gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. and a very happy friday. it's 3 pm. p.m. >> and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. >> we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . on today's show across the uk. on today's show with sir john redwood across the uk. on today's show with sirjohn redwood and bionic mp craig mckinley. the latest tories to bow out of the election. the conservative exodus is now 75, equalling the grim record of 1997. does this signify a blair style wipe—out for rishi sunak's conservatives .7 for rishi sunak's conservatives? and next story? we broke the news this morning that lord frost, boris johnson's mr brexit

had been sensationally barred from standing in any of the 93 vacant seats that currently don't have a tory candidate. but rishi sunak has since denied that exclusively to us. stand by for some fighting talk from the prime minister and next, the former labour leader, jeremy corbyn has dramatically announced that he will stand as announced that he will stand as an independent in islington north, leaving keir starmer no opfion north, leaving keir starmer no option but to boot him out. finally, of the labour party . finally, of the labour party. and there's the rest of the day's news away from the general election as well, because in the past few hours, the 10,000th small boat migrant to arrive this year landed in britain. mark white will join us live from dover to discuss this stark landmark. and that's all coming up between now and 4:00. well, the show always a delight to have your company. it's bedlam on the election trail already.

chaos in the conservatives there's 75 people standing down now, and lord frost, this dramatic news, he'd been frozen out. mr brexit no longer welcomed. the prime minister has since denied that we'll have that exclusive coming up soon. plus, corbyn got finally kicked out of labour and at 4:00, 5:00 i'll be joined by richard tice, the leader of the reform party. after a dramatic week that saw nigel farage pull out and then get back in on the election trail and then say he was going to america, what's the truth ? to america, what's the truth? what's going on in reform? and is the party over for reform uk? i'll ask their leader here in the studio to put that to him directly. but first get in touch with your views and its gbnews.com forward slash your say that's the way to do it. but first it's your headlines. >> good afternoon. it's 3:02 i'm aaron armstrong. the prime minister says a fall in the

price cap is further evidence his plan is working, as both parties put energy at the centre of their electoral campaigns . as of their electoral campaigns. as rishi sunak completed his tour of the nation in northern ireland earlier and claimed the economy has turned a corner, he criticised the cost of labour's net zero pledges and says he'll be telling voters over the next few weeks how the conservatives plan to secure britain's future. >> inflation has fallen back to normal levels. the economy grew faster than all our competitors at the beginning of this year. today we've had the news that energy bills are falling again and wages have been rising faster than prices for almost a year now, and that's why it's the right time to turn to the future . and the world is sadly, future. and the world is sadly, a more uncertain place than it's beenin a more uncertain place than it's been in decades. and that's why what the country needs is leadership that can provide bold action. and that has a clear plan, because that's how we will deliver a secure future for everyone in our country. >> well, labour has ruled out any deals with the snp after the election, even in the event of a hung parliament. sir keir starmer is campaigning in glasgow's east today , one of the

glasgow's east today, one of the seats he's hoping to take from john swinney's party in july's election. sir keir says the snp's only ambition is to break up the uk, and there would be absolutely no deal with the scottish nationalists. jeremy corbyn has confirmed he'll stand as an independent candidate in the general election against the party he once led. as a result, he's automatically been expelled as a member of labour, which suspended him in 2020 over claims complaints of anti—semitism in the party had been, in his words, dramatically overstated for political reasons. the former labour leader says he'll run as a voice for equality, democracy and peace. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says he's not worried about corbyn's popularity in islington north, which he's represented since 1983. >> but jeremy corbyn will make his own decisions. i think he's standing as an independent. that's his choice. we will have an excellent labour candidate in islington north, as we've got excellent labour candidates across the country and the choice at this election is

absolutely clear. we've had 14 years of chaos and decline under this tory government . we cannot this tory government. we cannot have more of that. >> gb news can exclusively reveal more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the uk so far this year. the milestone figure was reached today after another 154 people arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats this morning. the latest arrivals will be a blow to rishi sunak on his second full day of campaigning . he's promised his campaigning. he's promised his government will stop the boats . government will stop the boats. the former boss of the post office has been accused of living in la la land over her role in the horizon scandal . role in the horizon scandal. paula vennells again became emotional on her third day of giving evidence. she's admitted making mistakes and accepted there's no one else to blame but claimed her only motivation was for the best of the post office and its hundreds of subpostmasters, adding she didn't know why important information didn't reach her. sam stein kc described that as absolute rubbish and suggested ms vennells had failed to ask

the right questions because the risk was too great. >> i worked . as hard as >> i worked. as hard as i possibly could to deliver . the possibly could to deliver. the best post office for the uk . it best post office for the uk. it would have been wonderful to have 30,000 post office branches. that would have been the best outcome ever to have had more post offices in more communities . what i failed to communities. what i failed to do, and i have made this clear previously, is i did not recognise this. the and it's been discussed within across the inquiry. the imbalance of power between the institution and the individual. and i let these people down. >> the number of people sleeping rough has doubled since 2010, despite the conservative party's promise to solve the crisis, the government published a strategy to tackle the growing problem two years ago, reiterating its manifesto commitment from the last election. but since then, the problems got worse. housing

organisation shelter says homelessness is a political choice and has called on mps to do more to tackle it . and if you do more to tackle it. and if you found the rising price of drinks difficult to swallow recently, this may make matters worse. an investigation by trading standards has found almost 90% of beer in pubs they surveyed is being short measured, and 43% of wine officers visited 77 pubs across the country and were served 96 short measures out of 137 orders. that's more than two thirds. it equates to £88 a year for the average beer drinker, and £114 a year for those who dnnk and £114 a year for those who drink wine . well, for the latest drink wine. well, for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. the qr codes on your screen. the details are on the website and now it's back to . martin. >> thank you aaron. now let's start with the latest on another hectic day of general election

campaigning. and the great tory exodus has now equalled the record set in 1997, a massive 75 conservative mps will not fight the election on the 4th of july, and craig mckinley , who only and craig mckinley, who only returned to parliament. if you recall bravely, two days ago after having his arms and legs amputated , will bow out as the amputated, will bow out as the mp for south thanet , the high mp for south thanet, the high profile tories sir john redwood and greg clark are also quitting the party. well, gb news political editor christopher hope has spent the day with rishi sunak and he joins me now. chris, welcome to the show. before we turn to the great tory exodus, chris, you broke a story earlier on today about lord frost being frozen out of the tory party. you've got an update for me. what is it ? for me. what is it? >> that's right. friends of lord frost who insist he has been told he is off the candidates list. he's approved, but his past to go forward to try and get selected by all these 93 or so associations that have yet to

find a candidate in the tory party for the june for the july 4th election that's been deferred for a future date. there's a meeting next tuesday or wednesday when that might be brought back. but as things stand, he is not allowed to stand, he is not allowed to stand as a candidate in the coming up election. this has been denied, though , by the been denied, though, by the prime minister, the guy in charge of the party. he has told gb news and other broadcasters on a flight from northern ireland to the west midlands just a moment ago , said said in just a moment ago, said said in terms david frost has not been blocked from standing as a candidate at the election in july. that's just not right . the july. that's just not right. the protest started on wednesday night. he hasn't been blocked and he says, you know, i'm a low tax brexiteer like david frost. so there's some dispute here. there's no question friends of david frost insist he is blocked. the pm says otherwise. that's what he said was on the plane over, overjust now. plane over, over just now. >> again, chris, of course the significance of this, of course, is that lord frost is a proper as you would call them, red

meat. >> brexiteer, a low tax conservative. there's a feeling his ilk were not so welcome in the party now is it? drifting towards the one nation conservatives who are going to be standing? so can we expect then with this revelation, do you think lord frost to be allocated a seat soon and to be welcomed back into the flock ? welcomed back into the flock? >> he might do. it's complicated. he's a peer. he's lord frost. no peer has ever resigned from the house of lords to become an mp in 2014. the rules change on that so he can do so. he could quit the lords and become a candidate for election to parliament. he was called, of course, the great frost by boris johnson. so yet again, this idea of boris johnson in the background, lord frost is someone who's seen, who divides and came up with boris johnson's brexit deal, and that i think that that is the undercurrent behind this whole thing is, is it being driven by people who don't like boris johnson? that would be denied, of course, by by boris johnson himself . but of course, by by boris johnson himself. but the mr sunak, we spoke to him on the flight over, on the flight back here off

camera. but there are some images of the conversation we had. he made very clear. he feels he is pumped up. he's ready to go. he fundamentally believes in a country where taxes should be cut, he said. he said how he is enthusiastically getting getting stuck into this campaign . another 40 days to go. campaign. another 40 days to go. >> well, chris, the prime minister might be saying he's feeling pumped up, but there's no getting away from the fact that his candidates are deflating. 75 and counting now won't be standing at the next election. and that allows us, chris, to meet that grim tally. that tally of 1997, that record has now been set. could that be a grim omen of a tony blair style wipe—out to come, perhaps ? style wipe—out to come, perhaps? >> it's certainly an omen for something . 75 was the record set something. 75 was the record set in 1997. we're now going above that. of course, all tory mps stand down for different reasons. we heard, of course, from chris heaton—harris on shoppers political podcast out today.

shoppers political podcast out today . he just thinks it's time today. he just thinks it's time today. he just thinks it's time to move on. he's in his late 50s and he wants to try and get on, get on with his life, with a new idea, new things to do. greg clarke, of course he's standing down. sirjohn clarke, of course he's standing down. sir john redwood, definitely a low tax brexiteer . definitely a low tax brexiteer. and also, i think rather sadly, craig mckinley also a low tax brexiteer and someone who lost his arms and his legs to sepsis and gb news was proud to present that documentary telling craig mckinney story only on tuesday. he then was given a round of applause by everybody in the house of commons. journalists were in tears watching it. it was an extraordinary moment, and indeed , the pm has said that sir indeed, the pm has said that sir craig craig mckinney has told gb news he has stood down because the sudden calling of the election right now, i mean, he's not really in a place to fight an election. he's planning like like we all were for a november election and that would have allowed time to get all his health better, stronger and ready to work. the 60 or 80 hours a week timetable. he normally does. he can't do that. but the pm has paid again

tribute to him, to journalists on the flight over from belfast, saying that in his dark days the pm thinks of craig mckinley and thinks well, my problems aren't as bad as his, so absolutely a credit to him. but overall, 75 mps, tory mps now standing down. part of the reason why is the last elections in 2017 2019 were not expected. they were surprised . elections this one surprised. elections this one was expected in 2024. so it's almost a comparison to 2015. it's been a long run, i think, for a lot of tory mps , and for a lot of tory mps, and that's why you're seeing more stand down than in previous elections. but it's now much in the record that goes back to 1997. and that tory wipe—out okay, chris, thank you for that update live on the campaign trail with the prime minister, rishi sunak will cross back to you for loads more throughout the rest of the show. >> excellent stuff. now i'm joined now by the former sky political correspondent peter spencen political correspondent peter spencer. peter, welcome to the show. always a delight to especially on a friday. can i ask you about jeremy corbyn? let's get stuck into jeremy corbyn. jeremy corbyn has

announced dramatically he's going to stand as an independent. and finally, sir keir starmer has booted him out. the labour party. >> yeah, i mean i have to say that in my judgement, martin, in the scheme of things , whether the scheme of things, whether jeremy corbyn stands or not, whether he wins or not is a bit of a detail when you place it against the overwhelming evidence from all the opinion polls, which is the fact that it's going to be an absolute shoo in for the labour party. >> so if he loses one here or there, whatevs. i mean , there, whatevs. i mean, interesting point of this is with scotland has come into the fore. it's interesting to note that that that in 2015, scotland ceased to be a labour heartland and the, the snp swept the board. now the latest opinion polls suggest that's now on its head. and the labour party stands to gain perhaps as many as 40 more seats in scotland. also there's quite interesting

about the red wall, the 45 seats there and, we, we note that this controversy about whether lord frost, who negotiated brexit is to is to stand or not. but the opinion polls again tell us that there's quite widespread voter dissatisfaction, if not necessarily with brexit, at least with the terms negotiated, i.e. by lord frost. and, remember that that boris johnson seduced these former labour voters into the tory fold. on the basis of getting brexit done, could be that they'll go back. so we're looking at up to nearly 100 new seats slipping into starmer's lap. lucky old starmer. >> yeah, but before you can't just brush off the corbyn thing because you have to remember, okay, you can say, oh, it's only okay, you can say, oh, it's only one okay, you can say, oh, it's only one seat here or there. >> but he was the labour party leader that sir keir starmer endorsed twice to be prime minister. and suddenly he's been swept out into the cold. is this indication of yet more dramatic u—turns and flip flopping, or is

it a case of here's a leader who's actually getting the party? finally, in order, here is a leader who has moved on, and very significantly, and suddenly i find myself thinking about michael foot and the sdp. >> remember, he was that great left wing socialist and the sdp said, well up. this will not put all the sdp, the gang of four, you may remember. and so they flipped over and started a new party, didn't fat lot of good it did them in the end. but nonetheless that point is worth making. and indeed i have to say that if any of the opinion polls are anything like right, we are looking at an utterly decimated tory party. come july the fifth, and one wonders to what extent they might start thinking, look, we're we're so we have such an ideological schism. maybe now is the moment to fess up that that we don't really function as a single party. and there could indeed even be a split. i mean,

look, the traders are broad church, but frankly, these days it is looking about as comfortable as that temple in cited in the bible. after samson had done his stuff and ripped it apart. >> excellent stuff as ever . >> excellent stuff as ever. their biblical end to your interview there, peter spencer as ever, pretty in pink in your kitchen there. thanks for joining us. always an absolute delight. now we will of course have lots more on the election campaign throughout the show, and i'll be joined live by a cabinet minister a member of the shadow cabinet and the leader of reform uk, richard tice. so stick around for all of that. we've got tons coming up and there's plenty of coverage on our website, gbnews.com, which you've helped to make the fastest growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much. now brace yourselves because it's the great british giveaway, your chance to win £20,000 in cash tax free in time for the summer. what would you spend that wonga on? a dream holiday? perhaps get the garden done, or perhaps even treat the family well? you have

