gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . on today's show, labour leader sir keir starmer unveiled earlier the six steps of his general election pledges . but general election pledges. but will these six steps help him take great strides towards downing street, or is keir's list doomed to sink? just like ed miliband's ed stone? plus, later in the show , gb news chris later in the show, gb news chris hope will sit down with the man himself to find out more. and today marks the 81st anniversary of the legendary dambusters missions that define british bravery and helped to turn the course of world war ii well. to mark the occasion, a team of raf cyclists will cycle 300 miles from raf digby in lincolnshire to a war memorial in the netherlands , marking the place netherlands, marking the place the crew sadly perished and will be live from that historic site ,

be live from that historic site, and the prince of wales has issued a stark warning about a global medical problem that could kill 10 million people by 2050. and that's all coming up between now and 6:00. when was the show always a delight to have your complete. so six steps. it's watsuki has launched today. are they any good? we'll have a full analysis, a full delve into them. can those pledges be met or will it be hung by his own petard? don't forget rishi's five pledges became a millstone around the prime minister's neck. he was constantly judged to have failed. will sir keir go the same way throughout the show, we'll have complete analysis of all of the day's politics. we speak to andrea jenkins about her reaction to sir keir starmer's plan. plus, of course , starmer's plan. plus, of course, we asked him a very, very special and quite amusing

question. we threw down a gauntlet to sir keir starmer. did he accept a challenge? you have to wait and find out. get in touch, use your waze gbnews.com forward slash your say. but first it's time for your headlines and it's aaron armstrong . armstrong. >> good afternoon to you. it's 3:02 i'm aaron armstrong. sir keir starmer has claimed stability is change and says that's why it has to be labour's first step. he's outlined a series of pre—election pledges today, which include a new border security command to tackle the gangs behind small boat crossings, also cutting nhs waiting lists and a commitment to employ 6500 new teachers . to employ 6500 new teachers. labour also plans to set up great british energy, a publicly owned company, and crackdown on anti—social behaviour . owned company, and crackdown on anti—social behaviour. but sir keir says years of conservative decline won't easily be undone. >> there's no quick fix to the mess that the tories have made of this country , but this is a

of this country, but this is a changed labour party with a plan to take us forward , and i have 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. >> well, the conservative party chairman, richard holden, says labour's promises should be taken with a pinch of salt. >> quite clear that labour don't have a cohesive plan and would take the country back to square one. i have no idea why anybody would believe a word that keir starmer says when every single time he's got a different audience to play for , he changes audience to play for, he changes his tune, he changes what he's saying and changes what he says he stands for, you know , the 16 he stands for, you know, the 16 relaunches in a matter of a couple of years . after four couple of years. after four years in opposition. he's not

got a cohesive plan. i think it says everything you need to know about keir starmer. >> south west water has apologised for a water borne disease outbreak in devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. residents in parts of brixham and alston were told to boil their drinking water yesterday after small traces of the parasite cryptosporidium were found in the hillhead reservoir. the uk health security agency says 22 people are confirmed to have contracted the disease, and as many as 70 other cases of people with diarrhoea and vomiting are under investigation . lawyers for the investigation. lawyers for the families of lucy letby victims say an inquiry into her crime should be live streamed in an effort to prevent conspiracy theories. the former nurse was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others. a lawyer representing the families of six victims says the case continues to attract conspiracy theorists , and conspiracy theorists, and heanng conspiracy theorists, and hearing from the people involved would be an effective way of

tackling them. it comes after the new yorker magazine published an article about the case under the headline did she do it ? junior doctors in england do it? junior doctors in england are holding fresh talks with the government in an effort to end their long running dispute over pay - their long running dispute over pay . since march 2023, there pay. since march 2023, there have been a series 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 british medical association have agreed to the mediation . agreed to the mediation. >> but since i was appointed as secretary of state in november , secretary of state in november, i've worked incredibly hard to try to tackle industrial action because we know that in the last yearit because we know that in the last year it has led to some 1.4 million appointments being cancelled , and that has a real cancelled, and that has a real impact for patients. and so this is, i hope, a welcome step forward with the junior doctors committee of the bma to ensure that conversations about pay , that conversations about pay, but also working conditions can happenin

but also working conditions can happen in private . happen in private. >> the prime minister defended the government's controversial changes to sex education. rishi sunak says parents should know what their children are being taught and sex education should come at an appropriate time. the new proposals would ban it for children under the age of nine, and would recommend the concept of gender identities, not part of gender identities, not part of the curriculum. education secretary gillian keegan says gender ideology should not 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 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 genden also making it very clear that gender, identity is a contested view and should not be taught as fact. >> that's it for the moment, but you can get more on all of our stories by scanning the qr code

on your screen. you get those gb news alerts that way, or you can find the details on the website. now it's back to . martin. now it's back to. martin. >> thank you aaron. now we start with sir keir starmer's big pitch to win the next general election . and with labour election. and with labour seemingly on the brink of power, sir keir has denied that he's scaling back the party's ambitions . well, last year he ambitions. well, last year he set out what he said were five missions for national renewal. but today he's talked all about his six first steps that his party will take if it wins power . and here's what he said. >> i'm not scaling back our ambition absolutely at all. the way i've set this out has been a strategy i've been operating to for four years now, which is a strategy which was first to recognise the scale of the defeat of the labour party at the last general election, the worst defeat since 1935. and so stage one was changed, the labour party change it, turn it

inside out, facing the country and serving working people. next stage, expose the government as incompetent, ably assisted by several of their prime ministers the next stage, which you and others pushed me to, is right. well now it's clear that you've changed labour party and it's clear to everyone this government is failing. what are your big ideas for the country? that's the missions that we set out last year. that's the missions that we set out last year . this is not to out last year. this is not to reduce the missions, is to say , reduce the missions, is to say, what's the first down payments on the delivery of those missions? what are the first steps that we can take? they're not the only steps . they're the not the only steps. they're the first steps. the missions remain i >> -- >> well there we go. six steps. and i'm joined in the studio by the former labour minister, denis macshane dennis. always a delight to have your company. so six steps. six the magic number economic stability nhs back on its feet. secure borders, cheaper bills, safer streets, sound good. where's the detail? >> the detail isn't going to be

there because frankly, we won't know what will be in in the kitty left over after all these pretty miserable tory years . pretty miserable tory years. >> it's very similar to tony blair's five early pledges, as i remember those are, i think rishi 18 months ago came out with his five early pledges, but can you remember one of them, stephen? >> well, rishi sunak yes. stephen? >> well, rishi sunak yes . yeah. >> well, rishi sunak yes. yeah. it was stop the boats. that's the most measurable failure . the most measurable failure. that's inflation, economic growth . you should know this. growth. you should know this. you come in. >> well, i'm the expert. >> well, i'm the expert. >> i'm asking you. >> i'm asking you. >> you're a humble. you're you're a humble sort of civilian in this. i'm very impressed. you know it all. good for you. >> back to sir keir's six of the best. these six steps. would it help him make those great strides towards downing street? or is it just yet more rhetoric ? or is it just yet more rhetoric? >> i think it's a set of signals that are easy to understand, that are easy to understand, that are easy to understand, that are going to be plastered on billboard boards, on social media, and to your sorrelli. and the voters and the public are

thoroughly sick of them, and everybody will be dissecting what is a great british energy company mean. why 6500 new teachers, not 8000? what is a stable economy mean ? that's stable economy mean? that's perfectly fair. that's reasonable. but the iron rule we were taught under new labour and this is i mean, tony blair and gordon brown turned labour inside out after the disasters of the 1980s. keir has done the same thing with labour today. now you move forward and say this is our offer to the country . but i remember being told by everybody mandelson, blair, you've got to repeat something again and again. you're sick . again and again. you're sick. you're sick and tired of hearing that phrase . and then when that phrase. and then when you're just about going to kill yourself rather than say it again, some of it might be getting through. so you're going to hear an awful lot of the six pledges. i'm afraid , as your pledges. i'm afraid, as your summer holiday reading morning, noon and night into the election, which will be on october the 4th, that's when you think it is that i think it will be for the simple reason i see

that mr sunak rishi has said it won't be before october. he doesn't want to clash it with the american election. trump. biden on on the fifth on guy fawkes day, as i think a bbc chap suggested this morning. not at all. he wants to be a million miles away from the us election. that means either you have to do it long after way into december , it long after way into december, which is the worst time on earth to do any campaigning 2019 or come back to the 4th of october. it means you don't have to have party conferences . and the last party conferences. and the last thing i think the tories want is a party conference. okay now these lists, of course, dennis, they can be a millstone or in they can be a millstone or in the case of ed miliband, a millstone , of course, the ed millstone, of course, the ed stone. >> we've got a picture of that now , i believe. and the stark now, i believe. and the stark thing about this, of course, the ed stone miliband's list literally sank like a stone, but it bears a lot of relation. there it is. look, a huge slab of faux granite, which i think now belongs in a landfill site

or somewhere in a lock up. i digress, but if you look at that list , digress, but if you look at that list, dennis, a strong economic foundation ticked, same as sir keir . higher foundation ticked, same as sir keir. higher living standards. yep. same again. an nhs with the time to care. same again. controls and immigration. same again. a country where the next generation can do better than the last. that's not their homes to buy and action on rents. it's basically four out of six of the edestone. these lists are all the same, aren't they ? the same, aren't they? >> go and check margaret thatcher's list. it was identical . i thatcher's list. it was identical. i mean, a prime minister country. of course. you want stable economy. you want more teachers, you want more nhs delivery . i mean, what what delivery. i mean, what what keir's challenge is , he's got keir's challenge is, he's got the three r's. he's got to repair to renew and reform. he's got to repair a seriously broken state. i mean, look at this disaster of the people having to boil their water in south—west england. i mean, our victorian engineering forefather, stephen, built the best water supply in the world. and under privatisation, it's been corrupted, degraded . here in

corrupted, degraded. here in london, there's 50 million people, many of them very poor , people, many of them very poor, having to pay an extra up to £400. now just to provide money for chief executives now. so so that's really i ask you a quick question about the about the, the optics. >> why is it that politicians now always take off their tie and roll up their sleeves? i mean, back in the old day, tony blair didn't do that. what is this thing about? here i am with my sleeves rolled up. i'm a man of the people. >> well, i you used to cheekily tweet about maybe it's pre tweet criticise tony blair and all the ministers, including all the labour ones they used to wear these great clunky cuffs and this giant faux gold cufflinks. and i said the problem with cufflinks is i never wear them. you can't roll up your sleeves and do an honest day's work. so i'm glad to see keir starmers looking like a man who gets down to it, sleeves rolled up, serious and off he goes. >> is it literally that it's here i am rolling up my sleeves

doing a whole day's work. yeah. and then they go into a hospital and tuck in their tie. it's all thought out. >> it's also it's natural to him. i mean, i've been reading the big biography of him by by tom baldwin, an excellent book . tom baldwin, an excellent book. yeah it is he's what the french call a better example . he kept call a better example. he kept passing exams. he kept getting up to grade seven with the flute and the piano. i mean, i crashed out before grade half, half a percent . and he's just a percent. and he's just a serious, hardworking chap, running the country, though, requires extraordinary skills, talent and teamwork. that frankly, is a much bigger test than so far. but so far, so good. >> now, he specifically was asked today, are you following in tony blair's foot steps? he said, i'm no tony blair light. i'm no copy of tony blair, but he should be if he wants to get into power. you worked with tony blair has sir keir starmer got what it takes to have that mass appeal or will people still

think, i don't quite know what this guy stands for? well far more important is that the tories have got mass non appeal at the moment. >> and the big question for me is whether the tories are going to keep on being bonkers for the next five years, as they were under william hague and michael howard and iain duncan smith, he had to wait ten years before a human being appeared, like david cameron, to lead the tory party back to power. so that's their problem. i think mass appeal isn't quite the right word. if you know tony took a lot of correct and good decisions very early on. he really didn't put a foot wrong. if keir has that judgement, then i think the country will respond , but it country will respond, but it will depend on how the economy works and a whole range of issues, which, each new government has to confront and deal with. and it's much worse now, frankly, than under tony blair. no question. the damage donein blair. no question. the damage done in the last 15 years by first, the liberal democrats and then the liberal democrats and then the liberal democrats and the tories, and then lockdowns and covid and all the money that everyone all yeah, threw away fair and fair enough on on

external factors. so blair had some of those. well britain always had external factors. but the, the other sort of huge problem is that the tories descended into that amazing kind of vortex. that swamp sink sand of, of brexit. and they haven't climbed out of it yet. >> you have to get brexit in right at the end. and i haven't got time to respond. denis macshane that was cheeky. i'll get you next time. thanks for coming in. always a delight. now have lots more analysis of what sir keir starmer had to say throughout the show, and there's plenty of coverage on our website, gbnews.com. you helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country, so thank you very much. now there's still plenty of time to win our biggest cash prize so far. a whopping £20,000 and it's tax free. imagine having all of that in your bank account this summer, but you've got to be in the draw for a chance to win it. and here's how. >> don't miss your chance to win our biggest cash prize so far, a totally terrific £20,000 in tax

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the dambusters raid. ten hag gb news were about to pay tribute to our legendary heroes. i martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

>> earlier on breakfast. >> earlier on breakfast. >> and we haven't got any internet till at the earliest. tomorrow morning? >> no . how have you been coping, >> no. how have you been coping, joe biden actually acted like a bully. >> he actually gave the networks and donald trump, the terms of which he would debate. and they took them. >> you can't just appeal to the people who always voted for you. what we're saying to those people today is this is a changed labour party and a member of fifa's ruling council had to join a meeting via video link because he . link because he. >> well, why do you think he was? because he was suffering from piles? >> no .

