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New: Farage
Tuesday 6 October 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 3 stories · 12 annotated moments · 44 of 60 min on news stories (73%)
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The broadcast began with a news bulletin reporting clashes between police and protesters in France over school conditions, with tens of thousands on the streets, classes suspended from tomorrow morning until Friday, protests in cities including Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg, more than 5,000 arrests over the past week, and a police officer charged after a boy was hit by a projectile near Paris. Donald Trump blamed the protests on out-of-control mass migration, saying on Truth Social that they were about Islam wanting to take over France. It also reported that a pro-Palestine march in central London on the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack had been given the go-ahead with strict conditions, though police repeated a plea for it not to go ahead, and that students were expected to march from King's College London to University College London under Met restrictions. Four Afghan nationals were jailed for a total of 36 years for raping a 17-year-old girl in Bristol in 2025 after fleeing to Calais, two Sussex police officers were sacked after pepper spraying and tasering a 92-year-old amputee at a care home, and a 22-year-old British man was arrested over a suspected terror plot at a Gloucestershire airbase, with six other men on police bail.
The programme then discussed national security, focusing on the withdrawal of US B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford and Kemi Badenoch's proposed Iron Dome-style defence system, with cost estimates of 10 billion pounds and 80 to 100 billion pounds cited. It referenced MI5 head Ken McCallum's warning about more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots in a year and debated whether the greater threat came from outside the UK or from within, including through uncontrolled borders. A later segment examined research by Cambridge Circus Research and economist Hubert Kucharski that found migration had suppressed average wages by about 1,000 pounds a year outside London, while high-skilled migration had pushed wages up in London, and discussed the effect on working-class communities and the Labour vote.
The broadcast then covered Channel crossings, reporting that more than 20,000 people had crossed by small boat this year, with recent arrivals including 150 in Gosport after leaving from Utah Beach in Normandy. It described protests in Gosport and a Section 34 police cordon that gave officers power to order people to leave the area with no return within a specified time, and debated the policing of protest and the processing of arrivals. The final discussion focused on debt and mortgages, reporting that basic mortgage rates had hit 6%, and on the departure of wealthy taxpayers, including 24,000 liquid millionaires or multimillionaires said to have left since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, with 250 billion pounds taken out over two years and David Reuben taking 14 billion pounds to Monaco, alongside debate about non-dom status and wealth taxes.
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Charged quote Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
And we actually know the people that made the threat and they've got themselves going to be close. The threat was an Iranian drone strike and how many months have I been saying? We're literally letting terrorists into our country every single day the boats cross the channel. And we see that with arrest, after arrest, after arrest. If you don't believe me,
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 4:58-5:04
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Claim Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
Experts said the cost of the plan could escalate, including because of the cost of each interception.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 5:56-6:05
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Contested quote Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
Does it cost 100 billion? Does it really work? What on earth is going on? Well Nigel, clearly it works for Israel and it can work for the United Kingdom. I mean the Americans already have what they call a Patriot anti-missile missile. They've had that really since the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 7:36-7:44
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Claim Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
Sir Michael Ellis said the Israeli Iron Dome system works and could work for the UK.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 7:36-7:44
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Charged quote Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
And Kemi Badenoch has said that it's already been funded in their plans. One billion pounds a year for ten years. But look, this is essential because we have a real national security emergency in this country. As you were saying in your introduction, there are issues and there are issues both with internal threats and external threats.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 8:04-8:10
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Claim Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
US bombers were leaving RAF Fairford amid fears of a drone strike.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 8:46-8:54
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Contested quote Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
has had to be cleared of their B1 bombers. Well all of that's well and good Michael, but ten billion doesn't get us any more than a rather better early warning system. And it appeared to me, and please disagree with me, that Kemi Badenoch interviewed there was just all over the place on this policy.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 8:56-9:02
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Charged quote Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
Kemi Badenoch is a fresh face of leadership, she's a tough face of leadership. But look, what is really important here is to understand that the Labour government does not have regard to the national defence or the national security of this country. That's what needs to be addressed and the mechanisms around how that is done,
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 10:17-10:27
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Contested quote Conservatives defend £10bn Britannia Shield after Iron Dome comparison
Loyal to the evil. Kevin was in control. Let's get a couple of things straight about this Iron Dome business. First of all, we do actually have a very, very good multi-layered defence system at the present time. You're absolutely right to put your finger on the cross. We think about £120 billion. And one of the fundamental mistakes we made was the so-called peace dividend
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 11:35-11:39
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Claim Fixed mortgage rates hit three-year high as Iran war lifts costs
Fixed mortgage rates reached a three-year high amid economic uncertainty caused by the Iran war, with average five-year fixed rates at 6% and average two-year rates at 5.98%.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 44:51-45:04
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Claim Fixed mortgage rates hit three-year high as Iran war lifts costs
National debt is increasing because governments are spending beyond their means.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 45:38-45:45
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Claim Fixed mortgage rates hit three-year high as Iran war lifts costs
Borrowers on 6% mortgages are unlikely to see short-term relief.
GB News, New: Farage, 6 October 2026, 48:40-48:51
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