morning to you. it's very good morning to you. it's 9:30 on monday, the 6th of may. this is britain's newsroom with me. ben eliot in for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. thank you for joining us on this bank holiday. now, are we heading for a hung parliament? well, that's what the prime minister thinks. he appears to be gearing up, as we know, for an autumn election, because although the middle east is, he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem, these terrible results, and quickly and urgently change course. coui'se. >> course. >> former home secretary suella braverman there giving her advice to the prime minister following disappointing local election results. >> this weekend and today marks the first anniversary of king charles ascending the throne. >> can you believe that's been a year? has he done a good job? in your opinion? is the monarchy safe in his hands and unisex toilets facing the flush ? toilets facing the flush? >> new government plans require all new restaurants and offices to have single sex loos and let

bygones be bygones. >> doctors advise that letting go of anger is good for your. health. so what better way to start your bank holiday monday morning than letting go of your anger with us here? >> nice deep breath. what have you been angry about? >> everything. angry about everything. pretty much most of the time. but, you know, we've got a lot in the show today. we've got a lot of light and shade. have you bacon butty? have you a cup of coffee? and stay with us. and also let us know what you're doing on this bank holiday weekend. i was surprised you could even get here on a train today. >> well, there was a train strike, but for some reason my specific route was unaffected. so thank you. the bank holidays got off to a great start. so yeah, happy days. >> let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay first though, the very latest news headlines with aaron

armstrong. >> hi there. it's aaron armstrong here at 932 in the gb newsroom. rishi sunak has admitted the tories may not win the next general election after their local election defeats. the prime minister believes the uk is on course for a hung parliament and, says labour could be the largest party. but voters won't want to see sir keir starmer propped up in downing street by the snp. rishi sunak has described the local election results as bitterly disappointing, election results as bitterly disappointing , the conservatives disappointing, the conservatives lost nearly 500 council seats and the mayor's position in the west midlands, but women's minister maria caulfield has told gb news things aren't as bad as the polls suggest. >> for months now they've been saying that we're 20 points behind labour. and actually when you look at the results from the local elections and experts have done , the drilling down on those done, the drilling down on those numbers, it's between 7 to 9 points. and what we're actually looking at is a potential hung

parliament. and if labour then want to go into government, they would have to do deals with parties like the snp, the lib dems and, you know, parties like the green party as well. >> john swinney is likely to be confirmed as the next leader of the snp today after a potential challenger pulled out late last night. veteran party activist graham mccormack is now endorsed john swinney to become scotland's next first minister. it leaves. mr swinney is the only official candidate after humza yousaf announced he was stepping down last week . he's stepping down last week. he's said to be the elected leader of the snp when nominations close at midday. palestinians have been told to evacuate rafah in southern gaza, as the israeli military prepares for a ground offensive. israel's military says it's told up to 100,000 residents in the east of the to city evacuate, claiming it's part of a limited scope operation rather than a full scale ground assault. it comes after ceasefire talks with hamas collapsed over the weekend. well, the idf says it's encouraging palestinians to move to an expanded humanitarian

zone. however, people are moved to those areas, are being told it's safer. the israeli military has cautioned hamas is known to fire from such places. it's addedit fire from such places. it's added it was not setting a time frame for the rafah evacuation, but would make operational assessments . that's it. you can assessments. that's it. you can get more on all of our stories by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news .com/ alerts. that is it for the moment. i'll be back with more at the top of the hour. >> greg good morning. it's 934 bank holiday monday. i would rather be here with you than at home. absolutely. having a houday home. absolutely. having a holiday day. so let us know what you're doing this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay >> now, it's been a devastating weekend. if you weren't aware, for prime minister rishi sunak, awful local election results for the conservatives while labour's sadiq khan has been voted in again as london mayor and former tory west midlands mayor andy

street unbelievably lost his post as well. >> who votes for sadiq khan, who genuinely feels that london is a better place now than it was six years ago? i don't understand it. well, if you thought things couldn't get much worse, listen to what the former home secretary, suella braverman, has subsequently had to say . subsequently had to say. >> the prime minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. what he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem. these terrible results and quickly and urgently change course. so to make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from, put a cap now. >> rishi sunak he admits his party may not win a general election this year , claims that election this year, claims that the uk is heading for a hung parliament. so joining us now in the studio to dissect all of this is political commentator and founder of the pr firm bell pottinger piers pottinger and our very own political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, good morning. we'll start with you. is rishi sunak being a bit too

optimistic here, saying that we're going to get a hung parliament? is he just trying to breathe a bit of life back into the redundant tories, possibly , possibly. >> and it's quite something isn't it, when a sitting prime minister says that a hung parliament, when that's their sort of best case scenario, but i think they are scouring around after this horrendous weekend that they had and looking for very tiny crumbs of comfort . ben very tiny crumbs of comfort. ben houchen, surviving in tees valley was one, and another was this poll that came out which put labour only nine points ahead of the conservatives. now, beanng ahead of the conservatives. now, bearing in mind most of the polling puts labour 20 points ahead. this, of course, they have latched on to and they've said, look, we might be looking at a hung parliament. and of course, the reason that they're doing this is , is to send a doing this is, is to send a message that to conservative voters, it's not necessarily a given that there's going to be a huge labour majority. therefore, you'll find to just sit on your hands because you're very cross with us or go and vote for a form because you're very cross

with us, so i think it's helpful for him to sort of paint that picture. and i think worth saying, of course, that you can't you know, the 9% is if people voted in that way in a general election and, and that is assuming that the nationalist vote in scotland, which of course, had no elections this time and wales stayed the same as 2019, now we're pretty sure, aren't we, that the snp are going to lose potentially quite a lot of seats to labour and also in local elections. people do flirt with smaller parties. the lib dems did well, the greens did well, reform, etc. whereas in a general election they tend to vote a bit. >> i voted for the greens in the last locals because i was being a massive nimby about some development, but i'd never voted for them nationally. so there you go. good example piers, you've been involved in in dozens of elections. >> it's quite unusual at this point to hear the sitting prime minister come out and say, we may not win this election. normally, there is a positivity ,

normally, there is a positivity, a sort of i think actually sometimes it doesn't land with the public. but this idea that you just have to be toeing the party line, i'm quite. i find his honesty in this quite refreshing . refreshing. >> well, honesty, yes, maybe. i mean, he is a man of integrity and he's an intelligent man. but he seems to not have much political nous and certainly no ability to communicate any viable policies to the electorate. as these results showed . but he's also clinging showed. but he's also clinging on to the extrapolation by professor thrasher that there'll be a hung parliament now, his figures by his own admission, don't include scotland, for example , where the snp will example, where the snp will likely get sorry . the labour likely get sorry. the labour party will wipe out the snp, who are in even more disarray, of course, than anywhere else . and course, than anywhere else. and there were crumbs of comfort actually , as andrew pierce actually, as andrew pierce pointed out, angela rayner's constituency. she's only got a

majority of just over 4000. and with the gaza vote around her, she must be very nervous. so, and also, again, the british people tend to vote against things rather than for things. and these elections show that everyone was voting against conservative, not necessarily for starmer, whose policies are still no one knows whose what policies they are. he talks in utopia in terms about we're going to make the national health service better . going to make the national health service better. we're going to give every child an excellent teacher. this is all pie in the sky, and he's got no idea how he's going to pay for all this. >> well, there were more than 40 councillors who won their seats playing on the gaza issue. >> exactly. and that's very worrying for labour, because george galloway is targeting andrew angela rayner seat, for example, and others. so it may not be plain sailing, but personally and obviously to, i think just about everyone in the

country, it's game over for the conservatives. labour are going to sweep to victory. it's a question then of how long they last before the electorate wake up to the catastrophic voting they've just done, and brought in a government who , who, whose in a government who, who, whose policies such as they are. if you look at the fine print, which you always have to do, particularly with the labour party, are really, really dangerous things they're planning to do without any real idea how they're going to pay for it. >> as i keep saying, hey, what do you make of these calls from one nation tories? some might call them tory wets. yeah. for example, mark harper. yeah. andy street, even in his, his announcement, his defeat, yesterday or saturday, he was saying do not lurch to the right . warning, warning. do not lurch to the right. it's not an election winner. >> well, it is actually, because, the centre ground has proved not to be an election winner . and when you've got winner. and when you've got a chancellor like jeremy hunt, who's a committed remainer and

doesn't give much thought to his future because he's got a safe job in the city, i'm sure lined up and he's not going to ever run as leader because he'd never be leader. and you've got people in the centre of the conservative party who have caused this and to pretend that it's a vote winner when you've just lost . i it's a vote winner when you've just lost. i mean, i'm sorry, thatis just lost. i mean, i'm sorry, that is just crazy. >> doesn't that just personify the conservative party of recent years? they just don't seem to get it. i say we can wake up. there's something wrong with their heads where they just don't get it. it's obvious to everyone else you're in the most important. >> they're not listening. they are not listening to what people want and what people need to heat want and what people need to hear. but but suella braverman who? i'm not her biggest fan by any means. but she is right. it's no good producing a raft of announcements. people need to see something tangible and there's no point forjeremy hunt to tweak at the tax around the

edges. it's got to be significant. they've got to be real, tangible progress because after all these years in government, the conservatives do look very tired, very poor. and this is certainly not the a team. and i think after the general election , we need a general election, we need a complete clear out of the of this lot . and we need to find this lot. and we need to find someone with political vision, someone with political vision, someone who's got principles, values and some idea about how they're going to transform the prosperity of this country. nigel farage, he is the obvious man. he is without a doubt the most popular, genuine politician in this country and one of the few people with vision, whatever your views on him, he's got vision, he has principles. he has values and he's very good at communicating them . the tories communicating them. the tories would love him, i'm sure. yeah, catherine, i'm fascinated as well in terms of what happened with the mayoral elections, not just in london but in manchester. andy burnham sweeps the board again and listening to

those descriptions, there from peers of what makes a good politician, andy burnham, actually has a lot of those qualities. he communicates very well with the people. he's very well with the people. he's very well liked across all the, political spectrum. in london, of course, sadiq khan won , but of course, sadiq khan won, but without the convincing victory that he thought he might get about a quarter of a million votes more than, susan hall . votes more than, susan hall. susan hall's face on that lectern said it all, didn't it? she was clearly seething that she didn't get the support of the conservative party. and rishi sunak has pretty much admitted he didn't vote for her, did he ? did he? >> yes. he voted, from his constituency home in richmond for in the mayoral election for york and north yorkshire , but york and north yorkshire, but not down here. so he chose that one. and there is a huge amount of bad blood down in london between the conservative campaign for susan hall and labour sadiq khan, and also a lot of ill feeling from susan

hall's team that basically they weren't given the support from cchq, she was not the preferred candidate. it was a strange sort of circle of events that led to her ending up in that position. they pretty much didn't think she had much hope. they didn't put the backing behind her, so i think they feel her team feel, you know, look what we might have done if we'd had a bit of support. >> she's right, isn't she, pierce? >> absolutely right. yes. i mean, susan hall, i think is a perfectly nice woman, but she wasn't a stunning candidate. and there were opportunities here and just think what a fillip it would have been if we'd defeated. sorry we, most sensible people, i mean, by we defeated the dreadful sadiq khan, and he was there to be beaten. and yes, for the second time, incidentally, the last mayoral election , the central mayoral election, the central office did the same thing, picked a candidate who no one

really knew or rated, who was a perfectly decent chap, and they gave it no support , no backing. gave it no support, no backing. >> shaun bailey. yeah. >> shaun bailey. yeah. >> and it didn't work. and you know, look, boris became the mayor. he then became prime minister. it's a great stepping stone. the obvious candidate would have been penny mordaunt, who's going to lose her seat at the next election based on the recent one. penny mordaunt, for example, would have could have become mayor, would have been a popular choice and i reckon could have beaten sadiq khan with the proper support . and i with the proper support. and i think susan hall's team are right to feel a bit bitter about the lack of support. i mean, there was none, really. yeah. >> good point. and yeah, as bev was alluding to earlier, i just l, was alluding to earlier, i just i, i've not met anybody in london who's admitted to voting for sadiq khan. i just wonder who is voting for him. well, i think count binface he got 24,000 votes and that says something when he didn't even come last. >> so when the silliest

candidate does that well, it shows some things amiss. >> yeah, right. thank you both . >> yeah, right. thank you both. keep your thoughts coming this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay we will be looking at them during this quick break. but next. yes. >> up next single sex lose. they're going to be required in all new restaurants and offices under new government plans. this is rishi sunak allegedly lurching to the right. what do you think about that

