election. rishi sunak has vowed to bring back national service, whilst labour today are challenging the government over the economy, declaring only economic stability can come with change. there's a new record in the number of migrants crossing the number of migrants crossing the channel, 10,000 having arrived this year already. >> there was a hollywood ending at wembley, but will it be gone with the win for erik ten hag as man united produce a shock by winning the fa cup against deadly rivals manchester city. meanwhile, in scotland, celtic completed a double of league and cup triumphs by seeing off their

rivals rangers at hampden park. we'll be reflecting on both throughout the morning . throughout the morning. >> oh, a wet start in places this morning but brightening up from the south but with some heavy thundery showers developing. find out all the weather details coming up soon. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond and you're watching breakfast and listening to breakfast on gb news. >> before we get into the nitty gritty. yes. have you got any weird hobbies? >> well, model trains. model trains , which some people think trains, which some people think is weird. >> no. it's excellent. no, because there's a fella in the in the star this morning who review reviews hand dryers in toilets, yes . this review reviews hand dryers in toilets, yes. this is review reviews hand dryers in toilets, yes . this is actually toilets, yes. this is actually very interesting one, because i know people who simply won't use those because. oh, really? well, well, because they spread microbes around. they honestly, they create a wind in the, in

they create a wind in the, in the loo, in the public loo that takes literally picks microbes up off the floor or other dirty contaminated surface and with them around the room . i know them around the room. i know people who simply won't use those. >> you're breathing it anyway, and i was in a private it was a private hospital. >> so you could say maybe, you know, they think about these things where others don't. but it was a private hospital where the loos were very nice, but they said the same thing. use paper towels, please. put the paper towels, please. put the paper towels, please. put the paper towels in the bin. that is actually more hygienic than using the air dryer. >> no, i quite like it. i like the hot air. no, this is luke coopen the hot air. no, this is luke cooper, who rates hand dryers when he's in any public convenience. does he rate them? >> he rates them on a website or something. >> so apparently cineworld in sheffield has a dyson airblade db . all time great. ten out of db. all time great. ten out of ten. the hollywood bowl in sheffield has an atc. can't ask for any more eight out of ten. >> yeah, they never quite get you dry though do they. >> well you meant to be quick.

leicester forest services on the m1 has a dyson airblade nine kilograms looks alien. works fab nine out of ten. >> some of them are so strong that you can. you know, they they wrinkle your skin, don't they? yeah. there you go. >> weird. this is your man. that's not him, that's madonna. here you go, luke. warm hands. luke. yeah there you go. i mean, it's weird. yes but, you know, it's weird. yes but, you know, it might come in handy. look at his website. i don't know where he posts it exactly. >> and anyway, you know , he's >> and anyway, you know, he's done them front. >> i don't know, he's he's tested them from asda to the empire state building. well there's a hobby for you. keeps you happy . well, absolutely. you happy. well, absolutely. this is washing his hands. >> he feels he's doing a public service, but you are actually blowing microbes around. >> oh, i think people get too worried about that. >> we should be dirtier to be healthy. >> i know it is. allegedly said yes. so there you go . yeah, but yes. so there you go. yeah, but but if you're in a public loo that other people use that you don't want their microbes being

blown around, do you? well, i've made it. i'm sorry. this is the wrong thing to talk about when you're just waking up, having your first cup of coffee, as you're watching the programme. so sorry about that. >> yeah, well, not to worry , if >> yeah, well, not to worry, if you've got any weird hobbies, let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay well, it depends. >> how about that? >> how about that? >> maybe don't include pictures . >> maybe don't include pictures. >> maybe don't include pictures. >> no no no no no. >> anyway, let's crack on with. we've got a juicy bit of politics this morning because the prime minister's announced national service for 18 year olds. if the conservatives win the general election. >> yes , rishi sunak says they'll >> yes, rishi sunak says they'll be given a choice between 12 months in the armed forces or doing one weekend a month volunteering in the local community. >> yeah, he says it would help unite society in an increasingly uncertain world. i'd >> and keir starmer, who you can see there of course, also focused on young people yesterday pledging to lower the voting age to 16. i want to see

16 and 17 year olds voting. >> they can go out and work, they can serve in our armed forces. and of course, if they are out and working, they pay tax and therefore they should have a say over how the money they're paying in is being used. so yes, i want to see that vote for 16 and 17 year olds if you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote and ed davey for the lib dems was out in force yesterday outlining his party's policy platform. >> the liberal democrats have got a fantastic set of policies on the health service, on the economy and on the environment. today we're campaigning against the sewage problem and we've led that campaign. i think overall we're just much more ambitious than some of the other parties. and critically, we want to transform british politics. we think the politics in our country is broken. it needs to be changed and we're the only party talking about that . party talking about that. >> it's fascinating, isn't it?

and certainly the idea of bringing back national service , bringing back national service, which is something we've spoken about a lot, you know, in the last year or so, isn't it? lots of people from time to time come up with the idea, and suddenly in the middle of an election campaign, the prime minister says he's going to do it. yeah >> it's interesting. let's talk to peter spencer, because i wonder , peter, in all of this, wonder, peter, in all of this, what struck me in it all is that labouris what struck me in it all is that labour is saying, let's have 16 year olds voting. so they're going for the youth vote, which tends to be more to the left anyway. whereas obviously the tories are going to irritate the youth vote with the youth vote. want this, but the older generation think it's a good idea . idea. >> absolutely. i mean it reading about this announcement made me wonder if maybe actually rishi sunak really, seriously, totally wants to lose the general election. i mean, for i wants to lose the general election. i mean, fori mean, election. i mean, for i mean, a little early in the day for me to conduct a vox pop among my granddaughters, but i don't

think it takes any thinking about at all to know that most young people regard this idea with absolute abhorrence. they're they're worried about their a levels, they're worried about getting into university . about getting into university. they're worried about the debt they'll incur the university. and they want to go off at this time of year to music festivals. do they really want to spend a year square bashing? do they? hell, i mean, i have to say that at my own hated public school, i served in the compulsory officer training corps. i mean, it was actually called the combined cadet force, but we all called it the corps. and though every second of it. and so there's a factor in all this, of course, which is the fact that that social media is an increasingly prevalent factor , which is one prevalent factor, which is one reason for the poor mental health of so many members of parliament. it has to be said . parliament. it has to be said. so i think there's more interest in politics among young people than there has been in the past, because there because because

they're sharing information on they're sharing information on the subject and so on the one hand, you're you're going to get an awful kickback from young people on social media about what a ghastly idea this is. at the same time , also, you're the same time, also, you're going to get a flicker of interest in starmer's idea of bringing in, allowing people to vote from 16 onwards, drawing them into the political debate. so the while it is true to say that sunak has certainly grabbed the headlines over this idea of a square bashing, i think it's fair to say that he's actually alienated a swathe of the electorate. >> it depends how it's sold, doesn't it? i mean, you call it square bashing and clearly you hated your time in the combined cadet force, but i mean, we do have an enormous swathe of young people who don't know where they're going, who aren't worrying about their a—levels and university entrance so much

as hanging around on street corners with nothing to do, who are uninspired, who don't have a trade, who don't have any sort of reason to get up in the morning, and either military service, national service, or being made to volunteer within the community. working with the rnli, all sorts of other voluntary organisations . maybe voluntary organisations. maybe it's what they need and they need to be told they need it, and in maybe educated as to why they need it . they need it. >> yeah, i mean, i do take the point about the alternative to, military service, which is volunteering in all sorts of very worthy and very useful all aspects of societal endeavour . aspects of societal endeavour. and i can see that, that that sounds like a good idea. and of course, it fits into another narrative , which is the fact narrative, which is the fact that rishi sunak has announced that rishi sunak has announced that he plans to increase defence spending by to two and a half to 2.5% by by the end of

the decade, which , given the the decade, which, given the febrile state of the world with, russia and china and north korea and iran and so on sounds like actually quite a good idea . actually quite a good idea. yeah. although actually i do have to add the rider to all that, which is that one reason that, which is that one reason that has been postulated for going for the general election in july is, is that because of the extra spending on defence, there is there will be no room for the chancellor to give the electorate a nice little sweetener in the form of, of a budget with tax cuts, in the autumn . autumn. >> now, the timing is interesting, isn't it ? but >> now, the timing is interesting, isn't it? but i mean, the timing, you could say, is desperately cynical as well, because as i was saying to stephen a minute ago, we've talked about the idea of national service, some form of it , for years, actually, and it, for years, actually, and suddenly with five weeks away from a general election, they've

come up with the idea as being mandatory for 18 year olds. >> yeah , well, whether it'll >> yeah, well, whether it'll wash, i don't know. >> peter . wash, i don't know. >> peter. thanks very much indeed, brenda's been in touch saying national service. young people don't want to work , let people don't want to work, let alone do this. rishi has a death wish . i think that's probably wish. i think that's probably a bit unfair, brenda. a lot of people do want to work. a lot of people, you know, look at all the people who do join the military, it doesn't have to be. i mean, it could be in the police or anything else that you do, sort of this sort of service or volunteering or. i don't know, i mean, i tend to think it's quite a good idea. but then again, as you get older, you do whether whether young, i think it's a cracking idea, but i think it's come too late. >> is it? even if you are sitting at home thinking it is a goodidea sitting at home thinking it is a good idea and our young people need it, it's too late to suppose that it would save the tory party from defeat. is it. and it just comes so late in the i the ideas market, doesn't it.

well, yeah. >> but so they've got to pull things out of the bag for an election. it's what you do, isn't it. it's like you vote for odds rather than just saying vote. didn't they come up with it years ago? >> well , it years ago? >> well, brendan says this election campaign is turning into a joke . into a joke. >> 16 year olds voting. national service proves neither party has got an absolute scooby. >> isn't it funny that they were both speaking or both of those parties were speaking about young people yesterday? i mean, is there a day for it? what's the day tomorrow for? >> i don't know, i'm always a little bit sceptical about giving the vote to 16 year olds just because i wonder if they if they know what they're doing at 16. >> well, they did for the for the scottish referendum, didn't they? and there are a lot of 16 year olds were really motivated. but i don't know. >> but also it's i mean left wing parties tend to want to do it because voters tend to be. yes, they more lefty when

they're young, when they're young. they're young, when they're young . absolutely. young. absolutely. >> but then again, there is that argument, isn't there to say, well, as keir starmer made, he said, well, you can you can you can join the military, you can get married , so why can't you get married, so why can't you vote? which is a fair point. i mean, you know, it just feels like reaching out for the votes to me, doesn't it? >> but that's what we're going to see. of course that's what they're doing. >> yeah. anyway, let us know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay this is going to be a big political issue as well. it's not what the conservatives want to hear this morning. more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed into the uk illegally so far this year. >> yeah, you could call it a milestone figure. and it was reached yesterday after another 154 people arrived in dover , 154 people arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats. >> well, the reform party leader, richard tice, has slammed all of this, including the rwanda scheme, to predictable disaster, frankly, and it just proves the whole rwanda scheme is a total farce.

>> the whole thing is not a deterrent . the migrants crossing deterrent. the migrants crossing the channel, they view it as a joke . they know that if they joke. they know that if they come here, they're not going to be sent to rwanda. and the prime minister actually, he's basically bottled it. he's called this election early because he knows that the flights either won't take off or if they do take off, the boats will keep coming. and the tragedy is that people are dying because of this. prime minister is feeble, gutless performance. if you pick up and take back , if you pick up and take back, which is what the belgian authorities have done, then guess what? the boats stop coming and people stop dying . coming and people stop dying. >> there you are. another big issue on the doorstep. is it dunng issue on the doorstep. is it during this election? let's talk to immigration lawyer ivan sampson, who joins us. very good morning to you , is there any morning to you, is there any answer to the immigration and illegal immigration crisis facing britain ? facing britain? >> there is. but just for that , >> there is. but just for that, this is such a serious matter. we have 10,000 people coming across the channel. we don't know most of them. we don't know

where they're from. and even if they tell us where they're from, we're not sure they're telling us the truth, we don't know the backgrounds, whether they've got criminal records, whether they've, there are threat to this country, we need to secure our borders. and that's the primary function of a government , is to make sure that the country is secure and safe and at the moment, i'm afraid that's not happening. now you ask about, is there a solution? there's only one solution. and we you know, if i'm coming across a channel, i need to know that i'm going to be sent back to whence i came from. and the only way we can do that is to do a deal, a treaty akin to the dubun a deal, a treaty akin to the dublin convention, in which permitted the uk to do that if they hadn't claimed asylum in france. so we need to do a treaty with the eu, not with france, with the eu , and the eu france, with the eu, and the eu to lay down new regulations for the for to allow the uk to return those that don't claim asylum in france or one. so they've already claimed asylum

not to be able to do that again in the uk. yeah. >> well which sounds great doesn't it. i mean it presumably that's what richard tice is talking about. but but the issue is it's not that simple . the eu is it's not that simple. the eu don't, you know, don't want to don't, you know, don't want to do that. deal with us. do they. >> well, you say that, but i'm not sure that's the case. i think there are things they want . and if i forgive me, ivan. >> but if there was a return deal that was that simple, it would have been done years ago. >> yeah, but there are things that the eu and i've said this before in other programmes and i've been absolutely lambasted for it. what the eu want is some form, some form of free movement. back now, i'm not saying that everybody should come over. that's not what i'm saying. but i'm saying skilled workers, for example, surgeons , workers, for example, surgeons, doctors, engineers, those skilled jobs that we need, we should consider free movement back. and i think if we put that to them, you may get a different response. and look, it's the

asylum problem is a global problem. the eu wants a solution as well. the ones who benefit are the traffickers because countries are not working together. and while that goes on, they're the ones who are benefiting and making money out of it. >> well, the politicians, i think i was going to say the politicians tell us they're working together, but we're not seeing we don't seem to be seeing we don't seem to be seeing any benefit. although, again, if you drill down and ask the politicians of various colours, they will say, well, we are doing deals , you know, we're are doing deals, you know, we're trying our best, but still at the moment it's a problem. >> look, the albanian work , >> look, the albanian work, there's a huge problem with albania. look, that worked because there was a political will on both sides to kind of deal will on both sides to kind of deal, to make it work. we've given tens of millions of pounds to the french . and i don't know to the french. and i don't know about you, but i think that's the nicest , sweetest deal i the nicest, sweetest deal i could have ever had. for the french. that is because they've

got loads of money with no performance targets . i mean, how performance targets. i mean, how does that work? so we've handed over tens of millions of pounds of french, and yet they have no obugafion of french, and yet they have no obligation to stop any number of boats to just give it a go. and you know, and i know looking at what the french have done, they're not doing that, they're not working with us, so we need to go over the french head. we need to go straight to the eu, to the to the eu 27 and have a global. well within the european treaty to stop it going right back to source. well, it's not just about france . it goes back just about france. it goes back to turkey. yeah, it goes back to spain . spain. >> but you've got you've got to look at it sensibly, haven't you. i mean, the albanian deal, the reason you can do a return deal with albania is because albania is having too much of a migration problem. they're losing too many people having whether you'd call it a brain drain or not. it's another question. they're losing too many people, so they want to have them back in terms of the

eu, as you say, the possibly the only way you're going to do it is some sort of even if it was a limited free trade , free limited free trade, free movement deal. but people in britain don't want that. they want to have control over our borders . i mean, we know that borders. i mean, we know that well, we don't though, do we? yes we do. >> we had a referendum on it. have any control of our borders, i'm afraid. and if i said to you, do you want a skilled french surgeon coming over ? of french surgeon coming over? of course i do, it took me six months to get a ceo for a national airline over, and it cost the company about £40,000 to do that. now, i don't know about you, but i would have given the ceo of a national airline a free movement to come oven airline a free movement to come over. we want skilled people, and there could be some sort of limited free movement. that's something that needs to be. that door needs to be open. discussions started, and we want skilled workers. i don't see where the problem is for that. >> okay. well, we'll leave it there this morning, but it certainly is going to be a

subject we're going to touch on many more times in the next few weeks. is it not? >> thank you very much indeed, yeah.ian >> thank you very much indeed, yeah. ian says, is ivan really saying the eu could do something if they wanted to? well, yeah, they could, but they're not going to do something for nothing, are they. and ivan says, you know, limited return to free movement. >> and ivan says you've got to go back to the source of the problem. but then we become the world's policeman, and we'll be accused of interfering with with other countries. >> it's one of those issues too far . it's not to knock what far. it's not to knock what ivan's saying, but, you know, if return deals were that simple, the government would have jumped on it. donkeys years ago because that's what you want to do. >> other people saying national service should never have been endedin service should never have been ended in the first place, older generations remember the days of national service and got a lot out of it , i sort of think it'd out of it, i sort of think it'd be quite good and still discipline. >> yeah. so do i. yeah. and a lot of people are getting in touch saying, you know, what makes you think that our young

