Accused of hacking personal details of 270,000 personnel, reservists and veterans. Shortly well cross the defence secretary , grant shapps, who secretary, grant shapps, who used to give a full statement in the house of commons. And thats all coming up between now and 6 00. Welcome to the show and always delight to have your company. Later in the show ill company. Later in the show ill be asking this question. Politicians, counsellors crying allah akbar. Others kicked out of their parties for anti semitism. Sexthe honey traps, lobbying scandals, british politics to me seems to be absolutely in the gutter. Is be absolutely in the gutter. Is it time for an independent political ombudsman to kick all of these into shape and kick the bad apples into touch . Let me know. Do you think they mark their own homework too often . How on earth can these counsellors who seem more obsessed with gaza than britain, be allowed to carry on . They seem to get away with all sorts of stuff. Let me know your thoughts. I want to hear your views. Is it time to clean up british politics . Get in touch gbnews. Com yoursay and get them piled in. Ill read out some of the best before the end of the show, but before we kick off, its show, but before we kick off, wsfime show, but before we kick off, its time for your news headunes its time for your News Headlines and its sophia wenzler. Wenzler. Thanks, martin. Good afternoon. Its 3 02. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. The wenzler in the gb newsroom. The shadow chancellor says britains economy is in a worse state than many people think. In a speech in london earlier, Rachel Reeves said the conservative government isnt being honest with voters. The conservatives are gaslighting the British Public. They say weve turned a corner and they ask people to stick with the conservative party but it is those very conservatives who are set to leave the average household £870 worse off through stealth taxes and increases in council tax. The Prime Minister council tax. The Prime Minister claims that he is delivering for the country , but the british the country, but the british people did not order what this Prime Minister is delivering. Prime minister is delivering. Downing street has declined to blame a specific state or actor for a cyber attack on the ministry of defence. Thats ministry of defence. Thats despite earlier reports suggesting china was the prime suspect. Its after a massive hacking attack compromised bank details and some addresses of serving defence personnel and veterans. Prime minister rishi sunak says swift action has been taken. There are indications that a malign actor has compromised the armed forces payment network, but i do want to reassure people that ministry of defence has already taken action and removing the network offline, taking it offline and making sure that people affected are supported in the right way. Now theres a limit to what i can say about this now, but the defence secretary will be making a full statement to Parliament Later today. In royal news, its been confirmed that prince harry will not meet the king while hes in the uk this week. Harry landed in london this morning ahead of an event marking ten years since the Invictus Games launched. However, a spokesperson for the duke of sussex told gb news its unfortunately not possible due to his majestys fall programme, adding that the prince is understanding of his fathers commitments and hopes to see him soon. The number of Police Officers in scotland is at its lowest level in more than 15 years. Almost 260 officers have left the force in the last year. Left the force in the last year. The Scottish Police federation warns that a further fall in numbers could see an increase in organised crime. It comes amid concerns over the practicalities of Police Investigating incidents reported under scotlands new hate crime laws. Scotlands new hate crime laws. In other news, police have issued more than 2000 banning orders for england fans ahead of the euros in germany. Authorities believe more than 300,000 england supporters could travel to germany. Fans who are travel to germany. Fans who are banned will have to surrender their passports from june until their passports from june until the end of the tournament in mid july. It comes against a backdrop of increasing football related disorder in england and wales, with arrests at a nine year high. House prices have largely plateaued for the first part of the year. Thats according to a new report from halifax. The price of an average british home rose by 0. 1 in april after falling by 0. 9 in march, the lender says. The data reflects a Housing Market finding its feet in an era of higher Interest Rates. Now, higher Interest Rates. Now, children in scotland who question their gender are being referred to identity clinics because doctors are fearful of whats being described as a toxic debate. Doctor hilary cass was speaking at the scottish Parliaments Health committee this morning after her study into gender services in england. Into gender services in england. She said there was fearfulness among doctors who dont know how to treat the gender issues that some children are facing. Doctor some children are facing. Doctor cass told the committee that the toxic nature of the gender debate means medical professionals are afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing, leaving many young people with inadequate care. In other news, israeli officials will travel to cairo soon to consider whether the Hamas Terror Group can be persuaded to shift on its latest ceasefire offer. Its after Benjamin Netanyahu said the terms of the latest offer were far from meeting israels core demands. The talks are reported to have stumbled over hamass refusal to free more hostages without a promise of a permanent end to the conflict. A end to the conflict. A spokesperson for the Us State Department insists the deal is