>> no. >> no. >> join us for breakfast every day at 6 am. >> welcome back. it's 322. i'm martin daubney on gb news later in the show, i'll tell you why. football fans up and down the country might all at last have something to celebrate now. today is the 81st anniversary of the legendary dambusters raids and the famous mission to destroy dams in the hearts of nazi germany came at a huge cost . 53 airmen died in the attack, including the crew led by dinghy young, who was shot down just moments from safety. and this week a team of raf cyclists have been riding 300 miles from their base in lincolnshire to a war memorial in the netherlands, which marks the place where the crew so sadly died and it's a special memorial service to mark the occasion. a moving rendition of the last post was played

tremendous. if you cannot fail to be moved by that. now let's cross to the netherlands and speak to our reporter, will hollis. will, welcome to the show an historic site to mark an historic occasion. you're there. a magnificent idea of cycling there. givers all of the details and the reaction on the ground. there >> yes, well, it's a bright and beautiful day here on the dutch coastline. you'll probably see local people, primarily from amsterdam, enjoying the beach, but it's a far cry from what this part of the world was like 81 years ago today, the netherlands was controlled by german forces and it was the dambusters raids into germany that passed over this beach on the way to the ruhr dams. now, upon returning back from a successful attack on the mirna dam , one crew led by melvin dam, one crew led by melvin dinghy young was shot out at

sea. the men unfortunately all lost their lives and as the weeks progressed, their bodies washed upon the shore. 81 years ago today, we are now remembering their sacrifice. there is a memorial here at castricum on zee and local people come down to pay their respects , but included in this respects, but included in this year's memorial from the international bomber command centre as well as the royal air force at raf digby, a team of cyclists who made a tremendous journey from lincolnshire all the way from the monument at the international bomber command centre from there here 300 miles worth of riding, all because of the sacrifice that was made 81 years ago today by the british raf and the allied forces make magnificence. >> the magnificence of will and the locals. there we did a talk around yesterday. we're speaking to british people, many of whom don't know what d—day even was,

let alone the dambusters raids. but locals there, i hear , are but locals there, i hear, are turning out in great numbers and celebrating what actually not only liberated great britain , only liberated great britain, but all of mainland europe and helped to end world war ii. >> yes. well, just a moment ago on ago, a gentleman went past in his van and he said, what are you guys doing? oh, you're from england. and, and we told him and he said, oh, it's for the bomber memorial. it's because of those guys that we have freedom today. those guys that we have freedom today . and i think martin, today. and i think martin, that's just one man in a van. i think he speaks for a lot of people here at castricum on zee, and particularly in the netherlands , because the netherlands, because the netherlands, because the netherlands and the dutch people were controlled by the nazi forces, they didn't have the freedom to fight on the scale that britain and the rest of the allied forces, like the americans and the australians, the canadians and the kiwis did. but here those people, 81 years on, are incredibly grateful for the sacrifice that was made by all of the allies, particularly the dambusters and the memory of

dinghy young and his men. today >> well, they were made of the right stuff. the very , very best right stuff. the very, very best of us. magnificent. thank you very much for that update . live very much for that update. live from the netherlands. now let's cross back to the studio . now cross back to the studio. now i've been joined by chris hope, our political editor, who's hotfooted it back from purfleet in essex, where sir keir starmer gave out those six steps. my first steps, in fact, you brought the literature here we have it. there's a there's a copy of the six steps. you can probably see them there. you were, you were there. you were in the audience . how convincing in the audience. how convincing do you think it's going to be to the electorate? a great question. >> we'll hear more from gb news viewers. no doubt. >> gbnews.com/yoursay view if you want to tell us what you think of all this. yes. i mean, i would. i've interviewed keir starmer. the interview plays out on on our our show, your show at 5 pm. tonight show chris, your show is a it's a collaborative effort. >> our show at 5 pm. tonight. >> our show at 5 pm. tonight. >> yeah. you heard you heard very clearly from sir keir starmer. we've had him on

through the day. he spoke without notes. he spoke from just themes. and he's more of a natural, less stilted keir starmer than we've seen. he's getting election ready. the election everyone thinks now is going to be october. >> november. >> november. >> probably not before then. but you've got the first blows being sounded here. these are called the first steps from from the, from the labour leader. there'll be nothing more than this. there won't be a second, third and fourth steps. >> it's this. >> it's this. >> and then it's the manifesto launch , ahead of the election. launch, ahead of the election. so we've got, you know, he's he's saying cutting, delivering economic stability, cutting just waiting times. launch a new border security command set up great british energy, crack down on antisocial behaviour and recruit 6500 teachers. not a lot of detail in there, which i did draw and did mention it to sir keir starmer. nothing on taxation or tax cuts, merely delivering economic stability. that's because they're nervous. they want to have growth first, then do tax cuts. and just launching a new border security command is a somewhat less than the tories want to stop the boats. and so there's question

marks about do you want to focus on delivery or just how are you going to get there. >> and chris, i've been looking at these six pledges and four of them were on the edestone. we'll have more on that later. but i've got to cross now to tory mp dame andrea jenkins, who joins us. we're going to get some reaction to sir keir's six steps. but first, andrea, i'd like to ask you about some questions you've raised this week. the home office has admitted that they've not conducted an assessment on the impact that illegal immigration has had on violent crime, and you've sent a few urgent questions. so can you tell us more? >> yes, i've done lots of written questions because, you know, like many people in britain at the moment, i'm concerned about the impact of this mass illegal migration. >> every other week we hear some horrendous crimes , people being horrendous crimes, people being murdered, raped. and i want to know what the stats are, you know, what percentage of people who come here illegally, what is their status? and, and also how many are in prison. i mean, i

know at the moment apparently , know at the moment apparently, the ones that are recorded, it's something like 12% of the prison. >> prison population , but also >> prison population, but also they're not recording violent crimes. and that's so important to me. >> yeah. dame andrew, we had a huge conversation about that earlier on in the week. of course, denmark does publish the nationality of violent criminals. and there's a push to do the same here in the uk. is that something that you'd like to see happen? >> oh, completely, but did you also see the civil servants again, up to mischief this week, they there was a in one of the newspapers. they published an article saying that how they, the civil servants are trying to stop us publishing the crime stats, regarding those , illegal stats, regarding those, illegal migrants. so i think i think we've still got to push back is just ridiculous. and i think the british taxpayer has a right to know what our money is being spent on, and of course, i spoke to people on this show who said it would be divisive, it might be racist, and allow them to be

targeted. that's what they say. but can i quickly ask you, as i have you here, about sir keir starmer's six steps, the manifesto pledge launched today. what are your thoughts on that? dame andrea , i'm just coming dame andrea, i'm just coming back to you. >> last thing. i just got one line on that, actually, martin, where people say, you racist. no, we just do not want to import criminals into britain. you know, it's about keeping our country safe. now regarding starmer now, i understand this is his 16 reinvention since becoming labour party leader. i mean, to me, he's got more face, ideas of more faces and a plastic surgeon. it's just getting ridiculous . but the getting ridiculous. but the british, british public are not stupid, are they? you know , they stupid, are they? you know, they have a long memory and they, they know that he just reinvents , blows with the wind to see what he thinks will get him more votes, but their empty pledges is always flip flopping, and he relaunches every 2 to 3 months. and it's also, as i've said before, his fake patriotic ism, i think people can see through

this and, and i think is a danger to britain because people do not know what they're getting with him. >> okay. superb thank you for your analysis. dame andrew jenkins , always a delight to jenkins, always a delight to have you on the show. thank you very much. now, of course we'll have a full reaction to all of that from chris hope. chris hope's got a load more to add. he literally just hotfooted it back in, but we'll have plenty more from this man soon. there's loads more still to come between now and 4:00. and i've also got news of a major health scare in the west country. but first, it's your headlines and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer says all six pre—election pledges are fully funded and achievable within two terms of a labour government. among the promises are a new border security command to tackle people smuggling gangs, plans to cut nhs waiting lists and improve economic stability. the government called it another

reset and says it's not a coherent plan . britain has asked coherent plan. britain has asked china to push for an end to russia's war in ukraine, as vladimir putin visits beijing, the russian president was greeted by xi jinping with full military honours for their third meeting in just over a year. china has long been suspected of supporting russia's economy and its invasion of ukraine. a man has been charged with attempted murder after slovakia's prime minister was shot several times yesterday . the suspected yesterday. the suspected attacker is a 71 year old poet and former security guard. the interior minister says the attack was politically motivated . it comes after robert fico's government approved a proposal to crack down on press freedom by abolishing the country's pubuc by abolishing the country's public broadcaster and southwest water has apologised for a water borne disease outbreak in devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. residents in

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show, i'll be joined by our royal correspondents, cameron walker on what's been a busy day for the prince of wales and the queen, now an independent candidate for the european elections and the republic of ireland allegedly had his office attacked and death threats against him after a man tried to force his way into his north dubun force his way into his north dublin headquarters last night. malachy steenson is known for his opposition to open borders in the country, and i can now cross to our reporter dougie beattie, who is in dublin . beattie, who is in dublin. dougie, welcome to the show. you're outside. i see there malachy steenson office a hugely concerning incident. tell us more . more. >> yes, i'm here just between the north strand and what is known as the east wall. the east wall over the last couple of years has took a very large amount of immigrants into this area, and the locals here are quite rightly concerned about what is going on in this very, very pleasant area. but it is a

working class area now . malachy working class area now. malachy steenson is a solicitor. he was reared here. he never forgot the area that he was reared in, and he still runs an independent solicitors right here at this office. now, last night he was out canvassing for the european elections when a phone call came through to him that there was a man trying to force his way into his office. and i caught up with him earlier on and asked him, why did he think that was happening? >> well, i think it's because partly because of my stance on, open borders, partly on my stance of standing up against the political and ngo class. and they clearly see me as a threat. >> they clearly see these elections as being a threat to their, maintenance of the status quo and the gravy train that they're on, but we won't be deterred. i mean, i since east wall started these protests in november 2022, we have seen a massive grassroots movement, a

genuine grassroots movement spnng genuine grassroots movement spring up all over this country. and the political class are on the run. they're trying to bring in hate speech legislation to stop us speaking to . for stop us speaking to. for instance, there is a debate on virgin media this evening, with some of the candidates in the dubun some of the candidates in the dublin constituency in the european election . european election. >> well, you can see from that maliki is quite annoyed at not only how the state are trying to close them down, but also the attack on his offices right here, maliki is continuing to go out canvassing and says it will not deter him . not deter him. >> and maliki, this is the latest we've seen we saw in slovakia yesterday the political unrest there. the assassination attempt seems to be an increasing toxic mood seeping into politics around these elections. but in dublin, we've seen a huge amount of unrest and we've seen locals being pepper

sprayed by the police and all of this is it kind of conjures up an image, dougie, that working class people who care about national sovereignty, care about borders simply being trampled on. >> yes, the word nationalist is definitely being thrown around as if it is some sort of dirty word. but of course, these these people are saying we are nationalists. we like our flag. we like our culture. i mean, i have i have spoken to have said, look, we have nothing against immigrants coming in as long as when you come in, you obey our laws, you work, you get , all laws, you work, you get, all the, the, the benefits that the state has to give you, but you must work for it and you must respect our culture. and that it seems to be at the very point of the elections here. and what is being said and what is not being allowed to be said . allowed to be said. >> dougie beattie thank you for that update in dublin , and i'm that update in dublin, and i'm glad that, malachy steenson is

safe and this attack was thwarted. thank you very much. dougie beattie always a delight to have you on the program . now, to have you on the program. now, if you live in devon, watch out because people are being told to boil their water because of a disease that's causing sickness and diarrhoea. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back 346. i'm martin daubney on gb news. now, if you're currently eating or drinking, then i must apologise for the story that we're about to talk about. because people in devon are being told to boil their water because of a disease that causes diarrhoea and vomiting more than 20 cases of a water borne disease caused by a microscopic parasite have now been confirmed in brixham in devon. let's cross now to brixham and speak to gb

news, south—west of england reporter jeff moody. jeff this is the stuff of people's worst nightmare. nobody wants this. what on earth is going on? >> it really is, isn't it? people have been arriving here all day, literally bumper to bumper coming to get some free water. they're handing out 4 or 5 bottles of water to everybody that comes past. but a good number of people are being very, very sick indeed. i mean, the official figures say 22, some people say up to 70. but what i'm hearing is that it's actually in the hundreds, hundreds of people are taking to their beds with extreme diarrhoea to. and then once the diarrhoea to. and then once the diarrhoea passes, it gives you stomach cramps that some people are saying is comparable to childbirth. it's that bad , well, childbirth. it's that bad, well, south west water says this afternoon that they are investigating the mp for this area, has said that he has discovered from south west water what the cause is. and he says

although it's not yet been confirmed, i have to say, from south west water, but the mp says that what it is, is it's an air valve that has been damaged and into that air valve has leaked animal faeces and waste from ground water. so literally the people here have been drinking traces of animal faeces . now they first discovered, they first discovered there was something wrong around 12 to 10 days ago. that's when the first person started feeling sick. they rang the water board and they said, look, the water doesn't taste right and i've beenin doesn't taste right and i've been in bed with diarrhoea for the last two days. well, south west water initially said, no, there's nothing wrong with the water at all. keep drinking it as normal. it was only at around 1:00 yesterday afternoon that they finally said, look, yes, there's a problem. do not drink there's a problem. do not drink the water under any condition, please make sure that you boil

the water before you use it and also don't use it even to brush your teeth. so a lot of people are very angry that it took south west water so to long respond. i was talking to people in the queue earlier on. this is what they had to say to me . what they had to say to me. >> i was already poorly anyway. and the kids 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. >> a fantastic piece of organisation may be and nobody's complaining about the service here, but people are certainly complaining about what's been happening with south west water. back to you . back to you. >> outrageous situation jeff moody, thank you for that update from brixham. hope the locals there are staying safe. thank you very much. now moving on. the nhs is paying obese man up to £400 each in a trial scheme

to £400 each in a trial scheme to help overweight men shed the pounds, and the trial scheme is nicknamed game of stones and has so far proved more successful than traditional diet plans. now the trial so far found that sending men a daily text message reminder them of their desire to lose weight and bribing them with cash rewards is an effective way to get patients in shape. is it a good idea or is it a fat waste of time? well, joining me now is the former presenter of fat families and great friend of the show, steve miller. steve, i think this is a great idea. i suspect you don't. you go first. you're better looking. >> well, i probably look more chubby actually, but i had a blooming good chubby chuckle when i read about this one. >> listen, i've got some figures here. 585 men initially signed up to this right to lose 10% of their weight over 12 months, and to receive £400, so 585 men signed up. guess how many actually achieved it?

