degrees to be slashed as the prime minister promises a 100,000 new apprenticeships in a bid to win back younger voters . bid to win back younger voters. >> angela rayner cleared and diane abbott barred from standing at the election as focus shifts away from labour policy to internal troubles . policy to internal troubles. >> ed davey makes a splash at windermere. but are these kinds of election gaffes stupid or the secret to political success? >> closing arguments have been heard in donald trump's hush money trial , as the prosecution money trial, as the prosecution has urged jurors to find the former president guilty . former president guilty. >> and why does the uk have the most expensive diesel fuel in the whole of europe? we're going to be speaking to a motoring expert to get an answer shortly . expert to get an answer shortly. >> and in sport this morning,

roland—garros has become a graveyard of red clay for british sound. like dan maskell, don't i? but british tennis players, as they're all out of the singles in the first round this year. manchester united may be forced out of next season's europa league. i'll tell you why. and i'm afraid another washout in the cricket as england just can't get warmed up for the world cup. >> good morning. there'll be further heavy, possibly thundery downpours today for some of us. you can find out all the details in your latest morning forecast a little later . a little later. on. we begin with the election and the prime minister has promised to create 100,000 new apprenticeships. he's vowing to clamp down on the worst performing university degrees . performing university degrees. and we'd like your ideas or your suggestions as to what those are. >> meanwhile, sir keir starmer today will promise that cutting nhs waiting lists will be the

first step in any new labour government. >> but there's turmoil within labour today. conflicting reports over mp diane abbott and whether she has or hasn't had the labour whip returned as she is barred from standing at the next election . next election. >> angela rayner has also been cleared over her council house probe and after making a splash yesterday in windermere. the liberal democrats are launching their wales campaign today as they commit an extra £1 billion to the agriculture budget to and renegotiating overseas trade deals . deals. >> let's get the thoughts of city am's opinion and features editor alice denby. alice, i'd like to start with you with the, the profound political question of, why what's his name ? i keep of, why what's his name? i keep forgetting his name on the surfboard, on davy, at davy . surfboard, on davy, at davy. davy that well known. i think he's actually quite a competent politician . he's quite good. politician. he's quite good. just why would he do a stupid

stunt like that when he was always going to end up in the water? >> i think it was deliberate. i think he was hoping that that picture would get on all the front pages and people would pay attention to him. i mean, you know, when you're a third party, you've got to do everything you can to try and get attention. >> i suppose when you think of bofis >> i suppose when you think of boris johnson on that, what was he on? >> zipline, zipline thing, hiding in a fridge that was quite. >> yeah, that one was less deliberate, i think. >> yeah, but it was kind of see if i was if i was going to run the country, i would, wouldn't want that sort of image as representing me or being hauled out any time that anybody wanted. >> but you think it doesn't do any harm? >> no. i mean, i don't think he's got any chance of actually running the country, i think. right. yeah. i think he needs to get himself in the papers. so people might have, you know, listen to something about what he's trying to say. >> right. okay. and what were they trying to say yesterday? what was it that caught your attention or what were going into today? >> oh, god. i have to say, i very rarely pay attention to the liberal democrats, but perhaps i

should, because, you know, it may well be that we end up with a hung parliament and that they have some kind of decision making power. i think what they are going quite heavily on, they're very specifically targeting a certain sort of seat. right. so they are looking at wales where they'll be competing with labour, and in the kind of blue wall where they'll be trying to take tory seats, looking at, real sort of bread and butter, doorstep issues like sewage, like agriculture in wales. people tend to vote for lib dems. >> when they're fed up with the other two, don't they? >> absolutely. or if they think that it's safe because they think that labour has such a vast poll lead that they can, you know, safely vote for a party and it won't make any difference. >> what about labour and the tories? what's grabbed your attention? i do think that this announcement today about boosting apprenticeship ships and cutting so—called rip off university courses is interesting. >> i think it's always unattractive when people like me who went to university and clearly benefited from it, come out and say that fewer students should go, but it is a con. 1 in 3 graduates end up in non—graduate jobs. they end up with £45,000 of debt that they'll never pay off, it costs

they'll never pay off, it costs the state millions or billions in writing off the debt, and it costs the students themselves. you know, i think it ends up a very frustrating experience . if very frustrating experience. if you've been you've gone to university with a promise of getting a brilliant job, and you find out that actually your degree as well, who's who's to blame for all of this? >> i would say that, well, tony blair is to blame because education, education, education, then so that demeaned the whole apprenticeship field and the whole area of dental nurses and hairdressers and goodness knows what motor mechanics and whatever it is. so suddenly we don't have people to do those jobs, after 20 years or so. and then what should these universities be offering? i mean, they are great businesses because they're offering all these places to people from china and russia and india, and goodness knows where from everywhere but the uk. but the people who keep this system intact are the employers who will slavishly, simply follow someone's university degree as opposed to their ability. that's

