gb news. >> it's 930 on thursday, the 16th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. so, a big day for labour. starmer's six pledges. the labour leader is going to reveal his multi point plan to rebuild britain , plan to rebuild britain, including provisions for great british energy and recruiting 6500 new teachers. but is it all going to be talk and no action and the royal mail takeover? >> can you believe it? the postal service owner is poised to accept a 3.5 billion takeover bid from a czech billionaire who doesn't even live in this country . should we let foreign country. should we let foreign companies own our essential state services? no. >> and uk, ireland migration row as it's revealed that britain has taken back 50 migrants from the republic of ireland after a large scale diplomatic row and

the prime minister refusing to take back any . does this take back any. does this embarrassing u—turn show sunak is sunk and the queen, like the queen elizabeth? >> is she shanning fur? she's pledged to buy no new fur products for her wardrobe, according to the animal rights group peta. we'll have the latest and we'll ask, should the bearskin caps of the royal guards also now be replaced? >> i don't know whether you saw those shocking pictures yesterday of the slovakian prime minister being shot three times. absolutely it's going to be a press conference which is going to be within our show. so let us know how he is doing. so we'll bnng know how he is doing. so we'll bring you the latest on that. absolutely right. let us know your thoughts this morning gbnews.com forward slash yourself first though the very latest news with sophia wenzler. >> very good morning. it's 931

aaron armstrong here in the gb newsroom cutting nhs waiting lists and improving economic stability will be among the top election pledges unveiled by labour today. sir keir starmer will use a speech in essex to lay out six promises which will also include a new border security command to tackle people smuggling gangs. there will also be a commitment to set up a publicly owned energy firm called great british energy, as well as a strategy to crack down on antisocial behaviour. the government has called it another relaunch and says it's not a coherent plan . the education coherent plan. the education secretary says controversial changes to sex education will still allow children to explore ideas and have contested debates. it's after the government outlined proposals that would see sex ed banned for children under the age of nine. gillian keegan says she's seen evidence of some pupils being taught there are 72 genders and ideology shouldn't be taught as fact causing death or injury by dangerous cycling is to become a new offence, punishable by up to

14 years in prison. mps have voted in favour of an amendment to the criminal justice bill, which is making its way through parliament, following campaigning by sir iain duncan smith. the former tory leader says the change is urgent and not anti—cycling. critics, though, have pointed out more people are killed by cows or lightning every year and laws already exist to prosecute dangerous cyclists . slovakia's dangerous cyclists. slovakia's deputy prime minister has. robert fico remains in a very serious but stable condition after he was shot several times yesterday in an attempted assassination. at least four shots were fired at the prime minister in the town of handlova , where the 59 year old was meeting supporters . a 71 year meeting supporters. a 71 year old suspect is now in custody. the interior minister believes the attack was politically motivated. slovakia has scaled back its support for ukraine while opening dialogue with russia . we'll have more news russia. we'll have more news throughout the morning here on gb news, or you can sign up to

our alerts by using the qr code on your screen. now it's back to andrew and . bev. andrew and. bev. >> very good morning. 934 this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, it's a big day for labour today because keir starmer is going to unveil six election pledges reminiscent of tony blair's pledge card back in 1997 as part of his doorstep pitch to voters in election yeah >> they include maintaining economic stability , cutting nhs economic stability, cutting nhs waiting times, launching a new border command force, setting up great british energy , cracking great british energy, cracking down on antisocial behaviour and recruiting 6500 new teachers. but can he deliver on these? >> well, joining us now in the studio is brit school of the daily express, sam lister and the former labour adviser stella bucha. daikaiju have i pronounce that correctly? >> you pronounced it perfectly. >> you pronounced it perfectly. >> thank you. let's go to you first. sam. this is. there's not a new policy here. no, i mean , a new policy here. no, i mean,

and they've not quite got the pledge card, but. and it's not quite ed miliband's ed stone, which we all mocked. of course , which we all mocked. of course, but it is, still snappy. six pledges it is, but nothing new. >> six pledges. but we're not allowed to call them pledges. we're not allowed to call it a pledge card. right. it's first steps for government. >> well, let's call it a pledge card. i think. >> can't tell us what it looks like a pledge card. it smells like a pledge card. it smells like a pledge card. it smells like a pledge card. it's a pledge card. so let's go with that. yeah. six pledges. the new bit of this is the stuff on migration. obviously clearly a big issue for many voters. yeah, and it is it follows on from keir starmers speech last week where he announced this new border command. i mean, let's be honest, this is just pulling together government policy and branding it under a new kind of it's another quango, basically, and what it doesn't say on the pledge card is obviously that he will ditch the rwanda policy, even if it's successful. so even if we get a few flights off and that does stem the tide, which we've obviously seen people hopping over to ireland because they're already afraid of this. but obviously that that isn't

included in that. he would ditch that, so yeah , it's a bit of that, so yeah, it's a bit of a rebrand. obviously. it puts him there's a big picture of keir starmer wearing his snazzy glasses, his hair, all kind of gelled looking very kind of, you know, statesman like they would hope. and, that's that takes up most of the card and they put in him front and centre of this. they've made a conscious decision to make this a kind of presidential campaign, because he still isn't cutting through with voters. he's not. but they but they realise that if you are going to win this election, you have to make it about the man who is going to be the next prime minister. and that is either rishi sunak or keir starmer. and so they've had to put him right at the heart of this. they want to promote him. yeah. >> stella, do you think there are many points of difference here between these two men? we're looking at screen here. starmer and sunak looking at these pledges. they're not that different are they. to the conservatives. >> oh i would say they're extremely different for one because they show a very coherent vision that keir starmer has set out, which i don't think we have. we got from rishi sunak and his speech last week. i mean, he threw everything but the kitchen sink

at the speech that he gave last week. he wanted the main message to be security, but he was also talking about a lot of tiny things like cancel culture, for example, which i was not sure what was. its place. in a prime ministerial speech given to the whole nation. now, i think what's very interesting about keir starmer's, pledge cards, and i do agree that there is a sense there is a bit of political nostalgia, nostalgia when it comes to, pledge cards, because tony blair did it in 1997. a lot of people think that this helped him boost his election victory . and so, so election victory. and so, so labour leaders feel like they have to do this every time. but i think this is more than anything, a campaigning event. the labour party has put more money here, than they've put in anything else in the last few years. >> but what about what about workers rights? this was meant to be the flagship policy. within 100 days, they were going to transform workers rights. you wouldn't be able to send anybody an email after 5 pm. big part of angela rayner's pitch not

mentioned on big part of starmer ism for sure was the common good project. and why is it not the reason why? pledge list. >> my interpretation is the reason why it's not on the pledge card is because, so keir starmer met with tuc union leaders on tuesday. we know that the results were very positive . the results were very positive. they were all happy. they were all satisfied. no one came out with a press release saying workers rights were diluted . so workers rights were diluted. so i think what's going on here is keir starmer is saying what the pubucis keir starmer is saying what the public is still not sure about is that we will tackle immigration and the border crisis better than keir starmer. so we're going to come up with this campaigning pledge card. and the sixth one, the new one will be about border control. and this is our plan for the borders. >> nothing on housing, nothing on housing. i thought that was a major pledge to housing is supposed to be the big issue , of supposed to be the big issue, of this general election. >> absolutely nothing on this because they're going to change the planning laws, which good luck with that. >> yeah. the planning system. >> yeah. the planning system. >> good luck. how many times have we heard that before? >> millions of times. but

nothing on housing. yeah. is that going to be a disappointment, do you think to some labour mps i think it's a huge disappointment. >> i think there's also a lot of disappointment on the left about the fact that the great british energy pledge number four, they feel that that's not strong enough on green issues, for example. so there is quite a lot of kind of upset on the left about this. but then you've also got this kind of vague, let's call nhs, nhs waiting times. now obviously. vie. yeah, exactly. >> it begs the question, but also there is this issue, isn't there, that obviously the junior doctors are still on strike now. >> they've gone into mediation only last night with the government. so that is a positive sign. yeah. but if that isn't resolved you know, is keir starmer going to come in and pay that 35% that the junior doctors are demanding to settle this and cut those waiting lists. there's none of that on this pledge card, is there. there's a lot of detail missing. >> is he still playing it? very safe. stellar not upset anybody. let's just go brush strokes. all i've got to do is just sit here and not mess up for another few months. and then i'm in. he's just keeping it quiet. >> but i think. >> but i think. >> but i think. >> but i think some. you haven't

been paying attention. he has been paying attention. he has been giving plenty of details on all of these policies over the last few months on the nhs, wes streeting has been talking about reform and bureaucracy and how he's going to have more appointments during the evenings and during the weekends. and you asked about planning. well, there was the brilliant policy, in my opinion, about building on grey zones giving. >> well, why isn't it on the pledge card? >> because the major issues. well, he's not going to have a 12. what kind of housing? >> what kind of housing is a cornerstone of what? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and it's not mentioned on the pledge. >> rachel reeves, who will also be making a speech today, and you will see it from shadow cabinet members going in front of the cameras today. i'm sure they will be talking plenty about the housing, housing, buildings, housing, building that needs to happen. but this is a campaigning tool. so six pledges with things that the, the people on the, on the, on the people on the, on the, on the doorsteps can, can can point to you can only have six. and also i think it's a good thing five mission statements. >> can you remember what they were. >> so it was about august. >> so it was about august. >> yeah. here we are just to put you on the spot topic growth. >> but they were woolly and dull and that's why they've come out with very wise that he hasn't put more numbers on this.

>> because what we have seen throughout history is that politicians , they are being politicians, they are being caught up in a trap when they put a number on things before going into government. if they were already in government, i would say, sure, you can do better planning . you know better planning. you know exactly what you're going to find out where you are there. but since they're not, i don't think they should be doing that. the public accounts committee chair, margaret hodge, said there will probably be if you close the tax loopholes properly, they will probably be a lot more money that we're thinking at the moment. so i thinking at the moment. so i think this is a very wise move. >> tax loopholes. i mean, how many times have we heard that one?i many times have we heard that one? i mean, that's every single budget. yeah. i mean, we've been doing that for 20 years and they never seem to get close. but also i think it's an admission there that, you don't put numbers on it because, you know, you can't meet these big targets. so, you know , if you're targets. so, you know, if you're not if you're not confident in your ability to flesh out these policies, it's because, you know, you actually haven't got the capacity to deliver on them. and i think, let's be honest, six pledges here. keir starmer made ten pledges when he stood

for leader and he got stood. he stood on ten leadership pledges that were very , very left wing that were very, very left wing and then has ditched them. so how can we trust anything he s ays? says? >>i says? >> ican says? >> i can also smell a gimmick. so what do you think the gimmick is going to be today? who are they going to unveil? >> this is it. i mean, everyone's thinking, oh, is it a defector? is it defector? we that seems to have kind of died a death, right, so is it a member of the public who, you know, has got some great story to tell? is it a celebrity? you know, celebrity? exactly >> you know, what do you think? do you think there'll be gimmick? >> fun. >> fun. >> yeah, i doubt it because it's keir starmer and i think he's right. >> not. you don't think he's fun? >>i fun? >> i think he's very cautious. and i think that this is wise, especially because the type of voter, the hero voter that they're referring to, that goes from labour to tories that they're trying to soon is someone who is also very cautious, especially older voters. they want stability and safety. they don't want surprises. >> i'm just looking at the original five pledges from february to see how they've changed clean energy is still talking about that highest g7 growth . maybe that went over

growth. maybe that went over people's heads a little bit. future of the nhs vague opportunity for all vague, safer streets . streets. >> yeah. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> well, so none of those are slightly , slightly massaged them slightly, slightly massaged them a little bit, wound them down. >> and anyway it's a rebrand. it is, it is a rebrand. but but without enough i don't think enough values, vision, ideology. >> well we'll see now coming up next, a czech billionaire is being lined up to buy the royal mail. has the government gone mad? put a stop to this. shouldn't some national institutions be immune from these sort of profit making enterprise ? we're going to be enterprise? we're going to be talking to a major trade union boss who i think will take that view.

