he effectively decline, as he effectively launches labour's 2024 election campaign but do his own sums add up .7 up.7 >> epstein files prince andrew, bill clinton and stephen hawking have been named in a release of court documents connected to the late convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein , policing gaza jeffrey epstein, policing gaza the scotland yard have been criticised for posters appealing for witnesses to alleged war crimes in gaza . crimes in gaza. >> the uk gave up its british palestinian mandate in 1948, is investigating israel an appropriate use of british police time. >> well, there's a question for you, tom. >> i can't keep up on one half. it seems like a lot of people say britain's a small, it seems like a lot of people say britain's a small , tiny say britain's a small, tiny place with no influence in the

world. and on the other hand, people seem to be pretending that we still run all of the middle east and we must be investigating everything about that which is it.7 are we a superpower or are we a tiny, diminished superpower or are we a tiny, dinandied superpower or are we a tiny, dinand you would have thought >> and you would have thought now, thought it. now, i would have thought it. >> and going to >> and we're going to be speaking who more speaking to people who know more about would have about this. but you would have thought surface thought on the surface there are met when there's knife met police when there's knife crime rampant, there's crime rampant, when there's armed burglaries going on, when there is sexual assault on our streets , that perhaps the met streets, that perhaps the met police might have more on their plate. there might more plate. and there might be more appropriate effective uses appropriate and effective uses of their time than trying to appeal to witnesses of alleged war crimes in israel, palestine . war crimes in israel, palestine. >> an odd and not just their time, but british taxpayer cash as well. these posters at airports don't come cheap, and that's what the metropolitan police have been spending cash on. >> yes, let us know what you think about this. boris johnson has come out quite strongly, actually, said well warned actually, and said well warned of politicisation of the met of the politicisation of the met police because of course , the police because of course, the met police have accused of being far soft touch with some of

far too soft touch with some of the protests we've seen on our streets . it's with streets. it's with those essentially , well, glorifying essentially, well, glorifying what hamas did on october the 7th. is this an appropriate use of the met police's time? let us know. vaiews@gbnews.com. but first, your headlines with tatiana de . tatiana de. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon . this is the latest afternoon. this is the latest from the gp newsroom . prince from the gp newsroom. prince andrew donald trump and bill clinton are among over 150 people named in us court documents detailing connections to sex offender jeffrey epstein . to sex offender jeffrey epstein. the unsealed files were part of a civil lawsuit against epstein's associate ghislaine maxwell, who is serving a 20 year sentence for recruiting underage girls. for him, many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing . the document any wrongdoing. the document also includes an allegation by johannesburg claiming the duke of york touched her inappropriately in 2001. more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the

coming days . unsealed or unredacted in the coming days. the labour leader says he's ready for a general election, promising to stand up for working people. sir keir starmer is urging voters to reject what he calls pointless populist gestures, as he seeks to set himself apart from rishi sunak during his new year speech. he also said the character of politics will change if labour wins power and the country now faces a year of choice . choice. >> i didn't expect a front row seat on this tory performance art, a song and dance for your political attention because they find performing so much easier than the hard graft of practical achievement . no, i came into achievement. no, i came into politics to serve , to get things politics to serve, to get things done , to strive each and every done, to strive each and every day, to make a difference, to the lives of working people . the lives of working people. >> nhs bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctors strike by calling them back to work. more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return

because of extreme pressures on services. the british medical association has criticised the move and in a letter said it has nothing to do with patient safety , suggesting instead that safety, suggesting instead that nhs england is bowing to political pressure . none of the political pressure. none of the requests have been granted so far. it comes as leading medics are warning patients will suffer significant harm and trauma in coming weeks, as the service faces, quote a perfect storm of pressure . a man has been pressure. a man has been arrested and remains in custody after multiple gunshots were fired in liverpool last night. a 49 year old was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and robbery, police said. it received reports of shots coming from a shop and further incidents outside a cinema and nearby property in the croxteth and norris green areas of the city. no one was injured in any of the incidents . two people of the incidents. two people have been charged with arson over a fire at conservative mp mike freers constituency office.

a 42 year old man and a 32 year old woman have been charged with intent over the fire in a shed at the office on christmas eve. they've also been charged with arson without intent over a fire at the back a restaurant in at the back of a restaurant in north london that same evening. there injuries reported there were no injuries reported in either fire. the met police says the incident at mr farage, his office is not being treated as a hate crime. both are due to appearin as a hate crime. both are due to appear in court today. as a hate crime. both are due to appear in court today . the appear in court today. the number of people putting their homes up for sale hit a record high on boxing day property website rightmove said. just over 10,000 new properties came onto the market. the biggest number of people selling since 2011. the number of buyers contacting estate agents about homes for sale also jumped and was 17% higher than on boxing day in 2022. luke miall dtlr has maintained high spirits despite losing in the world darts championships final, saying he'll come back stronger. the 16 year old little lost to the new

world number one luke humphries, who beat him seven four last night and it is a landmark success for humphries , who now success for humphries, who now has won four of the last five major tournaments. he's pledged to donate some of his prize money to prostate cancer uk , a money to prostate cancer uk, a charity close to his heart . charity close to his heart. humphries told gb news that his dreams have come true . dreams have come true. >> it feels incredible. um, you know, it's something i've obviously dreamed of for many, many years and, uh, you know , to many years and, uh, you know, to go out and do it last night in such emphatic fashion, you know, it's for um, it's so, so pleasing for me, um, you worked incredibly hard you know, worked incredibly hard for this moment. you know , for this moment. and, you know, to and in first to go on and win in my first world you know, world final is, you know, amazing, amazing feat . amazing, amazing feat. >> and dramatic scenes were caught on camera inside a courtroom in las vegas as a convict launched a vicious attack . the judge was about to attack. the judge was about to give her decision on the sentence of deborah redden when he ran up to the bench and jumped over the furniture to assault her. shocking footage for those watching on television, he leaps over her

desk, grabbing her by the hair, pulling her to ground. when pulling her to the ground. when security quickly sprung into action restrain him and drag action to restrain him and drag him . this is gb news across him away. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now back to tom and . emily. now back to tom and. emily. >> well, the labour leader , sir >> well, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, insists he will return his party to the working class , launching his campaign class, launching his campaign for the election year. >> sir keir starmer urged voters to reject pointless populist gestures and promise to put service back at the heart of politics. >> yes, it comes ahead of prime minister rishi sunak holding a q&a session in the next half an houn q&a session in the next half an hour, although also a q&a session without any journalists allowed to ask questions . allowed to ask questions. >> he's going to be asking the questions. >> a group of individuals, when he does these sort of trips around the country to sort of industries and all the rest of

it. there'll be a hand—selected group of people, right? i went along that long ago along to one not that long ago that apprentices, that was full of apprentices, for example. we can for example. but i'm sure we can find more because find out precisely more because we're from bristol by gb we're joined from bristol by gb news political editor christopher hope, and in westminster, our political correspondent at olivia utley . correspondent at olivia utley. um, before we get to on sunak sunak, who's speaking in around half an hour's time, let's start with starmer , who spoke this with starmer, who spoke this morning. christopher hope. what did learn ? well we're here in did we learn? well we're here in bristol with keir starmer . bristol with keir starmer. >> this is a seat created by the changes to boundaries system . changes to boundaries system. it's a new seat. filton and bradley stoke. the tories have a 5500 seat majority. the vote majority and often we view the south west as a kind of tory lib dem battleground. but labour are hoping to make a lot of gains there and that is why sir keir starmer has been here. he's given speech today to about given a speech today to about 200 and people behind 200 supporters and people behind me factory, talking me at this factory, talking about how he wanted to create project hope , credible hope, and

project hope, credible hope, and apparently frank hope, but not not not chris hope. that's me, but quite positive about the party of hope. um lots of big ideas about ballpark and giving people a chance to vote for a new future to get our future back, he said. and to unite as a country, not a lot of detail. the questions from journalists try to get more out of him. he did there. we asked him about taxes . he tried cutting taxes to taxes. he tried cutting taxes to an increase in living standards. that's the first time i've heard him say some red tape around when they might increase taxes. if you believe the tories, they're going to fight the election taxes and election on cutting taxes and deaung election on cutting taxes and dealing with immigration. so we're seeing some some blue water, red water opening up between two main parties. there also , on the issue of borrowing also, on the issue of borrowing £28 billion to spend on net zero measures, that will only happen when it falls within the fiscal rules and doesn't. and the country can afford it. and the big issue is how can you afford that? more that? will it mean more borrowing to hit this net zero

target? also bring on the tv target? and also bring on the tv debates? he said there's some speculation on that. starmer may not tv debates. um not want to do tv debates. um also on gb news and other channels, if he's so far ahead in the polls. but he did say bnng in the polls. but he did say bring it on. that sounds like a commitment . um, bring it on. that sounds like a commitment. um, i bring it on. that sounds like a commitment . um, i also for commitment. um, i also just for you, i asked him you, tom and emily, i asked him about the darts about his views on the darts last whether he felt that last night, whether he felt that the defeat for luke littler, by the defeat for luke littler, by the way he behaved, the way he handled himself, shows some faith in our youth . here's what faith in our youth. here's what he had to say. well, the darts last night has luke littler's maturity and professionalism has shown that 16 year olds are ready to have a vote . the voting ready to have a vote. the voting age cut from double age should be cut from double nine to double eight. >> firstly , i mean luke littler. >> firstly, i mean luke littler. i been incredible i mean it's been incredible watching the darts, seeing what he has done. i'm not going to claim i watch darts every day. everybody knows football is my game, but it has been quite an electrifying couple of days. um, and i'm a big believer in 16 year olds being able to express their views. have their vote and

win darts tournaments. i thought he did brilliantly. i think everybody is incredibly , everybody is incredibly, incredibly proud of him as a 16 year old with real composure, actually, as well. i mean , you actually, as well. i mean, you know, to do that on that stage, um , in that way, just up the um, in that way, just up the road from me and ali harbi ali was quite phenomenal. i thought, well, there we go. >> a public commitment that sounded like a public commitment to introduce , uh, votes at 16 to to introduce, uh, votes at 16 to lower the voting age. i suppose there's some big questions about what that really leads to in society , given that we're society, given that we're expecting that 16 year olds stay in education for two more years than we used to think, they would, given that we are expecting that we're going to raise the smoking age, that the drinking is something that drinking age is something that is pretty set in stone. as well. it fairly inconsistent, it seems fairly inconsistent, but i want to know, christopher, i because you asked i want to know because you asked that question in about the £28 billion, whether it will be borrowing or funded by taxes , as borrowing or funded by taxes, as keir starmer said, borrowing ,

keir starmer said, borrowing, but only within subject to the fiscal rules. >> now i read that campaigners are very worried because of this question you asked to keir starmer that he's backing away from that pledge and it would seem like he is. he's upsetting those net zero followers within the party. well only. >> that's right. i mean, how will he afford this? he's now wrapping red tape around the commitments he set out there. so this £28 billion was going to be every year from year one of a labour government . now it's the labour government. now it's the second half of a labour government. and the answer there must surely beg the question will there at all? will will he get there at all? will he ever hit the £28 billion on, on, on spending and how to pay for it? it will it be through borrowing taxation? he was borrowing or taxation? he was also asked about it. was what new thresholds would would you bnngin? new thresholds would would you bring in? because we heard from reform uk increasing the personal allowance from 12,000 to 12.5 thousand to £20,000? um, no clarity on there either. this is the beginning, i think, of us

trying to drill down into what these, these ballpark numbers pledges are from the labour party and find out what what will really happen for gb news viewers of britain. >> yeah, it seems like he's really sort of boxed himself into a corner there. either there this transformation there is this big transformation , load of investment and , final load of investment and if there is that, then he has to pay if there is that, then he has to pay for it. so taxes have to go up or he doesn't do the £28 billion of investment. and nothing really changes . billion of investment. and nothing really changes. um, shall we move to olivia now though, are expecting though, because we are expecting rishi sunak to speak in around 20 minutes time. and olivia, is this really the beginning of the election campaign? now >> it does very much feel like the beginning of the election campaign . we had starmer today. campaign. we had starmer today. i was following ed davey, leader of the liberal democrats in guildford yesterday. he was pulling no punches. he says that the lib dems are the conservatives removal unit. he was driving around guildford with delivery van. we're with a delivery van. we're expecting to hear from sunak later. as you said, it's not a big press conference in front of journalists . it's a q&a with a

journalists. it's a q&a with a few local journalists there in nottinghamshire . has he put nottinghamshire. has he put himself a little bit on the back foot by being the last out of the door, out of all the leaders , possibly. and i think that's made a bit worse by the fact that keir starmer talked about how he wants under his, under a keir starmer government. politics would tread more lightly on people's lives. and he sort of went down the kinder, gentler politics message. the tories are nasty. gentler politics message. the tories are nasty . they're trying tories are nasty. they're trying to sow division now. almost anything that rishi sunak says will look as though it's sort of playing into exactly what keir starmer is accusing him of. he also might be trying to keep a little bit of a low profile, because yesterday was the one year anniversary of his five pledges speech in stratford in 2023. and of those five pledges, only one of them has really been achieved so far. inflation has been halved, but as we know , the been halved, but as we know, the boats have not been stopped. there are fewer boats coming,

over 30% less 2023 than 2022. but they're very much still coming over . but they're very much still coming over. the economy isn't really growing yet, and nhs waiting lists certainly are not going down. they're going up because of the strikes. so rishi sunak a little bit on the back foot at the start of this year, but maybe he'll claw back some ground when we hear from him in the next 20 minutes or so. >> interesting olivia, >> it's interesting, olivia, that that he's the that you mentioned that he's the last of appear to launch last to sort of appear to launch an election campaign because he was last to issue his was also the last to issue his christmas message. also the last to issue his new year's message and now this. so maybe this is just what maybe he thinks this is the way to go. you know, keep people waiting on tenterhooks . people waiting on tenterhooks. maybe i don't know , perhaps maybe i don't know, perhaps perhaps it seems like a little bit of a strange tactic because what keir starmer has been trying to do for the last year or so is to make himself appear as the, as the statesman, the sort of elder statesman . sort of elder statesman. >> he's the one who kind of, uh,

tries to get in there to, to lead tributes to the police or whatever . lead tributes to the police or whatever. public services perform. well at beginning perform. well at the beginning of um and in allowing of pmqs. um and in allowing himself to be second every time. rishi sunak almost looks already as though he is the leader of the opposition . and is that a the opposition. and is that a position that you want a prime minister to be in? >> well, olivia, thank you very much for that analysis . we'll much for that analysis. we'll catch up with you. and indeed, chris, after you've been listening to what, uh, what the prime minister has to say and if he frankly has anything interesting to say at all. but let's speak to the let's now speak to the conservative mp for lichfield, sir michael fabricant. and michael, thank you so much for joining us. i suppose the one thing we can definitive comment on what sir keir starmer has on is what sir keir starmer has said this morning, and he's accused your party of being divisive and declinist . divisive and declinist. >> well, he would, wouldn't he ? >> well, he would, wouldn't he? >> well, he would, wouldn't he? >> as someone famously once said in a trial to do with sex and disgrace . and john profumo. but

disgrace. and john profumo. but anyway , i always like to get anyway, i always like to get things in like that, you know, on gb news at lunchtime. i think it's important. i said to a friend, if keir starmer actually starts talking again about the fact that his father was a toolmaker , that he is working toolmaker, that he is working class , and that he used to class, and that he used to prosecute people as director of pubuc prosecute people as director of public prosecutions , i would public prosecutions, i would scream him and i'll tell you what, i've been screaming around the house all morning. i mean , the house all morning. i mean, there was absolutely nothing said in the speech of any substance at all. it was all about what he would do and the wicked tories, only what he would do was no detail whatsoever for nor how he would pay whatsoever for nor how he would pay for it, as in fact, chris hope as already pointed out, the problem is, though, michael kissed sir keir starmer may not have , uh, much charisma or have, uh, much charisma or indeed that much detail on his policy proposals, but unfortunately for the conservative party, rishi sunak

isn't polling very well. >> it doesn't seem like the pubuc >> it doesn't seem like the public have much trust in him as leader . so public have much trust in him as leader. so what is rishi sunak going to say today? that's going to suddenly galvanise support that has been lost to sir keir starmer? i don't know what he's going to say today. >> i'll be watching like you. well it'll be interesting to see. >> oh michael, i thought you were going to give us, you know, some secrets. well i would like to claim that i've actually written this speech. >> you know what? i haven't. >> but you know what? i haven't. but but you know , i back to just but but you know, i back to just keir starmer and rishi sunak. you know, he was talking about all the sorts of things that the government has done that is completely untrue . like, for completely untrue. like, for example, he said, oh, the economy crashed under the tories. we're actually the fastest growing over the last ten years. anyway the fastest growing economy in the g7. and while at the moment we're flatlining , uh, germany is in flatlining, uh, germany is in very , very deep recession and very, very deep recession and europe has actually, as the eu

eurozone, they're in recession too . too. >> so, michael, michael, i'm afraid i'm going to have to issue a slight correction. you're correct that the uk of the last ten years was the fastest growing major european g7 economy , but the united g7 economy, but the united states has grown faster . states has grown faster. >> not over the ten years. you know, the terrible thing about going on gb news is dealing with tom harwood. he is such a nerd . tom harwood. he is such a nerd. >> yes, we do know that michael . >> yes, we do know that michael. well, he's a very charming nerd, though it is. >> it is slightly irritating, though , because so often we have though, because so often we have this sort of slightly myopic view of who's doing the best in europe, and we're all talking about 0.3, 0.4, nought point six. whereas the united states of america is far ahead on sort of america is far ahead on sort of 4, 5% growth. >> yes. and michael different league. this has a lot to do with uh, energy costs which are still far too high in this in this country. so keir starmer he has this idea billions to borrow to invest in green tech and the

like. and also, you know, a new gb energy company. he has he is he coming up with more solutions than the current government . than the current government. >> when you started to say gb, i saw tom look at you and thinking god, is gb news going to dive nationalised into petrol pumps or something. but look you're absolutely right by the way about the us in that their energy sufficient and they do fracking and all the rest of it. when we talked about fracking everyone says no , we don't want everyone says no, we don't want fracking. um look, including within your party, michael . oh, within your party, michael. oh, yes. absolutely. actually to be honest with you, i was all for fracking. you know, i've got a sort of, uh, engineering background . but when you're background. but when you're talking about digging deeper than mount everest is high, all the talk about , than mount everest is high, all the talk about, um, you know, earthquakes , uh, contaminated earthquakes, uh, contaminated water level just doesn't apply. but anyway, now i know i'm going to get 10,000 letters from

