Labour has been reported to the police over a “misleading” social media post involving a Reform UK parliamentary candidate.
Matthew Goodwin, who has been selected by Reform to stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election, accused Sir Keir Starmer’s party of “selectively editing” a video posted to X.
In the clip, Mr Goodwin can be heard saying: “I was lucky enough or unfortunate enough to be in Manchester a few days ago, and the energy in this room is 10 times what it was in Manchester, so congratulations.”
Labour added a caption to the video which read: “This is what Reform’s latest candidate thinks about where he’s standing to represent.”
However, Mr Goodwin argues the clip was taken out of context and his comments were directed at the Conservatives during their conference in Manchester last year.
Mr Goodwin said: “You may have seen a selectively edited video clip last night shared by the Labour Party and many Labour politicians which implied that I was criticising the good people of Manchester where I lived for many years, where my family is from, when in reality I was criticising the Tory party during their conference in Manchester.
“This is why we at Reform UK have just given formal notice to Greater Manchester Police under Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 regarding the sharing and dissemination of false statements about my candidacy at this by-election.”
Reform UK said in a statement the edit creates a “misleading narrative that plainly is intended to influence how voters view Mr Goodwin’s character and candidacy”.
A Labour spokesman said: “Nigel Farage has repeatedly bemoaned the 'policing of tweets', yet he is now begging the authorities to look at a clip of his divisive candidate's own words.
"It is as laughable as it is sad. Matt Goodwin and Reform have long had a disdain for Manchester and the North.
“The ones being misleading here are the Greens pretending they have any chance of winning in Gorton and Denton."
GB News has contacted Greater Manchester Police for comment.
Britain will 'continue to engage with US' on Chagos Islands deal, No10 says
Britain will "continue to engage with the US " on the Chagos Islands deal and "allay any concerns", No10 has said.
Sir Keir Starmer told reporters today the UK had raised talks with the White House over the deal at the end of last week, which has continued into this week - despite Donald Trump having branded it an "act of great stupidity".
A Downing Street spokesman said: "We will continue to engage with the US on this important matter and the importance of the deal to secure US and UK interests and allay any concerns, as we’ve done throughout the process."
Sir Keir Starmer insists the US initially backed Chagos Islands deal in 'very clear terms' after Donald Trump branded it 'act of great stupidity'
Sir Keir Starmer said the US initially backed the deal in 'very clear terms'
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Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Donald Trump initially backed his Chagos Islands handover deal “in very clear terms” following sign-off by US intelligence agencies, despite the president’s recent change of tune.
Mr Trump last week attacked the deal to cede sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius as an “act of great stupidity”.
But the Prime Minister stressed the Trump administration “concluded that it was a deal they wanted to support” after it was reviewed “in detail at an agency level” in the months after entering the White House.
Sir Keir told reporters travelling with him to China today: “I’ve obviously discussed Chagos with Donald Trump a number of times.
“It has been raised with the White House at the tail end of last week, over the weekend and into the early part of this week.
“The position, as you know, is that when the Trump administration came in, we paused for three months to give them time to consider the Chagos deal, which they did at agency level.
“Once they’d done that, they were very clear in the pronouncements about the fact that they supported the deal.”
The Labour leader would not be drawn on whether Mr Trump understood the deal, reiterating “it was an agency review that was conducted in the US before they then concluded that it was a deal they wanted to support, did support and did so in very clear terms”.
Reform voters have mixed feelings about recent defections, new poll shows
New polling of Reform UK voters shows mixed feelings about the party's recent defections.
The Find Out Now poll found that 34 per cent of people felt the latest defections to the party were positive, closely followed by 33 per cent who felt the new Reform politicians bring experience but baggage.
A total of 17 per cent said they felt negatively about recent defectors, while 15 per cent said they don't know.
Lucy Powell says Reform by-election candidate not 'welcome in Manchester'
Lucy Powell told Matt Goodwin to 'trot on'
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Lucy Powell has said Reform UK by-election candidate Matt Goodwin is not "welcome in Manchester" over a video social media clip posted on the Labour Party's official X account.
Reform UK has reported the Labour Party to the police over the "misleading" video of Mr Goodwin, which he claimed had been "selectively edited".
In the clip, Mr Goodwin can be heard saying: “I was lucky enough or unfortunate enough to be in Manchester a few days ago, and the energy in this room is 10 times what it was in Manchester, so congratulations.”
Gorton and Denton by-election candidate Mr Goodwin however argues the clip was taken out of context and his comments were directed at the Conservatives during their conference in Manchester last year.
