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latest news with sam francis. bev and andrew. >> thank you very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 930 at the top story leading the news this morning. the prime minister says he's sad to hear of he's shocked and sad to hear of the king's cancer diagnosis and says he's thankful it was caught early. meanwhile prince harry is expected to arrive in london later as his father undergoes treatment for that unspecified form of cancer. announced yesterday. it's understood his majesty did tell his sons before buckingham palace made that announcement about the condition last night. palace officials hope the news encourages others who are affected by the illness . who are affected by the illness. a british cargo ship has been targeted by an unmanned drone in the red sea in the latest of a series of attacks by houthi rebels . it's understood the rebels. it's understood the vessel did suffer minor damage after it was hit by a naval missile around 60 miles off the coast of yemen. the ship made

evasive manoeuvres before continuing its journey safely . continuing its journey safely. safely. we understand no injuries have been reported. houthi militants, who are backed by iran , have been targeting by iran, have been targeting commercial ships in the region in recent months as part of what they say is an act of solidarity with palestinians in gaza . in with palestinians in gaza. in other news, police say that they believe there are people who know the whereabouts of the man that suspect in the recent chemical attack in south london, who've chosen they say, not to come forward . abdul ezedi is come forward. abdul ezedi is wanted in connection with that attack, which left a woman critically injured and is now in danger of losing the sight in one of her eyes. police are warning that anyone found to have assisted the suspect will face arrest. that's after a 22 year old man was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender earlier this week. he's since been released on bail. azadi was last seen leaving tower hill tube station just after 930 last wednesday evening, and police say anyone

with information should come forward . and in the last half forward. and in the last half hour or so, kwasi kwarteng has said that he won't be standing in the next general election. announcing his decision moments ago on social media, he said it has been an honour to serve his constituents since 2010. you may remember mr kwarteng served briefly as chancellor in september and october of 2022. that was for just 38 days, the second shortest serving chancellor then succeeded by jeremy hunt. that was under the prime minister, liz truss . and prime minister, liz truss. and for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com forward slash alerts now, though , we're going to go back to andrew and . bev andrew and. bev >> good morning. thank you for joining us.

>> so buckingham palace has confirmed the king is or is already having treatment for cancen already having treatment for cancer. it's unspec defied what the cancer is. he's postponing all public duties while that treatment continues . treatment continues. >> the king is said to be wholly positive about his treatment. that's the quote and looks forward public duties. >> the duke of sussex, >> and the duke of sussex, prince harry, is returning to united kingdom today. he's been spotted at airport in spotted already at an airport in la , but his wife, meghan markle , la, but his wife, meghan markle, is going to stay in the united states with the kids. >> so obviously this is a huge story. every news broadcast across the world was interrupted last night to bring this news. um i didn't feel shock as such. maybe i'm just a little too practical. >> 75 year old man is a 75 year old man. >> a 50% of people now get cancen >> a 50% of people now get cancer, so in that regard, i didn't think it was particularly shocking, especially as he was in hospital to undergo a procedure anyway. and as is the way days, particularly way these days, and particularly for mean, he's for king charles, i mean, he's going to get the best treatment in the chances are

in the world. the chances are they looked for they might have looked for something and found um, but something and found it. um, but obviously implications, i obviously the implications, i guess, royal family are guess, for the royal family are potentially significant. >> well , they are thinly spread >> well, they are thinly spread the princess of wales, she's sick. we're not going to see her till after easter. harry no longer is part of the royal family, nor is prince andrew effectively , um, princess anne effectively, um, princess anne is already the hardest working royal. how much more can she take on? uh. and it's going to put a lot more pressure on queen camilla and william. >> yeah, ingrid . seward. >> yeah, ingrid. seward. >> yeah, ingrid. seward. >> seward is the editor in chief of majesty magazine and a royal biographer, and she joins us now. ingrid, you're also the author of the book mother and i that looks into the king's relationship with his late mother . um, relationship with his late mother. um, what your mother. um, what was your reaction to this news? um, were you also shocked? i think there's sort of a keep calm and carry on british spirit isn't there at the moment . there at the moment. >> well, i think that the king is actually a very private

person, so he must have really felt very strongly that he wanted the palace to make this announcement because of i suppose, the success you could say it's probably not a very good word of talking about his prostate operation. um, and a lot of people went to get their prostate checked, so he probably feels that being completely open like this is the best way to go. >> and also, he's king, he's head of it is in the head of state. it is in the pubuc head of state. it is in the public interest. >> so he really poor man has no private life. and this is very much an illustration of that . much an illustration of that. >> um, ingrid, he he's cancelled a lot of events, functions. so there would have been enormous speculation about his health, beanng speculation about his health, bearing in mind his recent trip to the hospital over his prostate . so he had no choice , prostate. so he had no choice, did he? but to come firm? it was. he's having treatment for cancen was. he's having treatment for cancer. and isn't it now only a matter of time, ingrid, before they tell us exactly what cancer he's got, because the speculation will lurid. it

speculation will be lurid. it already is. in fact , i know the already is. in fact, i know the one thing they asked for is he said to stop speculation. >> but of course you can't stop speculation about what a public figure like this. like charles, you know, he's our king and you can't stop speculation. and i quite agree with you . i think it quite agree with you. i think it is only a matter of time before we understand what kind of cancer he's got. but i think he'll be probably , you know, he'll be probably, you know, he'll be probably, you know, he'll probably be mike towards the end of the treatment. i don't think we'll get it like today or tomorrow . i think it'll today or tomorrow. i think it'll be, you know, there'll be a little, while before we little, little while before we get i'm we will. get it, but i'm sure we will. >> remarkable , isn't it, >> it's remarkable, isn't it, ingnd? >> it's remarkable, isn't it, ingrid? because he's had been the longest prince of wales in ingrid? because he's had been the history: prince of wales in ingrid? because he's had been the history of �*ince of wales in ingrid? because he's had been the history of thee of wales in ingrid? because he's had been the history of the royalales in ingrid? because he's had been the history of the royal family. he's incredible he's had an incredible apprenticeship had a apprenticeship and he's had a pretty start. hasn't he? in pretty good start. hasn't he? in 18 he's a couple of 18 months he's done a couple of state lots of royal state visits and lots of royal engagements. it will be immensely frustrating for him now have to step now that he does have to step back. >> it certainly will be frustrating . but of course, frustrating. but of course, being him as we know, because queen camilla has told us and we

know that he is a workaholic , know that he is a workaholic, but he's going to have to take care of his health because he wants to make a full recovery, which , you know, we believe he which, you know, we believe he can so so he will be can do. so so he will be frustrated. but um, he will just be working as he always does. but hopefully he won't be working into the small hours of the morning like he used to do . the morning like he used to do. >> as far as we >> ingrid, as far as we understand, prince harry is on his way to the uk. understand, prince harry is on his way to the uk . what? what's his way to the uk. what? what's your reaction to that turn of events ? events? >> my immediate reaction is how unhelpful is that? that's that's not very kind of me. no, i just thought really don't need somebody coming into this mix at these slightly tense moment that thatis these slightly tense moment that that is going to cause more problems than they can solve. but of course, harry wants to see his father and he hasn't fallen out with his father . um, fallen out with his father. um, despite what he said about, uh, about the queen, um, charles has remained very calm about it. but the royal family don't like

confronting these emotional issues. and i think harry will come over here. he will be, you know , he'll be perfectly nice to know, he'll be perfectly nice to everyone . everyone will be everyone. everyone will be perfectly nice to him. and then they'll just hope that he goes back pretty soon. >> how very british. >> how very british. >> yeah. do you. >> yeah. do you. >> and also, there'll be a lot of speculation, ingrid, of course, about whether he, um, has any , uh, conversation with has any, uh, conversation with his brother because that is well known now. well documented, isn't that they have had isn't it, that they have had a pretty spectacular fall out and we how angry he was about we know how angry he was about harry rude about harry being so rude about catherine in that book. spare absolutely , i don't think. absolutely, i don't think. >> i mean, i presume that william will see him, but i don't. i mean, i'm sure william probably doesn't want to see him, and william will be very busy, as we know. but i don't think it's going to make any difference to their relationship at this stage because, as i said, they won't be discussing it. there won't time, and it. there won't be time, and it'll be the last thing that william wants to do. >> you . ingrid, >> okay. thank you. ingrid, thank you for joining

>> okay. thank you. ingrid, thank you forjoining us >> okay. thank you. ingrid, thank you for joining us this morning. ingrid terrific, morning. ingrid looks terrific, by it's, um, it's about that >> it's, um, it's about that book, about his relationship with the queen. mean, with the queen. i mean, you think queen went on for 70 think the queen went on for 70 years on the throne? charles is only 18 months, and he's got cancer is an extraordinary. >> well, tributes from around the world our politicians the world and our politicians have in prime minister have flooded in prime minister rishi wishing his rishi sunak tweeted, wishing his majesty a full and speedy recovery. i have no doubt he'll be back to strength in no be back to full strength in no time i know the whole time and i know the whole country will be wishing him well. >> labour leader sir keir >> and labour leader sir keir starmer behalf of the starmer said on behalf of the labour party wish his majesty starmer said on behalf of the labthe party wish his majesty starmer said on behalf of the labthe very' wish his majesty starmer said on behalf of the labthe very besth his majesty starmer said on behalf of the labthe very best foris majesty starmer said on behalf of the labthe very best for hisiajesty all the very best for his recovery. we look forward to seeing to full seeing him back in to full health. in the studio health. joining us in the studio now tory mp for ipswich, tom now is tory mp for ipswich, tom hunt. a royalist hunt. tom, you're a royalist like me. um he'sjust hunt. tom, you're a royalist like me. um he's just to get like me. um he's just got to get on it, isn't he? yeah. on with it, isn't he? yeah. i mean, that's the royal family way, it? way, isn't it? >> yeah. mean, i yeah, it >> yeah. i mean, i yeah, it looks like it's been caught early. he has the very best medical. support medical. um, you know, support it's so i'm, it's possible to have so i'm, i'm, i'm sort of optimist i'm, i'm, i'm sort of optimist that he'll be back in rude health soon, but no, it is it is quite know, it's quite a bit

quite you know, it's quite a bit of shock. um, nonetheless, i'm of a shock. um, nonetheless, i'm a huge supporter i think a huge supporter of his. i think he an almost an impossible he had an almost an impossible act to follow after his mother, but a very job. but he's done a very good job. i mean, think i've been very mean, i think i've been very impressed with him, and i'm very proud him as king and like proud of him as king and like millions people the country, millions people in the country, i definitely feel bit an i definitely feel a bit of an emotional connection to him. do you? i do you? yeah, yeah, i do personally, i do. i feel personally, yeah, i do. i feel emotional connection to royal family. i think they're very special. we're very special. i think we're very lucky to have them. um, yeah. special. i think we're very luci> e because w— >> it's interesting because the only there would only monarch who there would be television interrupted only monarch who there would be te|the .ion interrupted only monarch who there would be te|the united interrupted only monarch who there would be te|the united statesinterrupted only monarch who there would be te|the united states would )ted only monarch who there would be te|the united states would fori in the united states would for be the king. our king wouldn't be the king. our king wouldn't be the king. our king wouldn't be the of sweden. yeah, be the king of sweden. yeah, belgium. the king of belgium. i think if the king of belgium. i think if the king of belgium walked in here, i'm not sure recognise him. sure i'd recognise him. >> isn't that great? isn't >> and isn't that great? isn't that great? really puts us on that great? it really puts us on the the and yet the on the map. and yet something very and some something very great. and some people rid it. people want to get rid of it. i mean, crazy is that? mean, how crazy is that? >> yeah, it be interesting >> yeah, it would be interesting if corbyn was still if jeremy corbyn was still labour because he was an labour leader because he was an avowed he'd avowed republican. i mean, he'd have right thing. of have done the right thing. of course he would. but but an avowed republican, i would. >> definitely not want >> i would definitely not want to. wouldn't want

to. i wouldn't i wouldn't want to. i wouldn't i wouldn't want to of the royal family to get rid of the royal family under no circumstances, because i prime minister i think we'd have prime minister blair in wings blair waiting in the wings to sweep in president blair. sorry. um, but but i think at a time like what's tricky like this, what's quite tricky for is keep for the royal family is to keep the public on side when so many people are sat on waiting lists for treatment. when you for cancer treatment. when you have a record nhs waiting list of the of 8 million people and the king, know, will get the king, as we know, will get the very care. i just sure very best care. i just not sure how that will make a lot of people out there feel about the royal he mean , royal family. i mean, he i mean, he is the king of england, you know, so think most people and know, so i think most people and scotland and wales and commonwealth and the commonwealth, yes. commonwealth and the con his�*nwealth, yes. commonwealth and the con his headlth, yes. commonwealth and the con his head of. yes. commonwealth and the con his head of state, 14 >> his head of state, 14 countries. >> yeah. he is so think most >> yeah. he is so i think most people begrudge him people wouldn't begrudge him having, um , star having, you know, um, five star treatment. it's not about begrudging. >> it's not about begrudging . >> it's not about begrudging. it's about questioning it's just about questioning where the priorities whilst the british public at the moment, i think feel very disenfranchised and a lot of ways and we feel like the country is broken down, i just think it doesn't help the monarchy in a sense, from a pr point of view , i disagree.

point of view, i disagree. >> i think there'll a huge >> i think there'll be a huge outpouring sympathy for him outpouring of sympathy for him because these because he's waited all these years become king and never years to become king and never complain . years to become king and never complain. i'd years to become king and never complain . i'd never explained. complain. i'd never explained. and within 18 months he's got cancer. >> cancen >> my initial sense of this, um, you know, less than 24 hours after the news is that that'd be great. public sympathy and support for him. um, my facebook page ' support for him. um, my facebook page , i post on it and, page, i often post on it and, you know , there's variety of you know, there's a variety of opinion often people will opinion and often people will feel something on feel negative about something on this one. it's been universal support. interesting. support. that's interesting. >> a single >> there hasn't been a single and heard haven't and we haven't heard we haven't heard republic heard anything from republic yet. think he yet. graham smith i think he normally his head above the normally puts his head above the parapet he's going parapet, but perhaps he's going to we're very lucky to have the >> we're very lucky to have the royal family. we're very lucky to have king charles. yeah uh, royal family. we're very lucky to h i/e king charles. yeah uh, royal family. we're very lucky to h i/e kingyouarles. yeah uh, royal family. we're very lucky to h i/e kingyou know, 'eah uh, royal family. we're very lucky to h i/e kingyou know, 90%jh, royal family. we're very lucky to h i/e kingyou know, 90% plus and i think, you know, 90% plus of the population would be wishing for to be back wishing for him to be back in full health. wishing for him to be back in fullbutalth. wishing for him to be back in fullbut ith. wishing for him to be back in fullbut i think can do both, >> but i think you can do both, because would wish him because i would wish him as a father and a husband and a grandfather, to be back to full health as possible. as a health as soon as possible. as a human being, but human being, of course. but i think it just raises that quite tncky think it just raises that quite tricky question about health care.

