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gb news political editor christopher had a big sit christopher hope had a big sit down with rachel to down today with rachel reeves to talk about tax plans. talk about labour's tax plans. let's a good look at it and let's have a good look at it and let's see the numbers actually let's have a good look at it and let'supe the numbers actually today is what the farage moment is. of course , the somewhat is. of course, the somewhat infantile hate crime laws that have been brought in in scotland. now, of course, scotland. now, of course, scotland faces a lot of law and order problems. the highest drugs deaths of any country in europe. but no, no, no, no. humza yousaf has brought in his own version of hate law. police scotland have now received 8000 complaints already. in fact, if they were to look at all of the so—called hate crimes that have been committed , they wouldn't been committed, they wouldn't have time to do any other police work in scotland whatsoever. this is mindless. work in scotland whatsoever. this is mindless . and of course, this is mindless. and of course, jk rowling a
gb news political editor christopher had a big sit christopher hope had a big sit down with rachel to down today with rachel reeves to talk about tax plans. talk about labour's tax plans. let's a good look at it and let's have a good look at it and let's see the numbers actually let's have a good look at it and let'supe the numbers actually today is what the farage moment is. of course , the somewhat is. of course, the somewhat infantile hate crime laws that have been brought in in scotland....
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i'm joined by christopher hope , gb joined by christopher hope, gb news political editor. what news from the palace ? from the palace? >> no news yet since those votes about just over an hour ago or so, nigel, when we saw, of course, the house of commons sent back those two amendments to the house of lords, these are two attempts to weaken the safety of rwanda bill, trying to bnngin safety of rwanda bill, trying to bring in a new rule that rwanda must be pronounced safe, regularly called a safe country, and also stopping the risk of any afghans who arrive here illegally being flown to rwanda if they have seen military service with the uk forces in afghanistan. those are both backed with the laws and they're voting at 10 pm. tonight. i can reveal to you that the pm, the prime minister, rishi sunak, is hosting drinks with his backbenchers in the office of the chief whip at 9:30 pm. tonight, and that's to try and get them all going, get them all galvanised for what could be a late night. we think if the lords do not fold at ten, whether we could be back at midnight for votes
i'm joined by christopher hope , gb joined by christopher hope, gb news political editor. what news from the palace ? from the palace? >> no news yet since those votes about just over an hour ago or so, nigel, when we saw, of course, the house of commons sent back those two amendments to the house of lords, these are two attempts to weaken the safety of rwanda bill, trying to bnngin safety of rwanda bill, trying to bring in a new rule that rwanda must be pronounced safe, regularly called...
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but christopher hope our political editor, joins me from the palace of westminster . i the palace of westminster. i have no doubt our mps have voted overwhelmingly christopher, to ban . ban. >> nigel. that's right. there's been 383 mps voted in favour of the ban, 67 against most . most the ban, 67 against most. most tory mps appear to have abstained . labour, of course, abstained. labour, of course, whipped their mps to vote in favour of the ban. we've had kemi badenoch robert jenrick suella braverman , jacob suella braverman, jacob rees—mogg, liz truss and sir jake berry , the former party jake berry, the former party chairman. they all voted against robert jenrick is a big speech from the backbenches. robert jenrick speech was interesting for saying let's educate more and ban less. but with me now is one of those mps who voted against sir jake one of those mps who voted against sirjake berry . sir against sirjake berry. sir jake, you gave a speech there in the commons which struck many as being almost a kind of, a cri de coeur for tory right wingers. what were you
but christopher hope our political editor, joins me from the palace of westminster . i the palace of westminster. i have no doubt our mps have voted overwhelmingly christopher, to ban . ban. >> nigel. that's right. there's been 383 mps voted in favour of the ban, 67 against most . most the ban, 67 against most. most tory mps appear to have abstained . labour, of course, abstained. labour, of course, whipped their mps to vote in favour of the ban. we've had kemi badenoch robert jenrick...
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. >> hi, christopher. >> hi, christopher. >> can you explain just for laymen, why are eu citizens voting in uk elections? so long after we left the european union ? >> well, 7— >> well, it's 7_ >> well, it's a ? >> well, it's a perfectly good question though. i'm going to disappoint you because i'm actually going to tell you that actually, for the most part, eu citizens are to keep their citizens are going to keep their rights to vote in elections even beyond these 2024 local elections. the what the government has decided to do is to allow anybody who was already resident in the uk up to the end of the transition period that is, to the end of 2020, to keep the voting rights they acquired as eu citizens. and i think that at least seems to be required, seems to regard it as maintaining fairness to the eu citizens who already had that right to vote. yeah. what will what will end after these local elections is the right of those eu citizens who have come to the uk since , the end of the uk since, the end of the transition period, unless it's, they come from spain, portugal, luxembourg or p
. >> hi, christopher. >> hi, christopher. >> can you explain just for laymen, why are eu citizens voting in uk elections? so long after we left the european union ? >> well, 7— >> well, it's 7_ >> well, it's a ? >> well, it's a perfectly good question though. i'm going to disappoint you because i'm actually going to tell you that actually, for the most part, eu citizens are to keep their citizens are going to keep their rights to vote in elections...
