Your next hour. Once the show. Always a pleasure to have your company. Another terrible day ahead for rishi sunak. Has there been a decent day you can even remember and you remember yesterday i was delighted to show the biggest Saint Georges flag in the land in my home city of nottingham, 62 foot, an absolute monster of a flag across the Market Square on the council house. Well, today a tory mp has floated the idea its tory mp has floated the idea wsfime tory mp has floated the idea its time for a minister for flags to protect our cherished flags. Do you agree with that . Would that get your vote . Lets me know theres new way to get in touch. You can send your views and post your comments by visiting com forward visiting gb news. Com forward slash your say get in touch. Ill read out the best before the end of the show. Keep them clean to you. But before clean over to you. But before that latest that its time for your latest news and tatiana News Headlines. And its tatiana sanchez. Martin thank you. The top stories. And first to some breaking news from scotland this afternoon. Its been confirmed the Scottish Government has scrapped its interim climate target to reduce emissions by 75 by 2030. First minister humza yousaf told the Scottish Parliament that the overall net zero goal of 2045 wont budge. The minister for net zero, mairi mcallan, said while the original target is unattainable all a revised package of Climate Action measures will deliver scotlands transition to net zero at a pace and scale that, she said is feasible , fair and she said is feasible, fair and just. And some more breaking news to bring you the uk and the us have issued new sanctions on 13 iranian individuals in response to irans attack on israel at the weekend. Britains also freezing the assets of some iranian organisations, including the countrys navy and the chief of its army. It comes after rishi sunak said earlier this week that g7 leaders were working on a package of coordinated measures against iran. Lord cameron is currently at a g7 meeting in italy, where hes calling for a clear message to be sent to tehran. In other to be sent to tehran. In other news, sir keir starmer says the rwanda scheme is a gimmick and a waste of taxpayers money in the wake of the latest blow to the governments flagship rwanda bill in the house of lords last night, the labour leaders comments come as downing street declined recommit the declined to recommit to the Prime Ministers spring deadline to get deportation flights off the ground. Its understood the ground. Its understood number 10 will publish more detail the timing of the detail about the timing of the first flights to rwanda, once the asylum legislation has passed through parliament, mps will lords will consider the lords amendments to the bill next week, but the government has indicated it will not be making any concessions. Labour are any concessions. Labour are calling for police to investigate what opposition ministers have described as extraordinary allegations that an mp misused thousands of pounds of Campaign Funds. The times reports that mark menzies used political donations to cover medical expenses and pay off bad people, who he says locked him in a flat and demanded thousands of pounds for his release. He denies any his release. He denies any wrongdoing but has agreed to give up the conservative whip. But labour leader sir keir starmer says its taken far too long for the government to act. Be honest , theres a ill be honest, theres a degree of frustration as well. Were two weeks away from really important local and mayoral elections when, you know theres a lot of positive arguments that we want to make about the change we can bring about the change we can bring aboutin about the change we can bring about in these elections. And yet again, were talking about misbehaviour by tory mps. And if ever you needed evidence of why we need to turn the page on this shower and, and have a fresh start with labour, i think its in these allegations coming out today, prescription of today, the prescription of puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones for children in scotland has been paused. It follows a landmark cass review of gender services for under 18 seconds, which revealed children had been let down by a lack of research and weak evidence on medical interventions. Ministers in scotland have welcomed the move, but campaigners argue the decision is the wrong one. Like other parts of the uk, scotland has seen a rapid rise in the number of young people questioning their identity or experiencing dysphoria. Experiencing gender dysphoria. In england, the nhs has already stopped prescribing puberty blockers. A criminal gang involved in a website which taught subscribers how to defraud thousands of victims in the uk, has been shut down by british police. 480,000 card numbers belonging to as many as 70,000 people were accessed via the website lab post, with criminals subscribing to the site taught how to access bank details and pin numbers. A man details and pin numbers. A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a hoax Terrorism Campaign targeting Primary Schools, airports and shopping centres. In 2013, gary preston sent 42 envelopes containing white powder and threatening letters that caused panic and evacuations. Various locations evacuations. Various Locations Nationwide over a six week period. The envelopes contained talcum powder and threatening letters with arabic texts. One envelope led to the evacuation of a 300 room hotel. The 64 year old was arrested and pleaded guilty to 21 charges. El nour train drivers have announced another strike on saturday, leading to the cancellation of around 3 in 4 services. Members of aslef will walk out for the day and ban overtime over the weekend in a fresh dispute over terms and conditions. The rail operator says it will run just 26 of its usual routes between edinburgh and london and west yorkshire. The walkouts are separate to their long running pay separate to their long running pay dispute between aslef and 16 train operators, and some royal news. The prince of wales has returned to public duties for the First Time Since princess catherines announcement that shes being treated for cancer. Williams been meeting volunteers at a Food Distribution charity in surrey, as well as lending a hand in the kitchen. He was also presented with get well soon cards for his wife. The princes last official engagement was a month ago. For engagement was a month ago. 