>> stay with us, tom. >> stay with us, tom. >> i've got to say, by the way, i did say keir starmer is in a republican. he isn't. he's an atheist. a royalist. so atheist. he is a royalist. so that forgive for that. that was forgive me for that. >> you've on the phone. >> you've been on the phone. >> you've been on the phone. >> did he get touch already? >> did he get in touch already? >> did he get in touch already? >> we know labour party >> because we know labour party watchers we are watchers quite right. we are going to get tom hunt's thoughts, of course, on the manhunt the camp, the manhunt for the camp, the chemical attack ezedi chemical attack at abdul ezedi and to asylum and his reaction to asylum seekers to christianity and his reaction to asylum se�*stay. to christianity and his reaction to asylum se�*stay in to christianity and his reaction to asylum se�*stay in britain. christianity and his reaction to asylum se�*stay in britain. (can't anity

very good morning. it's 948, still with us in the studios. conservative mp for ipswich, tom hunt. conservative mp for ipswich, tom hunt . uh, tom, let's look at hunt. uh, tom, let's look at this man hunt that's been going on. uh since wednesday last week . a man who has such significant facial injuries in the most surveilled city in the world. and somehow we can't find him. like, do you think that's a failure? of what the police . i'm failure? of what the police. i'm surprised they didn't release a description quicker on the night. i'm still a bit baffled

as to why that didn't happen. >> it seems utterly bizarre to me. i mean, i each day that goes by where he's not been caught or found is pretty extraordinary . found is pretty extraordinary. >> yeah, the fact they gave him £20,000 rewards they £20,000 rewards suggests they think he's being hidden. yeah, they we know they interviewed somebody connection with somebody in connection with potentially shelter potentially giving him shelter who's been released now. it could be they're following could be that they're following that thinking perhaps he that person thinking perhaps he is sheltering him. but there's also suggestion he may also a suggestion that he may have harm. other have come to some harm. in other words, could be words, he could be dead. >> i mean, you know, that >> well, i mean, you know, that wouldn't necessarily be the worst in the world, but we worst thing in the world, but we need to find out what's happened. yeah, it it's happened. and yeah, it it's looking again like the police, i'm afraid i'm a huge fan of the police, but it doesn't look like they're on top of it here. yeah, they're on top of it here. yeah, the frustration as well, tom, of coui'se. >> course. >> and lots of our viewers were messaging this last 6 or 7 days talking about this is the fact that this is a man who was a convicted of sex offences and still allowed to stay. he is one of these people who converted to christianity and had the blessing a local cleric to

blessing of a local cleric to say yes, he should be allowed to stay because he's now a christian. he's one of at least 3 or 4 that you can find with a very quick google search. as to the, um, illegal immigrants who've done this, well, we know how many are on the barge and 40. even yesterday, 40. thank you. even yesterday, 40. thank you. even yesterday, 40 bibby stockholm 40 on the bibby stockholm four of baptised yesterday. of them got baptised yesterday. yeah send a card. yeah we must send a card. um, and actually, what that say and actually, what does that say about this government's handling of immigration? of illegal immigration? >> look we know, >> well, look, we know, unfortunately , the archbishop of unfortunately, the archbishop of canterbury very focussed on canterbury is very focussed on trying disrupt any attempt to trying to disrupt any attempt to control migration. >> we know that he he believes essentially in open borders. we know he sets himself know that he sets himself against what majority of the pubuc against what majority of the public and frankly, we public think. and frankly, we know running the know that he's running the church into the ground and we know congregations under know that congregations under his and his stewardship, decline and decline decline . uh, you his stewardship, decline and declini decline . uh, you his stewardship, decline and declini thinkiecline . uh, you his stewardship, decline and declini think theree . uh, you his stewardship, decline and declini think there are h, you his stewardship, decline and declini think there are serious know, i think there are serious questions about the bishops and the don't, you the house of lords. i don't, you know, think their their know, and i think their their role in this is shameful. >> and he actually tabling >> and he he's actually tabling an amendment. >> archbishop >> the archbishop it's unbelievable . unbelievable. >> he's the leader of the anglican flock in the entire

world. tabling an world. and he's tabling an amendment to stop us to amendment to stop us trying to crack on illegal migration. crack down on illegal migration. >> interesting thing >> the interesting thing is, when churches, i, um, when i go to churches, i, um, you know , church of england you know, church of england congregations been congregations have never been solo. no, actually you go to solo. no, but actually you go to congregations to churches congregations to other churches that actually focus on the day job, is which is preaching job, which is which is preaching the gospel, and they're actually not bad. my advice not doing too bad. so my advice to him would probably be stick out politics, get out out of politics, get out of politics, stop people politics, stop lecturing people about fringe on about your fringe views on asylum, actually get on. asylum, and actually get on. >> with defending illegality. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and doing. but but it's but it's not illegal. >> this is the point, i suppose, is that you can convert. >> yeah, but crossing the crossing the channel is illegal. they're illegal migrants, i get it, but this is your government's rule and your government's rule and your government's legislation , which government's legislation, which is allowing these people to say, oh, i'm a christian and therefore i can't possibly be sent back to my islamic country. >> i've made my views incredibly clear over the last 3 or 4 years, which sort of changes i'd like to see to our asylum

regime. i voted for a number of amendments last month to produce the strongest possible rwanda bill. i mean, i think it's one thing, you know, if you can evidence that you've been a christian over in iran or somewhere like that , and you somewhere like that, and you were, you know, you were a christian long before you were illegally entered our country. um, and you could evidence that that'd one thing. but the that'd be one thing. but the idea of just converting when you're over here, and i'll be honest you, i've come honest with you, i've come across some of these individuals honest with you, i've come acrozhavene of these individuals honest with you, i've come acrozhavene of tr suddenly duals who have who've suddenly seen the they came over the lord since they came over here. probed them with here. and i've probed them with questions said, questions and i've said, oh, when you come? you know, when did you come? and you know, the on their faces the blank looks on their faces when you know, when i asked them, you know, i feared for a long time that this is incredibly prevalent. >> the system. >> they're gaming the system. >> they're gaming the system. >> are gaming the system. >> they are gaming the system. it's a huge in the armour of. so it's a huge in the armour of. so i think but ultimately, the problem of this is at problem of all of this is at what point going to put what point are we going to put british at what british citizens first? at what point to think point are we going to think about their interests, their safety, security? seems about their interests, their sa'me security? seems about their interests, their same that security? seems about their interests, their same that we're rity? seems about their interests, their same that we're puttingseems to me that we're putting everybody housing. everybody social housing. >> that going to happen? i'll >> is that going to happen? i'll look it going to be look about it. is it going to be in manner that we should

in the manner that we should only be giving social housing to british citizens? only be giving social housing to britabsolutely.? know, >> absolutely. um, you know, ultimately want people ultimately we only want people to this country. ultimately we only want people to only this country. ultimately we only want people to only british country. ultimately we only want people to only british citizens. what? >> only british citizens. what? you'd never give it to anybody else unless there's an incredibly good, good, good, good for good argument for it. >> i want people to get >> but my i want people to get social have been social housing have been here for period time, who for a long period of time, who have into it, who have paid have paid into it, who have paid into system, and who are into the system, and who are british citizens. i don't want to be giving as parts of to be giving it as parts of labour areas in london, where you've of those you've got almost 40% of those in aren't british citizens. >> me fl— >> let me ask you, you're a young man, and we had all this debate in the last couple of weeks about if we were going to go war. um, general go to war. and, um, general sanders, who said sanders, wasn't it, who said that? actually, he thinks that there be perhaps we would there should be perhaps we would we a citizen's army we would need a citizen's army at in next ten at some point in the next ten years. and what came out that years. and what came out of that debate how few young people, debate was how few young people, particularly say, young debate was how few young people, particulfighting say, young debate was how few young people, particulfighting say,feelng debate was how few young people, particulfighting say,feel that men of fighting age, feel that they for this country they would die for this country or someone else for this or kill someone else for this country. we have we got into country. we how have we got into that position with so little national loyalty? that position with so little nat unfortunately, that position with so little natunfortunately, think >> unfortunately, i think the education is of education system is part of a problem. i think particularly

universities, also schools. problem. i think particularly univ know, s, also schools. problem. i think particularly univ know, i also schools. problem. i think particularly univ know, i think lso schools. problem. i think particularly univ know, i think ito schools. problem. i think particularly univknow, i think it should ls. problem. i think particularly univknow, i think it should be problem. i think particularly uniexpliciti think it should be problem. i think particularly uniexplicit objective.;hould be problem. i think particularly uniexplicit objective. iould be problem. i think particularly uniexplicit objective. i think)e an explicit objective. i think when leave the when young people leave the education system, they should be proud country. that proud of their country. that doesn't thinking. doesn't mean thinking. we've always perfect. on doesn't mean thinking. we've alwywhole, perfect. on doesn't mean thinking. we've alwywhole, historically,ect. on doesn't mean thinking. we've alwywhole, historically, we've on the whole, historically, we've been a force good in the been a force for good in the world. they're world. and actually they're lucky born a brit. but lucky to be born a brit. but thatis lucky to be born a brit. but that is a collective problem of the right now. it's this, the west right now. it's this, this, this sort of self—defeating, this self—hating attitude which we need to confront. got to be confront. and we've got to be robust in doing so. so robust in doing so. um, so i think i think we can we can do that. got to have some that. we've got to have some optimism. can't overly optimism. we can't be overly fatalist, remain a great fatalist, like we remain a great country, but we our country, but we need in our schools. we need to be promoting patriotism and love of country should be not allowed to do that. >> tom tom hunt and pete. anyway, see you. talking anyway, good to see you. talking of national patriotism, we're looking at pictures from looking at live pictures from buckingham palace and we'll bnng buckingham palace and we'll bring latest updates on bring you the latest updates on king charles's king charles, king charles's health as we them. health as soon as we get them. this is britain's newsroom on gb news, people's channel for news, the people's channel for a brighter outlook boxt solar brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on gb news

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under clearer skies, a frosty start to wednesday, but a bright start to wednesday, but a bright start for northern england, northern ireland and scotland. still some sleet and snow showers for the north—west of scotland and increasingly for parts of northern ireland as well . bright parts of northern ireland as well. bright skies in parts of northern ireland as well . bright skies in between well. bright skies in between any wintry showers. actually, it's a bright day for many on wednesday , mostly to the north wednesday, mostly to the north of the m4 corridor to the south of the m4 corridor to the south of that, we do have lots of cloud and increasingly damp conditions that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> now up next, you're missing the former prime minister liz truss, on your tv screens. well, fear not, she's launching something called popular conservatism. this moment at the very she polish shown very time she a polish shown she's the most unpopular politician britain. this

i >> -- >> 10 am. on tuesday, the 6th of february. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> the king is starting treatment for cancer as world leaders wish him a swift recovery. our royal correspondent walker correspondent cameron walker has the latest . the latest. >> prime minister rishi sunak has revealed more details about the king's health diagnosis this morning. meanwhile prince harry has been spotted at an airport in los angeles ahead of his flight to london to spend time with his father. more details shortly. >> so, as cameron says, the duke of sussex is travelling to the uk to visit the king. but meghan markle will stay in the us with their two children and sick note britain long terme illnesses hit a record high 2.8 million, more than double the number of unemployed adults. >> and get this, civil servants took 1.8 million days off work in a single year, apparently due to long time sickness and popcorn launch later this morning, the former pm liz truss

will launch a new what she's calling popular conservatism movement, which aims to restore democratic accountability. >> ouch . rishi sunak, our >> ouch. rishi sunak, our political correspondent chris hope, is there . hope, is there. >> that's right. it's tuesday, so time for another group of tory mps to restore the party's fortunes in the polls. let's see if it works . if it works. >> and don't forget the prime minister is going to appear exclusively on gb news people's forum, an hour long q and a on the issues that matter most to you.so the issues that matter most to you. so let's hear what he thinks about it. >> hi rishi sunak here. join me for a special gb news people's forum live on monday the 12th of february. i want to hear about the issues that matter to you for your chance to be part of the audience and to put your questions to me. scan the qr code on screen or go to gb news. com see you there.

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news room 10:00. and our top story this morning. the prime minister says he's shocked and sad to hear of the king's cancer diagnosis, and says he's thankful that it was caught early . meanwhile, prince harry early. meanwhile, prince harry is expected to arrive in london later as his father undergoes treatment for an unspecified form of cancer. it's understood his majesty did tell his sons before buckingham palace made the announcement about his condition last night. palace officials are hoping the news encourages others who are affected by the illness . doctor affected by the illness. doctor david nato told gb news the king's early diagnosis was fortunate . fortunate. >> majesty the king has received what we call an incidental diagnosis of cancer, so he was discovered to have cancer as a result of some form of technical investigation. the details of which we don't know that has brought the doctors to the attention. and the hypothesis of cancen attention. and the hypothesis of cancer, which we now know is confirmed. so this is something that happens in less than 5 or 10% of the patients that suffer

from cancer. the vast majority of people will have some form of symptomatic presentation . well symptomatic presentation. well the prince of wales is expected to carry out some royal duties on the king's behalf while his treatment continues . treatment continues. >> meanwhile, well—wishers are pounng >> meanwhile, well—wishers are pouring in from world leaders . pouring in from world leaders. us president joe biden, whose own son died of cancer, said navigating a diagnosis like this takes hope and courage, while the australian prime minister, anthony albanese, wished his majesty a speedy recovery , the majesty a speedy recovery, the thoughts of all australians are with king charles and his family i >> -- >> we wish um >> we wish him very much a speedy recovery and a return to his duties as soon as possible . his duties as soon as possible. >> well, it comes as today. we've heard that cancer targets in the uk, across the nhs are still being missed, even for those that have already been diagnosed with the disease, as new data reveals that 1 in 10 are facing delays beyond the

recommended 31 days from diagnosis to treatment . and the diagnosis to treatment. and the figures also show that just 70% of those urgently referred received a first diagnosis within 28 days. that's below the 75% target. police say that they believe there are people who know the whereabouts of the man that suspect died in a recent chemical attack in london, who they say have chosen not to come forward. abdul ezedi is wanted in connection with the attack , in connection with the attack, which left a woman critically injured and now in danger of losing sight in her right losing the sight in her right eye. police are warning that anyone found to have assisted the suspect will face arrest . the suspect will face arrest. that's after a 22 year old man was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. he, though, has since been released on bail. zigi was last seen leaving tower hill tube station in east london just after 930 last wednesday evening . police last wednesday evening. police say anyone with information should contact them . the air

