Budget contained 'broken promise after broken promise', Rishi Sunak claims

Rachel Reeves was accused of "broken promise after broken promise" by Rishi Sunak after delivering Labour's first budget since 2010.

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'Nail in the coffin': Small businesses warn of closures if govt doesn't 'significantly increase' relief

Small businesses have called for the government to "significantly increase" the employment allowance to prevent them from having to shut down following the budget.

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Kari Lake rages at Biden and Harris’s ‘disgusting slap in the face’ to Americans over border crisis as she promises ‘we’ll send them back’

Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has fumed on GB News over the "disgusting slap to the face" for Americans on the border crisis.

The Arizona Senate race has heated up recently with Lake, a close Donald Trump ally, facing off against Ruben Gallego in a contest that could have significant effects on the upcoming election between Trump and Harris.

Speaking to Neil Oliver on GBN America, Lake said: "What we saw at the border was the United States government, funded by we the people, assisting people coming across the border.

"They're still coming. We were at one area where [former] President Trump's wall ends, every night between 75 and 100 people come across.

"Right there when they arrive is a sign that the government put up, which basically says, we know you're here illegally, but go to this app.

"It's a QR code. It's an app that our government put together.

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"It is kind of like Expedia. You go there and we'll put you up in a hotel, we'll get you transportation, we'll get you a job permit, we'll get you set up to do everything.

"It's right there. Instructions on what to do now that you've entered illegally, how to get settled in.

"It is the most disgusting slap in the face to the American people.

"When I get into the US Senate in January 2025, along with President Trump, we are going to stop these b******s.

"We're going to take that app, we're going to use the information on it.

"We're going to take it and find the people who came here illegally, and we're going to send them home to their homeland so that we can save our homeland."

Net immigration saw its lowest levels during Trump’s presidency, and this has been at the forefront of his campaign in the race for the White House.

Trump (alongside former Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller) is planning, if elected, to implement a historically restrictive US immigration agenda starting in 2025.

He has promised to carry out the "largest domestic deportation operation in American history."

Trump also plans to restore all of his first-term immigration policies.

He once again plans to "build the wall" along the US southern border, restrict both legal and illegal immigration, reinstate the "Remain in Mexico" and "Safe Third Country" agreements, and subject visa applicants to "extreme vetting," among other policies.

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Video shows 'face-off' before MP punches man

Video has emerged showing the moments before Labour MP Mike Amesbury punched a man in the street.

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Kemi Badenoch suggests all six Tory leadership candidates could get jobs in her shadow cabinet

Kemi Badenoch has suggested she will offer all six candidates in the Tory leadership race a job in her shadow cabinet if she is elected leader.

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'I study institutions for a living - this is the reason two-tier justice has infiltrated UK and no one is safe'

An academic sociologist claims "critical legal theory" has created a two-tier justice system in the UK.

His chilling analysis comes amid an increasingly tense political climate.

Sir Keir Starmer's promise to crack down on "far-right thugs" following the summer riots resulted in around 1,280 arrests, nearly 800 charges and more than 200 convictions.

A boy as young as 12 was convicted of violent disorder, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Some had a string of prior convictions; others didn't.

This has led many to believe that the UK has a two-tier justice system - the idea that political pressure leads the justice system to act more leniently toward protests and incidents associated with left-wing causes than those involving right-wing causes.

Starmer has dismissed these claims. Likewise, Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has rejected the accusation as “complete nonsense”, adding that it only makes the job of policing harder.

Academic sociologist Frank Furedi is not buying it.

The author of The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for its History, told GB News: "I'm a sociologist. I study institutions. I know that people in the judiciary have been educated in a certain scholarship called critical legal theory."

Critical legal theory, or CLT, is a form of legal scholarship that challenges the idea that laws are politically neutral. CLT scholars argue that laws are written and applied in ways that reflect and support the interests of those who create them.

As Furedi explains, critical race theory (CRT) grew out of the CLT movement and, therefore, promotes many of the same ideas, the most pernicious of all being that society is "inherently oppressive and that certain identities need more protection than others".

These academic frameworks reject the concept of the "marketplace of ideas", which holds that the best ideas win out in a free and open society because the game is rigged.

Proponents of this way of thinking view differences between groups as socially constructed. They call for the existing order to be dismantled and reorganised along more equitable lines.

Critics say that these ideas have run roughshod through society. Many cite the wholesale implementation of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives within the workplace as an example.

The independent Inclusion at Work Panel, appointed by former Business Secretary and Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch, spoke to more than 100 people in 55 organisations and reviewed the latest research into how employers make decisions about diversity and inclusion policies and practices in the UK.

The panel's report, published in March, found many employers want “to do the right thing” but are introducing measures without the support of evidence. The report concluded that EDI initiatives lead to perverse outcomes, such as hollowing out talent to hit diversity quotas.

