Task force and regulators aimed at cracking down on rogue immigration lawyers. A new task immigration lawyers. A new task force announced by the government will bring together regulatory bodies , law regulatory bodies, Law Enforcement and other Government Departments to root out so called dodgy law firms. Departments to root out so called dodgy law firms. In other news, the elections watchdog was targeted by a cyber attack related resulting in what it calls hostile actors gaining access to the publics information. The cyber attackers were able to access copies of the electoral register with the names and addresses of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The attackers first accessed the Commission Systems in august 2021. Chief executive sean mcnally apologised to the pubuc sean mcnally apologised to the public and said significant steps have since been taken to improve their it systems. A improve their it systems. A haulage firm thats part of one of the uks largest transport group says it may be forced to shut down its site in Northern Ireland as a direct result of brexit. Gb news has seen a letter sent out by Morgan Mclernon to staff which blames post brexit consequent losses for possible redundancies. The for possible redundancies. The Company Delivers goods to every major uk supermarket. The major uk supermarket. The Business Community in Northern Ireland is still waiting for details about the windsor framework, which was signed back in february. The jury in the in february. The jury in the murder trial of nurse lucy letby has been instructed to deliver majority verdicts for the seven women, and four men were told by mr justice goss that hed accept mrjustice goss that hed accept verdicts on which at least ten of them were agreed. Letby is of them were agreed. Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten others at the countess of Chester Hospitals neonatal unit. A man who was stabbed in the arm near the British Museum in london this morning had just been waiting in the queue to get in. Police have arrested a male on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. The building was bodily harm. The building was evacuated and the area was cordoned off while police attended the scene. Its not being treated as terror related. And finally , the mayor of the. And finally, the mayor of the West Midlands has asked the local council to ensure a historic pub destroyed in a fire. Is rebuilt brick by brick. Mayor andy street has written to south Staffordshire Council over the crooked house pub, which was destroyed by fire on saturday evening. The mayor says the 18th Century Building in himley in staffordshire holds real cultural and historical significance and that the local authority should consider barring any change of use application for the site. There has been much local opposition to the move. The fire is being investigated by police. Ulez gb investigated by police. Ulez gb news across the uk on your tv in your car, on your Digital Radio and on your smart speaker. By saying play gb news now though, time for. Saying play gb news now though, time for. Farage its the second week of august. Traditionally a very quiet time for stories. Indeed this and next week. Normally are dominated by stories about great white sharks that are seen off the beach of bournemouth this yeah the beach of bournemouth this year. The tabloids are doing their to best talk about sunloungers and the battle between the germans and the brits, but actually the government have decided, no, they are going to flood the news agenda all week. This is their small boats week and it began with the utterly ludicrous choice and completely impossible idea that those that crossed the engush idea that those that crossed the English Channel will be sent to ascension island. And it simply ascension island. And it simply isnt going to happen. As i said to you very clearly, and indeed, that idea has now gone. But the new one follows a very good piece of journalism by the daily mail where they went undercover and found some criminal solicitors who were prepared for up to £10,000 to falsify documents and to get people illegally into the united kingdom. This has led to Suella Braverman and the home secretary fighting back tough. We are going to do such things. These people will finish up with life sentences and its the classic tactic of this conservative government. As public anger government. As public anger grows , with 50,000 people now grows, with 50,000 people now living in hotels and so much focus on the barge down in Portland Harbour, they make criminal offences even more criminal offences even more criminal with longer and tougher sentences. The numbers coming across the channel dont change one iota, but theyre trying to show people that theyre on their side. Show people that theyre on their side. But show people that theyre on their side. But does it actually their side. But does it actually work . Is anything really going to happen . Because you know what . Theyve actually done is said were going to establish a task force to look into this. Well, joining me is gerry hayes , criminal barrister and some time ago a conservative member for a long time before you were born. Well, almost gerry, almost member of parliament. Now, look, lets face it, the mail did a very good piece of work. They did . Yeah and there are people out there who are registered as solicitors , others registered as solicitors, others who are prepared to aid and abet law breaking. Law breaking. Yes, they make defence is up. They were offering tablets to people a. D. Presents to say, oh you can do this, you can say this when they knew these people were guilty of the offences and it gives us all a bad name. The overwhelming majority of barristers and solicitors really work hard for their clients, but these people have trashed their clients , theyve trashed their clients, theyve trashed their own profession , theyve trust, own profession, theyve trust, theyve trashed the trust in the legal system, which is the cornerstone of our democracy. So it matters. It matters, of course it matters. Trust in a system. Of course it is trust