Going to do people for hate crimes. If you scared kids, this halloween, heres what one woman thought about that. Thought about that. I dont know. I dont know how its heating. Just how its heating. Its just saying like youre deliberately terrifying. Children scarred them for life. Oh, yeah. Maybe thats a bit oh, yeah. Maybe thats a bit bad. I dont know. Yeah. Put her right. Theres a lot more where that came from. We take you into the spin room where news stories turn where bad news stories turn good. This week were good. And this week were focusing have you seen it . Focusing on. I have you seen it . Rishi sunak. Our minister rishi sunak. Our Prime Minister coming out saying that it coming out and saying that it could us all. Yes, it could could kill us all. Yes, it could create a weird bioweapon or something. Not, something. Believe it or not, weve got panellist whos weve got a panellist whos going and turn that into going to try and turn that into a good story. What else a good news story. What else have for you today . Oh, have i got for you today . Oh, yes. Round your pals. The very best of local news this one best of local news and this one include is the wonkiest pub. Okay could that be a pub near you . And a dramatic return of you . And a dramatic return of the somerset regular viewers and listeners will know exactly what i mean. Patrick christys gb news. Your friday night starts. News. Your friday night starts. Here and because halloween is fast approaching, weve gone out of our way here at gb news to get you, well, something a bit unusual, something we can all learn from. We will be joined in learn from. We will be joined in the studio by a real life witch. Yep. Im not making that up. Vaiews gbnews. Com. Is that email address . I will see you after the. News after the. News a very good evening to you. Im Aaron Armstrong in the newsroom. Breaking news out of israel tonight. The Israeli Military has begun a huge bombardment of gaza bombardment of northern gaza this evening as senior commanders confirmed they will expand their ground offensive in the hours ahead. Our security editor mark white is live in tel aviv with the latest. Well its clear there are very Significant Developments here this evening with as we speak, a very heavy bombardment taking place in northern gaza. Northern gaza. The tank fire artillery fire, missiles and fast jets all involved in pounding hamas targets in northern gaza. The civilian population still remaining in that area have now been warned yet again. As a matter of urgency to move south, south of northern and even central gaza to the south of the strip, where it is relative safer. The decision to expand the operations and in particular the operations and in particular the ground offensive was taken. We understand , by the war we understand, by the war cabinet after feedback from diplomats that the efforts to try to negotiate a release of more hostages had stalled. And more hostages had stalled. And also, as we speak , reports that also, as we speak, reports that an american base in northeastern syria has come under attack from militants this evening. No more details on that at the moment, but a further escalation in what is a very serious situation here. Mark, thank you very much, indeed. More to come from mark through the evening. Meanwhile a demand for an immediate and unconditioned ceasefire in gaza is being voted on by the united nafionsin is being voted on by the United Nations in new york, western countries , including the uk, countries, including the uk, have been calling for a humanitarian pause in gaza to allow for the delivery of aid and supplies. But a group of and supplies. But a group of arab nations are pushing for stronger wording with their draft resolution calling for a full ceasefire to help civilians. A resolution is in the General Assembly are non binding, but they do carry political weight and they could put diplomatic pressure on israel to de escalate the conflict. And that israel to de escalate the conflict. And that is it for the moment. Ill conflict. And that is it for the moment. Ill be back conflict. And that is it for the moment. Ill be back with conflict. And that is it for the moment. Ill be back with more bulletins a little later on this evening. Now its over to. Patrick well , i am very pleased to well, i am very pleased to say that tonight we are joined remarkably by the man who has made everything possible. Okay as you will have seen, Boris Johnson has joined gb news. It is a stonking victory for the channel every single other news outlet, including the bbc, will have wanted this guy. Why . Because hes box office. Why . Because hes box office. Why . Because hes box office. Why . Because hes an absolute out and out rock star. But gb news. Well, we went and got boris done. And im very pleased to say that Stanley Johnson joins us now. Stanley i believe that were the ones who told you that your son is gb news. Is that correct . You are 100 right. I was on a train. Id been on a train. Id been in a car. Im a train. Id been in a car. Im down on my farm on exmoor. So, yes, the phone rang and they said, wed like to come on tonight. And said, wed like to come on tonight. And i said, well, why should i come on tonight . And i said, joint, because well, actually, patrick, i can tell you, having just listened to your news bulletin, i cant think of anything more sensible for gb news to have done than to have got a heavy weight political guy at this crucial moment. The only thing that worries me because i then consulted the you know, the oracle and i saw that he wasnt to going start until the new yean to going start until the new year. Well, i say to myself , year. Well, i say to myself, things very rapidly things may move very rapidly over the next few weeks and dont you need him now . Thats my thought. My thought. Oh, its absolutely 100 as far as im concerned. He could be sitting here tonight. Id happily have the night off and we do wall to wall bofis night off and we do wall to wall Boris Johnson. You know, wed get a lot of value out of that. Theres no doubt about it. But do think hell hell do well do you think hell hell do well on the telly . Could he use it as a