Labour deputy leader and Manchester central MP, Ms Powell, said: "Trot on … You aren’t welcome in Manchester next time either."
Chagos Islands deal is 'falling apart every day', says Conservatives
Britain’s deal with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands and Diego Garcia is “falling apart every day”, the Conservatives have said.
Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said the Government had come up with a “surrender deal” to give away sovereignty of the islands, and claimed it had “gaslit” critics.
The agreement would hand over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius and secure the operation of a joint UK-US base on the island of Diego Garcia for at least 99 years. The UK would also make payments to Mauritius.
It comes after Labour postponed a debate on the deal in the House of Lords, following the Tories tabling an amendment that called for a pause “in the light of the changing geopolitical circumstances”.
Speaking in the Commons, Dame Priti said: “Labour’s £35billion Chagos surrender deal is falling apart every single day and it’s high time that the Prime Minister tore up this atrocious surrender treaty and put Britain’s interests and our defence first and our security first and Britain’s hard-pressed taxpayers first."
Kemi Badenoch directly addresses GB News viewers' concerns as she promises: 'Britain is not broken beyond repair!'
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch spoke directly to GB News viewers today, as she promised "Britain is not broken it just needs change".
Olivia Utley asked Mrs Badenoch today: "The emails and comments we get from GB News viewers, they say that from where they’re sitting, with high crime, uncontrolled immigration, and an NHS that doesn’t work, Britain looks broken. Are they wrong?"
Mrs Badenoch responded: "Britain is not broken beyond repair. But there are a lot of things that aren’t working."
WATCH: Scottish Conservative MP grills David Lammy over Labour’s chances of success in the upcoming Holyrood elections
Former Reform MP presses David Lammy over future of British Steel
South Basildon and East Thurrock MP James McMurdock
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Former Reform MP James McMurdock grilled David Lammy over a steel firm in his South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency.
Mr McMurdock, who now sits as an Independent, says contracts are going offshore.
Mr Lammy responded saying: "We stepped in to save British Steel and we committed up to £2.5billion to rebuild the sector.
"We'll be publishing a steel strategy shortly.
David Lammy 'utterly condemns' Iranian regime's 'deadly crackdown' on protests
Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park Sarah Olney pressed David Lammy on the protests in Iran.
She called on the Government will proscribe the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
Mr Lammy says he "utterly condemns" the Iranian regime, accusing Tehran of a "brutal oppression of peaceful protesters".
However, he says it's "a long-standing position...not to comment on whether a specific organisation is being considered for proscription."
Lee Anderson calls on David Lammy to speak to landlords with him
Lee Anderson speaking in the Commons
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Reform' UK's Lee Anderson reported on the TV that "backbenchers are revolting", adding that it was a "matter of opinion."
After being heckled by a nearby backbencher, he said: "I've never been thrown out or barred and after yesterday's disastrous announcement it is no wonder he's cleared off to China.
"Will he come with me to Ashfield to visit some pubs and explain to landlords why over 500 pubs have closed since they came to power."
Mr Lammy responded: "I once campaigned with him, while he was a member of the Labour Party...I wonder what job he is pushing for now on the shadow cabinet."
Daisy Cooper presses David Lammy over Keir Starmer's Beijing trip
The Liberal Democrats have accused Sir Keir Starmer of going "cap in hand" to China to "ask for a trade deal on the promise of a super-embassy."
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: “Whilst the Chinese regime still holds British citizen Jimmy Lai captive in prison, and whilst the Chinese regime continues to hunt down pro-democracy protesters on the streets of Britain with bounties on their heads, the British Prime Minister has gone cap in hand to China to ask for a trade deal on the promise of a super-embassy from which the Chinese regime will continue to spy on us."
She asked Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to "name one single consequence that the Chinese regime will face if they do not stop their campaign of espionage and repression."
Responding, Mr Lammy said: "China matters and ignoring them would be a dereliction of duty. We will build a consistent, long-term and strategic approach, grounded in reality.
"That is what our allies do, President Trump, Macron, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Carney, all are visiting and engaging.
"We’ll co-operate where we can and I’m sure in areas like climate she would expect us to co-operate, and we will challenge in areas where we disagree."
David Lammy skewered over employment rights
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy
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Andrew Griffith argues that "every Labour government leaves office with unemployment when they arrived".
He continued: "They don't understand what it takes to be an employer. They don't understand business. They're strangling business with their red tape, and they're about to make things infinitely worse."
David Lammy responded: "I'm going to take no lectures from you on business.
