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Patrick Christys Tonight Late
Thursday 22 October 2026 · 23:00 BST · 1h · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 33 of 60 min on news stories (54%)
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Detectives charged 27-year-old Aisha Zaman with firearm offences after a police officer was shot in Nottingham city centre on Sunday; she was due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court and the injured officer remained in hospital in a stable condition. The government launched a resilience campaign urging the public to prepare for emergencies such as cyber attacks, supply-chain disruption, wildfires and flooding, including a nine-point Be Ready checklist. Downing Street confirmed 32 government services were down while officials addressed a critical security flaw affecting PHP software; the National Cyber Security Centre described the outage as unprecedented but said no official breaches had yet been detected.
The bulletin reported that Storm Austin was expected to bring 80mph gusts and amber warnings to southern Britain, with warnings of power cuts and travel disruption, while Storm Buelow was forecast to affect Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England over the weekend. It also reported the death of Sir Tom Skerritt at 93 and a forthcoming surprise appearance by the Prince of Wales on The Graham Norton Show to discuss the Earthshot Prize. In its newspaper review and discussion, the programme highlighted advice to stockpile supplies for a crisis, reports that Barclays would cut 5,000 jobs in an AI overhaul, and plans for 14-year-olds to receive career plans aimed at reducing future welfare claims.
Later segments covered the Commonwealth secretary-general's suggestion that the King should apologise for slavery and discuss reparations, and the £21,635 cost of a Home Office booklet for asylum seekers that included guidance against rape and sexual harassment. The programme also reported Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh's clarification after she declined to back the Home Secretary's migration proposals, including raising the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain from five to 15 years, and discussed a YouGov poll on whether Reform was seen as capable of winning.
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Claim Government launches Be Ready campaign urging households to keep 72 hours of supplies
National newspapers led their coverage with the government's stockpiling advice.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 8:01-8:04
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Contested quote Government launches Be Ready campaign urging households to keep 72 hours of supplies
It's across the front of nearly all of the National Front pages. We bring up the Mail first. I imagine this is probably how most of our viewers and listeners are feeling this evening when you're seeing this tidal wave of kind of fear porn almost that's coming your way here. Don't panic. Ministers were last night accused of lecturing families on what to keep
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 8:09-8:17
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Claim Government launches Be Ready campaign urging households to keep 72 hours of supplies
The government updated its emergency preparedness website with advice for households to be self-sufficient for three days, store 72 hours of bottled water and non-perishable food, and for eligible people to sign up to the priority services register, citing rising threats at home and abroad.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 8:20-8:28
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Contested quote Government launches Be Ready campaign urging households to keep 72 hours of supplies
Ordinarily, six days away from the budget, they would be getting things out there, the government leaking things, testing the waters, flying flags, etc, etc, etc. They're not. We've now got, don't panic in the case of perhaps aliens are going to invade and make sure we've got a wind-up radio and a dildo. OK. Does that not tell you how boring the budget's going to be
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 10:17-10:23
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Claim Government launches Be Ready campaign urging households to keep 72 hours of supplies
The programme referenced previous serious cyber breaches at retailers.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 12:57-13:03
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Claim King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Botchwey said an apology from King Charles on behalf of the UK would not be harmful.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 23:24-23:30
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Claim King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
Buckingham Palace said King Charles would not make a formal apology during his Caribbean tour.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 23:45-23:59
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Charged quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
Guyana, can I just say, is a country that we sent about 80 million quid's worth of aid to so they could build a road that didn't go anywhere through the rainforest. So some would call that reparations well spent. But, Archie, look, from a royal perspective here, what should the King do in this situation?
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 24:08-24:10
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Contested quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
But, Archie, look, from a royal perspective here, what should the King do in this situation? Goodness me, that's a question that's going to get me into trouble. And I generally don't think that reparations and that kind of thing is particularly helpful. I think if you go down that route, I'm not entirely sure where you stop.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 24:20-24:26
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Charged quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
I think if you go down that route, I'm not entirely sure where you stop. We did abolish slavery. There have been plenty of other white people who were enslaved as well over history. I think if you open that particular box, you get yourself into all sorts of tangled webs and our efforts are better spent making sure
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 24:33-24:37
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Charged quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
that do tend to ask for reparations, various different African countries and all of that stuff, where actually, let's be honest with you, there's some just horrific human rights abuses taking place day to day, they seem less bothered about what's going on now and more bothered about the past. Yeah, I know, it's incredible really,
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 25:10-25:18
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Contested quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
Yeah, I know, it's incredible really, but I think the King, in order to exercise his soft power, in order to be a diplomat, has to discuss the issue, but it's quite right that he shouldn't actually apologise. And I think where reparations are concerned, we've got to face the fact that we just don't have the money to pay reparations.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 25:27-25:30
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Charged quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
The money reparations. Yes, and I think the dilemma is the Commonwealth is desperate to keep itself relevant. I have to say I'm a Commonwealth sceptic, I think that it's a slightly pointless organisation now. I agree. We've talked on this panel before about the Commonwealth people, I was actually thinking about it in the shower this morning,
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 26:15-26:18
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Charged quote King Charles faces slavery apology and reparations calls before Caribbean tour
I think the Commonwealth should... In Australia, do you remember that one? And in the Caribbean before... I mean it is slightly ludicrous that somebody who lives in Windsor is the head of state in the Caribbean or Australia. I'm partly Australian, I'm an Australian passport holder. If I was in Australia I would vote for Republic.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 26:55-27:01
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Claim Fahnbulleh clarifies support for migration reform after refusing to back 15-year settlement
Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh did not publicly endorse the Home Secretary's immigration reforms, including a proposed 15-year qualifying period for settlement, saying the immigration system was broken and that she supported contribution-based reform while consultation continued.
GB News, Patrick Christys Tonight Late, 22 October 2026, 38:31-38:45
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