people are going to want that they won't have a choice. and it's not as if we're the only country considering it and doing it. there are many european countries that already do it. and i mean, there would be a lot of fuss at the beginning from people who wouldn't agree with it or wouldn't want to do it. but after a while, a lot of young people get an awful lot out of it, actually. yeah >> anyway, keep your thoughts through on that one, and let's have a look at some of the other stories heading into the newsroom at 621. >> well, the prince and princess of wales have said they're incredibly sad to hear of the death of that raf pilot after his spitfire crashed into a field in lincolnshire yesterday . field in lincolnshire yesterday. the mod has described the incident , which took place near incident, which took place near raf coningsby, as a tragic accident . police and emergency accident. police and emergency services responded just before 120 in the afternoon yesterday and the pilot, who hasn't actually been named yet, was declared dead at the scene. it's thought that the aircraft was taking part in a battle of

britain memorial event at the 17 year old boy from lancashire is in police custody, arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead on a beach in bournemouth yesterday . in bournemouth yesterday. >> dorset police said they were called to reports of two women stabbed on durley chine beach, a 34 year old was pronounced dead at the scene. a 38 year old was taken to hospital with serious injuries and the new co—op arena injuries and the new co—op arena in manchester has been forced to postpone another event , this postpone another event, this time us rapper nicki minaj, after she was arrested at amsterdam's schiphol airport on suspicion of possession of soft drugs. >> yesterday she was released just after 9:00 last night, but not enough time there to make the concert. it follows a series of postponements and cancellations of previous events at the venue. last month . now, at the venue. last month. now, the arena hasn't had much luck ,

the arena hasn't had much luck, has it? >> it hasn't? no, i don't know about , nicki >> it hasn't? no, i don't know about, nicki minaj put some very odd tweets out last night, but anyway . marijuana. anyway. marijuana. >> yeah, actually, more comments coming in about ivan who was talking about immigration there, linda says ivan is talking about the scientists, engineers, etc. coming over by boat. yeah, really are coming over in a dinghy and somebody else just a few minutes ago. oh yeah, brendan said, i can't see the ceo of a national airline choosing to cross over on a dinghy. >> well, no, no, but he wasn't. >> well, no, no, but he wasn't. >> he wasn't, he wasn't meaning that. >> but no , he was he was saying >> but no, he was he was saying that if you allowed these people to come over ordinarily and through the with free movement, then that would allow returns, deals to allow people to trek across illegally to be stopped and sent back immediately. >> and that was the argument he was making. not that they were not that they were coming across on a dinghy. >> no. exactly. okay. at 623,

foodies from right across the uk are heading to malton this weekend , where the north weekend, where the north yorkshire town hosts three days of the most delicious food you could dream of. >> yes, it's a free to enter food festival . we'll have some food festival. we'll have some of the best food producers in yorkshire displaying their way wares and top cookery displays, as well , reporter wares and top cookery displays, as well, reporter anna wares and top cookery displays, as well , reporter anna reilly as well, reporter anna reilly will tell us more . will tell us more. >> malton it's the self—proclaimed food capital of yorkshire and the town is showing off those credentials at the food lovers festival over this bank holiday weekend. >> well, the food festival is our jewel in the crown. it's our biggest event of the year. it's been going 15 years and it's essentially a celebration of yorkshire's finest produce. it's a massive economic boost for the region. in ryedale has about 50,000 residents that live here. we bring in 42,500 people just on this weekend. yorkshire is a fantastic brand name, you know, and this celebrates yorkshire

produce. so, you know, if you're from another part of the country and you want to know what yorkshire is all about, this is the place to do it. >> there's more than 120 stalls and street food vendors at the event, showcasing local produce at its finest. >> this is one of our scotch eggs and it's just perfectly using their beautifully. the scotch egg originated from whitby in north yorkshire and being from yorkshire myself, i think that's just great. >> is it the yorkshire cheeses we've got? we have the yorkshire black, we have the ogden gold , black, we have the ogden gold, wensleydale. more and more people are buying local , which people are buying local, which is helping us. but the small businesses need as much help as they can get. >> the main stage is a hub of culinary excellence, with demonstrations from award winning chefs. >> we will be showcasing all yorkshire produce and yorkshire chefs, so every hour on the hour there's something happening. we're surrounded by farmland .

we're surrounded by farmland. we're surrounded by farmland. we're only a 20 minutes or so from the coast. i mean, it couldn't be a better position. >> hordes of hungry visitors have travelled far and wide to get here to sample tasty treats and enjoy what the weekend has to offer. we come from telford , to offer. we come from telford, but we've made a holiday of it, so we've stayed the week. >> it's just a really nice atmosphere. everybody's very friendly , there's a lot of friendly, there's a lot of stalls, there's a lot of choice. >> i'm looking forward to looking at the pies and things like that as well. you know, having a good look around and having a good look around and having a good taste of the food and the drink and the food, sourcing some local ingredients , sourcing some local ingredients, meeting some local artisans and just having a nice day out a dnnk just having a nice day out a drink more than an eat. >> so i'm going to find some gins with so much food on display, it's no wonder the gourmet street party is dubbed yorkshire's foodie glastonbury. >> anna riley gb news malton record murders in wensleydale yeah, local cheeses. >> i love these artisan cheeses.

i'm not very sure about scotch eggs. i mean, i'll bet you this is a big culinary divide, isn't it? when you have a scotch egg, do you want it with the middle running out? do you want it runny in the middle, hard or hard? yeah. >> oh, yeah. well that's done, that's done. i've got a scotch 999 that's done. i've got a scotch egg so i wouldn't know. >> i've eaten scotch eggs in my time and they're tasty . but i time and they're tasty. but i wouldn't know because i'm veggie. but the. >> but the cheese . >> but the cheese. >> but the cheese. >> oh. local cheeses. >> oh. local cheeses. >> yeah. gorgeous. you know, i like cheese. >> yes, i like cheese, too. >> right. >> right. >> it's not much point in saying it as well, because the food, the food festival is right up in yorkshire, a bit far away to be up in yorkshire, and i'm on a diet. >> oh, i see, there you go. so i mean, i've scuppered myself there and actually, fingers crossed if you are going there today, i hope the weather's going to be. >> i hope so, because honestly, what a great way to spend the day. >> we'll be lovely, but i'm afraid rain and thunderstorms and all that sort of thing today. >> let's get all the details with greg. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather. the day aheadis latest gb news weather. the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see. heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well, but there will be some sunshine this morning though. it's a cloudy start across much of the uk, outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing , see heavy showers developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force. some local disruption , possible frequent disruption, possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells, breezy around the coast . breezy around the coast. temperatures are little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday, so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales , some parts of england and wales, some of these thundery and then further north into northern

england, northern ireland southern scotland cloudy , southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of rain but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two, and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well. for the rest of the evening and overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards as jul start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later, with some clear spells around , and temperatures spells around, and temperatures will be a little lower, but generally for most, holding up in double figures to take us into bank holiday monday. so for england and wales, a bright to start, some sunny spells. scattered showers from the word go further north and northern ireland into scotland. generally cloudier outbreaks of rain, most persistent across western scotland and then generally for monday afternoon, a day of a sunny spells and scattered showers. again, some of these could be heavy at times , some

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general election. morecambe fc general election. morecambe ec is one club that could be on the bnnk is one club that could be on the brink of going bust . after being brink of going bust. after being up for sale for almost two years without a buyer. >> our reporter, jack carson, has been to morecambe to find out what losing the club could do to the town . do to the town. >> taylornomics, a seaside football club that's getting closer to the cliff edge. morecambe fc has been owned by jason whittingham from bond group investments since 2018, but now the club's fans, players and board want him gone. the club has been up for sale for almost two years and this week its directors warned whittingham he needs to accept an offer to avoid a catastrophic outcome. james main is the secretary of the shrimps trust morecambe supporters club, and has been going to games since he was one. >> well, it's just such a sense of uncertainty at the moment and really it's sort of a make or break situation now , people at break situation now, people at the club are worried about, whether they're going to receive

their next pay packet. there has been success under whittingham's time at the club with promotion to league one, england's third division. >> but over the last few years, failure to pay staff wages on time and a points deduction means relationships at the club have boiled over. we want james out. >> everyone takes out a separate issue of a transfer embargo on the club over funds owed to hmrc, means it's unclear how many players they will have at the start of next season, and that's caused concern about survival. >> so how would you feel then if this club ceased to exist, i would be absolutely devastated if that was to happen. you know, i've had friends say to me, which team would you support if morecambe went out of business? well, in reality it's morecambe's . morecambe's. >> my club, two minutes down the road from the stadium is the william mitchell pub landlord. steve hewlett is also worried at the prospect. >> it's not just the old fans, it's the away fans as well, so losing morecambe football club

would be a mega mr. trade, especially on match days. there is a lot of big clubs away clubs and so you get a lot of away supporters as well . he would supporters as well. he would make a massive difference if anything happened to the club . anything happened to the club. >> in march, the government introduced the football governance bill, which set out to establish an independent football regulator. fans of clubs like morecambe will be hoping it's given proper powers to protect them . mp for to protect them. mp for morecambe and lunesdale, david morris says the bill includes tougher tests before a potential takeover , both stricter tests takeover, both stricter tests for them to become an owner in the first place and obviously, you know, legislation in place to have good governance and good housekeeping. >> so we're not in a position where it's a stalemate, where, you know, we're seeing financial irregularity going on with the club, meaning players not being paid. and management not being paid. and management not being paid and all the rest of it. and then we're in a position where we can't sell the club. so, you know, we don't want to see this club go under. that's the last thing we want to see. >> watched over by its most

famous fan and former president, eric morecambe, this town will be hoping a football regulator can bring them sunshine in their football club's darkest times. jack carson gb news morecambe . jack carson gb news morecambe. >> oh the great eric morecambe oh honestly , mind you, i tell oh honestly, mind you, i tell you what morecambe needs a lot of help in a lot of ways. >> really run down now. >> really run down now. >> well, a lot of the northern seaside towns are, aren't they? >> morecambe and blackpool, are they ? they? >> because they've fallen prey to us all going abroad in search of sunshine instead of going what we always used to be the traditional holiday places? >> well, and there's an element of that, but also just lack of investment in the north. yeah, they're great places . they do they're great places. they do just need they need a bit of a zhuzh up a bit of money spending on them bills, watching us from spain. >> oh hi bill, he said i'm on my holidays and all the commercials in between in your ad breaks are in between in your ad breaks are in spanish. very spooky. because you're watching on youtube. >> if you're watching on youtube. >> so they would fill the advert breaks with local, local stuff. how interesting. but. but where

l, how interesting. but. but where i, where i watch which is midlands all of the adverts seem to be welsh. >> we have a lot of welsh advertisers . yeah. advertisers. yeah. >> you know, and they're encouraged to go along and have a look at their shops. it's quite a long drive from where am. >> well it's worth a try. >> well it's worth a try. >> i you pop over and get some cash for your gold. yes, exactly. why not. yeah. why not? anyway, aidan magee is here. >> good morning. good morning. my >> good morning. good morning. my mum and dad. the honeymoon in blackpool. i'm. you're right, you're right. you didn't. no, no. not me. >> no, my parents did. it was a great, honeymoon destination, wasn't it? >> it was indeed. yeah. a brilliant place. and. but. yeah, gb news popular at wembley as well. yesterday i might add. oh, i recognise several times. oh, really? >> that's good. yeah, i'm finding that. and so you are stephen. so a lot. >> so we've got one bloke said we brighten up his morning. >> there's a good, jolly good. there's a lot of propaganda out there saying that people don't watch us, but actually they really do. they do? yeah. >> if you're, if you look at the figures, we get the figures. >> when i were at the palace.

oh, yes. all of the, everybody recognised me from gb news. well well, they said we watch you, you know, we're watching in the morning. so they actually were. and that was stunning. i wasn't expecting that. >> they didn't mention us though. >> yeah. oh, i'm sure they did somewhere along the line. but i didn't hang around long enough. >> no no no. »- >> no no no. >> anyway, you had quite an afternoon out yesterday. >> excellent. yeah i was privileged to be at wembley yesterday. we were thinking that it would be a procession for manchester city, but it wasn't. we were hoping that there might be a story thrown up. i'll tell you what, man united anne got really got about them, and it just shows there is a way to beat manchester city if you're going to dig in, and 35,000 man united fans turned up yesterday knowing that that if their team didn't actually get into them from the off, they had no chance . but i'm pleased to say from their point of view, that's exactly what they did. there's some pictures here, here yesterday. as you can see, united winning the fa cup and the trophy lift yesterday down the trophy lift yesterday down the pitch. >> was it a good match? i mean was it good football. >> it was. i would say no not not not no not in all ways. no. but sometimes it's not about the purity of the football. it's

about the attrition. it's about the will to win. it's about the refusal. >> but that's what i mean was, is it good to watch. >> it was. it's good to see manchester city were thrown off their stride. you know we can't have teams winning. it's not good for the competitive nature of football. when a big club like united, the biggest club in the world, are deemed to have no chance against the likes of manchester city. i mean, we were talking, i think the mirror yesterday put it on the front, the front page of their pullout, saying it was going to be a shock of the shock for the ages. this is man united, the biggest club in the world. they're going to produce a shock of ages by being the team that's smaller than them in their own city. it's ridiculous. so that's because on the pitch, city of streets away, far in front of manchester united and they'd be much better run. they've had much better run. they've had much bigger investment, they've had better managers and better players and they've better, better infrastructure as well. their training ground is better. their training ground is better. their stadium is probably better now as well. and so on. the pitch united, it sounds strange, but they did upset the balance. and now what does it mean for erik ten hag? well he's saying sack me if you dare. i've delivered a trophy for you last season. i've delivered delivered one for you this season. we've

had horrendous injuries. now at what point do you say. actually, he's got a point. and in terms of the actual event yesterday, i mean, i didn't find it. i thought it'd be really overbearing in terms of getting places and security checks and stuff like that. i saw very few, very few security flashpoint flashpoints or or aggravation or anything like that. i'll tell you what it was akin to, and it was the first one i've been to as a as a neutral as a supporter, i, i wasn't working, i've been to several in the past but and it's turned into there's me there, you can see me down the right hand side. so that's anidea the right hand side. so that's an idea of my ticket. >> that's quite a crowd turned out for you. >> there. yes it is, it is. they weren't for me there. they were there for the teams. but really, no. i'm joking, it was akin to the super bowl. it was that kind of event. there was so much music there. there were pyrotechnics. there were. i mean, you can see the view there. that's the benefit. >> do you think that's rather good? >> yeah, i do, i like it, yes. obviously prince william was there to give out the give out there to give out the give out the trophy. >> prince george was there as well. >> that's right. he was indeed. we saw him. he got he's got, he's got in front of the cameras and he did well. he looked lovely. and there was sir james ratcliffe of course, who's

recently bought man united. sir alex ferguson, huge cheer when he appeared on the on the screen. quite poignant for him as well. i mean, his first trophy as man united manager after a wretched run of the first 3 or 4 years in charge, was the fa cup, and that was in 1990, so 34 years ago. as for manchester city, they looked a bit leggy, i have to say that that if i looked a bit leggy, they did. they've had a long season, they had a long, long season, they had a long, long season and it looked as if they were gassed in that second. so certainly in the first half they had to go in the second half. andre nana made a bit of a mistake later on, which made it quite nervous for the united fans, but there was palpable relief among the united faithful that finally they were able to get a win against manchester city, their rivals. they beat them in the league last season, but in terms of winning a trophy against them, they've not won a final against them for quite some time. >> oh well. relief for those fans this morning. well let's say whether it's relief for ten hag, who knows. >> well i think we'll know in the next few days though. i think we'll know. okay >> aiden, thank you very much indeed. >> yeah. do stay with us because in a couple of moments, we'll be finding out what's making the rest of the news with tom slater and emma burnell. that's next.