still absolutely achievable. Still absolutely achievable. Ukraines Security Services says its caught russian agents within the state Guard Service who were plotting the assassination of president zelenskyy. Ukraine says russias fsb had planned to eliminate the president of ukraine and other top military and political leaders as it comes. On the day the russian president was inaugurated for a fifth term following elections widely seen as illegitimate. And for the as illegitimate. And for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Martin. To. Martin. Thank you. Sophia now starts with the latest on the migrant crisis. And its very much a case of good news. Bad news for Prime Minister rishi sunak. In a moment , ill Prime Minister rishi sunak. In a moment, ill tell you what the Prime Ministers pledge to stop the boats did sort of come true over the weekend. But first, its emerged that more than 21,000 Asylum Seekers have simply gone missing in britain in the last five years. Home Office Officials have been unable to locate at least 21,107 foreign nationals who claimed to be refugees. And even more worrying, the true figure could be much, much higher as the information only covers the five years up to last september. Well, to discuss this latest scandal, im joined by the immigration lawyer and great friend of the show, Hardeep Singh. Bango. Welcome to the singh. Bango. Welcome to the show hajib. Always an absolute pleasure to. Okay, so if we adjust these figures because theyre eight months out of date, say lets add another 15,000. The true figure could be 36,000 people. These have no right to be here. Theyre Asylum Seekers. Claims are mostly knocked back or withdrawn. How can 36,000 people simply vanish . Can 36,000 people simply vanish . Well, theyre supposed to sign on, the home office are supposed to ask them to sign it. And reporting centres, they simply dont go to sign, they dont have insurance numbers. National insurance numbers. They cant be traced through that. And, you know , they dont have and, you know, they dont have bank accounts, so they cant be traced through that. They pretty much live in a black economy, earning wages , cash in hand. And earning wages, cash in hand. And its hard to trace people like that. The home offices job is to keep an eye on these people. Obviously it doesnt do that, but lets just put Asylum Seekers to aside for one minute, just people who overstay generally because we dont have any exit controls. Martin. We dont know how many people actually go back. We know how many come in because we hear that every week. But we dont know whether they go back or not. Other countries, when you leave their country , they have leave their country, they have immigration at their desk and they ask you how youve been, right . Wheres your next destination . They stamp you out. Anybody whos been to an airport in the uk leaving the uk will know that theres no immigration there. Theres no immigration to ask you where youre going, how youve been staying, where youre, you know , where have you youre, you know, where have you been staying, how was your stay and whether youve adhered to your Visa Conditions or not . We simply dont know. We cant even count the people who are going out. Therefore, we do lose people who just assimilate into the system. Theres an estimated 700,000 People Living just in the black market, in the black, sort of, underground without visas and are just living day to day, cash in hand in their communities. And that is quite a worrying figure for the home office. The fact that there are people here and they dont know who they are or how many there are, yeah, it also makes a complete mockery of our ability to even pretend we can control who is in the country. We have no idea who these people are. They could be anybody. They could have thrown their identities into the channel. We hear that so often as well. You know , we spoke as well. You know, we spoke about it many times on the show. They could be anybody. They they could be anybody. They could be anywhere. This is an absolute outrage. What needs to be done to try and locate them, hodge up and give them their just jus and get them out of the country. Well , theres not much we can well, theres not much we can do to try and locate them. We can just, the main thing is theyre probably working somewhere. So more raids on british businesses, unfortunately, going to areas and asking people for ids. However, thats not going to go down well either, essentially people, these people are working somewhere, and the only way theyre going to be exposed is , theyre going to be exposed is, through raids on businesses or working places. And if wed had working places. And if wed had a Processing Centre in france and people had applied before coming over, we would know these people. We would have already have their dna on profile. Wed have their dna on profile. Wed know where they are, who they are, where theyd come from. However that was, declined by priti patel at the time and still being declined now. Therefore, we have got people on these shores and we dont know who they are and how to get them. We probably need more removal. Teams probably need removal. Teams probably need more enforcement teams, more investment in our home office. A lot of people do actually report immigrants to immigration and a lot of those reports arent acted on. They arent acted upon. Anybody whos made a report to immigration will probably tell you that they havent even bothered to get a reply from immigration, arent even told. Right . Okay. Well act on this, information. So therefore its going to be hard in the circumstances for these people to be found. And the people to be found. And the government really have got a mess which they themselves created on their hands. Roger, you mentioned something very, very interesting there. And that is dna records, dna profiling. Theyre actually toying with that idea at the