us. 949. you're with ben and bev on britain's newsroom. on gb news now. new government plans have confirmed single sex loos are required in all new restaurants and offices. >> so kemi badenoch, the women in women and equalities minister says these mixed sex toilet spaces deny privacy and dignity to both men and women. so is it long overdue? political commentator piers pottinger is still with us in the studio,

people in our inbox this morning, piers are saying if this is what the tories have got to win the election, then they are taking the proverbial in a way that is rather appropriate to this story. is this all they've got? well i must admit, they've got? well i must admit, the timing of this announcement seems to me a little again, it shows how they they don't really understand when and how to make major announcements, but at least it's a step in the right direction. >> i believe . i mean, i think >> i believe. i mean, i think most people thought whoever came up with this unisex lavatory idea in the first place must be mad. i think you were saying, bev. >> it's for more economic purposes, isn't it? >> i think it's more about profit , this issue. because if profit, this issue. because if you're building a new office block, it was cheaper to just put in one block of toilets rather than two. well, here @gbnews we have mixed toilet space.i @gbnews we have mixed toilet space. i hate it, we all don't like it, do we? none of us are particularly pleased with having to share a cubicle next to your

boss, maybe. or even your co—presenter. no offence, but actually i can see how it works for the building in terms of profit. and i think my, my suspicion with this is that the rules, rule change will mean we won't get toilets with lots of cubicles where you come out and wash your hands. so we might have six toilets, we might have three toilets. then between individual more like we'd see with the disabled loo individual ones, because those are still allowed aren't they. >> yes. >> yes. >> and that for people who identify as a different gender from their one, they were born, and fair enough. i mean, but, no, it's just, i mean, the fact we're spending so much time discussing this seems to me madness. i mean, it's really very simple . and i think this is very simple. and i think this is a straightforward announcement. i think it'll be welcomed by. but certainly every conservative voter will welcome this. and of course, it is a little bit of kemi badenoch trying to show that she's moving away from the

wokery and trying to begin to set herself up to be the next leader after the election. and she's the clear favourite to be the next leader of the conservative party. >> but again, isn't this just all too little, too late? why didn't they do this years ago? well of course, why are they so reactive ? reactive? >> well, why didn't they stand up to wokery? i mean, the irony is that britain has become more woke than ever before under a conservative government, and they no one has been brave enough to say, look, common sense says this is rubbish. nonsense. let's not do x or y. it doesn't make any sense. and they're too afraid. everyone's got into this victim. i'm so easily offended. culture. i mean, let's get on with life and let's concentrate on the major issues rather than stuff like this, which is quite frankly, it should be an absolute given. it's a simple thing, but i do think it's unfortunate they announced it the day after bad

results, because as it does look like, oh, we're grasping at straws to here try and win some favorability. and anyway , it's favorability. and anyway, it's insignificant because by the time the election comes, probably in the end of november, because they they'll wait till the very last minute clinging on and hoping for a miracle of some kind that they will they not have something special to deliver in the autumn statement. perhaps, but we'll have lots and lots of announcements. but i mean, again, as suella braverman said, they can make all the announcements they want, but is it going to actually make any difference? real difference to the average voter before the next election? and the answer is they don't have time for that . they don't have time for that. it's just not going to work. so i'm afraid to say, you know, he was going to have a july election and they've decided to scrap that because, like any prime minister they don't want to give up the job because there isn't a better one. and so he's clinging on till november in the hope and talking about the hung

parliament nonsense. and then because it won't be, but also, hoping above hope that somehow there'll be something will happen to the labour party that will have a disastrous effect on it. now, that could still happen, but i mean, we don't know what that is and it's not in the control of the conservatives. >> you never know about the muslim vote that could escalate. it could really get out of control, depending. absolutely. in gaza. i mean, it's amazing that issues thousands of miles away are affecting our own politics here. you know, it's a bit mad you make of this. >> oh, we've got to go, pierce. we could have. i was going to ask you what you make of this muslim councillor shouting allahu akbar. when he won. but i think i know what you think about that. but we will be getting on to that in the rest of the show, don't go anywhere. we're going to be marking the fact that it's one year today since king charles's coronation do you remember it fondly? this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

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course. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and ben leo instead of andrew pierce. >> very good morning to you. and happy bank holiday. coming up on the show, rishi sunak has said the show, rishi sunak has said the country is heading towards a hung parliament after poor local election results because it is right for the region. >> he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem, these terrible results and quickly and urgently change course . coui'se. >> course. >> that was former home secretary, of course, suella braverman giving her supportive advice to the prime minister following disappointing and local mayoral elections this weekend. i bet he was delighted to hear that . to hear that. >> text me don't call. a new poll shows a quarter of gen—z aged brits have never answered their phones , and they prefer their phones, and they prefer texts or voice notes. unbeliev >> all british youngster lando norris has won the formula one miami grand prix. it's his first ever victory in the sport after a string of podiums and near misses. so a victory for

britain. good lad. we're taking it as a british victory anyway. we'll just. >> he's a brit. he's from bristol. he's 24 years old. he's. he's not a rookie, let's say that. but he's been in the sport a few years. but he's it's everyone's so happy for him because he's had a string of second places, third places and he never could quite clinch that victory. but he's done it. and i was saying to bev earlier, i was watching his dad speak earlier about how proud he was and happy he was that his son had finally done it. and yeah, it was just really special. i really enjoyed it. it's a feel good bank houday it. it's a feel good bank holiday story. >> absolutely. let us know what you're doing today. gbnews.com/yoursay first at the very latest news with aaron armstrong. >> very good morning to you. it's a minute past ten i'm aaron armstrong. rishi sunak has admitted the tories may not win the general election after huge defeats in local elections . the

defeats in local elections. the prime minister believes the uk is on course for a hung parliament, with labour as the largest party, and says voters won't want to see sir keir starmer propped up in downing street by the snp. rishi sunak described the local election results as bitterly disappointing. the conservatives lost nearly 500 council seats and the mayor's position in the west midlands , but women's west midlands, but women's minister maria caulfield told gb news things aren't as bad as the polls suggest . polls suggest. >> for months now they've been saying that we're 20 points behind labour and actually when you look at the results from the local elections and experts have done, the drilling down on those numbers, it's between 7 to 9 points. and what we're actually looking for is a potential hung parliament. and if labour then want to go into government, they would have to do deals with parties like the snp, the lib dems and, you know, parties like the green party as well. >> however, chair of the labour party, anneliese dodds, says rishi sunak's interpretation of

these results is incorrect. >> local elections are not a good predictor of general elections. if you just look at the overall vote share, which is what he seems to have done, for example, very small parties tend to do far better in local elections. independents tend to do better . and if you look at do better. and if you look at the places where labour won, where labour picked up support, it was in those constituencies that labour will need in order to deliver a majority labour government. so i'm afraid rishi sunak has got this wrong. he's tin eared. he should be listening to that message to actually give people the chance for change. >> john swinney is likely to be confirmed as the next leader of the snp today, after a potential challenger pulled out late last night. veteran party activist graham mccormack has now endorsed mr swinney to become scotland's next first minister. he's the only candidate the only official candidate to replace humza yousaf, who announced he was stepping down last week. nominations close at midday. palestinians have been told to

evacuate rafah in southern gaza as the israeli military prepares for a ground offensive. israel says 100,000 residents in the east of the city have been ordered to leave, claiming it's part of a limited scope operation rather than a full scale assault. it comes after ceasefire talks with hamas collapsed over the weekend . now, collapsed over the weekend. now, the israeli military says it's encouraging palestinians to move to an expanded humanitarian zone where aid will be available. the uk and other countries, though, have warned israel against an operation in rafah . the un says operation in rafah. the un says the consequences would be devastating for some 1.4 million people. a royal navy patrol ship has dealt a huge blow to south american drug traffickers , american drug traffickers, seizing half £1 billion in cocaine in just five months. in the latest bust, hms trent intercepted and seized £204 million of the class a drug following the pursuit of a vessel in the caribbean sea. the uk ministry of defence says the

actions of the patrol ship have severely impacted the worldwide trading cocaine, as the crew of the vessel has now stopped £511 million worth of drugs reaching the streets of britain and other countries. the archbishop of canterbury has paid tribute to the king's sense of duty after his return to public duties, following his cancer diagnosis. justin welby says the king's transparency with his condition showed his willingness to support others . a welby's support others. a welby's comments come on the first anniversary of the coronation he added that crowning the king was the privilege of his lifetime . the privilege of his lifetime. gun salutes will be heard across the capital later in celebration of the king's coronation, with 41 volleys fired at noon by the king's troop, royal horse artillery and rail passengers are facing a week of disruption because of strikes by train drivers across some parts of the country. members of the aslef union, at 16 operators, have launched a six day ban on overtime, which is expected to cause short notice

cancellations. they'll also stage three one day strikes across different operators between tomorrow and thursday. it's all part of a long running dispute over pay. no talks have been held between the union and train operators for more than a year. train operators for more than a year . sign up train operators for more than a year. sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or you can go to our website for more details. now it is back to ben and . bev. is back to ben and. bev. >> hello. welcome back. it's 1006. you're with ben and bev on britain's newsroom on this monday bank holiday. tell us what you're up to today. by the way, i'm keen to know what you're all doing. aside from watching us. of course, i'm sure you have lots of plans for later today. >> and if you go out the house, you can put us on the radio. remember that. that's the beauty of gb news. well, there's lots of gb news. well, there's lots of things are great about gb news, obviously, but, you are our most important asset. and you'll be getting in touch this morning. and paula said, as sunak had missed the turn out to

vote in the recent local election, was extremely poor below 30% in some areas. people that normally vote tory have had enough of their antics. they just couldn't be bothered to leave the house. sunak is deluded if he thinks this will get voters moving by holding off a general election until deep into the winter, even less voters will turn out then. i'm afraid the tories are in for a bigger defeat than they realise as voter apathy. and i do wonder whether with the election, particularly if you're a londoner and kahne got in and you dislike his policies and as much as i do, you are going to be more galvanised because you think, i can't, can't have this again at the next at the general election. >> so you think it might be a different story come the general election? >> i think the results this weekend, a warning shot. yeah. okay. a warning shot against those who didn't bother to vote. >> i think that when people come to the ballot box who were thinking of voting reform, they've seen what's happened over this weekend. yeah, and they will say, i'm going to have to hold my nose here and give the tories one last chance, because when the prospect and the reality of a socialist labour government nears ever closer. yeah. and comes knocking

on your door , what are you going on your door, what are you going to do? >> the green vote collapsing was interesting as well for me. and sharon has said, why are the green parties silent on the anfics green parties silent on the antics of the green party council and his team in leeds? now this is , this guy who, i now this is, this guy who, i don't think we've got a picture of him, but this is the guy who who won was shouting allahu akban who won was shouting allahu akbar, was saying, this is for the people of gaza with the green representative behind him clapping. and i'm thinking , i'm clapping. and i'm thinking, i'm not sure he's bothered about the environment to be fair, i'm not i'm not sure that was the top of his list. he's he stood on a ticket. he said, this is for the palestinian people like you representing leeds. go and sort out the bin collection. that's a real street. lights and the potholes. i'm sorry. i said on twitter. you've not got a hotline to netanyahu all of a sudden, mate ? sudden, mate? >> well, i've said previously, this situation with gaza affecting our politics here, why why does anyone vote here based on something that's going on in gaza, israel, even if the labour party came out and gave you everything they wanted, i think

the muslim vote made a list of 18 demands today of keir starmer before they would endorse him for the election, something holding him to ransom. what's the point? as if the labour party or the conservatives are going to do anything here to affect what's going on in gaza? you think benjamin netanyahu is going to be listening to keir starmer or rishi sunak ? they're starmer or rishi sunak? they're going to be doing what they feel is right to protect their country. absolutely >> and a lot of you getting in touch on the issue of single sex loos and saying that actually this is something that you've wanted for a long time. pollyanna said. safe spaces are not in place just for women. men need their safe spaces, too. yeah. so yeah, keep your messages. >> as you know, at home, our toilets here @gbnews quite infamously, are shared sex spaces, and that wasn't a choice of the channel. >> this is a building that we moved into. yeah. >> we're not we're not massive hypocrites. or maybe some people are, i don't know, but i feel very uncomfortable walking into a toilet and seeing a woman even just washing her hands. it makes me feel a bit weird. i don't know why weird. >> but yeah, we're all grown ups and we get on with it. and you