this is breakfast on gb news with stephen

anne. >> let's have a quick look at some of the papers. the sunday telegraph has rishi sunak's promise to bring back national service and a picture of princes william and george at the fa cup final . final. >> the sunday express leads with rishi sunak's plans to bring in national service. and there again, you've got the royals shaking hands at the times . shaking hands at the times. >> sunday times has tory plans for national service very similar this morning to the mail on sunday, saying much the same thing and the observer has rachel reeves reeves, the shadow chancellor, slamming the prime minister's tax cut pledges. >> well, joining us to go through what else is making the news? political consultant emma burnell and editor of spiked, tom slater. and good morning to both of you. morning we were pointing out, weren't we, emma, that you're wearing a gorgeous summer frock. i am, which i said

to you is a bit optimistic today given the weather forecast, but ihave given the weather forecast, but i have got an anorak in the green room , and i think that is green room, and i think that is the modern woman's outfit for the modern woman's outfit for the summer . the modern woman's outfit for the summer. yeah, beautiful summer frock, but still with the wellies and you won't be able to wear that. >> if you were doing national service, i would not. >> well, i mean maybe in the voluntary sector part, which is probably where i go because frankly, let's face it, stephen, no one wants me anywhere near the army. but what do i know? >> they'd whip you into shape some sort of shape, i think. goodness knows what they'd do. >> we'd whip each other. and i think that i'm not the best at being shouted at. at 6 am, as i'm sure everyone backstage will attest , i'm sure everyone backstage will attest, yeah. i mean, this is an interesting gimmick, i guess. yeah, it's a gimmick. if it was real, it would have come up before he would have done it. whilst in government they are, they know that the odds are they're very unlikely to be in government to enforce this. it's a political offer designed almost entirely to appeal to the voters they're worried about losing to reform. that they may put off younger voters given

that they're statistically insignificant. the amount of younger voters that say they're going to vote conservative probably doesn't worry them that much, but it doesn't feel like something that is a thought through plan that they really. yeah, it just feels like, hey, reform voters have some red meat. here you go. vote for us. and i just i'm not sure that those people who are so angry with the tory party on their right that they're moving to reform are really going to fall for it, tom. >> well, i think the one thing that does support the gimmick hypothesis is the fact that the vast majority for the vast majority of young people, if this was to be implemented, it wouldn't really be national service in the way that we think about it. there's only about 30,000 placements, which would actually be with the armed forces for like a 12 month period. so the vast majority would be doing this one weekend a month. volunteer thing in their community and so on. so it would basically be kind of like mandatory community service slash volunteering, the vast majority of people. but i completely agree with emma insofaras. i think a lot of the

early moves that the tories have made in this campaign, even calling it at the time that they did, makes a lot more sense. when you read that through the lens of they're trying to wrongfoot reform, then they're trying to win a majority, if that makes sense. trying to stem the losses to a certain extent. >> so you're maybe thinking older people who might have always voted tory in the past, you know, a bit fed up with them now sees something they feel they can vote for. >> and that's definitely the theory behind it. whether that will work in practice, we will see in five and a half weeks, i guess, but yeah , tom's guess, but yeah, tom's absolutely right. this is a mish demise, the loss strategy rather than a maximise the win strategy i >> -- >> be very cynical. if that's true, isn't it? do you think somebody actually sits down? yes. works that out. >> if they don't they're not doing their job. >> the prime minister i mean, i'm silly to say it's very cynical, isn't it, because we are in an election period now, aren't we, what's this piece in the sunday times, tom, about the internal criminal court. >> so the chief prosecutor for the icc , a gentleman called

the icc, a gentleman called karim khan, has given an interview to the sunday times off the back of him issuing those arrest warrants, not only to three of the leaders of hamas, but also to benjamin netanyahu , prime minister of netanyahu, prime minister of israel, and yoav galant, who's the defence minister, which of course, caused this huge international controversy , international controversy, accusations of drawing a moral equivalence and of giving in to a kind of very anti—israel narrative. i mean, he actually charged these the israeli state with effectively, deliberately targeting civilians. pardon me, so very controversial . and so so very controversial. and so what he's trying to do here is to try and address those criticisms. >> so he's saying that despite the terrible troubles in northern ireland and the ira, not only bombing people in northern ireland, but over here as well in other parts of britain , and he's saying that we britain, and he's saying that we showed restraint. we didn't just immediately go and bomb the ira in ireland , and therefore in ireland, and therefore netanyahu should show the same restraint that that is when he's deaung restraint that that is when he's dealing with gaza. >> that is his point. it's a

completely nonsense comparison. i dare say, insofar as the ira, you know, whatever opinion people might have of them were not constantly firing rockets into uk territory. they hadn't built an elaborate tunnel network underneath belfast in which they had stuffed civilians and hostages and using them as human shields. they weren't being lavishly funded by states like iran and also being backed up. >> also, they weren't running the territory. yeah i mean, that that sort of the key difference, i think, i that sort of the key difference, ithink, i mean, i find that sort of the key difference, i think, i mean, i find this incredibly difficult because you watch the pictures coming out of gaza and you cannot help but be incredibly moved. you also have to remember what happened on october the 7th and be equally moved . and that's a really moved. and that's a really important thing to remember at all times. the question is , all times. the question is, israel has a right to defend itself. it doesn't have a right to do whatever it wants in that defence. and . that's where this

defence. and. that's where this kind of grey area and that may fall into international law, falls, and i think there are going to be questions that need to be tested. why they're doing it in this occasion and didn't do it. for example, in syria, i think is a question worth asking because, you know, we were talking about assad using chemical weapons on his own people. if that's not an international war crime, i don't know what is. so it's , it's know what is. so it's, it's unfortunate that that in the same way that he's saying all countries are subject to international law, this one, which is obviously going to be one of the more controversial areas, you know , disputes areas, you know, disputes between israel and palestine have international consequences across the world. they are always , very complex. it's, you always, very complex. it's, you know, this is this being the test case is going to cause even more controversy . m 0 re c0 ntrove rsy. >> more controversy. >> i think we all know why that double standard exists, is that there's always such an extreme double standard where israel is concerned. and as you say, this

is people are well within their rights to criticise what the israeli government is doing in terms of how they're prosecuting this war and how they're handung this war and how they're handling things in general. but the problem with these charges is that they play into this idea that for them to basically defend themselves at all against what is a much more significant military threat than the comparison he's trying to make, is, in and of itself a kind of war crime. and that's where these things get incredibly slippery. and i think it's also worth noting that, yes, he's trying to almost look evenhanded with going after hamas, but also we're going after israel. hamas is a genocidal terrorist organisation. it is not bothered by being issued with international arrest warrants, whereas israel, because of the fact that it does need to deal with the west, does need to go to its allies, it does need to make those representations and so on. if these were ever issued, they have to be issued by a judge. now they're going to think about that, this would have a serious impact on their ability to continue this war effort. >> but does netanyahu care about that, do you think? i think, or could it be the end of him politically? >> well, i mean, the problem netanyahu has is that his

coalition is made up of he's quite far to the sort of right wing nationalist element in israel. but the way that his coalition is made up, he's brought people in who are considerably further. and he politically cannot govern without them. so he has to constantly prove that he can be the biggest butcher of them all, yeah. but he's falling outwith, i mean, yoav galant, who's also named in this, the defence minister. >> i mean, they've had a huge falling out last week. >> and yeah, there are there are rules of war. and we should be enforcing them. and i just always come back whenever i try to think about this appalling conflict and, and try to be nuanced about it and part of the problem, israel, was that there's that phrase hurt people, hurt people. and i think hurt states hurt other people, and i think there has probably been disproportionate hurt of the civilian population in gaza. but equally , as tom says, that even

equally, as tom says, that even thatis equally, as tom says, that even that is complicated because those civilians are, you know, being used by hamas as human shields. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the question then comes, what can you do to minimise the loss of life of those human shields? and i think there are questions to be asked on all sides about that. right. >> i'll tell you what. let's move on. let's move to on something different. just for the last minute or so, the observer , back to politics. observer, back to politics. rachel reeves. having a go at that, what she calls the prime minister's reckless tax cut pledges. emma. >> yeah . i mean, basically, >> yeah. i mean, basically, we've already had two cuts to, national insurance, two, two, two cuts, quite big cuts. now, on an individual level, if we look at our pay packet and we see that we're getting a little bit more money in our pocket, we all go, yayi >> that's nice. have you noticed it? >> no, not to be fair. >> no, not to be fair. >> i haven't heard anyone go

yay! >> i haven't heard anyone go yayi they've got another £0.02 on a on a national level, that means less money for public services. >> and that is the calculation that any government has to make. how much do you get in? how much do you spend on services and i labour are making the calculation and i think quite rightly and in borne out in the polling, given that neither of those national insurance cuts move the dial at all in favour of the conservatives, that people are actually making that calculation themselves and saying, well, look, i get that, you know, yes , it would be nice you know, yes, it would be nice if i had a little bit more money, but it would be better if the nhs got it. yeah. >> oh, well, there you go. >> oh, well, there you go. >> it's an interesting one. let us know what you think about that one. has it been enough? do you need more? do you want more, or should we not be taking cuts at all at the minute, thank you both. we'll see you a little bit later on, in the meantime, let's look at the weather for you with greg. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on .

solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather. the day aheadis latest gb news weather. the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see. heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well, but there will be some sunshine this morning though it's a cloudy start across much of the uk. outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force, some local disruption possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells, breezy around the coast . breezy around the coast. temperatures are little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday, so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales , some parts of england and wales, some of these thundery and then further north into northern england . northern ireland england. northern ireland southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of

rain, but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two, and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here, with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well for the rest of the evening and overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards to start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later with some clear spells around. temperatures will be a little lower, but generally for most, holding up in double figures to take us into bank houday figures to take us into bank holiday monday. so for england and wales, a brighter start, some sunny spells, scattered showers from the word go further north and northern ireland into scotland . generally cloudier. scotland. generally cloudier. outbreaks of rain, most persistent across western scotland and then generally for monday afternoon , a day of monday afternoon, a day of a sunny. spells and scattered showers again, some of these could be heavy at times, some thundery as well, particularly northeast scotland, eastern england and temperatures around

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gb news. >> good morning to you. it's 7:00 on sunday, the 26th of may. today your country needs you in one of the first major policy announcements of the election, rishi sunak has vowed to bring back national service . back national service. >> while labour today are challenging the government over the economy, declaring only economic stability can come with change. >> a new record in the number of migrants crossing the channel 10,000 have arrived this year already one of the last acts to be rushed through parliament, leasehold reforms aimed to make extending your lease cheaper and eafien >> but will it work ? >> but will it work? >> but will it work? >> good morning. there was a hollywood finish at wembley , but hollywood finish at wembley, but will it be gone with the win for

erik ten hag? after manchester united produced a shock by winning the fa cup against deadly rivals manchester city. meanwhile, in scotland , celtic meanwhile, in scotland, celtic completed a double of league and cup triumphs by seeing off their rivals rangers at hampden park . rivals rangers at hampden park. >> oh, a wet start in places this morning but brightening up from the south but with some heavy thundery showers developing. find out all the weather details coming up soon. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond and this is breakfast on gb news. yes. a lot of you, quite important in favour of this national service idea that the prime minister is floating. maggie says a form of national service would do a lot of young people good. they'd have structure , boundaries, team have structure, boundaries, team building, a sense of purpose. they could learn a trade. >> yeah. a lot of people also getting in touch, saying no , getting in touch, saying no, it's just not going to work. you

can't take these youngsters off the street and then suddenly teach them how to use weapons. is that really what you want? but i think that's a basic misunderstanding of what national service would and could be, yeah , it's all about be, yeah, it's all about structure and a little bit of discipline and discipline and learning how to work as a team and learning why you're doing it too, why it's worth, why it's worth defending your country , i worth defending your country, i suppose, as an idea for an election . election. >> would it work, you say a lot of people would like it, but not the people who would have to do it. >> it has, however, made most of today's front pages national service compulsory for 18 year olds. that what is, what is, what rishi sunak is more or less saying on the front page of every paper today. >> yeah, there would be a choice though, between 12 months in the armed forces or one weekend a month volunteering in their community. >> and the prime minister claims the measure would help unite society in what he called an increasingly uncertain world. well sir keir starmer is focused on young people as well. >> he's pledged to lower the

voting age to 16. >> i want to see 16 and 17 year olds voting. they can go out and work, they can serve in our armed forces. and of course, if they are out and working, they pay they are out and working, they pay tax and therefore they should have a say over how the money they're paying in is being used. so yes , i want to see that used. so yes, i want to see that vote for 16 and 17 year olds if you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote. >> well, the liberal democrats, then leader ed davey was out in force yesterday promising to push his party's policy platform. >> the liberal democrats have got a fantastic set of policies on the health service, on the economy and on the environment. today we're campaigning against the sewage problem and we've led that campaign. i think overall we're just much more ambitious than some of the other parties. and critically , we want to and critically, we want to transform british politics. we think the politics in our country is broken. it needs to

be changed. and we're the only party talking about that . party talking about that. >> well, let's talk to political commentator piers pottinger and former labour mp and minister former labour mp and minister for europe denis macshane singh. good to see you both gents this morning, dennis, can i start with you? what do you make of this as a sort of last minute dash to get the tories over the line? the idea of national service for 18 year olds. >> oh gosh. >> oh gosh. >> after school starts going up to the titanic and saying that the welsh should all be watching the welsh should all be watching the euros where they've been eliminated, and then all the top tories , all of them just leaving tories, all of them just leaving the sinking ship. this is absolutely just a bit potty. this is a perfectly good for case national service. 1 or 2 baltic states are bringing it back to defend themselves against the russians. but you can't send , you can't send, can't send, you can't send, conscript soldiers into battle. we've reduced our army to 75,000, the lowest number since napoleonic times . they live in napoleonic times. they live in dreadful housing conditions. i don't know who's going to pay

for it. who's going to administer it? have the generals generals never want to take on this kind of sort of social work conscription. so, you know, i'm i can't say it's a bad, bad idea to. but i just think rishi is probably lost every single young vote overnight. >> piers pottinger where's this idea come from? >> well, i think it comes from his school because he was at winchester college, where i was, and in those days we had ccf, which was you could choose either to be in the corps , which either to be in the corps, which is the cadet force for the army or , do voluntary work once or, do voluntary work once a week. and this is a very similar scheme, but i think the point everyone seems to have missed here is that the people who really like these schemes are employers, because when national service was originally in place and when it was stopped in the 60s, it was followed by a very popular short service commission in the army, which many people

who didn't go to university chose to take up and was actually a very popular qualification with employers because being doing national service or even voluntary service. and rishi has said it would be with something like the police or the rnli or the rnli , police or the rnli or the rnli, it gives them skills, it teaches teamwork, it gives a sense of purpose and unity, all of which is extremely good, particularly for people who may not be able to go to university in the future. and it will give them a base , admittedly a small base, base, admittedly a small base, as it's only a year initially , as it's only a year initially, the national service was longer than that, and for example, in singapore, where they still have national service like this, it has proved very popular with employers, not just in singapore, but even in this country. >> so it's interesting, isn't it, that he's , alienated the it, that he's, alienated the

young vote? >> well, i don't think he's alienated the young vote. >> of course he has, because it may be it may be that a lot of people think, oh, this would actually be a good idea. it tends not to be the young people who would have to do it, who think, but it also tends not to be the young people who actually vote. >> and i think this is a very cleverly worked out announcement, because i think rishi knows that he's lost most of the young votes anyway. and as i think one of your earlier commentators was mentioning , commentators was mentioning, this whole campaign has the smell of damage limitation now rather than actually looking for victory, because i think that rishi knows the game is lost. >> go on dennis, you were shaking your head . shaking your head. >> well, i also was in the combined cadet force . i is i was combined cadet force. i is i was a company sergeant major. i had a company sergeant major. i had a very loud voice and i loved ordering people about. then i went into politics. so there. no, actually , it will be

no, actually, it will be a disaster for employers because there's such a permanent skill shortage. last year, rishi imported 654,000 immigrants from , nigeria, india and pakistan to fill all the vacancies left after brexit. and the idea of taking all the 80 year olds off the labour market to march them around squares with sort of when they bring back , dad's army they bring back, dad's army sergeants to shout at them and drill them , no, i mean, it's drill them, no, i mean, it's a such a daft idea . i can't such a daft idea. i can't believe a professional officer of the army or the mod have got nightmares now trying to restore morale and status to the army. want to have anything to do with this? it's suddenly. i mean, i just don't know who's in downing street advising him on on all of these things. they just seem to be completely politically , be completely politically, fairly bonkers. >> piers. well, i do think that this campaign increasingly looks like a solo effort by rishi. when dennis said that someone was advising them. i wonder who

is advising him because admittedly, it was a huge surprise. this announcement . admittedly, it was a huge surprise. this announcement. but it also looks like rishi suddenly woken up to i better do something to show i'm not a woke , almost left wing person and try and attract the voters who are all going to desert the conservatives and go to reform. >> hold on piers and so low campaign . campaign. >> well, i mean he appears everywhere he's appeared . everywhere he's appeared. there's no one apparently with him. i mean, starmer has angela rayner or rachel reeves or some people around him. but i mean, yesterday rishi was in his constituent in richmond in a wetherspoons, sitting on his own with a bunch of old men having a coffee. and that's not actually particularly impressive as an image to send out to the electorate. i mean, he does seem like he's a solo operator the way he launched the campaign. i cannot believe anyone in downing street didn't say to him, have an umbrella for goodness sake,

let's wait till the rain goes out. we've spent a lot of money building a studio nearby. why don't we do it inside? but instead he said, no, i'm going to do it. and he went out and did it. and the imagery was very , very embarrassing. and as dennis said, going to visit the titanic, i mean, what on earth possessed him to go and see the titanic? sukh i mean, extraordinary. on the other hand , denis macshane, you might find this interesting. >> it's a story we're going to talk about a bit later on. apparently, keir starmer has been advised not as the euros draw near, to not wear an england shirt because it will, put off scottish voters, which of course are terribly important at the moment, so, you of course are terribly important at the moment , so, you know, at the moment, so, you know, we're all i mean, i guess that election campaigns are always like this, aren't they ? like this, aren't they? >> they they are a bit . sure. i >> they they are a bit. sure. i mean, i wouldn't advise any man in his 60s running for the highest office of the land to wear any pretended he's a sportsman or wear any kind of