launch pad for a political comeback, do you think . Think hell the job he i think hell do the job he is coming to do with you, is coming coming to do with you, which his clip, which is i read his clip, which is entertain. But thats not is to entertain. But thats not the first objective. The first objective is to talk serious stuff, to talk business, to talk. How he sees it, and to help inform and educate and entertain at the same time. Yep. I mean , i dont want to sound i mean, i dont want to sound too much like a Boris Johnson fan club because as you may know , there were some areas i did fundamentally disagree with him. But think but that said, i think your people made a very sound people have made a very sound decision. Then yeah. And good for, you know , and it is worth for, you know, and it is worth noting that standing i mean, ive conversations with you ive had conversations with you where you were vehemently disagreed aspects disagreed with certain aspects of things that boris has said or done. So, you know, you are by no means just the kind of doting, sycophantic father who comes out and over promotes his own and always over promotes his own child. No, absolutely child. No, absolutely not. Tell you something, i can tell you something, patrick. Actually set up patrick. I actually set up an environment for europe group in the launch in the run up to the referendum where we didnt win the referendum, as you know. But gosh, we tried hard. Yeah, yeah. You tried. You tried to completely undermine your own in a way that your own side in a way that wasnt main objective. Wasnt your main objective. Of course. Is the kind course. Yes. So this is the kind of chat were talking to. And look, been recently . Look, hows boris been recently . I hes out of the i believe hes out of the country at the moment, as is his right. Mean, he been right. I mean, has he been chomping at the bit to get back, do you think . Well, im to here comment well, im not to here comment on movements of my children. Well, im not to here comment ocan movements of my children. Well, im not to here comment ocan tell vements of my children. Well, im not to here comment ocan tell you, ents of my children. Well, im not to here comment ocan tell you, if ts of my children. Well, im not to here comment ocan tell you, if i; of my children. Well, im not to here comment ocan tell you, if i wasny children. I can tell you, if i was a comment on the movements, children, id be ready. Id be doing a sort of wall map every day. Who was was where. I day. Who was who was where. I see him there looking looking at him now on the screen. He seems to hard to guess where to be in it. Hard to guess where that is, should think is that is, i should think is raising ukrainian troops maybe. I think that was i think i think that was a little ago. But there he little while ago. But there he is. Think shaking is. Obviously think shaking hands. The answer is have i think the answer is i have been reading column in the been reading his column in the daily have been talking daily mail. I have been talking to him. And i think this is a man whos whos whos future is not yet in the past. If you see what i mean. Not yet in the past. If you see whati mean. Hes not yet in the past. If you see what i mean. Hes still he still has a future. And i think hes absolutely right with his talent in of getting messages in terms of getting messages across. This the moment to do across. This is the moment to do what doing now, my only what hes doing now, my only concern is , are we going to get concern is, are we going to get the right messages across . And i think that the auger is a good i think that the auger is a good i think he was he right on think he was he was right on ukraine. Think he was ukraine. I think he was very right on environment. Truth right on the environment. Truth to i think the to tell. I think the conservatives are making a bit of muddle now on the of a muddle now on the environmental issue. You say environmental issue. You can say its all related to moving away from europe, my weve from europe, but my gosh, weve got careful because if the got to be careful because if the net result of, as it were, being brexit, brexit, brexit is going to lead to a deterioration in Environmental Quality in this country, we need to think again. Yeah, i mean, theres no reason why it should do. To be fair, but but boris was a bit of an enigma is an enigma in the sense that, you know, relatively privileged upbringing, like fine , you know, theres nothing wrong with that. Obviously, you know, education. But goes know, good education. But goes down, goes goes down incredibly well with your kind of average age northern man, the kind of white haven man they did. So well to conquer at the election. For some reason, for all of bofis for some reason, for all of Boris Johnsons flaws in his personality, people think he might a bit disorganised and might be a bit disorganised and a chaotic. You know, a bit chaotic. And, you know, theres the odd scandal theres been the odd scandal hasnt there . Fair enough. Again, this part of again, this is this is part of life. For some reason, life. But for some reason, people forgive him and people love and people vote love him and people vote for him and lights a room. Hes and he lights up a room. Hes just got it, hasnt he . You always know has something or always know he has something or not. I say id say that all not. Well i say id say that all my children, when youre a father of six children, i think its about 17 grandchildren. You got to be very careful. You got to be very careful. No, im im not going to im not going to im not going to pick sides here. Yeah i mean, i think hes done done a great job. And i can tell you something, leaving all aside the serious stuff, he does have the ability to amuse those people as well. And that counts. I met a man last night who has he was hes an mp. Hes called mark logan. And said he the smallest and he said he had the smallest majority in england up in some what you call a red wall seat. And he was explaining to me that actually, you know , actually actually, you know, actually things are still going quite well for the conservatives up there