I would much rather that they waited until theyre absolutely sure inflation is on a downward trajectory. Vie and rushed into trajectory. Vie and rushed into a decision that they had to reverse at a later stage. What we want is sustainably low interest rates. And i think whats encouraging is that the bank of england governor for the first time has expressed real optimism that were on that path. Pro Palestinian Protesters have been gathering in the swedish city of malmo ahead of the second eurovision semi final. Hundreds of demonstrators have been waving palestinian flags in the citys historic market square, in opposition to israels participation in the song contest. The crowds could be heard booing last night during israels performance. Organisers have also been forced to apologise after swedens eric saade wore a palestinian scarf. A breach of the contests ban on political symbols. Labours new mp, Natalie Elphicke, has apologised for comments she made about Sexual Assault. The mp for about Sexual Assault. The mp for dover announced her defection from the tories to labour moments before pmqs yesterday, but its ignited a backlash amongst some labour mps after comments made in defence of her former partner, who was convicted of assaulting two women. However, the labour chair, anneliese dodds, says shes already been held to account. Well, those were very , very well, those were very, very serious issues. The Sexual Assault that was rightly prosecuted. And of course, there was a parliamentary process that followed that, including a parliamentary process that appued parliamentary process that applied to Natalie Elphicke. So its absolutely right that there was accountability there. Its an incredibly important matter. Every workplace , including every workplace, including parliament, has got to be free of sexual harassment. Of sexual harassment. And the home office has removed figures on french efforts to stop small boat launches from its website. The u turn comes a little more than a week after it first started publishing the data. In an effort to show cooperation between french and uk authorities. Well, the most recent figures had shown french authorities stopped more than a thousand migrants from launching boats since last week. And for the latest, you can sign up to our alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Nigel. To. Nigel. Good evening. In response to the protests at universities and growing anti semitism today, the Prime Minister called a round table meeting in downing street. He wants to stamp out anti semitism. He wants our universities to be bastions of tolerance. While youre a bit late, old son on that one. I think ive been saying for some years that i felt that our universities in this country had become madrassas of marxism. Well, i think we can throw racism into the pot now as well. I am pretty unimpressed by all of them last night. This is hard to believe, actually. The to believe, actually. The National Union of students voted to expel the union of jewish students. Quite unbelievable that it happened. Even more unbelievable how little coverage that story has had today across the breadth of mainstream media. And then last night at the Cambridge Union, a good friend of mine, peter thiel, hes an american billionaire entrepreneur. He and elon musk together launched paypal just over 20 years ago. Peter thiel was speaking at an Oxford Union Debate this is how he was greeted during his speech. Greeted during his speech. Since october 7th, 14,000 children in palestine have been murdered, and palantir is complicit in that. Your actions are complicit in the genocide of thousands of people to ask the question rather than platforming people rather than platforming people rather than platforming people like you, this university should be calling on the government to an immediate two way embargo with israel. And yet way embargo with israel. And yet your technology is ensuring your technology is ensuring that hospitals are being bombed , you hospitals are being bombed, you are complicit in genocide, and this university is platforming people who are complicit in genocide. Genocide. And if that wasnt bad enough, when peter thiel tried to leave, he was literally stopped from leaving the university in his car. And you can see these pictures, people blocking the road , waving their blocking the road, waving their palestinian flags and a distinguished foreign guest who had accepted an invitation unpaid, of course , to go and unpaid, of course, to go and speak at the Cambridge Union, will i have no doubt, never, ever go there again. You know, for the last five years, Cambridge University have asked me to go and speak at the union every single year. Ive said no every single year. Ive said no every time. Having seen what happened there last night, im right not to go. Who in their right not to go. Who in their right minds, who in their right minds would ever now go to have a free speech, open debate at the Cambridge Union, which bnngs the Cambridge Union, which brings into question what the point of universities actually is in america for many of these protests have been stopped, and its fine for people to protest, but not to put up permanent camps, to not start using language that is, frankly open vie easily visible as anti semitism , i do believe in anti semitism, i do believe in free speech. I do believe in the right to protest. But i think these protests should be stopped as they have been at Many American universities. What say you . American universities. What say you. 7 should american universities. What say you . Should the protests be stopped . Farage gbnews for. Com. Well, joining me down the line is james price, director of government engagement at the Adam Smith Institute and a former special adviser at the department of education. James, if we cant have free speech if distinguish and peter, peter thiel is a very distinguished man, no question about that. If they cant go to a