do have some interesting conversations by the sinks, but i for me, it's about schools primarily. we've got girls who are saying that they they just don't go to the loo all day at school because there might be a boy in the next. terrible. that is awful. and also, i'm a big fan, actually, of nightclubs and night time venues having separate loos, because when you've got daughters going out and you just you want them to think and also i'll say this, it's probably a bit early in the morning for it, but women's loos generally, i'm told, are just a lot cleaner and more hygienic than than blokes. >> so there we go . >> so there we go. >> so there we go. >> right. is it time for, it's time up for prime minister rishi sunak? it's been a terrible weekend for him. >> yeah. first of all, on saturday, sadiq khan won his third term as mayor, despite all the conjecture, of course, that susan hall would run him very, very close. it didn't happen. but take a listen to this. >> it's londoners who inspire me every day to continue our mission of building a fairer, safer and greener london and in what i hope will be a year of great change, a future labour

government led by keir starmer, working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more . and accomplish so much more. >> and just a few hours later, conservative andy street lost the west midlands mayoralty, he had been expected to retain that. he lost to labour's richard parker by just 1508 votes. >> yeah, i think if reform were they involved in that vote, i think i remember reading, i need to check if reform weren't there, he would have won it, no problem. and now, of course, the suella braverman, the former home secretary, she called, sir keir starmer. she said that he had the personality of a peanut. and talking about rishi sunak, he said that he must change his political course to remain in power as there's no time to change tory leader. >> so let's hear from kevin schofield, now political editor of the huff post, for your thoughts. kevin, good morning, what suella braverman up to is she positioning herself as a potential leader of the conservatives this week ? conservatives this week? >> oh, without a doubt. you know, she will be in the mix,

after the election, when i'm sure the conservatives lose and there'll be a new, conservative leader, a contest for it. at least she'll be in the mix along with, kemi badenoch, penny mordaunt, priti patel, robert jenrick obe a list as long as your arm. so, yeah, she's getting in early and setting her pitch out for, the right of the party to get the support of the right of the party because she's right. it's too late now to change, leader. i think even, tory mps who are opposed to rishi sunak appreciate that with six months to go, probably till an election, it would be a bit daft now to, to change leader. so they are stuck with them. so the best they can do is try to get them to change and tack on various policies. but the problem there is he's changed tack so many times already, you know, with policy relaunches and all sorts of, attempts to try and shift the political dial. and nothing seems to be working because i think voters have already made up their minds.

>> well, kevin, some would argue that he could do a good job by committing to get rid of the conservative party's one nation tories or the wets, as they called mark harper, the transport secretary. he was warning rishi sunak this morning not to lurch to the right, saying that his plan was working. that defeated mayor in west midlands andy street . one west midlands andy street. one of the first things he said in his speech after being whacked by labour was the tories must not drift to the right. these people, members would argue, need to go back to the liberal democrats before the conservatives have any hope of winning an election again . winning an election again. >> i mean, if you look through history, though, i mean, most parties only when they come from the centre, whether that be the centre right or the centre left , centre right or the centre left, most i think voters are pretty middle ground, are neither right wing or left wing , and i think wing or left wing, and i think andy street's got a point there. i mean, he was very unlucky, to lose by 1500 votes. he came so close to a third term, which

would have pretty much bucked the trend. i mean, the only other, bright spot for the conservatives on thursday was ben houchen winning and the tees valley. and he managed to win. really by pretending not to be a conservative and certainly keeping rishi sunak at arm's length. he didn't even wear a blue rosette on the on the stage when he was elected or re—elected. so. so yeah, i think there's major lessons for the conservatives to learn. but i think if they were, you know, to take suella braverman's advice and move off to the right now, then i think that would probably make things even worse for them, kevin, who voted for sadiq khan , kevin, who voted for sadiq khan, quite a lot of people, clearly, but who are won by 200. >> it won by 200,000 votes. so, i mean, you might not be happy about that, but you can't deny he's got a mandate again. i mean, the conservatives were left with a lot of egg on their face. i think on friday night there were some people within cchq who were briefing that susan hall was was going to win,

labour were as well, kevin. >> no, i was i was just about to say, to be fair, even even labour were i know that for a fact. labour sadiq khan's campaign team were also briefing that it was going to be very close. >> but who? kevin who voted for him? who feels better in london now than they did six years ago? safer that you can get around and that the streets are clean. and this city is in a diabolical condition at the moment. who's voting for him? >> well, i think if the conservatives have put up a better candidate than susan hall, then i think things might have been a lot closer. i mean , have been a lot closer. i mean, this is, you know, london is traditionally a labour city, but bofis traditionally a labour city, but boris johnson won twice because he was a convincing candidate. people liked him, and he defeated ken livingstone . so defeated ken livingstone. so i think sadiq khan was definitely vulnerable. you know , going for vulnerable. you know, going for a third term when you've been in power for such a long time, inevitably you're going to have made mistakes. you'll have

annoyed a lot of people. people generally like a change. you know, once they've once a politician has been in power for quite a long time. people just think, you know what, it's time to give someone else a go. so they look at the conservatives as the alternative, and they look at susan hall and the you know, pretty less than convincing interviews that she gave a pretty lacklustre campaign. and they think, well, you know , i might just hold my you know, i might just hold my nose and in that case and vote for sadiq khan. so i think the conservatives have got serious questions to answer , as well as questions to answer, as well as to why they couldn't have come up with a better candidate than susan hall. >> i thought reform would do better in london than they did. i thought howard cox would have got more votes in the london area. why did that not translate into more of a success, do you think, kevin? >> i mean, i think a lot is to do with your ground game. you know, if you've got many people out on the doors knocking up and getting people out to the polling station, you know, for smaller parties, it's very difficult indeed to have that, especially in a big city like like london, to have the critical mass of volunteers and activists to get out , handing

activists to get out, handing out leaflets, campaigning, all that type of stuff, really, really matters. and clearly labour have got a big election machine in london. so yeah, i think that's probably it makes it much more difficult for, for smaller parties to, to get any sort of traction. okay >> kevin, thanks very much for joining us this morning. appreciate it. thanks kevin. >> we've been asking you what you're doing at home. adrian, who is the gb news member? thank you. adrian says i'm in the garden. i've got the news on the radio, and you're not getting wet. >> well, rainy, isn't it? >> well, rainy, isn't it? >> i don't know, we haven't got any daylight here, i'm afraid. wendy says the sun is out, it's warm, and i'm painting the kitchen walls. actually, i never answer my phone. this is going on to a story we're going to talk about in a minute. or call anyone unless absolutely vital. i just don't like to. i'm anyone unless absolutely vital. ijust don't like to. i'm not i just don't like to. i'm not going. i'm not a young generation either. >> says actually, i find myself doing that these days. if i don't know the number, i just look at it and throw it away. >> this is a story about the fact that generation z, which is under 24, i think they are. don't ever pick up the phone or

make a phone call. yeah, well, that's. >> yeah, i think these kids these days have a very serious problem that needs to be addressed on social skills. i've said before many times you've got kids who've gone to university degrees coming out their ears, qualified up to the eyeballs, and they come into the office or wherever. they can't look you in the eye, they can't pick up a phone, they can't knock on a door and ask questions. it's absurd. >> they're scared to answer the phone. right, by the way, sorry, bev. sorry you asked who's voting for sadiq khan? when london is in a worse place than it was six years ago? i'd argue it's people who weren't here six years ago, so they don't know any better. and it's probably london today. it's probably a much nicer place than the places they've come from. very early migrants. >> i'm sure there's a huge well, we know that, of course. right up next, a muslim pressure group has demanded that sir keir starmer end military ties with israel to win back the voters who have abandoned labour. he's basically being politically blackmailed on a middle east issue. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> good morning. 1022. you're with ben , leo in for andrew pierce. >> no. you were there for a minute. you didn't call yourself andrew pierce, did you? >> no. not yet, andrew is taking a bank holiday off, so ben is here with me bev turner this morning, and we are delighted. so we're joined in the studio now by author and broadcaster emma woolf and former labour adviser matthew laza. good morning guys. good morning. happy bank holiday. thank you for giving up your bank holiday morning to be here with us. always a pleasure, fiona. phobia. >> yes absolutely. so we've kind of known for a while that the younger generation are very keen on using their phones for actually making calls, anything else that they are literally welded to them. but it says one quarter. a new survey today , quarter. a new survey today, which is on the front page of the times, one quarter of people aged 18 to 34 have confessed that they have never used their phone to make a call. >> a quarter of people have never made a mobile phone call.

>> that's that's that's what it said, and they said that 70% said, and they said that 70% said they prefer to text or call, and 37% would rather have a voice note. rather than a call. >> just to explain to people what this means, because there'll be people watching this who don't really know what we're talking about, about how the youth communicate. they use a snapchat snapchat app. that's the main one that my kids use do is text each other. so it's like a and they will you leave a voice note where you record your voice note where you record your voice not on an answering machine, but onto the app and then the person plays it. quite a fan of the voice note i love a voice note. i love a voice. absolutely love a voice note. that's an alternative, really, to leaving alternative, really, to leaving a message on an answering machine. so that's where we're at. so, emma, why does it matter that these young people can't make or take a phone call? >> well, hold on, i think there's something i'm i'm i'm not a young person, but i'm very with them on this. and actually, a third of people don't really like direct phone calls. now this is asynchronous

communication. this is where we can kind of go to it when we choose. we can answer it when we choose. we can answer it when we choose. there's something quite intrusive about a phone call these days. it feels quite intrusive for someone to call your mobile phone. but it also i think there's something quite alarming. the only time i get a direct call is either the nursery. so ludo has bumped his head. that kind of call, or it's, it's spam. you know, you get these idiotic companies repeatedly calling you, offering you whatever it is, double glazing. people prefer to be able to message back and forth. most of the time they do message directly and respond immediately . but there's something about the urgency, the intrusiveness of a phone call, of a direct call, which is what people are. >> emma, you sound like you're making excuses for young kids who can't handle the pressure of just being, you know, existing in real life. >> no. you and bev, life is tough sometimes. >> sometimes you've got to work under pressure. you've got to think on your feet. answer the phone. yeah. >> the worst thing is when someone says, can i call you at three? and then all day long, all day long, even if it's nothing, all day long, you're

waiting for that call at three. and it's a nightmare when someone's schedules a call. but you make a really good point, which is basically we should be able to communicate with other people in real time. we should be able to, if, you know, go to a job interview, answer a phone call, do all of that stuff. >> sorry to slightly change topic, there was a story last week about john lewis giving job interview applicants young kids. the questions in advance. yeah, just like that. >> because because they have to prepare and they can't think on their feet. exactly. >> that rather defeats the point. >> but there's something we have to question. what it is. and emma, i think that's so interesting what you said about something feeling intrusive about phone call. if your phone fings about phone call. if your phone rings now, you say if somebody fings rings now, you say if somebody rings me, i will think what has gone wrong? we're all being inculcated with this idea that if it's unless it's important, send a written message. but you know what's important, matt? friends talking absolutely . friends talking absolutely. talking connection? totally. but our mobile phones are absolutely mobiles. >> absolutely personal things you have your mobile with you all the time. it's not like in the old days where a phone might ring at home. it might ring on the wall, which some of us

remember. >> there's also, of course, the. >> and you'd answer it because now your mobile. >> now if you get a phone call on the phone, you know app rather than the whatsapp of other on whatsapp, then you know that that's bad news because literally everybody uses it. although what i think is rather lovely about this survey is it seems that everybody answers the phone to their mum, who remains the one person who is alive who's given a free. i think this is this is the sort of millennials will still answer the phone to their mums and not regard that as a microaggression, which of course, it can be charged with. we move on to the next story. >> can i just read you this comment from paul on gbnews.com/yoursay he says the younger generation make me laugh. they're too scared to answer the phone, but they're quite happy to take pictures of their bits and send them out to anyone. >> so true. but it is funny. but it is. there is something fundamentally important here about humanity and what it is to be a human being and connection. and we wonder why so many people are lonely. because you know what? which is an absolute by whatsapp a mate and just go, how are you? they're going to say, fine, if i ring them. i do a lot of calling in the car. so i ring

