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New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late...
Thursday 1 October 2026 · 23:00 BST · 1h · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 35 of 60 min on news stories (58%)
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The programme led with the early release of around 700 prisoners in England and Wales as the first wave of a scheme to stop overcrowded prisons running out of cells. Rapists, the most serious child sex offenders and those convicted of manslaughter were excluded, and Justice Secretary Alex Norris said released offenders would face strict licence conditions, electronic monitoring, expanded tagging, exclusion zones, alcohol tagging and football bans, with a £700 million probation investment over three years. Victim representatives, police and probation figures raised concerns about supervision. It also reported a sixth arrest over a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford, with a dual British-Iranian national arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham saying there were strong indications Iran played a part, which Tehran denied. In the US, death row inmate Christa Pike was in a critical condition after surviving two lethal injection attempts, prompting Tennessee's governor to suspend executions and order an independent investigation.
The broadcast covered student riots in France, with nearly 2,000 people arrested, more than 300 police officers injured and fires at schools. More than 1,000 secondary schools and dozens of universities were involved in protests over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating buildings, and the French government said the demonstrations had descended into urban violence. A live interview from Paris discussed the hard-left party France Unbowed and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, political motivation, French debt and forthcoming presidential elections.
It also discussed speculation about an early general election, with the i paper reporting that Number 10 insiders claimed the country could go to the polls in May, alongside panel debate about Andy Burnham's conference, Kemi Badenoch's pledge to fight for Brexit and defend the triple lock, and Burnham's changing comments about Manchester City's owners. It reported that Burnham had initially said he did not want to lose the owners from the city after they were found guilty of more than 100 rule breaches, before saying no one is above the rules, and Bloomberg reported concern among lawmakers and foreign office officials over a possible clash with laws banning politicians from influencing such cases. Later, it covered a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv where a six-year-old girl's trip to the toilet led her mother to raise the alarm after shouting was heard from the cockpit; the captain fell through the cockpit door with the co-pilot stabbing him, the plane dropped from 35,000 feet to about 15,000 feet in around 30 seconds, and the flight with 174 passengers, 166 of them Israeli, landed safely in Saudi Arabia.
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Claim Student protests spread across France over school conditions
The hard-left party France Unbowed was reported to be using the protests for political purposes.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 23:20-23:26
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Charged quote Student protests spread across France over school conditions
… knee who literally uh played uh with burning elements of of of one of the schools in his own district uh and it's it's uh it's sort of general uh theory that if you create uh the kind of insurrectional climate uh this is going to help them uh in the presidential elections um next year in in april and may uh it's uh and it didn't take much to get them excited i mean
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 23:50-23:57
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Contested quote Student protests spread across France over school conditions
probably right that there aren't enough means in state schools and they're probably right that they need classrooms to just as you say the solution probably is not beating up teachers and and destroying high schools so this is deeply politically politically motivated um are they affiliating because you talked about are they affiliating themselves with in their view a
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 24:26-24:33
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Charged quote Student protests spread across France over school conditions
reasons to be angry but then it's completely sort of changed into a political um political politically motivated on the hard left and you must have seen at the beginning of the video all those uh hammer and sickle red flags and everything is sort of compounded uh in in a kind of you know probably familiar to the uk sort of complaint uh which becomes more and more violent
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 26:11-26:19
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Charged quote Student protests spread across France over school conditions
all those uh hammer and sickle red flags and everything is sort of compounded uh in in a kind of you know probably familiar to the uk sort of complaint uh which becomes more and more violent and as i said the one party that's instrumentalizing this is france unbowed france unbowed as if labor were led by Jeremy Corbyn it's led by a 74 year old uh tribunician called Jean-Luc Mélenchon
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 26:25-26:31
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Claim Student protests spread across France over school conditions
The hard-left party France Unbowed was reported to be using the protests for political purposes.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 26:25-26:31
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Claim Student protests spread across France over school conditions
France's national debt stood at more than 3 trillion euros and had increased under President Macron.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 27:07-27:20
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Claim Student protests spread across France over school conditions
France's national debt stood at more than 3 trillion euros and had increased under President Macron.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 27:07-27:20
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Claim Student protests spread across France over school conditions
University students joined the French school protests, and more than 150 schools and campuses were closed.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 28:11-28:20
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Claim Student protests spread across France over school conditions
Most protesters were high school pupils aged around 15 to 18, with some organisers in their mid-20s.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 28:31-28:39
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Charged quote Student protests spread across France over school conditions
saying they the the organizers were older they were between 28 and 22 and 28 i think she was saying but it's very worrying that this kind of thing can be happening because what she's explaining is that it's a political tinderbox over there it's not just these riots you've got to look at the context in which it's happening absolutely if you look at any poll essentially
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 29:40-29:45
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Contested quote Andy Burnham criticised over Manchester City owners comments
uh piccadilly and then a couple miles along and it has all been on the uh on the money of the man city owners so i think his instinct was to try and be nice about them because they've delivered a lot for his city helped him with his manchester miracle as he would put it but actually obviously everybody has to play by the rules um in politics in sport in love in
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 37:23-37:30
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Contested quote Andy Burnham criticised over Manchester City owners comments
and that's that's my that's my kind of place do you hope you're really name checking you might get a free meal aren't you please call me and i'll show you that again well look basically manchester city they've been guilty of 114 out of 115 charges some of them include disguising fund schemes involving sham sponsorship contracts to artificially inflate
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 39:16-39:21
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Charged quote Andy Burnham criticised over Manchester City owners comments
well look basically manchester city they've been guilty of 114 out of 115 charges some of them include disguising fund schemes involving sham sponsorship contracts to artificially inflate revenues and hide massive costs so i think perhaps andy burnham i don't think andy knew perhaps he hadn't read it all or understood it for him to make the comments that he made
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 1 October 2026, 39:21-39:34
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Charged quote Andy Burnham criticised over Manchester City owners comments
well it's not a funk of the sun then you can read it maybe tomorrow u-turners fans blast number 10 andy burnham facing backlash because he supported the city owners and now he is right royally back peddling interesting stuff loads more still to come here on um on gb news i'm looking at this incredible story about this wonderful young lady who if it hadn't been for her
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