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welcome back. your time is 322. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now, later in the show, i'll discuss a story that has appalled me. it turns out that more than two thirds of boozers and bars are giving us short measures. this must stop now. moving on. immigration is also a major talking point in this general election campaign. of course , and gb news can course, and gb news can exclusively reveal today the more than 10,000 channel migrants have now crossed

illegally to the uk. so far this year alone, and this grim milestone figure was reached today after another 154 people arrived at dover in three small boats this morning . let's cross boats this morning. let's cross live now to dover and speak to our home and security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show. a grim tally finally being achieved. tell us more . achieved. tell us more. >> yes, indeed. martin, we got word from our sources that we were likely to pass the 10,000 mark today. so we duly came down to dover and sure enough, three small boats were pushed off from france early this morning. the first one just after dawn, spotted in the english channel. the dover lifeboat picked up 43 migrants and took them here to the border force processing centre at dover harbour. then, just a couple of hours after that, another small boat was

intercepted and 45 people taken here to dover . and then the here to dover. and then the final boat so far today was picked up just before lunchtime with 66 people on board. a total of 154 that have arrived. so far today, taking that tally to 10,036 for the year so far . it 10,036 for the year so far. it is a landmark figure , there is is a landmark figure, there is no doubt, and we've achieved that figure a whole month earlier than we did last year. it was well into june before we crossed the 10,000 mark. and so while the government was able, martin last year to trumpet the fact that small boat arrivals were down, some 36% over the year and they claimed that was down to their stop, the boats policy this year, there has been a total reversal of that situation, and one of the advantages, i think, for rishi sunakin advantages, i think, for rishi sunak in going ahead with that election on the 4th of july is

that he will not have to suffer the surge during the summer months when on a flat, calm day, as you well know, martin, more than a thousand migrants can come across on a single day. i think it would be very difficult for him to go to the electorate to try to sell the fact that the government stopped the boats policy was working . if we had policy was working. if we had another bumper year, and that's what's being predicted by border force officials. >> and mark white, you called it very early on when the election was called the other day . and was called the other day. and thatis was called the other day. and that is rishi sunak simply cannot stop the boats. he can stop the boats no more than you can flap your arms there and fly to calais. do you think he'll realise that this was a statement he could never deliver on? and that's why, just to best go to the nation early and just try and get this over and done with. >> well, it's very tempting, isn't it, for politicians to make these bold claims. 3 or 4 years out from an election. but as that election cycle grows

ever nearer , then you have to ever nearer, then you have to make good on that promise. and clearly that was always going to be very, very difficult for the prime minister to do because, as we know, as keen watchers of what happens out in the marine environment in the english channel environment in the english channel, it's on the days when the weather conditions improve, the weather conditions improve, the boats come ashore as night follows day. these boats come when the weather conditions improve and if you have a great year of weather conditions prevailing for the most part you have a bumper year as you did in 2022. it was pretty iffy for a large part of the year last yean large part of the year last year, which meant we had that dip in the number of migrants coming . but this dip in the number of migrants coming. but this year again, so far there have been some pretty good days. and with of course, the summer months coming, we're expecting even more to come across . the interesting thing, across. the interesting thing, of course, will be martin to see exactly what labour do if they do get in to power, because the

absolute headache that rishi sunak and his cabinet have had to deal with in thousands of migrants coming across our engush migrants coming across our english channel, will then be on the lap of sir keir starmer and his government is the promised hundreds of extra law enforcement officers for the national crime agency going to make all that difference at the end of the day? is the plan to process asylum seeker applications more quickly going to make all that difference? at the end of the day ? perhaps, but the end of the day? perhaps, but it's going to be a difficult year ahead for whoever gets into office on july the 5th. >> thank you. mark white. excellent update there. live from dover as ever. and we'll come back to you later in the show for more. thank you very much. now for more on this topic. i'm joined in the studio by alp mehmet, who's the chairman of course, of migration watch. thank you for joining chairman of course, of migration watch. thank you forjoining us watch. thank you for joining us in the studio. a grim tally 10,000 has been breached. and do you think at current reckoning, alp were on track for some kind

of record here. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> yeah. without a doubt. >> yeah. without a doubt. >> not only are we ahead of where we were that last year, but where we were at this point in the year, the year before 22, when we had 45,000 more more than 45,000 coming in. >> we are heading towards 50, 60,000. >> at this rate . >> at this rate. >> at this rate. >> and guess what? what rishi sunak tried to avoid by going earlier as as mark implied, that's all going to happen in the middle of an election campaign. >> now , i think it's not only is >> now, i think it's not only is our numbers going to go up, but what is particularly depressing is that there's no likelihood of anyone actually getting a grip, whether it's labour or getting into office or the tories coming back, so long as the numbers that are getting into the eu now

are able to make their way across europe to and the shores of calais, then i'm afraid numbers will keep going up because no one's going to send them back. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and that brings me to my next point. alp the rwanda bill was meant to be the big deterrent. they're meant to be the line in the sand. astonishingly, yesterday on the very first day of the general election trail, rishi sunak admitted there won't be a single flight taking off before the general election. what message does that send out to the people traffickers ? to the people traffickers? >> well, this message it sends to me is that rishi sunak suddenly decided , oh dear, this suddenly decided, oh dear, this was a mistake. let's try and make the best. and most of it. there was never any chance of the rwanda plan, the rwanda scheme actually working . once scheme actually working. once they failed to introduce in the first instance. bear in mind we had three pieces of legislation. what they should have done was

passed the final bit of legislation , which should have legislation, which should have included some sort of repealing or over overseeing the human rights act, the fact that they didn't, and the fact that they weren't to prepared determ 18 and deal with quickly and remove. and that was never going to happen. it meant that rwanda was never going to work anyway. >> can i ask you a very quick question, chris hope, our political editor, is on the campaign trail with rishi sunak. he asked him specifically today. would you withdraw from the echr? and he said, you'll have to wait until the manifesto . so to wait until the manifesto. so do you think that rishi sunak has got the guts to put that in the manifesto pledge? and if so, do you think the british people would go for it , no , i don't would go for it, no, i don't think they will. but i think we should be careful as well. pulling out of the echr in itself won't be the magic wand. there are other things that need to happen as well, and i just

don't think that rishi sunak or any other politician has either the guts or the will. frankly to introduce the necessary legislation to do that. okay, amendment , legislation to do that. okay, amendment, always a pleasure to talk to you. >> and we'll be joined by an immigration lawyer in the next hour for his take on this story that's captivating the nation now, loads more still to come between now and 4:00. in a few minutes, i'll take a closer look at another one of the big elections talking points and thatis elections talking points and that is this. the tories and labour today clash on energy policy and the prospect of cheaper household bills . get on cheaper household bills. get on with it, please. first, here's your latest news headlines and it's radisson . it's radisson. >> james martin 331. our top stories . the prime minister says stories. the prime minister says the lowering of the energy price cap shows his plan is working as both labour and the conservatives look to make it an electoral dividing line. rishi sunak completed his tour of the nafion sunak completed his tour of the nation in northern ireland and claimed the economy has turned a corner. he also criticised the

cost of labour's net zero pledges, and said that he'll be telling voters over the next few weeks how the conservatives plan to secure britain's future. >> inflation has fallen back to normal levels. the economy grew faster than all our competitors at the beginning of this year. today we've had the news that energy bills are falling again and wages have been rising faster than prices for almost a year now, and that's why it's the right time to turn to the future. and the world is sadly, a more uncertain place than it's beenin a more uncertain place than it's been in decades. and that's why what the country needs is leadership that can provide bold action. and that has a clear plan, because that's how we will deliver a secure future for everyone in our country. >> well, labour has confirmed it will pass the smoking ban if the party enters office with the conservatives having run out of time to get it through parliament. the labour leader has been campaigning in scotland today where he's pledged to bnng today where he's pledged to bring down energy costs with a new publicly owned green power company. labour is hoping to win dozens of seats in scotland after years of dominance by the

snp . well, gb news can snp. well, gb news can exclusively reveal that more than 10,000 migrants have illegally crossed the channel to the uk so far this year. it's a blow to rishi sunak on his second full day of election campaigning, second full day of election campaigning , after he promised campaigning, after he promised that his government would stop the boats . and finally, the the boats. and finally, the documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock has died at the age of 53. he came to prominence with his oscar nominated film super size me in 2004, which tracked his health while he ate nothing but mcdonald's for a month. the film was credited with prompting a broad conversation about how fast food and rising obesity was impacting society. mr spurlock passed away in new york due to complications from cancer. well, if you'd like all the latest stories you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen right now, or go to gb news .com/ lurtz.

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>> welcome back. your time is 338. i'm martin daubney , and 338. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now, later in the show, across live to a pub, after the shocking and frankly grotesque news that more than two thirds of beer and wine served in british boozers is being served up short , measured. being served up short, measured. we must stamp this out now before that, the average

household could be more than £120 better off each year from july. and that's because ofgem has lowered its price cap by 7. and this comes as energy becomes the first battleground on the general election campaign , with general election campaign, with rishi sunak and sir keir starmer pledging cheaper gas and electricity bills for voters. well, they would, wouldn't they? well, they would, wouldn't they? well, gb news. business and economics editor liam halligan joins me now with on the money liam, it's always a great friday when you rock up to the studio. >> let's talk myself out of the pub. come and talk to you. >> you get your measure. now, talking of which, now short energy bills are something everybody cares about and politicians know it. but tell us first about the price cuts and why it's good news before we get into the politics. >> yeah, back in the day. no one ever asked me about energy bills or electricity generation . it or electricity generation. it was all kind of nerdville, you know, it was it was the kind of thing that i banged on about in

newsrooms and nobody was interested in. but now energy pnces interested in. but now energy prices are utility bills, gas and electricity front and centre of the cost of living crisis and front and centre of this election campaign. what's happened today is that ofgem, which is the energy regulator, they've announced their new price cap for the three year penod price cap for the three year period from july, including august and september. the last price cap came in in april, and that price cap is meant to limit the extent to which your household bill can go up, not the total bill, because of course, you pay to use more electricity and gas. you pay more. yeah. it's about limiting the unit cost of gas and electricity and then we look at the average households use and we use that unit cost to work out the, the average bill. so here are the scores on the doors. let me show you the numbers. now the average gas and electricity bill, according to ofgem, will be £1,516.98 a year. that's combined gas and electricity from july. that's

down 7% on the current ofgem energy price cap, and that's a saving per household of £122 a year on average . but hold on to year on average. but hold on to your horses because after the summer when the weather gets colder, when geopolitical angst between russia and ukraine in the middle east could crank up again, the ofgem energy price cap is likely to go up again in october. so that's october, november, december and let's just get this in context. i've just get this in context. i've just told you that the average bill will be just over £1,500 from july before the war in ukraine. so back in early 2022, before putin's invasion in february 2022, the average bill combined gas and electricity was just over £1,000 £1,084. so even at this lower ofgem energy price cap, bills are still 50% higher than they were at the beginning of 2022. and i can't see that changing. >> and that brings us to the

political solutions that the two parties are offering up. the tories . claire coutinho seems to tories. claire coutinho seems to have suddenly woken up, but green taxes are a bad idea. and the labour party, meanwhile, have something called the great british energy plan. tell us where you think the sense lies between those two approaches. >> okay, well, it's hard to tell because they're both so vague. i mean, labour's plan is literally a slogan. the great. i mean , i a slogan. the great. i mean, i know nothing more about it than that. the great british bake off very little has been published by labour. i mean, to be fair to them , the election has just been them, the election has just been called. but this is a key thing andifs called. but this is a key thing and it's going to be very technical. and those of us in the press who follow such things should have a chance to look at it and then explain it objectively to a broader audience. let's take the tories . audience. let's take the tories. we've been calling here in gb news for a long time that it's unfair if energy subsidies to the renewable companies to build their wind farms, to build their solar farms , if they're paid out solar farms, if they're paid out of electricity and gas bills , of electricity and gas bills, because that's disproportionately falling on the poor who pay more as a share of their income on gas and

electricity than wealthier households, it's a bigger share. same with with food. so i think that's unfair. it should come out of general taxation if they're subsidised at all. you know, if it stacks up in a business sense, why does it need to be subsidised? all this green energy, that's one thing. so the tories are now saying just as the election is called, oh, we're going to get rid of these subsidies on your electricity bill for green energy. you know, i'll believe that when i see it, to be honest with you. i think that's just an election wheeze by the tories. but then labour, they're saying they want this great british energy company. okay. and that's a slogan. i don't know what they're talking about beyond that, because no proper information has been published. so we'll have to see. i imagine what labour are trying to do is trying to say that just with the railways , if we with the railways, if we nationalise it, if we make the state more involved , then it state more involved, then it will be kind of cuddlier and better and the reason a lot of voters might go for that is because they're young, because they don't remember what you and

i remember, martin, about the 70s and the 80s, when you had state run organisation organisations like private sector trains. they're not perfect , they're often awful, perfect, they're often awful, but they're a lot better than they were when it was british rail, and there was absolutely no incentive by anyone in the company to actually make for a decent service because it was state run. look, these are big ideological battles. i see lots of broad brush political strokes and very little policy detail. and i have to say, martin, i think it's going to stay that way for a lot of this campaign. it will be all about slogans, rather than actual details that we can get into , examine and we can get into, examine and properly hold the respective parties to account. >> great stuff liam halligan always full of energy and you've deserved the pint after that. and if i was a landlord, i wouldn't short measure you superb stuff as ever. liam halligan. now moving on. could the england football team play a decisive role in who wins the next general election ? well, next general election? well, it's not as far fetched as it sounds. i'll have all the details after this. i'm martin