among the working class people. Think of that. People. Think of that. Yeah, its amazing, though, isnt it, when Boris Johnson was forced out, he didnt he didnt really quit, you know , he was really quit, you know, he was assassinated , i think is the assassinated, i think is the word youre looking for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, ill say that. Yeah, ill say that. He was assassinated by. By fellow tories in the house of commons. That, i think would be the kindest description of what happened. And they were wrong to do that, werent they . Because look at where they are now. Well, you said it. I would absolutely echo that. I mean, the reality is that for all of this, not absence thats been surrounding them for and all of the genuine mistakes as well. Right. But for all of the overarching nonsense, if bofis the overarching nonsense, if Boris Johnson came back tomorrow and viewers and our and our viewers and our listeners going listeners are going to be treated to whatever he treated to whatever message he has but the sounds of it has to say, but the sounds of it is to be quite global is going to be quite global stuff. Britains role the stuff. So britains role on the world stage, its to do world stage, whether its to do with whether to do with china, whether its to do with china, whether its to do with ukraine, whether its to do with ukraine, whether its to do with all of that kind of with with all of that kind of thing, britain thing, selling britain and presenting message presenting a positive message for so other for britain, which so many other news do do. They news outlets do not do. They talk us down. They hate us. They treat it with glee when stats come about well, come out about like, oh, well, weve slower than every weve grown slower than every other then it turns other country. And then it turns out those stats were wrong and they report well, they dont report it. Well, bofis they dont report it. Well, boris going all over boris is going to be all over that. A big positive message that. So a big positive message for britain. Boris is the right man to do that. As ready to eat my words im as ready to eat my words as i can tell you as anybody is. I can tell you that. And the positive that. And if the positive message there and if its the right you right message, take the you mentioned china. Well, ive just spent weeks in china. I do spent eight weeks in china. I do not want see boris thinking, not want to see boris thinking, gosh, up gosh, lets whip up an anti China Movement this anti China Movement in this country anti environment country or the anti environment movement. No, i think weve got to be productive and positive. And i think hell do that. Stanley, thank you very much. Absolute yeah , it absolute pleasure. And yeah, it was a pleasure to break the news to you as well that your son is indeed joining us on this parish. Indeed joining us on this pansh. Thank indeed joining us on this parish. Thank very, very much. It was Nick Robinson who broke the news to me that boris had come out of intensive care unit and said, did he take one for the team . And nick said, well, you could call it that. Well, you could call it that. God sake, stanley, thank you very much. All right. You take care. All the best. Well, lets meet tonights Brilliant Panel this weve author this evening. Weve got author and keynote speaker, esther stanhope. Actress and stanhope. Weve got actress and model francine lewis, and weve got broadcaster, journalist and the bloke that never has any the one bloke that never has any plans on friday night unless they do involve a model. And it is, course, aidan magee. Is, of course, aidan magee. There go. All right. So who there we go. All right. So who should i start with . Esther, youve produced boris before, if im not mistaken. Is that right . Im not mistaken. Is that right . Yes. Im a former producer. I wont say where i was producing, but television but in various Television Studios and ive got to say, it was a few years ago when he was the mayor of london. Hes to the mayor of london. Now hes to come and you can tell come in and you can always tell it was David Cameron was it was when David Cameron was the Prime Minister so if David Cameron used to come in for a question time, studio question time, the whole studio would lined. Camerons would be lined. Camerons arrived silence. But then if arrived silence. But then if bofis arrived silence. But then if boris was coming in to do a question, a phone in the show, literally you could hear outside , hed like knock over cameras. , hed like knock over cameras. Once he came in on a bike, literally a studio like this. And he knocks things over and he was like, whats going on . Where am i . And that he ive got a lot to say technically about his style news needs to style and what gb news needs to be out for how to be looking out for and how to handle that kind of person. Well, tell you what i well, ill tell you what i think. I think were going to be hiring as a producer at some hiring you as a producer at some point. Probably needs a bit point. Probably it needs a bit of needs bit of of handling. He needs a bit of handling. Not hes not handling. Hes not hes not adverse to a little bit of handung adverse to a little bit of handling from what ive heard. Francine, do you think itll be good . Well, im a massive fan of boris. I always bring boris. I always said, bring bofis boris. I always said, bring boris back. Know, hes got boris back. You know, hes got big personality. Hes got big hair, everything wrong. I hair, big everything wrong. I think think i definitely think hes. I think i definitely think hes. I think i definitely think going brilliant think hes going to be brilliant on news and hes a rock star. On gb news and hes a rock star. Hes like the rock. Hes going to of gb news. There you go. I thought that was charlie mullins, to be fair. But aiden, what do you make of this and do you think weve made the decision of the right decision some of our viewers ill put this out viewers ill just put this out there. Of us, you know, there. Some of us, you know, think, like the idea think, right. They like the idea of okay . But actually, of boris, okay . But