people all saying, bloody hell, fabricant's talking about fracking again. but anyway, that's beside the point . look, that's beside the point. look, what is the point ? is that the what is the point? is that the energy sufficient and i haven't heard anything from starmer about how he's going to make uk energy sufficient. it's just talk , talk, talk and absolutely talk, talk, talk and absolutely no detail at all. but then i guess because he's so many points ahead in the polls, he thinks he can get away with it. >> well , sir thinks he can get away with it. >> well, sir michael, i think, i think i think sir keir starmer i suppose you're both knighted . suppose you're both knighted. this is this is fun. um, but, um , starmer might say , but sir keir starmer might say to we've got this to that, well, we've got this £28 billion spending plan. we're going to use all of that to make loads of clean, green energy. although i suppose that's slightly by what he slightly undermined by what he just told christopher hope in that if it doesn't fit in the fiscal rules, they do fiscal rules, they won't do it. yeah, not of a plan really. yeah, not much of a plan really. >> i remember when tony >> well, i remember when tony blair came in in 1997 and he was stymied for the first few years because he said he would stick

to the same spending plans as the conservatives, and that rather restricted what he did . rather restricted what he did. >> um, we might well see ourselves in a very similar situation after the next election, but, uh, but for now, uh, michael fabricant, thank you so much forjoining us here on gb news. always good to talk, always to good chat to sir michael fabricant . michael fabricant. >> now, documents >> now, court documents identifying a list of high profile names linked to the notorious sex offender jeffrey epstein were released today . epstein were released today. we'll be running through them after short break. what's after this short break. what's in there? this is good afternoon, britain

isabel monday to thursdays from 6:00 till 930. good afternoon britain it's 12:26 6:00 till 930. good afternoon britain it's12:26 and 6:00 till 930. good afternoon britain it's 12:26 and prince andrew is among a number of high profile figures named in us courts documents released today detailing connections of the sex offender jeffrey epstein, ghislaine maxwell, a known epstein associate , told her epstein associate, told her lawyers she was worried about being questioned on her relationship with prince andrew, bill clinton and donald trump. they're also among high profile names in the court's documents, although none of them are, although none of them are, although neither is accused of illegality . illegality. >> yes. so our royal correspondent , >> yes. so our royal correspondent, cameron walker joins us now. cameron, are these fresh allegations in these documents against prince andrew in a nutshell? >> no, they've been widely

reported in the past, over the last six years, a couple of allegations, really, to take you through, the first of which is from a lady called johanna sjoberg who accuses prince andrew of in 2001, putting his hands on her breast while posing with a spitting image puppet of himself in jeffrey epstein , the himself in jeffrey epstein, the disgraced financier's new york mansion. in 2001, the second as we all know now, is to do with virginia giuffre, who accused prince andrew of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old, an allegation prince andrew has always denied. he did settle out of court with her two years ago in a civil sexual assault case, paying out millions of pounds. he is also previously claimed to have never met mr jeffrey, so previously claimed to have never met mrjeffrey, so it's all very met mr jeffrey, so it's all very uncomfy for prince andrew. the difference with what's happened today or overnight is this instead of just media reports of previous deposition in the united states, these documents

have all these allegations in written court testimony and that is what is particularly uncomfortable for prince andrew, because there are some very serious allegations in there, including having an orgy on jeffrey epstein's island with a number of underage girls, allegations he has always denied in the past. it's uncomfortable, by extension, for the royal family as well, because prince andrew was pictured alongside his ex—wife sarah ferguson, the king and the queen. william and catherine at christmas at sandringham on christmas day . sandringham on christmas day. they've also been pictured together on private family occasions in the past. in the last couple of months . um, but i last couple of months. um, but i think that shows that it's, you know, prince andrew's still very much part of the private windsor family. but in terms of him coming back into the royal fold, any time soon working any time soon as a working member, very, very unlikely. if you remember , following his out you remember, following his out of court settlement with virginia giuffre, queen elizabeth stripped him of all elizabeth ii stripped him of all his military titles. he no longer uses his hrh status . and

longer uses his hrh status. and of course, he's no longer a working member of the royal family . family. >> w n e“— family. >> i suppose the big >> cameron i suppose the big question here is , even though question here is, even though prince andrew settled out of court with virginia giuffre and there are no more legal sort of albatross around his neck in the court of public opinion , then court of public opinion, then it's a very different situation. many people in the united kingdom, many people across the world, would believe that despite this settlement and this dropping of charges or not pursuing of anything of that sort , that people believe he sort, that people believe he did, it well, he remains the most unpopular member of the royal family in the united kingdom. >> according to the latest yougov poll . i mean, you just yougov poll. i mean, you just have to remember the car crash interview he did with emily maitlis on bbc's newsnight, which again, kind of forced him to step back from public duties. but he has , as always, publicly but he has, as always, publicly denied any allegations of

wrongdoing. in fact , the wrongdoing. in fact, the allegation where he put put his hand on on johannesburg's breast, that's something that buckingham palace even denied and i quote, buckingham palace said that was categoric untrue. thatis said that was categoric untrue. that is when he was still a working member of the royal family now he has been cast aside as a working member. buckingham palace does not represent the duke of york. i have contacted the duke of york's private office this morning comments , have not morning for comments, have not heard far. but heard anything so far. but you're right. i think in the court of public opinion, it's hard to see a situation where he is going to come back any time soon. but the king has shown pubuc soon. but the king has shown public support for him as a private member as as his own brother . because we saw private member as as his own brother. because we saw him at sandringham, didn't we? we saw prince william driving prince andrew around balmoral from the castle to the church a couple of months ago as well, although i have been told by a source that prince william not prince william was not particularly with particularly comfortable with that he was kind of forced that and he was kind of forced into buckingham into it. but yes, buckingham palace on that one.

>> yes, i guess , cameron, just >> yes, i guess, cameron, just lastly, you say , there were lastly, as you say, there were signs that he was being brought back the royal fold. even back into the royal fold. even rumours that there was some kind of rekindling between himself and sarah ferguson. do you think he'll, uh, after this latest, uh, publishing of these documents? do you think he'll slip back into the into the background a little more? >> well, i think it's certainly more noise for prince andrew. perhaps the royal family will think twice about keeping him out , getting think twice about keeping him out, getting him out and about in public. but it was the walk from sandringham on christmas day a private family moment. day is a private family moment. and are two. there's a big and there are two. there's a big difference between being part of the family and the the private family and the working royal family, and clearly he is not and hasn't been for a long time now a working member of the royal family . but working member of the royal family. but we'll working member of the royal family . but we'll have to wait family. but we'll have to wait and see because we are expecting more documents to released in more documents to be released in the coming days. if there are any brand new bombshells. any other brand new bombshells. but stands, there's but as it stands, there's nothing that's nothing fundamentally new that's going incriminate going to incriminate prince andrew here.

>> well, we know you'll keep your eye those and bring us your eye on those and bring us more we it. cameron your eye on those and bring us more fore it. cameron your eye on those and bring us more for now, it. cameron your eye on those and bring us more for now, thank1eron your eye on those and bring us more for now, thank you1 your eye on those and bring us more for now, thank you very walker, for now, thank you very much. coming up, be much. coming up, we'll be discussing former prime discussing why the former prime minister johnson, is minister boris johnson, is worried politicised worried about the politicised version of the metropolitan police . that, and much more to police. that, and much more to come after your headlines with tatiana. is good afternoon tatiana. this is good afternoon britain on . gb news. britain on. gb news. >> tom, thank you very much. i'm tatiana sanchez in the gb newsroom. prince andrew, donald trump and bill clinton are among over 150 people named in us court documents detailing connections to sex offender jeffrey epstein . the unsealed jeffrey epstein. the unsealed files were part of a civil lawsuit against epstein's associate ghislaine maxwell, who , serving a 20 year sentence for recruiting underage girls for him. many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing. the document also includes an allegation by johanna sjoberg claiming the duke of york touched her inappropriately in 2001. more documents are

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sunday mornings from 930 on gb news news. good afternoon britain, it's just gone 1239 and we have some breaking news for you now. the prime minister rishi sunak, has said that his working assumption is that he will hold a general election in

the second half of this year. >> so that's his working assumption that he will hold a general election in the second half of this year. so this ends the speculation that we were going to have a spring election or an early election, and the liberal democrats , of course, liberal democrats, of course, next week we're going to be laying legislation in laying some legislation in parliament, some hopeful legislation about a may the 2nd election. >> it looks like that is off the cards. and looking at cards. and we're looking at october, labour or indeed november as the likely landing ground. and for that general election now . perhaps election now. perhaps unsurprising, what was it that a christopher hope said yesterday and his prediction was, did he say 7th? he said say november the 7th? he said november november november the seventh, november the 7th. >> so looking like it could >> so it's looking like it could be november the he could be be november the 7th. he could be right on that. >> rammell told us that he >> bill rammell told us that he thought october the thought it would be october the 22nd, it's right . thought it would be october the 22nd, it's right. similar 22nd, but it's right. similar landing that sort of landing ground. that sort of time of the year barely contain my excitement to find out whether it is october the 20th 2nd or november the 7th, but it does neither of those dates.

we've long election we've got a long, long election campaign because of course, we've heard speeches from the reform party, from the lib dems, from labour party. and as from the labour party. and as we're currently the we're currently talking, the prime speaking as prime minister is speaking as well. we're getting well. that's where we're getting this news from. so all four major are talking now major parties are talking now about running that election campaign. and it's going to be a long old slog. >> i wonder if it's going to be a vicious campaign. i imagine it will be. it's the first general election campaign that we've had about year to that about a year run up to that since 2015, 2015. >> basically, parliament sort of shut down and there wasn't anything new that happened because they were all in campaigning mode, because we knew date of the knew when the date of the election then 2017, knew when the date of the elec'was then 2017, knew when the date of the elec'was a then 2017, knew when the date of the elec'was a snap then 2017, knew when the date of the elec'was a snap election)17, knew when the date of the elec'was a snap election in, that was a snap election in 2019. that was a snap election. so the couple of so for the last couple of elections, all been very elections, it's all been very sort of surprising. whereas this one, long, long run one, we've got a long, long run up to. yeah. >> rishi sunak is promising >> and rishi sunak is promising also for a better year ahead . he also for a better year ahead. he says this year has been a difficult one. well the past year has been a difficult one, but there will be a better year

ahead. that's what he's got to prove, isn't it? >> well, he's talking from a low base, and base, so perhaps, perhaps, and i suppose the big gamble for rishi sunak here is that he's his government , or to what extent it government, or to what extent it was his government or outside factors. been factors. inflation has been halved . the cost living is halved. the cost of living is easing, wage growth is starting to outpace . that's true. to outpace. that's true. inflation might people start to feel a bit better off the longer he has ? that could be the gamble he has? that could be the gamble that he's making . that he's making. >> yeah. the problem is it's so easy for people to go through the pledges. and you know, mark, mark his scorecard as people do when they're thinking about who they're going to vote for and think, well, actually, you haven't stopped the boats. well, actually, lists are actually, nhs waiting lists are at an all time high, so can he turn those big ones around because we know the nhs is usually cost of usually second to the cost of living terms top issues living in terms of top issues for people, stop the boats for people, then stop the boats illegal migration. third third. but for conservative voters , i but for conservative voters, i believe it is number one or at least 2019 concern of all voters

i >> although emily were on the 4th of january today. yeah have we seen a single boat come across so far? four days. no boats. i think we might . across so far? four days. no boats. i think we might. i think we can running total on this, uh, on this channel. that might be quite a good thing to do on this program . we can say, you this program. we can say, you know, day four zero boats. when might first boat come might the first boat come across? because so far this yean across? because so far this year, has stopped boats. year, he has stopped the boats. >> think james >> yes. well, i think james cleverly probably thank cleverly can probably thank storm henke. yes. for that more than policies. but let than his own policies. but let us know. do you think we're being too harsh? perhaps is it an difficult thing to an extremely difficult thing to solve? not much help from any others. i suggest . but others. i would suggest. but anyway, shall move on? anyway, shall we move on? general , second half of general election, second half of the that's rishi the year. that's what rishi sunakis the year. that's what rishi sunak is suggesting. is this assumption. >> in other news, boxing day lived up to its name last week as a record number of people put their homes up for sale on the 26th of december. gosh, boxing day boom. >> over 10,000 properties come on the market on rightmove. that's the largest number of new sellers in any single day since

2011. >> this comes as hsbc has become the first major high street lender to offer a mortgage deal with a rate below 4, right? well our yorkshire and humber reporter anna reilly is in huddersfield, which reported the highest property price growth in the uk last year. >> anna, why are properties in huddersfield going up in price so sharply ? so sharply? >> good afternoon to you both. yes, well that comes from the halifax house price trends report. house prices grew at the fastest rate in the uk in the last year, despite a nationwide downturn . so huddersfield, downturn. so huddersfield, bucking the trend nationally . bucking the trend nationally. it's um as homes in the west yorkshire town here went for 8.7% more, meaning that here in huddersfield the average home now costs 22,000 more than it did a year ago. so the average house price has gone from 253,000 to 275,000. but no clear

reasons have actually been given emily for the rise. but halifax have said there's a number of reasons that may account for it as to how house prices can be swayed, such as the number of homes for sale, the local job market and the kinds of services that are on offer like public transport, schools and universities. huddersfield is the uk's largest, well universities. huddersfield is the uk's largest , well 11th the uk's largest, well 11th largest town and it's here in west yorkshire. it has got a unique history. it's known for its industrial heritage and its arts scene, as well . and i've arts scene, as well. and i've been out speaking to people here in huddersfield about the boom in huddersfield about the boom in property prices here and what they make of it. >> i think the eu needs a big part of it, but i think i feel sorry for those who can't get properties either because it mainly all uni based properties . mainly all uni based properties. so i do feel sorry for people . so i do feel sorry for people. >> hello. i'm sorry about that. we're breaking to in that report because we now have the video of

rishi sunak announcing some moments ago that the general election will be held in the second half of this year. let's have a listen. >> so my working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year. >> and in the meantime, i've got lots to get on with lots that i want to get on with this will be this saturday will be introducing significant tax introducing a significant tax cut of people cut for millions of people in work average, £450 for work worth on average, £450 for an worker . an average worker. >> because we've halved inflation, we want to keep managing the economy well and cutting people's taxes. and i want to keep tackling illegal migration. the number migration. and we cut the number of arrivals last year by over a third. but we've more to do. third. but we've got more to do. and want to get the rwanda and we want to get the rwanda scheme and up scheme through parliament and up and . so look, i've and running. so look, i've got plenty with and that's plenty to get on with and that's what i'm focussed on doing, delivering british delivering for the british people. to people. and it's great to be talking people in the talking to people here in the east about that east midlands about that progress today. just to clarify, you've said second half of the yean you've said second half of the year, you're ruling out a may year, so you're ruling out a may election. i said, look, my working assumption is will working assumption is it will have second have an election in the second half year because in the half of this year because in the meantime, got that i meantime, i've got lots that i want get on with. and that want to get on with. and that

means cutting people's taxes this that's cut this saturday. that's a tax cut worth £450 an average person worth £450 for an average person in we that because in work. we can do that because we've inflation. i want we've halved inflation. i want to keep going. managing the economy well and cutting people's also want people's taxes. but i also want to keep tackling illegal migration. last year we got the numbers third now numbers down by a third and now we our rwanda scheme we need to get our rwanda scheme through up and through parliament up and running. so we have a full deterrent and that's how we're going to really solve this problem. for all. so problem. once and for all. so look, got lots to on look, i've got lots to get on with and determined to keep with and i'm determined to keep delivering for the british people. it's great people. and it's been great to be people in the be talking to people here in the east about our progress east midlands about our progress today. much. thanks east midlands about our progress toda'much. much. thanks very much. >> thank well, there >> thank you. well, there we go from horse's mouth, the from the horse's mouth, the prime minister saying the election in the second half of the year because he's got a lot that wants um, but that he wants to do. um, but i suppose should apologise to suppose we should apologise to anna who we interrupted anna riley, who we interrupted with with those words from the prime minister. but we can return to huddersfield and we can return to, i believe we're going to return in a future houn going to return in a future hour. yes in a future hour? >> absolutely. do have our >> absolutely. do we have our political correspondent for us? >> what we're going to do now is

talk about the former prime minister, boris johnson, who's condemned a metropolitan police investigation into israel over alleged war crimes in gaza. yes alleged war crimes in gaza. yes a scotland yard counter—terrorism police have launched an appeal for witnesses travelling through british airports to report allegations of war crimes and also crimes against humanity. >> the investigation is being conducted by the war crimes team within the force support eating a case into israel conducted by the international criminal court. >> well, the former met police detective peter bleksley joins us now and, peter, i think a lot of people will be raising an eyebrow as to why the metropolitan police is expending time , money, resources on on war time, money, resources on on war crime cases as far overseas as when there seem to be quite a lot of problems at home. >> yes, i'm sure many people will be shaking their heads, especially if they're victims of crime in that they've had their car, their bike, their their phone stolen, their house

burgled , or they're a shopkeeper burgled, or they're a shopkeeper who suffers from rampant shoplifting or of course, like so many people , they've become so many people, they've become a victim of fraud because in those instances, in all reality , you instances, in all reality, you will not get an investigation from the metropolitan police in fact, they'll subcontract the investigation, work back to the victims to get them to do it themselves. so many people are going to be aghast. >> what i need to say is that we owe our counter—terrorism police a debt because they do thwart and prevent many terrorist attacks . attacks. >> but in this regard, bearing in mind that those who prowl the corridors of power at scotland yard are so obsessed with how things will look in the newspapers and about the perception, rather than actually the policing. they've got this one wrong. there was no need to put up those posters. it's clumsy at best. and really, i'm sure that in terms of policing pr, this is a huge own goal. yet

again . again. >> and peter, this isn't about preventing terror attacks in this country, is it? this is about alleged war crimes in israel. gaza so this has nothing to do necessarily with keeping the british people safe. and thatis the british people safe. and that is what most people believe . our police force is there to do . do. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> to patrol the streets , >> to patrol the streets, investigate crime, prevent crime , and lock up bad people. it's got nothing to do with thwarting thwarting terrorism plots on the uk mainland. so the counter—terrorism police have a tiny sort of responsibility , if tiny sort of responsibility, if instructed , to provide evidence instructed, to provide evidence to the international criminal court . but to the international criminal court. but this to the international criminal court . but this is to the international criminal court. but this is way ahead of what they should be doing . there what they should be doing. there is simply no need for this. they are touting for work at airports by putting up posters when there are millions of crimes that they could be getting on with and,