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. Common alerts. Now its back to. Martin. Thank you. Tatiana. Now we start with yet another bad news day for rishi sunak and the conservative party. And ill be honest, i cant remember having too many good news days. Can you . You know news days. Can you . You know what they say about bad news coming in threes. What they say about bad news coming in threes. Well, today, coming in threes. Well, today, downing street has refused to recommit to rishi sunaks spring deadune recommit to rishi sunaks spring deadline to get deportation flights off the ground to rwanda. Chris hopes beer is safe and mark menzies has given up the tory whip after an incredible story which claimed that he had misused Campaign Funds and the Prime Minister woke up this morning to the news that, according to a major opinion poll and the daily mail, the tories are trailing the labour party on every Major Political issue, including defence, tax, migration and wait for it. Even brexit. Well, im joined in our studio by our Political Editor , christopher Political Editor, christopher hope, and also the former labour minister, bill rammell. Hope, and also the former labour minister, bill rammell. Welcome minister, bill rammell. Welcome to the show, gents. Lets start with you, chris, and lets start with you, chris, and lets start with rwanda, because of course, we joshing about the fact we were joshing about the fact you had a bet with the Prime Minister a flight wouldnt minister that a flight wouldnt take spring. A single take off. This spring. A single pint of beer seems youve pint of beer seems like youve won pint. Won a pint. Yes, if its a may, the second which, of second election. Which, of course , when we struck that bet course, when we struck that bet back that was back in september, that was going case. Now, i was going to be the case. Now, i was in Parliament Last night for this between the house this ping pong between the house of commons and house lords of commons and house of lords for amendments, turnover by for amendments, a turnover by the the push by the lords, the by the push by the lords, turnover commons last turnover by the commons last night to then came back, surprisingly the house of surprisingly from the house of lords, from lord hope and lord browne des browne, a former labour shadow labour defence secretary, and lord hope being the former deputy head of the Supreme Court there, trying to find little ways to and find little ways to tweak and for government view for the Government Point of view , down safety of , watered down the safety of rwanda. Brown wants rwanda. Bill, lord brown wants to mean if you if you served overseas with uk forces in afghanistan, you will then not be sent to rwanda. If you arrive here legally, lord hope wants to have checks on have regular checks on the safety of rwanda. Government safety of rwanda. The government is its is digging in now, saying its not happen. Were back not going to happen. Were back on monday for more pong on monday for more ping pong between lords. Between the commons and lords. This is democracy happens in this is how democracy happens in our a problem. Our country. Its not a problem. Its what happens all the time. The maybe if they are the lords test maybe if they are not sure about commons not sure about some commons legislation, particularly when it wasnt in a manifesto like this one, but the outcome is the government is now not saying for the first time in months that the first time in months that the first time in months that the first flights will take off with people on the to with with people on the plane to rwanda by of the spring. Rwanda by the end of the spring. Spnng rwanda by the end of the spring. Spring ends june 21st. So what theyre saying is, by late theyre saying is, even by late june , these flights may not june, these flights may not taken off. What they will say is when get this through the when they get this through the commons could commons and lords, which could be night sittings be very like late night sittings on update on monday, they will update on the a very the timescale. Its a very big setback for mr sunak. 21st the longest june 21st the longest day. Every feels like the longest every day feels like the longest day for rishi and that tax alert. Was rishi alert. I think that was rishi cashing out early. I think it was number 10 saying, we know ill buy you a lemonade chopper, let. Okay, bill bramwell, let go. Okay, bill bramwell, lets bring in. This lets bring you in. At this point, be watching this point, you must be watching this calamity not only on rwanda, calamity and not only on rwanda, but on mark menzies. You must be watching this. And just thinking how this how soon can this be over . The labour party must be licking their lips to get into power now. Power how. Power now. Mean, its really well, i mean, its really serious. Real echoes of serious. Its got real echoes of the run to 1997. The run up to 1997. You know, the sleaze , then as you know, the sleaze, then as mired in sleaze as john majors government in the run up to 1997. Theyre also playing it long. Theyre also playing it long. And i was reading an interesting piece by Charlie Faulkner recently, the former labour attorney general , who labour attorney general, who said that playing it long actually made it worse for the conservatives because theres so much pent up , frustration and much pent up, frustration and wanting to see the back of them that it increases the scale and