now i can't stand the thought of this. the royal mail been around since the reign of henry the eighth, 1515 has revealed its mind to accept a takeover bid by a czech billionaire, daniel krasinski, who lives in

czechoslovakia. >> i don't know where he lives. no does. is that where he lives? he does not live in this. cannot live here. he lives in prague, prague. he lives in prague. >> well, the improved offer from daniel krasinski is worth £3.5 billion. it will be the first time the royal mail would fall into foreign hands since, as andrew said, henry the eighth set it up over 500 years ago. >> well, let's talk to the general secretary of the communications workers union, dave ward. dave, morning to you. you and i often disagree on things, but i think you and i perhaps today may be singing from the same hymn sheet. i'm appalled by the idea the royal mail could fall into foreign hands. mail could fall into foreign hands . a billionaire who's hands. a billionaire who's rather a shadowy figure too, i might add . might add. >> so, andrew, you're right. this must be of major concern, not just for the workers of royal mail, who will be worried about how it affects their pensions, their jobs, their employment , pensions, their jobs, their employment, and also, i think customers will be worried about what it actually means for the services . and, you know, royal

services. and, you know, royal mail is a uk institution. it's a critical part of the uk's infrastructure future. so of course we're worried about it and we need to understand more about what it all means , but can about what it all means, but can i also say that we are also so, not supported the current royal mail group ball. and one of the reasons this has happened is because it is a failure of privatisation. and we may disagree about that , andrew, but disagree about that, andrew, but that's the reality of it. you can't say what you're saying and not acknowledge that it's been a failure, and that boards a report yesterday was also not true. so the reason royal mail is vulnerable to such a bid is because it's been grossly mismanaged by the current board , mismanaged by the current board, something that we've talked about on your show , on other about on your show, on other shows, and for them to come out and say that it's all down to, on this occasion , a government on this occasion, a government that hadn't introduced reform on the us for years, every single postal worker , every single

postal worker, every single customer knows that's not true. royal mail inflicted financial, problems on itself when it gave away 650 million, when there was an economic downturn. it never supported the workforce. it's actually attacked the workforce. so we find ourselves in a problem here. we don't like what we're hearing. of course we're worried. we need to understand more about that. we don't like what the current board's direction is because they're not taking royal mail anywhere, and equally, you know, our view is it's equally, you know, our view is wsfime equally, you know, our view is it's time for the for the uk to have a serious discussion about a new model of ownership . and i a new model of ownership. and i think the government, the labour party, the public should all be part of that debate going forward. >> what would that new model look like to you, dave? do you have any idea how you could collaborate, state and private business in that way? >> well, i mean, our view, look, our policy has always been to see royal mail renationalised ,

see royal mail renationalised, but we understand that in the current political environment and economic environment, that might be a difficult, thing to contemplate . but there are lots contemplate. but there are lots of other models where the workers and the customers who rely on the services that royal mail provide, have a greater say over the direction that a company. so there's things like, not for profit organisations, there's things like public benefit companies , and i do benefit companies, and i do really think this is a serious debate about how do you protect and grow a business in the future that is so to critical the uk's economy. it's still a major contributor to the uk economy. i think our concern is, is that the current board have got no growth plans. and, you know, it's going to be interesting to hear what mr kaczynski says in the coming days and weeks about his plans. clearly, the government will take a view because it can't happen unless the government,

after they've done a national security act investigation , security act investigation, sanction it. so we'll we'll be talking to the government , sanction it. so we'll we'll be talking to the government, we'll be talking to the labour party. but we want to get a debate going across the whole of the uk about what's the right position for royal mail going forward. >> does this man does this czech billionaire know anything about running a national postal service? but by the way, all of which is embossed with the insignia of his majesty the king. >> yeah, a very good question. andrew i don't know. i've never met him , he's. people have met him, he's. people have reached out to us. for a meeting to discuss what they say are our concerns, to explore our concerns. so you know, we've got to do that. we've got to. we've got to engage with a prospective owner. but i think the other important point here is, is this is a full takeover. important point here is, is this is a full takeover . this is 100% is a full takeover. this is 100% ownership of royal mail, a uk institution run by an equity

investor from abroad . so i think investor from abroad. so i think investor from abroad. so i think in that way it's unprecedented and therefore it needs to be scrutinised very, very carefully. but if rommel wants to be a success, whoever owns it , they've got to get the workforce on board and the current board have completely alienated the workforce , and alienated the workforce, and that still continues today. they failed not just the workers. they failed customers. they don't tell the truth about quality of service, they still not what it should be, so, look, there's lots of issues to discuss here, but we want to make clear that there is room in this debate for people seriously thinking about, is there a better model now? why does it always have to be? well, it can only be this person taking over or that person. why can't we have a serious debate in the uk thatis have a serious debate in the uk that is all built around aligning the interests of customers, of workers and the company that can be successful in the future? that's what we want to focus on. >> we really want to hear your thoughts as well on these five

pledges from labour today. six sorry, it's normally five. they've added an extra one. the extra one, though, is nothing to do with trade unions or workers. do you feel a bit let down when you see this list? no i think that we've got to be open about the reality that labour, listens to a lot of different people, it wants to get elected . my own wants to get elected. my own personal view at the moment is that the most transformational part of labour's policy offering is actually the new deal for working people. i think they know that that's not in the pledges , but that's not in the pledges, but that's not in the pledges. it's going to be in the manifesto . so let's wait and see manifesto. so let's wait and see that whether it's in the manifesto, that's the real debate about what's offering being offered. but why? why is it i saw pat mcfadden being interviewed earlier on, this morning, and i guess pat's one of the people who, you know, he's sort of known , nervous he's sort of known, nervous about over promising stuff. and, you know, there's this debate going on with labour. i don't get it. i'll be honest with you, the tories have messed up the uk. they don't deserve to be a

government anymore. i think the vast majority of people in the uk know that . but they're uk know that. but they're waiting to hear what is it that labour are going to offer that's going to make a difference. and from what i saw, the pledges this morning, i think have to go , much further forward to convince the electorate. i think we have to go forward as well. >> dave, i'm so sorry. we've run out of time. lovely to see you. general secretary, communication workers union, dave ward. there have him on. we are going to bnng have him on. we are going to bring you keir starmer's speech live. get out the popcorn. it'll be an edge of your seat moment. don't go anywhere. this is gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. we start the day with a lot of cloud , the day with a lot of cloud, some showery rain as well. but gradually through the day there'll be a better chance of some warm sunshine developing. and likewise over the next few days , a greater chance of warm

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gb news. >> good morning. it's 10:00 gb news. >> good morning. it's10:00 on thursday, the 16th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me. bev turner and andrew pierce. >> starmus six pledges. the labour leader reveals his multi—point plan to rebuild britain, including plans for a great british energy. five 6500 new teachers. is it more talk and no action? and what is missing from the pledges? >> and the slovakian prime minister was shot yesterday. robert fisso, a well—known populist politician , is still in populist politician, is still in a critical condition after being shot in airlifted to hospital yesterday. his stance on ukraine, lgbt rights and all sorts of issues around the pandemic could have been the motivation behind the assassin's attack and uk ireland migration, which revealed that britain has taken back 50 migrants in the repubuc taken back 50 migrants in the republic of ireland after a large scale diplomatic row. >> and remember, the pm said he wouldn't take back any . just wouldn't take back any. just show that sunak is sunk on

migrants and a south west water scandal . scandal. >> all residents in devon have been told to boil water before drinking or brushing their teeth. people are getting ill, sickness, diarrhoea, vomiting even pets. how are these water companies able to get away with this ? this? >> a sense of panic and a sense of anger here in brixham more and more people are getting ill. it's affecting the old, it's affecting the young and it's affecting the young and it's affecting pets too. the message from southwest water don't drink the . the. water. >> welcome to delhi. >> welcome to delhi. >> exactly. you just think if you go to india, you might get delhi belly. you know, if you go to a country like india, don't dnnk to a country like india, don't drink the water out of a tap. how shocking is that? outrageous >> can we just say first of all as well. thank you. if you're

listening to us on the radio, if you're driving around this morning in your van, going about your business, going to work, going to the supermarket, whatever it is you're doing in your taxi, you have us on your radios and we are so grateful for that. our radio figures. i don't want to brag. yes, you do. outstanding. >> she does want to brag. i do very, very well. >> so we're very pleased. so, steve, keep tuning in to us. >> yeah. gbnews.com forward slash your say for your comments first though the very latest news with aaron armstrong . news with aaron armstrong. >> okay. good morning to you. it is 10:02 i'm aaron armstrong. some breaking news. in the last few minutes a man has been charged with attempted murder after slovakia's prime minister was shot several times yesterday . local media is reporting the suspected attacker was a 71 year old former security guard at a shopping mall. he's known to have posted videos on social media saying he doesn't agree with government policy. the interior minister believes the attack was was politically motivated. now slovakia has

scaled back its support for ukraine. it's open dialogue with russia and robert fico is known to be pro vladimir putin. if you're watching on tv, you can see live pictures of the hospital where the prime minister underwent surgery overnight. at least four shots were fired at robert fico, who is 59, as he was meeting supporters yesterday . and now we supporters yesterday. and now we can go live to sir keir starmer . can go live to sir keir starmer. he is speaking at an event in essex. he is laying out his six pre election pledges. the labour leader announced five of those last year and he has added a sixth. >> great to be here in purfleet here from staffordshire. >> this is angela rayner of course the deputy labour leader setting him up. what we expect to hear from sir keir starmer is that he will say he's got his steps for change, if indeed labour win the next election, a decade of national renewal is what sir keir starmer is to announce, and they will go along

these lines one. deliver economic stability . the labour economic stability. the labour leader is hoping to stick to tough spending rules to do that. he's also promising to cut nhs waiting lists. that's one of his pledges. he's going to provide more appointments every year and he'll fund that by tackling tax avoidance. and we understand non—dom loopholes. the new the new pledge, in addition to those five that we had last year, will be launching a border security command to stop the gangs arranging small boat crossings. we're going to keep an eye on angela rayner as she sets it up. this this conference, this chat in essex, and we'll wait for sir keir starmer to arrive and we'll bnng keir starmer to arrive and we'll bring him to you as soon as he decides to get on the lectern. >> tangible, deliverable policies to begin that long journey to national. >> now let's bring you up to date with what the education secretary has been saying. controversial changes to sex education, she says, will still allow children to explore ideas and have contested debates . it's

and have contested debates. it's after the government outlined proposals that would see sex education banned for children under the age of nine. the guidelines , which are subject to guidelines, which are subject to a nine week consultation, also recommend children aren't taught about the concept of gender identity. gillian keegan says she's seen evidence of some pupils being taught that there are 72 genders. she says gender ideology shouldn't be taught as fact. >> we're also making it crystal clear that it should be transparent to parents, and parents should be able to see the materials. they are the first educators of their children, so they should be able to see what's also going on in school. and we're also on the on top of our gender questioning guidance, which we published for consultation earlier on. we're also making it very clear that gendeh also making it very clear that gender, identity is a contested view. and should not be taught as a fact causing death or injury by dangerous cycling is to become a new offence,

punishable by up to 14 years in prison. >> mps have voted in favour of an amendment to the criminal justice bill, which is making its way through parliament. following campaigning by sir iain duncan smith. the former tory leader says the change is urgent and it's not anti—cycling critics , though, have pointed critics, though, have pointed out more people are killed by cattle or lightning every year and laws already exist to prosecute dangerous cyclists . it prosecute dangerous cyclists. it will apply to incidents involving pedal cycles , e—bikes, involving pedal cycles, e—bikes, e—scooters and unicycles . the e—scooters and unicycles. the president of russia and china claim they're deepening. diplomatic ties are stabilising the world, and they have called for a political solution to the war in ukraine. vladimir putin has been greeted by xi jinping with full military honours. it's part of a two day state visit to beijing. it's their third meeting in just over a year, and comes less than a week after russia launched a new offensive in northeastern ukraine. vladimir putin says their strategic relationship is not opportunistic or directed against other countries. although china has long been

suspected of supporting russia's economy and its invasion of ukraine, junior doctors in england have held fresh talks with the government in an effort to end their long running dispute over pay . since march dispute over pay. since march 2023, there have been a series of walkouts , with staff of walkouts, with staff demanding a 35% pay rise, phased in over a number of years. health secretary victoria atkins says she's pleased the bma, the british medical association, have agreed to explore mediation . well, we'll bring you keir starmer as soon as he decides to start speaking, and we will be back a little later with more news. you can also scan up to sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. now back to andrew and . bev. >> good morning. 1070 with britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> now we're going to expect the labour leader, sir keir starmer,