>> 27. it's 27 bribery. >> 27. it's 27 bribery. >> it is a it's a bribery. absolutely. you use the word and it's absolutely spot on. and listen what a culture to begin to cultivate where we're kind of begging people and throwing cash at them. i mean , you have to ask at them. i mean, you have to ask the question, if this goes through and this was to happen, and i don't think it will because people often put the weight on when following initiatives after initiatives like this. but, i mean, what next? where does it end? it's a slippery slope. are we going to start paying people to clean their teeth because of the rise in dental costs out there? it's just bonkers. so i think it's another typical nhs theory. there's probably been a lot of strategy group meetings about it, and also what we have to remember the £400 up to £400 is we're not just talking about that, we're talking about the set up costs, we're talking about the facilitation costs of it, we're talking about, whoever weighs these people weighing people. so rolling this out,

literally, excuse the pun, across the country is literally madness. so i say to this initiative, two words fat write off. that was three. >> an excellent case against i'm going to attempt to make the case for now. the organisers say it will pay for itself because the nhs spends on average up to £1,400 per year looking after obese patients. and it's around half that if you're of a healthy weight, it saves money. it will pay weight, it saves money. it will pay for itself and some of the text messages it sends to the fellows . you have to admit, fellows. you have to admit, steve, are quite funny. it says don't walk home past the kebab shop tonight and it says stop treating your body like a skip. i think men respond to that kind of banter and of course they respond well to bribes . respond well to bribes. >> well, i think firstly, i think the text messaging , i'm think the text messaging, i'm not going to knock that. and i thought some of the text messaging examples were great. they were a bit more straight talking, unusual for the nhs , i talking, unusual for the nhs, i have to say, but where the money would be better placed , what we

would be better placed, what we have to do is use common sense. we look at a country, right, a well developed country that's doing very well in managing its obesity. that country is called japan.in obesity. that country is called japan. in japan, the obesity rate is around 5, 4 or 5. in the uk it's in the 20s. what do japan do ? they have no issue japan do? they have no issue being direct about fat . they do being direct about fat. they do not worry about the squeals of oh , your fat shaming me. and oh, your fat shaming me. and what employers do is actually get involved in the process as well. but what they do in japan is they actually measure the employees waste every year. and i tell you what, if that employee is deemed too fat, they are marched off to weight loss coaching and supported. that is a better way because what you've got as well is you've got something that's actually going to motivate people into avoiding being too fat . to motivate people into avoiding being too fat. i do to motivate people into avoiding being too fat . i do not want to being too fat. i do not want to reward people for sitting staying in the sofa with my hard earned cash and no one else

should either. >> well, i think that's very succinctly put. you've flushed it straight down the pan. the former presenter of fat families, steve miller. always a delight to have you on the show . delight to have you on the show. that's me, todd off. i quite liked it, but what do i know now ? coming up, sir keir starmer has denied that he's scaling back the party's ambitions if they take power. i've got full analysis of his big speech after 4:00 and at 5:00 we'll have we'll have a proper sit down with sir keir starmer. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel. it's your weather now. alex burkill . your weather now. alex burkill. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello again. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. it will turn mostly dry overnight and it will be dry for many of us tomorrow, but before then, we do have some heavy rain around at the moment. currently across central parts that's been

dnven across central parts that's been driven by an area of low pressure that is pushing its way westwards, and that's then pushing the heavy rain westwards as we go through the end of the day. so it is going to clear away, but before then we could have some heavy rain, particularly as we go through this evening's rush hour, could cause some problems on the road. otherwise we are likely to see most places turning dry overnight, although just a few spots of rain where the clouds thick enough across some northern parts of england. perhaps there will be some clear skies, but temperatures aren't going to drop a huge amount. so for many it is going to be a relatively mild start to the day. on friday morning, minima of around 11 and 12 celsius for most places. if we look at the details for tomorrow morning and across scotland , it's a largely across scotland, it's a largely fine start. plenty of sunshine here, though perhaps towards the western isles, a bit more cloud and some outbreaks of rain . also and some outbreaks of rain. also and some outbreaks of rain. also a bit more cloud across southern parts of scotland and into northern ireland and northern england too. and this cloud could bring a few outbreaks of rain first thing tomorrow morning, but nothing especially heavy. heading further south across the rest of england and wales, lots of fine sunny weather to be had, but some mist

and fog patches possible across parts of the southeast. any mist and fog, though, will quite quickly clear tomorrow morning, and for many, tomorrow actually looks like a largely fine day. yes, there will be some showers around, but these will be quite hit and miss, so most places are likely to avoid them. but the showers across parts of scotland, particularly central scotland, particularly central scotland, could turn heavy and possibly thundery with some decent sunshine around . decent sunshine around. temperatures for many are likely to be a little bit higher than today , more widely getting into today, more widely getting into the low 20 celsius. so feeling pretty warm in that sunshine. two more fine weather to come across northern parts as we go into the weekend, but further south it's looking quite showery, especially on saturday. perhaps fewer showers on sunday, temperatures still above average for the time of year, so feeling warm in any sunshine that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 4:00. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . today, labour leader sir keir starmer unveiled the six steps of his general election pledges . of his general election pledges. but will these six steps help him to take great strides towards downing street, or is sir keir's list doomed to sing like ed miliband's ed stone ? like ed miliband's ed stone? well, later in the show, gb news chris hope will sit down with the man to find out. chris hope will sit down with the man to find out . coming up the man to find out. coming up next, the prince of wales has issued a stark warning about a global medical problem that could kill 10 million people by 2050. we'll have all the latest. and holy smoke, why in the name of god is london mayor sadiq khan visiting visiting the pope today at the vatican . while he's today at the vatican. while he's at it? well, he's slapping ulez ticket on the popemobile. that's all coming up in your next hour.

once a show, always a delight to have your company. so, chris hoeber sat down with sir keir starmer today, and he's been to see him launch his six pledges. there it is. we've got them here on the back. you could showing the red card. we'll have full analysis of the six pledges. is there any detail ? all. is it all there any detail? all. is it all a bit detail light. what does it mean for the country? is it any different to ed miliband's ed stoneless actually, is it is it much different from the list given out by rishi sunak or tony blair? do these lists mean anything? we'll have full analysis of all the detail and keep you fully up to speed. plus we sat down with sir keir, as i said, and we asked him a very amusing, challenging question. did he accept the gb news challenge ? stay tuned to find challenge? stay tuned to find out. get in touch your thoughts. what do you think about this list and anything else we're

covering today? the way to do thatis covering today? the way to do that is gb news. com forward slash your say get in touch. i'll read a bunch out before the end of the show. but first it's your headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin thank you and good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer has claimed stability is change and says that's why it has to be labour's first step. he's outlined a series of pre—election pledges, which include a new border security command to tackle the gangs behind small boat crossings , behind small boat crossings, cutting nhs waiting lists and a commitment to employ 6500 new teachers. labour also plan to set up great british energy, a publicly owned power company, and crackdown on anti—social behaviour to the government, called it another reset and says it's not a coherent plan. but sir keir starmer says it's a fully funded way to get britain back on track . back on track. >> there's no quick fix to the

mess that the tories have made of this country , but this is a of this country, but this is a change. labour party with a plan to take us forward and i have ambition for this country. to take us forward and i have ambition for this country . and 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 streets and opportunities for your children in. >> some breaking news now. double child killer colin pitchfork next parole hearing will take place in public in july. that's according to the parole board. pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling 215 year old girls. lynda mann and dawn ashworth, in leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. after being released and then recalled in 2021, the 63 year

old was again granted parole in june, but this decision was challenged by ministers. june, but this decision was challenged by ministers . more june, but this decision was challenged by ministers. more on this breaking story as we get it . southwest water has apologised for a waterborne disease outbreak in devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. residents in parts of brixham and nelson were told to boil their drinking water yesterday after small traces of the parasite cryptosporidium were found in the hillhead reservoir. the uk health security agency says 22 people are confirmed to have the disease , and as many as 70 other disease, and as many as 70 other cases of diarrhoea and vomiting are also under investigation. the tory mp for south totnes and south devon said residents are likely to have to boil tap water for another week following the discovery . lawyers for the discovery. lawyers for the families of lucy letby victims say an inquiry into her crimes should be live streamed in an effort to prevent conspiracy theories. the former nurse was sentenced to 14 whole life

orders after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others. a lawyer representing the families of six victims says the case continues to attract conspiracy theorists, and heanng conspiracy theorists, and hearing from the people involved would be an effective way to tackle them. it comes after the new yorker magazine published an article about the case under the headune article about the case under the headline did she do it ? a six headline did she do it? a six year old boy has died after falling from an apartment block in east london. it's understood the child fell from the upper floor of a building in plaistow shortly before 6:00 this morning. the death is being treated as unexpected and authorities are working to establish the full circumstances . teenagers could be recruited to help plug a shortage of train drivers under new proposals put forward today, the government is asking for views on lower lowering the minimum age for drivers from 20 to 18, which it says would help build resilience

across the railway. the average age of a driver is 48 and the workforce is projected to shrink over the coming years, with many due to retire . it's hoped the due to retire. it's hoped the proposal will set thousands of young people on track to a career in transport. junior doctors in england are holding fresh talks with the government in an effort to end their long running dispute over pay since march 2023. there have been a series of walkouts, with staff demanding a 35% pay rise, phased in over a number of years . in over a number of years. health secretary victoria atkins says she's pleased the british medical association have agreed to the mediation . to the mediation. >> but since i was appointed as secretary of state in november, i've worked incredibly hard to try to tackle industrial action because we know that in the last yearit because we know that in the last year it has led to some 1.4 million appointments being cancelled, and that has a real impact for patients. and so this is, i hope, a welcome step

forward with the junior doctors committee of the bma to ensure that conversations about pay, but also working conditions can happenin but also working conditions can happen in private . happen in private. >> and a new film about donald trump's rise to power in the 19805 trump's rise to power in the 1980s has been picked up at the cannes film festival. titled the apprentice, it stars sebastian stan as the young trump as he forges a deal with the influential right wing lawyer and fixer roy cohn, played by succession star jeremy strong. the film is due for release by studiocanal later this year. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now back to . martin. back to. martin. >> thank you tatiana. now we start with sir keir starmer's big pitch to win the next

general election. and with labour seemingly on the brink of power , sir keir has denied that power, sir keir has denied that his scaling back the party's ambitions. well, last year he set out what he said were five missions for national renewal. but today he's upped his game. he's talked about six first steps that his party would take if it wins power. and here's what he had to say earlier. >> i'm not scaling back our ambition absolutely at all. the way i've set this out has been a strategy. i've been operating to for four years now, which is a strategy which was first to recognise the scale of the defeat of the labour party at the last general election, the worst defeat since 1935. and so stage one was changed. the labour party change it, turn it inside out, facing the country and serving working people. next stage, expose the government as incompetent , stage, expose the government as incompetent, ably assisted by several of their prime ministers the next stage, which you and others pushed me to , is right.