sporting shirt, but keir is an englishman and we'll see how far england, or indeed anybody else goes. england, or indeed anybody else goes . and if they go far, well, goes. and if they go far, well, that's that's okay. it's quite normal to go along to semi—finals and finals, but we'll wait and see. no, i think so far. oh i don't know. i feel sorry for rishi. you just feel the man is desperate to go home. his real home is in silicon valley in california , and he's valley in california, and he's just, go to a wetherspoon to have a cup of coffee. oh it's okay. wetherspoon sells everything. you go to wetherspoons for a pint but he's doesn't drink and drink. >> he doesn't. dennis. >> he doesn't. dennis. >> dennis dennis you get free top ups on your coffee and wetherspoons so don't knock it, don't knock it. you can get a lot of coffee, but at least rishi's policies are his own, whereas keir starmer is conning the electorate into walking into a sleeping nightmare. >> yeah, yeah , into a nightmare >> yeah, yeah, into a nightmare because all the labour party

policies are decided by the nec, which comprises 13 trade unionists and a bunch of left wing socialists. >> so they're not really starmer's policies and we still don't know what they really are yet. >> piers . piers, if you >> piers. piers, if you seriously seek the labour party as a left wing party, join it for five minutes and see what, you know. old fashioned labour party people think this is the most conservative social democratic party in europe. its policies are pro—business, pro—growth, all the things that once were at the heart of toryism. now tory dub is all about, you know, enlisting 18 year olds to go square bashing. >> okay, go leave. it appears, dennis, thank you very much indeed. >> go on letting us know, please as well. what you think about square bashing and 18 year olds and whether or not they're all going to want to choose, one weekend a month, which seems

like a real. >> that's the easy option. yeah, very easy option compared to a, a year's worth of i suppose if they wanted , if they, if they they wanted, if they, if they want to continue their education or they've got an apprenticeship or they've got an apprenticeship or whatever job, or then you could squeeze it in that way, it's still not a bad thing to do. >> no, it's a good thing to do because it ought to be more than one weekend a month. you think so? but yeah, it's to good be something about giving, isn't it? actually, you know, self sacrifice. >> maybe it's all well and good. i was talking about it. it's would you ever want to do it when you were that age? >> i think i did. >> i think i did. >> oh i would, i'd have loved it. >> don't know. but anyway maybe. no, the chances of it happening are actually pretty slim, right? reforms to leaseholds and freeholds have become law in england and wales. it's not completely what was promised. >> the changes apparently will make it cheaper and easier for you to extend your lease or buy the freehold and take over management of that building . management of that building. >> however, the promised cap on ground rents of £250 have been dropped from the bill. so would

you need to pay ground rent if you need to pay ground rent if you own the freehold? >> no ground rent comes with a leasehold, doesn't it? well, i'll tell you who can tell us as property expert and presenter martin roberts. good to see you, martin. hello morning. will you be able to explain to us? because we've already got an into a twist , i know, yes. into a twist, i know, yes. >> just go back to basics. into a twist, i know, yes. >> just go back to basics . there >> just go back to basics. there are two ways you own a house. you either own the freehold, which means you own the ground it sits on. you own the property itself or leasehold. and that basically means you're renting the property from the person who owns the property for a long penod owns the property for a long period of time. now, traditionally, leases can range from, 50 years to 90 years to 999 years. and i think a lot of people, when they buy a leasehold property, don't fully understand that they don't actually own the property. they own the right to live in the property for a relatively, long amount of time, it gets complicated when that lease starts to run out . so once you

starts to run out. so once you starts to run out. so once you start to get towards the end of that lease, now , the end of that that lease, now, the end of that lease isn't the year before it ends from a mortgage point of view, it's 30, 40, 50 years before that lease runs out. when the mortgage company wants you to go into the process of extending that lease and what this bill is trying to do is to try to make it simpler for people to actually extend that lease, because it has been a very time consuming, very costly, and in some cases , costly, and in some cases, fairly unpredictable thing to do. so, one of the major things which the bill is, is hoping to do or will do, because it's law now, is it extends the standard lease extension from 50 years in houses and 90 years in flats to 990 years. so effectively, for most of us, unless you happen to be a superhero, 999 years, will will 990 years will will see us out. so they're trying to simplify the process. >> but martin, does that mean if, if, if , if you are the, the

if, if, if, if you are the, the owner of that leasehold and you have to extend it for whoever has bought the house or the flat or whatever, does that mean you can you can charge what you like. if you're going to extend it for a thousand years. >> so they are limiting the amount that that can charge. so yes, in theory, if you were to buy, a flat without a lease or with a short lease and, and you get it at a reasonable or cheap price and the person who owns that lease can often charge you an absolute fortune to extend that lease. knowing that it's going to add value to your property. so i guess the downside for this is the leaseholders, people who, actually own rather the freehold of a building and are leasing it out , because of a building and are leasing it out, because certainly the things have been stacked now against them, but it has been stacked, pretty much in favour of the people who are trying to extend that lease. but you mentioned the i mean, i think there's a lot that's good in

this. i think there's a lot that's, that's good in this in this new bill, you know, there's a lot more transparency required, especially if you're trying to take over the management of a building, because you might be in a flat, with lots of other people, and you want to take over the management of that building, and that's been quite complicated up until that point. but they've tried to simplify that as well. one of the things you mentioned was missing was that i don't know if you remember this, this, let's call it a scandal, which came to light a couple of years ago where new build houses, which you would normally expect to be freehold . you own the to be freehold. you own the house and you own the land, were being sold as leasehold. and actually then those leases were being sold on to investment companies who , not surprisingly, companies who, not surprisingly, wanted to get a large return on their investment. and a lot of people found themselves in the situation where your lease or your ground rent that you were paying your ground rent that you were paying because of that lease, which is sometimes a peppercorn, and that's literally, an old engush and that's literally, an old english expression , meaning that

english expression, meaning that you're paying, a few quid , that you're paying, a few quid, that was actually gone up to a large amounts of money. so this ground rent you were paying each year, people were being saddled with huge, huge ground rents, which was actually being indexed, unkedin was actually being indexed, linked in some cases with actually compounding , so that actually compounding, so that people found themselves in homes, which almost they couldn't afford to pay their, their own ground rent on. and also that made those homes , also that made those homes, pretty much difficult to sell. so a lot of people disappointed that that's not in there. but i think a lot of people saying, yes, we have simplified things here and it's definitely, i believe, moved things more, in favour of, of the homeowner . favour of, of the homeowner. >> yeah. i mean, i was going to say that that sounds absolutely scandal less, because one would hopein scandal less, because one would hope in the end that we would , hope in the end that we would, as a society, would move towards there being no leasehold. i mean, if you own your house, you should own the ground. it stands on. >> i think that's what most people assume. and to be fair, and most houses are , are

and most houses are, are freehold, you do own the house. you do own the land it sits on, but to say they are now banning the sale of leasehold houses, the sale of leasehold houses, the complication comes , of the complication comes, of course, when you've got a building which has got more than one flat in it, and then who owns the freehold? sometimes you share the freehold with the people who own the building with you. and in some cases, that could be ten, 20, 30, 100 people who share that building. it could be that you share a flat with, with one person who lives above you, and it could be that above you, and it could be that a third party then actually owns the lease, and you have to pay them ground rent, so i think, yes, you're right. when it comes to houses, that's how most people expect it to be. when it comes to flats, there's a natural need to have a leasehold agreement in place. and so i think this hopefully will make that a bit simpler. >> now fingers crossed. martin, thank you for explaining it. good to see you. >> happy sunday. >> happy sunday. >> yeah happy sunday. he's a

he's a terrific fella martin. >> absolutely. and he knows his stuff. >> he does know his. >> he does know his. >> isn't that what makes people like the duke of westminster so unbelievably wealthy. because they own so much of the ground and the land, for instance, in london. yeah, and most people who live in london live in a flat probably , and are paying flat probably, and are paying him leasehold rent. flat probably, and are paying him leasehold rent . and that's him leasehold rent. and that's why it's because he owns the land. so much land. >> there'll be a lot to do with that in very built up places. it does seem. it does seem odd . i does seem. it does seem odd. i think that in in today's day and age, in effect, you buy a flat or whatever, and if you were to live in it long enough, it's not yours, it's not yours, and you just have to give it back. yeah, well, at least the idea to give it back. >> and that's why certainly when iused >> and that's why certainly when i used to rent in london, you, you look at the, the leaseholds and some of them are 999 years and some of them are 999 years and you think, well, well, that's all right, but some of them are much, much shorter. and that's why they look cheap and they're not. it's because one day and it may even be in your lifetime, you just have to give it back. yes >> it doesn't seem right does

it. no. right. let's have a look at some other stories. heading into the newsroom this morning. and the prince and princess of wales have said they're incredibly sad to hear of the death of an raf pilot after his spitfire crashed in a field in lincolnshire yesterday . the mod lincolnshire yesterday. the mod says the incident , which took says the incident, which took place near raf coningsby, was a tragic accident , it place near raf coningsby, was a tragic accident, it happened in the afternoon. the pilot hasn't been officially named yet, was declared dead at the scene. it's thought the aircraft was taking part in a battle of britain memorial event. >> more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the uk so far this year. the milestone figure was reached yesterday after another 154 people arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats earlier. we spoke to immigration lawyer ivan sampson sinner the backgrounds , whether they've got backgrounds, whether they've got criminal records, whether they've, they're a threat to this country, we need to secure our borders. and that's the primary function of a government

i >> -- >> the new co—op arena in manchester had to postpone another event. wasn't their fault this time a us rapper, nicki minaj, was arrested in amsterdam on suspicion of possession of drugs. she was released just after 9:00 last night, so didn't have enough time to make it to the concert. there have been a series of postponements and cancellations at the venue during the last month or so . month or so. >> sadly, yes. friday was probably the only really nice day of this sort of bank holiday weekend. >> all right, yesterday, wasn't it? >> it wasn't too bad yesterday. rainy this morning though. very rainy this morning . yeah. and i rainy this morning. yeah. and i don't think it's going to get much better. should we find out exactly what's happening with the weather picture? here's greg dewhurst . dewhurst. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on .

solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello there! welcome to your latest gb news weather. the day aheadis latest gb news weather. the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well, but there will be some sunshine this morning though it's a cloudy start across much of the uk, outbreaks of rain pushing northwards but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force, some local disruption possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells. breezy around the coast. temperatures a little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday. so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales. some of these thundery and then further north into northern england, northern ireland

southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of rain , but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two, and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here, with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well for the rest of the evening and overnight . further showery rain overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards to start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later with some clear spells around temperatures will be a little lower , but generally be a little lower, but generally for most, holding up in double figures to take us into bank houday figures to take us into bank holiday monday. so for england and wales, a brighter start, some sunny spells, scattered showers from the word go further north and northern ireland into scotland . generally cloudier. scotland. generally cloudier. outbreaks of rain. most persistent across western scotland and then generally for monday afternoon, a day of a sunny. spells and scattered showers . again, some of these showers. again, some of these could be heavy at times, some thundery as well, particularly northeast scotland, eastern

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now. illegal versions of abortion drugs are being sold onune abortion drugs are being sold online with late termination

pills apparently costing around £350 each. >> and we all know that a lot of people sort of try and buy stuff online, but how dangerous could it be? because women who choose to buy these pills could face prosecution action under the uk's 162 year prosecution action under the uk's162 year old abortion law. >> well, let's talk to health expert lucy johnson, to good see you this morning. i mean, this is hugely concerning. if these pills are available legally in the uk , why are people buying the uk, why are people buying illegal ones off the internet with little in the way of safety checks instead? >> well, the first thing to say is that, women, are likely to be unable to access , drugs from the unable to access, drugs from the nhs or from , providers, formal nhs or from, providers, formal providers and that's possibly because they're either frightened or they fear

prosecution, under the law, it is illegal for women to , to have is illegal for women to, to have to end their pregnancy after 24 weeks. and there can be many reasons why a women, a woman may may choose to do that. so they may choose to do that. so they may have to turn to these illegal sites because they're frightened of being discovered, even last year, a woman was jailed for, receiving these pills, through the post on, on, for to end a pregnancy at 32 weeks and they can face up to life imprisonment. but these drugs, of course , if they're drugs, of course, if they're sold by unregulated sellers, you don't know what's in them. they could be very dangerous. and these women are most likely to be in a very frightened and very precarious position , and they precarious position, and they should, you know, they should need health care. really. so, it

is, it is a health care issue, andifs is, it is a health care issue, and it's very concerning that they are that this is happening. >> yeah. i mean, we're not talking about morning after pills here, are we? we're talking about something much more extreme. >> exactly. so we're talking about drugs that will end the pregnancy . so the drugs pregnancy. so the drugs themselves, i mean, the women are likely to be going through a lot of trauma. it is very , very, lot of trauma. it is very, very, you know, there'll be there'll be either frightened. they could be either frightened. they could be trafficked, they could be on the fringes of society. they could be young there could be involved with a coercive partner. there could be all many number of things . but in fact, number of things. but in fact, over the past ten years, there's been over 60 investigations of women who have procured drugs to end their pregnancies , so this end their pregnancies, so this is this is a real issue. and there is a pro—life lobby that are trying to kerb the ability for women to , to, have

for women to, to, have abortions, and there's also a strong lobby to try and give women more choice and that lobby is calling for women to be treated as patients and with compassion , because every compassion, because every circumstance is going to be different. so there are calls to reform the abortion act. this law, which is which was made in 1861, so that women are not criminalised for having late term abortions. abortions beyond 24 weeks, and that has been , 24 weeks, and that has been, there's been campaigns going on and on, and it was about to be, brought into parliament. but now i think with the election, it's been kicked into the long grass again. so we'll no doubt see that raised again, hopefully. and, you know, see, see, you know, if these women can be protected and not so frightened

to have to go to these illegal sites . sites. >> but there are there are reasons why that time limit is in place. i mean, it, you know, it would be very worrying, wouldn't it, if late term abortions were were normalised. >> absolutely . and it is a >> absolutely. and it is a serious thing. and it's not to suggest i don't think the changes to the law are asking for changes to the regulations that they should stay in place, and late term abortions should not become the norm. but what the legislation , what the legislation, what campaigners are calling for , is campaigners are calling for, is for women who seek those late term abortions to be treated as patients and not to face jail. they are already likely to be very traumatised and in a desperate situation, so to criminalise them is just adding to that. and it doesn't. it doesn't serve in the public interest . and in fact, most interest. and in fact, most countries don't criminalise

women for seeking late term or having late term abortions, in northern ireland, when the, when women it was in 2019, it was , women it was in 2019, it was, new laws were passed so that women wouldn't be criminalised for having late term abortions. and there hasn't been an increase in women seeking late term abortion. so it's a difficult one that that's the argument anyway. but of course , argument anyway. but of course, it is a serious matter. and it shouldn't be normalised. i think that's right. it's a difficult issue. >> yeah, it's very difficult issue to tackle at all, isn't it, lucy? thank you very much indeed. it, lucy? thank you very much indeed . thank you. indeed. thank you. >> right. still to come for you. we'll take you through all the sport this

aidan. >> all right. >> all right. >> let's go through the sport this morning with aidan mcgough. hey. good morning. >> i've been called that a few times in my life. thank you. how much worse i should add. >> i should add, should we have a look at, this great video from leeds ahead of the, the championship playoff final? >> yeah, exactly. well this is billed billed as the richest game in football. i mean, i've been involved in these tabloid reports before where, i mean, arguably the biggest game of the weekend because they say it's worth £250 million. now to the winner. now that figure goes up about 25% every year, in the media, we're quite good at plucking figures from the air without actually verifying where exactly they've come from. but luton town said last year luton town last year said it was worth £250 million to them for leeds united . i mean, both of these united. i mean, both of these teams will be going back to the premier league at the first attempt, so it means a hell of a lot. it changes lives . it attempt, so it means a hell of a lot. it changes lives. it means that staff can be retained. it means players can be retained. it means contracts can be renewed. it means infrastructure projects can be done. so leeds united released a video this week. it's so important for them with a few of a few names we'll

recognise, wishing them well today. recognise, wishing them well today . let's have a look now. today. let's have a look now. hey leeds, it's perez, just wanted to leave this message for you guys and say good luck with your game this weekend. >> i'll be rooting for you wearing my jersey. >> i just want you guys to know that everyone at leeds united is so excited . we know you can do so excited. we know you can do it. we know you can pull through. let's go boys, let's go. >> i'm wishing you all the very best on sunday. let's get back up to the premier league where we deserve all leads. >> aren't we used to wish the boys all the best at wembley? big game. bring it home. >> so that means. >> so that means. >> or the richest game in football they could paris hilton and will ferrell could give them £250 million and not notice it. well, well actually will ferrell isn't buying it. >> yeah well no i think he's bought a percentage of the holding company. so he's put his money where his mouth is. and i'll tell you what. lots of people down the years have said to me, i'm thinking of getting into football. i'm thinking of buying a stake in club x or club y. i always say to them, don't