to unveil those six election pledges. they are not new policies, but they range from maintaining economic stability. more teachers launching a new border command unit. in other words, another quango . yeah. words, another quango. yeah. setting up what is it? great british energy, which is not going to cost. >> well, he doesn't tell us how much any of this is going to cost. this is the frustration, isn't it? he's apparently going to crack down on anti—social behaviour. >> i do that, then how? >> i do that, then how? >> recruit 6500 new teachers. great. how cut nhs waiting times. great. how this is. what's so frustrating? i could have written. we could have sat here this morning and scribbled that on the back of an envelope. >> and the thing is, he had the five mission statements and we had our labour adviser and said, can you remember what they were, of course you couldn't, because they were vague and woolly. that's right. it seems like we will be have the, the best economic growth in the g7. yeah. make the streets safer . do make the streets safer. do something on education. >> and he was talking about green energy, more renewable energy. >> he's been hence dp energy. >> he's been hence dp energy. >> so the state is going to set up its own energy company. i'm

not sure that the state is any better providing energy than private companies. >> i don't know either. but going back to the story about the royal mail, yeah, i'm much more on board with us running from here with the taxpayer, possibly benefiting with the coffers , benefiting from some coffers, benefiting from some profit. yeah. in this country, rather than the moment. my energy is with edf, owned by the blimming french government. i'm not okay with that. >> and the royal mail, the czech republic, this this billionaire from the czech republic is trying to buy the royal mail. and i think that the government can intervene . and i think they can intervene. and i think they have to because i think there'll be an outcry. yeah. because they've got commitments to universal delivery and that the cost of delivering mail will be the same in every part of the country. i mean, they've made a terrible mess of it. as dave ward from the commercial from the communications worker said, i mean, it's now £1.35, a first class stamp. it's a scandal, isn't it? >> it's a huge amount now. >> it's a huge amount now. >> joining us now is our political correspondent katherine forster to tell us what we might expect this

afternoon or this morning . afternoon or this morning. catherine, any minute now, i think angela rayner is speaking right now, isn't she? what else are we going to hear from them ? are we going to hear from them? >> yes, any minute now. so we'll be hearing from sir keir starmer, angela rayner, rachel reeves and these six pledges. now there's nothing actually new here because keir starmer has been talking about his five national missions for some months now. but they were not terribly well defined, a little bit woolly. they didn't really get much cut through. so now they've basically rebranded them, repackaged them to make what they hope is a more voter friendly offer. and of course, they've added one now. tony blair, back before the 1997 landslide, had five pledges, keir starmer has gone up to six, they're very light on numbers. no numbers really, apart from , no numbers really, apart from, of course, teachers, perhaps that's deliberate , given the that's deliberate, given the state that rishi sunak has got himself into with his five

pledges. but these billboards that we see keir starmer, black and white photograph sleeves rolled up, looking ready to get to business. and these pledges in blue and saying sorry in red, in blue and saying sorry in red, in red, even and saying my first steps for change. they're hoping that this is going to cut through with voters because we know, of course, they're 20 points ahead in the polls. but the labour leader is actually really still quite soft because it's a lot of it is because, people are very , very cross with people are very, very cross with the current conservative government and in the mood to have a change rather than they are actively excited about or enthusiastic for, what sir keir starmer is offering. so they're hoping that they can, can change that. and of course he's speaking in essex where they don't have a single labour mp . don't have a single labour mp. >> very interesting. and that's presumably catherine, why they've chosen essex. because they've chosen essex. because they did very well in the local elections just a couple of weeks

ago. >> yes, exactly. they want to capitalise on that, we have heard all sorts of wild rumours, haven't we, about another defection in to labour, over the last couple of days there was some expectation that perhaps it might happen before pmqs. yesterday mps were getting very excited on the labour benches, sort of going, ooh , every time sort of going, ooh, every time a conservative came in and then did not join them , some did not join them, some speculation there may be somebody today let let us see. i mean, i think it's unlikely simply that defections are quite rare, although they haven't been recently, have they? because we had dan poulter, defector labour only a week or two before, natalie elphicke . so let's see. natalie elphicke. so let's see. but certainly they're targeting voters that may not naturally be labour people. and the billboards with keir starmer and these six pledges are going to be popping up in, target seats like swindon, like doncaster , like swindon, like doncaster, popping up like swindon, like doncaster, popping up near lots of gb news viewers homes, probably

catherine. >> of course, the last defection didn't exactly go well, did it? >> natalie? elphicke. >> natalie? elphicke. >> no. >> no. >> quite hideously. >> quite hideously. >> but then i'm sort of a bit baffled by natalie elphicke because she's not even going to stand in the next election. why would she defect? >> because i think she wants a nice quango, which she'll get after the think tank job, working with labour and labour, because housing is our area. and i mean, it was just the most unbelievably opportunistic defection . when i heard about defection. when i heard about it. i was talking to the daily mail, said, no, she can't possibly defected today. she must have defected to reform because she's that she's so far on the right, right, right. i mean, she's, she's and but no, but she went to labour but do you think maybe it was keir starmer saying right i, we are not who you think we are. >> if you think we are a hard left party, you can come to us because we will even welcome somebody like natalie elphicke. maybe it was a genius move by him. >> it's upset so many people in the labour party, and particularly his women mps , particularly his women mps, because of the way she mocked

the victims of her husband who went to prison for sex sexual assault charges. >> let's have a look. >>— >> let's have a look. >> what you've been saying at home, duncan duncan has said, 20 years ago, i would have been worried about the selling of royal mail, but now i say sell it. absolutely useless service. plenty of alternatives. if someone else can make it work again, that will be great. but if it collapses, so what? interesting, because we are using it less and less and less. >> well, it's because they're so expensive to post a stamp. >> and of course people now send emails. yeah. >> paul has said conservatives and reform need to come together to stop the red lunacy from getting in. margie has got in touch. good morning margie saying outrageous that royal mail is being bought out by a czech something or other billionaire with suspect background. what on earth is wrong with this country? what about sabotage even generally compromise people? about about the fact that they might be spying on people. i don't know what the concern to some extent the concern with royal mail being bought by somebody who isn't british. i don't think

there's the security spying issue . that's not one of the issue. that's not one of the objections, but it's a it's an institution that's much liked. >> yeah. and i just think, look what the selling off. some of our heathrow airport is owned by a spanish company. why so many of these water companies and energy companies are owned by foreign companies. they don't care. the shareholders . they care. the shareholders. they don't care about the dividend for the shareholders. i mean, massive underinvestment in the water companies. yeah. and i just think it will be the death knell for royal mail. and i'm rather fond of posting a letter, actually. >> yeah. sam has said the very idea of selling the royal mail to a foreigner is appalling. it must not be allowed. dave says. why don't we just sell the whole blimming country and be done with it? i know what you mean, dave. it does feel a bit like that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there's nothing sacred that's my point. >> alistair starmer announces a wish list of six things with no detail. we've got rachel reeves claiming labour with the party of business. meanwhile, angela rayner proposes changes to workers rights which are profoundly anti business. they are interesting , profoundly anti business. they are interesting, i like profoundly anti business. they are interesting , i like that profoundly anti business. they are interesting, i like that and of course that they were supposed to be coming in within 100 days of a labour government,

but they're now rowing back on that a little bit. >> and he saw what dave ward said from the communication workers union. he didn't think these six pledges are going anything like far enough for what the trade unions want on workers rights. >> and lew has said in relation to stella, our left leaning commentator earlier, i'm sure the presenters have a memo when the presenters have a memo when the left wingers are on the show, just let them speak, even if it's complete cobblers coming out of their mouths. do not challenge them because ofcom won't like that. that's not true, lew. i can tell you it's not true. but we, this country's the public and popular opinion. we do have all sides of the political debate on here. >> and actually we challenged her on the 6 to 6 pledges, and she was very robust. >> i like to hear every side of every debate we do. that's what we do here. i know some of you don't like it when we have the left wing voices on, and having the communications workers here, and he is on the left of the labour party. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> we you know, we, we like to listen to all of everybody and particularly you at home, micah said, how about my six pledges

produce a british bill of rights and leave the echr return all illegal people as they arrive back to france. all major utilities without competition put back into national control. railway workers and all civil servants fired and rehired on new union free contracts , build new union free contracts, build a high speed, a speed high. max bafic a high speed, a speed high. max basic low cost prisons. reinstate british steel to make top quality british steel. how about that and remove the law of commitment to reach net zero. >> and of course, british. >> and of course, british. >> british and of course british. british steel is owned by an indian company. isn't it now still to come, starmer is speaking a little later. and when he does, we'll bring you the speech live. i know you can't wait for that. but first we're going to be joined by our panel to about the big stories of the day. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on

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news. with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> we are joined in the studio by broadcaster and journalist carole malone and author and broadcaster amy nicholl turner. hello, ladies. right. what are we starting with, amy? cyclists who kill. this is something that we all can relate to. isn't it the idea that we shouldn't feel safe amongst cyclists flying down the road? >> we've all probably felt like we have been nearly killed by a cyclist a few times , so mark cyclist a few times, so mark harper has proposed that cyclists get treated in the same way. transport secretary as the transport secretary , are transport secretary, are penalised in the same way as dangerous drivers. so cyclists who kill could face life in prison and they should face the same penalties as other road users because what they are road users. so why shouldn't the law apply equally ? apply equally? >> and they pay no tax? they're not insured. >> no. >> no. >> but when you when you actually buried down into the detail a little bit, it's there were about 30,000 accidents on the road every year. and only three people are killed by a cyclist. so i think a lot of the only three people, amy, three

people a year, you say only three people, but there's 460 that are that are hurt quite badly by cyclists every year, which is a huge amount. >> and it's , you know, it's not >> and it's, you know, it's not a question of people just being killed, but this, this has come. this is ian duncan smith's , this is ian duncan smith's, campaign. and it's come hot on the heels of the guy who got off last year because he was racing around regent's park as part of around regent's park as part of a cycling club, a 29 miles an hour when the limit inside the park is 20 miles, and he crashed into a retired nursery nurse, 81 year old hilda griffiths, who died a few weeks later. because precisely because of this, and nothing happened to this guy, the metropolitan police didn't even bother to contact the cps to see if he should or could be prosecuted. it's outrageous and there are no speed limits for these cyclists either. so that has got to be brought. and that's the very least that's got to be brought in. but you know, these guys now are cycling on every day. there's a cyclist on a pavement coming at me from somewhere, and not just me at elderly people, at mothers with

babies, at people who are disabled. and it's outrageous and nothing happens to them. you know, ten years ago they used to get fined. now they don't. police don't. it's like cyclists are the gods on the road now it's like their judgement, like the personal responsibility of the personal responsibility of the cyclist seems to have disappeared. >> i think it's difficult, though , because the roads don't though, because the roads don't seem to really facilitate for cyclists . are you kidding? cyclists. are you kidding? nationwide. nationwide where i live, for example. no. in london, no . i'm sorry. london, no. i'm sorry. >> they're all over the country. you know, i go to dorset a lot and that's their country, little roads. and there's very few double lanes, but the ones that are on our cycle, it's everywhere. multi—millions have been spent to accommodate, i think, where you have good cycle lanes , for example, milton lanes, for example, milton keynes. >> great. and then there isn't this war of motorist versus cyclist quite as much . quite as cyclist quite as much. quite as much. so i think maybe if we accommodate them more, the cycle lane when i walked to the tube, there's a cycle lane right by there's a cycle lane right by the tube. >> they still cycle on the pavement. i say get in the cycle lane. >> i mean, there are some pavements actually have a cycle

section on the pavement that don't even use that because people are kind of close. and so they want to weave in and out and go quickly. there have got to be rules applied to these people. there should be paying for being on the road. one thing we should be able, you know, people there was there was one gentleman killed and i can't remember where it was now, but, he, he, he was knocked over . no he, he, he was knocked over. no one found out who the cyclist was, who did it. now that can't be right. cyclists have to be registered. they have to. they have to be on a register somewhere so they can be found. and they can be tried or fined if they. >> how do you do that, though? like how do you do that without a registration plate? does it mean you have to have a have a registration plate. >> why shouldn't they? i mean, we have to have one drivers. car drivers have to have you know, i should start off by saying i'm not against all cyclists. i'm just against just most of them, the rubbish ones, just the lunatics who do not take the rules of the road seriously. >> but that's why this, this should be fine with cyclists. because it's not a policy against cyclists, it's not against cyclists, it's not against dangerous cyclists. yes, i'm sure they equally haven't. >> let me tell you what the what? the lobby, the pro cycling

