And what has been a challenging week for the royals. Challenging week for the royals. Our top westminster insider, the express onlines fearless Political Editor david maddox, and the tv chefs antony and king of the tv chefs Antony Worrall thompson. My friday big opinion is on the way. My first on air reaction to Lee Andersons defection to reform uk , a crisis for mcdonalds and uk, a crisis for mcdonalds and the woke tide is turning all of that after the News Headlines and sophia wenzler. Mark thank you. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Wenzler in the gb newsroom. Former Prime Minister liz truss has accused labour of preventing a debate on her bill, which seeks to ban transgender women from female only spaces and prevent them from competing in womens sports. It was due to be discussed in the commons today, but mps appear to waste time to delay her debate. She told gb news she was frustrated by the opposition parties stalling tactics. My bill has been stopped today from being debated by the labour party and i am absolutely furious about that. They do not even want to talk about the importance of recognising biological sex. They do not want to talk about how we stop children being able to access puberty blockers that would actually stop their development. So they have spent today filibustering my bill and stopping it being talked about, even though over the last few weeks i have had a huge amount of public support from concerned parents, concern and teachers from young people themselves who want these bills measures put into law. Into law. James heappey has announced he wont stand as an mp at the next general election, saying he wants to prioritise his family and pursue a different career. Hes also expected to resign as Armed Forces Minister by the end of this month. More than 60 tory mps have now announced theyre leaving the commons, and labour has accused the Prime Minister of being too chicken to call an election. As a result, a group of activists dressed as chickens clucked outside downing street demanding the Prime Minister name the date. Now, labour, added rishi sunak needs to stop squatting in number 10. A £5 million donation from frank hester has not yet been, has has given to the conservatives with senior Party Sources telling gb news talks about the funds are still ongoing. The businessman , still ongoing. The businessman, whos already given the party £10 million, is accused of being racist after he allegedly said mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women. The Prime Ministers under pressure to return the donation and voting is underway in russia to elect the countrys next president. But the first day has been marked by disruptions, including dye being poured into ballot boxes, a molotov cocktail thrown at a polling station in putins hometown, ballots are being cast over three days, even though Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win. Vladimir putin is all but certain to win. And for the certain to win. And for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Now its back to. Mark. Back to. Mark. Thanks, sofia. Was this the week the tories lost the election . Has the princess kate photo row damaged the royal family . Should diane abbott be accepted back into the labour party and is woke madness finally in retreat . All that, plus much more on friday night live with me. Mark dolan in the company of two fleet street legends, nina myskow and mike porky parry. Yes indeed. Very excited. Lots to get through. Antony worrall thompson, paul burrell on the way. Antony worrall thompson, paul burrell on the way. But Antony Worrall thompson, paul burrell on the way. But first my burrell on the way. But first my friday big opinion. Burrell on the way. But first my friday big opinion. It feels friday big opinion. It feels like just weeks ago , but it was like just weeks ago, but it was actually monday when gb news superstar and then tory mp lee anderson defected to reform uk and his departure is starting to look like the final nail in the coffin for the conservatives lee anderson might be characterised as a divisive figure by the london based media, but hes a totemic figure for potential tory voters and disgruntled labour supporters. Lee anderson talks like a normal person, like a real human being, and his views, which are dangerously controversial in islington, are just plain common sense. In the red wall and beyond. Lee anderson wants to keep taxes to a sensible level to boost the economy and put money in the pockets of ordinary working brits. He thinks that biological sex matters that calls for genocide in our cities should be punished , and that immigration punished, and that immigration should be legal, orderly and at sustainable levels. Well lock him up and throw away the key. What a monster. Now it is my view that lees comments about the london mayor, sadiq khan, being pals with terrorist sympathisers was wrong, but suspending the whip and effectively chucking him out of the party was a big mistake. Effectively chucking him out of the party was a big mistake. In the party was a big mistake. In the party was a big mistake. In the absence of letting anderson clarify the points he was making. But all of that is ancient history now, as is this Tory Administration by the looks of it. A westminster insider tells me that some cabinet ministers and backbenchers are mulling over a replacement for rishi sunak. Now that an autumn election looks inevitable , election looks inevitable, reform uk now have a big fat feather in their cap and this no nonsense voice of the people will now be banging the drum for the tories rivals. After a week the tories rivals. After a week in which the government have grappled with a new definition of extremism, lee anderson is anything but extreme, which is why its extremely foolish that they let him go. Talking of the they let him go. Talking of the importance of biological sex, this week, the popular cheltenham racing festival announced that theyve axed ladies day more proof, if you needed it, that women are quietly being cancelled. Quietly being cancelled. Meanwhile, a famous womens only outdoor pond in north london has voted to allow trans women in to bathe. Biological men