moment in austria, because they have an unprecedented , massive have an unprecedented, massive wave of immigration into their country , people claiming to be country, people claiming to be family members who oftentimes arent. Do you think thats arent. Do you think thats something that we maybe could entertain the notion of doing in the united kingdom, a dna database of everybody coming here to allow us to track them all . Would that be pushed back against by human rights lawyers who might say its intrusive and against their human rights . Yeah, a lot of people will push back against it. Even id cards have been pushed back against. However, it might solve the problem of finding people. So its all down to what the countrys requirements are. At the end of the day, in order to secure their borders. Has this government got the will to do what it say it will. So far weve seen it doesnt. It says a weve seen it doesnt. It says a lot of things and does hardly anything. It says were going to anything. It says were going to bnng anything. It says were going to bring the numbers down. And what do they do . They go. They go up. Over the years it says were going to introduce schemes to deter people. What does it do . It doesnt act as a deterrent at all. The weathers more of a deterrent than these Government Schemes themselves. So this government really has to get a grip on it. And it doesnt matter who weve had as ministers, weve had more ministers, weve had more ministers than weve probably had presenters on tv. So there you go, martin. These ministers, they say one thing and they just do the other thing, and all they can do is criticise. But no one can do is criticise. But no one can bring up a solution. And when a solution is presented then its just not viable. They havent got the infrastructure to carry it out. Yeah. You know they should get more people like you involved. Harjeet singh bhangal superb start to the show. I think the dna database mate, thatis think the dna database mate, that is a fascinating idea. That is a fascinating idea. Yeah. Lets nudge this conversation on because, as promised, to some good news at last for the government as they try to stop those boats. Because almost 1000 people were allegedly prevented from crossing the channel last week. And while 54 migrants came across on sunday, 218 people were stopped from leaving france or they were returned to that country. Well, im joined now by Kevin Saunders, of course, is the former chief immigration officer for the uk border force at calais. Kev always a pleasure to have you on the show. Hope youre keeping well. This is a rare piece of good news here, kevin. This is a freedom of information request. The home office put this data out as an exclusive today in the sun for the first time, the home office have released preventions data as well as arrivals data. Tell us about that , kev. Us about that, kev. Well, yes, certainly its it is good news. And ive been very critical of the french as you know, but i think we ought to give them a gold star because they have done exceedingly well over the last few weeks in stopping the boats leaving france. So well done. So well done. So well done. Lets have more of it. Yeah. And the data is, is got to say, is pretty impressive. And again , i join you on that. And again, i join you on that. Kevin, we are often very critical of the French Police here. But the home office, as i said for the first time, have released this data. This is the preventions data. So there were 700, 711 arrivals last week on wednesday, the highest. So far in 2024. But they also claim to have stopped 977 people leaving french beaches in the past seven days. Thats almost a thousand stopped in a week, kevin. Thats good news. Thats cracking news. It it really is good news. And we should be shouting it from the rooftops because we have been very critical. And this is good news. It perhaps proves that things are beginning to turn a little bit in our favour and hopefully stopping people making this awful journey. Now, kev, there is one caveat, and i hate to be a party pooper because we are having a good time here sharing some good news. These figures apparently are based on estimates given to the home office , by the the home office, by the gendarmes, by the French Police. So their estimates based on averages. Do you think there in that case, kev, a true reflection of whats actually happening on those french beaches. Theyre pretty accurate , the theyre pretty accurate, the french are arent arent going to invent figures to make themselves look good. It. Because if they did and they were found out, nobody would listen to them ever again. So i think these figures are pretty accurate. And, yeah , it is good accurate. And, yeah, it is good news, martin. I mean, theres not a lot more i can say other than well done. The french and, im very happy that theyre doing it. Yeah, i think we should record that little moment there, Kevin Saunders saying, well done to the french. Do you know what, kev . Im going to join you. Well done to the french if this is true. And if almost a thousand have been stopped in one week alone, this is what we want to heat alone, this is what we want to hear. Maybe that half £1 billion is actually having some results. And this is precisely kev, the sort of information that the government should be shouting from the rooftops. Yes, it is. It does go to yes, it is. It does go to prove that we have spent a lot of money there. Weve given them some really good bits of kit, theyre using them. And this looks as though theyre getting the results that we hoped that they were going to get so long may continue. I think this week is going to be a very key week in the crossings, because the weather is supposed to be relatively good, so the people smugglers will be doing their best to get the people across. And i just hope that the french authorities are up to stopping them all, because if this