lobby have said because obviously , however many 15 years obviously, however many 15 years ago, my husband got knocked off his bike in america and had a terrible brain injury. so cycling safety's been on my radar for quite a long time, funnily enough. and whenever i'd raised issues about making cycling more safe, the utopian thinking from politicians and cycle groups, which is that cycling is always good for you . cycling is always good for you. it makes you thin. it helps the environment, active transport. we must do nothing. that would stop. i think you're right. so we don't make helmets mandatory. we don't put registration plates on them. we don't expect cyclists to adhere to same rules because we have to make it accessible for all. and because that was the logic behind it. >> and because of that, bev cyclists now have an arrogance, and they believe that none of us either drivers, not pedestrians, should be in their way. and, you know, if you say to a cyclist and i've said it many times, and i will continue to say if i tell them to slow down, i just get them to slow down, i just get the finger. i get told, i get told to, you know, what off all the time. it's like they're in charge. >> well, they'll say, well, i'm saving the planet. and exactly. and then and i, you know, and so

theyi and then and i, you know, and so they i nobody used their imagination as to where this would end if we didn't put some sort of all those lovely incentives that you just listed there. >> i bought a bike not so long ago, but i'm terrified. i can't icannot ago, but i'm terrified. i can't i cannot go on that bike because i cannot go on that bike because i don't feel like the roads are. >> so do you drive on the pavement? well, in which case, amy, you shouldn't drive a bike if you're. >> no, i haven't if you're terrified of the road chained up office, you pay for it like £180 for this bike because it's second hand. i really i really wanted to succeed because i wanted to succeed because i wanted to succeed because i wanted to be able to do fitness on the way to work. >> whatever i used to have a bike, i wouldn't dream of cycling. >> now it's too scary. >> now it's too scary. >> terrifying. >> terrifying. >> i love those little fold up ones that people have on the trains. yeah yeah. >> but again, it's terrifying. >> but again, it's terrifying. >> i just and i think it should be the law that they wear a helmet. there can be no argument against not wearing a helmet. >> i actually thought it was the law. >> no it's not, talking of scary, should we talk about water contamination? yeah. >> should we? how is it possible, carol, that in 2024, we can live in a country where the water isn't safe to drink? >> i don't know, because i haven't got the story, so i've got no idea. i've not read it.

oh, it's not on our list. oh it's. >> tell me about it. it's in devon, south west water. >> there's a contamination. it's making giving people diarrhoea, sickness. >> oh yes. yes. the book. yeah. the parasite in the water. but you know what you're saying. >> it's like being in delhi. >> it's like being in delhi. >> but you know, parasites. >> but you know, parasites. >> we have sewage. i don't know why we should be surprised, because we have raw sewage in the water all the time. and we pay the water all the time. and we pay these water companies multi—millions every year. i mean, you know, i currently own thames water, £5, apparently. i don't know how because i have them on standing order, so i don't quite know how they're hounding me for £5. and yet there's leaks all over. oops. my water. we have get excited. we have leaks all over the area and they have the cheek to chase the rest of us for five £6. it's outrageous. >> this is this is down in devon in a seaside town. and you think, well, devon, it's nice down there. it's not overpopulated, low population density. they must be able to get a handle on their drinking water. i mean, isn't this incredible that. >> now, first of all, don't swim in the sea, don't swim in rivers, and now don't even drink the. >> yeah, i know that's been the official advice from the water company. >> don't drink the water. and if

you do, you have to boil it first. >> isn't that extraordinary? >> isn't that extraordinary? >> completely. and you're so right. it is like in india. >> it is in india. >> it is in india. >> or pay for it. we don't pay for the water. >> i mean, you know, when you go abroad, you think, oh, i won't, i won't drink the water, i do. >> but remember when we were in india, we were looking at the rivers and stuff where the water and the rubbish was literally a foot and a half high on top of it. yeah. and people drink out of that. yeah. so i guess we're not that bad. but the thing is, indians probably aren't paying what we're paying. >> yeah, that's the point. we pay a >> yeah, that's the point. we pay a fortune for it. >> is this an outbreak of cryptosporidium? when i heard that, i thought it was a type of currency. when i heard that which has been investigated. but then if you've got an a, whatever, it is a bacteria in the water supply like that, i don't know how you begin to purify the bacteria from that amount of water. >> what must must be a chemical. it must just be a chemical, surely, to put in it. >> it's even if it's even affecting people's pets. >> so cats and dogs are getting really sick. yes. and it's probably going to kill some. some of them . some of them. >> if you're very elderly and vulnerable to a stomach bug, then you would be could be killed by this.

>> surely with these water bosses, these ceos, this is criminal negligence. surely this should be able to. >> i'm amazed. i'm amazed that no water company boss hasn't been brought before the courts oveh been brought before the courts over. just putting all this raw sewage into our water. but it's cheaper to pay to put to get a fine for it still works out. it's more cost effective than to pay a it's more cost effective than to pay a fine rather than actually dispose of the waste properly. >> and the guys in charge of these companies is the guys on seven figure salaries who take £2 million bonuses every year as well. so you know, the money that they could play. >> i was looking at the latest thames. i know this isn't about thames. i know this isn't about thames water but say the ceos i think there's like a revolving d00h think there's like a revolving door. sometimes one comes in it's brand new and could in theory sort it out. so i do think they need to be remunerated . remuneration should remunerated. remuneration should be like a competitive cost. you know, because he might be the one. otherwise nobody's going to come in and be the boss. >> are there other countries if the company does not fulfil its obugafions the company does not fulfil its obligations like giving people clean water, the license is taken away from it's given to somebody else. why don't they do that here? you know, take it off. thames water, give it to

someone else. >> keir starmer is missing a trick in his speech later today. no mention about the water companies. no mention. but he's going to be banging on about creating a british amazon lottery. >> did you notice that? that speech.i >> did you notice that? that speech. i looked at them all and it said the taxes are going to be quotes as low as possible. he said that he's going to he's going to anti—social behaviour. they're going to tackle that. but it's not saying how many cops they're going to thing, he says. we're going to keep mortgage and inflation as low as possible. i mean, no specifics , possible. i mean, no specifics, no specific, no numbers at all. >> that's unfair because if it's unfair. british energy, did, you know, come out as intended? it would create growth, which is what we need to raise our gdp and bring down our taxes. >> british energy company will be billions of pounds, but then once it's up and running. >> but it hasn't told us how many billions of pounds and that's the taxpayer can have to find the money. >> you've got to invest to make a bit of cash. we all know that. well we will be discussing what keir starmer says with you both ladies in the and also our who is britain's sexiest man, a little lady with you. >> but we're not going to say yet who it is. >> is he on this panel.

>> is he on this panel. >> it's not me. >>— >> it's not me. >> it's not me. >> it's sadly funny just in case. >> well you couldn't be quite so cruel about that one. >> good, though. >> good, though. >> very good. well, that's a competition. i'm not a sexy man, but carol likes my hair. >> here is one of britain's sexiest men. aaron armstrong with you. news . with you. news. >> not sure i can live up to that. good morning to you. it is 1031 aaron armstrong here. a man's been charged with attempted murder after slovakia's prime minister was shot several times yesterday. the suspected attacker is understood to be a 71 year old former security guard at a shopping mall. he's known to have posted videos to social media disagreeing with government policy. the interior minister believes the attack was politically motivated as slovakia has scaled back its support for ukraine while opening dialogue with russia recently. now, if you're watching on tv, you can see live pictures of the hospital where robert fizeau underwent surgery overnight . he is robert fizeau underwent surgery overnight. he is a robert fizeau underwent surgery overnight . he is a known admirer overnight. he is a known admirer of vladimir putin and hungary's authoritarian leader, viktor

orban , who over the course of orban, who over the course of the night, the doctors have managed to stabilise the patient's condition and at this moment further procedures are underway that should improve his condition. >> the situation is very serious i >> cutting nhs waiting lists and improving economic stability will be among the top election pledges unveiled by labour soon. sir keir starmer is about to use a speech in essex to lay out six promises, which will include a new border security command to tackle people smuggling gangs. the education secretary says controversial changes to sex education will still allow children to explore ideas and have contested debates . it's have contested debates. it's after the government outlined proposals that would see sex education banned for children under the age of nine. the guidelines, which are subject to a nine week consultation, also recommend children are not taught about the concept of gender identity. gillian keegan says she's seen evidence from

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i >> -- >> well. me >> well. south. west. water is telling people to boil their tap water. after hundreds of people were struck down with diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pains in a seaside town in devon. >> so residents across brixham are all being told to boil the water as a precaution . not only water as a precaution. not only if they're drinking it, but even if they're drinking it, but even if they're drinking it, but even if they're just using it to brush their teeth or to cook with. so joining us now is our south west england reporter, jeff moody. geoff, andrew and i are incensed about this story. how we can live in a country where the drinking water isn't safe to consume, what's what are south west water saying about this? how can they justify this happening in the first place? >> well, they don't really know why it's happened. that's the first problem. they don't they don't understand it. they say they're working as hard as they to can try and resolve the situation. but you're not the only ones that are incensed. the people of brixham are particularly incensed. there's been a lot of , bad feeling down been a lot of, bad feeling down here. tempers are frayed. there's a real sense of panic

that's setting in as well as that's setting in as well as that anger. anger that they weren't told for several days. in fact, south west water told them to carry on drinking the water. it was only at 1:00 yesterday afternoon that south west water said, look , we're west water said, look, we're changing our minds. this is a u turn. do not drink the water under any circumstances. make sure it is boiled . under any circumstances. make sure it is boiled. but of course, by that time so many people had become sick. i mean, we're talking hundreds of people, hundreds of people, old people, hundreds of people, old people, young people, schools are closed, cafes are closed. and there is a real sense here that it's very similar to, to, to covid because people don't understand it at the moment. the communication is very bad. they don't know what's going on here. well, the alert was first raised by a woman. she's one of the first people to have suffered from this. she says that the conditions that she was under were horrendous , the diarrhoea were horrendous, the diarrhoea

is horrendous and then the pain afterwards is, apparently is very similar to childbirth . so very similar to childbirth. so a lot of people are saying, well, the woman, tanya matthews, first raised the alarm because she she tasted something funny in the water. she rang south west water who said, no, nothing to do with us. everything's fine . what? i us. everything's fine. what? i caught up with her earlier on and this is what she told me. >> very bad. yeah, as soon as you eat anything or try and dnnk you eat anything or try and drink anything, it was just going straight through me. and i noficed going straight through me. and i noticed a bad taste in the water. i also noticed in the local area that there were a lot of people getting poorly , so of people getting poorly, so i contacted south west water and asked if there was a problem with the water, and they told me there had been 15 confirmed cases of cryptosporidium , and i cases of cryptosporidium, and i wasn't happy with that number because it seemed like there was a lot of sick people. so i put a post on bricks and fishtown, and overnight it went viral with overnight it went viral with over a thousand comments of

people within within our local area that had been poorly, even people that have been here on houday people that have been here on holiday down for rugby weekends . holiday down for rugby weekends. and, we're going back to their areas that they live in, and they were becoming poorly as well . well. >> well, the cars have been arriving here nose to bumper since first light. there's literally been no stop. the cars are just constantly arriving with people collecting bottled water, which they're having to rely on. but people have been told a to not drink the water unless it's boiled, but not to clean your teeth in the water ehheh clean your teeth in the water either. a real sense of panic as i say, and that anger getting worse and worse. and meantime , worse and worse. and meantime, more and more people are falling sick. >> jeff and i wonder if, the people there realised that last year this water company paid their shareholders a £112 million dividend, which despite being criticised for sewage dumping .