a lot from the car. if i ring a friend, they will eventually go, oh, they'll have a sign. do you know what my mum's not so well. or the kids are playing up. >> and because people are very british and people just say, which is why people are saying, are you okay? it's a bad things. so you should open an open ended question like, how are you getting on? how's things? so at least it gives people think because saying are you okay is a very binary choice. and people don't like saying no because people don't like we don't like not being okay. >> we have to make our kids. i'm going to come up with a new policy here. kids have to make phone calls. no should be made to make this all comes back to this entire online world. >> this all comes back to that. the fact that people are isolated, they're on their own. they're staring at a screen. you know, you don't chat to people. you don't flirt with people in a cafe. you don't chat to someone on a bus these days because everybody is staring at their screen. >> our viewer says, but people, it's not just bits. it's not just photos of their bids, but it's photos of their dessert or, you know, the sunset or the view or whatever. people, you know, people will post literally expose the whole of their lives, both the intimate and the kind

of banal, but they won't actually have a conversation with a connection. >> do you know what? what connection? one final point in this, i would argue having the ability to say hello to someone, hold a conversation, look them in the eye and get down to their level or up to their level wherever it may be, is worth more than any university degree. ask most employers. i'd rather someone who's a normal human being. people, people, skills. yeah, some dork or nerd who just can't talk. >> well, they call soft skills. now, in the corporate world, soft skills or being able to talk to someone, being able to talk to someone, being able to talk to someone, being able to talk to somebody. >> and the other guarantees, if you ever ring your mother, the mobile phone that you've set her up with will be at the bottom of her handbag. yeah that is yes. >> that was my mum was always lie. >> very true. right. two minutes on toilets matthew. yeah. >> well, so single sex lavatories are going to be compulsory under building regulations. so the government is. never mind the government in the bedroom. this is the government in the loo. so all new non—residential buildings, not just government buildings but private buildings as well. obviously shops, offices, places of entertainment etc. yeah, we'll have to. and not just new buildings , but those undergoing buildings, but those undergoing significant refurbishments will have to offer single sex toilets. >> good lavatories please. >> good lavatories please. >> lavatories. can we just use

the proper word. it's the word is lavatories. we're in a unique position here of actually being able to talk about what we know, because we have gender neutral lavatories here, and we all keep them lovely and clean, don't we? >> yes, but i don't like them. >> yes, but i don't like them. >> no, i don't, and i think there's nothing there was some irony there, nothing transphobic about saying that women and men should be able to have privacy and dignity when they are using the lavatory. >> i'm. is. yeah. >> i'm. is. yeah. >> i'm sorry, but you can still have unisex lavatories in this as in the individual cubicles where you can wash your hands. yes. so my worry, matthew , is yes. so my worry, matthew, is that we're going to have fewer toilets because that's what you ended up with actually. >> yeah, absolutely. because men love. because men are as we know. yes. and are dirty animals as we were taught. >> they really are. i i'm absolutely disgusted sometimes with men in men's toilets . i with men in men's toilets. i just don't know what you're getting up to. >> well, it's here at the gb news where we have. we have the cubicles. but you don't have the hand basins. not in the cubicle. so i think we may fall afoul, if we were to if we'd have a major refurbishment. but i went in the other day and one of our female

colleagues was going, oh, that cubicle is disgusting. and went next door. so there are certainly dangers about it. i do think, though, that this is because this is private sector, buildings. it is a bit big government. i'm going to sound a bit sort of libertarian here, but this is, this is a bit of government imposing things, and so i'm not totally in favour of that. i think it's fine for the government to say what schools and other things should do, which it has the levers on, but maybe we can leave, you know, we can leave in clubs and, and shops to sort it out for themselves, i quite like nightclubs, though, having separate loos. emma >> i can't see what happened to the conversation otherwise. women, you know, the women's famous powder room, right, thank you both for now. we are going to go very quickly to the news with aaron, who's waiting for. us. >> it's 1030. us. >> it's1030. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom . armstrong in the gb newsroom. rishi sunak's admitted the tories may not win the general election after damaging defeats in the local polls. the prime minister believes the uk is on course for a hung parliament, with labour as the largest

party, and says voters won't want to see sir keir starmer propped up in downing street by the snp. rishi sunak described the snp. rishi sunak described the local election result as bitterly disappointing. the conservatives lost nearly 500 council seats and the mayor's position in the west midlands, but women's minister maria caulfield told gb news things aren't as bad as the polls suggest . john swinney is likely suggest. john swinney is likely to be confirmed as the next leader of the snp. later, after a potential challenger pulled out late last night, veteran party activist graham mccormack has endorsed john swinney to become scotland's next first minister. he's now the only candidate to replace humza yousaf, who announced he was stepping down last week. nominated close at midday , the nominated close at midday, the israeli military is telling palestinians to evacuate rafah ahead of an expected ground offensive. it's told 100,000 residents in the east of the to city move to an expanded humanitarian zone, where aid will be available . ceasefire will be available. ceasefire talks with hamas collapsed over the weekend , and the kerem the weekend, and the kerem shalom aid crossing has been

closed overnight after a rocket attack by hamas killed three israeli soldiers . the uk attack by hamas killed three israeli soldiers. the uk and other countries have warned israel against an operation in rafah. the un says the consequences would be devastating for 1.4 million people. rail passengers are facing a week of disruption because of strikes by train drivers across parts of the country. members of the aslef union at 16 operators, have launched a six day ban on overtime, which is expected to cause short notice cancellations. they will also stage three one day strikes across different operators between tomorrow and thursday, as part of a long running dispute over pay. more on all of our stories available by scanning the qr code on your screen for gb news alerts, or go to our website for more information. >> up next today marks the one year anniversary since king charles ascended to the throne. do you remember that day? where

were you? >> i don't really, i'm not. i support the royal family, but i'm not overly fussed about charles. >> do you not remember what you did on the coronation day? we're not working for gb news. >> i was, i just. not working for gb news. >> i was, ijust. no, i don't remember what i was doing last weekend, so. no. sorry. what were you doing? how did you watch it? i i watched it at home. >> no, i watched it at. oh, you're right, i can't remember. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> no, you're right, i can't remember. i wasn't working on the day. i was working the whole week for gb news running up to the coronation day, was i there? oh, let us know what you were doing while i go through my camera roll. and remember where i was on coronation day. obviously a lot has happened in that year, but how do you feel today about the first year of king charles? >> oh, so someone's it's a special royal's birthday today. can you guess who will reveal all after the break? this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. welcome back. 1037 with ben and bev on britain's newsroom only on gb news. now, as mentioned, it's the one year anniversary since his majesty king charles ascended to the throne. >> and i've remembered where i was. we had a little party at home and we watched it all and it was lovely. it was a nice day , wasn't it? well, good. 12 months on, the monarch seems closer than ever to the public, doesn't it? particularly after this cancer diagnosis. doesn't it? particularly after this cancer diagnosis . we saw this cancer diagnosis. we saw those pictures of him at the cancer centre last week, holding hands with everybody. he was very kind of warm and open, wasn't it? >> yeah, doing some good work. and i also teased before the break, can you guess whose birthday it is today? it's actually prince archie. harry, meghan's son. it's his fifth birthday today. so joining us now is the former bbc royal correspondent michael cole. good morning michael. thanks for joining us. first off, let's let's let's focus on the king. it's his, anniversary today for the coronation has he done a good job? is the future of the monarchy in safe hands ? and bear monarchy in safe hands? and bear in mind his health problems? michael, may we see an abdication happen fairly soon. >> never, never, never. >> never, never, never. >> controversial . ben

>> controversial. ben >> controversial. ben >> abdication is the big no no in the royal family. it will neven in the royal family. it will never, ever happen. and we live, god save the king. long, long may he live, of course, as you quite rightly say, it was a glorious day , this day last glorious day, this day last yeanl glorious day, this day last year, i was working for you , if year, i was working for you, if you want to know what i was doing. i was also working for the australians. canadians and at least two arab television channels. so it was a busy day, and of course, i was able to compare it with, i'm that old that i was ten years old when the queen, the late queen elizabeth ii, was crowned on the 3rd of june, 1953. and as broadcasters, i think we should remember that that was the very beginning of the television age that made television relevant and important in this country. and when the bbc's lead commentator, richard dimbleby, high in the rafters of

westminster abbey, whispered into his lit mic, the queen is crowned using the historic present tense . well, it made the present tense. well, it made the hairs on the back of my ten year old head , let neck go up. and old head, let neck go up. and i thought then i'd love to be a television reporter. and i went on and doing that. so that was a very important day . what we saw very important day. what we saw this day last year was a pretty in pomp, pageantry, a great day for the whole country and a day, a day off really, from all the worries about, covid and the recovery from brexit and all the rest of it. it was a one shining moment when we all got together for, in a 20th first century show of love and devotion for crown and country and we had a day out, and i think we all tremendously enjoyed it. but today also let us say happy birthday day to prince archie of sussex way over there in

california , sixth in line to the california, sixth in line to the throne, the late queen's eighth grandchild. and you will remember , there we see that, remember, there we see that, rather controversial photo call at windsor, where the couple, having brought their pride and joy having brought their pride and joy to see the world's press, then went out of their way to hide him from them. he was in swaddling clothes, as they would say in the bible, with a hat on, and nobody really saw him. and that followed rather strange behaviour. they wouldn't confirm where the birth had been. it was at the portland hospital in central london, and they've neven central london, and they've never, ever confirmed the four, godparents there . identities godparents there. identities became known later, so it was rather strange behaviour from the very beginning. and since they went into self—imposed exile, first in canada and then montecito, north of los angeles, which may have been meghan's intention all along, we've seen

very little of master archie, prince archie , who could be prince archie, who could be called earl of dumbarton, but they don't use that courtesy title. we've seen him with some rescue chickens and we've heard that he talks american now and says to people who come to stay with them, drive safe when they leave, you know, very nice american. >> i think it's a real shame. michael. you're talking about the king. this, you know, his majesty hasn't really seen archie. and yet we've got a prince of the realm in california. i don't know , happy california. i don't know, happy birthday to the kid. he's the same age as my boy. so nothing against him. but what a shame that you know. >> yeah, and the decisions, really, that they've made. which meant that boy is not grown up with his cousins at all. seeing his grandparents, his aunties and his uncles because of that family feud. it is, i think, on that level, on a day like today, actually, even though it's like, well, great, there's a child turning five, i think it makes us reflect really on what's happened there to the royal family. but talking of reflecting michael , if anybody reflecting michael, if anybody had told us a year ago today

that fast forward 12 months, you'll have sarah ferguson with cancen you'll have sarah ferguson with cancer, princess of wales with cancer, princess of wales with cancer , the king with cancer. we cancer, the king with cancer. we would never have believed that, would never have believed that, would we, bev? >> they say that troubles come in threes. and as you say, sarah ferguson, duchess of york, breast cancer and then skin cancer. breast cancer and then skin cancer . and then the two blows cancer. and then the two blows almost at once simultaneously , almost at once simultaneously, the king and the princess of wales in hospital. and then their separate revelations that they have cancer and aren't they deaung they have cancer and aren't they dealing with them bravely. and there we see the king. fantastic pictures. these were, i thought, holding hands with people who are stricken in the same way as he is, and understanding what they're saying. and because he's been there, he is there . and i been there, he is there. and i think he took a great deal of comfort from this visit because he has his treatment alone. these people are together . they these people are together. they almost form clubs when they're undergoing this rather harrowing treatment. they have to have.

and for him to know that this goes on and these, you know, they form little clubs, they bnng they form little clubs, they bring cakes for each other. they they form a social group. he doesn't have any of that. and listen to him look at him listening to that. he's really taking it all on board and he's doing what only he can do. there's only one head of state. it's a unique position, and he's leading from the front and showing that definition of courage, grace under pressure and certainly there has been pressure. nine months ago , nine pressure. nine months ago, nine months after that glorious coronation, this revelation of cancen coronation, this revelation of cancer. and you, you were saying, ben, about his popularity and abdication. his popularity and abdication. his popularity has never been higher. 60% approval of the monarchy and him in particular. and the princess of wales, who is having her own struggles, even more popular. and the queen there we see him, she's with him throughout, being his stay and his strength. and they make a

great couple. so the monarchy is in good hands. but as you reflected , bev earlier, and reflected, bev earlier, and i can't agree with the disagree with the words you said, it is so sad that he sees so little of his grandchild , archie, and his his grandchild, archie, and his sister, princess lilibet , very, sister, princess lilibet, very, very sad indeed. and to see these two brothers, william and harry, who were once so close. well, i'll tell you what their mother would be so upset because she always thought they would be there for each other. in fact, when they were small boys, she made them vow , made them promise made them vow, made them promise always to support love each other so that's very sad. we celebrate and we celebrate with your son too, ben. he's five two. i remember what it was like to be five. it was the year of the, london olympics, and we went to see the last handing over of the torch. so it was a big year, a big year for me, 1948, when i was five. >> life was a lot easier. >> life was a lot easier. >> a michael when we were kids. ignorance is bliss.