and somehow provide a service for the victims . for the victims. >> peter, i'm trying to get my head around precisely why they've decided to extend this effort to put up these posters, and i suppose the most generous interpretation i can come up with is that there are some communities in the united kingdom who mistrust , full kingdom who are mistrust, full of the police and perhaps you could see this as a sort of outreach exercise, building relationships with some communities and ensuring there is a level of trust or at least sort of understanding between the police and some communities. >> please be careful you're falling into their fluffy liberal, wokey kind of trap that they're setting, that they want people to think that way. we're really millions of victims of crime, not only within the met's area, but the length and breadth of the country. want police to do basic police work , prevent do basic police work, prevent crime, patrol streets and investigate crime and that simply isn't happening . the simply isn't happening. the police turned their backs onto the crimes that affect the

moderate mainstream of the uk, and consequently , the police and consequently, the police have become utterly irrelevant to millions of victims. and now they go pulling stunts like this for whatever harebrained reason of their own that they've come up with, and they've scored a massive own goal . massive own goal. >> well, i want to know who put the order out on this. who decided exactly who would have made this decision? did it come from very top ? i don't know, from the very top? i don't know, peter, but thank you very much for your time. unfortunately, we've time. former we've run out of time. former met peter bleksley met detective peter bleksley always speak you. always great to speak to you. i think absolutely always great to speak to you. i think aanywayy always great to speak to you. i think aanyway well, let's ridiculous. anyway well, let's get an update from liverpool, where a man has been arrested following a shooting at cinema. >> yes, the 49 year old was detained by armed officers around 445 this morning. >> he remains in custody. >> he remains in custody. >> let's head over to our reporter in liverpool, jack carson, for the very latest. jack >> yeah . good afternoon to you >> yeah. good afternoon to you both. so still a very active investigation here at the showcase cinema in live just

outside liverpool. of course , outside liverpool. of course, this is where the reports of one of the three shots fired last night around the city was . of night around the city was. of course, the police have arrested a 49 year old man in connection with that. they've arrested them on suspicion of possession of a firearm with the intent to endanger life and robbery . now, endanger life and robbery. now, the first report came around 8 pm. to reports of a man entering a shop nearby and threatening the shop assistant with a gun and demanding cash. they then fired a shot inside that before , before a man then that before, before a man then fled that particular scene. then we get these further reports of the shots, um, fired here in the car park of the showcase cinema . car park of the showcase cinema. and of course, we've heard the testimonies from some of the witnesses, and of course , some witnesses, and of course, some of the staff who were threatened by a man , um, by a man with a by a man, um, by a man with a gun. police say that they gun. now police say that they arrested, uh, the 49 year old man at 4:46 am. this morning,

uh, after armed police, um , uh, after armed police, um, conducted an arrest warrant nearby from here. and, of course, they did also confirm merseyside police that nobody has been injured in any of the three incidents. thank you very much indeed. >> jack carson there live from liverpool , does seem there have liverpool, does seem there have been an extraordinary number of firearms incidents in liverpool in particular. >> and that area in recent months. it's, uh, quite worrying. well absolutely terrifying. >> yes. you're absolutely right. there have been gun crime seems to be on the rise. we often talk about knife crime, but unfortunately there are guns circulating in this country too. so we'll be keeping an eye on that. we'll go back to jack carson if there are any developments. coming up, it developments. but coming up, it is of course, day two of the longest strike in nhs history. we're going to be joined by a chair of the bma. that's the union junior union representing the junior doctors the next hour. this doctors in the next hour. this is good afternoon britain here on gb news. >> don't go anywhere . >> don't go anywhere. >> don't go anywhere. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of

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gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it is 1:00 on thursday the 4th of january. >> the prime minister rishi sunak, has said that his working assumption is that he will hold assumption is that he will hold a general election in the second half we're live half of this year. we're live with political editor, with our political editor, epstein files prince andrew, bill clinton and stephen hawking have been named in a release of court documents connected to the late convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein . shaken, not jeffrey epstein. shaken, not stirred , james bond films have stirred, james bond films have been issued a trigger warning,

the british film institute warns that elements and characters in the 007 franchise could cause offence to modern day viewers . offence to modern day viewers. we'll host a detailed debate . on. these epstein files are fascinating because there's a lot in it that we already knew, or that had already been reported . but one of the names reported. but one of the names that stuck out to me, and, um, has really been a lighting certain corners of the internet . certain corners of the internet. it is that of stephen hawking . it is that of stephen hawking. >> would that be the element of the internet that creates memes ? the internet that creates memes? it might be. >> it might be. i just i mean, >> it might be. ijust i mean, maybe it's i think a lot of the memes are crass. um, but but it does seem peculiar, to say the least, that the disabled astrophysicist , um, might have astrophysicist, um, might have been involved in, in anything to

do with, uh, uh, what is being alleged. yeah. well there you go. >> we're going to be talking to, uh, another royal commentator, particularly around prince andrew. what does this mean for the royal family certainly. yet another headache. >> indeed do court documents >> and indeed do court documents mean something that actually happened or is it one side of a story? we're going to get to all the detail behind what is a fairly confusing, uh, tale of twists and turns in the epstein files , but that's after your files, but that's after your headunes files, but that's after your headlines with tatiana . headlines with tatiana. >> tom. thank you . this is the >> tom. thank you. this is the latest from the gb news room . latest from the gb news room. the prime minister has confirmed he's working towards a general election in the second half of the year . election in the second half of the year. rishi sunak has been under pressure to call a vote, made comments during made the comments during a regional the east regional visit to the east midlands. both labour and the liberal democrats have been pushing for a spring election. the prime minister declined to rule out, instead saying he rule that out, instead saying he wants focus on the economy ,

wants to focus on the economy, cutting tackling . cutting taxes and tackling. illegal migration. >> my working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year and in the meantime, i've got lots that get on with this that i want to get on with this saturday will be introducing a significant tax cut for millions saturday will be introducing a sigpeoplet tax cut for millions saturday will be introducing a sigpeople li'iix cut for millions saturday will be introducing a sigpeople in work for millions saturday will be introducing a sigpeople in work worthillions saturday will be introducing a sigpeople in work worth ,lions saturday will be introducing a sigpeople in work worth , on|s of people in work worth, on average, £450 for an average worker. because we've halved inflation, keep inflation, we want to keep managing well and managing the economy well and cutting taxes. and cutting people's taxes. and i want to keep tackling illegal migration. cut the number migration. and we cut the number of arrivals last year over of arrivals last year by over a third. but we've got more to do . third. but we've got more to do. and we want get the rwanda and we want to get the rwanda scheme parliament and up scheme through parliament and up and look, got and running. so look, i've got plenty on with and that's plenty to get on with and that's what focussed doing, what i'm focussed on doing, delivering for the british people. >> meanwhile the leader >> meanwhile, the labour leader says ready for a general says he's ready for a general election, promising to stand up for working people. sir keir starmer is urging voters to reject what he pointless reject what he calls pointless populist gestures as he seeks to set himself apart from rishi sunak during his new year speech. he also said the character of politics will change if labour wins power and the country now faces a year of

choice. >> i didn't expect a front row seat on this tory performance art, a song and dance for your political attention , ian, political attention, ian, because they find performing so much easier than the hard graft of practical achievement . no of practical achievement. no i came into politics to serve, to get things done, to strive each and every day to make a difference to the lives of working people . working people. >> prince andrew, donald trump and bill clinton are among over 150 people named in us court documents detailing connections to sex offender jeffrey epstein. the unsealed files are part of a civil lawsuit against epstein's associate ghislaine maxwell, who is serving a 20 year sentence for recruiting underage girls. for him, many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing thing. the document also includes an allegation by joanna goldberg , includes an allegation by joanna goldberg, claiming includes an allegation by joanna goldberg , claiming the includes an allegation by joanna goldberg, claiming the duke of york touched her in appropriately in 2021. more documents are expected to be

unsealed or unredacted in the coming days . unsealed or unredacted in the coming days. nhs bosses have been accused of undermine joining the junior doctors strike by calling them back to work more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressure on services. the british medical association has criticised the move and in a letter said it's nothing to do with patient safety, suggesting instead nhs england is bowing to political pressure. none of the requests have been granted so far . it comes requests have been granted so far. it comes as leading medics are now warning patients will suffer significant harm and trauma in coming weeks, as the service faces a perfect storm of pressure . dramatic scenes were pressure. dramatic scenes were caught on camera inside a courtroom in las vegas as a convict launched a vicious attack. the judge was about to give her decision on the sentence of deborah redden , when sentence of deborah redden, when he ran up to the bench and jumped over the furniture to assault her. shocking footage for those watching us on television, he leaps over her desk , grabbing her by the hair, desk, grabbing her by the hair, pulling to ground when

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by saying play gb news now back to tom and . emily. to tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain to turn back to that breaking news in the last half hour that the prime minister rishi sunak, has said his working assumption is that he will hold a general election in the second half of this year. yes. >> so gb news political editor christopher hope joins us now with on the reaction. so with more on the reaction. so christopher , i see a number of christopher, i see a number of high profile politicians are already tweeting furiously about this, saying that sunak is bottling it . bottling it. >> that's right . the liberal >> that's right. the liberal democrats will be first out. the stocks with the reaction to this statement by rishi sunak . statement by rishi sunak. they're calling squatter. they're calling him squatter. sunak and tom because they sunak emily and tom because they think and you can argue politically, why can't you go in may? that's when the local elections are happening, to have a general election, different a general election, a different time elections is a time to the local elections is a further on country . um, further cost on the country. um, tens millions of pounds.

tens of millions of pounds. elections can cost and so have it at same time as other it at the same time as other elections. saves money. but he can't do because so can't do that because he's so too behind the polls. rishi too far behind the polls. rishi sunak, announced it in an sunak, he announced it in an interview with reporters today. a pool cliff, as we call it in our jargon, a pool cliff, as we call it in ourjargon, he says. my working assumption is that we will have assumption is that we will have a in the second assumption is that we will have a of in the second assumption is that we will have a of this in the second assumption is that we will have a of this year in the second assumption is that we will have a of this year. in the second assumption is that we will have a of this year. now,e second assumption is that we will have a of this year. now, why:ond half of this year. now, why announce it in a pool clip ? why announce it in a pool clip? why not speech? why not not in a big speech? why not make about it? do it make a big noise about it? do it in a newspaper opinion article. um lots of questions i don't know the answer to i'll know the answer to yet. i'll find them you. through find out them for you. through the through the show. we weren't expecting soon expecting him to declare so soon because government. because when the government. this acts , the fixed this government acts, the fixed tum parliaments act, it was meant to give you some freedom on call an election and on when to call an election and keep other side guessing. keep the other side guessing. laboun keep the other side guessing. labour, course, planning labour, of course, were planning for general election and for a may general election and therefore spending therefore they were spending energy and effort on what would have been the wrong moment. so rather than hold that advantage over the pm has gone over labour, the pm has gone early to announce his intention and i know why that's and i don't know why that's happened. it appears to have given advantage.

happened. it appears to have giv�*had, advantage. happened. it appears to have giv�*had, i advantage. happened. it appears to have giv�*had, i suppose advantage. happened. it appears to have giv�*had, i suppose onevantage. happened. it appears to have giv�*had, i suppose one of|tage. happened. it appears to have giv�*had, i suppose one of the a. he had, i suppose one of the reasons could be that allowing a narrative to build, that there will be a may election and then not having an election in may would probably give more credence to that idea that he's squatting that he's bottled it in the same way that gordon brown in two thousand and seven allowed so much speculation about an early election, and then didn't have one, i suppose nipping that speculation in the bud probably avoids too much of that narrative setting. >> hold. yeah that's right tom. >> hold. yeah that's right tom. >> there's also a certain amount of party management because it's not just the national party that must have the election, it's mps too . and if they need, they need too. and if they need, they need too. and if they need, they need to know that there's a may election coming. they need to know about it also means , know about now. it also means, by that the government by the way, that the government doesn't the doesn't have to open up the books whitehall to labour. books in whitehall to labour. now, to push now, labour were going to push this month for access civil this month for access to civil servants say, right, you servants and say, right, you know , if we are having a may know, if we are having a may election about six out election about six months out from election, we are allowed from an election, we are allowed as the opposition to into, as the opposition to go into, into at for

into whitehall, look at for civil servants to weigh up and cost their plans. now that now can't happen, tom and emily, or won't happen, i doubt until the summer assuming a november election. i did say for gb news on this channel, i think november the seventh as my election date . that looks a bit election date. that looks a bit more likely. tom and emily. >> mhm. >> mhm. >> interesting stuff. perhaps one of your predictions coming true, but also you've been following keir starmer today . following keir starmer today. what have we learned ? well what have we learned? well that's right, we had a wide ranging speech today keir starmer. >> he's trying to make clear that the, the future of the uk can be reset with a labour government talking about hope a lot. uh, frank hope . and using lot. uh, frank hope. and using the word hope. and you almost have channelling uh, earlier um, barack obama. um to try and make clear that, you know , we're clear that, you know, we're tired of the tory party as a country as country. he was country, as a country. he was saying he wants politics to tread more lightly, um, on people's lives , but not much people's lives, but not much detail. we have ask him quite detail. we have to ask him quite specifically tax . would

specifically about tax. would you the thresholds to make you lift the thresholds to make fewer people pay tax ? no real fewer people pay tax? no real answer. he said that there would be investing in this £28 billion a year when fiscal rules allow . a year when fiscal rules allow. that's been interpreted as putting tape around that putting red tape around that commitment on net zero. so we're getting there with detail. but but not that much. i try to get more detail from darren jones, who's the number two shadow treasury minister. here's what he had to say to me earlier. >> we've been very clear that every labour party policy, which must costed, if i'm must be fully costed, if i'm going it off get it going to sign it off and get it into any labour policy document, is to our fiscal rules is subject to our fiscal rules and are things. one, and those are two things. one, that not want to borrow that we will not want to borrow for day to day spending on pubuc for day to day spending on public services. one of the root causes failures from the causes of failures from the conservatives 14 conservatives over the last 14 years. and two, will debt years. and two, we will get debt falling percentage the falling as a percentage of the size the economy. that's why size of the economy. that's why growing route growing the economy is the route to to those to being able to make those decisions sustainably and effectively for the country, decisions sustainably and effecti is ly for the country, decisions sustainably and effecti is whyr the country, decisions sustainably and effectiis why it's; country, decisions sustainably and effectiis why it's ourjntry, decisions sustainably and effectiis why it's our number one mission. >> erg does that mean that we have to wait for any cuts in, say, income tax? now, reform have to wait for any cuts in, say party he tax? now, reform have to wait for any cuts in, say party saidix? now, reform have to wait for any cuts in, say party said it’ now, reform have to wait for any cuts in,

say party said it wants reform have to wait for any cuts in, say party said it wants to reform uk party said it wants to increase threshold for tax increase the threshold for tax free threshold from just over 12 to 12.5 thousand pounds to £20,000 a year. what would you do in that situation? so we've been very clear that the tax burden on working people is the highest since the highest it's been since the second war. second world war. >> too high and >> we think that's too high and we want it to come down when it's affordable to do so well , it's affordable to do so well, not that clear. >> darren jones is very clear. but i think as we go through the election campaign this year, the tory party will be trying to put more clear blue water between the labour party and the tories on i expect the tory on tax. i do expect the tory party fight the election on party to fight the election on maybe year tax pledge, maybe a five year tax pledge, cutting year for cutting taxes every year for five as they try and make five years as they try and make clear the to trust on clear that the party to trust on the , should tom. the economy, i should say, tom. emily, in the west emily, i am here in the west country near bristol. now. we normally bristol the normally view bristol or the west forgive as west country. forgive me as a kind of, uh um, a blue wall issue, a yellow wall issue . lib issue, a yellow wall issue. lib dem tories. well, the dem versus tories. well, the labouris dem versus tories. well, the labour is challenging, very hard in west this seat in the west country. this seat here filton and bradley stoke here is filton and bradley stoke under changes , a under boundary changes, a notional 5500 majority which sir

keir starmer thinks he can win at the election. >> really interesting stuff. well christopher , thank you so well christopher, thank you so much bringing us of much for bringing us all of that. keir that. following around sir keir starmer this afternoon. >> yes. so joining us now is our political correspondent olivia utley, who's been monitoring closely what rishi sunak , the closely what rishi sunak, the prime minister, has to say. so now we hear this general election will be in the second half of the year. that's the working assumption at least . why working assumption at least. why do you think he's told us this ? do you think he's told us this? >> well, one of the reasons why it's a good idea for him to have a general election in the second half of this year, and why both chris and i have been predicting that probably what's that that is probably what's going is because quite going to happen is because quite a of those five pledges that a lot of those five pledges that he year yesterday, he he made a year ago yesterday, he hasn't yet managed to fulfil. but the evidence is that it could be moving in the right direction. he has managed to halve inflation, and it sounds as though inflation will probably start to go down further as the year progresses and interest rates begin to very

slowly creep down. there is hope on small boats as well. he has not stopped the small boats, which he perhaps rather foolishly promised to do , but foolishly promised to do, but the number of small boat crossings has gone down by 30% from 2022 to 2023. the economy, the growing, the economy . that the growing, the economy. that was one of his goals, too. on that, there is evidence that things are slowing again, moving in the right direction. the autumn statement jeremy hunt revealed that the obr has predicted that growth will start to happen in the second half of this decade. nhs waiting list not so great, but the hope is that as the effects of the pandemic start to sort of filter out , of pandemic start to sort of filter out, of course you had a long, long backlog of people who didn't see their doctor in 2020 and 2021, then going to visit a doctor in 2022 and 23 and ending up in a worse position than they would have been. and had they gonein would have been. and had they gone in the pandemic. once that effect starts to slowly filter

through, then there could be some on waiting lists some good news on waiting lists as well. so politically , that is as well. so politically, that is why probably rishi sunak is deciding to hold off calls for a general election in may. also, the raw fact is that he is very far behind in the polls at the moment . keir starmer is leading moment. keir starmer is leading by about 18 to 20 points. now the question of why he's chosen to announce it now . now the to announce it now. now the thing is that his own mp s have to know when a general election is going to be there are merits, as chris mentioned, of sort of taking, putting the opposition on the wrong foot by sort of implying there'll be a general election and then pulling away. but if he did that, his own mps and his own activists would be in the same boat. and they need as much as they can as much warning as they can possibly an election. possibly get about an election. a point you mentioned there to tom, is very important, is tom, which is very important, is something that rishi sunak wants to nip in the bud. is the idea that he's gearing up to a general and general election and then doesn't that doesn't have one, because that would leave saying that would leave labour saying that