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welcome back. the time is 348. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now 4:00. i'll have all the day's big election news as a bionic mp, craig mckinlay announces he will bow out as an mp. but before that, liberal democrat leader sir ed davey has been campaigning in eastbourne today it's one of the many seats his party is hoping to take from the conservatives in the south of england. and here's what he had to say to the media earlier. >> here in eastbourne. we're really hopeful of taking this seat back. it's clear a real close battle between the liberal democrats and the conservatives. but it's, replicated across the south of england. on the coast, in places like chichester and lewes , where we're really lewes, where we're really challenging the conservatives. but across kent and sussex and

surrey and hampshire and frankly, all over the south—east and south—west, it's the liberal democrats who are the challengers to the conservatives. and we're seeing the conservatives running scared. today we heard john redwood , not standing again. i redwood, not standing again. i think he knows that the liberal democrats will beat him in wokingham. >> we've seen rishi sunak and keir starmer have fanned out across the uk instant vie. are we going to expect you to stick to the south—east of england south—east, south, southeast and southwest, where you've got the best chance? >> no, i'm going to go across the country as well , we've the country as well, we've you're right. we've been in surrey the first day, then in cheltenham and now here on the south coast , cheltenham and now here on the south coast, seeing some of our best target seats. but we've got some great target seats in scotland, we've got a great target seats in the north, from, from manchester to yorkshire. so it'll be across the country. a campaign for the liberal democrats . but you're right to democrats. but you're right to say that in the south of england there are so many seats that have been traditionally

conservative that the liberal democrats are the ones who can take off them. and increasingly in the south west, the west country , which used to be country, which used to be a stronghold for the liberal democrats, we're back there again. we've seen that in the by—election victories in somerset and devon . we've seen somerset and devon. we've seen that in council victories this yearin that in council victories this year in dorset, that in council victories this year in dorset , last that in council victories this year in dorset, last year in devon, the previous year in somerset. so across the south of england, i think people realise now if they want to get rid of the conservatives, they vote liberal democrat. >> if you do end up picking up these seats off the tories, you may put labour in a position where they don't have enough seats to form a government. what are you what is your message to voters about whether you will go into coalition with labour? you've already ruled one out with the tories. >> well, liberal democrats certainly won't push pep up the conservatives. they need to leave government. they're out of ideas, out of excuses, out of time, and they need to be out of office. they've undermined our country. but liberal democrats have a set of really positive ideas. we call it our fair deal for people. people who've been working hard, paying their taxes, playing by the rules,

looking after loved ones who just had a really tough time under the conservatives. and i want to put the liberal democrat ideas there because i think our ideas there because i think our ideas are fresh. i think they would transform our country and actually transform our politics. we're very different from any other party. >> notice you don't want to talk about a coalition with labour. >> well, i'm talking about this election campaign when i'm knocking on doors , what people knocking on doors, what people say to me and say to other liberal democrat canvassers , liberal democrat canvassers, what are you going to do about the health service in our local area? what are you going to do about the problem of the water company pumping their filthy sewage onto our beaches, into our rivers? what are you going to do about the cost of living? and we are going to focus on that. i make no apology for that. i make no apology for that. it's an election campaign, and i want to tell people what liberal democrats stand for. >> now, with all the talk about the election , there's one the election, there's one interesting factor that i want to look at now. and could gareth southgate and his england team play southgate and his england team play a decisive role in who ends up in downing street? well, in 1970, england were knocked out of the world cup just four days

before labour and harold wilson were beaten , beaten by edward were beaten, beaten by edward heath's conservative party so with the general election taking place ten days ahead of the euro 2024 final, could a good run for southgate's side help rishi sunak win on july the 4th? well, i'm joined now by the sports journalist ben jacobs. ben, welcome to the show. always a delight this is a fascinating story. it's based on some actual proper research from stanford university that shows some interesting stuff. talk us through it . through it. >> yeah, this was back in 1970 when edward heath's conservatives were were tipped to knock harold wilson out of downing street. >> and there was a feeling back then that england and football had an influence on the election, because england played a quarter final against west germany in 1970, in mexico, and that was just four days before the poll. and they disappointed.

and it seemingly created a situation where the mood of the country turned and impacted the election. and interestingly , the election. and interestingly, the same theory was actually there in 1966 when england won the world cup. the only difference is that one's a myth , because is that one's a myth, because there was about three weeks difference. there was 31st of march and then there was the 17th of july. so a bigger gap between campaigning election and 1966, world cup final. but in 1970 they were so close together that there was genuinely a feeling at that time that football influenced politics. >> and ben, this research shows that the incumbent party gets a 1.6% vote shift uplift. if a team does well. interestingly, july the 4th is the election, july the 4th is the election, july the 4th is the election, july the 5th and the sixth is the quarter final, which england are most likely going to make. there could be something in this. >> there could be, as you say, we don't want to jinx england because first of all, they've got their three group games

against serbia, denmark and slovenia . but then if they're slovenia. but then if they're still playing, you've got bars, you've got feel good factor. and thatis you've got feel good factor. and that is something that the incumbent would usually be able to dine off. alternatively, if people are sad they don't like their football, they don't like their football, they don't like their lives, they don't like the fact maybe they forked out money watching the football, travelling. they come back okay, in comes they want a change. so logically, an incumbent would get an advantage through inadvertent things such as a big football event. right. >> we have to leave it there. ben jacobs rishi sunak will no doubt be hoping for any driftwood. can he say it was southgate? what won it? now 76 tory mps will not fight the next general election, and that beats now the record of 75 that was set in 1997. all the tories heading for a blair style wipe—out i'm martin daubney gb news your weather with annie shuttleworth. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. there will be some sunshine across southern areas to end the day, but for most of us it will stay rather cloudy andifs us it will stay rather cloudy and it's going to be quite a cold night tonight as well, particularly compared to recent nights. drizzly rain is going to continue across northern areas. that's because low pressure is still nearby and a weather front. but through this evening, that low pressure will gradually shift north and westwards, taking with it that cloudier and slightly wetter weather and introducing a much clearer weather. the clearer skies from the south this afternoon will spread northwards, and that will allow for temperatures to dip down into single figures, possibly low single figures across southern counties . there across southern counties. there could also be some mist and fog around as well. first thing, but also quite a good deal of sunshine as well . saturday is sunshine as well. saturday is looking like the driest day of the weekend and the warmest one as well, so fairly bright. start across the far north of scotland. still some lingering rain across the northwest and the southwest probably, but for

most of us it should be dry, if not a bit. cloudy across northern areas across northern england, much of wales and england, much of wales and england, it should be a bright start. temperatures will pick up quite quickly as the sun comes up, so you'll be into double digits at least by around 8:00, and there'll be plenty of sunshine through the morning that mist and fog should clear quite quickly. that's a potential for a few showers to develop, particularly across northern areas of england. parts of scotland as well could see some heavier showers on saturday, but most of us should stay dry and there's just a chance of some rain clipping the far southeast later on in the day. but in the sunshine, highs of around 22 degrees in the south into the high teens across the north. but there is a bit of a change on the way for sunday, as this area of rain from the southwest will push north eastwards through the night, bringing a spell of wet weather. and once it does clear through we will see plenty of showers breaking out across the country through sunday and monday. these could be quite heavy, possibly thundery, so it's going to turn much more unsettled and a little bit cooler for the rest of the

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gb news. >> hey. very good afternoon to you. it's 4 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 , with the uk. on today's show, with sir john redwood and bionic mp sirjohn redwood and bionic mp craig mckinlay, the latest tories to bow out of the election, the conservative exodus is now 76, surpassing the grim record of 1997. and does this signify a blair style wipe—out for rishi sunak's conservatives as next? former labour leader jeremy corbyn has dramatically announced that he will stand as an independent in islington north, leaving sir keir starmer no choice but to finally boot him out of the

party. now. yesterday, reform's honorary president nigel farage, dramatically stood down after rishi sunak outmanoeuvred him by calling a snap election with their talisman heading to help trump. is the party over be joined b their leader, richard tice . and their leader, richard tice. and there was also news away from there was also news away from the general election as well. and in the past few hours, the 10,000th small boat migrants who arrived this year alone has landed in britain. that's all coming now, between now and 4:00. we've got some breaking news for you in the last few minutes, and there's a big pro—palestine protest at the last election event that rishi sunakis last election event that rishi sunak is at today, protesters are chanting free, free palestine will have lots more on that breaking story as we get it. and as usual, i'd love to

hear from you. there's a new way to do that. send your views and post your comments by going to gbnews.com. forward slash your say. before all of that, it's time for your latest headlines. and it's ray addison . and it's ray addison. >> thanks, martin. good afternoon. one minute past for our top stories. the prime minister says the lowering of the energy price cap shows his plan is working, as both labour and the conservatives look to make it an electoral dividing line. rishi sunak completed his tour of the nation in northern ireland and claimed the economy has turned a corner. he criticised the cost of labour's net zero pledges, and says he'll be telling voters over the next few weeks how the conservatives plan to secure britain's future. >> inflation has fallen back to normal levels. the economy grew faster than all our competitors at the beginning of this year. today we've had the news that energy bills are falling again and wages have been rising faster than prices for almost a year now, and that's why it's

the right time to turn to the future. and the world is sadly, a more uncertain place than it's .been a more uncertain place than it's . been in decades. and that's why what the country needs is leadership that can provide bold action. and that has a clear plan, because that's how we will deliver a secure future for everyone in our country. >> labour has ruled out any deals with the snp after the election, even in the event of a hung parliament. sir keir starmer has been campaigning in the east of glasgow today, which is one of the seats that he's hoping to take from john swinney's party in july's election . sir keir said the election. sir keir said the snp's only ambition is to break up the uk and there would be absolutely no deal with the scottish nationalists . jeremy scottish nationalists. jeremy corbyn has confirmed that he'll stand as an independent candidate in the general election against the party that he once led. as a result, he's automatically been expelled as a member of labour, which suspended him in 2020 over his claims that complaints of anti—semitism in the party had

been dramatically overstate . been dramatically overstate. voted. the former labour leader says he'll run as a voice for equality, democracy and peace. labour leader sir keir starmer said he's not worried about corbyn's popularity in islington north, which he's represented since 1983. >> jeremy corbyn will make his own decisions. i think he's standing as an independent. that's his choice. we will have an excellent labour candidate in islington north as we've got excellent labour candidates across the country and the choice at this election is absolutely clear. we've had 14 years of chaos and decline under this tory government. we cannot have more of that . have more of that. >> gb news can reveal that more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the united kingdom so far this year. the milestone figure was reached today after another 154 arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats this morning. it's a to blow rishi sunak on his second full day of election

campaigning, his second full day of election campaigning , after he promised campaigning, after he promised that his government would stop the boats . the former boss of the boats. the former boss of the boats. the former boss of the post office has been accused of living in, quote, la la land over her role in the horizon scandal. paula vennells again became emotional on her third day of giving evidence . she day of giving evidence. she admitted making mistakes and accepted that there was no one else to blame, but claimed that she didn't know why important information hadn't reached her. sam stein kc described that as absolute rubbish and suggested that miss vennells had failed to ask the right questions because the risk was too great. >> i worked . as hard as >> i worked. as hard as i possibly could to deliver the. the best post office for the uk. it would have been wonderful to have 30,000 post office branches that would have been the best outcome ever to have had more post offices in more communities. what i failed to

do, and i have made this clear previously, is i did not recognise the and it's been discussed within across the inquiry. the imbalance of power between the institution and the individual, and i let these people down. >> theresa may has urged tory mps to fight to re—elect a conservative government in her farewell speech in parliament, the mp for maidenhead, who served as prime minister between 2016 and 2019, said it would be a great wrench to leave the commons after 27 years. her departure comes as 76 tory mps stepped down, which is more than the number of those who left back in 1997. the documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock has died at the age of 53. he came to prominence with his oscar nominated film super size me in 2004, which tracked his health while he ate nothing but mcdonald's for a month. the film was credited with prompting a

