Lester. Oh, and it wasnt a happy mothers day in liverpool. Happy mothers day in liverpool. Get ready britain, here we go. A stark warning for the future of britain. Next. Of britain. Next. Patrick. Thank you and good evening. The top stories from evening. The top stories from the gb newsroom. Lee anderson says he would still have defected to the reform uk party, even if he hadnt been suspended from the conservatives. He became the partys first mp this morning after he lost the tory whip for claiming that islamists had got hold of the london mayor as recently as january. Mr anderson said it was not a proper Political Party. He now says reform will allow him to speak out on behalf of millions , speak out on behalf of millions, as Party Leader Richard Tice says reform would aim to build a red wall in traditionally conservative constituencies. Conservative constituencies. Im delighted to announce that i have found that champion of the red wall for reform uk. Hes also, coincidentally going to be reform uks first member of parliament in the house of commons. He is, of course , a commons. He is, of course, a person of great integrity, no nonsense and is the member of parliament in the county of nottinghamshire for ashfield. Please welcome mr lee anderson. Please welcome mr lee anderson. The government has pledged over £117 million to safeguard mosques, muslim schools and Community Centres over the next four years. The funding, unveiled today, follows the Prime Ministers promise to allocate more than £70 million to protect Jewish Community sites. The government condemned a recent rise in reported anti muslim and anti jewish hatred. Ministers say they expect the police to fully investigate all hate crimes. The investigate all hate crimes. The energy regulator, ofgem, is looking at ways to protect consumers from spiralling costs amid a Record Number of unpaid bills, around £3. 1 billion of debts are piling up as concerns grow over the high cost of household bills. Its after the price of energy in an average british home hit more than 3500 pounds a year last october. Two other news the princess of wales has apologised for an altered family photo released by Kensington Palace. Posting to Kensington Palace. Posting to social media, she admitted that like many amateur photographers, she occasionally experiments with editing and editing, adding she was sorry for any confusion it caused. The mothers day it caused. The mothers day image taken by the prince of wales was withdrawn by various global photo agencies after suspicions that a number of edits may have been made. King edits may have been made. King charles has thanked the public for their support in a video message to a service celebrating commonwealth day, the queen joined the prince of wales at Westminster Abbey for todays service. This years event drew on the theme of resilience against a backdrop of Health Worries within the family. Queen camilla also attended a reception at marlborough house in london, where she met south african dancers and members of a samoan band. And though he missed todays events, the king reaffirmed his commitment to the 56 member countries. As ive said before, the commonwealth is like the wiring of a house and its people are energy and our ideas are the current that runs through those wires together and individually. We are strengthened by sharing perspectives and experiences. My belief in our shared endeavours and in the potential of our people remains a sure and strong as it has ever been. As it has ever been. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or you can go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now patrick, it is back to you. It is back to you. We need to face facts. There is no problem with some of the rhetoric being pumped out in mosques in great britain. A new generation of hardline islamist extremists are ready to take violent action. If you insult their religion. Remarkably, the their religion. Remarkably, the taxpayer is paying arguably for the radicalised action of some people. Lewisham Islamic Centre in south london, for example, is chief imam. Reportedly shakeel begg once called on young muslims to go to palestine and fight the zionists, was given 540 grand by the taxpayer between 2015 and 2020. The Charity Commission is investigating after a religious leader in southall scolded muslims who have not prepared for jihad. One in bradford forjihad. One in bradford called for victory to the mujahideen of palestine. Varne mujahideen of palestine. Varne one manchester mosque sermon at the end of friday prayers called for al aqsa mosque to be freed from the dirty, usurping and aggressing zionists, while an onune aggressing zionists, while an online sermon praised hamas for their moral victory over israel. Their moral victory over israel. And now the commission for countering extremism has published a report with these key findings about blasphemy by a new generation of uk based anti blasphemy. Activists are anti blasphemy. Activists are aspiring anti blasphemy. Activists are aspiring to make blasphemy a central concern for british muslims. Tehreek e labbaik , an muslims. Tehreek e labbaik, an anti blasphemy Political Party in pakistan , appears to be in pakistan, appears to be developing a uk presence. Islamist terrorist groups continue to call for violent reprisals for instances of blasphemy. Now we have had a flashpoint and the report suggests that tehreek e labbaik, that group, has been at the centre of most of them. Batley Grammar School a teacher shows a picture to the Prophet Muhammad of the Prophet Muhammad. To some kids, massive protest. Here is one man outside the school gates clearly calling for blasphemy laws. The incident from monday 22nd of march must also be investigated from a criminal perspective. Yes, given that it was a clear attempt to stir up religious hatred, we also use this opportunity to call upon the entire British Muslim Community to review the materials being taught in their childrens schools. There were protests in birmingham and many other places over the screening of that