he's coward and that he's he's a coward and that he's squatting downing street. he squatting in downing street. he doesn't the guts to go to doesn't have the guts to go to the country by announcing it. now manage to sort of now he does manage to sort of offset that accusation ation. so it could be a savvy political move for rishi sunak. we'll have to wait and see. >> well, thank you very much indeed. olivia utley, our political correspondent. indeed. olivia utley, our politi more rrespondent. indeed. olivia utley, our politi more onspondent. indeed. olivia utley, our politi more on thatient. indeed. olivia utley, our politi more on that throughout the have more on that throughout the show. former health show. but now, former health secretary steve barclay told secretary steve barclay has told junior doctors to call off their strike action, calling them politically motivated . this politically motivated. this comes as junior doctors continue their longest strike their longest ever strike action, as the nhs continues to struggle with winter pressures. >> it's reported that junior doctors have walked away from the negotiation table demanding a 35% wage increase, with the british medical association, the union representing those doctors seeking what they call a more credible offer. >> so to discuss this further, we're joined by the chair of the bma's north thames committee , bma's north thames committee, doctor arjun singh . arjun, thank doctor arjun singh. arjun, thank you very much for joining me. striking doctors are well nhs

bosses are pleading with junior doctors to get back in those hospitals. we've had critical incidents announced in nottingham . some hospitals are nottingham. some hospitals are under acute pressure. why a junior doctors not returning to work when patients lives are clearly at risk . clearly at risk. >> so there's a few things to say in terms of the derogations and the critical incidents we have an agreed process with nhs england and we meet with them four times a day to discuss patient safety matters. we actually agreed the derogation process before the first set of strikes, and it requires openness, it requires honesty and it requires trust to have exhausted all possible options before calling for derogation , before calling for derogation, because they are, of course, a last minute resort. so that that includes , uh, reallocating includes, uh, reallocating staffing , incentivising staffing, incentivising alternative staffing . what we've alternative staffing. what we've seen, though, is that trust this time around in these set of strikes have not given us that evidence . and we make evidence

evidence. and we make evidence based decisions , happens. so now based decisions, happens. so now we are being forced to reject derogations that are in appropriate. and we've seen this we've trusts that are we've seen trusts that are requesting derogations predated the 29th of december. and by the very nature of the derogation, it can't be pre—planned . that's it can't be pre—planned. that's ridiculous. and we're seeing from consultants the from consultants up and down the country saying their staff country saying that their staff are and they are completely fine and they don't derogations. so we don't need derogations. so we would nhs england to use would implore nhs england to use the process that we've already agreed to that they've agreed to and that they've managed to use fine for the last eight strokes. >> singh, some people >> doctor singh, some people might eyebrow at might be raising an eyebrow at this you can't , uh, this idea that you can't, uh, perhaps schedule in a derogation, given that this is the busiest week that the nhs focuses on each year, each year we know the first week in january is when there is the most acute critical pressure on nhs services. no wonder that's the reason why, uh, your union has chosen to strike over these six days. because that's when it pinches the hardest. that's when it will make the biggest

political impact. why then, are you refusing some of these derogation bans? >> so you you missed a very key point with what i said . i said point with what i said. i said that we require evidence that trust has exhausted all possible options. if trusts are not providing us with that information , then we can't make information, then we can't make a clear decision. it's like someone telling me to operate on someone telling me to operate on someone has broken their pelvis and they're not allowing me to examine the patient or do any scans. it's ridiculous. i'm sorry . and we can make a decision. >> i'm sorry, doctor, but your union is playing with people's lives here. we've seen tens of thousands of appointments cancelled, 1 million appointment gets cancelled over the past year of strike action on. do you not sometimes. look at the actions of your union and think, hang on a minute, maybe this isn't the kind and thoughtful thing to be doing. you're a doctor after all. so we've opened the door to the government . government. >> we always have, and we've said that a credible offer is all that it would take for us to call off these strikes. the

government has responded and said not negotiate said they will not negotiate with us strike action. with us during strike action. now, that is a rule that they have imposed themselves. and more importantly, it's a rule they follow the they don't follow with the criminal barristers they negotiated during strikes in scotland. negotiated with scotland. they negotiated with the doctors whilst they had strike action called and more importantly, we have seen what happens with nurses. we've happens with the nurses. we've learned . the nurses learned our lesson. the nurses had a deal that they rejected but was imposed upon them because couldn't renew because they couldn't renew their mandate for strike action. >> didn't meet the >> well, they didn't meet the threshold talk to arjun singh. >> arjun singh. >> doctor arjun singh. the nurses meet the nurses didn't meet the democratic threshold to carry through another strike. if they really wanted to strike, if they really wanted to strike, if they really wanted to reject that offer, they could have voted to strike again. and they didn't. >> again, you're missing the point . i that point entirely. i said that without strikes being called, the not the government will not negotiate . and we've seen with negotiate. and we've seen with the nurses who are asking for negotiations yet the government is them every is rebuffing them at every attempt and they no attempt and they have no leverage, there is, leverage, because if there is, they're not an issue here where we're about nurses

we're talking about the nurses as one group very often with as one group and very often with unions, what happens is that there's a leadership that believes one and believes one thing and a membership that might not be as politically motivated . politically motivated. >> and the nurses, they did >> and with the nurses, they did not get that key threshold . they not get that key threshold. they only needed half of the membership to vote for it to turn to vote it. and turn out, to vote for it. and they didn't receive that. perhaps because unlike what the leadership of these unions say, the majority of nurses, maybe even the majority of doctors, don't think that it's a reasonable thing to demand of taxpayers for a 35% pay increase i >> -- >> so, tom, in hum >> so, tom, in my pocket, i have a mobile phone with the numbers of 60,000 doctors from up and down the country . i'm sure down the country. i'm sure you're aware that our mandate for strike action is a world record , modern day mandate. and record, modern day mandate. and we back to back and we did it back to back and consultants as well. consultants did it as well. doctors do want to go on strike. that's why 98% of them voted for strike action. this isn't a political strike. i can't quite comprehend this kind of, uh,

this kind of thinking . this is a this kind of thinking. this is a strike because we want to get paid more, simply because we're not able to retain not going to be able to retain on staff unless we get a credible offer. and no has credible offer. and no one has been give solution been able to give us a solution to the retention crisis or the government's intransigence when they're not going to negotiate dunng they're not going to negotiate during strike action, it's completely illogical . completely illogical. >> and you're happy to risk patients lives to do so. a lot of people simply will not see that being the best thing for that as being the best thing for the nhs at all. i can't quite get my head around why when so many nhs trusts are pleading with doctors to come back to the hospitals that you simply refuse at this point in the winter, when there will be patients and families up and down the country who are desperately worried, desperately concerned that potentially lives could be lost, that they've been waiting months for appointments and for surgeries and so on. and just to be told that they're cancelled and are . and are. >> well, um , i suppose we should >> well, um, i suppose we should we should probably end on on, on

on one question, which is we know that we're probably not going to see 35% offered. the government has offered 10.3% for first year doctors , an average first year doctors, an average of 8.8% for doctors. what at sort of ballpark would you look for to end this sort of strike action? >> well, you say you mentioned a very good point. we're not asking for 35% in one go. so we're asking for something that would go towards pay restoration. of course, i'm not going to negotiate live on air, but what will say is that the but what i will say is that the health secretary has told us that got credible offer health secretary has told us that forgot credible offer health secretary has told us that for us, credible offer health secretary has told us that for us, andedible offer health secretary has told us that for us, and i'llle offer health secretary has told us that for us, and i'll take er waiting for us, and i'll take her for a word. i believe that it must be a credible offer, because said. so because that's what she said. so if a credible offer, if she's got a credible offer, give to us. on. go on tv, give it to us. go on. go on tv, go on social media. tell us what it pick up phone if it is, pick up the phone and if it is, pick up the phone and if it credible, as they say, we it is credible, as they say, we will call strikes right will call off the strikes right now. never strike again . now. we will never strike again. >> well, that's a that's a bold , >> well, that's a that's a bold, bold proposition. i hope we can hear from the health secretary in too not long time. but for now, doctor rajan singh, chair

of bma's north thames of the bma's north thames committee, thank you very much for joining us and putting forjoining us and putting across your case. >> oh, sorry. got a bit emotional there. i'm very worried up and down worried for people up and down the who aren't to the country who aren't going to be a doctor, but be able to see a doctor, but there you go. us again. there you go. let us again. >> there's there's also >> there's also there's also there is the point of view that there is the point of view that there that there are doctors leaving, that there are doctors leaving, that there ground to there is some sort of ground to be it is i, i think many be found. it is i, i think many people would agree that perhaps the that the bma has gone the way that the bma has gone about might a little about it might be a little intransigent. but, um , but there intransigent. but, um, but there you go, there you go. >> maybe you have a different view. vaiews@gbnews.com. let us know what think about that. know what you think about that. but james bond but coming up, is james bond offensive well, is for offensive? well, it is for modern audiences according to the british film institute, what they outdated language they regard as outdated language and themes . and themes. >> well, that coming up after the break, this is good afternoon britain on gb

>> the camilla tominey show sunday mornings from 930 on gb news . news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 127 and the james bond franchise has come under fire by the british film institute. warning modern day film goers that 007 movies could cause offence. >> yes, the disclaimer states as follows. please note that many of these films contain language, images or other content that reflect views prevalent in its time but will cause offence today as they did then . today as they did then. >> mm. >> mm. >> well, joining us now is james bond enthusiast and author of the 007 magazine, graham rye ,

the 007 magazine, graham rye, who is in favour of james bond and the journalist and broadcaster harriet minter, who has some concerns about the content . well, let's start with content. well, let's start with you, graham. what do you think about this warning being placed in front of james bond films ? in front of james bond films? >> is laughable, and what i have particular exception to is the copy that they've got in the brackets, which says as they did then, they didn't they didn't upset anybody, particularly in any way, shape or form. in the 60s when i first came out, um , 60s when i first came out, um, the words that people seem to forget when they're talking or discussing anything to do with james bond, whether it's ian fleming's wonderfully written novels or a great series of films from 1962 to 2021, is escape entertainment. it's supposed to be escapist entertainment. it's fun and games. >> but graham, are there not some outdated , uh, racial some outdated, uh, racial stereotypes ? female stereotypes ?

stereotypes? female stereotypes? well i suppose in some respects, uh , there may well be they may uh, there may well be they may may well be, but i think that, um, you know, people are more intelligent than, uh, i think probably the bfi , uh, are given probably the bfi, uh, are given credit for because, you know, people know that these films were made, you know, doctor knows, 1962, obviously . knows, 1962, obviously. >> you know, it was a different time, you know, i mean, i was born in i was born in september 1951. so that probably automatically makes me dismiss this dinosaur. but, uh, you know. >> well, harriet, let's throw it over to you. is this is this escapism and, frankly, are the bfi just not treating people as intelligent enough ? intelligent enough? >> exactly. >> exactly. >> they're not treating . >> they're not treating. >> they're not treating. >> sorry, sorry, graham. let's turn this to harriet. >> i think what the bfi are doing is saying, if you've come to bond franchise in to the james bond franchise in the daniel craig eras , you will the daniel craig eras, you will have experienced a very different side to james bond

than if you were in the sean connery moore eras . so if connery roger moore eras. so if you going back, if you're you are going back, if you're starting at daniel craig and working it's working your way back, it's going different and we going to be different and we want to give you a heads up about that, and we want to tell you about that. we don't want you about that. we don't want you then a million you then writing a million letters complaining about letters to us, complaining about racial stereotypes, gender stereotypes, racial stereotypes, gender stereotype stereotypes . racial stereotypes, gender stereotypestereotypes . we want disability stereotypes. we want to tell you that that exists here in the first place. >> sure. but harriet shouldn't. the should the british film the why should the british film institute decide side what we may or may not fight find offensive? we are adults mostly that will be watching these films, and if not parents can tell their children what is and what isn't deemed offensive. why do we need an organisation like the british film institute to essentially dictate what our morals should be? >> well, i don't think they are . >> well, i don't think they are. they're just saying if you watch this film, you might want to look out for this, this and this, and be aware that it exists. >> well, they said that it's offensive and it's and it was offensive and it's and it was offensive they made. offensive when they were made.

>> saying should >> they're not saying you should be by it. they're not be offended by it. they're not saying watch it. saying you shouldn't watch it. they're away. saying you shouldn't watch it. they' ry are away. saying you shouldn't watch it. they'ryare terrible away. saying you shouldn't watch it. they'ryare terrible films. iway. these are terrible films. they're saying, aware they're just saying, be aware that themes, these that these themes, these behaviours these films. behaviours exist in these films. if that is going be upsetting if that is going to be upsetting for not something for you, if that's not something you're is not the you're into, this is not the film you. graham film for you. graham >> throw that back you. >> let's throw that back to you. this is just a warning in front of a film. they're not censoring the they're destroying the film. they're not destroying the film. they're not destroying the book the film. this isn't book burning. attaching the film. this isn't book b|little|. attaching the film. this isn't book b|little message. attaching the film. this isn't book b|little message. attewrong a little message. what's wrong with that ? with that? >> well, what's wrong with it is when takes it upon when somebody takes it upon themselves explain people, themselves to explain to people, supposedly, were , you supposedly, that they were, you know, caused offence , you know, they caused offence, you know, they caused offence, you know, when they were released, they didn't cause they weren't they didn't cause offence. anybody offence. they were anybody the british censors , british board of film censors, uh, worked with the, uh, the film company on productions that made the films to make sure that everything was done as it should be. still, you know, be. uh, they're still, you know, the still run the certificates still run today. enough a today. that's enough of a warning you warning for anybody. when you see don't need the see a film, you don't need the houer see a film, you don't need the holier thou. rather holier than thou. rather delicately balanced, uh, bfi people telling you what you should and shouldn't watch. i mean, i know what they're like because them

because i've worked with them back when i organised back in 1990 when i organised the 25th anniversary screening of the director of thunderball with the director there, . but there, terence young. uh, but no, unnecessary, no, it's unnecessary, and it's taken huge liberties they did taken huge liberties as they did then. taken huge liberties as they did then . it's not a fact. they're then. it's not a fact. they're lying to the public. they didn't offend anybody back . offend anybody back. >> well, i don't think we know whether or not they offended anyone back then. right. because back then, the 1960s, 1970s, back then, in the 1960s, 1970s, 19805, back then, in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, you were offended by 1980s, if you were offended by themes of gendered violence, if you were offended by themes of racism, didn't really have racism, you didn't really have the to speak out about it, the power to speak out about it, but also , film has been but also, film has been categorising and warning people about the content within films for decades. that is what our pg 1518 rating system is there for , 1518 rating system is there for, right? this is not something new. this is what film from the very beginning that does that does the job that does the job, that the job has already been done by a british board of film censors. >> they are the people that have done the job for the bfi. it's not up to the bfi to tell anybody about anything this anybody about anything like this at been done at all. it's already been done by that are far, far, uh,

by people that are far, far, uh, more , uh, you know , able to do more, uh, you know, able to do that sort of thing. thousands and thousands of films every yeah and thousands of films every year. and they have to make some very difficult decisions . very difficult decisions. >> well, graham, we gave the first word to you. we'll give the last word to harriet. uh, let's conclude this debate . let's conclude this debate. >> i mean, i don't think that anyone coming to a james bond film from the 1960s or 1970s is going to be surprised , pleased going to be surprised, pleased that the morals within it differ from i don't from today. but also, i don't think there's any harm in just flagging that up to people. that seems a fair and honest seems like a fair and honest thing bfi be doing . thing for the bfi to be doing. >> yeah, it does sometimes feel a holier than thou, do you? a bit holier than thou, do you? it annoy people, it does it does annoy people, it does annoy understand annoy people. but i understand your you your point, harriet. thank you very . oh, sorry, very much. oh, sorry, graham, we're to end it we're going to have to end it there. much appreciate there. but very much appreciate your and of course, your time. graham and of course, harriet thank you. harriet minter too. thank you. >> be discussing and >> well, we'll be discussing and debating stories debating all sorts of stories with our panel coming up next, including darts sport. with our panel coming up next, inc|but1g darts sport. with our panel coming up next, incibut we've darts sport. with our panel coming up next, incibut we've gots sport. with our panel coming up next, incibut we've got to port. with our panel coming up next, incibut we've got to get. with our panel coming up next, incibut we've got to get to the.

news. >> tom thank you. 134 i'm tatiana sanchez in the gp newsroom . the prime minister has newsroom. the prime minister has confirmed he's working towards a general election in the second half of the year. rishi sunak, who's been under pressure to call a vote. he made the comments during a regional visit to the east midlands. both labour and the liberal democrats have been pushing spring have been pushing for a spring election . the prime minister election. the prime minister declined to rule that out, instead saying he wants to focus on economy, cutting taxes on the economy, cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration. >> my working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second of this year and the second half of this year and in meantime , i've got lots in the meantime, i've got lots that want on with. this that i want to get on with. this saturday be introducing saturday will be introducing a significant tax cut for millions of people in work worth, on average, £450 for an average worker. we've halved worker. because we've halved inflation, want to keep inflation, we want to keep managing the economy well and cutting taxes . and i cutting people's taxes. and i want tackling illegal want to keep tackling illegal migration. and we cut the number of arrivals by over of arrivals last year by over a third. but we've got more to do and want to get the rwanda and we want to get the rwanda scheme through parliament up scheme through parliament and up and i've got and running. so look, i've got

plenty get on with and that's plenty to get on with and that's what doing, what i'm focussed on doing, delivering people. >> the labour leader says he's ready a general election , ready for a general election, promising to stand for promising to stand up for working people. sir keir starmer is urging voters reject what is urging voters to reject what he calls pointless populist gestures , as he seeks to set gestures, as he seeks to set himself apart from rishi sunak dunng himself apart from rishi sunak during his new year speech. he also said the character of politics will change if labour wins power, and the country now faces a year of choice . nhs faces a year of choice. nhs bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctors strike by calling them back to work. more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressure on services. the british medical association has criticised the move and in a letter said it has nothing to do with patient safety, suggesting instead nhs england is bowing to political pressure . none of the political pressure. none of the requests have been have been granted so far. requests have been have been granted so far . you can get more granted so far. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website gbnews.com .

