago. we had him on talking points and very, very good guy. well, well he's at the ivy and then went to go from there. i'm going another show similar to this i shouldn't really this which i shouldn't really say, but it's a james wales show. about in 1990 and then show. so about in 1990 and then i'm back to liverpool , show. so about in 1990 and then i'm back to liverpool, i'm doing the leicester comedy stars and. where it now? it's in crosby, where is it now? it's in crosby, in liverpool. you know what? stan keep going. yeah, keep making people laugh. thank you for joining me on here. i was forjoining me on here. i was offset by references to german aircraft , but that's exactly aircraft, but that's exactly what they were . i'm done. i'm what they were. i'm done. i'm back with you on evening at 7:00. please have a great weekend, by the way. but now to nana akua . we've got a cracking nana akua. we've got a cracking show, if you like, top mean the wicked witch of the north. she has go . what is predictable was has go. what is predictable was she always and i'm looking forward to discussing that. will you miss her or donald trump? wokeness at all? it will be

looking at child care. why is it that the government seem to be obsessed with giving us a sort of subsidies instead of getting us work? that coming up us back work? that is coming up after so stay tuned after the weather? so stay tuned . hello there. i'm greg. you has the welcome to our latest broadcast from the met office. well stolen auto will move across uk the next 24 across the uk over the next 24 hours, bringing very hours, bringing some very strong winds, across parts winds, particularly across parts of and northern. we can of scotland and northern. we can see that on the pressure pattern the next 24 hours named by the danish met institution, this system will bring some very strong winds, gusts of up to 80 miles an hour or so across exposed parts of scotland . exposed parts of scotland. already pushing this evening already pushing in this evening , scotland, northern ireland, cloudy england and wales cloudy across england and wales and patchy rain over the higher ground to the increasing during the early hours 50, 60, 70 miles an hour, perhaps even locally as we towards . but a mild we head towards. but a mild night due to cloud in the night due to the cloud in the wind temperatures starting friday. double figures well above where they should be for the year. a and windy the time of year. a and windy start some disruption possible that's obvious warnings in force

across wales during the across england wales during the day patchy sinking south. day patchy rain sinking south. but brightening up across the north uk . blustery north of the uk. blustery showers. witness eventually showers. the witness eventually later on but take care if travelling through the course of the day exceptionally mild temperatures 50 and 16 celsius despite the cloud and the wind across many parts of uk into the evening time, the next weather system starts moving in this system starts moving in this system not as windy, but there will be some heavy rain in associated with this pushing in across scotland, northern ireland, hail possible ireland, some hail possible to staying cloudier . england staying quite cloudier. england and as we head into the and wales as we head into the early hours this slowly starting to push through . as a result to push through. as a result temperatures again frost free for many, perhaps just getting close to freezing for one or two spots of scotland. starts morning. a mixed start to the day. we've got spells of rain to begin with, but they should start to ease as we push through the morning the clouds to break and some sunny breaks to develop the of these across the best of these across northern of scotland northern parts of scotland that's some patchy rain across

southern scotland northern ireland temperatures ireland for a time temperatures still above where they still well above where they should the time of year, should be for the time of year, staying largely dry sunday. staying largely dry into sunday. just showers around . just a few showers around. temperatures a temperatures just sliding a little into monday .

good evening. you with gb news. in a moment headliners. but first, let's bring you the latest news headliners headlines and our top story tonight, the prime minister has arrived in northern ireland this evening amid speculation that a deal could be close over the northern ireland protocol. rishi sunak made the journey with the northern ireland secretary, chris heaton—harris, to hold talks with political parties installed in the uk and the eu have been in a tense talks to secure improvements to improve the post brexit trade deal now expected options are growing but new terms could be set out in

the next few days . sir keir the next few days. sir keir starmer has made a surprise visit to to ukraine meet with president zelenskyy the labour leader pledged that support for kyiv will continue if his party comes to power. sir keir also visited the cities of buka and appin, where he was shown evidence of alleged atrocities committed by russian troops dunng committed by russian troops during the trip. he called for russia to face justice in the hague. throughout the conflict, the labour party has stood unhed the labour party has stood united with the government in the united kingdom to show our support for ukraine and we will have an election next year and the may well be a change of government but should there be a change of government next year in a general election there will be no change in the position of support for ukraine, both during the and in the calls the conflict and in the calls for justice. scotland's deputy first minister, john swinney, has announced that he won't be entering the race to replace nicola sturgeon . that comes as