do it. you will never see that money again. steve parish, the crystal palace chairman, said on a documentary 2 or 3 years ago. he said you're always going to lose money, but you've just got to decide how much you yes , it to decide how much you yes, it depends how much you love the game. ego trip. most of the time. i'll tell you what football an obsession. well, well, well, i don't know. i mean , it's football. an obsession for will ferrell, i would say i would question that. i'd never seen close to football paris. but what what it does. you look at someone like like, theo paphitis, for example, who bought millwall many years ago. that was he was never going to make money out of that venture in the way that he made money out of, say, la senza or knickerbox or ryman. the stationers . but it did give him stationers. but it did give him a public profile that those businesses couldn't give him. so so it's about ego. it really is. it really is. but that's a huge game today at wembley. 3:00, as i say, leeds going for. well they've been in the been in the championship for one season as southampton came down having beenin southampton came down having been in the premier league for i think 11 seasons in total. so they one of them needs to get back for those for the one who doesn't, they may have a crack next season, but it's going to have serious repercussions for them financially. okay >> so we have a look at the fa

cup yesterday. >> yeah, we touched on it. we went into depth on it, last hour didn't we. but let's touch on it again before we get on to scotland. but manchester united winning, unexpectedly i think it's fair to say against manchester city, they really went for them from the off and they were hugely impressive actually. throughout the game they defended well. kobe, mina as well, a very young player for man united, came into the team in the last couple of months. he's been included in gareth southgate's, provisional england squad.the southgate's, provisional england squad. the 33 man squad for the for the euros. we often see a breakthrough act don't we. just as the squad's about to be to be announced, we think back to michael owen back in 1998. not many people have heard of him, pnor many people have heard of him, prior or globally anyway, since the prior to getting into the squad back then, kobe main, who could be that man? he looks every inch a player who's got 250 matches under his belt already. he scored the goal. he scored a goal yesterday which took a very accomplished finish . took a very accomplished finish. and i've got a feeling he might star for england in the summer. certainly within the within the squad. so fair play to fair play to man united what it means for erik ten hag, we don't know. you said a few weeks ago he was going to go out, i think, i

think i think your prediction might prove to be correct. i assume you put a few quid on it. >> no, no, i haven't, i haven't, no but i think even i mean yeah great result for him yesterday. yeah i think he knows he's out because he said, he said i'm going to keep winning trophies wherever i am. >> yeah i know. well that's, that's that's confidence. somebody believes in himself. i just never thought he had the personality to be able to follow that through. at a club like united it's a different ball game. but that doesn't mean he can't be successful elsewhere. i want to mention, north of the border as well with the old firm. yeah. a double wasn't it. it was a double for celtic. they scored in the last minute. adam idah, unknown, on loan from norwich city. one of the clubs who failed to go up from the championship this season. it was a it was a mistake by the former england goalkeeper jack butland in the last minutes. a bit of controversy about rangers having a goal disallowed as well for a foul. but, it was that problem we've had throughout the season. i've mentioned it many times. rangers just cannot beat celtic. that's they took 11. and from 12 available against them in the league. they've gone and lost to them yesterday in the scottish cup final. and so and so. rangers have got some soul searching to do over the summer, having been in a real good position about 4 or 5 weeks ago.

>> okay, any more sports ? >> okay, any more sports? >> okay, any more sports? >> yeah, i want to talk about the french open just briefly. oh, french open day today. hey. andy murray taking on stan wawrinka. they both won three grand slams each. but it could be the last. i think it'll probably be the last tournament . probably be the last tournament. this for andy murray for him to do it on clay because it's a very tough, unforgiving surface. and then rafa nadal, of course, it looks like it'll be his last tournament as well. i don't think any of those names are stellar as they are, are going to be anywhere near saying goodbye to the very big names. yes, i know it seems like a changing of the guard without without there necessarily being a surge of talent coming the other way. novak djokovic struggling as well. he lost in geneva a few days ago, but nonetheless , it's underway nonetheless, it's underway today. i think we've i think we're going to see murray and wawrinka around about 7:00 this evening. so it's going to be a bit of a wake. i don't know if you can stay or stay awake at that time. and after an early start, i'll try and watch. >> anyway, i've had a nap before then i will, i'll have a nice nap. what do you do? >> i have a i have a nap in the afternoon. yeah, i believe in sleep. i believe in sleeping when you're tired. i'm not one of those people who put matchsticks in their lutely.

>> yes. absolutely. right. >> yes. absolutely. right. >> otherwise you pay for it later on. you do. >> nadal and murray, though. tonight. that would be good. >> yeah, well, okay. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sleep right now. actually, i've got i've got a splitting headache. >> it's not my sports update. >> it's not my sports update. >> it's not my sports update. >> it could be. that set me off one one of those things. >> but you know, you know when you get them behind your eyes andifs you get them behind your eyes and it's just one of those oh, this i shut it, i'd look like right. >> well, go do the program with one eye shut. good. do i'll just show you what you can do. >> captain pugwash. there you go. >> we'll get you an ipad. >> we'll get you an ipad. >> yeah. that'll help. all right, i'll tell you what. it'll keep me going. tom slater and emma burnell as they take us through the

all right. let's have a look through the newspapers for you this morning with emma burnell and tom slater. good to see you both this morning . they're all both this morning. they're all pretty much the same, aren't they? pretty much. yeah, a lot of them going on national service servings. yeah. so let's

have a look at something slightly different. and the observed page two of the observer emma , looking at the observer emma, looking at the infected blood crisis. >> yeah. so it's turned out that the drug companies who were selling the nhs, these the infected blood products s knew they knew that that this was happening and they covered it up for a very long time , which for a very long time, which meant that more and more people were affected. they are responsible for those infections as much as the nhs. responsible for those infections as much as the nhs . other as much as the nhs. other people. yeah. >> what i don't get with this, no one's properly answered for me is if they knew what, what did they think was going to happen? >> well, they thought they were going to make more profit. >> but the don't you think it's also a case. it's a bit like the post office scandal where they only knew after there had already been some problems, and it had already been sold and already. yeah. and then so, so to admit it or to try and stop it, to admit culpability, admit previous calumnies as it was to admit culpability.

>> but also, if you look at other drug scandals, i'm thinking particularly of the situation in america with, with i can't remember the name of the drug, but the one that is absolutely the sackler family. they knew for decades that this was addictive and did nothing about it. and that's why they've had huge, huge lawsuits. and i think the same thing should happen here. we are talking about drug companies that made a fortune selling products they knew to be faulty and causing enormous problems. >> but there's a lot to go into liable and responsible. there's a lot to go because there are some doctors who knew and still went, absolutely, absolutely. >> and i'm not i'm not trying to mitigate blame that elsewhere . mitigate blame that elsewhere. but when we're talking about paying but when we're talking about paying £10 billion, the people who made the profits should be paying who made the profits should be paying part of that at least. >> yeah. there's so many heads that should roll over this because it also touches on nhs leadership. it also touches on various government ministers who made assurances that we now know were completely paper thin, so

in fact, you've been looking at the in the sunday express , is it the in the sunday express, is it andy burnham who's been talking about this? >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> he's, he's raising the issue of infected blood. but also the issue of the nuclear test veterans. oh gosh. yes, of course, there's 20,000 troops who witnessed testing in australia , in the pacific in the australia, in the pacific in the in the 50s. and 60s who had children who were affected by disabilities as a consequence of radiation . and he's just using radiation. and he's just using that as another example of what he calls the kind of cover up culture within the british state. and if you think about all of the string of scandals we've had in recent years, we've already touched on the post office and infected blood. windrush, windrush, hillsborough, one, hillsborough. i think you could even put some of the cass review things in there, although on a much smaller scale. there is this solidified would have been one had it not been exposed a while ago. and yet we've got used to this. it's almost like it's normal. >> what do you think it was? it was part of our culture is that you do what the doctor tells you. you never question what you know. a politician or a leader of the government tells you so. they sort of they sort of just

felt they could get away with murder , less deferential as a murder, less deferential as a society, and more likely to question authority, but not completely . but i think that the completely. but i think that the cover up thing is, you know, there's the from nixon onwards, there's the from nixon onwards, there was always this phrase, it's the cover up that kills you. and when i if i was working with a client who'd been through something like this, my advice as a consultant is don't cover it up. be open. get it out there . make yourselves the honest brokers of what's happened , and brokers of what's happened, and tell people what you're going to do with it. because it is always when it does come out, the fact that it's been covered up for so long, it's always more damaging than the initial mistake that kills other people as well. >> because one of the defining things, i think of infected blood and the post office, just these two examples, is that they went on for decades, decades , went on for decades, decades, whereas something that could have affected a few thousand people and that would have been a horrendous miscarriage of justice, but something that could have been a redress. you've suddenly, you know, even from the perspective of the treasury, not wanting to have to

pay treasury, not wanting to have to pay out large amounts of money in compensation, you could have been dealing with a fraction of the issue. absolutely >> otherwise, you know, and it is this very short termist thinking. and i think we all and the people in charge in particular, need to get much better at being open to transparent, but also thinking longer term, you know , if longer term, you know, if they're only going to act in their own self—interest, the cover up doesn't help. >> before we go to the weather, can we cheer ourselves up? yes, except it's with a bit of sad news. and this is about, the mary poppins songwriting team. they were the sherman brothers, weren't they? who wrote the incredible. they wrote mary poppins tunes. >> tuc bang bang bang. >> tuc bang bang bang. >> and also, well, richard, sherman herm died. we learned yesterday from an age related illness. he was he was 95. what an incredible, incredible pair they were. i think we've got a little clip of what they reckon is his best tune , feed the birds is his best tune, feed the birds , tuppence a bag , tuppence, , tuppence a bag, tuppence, tuppence , tuppence a bag .

tuppence, tuppence a bag. >> feed the birds. tuppence, tuppence a bag. >> feed the birds . that's what >> feed the birds. that's what she cries . she cries. >> well, that was one of his amazing songs that he wrote with his brother. is it the best ever sherman song, i wonder, is it the best mary poppins song? >> well, it was chim chimney that won the oscar. or was it, but for me, it's always going to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. >> you say it backwards . >> you say it backwards. >> you say it backwards. >> no. >> no. >> joshi sally xb fragile rupa. oh. >> well done. very good. >> well done. very good. >> and there you go. >> and there you go. >> tom's never seen it. >> i mean , how is this? i don't >> i mean, how is this? i don't think you should be allowed on television until you've watched it. >> that's probably a fair point. we're out of time, you two. thank you. let's get the check on the weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather. the day

aheadis latest gb news weather. the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see. heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well, but there will be some sunshine this morning though. it's a cloudy start across much of the uk, outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing , see heavy showers developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force. some local disruption , possible frequent disruption, possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells, breezy around the coast . breezy around the coast. temperatures are little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday, so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales , some parts of england and wales, some of these thundery and then further north into northern england, northern ireland southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of rain, but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two, and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit

dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well for the rest of the evening and overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards. it'll start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later with some clear spells around. temperatures will be a little lower, but generally for most, holding up in double figures to take us into bank houday figures to take us into bank holiday monday. so for england and wales, a bright to start, some sunny spells scattered showers from the word go further north and northern ireland into scotland generally cloudier. outbreaks of rain, most persistent across western scotland and then generally for monday afternoon, a day of a sunny spells and scattered showers. again, some of these could be heavy at times, some thundery as well, particularly northeast scotland, eastern england and temperatures around 18. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

your policy announcements of the election. rishi sunak has vowed to bring back national service whilst labour today are challenging the government over the economy, declaring only economic stability can come with change. a new record in the number of migrants crossing the channel 10,000 have arrived, so far this year. >> good morning. there was a hollywood finish at wembley, but will it be gone with the win for erik ten hag after his manchester united team beat deadly rivals city to the fa cup, wembley will play host to another huge game today as leeds face southampton in the championship play off final, and

we look ahead to a paris swansong for rafa nadal and maybe andy murray at the french open . open. >> oh, a wet start in places this morning, but brightening up from the south but with some heavy thundery showers developing . find out all the developing. find out all the weather details coming up soon. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond and this is breakfast on gb news. and there's no doubt what's making there's no doubt what's making the front page headlines today. and it's mostly rishi sunak announcing that he's going to bnngin announcing that he's going to bring in if he wins the general election, mandatory national service for everyone aged 18. and it certainly has excited the newspapers if it's not exciting. everybody at home. there are lots of people are saying they don't like the idea of it, others saying it's a great idea, some people saying it's a tactical election . one thing to

tactical election. one thing to do because it may well attract the reform vote back to the tories. >> well , it's tories. >> well, it's an interesting idea, isn't it? what do you think gb news communism. and one thing it might attract the older voters who like the idea of it. it's not going to do much for younger voters. >> no, but maybe that's not the vote he's looking for particularly anxiously at the moment. >> well, not if he's only looking to mitigate losses rather than actually win the election. of course. never admit that all seems a little bit strange, doesn't it? in a way, if you sort of are working towards not necessarily winning, it just depends what the mindset is anyway. well, all that goes on. keir starmer is focused on young people as well. he's pledging to lower the voting age to 16. >> i want to see 16 and 17 year olds voting. they can go out and work, they can serve in our armed forces. and of course, if they are out and working, armed forces. and of course, if they are out and working , they they are out and working, they pay they are out and working, they pay tax and therefore they should have a say over how the money they're paying in is being

used . so yes, i want to see that used. so yes, i want to see that vote for 16 and 17 year olds. if you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote. >> so what are the lib dems up to? well, their leader, ed davey, was out in force yesterday, promising his party's policy platform. the liberal democrats have got a fantastic set of policies on the health service, on the economy and on the environment. >> today, we're campaigning against the sewage problem and we've led that campaign. i think overall we're just much more ambitious than some of the other parties. and critically , we want parties. and critically, we want to transform british politics. we think the politics in our country is broken. it needs to be changed. and we're the only party talking about that . party talking about that. >> well, let's talk to former lib dem mp mark oaten and former conservative mp neil parish. to good see you both, gents. mark, can i start with you, on, ed davey. he seems to be saying. i mean, look, it's laudable in a

way, to try and win people over by saying it's all broken. we're going to fix it. we're the only party who can fix it. it's the detail that we're lacking. how does he fix it? we're not getting an overall picture from him, are we? >> i think one of the big opportunities for the lib dems in the election is to say, look, we're different, if you are fed up with the system, then you've got to vote for us. and that has always been a big pitch to the lib dems have been able to make elections. one of the problems this time round is, of course, that reform, coming out with a similar pitch. so you're right, ed needs to come out with details and say, well, look, okay, here's our pitch. we're different. we want to fix things, but he needs to say exactly what that means. and i think he started this week by talking about one of the big problems the nhs . people can't problems the nhs. people can't see a gp that needs fixing and the party came out with a policy of saying they would recruit 8000 gps to help fix that. but we need to see over the next five weeks more detail, demonstrate exactly what fixing means very quickly before we go

to neil, what do you think of the idea of bringing back national service? i mean, i met a voter last night who would absolutely love it. she said to me, i can't believe labour are giving the votes to 16 year olds. they don't deserve it . olds. they don't deserve it. they should be made to do some hard work. so i can certainly see how it would appeal to that particular generation, i have some sympathy with the idea that we should encourage young people to get involved in supporting the community, but the idea of national service is something i do not think will work, and i'll be very interested to hear what the military think about it. i would imagine it's the last thing they want to have to deal with training lots and lots of 17 and 18 year olds. they've got enough to cope with already. >> interestingly, june has been in touch and said, my son is a captain in the army. he says it's hard enough training the youngsters who want to be there, let alone the ones who are forced to be there. so i don't know whether that reflects what the top brass think or not, i don't know, neil parish , it does don't know, neil parish, it does seem like a bit of a gimmick,

though, doesn't it? the idea here of, and perhaps, as has been mooted here, the idea that this is something aimed purely at pulling in reform, people who may be thinking about voting reform to mitigate losses . reform to mitigate losses. >> yeah, i think the idea of bringing in national service will actually help to bring young people, hopefully into the armed forces. and of course, we are short of people coming into the armed forces. i can understand, you know, difficulties in training everybody, but i think it will create a new interest , everybody, but i think it will create a new interest, and i think it's probably very good for the country. so, yes , for the country. so, yes, perhaps there is an element, to do have has a general election being called. yes. it has, it's got something to do with that. it has been mooted before, i think it will be interesting to see it will take some actually operational , you know, it'll operational, you know, it'll take something to get it into operational mode , but i think operational mode, but i think it's good for the country. i think some young people to it will give them a focus. i think