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monday to thursdays from. six till 930. >> good afternoon britain . and >> good afternoon britain. and in the last two hours we've learned some pretty exciting news. the date of the general election will be in the second half of this year. not a precise date, but may be exciting for you. >> it won't be that exciting for every single person. perhaps not news, but let's discuss that and some other top stories . some other top stories. >> hitting the newsroom today with the contributing editor of novara media, michael walker, and the political commentator and the political commentator and author tonia buxton . uh, and author tonia buxton. uh, michael, let's start with you . michael, let's start with you. the election in the second half of this year is this ground breaking seismic news. >> i'm not quite as excited as you . um, i >> i'm not quite as excited as you. um, i mean, i >> i'm not quite as excited as you . um, i mean, i suppose rishi you. um, i mean, i suppose rishi sunakis you. um, i mean, i suppose rishi sunak is at least saying he's

not going to wait until january 2025, think is what 2025, which i think is what everyone dreading. rather everyone was dreading. rather worried , suppose. worried about, i suppose. i suppose choice really suppose the choice was really between this spring or this autumn, think he's autumn, and i think he's presumably chosen autumn presumably chosen this autumn because more for because there's more time for something to come up. >> i mean, he's hoping for a miracle between now and then, or for keir starmer to say something incredibly stupid. for keir starmer to say sonand ng incredibly stupid. for keir starmer to say sonand he incredibly stupid. for keir starmer to say sonand he doesn'tly stupid. for keir starmer to say sonand he doesn't say upid. for keir starmer to say sonand he doesn't say much at >> and he doesn't say much at all. so i'm i imagine we will have election have a general election in autumn it will. autumn and it will. >> for rather a long >> he spoke for rather a long time starmer did. time this morning. starmer did. um, trying to hard to um, no, i'm trying to hard to wake up after you forced me to listen to it all. >> so i was pinching myself. someone has to. >> tanya ed davey from the liberal democrats has said that, uh, has said squatter sunak is bottling it. >> he he's not doing anything. >> he he's not doing anything. >> he he's not doing anything. >> he is literally , you know, >> he is literally, you know, you know, the kind of when you have white noise on the television to put yourself to sleep. that is keir starmer, he says. and does nothing. you says. and does nothing. if you look points, he look at his five points, even he just has these points, just has these bullet points, these points and these kind of like points and but no backing to them. but there's no backing to them. so it's not just bottling it .

so it's not just bottling it. he's just saying anything. he's just not saying anything. >> was challenged he's just not saying anything. >> this was challenged he's just not saying anything. >> this after was challenged he's just not saying anything. >>this after his was challenged he's just not saying anything. >>this after his speech1allenged he's just not saying anything. >>this after his speech in lenged he's just not saying anything. >>this after his speech in the led on this after his speech in the q&a session, saying , well, q&a session, saying, well, what's the substance to your points ? and he tried to explain points? and he tried to explain himself, should have a little himself, should we have a little listen ? listen? >> nhs not just off its feet but fit for the future. no lack of clarity there. nobody said, what are you talking about? i don't understand that. um, the opportunity is that children and young need for the skills young people need for the skills they for life and the they need for their life and the work they're actually going to do. can't say, well, that's do. you can't say, well, that's a ambiguous. i don't a bit ambiguous. i don't understand that opportunity for life that's not ambiguous. understand that opportunity for life and 's not ambiguous. understand that opportunity for life and 's not a|forguous. understand that opportunity for life and 's not a|for the us. understand that opportunity for life and 's not a|for the future. >> and nhs fit for the future. what's not clear about that? it is it is white noise, isn't it? >> it's white noise . it's blah. >> it's white noise. it's blah. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. it's like there's a great >> it's like there's a great there's simpsons sketch , there's a great simpsons sketch, it's bill clinton. >> says, forward , not >> and he says, forward, not backward, upward, not forward . backward, upward, not forward. and twirling, twirling , and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. and i thought that was a great take down of bill clinton. it applies, obviously, to lots of

politicians. of bill politicians. of course, bill clinton a successful clinton was a very successful politician. feel like politician. so i feel like political commentators, political journalists often complain boring speeches, complain about boring speeches, but there's really complain about boring speeches, b|single there's really complain about boring speeches, b|single memberthere's really complain about boring speeches, b|single member ofere's really complain about boring speeches, b|single member of the really complain about boring speeches, b|single member of the public a single member of the public that cares how exciting that actually cares how exciting a political speech so a political speech is. so i think keir starmer was strategy a political speech is. so i thinwhole starmer was strategy a political speech is. so i thinwhole time 1er was strategy a political speech is. so i thinwhole time hasrvas strategy a political speech is. so i thinwhole time has to; strategy a political speech is. so i thinwhole time has to be, ategy a political speech is. so i thinwhole time has to be, hasy the whole time has to be, has been to be quite boring. he wants to seem safe because he knows he'll be setting out more of a point plan when he says we want a better nhs . want a better nhs. >> for example, can he do that at this stage? >> at all we want is not that long. dribbly speech . we want long. dribbly speech. we want proper bullet points that are backed up with facts of what and ways of how he's going to do these bullet points , and that's these bullet points, and that's not what we're getting at all. >> of course, there's a former labour leader who now sits in the cabinet or the shadow cabinet, i should say, getting ahead myself there of sir ahead of myself there of sir keir starmer, miliband and keir starmer, ed miliband and when brought out list of when he brought out a list of pledges , he engraved them in pledges, he engraved them in stone when it was known as the ed stone . i don't know if we've ed stone. i don't know if we've got any pictures of the ed stone that might to show

that we might be able to show people watching on television, but ed miliband ridiculed but ed miliband was ridiculed for these pledges because, again , they seemed so vague, so vapid, so vacuous . vapid, so vacuous. >> yeah, they all seem to do look at it . look at it. look at it. look at it. >> there an nhs with time to care. that's that's almost exactly the same pledge that sir keir starmer is making of an nhs fit for the future. >> well, be fair, when we've >> well, to be fair, when we've got crippling action at got crippling strike action at the patients going the moment with patients going unseen, then an nhs with the time to care would be rather. >> but what does it mean? what doesit >> but what does it mean? what does it mean? and i suppose is are going to into the are they going to go into the nhs get of it? nhs and get rid of what is it? >> the 48% of staff that are not forward , getting rid of forward facing, getting rid of all and make all the middle managers and make the again? is going the nhs work again? is he going to do because he said, to do that? because if he said, look, is what i'm doing, look, this is what i'm doing, get its feet, get the nhs back on its feet, get the nhs back on its feet, get of the middlemen, get get rid of the middlemen, get rid the diversity managers, rid of the diversity managers, get the people that get rid of all the people that are actually people are not actually fixing people or people. if said or helping people. if he said that, said, go on that, i would have said, go on there, care. >> tanya, i've got a controversial opinion here. the nhs needs a lot more middle management, a lot more . the

management, know a lot more. the problem, in view. and there problem, in my view. and there are some people who know a lot more about this than me, who say doctors spend their times filling frontline service filling forms frontline service people spend their time in the back trying to do all the back room trying to do all the organisational stuff. we organisational stuff. what we need staff need is non—clinical staff there, the there, doing some of the organisational stuff the organisational stuff so the doctors the doctoring to doctors can do the doctoring to a certain extent. >> i can agree with you there, but unfortunately the but unfortunately only the non—medical are non—medical staff that are working filling in working there are filling in forms diversity and things forms about diversity and things like that. that's where we don't, to be honest, building on higher salaries, they're very higher salaries, they're very high salaries. >> i think me and tom read the same financial times articles because fan of because i'm also a big fan of nhs need more nhs management. we need more good. go on then. good. okay, go on then. >> . >> so. >> so. >> so. >> so don't think it's a >> so you don't think it's a problem that okay. let's put problem that okay. so let's put it way . when we at the it this way. when we look at the nhs failings , we blame nhs and its failings, we blame the yet there are the government. yet there are nhs managers, there are nhs executives, there are heads of trust . it's that do a lot of the trust. it's that do a lot of the resource management. isn't that where we're going wrong. that actually we should hold them just as much accountable as we do the government?

>> well, i think a big problem you had with the nhs over the past basically the past 14 years is basically the tories of for money tories squeezed it of for money a time, and if you're a very long time, and if you're squeezing of for squeezing something of money for a it's quite a very long time, it's quite difficult plan for the difficult to plan for the future. still isn't. future. funding still isn't. money then they money they then did was they flooded it with money after covid 19. and at that point in time then suddenly have time you then suddenly have to say, of these say, oh, we'll hire all of these staff, haven't got the staff, but you haven't got the infrastructure place to infrastructure in place to really handle think we really handle it. so i think we have a system is have got a system which is working inefficiently, working very inefficiently, but that's there wasn't much that's because there wasn't much forward when to forward planning when it came to funding. squeeze forward planning when it came to functhen squeeze forward planning when it came to functhen flood, squeeze forward planning when it came to functhen flood, which squeeze forward planning when it came to functhen flood, which s(kind e forward planning when it came to functhen flood, which s(kind of and then flood, which is kind of the opposite. and then flood, which is kind of the oppisite. and then flood, which is kind of the oppi think gets enough >> but i think it gets enough money nhs. i just think money like the nhs. i just think it's really badly, badly organised. it gets enough money, it's really badly, badly ordoesed. it gets enough money, it's really badly, badly ordoes getit gets enough money, it's really badly, badly ordoes get enough nough money, it's really badly, badly ordoes get enough money.noney, it's really badly, badly ordoes get enough money. lyney, it's really badly, badly ordoes get enough money. i know it does get enough money. i know a mine that's a a friend of mine that's a cardiologist works the cardiologist who works in the nhs, he has the nhs, tells me that he has the people buying people that are buying in the middle, are buying middle, people that are buying in instrumentation. in certain instrumentation. there's different machine on there's a different machine on one and a different one floor and a different another machine on the other floor. and have to have floor. and so they have to have different paperwork to go into that machine or to go into this machine. completely machine. it's completely inefficient, machine. it's completely inefficient minds of the people blows the minds of the people who are trying to. blows the minds of the people wh(bute trying to. blows the minds of the people wh(but isn't1g to. blows the minds of the people wh(but isn't this. blows the minds of the people wh(but isn't this the problem?

>> but isn't this the problem? to with an nhs that to some extent with an nhs that is so politicised in other countries, you don't get doctors saying, you don't get politicians we're going saying, you don't get po hire ans we're going saying, you don't get po hire x1s we're going saying, you don't get po hire x thousand ne're going saying, you don't get po hire x thousand nurses )ing saying, you don't get po hire x thousand nurses .ng saying, you don't get po hire x thousand nurses . it's to hire x thousand nurses. it's a bit stalinist, really. we're going have level of going to have this level of tractor production year . tractor production this year. um, but, but, but what um, but, but, but, but, but what actually happens when you have these of populist these sort of populist politicians say politicians who go and say x number of nurses, number of number of nurses, x number of doctors is the capital investment budget to get really technical, then gets cut because no about how no one really cares about how many machines . so let's get many mri machines. so let's get down ordering. many mri machines. so let's get down

game before, but this really sort of took the country by storm tonya. it really did. >> i was watching darts last night. who knew ? night. who knew? >> it's unbelievable on the big screen. on the big screen, we're watching screen. on the big screen, we're wattheg screen. on the big screen, we're watthe whole family, which >> the whole family, which is rare for sat down and watched darts darts together. and i was i mean, it was, it was, you know, it was one of these things that everyone gets. you have a kebab say bad kebab after, don't you say bad things it's the things about kebabs. it's the most that you can most healthy food that you can eat. don't i've eat. emily, don't forget i've eaten. depends where you get eaten. it depends where you get it from. eaten. it depends where you get it fiitn. eaten. it depends where you get it fi it was really impressive. >> it was really impressive. >> it was really impressive. >> it was really impressive. >> i mean, we were kind of >> i mean, we all were kind of rooting luke and rooting rooting for luke and not rooting for luke rather for luke. the little luke rather than luke, call them. than big luke, as i call them. and know , we wanted him to and you know, we wanted him to win. glad he didn't win. and i'm glad he didn't because mentally it's because i think mentally it's the thing for him. but i the best thing for him. but i can't how it united can't believe how it united everyone. watching darts? >> oh, going to break the >> oh, i'm going to break the unity i wasn't. i mean, i obviously have been following the craze on on twitter. i've seen those clips. i mean, for me, of the problems with me, one of the problems with with darts. so lots of sports when versus when you've got a person versus a of a person, there's lots of variables, you know, variables, right? they you know, tennis, it there.

tennis, they'll hit it there. will get it back with will they get it back with darts? board. if you hit darts? person board. if you hit it of triple 20, it in that sort of triple 20, the simplicity of it. it in that sort of triple 20, the but plicity of it. it in that sort of triple 20, the but iticity of it. it in that sort of triple 20, the but it was of it. it in that sort of triple 20, the but it was exciting. >> but it was exciting. >> but it was exciting. >> but it was exciting. >> but hang on, this leads us to our big question for the panel is make darts is whether we should make darts mad dietary in schools. >> it would be part of rishi sunak pledge to teach people maths until . they're 18, to be maths until. they're 18, to be able to add. >> as an ex primary school teacher, i think that a form of darts, especially in the primary school environment, might be fun to teach some maths, but not mandatory and not as a sport, as a maths subject. >> maybe i there's part of me that just thinks, hold on a second, everyone's been saying, oh how wonderful this is for the sport. this is such good sort of role model, sort of stuff to be happening. and, and part of me just thinks, is it the best sport? are these the best role models ? models? >> very healthy. >> very healthy. >> who am i to judge? who am >> who am ito judge? who am i to judge ? but perhaps, perhaps to judge? but perhaps, perhaps we're getting over a sort of getting on top of ourselves.

>> luke littler is really out of shape, and he really does need to look after himself. he's a 16 year that's you know, he's year old. that's you know, he's borderline obese and he needs to do something about it. what was really that the really interesting is that the interview luke humphries interview that luke humphries gave this morning with bev, he was saying that he'd taken this year to get into shape. he'd got into shape. he was training and eating better . into shape. he was training and eating better. and he into shape. he was training and eating better . and he feels that eating better. and he feels that that's what gave him the edge to win. yesterday >> so that's that's but of course, luke glitter is perfectly entitled to be happy in himself, i suppose. >> but and that's the point. >> but and that's the point. >> it's the darts culture though, isn't it? be a bit overweight. >> needs to change, doesn't it? everybody needs to be looking after taking. we after themselves and taking. we talk the nhs. oh lad. after themselves and taking. we talihe the nhs. oh lad. after themselves and taking. we talihe loses1e nhs. oh lad. after themselves and taking. we talihe loses the hs. oh lad. after themselves and taking. we talihe loses the finalbh lad. after themselves and taking. we talihe loses the final and d. after themselves and taking. we talihe loses the final and then >> he loses the final and then gets called on national gets called obese on national tv. morning. think, tv. the next morning. i think, i think think he's think he's, i think he's brilliant. >> but as a, as a mother i look at that 16 year and think, at that 16 year old and think, if don't get yourself into if you don't get yourself into shape are to shape now, you are going to commit your life to ill health. >> shall we park that and >> well, shall we park that and turn question, is darts

turn to the question, is darts a sport ? because i find it hard to sport? because i find it hard to sort of unders stand why? everyone sort of says the sports have died. it doesn't seem to. does sport have to include physical activity? >> clearly you don't need a strong core . um, michael, is it strong core. um, michael, is it a sport? >> i suppose it's as much a sport as like chess is a sport. i mean, paul rishi sunak would love that. snooker is a sport, isn't it? or they don't play it in olympics, is it? yes. in the olympics, is it? yes. >> snooker is a sport. >> snooker is a sport. >> but i suppose the definition of something in the of playing something in the olympics mean, of playing something in the olym|the mean, of playing something in the olym|the olympics mean, of playing something in the olym|the olympics was mean, of playing something in the olym|the olympics was brought when the olympics was brought back was back in the 1880s, there was competitive ploughing, was competitive ploughing, there was painting, there were all sorts of things included in the original. um modern olympiad painting. i didn't know that. >> well, i do think that, you know, it is. it can be considered a sport because you do need a talent and a precision, and you can train for it, but it doesn't you an it, but it doesn't make you an elite to be a snooker elite athlete to be a snooker player player. that's player or a darts player. that's the difference. player or a darts player. that's the no,erence. player or a darts player. that's the no, it'sice. player or a darts player. that's the no, it's not exactly the same >> no, it's not exactly the same as it? as the 100m, is it? >> there something >> no, but there is something athletic occurred on the athletic that occurred on the other of the atlantic to

other side of the atlantic to change topic completely. um, which happened in a courtroom in where else? las vegas s shall we have a little look for those watching on television ? oh hey, watching on television? oh hey, hey, hey . just been denied hey, hey. just been denied parole. leaps over this nice desk at the judge . it's the most desk at the judge. it's the most extraordinary footage. perhaps we can play it again, actually, because it is just shocking . and because it is just shocking. and we can see that this individual who's been denied parole just jumps. >> not happy about it. he was not happy about it . >> not happy about it. he was not happy about it. he >> not happy about it. he was not happy about it . he launched not happy about it. he launched himself . himself. >> he launched himself. i suppose this to some extent probably creates quite a strong case as to why he was denied parole here it is . it's about him. >> anthony . unbelievable. >> anthony. unbelievable. >> anthony. unbelievable. >> i mean, yeah, there are almost no words to say. michael, what do you make of this? i

suppose ? are you in favour of suppose? are you in favour of the prison system as a as a system of justice? >> oh. big question. uh i'm in. i'm pro prison anti, uh, lunging at judges. yeah. we don't lunge at judges. yeah. we don't lunge at judges. yeah. we don't lunge at judges to moderate . michael, at judges to moderate. michael, this is seriously it. it does seem like, you know, the americans do seem to have a prison system that we wouldn't really want they lock up really want to ape. they lock up a people and lock them a lot of people and lock them up for probably bit too for probably a little bit too long. at the same i long. but at the same time, i don't guy is going don't imagine this guy is going to better at next to do any better at his next parole hearing. >> they make an example >> i hope they make an example of though. think he needs of him though. i think he needs to a really sentence. to get a really long sentence. >> judges okay to >> i hope the judges okay to deter other. >> anybody jumping and >> anybody else jumping and lunging they off lunging because if they get off going head, i just going through his head, i just sort of this guy has been sort of this this guy has been said, be said, oh, you're going to be kept prison for a little bit longer. >> and then he does he think this will help him? do think this will help him? do you think he's to fight his way he's going to fight his way out of the courtroom? >> can't control >> um, he can't control his rage, he shouldn't let out rage, so he shouldn't be let out into that's what into public. that's what that's doing me. doesn't look like doing to me. doesn't look like he's going to be. >> very much. he's going to be. >> buxton very much. he's going to be. >> buxton michaelery much. he's going to be. >> buxton michael walkerh. he's going to be.