University Without demands for them to be de platformed , if its not about de platformed, if its not about free thinking and expanding the mind of young people, what is the point of university . Its a very, very good point. And unfortunately, its a very, its not even a timely one. This is a debate thats been had for a long, long time. Of course, it used to be that the left wing, who were very pro free speech, it was one of the things they were proud of because all the institutions used to be controlled by stuffy old people like you. And i would say, no, you cant say that. You cant say that. And thats where things like the oxford union and that i was president of and the Cambridge Union as well, which are meant to be separate and in an independent of the universities, came up so that people could have a free place where they could debate these kinds of things, because you never know, you might be wrong, you might learn something in these places. But thats not the point of universities anymore. And you used the phrase madrassa. I think youre spot on. I mentioned that i was, president of the oxford union at weirdly, i did it about ten years after i was a student, and a prank that kind of went too far. Well, during lockdown, when all the rules got changed. So i went back as the oldest ever president and saw quite how far the universities had fallen in ten years. And like you, i got called every iste and every phobe going and then you kind of 9, phobe going and then you kind of go, okay, why do you think that . Have you read this persons book . Have you heard what theyve got to say . And you just get these sort of blank stares and this is the problem. They dont know what theyre talking about. And its happened very quickly. I mean, i remember going to the oxford union 20, 25 years ago. I went many times and i was debating issues that were minority issues, leaving the eu, controlling our borders, real minority issues at the time. And whilst id always lose the vote, i was actually listened to with a degree of respect. That a degree of respect. That wouldnt happen now would it . No. And you saw it in that video there that peter teal is giving an answer. Theres always a question and answer session in these things. And anybody whos a member can stand up. And part of the fun is that youve got some little upstart 18 year old who can challenge peter thiel, nigel farage, whoever it may be going in there, but this womans not interested in that. She gets up halfway through an answer, rudely starts bleating into it, and is filming herself, of course, because thats the whole point. And you know, what are they actually complaining about . Theyre complaining about an issue thousands of miles away. And weve been told in university now for decades, rightly, that racism is very terrible. And its got to a point now where racism is the worst thing anybody can ever do. And fair enough. Nobody wants to be racist. Thats obviously very terrible. But when it comes to the single issue of that , these the single issue of that, these lefties fail. Theyre the ones saying, actually, you know, jews cant walk freely on american campuses. They start targeting people who look openly jewish. And whilst it starts with jews, as we know from history, it never stops with them. First they came for the jews. Quick final thought on this. I think the encampments being there on a permanent basis actually foments this kind of extreme behaviour more and more theyve had their fun. Is it time to close down these protests . Yeah, i think so, i think so i think that these, these hardcore lefties are basically communists at this point and they dont actually care about they dont actually care about the freedoms that make our country great. Things like free speech, freedom of assembly , all speech, freedom of assembly, all this kind of stuff. And they take advantage of it and they use it. You look at every saturday in london and other major cities, its now become a no go zone for people who look, quote, openly jewish and frankly, pretty unpleasant for the rest of us. Its time to get a better balance of rights in this country and those who want to study or just, frankly, walk down Oxford Street in peace on a saturday, they should have their rights respected over and above these frankly increasingly smelly commies in these camps. James, im with you all the way. Even with your last comment, i have to say thank you very much indeed. Now, i mentioned, i mentioned earlier that the National Union of students voted to expel the union of jewish students last night. Well, im very pleased to be joined by rl toble and president of the Israel Society at Kings College london, rl, welcome to the program. Thank you very much for having me on. Nigel. I you know, ive been in and out of Current Affairs and politics and media for 30 years, exactly 30 years. Congratulations. I know well ive survived. I never thought id read out a Statement Like that that the union of jewish students have been expelled. Whats going on . Well, you know, nigel, id love to say that im shocked or horrified or surprised at the very least. But unfortunately, im not. This is clearly the product of decades of leftist idiocy, and the fact that it hasnt been clamped on earlier is absolutely insane. Its is absolutely insane. Its ridiculous to have students call for the nus to essentially divest from ujs and for jewish students to no longer have represent ation across the country is ridiculous. Its totally ridiculous. But its happened. I mean, youre at its happened. I mean, youre at ucl, whats its happened. I mean, youre at ucl, whats kcl . Its happened. I mean, youre at ucl, whats kcl . Sorry i apologise kcl whats the situation there . Situation there . Not good. Frankly not good, ive had numerous meetings with the administration in order to discuss the clear institutional anti semitism problem, not only at kcl, but also in the student union. We have had instances in which students have been verbally