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New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late...
Monday 5 October 2026 · 23:00 BST · 1h · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 34 of 60 min on news stories (57%)
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The broadcast reported that Lord Jeffrey Archer, a former Conservative MP and party deputy chairman, had died at the age of 86. His publisher said he died peacefully at his home between writing sessions, and the programme said his last interview would air the following day.
It also reported that the King's private funds would not be used to finance Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's legal action against Thames Valley Police, as he sought to quash search warrants following his arrest; a private High Court hearing was due on Thursday. Thames Valley Police said it would not comment further on ongoing legal proceedings, and Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied wrongdoing. In its defence coverage, the Conservatives pledged £10 billion for a Britannia Shield or Iron Dome system with radar, command and control, interceptor missiles and counter-drone capabilities, with Kemi Badenoch accusing Labour of failing to keep the country safe. Donald Trump said the withdrawal of all US bomber jets from RAF Fairford was prompted by specific threats and that he knew who made them, while Downing Street said the Gloucestershire base was safe after a suspected terror plot. The Times reported that the Prime Minister was looking to push back a decision on defence cash.
Later, the programme reported that Jeremy Clarkson had made a surprise visit to the Conservative Party conference and attacked Labour's record on farming and business, asking why anyone would set up a business in the country at present. It ended with a report that a researcher in Siberia had died from a disease thought to be pneumonic plague after a lab accident involving a broken test tube; hospitals were said to be in lockdown, and China was reported to be restricting access and carrying out temperature checks on flights from Russia.
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- 6:23 Story begins Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
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Charged quote Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
a household name, wasn't he, spanning generations. And it seems like it was very sudden as well. Yeah, and he seemed so full of life in that interview. He didn't seem 86 at all. And I mean, what an incredible life he had. He sold hundreds of millions of books. He studied at Oxford. He was an MP. He was a Lord.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 9:13-9:16
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Contested quote Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
I don't know if it was public knowledge that he was diagnosed with cancer, but clearly this has come suddenly. I have to say, you know, he clearly was a survivor. He was sort of relentlessly successful. You describe how he'd had that, you know, his financial troubles that brought to an end his career in the commons.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 11:35-11:37
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Contested quote Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
But you know, again, like that's kind of another remark. His marriage stayed together. He, you know, maintained a public profile. He's seen by many as some sort of national treasure figure and, you know, went on to have an unbelievable career. There were some people who it just seems like they are capable of coming back from anything,
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 12:38-12:42
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Contested quote Conservatives unveil 10 billion pound Britannia Shield defence system
They're going to be looking for major cities. They're going to be looking for military installations, critical infrastructure. But this is really just some sort of headline grabbing from Kemi Badenoch. It's not taking a serious look at Britain's military needs because all of our defence at the moment
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 25:48-25:52
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Charged quote Conservatives unveil 10 billion pound Britannia Shield defence system
They're going to be looking for military installations, critical infrastructure. But this is really just some sort of headline grabbing from Kemi Badenoch. It's not taking a serious look at Britain's military needs because all of our defence at the moment is based around hiding behind America. We've just come to rely.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 25:52-25:57
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Charged quote Conservatives unveil 10 billion pound Britannia Shield defence system
But this is really just some sort of headline grabbing from Kemi Badenoch. It's not taking a serious look at Britain's military needs because all of our defence at the moment is based around hiding behind America. We've just come to rely. It's almost taken as an endless forever truth that America is always going to be there to save us.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 25:57-26:01
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Charged quote Conservatives unveil 10 billion pound Britannia Shield defence system
You know, we've seen this happen before. We saw, you know, the Bataclan attack in France. We saw October 7th in Israel. I think the risk of an October 7th attack happening in Britain is actually higher than it was in Israel. We've foiled, we've had some unbelievable near misses. Yeah. There was one from three ISIS fanatics.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 28:29-28:36
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Charged quote Conservatives unveil 10 billion pound Britannia Shield defence system
I believe another one was Egyptian. In Manchester, again, which now, you know, it's my home city, appears to be the hotspot for jihadi terrorism at the minute, which is terrifying. They were planning a marauding Mumbai style terror attack with AK-47s, et cetera, just randomly targeting Jewish people.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 28:50-28:54
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Charged quote Conservatives unveil 10 billion pound Britannia Shield defence system
They were planning a marauding Mumbai style terror attack with AK-47s, et cetera, just randomly targeting Jewish people. Also Christians that did get lost in it a bit. They literally just wanted us to kill anyone who wasn't Muslim. And so we would have had it, to my point. We would have had exactly what you would describe it.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 29:05-29:07
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Charged quote Siberian lab worker dies of suspected pneumonic plague
China is also now restricting access from Russia. Apparently they're doing now mandatory, what's it called? Temperature checks on Russian flights. I mean, it's a plague. Yeah, I remember this from six years ago. This is, yeah, this is making me a bit nostalgic, but yeah, this was in a laboratory in Irkutsk in Russia
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 49:53-49:55
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Contested quote Siberian lab worker dies of suspected pneumonic plague
Apparently they're doing now mandatory, what's it called? Temperature checks on Russian flights. I mean, it's a plague. Yeah, I remember this from six years ago. This is, yeah, this is making me a bit nostalgic, but yeah, this was in a laboratory in Irkutsk in Russia and it was a 28 year old lab worker
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 49:55-49:57
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Charged quote Siberian lab worker dies of suspected pneumonic plague
but yeah, this was in a laboratory in Irkutsk in Russia and it was a 28 year old lab worker and she dropped, as I understand it, she dropped a vial or a test tube containing the plague. This is like in a film. And it was the plague, but it's a laboratory in Russia. So was this a bacteria that's been tampered with? Was this being experimented on?
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 50:10-50:12
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Charged quote Siberian lab worker dies of suspected pneumonic plague
she dropped a vial or a test tube containing the plague. This is like in a film. And it was the plague, but it's a laboratory in Russia. So was this a bacteria that's been tampered with? Was this being experimented on? Is this something that's gonna, because I know they've locked down St. Petersburg,
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 50:16-50:22
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Charged quote Siberian lab worker dies of suspected pneumonic plague
And she either, therefore, did not get the vaccine or it didn't work. And the inference there is that this is not your standard, this is not your garden variety pneumonic plague, mate. Yeah, this is a beefed up Russian KGB. Well, apparently antibiotics exist to treat this. If you get it within 24 hours, the survival rate is very high.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 50:53-50:57
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Charged quote Siberian lab worker dies of suspected pneumonic plague
So there was more space, more food per person afterwards. So the next generations actually had a great time. A lot of people moved into bigger houses that were now empty. I'm not saying this plague is good, but there will be upsides. I've been waiting for a start. You've seen a silver lining to the plague. You're very much plague half full.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 5 October 2026, 52:01-52:07
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