Damages by four british women who claim he raped and assaulted them. Three of the women reported. The social Media Influencer to police over allegations in 2015. But the Crown Prosecution Service investigated and then decided not to prosecute four years later. It comes as 37 year old and his brother are currently in romania , waiting to stand trial romania, waiting to stand trial on rape and trafficking charges , on rape and trafficking charges, their representative says both their representative says both the brothers unequivocally deny all allegations. And finally, some royal news prince harry has been celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games with friends, family and veterans at saint pauls cathedral. This afternoon, the cathedral. This afternoon, the duke of sussex gave a reading in front of representatives from various participating nations and sick and injured Service Personnel and veterans. Two, meanwhile , though less than two meanwhile, though less than two miles away, the king was holding his First Garden Party of the season at Buckingham Palace. And season at Buckingham Palace. And we were told by a spokesperson for prince harry yesterday that the monarchs full program meant the monarchs full program meant the pair wont be seeing each other during his short return to the uk. For the latest stories, the uk. For the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to our website gb news. Common alerts. News. Common alerts. Well, two weeks ago it was doctor dan poulter who left the conservative party as a member of parliament, has joined the labour party but will not be standing for re. Election standing for re. Election defections do happen occasionally , but today was an occasionally, but today was an absolute bolt from the blue. The conservative member of parliament, with a 12,000 majority from dover and deal and remember , dover, of course, is remember, dover, of course, is there on the front lines. Thats where the small boats come in. Thats where the people first get processed. And in an issue that initially was a constituency and county issue, but is now a Massive National issue and the local mp, Natalie Elphicke, has been deeply critical of the fact she doesnt think labour really have a plan to deal with the boats problem in any way at all. I think shes also quite sceptical about the conservatives plan. She is very, very much on the right wing of the party and i can tell you, having spoken to local people, that the local labour party absolutely hate her. So how bizarre that Prime Ministers questions begins at midday and there Natalie Elphicke is sitting in the row behind keir starmer. No sitting in the row behind keir starmer. No one quite knew really what was going on. But later on, after pmqs in an interview, she gave her reasons for now, joining the labour party. Well, in 2019, the conservative stood on a manifesto that was very much Centre Ground. But under rishi sunak theyve abandoned the Centre Ground and broken many election promises. Meanwhile, under keir starmer, labour have changed and i think that change is going to bring a much Better Future for our country. And thats why im so country. And thats why im so keen to join the labour party and play my part in bringing that important future forward. Okay that is all complete and utter rubbish. Dont believe a single word of it. She is opposed to virtually everything that labour stands for, and has been for all of her relatively short time in parliament. So whats going on here . Well if you go back to the last years of the major government , there were government, there were defections. Conservative mps joining the labour party. Do you know something . Every single one of them got looked after. Yep. They all went to the house of lords and id be very surprised if poulter and elphicke didnt go to the house of lords. She wont be standing for labour in that constituency at the next election. Mr tapp , who is the election. Mr tapp, who is the already adopted labour prospective parliamentary candidate, will continue. So she hasnt done it for money. Whether she thinks keir starmer can give her some kind of broader protection , i just dont broader protection, i just dont know. But i think this really raises a lot more questions than it answers. I wouldnt be surprised. Used to see quite surprised. Used to see quite a few more defections to the labour party, especially in seats where it appears the conservatives are doomed. But conservatives are doomed. But this really is a funny one, and at the heart of it, as i say, its her criticism of the labour party for its approach to small boats, let alone to legal migration. So today the centre for policy studies has had to get together. They produced a report and theyre questioning publicly whether large Scale Migration has delivered economic benefits. And this is interesting because the narrative from all of the think tanks, from all of our leading politicians has always been, especially the bbc has always been , that immigration is good been, that immigration is good for the economy. Well, the cps for the economy. Well, the cps are challenging that today theyre even saying its putting pressure on housing. Who knew . Pressure on housing. Who knew . And of course, their star turn was the former immigration minister jenrick, was the former immigration ministerjenrick, robert minister jenrick, Robert Jenrick. But ministerjenrick, Robert Jenrick. But here he was on with nick ferrari of lbc this morning. Require nigel farage with a blue rosette. Is it time to have him back into the party . Well i would not, oppose nigel farage coming back into the party, but thats not our priority. He hes associated with a Different Political Party today. What we should be doing is tackling the issues that the pubuc is tackling the issues that the public care about and which are leading some former conservative