film. The lady in heaven was depicted muhammads daughter. People mobbed up and cinemas caved in. Cineworld sent an employee out with a microphone to apologise , with a microphone to apologise, confirming that we have cancelled this film and will not be showing it again. Be showing it again. We value you as customers. We we value you as customers. We value you all as our customers within the heart of this community at a local level. It wasnt our decision to show this film, it came from above. We totally agree with what youre saying and we are not prepared at this cinema to show this film i roshan saleh, the editor for the News Platform five pillars, wrote a review for the site describing the film as pure, unadulterated, sectarian filth. They wanted it banned because it offended muslims. It was blasphemous. In wakefield , an blasphemous. In wakefield, an autistic boy scuffed a copy of the quran. The local mosque demanded his mother and the police turned up to apologise. They put this on social they even put this on social media. Theyre saying, oh, the matters finished. But matters not quite finished. But then today it emerged the man in then today it emerged the man in the running to be the governments anti hate tsar, governments anti hate tsar, fiyaz quit governments anti hate tsar, fiyaz quit before fiyaz mughal, has quit before hes even started. Why . Well, he does blame pushback from some far right extremists, but he also makes this very revealing comment. He says, i am angry because the government has been saying for decades, where are the british muslims speaking out . When we speak out, we are left our own the left to our own devices. The impact on our personal and professional enormous. Professional lives is enormous. Well, why is that . Could it be that there is a problem within aspects of the Muslim Community that deems any pushback on islamist extremism to be blasphemous and punishable with extreme violence . He goes on to say, its infiltrated our Civil Service as well. He says they have Civil Servants who have sympathies groups. Sympathies with these groups. Look, are these some look, the facts are these some mosques are platforming and spreading radical material. Mosques are platforming and spreading radical material. An spreading radical material. An extreme anti blasphemy group is operating in the uk, and we have seen anti blasphemy movements with our own eyes, and extremists are threatening people who try to call this out and stop it. There people who try to call this out and stop it. There is people who try to call this out and stop it. There is another, and stop it. There is another, more damning fact though, isnt there . Our politicians and our police are far too weak to do anything about it. Theyre too scared. Lets get the thoughts scared. Lets get the thoughts now of my panel. I have the wonderful columnist Carole Malone. Ive got trade unionist Andy Mcdonald and the Political Editor at the daily express. Editor at the daily express. Its sam lister. Carole, ill start with you. Blasphemy laws start with you. Blasphemy laws in the uk. I mean, how long is it seriously, before these are genuinely written into law . We need to root this out, dont we . Yeah we do. I mean, we have blasphemy laws here until 2008 and thank god they were abolished god that they were abolished then. That was a victory for then. And that was a victory for thought. Freedom and speech freedom. And it was good that it happened. But whats happening now, that group that you mentioned that in pakistan , that mentioned that in pakistan, that Group Advocates mob beheadings of and those people of blasphemous and those people are being given members of that party in the uk group are being given a platform in mosques in this country. Thats that radicalises people that in turn causes terrible terrorism. We cannot have one religion in this country. Britain is a secular country. Britain is a secular country. We cannot have one religion that escapes criticism or censure. And thats what i think a lot of these extremist muslims are asking for. And you alluded to it in your in your monologue there where you said that we have cops who are scared to do anything about it. You mentioned kids. There were mentioned some kids. There were four i think, were four kids, i think, who were suspended in suspended from a school in kettlethorpe, had just kettlethorpe, and they had just scuffed the pages of a quran. My god, the fuss that was made over that. The local muslim a that. The local muslim mp, a labour mp , called it the labour mp, called it the desecration of the quran. It was not the desecration and the mosques had had to be explained to the local mosques that the quran hadnt been destroyed, that it was okay. Then the cops got involved, then the four kids were suspended. Have you ever seen that kind of reaction over a being damaged or the a bible being damaged or the torah being damaged . No you havent. So one religion is already being its been its been allowed to do and say what it wants without censure. And to threaten our own mps. Do you think that we need to have a bit of an investigation into whats going on in some mosques . Mosques . Well, id say, yeah, particularly if its taxpayers money to fund money thats being used to fund these, know, thats directly these, you know, thats directly unked these, you know, thats directly linked us directly our linked to us and directly in our interest. But know, interest. But you know, weve had secretaries the had five home secretaries in the last clearly, this last five years. Clearly, this government taking any government is not taking any domestic seriously domestic issue seriously because, the because, you know, the government have been on government should have been on top if deemed top of this if its deemed extreme pakistan, is extreme in pakistan, which is a muslim country. You know, muslim country. Yes. You know, imagine how extreme well find it as non muslim country. Its it as a non muslim country. Its absolutely there. Yeah, exactly. Its that its ridiculous that the government have