>> thank you michael . great to >> thank you michael. great to see you michael cole. have a lovely bank holiday, lots of you getting in touch at home as well, jacqueline has said to keep saying it's too late to change. leader is nonsense. this is about whether sunak should go now. theresa may stood down in may 2019 when boris came in as leader, july 2019 and went on to win the general election in december 2019. yes it would be another leader, but let's face it, sunak is no leader. he's a manager. i've been saying all year they should change him. but i think it's too late now. >> well, if they really are facing annihilation, you may as well. it's like your last bet at the blackjack table. you've got two chips left. you're going to be wiped out anyway. just go all in, coming up next, we're going to be speaking to a victim of the infected blood scandal. if you don't know what that is, pretty much in a nutshell, haemophiliacs, people that need a special medicine to clot their blood in the 70s and 80s were given blood contaminated with all sorts of mucky diseases from skid row prisoners, prostitutes in america, drug users. the pharmaceutical companies knew about it , pharmaceutical companies knew about it, people over here pharmaceutical companies knew about it , people over here knew about it, people over here knew about it, people over here knew about it, people over here knew about it, doctors so on.

about it, doctors and so on. they're all on commission. and thousands of people, thousands of people were infected with different things. hepatitis. they got aids eventually , and they got aids eventually, and thousands died. so we've got a victim of the scandal coming next. and that's ahead of the final report of the inquiry, which is out on the 20th of may. so you

tick. welcome back. 1049 ben and bev on britain's newsroom on gb news. now, more than 3000 people have died after contracting hiv or hepatitis c through nhs blood transfusion and other treatments dunng transfusion and other treatments during the 1970s and 80s, also known as the contaminated blood scandal. >> so an inquiry into this infected blood scandal began back in 2018. taking evidence from parliamentary ministers, survivors and bereaved family members. the findings are going to be finally be published later this month and there are now reports some in the daily telegraph or the sunday

telegraph or the sunday telegraph yesterday that some pharmaceutical giants knowingly sold hiv infected treatments. >> so blood to the nhs . so just >> so blood to the nhs. so just to reiterate, pharmaceutical giants in america are accused of and there's documented evidence of this knowingly selling contaminated blood products to the nhs who then gave it to him. opheliac kids here in the uk in the 70s and 80s. one of those people, joins us now. let's speak to richard warwick. he's one of the victims of the scandal. good morning, richard. thank you for joining scandal. good morning, richard. thank you forjoining us, good morning. >> good morning. now, look, let's let's just be frank , these let's let's just be frank, these revelations in the sunday telegraph yesterday about pharma companies knowingly selling products. it's not new. we've known about this for a while, but what the newspaper have uncovered is new documents proving that they knew it . how proving that they knew it. how far does the rot go? there was some suggestion that doctors over here were taking commission from these pharma companies to use us blood, instead of the much preferred uk blood, which was cleaner. just explain some detail for those who don't know the story, the rock goes to the very top of government and the

health service , the uk were health service, the uk were looking for a cheap source of factor eight because we couldn't produce our own in this country, and documents have shown from the inquiry that out of various companies, the uk preferred to buy the cheaper options of one particular company in austria, immuno . they produced a product immuno. they produced a product in a red box and a blue box, think of the matrix and they picked the, the blue box, which had a high risk of hepatitis simply to save money. so it's been known about for years, and, and this was all about, putting profits before patients at the end of the day. >> and, richard, what effect has this had on, on your life, when were you infected? and what's the detrimental effects been on your health? >> oh, crikey. over the past 50 years, initially it was hepatitis b , hiv, hep c, and all hepatitis b, hiv, hep c, and all the side effects that come along

with those viruses and the drugs have had to take to keep them under control, i was at a boarding school. i was sent down to treloar's in hampshire as an 11 year old, along with about 90 other children that were there at the time. and it's all one big, big project, they were actively and rolling uk to run clinical trials on them , yeah. clinical trials on them, yeah. >> richard, the tuc sorry to interject. >> the treloar school in hampshire, as you said, it was a project of 90 or so haemophiliac children. all the supposed top doctors were there and they were being used as guinea pigs. essentially, they were being given this infected blood. a lot of them have died , i mean, your of them have died, i mean, your i'll say so myself. you're quite lucky to be here today . and the lucky to be here today. and the scandal is that the inquiry into this has been dragged on for so long. many of the victims aren't here anymore to see justice done i >> -- >> that's lam em >> that's right. i mean, from the school, we think we've only got about 13 or 14 survivors, 75

of our school friends died , so of our school friends died, so it's absolutely heartbreaking. and we're going to bring that up tomorrow when four of us go and see john glenn, the paymaster general . and we're going to put general. and we're going to put forward that that point that the school funded by, in part by the nhs , and unbelievably, by the nhs, and unbelievably, by the haemophilia society to conduct these, these, these this research into the boys , we're research into the boys, we're going to bring that up and what, what i must make one point as well. we don't want the government to deflect , with, government to deflect, with, with any statements or any , with any statements or any, figures about compensation on the 20th, a week, a fortnight today when the inquiry report. we want this to be our day. you know, we waited 40 well, some near 50 years for this inquiry. and we want, we want truth, justice. we want accountability for all those that suffered and have died. and we want we want the government feet held to the fire for what they've done to so many. you know, 3000 people have died as a result of this. >> richard, we've seen recently there are echoes here of the

post office scandal, this idea of the david versus the goliath , of the david versus the goliath, the sort of faceless corporate entity which has impacted so many ordinary people's lives. >> obviously, in your situation , >> obviously, in your situation, it is, i would say, so much worse because you've lived with also daily health challenges and that that must also have impacted everything. relationships your professional life, etc. could you just elaborate, elaborate, just just briefly for us a little bit on those issues? well it's impacted every single aspect of my life, that of my wife, my, my wider family. >> we lost a child through this , >> we lost a child through this, every single aspect of my life , every single aspect of my life, from employment to holding down a job to getting a pension , life a job to getting a pension, life insurance, it's just been it's just been impossible. you know, i hate i hate the word hate to use the word lucky to be here, but by some grace of god, i am still here. and i'm right on

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gb news. >> away . >> away. >> away. >> good morning to you. it's 11 am. on wednesday. sorry. monday the 6th of may. >> wish the week away. >> wish the week away. >> here we go. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. with me, ben leo in for andrew pierce and beverley turner. >> very good morning to you. so is it time up for rishi sunak. said the country is heading towards a hung parliament after the poor local election results, because it is right for the region he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem. >> these terrible results and

quickly and urgently change course. >> former home secretary suella braverman there giving her advice to the prime minister following disappointing electoral results over the weekend . weekend. >> snp leadership deadline is looming. former deputy first minister john swinney looks set to be the next snp leader , as to be the next snp leader, as the deadline for applications is set at midday today. if you want to get your nomination in, you've got an hour to do it and some feel good news. >> british youngster lando norris has won the formula one miami grand prix. it's his first ever victory in the sport after a string of podiums and near misses. well done lando and should we let bygones be bygones? >> yes we should. doctors are advising that letting go of your angeris advising that letting go of your anger is tangibly good for your health and longevity. are you a forgiving person at

home? are you a forgiving person ? >> 7. >>i 7_ >> i forgive, 7 >> i forgive, but i don't forget. i don't hold grudges . forget. i don't hold grudges. >> i'm a very forgiving person. you have to be what some people say. >> life's short. just forgive. forgive people, you know? just move on. but then my argument is life is short. so why tolerate nonsense behaviour? >> oh my memory is too bad to ever bear a grudge. i'm afraid. gb news com forward slash. your say is the know your thoughts this morning. first for the very latest news with aaron armstrong . with aaron arm strong. >> with aaron armstrong. >> for good morning to you. it's a minute past 11 i'm aaron armstrong, rishi sunak conceded for the first time. the tories may not win the general election. the prime minister believes the uk is on course for a hung parliament, with labour as the largest party. and he says voters won't want to see sir keir starmer propped up in downing street by the snp. rishi sunak , though, has described the sunak, though, has described the local election results as bitterly disappointing. the

conservatives lost nearly 500 council seats and the mayor's position in the west midlands , position in the west midlands, but women's minister maria caulfield told gb news things aren't as bad as the polls suggest. >> for months now they've been saying that we're 20 points behind labour and actually when you look at the results from the local elections and experts have done the drilling down on those numbers , it's between 7 to 9 numbers, it's between 7 to 9 points. and what we're actually looking at is a potential hung parliament. and if labour then want to go into government, they would have to do deals with parties like the snp, the lib dems and, you know, parties like the green party as well . the green party as well. >> however, chair of the labour party, anneliese dodds, says rishi sunak interpretation of those results is incorrect . those results is incorrect. >> local elections are not a good predictor of general elections. if you just look at the overall vote share, which is what he seems to have done, for example, very small parties tend to do far better in local elections. independents tend to do better. and if you look at

the places where labour won, where labour picked up support, it was in those constituencies that labour will need in order to deliver a majority labour government. so i'm afraid rishi sunak has got this wrong. he's tin eared. he should be listening to that message to actually give people the chance for change. john swinney is set to be confirmed as the next leader of the snp today, after a potential challenger pulled out late last night . late last night. >> veteran party activist graeme mccormick is now endorsed. mr swinney to become scotland's next first minister. he's the only official candidate to replace humza yousaf, who announced he was stepping down last week. nominations will close at midday. palestinians have been told to evacuate rafah as the israeli military prepares for a ground offensive of 100,000 residents in the east of the city have been ordered to move towards an expanded humanitarian zone ahead of what israel has described as a limited scope operation . it limited scope operation. it comes after ceasefire talks with hamas collapsed over the weekend. now, egyptian media is reporting that a hamas rocket

attack that killed three israeli soldiers near an aid crossing has caused that breakdown in negotiations . 12 palestinians negotiations. 12 palestinians are reported to have been killed by israeli strikes in rafah overnight. the uk and the un have warned israel against an operation in southern gaza . four operation in southern gaza. four men have been charged after £40 million worth of cocaine was found in a pub car park. around 500kg of the drug was discovered in the back of a van in lilley, east yorkshire. a colombian national and three men from argyll and bute in scotland have been arrested. the national crime agency says they've been charged with the importation of class a drugs . the archbishop of class a drugs. the archbishop of canterbury has paid tribute to the king's sense of duty after his return to public life. justin welby says the transparency charles has shown after his cancer diagnosis demonstrates his willingness to support others. the archbishop's comments come on the first anniversary of the coronation,

he added. crowning the king was the privilege of a lifetime. gun salutes will be heard across the capital later in celebration with 41 volleys to be fired at noon. with 41 volleys to be fired at noon . rail passengers are facing noon. rail passengers are facing a week of disruption because of strikes by train drivers across several parts of the country . several parts of the country. members of the aslef union, at 16 operators, have launched a six day ban on overtime that's expected to cause short notice cancellations . they'll also cancellations. they'll also stage three one day strikes across a number of operators between tomorrow and thursday. it's all part of this long running dispute over pay. no talks have been held between the union and the train operators for more than a year. heineken plans to reopen 62 pubs that closed earlier this year. the dutch company says the investment of almost £40 million investment of almost £40 million in its star pubs operation will create 1000 new jobs. it says the plans to refurbish more than 600 establishments will turn them from tired pubs into premium locals.

them from tired pubs into premium locals . and for the premium locals. and for the latest you can sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news common alerts. now back over to ben and . ben and. bev. >> morning. morning 1106. sorry >> morning. morning 1106. sorry >> bank holiday monday. we're so happy to be here with you this morning. thank you forjoining morning. thank you for joining us and giving up your bank holiday. hopefully you sat back with a cup of coffee and a bacon butty and not rushing out to work. >> lots of you in the garden. it sounds like doing, you know, tending to your shrub and your flowers. the sun's out, but it's raining here anyway. let's move on. we're going to go back to our previous guest, richard warwick. he's one of the victims of the infected blood scandal. so just as a reminder, if you're just tuning in, the infected blood scandal was dubbed the biggest scandal in the history of the nhs. haemophiliacs people who need factor eight medicine blood plasma to clot their blood because their body doesn't do it. they were given blood products by the nhs , that was products by the nhs, that was pretty much sent from prisons,

prostitutes , drug users in the prostitutes, drug users in the us. the government knew about it. doctors knew about it. and now here returns richard, one of our victims. richard, in terms of compensation from the government, the inquiry concludes on the 20th of may next week. what do you want in terms of monetary compensation? is it even about that ? is it even about that? >> yes and no. i mean, no amount of money can bring back life, or health and we have to remember that it's not just about that. it's about loss of earnings, loss. loss of a family life , loss. loss of a family life, loss. loss of a family life, loss of pensions, insurance and everything that goes along with that career , for me personally, that career, for me personally, it's all about accountability. i want people, held to account . i want people, held to account. i want people, held to account. i want government ministers held to account those that made decisions , wrongly made decisions, wrongly made decisions, wrongly made decisions to be, you know, have their feet held to the fire and be criticised. there's going to be criticised. there's going to be a lot of criticism in this report, i don't doubt, but i

don't want the government distracting or deflecting away from the day, we've all worked and pushed for this inquiry for so long, getting on for, you know, 40, 50 years. and we just want it to be to be our day. we want it to be to be our day. we want to hear what, sir brian has to say in his report. >> okay, richard, just in 10s. what's your view on pharmaceutical companies now? do you trust them ? you trust them? >> absolutely not. i think they all work, have done and consistently do work within the fringes of the law. yeah. it's all about money. it's all about profits. before patients and i think that will always remain the case. >> sadly and unfortunately captured regulators as well, which does not appear to be changing at all, richard, we wish you all the very best. thank you so much. we will keep following your story here on gb news, keep fighting for people who need justice. a statement from trillo, a school and college, which is the boarding school that richard was talking about, said we await the publication of the infected blood inquiry , which we hope blood inquiry, which we hope will provide our former pupils with the answers they have been waiting for.