in solicitors and barristers matters. So the question and i had an immigration lawyer in last week. Yeah and his argument was and well get to the sentences whether they work. Yeah, well , whether they work. Yeah, well, all right. Well get to that. Yeah. Okay but his argument was that one of the problems that the profession faces, its the Legal Profession faces, its very at policing its own bad members. Well, its not actually. Really. Weve got the bsb , the really. Weve got the bsb, the people who sort of regulate us and, you know, they overregulate it unless there are 1 or 2 people who are bad eggs and sometimes they dont do an awful lot about it. Do these people get struck off . Gerry people do get struck off, but youve got, according to the daily mail, 40 firms are under supervision. Under supervision. These are people who are making up defences. Theyre not bending the rules. Theyre not actually saying , oh, well, the actually saying, oh, well, the governments got it wrong and this is a loophole. Thats fair enough. What do. Enough. Thats what lawyers do. Its government to get sorted its government to get it sorted out. They dont, of course, because people like Suella Braverman promises and braverman who over promises and under deliver. Hang on. Suella braverman, the home secretary, is a qualified barrister. Yeah, but she wasnt very good. No, good. No, no , good. No, no, but she is. Shes part of your profession. Yes and shes calling for tough action. Well look, the fact is typically she hasnt researched it. Well , what she hasnt researched it. Well, what i she hasnt researched it. Well , what i do, she hasnt researched it. Well, what i do, i say she hasnt researched it. Well , what i do, i say to my well, what i do, i say to my pupils is tit. Now, this is not what it sounds like. No. Good. Think it through. She hasnt thought it through. The only person she sent successfully to rwanda was boris johnson. And he rwanda was boris johnson. And he came back. Ascension island is came back. Ascension island is insane. It was another boris johnson. Johnson. I mean, that idea was nuts and that was never going to happen. But then she put it before the newspapers. This week. But what she knows i know that was ridiculous. It was ridiculous. And ive made the point yes. Second week point already. Yes. Second week of august. Yes. They want to dominate they dominate the headlines. They want to show a public who are very angry whats very angry about whats happening, doing happening, that theyre doing something. This something. But but this situation, anyone that situation, you know, anyone that saw those videos, those undercover and the mail undercover videos and the mail full marks to them. Yeah, yeah. Good journalism. Yeah. You know, they sentences, they want tough sentences, but we hearing i mean, is a we keep hearing i mean, is a life sentence for fiddling documents the right crime . Well, just a moment. Documents the right crime . Well, just a moment. Penalty . Well, just a moment. Penalty . No. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The penalty exists. Common law penalty exists. Common law offence of perversion of the course of public justice is common law. It has a life sentence already. So of course it does. Of course, braverman hasnt bothered to look at it. Hasnt bothered to look at it. Youre not going to get a life sentence for that. But the guidelines are about seven years at the moment. But what shes also playing into, gerry and this is important is this government had an 80 seat majority. Yep it did it on the back of a brexit vote. Yeah. Which was about as much as anything mean sovereignty, obviously control, but controlling borders, reducing numbers, coming in. That was legal numbers. But the illegal legal numbers. But the illegal some call it invasion, others say that language is too harsh. Say that language is too harsh. But either way, this is a big hot topic around the country. It is. It began in 2018. The numbers have doubled and quadrupled with every year thats gone by. So she is playing a very, very much to the publics upset and anger. And heres the thing from boris onwards, its the lefty lawyers, its the judges. No, its onwards, its the lefty lawyers, its the judges. No, its not its the judges. No, its not stopping the government from doing that is just so , so wrong. Doing that is just so, so wrong. Can you see that perception . No i dont see that perception because im in world. There because im in this world. There are no lefty lawyers who are breaking the rules. There are dishonest lawyers who are breaking the rules and they are the people we must crack down on. Theyre the people who must go to prison. Theyre the people who must be named and shamed. Who must be named and shamed. Profession. Will the cra one of your big bodies of your profession . Strike profession . Will they strike these people off . Will they get sentences . Well, maybe not. A whoa, whoa. Its its not a whoa, whoa. Its not of striking them not a question of striking them off. Not for the regulatory off. Its not for the regulatory bodies. Its for the criminal courts. These people have committed crimes offences and they will go to prison. How long for is a matter for . Did the judges. But they must go to prison because theyre tarring us all with the same brush. You go into a cab and people are saying, oh joe, yeah, i know you. Oh yeah . How can you defend someone . You who is guilty . You. Oh yeah . How can you defend s said, ne . You who is guilty . You. Oh yeah . How can you defend s said, if . You who is guilty . You. Oh yeah . How can you defend ssaid, if he ou who is guilty . You. Oh yeah . How can you defend ssaid, if he tells who is guilty . You. Oh yeah . How can you defend ssaid, if he tells mewho is guilty . You. Oh yeah . How can you defend ssaid, if he tells me hesis guilty . I said, if he tells me hes guilty, i cant because ive misleading the court. They misleading the court. Sure, they think we make up defences. These joke. No, theyre not jokers. Joke. No, theyre not jokers. There are disgrace to the profession. They really are. And theyre undermining the profession and theyre