others pushed me to, is right. well, now it's clear that you've changed labour party and it's clear to everyone this government is failing. what are your big ideas for the country? that's the missions that we set out last year. that's the missions that we set out last year . this is not to out last year. this is not to reduce the missions, is to say , reduce the missions, is to say, what's the first down payments on the delivery of those missions? what are the first steps that we can take? they're not the only steps. they're the first steps. the missions remain i >> -- >> well, 5mm >> well, how does sir keir starmer's six steps measure up? well, let's put them through the paces , because i'm joined in the paces, because i'm joined in the studio now by gb news political editor christopher hope and james heale political correspondent at the spectator. gents, welcome to the show. let's start with you, chris. you were there. this is the moment. this is the six steps you can see there. this is the if you like , the edited version, the like, the edited version, the prawn cocktail. you've got the main steak course there. the detail , what's main steak course there. the detail, what's on main steak course there. the detail , what's on the main steak course there. the detail, what's on the menu, main steak course there. the detail , what's on the menu, the detail. >> this is a retail offer for voters, for gb news viewers to vote. >> labour at the next election. six ideas, five of them we knew

about really, from last year's mission statement delivering economic stability, cutting nhs waiting times . the new thing waiting times. the new thing called the great british energy, a company called that crack down on anti—social behaviour and 6500 new teachers. a sixth one added launch a new border security command. this is the idea from the labour leader, sir keir starmer. you see there waving his pledge card on screen. i mean, he was a relaxed figure . he was surrounded by figure. he was surrounded by voters, by people victims of crime , by members of shadow crime, by members of shadow cabinet. you'll see a lot more of this on our screens going into the general election campaign. i am speaking to sir keir starmer at 5 pm. i can't talk about that until that happens at five. but i did speak to ed miliband, the former labour labour leader, about his plans about great british energy and why he thinks maybe that his plans can cut bills for viewers. let's see here where to say the absolutely we're talking about the environment. >> so our plan on gb energy, our new publicly owned energy

company, which will build renewable power across britain , renewable power across britain, is absolutely essential to tackling the climate crisis. and it's the new argument, for chris, our action on climate, which is it is about lower bills , it's about energy security. so we're not at the mercy of dictators like putin. and it's about good jobs across britain. >> and if a labour government is elected, that's what we'll be doing. it is about it's about giving to people first steps clear promises that we can deliver. >> and i just underline that to you, chris, because it's so easy for people to come along at elections, make grand promises which then don't get delivered, and then the public feel let down yet again. we're not going to do that. that's why these first steps are really important. >> and ed miliband there, the former labour leader, i should say, the first time he's ever spoken to gb news so gradually we're getting more engaged with these labour politicians, baby steps along with six steps. >> now, of course, ed miliband had his own list. we all remember it a doomed list. the

ed stone . but the funny thing ed stone. but the funny thing about it, i went through it earlier. four out of six of those pledges are the same as this list. in actual fact, this list sounds quite a lot like rishi sunak's. >> they're quite ballpark. they're quite generally scoped, they're probably concerned that they're probably concerned that the tories might nick some of these ideas on this. i was particularly struck by this launch of border security command . the tories idea is much command. the tories idea is much more delivery focused. stop the boats now. whether they stop the boats now. whether they stop the boats is definitely a moot point . but launch a new border security command is basically another government body. and how is that going to please voters? i did grab hold of yvette coopen i did grab hold of yvette cooper, who's in charge of that policy? the shadow home secretary . secretary. >> it's really important to get our stronger border security and to make sure that we are smashing the criminal gangs, because we need to have everybody working together to stop these dangerous boat crossings that are putting lives at risk and are also undermining our border security. >> but if we don't go after the

criminal gangs who are actually organising these boats in the first place, we won't see the progress that we desperately need. >> and i just think we've seen gimmicks from the conservatives andifs gimmicks from the conservatives and it's just got worse. >> that's the shadow home secretary there. yvette cooper talked to me earlier in purfleet, a swing seat in essex, and maybe that's telling essex man. >> now let's bring in james heal >> now let's bring in james heal. here it is. >> now let's bring in james heal. here it is . and that's the heal. here it is. and that's the pledges, are you going to show it the red card ? look on the it the red card? look on the back.look it the red card? look on the back. look it. basie is showing a red card. labour red. there's a red card. labour red. there's a front. what do you make of it? it's all fair and well having a list, but it's very, very light on detail. absolutely >> and i think the tory line is going to be that he's had more relaunches than cape canaveral. really. this is, i think, the 16th by their calculation, and i think what's striking perhaps is not what's just in it, but also what isn't in it. >> i think we were going over the document beforehand, and i think chris pointed out there's actually no mention of tax in the kind of papers they've been giving out. >> there's not the commitment to match the tories on 2.5% gdp, on defence spending, for instance. and also you then had the

interview with the yvette coopen interview with the yvette cooper. you know, she's very comfortable talking about illegal migration and focusing on smashing the criminal gangs. >> but what are we going to do in terms of getting down the migration figures legally when those come out next week, for instance? >> so there's a lack of detail and kind of numbers that labour wants and what they want on migration system really. >> so i think for the tories it'll be looking at what they don't talk about in the speech as one of the things, for instance, that, you know, he now talks about economic stability. >> very bland statement. >> very bland statement. >> keir starmer wants this economic stability that's very different from what labour was saying a year ago when they were talking about the fastest growing economy in the g7. so i think perhaps that shows us a downscaling of ambition. >> i wonder if it's the both of you. but i'll start first with you. but i'll start first with you. james, is this list deliberately and specifically vague? because when you say, i'm going to stop the boat, you can't. and it's measurable and it's proof it's proof that you fail. if you're very specific . fail. if you're very specific. is that the reason this is quite open ended? there's no detail whatsoever, really. >> i think it's very much like 1997, which were kind of smaller pledges, and they thought that they could therefore hit them. >> but some of them are so vague as to almost mean nothing, i mean, economic stability. what

does that exactly mean? and if anything, you look at rishi sunak said on monday, you know, the shocks we've had over the past five years covid, ukraine, inflation, we see more of that. >> i mean, surely it's going to come down to ballot box in five years time. >> what exactly does economic stability mean? so i think some of those are a bit bland and vague and meaningless, but others perhaps are a little bit more significant. >> but there is some detail. it's 40,000 more appointments each week on the nhs, six, 6500 new teachers. the big question is chris, is there enough detail? those swing seats like purfleet, the red wall won and lost the last general election. is there enough here for the swing voter, those who are sitting on their hands to say, am i ready to go with sir keir starmer? >> i mean, it's 13,000 extra neighbourhood police. >> i think number five is interesting. crackdown on anti—social behaviour. it's not talked about enough. i think in westminster the effect of people seeing muggings, violence like , seeing muggings, violence like, you know, shameless shoplifting. we see a lot of the times on gb news, they are trying to focus on what is the lived experience,

but there's no detail of what that means. >> i mean, it could mean anything. it could mean stopping people dropping crisp packets, you know. well, they've got asbos here. >> i'm looking at some detail here. they've got a fast track. pubuc here. they've got a fast track. public space protection orders make it quicker and easier to clamp down on escalations in drug dealing or drinking. they've got ideas in here, martin. i think that, as you say, the scant detail in these first steps, you know, is a slight worry. and there's no mention here of tax cuts. i think what is interesting here and what the tories will be looking at quite closely, where's the mention of defence spending is not here and they'll be fighting an election on that, on security, as james says, and secondly, on tax cuts. people are suffering because of the of these thresholds being held. you're paying more and more tax as inflation goes up. where's the where's the chance to make my life easier. >> now you've got them all detailed menu there . the only detailed menu there. the only source of funding i could find was again sticking to this idea of ending tax breaks for private schools that won't pay for all of this. >> and non—doms, don't forget that. non—doms one. there's a wrinkle on non—doms that the government isn't doing, but but that's already been implemented

by jeremy hunt at the last round. >> so is there any more detail in there about where the wonga is coming from? >> can you wait until 5:00? because i asked this exact question. sir keir starmer and he did go towards answering for the viewers. of course you did, chris. >> so of course you did. is that you think where the conservatives will be attacking, we can all have blank cheque books , we can all have a wish books, we can all have a wish list, but the biscuit tin is empty with 2.7 trillion inches debt. is it 3.7? yeah what's a trillion between friends? we're up to our neck in debt . how on up to our neck in debt. how on earth can this be paid for? >> actually in here trillion there. as soon as that's real money. >> but i think the key thing, as i say, is what labour isn't saying. >> and so the tories will come out and say, hang on a sec, we've got the massive, you know, fiscal debt facing us. what labour promising on the workers rights. you know it's all very well going out today and talking in the big space about, you know, i'm going to have economic stability. but what was labour saying in those smoke filled rooms earlier in the week when he was talking about trade unions? those are very different. and that's what the tories want to focus their guns on french style laws. that's

what's coming under labour. that's going to be their attack line and that is still in there. >> it's below the line. below the line. yeah. because of course, what also fascinating just on imagery here is if you see that my first steps by keir starmer looks like you know it's not like his first book. well yeah. but but it's not and it's not a pledge card by the way they're saying. but what's interesting about it i think, is that the other pledge cards we had from ed miliband going back and then obviously originally from tony blair in 1997, were are us. it was much more collegiate. and i think what's fascinating is they are trying to set out keir starmer personally against rishi sunak. and that might be a problem. i think that that's one, one area where i know the tories think that their guy is quite strong, and that's very different from 97, when tony blair was much more popular than starmer is how. >> now. >> and i wonder if that would be enough. i mean, it looks very trainspotter in. you can imagine, you know, that's like a 1990s. you know, sort of showing my age in a movie poster. it's sir keir starmer affiniti looking serious. look at me. i'm a man of the people, but he's not smiling. >> so tony blair was laughing and looking relaxed . that's and looking relaxed. that's someone who thinks people a bit,

a bit cheesed off with politics getting it wrong so far, or at least be intervening a lot in their lives and they feel in a difficult and a bad way sometimes. so i think that's being resolute. >> martin, as one left winger, said to me, i mean, the writing's getting to the it's moving to the right, isn't it? >> if you look at the stack up of it on the posters, yes. moving gradually to the right, which some would say perhaps why you shouldn't vote for starmer, which is that he ran very left in 2020 and now he's talking very right. we'll see what he doesn't power. >> i should say to viewers, they will see this everywhere in swing seats. if this is in your local patch around the country, you are now in a swing seat. expect to hear a lot more from laboun >> just finally, chris, you also, you're teasing extra detail, you devil, about what's coming at 5:00, having seen what you see when this goes out later on, do you think the conservatives will look at today's launch and think, actually, that was quite good? will they be concerned? >> i think they're concerned that labour is getting its act together. i think that, you know, he's a labour leader who is accused of doing anything to get into power, backing jeremy corbyn in 2019 and natalie elphicke in 2024. that's a big

leap across the political divide, but i think you have got detail here. you've got, i think it's a practical attempt to show a retail offer. i think what a lot of people watching politics like we three have for the past four years, is there's been no attempt to offer a retail offer to voters. here is one. let's see what they think. okay >> superb stuff. thank you very much for that. analysis expert chris hope and of course, james heale, political correspondent at the spectator . we'll have at the spectator. we'll have loads more on that throughout the show. and of course , that the show. and of course, that tantalising flash of the garter there from chris hope about what's to come at 5:00. looking forward to that. now it's time forward to that. now it's time for the great british giveaway and your chance to enjoy a spectacular summer with an extra £20,000 in your bank account tax free. of course . now it's our free. of course. now it's our biggest cash prize of the year so far, and here's how you could win the lot. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer . what would you with this summer. what would you spend that on? well, whilst you're thinking about it, listen to some of our previous winners

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welcome back. the time is 425. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. later in the show, i'll tell you why. football fans up and down the land might actually have something to celebrate together for once . but before together for once. but before that, the royals have been out in force today , queen camilla in force today, queen camilla visited lamb house in east sussex to join a garden party with organisations in celebration of rye's renowned literary history and the prince of wales spoke this afternoon at an event to celebrate global efforts to tackle tackle antimicrobial resistance and build stronger health systems , build stronger health systems, food security and climate resilience. well, let's take a listen. >> antimicrobial resistance threatens our health, our environment, our livelihoods and our future .