the size of the likely labour victory. And, you know, rwanda is a gimmick, its costly beyond words. Its not not a deterrent. And the substance of one of the two remaining amendments, the two remaining amendments, the government is refusing to commit to not deporting afghans whove worked with British Military in afghanistan. Military in afghanistan. I mean, thats thats shocking. And i understand that rishi sunak actually intervened personally to block a possible compromise on wednesday of this week, which would have eased the passage of the bill. So it demonstrates yet again, hes totally inept political management and leadership. To talk , okay. And we need to talk, chris, about the mark menzies situation. An astonishing story situation. An astonishing story almost feels made up, but its not funny at all. This has serious implications as we said, just the latest in a long roll call of shame. You. You. You. Yeah, yeah, its almost like a Mount Rushmore of alleged wrongdoing by tory mps. Got william wragg, got mark menzies overnight. Labour. Call it the disturbing incident. Weve got this this. Hes been suspended from unpaid role as as a as from unpaid role as a as a as a government trade envoy. Hes alleged to have used thousands of pounds from donors to fund medical expenses and to have made a 78 year old aide and, trying to ask for money because hed been locked up by some bad people at 3 am, you know, its almost like straight out of the pages , of, you know, of pages of, of, you know, of a fiction writer. You wouldnt believe any believe it. He denies any wrongdoing. Had whip wrongdoing. Hes had the whip suspended suspended suspended or hes suspended himself. And theres lots of these things happening. Theres himself. And theres lots of these tia1gs happening. Theres himself. And theres lots of these tia1gs hap|discipline eres himself. And theres lots of these tia1gs hap|discipline inrs almost a lack of discipline in the tory party. But its going back to what bill rammell said there. There have back to what bill rammell said the|election there have back to what bill rammell said the|election now, there have back to what bill rammell said the|election now, rishi,|ere have back to what bill rammell said the|election now, rishi, hes1ave back to what bill rammell said the|election now, rishi, hes 25e the election now, rishi, hes 25 points behind. Looking at the daily mail today, hes behind on every describe, even every measure you describe, even brexit. Martin, you were saying that if he went early, then the inevitable defeat at the polls is his fault. If he goes long, its the partys fault. He would be mad to go have an election now , i dont think its binary now, i dont think its binary and i think the risk for him is the longer this goes on, the worse he it gets. And you know, whether its now, whether its in june, whether its in september or october or even god help us, in the early part of next year, hes going to own that. You know, hes the unelected Prime Minister who came in with a commitment to clean up politics, to bring integrity back to government. And hes completely failed on that front and on the key metrics in this and the key metrics in this poll and the mail today. There are two that really stand out. Best Prime Minister, 34, sir keir starmer, 90. Rishi sunak 48. Dont know. I mean, almost half of people would rather have somebody whos not even on the ticket, also on even on the ticket, but also on the economy bill. And if youre ranked as the best leader and the best handling of the economy, the rest of it is mere detail. Absolutely. You look is it . Absolutely. You look at books, you at the history books, if you lead two indicators, lead on those two indicators, then , well, the history books then, well, the history books say certain elected say youre certain to be elected as the next government. Now, im not complacent, think not complacent, but i do think 14 years of tory misrule, of austerity , of massive cuts in austerity, of massive cuts in pubuc austerity, of massive cuts in public services, of falling Living Standards and the highest tax burden since the second world war, are coming home to roost. Okay, bill rammell chris obe, superb stuff. Thanks forjoining us and well have more you, us and well have more of you, of later show. Of course, later in the show. Now, as weve already said, mark menzies certainly not the menzies is certainly not the first conservative mp to be accused misconduct in recent accused of misconduct in recent years. In fact, the tories have lost six seats since the 2019 general election and theyre expected to lose another one in just a couple of weeks time. Lets go back over the roll call of shame in november 2021, former cabinet minister Owen Paterson resigned after he was found guilty of breaking lobbying rules. Imran ahmed khan quits following his conviction for sexually assaulting a teenage boy in april 2022. He was subsequently jailed for 18 months. Less than a month later, neil parrish stepped down after he admitted watching pornography on his mobile phone in the house of commons in june 2023. David warburton resigned after an investigation into allegations of Sexual Harassment and cocaine use. Former tory whip chris pincher eventually resigned from parliament in september 2023, after an investigation found that he had drunkenly groped two men more than a year earlier. Peter bone lost his seat after a recall petition. Hed been suspended for six weeks for bullying and exposing himself to a member of his staff. Are you still with us . Deep breath. And still with us . Deep breath. And scott benton quit just three weeks ago after he was caught in a lobbying sting, and he had been the mp for blackpool south. And labour are now widely expected to win that by election there next month. Astonishing roll call, isnt it . Now we can add mark menzies to that list now. Have lots more on all that throughout the show and theres plenty of coverage on our website gb news. Com and youve helped to make it the Fastest Growing