absolutely right. >> i mean, it's a whole sort of architecture that's designed to rip off students. it's not it's employers, as you say, but it's also the system of tuition fees, which incentivises universities to expand as much as possible because they get the money from the government. the debt goes on to the students. so universities are encouraged to open up as many places as possible. and these places are not economically beneficial to either the country or to the individuals who do these degrees. so i think this is the right policy. i think it's an interesting one to announce dunng interesting one to announce during an election, because , i during an election, because, i an election at the same time as you're sort of telling young people that instead of university, they need to go into the army. i'm not sure how much of a vote. yeah. >> and i also think this idea that the government is in the position to decide what is good value for money or not is questionable. i mean, i don't want rishi sunak telling me whether or not my arts degree is going to equal good earnings. that's up to me. maybe there'll be lots of creative people who don't care about earning a fortune like he clearly does. you know, it's not necessarily

the role of government to decide that. i don't think, but let's talk about labour. lots going on here. we've had the police clearing angela rayner. we know they've referred their information to hmrc. labour are saying hmrc have said no further action but we haven't heard that from hmrc themselves. also unclear 100% on what's going on with diane abbott . not only are with diane abbott. not only are there questions about how much sir keir starmer knew about whether or not the investigation had been completed , but whether had been completed, but whether or not she's actually been barred from standing or not and having the whip withdrawn. can you shed any light? i'm afraid i can't. >> i don't know much more about this than you do, but i think what it looks like is that this is an attempt to allow diane abbott to sort of leave the scene with some dignity. she leaves as a labour mp, but she's not allowed to stand in her seat. the question i think that still remains is whether or not she's agreed to that, and i mean, this is a difficult one because i think i think that this diane abbott situation shows just how ruthless keir starmer has been in trying to change his party. right. so she was had the whip withdrawn over

this letter, she wrote to the observer claiming that jewish people didn't experience racism in the same way as she did. it was a terrible thing to say, but equally, you know, she was the first ever female black mp. you know, she's a real substantial figure in the labour party. but she was associated with this corbyn faction and which which keir starmer has ruthlessly purged from his party, so i think it kind of reveals a bit more about the kind of man who may well be prime minister in, what, five weeks time? >> what do you think it reveals about him ? about him? >> that he'll do anything to get the job, which actually is what you should do in politics, frankly. but it doesn't tell you much about what he believes and what his core values are. okay. interesting. thank you very much alice. >> yes. alice talk to us again later on. thank you very much indeed. for the moment, alice what does what does keir starmer stand for? what do any of them stand for? what do any of them stand for. get in touch with us today and tell us what you think they do stand for and what they should stand for. gbnews.com/yoursay kwasi. >> now, let's turn our attention to donald trump. shall we? he's

beenin to donald trump. shall we? he's been in court every day for weeks now, and that hush money trial is edging closer to an end. ten hours of closing arguments were heard in new york yesterday. >> the prosecution implored jurors to return a guilty verdict. they argued everything trump and his cohorts did was cloaked in lies. >> well, let's get the thoughts of former nevada republican party chairwoman amy tarkanian. tarkanian, good morning to you, amy. we should always state at the beginning that you're not a big fan of donald trump in all of this. so perhaps not 100% objective in your observations, but, certain the prosecution very keen to see a guilty verdict. which way do you think it's going to go ? it's going to go? >> well, even though i'm not a fan of donald trump, of >> well, even though i'm not a fan of donald trump , of course, fan of donald trump, of course, i do think that you are innocent until proven guilty. and i think that, everyone should have a fair trial whether, if, if, if i find them favourable or not, i now the conversations that i'm

having with people, it seems to be that whether if you're a fan or not a fan, most people have their minds made up. now, i do think if they do happen to find him guilty, i think that's just going to further embolden in the pro—trump base. and i think you're going to have some of those who are on the fence probably lean more toward president trump, because there is a feeling that this is an unfair trial , and the majority unfair trial, and the majority of new yorkers tend not to be favourable of donald trump. and so that was the whole concern from the get go on, why this was actually taking place in this precinct of new york and what are the possibilities today as we get those verdicts? >> i mean, is it this the moment that we could possibly see a former president behind bars ? former president behind bars? >> well, he could either. if he's found guilty, he could either be, put on probation or be put in prison. either be, put on probation or be put in prison . most likely he be put in prison. most likely he would be put on probation

because he doesn't have, a history , already behind him of history, already behind him of being in trouble with the law . being in trouble with the law. so most are saying that it most likely he would be on probation . likely he would be on probation. varne, and we saw some famous faces in court yesterday, not only members of his family, although notable , perhaps, who although notable, perhaps, who was missing from his family, notably his wife melania, but some hollywood a—listers as well. what on earth was robert de niro doing there? do you think? >> oh, he's stirring the pot , >> oh, he's stirring the pot, and i find it to be actually, ridiculous because you you had the circus going on inside the court, and you have the circus going on outside of the court, so it's hard to take this entire thing serious, if you're just somebody, an average voter who's just trying to, make sure that justice is being served without all of this other nonsense and shenanigans going on. unfortunately, robert de niro came and addressed the press that was outside of the court