are winning female beauty contests and women of the year awards. Theyre breaking records in womens sport and are being banged up in womens jails. Can the ladies not just have one day in the year when they can wear a posh frock at the races . How much of this is about caving in to trans extremists . Well, you tell me, but weve got good news on that front. Extreme trans ideology, which says that men are women and vice versa , and are women and vice versa, and which does the Trans Community no favours whatsoever when they deserve love and respect. Well, this whole extreme movement is in retreat. Nhs england have now banned the prescribing of puberty blockers to children. Puberty blockers to children. These pills stopped their bodies developing and its extraordinary to see that that was ever allowed. Meanwhile our erstwhile former Prime Minister liz truss, who identifies as a woman that was Prime Minister for 44 days today , wanted to for 44 days today, wanted to present a bill to parliament called the health and equality act, which reasserts the legal status of biological sex and effectively stops biological men from entering women only spaces and participating in womens sport. Now, the equalities sport. Now, the equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch , is warm minister, Kemi Badenoch, is warm on the idea and former home secretary Suella Braverman backs it all the way. So guess which party played parliamentary games this afternoon to make sure the debate didnt happen and therefore put the kibosh on this sensible plan . You guessed it, the labour party, led by none other than sir keir starmer, a man who struggles to define what a woman is even though hes married to one. I hope liz truss is ultimately successful with this legislation. Perhaps her legacy wont be an economic crash and being outlived by a lettuce after all. And last but not least, crisis on a friday. Mcdonalds have had trouble selling their burgers due to a nationwide it failure starving brits are furious theyre all milk shaken up its fillets. No fish. Milk shaken up its fillets. No fish. The milk shaken up its fillets. No fish. The it department are nuggets. What a mcflurry theyve made of this. Yes, theyve had their chips. Bosses are too chicken to do anything about it, effectively telling their customers to bugger off. Theyve made an unhappy meal of it. Ronald mcdonald is now having a worse week than rishi sunak. Its been a bunfight for the worlds biggest restaurant chain. And let me tell you, im not loving it. Nina and i are off to burger king and that was my friday. Big opinion. Off to burger king and that was my friday. Big opinion. Lets my friday. Big opinion. Lets get reaction from my friday friends, broadcaster and author nina myskow and tv and radio star mike porky parry. Nina, to great see you. Bad news that labour have effectively filibustered this important debate about biological sex. Well that will come further down the track, im sure, but who actually would support liz truss on anything . You know, she shes wrecked the countrys economy. People are still struggling with their mortgages. You know, you cant mortgages. You know, you cant cancel out one disaster by saying something positive. And i do agree with with female spaces. I do agree with with female spaces. I do agree, you know, but women dont feel safe anywhere, you know, you dont feel safe walking the streets. Feel safe walking the streets. You dont feel safe with policemen. So where we can have spaces that are fine. But on the other hand, for instance, the ladies pond in hampstead, if they have voted themselves , its they have voted themselves, its not its not something thats been imposed upon them. Thats what they voted ladies day at the cheltenham races. Ladies day is of anachronistic is a kind of anachronistic thing, isnt it . So theyve called wednesday. That thing, isnt it . So theyve called much wednesday. That thing, isnt it . So theyve called much more nesday. That thing, isnt it . So theyve called much more modern that thing, isnt it . So theyve called much more modem to at thing, isnt it . So theyve called much more modem to me. Sounds much more modem to me. And whether it has anything to do transgender not, do with transgender or not, i dont, i dont i dont dont, i dont mind, i dont care. Style wednesday fine. Care. Style wednesday is fine. Not think the messaging. Ive never been lady. Ive ive never been a lady. Ive never purported to be a lady sounds i dont sounds terribly, i dont agree. You definitely lady. You are definitely a lady. You are definitely a lady. Wonderful lady. Youre a wonderful lady. Youre a wonderful lady. Thank you. Thats oh, well. Thank you. Thats very very. Oh, well. Thank you. Thats veryoure very. Oh, well. Thank you. Thats veryoure both. Very. Youre both. Youre both. Youre both. Youre double threat youre a double threat because youve got an because youre youve got an amazing youre very amazing career. Youre very obviously successful obviously very successful journalist. And youre a fabulously glamorous lady, too. Youve so why youve done it both. So why cant women day when they cant women have a day when they get to shine . Why we keep ladies . They are. I looked all the they are. I looked at all the photographs, but now theyre competing arent they . Ea ea in their tweed suits and everything. Style. Everything. Its just style. Wednesday its all been flattened homogenised. Flattened out and homogenised. What about cheltenham what i dislike about cheltenham is tweedy. Is that they are very tweedy. Mean, were some i mean, there were some fabulous been fabulous hats and ive been to ladies at ascot, that ladies day at ascot, but that was probably 20 ago and was probably 20 years ago and that the hot ticket. It was, that was the hot ticket. It was, it fantastic. Was wonderful. But why do you not think its sad women that sad that women have had that taken but they havent. They still have that day to dress up. Its not called ladies day, is but style wednesday is no, but style wednesday is fine. Who doesnt care about, you styles, fine. You know, styles, thats fine. I this semantics to me. This is just semantics to me. Look that hat, for heavens look at that hat, for heavens