broad conversation about how fast food and rising obesity was impacting society. mr spurlock passed away in new york due to complications from cancer. for all the top stories you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts. now straight back to . straight back to. martin. >> thank you ray. now we start this hour with some big breaking news. and there's a big pro—palestine protest at the last election event that rishi sunakis last election event that rishi sunak is attending. today, protesters are chanting free, free palestine and we'll have more on that breaking story as we get it. now moving on, because earlier, mr sunak said he was pumped up and enjoying himself on this election tour. however, the satirists have been out in force after the pm and northern ireland secretary chris heaton—harris spoke to the media

outside the titanic museum, prompting an influx, of course of sinking ships and rearranging the deck chair. comparisons online. and a grim tally has now been reached because a record 76 tory mps have now said that they will not fight at the election on july the 4th. and labour, meanwhile, has had its own battles after expelling jeremy corbyn from the party for running as an independent. and meanwhile, reform uk are yet to unify on the role of nigel farage. well, to discuss all this, i'm now joined in the studio by the political editor at the mail on sunday anna mikhailova. welcome to the studio delight to have your company. let's start with this. this grim tally, 76, has been achieved for today. started off with sir john achieved for today. started off with sirjohn redwood. then of course, it was craig mckinley who bravely returned to parliament just this week . then parliament just this week. then it was greg clark, and now recently, sir david evennett bexleyheath, a very safe, healthy majority. this is now

looking more and more like a 97 repeat. and the next question is, does that mean we're heading for a blair style wipe—out. >> well, i think look , i mean, >> well, i think look, i mean, in some respect at this stage in the political cycle, it's no surprise that some mps want to stand down. >> they've had a you know, they've been there for a long time. but as you say, it's the surprising names. >> i mean, people like huw merriman, for example, who would have been a rising star. >> and in any other context, i think two things are happening. one, you've got rishi sunak so far behind in the polls, but also a real problem of party management. so, you know, there have been so many complaints from , from, from the from, from, from the parliamentary party that number 10 for so long just hasn't been listening to them, hasn't been reaching out to them properly, there are allegations about sunak and the timing of this election that he just doesn't care about. the party is willing to take them to armageddon . and to take them to armageddon. and i think all of that feeds in to this element of exodus. i mean, there are a lot of mps who are saying, well, why do we want to

stick around? >> and some surprising names there. sirjohn redwood, i mean. >> well, that's a historic one, sort of. >> he's of the thatcher thatcher era, and he's been around for so long. >> so. >> so. >> so. >> so yeah, you're losing a lot of grandees. >> and i think the big question is what is the party going to look like, after the election , look like, after the election, however many seats they win, it's and this is what every single potential rival who's geanng single potential rival who's gearing up to replace rishi sunak, assuming he loses , is sunak, assuming he loses, is trying to do. they're all meeting candidates . they're all meeting candidates. they're all reaching out to associations, trying to shape the future of the party. >> and that brings me neatly to my next question. earlier on today, we heard the rumour that frosty had been frozen out . lord frosty had been frozen out. lord frost, of course, missed the brexit. the great frost , as brexit. the great frost, as bofis brexit. the great frost, as boris johnson called him. of course he's in the lords, but you know, for yourself he's wanted to stand as an mp. early on today we heard that as being blocked. 93 vacant seats. his name wasn't on it. rishi sunak said today on the campaign trail that's not the case, but he's precise . the kind of red wall precise. the kind of red wall

brexity red meat conservatives a lot on the right would like to see winning a seat to give them a foothold, to rebuild . the a foothold, to rebuild. the party is there, the room and persistent rumour that people like him are being frozen out of the party? >> well, this is certainly a concern, david frost, there are so many people who want him to be an mp, so many people who see him as a potential future leader, even of the party, just because he is a heavyweight, he has this, all renee background in government, and he has a lot of respect from people in certain wings of the party. but, you know, yes, he has been trying to get a seat and it looks like he hasn't got it. i don't think he has been blocked as sunak says, but certainly they haven't made it easy for him. i think it's probably the accurate way to put it, if they wanted to, they would have made him a candidate for him. it's a big gamble giving up a seat in the law. so he effectively has to know for sure that an association will, will, will say yes to him. he can't just be presented as a bog standard candidate, which is understandable. and it sounds

like downing street just doesn't really have an interest in making that happen. >> and it's worth anna just talking. people through the process. so he currently is in the lords. he would need to surrender that position with a guarantee of being selected as a candidate, and then he would still need to get elected to get in. so it would be a big outlay from him. but it's one that, as you understand it, he's to prepared do and he wants to do. >> my understanding is that, yes, or you know, whether or not he has taken the personal decision that this is not the right time as well, because there are a lot of people who want to run, but they're looking at just like the people who are leaving . they're looking at the leaving. they're looking at the current state of the polls. they're looking at the state of morale in the party and thinking, well, maybe i'll, i'll, i'll hold fire and wait. >> and that brings on to the next question. we're talking about bexleyheath, their majority of only 12. and a half thousand. it's been a tory seat since 2005. david evennett stood since 2005. david evennett stood since 97. he knows what it's like to lose to blair. is there any such thing now as a safe conservative seat? >> well, i, i, i mean, that's that's what everyone says, you know, there is no such thing as

a safe seat. of course there are going to be safe seats. and of course, there are seats where, the vote will be split between labour and liberal democrats or where reform won't quite have a stronghold. i think one of the reasons that rishi sunak has chosen july is because he thinks he that reform wasn't quite ready yet. so it's a tactical move there. so but but no, i mean, and the problem is how is how how what decision is going to be made to actually what seats is the conservative party going to focus on right now in defending ? defending? >> can i ask you about the reform party? we've got the leader of reform , richard tice. leader of reform, richard tice. he'll be in your seat there in about an hour's time. do you think that rishi sunak has outmanoeuvred the party? nigel farage admitted that very thing last night, six weeks. not enough time for a small party to hit the ground and have a serious chat. do you think the party is over for reform? do you think rishi sunak called the election? everyone was scratching their heads on wednesday. why is he gone so early? was it to cook the goose or richard tice? >> i think it is. i mean, i know

from speaking to people around sunak that that was one of the calculations, whether or not reform would realistically have had much of a change in their fortunes, in the next few, you know, given three months more, they could have taken a lot more, they could have done a lot more, they could have done a lot more damage and therefore made the remaining conservative party after the election much more burnt to the ground. i think the issue is more the, the single issue is more the, the single issue that reform focuses on, which is immigration. so if they had waited until the autumn, what you would have done is you would have seen a lot more people come over some more boats so that would have, of course, given richard tice nigel farage, lee anderson ammunition to hit the conservatives where it hurts. so i think in that sense, yes. but but of course, as a very, as a small new party in this effectively two party system, it's always going to be very hard for a small challenger to come along and make a big dent. >> and it's an election trail.

it's an election that rishi sunak called. he didn't have to call it. it's been called the greatest gamble of his entire political career. some are calling it a suicide mission. anna, what's the mood like within the conservative ranks at the moment ? within the conservative ranks at the moment? is it the last days of the empire ? of the empire? >> well, look, i've been in parliament the last two days, and the mood in parliament is sort of, a little bit sad for a lot of tory mps just because even the ones who knew they were going thought , i mean, they going thought, i mean, they basically thought they had guarantees that they would have another couple of months. so it's that human element of they haven't had a chance to say goodbye. they're not going to have a chance to most of them make a, last statement in the commons, and, you know, a lot of mps are absolutely mutinous. the red wall mps feel they've been abandoned. and i think that that, there's a perception that perhaps downing street does not care so much about the handling of those elements in the party. >> anna, i spent a lot of time looking at what people say on the comments, on newspaper articles, on the mail on sunday,

the telegraph gb news on your side. i sense amongst your readers there is a lot of anger with the conservative party. there is a feeling that they had an 80 seat majority. seems so long ago now, doesn't it? and they they have squandered it . do they they have squandered it. do you think that's fair to say? >> well, i mean, i remember when they got the majority, everyone thought that , you know, politics thought that, you know, politics would be back to normal after the years of , upheaval with the years of, upheaval with theresa may and everything post the brexit vote. instead, we had covid. there's of course, there's a lot that can be said for mismanagement in the conservative party, but also there was this absolute shock that came along two months into bofis that came along two months into boris johnson's majority term. and i think any government with any majority would have struggled to deal with that. >> okay. thank you very much for joining us in the studio. that's the deputy political editor at the deputy political editor at the mail on sunday, anna mikhailova. and please come back and join us again. really enjoyed that. we of course, have lots more on the election campaign throughout the show, and i'll be joined live by a cabinet minister, a member of the shadow cabinet, and also by the shadow cabinet, and also by the leader of reform uk, richard tice . and of course, we'll have

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>> i'm patrick christys every weeknight from 9:00, i bring you two hours of unmissable , two hours of unmissable, explosive debate and headline grabbing interviews. >> what impact has that had? >> what impact has that had? >> we got death threats and the bomb threat and so on. >> our job is to do what's in >> ourjob is to do what's in the best interest of our country. >> you made my argument for me one at a time. >> my guests and i tackle the issues that really matter with a sharp take on every story i'm heanng sharp take on every story i'm hearing up and down the country. >> that was a beginning, not an end. >> patrick christys tonight from 9 pm. only on gb news. britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> welcome back. your time is 422. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. later in the show, i'll discuss a story that has absolutely appalled me. it turns out that more than two thirds of pubs and boozers are giving us short measures, and our pint glasses must stop moving on. immigration is, of course , a immigration is, of course, a huge talking point in this general election campaign , and

general election campaign, and gb news can exclusively reveal that more than 10,000 channel migrants have now crossed illegally to the uk. so far this year alone, or gb news home and security editor mark white is in doven security editor mark white is in dover. mark. well that 10,000 total is a landmark figure , total is a landmark figure, 10,036 to be exact . 10,036 to be exact. >> it was reached today as three small boats made the crossing from france. the first of those small boats was spotted in the water just after dawn. small boats was spotted in the waterjust after dawn. the dover water just after dawn. the dover lifeboat picked up 43 migrants and took them here to the border force central processing centre at dover harbour. then, a couple of hours later, the border force vessel defender took another 45 migrants from another small boat that was spotted in the channel. then that third small boat was spotted just before lunchtime and 66 people brought here to dover harbour, 154 in total

today. and there is no doubt that this 10,036 figure will be very unwelcome as far as the government is concerned, and its central message of stopping the boats. last year , the government boats. last year, the government was able to say that they'd managed to see a 36% reduction in the number of migrants crossing the english channel this year. that has been effective reversed, with 35% up on where we were at the same point last year with that 10,036 figure, it was about 7600 at this point last year. one of the advantages, i think, for rishi sunakin advantages, i think, for rishi sunak in clearly going to the electorate on the 4th of july is that we won't see the real summer surge that we get towards the end of july, august and then into september , where on

into september, where on a really calm day across the engush really calm day across the english channel, you can see sometimes more than a thousand people crossing on a single day . people crossing on a single day. and that would have been a very difficult sell to go to the country after a bumper year of arrivals and try to tell the electorate that your small boats plan was working. so at least by going on the 4th of july, the worst of the summer surge can be avoided . avoided. >> thank you mark. and i'm now joined by the immigration lawyer , paul turner. paul, welcome to the show. pleasure to have your company. so 10,000 this year alone , heading for a record alone, heading for a record breaking year on small boats. we've seen a huge number of asylum seekers admitted 84,425 in 2023, another record the prime minister admitted on the first day of the general election campaign yesterday that not a single flight is likely to take off before the next general

election. paul, let's face it, the lunatics have taken over our asylum system. it's completely unfit for purpose . unfit for purpose. >> i would completely agree, martin. >> it seems that the lunatics have been running the asylum system for quite a while now, it is quite disturbing that we've got to 10,000 already, i think that if the weather continues to be good, then we are likely to see a record number of crossings , which does give the lie, and i remember speaking about this only a couple of weeks ago after various ministers were saying that the rwanda plan was working because it was acting as a deterrent and because some people were moving around in ireland, sadly, it seems to be that, it's not working at all. >> so what's the answer to all of this, paul? we scratch our headsin of this, paul? we scratch our heads in wonderment all the time at these figures, these dizzying heights. we seem to reach. do you think the labour party has any answers? what is the solution? >> the solution is going to be,

i think, quite unpalatable for some people, which is we've already spent or we will have committed to spending half £1 billion, to rwanda. and i don't think we'll see much of that money back. but the only way and this is the unpalatable truth, is that they're going to have to start processing the asylum claims in the united kingdom. now, there's a problem because there are about 40, maybe 45,000, asylum seekers that have arrived on small boats and had their had had their claims deemed inadmissible and therefore they haven't been processed and they're clogging up hotels at the taxpayer's expense. now, what i think is going to happen is when the labour government, if a labour government is elected , is that government is elected, is that they're going to have, what will be seen as an amnesty vie and those 40,000 people and whoever make it over the channel in the summer are going to have their claims processed. the problem is, is that the home office are then going to need further funding and additional staff. otherwise we're going to end up where we were . i think last year