our future. >> it is indiscriminate, affecting all countries and all income levels, and we know that poverty and inequality intensify its reach with poorer parts of the world particularly vulnerable. it makes infections harder to treat, increasing the risk of disease spreading and making medical procedures and treatments much riskier . treatments much riskier. >> superb serve well. joining us now is our royal correspondent cameron walker. cameron, welcome to the show. well, after all the hoo ha of the nigerian tour, it's great to be back to some proper working royal activity. tell us the details. >> yeah. and i think prince william is very much down to business today. martin, when he was an raf search and rescue pilot as well as an air ambulance pilot in east anglia, he saw first hand how antibiotics and similar drugs can really save lives . but now can really save lives. but now there is a growing threat where these antibiotics and other drugs, the infections they're treating, are becoming, are becoming resistant to them. so

just to give you some figures here, at the moment, it's estimated, according to the lancet medical journal, that 5 million people every year die as a result of antimicrobial. infections, which are are resistance to antibiotics . by resistance to antibiotics. by 2050, that's expected to rise to 10 million per year. the government, the british government also sees this as a big problem. and it appears they're using prince william as a bit of an asset here with his power of soft diplomacy . so power of soft diplomacy. so prince william delivered a speech in front of a global politicians, as well as united nafions politicians, as well as united nations representatives in london today to talk about this issue at the same time as the government unveiled £85 million, or up to £85 million to support the international community to tackle this issue , prince tackle this issue, prince william's also become a patron of a new centre based in central london in paddington, bringing together lots of different world experts to try and work out what

can be done to solve this. so prince william's been very busy. he's also, i'm told, very passionate about this and obviously him . this global power obviously him. this global power of soft diplomacy can speak a lot more than, let's say, a number of politicians in the united kingdom and queen camilla as well, out and about doing cracking work. yes, he is a garden party, as you mentioned in your intro there, but the whole theme of today of the queen in east sussex is all about the importance of literacy. it's of course, she cares for deeply . i suppose the cares for deeply. i suppose the biggest highlight of today was with the children's lawyer, joseph coelho, and speaking to a number of primary school children about their favourite books, the importance of reading and how, of course, that can really help with their life chances later on down the line. so it's been a very productive day for queen camilla, and highlighting the importance of literature, something she really cares about. >> excellent stuff. cameron walker. that's the way to do it. not swanning around in 6 or 7 outfit changes. not you . i of outfit changes. not you. i of course mean meghan markle always delights cameron walker , thank

delights cameron walker, thank you very much for that royal update . here's a story i'd like update. here's a story i'd like to talk about. sadiq khan is in the vatican city today. the mayor of london is making a speech where he will highlight his efforts to place london at the vanguard of world cities, aiming to tackle , of course, aiming to tackle, of course, climate change. well, sadiq khan said i am truly honoured to have been invited to participate in this key summit hosted by his holiness pope francis, bringing together leading political, civic and religious leaders to tackle the biggest global threat we face today. he then went on i'm determined for london to be to continue to be a world leader in tackling the twin dangers of air pollution and the climate emergency. but the need for coordinated global action has never been so urgent. god is still going on. as mayor of one of the most diverse cities in the world, where we celebrate the world, where we celebrate the huge contributions of different religious communities , different religious communities, it will also be an honour to discuss how faith and

cooperation between different faiths can be a force for so much good, but here's my point. why on earth is sadiq khan flouncing around on the world stage talking about climate change? well, there are four. there are 40 cities, the c40 cities. this is a gathering of global mayors who get to grandstand round about their climate policies. and of course, it allows sadiq khan to take some credit for ulez. all of which got me thinking. would he give the popemobile a new, less ticket while he's over there? what about the smoke that comes out of the chimney when a new p0pe out of the chimney when a new pope comes in? might sadiq khan have his beady eye on that dish out a few fines while he's there? now i'm joking of course. but seriously, how does this make you feel? sadiq khan being ianed make you feel? sadiq khan being invited by the pope to the vatican. will that get you clutching your rosaries saying

hail mary's? is this really appropriate? or is it a right royal waste of time, a holy mess 7 royal waste of time, a holy mess ? now there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00, as is sir keir starmer, the to man clean up british politics. well, i'll be joined by a journalist who says he won't be able to do that task. but first is your headunes that task. but first is your headlines and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories this hour from the gb news room. sir keir starmer says all six pre—election pledges are fully funded and achievable within two terms of a labour government. among the promises, a renewed border security command to tackle people smuggling gangs , plans to cut smuggling gangs, plans to cut nhs waiting lists and improve economic stability. the government called it another reset and says it's not a coherent plan . double child coherent plan. double child killer colin pitchfork next

parole hearing will take place in public in july , the parole in public in july, the parole board granted an application for a public hearing in the case of in the case in the quote, interests of justice. pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling 215 year old girls, lynda mann and dawn ashworth, in leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. a man has been charged with attempted murder after slovakia's prime minister was shot several times yesterday. the suspected attacker is a 71 year old poet and former security guard . the and former security guard. the interior minister says the attack was politically motivated , and it comes after robert fico's government approved a proposal to crack down on press freedom by abolishing the country's public broadcaster . country's public broadcaster. southwest water has apologised for a water borne disease outbreak in devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. residents in parts of brixham and austin were told to boil their drinking water yesterday after small traces of

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conservative chaos. but with labour having to suspend several of its own mps over the past few years, most notably for anti—semitic comments and the admission of mp natalie elphicke to the party. can we really take sir keir starmer seriously on this topic? well let's speak now with the political editor at the spectator, katie balls. katie, welcome to the show. so we've been going through my first step today, not a gripping memoir of how the son of a toolmaker learned how to walk, but his plan on how he can run the country. one thing you read aboutin country. one thing you read about in an excellent column in today's times is you said that one of his most eye catching pledges is for an ethics and integrity commission. but you explain that you think sir keir starmer has bitten off more than he can chew. tell us more. >> yeah, i think , as you say >> yeah, i think, as you say today, we've heard a lot from keir starmer in terms of retail pledges. but one of the other big things he's been talking aboutis big things he's been talking about is cleaning up politics. and i think it's quite a

desirable thing for an opposition party to do, particularly when there's a tory party near nearing the end. you saw in the john major years how tony blair did that. and i think keir starmer has taken a lot of that playbook over the past couple of years. initially boris johnson and partygate. i think he was given a lot to work with by the tories. but in doing this , he's pledged various things that a labour government would bnng that a labour government would bring in. that a labour government would bnngin.andi that a labour government would bring in. and i think as labour gets closer to power and has potentially a lot of power to decide what it does, there are some concerns in the labour party that some of the things they've announced, so, you know, ban on second jobs, the ethics and integrity commission, whether or not you'd have independent figures or officials deciding when to investigate ministers rather than the prime minister, could actually be real problem for a labour government and leave the prime minister fairly powerless on some of the key decisions around his team. so i think it's a reality of making what, i think, you know,

is something that sounds very good, into something you can work with. i mean, tony blair used to say, you know, well, he initially said he said he was mischaracterised, but he talked about politics and how he wanted his party to be whiter than white, purer than pure. and he later came to say that he regretted it because, again, that was good to play in opposition came back to haunt them, and they were the ones in charge. and katie, a fascinating point you make an excellent point, is the size of the majority. >> if it is anything approaching a 1997 style majority , although a 1997 style majority, although of course the party are being more cautious. rishi sunak would like to think it could be a hung parliament, but if it is a big majority then of course that bnngs majority then of course that brings the added hazard, doesn't it? of lots of new candidates who might not have been thoroughly vetted and that always carries the danger. katie, of a few wrong ends getting through the cat flap. >> exactly. and we know that the labour party is taking candidates election very seriously for these very reasons since keir starmer took over. but of course , you can't pick

but of course, you can't pick every single candidate. and also , you know, if labour win a majority, i think even a majority, i think even a majority of one, you're going to have the highest number of new mps entering this parliament. i think in modern history. and that means a lot of green mps who don't know the ropes and could fall into various pitfalls. so they're doing lots of training, but i think it is something that is beginning to worry figures, which is if you have this huge majority, how do you get everyone to behave? and also if at the same time you're banning second jobs, now you can say that's a good thing to do for lots of reasons. but if you're banning second jobs and there's, you know, you don't have enough promotions to go around, you're going to have a lot of mps with a lot of time on their hands. and that isn't always a good thing in westminster, with its various watering holes. >> indeed. and you make a great point here. you say one of the blair era figures said the discipline goes out the window as soon as candidates are elected, and have a mandate, then they get to go playing exactly well and look , perhaps exactly well and look, perhaps these labour stormtroopers they've been called are going to

be, you know, better behaved than the tory 2019. >> and tory mps. it wouldn't be too hard to do. but there is something, psychologically speaking, to labour grandees about as soon as you are elected, i think you start to think about your majority , you think about your majority, you start to think that you had a bit to do with it. it wasn't all your leader , keir starmer, and your leader, keir starmer, and that does make things more complicated. whereas right now the shadow cabinet and candidates, everyone is being on their absolute best behaviour because they don't want to be blamed for something going wrong in labour's path to power. >> so we've had starmageddon and now we've got the stormtroopers . now we've got the stormtroopers. there's going to be a long few years, isn't it? thank you very much. katy balls, the political editor at the spectator. it's a delight to have you on the show. thank you very much. now, the british military is rapidly developing a game changing weapon system and a homeland security editor, mark white, will join me shortly to explain this superb new tech. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel .

welcome back. it's 446. i'm martin daubney on gb news as the new way to get in touch with us here @gbnews. and of course, it is by going to gbnews.com/yoursay and there's been hundreds of people getting in touch already today. the big topic that's got you going is sir keir starmer's my first steps. now it's not a book on how he learnt how to walk, but a book on how he plans to run the country. now rob has said this. keir starmer is already being dishonest. he tells us that all of his policies are fully costed. they are not and that is a key question. in fact, chris hope, our political editor , put hope, our political editor, put that to sir keir starmer earlier on today and we're going to have that dropping in about 15 minutes time. michael adds this having endured keir's six promises, there's no detail which will succeed as much as

rishi says it's a fair point. michael. five pledges five from rishi sunak and he's failed on most of them. let's get more reaction now to what sir keir starmer said today. and he's revealed those six first steps that labour will win, he'll take if they win the next election. i'm joined to discuss them now by steve reid, who's the shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs. steve, always a pleasure to have you on the show . so six steps. well these six steps help you take that giant leap into downing street >> yeah. well, good to be with you too. >> and what keir was doing today is, you know, from what your your viewers and listeners say, this is a country that is crying out for change. >> keir starmer has changed the labour party from out of all recognition since he became leader. >> put it back in the service of working people. >> today was about explaining to the british public what the first steps would be in his government if he is elected

prime minister. >> as we start to make those big transformative changes that are required to put this country back on the side of the people who live in it and got the booklet here, it's quite light on detail. >> there. it is, a six step shapps there. i guess the key question that everybody is going to be asking, steve is, how are you going to pay for all of this? i mean, we're trillions of poundsin this? i mean, we're trillions of pounds in debt. the biscuit tin is completely empty. anybody can make these pledges, but how are you going to fund them ? you going to fund them? >> well, i mean, keir was absolutely clear today. >> there are two things missing in british politics today. >> one is money. after the conservatives crashed the economy, the second one is trust because the conservatives have broken so many of the promises they made. >> so he's absolutely clear every one of these first steps is fully deliverable and it's fully funded. >> so for instance, 6500 new teachers will be paid for by closing the vat loophole for private schools, 40,000 additional appointments in the

nhs every week will be paid for by closing the non—dom loophole that allows billionaires to live in this country and benefit from all of the things we all enjoy in this country. >> but they pay less tax than the guy that cuts my hair. >> so every single one of these first steps is fully funded, fully deliverable, so that we can rebuild trust . they're first can rebuild trust. they're first steps. they're pointing towards the bigger change that we need to make. >> but it's very important we rebuild trust. and you do that by showing people the initial steps you're going to take and how you're going to pay for them. >> now, the last time the labour party came out with a list like this, it was the edestone. and of course , that sank without of course, that sank without trace. but what's key here, steve reed, is that four out of the six pledges that sir keir starmer made today were the same ones that ed miliband made all those years ago, before the edstone was turned into landfill . the people buy these these soundbites, these pledges , or do soundbites, these pledges, or do they actually want proper, proper detail to put it to you?

again, if we're £2.7 trillion in debt, how can we afford any of this stuff ? this stuff? >> well, as i said, every single one of these is fully costed and fully funded and i just i just outlined how two key ones would be paid for. but this is about facing the future. it's about deaung facing the future. it's about dealing with the problems that british people tell us today are their priorities and the things they want fixed. but it's about being realistic, about how labour will go about fixing them. now, it's no surprise to me that you've got a labour party today talking about cutting nhs waiting lists. they always get worse under conservative governments after 14 years there are 8 million now on nhs waiting lists. 8 million people. >> that's the highest they've ever been in the history of the nhs. >> so it's quite right that labour should be looking to how we reduce those waiting lists so we reduce those waiting lists so we can get people treated so much faster. i saw, you know, at the at the launch event today in essex, i listened to a guy called nathaniel dye, a cancer sufferer, talking about the fact that he's only got a couple of

years left utmost to live because he didn't get appointments and treatments early enough to give him the extra years of life that he could have had. had that happened. and today keir starmer was talking about how we close that non—dom loophole for billionaires. so they pay their fair share of tax so that we can increase the number of appointments in the nhs and hopefully stop anyone else who's got cancer ending up in the situation. nathaniel dye has found himself in. but steve, those many more years of life , those many more years of life, those many more years of life, those massive cancer backlogs and heart disease backlogs , and heart disease backlogs, they're all mostly caused by covid lockdowns, by by mothballing the nhs. >> and that's something that your leader, sir keir starmer, voted for not only every single time, but he wanted those to be harder, sooner and longer. it's payback for poor policy. >> well, i wish that was true, but actually we had record levels of waiting lists in the nhs before anyone had ever heard of covid 19. so i know the government uses that as an