allowed this to happen and its gone under the radar. You think the Security Services you services or someone in, you know, large whitehall know, the large whitehall security machine would have seen this coming . Security machine would have seen this corridiculous. I think its its ridiculous. I think its fair. Do think its fair. Sam, do you think its that fear of being called islamophobic . Maybe. Islamophobic . Maybe. I think this is a big problem. And actually, was problem. And actually, i was thinking back, blasphemy has been an been thrown around as an accusation by all types of faith for many, many years. You only to go back to you only have to go back to the life of brian, example. The life of brian, for example. And a huge uproar then and there was a huge uproar then i going see jerry i remember going to see jerry spnnger i remember going to see Jerry Springer about springer the opera about 20 years was a protest years ago. There was a protest outside that theatre, but the difference was the protest was then. Nobody who went to that theatre felt under threat. Nobody had to go into hiding as a result of any of these actions. Its a very actions. And so its a very different climate now. And i think actually all its understandable that nobody , understandable that nobody, anybody of faith, they dont want their religion mocked or insulted. But actually the great insulted. But actually the great thing about britain is that everybody is open to mockery, everybody is open to mockery, everybody is open to mockery, everybody is open to being offended. That is the point of britain. Its the point of a free speech nation that nobody should be protected from being mocked or from being offended. And i think this is the big problem weve got now. And its the rush to violence as well, is the thing. There is a rush of violence and weve seen it, you know, with of these protests, with some of these protests, weve our weve seen that obviously our own threatened. Own mps have been threatened. You has now you know, the government has now had multi millions to had to give multi millions to have threatened. And have our mps threatened. And they scared tell us they even too scared to tell us what the are in case what the threats are in case they so we cant have they realise. So we cant have this, this kind climate where this, this kind of climate where this, this kind of climate where this and sam is right. This happens. And sam is right. No i no religion should be mocked. I mean, was also thinking, i mean, but i was also thinking, i was thinking, know, was thinking, you know, weve all once workplace have all seen once a workplace have been to remove a crucifix. Been asked to remove a crucifix. Can you imagine would can you imagine what would happen asked a woman to happen if you asked a woman to remove a hijab . I mean, that would be regarded as a gross insult. Well, why is more insult. Well, why is it more insulting than than asking insulting than other than asking a take off his or a catholic to take off his or her crucifix . Think and her crucifix . So i think and i think a lot of people are angry now because think now because they think exceptions being and exceptions are being made, and that be the case. That cant be the case. Know this individual who i know this individual who was supposedly going to be the governments tsar has quit governments hate tsar has quit before even begun. Before hes even begun. He did mention threats hed received from far right extremists , as from far right extremists, as well as, islamist extremists. I mean , he did devote i think its mean, he did devote i think its important to say a lot more time to the threats from islamist extremists, which i think does imply vast majority of imply why the vast majority of the coming from the threats are coming from them. You know, there is them. But, you know, there is a concern there, isnt there, that we just as a country now we are just as a country now getting extreme. Whilst getting more extreme. And whilst im absolutely not, im definitely to excuse im absolutely not, im defi kind to excuse im absolutely not, im defi kind of to excuse im absolutely not, im defi kind of behaviour excuse im absolutely not, im defi kind of behaviour whatsoever any kind of behaviour whatsoever. When people do see things like batley what batley grammar, like what happenedin batley grammar, like what happened in wakefield, like whats the whats maybe going out on the streets every single saturday, etc. I worry that that is fuelling the far right. Yeah, i mean yeah, it gives them kind of a thing to brandish and go, oh look, you know, even when probably 99 of british muslims are good, honest , hard muslims are good, honest, hard working people, theyll cling on to this 1. Theyll go, oh, well, theyre like that. And its theyre all like that. And its absolutely, its absolutely, you know, its terrible. But, you know, on the terrible. But, you know, on the advisor, should have an advisor, we should have an islamophobic national islamophobia adviser. Weve got a anti semitism advisor a National Anti semitism advisor , lord john mann. Dont see , lord john mann. I dont see a reason we shouldnt have reason why we shouldnt have a other one for islam. That guy had a point there when he said that hes not looked after. You know that a lot muslims speak out lot of muslims who speak out arent taken of. And arent taken care of. And i think is true. You know, if think that is true. You know, if a muslim condemns it, a terrorist attack by by islamists, they are in trouble in their community. Do you think that theres a chance that this country is currently bullied by currently being bullied by islamists . You cant islamists . You know, you cant speak particularly speak out about it, particularly because never your because its never worth your while. Politicians while. Weve had politicians try and it, and they always end and do it, and they always end up then quitting up apologising and then quitting at some point. I think thats the i mean, i think thats the problem, isnt it . Actually, problem, is