>> okey doke. is it time for. well, is it time up? rather for prime minister rishi sunak? it's been a miserable weekend for him, of course. first of all, on saturday, sadiq khan won his third term as london mayor. i don't know how, i don't know who's voting for him, but take a listen to this. >> it's londoners who inspire me every day to continue our mission of building a fairer, safer and greener london and in what i hope will be a year of great change, a future labour government led by keir starmer, working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more with the susan hall set jaw there, tensed in the background . tensed in the background. >> and now former home secretary suella braverman has said that rishi sunak must change his political course to remain in power as there is no time to change. the tory leader , paul change. the tory leader, paul scully, is the conservative mp for sutton and cheam and i'm delighted to say he joins us now. how. >> now. >> good morning, paul . >> good morning, paul. >> good morning, paul. >> morning to you.

>> morning to you. >> hiya. first of all, there has been some warning shots from people like andy street who lost his race in the west midlands, mark harper, the transport secretary, saying, guys, conservative party do not lurch to the right as a result of what's happened. this weekend. but can i put it to you, paul, that you need to do exactly that? because doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results isn't going to work. >> you don't lurch anywhere. i think that's the key thing, ben. you've got to do it in a thoughtful way. and you know, and really consider your position. i think what we've got to do now, now is to take a breath, show a bit of humility , breath, show a bit of humility, realise, you know, get the lessons that we are being told hard and fast and clear by the electorate that they do want change and actually come up with a narrative and a vision that shows that we can still be that change, despite having been in power for so long, doesn't necessarily mean a massive jump to, to the right or any other position. you've got to stay where the most the majority of the electorate are, and then

take them with you on a journey. >> well, the majority of the electorate last week were with labour councillors paul and also here in london and in manchester. those two labour mayors, andy burnham and sadiq khan, getting in. and you wanted to run that ticket in london here and susan hall got her name there first. what are your thoughts now, having watched her be defeated by khan ? be defeated by khan? >> well, i mean, that's the illustration of actually if you lurch to the right, you're not going to take people with you. if you run a core vote strategy, you're basically going to end up with your core vote. and in a place like london, there just are not enough people in that core vote to get anywhere near, beating someone like sadiq khan , beating someone like sadiq khan, who piles on his votes in places like haringey and tottenham, those kind of areas, islington, etc. and, tower hamlets, we just don't have those numbers there. so you need people who can cross over into to like boris did when he was mayor into, places where they don't naturally,

necessarily, automatically tribally go conservatives. and that's what we've seen with andy street did that brilliantly. and he was so, so close . he was so, so close. >>— he was so, so close. >> well, we saw though, in the outer boroughs, places like bromley and so on, they did well , the conservatives did well in the council elections. do you think if you had run in that mayoral race instead of susan hall and you had clear backing from the party, which many would argue susan hall did not have, would you have beaten sadiq khan ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i think what 7 >> i think what we ? >> i think what we would have got was we would have got the debate that london has deserved, the contest that london has deserved, because really, right from the beginning we were focusing on susan's oyster card. we were focusing on, you know, a lot of the finger wagging rather than actually the real issues housing, crime , transport and housing, crime, transport and what more we can do. so yeah, i think i could have held bexley, bromley and those kind of people who are furious about ulez and about sadiq khan, sort of, just ignonng about sadiq khan, sort of, just ignoring them and, really tackled issues around crime that inner london are really concerned about as well. that's

what you've got to say, not conflicting things, but actually speak to those people. and their motivators for a vote. that's that's what i would have done. and hopefully, maybe we'll never know. i may have been able to beat him. >> who votes for him? >> who votes for him? >> paul? because i understand that he gets the ethnic minority vote majority in london. actually i think now, isn't it? are we? he gets a lot of migrants votes. true. or people born of descended from migrant parents, but who else votes for him? is it the kind of you mentioned the islington ? is it mentioned the islington? is it the champagne socialist dinner party set ? is the champagne socialist dinner party set? is it your limousine liberals? is it those people who've done well and live in london but still like to say, oh , i couldn't vote for the conservatives and do their virtue signalling as they pass around the focaccia bread. is it that lot , i think yes, absolutely. >> those sort of people as well. but i think what we've not been able to do is when you talk about something like ulez, the, the expansion into outer london, which meant that people who really can't afford to change

their cars very easily but still rely on them, he was able to portray the fact that that ulez expansion , the sledgehammer to expansion, the sledgehammer to crack a nut, was the only way you can get clean air. and then he was actually saying hardly anyone was affected by it. you can't have it both ways. you can't have it both ways. you can't pay £12.50 for the privilege, in inverted commas, of polluting london, so his logic just doesn't, doesn't work. but we weren't able to get that across to people that would vote for him, that say , but i vote for him, that say, but i want clean air. there are other ways of doing it. tackling pollution hotspots, for example, paul pollution hotspots, for example, paul, over a million people voted for sadiq khan, so he must be doing something right. >> what do you admire about sadiq khan? what do people admire about him? >> he's a skilled political operator. he knows to , how to operator. he knows to, how to work on different segments of london. as you talked about, various ethnic minorities. there's different demographics , there's different demographics, what we're not doing as well as conservatives. we're not speaking to younger people. so he mops up younger votes, although they tend not to come

out as much as older people in elections. nonetheless, if you're a younger person in london, you tend to be driven towards, sadiq khan's message because at the moment conservatives just aren't speaking to them. and that's something we've got to change. >> apathy, paul, voter apathy is going to play a massive role in the election . do you think the the election. do you think the results of these these council elections will actually galvanise more people now to go out and vote? >> well, i think it's becoming really stark what the choice is now. do you want a conservative government? do you want a labour government? and keir starmer is no tony blair. he's not bringing any sort of inspiration . it's any sort of inspiration. it's just i am not the conservative party that's all he's really got to offer. so when rishi sunak says , you know, we've got a says, you know, we've got a plan, they haven't got a plan, i think he's absolutely right. because what's going to happen if they do come in with a majority government labour, then they're not going to be able to fix any of the problems because they don't have that plan. it's

going to be really quick when i suspect his supporters will tire of him and then look for change, because he's not able to change the country . the country. >> okay, do you let your anger 9°, >> okay, do you let your anger go, paul scully, we've been reading in the paper today that it's very bad for you to hold on to your anger in politics. that must be really difficult . must be really difficult. >> but you know what? this is genuinely not about personal. this is about london. that's what. that's what really frustrates me most about the last year is that we're letting londoners down. we've gifted sadiq khan a third term. but, you know, i, i'm, i'm quite chilled, frankly. i'm off for a dog walk in a minute in. brilliant. >> all right. well, thanks for giving us your bank holiday monday morning, i'm angry about sadiq khan . so there was that sadiq khan. so there was that little bit of hope over the weekend. i thought he might. >> well, i took, i mean, democracy. i wasn't the only person, but i took loads of flak. but for reporting whispers from cchq and labour camps. yeah, that the race in london was going to be a lot closer than it was after sadiq khan won. i had hundreds and hundreds

of labour supporters, left leaning people , totally ripping leaning people, totally ripping me on twitter saying you were wrong . you were wrong. actually, wrong. you were wrong. actually, no, i wasn't wrong because i never said she was going to win. i was just reporting what was said. >> well, there were a lot of people who are doing that, weren't they? >> i mean, a lot of a lot of you here are john said sadiq khan might have mopped up votes where people, 30 people were living in one house. i guess you're talking about postal votes , talking about postal votes, there. barry gb news member. this lurch to the right is nonsense. the claim that elections are won from the middle is also nonsense. it depends where that middle is. look instead for the common ground. that's where you win elections. stopping the boats, reducing legal migration as well. getting out of the echr, reducing taxes, ending wokery. these are areas of common ground. although many of people would attach them to the far right. i was just going to go on to say that talking about these things is not enough, and that's all the conservatives have done. people want action. >> well, you've got people, as i said to paul scully, people like mark harper, the transport secretary, the, outgoing mayor

in the west midlands, andy street, saying do not lurch to the right . i street, saying do not lurch to the right. i mean, in my view, if the tories lurch to the right, they might be centre ground. i mean, they're they're left of blair's government, for crying out loud. >> sure. what left or right means anymore as well. that's the other thing to say. i think at the moment you're either kind of libertarian or you're a bit more of an authoritarian. i think that right left dichotomy is a bit outdated now, don't you? >> it's also a bit of an illusion as well . i think when illusion as well. i think when you're so tribal and you put yourself in a box and say, i'm left, i'm right, i'm an anti—vaxxer, i'm a pro vaxer, i'm you know, i'm this, i'm that. >> i'm one of them things proudly , things get muddied and proudly, things get muddied and i think we should all have a bit more nuance and a bit more, you know, good faith arguments, right? >> do you have any may day traditions? for many, it's a time of morris dancing, may queens and dancing round the maypole. oh, yeah. >> back in the day. >> back in the day. >> we'll get to tell you all about that in just a minute. >> britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> hello. welcome back. 1122 with ben and bev on britain's newsroom. only on gb news, of course, now we are rejoined by our superstar panel for this morning. matthew laza former labour adviser and author and broadcaster emma wolf, thank you for joining us. shall we get forjoining us. shall we get stuck into , keir starmer's, stuck into, keir starmer's, muslim issue? >> yeah. so we saw once the sort of, headlines of the tories defeat in most places. has been sort of analysed. moving on to looking at the muslim vote, which obviously since the events in, in israel and gaza has been much talked about. and we obviously had the rochdale by—election with george galloway. and although galloway's party, which said it was going to sweep rochdale, he won only a couple of seats there and a couple elsewhere, but if you do look at it, quite a lot of independents who support sort of independents who support sort of who made palestine their number one cause, did very well, and in particular in the west midlands mayoral race, which labour won by 1000 votes, the

guy who came third, is a guy who basically campaigned for palestine. he hadn't done any politics before. i think he was a tiktok sensation, and he utilised that to make a palestinian message . he got palestinian message. he got nearly 70,000 votes, so nearly 70 times the margin of labour's victory. so labour's now reflecting on what it needs to do about, about that. but a group called the muslim vote has issued an 18 point set of demands to labour, saying that you need to i don't quite you know, they are i think they're self—appointed, obviously, that you need to do x, y and z if you are going to win back the muslim vote. and they include things like apologising for the original stance that you took, that keir starmer took on israel, gaza, which is not going to do so. i think labour needs to do so. i think labour needs to continue to do the right thing, now, i think actually what's weird is at the moment i think both not just labour, but pretty much all the political parties are demands are aligned with what the group would want because everybody's in favour of a ceasefire, because of where the situation is now. but we