excuse, but it isn't true. the waiting lists were at record lengths already before the covid lockdown ever happened. we have to get back to an nhs that works for people you didn't have to wait 12 hours in a&e, you didn't have to wait hours and hours for an ambulance to come. if you phonedit an ambulance to come. if you phoned it and you were in an emergency, you used to get treatment early. if you had cancen treatment early. if you had cancer. today it comes so late. for some people, like nathaniel, that their life expectancy is cut drastically short when it neednt cut drastically short when it needn't be, and we can start to make the changes. this isn't about fixing the whole thing . about fixing the whole thing. labouris about fixing the whole thing. labour is being realistic and labour's being honest about this. this is about the first step towards making that much bigger change that could take two terms of labour government as part of a decade of national renewal, to undo the damage the conservatives have done to pretty much every public service. you can think of in this country. >> okay. steve reid, thank you very much for joining >> okay. steve reid, thank you very much forjoining us on gb news. always a pleasure to have your company. now, moving on, a game changing weapons system that can instantly disable swarms of hostile drones has been rapidly developed by the

british military. the cutting edge drone killer uses radio waves to target and scramble the electronics of the sorts of drones used by russia in ukraine and take down multiple targets at once. and what's more, it comes at a bargain price. let's speak now to our homeland security editor, mark white. mark, a delight to have you on the show. british military often gets a knocking, but this sounds excellent. tell us more . excellent. tell us more. >> well, i think we're seeing the first tangible signs that defence and the defence industry is moving, as the defence secretary has asked to wards a prewar footing. >> and we've seen it just recently, of course, with the dragonfire laser system that will be rolling out onto royal naval vessels within the next few years to take down drones and missiles. >> now we're seeing another system. this system works by taking out swarms of drones , taking out swarms of drones, effectively using radio waves, pulses of radio waves that can

be sent out either in a narrow beam to target individual drones, or a wider beam to take out whole swarms. and you're right, it's going to be cheap. it's only going to cost about £0.10 for every shot fired. astonished stuff. >> mark white, thank you very much for that. literally that quick blast. now about to bring you a brand new interview with sir keir starmer, with our political editor, chris hope. stick with us all the details. right after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. first, your weather with alex berg . weather with alex berg. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. it will turn mostly dry overnight and it will be dry for many of us tomorrow . but before many of us tomorrow. but before then, we do have some heavy rain around at the moment. currently across central parts that's been dnven across central parts that's been driven by an area of low

pressure that is pushing its way westwards, and that's then pushing the heavy rain westwards as we go through the end of the day. so it is going to clear away. but before then we could have some heavy rain, particularly as we go through this evening's rush hour, could cause some problems on the road. otherwise we are likely to see most places turning dry overnight, although just a few spots of rain where the clouds thick enough across some northern parts of england. perhaps there will be some clear skies , but temperatures aren't skies, but temperatures aren't going to drop a huge amount. so for many it is going to be a relatively mild start to the day. on friday morning, minima of around 11 and 12 celsius for most places. if we look at the details for tomorrow morning and across scotland , it's a largely across scotland, it's a largely fine start. plenty of sunshine here, though perhaps towards the western isles, a bit more cloud and some outbreaks of rain . also and some outbreaks of rain. also and some outbreaks of rain. also a bit more cloud across southern parts of scotland and into northern ireland and northern england too. and this cloud could bring a few outbreaks of rain first thing tomorrow morning, but nothing especially heavy heading further south across the rest of england and wales. lots of fine sunny weather to be had, but some mist

and fog patches possible across parts of the southeast. any mist and fog, though, will quite quickly clear tomorrow morning, and for many, tomorrow actually looks like a largely fine day. yes, there will be some showers around, but these will be quite hit and miss, so most places are likely to avoid them. but the showers across parts of scotland, particularly central scotland, particularly central scotland, could turn heavy and possibly thundery with some decent sunshine around . decent sunshine around. temperatures for many are likely to be a little bit higher than today , more widely getting into today, more widely getting into the low 20 celsius. so feeling pretty warm in that sunshine. two more fine weather to come across northern parts as we go into the weekend, but further south it's looking quite showery, especially on saturday. perhaps fewer showers on sunday, temperatures still above average for the time of year, so feeling warm in any sunshine looks like things are heating up. >> boxt boilers . as sponsors of >> boxt boilers. as sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> a very good afternoon. it's 5 pm. welcome to the martin p.m. welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. today the labour leader, sir keir starmer unveiled his six steps of his general election. pledges will be six steps helping to take great strides towards downing street , where towards downing street, where his killers list doomed to sink like ed miliband's feted edstone will stand by for a brand new interview with sir keir starmer from our political editor chris hope, and is the end of rip off pump prices upon us? well, final plans for a new pump wash regulator will be unveiled in a few weeks time, and we'll be revealing just how it might or might not work. the guy who invented it, howard cox, will join me. he thinks it needs more teeth and brits could face hundreds of cancelled flights as a safety crisis at boeing. lisa aircraft shortages of boeing planes up to scratch or they're

too dangerous. i'll be joined by an aviation expert to discuss all of that between now and 6:00. welcome to the show. great to have your company. so earlier on today we saw this my first steps, a book from sir keir starmer. not a moving memoir of how he learned to walk but how he intends to run the country. our political editor, chris hope, sat down with sir keir starmer for a cheeky 1 to 1 interview to drill him on some more detail. scant detail at this stage, but will it be enough to float your boat? will it be enough to get your vote? that's all coming soon. get in touch with us. your ways. do you trust sir keir starmer? has he done enough to convince you? perhaps you voted conservative last time. are you ready to flip flop to the labour party ? get in

flop to the labour party? get in touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. but before all of that , as your before all of that, as your headunes before all of that, as your headlines with tatiana sanchez . headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much. and good afternoon. the top stories from the gb news room. sir keir starmer has told gb news there'll be no tax cuts under a labour government until the economy is back on the path to growth. the labour leader says that while he wants to keep the tax burden as low as possible, he also wants to ensure that living standards improve. he said british people deserve to know that future generations will enjoy better opportunities, but that can only be achieved with tangible steps . be achieved with tangible steps. >> rfa we, have said we will raise taxes, we've set out what we will raise and what we'll spend the money on. so what you did hear this morning is that we're going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that money for the teachers we need in our state secondary schools , as we did secondary schools, as we did here, is we're going to get rid

of the non—dom status properly and use that money towards reducing reducing waiting lists. the tax burden on people is as high as it's ever been under this government, you high as it's ever been under this government , you know, high as it's ever been under this government, you know, this has been the tax rising government of all time. >> more from that interview with sir keir starmer in just a moment. in other news, south west water has apologised for a water borne disease outbreak in devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir . residents devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. residents in parts of brixham and helston were told to boil their drinking water yesterday after small traces of the parasite cryptosporidium were found in the hillhead reservoir. the uk health security agency says 22 people are confirmed to have the disease and as many as 70 other cases of diarrhoea and vomiting are also under investigation. the tory mp for totnes and south devon said residents are likely to have to boil tap water for another week following the discovery . double child killer

discovery. double child killer colin pitchfork next parole heanng colin pitchfork next parole hearing will take place in pubucin hearing will take place in public in july. pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling 215 year old girls. lynda mann and dawn ashworth, in leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. lawyers for the families of lucy letby victims say an inquiry into her crimes should be live streamed in an effort to prevent conspiracy theories. the former nurse was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others. a lawyer representing the families of six victims says the case continues to attract conspiracy theorists, and hearing from the people involved would be an effective way to tackle them. it comes after the new yorker magazine published an article about the case under the headline, did she do it ? a six year old boy has do it? a six year old boy has died after falling from an apartment block in east london. it's understood the child fell

from the upper floor of a building in plaistow shortly before 6:00 this morning. the death is being treated as unexpected and authorities are still working to establish the full circumstances . in other full circumstances. in other news, teenagers could be recruited to help plug a shortage of train drivers under new proposals put forward today, the government is asking for views on lowering the minimum age for drivers from 20 to 18, which it says would help build resilience across the railway. the average age of a driver is 48 and the workforce is projected to shrink over the coming years, with many due to retire. it's hoped the proposal will set dozens of young people on track to a career in transport. junior doctors in england are holding fresh talks with the government in an effort to end their long running dispute over pay. it's hoped the negotiations will help avoid further walkouts, with doctors demanding a 35% pay rise. health secretary victoria atkins says she's pleased the british

medical association have agreed to the mediation . to the mediation. >> but since i was appointed as secretary of state in november , secretary of state in november, i've worked incredibly hard to try to tackle industrial action because we know that in the last yearit because we know that in the last year it has led to some 1.4 million appointments being cancelled and that has a real impact for patients. and so this is, i hope, a welcome step forward with the junior doctors committee of the bma to ensure that conversations about pay , that conversations about pay, but also working conditions can happenin but also working conditions can happen in private . happen in private. >> and a new film about donald trump's rise to power in the 19805 trump's rise to power in the 1980s has been picked up at the cannes film festival. titled the apprentice, it stars sebastian stan as the young trump as he forges a deal with the influential right wing lawyer and fixer roy cohn, played by succession star jeremy strong. the film is due for release by studiocanal later this year. for

the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or you can go to gb news. carmelites. now it's back to . martin. >> thank you. tatiana. now, earlier today, sir keir starmer laid out his vision for the country with six key policies, describing them as the first steps towards labour's bigger plans. well, amongst the pledges were a promise to create 40,000 more hospital appointments each week and recruit over 6000 more teachers. however, critics say he has scaled back the national missions that he set out last yeah missions that he set out last year. while our political editor christopher hope, caught up with sir keir earlier on today. christopher hope, caught up with sir keir earlier on today . and sir keir earlier on today. and here's what he had to say. >> keir starmer, thanks for joining gb news. what is this? is it a pledge card? >> it is the first steps towards the delivery of the missions that i've set out, which will transform this country and take

it forward for everybody, for their families, their communities . so it's the first communities. so it's the first steps, the down payment, if you like, on the change that we want to bring about for the country, change that's desperately needed i >> -- >> thank hum >> thank you. >> thank you. >> then number three, launch a new border security command. you're not saying stop the boats. you're not talking about the outcomes . just how are you the outcomes. just how are you going to do it? why is that hopeful for people who want to deal with illegal migration? >> i want to be really clear. no dodi, but nobody should be making that journey across the channelin making that journey across the channel in a small boat. this government has lost control of our borders and that is a serious challenge for any government or would be government. the question is, how do you respond to that challenge? i think that we can smash the vile gangs that are running this trade, that are making a fortune putting people into boats and breaching our border security. i'm not prepared to put up with that . prepared to put up with that. and that's why i think the serious answer is to smash the gangs as a gimmick, such as rwanda, which cost a fortune and

removes less than 1% of those arriving by small boat, is not going to work. so here's a contrast with the government. i want to tackle the very real problem with a serious response. i'm not interested in gimmicks. >> do you worry that lacking lack of sunnier plans in this , lack of sunnier plans in this, it's all. it's all a bit vague and a bit unclear, even on deadunes. and a bit unclear, even on deadlines . there's no deadlines deadlines. there's no deadlines for these these these first step pledges. well if i think of the people who are on a waiting list at the moment, i referenced a woman in a service station that i met who's desperately needs an eye operation , she just wants eye operation, she just wants that operation. this will be the summing uplands for her, because it lifts a huge burden off her, so that's the practical delivery that she's looking for. people who need the stability of the economy so that they can afford a house to live in. a fireman i was talking about in milton keynes, he's got three jobs and he can't afford a house. the sunny uplands for him is having a roof over his head that is his own. and you know, i think perhaps because of my

background, i understand what ordinary hope is. it is about being able to get on in life, realise your aspirations and your opportunity to. who was talking about her teachers . talking about her teachers. these are the sunny uplands. this is the hope that people have. this is the hope that people have . it's the hope my parents have. it's the hope my parents had, which is despite the ups and downs of life , the comfort and downs of life, the comfort of knowing your children will have a better , opportunities and have a better, opportunities and future. and we need to get that hope back. but we'll only do it with tangible steps on the road to big change in our country through the mission's number one of these first steps deliver economic stability. >> no mention of cutting taxes evenin >> no mention of cutting taxes even in the small print. no mention of cutting taxes. why not? >> well, because wherever we, have said we will raise taxes, we've set out what we will raise and what we'll spend the money on. so what you did hear this morning is that we're going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that money for the teachers we need in our state secondary schools. well, you did hear is we're

going to get rid of the non—dom status properly and use that money towards reducing reducing waiting lists . the tax burden on waiting lists. the tax burden on people is as high as it's ever been under this government, you know, this has been the tax rising government of all time. i mean, rishi sunak is the expert's expert when it comes to tax rises . i don't think that's tax rises. i don't think that's the way forward. what we need to do is pull a different lever, and that is economic growth that will only come with economic stability . that's why it's step stability. that's why it's step one. >> and then tax cuts may come when you've got the growth. that's the point i suppose. >> well look i want the burden on working people as far as taxes are concerned to be as low as possible. i won't shy away from that. but i do know that we have to grow the economy , to have to grow the economy, to ensure that living standards across the country improve , across the country improve, which is so desperately needed. >> your opponent, the prime minister said on monday that you're someone who backed jeremy corbyn in 2019. a left wing politician now you're backing natalie elphicke, a right wing politician. what do you stand for? do you stand for anything?