heanng that was outside of the court hearing today, and he was a very vile, he attacked not only donald trump, but he was very, vile with his, word of choice, towards even the people who are out there in support of trump. so i don't think he really did himself any favours. in fact, i think if people did catch it, it probably helped them lean more towards trump than not. >> when will we get an answer on all of this? when will a decision be made ? decision be made? >> well, it could be as early as wednesday , it could actually wednesday, it could actually could take up to a week, a month . it's really it's up seven to the men and five women who are sitting on this jury , if there's sitting on this jury, if there's only one person who disagrees with the rest , you know, that's with the rest, you know, that's all it takes for us to start all over again . over again. >> goodness me. okay, well, amy, we await with interest to see how this all plays out. amy tarkanian joining us this morning from las vegas. thanks very much indeed for your time. >> thank you. other stories

coming into the newsroom on this wednesday morning, the mayor of london has criticised the government's failure to introduce a total ban on so—called zombie knives. he calls it a betrayal of the safety of young people. sadiq khanis safety of young people. sadiq khan is calling on the home secretary to bring forward the legislation, which would include a ban on the sale of these sort of weapons. now we want your views on this. please register with us this morning . let us with us this morning. let us know what you think. we will be speaking to our reporter, charlie peters on this later in the programme as he reveals how easy it is to actually purchase a weapon like that and no one is doing anything about it, despite all the talk , new research from all the talk, new research from the institute of public policy has revealed the highest earning 0.1% of britons are causing 12 times more greenhouse gas emissions from their transport than the average person . than the average person. >> we took to the streets to get your thoughts. >> should the super rich be getting environmentally taxed on

their travel? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> why should we pay everything to have nothing ? and they have to have nothing? and they have all that money and they're getting away with murder if they've got money. >> and, and the super rich and all the people haven't got any money, it just it's just seems like it's only fair. really? why should we be paying taxes for different things? >> and they shouldn't. >> and they shouldn't. >> the white house has said israel's actions in rafah do not cross american red lines. the biden administration is monitoring the situation in the gaza strip closely , but so far gaza strip closely, but so far it does not constitute a major gnnd it does not constitute a major grind operation. national security spokesperson john kirby justified usa's actions by stating that the us also killed civilians whilst in iraq and afghanistan . afghanistan. >> voting is underway in south africa's elections . it's set to africa's elections. it's set to be the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the

african national congress could lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government and moving portraits of blind and vision impaired. >> d—day veterans will go on show to mark the 80th anniversary of the landings. the portraits capture 16 veterans who served in normandy and are beneficiaries of blind veterans. uk seven of the portraits will be on display at a special exhibition , the national army exhibition, the national army museum that's in london . on. museum that's in london. on. what a mess it is. museum that's in london. on. what a mess it is . when you go what a mess it is. when you go to buy a vehicle, do you buy electric? do you buy diesel? do you buy petrol? who's hammering you? how will you be penalised in the future? what will your resale value be? well, one thing we can tell you after ten years ago under gordon brown being told and being incentivised to

buy diesel vehicles, so everybody goes and does that. and now the uk has the highest diesel prices on the continent. so where does that leave you? your analysis shows retailers are not passing on falling pnces are not passing on falling prices of diesel fuel. >> unbelievable . we understand >> unbelievable. we understand that forecourts are selling diesel at an average of 150 £0.05 a litre. that's £0.05 a litre more than anywhere else. okay, joining us now managing director of motorways fraserburgh sean, on this fraser why is this happening. >> who's getting away with it ? >> who's getting away with it? >> who's getting away with it? >> it's really interesting. there's been a real shift in fuel retailing in the united kingdom over the last ten years. they used to be a significant number of independent retailers. there's now what we've seen is the percentage of fuel we now have 80% of fuel retail more than 80% of fuel retail to customers is supplied by just seven oil companies and supermarkets . and the supermarkets. and the relationship between those oil companies and supermarkets is

very, very close. so what we're seeing is margins for retailers increase significantly. we're sitting at around £0.18 per litre is what we're seeing for retailers at the moment. in terms of what margin they're taking out of the fuel, which is a massive growth growth over anything that we've seen previously in the last ten years. and if i look at how the fuel prices are over here in england, wales and scotland, they're significantly higher than they are in in places like northern ireland. so i spent some time there. on monday, i was able to fill my car up with diesel for £1.44, so that's £0.10 a litre cheaper over there. and the interesting difference with northern ireland is they still have a very significant number of independent retailers . so independent retailers. so there's got to be some question marks asked of the big oil companies in the supermarkets, as to why the margins for them have gone up so much. wait a

