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Sit back, pour yourself a drink and join GB News' Political Editor Christopher Hope at his regular table in a Westminster pub where he will discuss the latest insider political intrigue and gossip with everyone from popstars to politicians. New episodes released every Friday.
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Beat the system with TallyMoney. Gold you can spend. Discover more here: https://click.tallymoney.com/A64P/df08xa5e #adThe Conservatives will never merge with Reform UK as the party would take the country "into a very dark place", shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride has said.Sir Mel also refused to rule out resigning from the Tories if its leader agreed to merge with Nigel Farage's party.Sir Mel also launched a personal attack on Farage saying that he could not build a team to run the country and his party was a "one man band".Speaking to GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast, Sir Mel said he could not imagine any king of merger between the Conservatives and the Reform UK party. The purchase of gold and investment in bullion is not FCA regulated nor do they benefit from the protections of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme or the Financial Ombudsman Service. The value of your investment can go down as well as up. Consider the risks involved before choosing to invest. This card is issued by Transact Payments Limited pursuant to licence by Mastercard International Incorporated Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Beat the system with TallyMoney. Gold you can spend. Discover more here: https://click.tallymoney.com/A64P/df08xa5e #adSir Keir Starmer will have "questions to answer" about the Crown Prosecution Service's failures over the grooming gangs scandal when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions, a shadow Cabinet minister has said.Chris Philp, the shadow Home Secretary, said Starmer might be nervous over what an inquiry might uncover because that CPS had "early on" made some mistakes over prosecuting alleged perpetrators.Starmer was in charge of the CPS as the chief prosecutor in England and Wales between 2008 and 2014 during a period when failures by the CPS over the grooming gangs scandal were highlighted in previous reports.The purchase of gold and investment in bullion is not FCA regulated nor do they benefit from the protections of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme or the Financial Ombudsman Service. The value of your investment can go down as well as up. Consider the risks involved before choosing to invest. This card is issued by Transact Payments Limited pursuant to licence by Mastercard International Incorporated Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Beat the system with TallyMoney. Gold you can spend. Discover more here: https://click.tallymoney.com/A64P/df08xa5e #adSnubbing Donald Trump would have cost tens of thousands of jobs, Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has warned as the US President prepares to touch down in the UK for a four day visit.Reynolds also said that he would be pressing the US to agree to cut tariffs on UK exports to the USA to zero in meetings with Trump's team over this weekend ahead of an expected meeting between Trump and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Monday.Trump is expected to be greeted by protesters when he visits his golf courses in Scotland, while the Liberal Democrats have repeatedly said that the UK government had to take a tougher stance with Trump.However Reynolds told today's Chopper's Political Podcast said that he "would respect any legitimate leader of a key ally in partner".The purchase of gold and investment in bullion is not FCA regulated nor do they benefit from the protections of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme or the Financial Ombudsman Service. The value of your investment can go down as well as up. Consider the risks involved before choosing to invest. This card is issued by Transact Payments Limited pursuant to licence by Mastercard International Incorporated Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week’s episode of Chopper’s Political Podcast, former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt joins Christopher Hope to discuss Labour’s looming tax plans, the future of welfare reform, and whether Britain is on the path to decline or greatness.Beat the system with TallyMoney. Gold you can spend. Discover more here: https://click.tallymoney.com/A64P/df08xa5e #adThe purchase of gold and investment in bullion is not FCA regulated nor do they benefit from the protections of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme or the Financial Ombudsman Service. The value of your investment can go down as well as up. Consider the risks involved before choosing to invest. This card is issued by Transact Payments Limited pursuant to licence by Mastercard International Incorporated Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Government review to draw up a definition of Islamophobia will not result in a blasphemy law "by the back door", the chairman of the review has insisted.Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, set up a five-person working group, chaired by the former Tory attorney general Dominic Grieve to introduce a formal definition of Islamophobia to combat anti-Muslim hatred.In opposition, Labour said it would adopt a controversial definition of Islamophobia which was drawn up in 2018 by all-party parliamentary group which critics say is so widely drawn that it would act as a de facto blasphemy law and stifle criticism of Islam.In his first interview since being appointed in February Grieve told GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast, that his review - which he said will report in the Autumn - and it would not lead to restrictions on freedom of speech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nigel Farage has been warned he faces a new threat in the form of a political party set up by Jeremy Corbyn. The former Labour leader looks poised to launch his own party, Andrew Murray predicts it will happen before the end of the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Melanie Onn tells Christopher Hope why she and dozens of other MPs are prepares to lose the whip over the Labour Party's welfare reform bill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Charlie Peters has told Christopher Hope that he knows who, and has evidence to prove, a cover-up within Downing Street over the grooming gangs scandal. Speaking on Chopper's Political Podcast, GB News National Reporter Charlie Peters said: " I do have evidence of who covered it. Absolutely I know. I know people in Downing Street who are pushing this right to the very top. I was in a meeting where a man said, let's bring this to Rishi. I know that it went right to the top." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The UK needs a "national reckoning" on the rape gangs scandal according to a rising star red wall MP.Jonathan Hinder, Labour MP for Pendle and Clitheroe, told GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast: "We need a national reckoning on this. And I would say that we should be seriously thinking about whether a national inquiry is required."Hinder - a member of the 'blue Labour' group of MPs - said that the audit of the scandal by Baroness Casey would inform next steps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nigel Farage's 'Doge unit' which has been charged with exposing waste in Reform UK's councils will expose "the biggest national scandal we've seen in a decade", one of its key figures says.Arron Banks - who was dubbed one of the "bad boys of Brexit" after he helped to fund one Nigel Farage's Brexit campaign at the 2016 European Union referendum - is helping to head up the unit as it seeks to show voters that Reform UK is focused on getting a better result for taxpayers.Banks said the findings would be bigger than the Daily Telegraph's uncovering of widescale abuses of the MPs' expenses system which led to dozens of MPs quitting, others being imprisoned and the historic resignation of the Commons speaker in 2009. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Crown Prosecution Service has been accused of pursuing a "political" prosecution by former Conservative politician Bob Stewart who was found guilty over racist comments, and then won on appeal.The legal battle was triggered when Stewart - at the time the MP for Beckenham in south-east London - told an activist to “go back to Bahrain” during a confrontation in central London.Stewart told Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei “you’re taking money off my country, go away” during an argument outside the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House in Westminster.Stewart, a former British Army officer and United Nations commander in Bosnia who was MP for Beckenham from 2010 to 2024, was then found guilty in November 2023 for a racially aggravated public order offence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Not a single extra fish will be take from UK fishing waters as a result of the Labour government's Brexit reset deal, the minister behind Sir Keir Starmer's negotiations has told GB News.Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet Office minister, also told GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast that the UK was not on a course to rejoin the European Union after the deal, which was dismissed as a surrender by the Government's critics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Being concerned about rising immigration and the impact on communities does not "make you right wing or racist", a leading red wall Labour MP has said.Speaking to GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast, Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash said that concerns about migration was "a perfectly legitimate concern". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope and GB News Deputy Political Editor Tom Harwood sit down to look at what the results of this week's by-election, mayoral elections and local elections mean for the future of the UK's political landscape. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sir Keir Starmer "looked at me like I was an alien" when we met for 17 minutes for the first time in four years in May last year, former Labour MP Rosie Duffield has said.Duffield also said that she could only re-enter the Labour Party when Starmer is no long the party's leader in an interview with today's Chopper's Political Podcast.Duffield was speaking for the first time since Starmer refused to apologise at Prime Minister's Questions this week for how she was treated by the party when she was hounded out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Britons have to "fight back" against "woke" efforts by UK public bodies trying to "erase" Easter, a Tory frontbencher has said.Andrew Rosindell, MP for Romford, also said he wanted to see the union flag flown from every school and public building, with assemblies required to sing the National Anthem to promote British culture.He said: "There is a sort of like attitude now that every other culture, every other religion can be celebrated. But we've got to be a bit embarrassed about our own. And I just think that we have to reverse this. There has to be a fight back."Iain Duncan-Smith also joined Christopher Hope to discuss the growing threat of China and the larger ramifications of the Government taking control of British steel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nigel Farage could "pick up the phone" and speak to Donald Trump about relations between the US and UK if he wanted to - but he has to focus on building Reform UK, one of his key allies has said.Gerry Gunster, the founder and chief executive of Washington-based Gunster Strategies Worldwide, told Chopper's Political Podcast that relations between the pair were strong.His comments come amid speculation that the relationship might have soured after Farage did not witness in person Trump's swearing in Washington in January.Farage told GB News this week that he had not spoken to Trump since he became President in January as he did not want to cut across formal links between London and Washington.However Gunster said: "If Nigel Farage wanted to pick up the phone and get hold of the president of the United States, he would do it. "Nigel is not one of those guys that is going to do something like that unless it is of the utmost importance, because Nigel has a job to do to build this Reform party. "And the President of the United States, as you can see, has his job to do. I don't think that the fact that there hasn't been any 'talks with each other' means anything."This week, Christopher Hope is also joined by Labour MP Jake Richards to discuss digital IDs, as well as Rory Cellan-Jones who discusses his battle with Parkinson's. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Former EU Ambassador to the UK and US João Vale de Almeida has voiced his advice to Ursula von der Leyen in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on a number of countries. Speaking to GB News' Political Editor Christopher Hope, he said: " I would tell her to stay cool, but stay firm and react in a smart way. Our purpose should be to go back to where we were before in terms of not escalating a tariff war. But if that is what the US wants we will have to play, we'll have to play a game. But I think first objective, let's talk and let's try to scale things down. If that doesn't work, I think we'll have to respond in a robust way." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Former Conservative MP Mark Field has warned that the UK is years off a trade deal with the US. Speaking to GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope he said that President Donald Trump 'will do a trade deal with us only when they want to use it as a precedent for the trade deal that they're going to do with the E.U.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Labour MP for Blackpool South Chris Webb has sent a clear message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the Spring Statement, as he asks for coastal communities not to be forgotten. Speaking to GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope on Chopper’s Political Podcast, Mr Webb emphasised how “we cannot go back to austerity”. Speaking to GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope on Chopper’s Political Podcast, Chris Webb MP has spoken out against Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall's announcement this week on reforming the welfare system. The Labour MP for Blackpool South said that there is a ‘considerable amount’ of Labour MPs who are concerned, at least until the Chancellor gets on her feet on Wednesday and reveals the figures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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