can't have voters dictated to. we can't have politics dictated to by any particular voter group. it needs to be what's right. >> emma. exactly so before before i hear your your comments on this, this muslim vote situation which you've just alluded to, matthew, they are demanding 18, changes to labour's approach to things, including and bearing in mind what we saw with the green councillors shouting allahu akbar at whatever count that was not, not, not save the planet. >> no. >> no. >> so the muslim vote, for example, demands number eight remove extremism definition that michael gove introduced adopts sorry commits a review of public sector equality duty and a travel ban on all israeli politicians that backs this war and support an illegal occupation. we how are we having this kind of politics in the united kingdom? >> well, many of these demands are, as you say, completely unacceptable . but i really unacceptable. but i really object to british politics being held to ransom in this way. i really object to candidates shouting allahu akbar at our polling stations. i want i think

many people want local councillors to focus on local issues, and i think it's outrageous that labour are being held to ransom in this way. many, many people feel very uncomfortable. it's not xenophobic to say this many , of xenophobic to say this many, of course, we have to talk about the issue of the israeli gaza conflict . of course we do. but conflict. of course we do. but when we are talking about councillors green or not, i can't see how he was a green councillor. but there you go. i think labour would be very, very stupid to kowtow to this, to these kind of pressures. >> i wonder what that particular chap makes on some of the greens positions on social issues, as we've seen in scotland with, you know, trans issues, etc. i'm not sure that the identity politics that some greens care about, most would be his number one. >> why are they dedicating their victories to gaza? >> i mean, it's a bit like when paul boateng , won his got first paul boateng, won his got first elected parliament. he said today brent, tomorrow soweto. but at least that had a kind of slight tongue in cheek. this was, i thought, at least he mentioned brent. i suspect he won't be in the greens for very long. >> some other of these demands here. i mean, they're outrageous. this group wants to

labour to commit 7% of the pubuc labour to commit 7% of the public sector pensions to ethical and islamic funds. they want to ensure sharia compliant pensions are available at every workplace, so that one third of muslims without a pension will get one, and they want to issue guidance that muslims are allowed to pray at school. here's the thing, emma. you can't knock them for trying. and what i mean by that is where were in this election? where were in this election? where were the british, anglo—saxon, christian, whatever you want to want to say . where were those want to say. where were those grassroots movements? because this lot are organised. i'm sorry, but they are in my constituency of hounslow. 40 of the 62 councillors, 40 of 62 are of asian descent and they galvanise their. of asian descent and they galvanise their . and we and they galvanise their. and we and they see power and they know they can take it. >> we were saying this a few months ago, though, that the muslim vote is very organised. they get out the vote and they're very focused and they, you know, they go out to, they go out to the polling station and, you know, often in the mosques they're being they're talking about this stuff as well. yeah. where is that

anglo—saxon vote? i don't know. >> we take it for granted and well, i think i think them have come from countries in which democracy is corrupt and they look at us and they're like, you could just volunteer and do some bonng could just volunteer and do some boring stuff in your local council. >> i think what happens is obviously why aren't you doing it? >> it's a very high percentage of people in some, in some parts of people in some, in some parts of the muslim community who obviously attend, who attend the mosque. then, as emma says, people discuss it at the mosque, you know , i mean, we used to you know, i mean, we used to have catholic priests used to say in catholic churches, go and vote this way or don't vote that way on a sunday. but that's of course, fallen away. and we don't really like when tony blair famously we don't do we don't do god. so i think, i mean, i don't think we'd have had if somebody had stood up in leeds city council and said, you know, you know, i thank jesus christ for my victory today or whatever, that would have stood out. and people would have gone like that. because we don't tend to talk about religion in british politics is up in arms about not just matthew, not just the muslim community. >> we wouldn't have a problem with that. this is a christian country. >> i well, i'm not saying people shouldn't do it, but i'm saying people don't do it. i mean, we would say, oh, he's a bit of a

nutter, wouldn't they? >> that's what people people say because that's very british about it has become, and that's why how the christian religion has become a sort of embarrassing. >> well, look at, look in scotland that look in scotland and look at the reaction to kate forbes up there. exactly. she's not allowed to talk about her. >> yeah, absolutely. there was a really interesting piece which says that, you know, which in the times on saturday about kate forbes, which said, because we're slightly embarrassed about people who are evangelical christians because they tend to be more sort of poorer or more working class. and whereas , you working class. and whereas, you know, the sort of church of england, it was a great line. it said the church of england likes its sort of religion and politics, like its tea week. yeah. so yeah, but i think if people i mean, i have to say these 18, these 18 demands, you say good, good luck for trying some of them make me feel very uncomfortable. yes. it's absolutely right for labour to talk to the muslim community, have dialogue and discuss it, but not to give in to 18 demands, which is just wrong. >> do you know what they'll do, though? despite the muslim population, population in this country being 6% or something, 4 million muslims, labour and keir starmer will cave in to a lot of these demands. they won't. >> honestly, they will certainly won't be caving in to these 18 demands. yes to listening. they will. no to caving in to a list

of 18 people. >> they will appease them in some way. >> even people shouldn't cave in to demands, you know, to just sort of sets of demands. >> it ensures he gets into number 10. he will do it. and it's outrageous. right >> let's do another little story here. this has just been breaking news. this morning. have a listen to this. it was a bomb threat that sparked an evacuation of a british airways flight to london this morning, moments before takeoff from bermuda's international airport. >> bravo bermuda tower, cancel takeoff clearance. cancel takeoff clearance. cancel takeoff clearance, we received some information regarding a bomb threat . bomb threat. >> okay. cancel takeoff clearance . speedbird one eight clearance. speedbird one eight bravo. and, would you like us to leave the runway? >> one eight bravo. negative. all position. standby . 218 all position. standby. 218 bravo. you got any further information for us? >> sabita thanwani. bravo, i was just on the phone with the airport duty officer, and they reported that they received an email saying that there is a bomb on board. and we are

currently working on getting the authorities out and getting you to an isolated area to disembark, possibly. >> okay, so we'll bring you that story. the passengers are still stranded. you know, it strikes me, matthew, is that very calm british pilot there with his unflappable insouciance? yeah, absolutely. >> there was that was that was that was kind of, you know, the sort of, peak british airways, wasn't it? peak. i mean, we talked about the sort of british calm earlier, it really was, but how grim for the people who were who were stuck there. >> well, well, stuck in bermuda. >> well, well, stuck in bermuda. >> well, well, stuck in bermuda. >> well, you know, i mean, partly celebrating. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i mean, it was it was pouring down when i came in earlier. i mean, yes, i would like to be in bermuda, but on the other hand, it's a bit unnerving, isn't it, to say it was on an email as well? >> emma. that's that sounds like something. they've obviously taken that very seriously. >> yeah, it sounds like they've taken it seriously. it's really hard because you think, oh god, i'm going to be stuck here for eight hours. it can't be real. but then you have to on the side of caution with these things, because what if, you know, it must be absolutely terrifying getting that kind of information

and not knowing whether it's, you know, bona fide or. >> but i thought they were i thought i thought the air traffic controller was actually very calm as well, because obviously they've just been told by london. so i think well done all around, as you say, better safe than sorry. >> yeah, we'll keep you posted on that as we have any news from it? matthew laza. emma woolf. thank you so much. thank you for your time this morning. now, the latest headlines with darren armstrong. >> it's 1131. armstrong. >> it's1131. i'm aaron armstrong. rishi sunak admitted the tories may not win the general election after damaging defeats in local polls. the prime minister believes the uk is on course for a hung parliament, with labour as the largest party. he says voters won't want to see sir keir starmer propped up in downing street by the snp or other small parties . street by the snp or other small parties. rishi sunak has described the local election results as bitterly disappointing . the conservatives disappointing. the conservatives lost some 470 council seats and the mayoral position in the west midlands. john swinney looks set to become the next snp leader when nominations close in about half an hour's time . he's

half an hour's time. he's expected to run unopposed in the race to replace humza yousaf , race to replace humza yousaf, after veteran party activist graham mccormick pulled out late last night he could become scotland's next first minister, the third in just over a year. as early as tuesday, the israeli military is telling palestinians to evacuate rafah ahead of an expected ground offensive. it's told 100,000 residents in the east of the city to move to an expanded humanitarian zone. now, ceasefire talks with hamas collapsed over the weekend, and the kerem shalom aid crossing has been closed overnight following a rocket attack by hamas that killed three israeli soldiers. the uk and other countries have warned israel against an operation in rafah. the un says the consequences would be devastating for 1.4 million people, and heineken is planning to reopen 62 pubs that closed this year. the dutch company says the investment of almost £40 million in its star pubs operation will create up to 1000 new jobs. it says the plans to refurbish more than 600

establishments will transform them from tired pubs into premium locals. good news all round now for the latest stories you can sign up to our alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to our website . or go to our website. >> up at noon it is. good afternoon britain with the best couple on gb news patrick christys anneliese. mrs. emily. what a treat! >> bank holiday bonanza bank houday >> bank holiday bonanza bank holiday bonanza. >> did i just completely belittle you? emily carver then as being nothing more than patrick christys? >> i thought you were , you know, >> i thought you were, you know, a top feminist and then, you know, leading me in as the mrs. of this one. yeah, but there you go. it's true. that is a fact. but coming up on the show, it is, of course, the first year anniversary of king charles's coronation. we're going to have gun salutes at the top of the 12:00, at the top of the 1:00. we're going to get some great expert guests on budget has stretched to gun salute. >> is that something that we've donein >> is that something that we've

done in the studio? >> absolutely, yes. we've swerved all the health and safety laws , and we've decided safety laws, and we've decided that we're going to be firing cannons off in the studio, something i've long wanted to do to open a show. but, so we're going to be doing that, and i'm also going to be talking about these local elections. i mean, we've got this bizarre situation taking place where you've got some incredibly fruity and i would argue, dangerous candidates who've been elected at local elections. >> they've now written 18 demands, this muslim vote group to keir starmer. demands, this muslim vote group to keir starmer . we're getting to keir starmer. we're getting into the nitty gritty of all of this and what that means for us all. i'm not sure it means anything good. >> have you seen what they want? the definition of extremism that michael gove pushed through changed, amongst other things, shana changed, amongst other things, sharia introduced in certain places. >> but just because you've won places like, you know, just off the top of my head here, makings one up. you know, the lacey green ward in north cheshire or something. does not give you the right to dictate government policy. okay. and i think they need to remember what they've actually been elected. >> it's very interesting what keir starmer does. does he stand firm on his current position when it comes to gaza and the middle east, or do you think that he'll feel quite a lot of pressure from some of his mps and some of his local

councillors, who are saying, you know, you've got to change your tact. we'll be looking into that. and also a warning, a warning. apparently e—bikes are exploding. yeah, good. fire chiefs are telling us, just like the cars, i hate e—bikes. >> they're cheating them . >> they're cheating them. >> they're cheating them. >> yeah, yeah, but i mean, there might be a slight risk that someone could be on an e—bike when it explodes. and that's. >> that's less good. shouldn't have bought one in the first place. >> talking of cannons and fireworks, why do you hate them? >> beth? >> beth? >> i hate those e—bikes. you mean the ones that you pay for with your phone? not the ones. because my son's got an electric bicycle at home and i don't even like it. >> well, no, you talk about those as well. just the normal, the home owned ones or the ones that you hire on the app, the e—bikes. >> so like any e—bike, apparently i don't want to scare people here or anything like that, but the fire chiefs are now warning that they are attending about one e—bike fire attending about one e—bike fire a day. >> wow. well, that sounds like there might be in people's houses in that case. yeah, so that's in my garage. i have to go and unplug it. then at home, if the house hasn't burnt down already. it's a really important point, but i don't like them because i think we should be doing less cycling and more

driving, yeah, i'm with you on that. >> i'm with you on here. >> i'm with you on here. >> i'm with you on here. >> i don't mind the cycling, just do it properly. use your legs. it'sjust. just do it properly. use your legs. it's just. yeah. >> people are so selfish with them. >> they leave them to cycle three abreast on a country road. >> patrick and emily here from midday. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom with bev and ben.

thank you for joining thank you forjoining us on bank thank you for joining us on bank holiday. morning it's ben and bev here with you this morning. while andrew takes a day off. now, i wasn't ready for this may day bank holiday weekend . it's day bank holiday weekend. it's probably why i found myself working, because i feel like it was only january five minutes ago. >> it still feels like january. looking out the window and coming to work miserable. >> but of course, this weekend is a time of morris dancing may queens and skipping around the maypole. have you done much of that in your life? ben? >> i've been to a few morris dancing events. i used to go to village fetes on bank holidays and all the old really not sorry itake

and all the old really not sorry i take that back. not necessarily old people, but there would be morris dancers. >> good. i like our traditions. well, our south west of england reporter jeff moody explains these traditions. now we have to celebrate them. here he is . celebrate them. here he is. >> if may day is your thing , >> if may day is your thing, chances are you've heard of padstow. thousands flock to the small coastal community in cornwall each year to commemorate the time the women of the town warded off spanish invaders by parading a hobby horse through the streets, pretending it was the devil. they still do it every year. spanish invaders now replaced by a heady mix of tourists, locals and lots of real ale. >> i think all traditions should keep going because it is important for the kids to learn about and come up and, you know, get to know things that's happened. >> it's a huge date in the cornish calendar here in padstow , locals who've moved away return in their droves to catch up with friends and to welcome in the summer months as well.