minute now you're actually telling me things are cheaper in northern ireland? historically, fuelin northern ireland? historically, fuel in northern ireland was always more expensive. >> well, that's that's what i mouth hanging open at because we always pay more than everybody else because we're on the periphery of europe and transportation costs are much higher and whatever, and we've got nobody to represent us. so the price was always significantly higher. so i'm amazed and i'm amazed at the, the, the reasoning behind this because the big boys don't own the market. they're >> yeah, it's really great. northern ireland is a very different place to the rest of the united kingdom in terms of it's more local. people will buy from people who are local and as a result, they've retained their small independent fuel stations because they're often not just the fuel station, they're often the fuel station, they're often the community hub, the shop, kind of everything goes and retain there in in north yorkshire, where i am now, we only have one real independent retailer and that's a little retailer and that's a little retailer called catterick service station. they're selling

fuel at up to £0.10 a litre cheap in the local supermarket. so one thing i would say to consumers is please don't be lulled into the old fashioned view that supermarkets are cheaper because they are not. and this relationship that exists between the likes of the supermarkets and the oil companies, i can't say for sure because i'm not an oil company or a supermarket, but the fact that they retail over 80% of the fuel between them and the fact that they have a very close relationship for the supply of this fuel, i really do think they're a time to ask some serious questions around what's going on with fuel retailing in england , wales and scotland, and england, wales and scotland, and how do you wonder why this isn't happening on continental europe, where presumably they have big supermarkets and independent retailers as well? >> but it seems to be a uniquely british problem certainly at the moment. fraser, we have to leave it there. thank you very much for highlighting this issue, although i'm sure a lot of people at home are well aware of it. fraser brown, appreciate your time for movies, the other thing we have talking about northern irish petrol stations

and folks back me up on this is we have amazing shops, not just decent shops, not like all these, you know, things attached to petrol stations in england. and they think, you know, they, they attacked marks and spencer's to it or waitrose to it. and that's enough. oh gosh. we have got superstores , we have got superstores, absolutely beautiful shops, shops that you want to spend time in like farm shop type things. >> but no, no, no shops that i, i walked into recently, and it was like christmas. >> it was like, you can buy every amount of chocolate that, that you want. and every , any that you want. and every, any luxury that there is absolutely incredible . you know what i'm incredible. you know what i'm talking about, you know, go to hollywood or go to the lisburn road or go wherever there are beautiful , beautiful stores beautiful, beautiful stores extended there. and that will be the template, i would think, for the template, i would think, for the rest of the country very, very shortly. tell me if i'm

wrong. and obviously i mean there may be more expensive than whatever, but they are beautiful i >> -- >> yeah. >> yeah. >> interesting, right? let's get a check on the weather. is it going to be interesting? annie shuttleworth has all the details i >> -- >>a >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland. that's where the showers are going to be. most persistent and quite slow moving later on. today they wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing in from the north and east through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day across the south and in the dner across the south and in the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going

to be a warmer day. highs of around 2021 degrees across southern areas now through this evening , the showers will really evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west. it will turn a bit drier this evening actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night . southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue , heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east where we're closer to that low pressure, the more unsettled weather where we're going to continue to see some outbreaks of quite heavy rain. it's quite a brisk breeze as well. it's a northerly wind developing through tonight and into tomorrow morning, so temperatures will be held up because of the strength of the wind. so temperatures not dipping much below double digits across the uk. quite a breezy day to come on thursday. a lot

of cloud around with showers continuing, particularly across eastern areas. we could see some more persistent rain spreading into the southeast later on in the afternoon on thursday, but from the west it will start to turn drier as the afternoon goes on. so some late sunshine to come for many western areas, but with that northerly wind is going to be a much fresher day. see you later. bye bye . see you later. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> £20,000 has to be won in the great british giveaway. today is wednesday. this will close on fri day. >> yes, friday. >> yes, you've got some time still to get involved . here's still to get involved. here's all the details you need for your chance to win the cash . your chance to win the cash. >> it's the final week to see how you can win a whopping £20,000 cash. and because it's totally tax free, every single penny will be in your bank account to do whatever you like. with £20,000 in tax free cash,

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next. >> i was in a state of ecstasy on. on saturday. it has to be said with the winning that fa cup and there was european qualification for manchester united as a result on it. but now paul coyte will tell us that this may not be the case. and this may not be the case. and this is. this is an interesting one, paul, because ineos, who own the plane rights for manchester united , they also own manchester united, they also own what niece own niece they've got a number of clubs. why don't they just ditch niece side of any european competition. >> because niece came fifth in their league and manchester united only came eighth. so they know where the they know where the money is. that was unfair wasn't it. there was no need for that. >> yeah, it's also stupid. it was stupid. >> you know i'd like to apologise for that. there was no need for it. listen, what? they may not be allowed to be in the europa league next season because quite frankly, the way it works is that you cannot own two clubs that are actually in the same european league. so the rules prevent this is the official wording. any

organisation having decisive influence on the running of more than one club in the same competition. you see, i agree with this. >> yeah i think, i think these these guys should not be allowed to own more than one club. yeah, absolutely. >> i mean, so they called it mco rules, which is multi—club ownership . so as far as ownership. so as far as manchester united are concerned, jim ratcliffe and ineos , they've jim ratcliffe and ineos, they've got 27.7% of the ownership of the club. but they are in charge of everything football related . of everything football related. so this is what the problem is. where as nice they've got the major shareholding in nice. so they cannot both be in the same competition. but there are ways around this. manchester united are saying, look, you know don't worry , we're on to this. so worry, we're on to this. so there are ways that they can then look at niece and it's obviously manchester united is going to be the priority. they're not going to say oh you know what. we'll let niece go in the europa because the way they will work it out because they finished fifth in their league and united finished eighth, that niece would take precedence and they would get the place in the