should contact them. the air safety and regulation of artificial intelligence is to get a £100 million boost, downing street says that they hope the funding will help make britain a leader in the emerging ai sector. a series of research hubs will be set up across the uk and regulators will be given training to tackle evolving challenges in fields such as finance, education and in healthcare . in other news, healthcare. in other news, a british cargo ship has been targeted by an unmanned drone in the red sea in the latest in a series of attacks by houthi rebels . it's understood the rebels. it's understood the vessel did suffer minor damage after it was hit by naval missiles around 60 miles off the coast of yemen . the ship had to coast of yemen. the ship had to make evasive manoeuvres before continuing its journey safely. we understand no injuries have been reported . houthi militants, been reported. houthi militants, who are backed by iran, have been targeting commercial ships in recent weeks as part of what they say is an act of solidarity with palestinians in gaza . the with palestinians in gaza. the well, in the last hour we've

heard that kwasi kwarteng has said he won't be standing at the next general election, he announced that decision on social saying that it had social media, saying that it had been an honour to serve his constituents since 2010. mr kwarteng served briefly as chancellor in september and october of 2022. for just 38 days. he was the second shortest serving chancellor in uk history under former prime minister liz truss . well, that comes as liz truss. well, that comes as liz truss. well, that comes as liz truss is set to launch today, a new movement aimed at rallying right wing conservatives ahead of this year's general election. the short lived prime minister is expected to address an event later in central london. she'll be joined there by ex cabinet minister sir jacob rees—mogg be joined there by ex cabinet minister sirjacob rees—mogg and also lee anderson, who recently, you may remember, quit as deputy party chairman over the rwanda bill. the new popular conservatives group, dubbed popcorn , aims to amplify calls popcorn, aims to amplify calls for tax cuts and tougher policies on immigration. and for

the latest stories , you can sign the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen right now, or go to gbnews.com. forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> so the prince of wales, the queen and other working royals will step up their royal duties while the king undergoes treatment for of cancer. treatment for a form of cancer. we're going to talk to our royal correspondent now, cameron walker, buckingham palace. >> cameron, morning . >> cameron, morning. >> cameron, morning. >> morning, andrew. yes, it's very much business as usual for other members of the royal family. but the big elephants in the room is, of course, that it was huge shock that our head was a huge shock that our head of state was diagnosed with a form cancer . of state was diagnosed with a form cancer. buckingham form of cancer. buckingham palace that a palace releasing that in a statement last night at 6:00 this morning, the prime minister, rishi sunak, has been speaking on the radio and he said that thankfully his cancer diagnosis has been caught early in medical experts will tell in any medical experts will tell you if cancer is caught you that if cancer is caught early far more easy

early enough, it's far more easy to treat . now we understand the to treat. now we understand the king started his treatment yesterday as an outpatient in the hospital, which means he's not going to be spending overnight in hospital. he's staying at clarence house. we believe in london, but he will believe in london, but he will be travelling to and from hospital for treatment . and then hospital for treatment. and then this morning, early this morning , prince harry's car was pictured at lax airport in los angeles , presumably to be flying angeles, presumably to be flying imminently to london to spend time with the king. now, we've been told that the king personally spoke to both his sons and indeed his siblings, to tell them of his diagnosis ahead of the public announcement from buckingham palace last night. it does perhaps show that the seriousness of the situation that prince harry, bearing in mind he's not on the best of terms of his father over the last few years, is willing to fly very short notice across the atlantic to be with his father and spend time with his father. now, the king is not going to be taking part in any public duties for the foreseeable future, but

he continuing with duties he is continuing with duties behind scenes. going behind the scenes. so going through his red boxes, signing government documents, attending through his red boxes, signing govercounciliocuments, attending through his red boxes, signing govercouncil meetings, attending through his red boxes, signing govercouncil meetings and ending privy council meetings and meeting the prime minister every week , of course, if his week, of course, is if his doctors advise it, he could well have to take part in those privy council meetings virtually rather than in person. but the palace are really keen that we're going speculate we're not going to speculate about exactly what the diagnosis is the king has, other than the fact it's not prostate cancer, which something that they which is something that they made last night. it's made clear last night. it's a separate issue. when he was being diagnosed with was being diagnosed with when he was being diagnosed with when he was being an enlarged being treated for an enlarged prostate weeks ago, that prostate a few weeks ago, that doctors found separate doctors found this separate issue . uh, doctors found this separate issue. uh, and of doctors found this separate issue . uh, and of course, it's a issue. uh, and of course, it's a tncky issue. uh, and of course, it's a tricky balance for buckingham palace, isn't it? because on the one hand, the king is a private individual. he has a right to privacy private medical privacy and private medical information, is our head information, but he is our head of state, and the public have a right to know about the health of state, and the public have a rigtheo know about the health of state, and the public have a rigthe monarch.»out the health of state, and the public have a rigthe monarch. ast the health of state, and the public have a rigthe monarch. as ithe health of state, and the public have a rigthe monarch. as i said,3alth of the monarch. as i said, no pubuc of the monarch. as i said, no public engagements will be carried the king is carried out, but the king is remaining we're told remaining positive. we're told by and looks by buckingham palace and looks forward to public forward to returning to public dufies forward to returning to public duties soon possible. but duties as soon as possible. but there's time frame on

there's been no time frame on that. >> okay. that. » okay. >> okay. thank you very much, cameron. buckingham >> okay. thank you very much, camer0|we're buckingham >> okay. thank you very much, camer0|we're goingyuckingham >> okay. thank you very much, camer0|we're going to kingham >> okay. thank you very much, camer0|we're going to comeim >> okay. thank you very much, camer0|we're going to come to palace, we're going to come to your views in just a moment, but let's talk now to former bbc royal correspondent michael cole. good morning, michael. royal correspondent michael cole. thanknorning, michael. royal correspondent michael cole. thanknornfor, michael. royal correspondent michael cole. thanknornforjoiningal. royal correspondent michael cole. thanknornforjoining us well, thank you for joining us this morning. um we've been reflecting michael , if you can reflecting michael, if you can hear me, if you're with us, he is on his way. we have been reflecting. michael. morning um, about the fact that we're using this word cancer shock . now, this word cancer shock. now, maybe andrew and i are sort of hard to shock, but i suppose it's upsetting , but it isn't it's upsetting, but it isn't shocking that a man of 75, when 50% of people get cancer, might find something during a procedure . um, but i think the procedure. um, but i think the reason that it is impactful, let's say , is the fact that he's let's say, is the fact that he's only had this forjob 18 months only had this for job 18 months as king, having waited in the wings for so long. and i guess it's the uncertainty that this provokes which makes this feel like there are bigger reverberations . reverberations. >> good morning. good morning andrew. you make some excellent

points there. we live in momentous times. you know, and a lot has changed since 6:00 last night , particularly that prince night, particularly that prince william will now be perforce have to take a more prominent role. something which perhaps he would have preferred to defer for a decade or so. he's going to be front and centre for quite a long time now, at the same time as he's looking after his wife, who we know has gone there, we see her in happier times. uh, gone through a quite major operation. the details of which are as yet undisclosed , which are as yet undisclosed, closed. so at the same time, prince william will, of course , prince william will, of course, know that his younger brother is in the country, and the chances of reconciliation , uh, are, of reconciliation, uh, are, i think, very slim . after prince think, very slim. after prince harry accused him of violence towards him and then made other allegations , cruel and unkind allegations, cruel and unkind allegations, cruel and unkind allegations against his wife and the princess of wales, even the

arrival of harry presents some problems because the treatment of cancer as the king is now going to undergo requires for people to stay away from other people to stay away from other people to stay away from other people to avoid infection. well, the terror is coming 5000 miles from california to, uh, of course, the biblical, um, uh , course, the biblical, um, uh, prodigal son is always welcome. but if you remember, in the bible it says father , when the bible it says father, when the son returned after being a wastrel and wasting his money, the father fell upon his neck, as it says in the saint james's bible, meaning he hugged him. well, i don't know how much hugging will be going on because the king will be advised very strongly by his doctors to avoid physical contacts with people , physical contacts with people, because it's all part of the treatment. you don't go near anybody who might, uh , bring anybody who might, uh, bring infection into your world. so it's just your immediate family, a circle. so a lot has changed,

andifs a circle. so a lot has changed, and it's going to be a lot of difficult thing. things happening. and of course, we are all taken aback by it. while we and the whole of gb community, gb news community and you, we all wish him the very best of good fortune . uh, he certainly good fortune. uh, he certainly seems to be taking it well. he seems to be taking it well. he seems to be showing an outward positive view , and that is only positive view, and that is only right and proper. and of course, uh, being positive is part of the road to recovery . the road to recovery. >> it's changed, hasn't it? even since the reign of the queen. because we were never told, were we, that the queen actually was, uh, had bone cancer, diagnosed perhaps a year before she died . perhaps a year before she died. and you wonder if she was in this position, if she'd have been as transparent as charles. although some people think , of although some people think, of course, he's going to have to be even transparent and tell even more transparent and tell us what the cancer us at some point what the cancer is because the is he's got, because of the speculation . speculation. >> you're absolutely right. and of that was the queen's of course, that was the queen's way in those days. you didn't talk it. and of course it

talk about it. and of course it was bone cancer. and that's why it advanced rapidly and it advanced so rapidly and killed her at the time, buckingham palace said it was just old age. i actually think the king and buckingham palace have done the right things from the very beginning. they have been as candid as they possibly could be, and they've seen the results. i think they'll be judging this. they'll be seeing the comment , judging this. they'll be seeing the comment, public comments and personal comments from people saying that was inspiration . i saying that was inspiration. i went out and got checked, i did this, i rang up this uh, uh, helpline . i went on to this helpline. i went on to this internet, uh, advice, uh, for forum and i think that is terrific. and i think when the king takes notice of that, i think maybe he will be even more forthright , right, about what think maybe he will be even more forthright, right, about what is ailing him . um, because that if ailing him. um, because that if you're looking for something good that might come out of it, thatis good that might come out of it, that is one of the few good things that would, uh, that people are being much more publicly aware of their own personal health and do something about it . about it. >> um, what do you think will be

going through prince william's mind at the moment? michael and i don't just mean in terms of a his son and being worried for his son and being worried for his dad, but i mean, in terms of his dad, but i mean, in terms of his professional life. this does pose that perhaps events might move more quickly than we might have anticipated 24 hours ago. >> yes, indeed . i mean, it was >> yes, indeed. i mean, it was always going to be compared with the late her majesty the queen's reign of 70 years. it was always going to be a short reign for king charles the third. but one could have hoped that it went on for a long time. i mean, the edwardian age was only nine years, but it, uh, king edward the seventh gave his name to an age which was viewed in retrospect as a golden age, and one hoped for one could have hoped for a carolean age that had some length to it. but of course, people do survive cancer, and they go on very effectively for a long, long time. but i think a lot is going through prince william's mind. he's put his family quite rightly. first,

front and centre . he's looking front and centre. he's looking after his children. he's looking after his children. he's looking after his children. he's looking after his wife and they are, quite rightly, his main priority. but but, but the demands of state, the demands of duty, are there for life isn't one long polo match and eventually one day he's going to have to be king. if all things go to according what we can anticipate . but there you see anticipate. but there you see him in happier times at smith's lawn playing polo, carefree . now lawn playing polo, carefree. now you know the head that wears the crown. also bears the difficulties that go with it. and i'm sure he will be concentrating on that. i'm sure he's ready to take his responsibility . he's ready to take his responsibility. he's he's ready to take his responsibility . he's taken he's ready to take his responsibility. he's taken his responsibilities by going the responsibilities by going to the raf, qualifying , uh, acting as raf, qualifying, uh, acting as an east anglian air ambulance pilot. he's seen life at the sharp end and he knows what's in store. and he's accepted it all. uh, after the death of his mother, he wasn't so sure, but then he. he knuckled down and he

said, right, this is my fate. this is my destiny. and he's embraced it. and there he is in much happier times with his beautiful wife, uh, accepting a trophy. well he'll be doing quite a bit of that in the future. and i actually think you couldn't have anybody better doing it. mean, a surprise doing it. i mean, a surprise pole to me in america , he was pole to me in america, he was the most popular man in the whole world. uh, and that is quite saying. quite something . quite saying. quite something. >> wow. yeah. >> wow. yeah. >> okay , michael, good to see >> okay, michael, good to see you.thank >> okay, michael, good to see you. thank you so much for your insight this morning, michael cole, there, former bbc royal correspondent. let's see what you've at home. you've been saying at home. duncan king is duncan has said king charles is very treatment so very lucky to get treatment so quickly. of us still have quickly. some of us still have 43 weeks of a 52 week wait to see consultant an initial see a consultant for an initial consultation. that's what i was alluding earlier. does alluding to earlier. it does pull into focus this situation on nhs with how many people on the nhs with how many people are waiting. >> yeah, i'm looking at >> yeah, i'm just looking at some of the figures here. 62, >> yeah, i'm just looking at som> yeah, i'm just looking at som> yeah, i'm just looking at som> yeah, i'm just looking at som> the target 85% it's

