GB News host Martin Daubney has brutally shut down a Labour MP after accusing Nigel Farage of being "unpatriotic".
Discussing the Reform UK leader's address to US Congress about Britain's free speech laws, MP Catherine Atkinson accused Mr Farage of "actively seeking potential significant damage to our economy".
Addressing US Congress, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage compared Labour’s Britain to North Korea in how it polices free speech.
Mr Farage said: "At what point did we become North Korea? This is a genuinely worrying, concerning and shocking situation."
Martin Daubney clashed with Labour MP Catherine Atkinson after branding Nigel Farage's free speech address 'unpatriotic'
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Pressed by Martin on what Labour's plans for tackling the free speech crisis are, Ms Atkinson responded: "I think people will be pretty shocked that we have a UK MP going across to the States to badmouth the UK and to call upon the US to actually threaten serious trade implications against the UK.
"How is that patriotic? He is actively seeking potential significant damage to our economy?"
Defending Labour's free speech laws, Ms Atkinson added: "Our country is one where we value free speech. It was the last Labour Government that enshrined free speech in the Human Rights Act.
"So I think that has never meant with free speech that you can say anything that you like.
"But I think that for a lot of people, there'll be more focused on neighbourhood policing and the fact that we've got an extra 3,000 neighbourhood police on our streets."
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Nigel Farage said that free speech is the 'absolute foundation' of democracy | REUTERSHitting back at the Labour MP, Martin argued: "The trouble with that is they they seem to be deployed to be policing people's tweets and not policing the streets.
"Keir Starmer, has chastised Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, saying get on with your job, but the problem is there's this confusion everywhere. Nobody no knows what the law is.
"Nobody knows what the priority of the law is. We can see people going to jail for Facebook posts like Lucy Connolly, Graham Linehan being arrested for tweets not even made in this country, he's not even a British citizen, and yet people are being sent to jail for these things.
"But the Labour Party is releasing violent criminals early. What is the priority of the law and the police in this country?"
Ms Atkinson responded: "I think that when it comes to the operational independence of the police, it's right that they are operationally independent and they're the ones that are going to be deciding who is arrested.
"And I think people's hearts will go out to the circumstances of Lucy Connolly in losing a child and the impact that had on her, but she pleaded guilty, and that's entirely different than situations where people are found not guilty by a jury of their peers."
Martin Daubney and Catherine Atkinson locked horns over Britain's free speech laws
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Disagreeing with the Labour MP, Martin hit back: "There's a whole conversation to be had about how people are advised or how they were badly advised.
"I've heard many, many people who ended up in jail were told they get seven years if they pleaded not guilty, and so a lot of people were terrified into taking guilty plea.
"People are losing faith in law and order, and they're losing faith in the Labour Party's application of law and order when they're seeing things like Graham Linehan being arrested. It makes an absolute mockery of free speech in this nation."
He added: "And I put it to you again, people just see law and order, the police being applied in a cack-handed, blunderbuss wrongheaded manner.
"Non-crime hate incidents seem to be taking precedence over real crimes?"
Ms Atkinson concluded: "I do agree that we need to ensure that people feel safe on the streets, and neighbourhood policing is such a huge part of that.
"That is why that has been such a focus of this Government, to ensure that we do have that law and order, that the people feel safe in their safe in their homes and safe on the streets."