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gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:00 on thursday, the 4th of january general election time. >> the prime minister earlier said it's a working assumption that the election will be in the second half of the year. this comes as his labour opposition

leader has promised to crush what he calls tory politics of divide and decline. >> epstein files bill clinton , >> epstein files bill clinton, stephen hawking and michael jackson are amongst the list of names released in court documents connected to the late convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein, and with prince andrew also on the list . epstein, and with prince andrew also on the list. is it game over for the duke of york ? over for the duke of york? >> shaken and stirred , james >> shaken and stirred, james bond films have been issued a trigger warning as the british film institute warns that elements and character in the 007 franchise could cause offence to modern day viewers. plus the next star wars debut will be female led hooray i is will be female led hooray! is hollywood becoming too woke, though? let's think about that . though? let's think about that. >> i don't have a single problem with the star wars film being female led. i do have a problem

with recasting james bond as a woman, or turning something that is already one thing into something , but something else, but but star wars , different films have wars, different films have different leads. that's fine . yeah. >> i mean, people can get grumpy about too much perhaps, but we'll dig into the finer detail. we'll find what is properly irking people about this. but female leads , as long as it's female leads, as long as it's not all about evil men all the time. >> i think people did get a bit annoyed about the ghostbusters . annoyed about the ghostbusters. uh rejigging. annoyed about the ghostbusters. uh rejigging . whatever. it was uh rejigging. whatever. it was called remake, where it was for women leading . i think there was women leading. i think there was some consternation about sort of, uh , i don't know. i think of, uh, i don't know. i think the problem is, is when people call for i don't know, james bond to be a female instead that i think , is absurd and i think, is absurd and ridiculous because james bond is a man and should remain so. >> but if you're making a whole new film, new characters, and they're absolutely should be more characters with female leads . but more characters with female leads. but let us know more characters with female leads . but let us know what more characters with female leads. but let us know what you think at home. vaiews@gbnews.com did we get too about these types of too angry about these types of things, or is this all wokeness

gone mad? i have to say, all this rebranding of movies did not expect to be talking about that of this hour, that at the top of this hour, but more of course, to but plenty more of course, to come, including news on that general election and that epstein list after, uh, the headunes epstein list after, uh, the headlines with tatiana . headlines with tatiana. >> tom, thank you very much. your top stories from the gb newsroom . the prime minister has newsroom. the prime minister has confirmed he's working towards a general election in the second half of the year. rishi sunak, who's been under pressure to call a vote, made the comments dunng call a vote, made the comments during a regional visit to the east midlands. both labour and the liberal democrats have been pushing spring election pushing for a spring election in. prime minister declined in. the prime minister declined to that out, saying to rule that out, instead saying he to on the he wants to focus on the economy, cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration. >> my working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year and in the meantime, i've got lots that want to get on with this that i want to get on with this saturday will be introducing a significant cut for millions

significant tax cut for millions of people in work worth on average, £450 for an average worker . because we've halved worker. because we've halved inflation, we keep inflation, we want to keep managing the economy and managing the economy well and cutting taxes . and cutting people's taxes. and i want tackling illegal want to keep tackling illegal migration. and we cut the number of last by over of arrivals last year by over a third. but we've got more to do and want to get the rwanda and we want to get the rwanda scheme through parliament and up and so i've got and running. so look, i've got plenty to get on with and that's what on doing, what i'm focusing on doing, delivering for british people. >> meanwhile, the labour leader says a general says he's ready for a general election, promising to stand up for people. sir keir for working people. sir keir starmer is urging voters to reject what calls pointless reject what he calls pointless populist gestures, as he seeks to set himself apart from rishi sunak during his new year speech. he also said the character of politics will change if labour wins power and the country now faces a year of choice . choice. >> i didn't expect a front row seat on this tory performance art, a song and dance for your political attention because they find performing so much easier than the hard graft of practical achievement . no, i came into

achievement. no, i came into politics to serve , to get things politics to serve, to get things done , to strive each and every done, to strive each and every day, to make a difference, to the lives of working people . the lives of working people. >> prince andrew, donald trump and bill clinton are among over 150 people named in the us court documents detailing connections to sex offender jeffrey epstein, the unsealed files are part of a civil lawsuit against epstein's associate ghislaine maxwell, who is serving a 20 year sentence for recruiting underage girls. for him, many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing. the document also includes an allegation by joanna goldberg , allegation by joanna goldberg, claiming the duke of york touched her in appropriately. in 2001, more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming days. nhs bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctors strike by calling them back to work. more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressure on services . the

pressure on services. the british medical association has criticised the move and in a letter said it has nothing to do with patient safety, suggesting instead that nhs england is bowing to political pressure . bowing to political pressure. none of the requests have been granted so far. it comes as leading medics are now warning patients will suffer significant harm and trauma in coming weeks, as the service faces a perfect storm of pressure . two people storm of pressure. two people have appeared in court accused of arson following a fire at a conservative mps office in north london. mike freers constituency office was targeted on christmas eve, but police say they're not treating the case as a hate crime. a 42 year old man and a 32 year old woman were also charged with arson over a fire at a restaurant that same evening. no one was injured at either incident , evening. no one was injured at either incident, but evening. no one was injured at either incident , but they've now either incident, but they've now been remanded in custody until their next court appearance . their next court appearance. dramatic scenes were caught on camera inside a courtroom in las vegas as a convict launched a vicious attack. the judge was

about to give her decision on the sentence of deborah redden when he ran up to the bench and jumped over furniture to assault her. footage for those her. shocking footage for those watching television, he leaps watching on television, he leaps over her desk, her by over her desk, grabbing her by the hair, pulling her to the ground. security quickly ground. when security quickly sprang into action to restrain him and drag him away. sprang into action to restrain him and drag him away . and luke him and drag him away. and luke littler has maintained high spirits despite losing the world dans spirits despite losing the world darts championship final, saying he'll come back stronger. the 16 year old lost to new world number one luke humphries , who number one luke humphries, who beat him seven four, and claimed half £1 million in prize money. he's pledged to donate some of that to prostate cancer uk, a charity close to his heart. the winner told gb news he's proud to be the new champion. >> it feels incredible . um, you >> it feels incredible. um, you know, it's something i've obviously dreamed of for many, many years and, uh, you know, to go out and do it last night and such emphatic fashion, you know, it's pleasing for me , um, it's so, so pleasing for me, um, you worked incredibly hard it's so, so pleasing for me, um, y0lthis worked incredibly hard it's so, so pleasing for me, um, y0lthis momentd incredibly hard it's so, so pleasing for me, um, y0lthis moment and, redibly hard it's so, so pleasing for me, um, y0lthis moment and, youyly hard it's so, so pleasing for me, um, y0lthis moment and, you know,! for this moment and, you know, to win in my first

to go on and win in my first world final is, you know, amazing, amazing feat . amazing, amazing feat. >> is gb news across the uk >> this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car , on digital on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying, play gb news. now back to tom and . emily. back to tom and. emily. >> well, rishi sunak is working towards an election in the second half of the year , hosting second half of the year, hosting a q&a at a youth centre in mansfield. the prime minister insists he still has a lot to do, including cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration. >> he also responded to labour leader sir keir starmer, who earlier opened his campaign for the election year, promising his party to return his to party the working class. >> yes, that's what he had to say. so joining us now is shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth. jonathan, thank you very much for joining ashworth. jonathan, thank you very much forjoining us on the very much for joining us on the show. now christopher hope, our political editor , asked sir keir political editor, asked sir keir starmer , your leader earlier

starmer, your leader earlier about this £28 billion annual pledge green investment plan , pledge green investment plan, george, he asked whether this is coming from taxes or whether it will come for borrowing. sir keir starmer said it will come from borrowing subject to fiscal rules. now i read that green campaigners are increasingly concerned that keir starmer is simply backtracking on this £28 billion pledge and this money won't be going to what he initially said it would . well initially said it would. well well, let's be absolutely clear . well, let's be absolutely clear. >> our fiscal rules are what govern our approach to the pubuc govern our approach to the public finance is because you'll remember , of course, and your remember, of course, and your viewers will be feeling it in their pockets. >> what happens when a government plays fast and loose? when a government is reckless with the public finances? it led to a run on pension funds and many of your viewers paying more on their mortgage, more on their credit cards and more in tax. as a consequence of reckless

decisions that the conservatives took year ago . so our took us over a year ago. so our fiscal rules. there will be no there'll be no falling back. there will be no pulling away from fiscal rules all from our fiscal rules and all investment we carry out, investment that we carry out, all investment that we pursue will be subject to those very clear and tough fiscal fiscal rules . rules. >> are you really trying to claim that interest rates have gonein claim that interest rates have gone in the way that they have solely due to do with the mini—budget of last year? they've basically tracked what america on interest rates have done. have they not? >> well, you'll remember the conservative mini—budget. it led to that run on pension funds. it led to mortgage rates ricocheting around the market. and the bank of england had to intervene and had to retaliate . intervene and had to retaliate. and the way that it did. so you'll know that when it comes to fiscal policy , you always to fiscal policy, you always have to be disciplined and you always have to be pursue sound finances . and that will be the finances. and that will be the watchword of a labour government, because we will never hammer working people. we will hammer the viewers of

will never hammer the viewers of gb news by the recklessness of the conservative approach. we want to take sound approach, want to take a sound approach, we want bring back stability we want to bring back stability to economy . we and through to the economy. we and through that approach, we grow the that approach, we can grow the economy proceeds of economy and use the proceeds of that to invest in our that growth to invest in our pubuc that growth to invest in our public services, which will be to the benefit gb news to the benefit of gb news viewers. to the benefit of gb news vieiwell, which case, if >> well, in which case, if there's to be all this there's going to be all this growth why sir growth, why would sir keir starmer even borrow any money for this green investment? why would you borrow when debt is so high? why >> well, of course the conservatives are borrowing by our fiscal rules are clear that you do not borrow to fund day to day investment. and all of our commitments that we are making are not unfund and they're not uncosted. we explain where every penny piece comes from, but where you can invest . and also where you can invest. and also because we're going to work in partnership with the business sector, because we're going to work with the work in partnership with the private think we can private sector, we think we can unlock capital investment, private investment in private capital investment in these jobs of the future. and

these jobs of the future. and these will be good, well—paid jobs in every corner of the country. you know, many your country. you know, many of your viewers be from viewers in gb news will be from parts country where there parts of the country where there used that powered used to be industry that powered our course , the our country. and of course, the conservatives lot that conservatives shot a lot of that industry down. well we think we can well—paid jobs can bring good, well—paid jobs to the country, to parts of the country, including mansfield, where rishi to parts of the country, includiwas/iansfield, where rishi to parts of the country, includiwas todayzld, where rishi to parts of the country, includiwas today , d, where rishi to parts of the country, includiwas today , where re rishi sunak was today, where in a typically and desperate typically weak and desperate style ruled out an election and is continuing to squat in downing street. the british pubuc downing street. the british public and people in mansfield will be asking jonathan kay, he's got to hide . why is he he's got to hide. why is he running scared starmer? he's got to hide. why is he rundidn't:ared starmer? he's got to hide. why is he run didn't talk starmer? he's got to hide. why is he run didn't talk stiprivate >> didn't talk about private investors . isn't he about investors. isn't he talked about funding pledge for green funding this pledge for green investment through borrowing. he didn't even mention private investment. from what i can remember, though, he did. >> no he did. if you go back and look at the q&a, he actually talks about the partnership that we would pursue the we would pursue with the business community and how we believe that we can unlock private investment in this type of infrastructure, which will create good, well—paying jobs create good, well—paying jobs for future . create good, well—paying jobs for future . because we're for the future. because we're talking the business talking to the business community all the time, we are the business. we're not

the party of business. we're not the party of business. we're not the that said, well, the party that said, well, rather rude word. i won't repeat it daytime news, but the it on daytime news, but the conservatives rather rude conservatives use a rather rude word businesses . we want word about businesses. we want to. jonathan. partnership with business. >> i suppose. taking a wider view there has been a view at this. there has been a general and general criticism, and we mentioned q&a that your mentioned the q&a that your leader this afternoon. leader faced this afternoon. this morning one of the questions was about the clarity of some of these pledges. there has been some accusations of a vague sense of what these pledges mean. should we just remind ourselves of one of the answers he gave in that q&a? >> now, nhs , not just >> now, the nhs, not just off its feet, fit for the its feet, but fit for the future. no lack of clarity there. said what you're there. nobody said what you're talking don't talking about. i don't understand . the understand that. um, the opportunities that children and young need the skills young people need for the skills they need their life and the they need for their life and the work actually going to work they're actually going to do, can't well, that's do, you can't say, well, that's a ambiguous. i don't a bit ambiguous. i don't understand just can't understand that. i just can't help but feel like i'm being a bit gaslit here. >> sir keir starmer saying an nhs fit for the future. what's unclear about that? that's a slogan. that's not a policy .

slogan. that's not a policy. >> well, i'll tell you how we're going to rebuild our national health service and make it fit for the future. we're going to deliver 2 million more appointments for treatment in our national health service. we're going to deliver more for appointments dentistry in our national health service, because gb news viewers the gb news viewers across the country will know how difficult it to a get to see it is to get a get to get to see a we're going to a dentist. we're going to rebuild mental health services. so access so young people can access mental health care, and we're going to invest in that new state of the art equipment. so that if you're worried that because you've got lump on because you've got a lump on your worried your skin that you're worried that you're going that that's cancer, you're going to diagnosis quicker to get your diagnosis quicker because we know cancer waits for nobody. are clear, nobody. so they are clear, costed policies which will rebuild our nhs and make it fit for the future. jonathan, i've looked at the costings you're putting in around £2 billion that you're to that you say you're going to raise non—dom tax. that you say you're going to rais uh non—dom tax. that you say you're going to raisuh , non—dom tax. that you say you're going to raisuh , status—dom tax. that you say you're going to raisuh , status ,dom tax. that you say you're going to rais uh , status , that tax. that you say you're going to rais uh , status , that that's £2 >> uh, status, that that's £2 billion. the nhs budget has

risen . from 130 to £180 billion. risen. from 130 to £180 billion. what is it about that extra 2 billion on top of the 50 billion that has gone in, that is going to make the magic difference ? i to make the magic difference? i mean, this is the problem with westminster that politicians have become so casual about £2 billion, not realising that is a hell of a lot of money. >> it's a huge amount of taxpayers money and the key thing here is, is to make sure that money is well spent . the that money is well spent. the problem with the conservatives is become casual in is that they become so casual in the which they spend the way in which they spend taxpayers fritter it taxpayers money, they fritter it away. rishi sunak away. i mean, rishi sunak frittered £7 billion away on covid loans and fraud. he signed every cheque and he's not trying to get any penny piece of it back any effective way. look back in any effective way. look that billion is a lot of that £2 billion is a lot of money and we're going to really sweat can sweat that £2 billion so we can invest equipment to diagnose invest the equipment to diagnose cancer so we can deliver cancer sooner. so we can deliver these extra for appointments treatment. and in dentistry, look , you've got to you've look, you've got to get you've got politicians here, you got to get politicians here, you know, really making sure that

money is well spent, not just announcing amounts of money announcing big amounts of money and that's job done. of and thinking that's job done. of course not. we've got to course it's not. we've got to deliver. that's what our deliver. and that's what our labour will about labour government will be about delivering labour government will be about delwell,; you very much >> well, thank you very much indeed shadow indeed for your time. shadow paymaster jonathan paymaster general jonathan ashworth, appreciate it. listening to that , uh, was, uh, listening to that, uh, was, uh, christopher hope , our political christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor, who is still in bristol. christopher, you're listening to what jonathan had to say. they're talking about how £2 billion could be transformative to the nhs if politics does do what they're supposed to do and spend it wisely. >> that's right. we're going to sweat it, he said, didn't he? because of course, the tory party is saying that figure has been spent several times over by the labour party in various committees but labour is committees, but the labour is sticking that number. some sticking to that number. some people that number may people say that that number may fall three. the fall if non—doms three. the country after the first year of its imposition , but they're its imposition, but they're hoping it will last longer than that. labour are that. so yeah, no labour are doubung that. so yeah, no labour are doubling down that issue of doubling down on that issue of the non—doms , uh, tax so the non—doms, uh, tax status. so the non—doms, uh, tax status. so the whole, um, uh, all the

politics today is abuzz with these comments by rishi sunak making clear that he is planning for the election in a second half of this year. and i've been trying to find out why the pm has announced that in pool has announced that in a pool interview with journalists in interview with tv journalists in the east midlands , um, they're the east midlands, um, they're saying i'm led to believe that there was they got quite alarmed by the speculation over christmas when the treasury announced that march , the announced that the march, the sixth budget, um, on a quiet day over christmas, everyone then thought was signalling an thought that was signalling an early election. and they early general election. and they just to reset that just wanted to reset that conversation and make clear that the assumption is for the planning assumption is for later year doesn't rule out later this year doesn't rule out for june , but more for before, uh, june, but more likely to be in november , likely to be in november, october time. it's interesting how this all fits in. >> we've now heard jonathan ashworth on this programme say rishi sunak is squatting in number 10. the labour party have published in the last few minutes a graphic saying, uh, keir starmer, bring it on, rishi sunak, bring it. um and of course the liberal democrats

earlier today said that rishi sunakis earlier today said that rishi sunak is a squatter. do you think this narrative will set hold or have the tories done enough now to say, actually we were never planning a may election ? well advisors around election? well advisors around the pm have been told me it's definitely going to be next autumn. >> i mean, the point is they could have gone for may and you had a degree of political advantage, tom. and emily, because able say, well because you're able to say, well , well, there's fixed tum. , well, there's no fixed tum. parliaments up to up to parliaments act is up to up to me as prime me when i call it as prime minister, that language on squatting was being used by sir keir not just keir starmer himself, not just pat or john ashworth. pat mcfadden or john ashworth. his um, the labour leader is saying he's squatting in number 10 for months on end. and as you said earlier, tom, that was language used about gordon brown when he hung on there, didn't when he he hung on there, didn't he, very end in 2010 he, to the very end in 2010 before calling that election on um, but there has been i'm here with sir keir starmer in the west country in a seat. the party wants to win from the tory party, 5500 seat after the

boundary changes. it's called filton and bradley stoke. a new seat here in near bristol, and it just show. it's interesting to see how the labour party is trying to take seats from the tories, not just the liberal democrats. often we view it as a lib dem tory battleground is also labour, uh, tory. um, but the questions we had from earlier from the prime minister, i asked him about the 28 billion which emily was grilling . which emily was grilling. jonathan ashworth there. i also asked mr sir keir starmer about the darts last night, and here's what he had to say. the darts last night, and here's what he had to say . well, the what he had to say. well, the darts last night has luke littler's maturity and professionalism shown that 16 year olds are ready to have a vote? the voting age should be cut from double nine to double eight. cut from double nine to double eigifirstly, mean luke littler. >> firstly, i mean luke littler. i mean it's been incredible watching the darts, seeing what he has done in. i'm not going to claim i've watched arts every day. everybody knows football is my game, but it has been quite an electrifying couple of days. um, and i'm a big believer in 16