sake. Still wearing. No, honestly, this is semantics. There more semantics. Or is there more to this . Is social engineering . This . Is it social engineering . Mike it is a bit mike parry i think it is a bit of social engineering. Ive been doing the last 25 doing cheltenham for the last 25 years. The of all years. Okay and the day of all days always ladies day. Now days was always ladies day. Now when a lady gets married, she likes to be the centre of attention because shes the bride and everything revolves around thats what around her. And thats what ladies days do at big race meetings like special day. Its her special day and they buy a very expensive dress. They go there, they feel wonderful. Theyre being admired by everybody else. I do have an issue with this , which nina issue with this, which nina might or might not know about a north south issue when it happens right at aintree, when its the grand national, all the picture editors want is a lady lying flat out on the ground at aintree and called a northern ruffian whos had too much to drink. Whereas at ascot and cheltenham the ladies wear beautiful clothes and theyre admired for being the best in society and i love to see it all the time. I love to be there with them. Yes, but you said that you cant tell me that woman in the yellow before with the fabulous hat. She spent a fortune on it and thats absolutely fine. Well, liverpool cant well, if Liverpool Women cant hold thats hold their drink, well, thats thats problem. Hold their drink, well, thats tha thatsoblem. Hold their drink, well, thats tha thatsolbitn. Because. Thats a bit unfair because. Thats a bit unfair because. About it. You but you talked about it. You said face, know, said lying face, you know, slouched down in turf. Slouched down in the turf. Your experience . But, what is your experience . But, nina. Excuse me. Ive nina. Hang on. Excuse me. Ive seen lying down in seen women lying snuffed down in the cheltenham the turf at cheltenham and ascot, not the ascot, but those are not the pictures from pictures they use from cheltenham think cheltenham and mascot. I think its disgrace. Its a disgrace. I have no idea that. I have no idea about that. But theyre but youre saying theyre prejudice liverpudlians . Prejudice against liverpudlians . Yes, well. Yes, i doubt it. Very well. All liverpool ladies. All all liverpool ladies. Drunken slappers not, drunken old slappers or not, lets have right. Lets have this right. Well, look, i think outrageous. All women, drunken old slappers. You call slappers. You can call them drunken slappers anywhere. Slappers. You can call them drunfleet slappers anywhere. Slappers. You can call them drun fleet streetipers anywhere. Slappers. You can call them drun fleet street was anywhere. And fleet street was particularly riotous. Mean, i find ladies of i mean, i find the ladies of merseyside very alluring. Well, im sure you do. Well, im sure you do. Ive never had an issue. Ive never had an issue. Im sure i could find you alluring, too. Yeah. Yeah. I in eml w way, theyre i mean, in a way, theyre your sisters and probably a few ex girlfriends. Mike. Community, mike. Theyre my community, a few ex girlfriends, indeed. You know, on the beach at new brighton, at aintree racecourse . Yes. Very very lovely women. I mean, i snout down in the turf, you know, with, with your with is not an with your hat askew is not an attractive look. Yeah. Attractive look. Yeah. Thats, you know, well it happens at every meeting to happens at every race meeting to tell between the tell the difference between the horses of these women. Horses and some of these women. Wonder thats a but i just wonder thats a terrible thing. It like it is. Well, i say it like it is. Well, i say it like it is. Im like you might come the secret and justice, you secret truth and justice, you know, ill drop truth know, and ill drop the truth bombs have bombs if i have to. Yeah, heres the other question, the way. Very question, by the way. Very briefly, messaging from briefly, the messaging from labour that they have filibustered attempt filibustered liz trusss attempt to that defines to have legislation that defines biological sex and introduces the primacy of biology in law. Absolutely. Absolutely. We need this law. We need this law. We need this law. Yeah, we definitely need this law. I think its such a simple subject. It is a biological man going to be allowed into an area which should be protected for biological women. Its as simple as that to me. And only hampstead could be the only place in the world where women actually vote to invite biological men into their arena. It wouldnt happen anywhere else, of course, except north london, would it . It would it, wouldnt it . It wouldnt. People have more common sense outside of north london. Look, are you saying these women stupid . Women are stupid . Saying theyre im saying that theyre trying be trendy. Theyre trying to be trendy. Theyre trying to be trendy. Theyre trying to be trendy. Theyre trying to say, look, know, trying to say, look, you know, were it and all this were up with it and all this kind of stuff. Oh, have they been infected with virus . With the woke mind virus . Exactly. With the woke mind virus . Exactlmind. Look, life moves woke mind. Look, life moves on. Make progress towards on. We make progress towards areas some people dont areas that some people dont like. And if people if those like. And if people if those women feel completely safe with. Well, we dont know who is coming. But nina , youve already said but nina, youve already said on this show they shouldnt feel completely safe because you as a woman feel threatened completely safe because you as a wo men feel threatened completely safe because you as a wo men. Feel threatened by men. I think any woman constantly feels threatened by men. Exactly but so . So why allow them into a Swimming Pool if women feel safe with whoever has come to that poolin with whoever has come to that pool in whatever guise theyve come, then thats fine. I dont believe they do. I dont believe they do. I dont believe they do. I believe marks hit the nail on the head. The wokeness theyre frightened of being said, oh, were prejudiced against trans people. People