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Thursday 20 August 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 4 stories · 15 annotated moments · 37 of 60 min on news stories (61%)
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The programme began with Home Office data showing that only 7.6% of the 80,000 small boat migrants under Labour have been deported, despite government claims of record removals. It was also reported that the Home Office is translating a guide telling asylum seekers not to rape women into other languages, but will not specify which. Reform UK's Zia Yusuf and a panel including Michael Ellis and John McTernan discussed the figures and the guide.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to return to the UK with their children later this month, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham calling it a private matter. A new poll found a third of Brits do not want them back, and royal historian Hugo Vickers commented on the move. The programme also covered a proposed net zero border tax that could double fertiliser costs, adding to farmers' difficulties after a poor harvest, with the panel debating the causes.
New data showed white working-class pupils, especially boys, are the most likely to take no GCSEs. Head teacher Christine Kniff discussed the issue, attributing it to educational failings and a lack of focus on social class, while the panel debated the role of government policies and the concept of white privilege.
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Contested quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
The plan is working, ladies and gentlemen. Words that have already come back to haunt the Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Today the government has released a bespoke data set in which it congratulates itself for so-called record removals from the UK. But here is the real story. The government claims to have removed 80,000 foreign criminals
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 5:59-6:07
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Contested quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
and this means they either left, in many cases, in half of them, without the Home Office even knowing or being aware, or indeed they were paid to go home 3,000 pounds ahead. And that, of course, is with your money. But here's the really, really crucial point. Only 6,000 of those were small boat migrants
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 6:31-6:34
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
But here's the really, really crucial point. Only 6,000 of those were small boat migrants and that means in the entire time the Labour Party has been in power a mere 7.7% of illegal boat migrants have even been deported or removed. But most shockingly of all, in the year to march amongst the top small boats, migrant nationalities,
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 6:43-6:49
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
and that means in the entire time the Labour Party has been in power a mere 7.7% of illegal boat migrants have even been deported or removed. But most shockingly of all, in the year to march amongst the top small boats, migrant nationalities, a mere 18 migrants have been returned. 18. Now astonishingly, while 4,500 Afghans stormed ashore on dinghies,
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 6:49-6:58
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
Now astonishingly, while 4,500 Afghans stormed ashore on dinghies, just one, one was returned. But the big breaking news this afternoon is this. The shocking guide from the Home Office that tells migrants not to rape British women and children, we now have confirmation, is being translated into other foreign languages.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 7:11-7:16
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Contested quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
don't worry, if you commit crimes in Britain, you will be deported, despite our facts tonight. The Home Office's own data showing we are simply impotent to deport those coming on small dinghies by nation. I'm joined now by Reform UK's Home Affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf. Zia, it's always a pleasure to have you.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 8:04-8:12
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
I mean, in some ways it's shocking, and we should describe it as shocking, but sadly, given what we've seen over the last couple of decades, it's not actually that surprising because the Tories and Labour have sold their own people up the river. They have directly now imperiled and endangered British women and girls for years,
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 8:41-8:44
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
but sadly, given what we've seen over the last couple of decades, it's not actually that surprising because the Tories and Labour have sold their own people up the river. They have directly now imperiled and endangered British women and girls for years, and this guide, I was handed these documents by someone in our office yesterday afternoon.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 8:44-8:50
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
It tries to teach them what consent means. It tells them not to leave babies alone. It tells them not to harass women or take pictures of people without their permission. It's really horrific, actually, and if you have to try to train fully grown men in order to try to stop them from raping women, then perhaps it would be a good idea
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 9:26-9:28
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
committed by illegal migrants and foreign nationals in this country, is this not the ultimate confession, effectively, from this government and the Home Office about the scale of danger being imposed on British women and girls by this invasion, Martin? So, Yusuf, when you also look at the Home Office data out today,
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 10:06-10:20
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
and it says that we are at special risk from Afghanistan, from Eritrea, and yet we're unable to deport them. When you see a pamphlet of how not to rape, when you see our impotence in our inability to deport, are we almost inviting the fox amongst the chicken? Well, not almost. The British government has been doing that for years. I tweeted earlier today.
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 11:04-11:08
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Charged quote Government defends removal record but figures show most departures voluntary
But I want to make a point about the numbers, too, because GB News viewers should be aware. I want to try to create some immunity to the degree it's necessary to the gaslighting that's coming from the Home Office and this Labour government. What they do is they go, oh, look, enforced removals are up 50%
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 11:54-11:58
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Contested quote Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay phone hacking legal costs
Welcome back to a very spirited edition of GB News Tonight with me, Martin Daubney. Now to our next story. A right royal stinker has only one-fifth the Brits back, Harry and Meghan, moving back to the UK. That's according to the latest YouGov polling published this afternoon. The Duke and the Duchess of Sussex are expected to return
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 25:37-25:40
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Charged quote Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay phone hacking legal costs
33% of Brits don't want the former royals back. Only 21% do want them to come home. 45% don't know or don't care. But the public have spoken. It seems that popularity has absolutely plummeted. Well, I don't think there's any reason for them to be popular. You've shown a couple of clips. We could show a great deal more of them
GB News, New: GBN Tonight, 20 August 2026, 28:21-28:25
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Charged quote Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay phone hacking legal costs
and heading off overseas just before lockdown and leaving Canada and going to America and setting themselves up and setting up these deals and things. There's no reason for them to be popular here. And of course, if they do come back, I think it's absolutely clear that he will not be taking any part
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