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political commentator Adam Bolton and
the journalist and broadcaster Daisy
McAnnandrew. They'll be with us from now
until just before midnight. So, let's
see what is on some of those front
pages. The chancellor is mulling a tax
rise on landlords. That's according to
the Times and that says she seeks to
fill a 40 billion pound hole in public
finances. The Guardian reports that
children make up a third of patients
treated for wounds in field hospitals
run by Doctors Without Borders in Gaza.
A run on weight loss jabs has led the
maker of Monaro to halt sales in the UK
as users try to get ahead of a big price
increase. That's in the Telegraph. The
Metro reports that having secured 34% of
the vote at the last election, Labour's
popularity rating now stands at just
20%. That's eight points behind Reform
UK. But the front of the mirror will
make less happy reading for reform.
Flip-flop Farage runs their headline
after the reform leader backtracked on
deportation plans.
DFT hears that the makers of Chinese
computer chips are trembling their
output of AI processors in an effort to
keep up with their American competitors.
The Mail blames what it calls net zero
lunacy for a rise in energy bills, which
the regulator blamed on the rising cost
of paying wind farms to switch off. The
Sun looks at the case of a terrorist
who's applied to transfer prisons from
the US to the UK.
And we are joined tonight by Adam Bolton
and Daisy McAnnandrew. Great to see you
uh both. So let's start with a story
that was one of the main stories
yesterday of course and that was that
speech by Najjo Farage about his plans
if he becomes prime minister. Seems to
have had a change of heart but I'd love
to get your opinion on whether you think
it has been a change of heart. So let's
look at the headline that we mentioned
from page of the mirror. Flipflop Farage
Daisy if I can start with you. This is
about who would get sent back basically.
Exactly. So yesterday the line was
everybody and anybody you know we'd send
them all back and he was pushed or you
know does that include women does that
uh include children and today he was
pushed again and said you're supposed to
be uh the party that wants to protect
women and keep women safe in this
country. Are you really saying that you
would send women and particularly
children back to places that you agree
are unsafe? And he said well not for the
time being not for the next five years.
So that's the caveat that we've now got
that we didn't have yesterday. I mean
he's right in one way in that the
problem isn't the big problem that you
know any country has isn't with female
and uh you know under 18 asylum seekers
uh or illegal immigrants. It's with the
vast majority who are men and that is
who Reform UK want to concentrate on.
But he has been it has been shown that
he misspoke yesterday. Nonetheless, uh
women and children currently make up
about 25% of the people coming across on
boats for example. So presumably if they
are not going to be deported that cuts
down uh the 600,000 uh pledge over uh
parliament to 400.
>> His point was women with children, I
think he said that women that came on
their own.
>> Yes. might be
>> mothers and children.
>> Exactly. So not female adults.
>> But is he seriously going to send women
back to Afghanistan for example where
you know that if he becomes prime
minister? I mean
>> he did the thing you a lot of people say
he's not a typical politician but he did
the the thing that all politicians do is
he blamed the media. He said you people
have misreported what I said yesterday.
I never said that. Well, I have to say I
listen to every word on the Sky
broadcast and he did not exempt women
then as he is today.
>> So, it is a flip-flop.
>> Let's just look at another front page
metro because they have a poll the
latest Yuggov Sky Times uh poll. Uh it
has well from hero to Kirlo. So, uh, bad
news for Labor, 20%, reform at 28, uh,%.
I mean, I guess your reaction to to this
poll and also how much weight you think
the whole immigration debate carries in
these numbers. I I think immigration is
certainly a big part of this.
Immigration never used to come in the
top three or four um, uh, issues, policy
issues that people were most concerned
about. Yes, people who were concerned
about immigration were very concerned
about immigration, but that didn't mean
everybody was concerned about
immigration. That has changed in the
last few years.
>> I mean, this poll also contained a
question, do you think the protests are
justified? And 54% said they thought the
protests outside the asylum hotels are
justified compared to only just over 30%
who said they weren't. So that as Daisy
says that gives you an indication of
where the public mood is on this
>> and and I think particularly given most
people don't like demonstrations about
anything. If you say you know you know
would you support pole tax marches or
would you support you know pro
Palestinian marches most people most
Brits aren't very keen on on
demonstrations at all. So I think that
is a really interesting statistic but
also coming back to the main point of
how unpopular the Labour Party and the
government uh has become. I mean, it is
an incredible example of crashing and
burning. Yes, they didn't come in. They
came in with a big majority, but we all
know that that was a a thin big
majority. They weren't wildly popular,
but they still did win a stoning great
majority. And to go from that,
>> 14 point drop is is massive.
