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Farage
Monday 19 October 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 4 stories · 14 annotated moments · 36 of 60 min on news stories (59%)
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The broadcast reported that France was imposing curfews after shops were vandalised and government buildings burned over the weekend, with Vinted saying it was acting to identify and remove looted items. It said more than half a million people had protested in cities over the cost of living and the failing education system, around 2,000 people had been arrested, and President Macron said he felt anger and shame as civic buildings were torched. It reported that Macron blamed radical far-left groups and delinquents while Donald Trump blamed mass migration, and it played an Israeli television interview in which Benjamin Netanyahu said he had warned Macron that Hamas had to be stopped or its influence would reach Paris. A historian and a studio panel discussed whether similar unrest could occur in Britain.
The bulletin also reported that an alleged victim of Russell Brand told a court that 2000s lad culture stopped her reporting him after he allegedly raped her in a London bar in 2004; Brand faced seven charges, including rape and sexual assault, against six women between 1999 and 2009, and denied all charges and pleaded not guilty. It reported that up to 300 schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland had received a bomb threat email that police were treating as a hoax, with Stormont's education minister saying the threat was Islamist and sent from outside the UK. It also reported that Donald Trump had signed an executive order aimed at boosting women's health research, creating a new NIH division and a White House task force, and that passengers who played music out loud on buses would be fined £100 under new antisocial behaviour powers.
Later segments covered the government's Troubles Bill, which MPs were voting on; critics warned it could open the floodgates to prosecutions against veterans, and the SAS Regimental Association warned it would leave former soldiers exposed to endless re-investigation. The programme also reported a Sunday Times investigation that five SAS soldiers had been subject to a three-year murder investigation after shooting two teenagers linked to ISIS during an SAS operation in Syria, and it showed former veterans minister Al Carns saying he left over the treatment of veterans in Northern Ireland and never-ending legal wranglings. On immigration, it reported that new analysis showed 200,000 migrants had been granted indefinite leave to remain since Shabana Mahmood promised to raise the qualifying period from five to ten years, a change not yet implemented amid a Labour Party rebellion; it said Miatta Fahnbulleh had criticised the proposal in a letter to constituents, and Chris Philp said it looked like Mahmood was about to capitulate to the Labour left and Angela Rayner. The final segment reported on a Palestine poppy created to commemorate those killed in the conflict with Israel, which British veterans accused of hijacking a national symbol of remembrance; a contributor, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, said the red poppy was the only one he would wear, and the programme said it had sought comment from the poppy campaign without a response.
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Robert Tombs, historian of British and French history
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Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, historian and broadcaster
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Al Carns, former Veterans Minister and war hero
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Chris Philp, Shadow Hope Secretary
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Claim French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
Curfews were considered, called for, authorised or introduced in French cities, including local curfews in central Paris.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 5:59-6:08
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Charged quote French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
GB News app. Scan the QR code now to download or visit GB News.com forward slash app. Welcome back to GB News tonight with me Christopher Hope. Now as France goes up in flames, it's emerged the French government is putting certain parts of the country under curfews tonight. But could this be carnage be just the beginning? Even more protests
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 6:01-6:05
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Claim French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
Curfews were considered, called for, authorised or introduced in French cities, including local curfews in central Paris.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 6:01-6:08
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Claim French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
The yellow vest movement planned a second round of protests on Saturday.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 6:08-6:18
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Claim French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
The interior minister offered to resign after accusing the police of losing control, but President Macron told him to stay.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 6:15-6:25
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Claim French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
The interior minister offered to resign after accusing the police of losing control, but President Macron told him to stay.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 6:18-6:25
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Charged quote French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
refused to accept his interior minister's resignation, basically the French Home Secretary. Take a look at some of these scenes. Luxury shops, for example, fashion brands Celine, were attacked and looted by mass yobs. And here's the Galeries Lafayette. That's France's version of Harrods or Selfridges being mobbed and ransacked. Look at
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 6:32-6:37
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Claim French PM announces localized curfews after violent protests
Macron blamed radical far-left groups and delinquents for the chaos.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 7:58-8:04
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Claim MPs vote on Troubles Bill as critics warn amendments expose veterans to fresh inquiries
MPs were voting on the government's Troubles Bill.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 23:02-23:06
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Claim MPs vote on Troubles Bill as critics warn amendments expose veterans to fresh inquiries
Veterans bodies warned that the Troubles Bill could expose former soldiers to repeated reinvestigations.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 23:13-23:20
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Claim Analysis shows 200,000 migrants granted indefinite leave to remain
The government said no decisions had been made and it was awaiting the end of the consultation.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 36:46-36:51
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Claim Veterans criticise Gaza-themed poppies ahead of Remembrance Day
The Palestine Poppy is intended to commemorate those killed in conflict with Israel.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 48:09-48:12
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Claim Veterans criticise Gaza-themed poppies ahead of Remembrance Day
The Palestine Poppy website reportedly includes the slogan from the river to the sea.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 48:22-48:26
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Claim Veterans criticise Gaza-themed poppies ahead of Remembrance Day
A Home Office-commissioned report described Friends of Al-Aqsa, one of the named charities, as far left and Islamist.
GB News, Farage, 19 October 2026, 48:37-48:43
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