also, as mark oaten says, you know, those who can't go don't want to go into national service, can go to in do community work. all of that, i think will be a good thing, like i said, i think we need to see a bit more detail, i think this election is, is very you know, we've only just gone in we've got a long six weeks to go, lots of details to come, but i think this one is an interesting one. >> yeah, it will cost though , >> yeah, it will cost though, and rather a lot of money to do properly. >> it will. and you know, and the chancellor will and the party will have to lay out exactly how they're going to do it, because naturally everything is being costed not only by what the tories are putting forward, but what labour are putting forward. and the liberal democrats, so i agree with you entirely. they'll have to cost it properly, but actually , you it properly, but actually, you know, we are actually living in a, in a world where the russians are getting more and more aggressive, huge problems in the middle east. so it's probably a goodidea middle east. so it's probably a good idea that we're seeing to be fairly strong on defence,

it's always better to be strong. you're less likely to be attacked . i'm not saying for one attacked. i'm not saying for one moment that we're imminently about to be attacked by the russians, but it's good to send a message back that, you know, we are a country that's prepared to stand up for ourselves if necessary. so i think, you know , necessary. so i think, you know, overall, i think it sends the right message, and probably internationally, quite a good message to what do you make of keir starmer and votes for 16 year olds? >> is that something sort of lib dems traditionally have supported, isn't it. >> yeah, absolutely . i think >> yeah, absolutely. i think it's a good idea. i think that as he said and have we've always said that if you can get married, you start paying tax, you can serve in the army, then why on earth can't you have a say in terms of the government and who actually is running you, but what we're seeing here is a distraction, i think, particularly from the conservative tvs. you know, they don't want to talk about the economy. they don't particularly want to talk about the nhs. and

so expect in the next few weeks more of these gimmicky style announcements as a way of detracting from what i think are the real key issues , and that is the real key issues, and that is about the nhs and the economy. so you know, yesterday, this battle over whether young people should get the vote or they should get the vote or they should serve in the army is a little bit of a distraction from what most people are talking about, that these aren't the issues that everybody wants to discuss. the health service, i believe, is the key issue , and believe, is the key issue, and the election will come to life when we see a really big battle over something to do with the nhs. >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> i wonder if you agree, neil. i mean, both of you guys have been out, you know, doing your campaigning over over many years, when you actually are knocking on people's doors and you're asking them what are the most important things to them, would national service pop up or would national service pop up or would it be, the nhs and immigration? >> yeah, it will be among some voters as mark said, it won't be amongst all, the national health

service and getting to see a doctor, will be a big issue on the doorstep, and one that will be quite difficult for the tory candidates , but i would argue candidates, but i would argue with mark that on the economy, i would suggest the economy is turning around. inflation is down, and the economy is growing. and it's interesting that the rachel reeves is arguing more about the liz truss economics rather than the rishi sunak hunt economics . so i think sunak hunt economics. so i think there's a lot still to play for. and i just don't think that, you write the tories off yet . is it write the tories off yet. is it a hard, you know, battle to hard to hill climb? yes. it will take some taking, but like i said, i wouldn't rule out rishi sunak doing possibly a john major of 92. is it a 92 election or is it a 97 or is it somewhere in between, probably . if i had to between, probably. if i had to between, probably. if i had to be a betting man, i'd put it somewhere in between . somewhere in between. >> it's. i mean, it's a bit odd, isn't it? i know we haven't got labour on right now to talk about it, but it just seemed a

little bit odd that we know that labour would stick to a lot of the economic plans and rules that are in place now , now. and that are in place now, now. and yet they've also come out with this very sort of odd slogan of saying, for economic stability, you need change age. so i'm not quite sure what to make of it. what do you make of that, mark? >> i think labour have got a delicate balancing act here. you know, starmer has been absolutely brilliant at saying and doing nothing for about two years, and he's got to try and hold that line for another 4 or 5 weeks. hope that nobody makes a commitment in his party. hope that nobody says something stupid. he is desperate to be as bland as he can to not offend anybody. now that could backfire when people see he's just got no ambition. they may argue he's got no principles . he's so i got no principles. he's so i think he's got a delicate balancing act. he needs to show something, but he's scared of showing anything in case it offends . and when it comes to offends. and when it comes to taxation, you're not going to hear a word about any of their commitments. they just don't

want to be seen as they were decades and decades ago, as the high tax party. quite the opposite. they want to show that liz truss damaged the economy, so you'll hear them attacking the tories on the economy , the tories on the economy, bizarrely, in a way that the tories always used to attack labour on the economy. >> yeah, and we're told actually you were talking about them being fearful of doing anything wrong. we are told that keir starmer has been told by his aides not to wear an england football shirt, because for fear of alienating the scottish vote, which is all important to them at the moment. >> i think mark and i could probably agree on, on the fact that keir starmer has to be extremely careful and he is, but i think it's going to be interesting when we start getting towards the television debates, because one thing that rishi sunak is, is a very good debater. he's very clear, and yes, he's on the back foot on, on many issues, but it'll be interesting to see whether he can actually get keir starmer to come out in the open and really say what he intends to do, and

of course, the one thing that i think, you know, where keir starmer wants to appear so moderate, i think the one thing i do take issue with him is over this sort of sudden attack on private schools and people paying private schools and people paying fees because i send our children, we send our children to an independent school. but we really struggled to pay those fees. i was farming, sue was teaching most of our income went on it to get those kids through the school , so a lot of people the school, so a lot of people make sacrifices. didn't have the holidays for it, all those sort of things. so i think, you know, it's an interesting one, private schools, because if he wants to look more like a tory, than the tories, why is he doing that particular thing? so all of these things, he will answer in a minute. >> okay. look good to talk to you both this morning, mark oaten, neil parish. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we'll leave it there now at 813 every week. cameron walker , 813 every week. cameron walker, gb news royal correspondent and svana nansen , who's the royal

svana nansen, who's the royal editor @gbnews. com we'll bring you the latest news and analysis on the royal family. well and this week something very special because our very own legendary broadcaster, alistair stewart, has been talking about having the honour of meeting the queen at buckingham palace and her support for the brock, a charity that he's been patron of since 2016. >> introduced to her majesty. i said, forgive me, may i introduce my wife to you, ma'am, because she and i are going down to the ebony horse club after this wonderful event, which is a charity that we also have in common. and her majesty simply smiled and said, yes, of course . smiled and said, yes, of course. and so i just encouraged sal to came over and sal did a brilliant curtsy and, and they then engaged in, in, in banter, royal banter and banter and sally stewart banter about the ebony horse club. do you remember the royal family? it's

noblesse oblige. is the is the cliche, but it's as with all cliches. it's used because it's meaningful. members of the royal family know that that to continue to enjoy their position and public support. they're expected to give something back. and the voluntary sector , the and the voluntary sector, the charity world is often the easiest way of doing it. charity world is often the easiest way of doing it . and easiest way of doing it. and they do it with with absolute aplomb. and i think people who are in my line of work, one of the cliches again, is faces, people who are well known. and it just explains people like angela rippon and i are absolutely thrilled. but he picks up the phone and says, look, you know, we know you love horses or donkeys . would you horses or donkeys. would you come on board and support our charity? >> well, cameron walker is here now. i wonder what's more exciting, cameron, sort of heanng exciting, cameron, sort of hearing about, alistair's interactions with the royal household or just being able to spend an hour or so chatting to

alistair because he's a man who's just the most incredible man. >> yeah, it's an absolute privilege to spend an hour with alistair. his career obviously spans decades, and he has met many members of the royal family over those decades. and it was just really interesting hearing a first hand account of being ianed a first hand account of being invited to a palace reception. he talks about driving up to the palace gates. the police are checking the boot of his car, which is full of horse feed and all sorts of things. for this book, donkey charity. and then, of course, the queen being obuged of course, the queen being obliged and allowing alistair's wife to meet her as well. so it was all those little details which perhaps you don't really get from a two minute chat on the television or in an article. so it was really lovely to listen to alistair. but yes, brand new podcast the royal record, launched last week with alistair stewart . we're going to alistair stewart. we're going to be bringing you the latest news and analysis means far, every week of what the royal family's been getting up to and all their engagements as well. >> yeah. and of course, the royal stories go on and on a lot of people worried still about

catherine, what's the latest that, you know, because some places are reporting that we're not going to see her until next yean not going to see her until next year, frankly, and others are saying no, she might be out and about a bit more. >> yeah, i've seen those reports. and we do discuss that actually on the royal podcast this week because she had an early childhood scheme, has launched this business taskforce report, adding claiming that it's going to add billions of pounds to the uk economy each yean pounds to the uk economy each year. if you invest in early childhood. but we do, of course, touch on the fact that the princess is still undergoing cancer treatment. preventative chemotherapy kensington palace understandably , we want to keep understandably, we want to keep her medical details private and they're not going to give us a running commentary, to be honest , there's absolutely no timeline as to when we're going to see the princess, next. i suspect the princess, next. i suspect the fact that we're seeing the prince out and about, we see a number of the front pages this morning, prince george and prince william at the fa cup final yesterday at wembley. that there's certainly no cause for alarm. i think people around her as well are not particularly alarmed. i think what they're

doing is giving her the time to recover and rest , and when she recover and rest, and when she is ready and when she is able, and the doctors give the green light, then she will be back on pubuc light, then she will be back on public duties, because you have to remember that she . to remember that she. >> and that's one of the few details we know, is that she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy and chemotherapy can be very hard on you. i mean, you just don't know in what ways she might feel affected and make you feel very ill. so she may not know when she might feel fit enough to go out again. exactly. >> and we saw her from the message she delivered when she she told the world that she has been diagnosed with cancer, that she is having the time and space, you know, months to really undergo that treatment and then fully recover so she can be back. she said she looks forward to being back in the pubuc forward to being back in the public eye, but only when she is ready. so i think we've got to be patient. >> how important is it with these royal stories that you get a chance to because a lot of them are actually quite complex. do you get the chance to dig under the surface a little bit and spend a bit of time examining what is really going on? >> yeah, and also trying to

interpret the little nuggets of information you're given by various sources close to the royal household . i think it royal household. i think it depends what you're talking about, whether it's a medical issue, of course, that we try and respect the royal family's privacy, but when it comes to their charity work or the or the causes they really care about, such as the princess of wales's early childhood hood scheme, it's quite hard to see how perhaps a member of the royal family can be actively involved in something that's clearly, as you say, stephen, very complex, takes a lot of expertise, a lot of work. but then, on the other hand, how many people can get top bosses of uk businesses in a room together to try and come up with a solution? and i think the royal family are very good at that kind of thing. and also with certain charities shining a spotlight on them, which then leads to more funding, leads to more publicity for that charity and therefore they can do more work for the community. so it's those kind of, perhaps things which the royal family can really be useful for. >> yes, a business plan that works. i mean, you must have

been to dos where there has been a royal and where there hasn't been a royal, and it does make a huge difference as to who goes and how much money they cough up, you know, under certain circumstances. so they do fulfil an incredible function, actually. >> so when is the podcast released? >> on what day? >> on what day? >> each week . so the royal >> each week. so the royal record is released every thursday morning at 6 am. you can getit thursday morning at 6 am. you can get it on spotify, apple music , wherever you get your music, wherever you get your podcasts. it's also the video version is on youtube every week as well, so lots of places you can getit as well, so lots of places you can get it fabulous. >> cameron, thank you very much indeed. >> yeah, absolutely. i was wondering when whether it was going to be only video for the launch or whether from now on it's going to be sound only, but every week, every week both. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, you know cameron, he loves a camera in his. >> well, absolutely. you need makeup to do the radio, darling. >> he's not going to do anything without a camera. oh, dear. >> okay, 8:20, let's bring you some of the other news stories that are coming into the newsroom at the moment. and the prince and princess of wales have said that they are

incredibly sad to hear of the death of that raf pilot after his spitfire crashed into a field in lincolnshire yesterday. the mod has described the incident , which took place near incident, which took place near raf coningsby, as a tragic accident and police and emergency services responded very quickly just before 120 in the afternoon. the pilot hasn't officially been named yet, but was declared dead at the scene. it's thought the aircraft was taking part in a battle of britain memorial event. >> more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the uk so far this year. that figure reached yesterday after 154 people arrived in dover . the 154 people arrived in dover. the rise has been slammed by the leader of the reform party, richard tice, to predictable disaster , frankly, and it just disaster, frankly, and it just proves the whole rwanda scheme is a total farce. >> the whole thing is not a deterrent. the migrants crossing the channel, they view it as a joke. they know that if they come here, they're not going to be sent to rwanda. and the prime

minister, actually, he's basically bottled it. he's called this election early because he knows that the flights either won't take off or if they do take off, the boats will keep coming. and the tragedy is that people are dying because of this. prime minister is feeble, gutless performance. if you pick up and take back, which is what the belgian authorities have done, then guess what? the boats stop coming and people stop dying . coming and people stop dying. >> and the new co—op arena in manchester has been forced to postpone another event, this time not their fault. it was because the us rapper nicki minaj , after she was arrested at minaj, after she was arrested at amsterdam's schiphol airport on suspicion of possession of soft drugs, yesterday , where she was drugs, yesterday, where she was released just after 9:00 at night. but of course, that wasn't enough time for her to make the concert. this follows a series of postponements and cancellations of previous events at the venue . at the venue. >> nicki minaj i i've never heard the name. >> no, i remember my niece is

quite a few years ago now, but having a calendar up on a wall and she said, oh, that's no, it's nicki minaj this month on this calendar, earth is it's news to us. but you see, this is a sign of getting older, isn't it? >> i know it's miserable actually, isn't it? >> it's when you open the papers and all the gossips about people you've never heard of before. >> oh, no, i'm a celebrity. >> oh, no, i'm a celebrity. >> you've never heard of any of them? all that sort of thing. mind you, madonna is in the paper this morning. i mean, what she does, she's had so much work done, she doesn't look a year older than she did 20 years ago. >> well, she's 65, and she looks. >> i mean , maybe maybe she does >> i mean, maybe maybe she does look 45, but she had a lot of work done. yeah can't be bothered with that. >> she's skin as smooth as a baby's bottom. >> yes. anyway she's she's been at the off white party in new york so she's wearing black. oh i see that's very off white. >> well it isn't it. >> well it isn't it. >> so there you go. but she's wearing very, very saucy outfit for a 65 year old. >> and that's pretty amazing too . yeah i think she spends a lot

of time on her image, don't you? >> yes. what were you thinking? i don't know where i thought you were going there. well, i'm careful that i'm not mutton dressed as lamb at 50. >> we have to work at it. we really do. >> it's different if you're a p0p >> it's different if you're a pop star. >> very. >> very. >> anyway, enough of that. let's get a check on the weather for you with greg. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there! welcome to your latest gb news weather. the day aheadis latest gb news weather. the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see. heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well, but there will be some sunshine this morning though it's a cloudy start across much of the uk, outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing , see heavy showers developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force. some local

disruption and possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells, breezy around the coast. temperatures are little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday. so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales , some parts of england and wales, some of these thundery and then further north into northern england, northern ireland southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of rain, but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two, and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here, with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well for the rest of the evening and overnight . further showery rain overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards. it'll start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later with some clear spells around temperatures will be a little lower , but generally