europa league. but they would want manchester united in there. so what. they'll probably have to do is say, well, as far as the management and the ownership, we are the main owners, but we don't have a say in the running of the club, which will then make a difference. do you see what i mean? no it's okay. well it's they'll they're on it. they're on it. so don't worry. it's very, very confusing . it is the very, very confusing. it is the same with man city and girona because they're a similar one with aston villa and brighton last season. they were fine with it. so it will be okay. i'm absolutely sure, but they are the rules. >> there is a european final tonight. >> there is? yeah, it's the conference league final tonight. whether you're worried about that. no no no okay. olympiakos versus fiorentina. olympiakos by the way will be the first greek team to reach a european final since 1971 when they played against the great ajax team and lost in the final. >> and they they beat villa in the semis, didn't they. >> that's right. yeah, yeah. so i think olympiacos would be the favourite if fiorentina, they lost last year in the final to west ham, so they'll be wanting to win that. okay. there's a place in the europa league for

that here. >> we've got the euros approaching in the summer and we have got a row brewing over the euro sticker prices this year, 2024 happens every year. >> have you did you collect them ? >> 7. >>i 7- >> i didn't 7— >> i didn't it ? >> i didn't it wouldn't have been interested in anything like that. i mean i'm not sure it was really developed when i was, when i was young. >> oh it was, but we had it was, was it from when it was around 70. it was from they were panini of stickers started in the very early 70s. so i remember the i was looking at this the world cup 70, i think was the first book that was available. so they've been around for a long time. >> see, i remember getting lots of stickers. i would get star trek stickers there was there was cards. you would get cards and stickers of star trek and you'd get them for batman as well. and captain scarlet, and you also get the do you remember the coins you'd get with? >> yes, with the it was at petrol station. esso. esso. yeah. and you get you could put the stick stick the coins on but anyway and i think those were marvellous when petrol stations used to do that incentive stuff that was, that was incredible.

>> but what is it with the sticker prices this year. why are they so bad? i mean, the problem is, is one thing collecting stickers, but collecting stickers, but collecting doubles is the bloomin problem, isn't it? >> what do you do with them? and this is, and i'm sure from right from the get go there would be stickers. oh, you remember you go oh yeah. he's easy to get. it's easy to get him. you always have doubles of loads. so they're saying that and this happens every year whether it be the premier league. but now the europa with the euros as well. panini and topps , they're two panini and topps, they're two companies. topps are an american company. panini the italian ones and they've they're rivals. now. topps have the official rights with uefa, but panini have the rights to certain players. so there's for example, there's one of the books has players that have actually not played for england in the england squad, which doesn't make sense . but which doesn't make sense. but the worst thing of all is just how much they cost, because it will cost about £1,000 to get a full set to get a full set. nobody. this is the one. i always have a look. this is

argentina. this is the one that i collected. obviously, i was a very, very small child. argentina 78. yeah. and that was ossie ardiles was in there and ken pears and there was the scottish team and that would be very interesting looking back at that, just seeing who was there . that, just seeing who was there. yeah. oh yeah. it's a great one. and the thing is the price of that and i've actually looked that and i've actually looked that up on ebay. it's going to cost me about £1,000 if i want to buy the because they're still part of me that still wants the full book from the seven year old or so that had it originally. how much do you reckon the most expensive panini sticker? and for you is he as well? panini sticker. the football sticker. so you can still get these. but that was readily available the most. that's been paid for a panini football sticker. i'll give you a clue. it's maradona. so it's diego maradona and his value goes up of course. but and also arguably the greatest player that's ever been okay. >> so a lot. yeah. >>— >> so a lot. yeah. >> that's the right answer. >> that's the right answer. >> i'll go with a lot a lot. >>— >> i'll go with a lot a lot. >> £5,000. >> £5,000. >> you've got to go up a lot a

heck of a lot. >> well then you're pretty stupid, aren't you? >> yeah, yeah. 50,000 even got to stop much. >> one sticker, 100,000. >> one sticker, 100,000. >> no . keep going. >> no. keep going. >> no. keep going. >> 500,000. >> 500,000. >> close enough. 400. we've got. have we seen the sticker? 400. and look at that. >> i mean, you could buy a for house that hundred and £70,000 that went auction 2021. >> it's a maradona. he was 19 then from 1979, 1980. >> i have to say , my kids >> i have to say, my kids collected all these things, whatever. and they better not have been thrown out. i'm going to come back to the house to have a look through what's left there. that's incredible. but there. that's incredible. but there you are, everybody. everybody gets wrapped up on it . everybody gets wrapped up on it. euro stickers. yeah, i spent a fortune in. >> so as a six year old, i was buying all this petrol just for the coins. yes couldn't use it on my bike, you know. >> well, we used to get my dad to go like, for instance, it was, who did the tiger and the tiger. was that esso? yes, esso did that, and, you know, we used