>> the target is 85% and it's only 60. >> and the british medical association estimates a four week delay to cancer surgery . week delay to cancer surgery. imagine the chaos that was caused by covid can lead to an 8% increased risk of dying, which is why they're not hanging around with the king. >> yeah, absolutely. marion says sending you best wishes and prayers for a speedy recovery. your majesty, a your majesty, you are a wonderful your wife, wonderful monarch and your wife, queen prince queen camilla and prince and princess are a princess of wales are also a credit to country, adrian credit to our country, adrian says. let's hope well, says. let's hope he does well, but i sorry for the cancer but i feel sorry for the cancer patients on the nhs who are losing their lives because of the the politicians the way the politicians have totally and totally mismanaged the nhs and our country . and tim says can our country. and tim says can you imagine having to put up with everyone wanting to wish you the best, putting in you all the best, putting in their £0.02? it must be absolutely to go absolutely exhausting to go through and actually through that. and actually i thought ingrid made thought that ingrid seward made an interesting point earlier that arriving here. that prince harry arriving here. yeah, at actually probably does complicate issues. know complicate issues. you know what it's when there's a bit it's like when there's a bit of a at home, particularly if a drama at home, particularly if one is ill or something, one of you is ill or something, and suddenly the black sheep of the family come back the family decides to come back and goes,

and pay a visit, everyone goes, oh, we've got quite a lot to deal with. and now he's going to the son. exactly. the prodigal son. yeah, exactly. or maybe i'm just way too cynical, they cynical, and maybe they are delighted that this this is a silver lining to this cloud, that prince will arrive that prince harry will arrive and with his family again. >> it crossed my mind he might come with his daughter, lilibet, which would be really lovely. that king that would, because the king hasn't for her very long hasn't seen for her a very long time. you've her once and time. you've seen her once and she's enough to travel. she's old enough to travel. yeah, and she has got the name of late queen. yeah, the pet of the late queen. yeah, the pet name. but we understand he's here, coming on his own. i guess the children are staying at home with their mum. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i'm glad she's not coming. and is seen as very and in fact, she is seen as very divisive. >> surprises me that you >> that surprises me that you are she's not coming. are glad she's not coming. andrew says kind to andrew tim says be kind to harry. families have harry. many families have a black that becomes black sheep sibling that becomes estranged. appear estranged. while it may appear that foolish , there that he's been foolish, there are many at work are often many dynamics at work that the that contribute to the situation. going back for years. >> well, he's despair and he's found it difficult. >> yeah, princess margaret >> yeah, and princess margaret had too, as the spur. had issues too, as the spur. >> absolutely right. still to come former prime come this morning. former prime minister a new

minister is launching a new popular movement popular conservative movement in london. this morning. she was the shortest serving prime minister in uk history. >> and she's now currently the most unpopular politician in britain , with an approval rating britain, with an approval rating of minus 54, according to poll. >> she is, however, a big fan of gb news so we are going to tell you what she's doing. this is

news radio show . news radio show. >> it's 1024. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so liz truss, remember her? the shortest serving prime minister history. person minister in history. the person who . i think there's who apparently. i think there's two sides this story, but two sides to this story, but she's accused crashing the pound. >> well , there was a lot of >> well, there was a lot of financial skulduggery on financial skulduggery going on before a of before there was a lot of financial skulduggery. >> know, i'm >> and i think, you know, i'm not biggest liz truss fan in not the biggest liz truss fan in the world, but i think she's taken a lot of flak for that. and i think it was and i don't think it was entirely her responsibility. >> well, at an event this morning, she's going to launch a

new popular new movement called popular conservatism, and it's try conservatism, and it's to try to rally wing mps ahead rally right wing tory mps ahead of election, which know of the election, which we know is coming later this year. >> this is i find it a bit >> but this is i find it a bit baffling because popular conservatism couldn't find a more in more unpopular spokesperson in according they tried. >> so joining us is >> so joining us now is political editor christopher hope. morning christopher. political editor christopher hopelook morning christopher. political editor christopher hopelook she's'ning christopher. political editor christopher hopelook she's she] christopher. political editor christopher hopelook she's she is hristopher. political editor christopher hopelook she's she is a istopher. political editor christopher hopelook she's she is a divisive. now look she's she is a divisive character liz truss. and i think she is the butt of a lot of jokes because of what happened under her short premiership ship. um, but it seems that within the conservative party she, she does still wield a lot of power, influence and popularity amongst this very small group. but who are they ? small group. but who are they? >> yeah. morning and andrew. morning, bev. yeah. more than that. it's about the grassroots . that. it's about the grassroots. that's where liz truss finds her voice . and we saw that at last voice. and we saw that at last year's tory party conference. well, it's tuesday time for another group of tories concerned about the direction of the government. and with me now is mark littlewood, who's the director of popular conservatism. mark you're the former director of the

former director general of the institute affairs . institute for economic affairs. why are you here and what is popcorn? >> this is an enormous project and you know , i've got a bit of and you know, i've got a bit of and you know, i've got a bit of a frog in my throat and a bit of a frog in my throat and a bit of a pit in my stomach. having undertaken this huge task. chris. but listen, this is what we're about. some people have said to are you mad? setting said to me, are you mad? setting up an organisation where the two words popular and words are popular and conservative ism? but i actually think conservatives ism is popular, can be made popular amongst vast swathes of the electorate. but the vision that we in the popcorn movement share is that there needs to be a major institutional overhaul of the british machinery of government. if you like the system is pretty much rigged at the moment against achieving conservative ends. we've had, what, nearly 40 years of conservative led governments, but taxes is higher than at any point since the 1940s. government spending at its highest in our lifetimes . not highest in our lifetimes. not many people saying how great pubuc many people saying how great public services are debt and deficit have become the norm.

regulations come out every day, so we've got to change the infrastructure. there's too many quangos, too much unaccountable authority. restoration authority. we need a restoration and of how britain and a reset of how britain works. but you there, works. but as you say there, you've had as a conservative you've had you as a conservative movement, had 14 years. movement, have had 14 years. >> is it do you need this group because centre isn't because the centre isn't listening to the base. is that what the point is? i look, the conservatives are massive family and we want to actually engage on the grass roots side. >> side. there are famously supposedly five different families of conservative parliamentarians. i think the media call it the five families to bring up echoes of the five mafia families in new york in the 1930s. we're not trying to replicate or replace that in any way. we're trying to reach out to the many tens of thousands, millions of people who share a conservative vision across the country and shine a light on the way that britain's governmental system doesn't work . and if you system doesn't work. and if you don't fix that governmental system, trying to get to lower taxes or less regulation or more efficient government spending is

essentially an exercise in pushing water uphill, you might get a bit of the way there, but not much. >> is this a vehicle for nigel farage and the like of him? >> no, it's not a vehicle for nigel farage or indeed for any other individual . indeed, i've other individual. indeed, i've made it plain in the newspapers over the weekend. i think rishi sunak considered sunak should be considered immovable of the immovable as the leader of the conservative party this isn't any of shadow campaign . any kind of shadow campaign. it's only about the ideas which you'll hear at our launch. starting in, what, just about half an hour? chris and it's open to mps and members to join. >> how members and mps >> and how many members and mps do you have so far? >> well, we haven't sought particularly to recruit mps. they're target that they're actually the target that we sort of influence. we want to sort of influence. but can see behind me the but you can see behind me the rooms filling up nicely here. we could got than 1000 could have got more than 1000 people event. i've had people to this event. i've had to turn people . to reluctantly turn away people. i realise how popular i didn't realise how popular popular conservativism might be. we've already got many thousands who've signed up on our database. that's only a very, very small step. i think it's time that there is a popular

concert of grass movement concert of grass roots movement in the uk making this case, and although we're launching in westminster today in heart westminster today in the heart of westminster bubble , we'll of the westminster bubble, we'll be message out right be taking our message out right across country in the weeks across the country in the weeks and months to come. >> you won't be standing >> but you won't be standing a candidate an election. you're candidate as an election. you're not the tory party in not a rival to the tory party in that sense. >> no, no, we're within the conservative family completely within the it's not a separate political it's political party. it's not a vehicle for anybody's leadership campaign. get campaign. it's trying to get a conservative across. in conservative vision across. in the conservative manifesto for, what's an election year. of course, chris. >> well, thank you, mark. i think andrew and bev you've got a question i can put mark a question i can put to mark littlewood for you. >> i'm really interested in this, actually. christopher, how are different are these guys different to these conservatives? the these new conservatives? the suella braverman the suella braverman allies, the miriam cates, the jacob rees—mogg, the danny kruger ? rees—mogg, the danny kruger? what's difference between what's the difference between those two right leaning conservative groups ? conservative groups? >> mark bev turner is asking me to ask you , what's the to ask you, what's the difference between you and the new conservatives? >> i think the new conservative. there's a plethora of different

groups here. what makes us unique this focus that i just unique is this focus that i just said to you, chris, that there needs to be massive institutional in britain. institutional reform in britain. it's conservative it's not about conservative ends. about changing the ends. it's about changing the machinery of government. and i think unique putting think we're unique in putting that loud and clear. that forward loud and clear. >> mark littlewood, >> archewell mark littlewood, thank of the new thank you. the head of the new popular and my popular conservatives. and to my right i can see nigel farage doing selfies with people here who will be hearing from him on this show very shortly. back to you. >> we are. that's right. thank you. chris. we're going to talk to nigel hopefully to nigel very soon. hopefully when doing his when he stopped doing his selfies . nigel, trying to selfies. nigel, we're trying to call your phone down how. >> now. >> still to come, the latest research shows the pension age >> still to come, the latest re going shows the pension age >> still to come, the latest re going to ows the pension age >> still to come, the latest re going to have he pension age >> still to come, the latest re going to have to pension age >> still to come, the latest re going to have to be 1sion age >> still to come, the latest re going to have to be pushed e >> still to come, the latest re going to have to be pushed up is going to have to be pushed up again. we'll tell you in a moment what it's going to go up to. i think you'd be very happy all after your morning's news with sam. >> it's just gone. 1030. the headunes >> it's just gone. 1030. the headlines from the gb news room this hour. the prime minister says he's shocked and sad to hear of the king's cancer

diagnosis , and says he's diagnosis, and says he's thankful that it was caught early. meanwhile, prince harry is expected to arrive in london later as his father undergoes treatment for that unspecified form of cancer . it's understood form of cancer. it's understood his majesty told his sons before buckingham palace made the announcement about his condition last night. and palace officials say they hope the news encourages others who are affected by the illness . as . affected by the illness. as. meanwhile, the prince of wales is expected to carry out some royal duties on the king's behalf, while his treatment continues. well—wishers are pounng continues. well—wishers are pouring in from world leaders with the us president, joe biden, whose own son died of cancen biden, whose own son died of cancer, saying that navigating a diagnosis takes hope and courage while the australian prime minister, anthony albanese , minister, anthony albanese, wished his majesty a speedy recovery , police say they recovery, police say they believe there are people who know the whereabouts of the man suspected in a recent chemical attack, who they say have chosen

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sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> we're going to go back to westminster for the launch of popular conservatives as our political editor, chris hope is joined by nigel farage. >> morning, chris. >> morning, chris. >> yes, welcome back to here in westminster morning. with me now is nigel farage, who's the honorary president of the reform party, and also, of course, a presenter gb news why are you presenter on gb news why are you here? well two reasons. >> one of is gb >> number one of course, is gb news. covering this news. i'll be covering this tonight. i'm interested tonight. secondly i'm interested in . i didn't spend 25 in ideas. i didn't spend 25 years in ukip without being interested in ideas, and i have a sense that a lot of what's going today by liz going to get said today by liz truss and others will be very popular amongst conservative activists concerned voters and a broader country as well. and yet have a look around this room. how many current serving concert active members of parliament are here? i think less than a handful . and so the point really handful. and so the point really is that whilst i agree with many of the things, not all, but many of the things, not all, but many of the things that liz truss is

saying within the conservative parliamentary party, she's part of an embattled minority . of an embattled minority. >> are you joining this group? no no, no, i'm not joining this group . group. >> i'm interested in the ideas and i think after the conservatives get thrashed at the next election, which, by the way, they thoroughly, thoroughly deserve , then i think maybe deserve, then i think maybe finally we'll get a reuniting of the rising british politics. it was briefly presented to the electorate in december 2019. it won the 80 seat majority. the problem was the conservative party never really believed in the things they were putting to the things they were putting to the electorate. now i think a big part of this is just how well reform do every vote reform gets, makes a realignment of some kind more likely , make some kind more likely, make labour more likely to be in government . i think labour have government. i think labour have won anyway. i think this this this this argument. oh, don't vote reform. you'll let labour in forget it. labour are going to win anyway. >> andrew and bev, that's >> well andrew and bev, that's sir farage, they're sir nigel farage, they're the

honorary reform and honorary president of reform and also presenter on gb news honorary president of reform and also fascinating,n gb news honorary president of reform and also fascinating, fascinating right. >> thank you chris. thank you nigel and nigel be talking of course on gb news tonight 7:00. now in a new gb news series innovation britain, we are looking at the success of british manufacturing around the country . country. >> reacting a fire suppression have just won a huge contract out in dubai. all because of their infrastructure that ed here has created in chelmsford . here has created in chelmsford. so tell me the story ed. >> so we obviously produce fire systems for one of the areas we produce fire systems for his vehicles. so what we're seeing across the world is a huge investment into the fire protection on vehicles . you're protection on vehicles. you're starting to see it more on social media. battery fires are becoming a thing on buses and coaches. so but in for the most of the part, a lot of public transport is still based transport is still diesel based or based. so we we've done

or gas based. so we we've done a massive retrofit campaign in dubai that involves a huge quantity of parts systems that involves huge quantity of machine parts, um, and, and it's a big logistical challenge not only to supply the systems, but for the guys and our partner out there to install them. um, but what the investment that we've done here enables us to do is produce the quantity of parts that we need to get out the door in order to do the supply, and it keeps for the biggest it keeps for me the biggest important with that important point with that contract other contracts is contract and other contracts is by being here, don't by being being here, we don't need to hold the stock levels like a lot would for the like a lot of oems would for the inevitable. order might inevitable. this order might come in. this order in come in. this order comes in when we a particular order when we get a particular order in. making parts in. we're just making the parts we for that particular we need for that particular contract. unlike with contract. so unlike with a subcontractor, need hold subcontractor, i'd need to hold all parts in stock . all of these parts in stock. i've now got a very dynamic stock system where big order comes in. we make the parts behind comes in. we make the parts beithere it. brilliant >> there you have it. brilliant thinking ahead of that, you're ahead of your game. you're thinking proofing thinking about future proofing the and the industry. the business and the industry. congratulations. i think you're going really well

>> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> 1041 it's britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson, bev turner. and in the studio, we've got lovely nigel nelson, our senior political commentator and author and broadcaster and the author and broadcaster tanya buxton. >> funnily during >> and funnily enough, during the outbreak, we were just talking the fact that talking about the fact that tanya does look old enough tanya does not look old enough to 27 old daughter to have a 27 year old daughter and looks much older and that nigel looks much older than really is. than he really is. >> and that brings us on to >> yes. and that brings us on to the new retirement age. >> thank you. oh, there you go. >> thank you. oh, there you go. >> i'm joking. although that smoking much smoking doesn't do you much good. it makes good. although i know it makes you now. retirement age you happy now. retirement age being to potentially 71. being lifted to potentially 71. but isn't few years but this isn't a few years though, nigel, right? but this isn't a few years though, i\itiel, right? but this isn't a few years though, i\it would tl? but this isn't a few years though, i\it would be few years. >> i mean, you're talking about 66 now. 67 from 2026, then 68 from 2044. that's the plan at the moment. um, had we actually done something about all this 50

years ago when we knew there was an ageing population, the problems it would cause ? um, you problems it would cause? um, you could have actually raised the pension, the state pension age, very, very gradually. so you'd hardly notice it, say , a month, hardly notice it, say, a month, a year over that period . but a year over that period. but governments were too concerned about votes and they just, they ignored it. so now we're in crisis . if ignored it. so now we're in crisis. if you are going to raise the pension age, you're going to have to bring in some more laws to stop employers , more laws to stop employers, workers getting rid of older workers getting rid of older workers , because there's this workers, because there's this huge gap that that exists between people being laid off from the from the jobs they've had for ages and then having to wait for a pension. um the default, the default pension age where a company could retire you at 65, that's gone . the trouble at 65, that's gone. the trouble is, they now make people redundant instead. and if they've got to wait years for a pension, there's a real problem . pension, there's a real problem. >> is this going to be nigel? if we bring in tanya, is this is going labour's watch going to be on labour's watch because tories aren't going going to be on labour's watch be d01se tories aren't going

going to be on labour's watch be do this tories aren't going going to be on labour's watch be do this beforees aren't going going to be on labour's watch be do this before a aren't going going to be on labour's watch be do this before a generaloing election. >> no, they wouldn't, they wouldn't touch it before a general election. and we'll see what with that. what labour do with that. i mean, is difficult one mean, this is a difficult one for this is actually for them. yeah. this is actually from a think tank. it's not from a think tank. so it's not a policy or anything like that. but yes, i mean the pension age will have to rise because the cost prohibitive. >> and i was just gonna say, tony, in the way that politicians have kicked this into long grass, think into the long grass, i think a lot individuals also do when lot of individuals also do when it our pension age. it comes to our pension age. it's not necessarily something, it's we sit it's just something we sit around about around thinking about or planning for. >> and those of us >> we don't. and those of us that do and set up things that do and have set up things in order not have to wait for in order not to have to wait for a government pension. yeah, being government being trashed by the government to any of the to try and keep any of the things we trying to things that we were trying to do. you know, a lot of do. like, you know, a lot of people i know had a buy to let second homes, like that, second homes, things like that, thinking, right, okay, that'll be pension. and because of be my pension. and because of what have done what the government have done recently with the insurance, everyone's sell everyone's having to sell everything. they're you everything. so they're not, you know, big, ruthless know, which means big, ruthless landlords snap the properties. >> they can be bad landlords. yes, >> they can be bad landlords. yes big companies. because all >> big companies. so because all the i know who have

the people that i know who have got let properties, for got buy to let properties, for example, was for their example, it was for their pension. yeah, yeah. and now and they're you they're great landlords you know, it's one little, know, because it's one little, 1 or 2 buildings that they or 2 little buildings that they care a lot about. whereas once these big companies it, these big companies get it, forget don't know forget it. so i don't know what's to happen. you what's going to happen. if you were telling now that, you were telling me now that, you know, a of job know, i've got a kind of job that i'm maybe not love and have to it till i'm 71 years to then do it till i'm 71 years old and would be very old and i would be very distressed about this. mean, distressed about this. i mean, if rules going to if these rules were going to come now, then anybody who's come in now, then anybody who's at the age 53 would be at the age of 53 would be thinking about working till 71. isn't much about the fact isn't it as much about the fact that we don't savings that we don't have a savings culture at all anymore, particularly younger generation? >> nigel. very spendy. generation? >> well,. very spendy. generation? >> well, i very spendy. generation? >> well, i mean, very spendy. generation? >> well, i mean, obviouslyidy. generation? >> well, i mean, obviously when you're you don't think you're young, you don't think about pension. mean, about your pension. i mean, they just don't. think the real just don't. um, i think the real problem there and this where problem there, and this is where where workers might start where young workers might start resenting at the moment. resenting it at the moment. three and a half, half workers work to provide the pensions of existing pensioners. this myth, the idea that you save for your own pension and you actually pay for the current pensioners. and

so it goes on, um, what's going to happen . by 2030 is that only to happen. by 2030 is that only two and a half workers will be supporting pensioners. that means they're going to be paying more in tax . so there is a point more in tax. so there is a point where i've not noticed any resentment by younger people paying resentment by younger people paying for pensioners. but i wonder if that might in fact happenin wonder if that might in fact happen in the future . yeah. happen in the future. yeah. >> going back to what you said about nobody saves anymore, this, this, this all happened dunng this, this, this all happened during the blair time where he was giving credit cards for, was giving out credit cards for, you know, like they were toffees and worrying about getting and not worrying about getting payment . everyone feel payment back. everyone felt feel good that stuff good britain, all of that stuff because everyone had cash to spend because suddenly everyone could have this. i mean, there was haloed figure. was was a haloed figure. it was about people into about 130 k that people get into debt because he wanted debt till all because he wanted everybody to be able to spend and good while he was prime and feel good while he was prime minister and now everyone's suffering that pre that suffering from that pre that time, people were saving and this is the problem now we've got to get out of that kind of and also and interest rates.

>> of course we had such low interest rates for long that interest rates for so long that people mind getting into people didn't mind getting into a bit of debt, whereas a little bit of debt, whereas now obviously it's all gone a bit wrong. right. thanks guys. great next though, great start up next though, a story which is infuriating andrew and i. it for andrew and i. is it right for a coffee to refuse cash and coffee shop to refuse cash and accept cards only? it probably happens you. we'll tell you happens to you. we'll tell you whether do

listening to jb news radio. >> they're still with us nigel. >> they're still with us nigel. >> luckily they haven't left antonio buxton and we're going to talk about the coffee shop that's outraged us. right, tanya should you got for me. so we're seeing this , aren't we? we go seeing this, aren't we? we go into shops and you might have some coins you want to pay with money. also. we don't take money. they also. we don't take cash anymore. are they allowed to legally? to do that legally? >> don't think they were. >> i don't think they were. and so recently i was in a pub in having lunch pub with a having lunch in a pub with a couple girlfriends in couple of girlfriends in hampstead they sorry, hampstead and they said, sorry, we cash. and we said, we don't take cash. and we said, well, and they well, we don't do card. and they said, we had this whole said, and we had this whole stand it a whole thing.

stand off, it was a whole thing. and they went off to get the manager, the manager came back, whatever. in we whatever. and in the end we thought, we're leaving now. we just table just left the cash on the table and left because we thought and we left because we thought we in legal rights, but we were in our legal rights, but actually we weren't. >> you're watching this >> if you're watching this happen, how was this? >> if you're watching this happen,might vas this? >> if you're watching this happen,might getthis? >> if you're watching this happen,might get your collar >> you might get your collar felt you out of here felt when you walk out of here today, didn't you? >> did we allow this to >> how did we allow this to happen? allow to happen? how did we allow to covid lock downs? happen? how did we allow to co\you're lock downs? happen? how did we allow to co\you're an lock downs? happen? how did we allow to co\you're an older downs? happen? how did we allow to co\you're an older person. >> you're an older person. >> you're an older person. >> what have you? my mother never had a credit card. >> this the free >> i blame this on the free enterprise bit because, i mean, that's what's happened, isn't it? cards are it? that the credit cards are easier for owners. they're easier for shop owners. they're easier for shop owners. they're easier banks. and so and easier for banks. and so and that's why pushing cash that's why it's pushing cash out. but, um, what we should have that have i mean, the fact that obviously can take obviously someone can, can take the whichever the payment in whichever way they that's but they choose, that's fine, but they choose, that's fine, but they advertise so they should advertise it. so before into a shop, there before you go into a shop, there should be something the should be something on the window. no cash, only credit cards and the best way of actually getting them to take cash with feet. cash is to vote with your feet. yeah. see that right. yeah. when you see that right. well go we'll go next door well we'll go we'll go next door and make sure they know that. >> go in and say i'm not i'm

>> but go in and say i'm not i'm not here because you because you won't cash. won't accept my cash. >> going to go over the >> so i'm going to go over the road and go and get a coffee or whatever be. road and go and get a coffee or whtthat's be. road and go and get a coffee or whtthat's only be. road and go and get a coffee or whtthat's only going to work >> that's only going to work with little independent. yes. so if one of the kind if you go into one of the kind of chains like i know gail's or starbucks these places, they, starbucks or these places, they, the care, they won't the staff don't care, they won't even they won't say even they won't even say anything. and it's just wrong. it illegal to take it should be illegal to not take cash. feel the law cash. that's what i feel the law should in. should step in. >> it's legal tender. yeah >> it's legal tender. yeah >> legal tender. >> legal tender. >> there you go. exactly. isn't that terrible? >> think terrible that >> i think it's terrible that we've got. >> i think think so as >> no, i think i think so as well. mean, i think that well. i mean, i think that especially older especially for older or vulnerable people really vulnerable people who really rely i mean, if rely on cash, um, i mean, if you're doing things like travelling place, travelling around the place, you can on a, you do it on can do it on a, you do it on a credit card. i mean, i, i hardly ever use cash. i have £100 in my pocket. >> i always have cash in my pocket. i've got there. >> but i mean, i haven't. it may have been there for the last three months. yeah, but other people i mean, you never buy a dnnk is people i mean, you never buy a drink is that you get drink that is that you get someone else buy it. but if someone else to buy it. but if you to catch a bus or

you want to catch a bus or something that and all something like that and all you've got is cash, that's a whole different ball game. >> yeah, yeah, you >> yeah, yeah, yeah, you can literally lack of literally it's about lack of choice, it? choice, isn't it? >> that's infuriates me. >> that's what infuriates me. >> that's what infuriates me. >> yes, exactly. that people cash like a barometer of cash is also like a barometer of what you're spending. >> of our >> so yeah, one of our producers, dean here, was saying that go to that his dad would then go to the point, take his money the cash point, take his money out before he went to the pub and when that money was gone, it was gone. >> time home. >> time to go home. >> time to go home. >> so it's time go home. we >> so it's time to go home. we don't that anymore. it's don't have that anymore. it's much easier to spend, spend, spend on the card and getting into right. and into debt right. and overspending into debt right. and overspenryou're you're spending. see what you're you're spending. >> should we talk >> um, right. should we talk about this chemical attacker in clapham to stay clapham who managed to stay in the because converted the country because he converted to christians? nigel, it turns out alone. there's 40 out he's not alone. there's 40 of on bibby stockholm of them on the bibby stockholm at waiting become at the moment, waiting to become christian can stay christian so that they can stay in it's just in this country. it's just gaming system, isn't it? gaming the system, isn't it? >> you say before? >> didn't you say before? >> didn't you say before? >> were baptised yesterday. >> were baptised yesterday. we're card. >> were baptised yesterday. we'yeah. card. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> um, yeah. and i think this is where the home office come in. that got to rigorously that they've got to rigorously enforce asylum and if

enforce asylum rules. and if people the system, people are gaming the system, yes, should should be dealt yes, they should should be dealt with. is a home office with. but this is a home office matter. it doesn't mean the whole broken. the whole thing is broken. the home office very quiet office are being very quiet about this case the moment. about this case at the moment. they well, they won't explain. well, there's the there's no evidence at the moment as i can see. he moment as far as i can see. he actually did convert to christianity. he talked to christianity. well he talked to a church and anglican a baptist church and an anglican church. no, but we church. yeah, but no, but we can't seem to find the person at the can't find the moment. we can't find the person who is meant to have actually signed off on his christianity. question christianity. so the question is how home office assess how does the home office assess this in the same way how do this in the same way they how do they somebody who claims this in the same way they how do th> she's going to blow. >> the system is wrong. and the system is broken. what are you talking nigel? it's talking about, nigel? it's completely no. >> for a few cases, it's not

broken. okay? >> come on. this is. >> this is 40 on the on the baby. alone. you know, baby. stockholm alone. you know, i you that. i tell you that. >> go on. »- >> go on. i >>-let >> go on. - >>-let her >> go on. >> let her explode. >> tanya, let her explode. >> tanya, let her explode. >> being completely utterly >> being completely and utterly ridiculed this ridiculed in this country, this man is yazidi. if i pronounce it right, he has harmed three women, has been. he's women, okay? he has been. he's already done time or been a sex offender. he's been in prison. he's been denied twice. and now he's a christian. he's still in the country. the system is broken. he should have been kicked as soon as somebody kicked out. as soon as somebody does offence, does a sexual offend offence, you're don't care even if you're out. i don't care even if you've been granted asylum, as soon as you break our laws, you're out the system is broken in we need to get in this country. we need to get firm. in this country. we need to get firnyeah. don't care if you >> yeah. i don't care if you become a vicar. >> a really interesting >> there's a really interesting letter today from a letter in the times today from a cleric saying even do, cleric saying even when we do, somebody is baptised. there's no way of checking up if they are serious about yeah. and serious about it. yeah. and that's trouble with these that's the trouble with these asylum serious about ending >> we are serious about ending the we're not the show right now. we're not we're anywhere. we're we're not going anywhere. we're just a break. but don't just taking a break. but don't go anywhere. >> brighter outlook with boxt

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[film at 11 am. on tuesday the 6th of february, this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. >> very good morning. >> so the king's cancer diagnosis as the king starts cancer treatment. world leaders have wished a swift have wished him a swift recovery. royal recovery. our royal correspondent cameron walker has the latest . king charles is the latest. king charles is staying at clarence house after day one of treatments yesterday for cancer. >> meanwhile, the duke of sussex is thought to be flying across the atlantic as we speak to be in london to spend time with his father and the clapham chemical attacker. >> the search is now in its sixth day for abdul ezedi azadi, the £20,000 reward for any information. his whereabouts remains in place and sick. >> note britain long terme illness hits a record high at 2.8 million people. that's more than double the number of unemployed adults . are we more unemployed adults. are we more health conscious or just skiving ? >> and the 7 >> and the prime minister will appear exclusively on gb news people forum . an hour long q&a people forum. an hour long q&a on the issues that matter most to you. this is what mr sunak

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headlines francis . headlines with sam francis. >> bev and andrew, thank you very much. it's just gone. 11:00 the latest on our top story this morning. the prince of wales is expected to carry out some royal dufies expected to carry out some royal duties on his father's behalf. that's while the king's treatment for an unspec form of cancer continues . prince harry cancer continues. prince harry is also, we understand , expected is also, we understand, expected to arrive in london soon. it's understood his majesty did tell his sons about his diagnosis this before buckingham palace made the announcement last night. palace officials are hoping the news encourages others who are affected by the illness. doctor david pinato told gb news the king's early diagnosis was fortunate . diagnosis was fortunate. >> majesty this king has received what we call an incidental diagnosis of cancer, so he was discovered to have cancer as a result of some form of technical investigation. the details of which we don't know that has brought the doctors to the attention and the hypothesis of cancer, which we now know is confirmed. so this is something

that happens in less than 5 or 10% of the patients that suffer from cancer. the vast majority of people will have some form of symptomatic presentation . symptomatic presentation. >> rishi sunak has also said he's shocked and sad to hear of the king's diagnosis, but said he's thankful it was caught early. meanwhile, members of the pubucin early. meanwhile, members of the public in london have also expressed their best wishes for his recovery . his majesty's recovery. >> sounds nice. i mean, like his whole family feud thing seems a bit silly in my opinion, as your make up and hopefully this bnngs make up and hopefully this brings them together a little bit more. i mean, know, he's bit more. i mean, you know, he's got come back to see his got to come back to see his barber, hasn't he? >> i mean, it's the right thing to do. >> this is our first time to london and we're kind of like, oh yeah, we saw it last night. oh no. saw the headline last oh no. we saw the headline last night. that happens. was night. that happens. it was yeah. prayers are yeah. sad. yeah. our prayers are with so yeah. and his with them. so yeah. and his family. comes as cancer family. so it comes as cancer targets across the nhs are still being missed even for those that have already been diagnosed with

the disease. >> new data has revealed that 1 in 10 in the uk face delays beyond the recommended 31 days from diagnosis to treatment. the figures also show that just 70% of those urgently referred received a first diagnosis within 28 days. that's below . within 28 days. that's below. the 75% target. police say they do believe there are people that know the whereabouts of the man that suspected in a recent chemical attack in london, who they say have chosen not to come forward. abdul ezedi is wanted in connection with the attack that left a woman critically injured and in danger of losing the sight in her right eye. police are also warning that anyone found to have assisted the suspect will, they say face arrest? that's after a 22 year old man was arrested on suspicion assisting an suspicion of assisting an offender . he, though, has since offender. he, though, has since been released on bail. azadi was last seen leaving tower hill tube station in east london just after 930 last wednesday evening . anyone with information is being urged to contact police .