dumping. >> but yes, exactly. i mean , >> but yes, exactly. i mean, this area in particular has suffered so badly with the amount of sewage that's being pumped into the waters. several of the beaches around here were closed for most of the summer because of because of these spills. so, yes, that that anger is very real. it's very palpable. you know, a real sense from people that that this is the last straw really . the last straw really. >> jeff moody, our correspondent down in south—west england. thanks, jeff. we'll keep you posted on it. >> a spokesperson for the water company said we're issuing this nofice company said we're issuing this notice following small traces of the organism identified overnight. this is this cryptosporidium. and this morning we're working with the uk health and security agency that used to be public health england until the pandemic. and then it mysteriously changed its name and other public health partners to urgently investigate and eliminate the source. we apologise for the convenience caused. bottled water stations will be set up in the affected areas as soon as possible. >> it'sjust areas as soon as possible. >> it's just shaming. areas as soon as possible. >> it'sjust shaming. it's extraordinary right? and i hope they're going to get some money

off their bills. >> if you're there this morning, get in touch with us. oh, they won't get any more. if it was me, i'd be stopping my direct debit straight away. you come and chase me for my money, and then i have a conversation with you about what i'm going to pay you about what i'm going to pay you as you poisoned me. >> now, up next, as it's revealed, britain took back 50 migrants from ireland after all. remember rishi sunak said flatly refused to take any

gb news. >> welcome back. it's 1045. so the uk took back 50 migrants from ireland just months before rishi sunak said he was not interested in sorting returned asylum seekers. official figures go on. >> no say they showed that two separate groups of 25 migrants were arrested in october and february by irish police while travelling from belfast to dubun travelling from belfast to dublin in the republic of ireland are now back here, so these groups, which included three children, were returned to the uk .

the uk. >> two people were arrested by british police on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry to the uk . it's facilitating illegal entry to the uk. it's very facilitating illegal entry to the uk . it's very disappointing. the uk. it's very disappointing. >> this is it. >> this is it. >> well, i think if it stops there and that's it, so, because because he did go, he did trigger a big row with the irish foreign minister. the but also remember , the irish courts has remember, the irish courts has ruled that britain is an unsafe place for migrants because of rwanda. so the irish government was then going to have to overrule its own court. we had thatissue overrule its own court. we had that issue in this country, haven't we? >> the layers of satire. >> the layers of satire. >> i mean, you couldn't make it up. >> so i think if he if no more arrive, fine. but but i mean, he's going to have to stick to his guns on this. otherwise he's going to be rightly given a really hard time. yeah. >> we're going to be going to rishi sunak, not rishi sunak. keir starmer in just a moment. who is setting out his vision for your country ? you've been for your country? you've been getting in touch at home, marianne has said. starmer, six point plan what does any of it actually mean? how is he intending to pay for it? the man

is completely delusional at sal, says any voter believing any pledges or manifestos need to give their heads a wobble. there's no comeback for the elected party if they fail, there needs to be a penalty for failure. but there isn't , and i failure. but there isn't, and i think we can go right to essex. >> he's in perfectly in thurrock, which is a tie on the tories. on labour's wish list. sir keir starmer is about to make history. >> thank you. oh no jacket please . please. >> thank you very much indeed . >> thank you very much indeed. now i don't know about you, but i found those stories, whether on the videos or here in person, incredibly powerful , incredibly incredibly powerful, incredibly moving. each of them stories about change. and nathaniel, i don't know how you do it . i don't know how you do it. i don't know how you do it. i don't know how you're able to hold yourself together with that poise and that dignity , and to

poise and that dignity, and to cling on to that hope for other people . it is inspirational for people. it is inspirational for all of us. it's really fantastic. thank you for coming . fantastic. thank you for coming. and what nathaniel didn't tell you is that just a few weeks ago, he ran the marathon playing ago, he ran the marathon playing a trombone. he is a music teacher . and, rob, thank you for teacher. and, rob, thank you for your story , your contribution your story, your contribution about housing and the importance of a home. that basic security, the base camp from which people can build their lives. it makes such a difference . it certainly such a difference. it certainly did for me. and yours is a story about to change change from one political party to another political party to another political party to another political party is a very big thing to do. it's about change. now. we have changed the labour

party to put it back in the service of working people and what we seek humbly, is the opportunity to change our country and put it back in the service of working people. and i'm not going to give you gimmicks . and i'm not going to give you gimmicks. there's no quick fix to the mess that the tories have made of this country. but this is a changed labour party with a plan to take us forward. and i have ambition for this country. unlike all ambition that starts with first steps, first steps towards higher growth, an nhs back on its feet , secure

back on its feet, secure borders, cheaper bills , safer borders, cheaper bills, safer streets and opportunities for your children. because we have all had enough . because we have all had enough. the whole country has had enough of 14 years of failure . spinning of 14 years of failure. spinning round and round and round, going in circles of chaos and division, feeding chaos and division, feeding chaos and division . and that has a cost . a division. and that has a cost. a human cost . will is a fireman. human cost. will is a fireman. he lives in milton keynes, and i had a coffee with him not so long ago . he has a dream, an long ago. he has a dream, an aspiration, if you like . it's aspiration, if you like. it's not unusual. it's not unreasonable . he wants to own unreasonable. he wants to own his own house, his own roof over his own house, his own roof over

his head. so he's not just a fireman . he's got two additional fireman. he's got two additional jobs , but he still can't afford jobs, but he still can't afford it because of the damage that's been done under this government. he's at his wits end. he said to me, what else can i do? i can't afford it because what the government has done, he is paying government has done, he is paying the price and he's not the only one. alder hey hospital is a children's hospital in liverpool. it is brilliant. some of you will perhaps have been there will have heard about it. it's fantastic . i went to that it's fantastic. i went to that hospital. it's designed by children, by the way. the way they've set out the wards. it's fantastic. the ward i went onto was the ward where they do heart operations for nought to two year old children. this is incredible . just to go year old children. this is incredible .just to go into year old children. this is incredible . just to go into that incredible. just to go into that ward and to see tiny children, babies having heart operations ,

babies having heart operations, incredible courage. these tiny beings , a brilliant nhs team beings, a brilliant nhs team working with them, absolutely brilliant team doing operations that you and i wouldn't think were possible . now, i found that were possible. now, i found that really humbling. i found it uplifting , affirming, even uplifting, affirming, even a real reminder what we can do at our best. but i came away from that hospital also feeling really angry when i found out that the single biggest cause of children going into that hospital for operations between the ages of six and ten is to have their rotten teeth taken out. literally more children going to that hospital for operations to have their teeth taken out because they're decaying than any other operation. they are paying a very heavy price for what this government has done . and that

government has done. and that nhs team, that brilliant team, having to spend their time, their expertise, taking rotten teeth out, something that could have been prevented . there are have been prevented. there are so many other examples we've heard them this morning, but there across the country and they tell a bigger story, a deeper story, a story about a loss of trust, of hope, of confidence, even in our ability to take our country forward . and to take our country forward. and if we're serious about rebuilding our country and taking our country forward , we taking our country forward, we have to rebuild that hope, that trust and that confidence. and you cannot do that with gimmicks with short term decisions, sticking plasters that just are put on the problem, but they don't fix the problem . it only don't fix the problem. it only gets bigger. and that is why dunng gets bigger. and that is why during the course of last year, i set out my missions for an

incoming labour government. i set out my missions for an incoming labour government . the incoming labour government. the big change that we need to make to our country to take it forward, to improve it, to make it a better place, long term ambitions, credible plans, fixing the fundamentals and giving an incoming government a driving sense of purpose about the change that we want to bring about now, this is going to be hard . sticking plasters is easy, hard. sticking plasters is easy, just doesn't work. but i've never shied away from tough decisions . i never shied away from tough decisions. i ran a public service. we changed it. we reformed it. lots of people said you couldn't do it. you shouldn't do it. but we had to press on. we've changed the labour party and put it back in the service of working people . the service of working people. country first, party second. thank you.

that's it. today is an important day because all ambitions, particularly our ambition to change your country for the better, have to start with first steps. and these are our first steps. and these are our first steps. they enable us. if you like to look the public in the eye and say, this is our down payment on change. these are the first shoots of the change that you deserve to see. first steps that are ready to go, fully costed and fully funded. step one economic stability . now this one economic stability. now this is the very foundation of economic growth . tough spending economic growth. tough spending rules. yes, to keep inflation, taxes and mortgages low because if you lose control of the economy , we its working people economy, we its working people who will pay the price . liz

who will pay the price. liz truss lost control of the economy and working people paid the price just about a week after her mini—budget i think it was a week. it may have been 5 or 6 days. i was in wolverhampton with a young couple who had a three year old child , and they wanted a second child, and they wanted a second child, and they wanted a second child to build their family, so they had identified a new home to buy. they got a mortgage, a provisional mortgage for it that they could afford. they were excited about the future they were going to build . liz truss were going to build. liz truss crashed the economy. their mortgage offer literally went through the roof. they couldn't afford it. they had to cancel their plans. no more new home, no more moving on. stuck but they also made a much more profound decision . they decided

profound decision. they decided that they couldn't afford a second child. now they're going to live with that decision for the rest of their lives. and i'm not prepared to allow an incoming labour government ever to do that kind of damage to working people. and this isn't just about the past, because rishi sunak has not learned the lessons . he says not learned the lessons. he says he's going to abolish national insurance . that is a £46 billion insurance. that is a £46 billion unfunded tax cut, £46 billion. and that's why i can hardly believe i'm saying this stability is change, and that's why it has to be our first step.

the second step is cutting nhs waiting times . it is impossible waiting times. it is impossible to overstate the seriousness of this problem . nearly 8 million this problem. nearly 8 million operations and appointments needed 8 million. that means everyone in this room, everybody watching or listening, probably is on a waiting list or knows someone who's on a waiting list . someone who's on a waiting list. that's the worst it's ever been. and we see it the whole time . i and we see it the whole time. i see it every time i'm out on sunday. i was travelling from london to manchester. i confess i was on my way to watch arsenal beat man united away at old trafford . can you believe it, trafford. can you believe it, rachel ? but we pulled into rachel? but we pulled into knutsford service station and i got out, walked in to get a

coffee and a woman recognised me and she called me over and she said to me and she, she showed me she's got an ingrowing eyelid. it's, it's red, raw , eyelid. it's, it's red, raw, swollen and causing a huge amount of pain and discomfort. and she said to me, i've been waiting 18 months for an appointment for the operation , appointment for the operation, and i've just been told i've got to wait another 12 months. she virtually pleaded with me to win the election to do something about it. that's not unusual. there are so many versions of this story, whether it's knees or hips, whatever the operation may be, that is the price that so many people are paying, and that's why we have to deal with it. 40,000 operations and appointments every single week, paid for by cracking down on tax avoiders and the non—dom tax

status. step three a new border security command. because the government has lost control of our borders, this year alone, 8000 people, 8000 people have made that perilous journey across the channelin perilous journey across the channel in a small boat. 8000. thatis channel in a small boat. 8000. that is a record . and let's be that is a record. and let's be clear, nobody but nobody should be making that journey. nobody. and it is a test. it's a test of governments and would be governments and would be governments as to how we respond . and there are choices in that response. you can choose a gimmick that won't fix it , or gimmick that won't fix it, or a serious plan that will get to the heart of it . and the the heart of it. and the government has chosen a gimmick. the rwanda scheme cost a fortune

, an absolute fortune to deport less than 1% of those arriving by small boat . and that means, by small boat. and that means, of course, that 99 plus percent will not be removed under the scheme. and if you don't think the criminal gangs are saying that to the people they are exploiting, then you've never met a criminal gang because those gangs are vile . they're those gangs are vile. they're making huge amounts of money. they're putting some of the most vulnerable people in the world in boats. they shouldn't be in and breaching our borders. so we have to be serious about smashing those gangs and taking them down. that's where the border security command comes in. a new command with new resources and new powers , resources and new powers, including counter—terrorism powers . now we talk about small powers. now we talk about small boats. that's the language that's used. but if you actually look at the boats that are being used, these days, they're not that small. they're being made

to order. they're being stored in europe. they're being moved up to the north coast of france. and then vulnerable people are being put in them for money by vile gangs. now, i worked for five years as the chief prosecutor. the director of pubuc prosecutor. the director of public prosecutions, and i work with police and law enforcement across europe to take down criminal gangs that were terrorist gangs. these are sophisticated gangs, by the way. but we did it and we took them down. i will never accept that. it is impossible to take down the vile gangs that bring people in small boats to cross the channel in small boats to cross the channel, and we will smash it. step four great british energy . step four great british energy. now the problem here is obvious . now the problem here is obvious. it's the classic example. the

textbook example of sticking plaster politics. because just about ten years ago , the tories about ten years ago, the tories under this government said cut the green crap. remember that? cut the green crap . and so they cut the green crap. and so they cut investment in clean british power . they cut investment. they power. they cut investment. they banned onshore wind , they banned onshore wind, they scrapped home insulation. and that left us really badly exposed. so when world events changed and russia invaded ukraine, we were more exposed than other countries. and your bills went up more than they should have done. i'm not prepared to let that happen under a labour government. so we will set up great british energy harness, clean british power owned by the taxpayer, making money for the taxpayer, investing in the future and keeping bills down for. good.