undermining democracy. See, they undermining democracy. See, they must be dealt with. Must be dealt with. Final thought on the Bigger Picture of all no picture of all of this. No question that the cross channel migrant criminal trade is a major electoral issue. Yeah, labour dont appear to have any answers to this whatsoever. In fact, theyre divided and all over the place on it. Yeah so potentially for the conservatives , even though they conservatives, even though they failed completely , they can send failed completely, they can send the right mood music to the electorate. It may do them , you electorate. It may do them, you know, some real good in the red wall and places like that and no , it wont. Going to split , it wont. Were going to split lee in a moment. Yeah, lee anderson in a moment. Yeah, but the while we have the but all the while we have the echr. All the while we have the European Court of human rights able a plane. That was. Able to stop a plane. That was. Hang there was a plane on hang on. There was a plane on the tarmac waiting to go to rwanda. That was stopped by a judge at 10 pm. Strasbourg time. Yes. Isnt that a real obstacle to the government . Yes. And weve been fighting against that. And will against that. And we will succeed will we . Yes, succeed in that. Will we . Yes, we theres about we will. Theres no doubt about that. Really, really, that. Echr is really, really, really important. You know, im not cross examine you, not going to cross examine you, but you name me, you do for a living. No, i do. I know, but. Living. No, i do. I know, but. Yeah, but not for this money. You know, you know as well as i know that these guys do quite a good job with one. Most of the cases is i think it is totally mythical. I mean, you had someone like dominic raab get rid of it. All our problems would be solved. Not at all. We can actually stop all this. I think its article 35. I cant quite. Why do we want a higher court in strasbourg . Filled up with people, many of whom have not even been legally trained with the im not the ability to im not sure the ability to because jurists, because theyre jurists, not judges to judges with the ability to overrule british law. Theyre not overruling british law. They can no, no, no. But they dont. Thats the whole thing. There thats the whole thing. There was there was a sort of about this. We could go into all sorts of boring detail. The end of of boring detail. At the end of the day, they were saying, the day, they were just saying, well, let appeal process go well, let the appeal process go through in britain first. All right. Whats most important right. Whats the most important thing . So britain thing . All right. So britain first, you agree with that . Weve taken back control. Nigel farage jerry hayes. Jerry hayes hasnt convinced me totally, but hes made the argument. But at least we do argument. But at least we do agree on one thing, which is the rotters in the profession in shown perfectly beautifully shown up perfectly beautifully by the daily mail need to lose their licences and be booted out. Echr echr will probably debate for years to come. Now a slightly different angle. Lee anderson is a conservative member of parliament for ashfield. He is deputy chairman of the conservative party. Hes of the conservative party. Hes also a gb news presenter on friday evenings and lee joins me down the line from his constituency. Lee not for the first time you have caused total and utter outrage. I listen to the today programme on the bbc. They were barely able to control themselves because youve told Illegal Immigrants to f off back to france if they dont like going on the barges. The bibby stockholm in Portland Harbour , stockholm in Portland Harbour, lee, you know all of us at times in life go a bit too far. And we need to admit perhaps weve made a bit of mistake. You a bit of a mistake. Are you apology ing the words youve apology ing for the words youve uttered . Do you not think uttered . No. Do you not think the use of the f word in this context was perhaps bad taste . Context was perhaps bad taste . No. Ill tell you what it was, nigel. Its borne out of frustration. Its borne out of frustration. Its borne out of me being absolute furious and not just me thats being furious. My constituents and millions of people up and down the country. And i guess including yourself in this as well. They are furious. The fact well. They are furious. The fact that these and i hate the word Asylum Seekers because theyre not theyre illegal economic migrants that are coming over in their thousands. Theyre and theyre being enabled by these charities. And the nerve of it. Charities. And the nerve of it. Nigel ive been to calais. Ive seen these migrants living in one man tents, living in absolute squalor. Then they get absolute squalor. Then they get here and we do our best. We bend over backwards to put them in decent accommodation and all of a sudden they get a choice. Lets not forget, nigel, this barge, weve got workmen in the oil industry, grafters living on these barges, doing a good job for this great country of ours, and they never complain once. It makes sick the pit of my makes me sick to the pit of my stomach. When these stomach. When these lefty lawyers, the charities, the human rights campaigners say its good enough. And like i its not good enough. And like i say, not good enough, say, if its not good enough, then should back to then you should go back to france in stronger words, in stronger words . No, absolutely. Now care stronger words . Calais. Absolutely. Now care stronger words . Calais. Say ;olutely. Now care stronger words . Calais. Say thataly. Now care stronger words . Calais. Say that manyw care stronger words . Calais. Say that many of care for calais. Say that many of these people have been through trauma sick journeys the trauma sick journeys across the mediterranean and perhaps across the english to channel and therefore they cant go on the barge because they have a fear of water. Do you not have some sympathy for the care for calais argument . Argument . Not at all. Noise ive no, not at all. Noise ive met ive met these pe