being urged to contact police. kwasi kwarteng has today said that he won't be standing in the next general election. announcing his decision earlier on social media, he said that it had been an honour to serve his constituents since 2010. mr kwarteng served as chancellor for just 38 days in 2022, the second shortest ever chancellor under the former prime minister liz truss . liz truss will also liz truss. liz truss will also be launching a new movement aimed at rallying right wing conservatives today , ahead of conservatives today, ahead of this year's general election . this year's general election. the short lived former prime minister is expected to address an event in central london later, and she'll be joined by the ex—cabinet minister, sir jacob rees—mogg, along with lee anderson, who recently quit as deputy chairman over the deputy party chairman over the rwanda bill. the new popular conservatives group , dubbed conservatives group, dubbed popcorn, aims at amplifying calls for tax cuts and bringing in tougher policies on immigration. in other news, a british cargo ship has been targeted by an unmanned drone in

the red sea. that's in the latest in a series of attacks on commercial ships by houthi rebels. we understand the vessel did suffer minor damage after it was hit by naval missiles around 60 miles off the coast of yemen . 60 miles off the coast of yemen. the ship made evasive manoeuvres before continuing on its journey safely and we understand no injuries were reported and this is the moment the safety and regulation of artificial intelligence is set to get a £100 million boost, downing street hopes that that funding will help make britain a leader in the emerging ai sector. a series of research hubs will be set up across the country and regulators will be given more training to tackle evolving challenges in fields such as finance , education and in finance, education and in healthcare . and this morning healthcare. and this morning we've heard that the former irish premier, john bruton, has died today at the age of 76. that's following a long illness. bruton served as taoiseach from 1994 to 97, and in a statement

today, his family said he died peacefully at a hospital in dubun peacefully at a hospital in dublin early this morning, adding that he'll be greatly. missed. for the latest stories , missed. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or you can go to gb news. com forward slash alerts . com forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. let's see what you have been saying at home this morning. lots and lots on harry. yeah, john said. i think it's very strategic for harry to show up now. after the announcement was made to the public. surely he must have known about this earlier. but for in now seems for him to fly in now seems like a pr stunt. for him to fly in now seems like a pyou1nt. for him to fly in now seems like a pyou just don't know. >> you just don't know. >> you just don't know. >> i mean, we don't know. when the king got his diagnosis through, hospital. he through, he was in hospital. he came out of hospital last monday. church on monday. he was at church on sunday, you know, he was back in london on monday treatment. london on monday for treatment. i how quickly it came i don't know how quickly it came through. says be kind

harry. >> no . >> no. >> no. >> um, sorry , tim. and let me >> um, sorry, tim. and let me have a look at yours. you've got the latest ones and, um, john has . sorry. yep. you're right. has. sorry. yep. you're right. you've done that one. and harry, sandra says if harry brings his children, that would make the king feel better. >> well, i did say it was a great opportunity for us to get to meet lilibet. yes it would have been nice to see. >> have we seen much of lilibet? >> have we seen much of lilibet? >> i think we've seen i think we saw a once alive. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> that's the problem is we don't trust that and don't trust that meghan and harry we don't trust harry do we. we don't trust their instincts now, do we? >> is the king going to >> also, is the king going to tell his son what form of cancer he has? because harry, i'm afraid, putting afraid, has form for putting stuff public domain they stuff in the public domain they don't the public domain. don't want in the public domain. >> bad. >> that would be bad. >> that would be bad. >> well, if there was a leak, would they blame him? because, i mean, view is at some mean, my own view is at some point they tell us what point they will tell us what form of cancer he's got. look, he doesn't have to. it's private, he is the head of private, but he is the head of state. king. there's state. he's the king. there's lurid speculation already. all around as what around the world as to what we've speculated. people

we've speculated. because people because want to know. because people want to know. >> and he is the monarch and the funny like harry jumping funny thing, like harry jumping on is classic harry, on this plane is classic harry, isn't it? >> there's a little bit of limelight, and his wife's probably pushed him that probably pushed him onto that get there and what's get go over there and see what's going because unless this is going on because unless this is very serious and we hope it isn't and the message from the palace is that you know, this is caught early, etc. why would he be leaping on the plane to come and see his dad at this point, he needs to remind people all in the united states which pays his bills. >> he's a royal. so yeah , that's >> he's a royal. so yeah, that's the point. i mean, of course , of the point. i mean, of course, of course he loves his father. i'm sure he does, though. he's he's paid very badly, but he does have to remind people, america, i'm harry wales, the duke of i'm harry wales, i'm the duke of sussex. and the way you do that is to see a time is by going to see the a time like this. >> i need to be there. yeah, well, someone else who needs to be there a time like this is be there at a time like this is our royal correspondent, cameron walker. the latest. but, uh. palace with the latest. but, uh. good morning. camera man. not even 24 hours since this news broke night. but some

broke last night. but some people only be just people might only be just turning on their telly for the first time and finding out what's happened. bring what's happened. so bring us up to we know? to date. what do we know? >> yeah, bev. so at 6:00 last night, palace night, buckingham palace released where they released a statement where they confirmed king is confirmed that the king is experiencing a experiencing or suffering from a form cancer. now, rishi sunak form of cancer. now, rishi sunak added to that, the prime minister this morning by saying, thankfully, the king's diagnosis was caught early. and of course, any medical details professional will tell you that if a cancer is caught early, it is far more treatable, but nonetheless a cancer diagnosis from our head of state is clearly very worrying and concerning. we're told that it's not prostate cancer. told that it's not prostate cancer . if you told that it's not prostate cancer. if you remember a few years ago, the king was sorry, not a few years ago, a few weeks ago, the king was in hospital, receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate, which was benign. and it was during that treatment that doctors discovered this separate issue. he's being treated as an outpatient. so yesterday he received his first treatment in hospital. but he's very much staying at clarence house and not staying in hospital

overnight. meanwhile, this morning , prince harry was morning, prince harry was spotted at los angeles international airport , lax. he international airport, lax. he is thought to be on a plane right now, flying across the atlantic to london to be with the king. it's understood that the king. it's understood that the king. it's understood that the king personally told both his sons, prince william and prince harry, about his diagnosis. ahead of that , a diagnosis. ahead of that, a pubuc diagnosis. ahead of that, a public statement at 6:00 last night, the king also told all of his siblings, so prince andrew, prince edward and princess anne as well. before that announcement hints he is still well enough, as we understand it, to carry out his constitutional duties. so he's going to be behind the scenes, going to be behind the scenes, going through his red boxes, signing government papers , signing government papers, attending council meetings attending privy council meetings and like that. but we're and things like that. but we're not going to see public not going to see him in public for some time. it's also understood, though , that members understood, though, that members of the royal family are not going to have to deputise on his behalf as counsellors of state that members of the royal family in of succession in the line of succession over the of carry out his the age of 21, who carry out his constitutional duties on his

behalf. that's not necessary, i'm told. but the door is open for prince william in particular, to pick up some of the king's duties. if the king cannot do it, but not, perhaps in a formal capacity as a counsellor of state. there's a big balancing act for the for buckingham palace. you spoke andrew and bev about a lot of speculations going around as to exactly what kind of cancer the king has. on the one hand, the king has. on the one hand, the king is a private individual and he is has the rights to private medical information. of medical information. but of course also of state course, he's also head of state and the british public the and the british public and the pubuc and the british public and the public the commonwealth public around the commonwealth have right to know about the have a right to know about the health of monarch. so health of the monarch. so buckingham palace hasn't ruled health of the monarch. so bucgiving,n palace hasn't ruled health of the monarch. so bucgiving, giving:e hasn't ruled health of the monarch. so bucgiving, giving us1asn't ruled health of the monarch. so bucgiving, giving us more ruled out giving, giving us more details, certainly details, but they're certainly not be providing a not going to be providing a running regular commentary on running or regular commentary on the condition . so no the king's condition. so no pubuc the king's condition. so no public engagements for the time being. the king, we've been told, is remaining positive and is looking forward to returning to public engagements when he can. >> that's cameron walker, our royal correspondent. thanks. so we're going to talk now to tom

bower, who's a great authority on matters. royal has written a very interesting book on the king charles. i think tom is joining us. if he's not, we'll carry on talking to each other. >> you know what i was thinking? >> you know what i was thinking? >> i would quite like to ask tom, when we bring him up, is what what you there, tom? what what is are you there, tom? >> we've got him now. great. hi tom. >> good to see you. i just thinking about the historical context royals and their context of royals and their ailments and i know we now context of royals and their aila ents and i know we now context of royals and their aila time and i know we now context of royals and their aila time ofj i know we now context of royals and their aila time of walliow we now context of royals and their aila time of wall t0/ we now context of royals and their aila time of wall to wall now context of royals and their aila time of wall to wall media,v in a time of wall to wall media, but typical is it for us to but how typical is it for us to know such detail about a ruling monarch?very untypical. i mean, >> well, very untypical. i mean, the after all, we didn't the queen, after all, we didn't discover and still don't know what died of. discover and still don't know whtlt's died of. discover and still don't know whtlt's justed of. discover and still don't know whtlt's just on of. discover and still don't know whtlt's just on her death >> it's just on her death certificate. it said old age. but we know that she had some form of cancer as well. >> and of course, her father died without us knowing anything about illness. about his illness. >> so i think , uh, king >> so i think, uh, king charles's declaration laws are quite unique and set a precedent i >> -- >> do you think, tom? that's because there would have been all sorts of speculation. now we've got social media now, 24

hour media. or do you think this is genuine attempt by the is a genuine attempt by the palace to be more open and transparent ? because, you know, transparent? because, you know, where we then with the next where we then go with the next question? they then some question? do they then at some point what sort of point tell us what sort of cancer got? cancer he's got? >> well, i think there was no alternative after all, alternative because after all, he's disappeared from public he's now disappeared from public view. and had to give view. and so they had to give some of explanation, as some sort of explanation, as they did for princess. princess of wales as well. uh, kate , uh, of wales as well. uh, kate, uh, the truth is that when you disappear, there are questions asked. um, i think in the end we will discover both about kate and about charles. >> what he's got, uh, what they both got. >> uh, but really , it doesn't >> uh, but really, it doesn't really matter. i mean, i do think they're entitled to some privacy. >> um, it really brings into focus, tom, how light the subject bench is for the royal family at the moment. and what kind of conversations will be going on? oh, there's professor angus dalglish has joined us in vision. wait with us. bear with us, angus. be with you us, angus. we will be with you in a moment. but if we can

in just a moment. but if we can go back to tom. tom, i was just saying that about fact that saying that about the fact that you realise that there aren't that subs sat on the bench that many subs sat on the bench at like this. now for the at a time like this. now for the royal family lots of royal family and lots of engagement will still to be engagement will still have to be carried of carried out. what sort of conversations be going on conversations will be going on behind scenes? conversations will be going on beiwell, scenes? conversations will be going on beiwell, syknow? conversations will be going on beiwell, syknow that they've >> well, we know that they've got pretty big staff in got a pretty big staff in buckingham palace elsewhere buckingham palace and elsewhere in palaces. they won't in the other palaces. they won't find much difficulty to find that much difficulty to somehow slots there. somehow fill the slots there. after there's, uh, prince after all, there's, uh, prince william now rejoined the william has now rejoined the rejoined the working royals there, the edinburgh's there's a few others. princess anne, i don't think it'll be a desperate struggle. uh, clearly, there's . struggle. uh, clearly, there's. also queen camilla. they'll pair some things down. i think more in question of the foreign trips that the king arranged. both to, uh, canada and to new zealand. those are question now. those are in question now. >> yeah. and of course, also , >> yeah. and of course, also, tom, there countries that tom, there are countries that are, we think, possibly will be thinking time to end the monarchy. charles might want to be thinking of going to those sort of countries. foreign

travel may now be restricted to him because of his condition and his age . his age. >> well, i think there's always been a problem. i think that , been a problem. i think that, uh, king charles looked pretty unhealthy in my view already. last year. queen camilla, we know, has got various health problems, not least of which as well is that she finds travel very tiring and can't do jet lag at all. and so i think they were really cutting it down. we're hoping that kate and william would take over. uh, there is a challenge for them, not least in the commonwealth, because they do need to wave the flag to show that they are the monarchs of those 14 countries as well. still there are huge challenges, not least set up by, uh, harry and meghan, who caused endless trouble with their big mouths. >> and of course , harry's flying >> and of course, harry's flying back today to see his father. tom. we were saying earlier in the programme, would the king be able to tell his son what sort of cancer he's got because he has got a bit of form, i'm

afraid, for being indiscreet about, uh, about matters royal. uh, and of course, if it was to leak and the finger was pointed at harry, that would cause even more problems already more problems in their already very relationship . very strained relationship. >> indiscreet, harry. >> well, he's indiscreet, harry. i mean, he does everything to promote himself and caused promote himself and has caused huge problems by his disloyalty and treachery. and i must say as well, his lies. so i find the return of harry at the moment, uh, very suspicious . i think uh, very suspicious. i think it's very much because the king pleaded for some sort of reconciliation . but, uh, because reconciliation. but, uh, because he's he's offered his his son, and i'm sure the king feel some guilt about the divorce with his mother , with diana. but i mother, with diana. but i wouldn't trust harry at all. i think he's got form for disloyalty. i think his wife has got absolute form for never reconciling with her own family or friends and former husband. so i think that harry's arrival is, uh, is not good news. uh,