voters to look elsewhere. And as i say, legal migration seems to be absolutely top of the list. Its funny, whenever it comes to this issue of immigration, be it legal or illegal, my name always seems to crop up. And always seems to crop up. And here he was later on at the centre for policy studies. Centre for policy studies. Could the consequences for be the conservative party if it does not bring nigel farage and his, fellow travellers back into the fold . Well, well, firstly , ive well, well, firstly, ive been clear that this is not an issue of any one individual or political party. I think that politicians and governments have made promises and been unable to keep them for the last 30 years, and we have to end that. One of the reasons i ultimately chose to leave the government was i didnt want to be just another politician who made promises on immigration and broke them. Some politicians are more culpable than others. I mean, i think, for example, theresa may as home secretary, worked very hard to bnng secretary, worked very hard to bring down levels of net migration and deserves credit for the work that she did. There were mistakes made in the immediate aftermath of brexit and the system that was designed was a very liberal one, which has had a number of negative consequences. Negative consequences. Well, negative consequences. Well, as i said here in 2021, what bons as i said here in 2021, what Boris Johnson effectively did was open up the borders to the whole of the world, not just the European Union as it was pre brexit what im pleased that people are finally catching up with the fact that this is having a massive impact on peoples quality of life. I peoples quality of life. I dont even think this is about economics. This is what i said on question time back in 2016. Look, whichever way you cut this, immigration is the number one issue in british politics. It has been for some years. People are very upset. Theyre very unhappy. Theyre seeing the impact on local schools. Theyre seeing the impact on gp services. Theyre seeing the impact on housing or the inability of young people to get on the housing ladder. So thats why its the number one issue. There are reports that say that were better off with Mass Immigration. There are some reports that say were slightly worse off economically with Mass Immigration. But to me theres an issue called the quality of life. And i and i think that life. And i and i think that matters more than money. Its about thinking our kids and grandkids can have what weve had in terms of access to local health care in terms of our kids getting into local primary schools, in terms of our overall quality of life. And that, david, i think , matters more david, i think, matters more than gdp rising by 1 per annum. No doubt well be. No doubt well be. And this whole debate and yes, ive been very much at the forefront of this for many, many years. This debate will intensify on the 23rd of may. Yes, in a few days time, because we will get the annual immigration figures. I have no immigration figures. I have no doubt they will be staggering in their size of numbers. Let me ask you, because pollsters ask, well, what is the number one issue in british politics . And i put it to you that its immigration because it isnt just about the numbers coming in. Its about the impact on whether you can get your kid into a local primary school. Its about whether you can get onto the housing ladder. It is actually about whether you can go and meet a relation and know whether the journey will take 2 hours or 4 hours, because our population has risen by 10 million since tony blair came to power , and over 85 of that is power, and over 85 of that is directly because of immigration. Your thoughts please. Is it the number one issue or has farage got this wrong . Farage gbnews. Com. Well, carl williams, the Research Director of the centre for policy studies, joins me. Carl, it seems that you guys are actually catching up. Actually catching up. Well, i think the facts speak for themselves. And if you care for themselves. And if you care about that then lets do the economics of this. I made that point in 2016. I often think with economics that, you know, its rather like the referendum on brexit. You know, people sit at home and one person says youll be rich, or one person says, youll be poorer. And the voters left confused. But we have i mean, virtually everything thats existed for years has told us theres a great economic benefit. So let me ask you the question directly. Does question directly. Does immigration does Mass Immigration does Mass Immigration make us richer . Some forms of immigration can help the economy , some mass help the economy, some Mass Immigration . No, i think its very clearly the case that its not, and the common argument is it will be amazing. Itll be rocket fuel for the economy, and yet, since the era of Mass Immigration started 25 years ago, gdp per capita growth has been half what it was over the previous 50 years. Yeah, this is the point, isnt it . Gdp is the size of the overall economy. And if the population goes up massively, the gdp grows. And this is what politicians tell us. But its gdp per head that really counts. Gdp per head that really counts. Yes, its about living standards, about peoples quality of life. Its about cost of living pressures and housing. Housing is of itself rising up. The housing is of itself rising up. The issues that all the politicians contesting this years general election have to talk about. Its a its a source of endless rows about where we can buy build houses and whether theyre affordable and, you know, a lot of people are the Younger Generation not having the same aspirations that their parents and grandparents had. Its just beyond their reach. How big a impact do you think at the cps immigration has had on our housing prices . So weve done a lot of calculations around this. And if you look at the increasing the housing deficit over the last ten years, how much weve not built enough homes by migration accounts for about 90 of that 90. Yeah. So weve under built by about 1. 