"My father ran out of business under the Thatcher government. I know what it's like to grow up under a Tory government."
Andrew Griffith addresses Reform UK defections - 'It is our party that is getting stronger'
David Lammy had pressed Andrew Griffith over defections to Reforms, saying "26 Tory MPs and counting" had defected to Reform.
Mr Griffith responded: "I don't know what's in his head. It is our party that is getting stronger.
"They're supposed to be running the country and once again small businesses will see he didn't answer question. £1billion a year, that is the burden. There we have it, there is no relief coming, they don't care.
"Won't the Deputy Prime Minister admit it's not the Prime Minister going to China that scares them, it's that they're scared of him coming back."
Mr Lammy responded: "They're lining up outside the Member for Clacton's office [Nigel Farage] while they squabble about the damage they did to our country."
Andrew Griffith says businesses will 'get nothing'
Andrew Griffith says: "After the chancellor's U-turn yesterday, can the deputy Prime Minister confirm that over 90 per cent of retail, hospitality and leisure businesses will get nothing yet?"
David Lammy responded saying: "Business rates of pubs and music venues will be cut by 15 per cent this year and frozen for the next two years, and we'll review the methodology for valuing pubs in the future.
"I must say that that contrasts with the party opposite, who saw 7,000 pubs closed under their watch."
Mr Griffith responded saying: "Our high streets are bleeding out and the Chancellor's handing out sticking plasters."
Andrew Griffith presses David Lammy over business rates
Andrew Griffith said: "He wants to talk about experenice I spent 25 years building businesses. He spent 25 years manufactuing grievance.
"If the party opposite knew anything about business this is too little too late...They can't even u-turn properly.
"A senior adviser to Andy Burnham said yesterday the Chancellor just wants a cheap headline. Meanwhile our High Streets are being decimated."
David Lammy responded: "We know what his plan for business is. This is the man who opposed the minimum wage.
"Let me tell him this, raising he minimum wage doesn't just make us feel good it changes lives."
David Lammy opens DPMQs
David Lammy opens DPMQs paying respect to Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich, 95, who spoke to Cabinet members yesterday on Holocaust Memorial Day.
WATCH: GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope provides the latest updates from Beijing
Andrew Griffith to take on David Lammy at DPMQs
Andrew Griffith will be representing the Tories this afternoon
| GB NEWSGB News understands Shadow Business and Trade Secretary Andrew Griffith will be representing the Conservatives at DPMQs this afternoon.
We'll bring you all the updates both here on our live blog and on PMQs Live with Tom and Gloria.
Today, I can reveal why you know nothing about the grooming gangs in Sadiq Khan's London, writes Susan Hall
Susan Hall has written for Friends of GB News about the current state of the investigation into grooming gangs in London.
The Leader of the London Conservatives wrote: "In a now-famous exchange, first broadcast on GB News, the Mayor shamefully tried to ignore the question whilst trying to goad me into saying anything that he could misconstrue as racist.
"I wasn’t going to let up then, and I haven’t let up since. In the months intervening, I have questioned everyone - senior Met officials, the Mayor, and City Hall bureaucrats - about the existence of grooming gangs in the capital.
"Whilst Khan has buried his head in the sand, I have sought to shine a light on this heinous offence and get justice for the vulnerable young girls who are helplessly preyed upon in our city."
Kemi Badenoch calls on Keir Starmer to apologise to veterans
Sir Keir Starmer should apologise to veterans over his role as a barrister in reshaping the law governing troops in war zones, Kemi Badenoch has said.
The Prime Minister worked free of charge in 2007 on a human rights claim that led to fresh inquiries into deaths in Iraq and soldiers facing criminal investigations, The Telegraph reported.
Asked whether Sir Keir should say sorry to veterans dragged through further legal wranglings, the Tory leader told a press conference: "Yes, I believe that the way that our veterans have been harassed through the courts is a complete disgrace.
"We have been doing everything we can to protect them. What Labour is doing with this legislation it is doing because it does not believe in our veterans.
"Whether it’s Keir Starmer or his Attorney General Lord Hermer, where they have had the opportunity – pro bono, not cab rank – they have gone to help the people who are acting against our country’s national interests.
"Those veterans put their lives on the line to defend us and I want them to know that the Conservative Party will always have their back."
Kemi Badenoch insists Donald Trump's Republicans are still the "sister party" of the Tories
Kemi Badenoch addressing a crowd of supporters
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Donald Trump’s Republican party is still the sister party of the Tories, Kemi Badenoch said.