are you that desperate to get into power? you're back all these different people from different parts of the political, view. >> well, i would gently remind the prime minister that jeremy corbyn will not stand as a labour candidate at the next election. this is a changed laboun >> he backed him in 19. >> he backed him in 19. >> he backed him in 19. >> he he is not able to say the same about his predecessor who smashed the economy. and working people are paying the price. if he was serious about the future, he was serious about the future, he would ensure that liz truss wasn't a candidate at the next election. but he's too weak to do that. so i've led from the front. i've changed my party. this is a party back in the service of working people. what we are now si king humbly seeking is the opportunity to change the country and put the country back in the service of working people . working people. >> and are you the heir to tony blair? >> well, look, it's ever since i've been rhymes. ever since i've been rhymes. ever since i've been rhymes. ever since i've been labour leader, people have tried to sort of, box me in to being a previous labour leader. tony blair was a fantastic leader. he won three elections, and there was huge change under the last labour government. but that was 27 years ago. the challenge is now

are different and i have to lead my party and i hope humbly to lead the country, to deal with the challenges we now face so that, with a labour government, people can genuinely say i'm actually better off my family, my community, my country is moving forward. >> and just finally i read , >> and just finally i read, you're good at football. i see pictures of it. would you prove it to gb news viewers? maybe my colleague martin daubney , who colleague martin daubney, who plays for amateur football in his spare time and by doing 100 keepy uppies on camera, no, because you can't . because you can't. >> i'm only a fool would commit to that . to that. >> keir starmer. >> keir starmer. >> thank you forjoining us >> thank you for joining us today on gb news. thank you, thank you. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> thank you very much for asking that question. he should have taken up the challenge because i'm not very good at keepy uppies. but on a serious point, let's dial back into this. the question about are you the heir to blair, i thought was was was a brilliant question. he had the chance there to play himself as a future leader in the mould of blair. now, looking

back to that election, no matter what happened afterwards, tony blair offered a hope filled, optimistic, patriotic take. you know, pride filled vision for the united kingdom. things can only get better . what i got from only get better. what i got from that interview was that things can't get much worse. >> and it's a line that that idea is definitely true. i think from here you're hearing keir starmer speak there. there's no indication of the so—called sunny uplands. i asked that question because if you're in opposition, you're meant to meant to sketch some hope, some kind of five years hence where it would be as a nation. and it seemed it didn't seem to be. it seemed it didn't seem to be. it seemed to be more like solving the problems for the past than saying what you'll do in the future is the point. i think the pm picked up that rishi sunak on monday. he said don't let labour depress you to the ballot box andifs depress you to the ballot box and it's almost supporting the idea. i wonder where is the hope? where's your optimism? he answered quite interestingly by saying he's met. forget the big picture . he wants to help the

picture. he wants to help the individuals. the micro level, help them find sort their problems out, get someone being treated on nhs, sort out an issue with anti—social behaviour and i think that's quite a good way of answering it. but from someone like, sir keir starmer and don't forget this is this is called my first steps, you know, not our first steps. my first steps. he's trying to say why i'm the person who should be our prime minister after the end of this year . prime minister after the end of this year. and he didn't kind of give us that vision thing that may come in the future. this is a retail offer for voters, for gb news viewers. >> well, i thought was telling there as well. i mean, it's astonishing to believe. and we say it time and time again, we have the highest taxes since world war two. a lot of people think we voted for the conservative party and we got corbynism. when you specifically asked sir keir starmer today, when are you going to cut taxes ? when are you going to cut taxes? he didn't answer it. people want that. they care about the pounds , the pence. it's the economy, stupid. there's an opportunity there . so keir starmer didn't there. so keir starmer didn't give an answer today. >> that's right. and one that he

didn't take in. point one of these six steps delivering economic security with tough spending rules, growing the economy and keep taxes as low as possible. that's all it says. there wasn't much more than that . and of course i think people want to hear, you know, what will you do for me? and that's why the tory party is pushing hard on £900, cut off national insurance . it's an ambition to insurance. it's an ambition to get rid of ni insurance. it's an ambition to get rid of n! at some point in the future, costing 40 billion. but they're not saying how they're going to pay for that. so i think there was a you know, i think it was an attempt here to say, here's what we'll do. these are these are deliverables, even on small boats, launch a new border security command point three, not saying stop the boats like the tories do. arguably that is a deliverable, whereas the tory idea is not going to happen. they are not going to stop the boats. not. and so maybe they're being more realistic with these ideas. >> and is that part of the tactic ? you know, we often say, tactic? you know, we often say, perhaps unfairly, that sir keir starmer is a bit of a mr. magnolia. he doesn't really go big on the personality. you know, he's in purfleet today, a swing seat in essex. white van

man essex man. the red wall that will be key yet his tie off. he had his sleeves rolled up. man of the people mode. but the big question is , you know, are question is, you know, are people looking for something that wasn't on offer today? they want someone who's going to be dynamic, you know , cut through dynamic, you know, cut through the mustard. >> and the question, you know, is a bit of a jokey question. are you the heir to blair? what that means is, as you said at the beginning, where is the ambition they're going to think is going to get better? and it wasn't there. but maybe that's not who he is. i mean, you know, he's more authentically working class than any recent labour leader. i mean, he's called sir keir starmer because of his hard work of being a very good barrister, but he comes from a very humble background in the south east. i think he's trying to say i'm not blair, but i do get what you're going through. i think, you know, there's no fakery there, which certainly tony blair could be accused of. and do you think the conservatives will look at this and be concerned, or will they look at this and see an opportunity because, as you say, where it's light on detail, particularly around the pounds and the pence in your pocket,

the tax cuts, will the tories look at this and think, okay, what wasn't there today gives us an opportunity. there's nothing now on defence now. i think that the next five years i mean, if you take the government at its word, the pm grant shapps david cameron, the people who know what's going on behind the scenes, that we are going to face a very, very difficult five years in this country with a very uncertain world. nothing here on defence in one of these six first steps. of course, we do know the government or the labour opposition is committed to keeping us safe, committed to the nuclear deterrent, committed to defence spending when they can afford to. but we are seeing a clear blue water opening up on some key areas. security i think defence taxes. i think , you defence taxes. i think, you know, there are strong areas in this document, notably cutting nhs waiting times. i think of all the parties that can deal with the nhs and reform it. labour have the permission to do that because our labour party, not the tories . not the tories. >> now, i always ask you this question because i'm fascinated when, when you're up close and personal, when you're eyeball to eyeball with politicians for that period of time, you get

more of a flavour about how they've grown. do you think that sir keir starmer is looking and sounding and acting and believing more like a future prime minister? >> incredible. i mean, there's a feeling of quiet confidence. yes. in the way the whole operation worked, it was very, very , glitzy, voters sitting very, glitzy, voters sitting around keir starmer show all the shadow cabinet there out in purfleet in the shadow of the m25, crossing all the banners on the walls. it felt extremely competent and we haven't heard that from labour. by the way, when jeremy corbyn was leader, it did feel very like like a party ready to get into government . well, the question government. well, the question is, is this enough to make enough people to switch their vote from blue to red? >> all it's missing is the union flags and dreamed they were. >> there were they? >> there were they? >> they brought in two union flags for the interviews. they were there in the background . wow. >> i didn't see them. no, they just brought them out for you, chris. >> just just to me. >> just just to me. >> superb stuff. well, leszno, if you're convinced by that, sir keir starmer was talking, of course, to christopher hope and he joins me now in studio. we've

already done that bit. we're going to move on. there's loads more analysis of what sir keir starmer said on our website. by the way chris, an excellent interview as ever and thanks to you gb news. com it's now the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got breaking news and all of the brilliant analysis that you've come to expect from gb news. now, there's still plenty of time to win our biggest cash prize so far, a whopping £20,000 tax free. now imagine having all of that in your bank account this summer. well, you've got to be in it to win it. and here's how the here's how you could bag the lot. >> don't miss your chance to win our biggest cash prize so far. a totally terrific £20,000 in tax free cash to make your summer spectacular. you could use that cash to splash out on a holiday, make the garden glam , buy a new make the garden glam, buy a new car, or just save it for a rainy day . whatever you'd spend day. whatever you'd spend £20,000 on, make sure you don't miss the chance to make it yours for another chance to win £20,000 in tax free cash. text

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competition and markets authority to be given the power to take meaningful action against companies charging too much for petrol and diesel as even much for petrol and diesel as ever. well join me now in the studio is the founder of fair fuel uk. great pal of mine howard cox. howard pump watch was basically your idea? absolutely. the sun newspaper co—opted it. the tories nicked it. they made it their own . it's it. they made it their own. it's not working. it's lip service. and it hasn't got enough teeth. tell me why i couldn't say it any better than that, martin. as usual. >> well, what happened eight years ago? >> i actually presented it to with robert halfon, mp and robert jenrick , who was at the robert jenrick, who was at the time the exchequer secretary, an idea that somehow we've got to actually make pump prices honest, fair and transparent, because everyone knows what happens with pump prices up and down the road. >> and look at super, motorway service stations . they're 20 to service stations. they're 20 to 30 people. and i simply said, why don't we come up with some sort of body? >> we've got ofcom, we've got off what all of those sort of

price regulatory bodies. why haven't we got it for 37 million uk drivers. >> yeah. and that was the start of it. and they said well could i work something up. and i presented about a 28 page document to the treasury. they said great. it's been passed around for the last eight years. and in january of this year, claire coutinho coutinho, the minister of energy and net zero, said, look, we're going to put this out there. we like the idea. we're going to go with it. it's right. we should do that. i said, great, we met and everything. but the big rider for me, the big problem for this was that the actual pump watch scheme itself, which is actually for , the fuel supply chain for, the fuel supply chain businesses to actually supply details of prices both in terms of wholesale level and retail level on a daily basis. yeah. was voluntary . they didn't have was voluntary. they didn't have to take part. they decided now come on, a business is not going to go and actually vote. you know, the classic turkeys for christmas situation. that's the problem we've got at the moment . problem we've got at the moment. and i said then and there a voluntary won't work. but claire, to be fair to her, she said well that's stage one. let's see what happens . let's

let's see what happens. let's look at stage two. and in two weeks time understand it will have teeth. >> do you think that's going to happen?! >> do you think that's going to happen? i mean, i know you're a glass half full sort of guy. i know you're a born optimist and i love you for it, howard, but the facts are the facts. it hasn't been enforced. it hasn't been mandated. nobody's being held to account , been mandated. nobody's being held to account, as you been mandated. nobody's being held to account , as you say. held to account, as you say. what? what corporation on the planet is going to vote for less profit, especially a petrochemical company, especially a big retailer. they screw the farmers to the ground. they're all about the bottom line. what do you want to see? what kind of action do you want to see? what kind of enforcement do you want to see? >> well, i still want this daily retail prices is published and daily wholesale prices. and there's one you mentioned the retailers. you mentioned the oil companies. but in between them, they're the wholesalers. yeah. they're the ones that are holding even retailers to ransom. they're very tight contracts and they're very, very strict contracts. they can't move around from you know, if i sell esso, i want to sell texaco tomorrow. they can't do that. they are tied to these wholesalers. in answer your question, why i want to see is

true transparency. and the government put together an algorithm or whatever you want to call it, that, she says if they do this and it's 13% of they do this and it's13% of that and 10% of that, if they go over that, they're going to be fined hard and i mean fined hard . the big thing for me is actually drivers need to know actually, who are the honest retailers, the honest oil companies. and that's what a good pump watch app could have beenin good pump watch app could have been in place. yes. and that hasn't come out either. >> but that should happen. i mean, you've been told for a long, long time the information is readily available . how often? is readily available. how often? by the hour, i mean, how often do you know the prices at the retailers? and you literally go into your app and go, oh, it's cheaper there. i'll drive a few miles there and bob's your uncle. >> well, you only have to look at the stocks and market shares. oil prices are up by the half hour by the minute. it's the same with all the fuel prices. and let's face it, oil prices and the exchange rate dictate what the petrol price should be. and the wholesale price. but the wholesale price they do it based on what they can get away with and they are riding roughshod over drivers. 37 million drivers have no idea how pump prices are

calculated. i've been doing this for 15 years and i still don't know how well. >> and they specifically and deliberately keep it as a dark art. yes. so we're all confused and in the dark and just pay because we have to, because effectively it's a bit of a cartel. so you're a glass half full merchant. you believe that the energy secretary is going to do this? >> she she's got good intentions. i've got no reason not to believe her. but let's, you know, two weeks time, invite me back on here and see what you know, what's she delivers? okay. >> howard cox, founder of fairfield, uk. and the creator of pump watch. thank you very much for joining of pump watch. thank you very much forjoining us in the much for joining us in the studio. and we know that they watch at number 10. so if you're watching, claire coutinho, you just heard the third of a gauntlet on the table. let's have some proper teeth for this. and let's protect the punters because they , as you just said, because they, as you just said, 37 million of them are queuing up to vote. and the labour party, they're pledging for their vote today. let's see some action. thank you very much. now there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00. hundreds of british holidaymakers risk cancelled flights after, you guessed it, another boeing plane

safety incident. but first, it's time for your headlines and it's tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories from the gp newsroom . stories from the gp newsroom. sir keir starmer has told gb news there'll be no tax cuts under a labour government until the economy is back on the path to growth. the labour leader says that while he wants to keep the tax burden as low as possible, he also wants to ensure that living standards improve. he said british people deserve to know that future generations will enjoy better opportunities, but that can only be achieved with tangible steps . be achieved with tangible steps. >> wherever we, have said we will raise taxes, we've set out what we will raise and what we'll spend the money on. so what you did hear this morning is that we're going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that money for the teachers we need in our state secondary schools . well, state secondary schools. well, you did hear is that we're going

to get rid of the non—dom status properly and use that money towards reducing reducing waiting lists. the tax burden on people is as high as it's ever been under this government, you know, this has been the tax rising government of all time . rising government of all time. >> southwest water has apologised for a water borne disease outbreak in devon after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. residents in parts of brixham and alston were told to boil their drinking water yesterday after small traces of the parasite cryptosporidium were found in the hillhead reservoir. totnes mp andrew mangnall says it was caused by a damaged air valve , and lawyers damaged air valve, and lawyers for donald trump painted his former fixer as someone who celebrated the former president's legal troubles. as the hush money trial continues , the hush money trial continues, the hush money trial continues, the court was played audio clips of michael cohen saying the case fills him with delight and that he felt giddy with hope and laughter, imagining mr trump in