to get everything tiger, tiger tales, tiger gloves, tiger heads, tiger, tiger. and you used to say to her dad all the time, dad, do you need any petrol? we must have cost a fortune to go in. going to get all that. i wonder why new petrol station does that anymore. they used to do green shield stamps as well. >> yeah, well, you know why? because it cost them money. there's anything. yeah. get the bum bum bum bum. >> that's so the world is a mess. so blue. >> bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. they're so blue i don't even know what it was. but i just remember the bum bum petrol. yeah. >> bum bum bum bum. that's so blue. that's it. yeah. >> very good. never had any other words to it. that was it. it could have made a lovely song out of that. but that was it. >> but i always remember the tiger in your tank was a tiger. slow motion going through snow. >> i do remember that. i do remember, yes. >> now i do remember. yeah, yeah. >> put a tiger in your tank. there you go. >> all right. well, we'll put a tiger in your tank when we go through the papers. in just a

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let's have a look at the newspaper front pages on this wednesday morning. here's how they are stacking up the express. first of all, rishi sunak vowing to axe rip off degrees. we're going to talk about that shortly , to fund about that shortly, to fund 100,000 apprenticeships. i'm not sure how they do all of that, but anyway, he'll know at the most leading with police dropping their probe into angela raynen dropping their probe into angela rayner, the i leads with triple lock plus announced by the conservatives yesterday. >> and here's the telegraph talking about rishi sunak's recent conversations with boris johnson , and also about how the johnson, and also about how the risk keir starmer is posing to the country. >> guardian leads with the former head of israel's foreign intelligence agency agency threatening the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings. so let's talk to ,

meetings. so let's talk to, education minister damian hinds right now before we get into the stories in the paper and damian , stories in the paper and damian, for you, it is this apprenticeship story that we were talking about there. and so the express are saying that, the prime minister has vowed to axe worthless degrees to fund 100,000 more, apprenticeships . 100,000 more, apprenticeships. how does that work? how do you actually transfer those ? actually transfer those? >> well, we want to maximise and optimise opportunities for, for young people . there are young people. there are different routes, right, for different routes, right, for different people. you asked specifically about the about the money and how it works , there is money and how it works, there is there is a public subsidy, a taxpayer funding effectively goes into, undergraduate financing , even though people financing, even though people think about the, the loan actually, because as a proportion of loans aren't, isn't paid off, that that

becomes, that becomes a taxpayer cost . and it's in transferring cost. and it's in transferring that money from a what's a relatively small proportion, of courses that would go to fund this huge expansion in apprenticeships. you know, labour have a policy that would cut apprenticeships in half this is a policy that is going to grow apprenticeships. and as i say, maximise and optimise those opportunities . opportunities. >> well, you know, you've been in power 12 years or so . why in power 12 years or so. why haven't you done this before. i just get all you guys . you all just get all you guys. you all promise you go to an election and you promise we're going to do this and we're going to do that. my question all the time is, why haven't you done it before now ? before now? >> eamonn that that is a totally fair. that's a totally fair question . slightly more than 12 question. slightly more than 12 years, actually. we've been we've been in we have been reforming apprenticeships. so we do not have a just an obsession with numbers . in fact, in the with numbers. in fact, in the last few years we've really

upgraded the quality of apprenticeships. we've brought in a regulator, effectively, the institute for apprenticeships and technical education. we've made sure that apprenticeship standards are designed by companies . we've legislated for companies. we've legislated for minimum amounts of training. companies. we've legislated for minimum amounts of training . so minimum amounts of training. so these are not the apprenticeships that you had 15 years ago. these are different, much better apprenticeships . and much better apprenticeships. and now we've got a really, really quality approach. we want to grow it. in contrast to the labour party who want to halve it. we want to maximise those opportunities. >> and what would you say to those people who are alarmed to hear the government casting judgement on what should be a mickey mouse degree or not? i mean , clearly you are looking at mean, clearly you are looking at whether this leads to, good wages and future income , but wages and future income, but other people would say tertiary education is of a value of its own, and it's not for the government to decide where that is .