Answering media questions after her speech, she said: "Are the Republicans still a sister party? Yes, absolutely, and we have great relationships with our fellow Republicans."
She stressed she had spoken to American politicians about why the Government’s Chagos plan was "a bad deal" for the UK and the US "long before Nigel Farage went to Davos."
Mrs Badenoch also said "we are not a party of the left and we should not be accommodating people who want to paint that picture."
Kemi Badenoch push backs against calls for shift to centre ground for Tories
Kemi Badenoch has pushed back against calls by some in her ranks for a shift back to the centre ground.
The Conservative leader said in her speech: "I can actually put together a shadow cabinet bigger than four people.
"No, this isn’t about left or right, it’s about right or wrong. We are right, they’re all wrong.
"Some people say that we need to split the difference and find the centre ground. It’s not about the centre ground, it’s about the common ground, and it is about common sense."
Kemi Badenoch insists she is 'rebuilding' Conservative Party
Kemi Badenoch insisted she was renewing and rebuilding the Conservative Party, and hit out at Reform UK’s Nigel Farage in her speech.
The Conservative leader said: "Let me be clear, the Conservative Party is going in a new direction. I was not elected to reheat the party with 1990s policies and I was not elected to dismantle the party so that Nigel Farage can finally have a go.
"I was elected by Conservative Party members to renew and rebuild. That is exactly what I am doing."
Kemi Badenoch issues direct attack on Reform UK in blistering speech
Kemi Badenoch speaking in Westminster
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Kemi Badenoch has directly attacked former Conservatives who have defected to Reform UK.
She said: "The people who don’t agree with this direction need to get out of the way.
"There are people in politics who don’t really know what they are doing or why. They just want to be in the room. They want to be on top. They want access, attention and advancement.
"When they don’t get their way, they create drama.
"What we need are people who are going to help get Britain working again, and that means we have to be a truly Conservative Party, so I won’t apologise to those walking away because they don’t like the new direction. We only want Conservatives."
Rachel Reeves warned of 'huge problem' over inheritance tax pension deadline
Rachel Reeves has been warned that her proposed six-month deadline for paying inheritance tax on unused pension pots risks creating serious problems for families administering estates.
The House of Lords economic affairs committee called on ministers to extend the payment window to 12 months when new regulations take effect from April 2027.
In its report, the committee said a longer deadline would give personal representatives a realistic chance of meeting their legal obligations.
Our money reporter Joe Sledge has the full story here.
Keir Starmer needs to 'explain himself' over legal pursuit of British soldiers for war crimes, says former head of the Army
Lord Dannatt slammed the decision
| PAPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer needs to explain his role in a legal case which led to hundreds of British soldiers being investigated for alleged war crimes, a former head of the Army has said.
Lord Dannatt told GB News: "It's an extraordinary story that I'm very disappointed to have read in The Telegraph. And as you say, it's even more extraordinary that he acted, in this case without pay, which means that he was obviously personally interested and personally committed to see this thing through.
"And the result of his intervention, way back in 2007, was that a number of soldiers, a large number of soldiers, were investigated time and again as a result of the judgement that he worked to achieve.
"Now it turned out, many years later…that a solicitor's firm, a gentleman called Shiner, who eventually was struck off, it turned out that his firm was behind many of these cases, that a number of the cases were taken forward based on false information which had been generated.
"And frankly, the whole thing has been a complete disaster, and it's resulted in a large number of honest, hard-working soldiers who have been doing their duty in Iraq [being investigated].
“There were spillovers of similar situations in Afghanistan being dragged through the courts after countless investigations, and if the Prime Minister has played a role in this, we need to see this exposed, and he needs to explain himself, because frankly, it's an outrage."
Keir Starmer lands in Beijing ahead of visit
Sir Keir Starmer has landed in Beijing ahead of the first Prime Ministerial visit to China since 2018.
A delegation of almost 60 representatives of British businesses and cultural institutions is accompanying the Prime Minister as he continues his efforts to build bridges with Beijing.
However concerns over the risk China poses to national security and Xi Jinping’s record on human rights mean Sir Keir’s visit is politically sensitive.
Speaking to reporters on the flight to Beijing, the Prime Minister said: "The evidence there are opportunities is the fact that we’ve got so many CEOs with us on this flight, that we’ve got 60 coming out to explore those opportunities."
Greeen Party peer calls for BOYCOTT of World Cup over ICE shooting
A Green Party peer has called on British football fans to boycott the World Cup in the US later this year.