where we were. i think last year when rishi sunak was talking about clearing a backlog, and the only way out of a backlog is to have an amnesty. >> but but, paul, that would simply roll out the red carpet to those on the beaches of france. it would roll out the red carpet to the business model of the human traffickers to say, you'll be processed in britain , you'll be processed in britain, and we have such a pitiful rate of deportation and return. it's like 1.3% of people who arrive by small boats from 2018 to june 2023 were returned from the uk dunng 2023 were returned from the uk during that period. with odds like that, people will continue to make these life endangering crossings because they're simply never likely to be returned and to process them. in britain to process them quicker. it means more people stay here. surely >> well, yes and no . yes, >> well, yes and no. yes, i completely agree with what you're saying. is that, it and it seems to me that sadly, the criminals that do the people trafficking, have a better grip of reality than than some of the

politicians because they will be marketing their product, evil as it is on the basis that there's no real chance of you ever being removed. and once there is an amnesty and then the people are taken into the system and rwanda ceases to be a threat. and i think it's only fair to say that ihave think it's only fair to say that i have had other people contacting me , and i'm aware of contacting me, and i'm aware of other practitioners who have been contacted by people who were frightened that they would be removed to rwanda and were scared. now that fear is just going to evaporate. and then we are, as you say, going to be left with a huge number of people whose claims need to be processed and that's going to lead to bottlenecks. it's going to lead to a lot of problems. and the real answer is a huge amount of money. and to affect some proper way of, returns agreement with countries , the agreement with countries, the government succeeded with albania and i'm puzzled as to they haven't made such a big fuss about it because once they got their returns agreement with

albania and once young albanian men knew that there was a good chance of them being returned , chance of them being returned, they stopped coming. they went elsewhere . elsewhere. >> okay, paul turner, we have to leave it there. it's always a delight to have your company on the show. thank you forjoining the show. thank you for joining us. and there's loads more still to come between now and 5:00. and i'll be joined live by a government minister and a member of the shadow cabinet. but first, it's time for your headunes first, it's time for your headlines with ray anderson . headlines with ray anderson. >> thanks, martin. 4:30. our top stories. the prime minister says the lowering of the energy price cap shows his plan is working, as both labour and the tories look to make it an electoral dividing line. rishi sunak completed his tour of the nation in northern ireland, and claimed that the economy has turned a corner. he criticised the cost of labour's net zero pledges, and said that he'll be telling voters over the next few weeks how the conservatives plan to secure britain's future inflation has fallen back to

normal levels. >> the economy grew faster than all our competitors at the beginning of this year. today we've had the news that energy bills are falling again and wages have been rising faster than prices for almost a year now, and that's why it's the right time to turn to the future. and the world is sadly, a more uncertain place than it's beenin a more uncertain place than it's been in decades. and that's why what the country needs is leadership that can provide bold action. and that has a clear plan, because that's how we will deliver a secure future for everyone in our country. >> labour has confirmed it will pass the smoking ban if the party enters office, with the conservatives having run out of time to get it through parliament themselves . the parliament themselves. the labour leader has been campaigning in scotland today , campaigning in scotland today, where he's pledged to bring down energy costs with a new publicly owned green power company. labouris owned green power company. labour is hoping to win dozens of seats in scotland after years of seats in scotland after years of dominance by the snp . gb news of dominance by the snp. gb news can reveal that more than 10,000 migrants have illegally crossed the channel to the united kingdom this year. it's a to

blow rishi sunak on his second full day of election campaigning , after he'd promised that his government would stop the boats , government would stop the boats, and the documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock has died at the age of 53. he came to prominence with his oscar nominated film super size me in 2004, which tracked his health while he ate nothing but mcdonald's for a month. the film was credited with prompting a broad conversation about how fast food and rising obesity was impacting society. mr spurlock passed away in new york due to complications from cancer . well, for the from cancer. well, for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts . news .com/ alerts. >> thank you ray. now there's a brand new way to get in touch with us here @gbnews. and here's bev turner with all of the details . details. >> we are proud to be gb news

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>> welcome back. the time is 436. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now, just after 5:00, i'll be joined here in the studio by the leader of reform uk, richard tice. and among the things i'll ask him is this. does he think his party will have any mps after the general election ? now, the ex post election? now, the ex post office boss, paula vennells, has denied the company's executive team, which she led, shielded

the board from dirty laundry. well, that's as she also denied trying to close down a review into the software, which led to the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub postmasters. i'm joined now by the business and trade minister, kevin hollinrake. kevin, welcome to the show . always a pleasure, the show. always a pleasure, now, before we move to on the general election trail and all the latest, let's talk a little bit about what paula vennells performance this week. she turned on the waterworks. a lot of people are saying as far as that goes, the sympathy is in the . post. can you hear me ? he the. post. can you hear me? he can't hear me. yeah. good >> thank you. play a clip by paula vennells, well, yeah , paula vennells, well, yeah, well, i mean, i've watched that, evidence. >> she's she's been giving to the inquiry . i >> she's she's been giving to the inquiry. i think it is ever more clear that the people at the top of the post office knew

what was going on, as well. ten, 12 years ago, 2013. and you've got to ask yourself why that wasn't disclosed to the courts , wasn't disclosed to the courts, but that'll be a matter for obviously, if that has been some versus something like perverting the course of justice, we know the course of justice, we know the metropolitan police have got an investigation into this and the crown prosecution service are there to assist them in taking forward charges where prosecutions can be taken forward. and i said for some months, i think i would welcome any charges, brought forward. this has been a horrendous scandal, £1 billion of costs, the taxpayer in terms of compensation, countless lives ruined, divorces, suicides, homelessness , absolutely homelessness, absolutely horrendous. what's happened and somebody needs to be held to account for it . account for it. >> in this week, of course. and the evidence that came out was the evidence that came out was the allegation that she knew about this . do you think in all about this. do you think in all likelihood that must have been the case when she was the head honcho? she was in charge. all

of this happened on her watch. is it conceivable that all of this could have been going on without her knowledge? >> well, i don't think that's a question for me. i think it would be inappropriate for me to comment on that. any specific person. but it's quite clear that people in the post office knew what was happening, knew there were flaws with horizon, didn't disclose that, and knew those flaws could have been if they'd been known about by the courts, it may well have been those people would not have been convicted. and that is horrendous . and that's why we horrendous. and that's why we decided to do what we've done only this week. and with the prime minister's support, we have overturned hundreds of convictions, probably around 700 convictions, probably around 700 convictions with the legislation we passed yesterday which will receive royal assent today . that receive royal assent today. that means all those convictions, hundreds of them, around 700, will be quashed as of today , will be quashed as of today, which i think many people will welcome. and of course, that means compensation can flow rapidly to those people. and their families. >> yeah, and that's been a swift

resolution along with the tainted blood scandal, i was with people who'd been in that inquiry today, and they were actually very, very happy with the political response to that. so well done on that front, too. can i now talk to you about the general election campaign? a grim tally has been reached at a 76. conservative mps now won't stand at the next election. this surpasses the record set in 1997. that begs the next question, kevin, does that mean the conservatives are with an echo of history, heading for a tony blair style wipe out ? tony blair style wipe out? >> no, i don't think that's the case.i >> no, i don't think that's the case. i don't think you can connect those two things. i mean, you see greg clarke today, for example, he served nearly 20 years in parliament. that's a long time in parliament. and john redwood, 27 years. we have a lot of conservative mps, of course. so as a proportion, you bouncing at quite a high number, decide that they've got other things to do with their lives. and i quite understand that. but we're really looking forward to working with the new cohort of conservative members of parliament who will bring a fresh approach to parliament,

and that will be welcomed and, kevin, would you like to see one of those new members of parliament, perhaps lord frost, mr brexit, who we heard earlier on today was allegedly being blocked from the candidates list. >> mr rishi sunak said to us today that's not the case. would you like to see people like him in government? proper tories with a record of delivering on things like brexit? >> well, i definitely want to see properly proper tories and a great admirer of lord frost. david frost. and if the relevant association thinks he's the right person to represent their constituencies, so be it. we need all the talent right across. it's a very broad church in the conservative party. we need all the talent and all our best people on the pitch because that's a great endorsement there. >> kevin hollinrake , thank you >> kevin hollinrake, thank you very much for joining >> kevin hollinrake, thank you very much forjoining us on the very much for joining us on the show. always a pleasure to have your company. thank you. so that's the conservative party's viewpoint . well, in a few viewpoint. well, in a few minutes, i'll be joined live by shadow cabinet member peter kyle. i'll ask him if he's worried that jeremy corbyn is going to beat labour at the general election in islington north. what a world we live in.

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welcome back. your time is 444. i'm martin daubney , and this is gb martin daubney, and this is gb news. now let's get more. now, ahead of the general election. and sir keir starmer's been in scotland today promoting labour's plans for a new body called great british energy , called great british energy, which he says would bring down household bills for good. at the same time, former labour leader jeremy corbyn has revealed that he will stand as an independent candidate on july the 4th after he was expelled from the party. well, i'm delighted to say i'm now joined in the studio by the shadow secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, peter kyle. peter, welcome to the studio. thanks for having me. we've got to start with jeremy corbyn. he's the problem. that won't go away. of course, he wasn't kicked out of the party entirely for the shame he brought upon the party.

he was actually investigated for allegations of racism by the equality and human rights commission . that wasn't enough commission. that wasn't enough to get kicked out of the party, but only now has the party acted because he's standing against you. >> keir starmer prevented him from standing as a labour mp as soon as the ehrc report came back and jeremy refused to endorse it. >> then he was removed from the parliamentary labour party and he's not sat since. this was nothing shows just how stridently keir starmer has worked to change the labour party. so now we are a change. labour party that is fit for service once again. and the fact that jeremy corbyn is standing against labour tells everybody what you need to know. the labour party has changed and we have a fantastic candidate there in islington, north and then we will, you know, we'll fight hard and i'm pretty sure we're going to win it too. >> but sir keir starmer did back jeremy corbyn twice to be prime minister. did keir starmer. >> let's just be honest about this. >> keir starmer did what it took to save the labour party to fix the labour party and get it fit

for service. >> and he's done all of those things. you know, we are standing here now in an election facing the future. the country has a choice. we have a prime minister that says he has a plan but can't even get an umbrella when he makes the announcement of a of a general election. i mean, what does that tell you about his ability to deliver and to act strategically? and we have keir starmer that is rigorously changed. >> the labour party come forward with six steps forward that we will immediately act on, starting with a stable economy and then going right the way through our public services. >> and of course, the plan to set up a border security force so that we can tackle the small boats challenge. so this is a set of first steps forward that the country can look forward to because comprehensively , it adds because comprehensively, it adds up to not just a step forward for our country. it will profoundly change people's lives. >> all right. can you tell us about the great british energy plan? because we can't find any detail there. it's great to say your bills will go down. who doesn't want that? but how? we've got the conservative party today saying they're going to scrap net zero taxes, green taxes, ed miliband's idea and he's shortly to return to

parliament. can we really trust the labour party on things like green taxation? i mean, you've done a u—turn on that £18 billion cost of it already, and the net factor is the working class, the working poor. they're the ones who are hit the hardest by these these punitive green taxes. >> so great british energy is one of those six steps forward that we will take immediately. should we win the election in six weeks time. what we'll do is set up a publicly owned energy company that will invest in clean energy. so this means that we can have finally , a publicly we can have finally, a publicly owned body of significance that can invest in the transition and the new jobs of the future that can create, that can support british innovation. so, keir announced this today up in scotland with anas sarwar, the leader of the scottish labour party. the key thing about that is that all of the wind farms that are being built and have been built over the last 14 years in scotland, not one of them has any materials in it that was built and created in britain. we need to make sure

the united kingdom is investing in itself, so we will have a british energy company, nationally owned, investing in clean british energy, and by doing so, we will bring down bills , but not just invest like bills, but not just invest like rishi sunak did, to artificially reduce bills for a short amount of time. we will we will reduce bills permanently going forward by lowering the permanent cost of energy for our country. it is a win win for our country that could also be achieved if we exploited domestic resources, not just wind. >> and there's a lot of hot air in politics as we all know, shale, north sea oil. so keir starmer attitude towards north sea seems to be just stop oil. well the cheapest form of electricity right now is wind power. >> so we need to make. and the reason we don't have more of it is because the conservatives launched three planning bills and didn't get one single one of them through parliament. so we've had this kind of hiatus in building clean power for our country . we need to see where country. we need to see where the energy market is going. we need a mixed balance of energy. we need to invest in new nuclear, which we will do . we

nuclear, which we will do. we need to make sure that we get clean energy off the ground. so new renewables for solar and for wind, we need to invest in people's households so we can get the energy bills down that way, because we have an incredibly poor housing stock in our country, and we need to invest in that as well. now, gb energy will invest in all of these things and it will take a holistic approach right across the board. but crucially, we will also be investing in the new jobs of the future. you know, those those energy producing ways that you just mentioned a minute ago, from shale gas through to north sea oil. you know, this is not the future. you know, britain needs to start facing the future and grabbing the opportunities of the future. that's why we're so excited about this election, because we've got a chance to re—orientate our country, to where the skills are going to be.the where the skills are going to be. the jobs are going to be the wealth creation is going to be for the future. rishi sunak is just niggling at the sidelines. he is facing and investing in the industries of the past. if we can harness the industries of the future, support the innovation where it is, not only do we solve the challenges domestically, we create great export opportunities for our