>> It's massive. Yeah. And it's and it's
it's almost impossible to see how they
can turn it around. I don't mean ever,
but what it is that they're going to be
able to achieve that will change because
the economy is bad. Things are bad. It's
not like they can pull out a a rabbit
out of a hat.
>> I mean, but worth remembering though,
it's still worse for the Conservatives.
I mean, the last election was about
>> Well, they're just one point ahead of
the Lib Dems.
>> Yeah, exactly. And and interesting
thing,
Reform UK is up, but so are the Greens
and the Lib Dems.
>> So, people are shopping away from what
we used to call the natural parties of
government. Um,
>> I mean, the Greens are 11. That's quite
something. Yeah. And people would say,
well, best of a bad bunch, but somebody
has to win an election.
>> Although although the point was made to
me today by um Robert Haywood, the
conservative pollster, that actually
these opinion poll results, which you've
had for a while are not being borne out
in local bi-elections that that that
people are more inclined to say, "Yeah,
I would vote for reform." than to
actually put the cross in the box when
they get the opportunity.
>> And it used to be the other way around.
>> Yeah. They used to be secret reform
supporters. Let's go to someone who's
won several elections. First page of the
Times, Tony Blair, who's just been to
Washington, probably is still there now,
but has had a meeting about a
comprehensive plan for the future of
Gaza and uh you know with uh Donald
Trump and and Kushner and and other
members there. What do you make of his
role and what it could be in the Middle
East right now? Tony Blair has had a
long-standing interest in the Middle
East. He was the envoy to the region uh
looking for Palestinian development
after he left office. And he also has
had quite a long association with Jared
Kushner who is seen as the architect of
the Abraham Accords which brought in uh
the uh countries in the Gulf to
recognize the right of Israel to exist.
But but but I think he needs to proceed
with extreme caution on this because if
Tony Blair is seen to be associated with
anything like the Gaza Riviera plan
without
uh the Gazins really being consulted and
although there's an Israeli
representative here, I don't think
there's a a Palestinian representative
there. He he you know whatever Donald
Trump may think he's a brilliant guy but
his name will be mud forever in this
country so he's got to be extremely
careful although he should point out
that the Tony Blair Institute which was
revealed as having some of its uh staff
working on this project in the Financial
Times a month or so ago they say he will
not and the Blair Institute will not be
party to any removal of Gardens from
Gaza. But I think it's interesting you
mentioned this garden Riviera. Sorry,
which is
>> I think a lot of us, myself included,
thought didn't have wings, you know, was
just one of those ridiculous things that
Donald Trump would say and and that it
wasn't serious. But it has started to
come back.
>> It's, you know, like a sort of bad
smell. It's re it's reoccurring. And and
so it's clear, I think, well, as clear
as you can ever be when you're trying to
work out what's going on in in Trump's
mind, that Trump was more serious than a
lot of us uh took.
>> I mean, it looks like they're looking
for some sort of condominium, probably
guaranteed by the Americans, also
involving Arab countries,
accepting the right of a Palestinian
state to exist, but probably not in
Gaza. And just before we go for moving
on, but the front page of the Guardian
just a reminder of how horrific the
situation in Gaza continues to be. Uh
their headline onethird of wounded in
Gaza are children. That's Medisan San
Frontier and not surprising really
because the median age in Gaza is 18. So
half the population are children. Well,
ex exactly that because Gaza is now
obviously a very very young country for
obvious young area for obvious reasons,
you know, either through death or
displacement. Um, and you've got this
hideous uh these hideous statistics. I
mean, I have heard an awful lot of
people and many of whom I respect
repeating these stories about how the
talk of um starvation and the number of
children who are are dying is is fake
news and so on. So, I do think I'm glad
to see these stories repeatedly uh
talked about and discussed because there
is a lot I think you know very
misconceived perception among some
quarters that it's not really true and
it's not really happening.