is. >> so look, that is quite right. education is not and never has been only or solely about . it's been only or solely about. it's about your future career and about your future career and about your future career and about your income . although about your income. although actually if you talk to young people, they do also expect that for higher education is going to help you in your career and quite rightly. but there is more to it. you said, you know what? what makes it all right for the government to determine what's a good degree or a bad degree? actually, the government won't determine that. we've created the office for students specifically to be able to evaluate the quality of what students are getting. what we're talking about today is strengthening that. we're not going to say to any young person, you cannot go to university. we're going to make sure that when that young person does go to university, they're not going on to a course which has perhaps been a bit oversold. they they're only going to go onto a course that's got good quality earnings potential is only part of that actually a really, really important measure of quality is about completion

rates. so, you know, if you've got lots of people dropping out of a course, that's no good for anybody, i just wonder if this is an attempt to try and look as though you are appealing to the younger vote. and i just want to sort of explore that. and whether or not that is a genuine outcome from this policy. a lot of people have been saying, you know, your move to the triple lock plus and talking about the conscription rules is kind of alienating the younger vote. but i actually wonder if whether or not cutting degrees and saying sign up to rishi's army is going to win over the younger voter. have you just given up on them altogether? >> well, look, i think there was a slight mischaracterisation , if a slight mischaracterisation, if you don't mind me saying so, of the national service, the modern form of national service that the prime minister has announced. i'm also not sure there's anything wrong with appealing to young people. look, we have an approach. >> i think it's great. >> i think it's great. >> i think it's great. >> i just think that you're it's a yesterday we've had a really important policy about pensions today is an important policy

about maximising opportunity for young people and training and investing in their futures. and we've got a plan which is about the whole of the country, the whole of our society. in contrast to labour, who don't have a plan for anybody, we shouldn't be dividing us up into bits. this is about the whole of our country. >> damian, good talking to you. thank you very much indeed for your time this morning. damian hinds is the education minister speaking to us live there from westminster . let's now find out westminster. let's now find out the views of scarlett mccgwire and claire muldoon as they reviewed the papers. and they this is on the front front page, claire, of the daily express, particularly here we're referring to. so what do you think of this story? >> i think it's a really good idea, and it's about time they've cut all the mickey mouse degrees and taylor swift and underwater basket weaving and all this tertiary education is not a rite of passage for every single child. and this this country really has to start

focusing on our kids. we've heard we've reported on the number of international students coming over, ousting it often lower, lower sets of grades to get in. then our own students who are studying really, really hard , who get who attain the hard, who get who attain the grades and can't get into the course because the universities are strapped for cash and they are strapped for cash and they are letting in. the international students also , how international students also, how can earth is a degree from an old polytechnic or an old college made up to a university costs £9,250 a year? can you honestly tell me that degree is worth exactly the same as a degree from a russell group or oxford or cambridge? it's not. >> employers know the difference and do know the difference, and it is the huge debt that these younger employers do know. >> the difference at all. employers are box tickers and they go and they say, have you got a degree or have you not what anybody should do. the difference is if someone has

intelligence as natural intelligence as natural intelligence and they don't need a degree, well, they do need degree. >> that's the thing. >> that's the thing. >> and they need a skill. they need to be a surgeon or they need to be a surgeon or they need to be something like that. and they should learn that at university. of course they should. but people don't necessarily need degrees. this idea that you're nobody unless you have a college degree. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> and with apprenticeships you can earn while you learn. whereas in universities people are coming out with £45,000 of debt, which many people can frankly never pay off and prevents them from getting. >> and they don't often repay it, which is the burden and the tax burden the taxpayer, then. >> no. look, i mean, i think that actually, you know, going to university is great. i think if you look at the daily express, but not going to university is great too. yes. but i think that it's, it's, it's, it's an option that should that should be made . and i think that should be made. and i think many of the universities that they're talking about not being very good, they are universities that mostly take local people. right. the thing about the russell group, universities is

they are mostly middle class kids, right ? they are mostly middle class kids, right? that they are mostly middle class kids, right ? that that they are mostly middle class kids, right? that that i don't think that's true. no, hold . think that's true. no, hold. it's actually true, claire. but actually what's really important is that if you look at if you look at the courses that the daily express says, you know, aren't worth it, right? three of them are performing arts where you only where you don't earn very much money. >> right. this is my concern. but but i think if you if you want to go into the performing arts, you are not going into it for the money, right? >> that i think and actually, if you are doing it as a degree doesn't help, then it does actually it it rather helps it performing arts degrees . they do performing arts degrees. they do help and they do help you get jobs, but but because because they teach you a lot of skills . they teach you a lot of skills. and actually if you talk to people in the performing arts, what they're really worried about at the moment is the people coming up behind them are all privately educated. that actually the arts is becoming is becoming very small. so i think

there's nothing wrong with performing arts classes, courses. and there isn't , you courses. and there isn't, you know, i mean, i asked claire to give me to give me the courses. she thinks should be cut and they don't exist. i mean, that's they don't exist. i mean, that's the real thing is, is that i think that that that's quite reductive of you to say that scarlet of an off the comment made comment in the green room there. >> i mean, come on, let's have some gravity towards this. we're clearly coming from different ends, but a degree in the performing arts will not help society much . it will help the society much. it will help the kids who are talented. it will help the kids who want to do that. but you don't have to get yourself saddled with £50,000 worth of debt in order to do it. when if you want to be an actress, a dancer or whatever, there are other routes into that, i think, which are equally expensive. >> if you want to be taught. and actually it's not just about performing, it's about the admin. it's about everything that i that's why you don't need a degree to do that. >> if you've got the talent, i think to start say so. >> so you know what they're

