Ben Harnwell

Some 64% of those arrested for crimes in the Basque region were foreigners including 68% for sexual assault and robbery suspects.

And that's despite migrants making up 14% of the Basque population.

Whereas a recent report entitled Demography of Crime in Spain found that foreigners who make up 31% of Spain's prison population commit per capita 500% more rapes and 414% more murders than Spanish citizens.

Those are absolutely horrific statistics coming out there and yet the government is persisting with

regularizing half a million invaders that will have the only consequence of sending out the signal to everyone in Africa who wants to come in who hasn't thought about it come in now because they're doing amnesis they've just done one they'll do another one this will actually exacerbate the problem and it's not only a problem that confronts Spain because once they have these residency permits they'll then be able to travel right across the European Union

Tell me something about the relationships you have with other European political parties in terms of the coordination and pressure that is being put on the Spanish government not to go through with this measure.

We've got about two minutes left before the end of the show.

I want to ask you that when the Trump administration published its national security strategy just before Christmas, it made the statement, and it's a beautiful document.

An excellent document, one of the best things I've seen come out of the Trump administration.

But it makes the argument there that because of this immigration crisis in Europe, America's allies in Europe are less reliable because of the situation.

What difference in Spain to your socialist government, to Pedro Sánchez,

What response has there been in Spain to the national security strategy, specifically with regards to this point?

in international in international affairs this is ridiculous well we'll definitely keep our eyes on that Gonzalo and Martin thanks very much for coming back on the war room I hope people will go and follow you on social media give you all the support they can where can they keep up with you on X and on social media

Gonzalo Martin, thanks very much indeed.

Folks, that's all we have time for.

I want to thank Vittorio Santifranco for putting the show together and to Will and his crack team in Denver.

That's right, Stephen. In fact, I could follow off your earlier question about how the difference of Christmas is approached in terms of atmosphere and culture between Rome and then London and Paris. And that's really the point of it. I think here there is still a residue left in Italy. It's a residue, but it's still left. Like Christmas is fundamentally a religious festival.

Whereas in England, it's wholly a sentimental thing, a cultural stroke sentimental thing. There's no focus on Jesus Christ. There's no focus on his nativity. There's no focus on the hope and joy that Christ's birth brings to the world. It's just a purely pagan thing.

festival of indulgence in the UK. And one of the reasons, you know, one of the reasons is that's because of the absolute implosion of the Church of England, the Anglican Communion, the head of the, the lead church of the Anglican Communion over the last century. It's been, it's been secularized internally and now is acting as a secularizing force across wider British society. Don't forget that in the, we, unlike the United States in England, we do have

an established church. You have bishops that automatically, by virtue of being bishops of certain dioceses, have seats in the legislature, in the House of Lords, automatically. That is what having an established church is. And it's been a secularizing force. That is why, Steve, many of us, me, you, many of us,