and i think it's very much part of harry on a self—promotion trip to give himself publicity , trip to give himself publicity, to give himself some sort of fame , a moment in the spotlight. fame, a moment in the spotlight. because, after all, we must remember that when the king's prostrate problem was announced, there was a deafening silence from california . uh, harry never from california. uh, harry never announced that he hoped his father would have a speedy recovery or anything like that . recovery or anything like that. >> and the prince of wales, of coui'se. >> course. >> and now. >> and now. >> yeah. and thank you , tom. and >> yeah. and thank you, tom. and the response to the prince of wales, tom bower there. >> i agree with what tom said about i'm i think he about how i'm afraid i think he can't be trusted. and i do think this i can't put my mind this is i can't put my mind i can't get into his head, but i think this is a lot about how this will back in the this will look back in the united states. >> probably. united states. >> probgoes off to join his sick >> son goes off to join his sick father. yep. >> do you agree? joining now father. yep. >:oncologist;ree?joining now father. yep. >:oncologist professor ng now father. yep. >:oncologist professor angusnow is oncologist professor angus dalgleish. angus. dalgleish. hello angus. we had a brief introduction to you there a little early. sorry about that. thank you so much for joining right. a man joining us. um, right. a man of this age, goes in to have this age, 75, goes in to have his prostate procedure, and we

don't that will have don't know what that will have involved. comes with involved. and comes out with a cancer diagnosis. how unusual is this? of procedure this? and what sort of procedure might order to might they have done in order to find cancer ? find another cancer? >> well, first of all, he would have had a very, uh , high have had a very, uh, high definition scan for he went in for that operation to make sure that's all they were going to be looking at. and, uh, that operation he had is a very, very common. i mean, it's, um , common. i mean, it's, um, unbelievably common, particularly in men over 70. and, uh, where you basically just bore out the, the prostate. so you can pass water a little better . a side effect of this better. a side effect of this procedure is you get to see the inside of the bladder and, uh, you might see something that wasn't, uh, picked up on the scan. that's the sort of thing that, uh , i'd be considering, that, uh, i'd be considering, but but if this is the case, i think the message is that this is very good news because it will be very early . it'll have will be very early. it'll have been very early because there

were no, uh, symptoms or signs of this other than that, due to his enlarged prostate. and i do think we need to, uh, not lose sight of the fact that early cancer diagnosis ipsis has fantastic long terme prognosis. i mean, it, uh, the management of the cancers. now, when they're early are incredibly good.i they're early are incredibly good. i mean, we've really improved the long terme survival of all the major cancers, with 1 or 2 exceptions. so i think that one i would be looking on the bright side of things here that, uh, as a by—product of having a procedure to, to make him function better, they've discovered something which might not have appeared for another couple of years, when it might have been. well, it would be more advanced because it would be giving some symptoms, but they've got it early before it ever gave any symptoms. and i think that this is very , think that this is very, potentially very good news. he started a treatment . uh, he's

started a treatment. uh, he's he's going to have it. it's out patient and hopefully this will be one of the many such patients , uh, treatments that we give to patients with early cancer to stop it ever coming back again. so i really think we should not be, uh , you know, too, um, be, uh, you know, too, um, passive pritt stick about this . passive pritt stick about this. >> and would you do we assume he's going to have some form of radiotherapy or even chemotherapy ? because that can chemotherapy? because that can be done as an outpatient and i'm told i was reading this morning. you can also have chemotherapy in tablet form . in tablet form. >> well, i don't know , um, >> well, i don't know, um, exactly what he's going to have because i don't know the diagnosis, but but you're quite right. chemotherapy and radiotherapy are both given as outpatients and quite a lot of chemotherapy now is given in tablet form . so there's no need tablet form. so there's no need to be an in—patient at all. so uh, almost certainly he's having uh, almost certainly he's having uh, it was alluded he was having some form of uh, regular

therapy, which could be a chemo therapy, which could be a chemo therapy, uh, could be administered either in tablet form or a drip or more locally, depending on the diagnosis. >> okay . thank you very much >> okay. thank you very much indeed. >> okay. thank you very much indeed . well, lots to be indeed. well, lots to be cheerful about there. i think it's very upbeat. >> and that is the point. the palace did say in a pretty upfront statement for the palace, they've got it quick and he's confident and he's hoping to be back to it. and he's still going to carry on doing his official papers. he's still going to do his audience with the pm, that will be almost the pm, but that will be almost certainly the telephone by certainly on the telephone or by zoom. that was zoom. um, that that was happening the time during happening all the time during covid, particularly covid, and particularly with her majesty was majesty the queen, who was infirm lot of the last infirm for a lot of the last months, right next, what are months, right up next, what are the doing in this hunt the police doing in this hunt for the suspected chemical attacker? >> abdul it's been six >> abdul azizi? it's been six days he went missing. days since he went missing. where is he? a former top cop joins next britain's joins us next with britain's newsroom on

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radio. and it's1125. >> you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner, the manhunt for the chemical attack suspect abdul ezedi is now in its sixth day. >> right. ezedi has >> that's right. abdul ezedi has been on the run since the attack on and her two young on a woman and her two young girls clapham wednesday. girls in clapham on wednesday. >> scotland yard is >> so at new scotland yard is our very own reporter, addison rae um, tell us what rae. um, can you tell us what the latest is? good morning. good morning. >> yes. well, the latest is the search is very much focusing on the south london area. that's because that's the last known confirmed sighting of azadi around about 950 on wednesday evening. he'd come out of tower hill tube station and then walked across all hallows lane . walked across all hallows lane. and we can see the image that's been released by the met of him there on all hallows lane and he has that distinctive black jacket zipped up the hood up as well and pulled tight around his face, perhaps trying to disguise that injury to the right hand side of his face. grey pants,

full length pants and white trainers as well . and then we trainers as well. and then we heard that there was this arrest in the early hours of yesterday morning of this 22 year old man on suspicion of assisting an offender. he was taken to a south london police station and then released later that afternoon on bail . police saying afternoon on bail. police saying that they are tracking zaidi or have been tracking him using his bank card, which he used to get on to the tube however, he hasn't been used since wednesday. so what's happened to him? has he perhaps come to some form of harm, or is someone sheltering him very much? >> ray radison there down at scotland yard? well, joining us in the studio now is former scotland yard detective peter bleksley peter good to see you. now you're saying listening to some that, that you feel like some of that, that you feel like they don't seem to have any current information? strangely ho. 110. >> no. >> the latest sighting him >> the latest sighting of him that told about and that we've been told about and that we've been told about and that seen from cctv that we've seen from a cctv image is 9:47 pm. last wednesday , nearly a week. it's wednesday, nearly a week. it's

tuesday now. yeah. and okay, so somebody got arrested yesterday. but they've been released on bail. so they're clearly wasn't a raft of very obvious evidence and able to charge that person and able to charge that person and keep them in custody . this and keep them in custody. this information is getting . on for information is getting. on for six days and it'll be a week tomorrow. >> how can somebody particularly someone with an injury as prominent as that , just vanish? prominent as that, just vanish? >> well , two theories that the >> well, two theories that the police are working on, and they are the blatantly obvious that he's dead in a ditch somewhere or a canal or river or stream or sea . who knows? often water is sea. who knows? often water is very to give up its secrets very slow to give up its secrets , being harboured and , or he's being harboured and somebody is feeding him clothing him, putting a roof over his head. maybe transporting him. miss decidedly so. of course . miss decidedly so. of course. and if that is the scenario and he does get found , those people he does get found, those people will be charged . it's only a few will be charged. it's only a few days or so since the police charged somebody with assisting an offender in relation to daniel khalife . the guy who daniel khalife. the guy who escaped from wandsworth prison

who's awaiting trial and denying all charges. i must say. but that just goes to show that in all that time later, they still went out and nicked someone with the allegation that they assisted that escape. >> they'd be relying the police, of course, on intelligence s from the area. >> and we know that he was seen in the tower hill area and tower hamlets, where there is a large proportion of muslim. it's almost a monoculture down there. and um, would there be police officers who would have the sort officers who would have the sort of relationships in those communities that they could go and say, look, if you are harbouring him here, we need to know about it or do we lack that sort of interaction with those communities and the police? >> is it 1990 because we might have done if it was back then, really when neighbourhood policing was very much a thing properly funded, properly respected and regarded, held in some esteem not by those people that prowl the corridors of power in policing because of they, of course, always misguidedly think, well, how can

you measure the effectiveness of a police officer who goes out for eight hours a day and talks to people because you want a cop who can go into the local mosque? exactly of course you go to the yemen. of course. and those officers, those neighbourhood police officers, there of it there is an element of it creeping back in certain places , creeping back in certain places, but it's nowhere near at the levels across levels you universally across the it needs to be. the uk that it needs to be. those officers will come back to the station invariably be the police station invariably be awash with tea and awash with information . and then they go to information. and then they go to scrotie jean wearing trainers . scrotie jean wearing trainers. detectives like me and say, you know that burglary that happened three days ago? well actually, it's down to him and he lives there. and then of course, the following morning his front door would disappear off its hinges and he would never know where that information came from because community officers because the community officers were so trusted, were so known. people knew their telephone numbers, they knew where they could get hold of him. because in those days, we had police

stations and has that culture slightly changed because of the way the evidence has to be admissible in courts now? >> is it because we've got much stricter rules probably ushered in under tony blair? i would imagine, about it what you can and can't do to get information from the rules of disclosure. >> of course , are very important >> of course, are very important and fundamental to the justice system. but courageous lawyers carry rageous prosecutors will always push the boundaries of the law. the law is a moving, evolved thing. it changes every day. there will be a precedent set in some crown court today in the country will then apply , but the country will then apply, but wasn't in place last week. it's how the law revolves and courageous prosecutors will always challenge and push the boundanes always challenge and push the boundaries as much as they can, and even go beyond them to set precedent . that's protecting precedent. that's protecting sources is absolutely fundamental to policing. but of course, handling informants is somewhat frowned upon these days. >> this man is finally peter.

he's very dangerous. how big a priority? operational priority is this for the met? >> it's a huge priority for the met. it's such high profile. and we must , of met. it's such high profile. and we must, of course, remember that there is a 31 year old woman like king, critically ill in hospital , woman like king, critically ill in hospital, and two children were assaulted as well. in that incident, together with good samaritan members of the public who rushed to the aid of the victims. so it's very important. it's in all the papers. the king's dread , full diagnosis, king's dread, full diagnosis, i'm afraid , has probably bought i'm afraid, has probably bought the met police another couple of days because the king rightfully is on all the front pages. at some point those papers are going to say, well , does the going to say, well, does the police endeavour now become an embarrassment? when are those banner headlines going to scream from the front of all of the papers ? why can't you find him? papers? why can't you find him? >> absolutely right. >> absolutely right. >> peter. all right . >> peter. all right. >> peter. all right. >> thanks, peter. great. as usual. >> thanks, peter. great. as usual . right. plenty more to usual. right. plenty more to come on britain's newsroom news newsroom nearly causes newsround newsroom nearly cduses newsround were newsroom nearly causes newsround were not on britain's newsroom.

now sam francis with your . news. now sam francis with your. news. >> bev and andrew. thank you very much. good morning from the gb newsrooms. just gone 1130. our top story today. the prince of wales is expected to carry out some royal duties on his father's behalf while the king undergoes treatment for an unspecified form of cancer. prince harry, we understand, is also expected to arrive in london soon. meanwhile, the prime minister has said he was shocked and sad to hear of the king's diagnosis, but rishi sunak said they'll crack on with everything, signalling their meetings will still continue. palace officials have said they hope the news of the king's diagnosis will encourage many others who are affected by cancer. others who are affected by cancer . police believe they are. cancer. police believe they are. there are rather people who know about the whereabouts of a man suspected in a recent chemical attack, who've chosen not to come forward, abdul ezedi is wanted in connection with the

attack in east in london last week. that left a woman critically injured and in danger of losing the sight in one of her eyes. police are also warning that anyone else found to have assisted the suspect will face arrest. azadi was last seen leaving tower hill tube station just after 9:00 last wednesday evening , station just after 9:00 last wednesday evening, and station just after 9:00 last wednesday evening , and police wednesday evening, and police are urging anyone with information to come forward . information to come forward. kwasi kwarteng has said today he won't be standing at the next general election. announcing his decision on social media earlier, he said it had been an honour to serve his constituents since 2010. mr kwarteng served for just 38 days as chancellor in 2022. that was under the former prime minister, liz truss . around 8 million people will today receive the last of three cost of living payments. the payments will be made directly into bank accounts and those who are eligible won't need to apply

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one pence per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 7651 points. >> rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report at noon. >> good afternoon britain, they're here. tom and emily, are you talking? gossiping >> are you talking about the king? >> well, we're talking about a specific element of it. >> right? which is? should prince harry be welcomed back into prince harry be welcomed back inthe know he's flying back >> we know he's flying back today. say been separated today. say he's been separated from his family for years now. he hadn't spoken to his father in a long, long time. could this be the instigator of a rapprochement ? could this be the rapprochement? could this be the moment at which perhaps some heaung moment at which perhaps some healing is done in more way than in more ways, than just medically? perhaps? i'm naive, but wouldn't it be absolutely lovely if prince harry came back to theory and recommenced his royal duties? >> wouldn't it be lovely, though ? >> 7- >> that's 7_ >> that's naive. >> that's naive. >> i've got a theory about why emily carver wants harry back in the royal family. it's ginger

solid charity. well, yes, there is a little bit of that. >> my brother does actually look a little bit. look, prince, i think i on a human personal level. >> i like the idea of a family being reunited after a conflict. but can they do that on the global stage ? i just not sure. global stage? i just not sure. there's been so much mud slung . there's been so much mud slung. >> i think what's sad is the grandchildren as well. have grandchildren as well. they have no relationship as it seems. we could brought. could have brought. their grandfather, brought them with him. would been him. yeah, that would have been really nice. >> we might seen lilibet, >> we might have seen lilibet, although he were to although although if he were to bnng although although if he were to bring children with him, bring his children with him, he'd have brought he'd have had to have brought his if there's his wife and if there's one thing not necessarily there's thing not necessarily if there's one the king does not one thing that the king does not want see right now, it's want to see right now, it's meghan. it's the person that's caused much anguish over caused him so much anguish over the last. >> yeah, but you, it's easy to blame isn't it, blame meghan, isn't it, tom? he's the royal. yes. have to allow this to happen. >> he he didn't. >> no, no he didn't, he didn't. i it would be wrong to put i think it would be wrong to put all of the blame on meghan. and clearly there's been lot of clearly there's been a lot of hurt but also it does hurt over this. but also it does seem that harry has been seduced into glitz and into a world of glitz and glamour hollywood fame.

glamour and hollywood fame. >> how much does he like it? who knows? politics knows? but also on the politics side, pop con popular canal side, this pop con popular canal lives with truss at the lives with liz truss at the forefront. do you know what i think it is? a bit of a pop con because i don't believe that liz truss has ever advocated for strong borders , robust border strong borders, robust border control, she is very much a liberal. she is very much a liberal. she is very much a liberal. when she was prime minister there was a lot going on with the treasury about how they could liberalise visas if i remember correctly. yeah, that's that's . that's right. >> and she, she did want more liberal visa regimes legal liberal visa regimes for legal migration countries of migration for countries of similar but she also did similar wealth. but she also did want situations for want tough situations for illegal migration. so i think perhaps you're being a bit harsh on it. there because it's all about control. >> we listen we have she did and she wanted more deals with more countries beyond rwanda. >> have to move on for now. >> we have to move on for now. but have got the whole but you have got the whole afternoon emily tom. afternoon with emily and tom. for though, is for now, though, this is britain's newsroom gb news. britain's newsroom on gb news. don't anywhere.