step five cracking down on antisocial behaviour . now. all antisocial behaviour. now. all my working life, when i was chief prosecutor and since i've been a politician , people say to been a politician, people say to me, keir, this is low level antisocial behaviour. it's not that important . completely wrong that important. completely wrong . if you feel that you can't open your door, your front door at night and go out, you feel you can't walk down your own high street. be comfortable and safe in your own community. that is massive . that is a big is massive. that is a big inhibitor of so many people. it's not low level. it's really important. and that was brought home to me in stoke when i was at the sixth form college. i was talking to 16 and 17 year olds. these were girls and young women. we were actually talking about something else and they brought up anti—social behaviour

and they said to me, we do not feel safe walking down our own high street in broad daylight . high street in broad daylight. thatis high street in broad daylight. that is massive for those young women . they don't feel safe on women. they don't feel safe on their own high street in daylight because of antisocial behaviour . daylight because of antisocial behaviour. that's what losing control of your streets feels like . so we've got to crack down like. so we've got to crack down on anti—social behaviour. 13,000 new neighbourhood officers in your community with new powers, keeping your streets safe. and finally, step six 6500 extra teachers paid for by removing tax breaks for private schools . tax breaks for private schools. because we have to prepare our children and young people for the work they're actually going to do, and the lives they're

actually going to live. and that will require reform to make sure the skills they get they're taught are the skills they're actually going to need in life. it also means we need to concentrate on creativity, on confidence . what a difference confidence. what a difference that makes. and resilience that all children and young people need. all children and young people need . but we need to get the need. but we need to get the basics right now. the prime minister is very fond of lecturing us that we need maths to age 18, and given what he's saying about the 4 to £6 million, billion pound tax cut that's unfunded, he is probably right about himself. but the serious point is this we haven't got enough maths teachers in our secondary schools for those up to age 16. we haven't got enough maths teachers and other key teachers. that's shocking . now, teachers. that's shocking. now, i was the first in my family to go to university . i know the go to university. i know the power that education can give

us. summerstown is an area of my constituency . some of you may constituency. some of you may know it. probably most of you don't. it's between euston station and king's cross . it's station and king's cross. it's one of the most deprived areas in the country, probably in europe . and the children in the europe. and the children in the schools in summerstown can look out of their school windows , out out of their school windows, out of their playgrounds, across to the back of king's cross development. huge corporations in there. google is in there and fantastic facilities being put up for google . the guardian up for google. the guardian building is just there . they can building is just there. they can see it, but they can never imagine that that's where they will work . that is a few hundred will work. that is a few hundred yards, but they can't make that leap. and i want every child , leap. and i want every child, whatever their background, to think that success belongs to them, that they don't have to change who they are to get on. and this labour party will fight every day, every day to give

those children a future which is fit for them. thank you . so here we are, one thank you. so here we are, one card, six steps in your hand. a plan to change the country. this is a message that we can take to every doorstep across the country, every doorstep across the country , and make that the country, and make that argument decline is not inevitable. politics can make a difference. britain will have a better future . and you can better future. and you can chooseit better future. and you can choose it with labour. stop the chaos with labour, turn the page with labour. return policy six to service with labour and with

patience, with determination . patience, with determination. with these first steps, we can rebuild our country with labour. thank you very, very much. thank you . thank you . you. thank you. >> that's keir starmer delivering a real tubthumper keynote speech, soaring rhetoric, but no detail. >> no detail, but tells us a lot about the vision for the country . so for instance, talking about children in hospital for having teeth extractions, the main reason for children. and he talks about that as though that is a governmental problem. and partly it is because we haven't got dentists. but why does he not also say children are the responsibility of their parents? right? the family is at the centre of this country and therefore that is a very key difference. it's a very clear distinction. children's teeth are being taken out. so that's rishi sunaks fault .

rishi sunaks fault. >> and of course he if you remember one that you've talked about, they come up with is to take, dental advisers into schools to teach people how to brush their teeth, which we laughed at because, again , isn't laughed at because, again, isn't that what mum and dad should be doing? >> there's no sense of that. was there? it was one of those speeches. it was quite, you know, it had some sob stories in there. sad stories, not sob stories. that's not fair. but he had some real life examples of people that have got difficult health situations that are deaung health situations that are dealing with people who are in waiting list for nhs, but i just think that's a little we know that we all know somebody. you don't really have to use those people to make your point about the nhs. it just feels a little distasteful that when you when you're rolling out people who are ill and saying, look at this ill person. >> and he also he did say there are no gimmicks. well actually it felt a bit gimmicky and i did predict before he spoke, i said, i can smell a gimmick coming. yeah. and it was to wheel out a man terminally ill with cancer. >> that's right. before we went to keir starmer, there was there was a gentleman, nathaniel, who who stood up and said, i'm dying

of cancer. and i had to wait more than 100 days for my cancer treatment. horrible. heartbreaking. we all relate to that. makes me angry. the nhs waiting list at the moment, but i don't like that using a real person to in that situation . i person to in that situation. i just think it's really icky. >> yeah, this point as well. about that . bev is the a lot of about that. bev is the a lot of people miss their cancer appointments because of lockdown. we know that. and the labour party wanted us to be locked down for even longer . locked down for even longer. >> i'm so glad you raised that point because he talks about chaos and division, didn't he? chaos and division. this is a country. you mean like bc you caused during lockdowns? more chaos, more division by refusing to hold the government to account or even questioning the decisions that they were making dunng decisions that they were making during that period of time. >> question was, was why they didn't lock us down for longer. yeah. >> you had an opportunity keir starmer during the pandemic, you had an opportunity to actually look at the science from a different point of view. i would say from an accurate point of view and to hold the government to account for the decisions that they were making. then you could have seriously distinguished yourself from the people who are currently in

power. you would have been popular. you didn't do it. so don't talk to me about division. you did nothing during that penod you did nothing during that period of time. >> well, let's talk to our political correspondent now, katherine forster. catherine so this has been heavily trailed. the whole shadow cabinet is there. we heard from rachel reeves, who will be our first woman chancellor of the exchequer, if, as we expect to labour win the election also from wes streeting, the shadow health secretary , labour's health secretary, labour's deputy leader, angela rayner. interesting that she could be so robust because, of course, in that those six pledges, not a word about her revolution in workers rights, which she said she was going to deliver in the first 100 days of a labour government. >> yes, that's right. there's plenty of things not being mentioned . but i think what mentioned. but i think what a contrast to the speech with the prime minister rishi sunak, on monday, behind a podium , talking monday, behind a podium, talking about security, talking about a dangerous world, saying stick with us. talk about i, of course, one of his favourites to this felt and looked very, very different to that, didn't it?

and there's keir starmer , i mean and there's keir starmer, i mean sir keir starmer. the sir is not particularly helpful to him in his quest to connect with the pubuc his quest to connect with the public because, of course, although he's way ahead in the polls and the labour leader is quite soft , the public are not quite soft, the public are not convinced. so this is an attempt to try to engage with them. and i thought it was very interesting . he wasn't behind interesting. he wasn't behind a podium. he was on a stage, literally centre stage, surrounded by people on all four sides, roaming around the stage sleeves rolled up, no jacket, no tie. talking from prompts or obviously put around the side. but you know , very informal, but you know, very informal, trying to appear, you know, like an ordinary guy, who is ready to lead. and i thought, as you said, those personal touches, i mean , i think the, the thing mean, i think the, the thing about children, you know, more children going to have teeth removed from this one hospital, than anything else was really

quite shocking. you know, the personal touches about getting a coffee at a at a service station, a lady coming up and the waiting lists, you know, i think that will work. and they want to connect with the public. they want to have this lead, not just because people are fed up with the tories after 14 years. they want people to feel that labour are going to make a positive difference. and that's the message . that they are the message. that they are trying to get across. of course, we've had criticised for months and months and months. what does labour for? stand what are they going to do? they are beginning to flesh out some of this. we're beginning to get some details. they say all these first steps are fully costed, fully funded, but you know, there's not going to be much money around no matter who wins the next election. it's going to be very difficult for anybody , frankly. difficult for anybody, frankly. >> thank you. catherine. well, as he fleshes out, i don't like what i see. i don't like what i see. it worries me enormously . see. it worries me enormously. >> vie, i think i think it was a

better speech than sunaks on monday, though, because i think just the way it was projected was better. i mean, the prime minister speaking to some boring think tank with a boring backdrop and he's not a great speaker as he, the prime minister and i can't even remember what the speech was about. >> no. well, well, i ask catherine, he said he always goes on about the i. he's a technocrat in it. he's and defences because the country is safer better the devil. you know that's what he was saying playing on fear wasn't it. everything's dangerous because everything's happening in russia. >> and talking of danger , of >> and talking of danger, of course we will be able to bring you an update quite soon on the slovakian prime minister who you will have. i'm sure you will have seen or heard about shot three times by a potential assassin in slovakia, while he was just literally meeting what he thought were voters and the alleged assassin. well we can say the man who was arrested, a poet , a liberal thinking, yeah, poet, a liberal thinking, yeah, clearly extraordinary, forgiving kind of man. >> right. this is britain's

gb news. >> 1119. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news. with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> sir. slovakia's prime minister, robert fico has undergone hours of surgery after being shot in an assassination attempt that prompted warnings across europe of rising political violence. >> he's a veteran populist politician. he's returned to paris, slovakia, after elections last year. his success fuelled in part by promises to halt military aid to ukraine, which is next door criticism of sanctions targeting russia and campaigns against lgbtq rights. >> so authorities have said they suspect the attack had political motivations . joining me now is motivations. joining me now is robert fox, defence editor of the evening standard . good the evening standard. good morning, robert. great to see you. i mean, in some ways it's surprising that these sorts of attempts on our global leaders don't happen more often. the shocking the footage is absolutely shocking, though, isn't it? what do we know about

this prime minister and who his attacker might be? >> well, he's quite high profile for quite a small country, robert fitzroy , as you say, he's robert fitzroy, as you say, he's a sort of, he wouldn't like to be described as this a sort of mini viktor orban because he shares a lot of, orban's, dislikes and enthusiasms. and they're both enthusiastic supporters or have been in the past of vladimir putin. doesn't believe in, an open ended chequebook for europe supporting , by that, i mean eu, europe supporting ukraine. and he's against, liberal lgbtq legislation. but it's this seems to have been about, censorship control of the media, closing down or restricting the, slovak equivalent of the bbc, the pubuc equivalent of the bbc, the public broadcaster here, we know little about the man who has been charged, we are told, with

an attempted assassination, which is surprising because you usually find out what his name is, where he lives, and what his what his profession is. but this man is said to be a 71 year old. now, get this security guard who is also a poet. he has now, get this security guard who is also a poet . he has written is also a poet. he has written two volumes of poetry, apparently he, an alleged son has been speaking to the slovak media, said he knew his father owned a gun. he didn't know what his father was up to . by the his father was up to. by the way, what i think is one of the shocking aspects is how sloppy the, close, escort to the prime minister was that this guy could get up so close and personal in that he appears to have been well known to the authorities. he has criticised publicly, and he's been on media. >> gosh , there's there'll be >> gosh, there's there'll be quite a few powerful people that may not have shed a tear, though, at the at the shooting of, feet.so . so because he's of, feet.so. so because he's been a thorn in the side of