Baroness Jenny Jones said: "The horrific shooting of innocent people by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raises big concerns about the security of people from this country visiting the USA, especially if they are victims of racial profiling by ICE agents.
"President Trump and his administration have lied on behalf of ICE and given them backing for acting illegally and killing people who they then labels as “domestic terrorists”.
"As someone who was on the Met Police’s domestic extremism database for several years, along with thousands of others, that does not seem like a safe country to visit."
WATCH: Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart on Labour’s announcement to cut business rates for hospitality jobs by 15 per cent
Keir Starmer says Labour is the only party that can beat Reform in key by-election
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour is the only party that can beat Reform UK in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Since the resignation of former MP Andrew Gwynne last week, speculation has mounted that Reform could win the seat Labour retained with 51 per cent of the vote in 2024.
The Greens, meanwhile, have sought to portray themselves as the main option for voters wanting to stop Reform as leader Zack Polanski seeks to supplant Labour.
But ahead of his visit to Beijing, Sir Keir told reporters that Labour remained the best way to stop Nigel Farage’s party gaining another MP.
He said: "There’s only one party that can stop Reform and that’s the Labour Party.
"We can already see what the by-election’s going to be about, which is Labour values, which are about delivering, focusing on the cost of living, with a strong record in that constituency of what we’ve already done, versus Reform."
The only two parties who have announced their candidates for the by election so far are Reform UK (Matthew Goodwin) and The Workers Party (Shahbaz Sarwar).
WATCH: Former Political Advisor Oscar Reddrop gives his take on why the Government is giving hospitality businesses a 15% cut to their rates
Senior Tory slams Keir Starmer's Beijing trip
Shadow Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart slammed the trip
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A senior Conservative has said the Government is "not taking the security risk seriously" ahead of Sir Keir Starmer's visit to Beijing.
Shadow Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart told GB News: "I think the thing is I don't really know what we're supposed to be getting out of it.
"I know there's a lot of talk about how this will improve trade but its coming off revelations the Chinese government was hacking phones of people who worked in Downing Street.
"Whilst there's some economic opportunity coming from Beijing there's a very large amount of security risk and I don't know if the Government is taking that seriously."
Most deprived areas in UK to get worse by end of Parliament
Britain's most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the current session of parliament, according to a report written at the request of Downing Street.
The forecasts from the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (Icon) show crime rates and unemployment will rise until the next election in England’s 613 most deprived neighbourhoods, despite Labour's promises to invest in local communities.
The report’s authors warn the extra money ministers have pumped in is not enough to counteract longer-term trends such as the increase in antisocial behaviour and the problems facing the retail and hospitality sectors, reports The Guardian.
Keir Starmer accused of unleashing witch hunt against Iraq veterans: 'He insisted on doing it for free!'
Sir Keir Starmer has come under fire
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Sir Keir Starmer acted for interveners on a controversial human rights case that ultimately paved the way for hundreds of British soldiers to face allegations of war crimes in Iraq, reports suggest.
Court documents show the Prime Minister worked on the case pro bono alongside Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, representing interveners, including the Law Society of England and Wales.
The case was brought on behalf of Iraqi families who claimed their relatives were unlawfully killed by Britain’s armed forces following the 2003 invasion.
Here's what's happening today in Westminster
Good morning from all of us on the GB News Politics team, here's what's driving the day today in Westminster and beyond.
Our very own Political Editor Chris Hope is currently en route to Beijing alongside the Prime Minister. Friends of GB News can read up why he's headed to China here.
Meanwhile, back in Westminster, it's Deputy Prime Minister's Questions as David Lammy is up to the dispatch box. The Conservatives have not yet confirmed who they'll be putting up to face him.
Angela Rayner has reportedly urged Labour’s leadership to "do better" at a private fundraising dinner as she teased a return to frontline politics ahead of the crucial by-election in Manchester. Our reporter Dan McDonald has the story here.
North of the border, the Conservatives are looking to defend a seat in Scotland after the jailing of a local councillor triggered a by-election. Ben McCaffrey has done a deep dive into the Bearsden South ward in East Dunbartonshire here.
Landlords across the country are continuing their plans to ban Labour MPs from their pubs as "the threshold has not been met" over plans to for pubs and music venues to get 15 per cent off their business rates bills from April.
We'll be hearing today from Andy Lennox, the Dorset landlord who started the ban, says rates reform was only one part of their demands and it was for the whole sector, not just pubs.
He says they stand in solidarity with wider Hospitality who have been excluded and thus will not be lifting the #NoLabourMP ban. Mr Lennox says, "the industry needs meaningful change, today’s announcement was not it."
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