3 million homes in england. Migration is about 1. 1 1. 2 million of that. Wow. Wow. Wow. And youre saying this youre doing this as a cps. And youre saying this youre doing this as a cps. You had doing this as a cps. You had Robert Jenrick there who has become, you know, quite a campaigner on these issues. How how widespread do you think this view is in the conservative party today. Or would they mostly try and ignore it . Its hard to speak to the politics of it, but i feel broadly these issues are gaining traction now, both within the conservative party, but also in sort of voting groups who traditionally might be seen as more pro migration. So young people, for example, if you look at the polling today, 45 to 50 of young people say migration has been too high over the last ten years. Its a massive change. Its a massive change. Its a big change. And only 5 say too low, so this isnt just an issue that affects leave voters or conservative voters or older voters. This is this view older voters. This is this view is held right across the political spectrum. Really interesting. As i say, ive been doing it for years, but im pleased that people are catching up and making the point now. Gb news Eamonn Patrick christys has an exclusive interview tonight with illegal immigrants. Patrick, what on earth are they going to tell us . Yes, indeed. Well, look, ive been saying and know youve been saying for a while that with the rapid rate of Asylum Seekers and the rejections and the loss of Asylum Seekers from various databases, were going to end up with tent cities in various different towns and cities across the uk. Well, i went to one of these tent encampments today and i spoke to a couple of them, one chap from sudan, one chap from kuwait. They told us a variety of different things. Variety of different things. Firstly was that one individual was rejected and there was absolutely no attempt to get him out of the country. Theyve just told him to leave the migrant hotel, which he has now done, and another individual as well shed some light on exactly how they feel. These Illegal Migrants about the rwanda plan. Ive got a little clip for you now, rather, you would rather go to sudan than rwanda. To sudan than rwanda. Rwanda . Rwanda . Sudan . Sudanese. Go sudan. Yeah. No. Go rwanda. Rwanda. One yeah. No. Go rwanda. Rwanda. One country. Why do you go rwanda . Yeah yes. Everybody is scared about rwanda. Everybody is not right about this. Everybody say that its not right. If i come from my country, your country, why you send me another country, another country, different language , different legend, language, different legend, different everything. Why yeah. This clip sheds a huge amount of light on the journeys that these people take, why theyve come here and whats happened to them since theyve come here as well. Nigel, its very, very eye opening and were going to be seeing a heck of a lot more of this because this problem is not going away anytime soon, is it . But it was nice. Can i just say quickly, it was nice to actually talk to these people without some middle class fake communists shouting at me to stop me from talking to them, right . Because they do actually want to talk to you. They dont mind. So we actually get to hear from them now. But patrick, that last interviewee, his sense of entitlement. Yeah, ive come here illegally. Why cant i stay . I mean, its got my blood boiling already. Ill be watching you later on this evening. Thank you very much indeed. Patrick christys carl williams, thank you for joining me on this segment. In a moment, im joined by rob gifford, tom bower and we ask, whats going on . Is it the king that is refusing to meet the wayward prince harry because he is in london today . Well, i asked you the question. Is immigration. Given the number of errors that it affects, this countrys number one issue. One viewer says its not the small boats coming in. Its our border force taxes. Yeah, i was asking a broader question. Never mind. Natalie elphicke defects to laboun Natalie Elphicke defects to labour, citing, amongst other reasons, that immigration is part of it. Sure, the tories are woeful, but labour are worse. And david says of course its the number one issue and it will be all the time. We have this government in charge. David, youre absolutely right. No evidence , no evidence that evidence, no evidence that labour will be any better at all. So i was going past Buckingham Palace in a car earlier on. Its the first Big Garden Party of the year and arguably the first nice spring day of the year. The queues to go into the garden party were there. The ladies were all dressed up as if it was royal ascot, and a very jolly afternoon. It will be not so far away, i guess about a mile and a half away at saint pauls cathedral was one prince harry. Yeah, absolutely. And he was yeah, absolutely. And he was there for a service celebrating ten years of the Invictus Games. I think probably wed all give him great credit for that. But the king is not going to meet his son. Why . Whats going on . Lots of gossip, lots of rumours. I dont know the answer, but one man that just might is tom bower, royal biographer and journalist, of course. Tom, youve written books about harry and meghan and about the king. So the garden party is over at about 6 00. I was 5 or 6 00, the Saint Paul Service is over at about the same time, and theyre not going to meet what is going on. On. On. Well, i think finally the king has got and his advisors have seen since i think the whole of this invictus celebration at saint pauls, the service , i mean, invictus people service, i mean, invictus people are terrific. I mean, the