people such as the world health organisation, he's rejected the pandemic treaty. >> oh, come on, i know he's calling health organisation goes out and hires gun. >> no no no no no no no no no ho. 110. >> no. >> and that's not what i'm saying at all. i'm not suggesting they're involved in the shooting, but what i'm saying is the political ramifications of this is that there will be some people who won't have greeted this with disappointment because he doesn't toe the party line in terms of the globalist agenda in terms of the globalist agenda in terms of the globalist agenda in terms of what happened during the pandemic, that he's asking very uncomfortable questions of some very powerful people . some very powerful people. >> yes, that's fair enough. but i think, i'm not prepared to go down this rabbit hole with you because, part of the real problem with this now, which you have pointed to is that this is feeding the conspiracy vie agenda, whether from the liberal left or the hard right, it is very interesting how russian media has not exploited this, at

all. putin joined with biden and saying that he condemned this and he, he this was not the right thing to do, at least we're getting somewhere there. but the problem is, as you as as we're suggesting , is this feeds we're suggesting, is this feeds into the, the dark web, the, social media agenda , that there social media agenda, that there are dark forces at work here. what we have got to find out. and it's pointing this way. this may have been a very nasty aspect of very, very national slovak politics. i don't think it was even from what we understand about the motivation of the character involved , and of the character involved, and the group he belonged to, the rainbow litter society. i don't think they're known over much. i may be completely wrong for mixing it in the dispute between the west or, europe , nato and the west or, europe, nato and putin over, over ukraine. but

sure as anything, it will be used for that. we must think about whether whether ipso himself is out of the game now. i mean, he's in a very bad case, five hour surgery, five bullet, but , both sides have come but, both sides have come together in, in in the political arena in slovakia condemning it, supporting things the opposition parties deeply opposed to feet.so and his politics have called off their rallies , for called off their rallies, for this week so far. >> good. all right. okay. thank you. >> robert. >> robert. >> that's robert fox, defence sara davison. and we'll keep you updated when we do get a progress report. now back in back with us in the studio, the journalist and broadcaster carole malone and amy nicole turner, journalist and broadcaster and author. first of all, your reaction to the starmer speech ? starmer speech? >> well, i mean, it wasn't sparkling, but he's not doing an x—factor audition. he doesn't need to be mr charisma. so i thought it was pleasing because he actually funded some of the policies . so we can see how

policies. so we can see how things are going to cost which ones. >> so we've got the nhs waiting, the nhs appointments funded by the nhs appointments funded by the non—dom status, which which previously was funding absolutely everything, everything. >> so i was very pleased to hear that actually the additional teachers, which we are crying out for, will be funded by the vat increase. >> there was a report suggesting the other day that the money, he says he's going to raise from the from the non—dom tax is nothing like because the non—doms are very clever people and they'll get their money out of the country a bit quick. >> but i think he's also being quite serious about clamping down on tax avoidance. i think a lot of people are disappointed that it was quite the departure from his original leadership manifesto. no mention of raising income tax and didn't mention the tuition fees that were that people were , counting on a people were, counting on a little bit. that's gone for sure , but it was good to see some actual costing, and i think people will be looking forward to a bit of opportunity perhaps a change at last. did you hear much costing? >> yeah. did you . >> yeah. did you. >> yeah. did you. >> and what about charisma? doesn't he have to have a bit? you know what?

>> i nearly fell asleep in there. i was trying to watch it. he's like mogadon. they should put him on the national health. you know, this guy has had a very. he's been leader for i can't remember how many years, you know, how many years. whatever he's had time to prepare, he's had time to understand and learn what a leader should be projecting. you've got to if you can't get people on board now, he's not going to do it when he's prime minister. and i listen to everything i didn't i didn't think amy says he's in front malone. well, they are, they are. but you know, the labour have been warned last weekend by neil kinnock who said, you know, he warned against complacency. he said he doesn't believe labouris he said he doesn't believe labour is going to win by a landslide because the nation is not yet in love with keir starmer. what they're saying is we can't be doing with the tories anymore, but actually we don't love keir very much either . so i think that kind of come the day when people have to put the day when people have to put the thing in the box. i think a lot of people are going to hold their noses and vote tory again, even though they hate them, even though they don't want them there because they're not convinced by this guy. and what is terrifying about it? i mean, there's a story in the express

today saying, you know, you know, hunter gave that, for the pension pot thing. he lifted the, the what's it called for? the for the million pound pension pot so that they could keep doctors and all the rest of it. he lifted that so that it can put his. yeah. the lifetime allowance. it's called he they lifted that labour talked about putting that back. so the people who the people who work hard in this country, the people who save for their old age , the save for their old age, the people who put it all away, done exactly the right thing. labour are going to punish them. they're going to take it away from them again, which is, you know, and i know £1 million sounds like a lot of money, but it really isn't any a pension pot. when you work out that 20 grand a year income, you have to have at least 500 grand in your pension pot. so people living on 20 or 25 grand, that's not the answer to anything. so i just, answer to anything. so ijust, i just i listen to that be taxed and it'll be taxed. and the thing is, you know, he's everything. he said let's keep mortgages low. let's keep inflation low as possible. i could say that doesn't mean i have to do anything about it, but that working people plan thatis but that working people plan that is laying the foundation on for some proper growth and proper security, some actual social mobility, which will increase our prosperity as

country. >> like we need to have that foundation there. and i think that that whole aspect, helping working people really shone through . through. >> do you think, do you think he is getting through to voters? you see, i don't. so because because although they're 20% ahead, there you go. and knocking on doors around people. and i know a few mps that were doing that currently and people are not in love with keir starmer and they're not convinced by him. they're not convinced by him. they're not convinced he's going to do what he says because his name, amy, as you know, is mr flip—flop, because he comes forward with a policy. i don't think it's a flip flop. >> i think it's an evolution. >> i think it's an evolution. >> it's not. well, that's very good of you and loyal to say so. i don't even know how much money he's got to work with yet. >> i think that's the reality, isn't it? you can't really. >> every single one of his ten pledges, which he ran on the labour leadership on every single he's back—pedalled on them all. >> not every single one. >> not every single one. >> yes. tell me which ones stayed. >> every single one. >> every single one. >> well, we'll take them out and then we'll we'll check with you. >> right. talking of attractive men. >> oh, no, not me , definitely >> oh, no, not me, definitely not you, my love. >> so this is a survey, carol? yes. britain's sexiest man.

according to a the best online dating site for married people. >> it is called . it is called >> it is called. it is called meet people. it's called illicit illicit encounters . and clarkson illicit encounters. and clarkson has come number one on this website. jeremy clarkson has come for the second year running. let me tell you what. >> this is why we can't trust people to vote for them. no, no, ho. 110. >> no. >> but you. no, no. you see, i think i think this is good because here's a picture. >> oh, no. you see? >>— >> oh, no. you see? >> no. is that when they ran it with the headline the pregnant man or something, i think it was. >> yeah. i mean, to be honest, it's slightly bigger than that how. >> now. >> i saw him on clarkson's farm three last week, and it's slightly even bigger than that. but this, this gives me hope for women because it shows that women because it shows that women do not just go for great looking guys, they go for funny guys, for guys with personality. because to get this to, to win this thing, he has beat people like idris elba. he's beaten cillian murphy, tom holland. you see, tom holland is not a he's not a heartthrob really. he's not a heartthrob really. he's not a heartthrob really. he's not a great looker, but he's a

nice guy. and i think this is good because because he came number two, didn't he. >> so he's 64 now jeremy clarkson but i think and looks it looks it he does. >> but he's funny. it looks it he does. >> but he's funny . pierce. >> but he's funny. pierce. >> but he's funny. pierce. >> he is funny. >> he is funny. >> he is funny. >> he doesn't look terribly well does he . does he. >> and the farm program i don't like jeremy clarkson but i do definitely have a strange crush on james may. >> oh, you are kidding . >> oh, you are kidding. >> oh, you are kidding. >> can i just can i love him? >> can ijust can i love him? >>— >> can ijust can i love him? >> so the people who answered this survey are married women who are looking to have affairs. >> those are the ones you know as a married woman. what a strange choice for an affair. >> because to be honest, i couldn't fancy clarkson if my life depended on it. >> me neither. but really, i couldn't. i like good looking men, which is. what about james may? not in a million years. >> he's hilarious. in a million years, maybe. i don't know what that is. >> why would a married woman want to date jeremy clarkson, john? >> because he's funny and very rich and maybe available character, although his wife might argue no, no, but his wouldn't be happy about that. his partner is called lisa and

she's hot, man. she's she's a great looking woman. she is. so yeah. great looking woman. she is. so yeah . so she's there for something. >> so and he's a brilliant writer and he's a brilliant columns are great. >> yes he is. >>- >> yes he is. >> yeah. he's he's a phenomenal writer . writer. >> a bit of a short temper. >> a bit of a short temper. >> oh who cares. we would you want to date jeremy clarkson? do let me know because i'm fascinated by the fact that he's come the top of that poll. amy carroll, thank you so much. still to come, it's chiswick in west london, home to the best pizza in europe as the world's top 50 awards has claimed. carol and i live there, but we need to test out the theory. >> the pizzas coming in. we're going to. we're going to test it ourselves. yeah. you'll be gone by then. malone. sorry >> no, i'm waiting first, though. aaron, with the news. here it is. >> hi, there. very good morning to you. it's 1131. >> hi, there. very good morning to you. it's1131. i'm aaron armstrong. sir keir starmer says stability is change as he laid out a series of top alleged election pledges just a moment or two ago, among labour's promises are a new border

security command to tackle people smuggling gangs. it plans to cut nhs waiting lists and also to improve economic stability . and there was a stability. and there was a commitment to set up a publicly owned energy firm to be known as great british energy, as well as a strategy to crack down on antisocial behaviour. sir keir says all the commitments are fully funded . fully funded. >> there's no quick fix to the mess that the tories have made of this country, but this is a changed labour party with a plan to take us forward and i have ambition for this country and like all ambition that starts with first steps, first steps towards higher growth. an nhs back on its feet , secure back on its feet, secure borders, cheaper bills , safer borders, cheaper bills, safer streets and opportunities for your children . your children. >> a man's been charged with

attempted murder after slovakia's prime minister was shot a number of times yesterday. the suspected attackers, understood to be a 71 year old former security guard at a shopping mall. he's known to have posted videos on social media disagreeing with government policy . the country's government policy. the country's interior minister believes the attack was politically motivated. slovakia has recently scaled back its support for ukraine, while also opening dialogue with russia . the prime dialogue with russia. the prime minister remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital. all and causing death or injury by dangerous cycling is to become a new offence, punishable by up to 14 years in prison. mps have voted in favour of an amendment to the criminal justice bill, which is making its way through parliament, following campaigning by sir iain duncan smith. critics have pointed out, though, that more people are killed by cows every year or lightning , and laws year or lightning, and laws already exist to prosecute dangerous cyclists . for the dangerous cyclists. for the latest, you can sign up to gb