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listening or watching on demand. good luck . good luck. >> yeah, best of luck to you on that one. >> still to come. potholes the bane of your life, particularly if you're actually a cyclist or a motorist. because they can cause accidents. whose responsibility is it to actually fix the potholes on our roads? we're going to be looking at that

all right. let's talk potholes. >> yeah. what are the dimensions of the perfect pothole? >> the perfect pothole ? >> the perfect pothole? >> the perfect pothole? >> well, the pothole that actually gets some action. apparently it's all about the dimensions. >> yes, they're going on filled, apparently, because councils think they're just too small. >> but surely small ones get bigger very quickly in time and all that . this review found that

all that. this review found that six councils in the uk will not repair a pothole unless it's at least five centimetres deep, and another 13 authorities want the pothole to be 30cm wide and four centimetres deep before they'd even think of filling it in. >> so it's got to be a foot fault . fault. >> yeah, ridiculous. >> yeah, ridiculous. >> so what do we make of all of that? let's talk to the man who's been chasing all of these sort of things for years, known as mr pothole. mark morrell, good to see you, mark. i mean, this at a time when people are absolutely furious about the state of our roads . absolutely furious about the state of our roads. this just seems utterly ridiculous . seems utterly ridiculous. >> yeah, it's worse than that, actually, because i've come across councils that will leave across councils that will leave a 7.5cm pothole on a rural road. that's a national speed limit thatis that's a national speed limit that is heavily used by cyclists before they'd actually actioned it. i mean, it's just a complete nonsense . yeah, it's not only

nonsense. yeah, it's not only the size and depth i was going to say, it's the timescales. >> yeah, exactly. i was going to say it's, it seems trivial , but say it's, it seems trivial, but it's so not because they cause accidents and bad ones, don't they. >> yeah. i mean, it's reported that one cyclist was seriously injured as a result of potholes . injured as a result of potholes. and over 70 motorcyclists are killed. or seriously injured over the, last year for , badly over the, last year for, badly maintained roads. but it's not just deaths . we've got the just deaths. we've got the situation where some councils will inspect a reported pothole within 2 or 3 days. others will take five days, others will take up to ten working days to, inspect a reported defect. and also it's a timescales for repairs , we got the absurd repairs, we got the absurd situation where some councils will repair potholes within 28 days, where i live now, they're putting 26 weeks of repairs on a pothole defect, that's really

trying to get around the thing of the section 58 defence. they got under law to reject your claim. if they say they've scheduled it for repair, then they've got to get out. it's not actually tested in law, but we're getting to a stage where i can see there being real major problems going forward . problems going forward. >> well, is it not common sense to say, fix a pothole , a smaller to say, fix a pothole, a smaller pothole quickly and do it well ? pothole quickly and do it well? is that not a cheaper option? i mean, i know they'd be busier anyway, but is that not a cheaper option for councils? >> it's very difficult for them. i mean, i want to be overcritical. it is about funding. at the end of the day, the best way is to resurface your roads regularly like other countries. and then surprise, surprise, we don't have the potholes. i mean, the carriageway backlog in road maintenance in england and wales has recently been reported as £6.3 billion. the week before last we had a report economics report saying that potholes and badly maintained roads were costing the uk economy over £14

billion a year, so i can't understand why whichever government comes in, they do not see the economic benefit of actually investing in our roads, rather than the decades of underinvestment . underinvestment. >> you know, when we go along the road and you see that some potholes have been marked, presumably for repair , does that presumably for repair, does that mean when a repair team go out that they will only do, they will only fix the pothole that's been earmarked for it, and they will just walk past or over another one that very clearly and very quickly. they could do , and very quickly. they could do, which would prevent it getting bigger . bigger. >> exactly. you know, that's common sense, isn't it? but unless it's on their work ticket, i came across a team that was quite, trying to do a good job. really they repaired one pothole on there that wasn't one pothole on there that wasn't on their work ticket, and they got disciplined. >> oh, god. >> oh, god. >> talk about jobsworths with all of this . i mean, this is all of this. i mean, this is where it gets ridiculous. i mean, you're very calm about it

all. mark, i remember talking to you frankly , it must have been you frankly, it must have been a decade or so ago where you said, giving up mr pothole. now you're not going to do it anymore. and here you are, you know, still at it, still having to plug away . it, still having to plug away. and frankly, it just seems like we're not getting very far. >> no, i mean, the answers are all in a, government select committee report called fill in the gap. that was some excellent work by mps. it was given to government and grant shapps gave it lip service. the answers are there. it just needs of the will of government to actually spend money on our roads. so if it's costing the uk economy £14 billion a year, why aren't we spending another £3 billion on our annual resurfacing programme and an increase in our investment? oh. of course, every time you damage your vehicle or your bike, government get 20% revenue from vat, don't they ? revenue from vat, don't they? >> do you have any sympathy for the councils that say we simply don't have enough money to do the job properly? so we'll just fix where we can?

>> yeah, i mean, they're all virtually in that situation now. they're heavily reliant on government funding, you know, they've got tremendous pressures with social care costs and children care costs, i would actually take roads away from them and fund them differently. but yeah, you're quite right. it's an enormous task. it's been a place that's been cut back for decades because they've had other pressures and now we're in a situation, as stephen mentioned, i was warning about this over ten years ago. i set up national pothole day. that's got a life of its own now. i've had millions of pounds of resurfacing work carried out, thousands of potholes repaired, and i've issued legal notices on councils to get them, force them to actually carry out repairs , to actually carry out repairs, but it's now got to a situation. it's now an international embarrassment. i did some filming recently with french television. they called us the kingdom of potholes, and i've just been approached by an international media news agency to do some more stuff , because to do some more stuff, because obviously the election coming up and it will be in the top ten when it comes to the election, it used to be a local newspaper article, didn't it? it's now a

national, crisis. and now we're getting international interest about just a poor state of our roads. >> and there's plenty of evidence, isn't there, historically. i mean, there's always the story of new york, which was famous for its appalling potholes . and once appalling potholes. and once they got fixed, it was the incoming mayor. it was rudy giuliani, actually, who said, one of the things i'm going to do is fix all the holes in the roads so that we can have some sort of sense of civic pride. and it worked out. >> yeah. i mean, i agree totally . we have governments saying about, oh, we're going to give £8.3 billion from cancellation of the northern leg of hs2, to councils for potholes, but that's over a decade period, and they say it's going to resurface 5000 miles a row. let's put it in perspective. that's about 3% of the length of the roads in england and wales. it's just enough to replace resurface the roads in essex alone , so nowhere roads in essex alone, so nowhere near enough funding has been cut. back in two years. 2006, over £4 billion a year was being spent on road maintenance.

government currently provide £1.1 billion, so with the extra money that takes it to less than £2 billion and we have had increased, in prices, inflation. so no one's really taking it on to what we need to do. other councils do long term investments rather than just short term bits of money that very often government give at the wrong time of the year to carry out the works. and then department of transport recently gave away £250 million, but never audited where that money was spent. >> yeah, makes no sense at all. does it? well, that's what we get. that other film crew round mark and then, perhaps you can shame whoever is in government on july the 5th to actually do something about it. good to see you. thanks very much indeed. yeah. >> call our political leaders, tell them it would make a very good election issue. >> well, i mean, it would, it would. >> i mean, mind you , it makes me >> i mean, mind you, it makes me think, that i will moan less when i'm stuck in traffic because they're resurfacing . because they're resurfacing. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. >> because if they if you see them resurfacing, that's a

rarity. now, actually, you should film it. it's very good. >> where i live , actually, the >> where i live, actually, the council where i live is very good at keeping on top of the road , but it's a rarity not road, but it's a rarity not where i live. >> apparently , where i live, >> apparently, where i live, they've got to be 30cm wide and four centimetres deep before they even think of getting them fixed. >> lastly, madness. >> lastly, madness. >> anyway, if you've got any horror stories about potholes for me this morning, gbnews.com/yoursay do stay with us though, because aidan magee is next telling us all about, well, it's a big football day, but also tennis and a little bit of grand prix. >> i gather.

>> at time for the sport agents. here. good morning . good morning here. good morning. good morning to you both again, now, what should we kick off with, just let's just touch on the fa cup, because i was there yesterday.

man united winning it. that was a big story of the weekend. great performance by them. a good tactical masterclass by a man we think is going to be leaving the job. and erik ten hag looks as if he's, he's out. but in terms of the experience of being there, first one i've covered, or sorry, the first time i've been to without without actually working. and i have to say, it was reminiscent of the super bowl. when you see it on tv, there's lots of pyrotechnics, lots of lights, lots of music. still got the brass band. you can't take that away. but i'll tell you what's amazing is how quickly they clear the pitch. they must have about two minutes to clear the pitch of all that paraphernalia. everything on there? >> yeah, it's very military sort of setup. i saw it because i watched the beginning and it was brilliant. >> it must take ages. it must take ages to set it up. it must take ages to set it up. it must take ages to get that good at clearing it. and they can't get much access to that pitch. so it's very professional job. and on the pitch copy made who got the second goal for manchester united? i think he's going to be in the england squad, a very young player who's come through in the last couple of months. we often get a breakthrough act, don't we? and, but we'll see in

the next couple of days. i think if erik ten hag is going to, is going to stay. but we must get on to leeds today because. >> because that's at wembley today. >> wembley today, 3:00. arguably the biggest game of the weekend in terms of how much it's worth. but leeds united released a video this week with some of these celebrity names attached to the club wishing them well. let's have a listen right now, please. it's perez, just wanted to leave this message for you guys and say good luck with your game this weekend. >> i'll be rooting for you wearing my jersey. >> i just want you guys to know that everyone at leeds united is so excited. we know you can do it. we know you can pull through. let's go boys, let's go. >> i'm wishing you all the very best on sunday. let's get back up to the premier league where we deserve all leaves. aren't we? >> she used to wish the boys all the best at wembley. big game. bnng the best at wembley. big game. bring it home. >> so those were in order. paris hilton, will ferrell, luke humphries, the world darts championship. he was the guy who beat luke littler back in, back back in, in, in january at the worlds. and finally it was the former leeds striker, very celebrated player from the 70s,

eddie grey, but huge, huge, you know , huge amount of stake for know, huge amount of stake for both clubs today. as i say, luton town estimated this to be worth £250 million last summer. the total seems to go up every single season, but nonetheless underway from 3:00, both sides have had difficult seasons in their own way. they've been good as well. they've been, you know, been impressive. but the premier league is where it's at, steve, and that's where the golden goose is. yeah, and they've got to try and chase it. >> golden goose. >> golden goose. >> well they spent these clubs spend money chasing it and but only a certain number of places are available. but you have to be there. the premier league is existential. it's more important to be in it than it is to actually do anything in it. right? >> oh, next time i go to a football match, i'll say this is existential. i wouldn't know what it means, but there you go. >> there you go. thanks very much. >> good to see you both this weekend. >> indeed. right. we're, well, what am i saying? what am i saying? we're going to take a quick break, but we will be looking at the newspapers in just a few moments. don't go

>> time for the papers this morning with political consultant emma burnell and editor of spiked. tom slater. morning. you two. morning, should we have a look? tom at england shirts? this is a big election issue. >> tell us all about it. >> tell us all about it. >> i understand this, though . >> i understand this, though. >> i understand this, though. >> i understand this, though. >> i know we've been talking about the national service and the votes for 16, but the real question is, is keir starmer allowed to wear england shirts dunng allowed to wear england shirts during the euros? so this is a story in the mail on sunday suggesting that his aides have told him and various other labour frontbenchers that during the competition, they cannot be seen wearing an england shirt, an england jersey because of the fact that obviously scotland is very important to the race and presumably they're desperate for the scottish vote, actually really crucial for them. that was the kind of red wall before the red wall, if you like that. yeah. yeah. lost. and could be very decisive in terms of them getting back into power , and i getting back into power, and i suppose on a superficial level i get it. but i mean, do people in

scotland, are they working under the misassumption that actually keir starmer's scottish support with a name like keir? >> yeah, it's just that if he does lots of photo calls in an england shirt and i get that the snp would take those pictures, tweet them out, whatever. >> but let's be grown ups about this. >> i mean, the thing about stories like this , it makes it stories like this, it makes it makes sense if they just done it . but to for someone to have told a male journalist that they've done it is frankly ridiculous. like oh, look how clever we are. we're thinking about all this and it's just, yes, but just if they if they've done it, no one would have noticed. >> but we've seen the flip side of somebody not thinking about the optics . yeah. the optics. yeah. >> no, they should think about the optics. absolutely. they just don't have to brief people. they're thinking about the optics. just do it . optics. just do it. >> all right. let's change tack significantly . should we. significantly. should we. because i've been this has been on the list all morning. i won't got to it yet. so on the sun on sunday, a pop up restaurant where you can buy a hot dog for £55.20 bargain.

>> frankly, anyone who is willing to pay £55.20 for a hot dog deserves everything they get what they deserve a good a tiny hot dog. apparently it's tiny and has no chips with it. so no chips, no chips , just the hot chips, no chips, just the hot dog. this pop up restaurant is where it's outside a posh hotel on park lane , i believe so, on park lane, i believe so, although, well, they're not timing . well, i mean, 55 quid's timing. well, i mean, 55 quid's worth of food as far as i'm concerned. >> well, no, i mean, i think the other thing is it's a pop up, right. >> what are your overheads with a p0p >> what are your overheads with a pop up. yeah, yeah. like when you're paying in a restaurant, you're paying in a restaurant, you know, significantly more than if you'd bought the ingredients at home. that's because you're paying for the staff. yes. okay the pop up and stuff, but you're also paying for rent. you're paying for all these other costs. the building costs are what you're really , costs are what you're really, really bring a lot of cost into running a restaurant that doesn't exist for a pop up. >> no, but you can get a gourmet hot dog, which will be topped up with things like lobster and truffle or more if you really want to. >> and then if you want to drink

alongside it. yeah, it's champagne , man. champagne, man. >> am i being too cynical as well? because i think that a lot of the time they'll go for this outrageous, outlandish, overly expensive thing because they know it'll be a social media story and therefore they know that people will happily go if you've got enough money to be able to afford that, you'll just go down there for the for the for the laugh. >> they'll do it for the instagram. they'll say, look, but that's not a long term sustainable business model. >> no it isn't. >> no it isn't. >> no, it is pop up. who knows? it's properly outrageous. >> i mean, as i say, more money than sense. if you want to spend £55 on a hot dog, i've got a i've got a bridge to sell here. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> and can we pay tribute to the sherman brothers? absolutely. one of whom died. sadly, yes. saturday. yesterday. that's right , and saturday. yesterday. that's right, and they saturday. yesterday. that's right , and they were the right, and they were the absolute master songwriters, for disney, i suppose an awful disney, i suppose an awful disney films, particularly for mary poppins and do you remember this from chitty chitty bang bang , chitty this from chitty chitty bang bang, chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang? >> oh, you pretty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang,

we love and in chitty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang, what we'll do near, far in a motor car. oh, what a happy time we'll spend . bang bang, time we'll spend. bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang, fine. four fendered friend. bang bang. chitty. i four fendered friend. bang bang. chitty. i mean, they are . chitty. i mean, they are. >> i mean, the thing is, they wrote so much stuff that everyone remembers. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> they were geniuses actually. >> they were geniuses actually. >> completely. and they really understood how musicals work . understood how musicals work. and you see some musicals now and they don't have a banger , and they don't have a banger, they don't have a hit. whereas mary poppins was hit after hit after hit. there were no, no filler songs . all killer, no filler songs. all killer, no filler. yeah, and i yeah, i love mary poppins, i love chitty chitty, but i'm terrified of the child catcher . and chitty, but i'm terrified of the child catcher. and did you know we're at time? >> oh, no. »- >> oh, no. >> i was going to give my fascinating facts. no. >> you see? no. >> you see? no. >> we're all killer, no filler, emma. tom, thank you very much indeed. here's your weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on . gb news.

weather on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather. the day aheadis latest gb news weather. the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well. but there will be some sunshine this morning though. it's a cloudy start across much of the uk, outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing , see heavy showers developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force. some local disruption , possible frequent disruption, possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells, breezy around the coast, temperatures a little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday, so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales , some parts of england and wales, some of these thundery and then further north into northern england, northern ireland southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of

rain, but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two, and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well for the rest of the evening and overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards to start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later, with some clear spells around. temperatures will be a little lower, but generally for most, holding up in double figures to take us into bank houday figures to take us into bank holiday monday. so for england and wales, a brighter start. some sunny spells, scattered showers from the word go further north and northern ireland into scotland generally cloudier. outbreaks of rain, most persistent across western scotland and then generally for monday afternoon , a day of monday afternoon, a day of a sunny. spells and scattered showers. again, some of these could be heavy at times, some thundery as well, particularly northeast scotland, eastern england and temperatures around

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gb news. >> good morning to you. it's 9:00 on sunday, the 26th of may. today your country needs you in one of the first major policy announcements of the election, rishi sunak has vowed to bring back national service. >> well, labour today are challenging the government over the economy, declaring only economic stability can come with change. >> a new record in the number of migrants crossing the channel, 10,000 having arrived this year already a wet start in places this morning but brightening up from the south, but with some heavy thundery showers developing. >> find out all the weather details coming up soon. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond and this is breakfast on gb news.

>> i've been rummaging around under the table here, and i found a remote control . what do found a remote control. what do you think it's for? >> i don't know, press all the buttons and see what happens. >> cheekily, i just turned. i pressed the off button to see what would come off. >> nothing. >> nothing. >> no, nothing . >> no, nothing. >> no, nothing. >> maybe you've got to find out where you're pointing it. yeah, there you go. >> if we suddenly go off air. do ring. tell us. >> i panicked someone actually yesterday because there's a, there's a, there's a big cupboard out there which is just you could imagine something off a off a tv drama full of broadcasting stuff just full of wires. >> oh i see, i walked it's a locked room, but i wandered in because he was in there and said. >> what happens if i pull all these wires out? it's like we go off air. and he did look slightly panicked. yes >> yeah, because it's very tempting. >> it's very tempting, isn't it? you see, all these sort of things pull one.

>> it's like a big red button that says do not press. >> yes. >> yes. >> that's right. yeah. >> that's right. yeah. >> anyway, i have to. >> anyway, i have to. >> one day. >> one day. >> very nice. just a quick one, mandy smith says medway council has spent £805,000 painting red routes in areas that don't need them. could have been spent on potholes that are horrendous. >> what are red routes? what are they red routes? >> it means you cannot stop under any circumstances. so it's for ambulances and fire engines and all that sort of thing . but and all that sort of thing. but and all that sort of thing. but and i understand it's important it is important. but potholes are important every day for everybody and cause the accidents that you may need an ambulance for. accidents that you may need an ambulance for . or mind you, then ambulance for. or mind you, then stephen bentley says people spending £55, 20, whatever it is in a hot dog, glad i live in the country. keep the idiots in the cities. this is pop up restaurant in mayfair for, well, it's £48 for a hot dog. plus a 15% service charge, which you have to pay, don't you think?