harassed. We have incidents in which academic staff have posted clear violations of the 2006 terrorism act and otherwise staff, staff, professors , lecturers in war professors, lecturers in war studies, especially such as doctor rosenow, who actually was hired after october 7th but on october 7th posted tweets in celebration of the fact i dont know the individual. Ill take your word for it. Thank you. Okay, its pretty thank you. Okay, its pretty awful situation. Our jewish students afraid to be on campus . Of course. Of course. I mean, what else can they feel . And when you have the nus who suddenly say , oh, its suddenly say, oh, its absolutely shameful that such lies spread misinformation and fear amongst jewish students at a time that is already filled with tension. That is the most hypocritical phrase that i have ever heard. So when i said earlier that the Prime Ministers call for unions to be bastions of tolerance , you know, that ship tolerance, you know, that ship has sailed. Well, i mean, how do we turn this around . Authoritarianism . How do we turn or do we do we turn this around . Its very difficult, very difficult to do so unless there is a shutdown of these protests. Is a shutdown of these protests. Because the truth is theyre not going to stop. Nigel even if they try and get what they want and they most likely will not. They cannot. Theyre not going they cannot. Theyre not going to stop because theyre addicts. They are addicted to the feeling that they get when they imagine themselves as saviours. And that is not going to stop any time soon, which really says that the government needs to now act on our university sector, perhaps on our secondary School Sector as well , of course, on our secondary School Sector as well, of course, and make it very, very clear that that we as a country wont tolerate this. But that would take brave leadership, wouldnt it, from any government, of course, of course, brave leadership and also brave policing. I sense also brave policing. I sense theres no optimism in you at all. I think after months of slamming my head into a wall, trying to justify to seasoned academic professionals how and why certain incidents and statements are anti semitic and genocidal and indicative of support for terrorism in nature. That does not fill me with optimism at all. Its actually indicative of a much wider issue indicative of a much wider issue in british institutions in which we have allowed individuals with clear anti british motives to fester. Fester. Or ill its quite a depressing situation that you paint , but i depressing situation that you paint, but i thank you for coming in and speaking as frankly as you have. Thanks very much, nigel. Thanks very much, nigel. Its. Yeah, i mean, it really is very, very bad indeed. Now, Patrick Christys joins me down the line from our paddington studio with another exclusive. What have you got, patrick . Yes. Well, i decided to go to that Oxford University pro palestine encampment outside their museum of natural history, and it was a fascinating experience. Heres a little snapshot of it. Nigel once unked snapshot of it. Nigel once linked arms to, to try to force us. I think out as close , its us. I think out as close, its a bastion of freedom, of speech at Oxford University. Do you think this might be a bit fascist . This might be a bit fascist . Sign free. Free . Thats a little bit fascist palestine . No. Okay. Palestine yes. So there we go. Palestine yes. So there we go. That once great institution, Oxford University, a bastion for sculpting the best young minds, not just in britain, but around the world as well. Reduced to a load of mass wearing unwashed, fake communists. Their worldview was somewhat shattered. Nigel when people kept coming up to say that they watched gb news. Both students, and members of the public, which didnt do us any favours. But on a very serious note, yes, that company is not going away any time soon. And if you really do look at it and think about it, what would it have been like if i had been jewish or quote unquote, visibly jewish, going through that particular encampment . It would not have been a good, pleasant experience. And 108 members of staff at Oxford University have signed up for their support, and members of staff were driving past tooting their horns as those people were doing all of that. So, you know, all right, there might be some comical elements to it, but actually its a very serious point and it will be all over. I patrick. I laughed at it and thought i shouldnt be laughing, but it very much, as you say, if 108 you know, professors and lecturers have signed up, its very much what a rail was telling us a moment ago. Telling us a moment ago. Patrick. Thank you. Well watch that later. After the break, well talk about lord cameron having been to america and told them their fortunes. Hes now telling the European Union what to do. But is this really the man . Does he does he actually have that level of authority on the world stage . I dont really think so. I asked you, is it time these protests outside the universities were stopped. Were some very strong responses coming in. Clive says its about time. All of the protests were stopped. Alfred says yes. Close stopped. Alfred says yes. Close them down now. No messing around with these answers. Shane says with these answers. Shane says these anti jewish protesters on universities should absolutely be shut down. Id also go one step further and close down the london protest. And do you know what, shane . You know, i want us to live in a country where we can speak freely. I want us to live in a country where we can demonstrate. But im not sure demonstrating every single saturday is really what ought to be allowed. And the police, of course, do have other things to do. Now lord cameron, having been off, of course, recently to america, telling them what they should do in terms of their ukrainian funding, is now telling the European Union we mus