Emily Maitlis

I mean, that word invasion was used overnight.

It was used by J.D.

Vance at the weekend to talk about another invasion.

crime, the murder of Henry Novak, which came about last week.

And when you start using words like invasion and you have the wealth to throw this stuff around, then yes, what you're doing is you're inciting people out onto the streets.

It wasn't just Belfast.

It was parts of Scotland.

It was Southampton.

And, you know, a lot of the mainstream parties have been slower to realise this is what globalisation looks like in 2026.

You know, it's not about open trade borders anymore.

It's about sort of fascist ideologies creeping from places of extreme wealth and stretching their tentacles into parts of the world where, frankly, people might not welcome them, but they think that they're speaking to a moment because they're scared.

You know, when people are scared, they will listen.

And I think that that is a frightening place to be right now for all of those reasons.

You know, there's a sort of an arrogance, I think, with your own country.

We kind of think we've got our heads screwed on.

You know, we think that we are kind of rational, level headed, sensible, common sense people.

We see all the major parties speaking out against Musk, all the major parties saying to Trump, actually, don't boss us around.

You know, you can do your war, we'll do ours.

And so there is, I think, a sort of belief that we will weather this.

It's a sort of core and fundamental belief, you know, for British people that we will not have our democracies dictated by other people.