>> it's probably for the tourists? oh, than anything, i doubt even even inexperienced londoners , even posh people who londoners, even posh people who live in mayfair. i'm not going to pay that much for a hot dog, are they? >> you wouldn't have thought. >> you wouldn't have thought. >> except for a laugh. maybe not. >> if you've got any sense whatsoever. anyway, keep your thoughts going through. as always, let's talk politics back to the election. >> absolutely. rishi sunak has announced a mandate free national service for 18 year olds. if, of course, he wins the next general election. >> yeah. the prime minister says they'll get a choice between either 12 months in the armed forces or one weekend a month volunteering in the community. >> and he claims that this would help unite society in an increasingly uncertain world. >> well, meanwhile, keir starmer is focused on young people as well. he's pledged to lower the voting age to 16. >> i want to see 16 and 17 year olds voting. they can go out and work, they can serve in our armed forces. and of course, if they are out and working, they

pay they are out and working, they pay tax and therefore they should have a say over how the money they're paying in is being used . so yes, i want to see that used. so yes, i want to see that vote for 16 and 17 year olds. if you can work , if you can pay you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces , then you ought to armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote. >> but you can't get married at 16. we've cleared that up. >> no you can't. a lot of people say that you can't get even with parental consent. now you can't get married until you're 18. that changed in 2017. it's quite recent, isn't it, anyway, yesterday the leader of the snp , yesterday the leader of the snp, john swinney, made his campaign platform very clear when he called for an end to austerity . called for an end to austerity. >> this campaign tour today is all about focusing on the need to end austerity. scotland has suffered 14 years of austerity from the conservative government the labour party is indicating it will continue the austerity agenda, and the only way that scotland can address that is by electing a strong group of snp mps . i want to unite scotland mps. i want to unite scotland against austerity and that's what will happen if people vote

snp in scotland at this election i >> -- >> well, the camilla tominey show is here at half past nine, as always on a sunday, and she's here right now to run us through your runners and riders on today's show, camilla, because it finally feels like we've got a little bit of meat to get our teeth into . teeth into. >> i know, stephen, what a time it is to be alive and presenting a sunday morning politics show on the national service front, they've put out james cleverly, they've put out james cleverly, the home secretary, on the broadcast round. so we'll have him on the show a little later because he has got a military past . however, i think there are past. however, i think there are mixed feelings about this policy . on one hand, we can understand it, can't we? this idea that there is a generation of young people that perhaps haven't got the resilience of those who were born earlier in days, gone by, and that something needs to be done to create a new found spirit of sort of community cohesion in britain , because cohesion in britain, because we're kind of witnessing divided times and behaviour on

university campuses and on the streets of london and all the rest of it, so we can understand the impetus behind it. and there'll be lots of gb news viewers and listeners, i think, who have been saying for some time, we need to bring back national service. so it's obviously a kind of red meat offering to reform voters. and indeed people of that kind of conservative persuasion . on the conservative persuasion. on the other hand, i think the criticisms that are already bubbung criticisms that are already bubbling up are this seems to be a little bit back of a fag packet . it's a bit too little, packet. it's a bit too little, too late. has it been well thought out? and guys, you covered earlier what keir starmer's offer is to the young keir starmer has offered to the young, is that you can vote from 16 to 18. by comparison, rishi sunaks offer to the young seems to be maths till 18 and national service. i i'm not sure how well that's going to go down with the generation zs. >> no. and of course, i suppose you could argue that young, the younger you are, the more likely younger you are, the more likely you are to probably vote labour anyway. so it makes sense for keir starmer to appeal to them

and as you said, rishi sunak offering national service up as something that potential reform voters might well go back to him for. >> yeah, i mean, we can see the sense of it. but then it seems more like a political gimmick in that regard that it's politics rather than actual policy making, because let's be honest, the bookies are putting the conservatives chance at the moment of winning a majority at 2. so so are they just coming out with this as a kind of pie in the sky policy in order to attract, as we said, some of those righties. that remains to be seen. and i'll be asking james cleverly, we've got nigel farage coming on the show. i am going to grill him about his decision making around reform and why he isn't standing as a candidate, because i know there's lots of people watching and listening to this who are very disappointed. it's handed an electoral victory to rishi sunak. let's be perfectly honest, because i think the reform vote will be harmed by the fact that nigel's not

standing as an mp . i know he standing as an mp. i know he said he'll campaign for the party and that's all well and good, but i'm going to be grilling him on that. i'm also going to be speaking to kwasi kwarteng for his reaction to the prime minister's rain soaked announcement. he's one of many heavyweight mps now, including michael gove and andrea leadsom and others that are going to be jumping ship come july the 4th. i'm going to ask him how damaging he thinks that is, and of course we'll hear from the labour party. liz kendall, the shadow pensions and work secretary, will be coming on. i'm going to be asking her about an astonishing story in the front of the telegraph, suggesting that the first private school has already closed down in anticipation of labour scrapping that vat break for private schools. i suppose the question for miss kendall is, is labour now advocating a policy that results in schools being shut down? >> well, i guess i mean, they don't believe in private education, do they? so they won't be that sad about it . so won't be that sad about it. so the question is, is whether is that policy is actually forced.

it upon them? >> well, of course the big issue, the big issue is if schools close down or if people stop sending their children to private school in any great numbers, what does that do to the revenue take that their basing a whole load of their policies on? >> also, stephen, where do we put these children? so the ifs, the institute for fiscal studies has predicted that at worst , has predicted that at worst, this policy could result in 40,000 for private school pupils with their parents not able to pay with their parents not able to pay the fees taking themselves out of the private sector. there's a july the 4th election. labour will be in power for the start of the new school term. genuinely, i'll be asking miss kendall , where are labour genuinely, i'll be asking miss kendall, where are labour going to accommodate these pupils ? to accommodate these pupils? because we already know that classrooms are overcrowded as it is. are they going to be putting up temporary buildings to accommodate them? what's going to happen? i've asked repeatedly

, shadow ministers, this question nobody seems willing to answer it. >> okay, well try again and we we'll watch you having a go. yes. thanks very much. >> do look forward to that. >> do look forward to that. >> thank you. just a quick on the whole marriage thing and votes for 16 year olds, mary cameron's been in touch now. there's a scottish name if ever i heard one. there's a wee part of britain called scotland, she says, where 16 year olds can marry . oh, so they didn't change marry. oh, so they didn't change it in scotland. >> i didn't realise that. yeah. our apologies. >> so there you go. i thought we'd made a mistake, but not completely. no, we made half a mistake. yes exactly. and then we made half a mistake the other way by not clearing it up properly . properly. >> there you go. it's interesting talking about the. what camilla was saying there is where do those pupils go if their parents can no longer afford to send them to private school? i have experience of that. a very dear friend of mine, lost his job and had to take his children out of private school because he literally couldn't afford the fees any more, and found to his dismay, that you couldn't just ring up your local , schools, your local

your local, schools, your local state schools and say , i've got state schools and say, i've got two more pupils for you because they said, well, we've got a waiting list miles long. and so you wouldn't i mean, you'll suddenly get if you if this does work, you'll get a tranche of you could argue middle class parents who have fairly good incomes but can no longer afford the private school thing, who who still really want a good education for their children , education for their children, not being able to get into the schools where they want to go, and maybe having to drive miles to get to a school that hasn't got a very long waiting list. >> possibly, although it's worth pointing out that when we spoke to darren jones yesterday, wasn't it from the labour party and he was saying there's independent studies show that it would not affect the number of people going to private schools, and that's partly because, he says it would be the there's a real opportunity for private schools to phase in the changing in fees or what have you. so they claimed an independent study showed it would not mean

40,000. i wonder leaving wonder? >> no, it was one of those things quite that we shall just have to wait and see because it's very, very likely to happen. >> yes, it is because it's something they will do. a labour government will do. they've always wanted to for years . always wanted to for years. >> okay. well we've been talking as well to a lot of experts throughout the morning saying what is this election going to be like compared to i don't know 97 or whatever. yeah. is it going to be that sort of election, this sort of election or what. and i would suggest that this is going to be a whole different election from anything we've really ever seen before. >> yes . it's we've really ever seen before. >> yes. it's going to be like a 95 election. >> what was the 95 angle? >> what was the 95 angle? >> well, it wasn't somewhere between 90 and 97. see what you mean? yes. >> yeah . anyway, let's talk to >> yeah. anyway, let's talk to historian martin whittock, who joins us now. morning, martin. what's your take on how this could play out here rhetorically? >> well, it's quite intriguing because , governments in 1979, because, governments in 1979, 1997 and 2010 were behind in the polls. but they had a choice

about the timing of election, no choice at all. they had to go for it. whereas, of course, rishi sunak has opted to go for one when he is behind in the polls, so that's quite intriguing. and in fact, in recent history, only in 1970, the conservatives and then in february 1974, it's a long time ago, labour has a party won. when it started the campaign behind. so it is quite intriguing that rishi sunak has opted to go for a general election , when historically the election, when historically the data would suggest that does not put a government in a position to win . in fact, in 1964, sir to win. in fact, in 1964, sir alex douglas hume, conservative, was nowhere near as behind as the conservatives currently are at this stage in the summer. but he put off a general election until the autumn, so it is quite intriguing because if you look at the data alone and obviously the only data that counts is the poll that happens on july the 4th. but even so, the historic

data suggests that if you are behind in the polls as a government , you are very government, you are very unlikely to win. going right back to 74. labour 70 for the conservatives. so in many ways he has bet the farm against the polls, if you see what i mean . polls, if you see what i mean. >> yes, but you do wonder, i suppose, and a lot of his advisers will probably be telling him that, you know, times are very different nowadays. the whole country is different. in fact, you know, the other parties are different too. and the vote may be split in all sorts of intriguing and very complex ways . very complex ways. >> and that's a very good point, because the end of the day, we are now. we're not then. and you're absolutely right. but also, i think when we look back to that announcement in the pounng to that announcement in the pouring rain back on wednesday, doesn't it seem a long time ago that now? but anyway, when we look back to that blaring out from whitehall was things can only get better. and obviously there's an argument that sunak and his advisers are concerned that things actually might get worse. bank of england is not going to lower interest rates

despite the inflation levels, little room for tax cuts. obviously lower inflation is not feeding through into feel good migration problems clearly haven't been fixed. we know there won't be a row and a flight. what everyone thinks about that before the general election now mounting panic in the tory party. and so one can see why he might have, in fact different to that song blaring out things can only get better. i felt things can only get worse . and one could see the temptation to point to some green shoots on wednesday, the inflation level possibly promising tax cuts or definitely promising tax cuts or definitely promising tax cuts in the future and just going for it. and some commentators have said that maybe rishi was just fed up, that it's been exhausting all those tory prime ministers, the sniping against him, the disappointing events. and he may well have also hung on to the fact that though labour did really well in the local elections in may, wasn't quite the landslide that some are predicted, maybe the polls have got it wrong, as they have done in the past. they did , for

in the past. they did, for example, when theresa may went for the opportunity to increase her majority, they don't always get it right. and some people have felt he's bet the farm and i would agree with this because things could get worse. so there are some green shoots and just go for it. but it's a huge risk. and history suggests the odds are stacked against him. >> well , as are stacked against him. >> well, as you say, we shall have to wait and see, but it'll be an interesting five and a half weeks to go. martin, thanks very much indeed. >> we'd all love to know his reasoning, wouldn't you? we'd love to know what finally, i think martin's got a very, very good point there because things could get worse. >> yes, but. >> yes, but. >> and then you've got no choice. >> but if things get better, they're probably not going to get that much better within the timescale, which is a criticism in and of itself. so i think now where you can say we're turning the corner now , that the corner now, that anticipation of turning a corner, it's probably his best bet, i think. >> well, we'll know in five weeks time. >> well, we will, yeah, however, what about winning £20,000 tax

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>> morning again. 9:21. now foodies from right across the uk are heading to a place called malton this weekend, where the nonh malton this weekend, where the north yorkshire town hosts three days of the most delicious food. it has to offer. >> yeah, it's free to go there as well. it's going to have the best food producers in yorkshire displaying their wares and also hosting some top cookery displays. >> so our reporter anna riley

went along malton . went along malton. >> it's the self—proclaimed food capital of yorkshire and the town is showing off those credentials at the food lovers festival over this bank holiday weekend. >> well, the food festival is our jewel in the crown. it's our biggest event of the year. it's been going 15 years and it's essentially a celebration of yorkshire's finest produce. it's a massive economic boost for the region in ryedale has about 50,000 residents that live here. we bring in 42,500 people just on this weekend. yorkshire is a fantastic brand name, you know, and, and this celebrates yorkshire produce. so you know, if you're from another part of the country and you want to know what yorkshire is all about, this is the place to do it. >> there's more than 120 stalls and street food vendors at the event, showcasing local produce at its finest. >> this is one of our scotch eggs and it's just perfectly using their beautifully. the

scotch egg originated from whitby in north yorkshire and being from yorkshire myself, i think that's just great. is it the yorkshire cheeses we've got? >> we have the yorkshire black, we have the ogden gold, wensleydale . more and more wensleydale. more and more people are buying local, which is helping us. but the small businesses need as much help as they can get. >> the main stage is a hub of culinary excellence, with demonstrations from award winning chefs. >> we will be showcasing all yorkshire produce and yorkshire chefs. >> so every hour on the hour there's something happening. we're surrounded by farmland. we're surrounded by farmland. we're only a 20 minutes or so from the coast. i mean, it couldn't be a better position . couldn't be a better position. >> hordes of hungry visitors have travelled far and wide to get here, to sample tasty treats and enjoy what the weekend has to offer. we come from telford , to offer. we come from telford, but we've made a holiday of it, so we've stayed the week . so we've stayed the week. >> it's just a really nice atmosphere. everybody's very friendly , there's a lot of

friendly, there's a lot of stalls, there's a lot of choice. >> i'm looking forward to looking at the pies and things like that as well. you know, having a good look around and having a good look around and having a good taste of the food and the drink. >> the food's sourcing some local ingredients , meeting some local ingredients, meeting some local ingredients, meeting some local artisans and just having a nice day out a drink more than an eat. >> so i'm going to find some gins . gins. >> with so much food on display, it's no wonder the gourmet street party is dubbed yorkshire's foodie glastonbury. anna riley gb news malton . anna riley gb news malton. >> well, i do hope it stays dry for you if you manage to make it to malton, but that's it from us right now. do stay tuned because up next, as you know, it's the camilla tominey show with all the politics that you can consume right now. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxing . the sponsors of weather boxing. the sponsors of weather on . gb news.

on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather for the day ahead is going to be unsettled. we'll see. heavy showers, some thundery downpours as well, but there will be some sunshine this morning though. it's a cloudy start across much of the uk, outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, but it will brighten up from the south. but we will see heavy showers developing , we will see heavy showers developing, becoming we will see heavy showers developing , becoming quite developing, becoming quite widespread as we move through into the afternoon. a met office thunderstorm warning in force. some local disruption , possible some local disruption, possible frequent lightning, hail and some localised flooding in between. there will be some sunny spells, breezy around the coast. temperatures are a little lower compared to saturday. highs around about 20 celsius, but for some eastern areas it will feel a little less chilly compared to saturday, so looking at the details into the evening time, we can see plenty of showers still across central southern parts of england and wales , some of these thundery wales, some of these thundery and then further north into northern england . northern northern england. northern ireland southern scotland cloudy, generally with outbreaks of rain, but still some rumbles of rain, but still some rumbles of thunder possible in that two,

and then across northern scotland, generally a little bit dner scotland, generally a little bit drier here, with some sunny spells for a time before clouding over as well for the rest of the evening and overnight . further showery rain overnight. further showery rain pushes northwards to start to clear from the south, but 1 or 2 showers are still possible as we move through into the early hours and then further blustery showers moving into the southwest later, with some clear spells around. temperatures will be a little lower, but generally for most, holding up in double figures to take us into bank houday figures to take us into bank holiday monday. so for england and wales, a brighter start. some sunny spells, scattered showers from the word go further north and northern ireland into scotland generally cloudier . scotland generally cloudier. outbreaks of rain, most persistent across western scotland and then generally from monday afternoon, a day of a sunny. spells and scattered showers. again, some of these could be heavy at times, some thundery as well, particularly northeast scotland , eastern northeast scotland, eastern england and temperatures around 18. >> looks like things are heating

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gb news. >> good morning, and welcome to the camilla tominey show . well, the camilla tominey show. well, it's been an extraordinary week in westminster. following on from the prime minister's rain soaked announcement of a july 4th election. and we're going to be starting six very intense weeks of political coverage . weeks of political coverage. we've got that date fixed. to the surprise of many of the prime minister's tory colleagues, labour and indeed reform . will fortune favour the reform. will fortune favour the brave, or has the pm gambled away the keys to number 10? the home secretary, james cleverly, will be here to share his take on all of this. will be here to share his take on all of this . i'll also be on all of this. i'll also be asking the former defence secretary and gb news presenter , secretary and gb news presenter, michael portillo, for his thoughts on whether a number of tories who have stood down may have done so to avoid their own

portillo moment. he doesn't