year olds being able to express their views , have their vote and their views, have their vote and win darts tournaments. i thought he did brilliantly. i think everybody is incredibly, incredibly proud of him as a 16 year old with real composure, actually, as well. i mean , you actually, as well. i mean, you know, to do that on that stage , know, to do that on that stage, um, in that way, just up the road from me and ali harbi ali was quite phenomenal. i thought . was quite phenomenal. i thought. >> i know what to do. >> i know what to do. >> oh, well, there we go. so there was, uh, christopher hope's question on luke littler and an answer , a fairly and an answer, a fairly definitive answer from keir starmer that he does want to lower the franchise. >> um, some people might say that. hang on, 18 is the age that. hang on, 18 is the age that we say people should now leave school . 18 is the age at leave school. 18 is the age at which people can decide whether they to buy alcohol, buy they want to buy alcohol, buy cigarettes. although that's going rising soon. um,

going to be rising soon. um, people in all sorts of liberties and freedoms that bestowed people in all sorts of liberties and fpeoples that bestowed people in all sorts of liberties and fpeople in 1at bestowed people in all sorts of liberties and fpeople in the bestowed people in all sorts of liberties and fpeople in the unitedtowed upon people in the united kingdom and certainly in england, the age of maturity is 18. why? why in this one aspect, are we going to reverse on that trend? some people might say it's ideologically inconsistent . it's ideologically inconsistent. some people might say , uh, it's some people might say, uh, it's because it might offer an electoral advantage . electoral advantage. >> yes. well, i think that's probably the exact partly the reason, tom. and it's an absolute absurdity. the whole debate around giving the vote to 16 year olds, my view, you're 16 year olds, in my view, you're not until you're so not an adult until you're 18. so then have the vote. look then you can have the vote. look simple that. ithink then you can have the vote. look simple that. i think there is simple as that. i think there is a tradition, particularly in scotland, and everyone remembers that well, gretna green, because you married at 16 in you could get married at 16 in scotland, but 18 in england. >> scotland has always had a slightly age of slightly different age of majority and whatever. but we majority and whatever. but if we want to bring the age of voting down to 16, i would be absolutely fine in favour of that. if also we were to bring down the age of leaving school and the age of drinking, the age

of smoking, the age of driving , of smoking, the age of driving, all of these things that we forbid 16 year olds to do, surely the only logical thing to do is say 16 you're an adult or 18 you're an adult. >> pick i think i'd >> pick one. i think i'd probably put more criteria until who can vote? i'd make it stricter , but that's just me. stricter, but that's just me. >> i just like consistency. i just like consistency. anyway, let's bring olivia utley in our political correspondent olivia, thank you for joining political correspondent olivia, thank you forjoining us again. thank you for joining us again. >> so we know now that a general election will be in the second half of the year, at least that's rishi sunak working assumption. does that put to bed the speculation ? i think it the speculation? i think it pretty definitively does put to bed the speculation there a good reasons for rishi sunak calling a general election in the second half of this year rather than in may, the main one being that he made five pledges in january 2023. >> by the end of 2023, there was only one of them which he could actually point to and say he had succeeded. that was halving

inflation all of the others progress was a bit patchy , but progress was a bit patchy, but things are on the right trajectory. in 2024. interest rates have stalled at 5.25, and economists are predicting that they will slowly begin to go down over the course of the yeah down over the course of the year. that will have a knock on effect, obviously, on people's mortgages, uh, people won't be experiencing these enormous hikes in in monthly repayments , hikes in in monthly repayments, which will in turn have an effect on the cost of living crisis . effect on the cost of living crisis. rishi sunak is hoping that by the end of this year, the economy will be in a much better shape. there will be fewer people coming across the channelin fewer people coming across the channel in small boats and maybe , just maybe, nhs waiting lists will begin to be looking a bit smaller. why? because slowly but surely, the effects of lockdown are beginning to wear off and we're not seeing quite as many people coming in as we were right at the end of lockdown when we had that huge backlog of people who avoided seeing a

doctor during the pandemic years. rishi sunak is hoping years. so rishi sunak is hoping that if he just holds out for as long as he possibly can, then life start to life in britain will start to get better and people home get better and people at home will him for it. it might will thank him for it. it might be a little bit of optimistic be a little bit of an optimistic way looking things . way of looking at things. although the of living although the cost of living crisis will eased. you know , crisis will be eased. you know, mortgage rates will start to go down from the high that they're at at the moment. but, know, at at the moment. but, you know, people will question whether those at home will be that grateful to rishi sunak, that their mortgage repayments are only up by, say, £1,500 a only going up by, say, £1,500 a month. instead . of £1,700 a month. instead. of £1,700 a month. instead. of £1,700 a month. it's not all great news for the prime minister um, but there is good logic and i can see why he's doing it. and it will put to bed the fact that he's made the announcement now will put to bed any sort of speculation that he was calling a general election in may and then sort of pulled the then sort of pulled out at the last due to cowardice? last minute due to cowardice? >> no interesting stuff. >> um, no interesting stuff. well, olivia thank well, olivia utley, thank you for that live for bringing us all of that live from westminster. for bringing us all of that live froryes.estminsteh for bringing us all of that live froryes. now,|steh for bringing us all of that live froryes. now, aseh for bringing us all of that live froryes. now, as prince andrew's >> yes. now, as prince andrew's name way onto a list

name makes its way onto a list of associates of jeffrey epstein, we'll be discussing the future for the duke of york . future for the duke of york. this is good afternoon, britain

isabel monday to thursdays from. six till 930. >> good afternoon britain it's 2:28 and prince andrew is among a number of high profile figures named in us court documents released today detailing the connections of sex offender

jeffrey epstein . jeffrey epstein. >> us ghislaine maxwell, a known epstein associate, told her lawyers she was worried about being questioned on her relationship with prince andrew, bill clinton and donald trump are among other high profile names in the court documents, although neither is accused of illegality. >> joining us now is the former bbc royal correspondent and writer michael cole. >> michael , what does writer michael cole. >> michael, what does this all mean for prince andrew? >> good afternoon emily. good afternoon tom and happy new year to you both. >> not a happy beginning for prince andrew because this is the story he just cannot put behind him his disastrous and ill judged friendship with the late and unlamented paedophile jeffrey epstein. and it's worth saying that prince andrew. and there you see him in happier times , has never been charged times, has never been charged with anything and never been convicted of anything. and there's always denied the accusations of serious wrongdoing that have been made

against him. and in a way , the against him. and in a way, the release of these name names in these court documents in new york might actually help him get out from under, because in this country, the focus is on him. but in america, the focus will be on two former presidents , be on two former presidents, clinton and indeed, trump and other very prominent people , all other very prominent people, all famous people , world famous famous people, world famous people who may be mentioned in these documents . and what are these documents. and what are these documents. and what are these documents? this is the backwash of a libel action taken by virginia roberts. and there we see her at 17 with, uh, allegedly the arm of prince andrew around her bare midriff . andrew around her bare midriff. now, she took a libel action against the woman in the back of the picture , ghislaine maxwell. the picture, ghislaine maxwell. and this photograph was allegedly taken by jeffrey epstein at maxwell's mews house in london, about 200 yards as

the crow flies from , um, the the crow flies from, um, the gardens of buckingham palace and prince andrew says that that photograph is a fake. uh, it's been photoshopped. and he says that he has no recollection at all of ever meeting that young lady who was 17 at the time and is now a middle aged mother, married and living in australia , married and living in australia, um, in america , the accent will um, in america, the accent will be very much on who else is mentioned in these documents . mentioned in these documents. these were court documents , these were court documents, witness statements, depositions and interviews , and many of the and interviews, and many of the people are quite innocent evicted of witnesses who who came forward to help in this case, which was settled out of court. and so none of this ever came to public notice because the case was not tried . and now the case was not tried. and now the case was not tried. and now the judge , uh, loretta preska, the judge, uh, loretta preska, has decided that all these names should be released. now, we do happen to know that john doe

number 36 was bill clinton. now bill clinton in his defence, says , yes, he did go on jeffrey says, yes, he did go on jeffrey epstein's private jet, but he was only doing so, uh, in connection with the philanthropic and charitable work that epstein was undertaking. and he clinton there, we see him in happier times as, uh, he says that he never went to epstein's private island in the caribbean called little saint james. well, the american press will be very much focussed on the american personalities and they couldn't be higher profile , uh, rather be higher profile, uh, rather than. be higher profile, uh, rather than . what we know about prince than. what we know about prince andrew, because quite frankly, we've heard that story . the we've heard that story. the story moves on. >> well, michael cole, thank you so much for that summary of what is going on here. and i suppose that is, uh, an interesting point that to some extent, the problem for prince andrew is diluted by all these other names that appear. some of them really quite not to just quite shocking, not to just former presidents, but even the

astrophysicist stephen hawking . astrophysicist stephen hawking. >> yes, some surprising names in that list. but that was michael cole. thank you michael, if you're still there, former bbc royal correspondent and writer of soon be of course. now we'll soon be rejoined by our panel. today we're discussing we're going to be discussing debating day. debating stories of the day. we're asking, hollywood we're asking, has hollywood become too woke ? become too woke? >> but before all of that, it's your news headlines with tatiana. this is good afternoon, britain on . gb news. tom britain on. gb news. tom >> thank you. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. the prime minister has confirmed he's working towards a general election in the second half of the year . election in the second half of the year. rishi sunak, who's been pressure to call a been under pressure to call a vote, made the comments during a regional to east regional visit to the east midlands labour the midlands. both labour and the liberal have been liberal democrats have been pushing spring election . pushing for a spring election. the prime minister declined to rule out , instead saying rule that out, instead saying he wants focus on economy, wants to focus on the economy, cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration. >> my working assumption is we'll have a general election in

the second half this and the second half of this year and in meantime, got lots in the meantime, i've got lots that to get on with this that i want to get on with this saturday will be introducing a significant tax cut for millions of people worth, on of people in work worth, on average, £450 an average average, £450 for an average worker . because we've halved worker. because we've halved inflation, we want keep inflation, we want to keep managing the economy well and cutting and cutting people's taxes. and i want tackling illegal want to keep tackling illegal migration. cut the number migration. and we cut the number of arrivals last year over of arrivals last year by over a third. but we've got more to do . third. but we've got more to do. and to get the rwanda and we want to get the rwanda scheme parliament and up scheme through parliament and up and running. so look, got and running. so look, i've got plenty and that's plenty to get on with and that's what i'm focussed on doing, delivering for british people. >> the labour leader >> meanwhile, the labour leader says ready for general says he's ready for a general election promising up election, promising to stand up for working people. sir keir starmer urging voters to starmer is urging voters to reject what calls pointless reject what he calls pointless populist as he seeks to populist gestures as he seeks to set himself apart from rishi sunak during his new year speech . he also said the character of politics will change if labour wins power and the country now now faces a year of choice . and now faces a year of choice. and the prime minister has backed calls . by hospital bosses for

calls. by hospital bosses for junior doctors to leave picket lines and return to work. nhs bosses have been accused of undermining the walkouts by requesting them to be returned to work, due to extreme pressure on the british medical on services. the british medical association has criticised that request and in letter said it request and in a letter said it has nothing to do with patient safety, suggesting nhs safety, suggesting instead nhs england bowing to political england is bowing to political pressure. none of the requests have been granted so far. pressure. none of the requests have been granted so far . you have been granted so far. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website gbnews.com .

>> the camilla tominey show sunday mornings from 930 on gb news news. >> well, politics, wales and handwriting gcse english exams . handwriting gcse english exams. >> this is what we're going to be talking about with our wonderful panel who have just returned editor returned novara media editor contributing michael contributing editor michael walker commentator walker and political commentator and author buxton . so yes, and author tanya buxton. so yes, and author tanya buxton. so yes, a word on the general election, which we now know is most likely going to be in the second half of this year . going to be in the second half of this year. why do you think rishi sunak has let us know that essentially , i don't know why essentially, i don't know why he's done that. >> i'm really surprised. i thought he was going to go for january because i thought he wanted as wanted to just stay in for as long he's going to long as possible. he's going to lose. so i thought his lose. and so i thought his vanhy lose. and so i thought his vanity would want to try and keep long keep in there as long as possible. not about possible. it's not about the money for him, is it's about

money for him, is it? it's about being minister. was being prime minister. so i was quite surprised, and i suppose he to lose but not he would want to lose but not lose incredibly badly. >> i mean, he wouldn't want to lose, he wants to minimise lose, but he wants to minimise his if he can. and going his losses if he can. and going in might just in january might just make everyone irritated . everyone really irritated. >> if he wants to minimise his losses, it losses, he should have done it in then, once the in may then, because once the good weather starts and the boats are just coming coming boats are just coming and coming and coming, it's a consideration. and coming, it's a con michael,1. do you think and coming, it's a conmichael,1. do you think is >> michael, what do you think is fed into this? >> michael, what do you think is fed well,:his? >> michael, what do you think is fed well, iis? >> michael, what do you think is fed well, i suppose thing >> well, i suppose one thing he was worried is was potentially worried about is i a bit of an i think there was a bit of an attempt from the opposition parties to say, he's going parties to say, oh, he's going to election and then to do a may election and then say bottled it. so remember say he bottled it. so remember that quite damaging that was quite damaging for gordon to spread that he was rumours to spread that he was going to have snap election going to have a snap election and then didn't. so and then he didn't. so i suppose, rishi sunak suppose, you know, rishi sunak thinks it's better to quash these now than doing the these rumours now than doing the will. he he? for the first these rumours now than doing the will months he? for the first these rumours now than doing the will months of he? for the first these rumours now than doing the will months of the for the first these rumours now than doing the will months of the year. |e first few months of the year. >> that's a good point. >> that's a good point. >> it's a very good point. there are stories, that are other stories, however, that are dominating some of the headunes are dominating some of the headlines the and one headlines at the moment, and one is issue that we is a peculiar issue that we discussed a couple hours discussed a couple of hours ago on programme that is the on the programme and that is the james . the james bond james bond films. the james bond films famous franchise. films are famous franchise. i think the think just about everyone in the

country in the english country perhaps in the english speaking a james speaking world, has seen a james bond film at some point or another. british another. but the british film institute put trigger institute has put trigger warnings on the front of their classic films, suggesting that these are should be watched with discretion, include a lot of sexism and things that might not be suitable for audiences. tanya, what's your reaction ? tanya, what's your reaction? >> i just gets on my nerves. it just gets on my nerves. what needs to happen is that people needs to happen is that people need to stop being so sensitive about things, and remember that things a certain things were filmed at a certain time i mean , i time and accept that i mean, i just it's like the rewriting of books now to sensitivity . we books now to sensitivity. we read books. they've been rewritten. now this is how it feels. you know, book burning ish to me. you should leave it the way it was and just not have to explain it. this is what it was like then, you know, and i quite like, you know, there's that scene where james bond that one scene where james bond gives little the gives a little pat to the bottom, said, off you go, men's gives a little pat to the botto now,iid, off you go, men's gives a little pat to the botto now, my )ff you go, men's gives a little pat to the botto now, my husband), men's gives a little pat to the botto now, my husband does n's gives a little pat to the botto now, my husband does that work now, my husband does that to day. i love it, but to me every day. i love it, but tanya isn't this precisely tanya isn't isn't this precisely the rewriting books

the opposite of rewriting books or taking things of films? or taking things out of films? >> because we've seen some examples of i believe there's a fawlty episode that the fawlty towers episode that the bbc scene out of bbc has taken a scene out of because show because it doesn't want to show it it better just it anymore. isn't it better just to a warning front to stick a warning on the front so that those who might be of a sensitive know what sensitive disposition know what they're change they're getting and not change they're getting and not change the think it's giving people >> i think it's giving people excuses offended. i think excuses to be offended. i think if we said nothing and just played those films , people would played those films, people would go, look how fashioned go, gosh, look how old fashioned that that is. that is. look how funny that is. look ridiculous were. that is. look how funny that is. look that'sdiculous were. that is. look how funny that is. look that's how ous were. that is. look how funny that is. look that's how people were. that is. look how funny that is. look that's how people would then that's how people would read instead, getting read it. instead, you're getting this that's telling you, this warning that's telling you, don't be offended by that. >> yeah, it's true. it actually is encouraging offence to be taken. michael, interesting taken. michael, it's interesting the british the wording from the british film institute because say, film institute because they say, yes, will could cause yes, it will could cause offence. they say it will cause offence. they say it will cause offence actually. and then they offence. they say it will cause offerlike ctually. and then they offence. they say it will cause offerlike ctididy. and then they offence. they say it will cause offerlike clidid thenj then they offence. they say it will cause offerlike clidid then he en they offence. they say it will cause offerlike clidid then he when y said like it did then he when they were originally released, which is totally bizarre . why which is totally bizarre. why should the british film institute know what would offend me? >> i think we probably phrase this in a. i think seeing this in terms of offence is potentially a bit misguided . i

potentially a bit misguided. i mean, looking at something that we were looking at sort of old james bond before we came james bond clips before we came back and there are sort of back on, and there are sort of images james bond images of, of james bond essentially hitting women essentially like hitting women across the face. right. and i think all agree that it's think we can all agree that it's good heroes films no good that heroes in films no longer beat women. and longer beat women. right. and my problem with that isn't so much that offensive , it's that problem with that isn't so much tha'givinngensive , it's that problem with that isn't so much tha'giving a nsive , it's that problem with that isn't so much tha'giving a verye , it's that problem with that isn't so much tha'giving a very bad s that problem with that isn't so much tha'giving a very bad message it's giving a very bad message to so i think it to young men. so i think it seems very reasonable to me to say, if you're going you say, if you're going to, you know, i watch of know, but i watch episodes of law and special victims unit. >> it doesn't make me want to behave characters see. >> well, i think, you know, certain behaviours do get normalised, especially by the hero movie. right. i hero in the movie. right. so i think it does make sense to say, if you're a parent your if you're a parent showing your child movie, child an old james bond movie, you have you might want to have a conversation. yeah, people conversation. oh yeah, people did used to think it was acceptable for men to hit women. now changed. a now we've changed. isn't that a good this this good thing? so i think this this idea to trigger idea that it's to trigger vulnerable sort of easily offended people. yeah. i'm not that to that fussed about that. but to say there's this content in this movie, if you're showing your kids you want to have kids it, you might want to have this conversation before or afterwards, perfect. afterwards, i think is perfect. but agree with sanitising. >> i don't think and