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>> the time is 1142 with britain's news one gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner. >> the panel are back. they are indeed. >> we are joined by gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, author and broadcaster in the broadcaster tonya brooks in the studio. first gb news news studio. but first gb news news spoke people in hull to spoke to the people in hull to hear their reaction to the news that king charles has cancer. >> very disappointed and >> we are very disappointed and upset for him and i hope, hope he gets better. >> i think it's devastating, but i don't know how bad it is. so there's treatments, wasn't expecting it at all. >> yeah, and it's so sad really. >> yeah, and it's so sad really. >> it'sjust >> yeah, and it's so sad really. >> it's just like the rest of us, isn't it? it's not infallible. i just think it's. it's sad . it's the same as any it's sad. it's the same as any family. if someone gets that sort of news, obviously it's going to be devastating. >> it's sad, isn't it? but just sad . sad. >> the very down to earth attitude of people in hull. there's a lot of common sense

there. nigel nelson it is sad and people do feel if any of the senior royals are unwell, it does make us pause and think, doesn't it, about our own lives and but actually, as and stuff, but actually, as we said, 75 years old and 50% said, he's 75 years old and 50% of people will get cancer. >> yes. and so in a sense, it shouldn't be a surprise. and there of cancer in there is a history of cancer in there is a history of cancer in the yeah. obviously the family. yeah. um obviously what we don't know is the is the detail. if this was an american president, know every detail. if this was an american presidething know every detail. if this was an american presidething that now every detail. if this was an american presidething that was every detail. if this was an american presidething that was going on. single thing that was going on. um, mean, do you think we um, i mean, do you think we should already know? well, i mean, obviously, if you're mean, obviously, even if you're the you're entitled the king, that you're entitled to some privacy about about a medical condition. so can medical condition. so i can understand that um, the understand that that, um, the question really is that obviously people are curious. people want to know how bad bad is it? where is it? what is it? um, i think a little bit more um, so i think a little bit more information now he's gone this far and he's prepared to put it out there because he was so transparent about the prostate just ten days ago. >> yes. the statement today or yesterday is a bit more opaque, isn't it? >> it is a bit. yeah and i think that obviously you can just see

from, from what we in hull, from, from what we saw in hull, people genuinely concerned from, from what we saw in hull, people subjectsinely concerned from, from what we saw in hull, people subjects wantconcerned from, from what we saw in hull, people subjects want to 1cerned from, from what we saw in hull, people subjects want to know d and his subjects want to know he's going to be okay. yeah. so it would nice to have it would be nice to have a little bit more detail. >> well i'm not sure. tonya i don't feel i need to know any more detail. i don't like this culture of not having medical privacy, i get that, but he is in the eye and he is one in the public eye and he is one of our leaders. >> and i think actually gives >> and i think it actually gives a of funny kind of way a bit of funny kind of way comfort that are comfort for people that are suffering. the king's got suffering. look, the king's got it to recover. it too. he's going to recover. hopefully goes well. it does hopefully all goes well. it does sound it's one of the sound like it's one of the cancers that can get cancers that you can quickly get oven cancers that you can quickly get over. he's older, you over. and he's he's older, you know, it's different when you get you're young. get cancer when you're young. yeah. because you're yeah. because when you're older you're not rejuvenating much. you're not rejuvenating as much. so to be slower. you so they tend to be slower. you know to die from know people have got to die from something. have lived something. people have lived with cancers so i'm with cancers for years. so i'm not understand why he said it. not i understand why he said it. i don't need any more details. i don't need any. i think it will come though. i think it will come though. i think it will come out. yeah, it will definitely come out. i'm more interested, honest, in the interested, to be honest, in the family politics of it all, because harry coming back, i

mean, if i mean, if i was william, i would be seething. here prodigal son here comes the prodigal son riding you know, he's he's riding in. you know, he's he's done everything he can to give stress give ill health to stress and give ill health to his family. and now he's coming back. >> well, i mean, the book caused huge distress . it must have done huge distress. it must have done spare. it was very rude about queen camilla. kate i mean, i mean, it was incredible and i understand will attack and i completely understand why william doesn't to to harry. >> i mean, i think he's shamed himself. he's shown that he's not stoic, he's not honourable. and here he is coming back to do what? to his dad. >> although would just. there >> although i would just. there is like a is nothing like a kind of a situation to situation like this, though, to put into perspective petty squabbles family dynamics. squabbles with family dynamics. i think so, i mean, i wouldn't call a petty squabble. call it a petty squabble. >> i would it was a major >> i would say it was a major squabble, an international conflict qualification. >> a human story here, >> there is a human story here, isn't there, that , um, what we isn't there, that, um, what we do know is that harry spoke to his father yesterday . he, as his father yesterday. he, as a result of that conversation , and result of that conversation, and we don't know what was said . we don't know what was said. harry hopped immediately on a

plane to come home to support his father there. that seems to me a very human reaction, even when a family has fallen out. yeah, that you would come back and be with your dad when he's when he's in trouble. >> of course, the cynics would say he needs to do that because of his profile and money making in america. >> well, i'm that cynic, and that's exactly what would that's exactly what i would say. and you know, and i would wonder, you know, how father has a how if his father has a prolonged illness, long it's prolonged illness, how long it's going would meghan and going to last, would meghan and the over? the kids come over? >> right. we've just got >> yeah, right. we've just got to take a quick break now. still to take a quick break now. still to come. social media to come. is social media fuelling playground in fuelling playground misogyny in schools it schools as a report saying it is.

radio. >> well, they're still in the studio with us. gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and author and broadcaster buxton, and it broadcaster tanya buxton, and it is now 1149 and we're going to talk about social media. >> so this is obviously >> yeah. so this is obviously there's doesn't go there's almost a week doesn't go by. there's a social by. tanya when there's a social media papers . uh, media story in the papers. uh, new findings now that algorithms

which promoting misogynistic which are promoting misogynistic extreme , misogynistic, extreme, misogynistic, anti—women , woman hating anti—women, woman hating material onto smartphones, which is affecting boys , it's is affecting boys, it's affecting boys and it's affecting boys and it's affecting girls , it's affecting everyone. >> and what happens is with these algorithms is you might watch one thing that was a bit funny and irreverent, as it were, but then the algorithm over a four day period just boosts up. so things get nastier and nastier and nastier. boosts up. so things get nastier and nastier and nastier . and and nastier and nastier. and it's exactly what briana greisman was saying about the violence that they're seeing on social media. these algorithms need to be taken into account. the companies have to be accountable for what they're putting out. i don't believe in banning anything, but something's got to be done. what age people who are seeing age are people who are seeing this ? i mean, they're quite this? i mean, they're quite young as young as the parents young as as young as the parents are stupid enough buy them smartphones. >> 11. yeah. >> ten and 11. yeah. >> ten and 11. yeah. >> is thing. >> this is the thing. >> this is the thing. >> and course, brianna's mum >> and of course, brianna's mum says they shouldn't. you shouldn't one. if you're to shouldn't have one. if you're to on 16 i, i even think on your over 16 i, i even think 16 is quite young. >> but anyway i agree with her

but it does alter the way you think, you know. and as they're saying, they're watching this and then it's going into playgrounds now and in playgrounds now and in playgrounds they're thinking it's fine be misogynistic and it's fine to be misogynistic and come comments come out with these comments because being bombarded because they're being bombarded on their phones. >> so depressing. the >> so depressing. this is the problem with, with, um, well, big tech, i mean, i think big tech probably the greatest tech is probably the greatest threat free speech at threat to free speech at the moment, because moment, largely because it is a huge threat free thought. so huge threat to free thought. so here's example you that here's an example that you that you, um , uh, find something on you, um, uh, find something on tiktok and this is tiktok, but other social media companies are as guilty as they are. you find something and say around masculinity, you're then bombarded on your particular feed with a load of stuff that makes it sound normal and if you extend that, it's things like politics that if you if you, um, uh, look up certain things, certain political things, and you get on your for me, um, your for me feed are well they like that one. we'll send them more.

so you never get alternative opinions coming through until eventually you think that becomes normal. >> so it becomes a kind of echo chamber that you always having these. >> so you're not thinking, thinking for yourself. and so also you've got these companies which are governing what can which are governing what you can read. if you've got a news read. so if you've got a news website the algorithms will decide which which of those stories will be promoted. so it might be entertainment one week or politics the next. but there is a result of that. people people aren't free to read what they want because they're bombarded with a particular things. >> i'm so sorry both of you, but we are going to cut live now across to westminster , where the across to westminster, where the former minister, liz former prime minister, liz truss, is speaking at the launch former prime minister, liz truss, new eaking at the launch former prime minister, liz truss, new group, at the launch former prime minister, liz truss, new group, popularaunch of her new group, popular conservatives. are conservatives. here they are deported . deported. >> and yet, however hard the government tries, it seems to be very, very difficult and they are constantly being stymied . are constantly being stymied. >> so why is this? why have we got into this position in and i

believe the fundamental issue is that for years and years and years, and i think it goes back two decades, concern motives have not taken on the left wing extreme . this now these people extreme. this now these people have repurposed themselves. they don't admit they're socialist or communist anymore. they say they're environmentalists . they they're environmentalists. they say that they're in favour of helping people across all communities because they they are in favour of supporting lgbt people or groups of ethnic minorities. so they no longer admit that they are collectivists, but that is what their ideology is about. it's all about taking power away from people and families and giving power to the state or unaccountable bodies. and the problem is that conservatives

have tried to appease these people. >> we've tried to triangulate . >> we've tried to triangulate. that. >> we've tried to triangulate. that . greta. we've had that. greta. we've had conservative governments led, waiting for self—identified . nation. >> now, i'm pleased to say we've stopped that legislation now. but this is a conservative government allowing people to define themselves. when people do define themselves, whether or not they're a man or a woman, something which we know is a biological fact . and we've had biological fact. and we've had pandenng biological fact. and we've had pandering to the anti—capitalists as well in terms of regulating business, regulating landlords , boards, regulating landlords, boards, regulating landlords, boards, regulating small enterprises as and the problem is that when we don't know what we stand for, when we're not prepared to stand

up for conservative values, who is and that has meant the landscape has shifted to the left , i landscape has shifted to the left, i am afraid, as lee mentioned , and too many of our mentioned, and too many of our colleagues are looking to what job they might get after they leave parliament. they're looking to being popular at london dinner parties. i never get invited to any london dinner parties . it's get invited to any london dinner parties. it's not an issue. it's not an issue for me. oh, i feel some invitations coming on after that. some invitations coming on after that . but the, you know , people that. but the, you know, people don't want to be unpopular. but the irony is that these policies are popular . the irony is that these policies are popular. you know, when i go out canvassing and i'm very pleased to see some of my excellent canvassing team here today, when i go out canvassing in norfolk, people want us to deal with immigration. they don't like net zero policies that make energy more expensive. they think the wokery that's going on is nonsense and they are frustrated that they feel

unable to say what they think . unable to say what they think. so there is a damaging divide died between those who are making the decisions and those in the elite around the m25 , and in the elite around the m25, and those people on the ground . i'm those people on the ground. i'm afraid we have not taken on the left enough and the left don't just compete with us at the ballot box now. they also work to take over our institutions and we've seen that. we see it in much of the media. we see it in much of the media. we see it in corporations , we see it most in corporations, we see it most of all in the quangos and government bureaucracy that emerged under tony blair. but we didn't do enough to change it. we didn't do enough to take the power back . and jacob makes a power back. and jacob makes a very good point about the legal system. but that is true with the environment agency. it's true with natural england. it's true with natural england. it's true with natural england. it's true with the office of budget

responsible. it's true with the post office. this is a problem that goes wider than just one government department, but it goes right to the way we do government overall . and what government overall. and what that means is it means that the people making decisions aren't elected . and i know having spent elected. and i know having spent ten years as a government in the government, it as a minister, and ultimately as prime minister, that often as a minister in britain, you have responsibility without it having power and that is a huge issue. it's a dimunition of parliamentary sovereignty , which parliamentary sovereignty, which is what has made britain a great country because because we have such a direct link from members of parliament to the people that vote for us, they are able to kick us out. i mean, none of us are saying, by the way, that mps are saying, by the way, that mps are brilliant or infallible, but we certainly are ejectable. and i myself have been at the sharp

end of that. so i can tell you we are deeply accountable . and we are deeply accountable. and what happens when decisions are made by people who aren't accountable. well, over time they drift to listening to the vested interests, listening to those that advocate the status quo .. they become out of touch quo.. they become out of touch with what ordinary citizens across britain want. and by the way, the answer to this is not a labour government . far from it. labour government. far from it. what we know is that keir starmer would enhance the power of these so—called independent bodies . he'd of these so—called independent bodies. he'd enhance the power of these quangos, he'd outsource more decision making to his friends in islington, which is where a lot of them live. and we would find it even harder for us to get the conservative policies that will really help transform our . country, that will really help transform our. country, and that is what we need to do. but what i really

want to say to people today and i'm so delighted to be joined by such a fantastic array of colleagues and future colleagues, is it's not just enough to will the answer is, you know, you can watch gb news or you can read the telegraph and you can see here people talking about brilliant policies every day. why don't we do this to cut immigration? why don't we do reform the city? why do this to reform the city? why do this to reform the city? why do we do this ? to improve do we do this? to improve education? it's not enough to just have the policies when the system is actively working to stop those policies happen, conserve lives really need to be thinking about how we change the system itself and how we create the political weather that enable these policies to happen . enable these policies to happen. because it's difficult being a conservative that moment, it's difficult advocating these causes, and it's why we need a popular conservative movement to actually challenge from below

what is happening in our country. and that's why i'm so delighted that mark has taken on the mantle of leading popular conservatism. and there are three things i think we need to achieve. first of all, we need to make the case for democratic accountability . the fact is that accountability. the fact is that democracy has become unfashionable if you ask the under 30s what they think of democracy, there's not a very polite response, but we know it's the only way to deliver effective government effective policies and our fundamental freedoms as british people . and freedoms as british people. and we need to restore faith in democracy. and we can only do that by restoring democratic accountability . the second thing accountability. the second thing we need to do is galvanise our conservative forces. now, britain is full of secret conservatives , people who agree conservatives, people who agree with us but don't want to admit

it because