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degree of sarcasm. >> i think it was better delivered and than than sunak on monday. and that boring think tank with that boring backdrop. that's true , but but he he there that's true, but but he he there is no charisma . is no charisma. >> there is there for you, andrew. was it more, tony blair circa 1997 or more? ed miliband and his stone of doom. the latter, the latter. i used to blair running through the whole thing . thing. >> blair. >> blair. >> blair. >> blair was incredibly telegenic and charismatic, and he was young and he was a good speakeh he was young and he was a good speaker. i mean, full of cliches. >> of course. it's interesting, the sort of the white shirt with the sort of the white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. >> i had a very relaxed theory about this, because i was there in the room at the labour conference last year when, when this protester ran up to sprinkle glitter all over keir starmer . starmer. >> and i think he might have actually been working for keir starmer , just to add some starmer, just to add some pizzazz to someone who's been as deeply boring. but obviously he thought the whole jacket off roll the sleeves up, get on with the speech that worked for him at the conference. perhaps this

is the new look. you'll also nofice is the new look. you'll also notice on the pledge card that they've unveiled today with those six pledges. again, no jacket sleeves rolled up. i mean, business this is perhaps getting my hands dirty a boon for him. >> john major in his, box. >> john major in his, box. >> soap box? >> soap box? >> the soap box, which he wheeled out in the 92 election to great effect. >> do you know what we're also going to be digging into a bit of a gear change. we're going to be speaking to the chair of the bma council. now. he's written a blistering piece in the telegraph, and it's actually on the front page, some of the analysis, the investigation here in that paper, because he's claiming doctors are being forced to choose between patient safety and their own careers, because nhs bosses don't want to hear any whistleblowers . they hear any whistleblowers. they don't want to see hear what's going wrong. they just don't want to hear it. and sometimes he claims that doctors are having to choose so we'll get to the bottom of that. >> is there a culture of cover up but also it is 81 years to the day since the damn busters mission with, 617 squadron going over the ruhr valley, destroying

two hydroelectric plants, flooding that valley, making a huge contribution to the war and weakening the nazi war machine machine, a series of current raf servicemen are cycling to the netherlands today. will hollis is following them and we're going to be live with, with those raf servicemen who are honounng those raf servicemen who are honouring that remarkable raf mission, one of my favourite films. >> i love that film. >> i love that film. >> yeah, i think i've seen it. >> yeah, i think i've seen it. >> oh, you've never seen it? >> oh, you've never seen it? >> i've never seen it. >>— >> i've never seen it. >> oh, it's great music. movie night. we've got a little clip of it coming up in the show, so. >> very good. brilliant. >> very good. brilliant. >> right. emily and tom from midday. don't go anywhere though. a quick break. we are still with you until 12:00. there was

a. >> well, lots of you getting in

touch about the starmer speech. got to say, bev. most of them not very impressed. kit says the pubuc not very impressed. kit says the public are not fooled by starmer wandering around in his shirt sleeves with his posse, clapping like trained seals behind. he is not. and never will be a man of the people. >> that's right. and saas has said blair, miliband, mandelson and campbell. any of them could have written this and i suspect they probably did. well, the tony blair institute provides staff and speeches and money for starmer's office. yeah, and actually somebody clarifying this island migrant story, which i think is important . the i think is important. the immigrants were taken back between october and february , between october and february, and at that time ireland was classed as classed as as a safe country . so if we wanted france country. so if we wanted france to take back immigrants, we couldn't say no. that would have been hypocritical. ireland then said we were an unsafe country, which enabled to us refuse them without looking hypocritical. as far as i know, we haven't taken any back since. yeah. >> and since, since, since the prime minister said no, we're not taking anymore. we haven't. yeah this tony says listening to keir starmer with his six pledges all sounds okay, but no

detail. i need to know . i pledges all sounds okay, but no detail. i need to know. i need to know how. but this applies to all parties and mike says we're all parties and mike says we're all doomed with current choice of political leaders. >> yeah, and john has said having listened to that speech, i'm wondering when keir starmer is going to announce what he's going to do differently. everything he said is already being done. dave. thank you dave. good morning . says there's dave. good morning. says there's no need for special border force command. just get rid of the border force and replace them with gp's receptionists. so nobody would get in. hahaha i like that and pollyanna says by all time for work just in time. oh no, that she. i think she's gone. and who else has been getting in touch this morning, keano says , if, if well is keano says, if, if well is a word is used, but i can't say. but if nonsense was a commodity , but if nonsense was a commodity, starmer would be as rich as sunak. but he used a word that means speaking nonsense. but i can't say that on the tv. and pamela says, jeremy clarkson, sexiest man, this just proves

why you can't believe polls. although hugh has then said jeremy clarkson has got more common sense than all of the mps put together. you certainly do feel like he could run the farming industry better. watch this programme. >> his, his his farm programme is astonishing. it >> his, his his farm programme is astonishing . it really is, so is astonishing. it really is, so now we're going to go back to south west water because it's a this is a growing scandal there. people are being urged to boil their tap water because hundreds of people have been struck down with diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pains in a seaside town in devon. >> so residents across brixham are having to boil water as a precaution. even if they're just cleaning their teeth. so joining us now is south west of england reporter jeff moody to bring us reporterjeff moody to bring us the latest. >> well, the cars have been arriving bumper to bumper here since first light. they're arriving to collect their free bottles of water that are being dished out. and there's a growing sense of frustration and panic here. frustration? because it took south west water so long to acknowledge the problem.

people first started getting sick 12 days ago. somebody, contacted south west water and said, look, the water tastes funny. and everyone in my family has very bad diarrhoea. south west water did nothing about it and said, no, everything is absolutely fine and keep drinking the water. it was only yesterday at 1 pm, that they finally said , look, we have finally said, look, we have found something in the water. you do need to stop drinking it. don't drink any tap water at all. make sure that it is properly boiled and also don't even clean your teeth with the water, panic because people are very worried about it. people are getting very , very sick. the are getting very, very sick. the symptoms are very, very extreme diarrhoea and after that diarrhoea and after that diarrhoea passes huge , very diarrhoea passes huge, very painful stomach cramps that some people are comparing to childbirth. what? i've been talking to some of the people queuing up for water this morning. this is what they had to say . to say. >> i was already poorly anyway. and the kids, my we've got quite

a big family of children, so i've just come to collect for my daughter and for myself. yeah. so two separate households . so so two separate households. so that's eight, nine, ten people altogether. this is a fantastic piece of organisation and hopefully we'll get through it as quickly as possible. >> as soon as i identify the cause of the problem . cause of the problem. >> well, to give you some idea of the problem, there are 16,000 people that live in brixham and apparently there's somebody sick in virtually every single family in virtually every single family in town. that's how bad the situation is. >> thank you very much, jeff. people are very forgiving, aren't they? that gentleman there saying they've got an excellent system here giving out bottled water. they shouldn't have to. i hope people stop paying have to. i hope people stop paying their bills straight away. >> well, i'm just going to remind people as well that last yeah remind people as well that last year, southwest water paid £112 million in dividends to its shareholders , which will be not shareholders, which will be not little, little people. it'll be major institutions, £112 million, which should have been spent in, frankly, investing it

in in in stopping all this pollution. >> that's been shocking, right. >> that's been shocking, right. >> still to come, what's the best place to go for a pizza in europe? according to the results of a new competition, chiswick. it's in west london. we're going to be finding

gb news. so it's little west london restaurant has been named as the home to the best pizza in europe outside of italy. >> napoli, on the road in chiswick, took home the crown at the world's 50 top pizza awards, which has just happened. >> so joining us is michele pascarella, head chef and founder of napoli on the road. good to see you. >> well hello, juan. >> well hello, juan. >> congratulations. so what does the awards involve? what were you being judged on? >> actually fifth of pizza is a is a guide. it's like the michelin guide of the pizza. and they got like 100 to 100 inspectors. they go around the world and visit secretly all the

pizzerias. oh, you don't know you're being judged. we don't know. when they came in the pizzeria we don't know nothing about. so that's why they are quite big, because they're really serious about these kind of things . they pay the bill. of things. they pay the bill. they never left something saying like, we are 52 pizza. and then either you receive an email saying you are part of 50 top pizza in europe. >> amazing . great. yes, that is brilliant. >> so it's not is it? did you have to pay to enter the competition? no, no, no. see, this is the thing. so many award ceremonies, you pay subscription. >> i know you win the award. >> i know you win the award. >> so how long have you been making pizzas? >> okay, actually, i've started making pizzas when i was 11. right? yeah, a little before necessity. because when you grow up in, in, you know, in campania , south of italy, you start to work when you are really young . work when you are really young. right? but then i loved it and i still continue every all the years long to do. >> did you, did your mum and dad teach you or did somebody in the family. >> we do some pizzas at home with my mum, but honestly my they do different jobs, right. >> well when did you open the

business then. how easy. it's been tough. did you open it before the pandemic? >> it's been very hard actually. i start making pizza on the road with my food truck when i was like 24 was 2016 and then in 2019, in october, we opened in chiswick just three months before the covid happens. oh no disaster. yeah. but then we worked so hard, we had already 15 people they work with with me be working alone like every day from the morning time to the evening time, making delivery. but then we were going through very well. >> and how satisfying is it now to see all your hard work paying off? >> it's incredible because we we've been working very hard with team as well , all these with team as well, all these years and, been elected as the best pizzeria in europe is something like you can't imagine. >> so what is the secret to making a really good pizza? >> i think it's not. it's not like a big secret making good pizza. it'sjust like a big secret making good pizza. it's just you need to start to choose the right

ingredients. we, for example, we are seasonal. we just use a seasonal product. we change the menu every three months and we do a pre—ferment dough. so we left to rest the dough for like three six hours. we're choosing the right flour. we work so hard when you cook the pizza , the when you cook the pizza, the right oven. it's a mix of everything, of course. right? >> and so what have we got here? can we try some as well? >> of course. >> of course. >> so here we are. the we have the white capricciosa. >> i'll have a piece of that right. >> yes. lovely. >> yes. lovely. >> so this has got ham, artichoke, ham, olives, black olives. >> we got napoli salami and, shiitake mushroom. >> that's a slice in it right there. that's this. >> and this one looks very exotic. >> this one is a is a special pizza dedicated to chiswick area because it called chiswick. we play because it called chiswick. we play with the with the name. we got the, the fiordilatte, the buffalo mozzarella. and then we got the buffalo stracciatella, the red, the dip that you see is a, a p&o tomato jam that we did in the, in the house. then we

got the blue stilton and the parmesan chips. >> how fattening is that going to be? >> who cares? >> who cares? >> she's tucking in and the third one, we've got a third one there as well. what does that one we did the. >> just a classic margherita to try that. the realness of the dough you know. >> and which is the most popular one. one. >> one. >> i can say that because we changed the menu every three months. actually, we have the classic. they are really popular, like the capricciosa, the margherita, the salami. but we work so hard to explain people how the system works. so also the seasonal ones are really popular. >> well, congratulations. let's just remind you so where are youh just remind you so where are your. you're called the. here it is, the napoli on the road , is, the napoli on the road, napou is, the napoli on the road, napoli on the road two place, one in chiswick and one in richmond. >> yeah exactly. >> yeah exactly. >> and i'm just hearing there we love the richmond ones. that's people in the gallery know your restaurant. so congratulations. thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you for sharing it. >> notice with anybody you want to just take a nibble. >> if you're doing a cooking show aren't you. but i'm going to sit here and eat the whole thing.

>> well very good. congratulations. >> thank you so much for inviting. well done. thanks >> right up next, good afternoon, britain with tom and emily. beverly can't speak because she's got a mouthful and she knows it's rude to speak with your mouth full. see you soon. >> i'm very jealous of your pizza. we should get some for our show. but my goodness, busy show ahead. we're going to be live in the netherlands at a dambusters memorial . dambusters memorial. >> we are indeed. and our cyclists are menace. and should they get tougher, tougher punishment for rogue cycling. we're going to have that debate. should get spicy, but we'll be back after the weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. very good day to you. >> hello. very good day to you. >> here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. there will be some decent warm sunshine for many of us today, but also a spell of heavy, possibly thundery rain pushing its way westwards across central parts. that's in association with a frontal system that's currently just to the east of us. all this

then making its way westwards, bringing some torrential downpours, perhaps, and also the risk of some thunder. there will also be quite a few showers elsewhere , though across elsewhere, though across northern areas here it's looking a little bit drier and also quite a bit sunnier, with a good deal of sunshine, particularly across parts of scotland. it's here we're likely to see the highest temperatures, highs of around 24 or 25 celsius perhaps, though elsewhere it's going to be a few degrees lower than this as we go into the evening, we are going to see more heavy rain across central parts of england, and wales could cause some problems on the roads , so do problems on the roads, so do take care. there's the potential for more than 40mm of rain in just a few hours. heading further north though, across northern ireland quite cloudy as we go through the evening. a few showery bursts here. a sunnier story for northern england and much of scotland, though there will still be 1 or 2 showers around and these could be a little bit on the heavy side as we go through the end of the day and into the night, we are going to see the heavy rain across central england and wales clearing away towards the west, and although there will be a few

showery bursts overnight for most it is going to be largely dry and there will be some clear skies. i'm not expecting temperatures to drop a huge amount, most places holding up in double digits, but there could be a few pockets of mist and fog. first thing on friday morning. otherwise, as we go through friday itself, then for many it's actually looking like a largely dry day. yes, there will still be some showers around, particularly across parts of scotland. and again here they could turn a little bit on the heavy side , but bit on the heavy side, but otherwise a largely dry picture. and again some decent sunshine breaking through in the sunshine. it's going to feel pretty warm , temperatures pretty warm, temperatures a little bit higher than today for many of us. more widely getting into the low 20 celsius. see you again . again. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on

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