>> i don't think films and literature. roald dahl got butchered, didn't roald dahl butchered, didn't he? roald dahl got most interesting thing got the most interesting thing i remember sitting down with my family watching james bond films often a friday, we'd have often on a friday, we'd have pizza and it would be the special and all the rest of special time and all the rest of it. >> um, but filmma- it. >> um, but don't remember any >> um, but i don't remember any of horribleness, i don't of the horribleness, and i don't like as a like to think of myself as a particularly horrible person. i don't think i think don't think that i would think it's and it's right to hit people, and i've seen every james bond film going. >> i love exactly that scene where family sits down where the whole family sits down to on to watch a kind of movie on a sunday afternoon, saturday night, and we were laughing out loud clips. we were not loud at those clips. we were not offended of them. offended by them, some of them. okay, lot them. okay, there was a lot of them. >> them were funny, but >> a lot of them were funny, but the ones where just hitting the ones where he's just hitting the ones where he's just hitting the you wanted to, the woman, if you wanted to, that the spy game, and he's that was the spy game, and he's trying get spy trying to get some spy information. >> know, it's fair. >> so, you know, it's all fair. you know, if you took it like that. mean, they're that. but i mean, they're still right. to see. we right. we don't want to see. we don't want to see. >> but men do hit women and they still do today. unfortunately >> just undercover. >> there's a difference between the hero hitting a woman and being of normal. being seen as sort of normal. and mean, what and then, i mean, often what happens bond then it happens in james bond is then it

leads a sex scene. so it's leads to a sex scene. so it's sort oh, actually sort of like, oh, actually hitting women they don't hitting women when they don't want is itself want in advance is itself sort of. >> can hearing of. >> but can hearing a lot into that can hear him that aren't you can hear him saying, what was it clear saying, what was it that clear and flawed characters. and heroes be flawed characters. well can they well i think they can well they should not how it should be, but that's not how it was presented. was being presented. >> we can sort of say >> i think we can sort of say society has moved on and that's a good thing. >> forgetting that >> and all we forgetting that since been presented >> and all we forgetting that sircinemas been presented >> and all we forgetting that sircinemas in been presented >> and all we forgetting that sircinemas in thiseen presented >> and all we forgetting that sircinemas in this country,anted in cinemas in this country, in the film has the modern age, every film has what we might describe as a trigger warning before it, where it says this film has been approved for parental guidance, or over the age of 15, or for those over the age of 15, or for those over the age of 15, or those over the of 18. or for those over the age of 18. every single film we've ever seen that in front it. so seen has that in front of it. so i enough. i suppose enough. >> enough. graham said. >> that's enough. graham said. >> that's enough. graham said. >> why wouldn't we? so. so you already have strong nudity and drug have and drug use. why not also have and some racism and violence against women? i mean, it doesn't seem to that to the to me that adding that to the list violence against women list is violence against women would under the would already be under the violence category, wouldn't it? well, there's well, i suppose there's different so i think we different kinds of so i think we have domestic already. different kinds of so i think we heyou're nestic already. different kinds of so i think we heyou're sort c already. different kinds of so i think we heyou're sort c slapping lready. different kinds of so i think we heyou're sort c slapping the, iy. if you're sort of slapping the, the, the enemy , you know, from the, the enemy, you know, from the, the enemy, you know, from the, you know, it's normally

soviet russia or whatever, isn't it, that does have different it, that does have a different valence or communist china valence to it or communist china that you want to speak. >> um, shall we move on to another story? it's a very peculiar one. there's a petition now to change the name of wales . now to change the name of wales. uh, of course, we all know that the name of wales in welsh is kumri. we know, plied kumri as the party of wales. um, and of course, there have been several name changes within wales in recent times, not least the welsh assembly being renamed the senate , uh, and indeed the senate, uh, and indeed the brecon beacons being renamed renamed something utterly unpronounceable that was waiting just wales waiting for you. >> is this a sign that wales want nothing to do with the rest of the united kingdom ? that they of the united kingdom? that they might, uh, secure independence at some stage? i actually do know that there's no problem if they want to do a referendum, and welsh people want and the welsh people don't want to be called wales anymore, then that's fine. >> but they need to do a referendum and needs to be referendum and it needs to be a majority decision. because referendum and it needs to be a mawere decision. because referendum and it needs to be a ma were saying n. because referendum and it needs to be a mawere saying you because referendum and it needs to be a ma were saying you looked use referendum and it needs to be a mawere saying you looked it.e referendum and it needs to be a mawere saying you looked it up we were saying you looked it up and it meant that wales

and it said it meant that wales means um, so means foreigner. um, and so fine, they don't want to be thought foreigner. they thought of as foreigner. they want an outsider thought of as foreigner. they want for an outsider thought of as foreigner. they want for tom an outsider thought of as foreigner. they want for tom comrie der thought of as foreigner. they want for tom comrie ,er thought of as foreigner. they want for tom comrie , murray game for me. tom comrie, murray comrie, comrie, um , which means comrie, comrie, um, which means welshman, is fair enough. welshman, which is fair enough. but referendum and do it but not off 3000 people signing a document . that's not enough. document. that's not enough. >> i suppose that's the point . >> i suppose that's the point. so few have signed it. but of course wales isn't called wales everywhere. call everywhere. the french call it pierre um, course pierre de gaulle. um, of course we don't call. well, the germans don't call themselves germany. we don't call. well, the germans doncall ll themselves germany. we don't call. well, the germans doncall them mselves germany. we don't call. well, the germans doncall them germany.ermany. we don't call. well, the germans doncall them germany. they1y. we don't call. well, the germans doncall them germany. they call we call them germany. they call themselves and the themselves deutschland and the french call them alamanni. you know, different people have different for different know, different people have differeri for different know, different people have differeri supposeor different know, different people have differeri suppose if different know, different people have differeri suppose if they �*ent know, different people have differeri suppose if they do: things. i suppose if they do change their name to kumri, we'll probably still call them wales. yeah. wales. yeah yeah. >> i want to show off because i was practising how to say brecon beacons before we go. bannau brookside . brookside. >> oh, that's actually as >> oh, that's not actually as long as i thought it would be. >> bit russian. yeah, yeah. >> not probably completely wrong on my on my youtube show. the first time i read cymru, first time i read plaid cymru, i said plaid cymru and see how how you mean, got you know, i mean, you've got to be accepting. obviously of people but

people getting it wrong, but maybe i've been culturally enriched learning the enriched by learning how the welsh alphabet to some welsh alphabet is to some degree. say like i'm an degree. well, i say like i'm an expert no idea expert on it. i've got no idea how most words, can how most words, but i can say plaid cymru start and plaid cymru for a start and cionnaith rather senedd . cionnaith rather than senedd. >> all the rest. but >> yeah, and all the rest. but you do pick up these i suppose these things. but is there bit these things. but is there a bit of know, a trend now of a. i don't know, a trend now of a. i don't know, a trend now of just sort of renaming things of a. i don't know, a trend now of just sake yf renaming things of a. i don't know, a trend now of just sake of enaming things of a. i don't know, a trend now of just sake of itiaming things of a. i don't know, a trend now of just sake of it potentiallygs of a. i don't know, a trend now of just sake of it potentially .; for the sake of it potentially. >> i mean, it's very interesting with like welsh language. know with like welsh language. i know i friend who, who i had a good friend who, who went a sort of bilingual went to a sort of bilingual welsh language school, and he was actually quite annoyed about it his sent it because he said his dad sent him because dad was him there because his dad was sort nationalist, and sort of a welsh nationalist, and he writer, was he became a writer, and he was like, much time like, i spent so much time writing welsh , you know, i'm writing in welsh, you know, i'm going be a in english. going to be a writer in english. so i there always so i think there is always this tension between people who want to have a very legitimate sort of keep of cultural ambition to keep a language . and there language alive. and then there are of who are the are sort of people who are the vehicles for that language who might actually prefer to be speaking something else. obviously speaking something else. obv don't have that. you you're you don't have that. you you're sort of the most privileged person it person in the world when it comes because your comes to language, because your nafive comes to language, because your native , well, won native language, well, we won the we're

the language of the world. we're in that particular era . in that in that particular era. yeah. that sort of very well, in that in that particular era. ysupposehat sort of very well, in that in that particular era. ysuppose being�*t of very well, in that in that particular era. ysuppose being�*t of vebeingll, i suppose being being being someone from these islands, you're fortunate that for. >> well, ever since the fall of napoleon , you were the hegemonic napoleon, you were the hegemonic power. then shifted to napoleon, you were the hegemonic pov1 united then shifted to napoleon, you were the hegemonic pov1 united states, shifted to napoleon, you were the hegemonic pov1 united states, both ed to napoleon, you were the hegemonic pov1 united states, both of to napoleon, you were the hegemonic pov1 united states, both of which the united states, both of which are sort of similar are countries of sort of similar dispositions and the same language . but when my mother language. but when my mother first came over as a 14 year old from cyprus , she got sent over from cyprus, she got sent over and she ended up in cardiff. >> and so she yes, that's where she was. so i've got lots of welsh cousins. so i mean, welsh cousins. um, so i mean, i'll tell you that she said that she thought that that was probably what hell was like. she'd from cyprus she'd come from sunny cyprus eating fruit during the eating fresh fruit during the 50s smog to wales. and 50s and the smog to wales. and she everything smelt she said that everything smelt boiled so it's quite boiled cabbage. so it's quite difficult her. wealth is not difficult for her. wealth is not like that. >> i love like anything about where loved. love where she loved. you'll love wales. >> ee- f [10 [10. gm- f no no. so you've got me >> no no no no. so you've got me wrong >> no no no no. so you've got me wroi'm just her >> i'm just saying her experience was. yeah, what experience was. yeah, but what she um, my cousins she said is that, um, my cousins do all of them speak do speak. all of them speak a little welsh. so i kind little bit of welsh. so i kind of their welsh my of view their welsh like my greek shouldn't greek school. maybe it shouldn't be kind of, as be something that is kind of, as you , bilingually schooled

be something that is kind of, as yo whatever,lingually schooled be something that is kind of, as yo whatever, butjally schooled be something that is kind of, as yo whatever, but any schooled or whatever, but an extracurricular curricular activity that everybody can hold on their if they on to their culture if they want to, than being forced upon. >> suppose lots of >> i suppose lots of people in wales don't want it to just be something the something you speak on the weekend. it to be the weekend. they want it to be the first of, of various first language of, of various parts of wales. i think first language of, of various parts are vales. i think first language of, of various parts are parts i think first language of, of various parts are parts of i think first language of, of various parts are parts of i thiwhere there are parts of wales where it is kind of the first language, and i think there are what saying are what i'm saying is there are trade offs, right? there are small, have small, rural. we don't have to face or myself sort of face that or myself as a sort of nafive face that or myself as a sort of native english speaker. i don't have to face trade have to face the trade off between, you know, cultural heritage functionality between, you know, cultural he language. functionality between, you know, cultural helanguage. so functionality between, you know, cultural helanguage. so functicreally of language. so i don't really want to judge people who do face that. >> i think have to be >> i think you have to be practical. just have be practical. you just have to be practical. you just have to be practical. not practical. and it's not practical. and it's not practical. welsh quite a practical. welsh is quite a difficult not difficult language and it's not that you want that practical. but if you want to learn it, then fine, it should be your extra. >> but on earth would >> but. but who on earth would want you know, want to erect you know, nationalistic want to erect you know, newould,;tic want to erect you know, newould, iic want to erect you know, newould, i don't know, i can't it would, i don't know, i can't ever see that about being practical. >> one exam board, i believe it's yes, is saying it's yes, edexcel is saying that gcse longer be gcse english will no longer be handwritten plan. handwritten under their plan. so from 2025, pupils will be able

to take their exams, their gcse engush to take their exams, their gcse english with their laptop rather than handwriting. is this a decline or is it just facing the future as it exists? >> i think it's really practical . i've got, you know, i've got a 16 year old and an 18 year old and i think they'd much rather do it on a laptop, you know, and also their handwriting is abysmal. i'm embarrassed for the handwriting um, handwriting of my son's, um, it's think they it's abysmal. and i think they probably lose lots of points because handwriting so because their handwriting is so terrible. ache for terrible. though i do ache for handwriting. know, handwriting. you know, a calligraphy writing beautifully. i'm something needs to be done so we don't lose you could force them to improve handwriting. >> tried , and, you know >> i know i tried, and, you know the practicality of getting people that do so much now on laptops, on computers, on keyboards. >> then sit down and write is >> to then sit down and write is really, really difficult. >> really good >> it's probably a really good sign, far as sign, tonya, because as far as i'm the people, the worst i'm aware, the people, the worst handwriting in the world are doctors . and so it's probably, doctors. and so it's probably, probably aligned who probably aligned with those who have pretty high status jobs. but michael , have pretty high status jobs. but michael, i suppose this is inevitable , isn't it, where inevitable, isn't it, where people will be sitting around in

a meeting earlier today and everyone was like, well, how how can we possibly do, uh, exams handwritten. and we were all sitting there on our laptops. it's absolutely the way the world works. >> inevitable, tom. at least we should encourage handwriting up to the age 16. i mean, come to the age of 16. i mean, come on. well you can encourage. >> i it's probably more >> i think it's probably more for of the examiners for the sake of the examiners than do for the sake of the examiners than sympathy do for the sake of the examiners than sympathy i do for the sake of the examiners than sympathy i did do have sympathy here. i did a master's sort of a few years ago, 20s, and one of the ago, my late 20s, and one of the modules was sort of done by exam. and i remember sort of learning sort of learning the content, sort of planning oh god, i'm going to thinking, oh god, i'm going to have this down. and have to write this down. and i can read my own handwriting. >> it's more difficult to write it you can't go back and it because you can't go back and just, know, things just, you know, move things around things around and you can't edit things after easily, as easily. it's after as easily, as easily. it's after as easily, as easily. it's a different skill to be able to handwrite. you have think handwrite. you have to think on your skill now your feet skill that's now becoming because becoming redundant because when does need write? does anyone need to write? >> just stupider >> well, we just get stupider then, and we'll just that then, and we'll just accept that because i don't think sort of writing a you know, people don't write. used to write write. people used to write books by hand, which amazing books by hand, which is amazing and incredible. just and incredible. well, it's just it's done. it's also done completely done.

>> agree you. >> i think. i agree with you. you're romantic i you're being romantic and i understand that romanticism about , but the about handwriting, but the practicality is, is , you know, practicality is, is, you know, exams are being taken and kids are losing points because their handwriting bad. are losing points because their handwriwill bad. are losing points because their handwriwill have spell check? >>i check? >> i mean, we listen people some people like to buy vinyl now and vinyl is nice. it's archaic. it's um, it's peculiar, but but it's not the main way that people listen to music. and i suppose you can always have that sort of as a nicety, sort of on the side, as a slightly peculiar thing. >> it could be your proposal for handwriting. you do on handwriting. you do it on saturday. but you know what? >> i think that everyone watching this today and watching this show today and listening will listening to the show today will be team emily. you reckon? be on team emily. you reckon? yes. handwriting. yes. keep handwriting. >> look at the >> we'll have a look at the inbox. gb views news. okay inbox. gb views at gb news. okay um, but i do think there is that sort of sense that there is , um, sort of sense that there is, um, perhaps, perhaps what you were talking about in terms of being able to write in one flow without going back . perhaps we without going back. perhaps we should have some speaking should have some more speaking and listening involved in exams. keir starmer was speaking a

couple of months ago about bringing oratory into schools and making sure that people for sure could talk . sure could talk. >> the art of oratory , keeping >> the art of oratory, keeping people interested . in what people interested. in what you're saying. >> they're falling asleep. he's the man that listen . the man that listen. >> but but it's not a bad idea, right? it's an idea because i suppose one of those things about how you think about how you write is also about how you think how you talk. i'm sorry. >> i'm sure. i think you >> i'm not sure. i think you need have something of need to have something of substance say first. substance to say first. so i think education. think back to basics education. rather wasting hours of the rather than wasting hours of the school day learning how to speak. >> well, you could do both. it's just instead of only writing an essay, talk to essay, you then also talk to a they it. that's sort of how they do it. that's sort of how traditional education and traditional education works. and in italian, french in italy and the italian, french philosophy their final philosophy said in their final exams, do is they get exams, what they do is they get sort of completely grilled exams, what they do is they get sortheir, completely grilled exams, what they do is they get sortheir, theirletely grilled exams, what they do is they get sortheir, theirteacher'illed exams, what they do is they get sortheir, their teacher in ed by their, by their teacher in secondary right. secondary school. right. >> all agreed everyone secondary school. right. >> handwrite greed everyone secondary school. right. >> handwrite forad everyone secondary school. right. >> handwrite for evermore. e yeah. >> no, no , no, everyone should >> no, no, no, everyone should practice the gift of the gab. that's how you get ahead in

life. that's big life. that's that's the big that's the point. that's the big point. >> i think all we've >> i think that's all we've got time much. time for. thank you very much. michael tanya buxton. michael walker and tanya buxton. of all from us of course, that's all from us for today, but we'll be back tomorrow for today, but we'll be back tonyou've been watching . good >> you've been watching. good afternoon, on gb news. afternoon, britain on gb news. up afternoon, britain on gb news. up next, it's martin daubney. >> brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsor of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. i'm alex burkill here with your latest gb news weather forecast. we do have some drier and colder weather on the for this weekend, but the cards for this weekend, but for the time being it's heavy rain. we're concerned about in the south, area of low the south, an area of low pressure is pushing its way northeastwards , bringing some northeastwards, bringing some windy also very wet weather windy and also very wet weather initially to southern counties. as we go through today. initially to southern counties. as we go through today . but that as we go through today. but that rain does spread its way northeastward towards east anglia lincolnshire as we go anglia and lincolnshire as we go through evening and through this evening and overnight , likely to some overnight, likely to see some flooding travel flooding and some travel disruption elsewhere, we disruption here. elsewhere, we are going have a scattering

are going to have a scattering of showers overnight, particularly towards the west, but some drier clearer but some drier and clearer weather in between . under any weather in between. under any clear skies we see touch clear skies we could see a touch of frost perhaps even a few of frost and perhaps even a few patches of fog. first thing on friday morning. otherwise, as we go yes, a bit go through tomorrow, yes, a bit of a wet start across eastern parts rain should clear parts for that rain should clear away. for far eastern away. although for far eastern parts particularly parts of scotland, particularly shetland, is to be a shetland, it is going to be a bit and perhaps a bit wet and perhaps even a little wintry. here little bit wintry. here otherwise a scattering of showers quite likely, particularly for western parts of wales, western of england and wales, western scotland ireland, scotland and northern ireland, likely some drier and likely to have some drier and sunnier weather a time. sunnier weather for a time. temperatures perhaps a touch down today, but near down compared to today, but near normal for the time of year. as we go saturday. and it's we go into saturday. and it's going to again bring a few showers for quite a few places. but there will be a westie split in of sunshine, brightest in terms of sunshine, brightest and sunniest towards the west and sunniest towards the west and weekend we're and through the weekend we're going to more dry and sunny going to see more dry and sunny weather for most of us, but it is also going to turn colder, so an increasing risk of some frost and fog by looks like and some fog by looks like things are heating up.

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