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financial report. >> thank you tatiana and loads of you have been getting in touch with your side. of course you get them in gbnews.com/yoursay now. earlier on we spoke about this new fat app on we spoke about this new fat app that's trying to shame and bribe fat blokes into losing weight . mark says bribe fat blokes into losing weight. mark says this martin, don't forget that some blokes will put the weight on just so they can lose it and then get they can lose it and then get the cash and quickly. on the situation with the contaminated water in the west country, it's giving people diarrhoea. tony says this here's my solution don't drink the water, drink beer instead , said tony. that is beer instead, said tony. that is my type of common sense. and talking of which, i'm now joined by michelle juby, the queen of common sense, who, of course is coming up next. six, two seven michelle, what's on your menu? >> quick, anna, i like his style. martin. anyway, coming up on my show tonight, of course i'll be looking at these six pledges, is it enough to make people vote for labour or not? but a really interesting story

that caught my eye today. defra. many people will be familiar with james anderson. martin. he is the guy that set up this organisation. it was intended to support the most vulnerable people in society. it's the guy that basically does all of that free plumbing . anyway, he's made free plumbing. anyway, he's made all the headlines today for the very wrong reasons. a massive bbc expose alleges all kinds of wrongdoing. they're saying that he's made stuff up, that he's a liar. that is exploited people, thatis liar. that is exploited people, that is misused. these funds , that is misused. these funds, that is misused. these funds, that he's been buying property with it, and so on and so forth. anyway james anderson, martin, he joins me on my programme tonight . he he joins me on my programme tonight. he wants to he joins me on my programme tonight . he wants to respond to tonight. he wants to respond to that expose, set the record straight and try and clear his name. so fascinated to hear that. also want to ask as well, why have so many people got allergies all of a sudden. and cyclists, do you think they should be forced to take out insurance martin or not? >> i absolutely do. they're always tearing through red lights and always knocking my me and my nipper off our bikes on

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press now seems for months and months and months, doors blowing out mid—air, parts of engines falling off. boeing really, really under the cosh. now in terms of british holidaymakers, what does that mean for their summers? >> well, what it means is that boeing is now being limited to how many aeroplanes it can actually deliver to airlines. >> and airlines like ryanair, for example, are heavily reliant on the boeing 737 max. so a number of airlines , including number of airlines, including low cost carriers, you know, here in europe and around the world, are having to trim back their schedules. so they put certain routes and flights into their schedules for passengers to book, but they're realising now they can't deliver to those slots. so they're going to have to trim that back, which means fewer aeroplanes for holidaymakers to actually travel on, to fly on. >> so on the simple supply and demand side of things, we've got

the perfect storm. there are less planes able to take off, there are cancellations as a consequence and you also told me earlier, there are now there's now record demand. you've got the perfect storm. not enough planes too many punters. that can only mean one thing higher prices. absolutely >> so we're looking at record figures since before the pandemic of people travelling. there really is this pent up demand. it was 4.7 billion. it is 4.7 billion passengers predicted to travel this year, compared to 4.5 billion in 2019. so you can imagine there's this this squeeze on the amount of planes that people can fly on and all that means is that where there is capacity, where there are seats available, those airfares are going to go up. and obviously lots of other issues behind it. cost of living, inflation on airlines, high operating costs as well driving these airfares up. >> and sally, we're showing pictures on your screen now. you can see them. you're looking at

home. this is of that flight where the door look the door literally blew off mid—air. those passengers are strapped in. look with their oxygen masks down, staring out to terra firma below. look, they're literally staring at the plane. sadly that is hardly confidence inspiring. you can understand why regulators are grounding these flights, but what we want to end with here is a bit of advice, a bit of positivity. if people, millions of people, of course, millions of people, of course, millions of people, of course, millions of brits want to get away, how can they get around this? how can they save money? what should they be doing? >> so really you're going to have to shop around for the best value price you can get. i mean, when airlines know they're going to have to trim back, they tend to have to trim back, they tend to give you at least 14 days nofice to give you at least 14 days notice because otherwise they'd be liable for compensation. so you should get some protection in that. and yeah, clearly you have to keep an eye on what is actually happening. day to day or week to week to know where you stand with your with your travel and all the renee airlines that don't rely so

heavily on boeing, you can look out or you just don't know that kind of information. >> that's not information is not out there. >> no, i mean, easyjet tends to have airbus aircraft and the a320, ryanair , like i said, has a320, ryanair, like i said, has the boeing 737 max, not the type that was involved in that incident there, i might add. it's a slightly different type that they're running, but yeah , that they're running, but yeah, i mean, many people now are actually filtering their their choice of airline based on what aeroplane type it's flying. that is as bad as it is getting that, you know, the word's gone out there. the headlines have been out there and social media is viral on, you know, people's self—preservation interests. but ihave self—preservation interests. but i have to add that flying is still incredibly safe and it is still incredibly safe and it is still incredibly safe and it is still incredibly rare to be involved in any incident at all. >> but that's fascinating information. so you can actually go online and find out which typically which airlines use which planes . not about the which planes. not about the safety issue, but the fear of cancellation. that's sensible advice.

>> yeah. although sometimes airlines might switch aeroplane type at the last minute depending on their schedules and availability . so yeah. availability. so yeah. >> sally gethin, excellent advice as ever. thank you very much for joining advice as ever. thank you very much forjoining me in the much for joining me in the studio here on gb news. now, coming up , studio here on gb news. now, coming up, premier league clubs will be asked to vote on the possible abolition of var for next season . does football need next season. does football need this? yes. let's get rid of it. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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britain's election . channel. britain's election. channel. >> welcome back. it's 549 on the final final furlong. i'm martin daubney on gb news. who's now then one of the worst things to happen to football. could be ditched this summer. premier league clubs will be asked to vote on whether var should be binned, but unfortunately one senior premier league club official has said sadly that there is no chance of this proposal getting the support it needs to be passed. well, join me now to discuss this is the former premier league referee mark halsey. mark welcome to the show. look everybody i know talks about var. it's the single biggest thing we seem to talk about all the time now. i don't know a single fan who likes it. they want rid of it. why on earth can't we just vote and get shot , because the premier league shot, because the premier league have invested a lot of money into into var. this and var is

here to stay. >> it's not var , it's the >> it's not var, it's the personnel that's operating the system . and we've seen so many system. and we've seen so many inconsistencies struck were from the word go when it came into the word go when it came into the premier league. >> we mike riley, who was in charge at that time, did not follow the ifab protocol. so what he done was he let the var make all the big decisions. and thatis make all the big decisions. and that is not you cannot do that. thatis that is not you cannot do that. that is that is against the ifab protocol. it has to be the on field referee that that makes the final decision . now we've the final decision. now we've seen it over the years. it hasn't improved . it's got worse hasn't improved. it's got worse and i thought it would get better under howard webb. but obviously howard's got a massive, massive task to bring bnng massive, massive task to bring bring the system to everybody's what everybody wants to see. and we even saw it last night in in the, manchester united newcastle game when andy gordon was fouled in the box by amrabat. it was listen it wasn't the fault of rob jones referee. it happened so quickly. and that is what var is there for. var should have

recommended a review on that incident because it was a clear and obvious error. and that's a problem with with var in the premier league. they don't know when to come in. they don't know when to come in. they don't know when not to come in. their recognition of handball is all over the place. they don't know what unnatural and natural position of the arms are in certain phases of play. and that's the problem. >> it's the training, the education and of our officials . education and of our officials. >> it's not the officials, it's the leadership and direction from the management. and it is just not good enough at present . just not good enough at present. >> i totally agree. and don't even get me started on offside. it used to be where your feet were. now it's your fingernails or your hair extensions , you or your hair extensions, you name it, anything. it's so vague. you mentioned there about don't scrap the car. it's bad drivers, not just the referees. mark, full disclosure, i'm in nottingham forest fan. i think forests have had a very, very poor season var with just about avoided the drop. the slide rules aren't out yet, but i want to ask you this question. there was a lot of consternation about my club's owner saying that the

people behind the scenes, the people behind the scenes, the people doing the slide rules before it gets to the ref, he said one of them was a luton town fan and they had a vested interest in that fixture. do you believe that there could be anything in that, or is that just sour grapes or the people making the decisions themselves, not without their own biases? >> no. listen, we cannot ever question the integrity of a match official. >> absolutely not. it's the competence of the officials that are operating that system. and the ifab protocol has been in since it first come in, in into fruition . now that that needs an fruition. now that that needs an absolute overhaul. and i've seen recently that the pgmol said we're getting 96, 6% of our var decisions, correct? i mean, that's absolutely nonsense. it's like like, you know, if i marked it and you mark the paper, it that wouldn't be that wouldn't be the case. yes, it could be on all the offsides. but let's have all the offsides. but let's have a look at all that. you know, what's the percentage on the key match incidents, the decisions that they're getting wrong. you know, people miss the uefa , use

know, people miss the uefa, use it in their competitions. >> our clubs are in in in uefa competitions. >> there's no way that they're going to vote to scrap var. we've got to improve the officials that operate it. that's the problem. >> people miss the old days of just blaming the referee. is that why you're all quiet for it? because you boys used to get all the stick . all the stick. >> oh, listen, i would love to use it, martin. i would have been as a as a referee today. you've got to back it as well. when i was refereeing, you have to be mentally tough and mentally strong and if you get called over to that monitor, had that mentally mental toughness to stick with your on field decision. >> you don't always have to agree with var. that's what we want to see. more referees stick with their original decisions . with their original decisions. >> totally agree. i'm totally with you, mark. i'm afraid we're going to have to blow the final whistle on this interview. wish you the very, very best. i know you, recovered from cancer, didn't you? so you're still looking fantastic there, mate. you're doing brilliant. thank you for having for coming on the show . always a delight. show. always a delight. >> i like you, i like you, martin. >> qpr stayed up so i'm very

happy. >> get in, my old son. good lad. great. thanks for coming on the show. a delight. now then, that's all from me for now. dewbs& co ko is up next, of course. and don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast, followed by britain's newsroom at 930. and then tom and emily with good afternoon britain from midday. well, mine is back at 3 pm. till six. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. thank you very much for your company this afternoon . let your company this afternoon. let us know, what do you think about sir keir starmer's big pledge? are you convinced? but now it's your weather and it's alex bercow. >> for a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello again. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. it will turn mostly dry overnight and it will be dry for many of us tomorrow. but before then we do have some heavy rain around at the moment. then we do have some heavy rain around at the moment . currently around at the moment. currently across central parts that's been dnven across central parts that's been driven by an area of low

pressure that is pushing its way westwards, and that's then pushing the heavy rain westwards. as we go through the end of the day. so it is going to clear away. but before then we could have some heavy rain, particularly as we go through this evening's rush hour, could cause some problems on the road. otherwise we are likely to see most places turning dry overnight, although just a few spots of rain where the clouds thick enough across some northern parts of england. perhaps there will be some clear skies, but temperatures aren't going to drop a huge amount, so for many it is going to be a relatively mild start to the day. on friday morning, minima of around 11 and 12 celsius for most places . if we look at the most places. if we look at the details for tomorrow morning and across scotland , it's a largely across scotland, it's a largely fine start. plenty of sunshine here though , perhaps towards the here though, perhaps towards the western isles, a bit more cloud and some outbreaks of rain. also and some outbreaks of rain. also a bit more cloud across southern parts of scotland and into northern ireland and northern england too. and this cloud could bring a few outbreaks of rain first thing tomorrow morning. but nothing especially heavy. heading further south across the rest of england and wales, lots of fine sunny weather to be had, but some mist and fog patches possible across

parts of the southeast. any mist and fog though , will quite and fog though, will quite quickly clear tomorrow morning and for many tomorrow. actually looks like a largely fine day. yes, there will be some showers around , but these will be quite around, but these will be quite hit and miss, so most places are likely to avoid them. but the showers across parts of scotland, particularly central scotland, particularly central scotland , could turn heavy and scotland, could turn heavy and possibly thundery with some decent sunshine around. temperatures for many are likely to be a little bit higher than today , more widely getting into today, more widely getting into the low 20 celsius, so feeling pretty warm in that sunshine. two more fine weather to come across northern parts as we go into the weekend, but further south it's looking quite showery, especially on saturday. perhaps fewer showers on sunday, temperatures still above average for the time of year, so feeling warm in any sunshine that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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