economy and our innovators and our wealth creators and the businesses up and down our country. this is the opportunity we have . and then we only have we have. and then we only have now a few weeks to decide whether we choose to change our country needs. >> well, peter, carl, you're plugged in and full of energy. thanks for joining plugged in and full of energy. thanks forjoining us in plugged in and full of energy. thanks for joining us in the studio. a delight to have your company. please come back now. it's the 80th anniversary of d—day. in less than two weeks, and the commonwealth war graves commission is continuing its lighting their legacy torch events in harrogate today. schoolchildren have been hearing from historians and veterans on the importance of commemoration and joining me now is gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley. anna sounds like a magnificent project, a magnificent project, a magnificent day. tell us more . magnificent day. tell us more. >> good afternoon martin. yes, it certainly is. we're here at stonefall cemetery where the lighting of lighting their legacy event took place. this is a commonwealth war graves area, one of the largest in the north of england, with over a thousand commonwealth war graves from

people from not from australia . people from not from australia. yeah. from new zealand. america, canada . and this event is all canada. and this event is all about passing on the legacy of d—day to the younger generation. so ken cook, one of the last remaining yorkshire d—day veterans, was here to speak to local primary school children about his time in d—day and this is what he had to say. i what was it like now ? was it like now? >> there's loads of explanations of what what it was like. for some it was terrible , but some some it was terrible, but some it was an adventure , for me it it was an adventure, for me it was that kind of adventure, like a boy scouts adventure . a boy scouts adventure. >> never been on a beach before. >> never been on a beach before. >> never been on a beach before. >> never seen a ship before . >> never seen a ship before. because i was born in a mining village in nottinghamshire, nowhere near the coast where i

could go to go on a beach or whatever. >> and i'd never seen a ship or a boat, even a rowing boat, and never seen. >> so all this was brand new to me . me. >> it was, you know, exciting ing in a way . ing in a way. >> but, otherwise , you know, >> but, otherwise, you know, it's just something that happened. i was there and in my mind, it was an adventure . mind, it was an adventure. >> ken was just 18 years old when he was conscripted to join the army, and he did his training in nearby richmal . so training in nearby richmal. so he was giving his account to younger people and passing on that legacy to them. he is one of the few surviving d—day

veterans that will be going over to normandy on june the 6th, and they will be taking that torch with them that they've been lighting around the uk across on the ferry to normandy for that very important and special service that will be held. >> and magnificent is that ken cook, the very, very finest generation . and of course, we'll generation. and of course, we'll have massive coverage of d—day, 80th anniversary, coming up on the channel throughout . the channel throughout. fantastic stuff. now don't go anywhere because there's lots more general election coverage coming up. in a few minutes time. i'll be joined by the leader of reform uk, richard tice. after this week's dramatic events, with nigel farage pulling out of the party, i'll be asking him is the party over? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. now. it's your weather and it's annie shuttleworth. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good afternoon. welcome to

your latest gb news. weather update. there will be some sunshine across southern areas to end the day, but for most of us it will stay rather cloudy andifs us it will stay rather cloudy and it's going to be quite a cold night tonight as well, particularly compared to recent nights. drizzly rain is going to continue across northern areas. that's because low pressure is still nearby and a weather front. but through this evening, that low pressure will gradually shift north and westwards, taking with it that cloudier and slightly wetter weather and introducing much clearer weather. the clearer skies from the south this afternoon will spread northwards, and that will allow for temperatures to dip down into single figures, possibly low single figures across southern counties. there could also be some mist and fog around as well first thing, but also quite a good deal of sunshine as well. saturday is looking like the driest day of the weekend and the warmest one as well, so fairly bright. start across the far north of scotland. still some lingering rain across the northwest and the southwest probably, but for most of us it should be dry, if

not a bit. cloudy across northern areas across northern england, much of wales and england, much of wales and england, it should be a bright start. temperatures will pick up quite quickly as the sun comes up, so you'll be into double digits at least by around 8:00, and there'll be plenty of sunshine through the morning. that mist and fog should clear quite quickly. that's a potential for a few showers to develop, particularly across northern areas of england. parts of scotland, as well could see some heavier showers on saturday, but most of us should stay dry and there's just a chance of some rain clipping the far southeast later on in the day. but in the sunshine , highs day. but in the sunshine, highs of around 22 degrees in the south into the high teens across the north. but there is a bit of a change on the way for sunday, as this area of rain from the southwest will push northeast upwards through the night, bringing a spell of wet weather. and once it does clear through, we will see plenty of showers breaking out across the country through sunday and monday. these could be quite heavy, possibly thundery, so it's going to turn much more unsettled and a little bit cooler for the rest of the weekend . weekend. >> looks like things are heating

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gb news. >> hey. very good afternoon to you. it's 5 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 with sir the uk. on today's show with sir john redwood and bionic mp craig mckinley. the latest tories to bow out of the general election. the tally of tory stand downs is now 76, and that's beating the record of 1997. does it signify a blair style wipe—out for rishi sunak and yesterday reform's honorary president, nigel farage, stood down after rishi sunak outmanoeuvred him by calling a snap early general election. now with their

talismanic leader heading to america to help donald trump, is the party over for reform uk? well, i'll be joined by the leader richard tice in just a few moments time and a sobering new trading standard report has discovered that underfilled pint glasses and wine cost british drinkers a staggering £114 each every year. now purely in the name of research, i'll be sending a reporter to a great british boozer to demand top ups for the great british nation. that's all coming up in your next hour . a chaotic week in next hour. a chaotic week in politics. rishi sunak, 76 now have stood down and will not stand for the conservative party at the next general election. that surpasses the tony blair tally. 1997 a grim landmark reached . meanwhile, jeremy reached. meanwhile, jeremy corbyn is set to stand against

the labour party. a former leader, the sir keir starmer , leader, the sir keir starmer, endorsed twice. and also, as we're about to talk about quite soon, richard tice is going to join me from reform nigel farage admitted in this studio last night that rishi sunak had outmanoeuvre ed him by calling an early election. now farage isn't going to stand as a candidate. he will, however, commit to campaigning, but he's going to america to help donald trump. i'll be asking richard tice is the party over for reform uk that's coming up in your next hour? but first, get in touch and it's gbnews.com/yoursay say get in touch, it's your show. but first it's your headlines and it's ray addison . addison. >> martin, thanks. 5:02 top stories this hour. the prime minister says the lowering of the energy price cap shows his plan is working, as both labour and the conservatives look to make it an electoral dividing line. rishi sunak completed his

tour of the nation in northern ireland, and claimed that the economy has turned a corner. he then criticised the cost of labour's net zero pledges, and said that he'll be telling voters over the next few weeks how the tories plan to secure britain's future inflation has fallen back to normal levels. >> the economy grew faster than all our competitors at the beginning of this year. today we've had the news that energy bills are falling again and wages have been rising faster than prices for almost a year now, and that's why it's the right time to turn to the future. and the world is sadly, a more uncertain place than it's beenin a more uncertain place than it's been in decades. and that's why what the country needs is leadership that can provide bold action. and that has a clear plan, because that's how we will deliver a secure future for everyone in our country. >> theresa may has urged tory mps to fight to re—elect a conservative government in her farewell speech in parliament, the mp for maidenhead , who the mp for maidenhead, who served as pm between 2016 and 2019, said it would be a great

wrench to leave the commons after 27 years. her departure comes as 76 tory mps stepped down, which is more than the number of those who left when labour swept to power back in 1997. well, labour has ruled out any deals with the snp after the election , even in the event of a election, even in the event of a hung parliament. sir keir starmer has been campaigning in the east of glasgow today, which is one of the seats that he's hoping to take from john swinney's party in july's election. sir keir said the snp's only ambition is to break up the uk and there would be absolutely no deal with the scottish nationalist s millom. jeremy corbyn has confirmed that he'll stand as an independent candidate in this general election against the party that he once led, as a result, he's automatically been expelled as a member of labour, which suspended him back in 2020 over his claims that complaints of anti—semites autism had been

dramatically overstated in the party. the former labour leader says he'll run as a voice for equality. but the current labour leader, sir keir starmer , said leader, sir keir starmer, said he's not worried about corbyn's popularity in islington, north, which he's represented since 1983. >> jeremy corbyn will make his own decisions. i think he's standing as an independent. that's his choice . we will have that's his choice. we will have an excellent labour candidate in islington north, as we've got excellent labour candidates across the country and the choice at this election is absolute clear. we've had 14 years of chaos and decline under this tory government. we cannot have more of that . have more of that. >> gb news can reveal that more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the united kingdom so far this year. the milestone figure was reached today after another 154 people arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats this morning. it's a blow to rishi sunak on his second full day of election campaigning, after he'd

promised that his government would stop the boats . the former would stop the boats. the former boss of the post office has been accused of living in, quote, la la land over her role in the honzon la land over her role in the horizon scandal. paula vennells again became emotional on her third day of giving evidence. she admitted making mistakes and accepted that there was no one else to blame but she did claim that she didn't know why important information hadn't reached her. sam stein kc described that as, quote, absolute rubbish and suggested that miss vennells had failed to ask the right questions because the risk was too great. >> i worked . as hard as >> i worked. as hard as i possibly could to deliver . the possibly could to deliver. the best post office for the uk . it best post office for the uk. it would have been wonderful to have 30,000 post office branches. that would have been the best outcome ever to have had more post offices in more

communities is what i failed to do, and i have made this clear previously, is i did not recognise the and it's been discussed within across the inquiry. the imbalance of power between the institution and the individual, and i let these people down. >> and finally the documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock has died at the age of 53. he came to prominence with his oscar nominated film super size me in 2004, which tracked his health while he ate nothing but mcdonald's for a month. the film was credited with prompting a broad conversation about how fast food and rising obesity was impacting society . mr spurlock impacting society. mr spurlock passed away in new york due to complications from cancer. well, if you'd like all the latest headlines, you can sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts. straight back to .

martin. >> thank you. right now we start with the latest on a hugely dramatic day in politics and prime minister rishi sunak has said that he is pumped for the general election campaign . but general election campaign. but the same cannot be said for a lot of his conservative colleagues because 76 conservative mps have now said that they will not be standing in the upcoming general election, which is more than in 1997, when tony blair's labour stormed to victory. or gb news political editor christopher hope has spent the day with rishi sunak and he joins me now from the west midlands. welcome to the show, chris. a dramatic day on the campaign trail. can you start with a story we're heanng you start with a story we're hearing about? there was a pro—palestine protest attempted to hijack rishi's campaign. can you tell us more ? you tell us more? >> on the motorway, travelling .

>> on the motorway, travelling. six. rival there was delayed somewhat by protest outside the building there was a man, a pro—palestine protester, playing free, free palestine. there were several people with free palestine banners and signs. there were schoolchildren milling around, but the pm, to his credit, said no, i'm going to go along. he was rushed in by police. the crowd ran, ran around into some footage of this shortly to be played out on gb news. it was quite dramatic and it shows, i think, the tenor of what we'll be seeing through this election campaign . as the this election campaign. as the gaza situation bubbles along, we will see more and more of these protests, i expect, through the campaign against all the main party leaders. but to be the credit, the pm, that there was an issue there. the police are worried, but the pm pushed through and did go and meet these six formers. although the visit was curtailed somewhat. >> and chris, do we have any idea of how many individuals were involved, what the potential threat was and how close they got to the prime minister >> they certainly surged around

the pm as he arrived. there was a long cavalcade of motorcycle , a long cavalcade of motorcycle, tried to keep the protesters away from the prime minister, but they surged towards him and he was ushered in very quickly. and they said the police had said outside revving their engines while a man played very loud, free palestine, chanting music. rap music at the building and schoolchildren milled around and schoolchildren milled around and some people held signs and some labour supporters turned up. but the labour supporters, i think of the of the labour candidate region we are in of the free. it was a bit tense for a bit, but it soon subsided . a bit, but it soon subsided. >> and chris chris footage on the screen now just having some difficulty with your signal. you of course are on the move with the prime minister's battle bus. thatis the prime minister's battle bus. that is a bunch of pro—palestine protesters on the prime minister's trail. protesters on the prime minister's trail . well, there minister's trail. well, there they got very close to the prime minister, the police, to their credit, apparently got in quickly and put paid to this bus

