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GB News — New: GBN Tonight
Thursday 23 July 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 4 stories · 15 annotated moments · 38 of 60 min on news stories (63%)
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced a pause on the early prisoner release scheme due in September, following criticism from the family of murdered police officer Andrew Harper. The scheme would have released up to 6,000 inmates, including killers and rapists, on tags. The broadcast featured an interview with grooming gang survivor Ellie Ann Reynolds, who expressed concern about offenders serving only half their sentences, and a panel discussion with Lord Glasman and Sir John Whittingdale, who debated prison capacity and alternatives such as deporting foreign nationals.
GB News exclusively revealed a record-breaking migrant mega dinghy, the length of a double-decker bus, carrying 165 migrants into the UK, the second such vessel in two days. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights to enable immediate deportation of illegal arrivals, a position supported by panelists. The programme also covered a controversy involving Gary Lineker, who urged a wealth tax on millionaires despite having previously battled HMRC over a £4.9 million tax bill, and the Conservative Party's decision to block former minister Grant Shapps from standing as an MP, which Kemi Badenoch defended as part of a new direction for the party.
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Claim Andy Burnham opens new Number 10 North offices in Manchester
The Prime Minister paused the early release scheme and ordered an urgent review; a prison officer described the pause as a 'bonkers decision' and warned prisons could reach full capacity by November.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 5:36-5:53
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An early release scheme for prisoners in England and Wales was due to start in September.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 5:36-5:42
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Charged quote Andy Burnham opens new Number 10 North offices in Manchester
will be let out under this policy until we have conducted an urgent review and then everything we can to minimize risk to the public. Where changes are needed we will not hesitate to make them. Now while opposition parties have used the scheme as a battering ram against Labour earlier today I also put it to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that her party hadn't built enough
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 5:53-5:58
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Nigel Farage claimed that Conservatives released 160,000 prisoners early.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 6:48-6:56
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Nigel Farage claimed that Conservatives released 160,000 prisoners early.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 6:48-6:56
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Charged quote Andy Burnham opens new Number 10 North offices in Manchester
if you are given a sentence you should be abiding by that sentence. I mean it's bad enough that taxpayers are paying for offenders to go into a prison where they're exercising and pedo bedtime stories and having vintage shops and podcasts and you know it's insane to me it's really insane. It's like with imagine punishing a child and then letting them off
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 7:51-7:59
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Charged quote Andy Burnham opens new Number 10 North offices in Manchester
paying for foreign nationals to take up our prisons and in return we are risking sending sex offenders and murderers back out onto the street which is completely re-traumatizing victims and is just not fair at all and I think from my perspective it is evident even more so now that survivors have never ever been priority. No. Ellie Ann just one final question to you
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 10:04-10:16
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Charged quote Andy Burnham opens new Number 10 North offices in Manchester
sex offenders and murderers back out onto the street which is completely re-traumatizing victims and is just not fair at all and I think from my perspective it is evident even more so now that survivors have never ever been priority. No. Ellie Ann just one final question to you as your perpetrator are they still in prison have they been released where are they now?
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 10:16-10:22
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Claim Record-breaking migrant dinghy with 165 people arrives in UK
A 60-foot dinghy carrying 165 migrants crossed the English Channel, the largest single crossing recorded.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 22:22-22:40
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Claim Record-breaking migrant dinghy with 165 people arrives in UK
A 60-foot dinghy carrying 165 migrants crossed the English Channel, the largest single crossing recorded.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 27:02-27:09
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Contested quote 120 UK millionaires urge 2% wealth tax on assets over 10 million pounds
and other patriotic millionaires the former presenter is among 120 uk-based millionaires calling on andy burnham to impose higher taxes on their wealth and it is organized by a campaign group called patriotic millionaires uk but gary lineker has been widely criticized for the move after he went to court with hmrc the tax man just a few years ago over a 4.9 million pound
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 36:50-36:56
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Contested quote 120 UK millionaires urge 2% wealth tax on assets over 10 million pounds
up the issue of first of all of Angela Rayner you received payoffs in the past yeah there's always pressure to repay them why didn't you repair yours well i mean i think i think what really sticks in the craw is actually the hypocrisy um andrea raina criticized conservative ministers uh staggering lack of shame she said and yet she's done exactly the
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 37:55-38:02
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Charged quote 120 UK millionaires urge 2% wealth tax on assets over 10 million pounds
yeah there's always pressure to repay them why didn't you repair yours well i mean i think i think what really sticks in the craw is actually the hypocrisy um andrea raina criticized conservative ministers uh staggering lack of shame she said and yet she's done exactly the same i mean i think there is a case for somebody getting a a pay of a few months which
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 38:02-38:08
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Contested quote 120 UK millionaires urge 2% wealth tax on assets over 10 million pounds
doesn't sound to me like cutting the benefits bill home um but actually going back to the isiram wealth tax and the problem with wealth tax gary lineker may say he's happy to pay more but an awful lot of our most successful people aren't and they've left this country as a result and actually if you put up wealth tax you'll drive even more out and you may actually end
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 43:01-43:06
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Claim Kemi Badenoch purges Conservative MPs over net zero and ECHR
Kemi Badenoch rejected former Conservative MPs as candidates for supporting Net Zero and the ECHR.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 23 July 2026, 48:39-49:01
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