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christopher hope on gb news. well, it's been a roller coaster week in scottish politics. tensions have been brewing since humza yousaf spectacularly torpedoed the snp's coalition with the greens. he then ruthlessly or maybe foolhardily, sacked his coalition partners, the green co—leaders for the ministerial post, saying it showed leadership. if you say so, mate. immediately. though he faced accusations he was attempting to save his own skin and jump before he was pushed, he failed to secure enough support to survive an upcoming no confidence vote in himself and his party, and humza. the brief, as he was dubbed by the scottish press , was forced to scottish press, was forced to throw in the towel at a press conference earlier today, acknowledging the events that had led up to this moment, he said they clearly underestimated the level of hurt that ending. his party's power sharing agreement with the greens had caused. well, so what happens next? well, joining us now to answer that question is gb news scotland reporter tony maguire. tony, a long day for you. but briefly ,
christopher hope on gb news. well, it's been a roller coaster week in scottish politics. tensions have been brewing since humza yousaf spectacularly torpedoed the snp's coalition with the greens. he then ruthlessly or maybe foolhardily, sacked his coalition partners, the green co—leaders for the ministerial post, saying it showed leadership. if you say so, mate. immediately. though he faced accusations he was attempting to save his own skin and jump before he was pushed, he failed to secure...
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let's go to the palace of westminster and speak to gb news political editor christopher hope. were a game of parliamentary ping pong is taking place. what is the latest, chris? >> hi, nigel. and great to see you. yeah. that's right. >> hi, nigel. and great to see you. yeah. that's right . well, you. yeah. that's right. well, the debate on the safety of rwanda bill, which is trying to overturn seven amendments made by peers and house of lords, started at 7 pm. voting starts at 9 pm, but michael tomlinson, who's the illegal migration minister, he started off by saying while the government opposes all of these changes , is opposes all of these changes, is the reason why he gave is quite fascinating. he said that the problem is here. we can't allow amendments that will provide loopholes for, could loopholes for, and could perpetuate the current cycle of delays and late legal challenges and to removal. so the government is very clear that these changes proposed by the house of lords, some of which sound quite anodyne , things like sound quite anodyne, things like a describing rwand
let's go to the palace of westminster and speak to gb news political editor christopher hope. were a game of parliamentary ping pong is taking place. what is the latest, chris? >> hi, nigel. and great to see you. yeah. that's right. >> hi, nigel. and great to see you. yeah. that's right . well, you. yeah. that's right. well, the debate on the safety of rwanda bill, which is trying to overturn seven amendments made by peers and house of lords, started at 7 pm. voting starts at 9 pm,...
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and christopher hope gb news is political editor. as the game of parliamentary ping pong continues, so , joe, as i continues, so, joe, as i understand it, chris, the commons have now sent it all back to the lords . back to the lords. >> yes. evening nigel, from the historic thousand year old westminster hall. this is how politics works. not in brussels, but in westminster, where the house of commons decided to do things and the lords can ask the commons to think again. that's happened three times so far this afternoon. there were four attempts amend or weaken if attempts to amend or weaken if the government, in the government's view, the safety of rwanda bill, that those are those to those measures, went back to the house lords we speak. house of lords as we speak. peers are now speaking, discussing three amendments to send back to the house of commons from lord hope, the former judge, lord brown, the formerjudge, lord brown, the formerjudge, lord brown, the former labour defence secretary, and baroness chakrabarti, the former of lib
and christopher hope gb news is political editor. as the game of parliamentary ping pong continues, so , joe, as i continues, so, joe, as i understand it, chris, the commons have now sent it all back to the lords . back to the lords. >> yes. evening nigel, from the historic thousand year old westminster hall. this is how politics works. not in brussels, but in westminster, where the house of commons decided to do things and the lords can ask the commons to think again. that's happened...
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and it brings me back a little bit to christopher hope's interview yesterday with rachel reeves, and point that and he made the point that rachel reeves seems more bothered about tax evasion and legal tax avoidance even than she does about cracking down on things like universal credit fraud . a really, truly, truly fraud. a really, truly, truly awful story. i just get the horrible feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg now. labour have come out today with a big plan for reviving the high street. the conservatives, in reaction are promising some new laws against the bad guys, will debate all of well, the big part is today i've been talking about shopping, the high street, shoplifting, and much else from the conservatives there's now going to be a standalone offence for enhancing protection for retail workers. a specific law about assaulting retail workers. quite why we need that. i have absolutely no idea. i will ask jacob rees—mogg at the end of the show what the reason for that is. they're also suggesting electronic tags for repeat offenders after their third conviction for s
and it brings me back a little bit to christopher hope's interview yesterday with rachel reeves, and point that and he made the point that rachel reeves seems more bothered about tax evasion and legal tax avoidance even than she does about cracking down on things like universal credit fraud . a really, truly, truly fraud. a really, truly, truly awful story. i just get the horrible feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg now. labour have come out today with a big plan for reviving the high...
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well, this afternoon we sought clarification on this and gb news political editor christopher hope asked this question of number 10, downing street . and he asked and he said street. and he asked and he said no. did you know gb news are reporting that rishi sunak would consider leaving the echr sr. and the response was no , only if and the response was no, only if the planes were stopped from going, then we would consider the option of leaving. well, you know, you know, let's , let's know, you know, let's, let's just think about those words one more time. you know, he's is he saying he just wants to look at it, or is he saying he really intends to do something? he's saying if it came to it and the echr was the block on the rwanda scheme, we would consider leaving. yes. so we would consider leaving, not we will leave not we will give the british people a referendum . i british people a referendum. i don't believe a single word of it. i haven't believed a single word sunak or any of his predecessors have said on stopping illegal illegal immigration, i'll ask you, what do you think? does su
well, this afternoon we sought clarification on this and gb news political editor christopher hope asked this question of number 10, downing street . and he asked and he said street. and he asked and he said no. did you know gb news are reporting that rishi sunak would consider leaving the echr sr. and the response was no , only if and the response was no, only if the planes were stopped from going, then we would consider the option of leaving. well, you know, you know, let's , let's know, you...