. gives something of a taste, perhaps, chris, over what we can expect on this campaign trail. these pro—palestine protests seemingly touching every part of british culture. >> that's right. we will see more and more of that, i think, as we go on. of course, the where the pm is any one time in the country has to be a secret to ensure his security and so when you're part of these groups travelling with the prime minister, we are told to keep his, his his presence wherever he is, a secret. he made very clear they're on a flight back from northern ireland. we've been on a four nation visit with the prime minister in 36 hours, travelling hundreds of miles by train, bus and plane on the flight back from belfast at lunchtime. he did , and damn lunchtime. he did, and damn right he's going to win the general election. he has had some issues in northern ireland. he was interviewed in what's known as the titanic quarter. of course, the titanic went down with a thousand lives lost back in the early part of the 20th

century. so all this is symbolic and difficult for him sometimes, but he's pushing on through. he thinks he can win the election. he thinks he can win from 20 points behind in the polls. but but the problem is got is some of it is senior tory mps are quitting. we heard david evennett he became the record 76th tory mp to leave to quit at the election, beating the 75 record set in 1997. one of the 75th, in fact, was craig mckinley. this rather brave and heroic tory mp, who has had his hands and feet amputated after contracting sepsis. we covered. we ran an important documentary about his recovery and his return to parliament on wednesday, when he was praised and cheered to the rafters by by by mps from across the house of commons in tribute to his public service, he is recognised that the timing of the election is wrong for him. he's got to get better. he's working on his health. he had planned to fight the election. had it been in november, but a july election is

just too soon for his condition . just too soon for his condition. >> okay, chris, thank you for that update. live from the conservative party battlebus. some may question the logic of attending the titanic site in a way, they may question the logic of not giving rishi sunak an umbrella. on wednesday . thanks umbrella. on wednesday. thanks for that update there, chris. and joining me now in the studio is the leader of reform uk, richard tice and gb news political correspondent olivia utley. welcome to the show, richard . it's been a tumultuous richard. it's been a tumultuous week for your party yesterday, the only topic in town. >> great week . >> great week. >> great week. >> well, this week the only topic in town yesterday was nigel farage, being outmanoeuvred. he admitted he affirming himself. absolute nonsense. >> nonsense . >> nonsense. >> nonsense. >> he's actually what he's confirmed is he's getting stuck in thrilled that he's able to campaign with us for the first time, for the next six weeks. >> and i can tell you that it is going to be a busy period, and he is going to get fully all engaged , and we are going to be engaged, and we are going to be a serious part of ensuring this is an immigration election. and

yesterday's figures , the mass yesterday's figures, the mass migration figures complete betrayal by the tory party, i mean catastrophic. it's one of the reasons, actually, why the prime minister bottled it, because he was petrified of the growth of reform uk in the polls, petrified by the fact that he was sinking in the polls. the fact that he chose the titanic to have an event in confirms, sadly that he is sinking. and look, we're making progress and the polls out today . well, since the announcement of election show that actually there's no post—election announcement. tory bounce exactly the opposite. richard. the gap with us is closing, richard. >> never mind stopping. the boat has nigel leaving your ship stop the vote. >> he hasn't left . he's joined >> he hasn't left. he's joined our ship. >> the fact of the matter is, he said he would stand. and every pollster that we've had in the studio, every pollster worth their mettle, said a reform party with nigel farage fully standing, fully engaged will give you a six point boost. that hasn't happened. a lot of people yesterday were sending their messages into gb news, saying they felt betrayed by nigel for not doing this. do you feel

betrayed by nigel? of course not. >> i'm thrilled to bits that for the first time he's able to join the first time he's able to join the party fully and engage for the party fully and engage for the next six weeks, and that's absolutely great. and so , yeah, absolutely great. and so, yeah, look, we're full on. and i think the reality is our press conference yesterday highlighting the complete betrayal , the mass immigration betrayal, the mass immigration numbers. you've got a city the size of birmingham arrived in 2023. they revised upwards the numbers from 2022. and we're going to make sure the british people understand that actually that mass immigration has huge extra pressure on housing rents that have increased by 20% on wages being depressed and also the pressure on our nhs, the whole health care system is being damaged by this mass immigration that no one planned for and no one voted for. >> well, the thing i don't really understand is nigel farage has said that he's not going to stand because he doesn't have time to find a winnable seat . he doesn't think winnable seat. he doesn't think he can win a seat if nigel farage, the name that everyone knows the name behind reform, can't think he can, doesn't think he can win a seat, then what chance does any other

reform candidate. >> oh, we're going to win seats. absolutely no question at all. and actually, what experience shows is sometimes it's more challenging if you're trying to , challenging if you're trying to, to both win a seat and, you know, run a national campaign than actually just focusing on one or the other. so you know, nigel's got experience of that. and so, you know, the conclusion was the right thing is campaign nationally help us win some seats. and i'm very confident we're going to do that. in fact, i've already started to win bets. i said there would be a summer election. and sure enough , it's a summer election. why? because they're petrified of us. they know that rwanda is not a deterrent, and nigel is going to be a huge asset, and you're going to see that over the course of the next week. >> but hasn't this already move? i mean, you know, in that very seat in this very studio last night, nigel farage said rishi sunak had outmanoeuvred him by snapping the election early. it means there's not enough time to build the base to fundraise , to build the base to fundraise, to get out there. and that's what the brexit party did so well. before you need that time to build your base and that's been snatched away now by sunak. >> well, it's it hasn't been snatched away at all. the reality is that there's always a bit of tease and a bit of

banter, but the truth is, we're making great progress. i'm thrilled to bits, and i think you're going to see over the next week we are going to make sure people recognise this is an immigration election. it has so much impact on everything. we're pushing on hard and i'm thrilled. onwards and upwards . thrilled. onwards and upwards. >> okay, so you like making bets. how many seats are you going to win? >> let's make a bet. i didn't say i'd bet on everything, i will bet we will get millions of votes. and the more people who votes. and the more people who vote for us, the more seats we get. >> okay, super. let's now throw to chris hope on the battle bus. and you were listening in to that interview there, chris. well, if you have any response or a question, perhaps richard tice back here in westminster. >> yes. thank you. and richard, hello from the tory battle bus here in the west midlands. a quick question to you , you were quick question to you, you were were you outmanoeuvred by this early call of an election? if you were so certain on it being a summer election, why didn't you get a seat ready for your star candidate, nigel farage? instead, he was caught short and he pulled out rather

embarrassingly . embarrassingly. >> no, i disagree. there was no commitment that nigel was definitely going to stand. you look at all options in any business, any walk of life. you look at a range of options and you decide what you want to do. and that's, you know, you make judgements and you want to say, what's the most effective way of achieving the objective. and this is not a one election game. this is you know, we will get millions of votes at this election. and then this is a medium term plan and journey towards the 2829 election, when we will be the opposition. the tories might be in opposition , tories might be in opposition, but we will become the opposition. >> i mean, you're quite a small party still, obviously, but already there seems to be some division in your ranks. yesterday nigel farage said that he was planning on launching his election campaign next week. today ben habib said on gb news that's your deputy co—chair that nigel farage didn't plan to run next week . ben habib knew next week. ben habib knew absolutely nothing about this and he called it nigel's version of events. how do you explain that? >> the whole point is, if you're if you're looking at thinking of something and you haven't confirmed it, you keep it within

a very, very tight circle of information. >> it's not even his deputy leader. >> you keep it. you keep it in a very tight circle. >> okay? we have to leave it there. richard tice, the leader of reform uk. thank you very much for joining of reform uk. thank you very much forjoining us. great sport here in westminster. we get lots more on the general election campaign on our website and thanks to you. gbnews.com is the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got the breaking news and all the brilliant analysis you've come to expect from us here @gbnews now it's the great british giveaway now and your chance to win £20,000 cash in time for the summer. and of course , it's all summer. and of course, it's all tax free. what? you spend that wonga on a dream holiday or get the garden done, or perhaps even treat the family or the kids well. you have to hurry up as time is ticking on your chance to make it yours. and here's how. >> it's the biggest cash prize we've given away to date. an incredible £20,000 that you could use however you like . and could use however you like. and because it's totally tax free, every single penny will be in your bank account to do whatever your bank account to do whatever you like with £20,000 in tax free cash, really could be yours

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welcome back. 524 is your time. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. later this hounl this is gb news now. later this hour, i discuss a story that has absolutely appalled me to the pits of my stomach. because it turns out more than two thirds of pubs and boozers are giving us short measures in our pint pots. this must stop . moving on pots. this must stop. moving on the average household could be more than £120 better off each year from july. and that's because ofgem ofgem has lowered its price cap by 7. and this comes as energy becomes the first battleground on the general election campaign, with rishi sunak and sir keir starmer both pledging cheaper gas and leccy bills for voters, while gb news business and economics editor liam halligan, joins me now in the studio with on the money reporter. liam, a double delight to have you twice on a

friday. it's the economy, stupid. they all say , and we stupid. they all say, and we know that a huge drive where people are really feeling the pinch is in their energy costs. so let's start with the good news. there's a price cut from ofgem. >> there is obviously this election campaign is going to be dominated by the economy , and dominated by the economy, and within that unusually everyone's talking about energy prices. for years. people like me who've studied the energy sector closely, no one's been interested. it'sjust closely, no one's been interested. it's just for nerds. but of course , since war in but of course, since war in ukraine, it started properly , ukraine, it started properly, escalated in february 2022. energy bills have been very, very high and that's helped push up post lockdown inflation. so you mentioned ofgem. what's that? that's the energy sector regulator. they set a cap on the unit cost of electricity and gas combined . and households then combined. and households then benefit from that cap. of course if you use more or gas and electricity your bill is going

to go above the numbers. i'm about to say, but this is the average usage at the capped unit price. so let's have a look at some of the numbers. the scores on the doors . so the average gas on the doors. so the average gas and electricity bill, the average usage will be £1,568 a year from july. so says ofgem . year from july. so says ofgem. that's for three months july, august and september. that's down 7% on the present energy price cap, which was april, may and june. and that means you're saving around £122 a year if you're the average household now. unfortunately, martin, the cap is likely to rise again in october because wholesale gas and electricity prices are going up. there's still lots of geopolitical angst in the middle east between russia and ukraine, which pushes up global prices. and let's keep this in perspective , because i've just perspective, because i've just said the average bill will be just over £1,500 a year. the average bill before the war in ukraine before february 2022 was just over £1,000 a year. so in other words, electricity bills

and gas bills combined, even at this lower level, are still 50% higher than they were back at the beginning of 2022. before that ghastly , escalation of war that ghastly, escalation of war in ukraine. >> and of course, that is the thing that people care about, the pounds and the pence in their pockets. and you've been saying all along, you're dead, right? as usual, it hammers the working class as the poorest, the hardest, because proportionately they fork out more on the essentials energy and food. >> that's right. if you're in a lower income household , you lower income household, you spend more of your income on food and energy . so food food and energy. so food inflation and energy price inflation, which is where they've been the epicentre of this cost of living crisis, they disproportionately impact you and that's a problem. and that's why energy prices are now going to be an election battleground. we had claire coutinho, the energy secretary, outgoing, if you like, from the tories on the radio this morning talking about scrapping the parts of our energy bills that go towards

subsidising renewable companies, that make wind turbines, that make , solar farms and so on. make, solar farms and so on. that's a good idea because it's unfair to put those costs on bills because the poor pay more disproportionately. it should come out of general taxation if they're subsidised at all. good idea.the they're subsidised at all. good idea. the tories are now talking about it just before an election. where have they been for the last ten years anyway? that's up to them. labour, in response they've got their great british energy company nice slogan , lots of flags. the odd slogan, lots of flags. the odd bulldog on a lead. but what does it really mean? i don't know, because there's no detail. so i'd like to give you a detailed analytical breakdown. martin which is what i do of labour's great british energy company. and if it's going to be any good for gb news viewers and listeners, alas, i can't, because there are no details. there's no meat on the bone, and this is what this election is going to be about. it's going to be about slogan gearing. it's going to be about trading words very little policy detail because frankly , so many because frankly, so many journalists seem uninterested in

the policy detail, even though it's what the punters really, really want to know. so this is how this election is going to pan out. lots of finger pointing about the economy, very little detail and in that very seat where you are, i have peter kyle. >> he's the shadow minister for science. earlier on he was talking about this plan and i said to him, so, so what is it? and apparently it's more windfarms and that's cheaper. i said, well, what about what about shale ? what about north about shale? what about north sea oil? something that you've been taught about for ages. been energy sovereign. i pointed out keir starmer's policy seems to be to just stop oil. they seem tied to this dogged nature of net zero. and we all know as you keep saying, that places more burden on the shoulders of those who can ill afford it. look the nonh who can ill afford it. look the north sea diminished as it is, it's still accounts for about 70% of our energy needs, not 70% of our electricity generation, but 70% of our energy needs . but 70% of our energy needs. >> if you include transport, oil and diesel and so on, the north

sea is still hugely important. britain's energy complex . it britain's energy complex. it goes to aberdeen and tell people in aberdeen that oil and gas isn't important. you know, it's massively important for the scottish economy, for the entire british economy. our energy complex, even the climate change commission, the government's own in—house sort of green conscience energy watchdog, says that even if we get to net zero by 2050, even if we do on massively, optimistic assumptions , even then we're assumptions, even then we're still going to be using oil and gas for about 30 to 40% of our energy needs. so if we need oil and gas, let's use our own. and then we get the tax on that for our exchequer, for our schools and hospitals. and we don't have to spend lots of carbon. if you like putting oil and gas on ships and importing it from around the world. so very little sense is spoken about energy in my experience, by politicians. and i can't see that changing. soon as this election campaign cranks up .

