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The Wrap With Anna Botting
Monday 28 September 2026 · 22:00 BST · 30m · 3 stories · 13 annotated moments · 27 of 30 min on news stories (90%)
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Five men, all UK nationals aged between 23 and 25 and from London, were arrested near RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday and later released on bail, with police saying they remain under investigation under stringent conditions and multiple lines of inquiry. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said the response of policing, counter-terrorism policing and security services had been exemplary, and paid tribute to a farmer who called 999 after seeing suspicious behaviour near the base, which is used by the US military. The farmer said she was certain she saw more than five men, possibly between eight and ten. US President Donald Trump said he was surprised they had been released on bail and that he would not have done so, and when asked if Iran was involved said it might be. Iran’s embassy in London condemned any links to the incident as unfounded and malicious.
The Chancellor, John Healey, told Sky News the UK has the stocks it needs after diesel prices hit their highest ever level, with the cost of filling a typical family car now £31 more than at the start of the Iran war. Asked about President Trump’s threat to cap diesel exports to the UK, Healey said the UK talks to the US continuously on trade and wants Britain’s best interests protected, but ultimately a diplomatic solution in the Middle East is needed. He described the coming Budget as a breathing space budget and said the money that was available in the 1990s is not there now, while saying investment and productivity were starting to rise and Britain was proving resilient.
Three people, including a ten-year-old child, died trying to cross the Channel. The Home Secretary said their deaths showed how unfair the current situation is and announced that from next month the government will begin accepting applications from charities and nonprofits to sponsor refugees through new safe and legal routes. She said the process must be capped and controlled, with communities ready and able to welcome those who come.
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- 1:48
“Well, Donald Trump's reaction to this is typical of his”
- 2:01
“I don't think he's going to be alone in being surprised though.”
- 3:08
Wes Streeting, Defence Secretary
“To be very clear this does not mean that the investigation is over.”
- 4:29
Donald Trump, US President
“I would have said don't let them have bail.”
- 16:08
John Healey, Chancellor
“My message to the public is we have seen”
- 1:32
- 6:03
Charged quote Major incident near RAF Fairford after explosives arrests
have been for the last 25 years. We have lived here for a long time so when Iraq first kicked off we were aware then. It is always something in the back of your mind. But now it is super scary. RAF Fairford has been vital to the US operation in Iran with bombers taking off on a daily basis. Iran's Embassy in
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 6:03-6:11
- 15:10 Story begins Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
- 17:06
Charged quote Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
But here's the thing, on top of all of that, Donald Trump in the last few days has been talking about the prospect of potentially imposing a ban on US diesel exports. It would be disastrous for all of Europe. So I asked the Chancellor whether the UK could be excluded from that. We've been talking with the US,
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 17:06-17:08
- 20:00
Charged quote Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
was when the public were afraid that they weren't gonna be able to fill up their cars. And nobody, I'm afraid, is gonna be assured by the Chancellor blithely saying, we've got enough for what we need, when this could go on for weeks or months. And no, everyone knows they don't have that kind of storage.
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 20:00-20:08
- 20:48
Charged quote Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
I mean, I think Alex is right. I think there's a very good chance that all of them are remembering what happens when people start panic buying petrol. It's like it's carnage. It runs out really, really fast. And people start, it gets very riotous. The atmosphere gets very febrile. So obviously, if you can see somebody
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 20:48-20:50
- 20:56
Charged quote Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
what happens when people start panic buying petrol. It's like it's carnage. It runs out really, really fast. And people start, it gets very riotous. The atmosphere gets very febrile. So obviously, if you can see somebody slightly panicking about a situation and saying there's nothing to panic about,
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 20:56-20:57
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- 22:39
Claim Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
A 10-year-old child and two women died after a migrant boat got into difficulty in the Channel, and French authorities said 105 people were rescued after calling for assistance.
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 22:39-22:46
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Claim Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
The Home Secretary said the refugee sponsorship process must be capped and controlled.
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 23:13-23:22
- 23:25
Claim Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
The Home Secretary is expected to announce the immediate reopening of the refugee resettlement scheme at the Labour Party conference.
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 23:25-23:35
- 24:28
Charged quote Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
Well, two things. First, sometimes on individual days, the numbers are very high. And secondly, she's seeking to use the very same fact of the boats coming over as justification or pretext. Not to point to the home chancellor was cheapening the deaths of those three people, but she cites it in the channel
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 24:28-24:35
- 25:17
Charged quote Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
for which many people are waiting around the world for Britain or others to do, then they won't come in the boats in the first place. You've got to cut off the demand. The supply won't ever stop. But that didn't make any sense. You just said that the boats had to be reduced to zero before the scheme would wash,
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 25:17-25:20
- 26:10
Charged quote Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
108 million pounds was spent getting three people to leave voluntarily. It didn't start. So the scheme did start, in fact. It just was a huge colossal waste of money and a lot of rhetoric. But that rhetoric would have penetrated, if anything's going to penetrate, to people coming over in small boats.
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 26:10-26:14
- 26:58
Charged quote Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
Nobody's denying that they haven't, that they've come across other safe countries. Otherwise, they all would have arrived by plane, wouldn't they? You are therefore not, in my view, a legitimate asylum seeker or refugee. Well, I mean, we'd have to quibble about that. I believe that Britain has responsibilities to take refugees.
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 26:58-27:01
- 27:22
Contested quote Three die in Channel as Shabana Mahmood reopens resettlement scheme
In principle, I've got some sympathy with the Home Secretary. Well, no, sir, you agree with the safe routes. I don't believe that anyone who come by small boat should be admitted to asylum or refugee status in this country. You genuinely seem to be saying, I will only accept small, I would only accept refugees from safe routes,
Sky News, The Wrap With Anna Botting, 28 September 2026, 27:22-27:27
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