What is happening in the judiciary is of a different order of magnitude, argues Furedi.

"It essentially no longer looks at British citizens as having the same problems, same difficulties, same rights but pretty much assumes that they're there to put right certain problems that existed in society. It's an activist form of law-making."

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CLT regards the courts and the institutions of justice as "instruments for expressing certain political and cultural points of view", the sociologist tells GB News.

According to Furedi, this has made the judiciary, which once "prided itself on its independence", more sympathetic to minority groups than white British citizens, adding: "The judiciary has become very politicised."

Does he have a point?

Last week, Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, was jailed for 31 months after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire on social media. She had no prior convictions.

Days later, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that Peter Lynch, a 61-year-old grandfather jailed for more than two years after he was filmed screaming abuse at riot police outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, had died in prison. It is believed he took his own life.

Compare this with the case of Haris Ghaffar, a teenager who tried to kick down a door during efforts to storm a pub wrongly believed to contain English Defence League members on August 5.

Terrified customers had barricaded themselves inside Birmingham's Clumsy Swan pub as Ghaffar, who was wearing a balaclava at the time, and his angry mob attempted to break in. Last month he was sentenced to 20 months - 11 months less than Connolly.

Then there's the case of Julie Sweeney, a 53-year-old carer from Cheshire who is serving almost two years behind bars after suggesting in a Facebook post to "blow the mosque up with the adults in it" at the time of the riots.

Contrast this with Gabriel Abdullah, 34, who brandished a knife and shouted antisemitic abuse at staff at a kosher supermarket in Golders Green. A judge handed him a suspended sentence.

The resistance

Furedi paints an Orwellian picture, but there are grounds for optimism.

He explained: "I'm very pleased people are asking questions that two or three years ago they would not have. I'm very glad that many people are finding their voice and, for the first time, raising issues and not censoring themselves. There seems to be a feeling in many communities that it's important to raise those issues that were dismissed beforehand.

"People who in the past would have kept quiet about their views on migration or what's happening to our borders now feel much more comfortable openly stating their concerns. There is a new kind of rebellion - a willingness to question the status quo. And I think that's very positive because it allows the possibility for democracy to make a comeback."

If the people start to feel like they have a stake in society again, faith in our institutions will be restored, Furedi says, adding: "Our public life will become richer as a result. Populism is an essential ingredient for ensuring public life really is 'public' rather than a monopoly of a small number of people."

In response to a request for comment, a Government spokesperson said: “This summer's appalling disorder was dealt with swiftly by our courts – and we thank the thousands of dedicated professionals across the justice system who worked tirelessly to achieve this.

"It is a long-standing and vital principle that the Government does not interfere with sentencing decisions made by the independent judiciary who are renowned across the world for their impartiality."

The Courts and Tribunal Judiciary declined to comment.

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Labour SUSPENDS 'sucker-punch' MP as Reform UK demands urgent by-election

Under-fire Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been suspended from the party and has had the whip withdrawn after fresh footage emerged of his altercation with a constituent.

In footage unearthed by the Mail, Amesbury was seen apparently landing a sucker-punch on a man before beating him six times.

Practically seconds before Labour's announcement, Reform UK, which came second in Amesbury's seat in July, called on Amesbury to resign.

A Reform UK spokesman said: "The new footage of Mike Amesbury MP is damning.

"No matter what verbal exchanges happened before, it's never acceptable for anyone to resort to violence to solve a dispute, let alone a sitting Member of Parliament.

"It's quite clear that the people of Runcorn & Helsby deserve far better than this.

"Reform UK are today calling for Mike Amesbury to do the honourable thing and resign immediately so a by-election can be held."

Then, a Labour spokesman said: "Mike Amesbury MP has been assisting Cheshire Police with their inquiries following an incident on Friday night.

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"As these inquiries are now ongoing, the Labour Party has administratively suspended Amesbury's membership of the Labour Party pending an investigation."

A Cheshire Police statement on the incident - before the Mail's footage came to light - reads: "At 02.48am on Saturday, October 26, police were called to reports of an assault in Frodsham.

"A caller reported he had been assaulted by a man in Main Street. Enquiries are ongoing."

Police have clarified that "a 55-year-old man has been voluntarily interviewed under caution by police in relation to this incident" and "has since been released pending further enquiries".

Posting on his own Facebook page on Saturday, Amesbury wrote: "Last night I was involved in an incident that took place after I felt threatened following an evening out with friends.

"This morning I contacted Cheshire Police myself to report what happened.

"I will not be making any further public comment but will of course cooperate with any inquiries if required by Cheshire Police."

At this summer's election, Amesbury won Runcorn & Helsby by a wide margin, bringing in some 22,358 votes.

And while Reform's Jason Moorcroft came second with 7,662, a staggering popularity tumble for Labour and its leader Sir Keir Starmer in the months since could prove momentous in any potential by-election.

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