cranks up. >> liam halligan always on the money full of common sense. it'll never catch on. thank you very much. there's loads more still to come between now and 6:00, including the government explaining pornography and gaming for a surge in young men out of work. i'm meeting a man who's got a very different take on that theory. more on that very soon. but first is your latest news headlines with ray anderson . anderson. >> it's 531. our top stories. rishi sunak has been greeted by a group of pro—palestine protesters as he visited a college in the west midlands this afternoon. the situation was described as tense as the prime minister arrived at south staffordshire college in cannock. it's the last stop on his uk tour. police officers formed a guard for mr sunak as his entry to the college was delayed and he was quickly ushered into the building as the crowd surged around him. whilst inside, activists with banners and flags chanted free palestine

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at boys and it says they're losers. they're dropping out of the job market because they're watching porn and they're watching porn and they're watching games. does that idea have any merit or is there more to it? >> of course there is merit to it. >> but the underlying reason for so much of this is happening is wilfully ignored. it is sickening to see deliberate discrimination being used against the most vulnerable members of society, who are now far too often young men and so many staples. they are bottom of the line and they feel they're the line and they feel they're the hopeless future. a lot of them feel genuine feeling of a hopeless future . it used to be hopeless future. it used to be that in the old days, until more recently , a father could expect recently, a father could expect to have 3 or 4 children in his lifetime would be looking after them . family. now, the average them. family. now, the average young man in working class areas may have 3 or 4 fathers in his lifetime, and he knows only too well that the entry to the family courts the narrative. the schools i mean. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, was recently talking about how boys as young as four should be taught about toxic masculinity. so from a very early age, they are told

you're toxic, you're privileged, yet all they see in is homeless men when they go anywhere, shopping centres or anything else, and if they go into a surgery, gp surgery or health, they see loads of posters about men of violent violence against violence by men, even though the greater killer of children are actually mothers and fathers. but boys are discriminated and the facts are the facts. >> boys are the bottom of education. they have been for over 20 straight years. they're the least likely to attend university. therefore it impacts their ability to earn. therefore, is it any wonder they're dropping out of the job market or they're unable to compete ? we've also seen compete? we've also seen immigration suppressing working class wages . if they don't have class wages. if they don't have qualifications, and that result is they're getting left behind. do you feel they're being demonised? what can we do about this? >> well, it needs to be a desperate move to away from the gender ideology, the toxic discrimination against the male genderis discrimination against the male gender is deeply misandric and that you need to have impartial professionalism among the services so that your guilt is

not determined by gender. it's determined by action. you look at the courts, you look at the huge increase non—molestation orders that are just given willy nilly with huge government funded agencies assisting mothers, removing father from children's lives and in education. >> i mean, i know from my own campaign there's not a single campaign, not a single policy out there to help boys. they seem blind to the plight of young lads. >> this is a deliberate blind and unfortunately, i think it may will become worse if labour get in because keir starmer originated the belief the victim, which quickly became, believe only the female and the involvement, the parental involvement, the parental involvement is probably going to be removed as well in the next after the next election. >> you know, keir starmer isn't here to defend himself. we don't know for a fact that it would be worse under the labour party hasn't isn't great as it is. let's face matters. okay so in terms of you're about a systemic issue here. we've seen for example, with with the post office, we've seen with tainted blood, we've seen huge sectors

ignored. do we have a similar problem, do you think in this in this area it is a bigger problem because this is behind closed doors at least the post office and the infected blood is horrific. >> dodi where were an open scrutiny and people could protest about them, but the whole situation discrimination against bodies, the family courts, particularly the gateway entries which are so discriminatory against the male genden discriminatory against the male gender, that is the real problem that there has to be addressed to benefit society and particularly young boys and to create a situation where britain, britain has not the worst in europe, but head towards the best in europe. for young boys, futures and all of society and children's futures. >> and we hear so often about toxic masculinity. but the work you've done in the past, positive male role models who don't get much of a thank in life and no active, involved fathers, your own story. you fought, you went to the european union and fought to get fathers more involvement with their children because that has more positive outcomes in life. >> there's no comparison between the eu average, the oecd nations and england. england uk is

bottom of all international statistics on this. i mean, at the moment , statistics on this. i mean, at the moment, 50% of children at the moment, 50% of children at the age of 15 aren't having a regular involvement with their with the non—resident parent who is 95% father. your onorable walking , unemployment is 95% father. your onorable walking, unemployment and all the rest and all the other factors. the result is employment in the working class areas. for those who are unemployed, it's the dodgy work, it's the grey industries. it's the crime that is where the real growth industry is in employment . it's not proper employment, of course, and then the vested interest , there's a huge interest, there's a huge increase in the prison population. the young, the now asking police to not arrest people quite often because they can't keep up with the prison population. so there's a perception among the younger men that you may as well you're already toxic. you're already demonised, you have nothing to lose. why try to engage with society to rejects you? you're second class. >> sobering words. vincent mcgovern. thank you very much for joining us in the studio. forjoining us in the studio. that's vincent mcgovern, thanks for all your talk on that. now, let's we've got to get something done about this, vince. we've got to get something done about

it. something i care about passionately, myself. now, next up, or pub's killing our spirits. ahead of the fa cup final and the scottish cup final this weekend. find out why shortly. they're short changing us and martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. time is 547 on the final. final furlong of the week. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. a story very close to my heart. are pubs killing our spirits because punters are reportedly being overcharged around £114 every year by boozers who are short measuring our beer and our wine. now, according to research by the chartered trading standards institute, seven out of ten dnnksin institute, seven out of ten drinks in british pubs are being pulled short, with beer the most

likely drink to be under poured. this boils my blood. let's speak now to gb news. west midlands reporter jack carson , who is at reporter jack carson, who is at the queen's head pub in birmingham. jack are you making me very envious with your cold pint there? sat outside ? but pint there? sat outside? but this is something that really, really bothers people . beers really bothers people. beers pncey really bothers people. beers pricey enough as it is. they're short changing us. we've got a big problem . big problem. >> definitely. i mean, it's a shocking statistic, isn't it, really, martin, to say , you really, martin, to say, you know, the 77 pubs that trading standards visited in this survey, you know, 96 out of the 137, you know, servings that they got from from pints of beer and wine as well, you know, 96 that's 70% were under measured and not really to the standard. i mean, you know, the rules are that for a pint it should be 95% liquid, 5, maybe a bit of a head or some froth on top. i mean , or some froth on top. i mean, the likes of camra. of course, the likes of camra. of course, the campaign for real ale's argued that it should be 100% liquid and that shouldn't really count. but you're right. i mean,

the price of a pint of beer has gone up 5.6% in the last year. that's to according the ons. so it really is. you know, people are already short changed enough and now they're getting short changed even more when they're going to pubs and not maybe getting the specific measurement. now, of course , measurement. now, of course, i've been here at the queen's headin i've been here at the queen's head in birmingham. it's run by davenport's brewery, which is a local brewery based in smethwick. here in the city, and they've been teaching me how to pour the perfect pint. i mean, this is a pretty good example of a pint. i have it a little sip, so it's not as full as it was a little bit earlier on, but it's all they were telling me. it's all they were telling me. it's all about the technique, really, and that when you become a bartender in the first place, learning that technique of how to pour, pour a proper pint, and it's maybe that standard that's lacking across some of the hospitality industry. but of course, we know as well they'll be honest that they are struggling with bills , with struggling with bills, with paying struggling with bills, with paying their own prices as well. so maybe that's a factor that comes into it. but while i start on this, martin, why don't you take a look at one of the some of the great british public have been telling me in reaction to that survey, how do i feel about

it? >> well, i think it's a shame, but i think it happens. i don't have the means of measuring my glass of wine when i buy it, do i? >> exactly, but it does it shock you that that the pubs aren't aren't maybe going to the full amount of a pint or a full amount of a pint or a full amount of a pint or a full amount of a, of a, of a kind of serving of wine? >> no. why is that though. why are you not shocked? >> maybe because i think there will be inaccuracies and they will be inaccuracies and they will tend to on on the side of economy from their point of view. >> well, it's not really good, is it? really? you want you want to go to a pub and you want you want your pub, you want your pint to top, you want it to be nice. it'sjust pint to top, you want it to be nice. it's just it's not right. is it really? i mean, there's a lot of money apparently being wasted by people, you know, a lot of pints in the process. it all adds up. well, as i work at all adds up. well, as i work at a pub myself and there's a lot that gets put to waste and it's not really the best, really. so, i mean, do you think, like, you know, how much kind of head are you looking for on a pint? are you looking for on a pint? are you looking for a nice a good kind of amount or do you want about that much really, i don't

really want much more than that because it's going to ruin the pint. but it shouldn't be wasting it as much as it should. and we should be getting more, if they don't put you the right measure, you say to them, can you top that up, please? >> it's as simple as that. you don't stand for a lower pint than what's there. >> yeah. i mean, have you seen it when you've been into a pub, you see it all the time. >> especially when a pub is busy. it's the first thing they'll do. they'll pour the pint. they're busy. they don't have time to top it up, so they just move on to the next customer. you simply wait there until the next bar, staff said and say, excuse me, would you mind topping this up? and they're more than obliging. >> well, there you go. a bit of common sense from the british pubuc common sense from the british public there about how they want their pints to be right up to their pints to be right up to the top. i mean, we're talking wasn't i just there about, you know, how much whether the head should be included in the pint, whether it should be 100% liquid and not just 95? i mean, part of this survey, 35% of people found , that, of course, you know, it should be all the way to the top, but, you know, it's friday afternoon, martin. i've got to i've got to tuck in. >> yeah. jack carson. i was just

just noting there how you did a bit of a paul daniels on that pint. made half of it disappear just like that. you know, this is something that really, really bothers me, jack, because if i go into a boozer and i get short measured, i always, always demand a little topper. ohni it's your right as a free englishman, scotsman . go on, englishman, scotsman. go on, well, you know, this is it, martin. i mean, when you go to a pub, you know, a lot of the time, maybe it's busy. maybe you don't want to complain. of course. you know, to the bartender. that's maybe not exactly to your liking, but of course, you know, at the end of the day, if you're paying for a pint, you know, you're paying for a pint. you know, you look at some of the, some of the stats and actually, you know, you're losing about £1.70 a week if you don't, you know, ask them to get exactly what you're giving for. >> and it's astonishing. jack, 86% of all beer ordered was short measured in this survey. although on the bright side, jack carson , that's the only jack carson, that's the only time i cut down on my drinking. thank you very much for joining us on the show. always a

delight. now i always ask for a topper, but the bar always. in fact, i'll tell you this sometimes when they go to the till, i'll have a cheeky little tug on it. i'll put it back down and say, can you top that up, please? guilty as charged. but you should always, always ask for a top up. it's your right. there's no point paying for fresh air. there's no point paying fresh air. there's no point paying for froth. and they do try on push back. when you push back, you do get your little top up . anybody else getting very up. anybody else getting very thirsty looking at that now quickly got a load of emails sent in today from your sales. let's read out a couple now on the topic of migrants. of course, the 10,000 mark was passed this year, a new record . passed this year, a new record. erica says this. how can it be right that everyone from anywhere can just decide to come to the uk and get looked after ? to the uk and get looked after? what is the point of going through the legal channels at great cost? why we pay for passports. the uk to me feels like the wild west now. bruce adds this you can see pictures there of those boats coming ashore and of that bruce says this i want to know why border

force and the rnli vessels are now providing a taxi service for these illegal immigrants. now these illegal immigrants. now the rnli border force will say thatis the rnli border force will say that is unfair. they're simply doing their job. a lot of people doing their job. a lot of people do say that and quickly on general elections, nikki says this. maybe the tories should ask reform to put candidates in the 75 seats where their mps have quit, and then ask reform for quid pro quo. excellent stuff. well, thanks for all of your opinions on the show. thanks for getting in touch this week. it's been a huge week in politics. the general election broke on this show on wednesday. i was proud to cover it. i hope i was proud to cover it. i hope i did a great job. i'll be back on monday, i'll also be covering for nigel farage on monday evening. i'll have a double whammy of me. thanks for your company. have a great weekend. and how's your weather with annie shuttleworth? >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good afternoon. welcome to

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not a bit. cloudy across northern areas across northern england, much of wales and england, much of wales and england, it should be a bright start . temperatures will pick up start. temperatures will pick up quite quickly as the sun comes up, so you'll be into double digits at least by around 8:00, and there'll be plenty of sunshine through the morning. that mist and fog should clear quite quickly. that's a potential for a few showers to develop, particularly across northern areas of england. parts of scotland as well could see some heavier showers on saturday, but most of us should stay dry and there's just a chance of some rain clipping the far southeast later on in the day. but in the sunshine, highs of around 22 degrees in the south into the high teens across the north. but there is a bit of a change on the way for sunday, as this area of rain from the southwest will push northeastward through the night, bringing a spell of wet weather. and once it does clear through, we will see plenty of showers breaking out across the country through sunday and monday. these could be quite heavy, possibly thundery, so it's going to turn much more unsettled and a little bit cooler for the rest of the weekend. that warm feeling

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boss also today that a cinema in london has been vandalised by pro—palestinian protesters who wanted them not to show a documentary about the october seventh attack. now jewish groups have met there in solidarity to basically say they're not having any of it. how do we calm this issue down here in this country? also today, paula vennells, she's been at the post office inquiry today. you guessed it, crying again. do you have any sympathy for her though, or not? and a

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