>> What we don't know is is the number. I
mean the the uh
GAS and health authority is saying that
150,000 people in total have been
injured or killed in the course of this
war which of course would mean if a
third of them are children 50,000
children which which is you know an
enormous figure but it will be a long
time I think before anyone really is
quite clear the the level of effect
>> and these numbers though come from
medicine some
>> yeah well they're saying a percentage
aren't they rather rather
>> rather than a Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> We're going to have to leave it there
for now. Uh coming up, are wind farms to
blame for rising energy bills? The male
seems to think so. We'll discuss that
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Bolton and Daisy McAnnandrew. Let's go
straight to the Daily Mail. And uh they
have a theory as to why the price cap is
rising for energy prices. And Adam, they
say it's Ed Milliban's net zero lunacy.
>> Well, it's a bit of a stretch. Um what
they've got is the regulator of Ofcom
saying that policy costs uh have
contributed to the rise in the price
cap. Um and they're suggesting that
those policy costs are to do with the
fact that uh that companies that run
windmills have to be compensated when
they have to be switched off because the
wind is too strong and also that you
have to buy gas. Now I think the long
and short of it is is actually this
story is no change really. I mean it
suggests that the cost of a bill will go
up by 35 which at one level is it's not
worse than it was but the real
underlying thing about this story is
that we in this country are still having
energy prices that are higher than
almost anywhere else. And that is
affecting both the cost of living and
also of course industry as well.
>> Yeah, the headline is really misleading
because yes it is a complete scandal
that uh we you know as you know paying
our energy bills are having to
compensate wind farmers who are being
told that they have to turn off their
you know their um uh their machines. But
the reason that they having and we
compensate them and that's that's
amounting for about 15 pounds of the 35
pounds that we are all going to increase
which is incidentally below uh
inflation. But the reason that we have
to do that is because we don't have the
grid. We don't have the infrastructure.
So we've got all this energy coming in
and no way to put it into your house
because our grid was built for coal and
then for gas and it doesn't work uh for
wind farms. So this is yet again that
sort of British thing of not having the
foresight, not building the
infrastructure, not being long-term and
saying wind farms are the answer, but oh
whoops, we haven't got any way to get
them from the wind farm into your house.
>> And of course for the government, and we
were talking about Labour's plunge in
popularity. The basic problem is the
government has a manifesto a commitment
saying it's going to prom a cut yeah uh
electricity cost of the average
household by 300 and actually so far
they've gone up by 187. So
>> not surprising if you like that people
are losing faith in government.
>> Yeah. Uh let's go to a story which has
got some uh pretty upsetting and
surprising uh figures. Maybe the
fertility rate front page of the
Guardian record lows after falling
again. So for England and Wales, it's at
a record low while Scotland had the
lowest number of births uh ever.
>> Yeah. And in fact, one of the ways that
you measure this is you look at how many
babies are being born and then you
compare it to the number of people are
leaving the country or coming into the
country. So it is all although I'm very
loathed to tie this into any sort of
immigration story because we're probably
all sick to the back teeth of talking
about immigration, it is relevant. But
of course many people will say great, we
don't want to have so many babies. It's
bad for the environment. It's bad for
the country. actually you know any
economist will tell you it's a disaster
for the economy to have such a falling
birth rate because these are the
taxpayers of the future and it's echoed
in every developed country more or less
>> I mean yeah exactly I mean ideally what
you want now given that there are
concerns about growing population is
you'd like to see stasis and stasis
would average out at just over I think
two
>> children per woman whereas in fact we're
way below that
>> or 1.4 for and also when you think that
a lot of these babies being born now
will be living into their 90s or even
past 100. So they are going to need a
lot of taxpayers to be paying for them
in their old age. But of course you most
politicians can't think further than
four years let alone 100 years. But I
find this a fascinating story because
when I was growing up in in in the sort
of 60s and 70s, all the talk was of
population explosion and that of course
led to things like the one child policy
in China
>> and sterilizations in India uh
compulsory sterilizations and
>> and Japanese everyone thought the real
danger was that and now
>> it's completely
>> because even in the developing world it
is decreasing not at our rates but but
it is still a decreasing.
>> I mean the the problem you know put it
crudely is the more educated women are
the less inclined they are to have lots
of children
>> and cost of living crisis has had has
had an impact.
>> Adam Diesel we're going to have to leave
it there for now. Uh stay with us we'll
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