>> it looks like our system didn't know it was may day weekend as well, because i'm afraid we had to cut that off a little earlier. bit of a gremlin in the system. >> why don't we do some? why don't you do some morris dancing? i will not be doing morris dancing. >> no. or dancing around a maypole. but we haven't been asking you to tell us what you've been doing at home this weekend. a lot of you are in the garden, but isn't it raining out there today? >> certainly was. when i came in. and as i said, it feels like winter. still, i'm going to go on a rant now. i've had enough of this weather. where is the sun? >> where's the global warming we were promised? that's what we want to know. >> but i said that to jim dale, our resident climate fanatic, and he says this is climate change, apparently, emissions are so high that we're getting lots of rain. so one minute it's global warming, the next it's. well, cloud and rain now, cool dip has got in touch and said, bev, i'm a fan. thank you. but how could you say that ethnic minorities would vote for sadiq khan as a member of the so—called ethnic minority? i would never for vote him. i

don't mean that in terms of a sweeping generalisation called dip. it'sjust sweeping generalisation called dip. it's just statistically labour predominantly we have the minority ethnic. yeah, i think you're a bit of a unique case there. >> i mean, i'm not saying it's just you, but generally the majority would vote for khan. it's shown in the in the data. >> yeah, and also we were talking about the royals and john has said, i take it bev, you won't be taking the new anticancer vaccine when it's available . can we just talk available. can we just talk about the fact that they've completely changed the definition of a vaccine? you have to have had cancer in the first place to have this. it's another treatment injection. let's just talk about the fact that that definition has gone completely. now from what we all grew up knowing, and, and sheila has said, is it correct that muslims are demanding keir starmer goes along with their list of demands, since lots of muslims were voted as councillors in the elections? well, emily and patrick are going to be talking about that from 12:00. sheila. yes, these demands are there and he will he will cave to some of them, guaranteed. >> sir keir starmer, if there's any risk of a hung parliament or losing, you know, even more of

the muslim vote at the election proper, the general election , proper, the general election, then, yes, he will cave to it. and if you ask me, it's sinister asking for the introduction of shana asking for the introduction of sharia in some places, demanding that the definition of extremism is changed. >> i mean, yeah, pollyanna says, i don't actually care what colour our next mp is, but i am bothered by what faith they are . bothered by what faith they are. interesting. gareth says, tell , interesting. gareth says, tell, he wants to tell us. i'm cooking a lovely, juicy t—bone steak smothered in onions and dripping cooked chips, followed by apple pie and custard. >> sounds a bit early for that. it's not even midday. >> i've not had any breakfast yet, though i'm sure you haven't ehhen yet, though i'm sure you haven't either. me neither. and also, funny how a lot of people, are mentioning postal voting fraud on hear you right, ken. they are. a lot of you are saying that on here. we haven't mentioned it because i don't think there's any evidence. there's no evidence, is there, of postal fraud, voting, postal ? no. >> but nigel farage i mean, certainly not over the weekend, but nigel farage has long said that one of the biggest or

perhaps the biggest threat to democracy in this country is postal votes. you had it in tower hamlets. the independent chap who was convicted a couple of years back . it's happened in of years back. it's happened in some other places as well, and it happens more predominantly in america as well. one more very quick comment, bev, john says ben is so lucky he presents me with bev. i'm going to go out and buy a bottle of bev's perfume. what is it ben? i can then do a benji impression. what's your perfume? >> i had a perfume that i wore for 20 years and then they stopped it. it was dolce gabbana. i was heartbroken, so now i've just got some christian dior thing. nice. you smell nice, too. i did notice now the s&p leadership decline deadline s&p leadership decline deadline s&p leadership decline deadline s&p leadership declined. you can see that freudian slip . the see that freudian slip. the deadune see that freudian slip. the deadline for the leadership is in 15 minutes. i'm sure you're on the edge of your seats. well, at the moment there's only

gb news. >> right. let's go north of the border where john swinney looks set to become the next snp

leader. when nominations close at midday. but what does this mean for scotland's political commentator and former snp member stuart crawford joins us now. stuart good morning. give us the lowdown on john swinney . us the lowdown on john swinney. who is he. is he as worse as humza yousaf . humza yousaf. >> well, that's yeah, a very leading question , john swinney leading question, john swinney is one of the old guard in the snp, and, we should recall that he has been party leader. before in the period 2000 to 2004, where he presided over three elections, one scottish, one, uk westminster and one european one, and the snp lost ground in all of those. so that gives you some sort of idea of what his next tenure might be like , and next tenure might be like, and how popular is he amongst the voters there? >> stuart ? >> stuart? >> stuart? >> well, that's a difficult one really, because in many ways he's the only option for the snp

at the moment, bar, kate forbes, who i think has got the broadest electoral appeal of all the potential snp, leaders, but the party is riven within with all sorts of different , factions sorts of different, factions and, and ideologies , and forbes and, and ideologies, and forbes is effectively being barred , is effectively being barred, from leading the snp by a fairly powerful cabal which is centred around, nicola sturgeon and her her close colleagues, where did it all go wrong for the snp? because, you know, they were once cream of the crop up in scotland. was it the gender recognition act? the the, you know, rather insane and inane hate crime bill. what happened? >> yes. i think that the in recent history the party adopted a series of unpopular and unworkable policies which they tried to bring into law through acts of through the scottish parliament, some of which were

foisted upon them by their coalition partners, the scottish greens. but long—term. i would say that the demise of the snp started when alex salmond resigned in the wake of the failed 2014 independence referendum , which was lost by referendum, which was lost by not a huge margin but was convincingly lost by the snp and he stood down immediately and i think probably with, perfect hindsight, 2020 hindsight vision, that was the mistake. and that was the beginning of the downward slope, how closely have scottish politicians been watching the mayoral and local elections this weekend? do you think , stuart? think, stuart? >> well, i think they'll have kept a close eye on what's going on south of the border , if only on south of the border, if only because in many ways, the snp government in edinburgh is now reflecting what's going on in westminster with, rishi sunak's, government , it's an unpopular government, it's an unpopular government, it's an unpopular government looking , not looking

government looking, not looking forward at all to the next general election, which will be very shortly, and looking at dramatic losses in seats, etc, etc. so i think there'll be, i think there'll be very interested yesterday, the sunday times ran a poll on westminster voting intentions in scotland, which suggested that the snp might lose up to 28 of its current 43 westminster held seats, which would be a dramatic downfall. >> all right, stuart crawford, really appreciate you being with us.thank really appreciate you being with us. thank you so much. not exactly a ringing endorsement for scottish independence, is it with the snp? i mean, they seem totally incompetent and maybe more. >> thank you for your company this morning. our inbox was very busy , lovely to have you here as busy, lovely to have you here as well, ben. andrew pierce will be back at 930 with me tomorrow morning, and i will be sitting in for michelle dewberry at 6:00 this afternoon as well. now though, here is good afternoon, britain, with patrick. >> it is indeed. britain, with patrick. >> it is indeed . and today with >> it is indeed. and today with patrick christys. one day only. we've got a lot to bring you. it is, of course, one year since

the king's coronation. we've got a couple of gun salutes, royal gun salutes to bring you at 12 and 1:00. so stay tuned for that. >> yes. good news for the king in the old royal popularity stakes as well. also, we're going to be talking about some, in my view, quite dangerous people who've been elected at the local elections . some people the local elections. some people have now issued keir starmer with a list of demands from the muslim vote. so we're going to be talking about whether or not he should listen to that. also, rumours of a hung parliament, what does that really mean? would that make you happy or otherwise ? otherwise? >> and e—bikes, fire chiefs are warning us all that your e—bike could essentially explode. so we'll get the lowdown on that. how risky are these e—bikes? >> talking of talking of exploding things as well, we've got some astonishing audio for you from a pilot who just found out that there was a bomb threat on board his plane. how would you react in that situation? but make sure you get in touch with us. we will see you in a couple of minutes. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of

weather on gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news forecast through bank holiday monday. it's rather wet. there'll be some heavy thundery showers in places, but there will be some warm sunshine. that's thanks to an area of low pressure. but it's all changed through the week ahead. high pressure is going to build in for much of the country, bringing some dry weather with some warm spells of sunshine back to the rest of bank holiday monday. some heavy downpours across south—east england that could lead to some local disruption. elsewhere, sunny spells and scattered heavy showers. some slow moving hail and thunder in there too. met office warnings in force. cloudier and drier for northern ireland. northern scotland in the sunshine, temperatures again approaching 19 or 20 celsius under the cloud around 14 or 15 degrees. thunderstorms start to ease through the evening time. still some rain affecting southeast england, which could be heavy at times, but into the early hours it gradually pulls

away overnight. it's largely dry. there could be some drizzle in the thicker clouds , some low in the thicker clouds, some low cloud, mist and murk developing as well. temperatures generally holding up well above freezing, but a grey start to tuesday. low cloud, mist and fog slowly lifting and breaking. and then through the day. yes, there'll be quite a lot of cloud, but it will brighten up as the day goes on. there will be some sunny spells that develop, but where the sunshine develops, particularly in the south, we could again see some heavy showers developing here. temperatures approaching 20 celsius further north around the mid teens. >> that warm feeling inside and from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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it is the anniversary of one of the most momentous days in british history. the coronation of king charles the third. yes. >> this time last year, the nafion >> this time last year, the nation was still coming to terms with the sad passing of her majesty queen elizabeth the second and holding its breath as that iconic gold carriage carrying our new monarch headed towards westminster abbey. well we are about to bring you gun salutes in celebration of the coronation, with 41 volleys fired at noon , which is all fired at noon, which is all about a minute and a half away by the king's troop, royal horse artillery from green park. >> we'll take that live, and one hour later the honourable artillery company will fire a 62 gun salute from tower wharf. >> an extra 21 for the city of london. now, gun salutes will also take place. here we are. >> i think we're just going to take this live. actually, it looks as though they are about to start firing. so this is this is green park, isn't it? in central london. and they are going to be delivering a gun salute in honour of the king's coronation. gosh do you remember this time last year we were geanng this time last year we were gearing up for it, weren't we?

we were on the mall doing shows live from the mall, walking up and down there, and it's been fantastic. >> and we're going to get a few memories, aren't we, of you down there by the palace , speaking to there by the palace, speaking to members of the public, speaking to gb news viewers and listeners there. so we're just holding our breath now for that gun salute to mark the one year anniversary of the king's coronation and one of the king's coronation and one of the king's coronation and one of the big standout stars apart from the king of course, from his coronation, was penny morden. >> wasn't she? that iconic dress and the sword carrying. i'm actually going to be speaking to her later on 9 to 11 pm. this evening, but we've got a couple of little clips to bring you over the course of this show as well. we're going to be speaking to a whole host of royal experts. good news for the king, though, as we await this gun salute live from green park in the royal popularity polls because his popularity and that of the monarchy has gone up, which is, i think , a good thing, which is, i think, a good thing, especially considering that we've got the republicans out in force today as well. >> and on the royal family's twitter page , they've asked twitter page, they've asked everyone what their favourite memory of the weekend is, so to

share that on social media. so they're asking everyone in the country to remember a specific memory. oh the guns have started. >> if you're listening on radio and we'll just fall silent, i think, and take this for you live here from green park with the gun salute okay, -- okay, so. yes, this is the gun salute from green park, the one year anniversary of the king's coronation. this is a 41 salute. there we go. it feels like it's been a massive year for the royal family, doesn't it? i mean, goodness gracious me . the mean, goodness gracious me. the king is saying that he wanted it to be relatively understated as

opposed . this is, by royal opposed. this is, by royal standards, relatively