saying. you know that if you go into the performing arts, you are probably not going to earn very much money. why cut a performing arts course? that's what i don't understand. >> but i do think there is a fundamental problem with the debt that students are coming outwith. i don't understand why university has become so extraordinarily more expensive, trebled the tuition. well, living costs as well in the last 14 years, and who knows what will happen. under labour, we're seeing 20% being added to private school fees. >> will 20% be added to tuition fees? >> what a lot . >> what a lot. >> what a lot. >> of course they won't. >> of course they won't. >> listening to all of this, you know, at the end of the day, we haven't got dental nurses. we haven't got dental nurses. we haven't got dental nurses. we haven't got motor mechanics, we haven't got motor mechanics, we haven't got motor mechanics, we haven't got painters and decorators . and all of these decorators. and all of these people need a different type of apprenticeship. you know, a practical they should do, they should actually identify the labour shortages just like australia does. >> correct. and actually get these 18 year olds, 19 year olds and people to come to the country . this is what you can country. this is what you can do. this is what we need. how about that? how about we help

you do that instead of singing and dancing all day? >> let us know your views on all of this. get in touch this morning. share your views where you'd like to see these apprenticeships, what? did you have an apprenticeship? did you not gb news. com. >> what about the death of tuc ? >> what about the death of tuc? >> what about the death of tuc? >> shall we talk about waiting lists? >> scarlet front of the guardian , this is interesting. wes streeting coming out pledging to clear the waiting lists within five years. now it's interesting. >> it's. it's punchy . really big >> it's. it's punchy. really big pledge. yeah. what he says is he's going to do, i mean , we he's going to do, i mean, we know that waiting lists are really, really problematic . so really, really problematic. so much so that an awful lot of anybody who can afford it is, is going private. and it's got to stop. so what wes is saying is i'm going to do, again, get people working at weekends. i'm going to get people working in the evenings, and i'm going to use the private sector to get the waiting lists down. i mean, i mean, he's obviously he

obviously knows an awful lot more than me. and he says and he says that he can do it. and he's obviously talked to the to the health people. but it is a it is a really big pledge to make it is. >> yeah. and i think what will be difficult for wes streeting and this will be the challenge for rachel reeves as well, is that both of them are sort of almost arriving on more centre ground, but they're also going to have to keep the left of the party to have to keep the left of the party happy to have to keep the left of the party happy . their donors and party happy. their donors and friends within the unions, which as we've seen, have caused endless strikes within the health service, and that will be a challenge. i mean, wes streeting hasn't shied away from it. he's already said he's going to take on the bma, for example. that's going to be problematic for somebody who's coming from a party that is committed to strike action. >> yeah. i mean, and what he knows, as he says in the guardian piece is, is you've got to talk to people. i mean, you've got you don't go and say, this is this is what's going to happen. >> well, you don't have to listen to people. you can't talk to them. i mean, people want everything on the national health service and they expect

everything to be cured. and they've got to be told that the national health service can only be funded to a certain degree, and it will only do certain, procedures. now, i was the last bank holiday. i was in hospital, nhs hospital and a bank holiday is runs from a friday or a saturday through to a monday evening. no it doesn't. i went in on a wednesday . basically in on a wednesday. basically people were off from thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday and sort of started floating back on tuesday. so it was so the idea a bank holiday weekend is a bank holiday time to be ill. yeah, it's a bad time to be ill, but people have got to get it through their heads that the national health service can only do a limited amount. and the more we ask of the national health service, the country is broke, absolutely broke. and about time people would wake up to this. and scarlett, you can say, oh, we should be doing this and we should be providing degree courses and we should be where we providing the money from scarlett. that's the thing. >> well , i from scarlett. that's the thing. >> well, i mean, that's the thing about degree courses is

actually the students do pay for themselves. but i think to say to the that the nhs can only do certain things. so what are you saying they won't do. >> i mean that's, they shouldn't do that . you new new inventions do that. you new new inventions come out all the time. new procedures and the health service and whatever. and you've just got to say that's very good, but we can't do that for you. >> well, so new expensive cancer drugs. we just don't use . i drugs. we just don't use. i mean, you just can't afford scarlett. so we say we're not going to. i mean, it's you might have to say that very, very difficult saying to people. well, there is there is this. i know it is, but but we're not going to do it. so if you if you want it, you go private . but want it, you go private. but which is of course, i mean at the moment, i mean, you know, my nephew is just going in for a gall bladder. bladder? operation because , i mean, otherwise he because, i mean, otherwise he would wait, you know, for ages . would wait, you know, for ages. >> well, but ten years ago, 30% of government expenditure . of government expenditure. archer was on the nhs. now it is

50% of all government expenditure . can we continue at expenditure. can we continue at this rate? you know, where will it be in ten years time? there needs to be. cut the root and branch reform. >> that's what we have to do up the menu. >> that's the menu thing, so what are you going to. >> what are you what. well, i don't know. >> that's not up to me. >> that's not up to me. >> are you going to cut. >> are you going to cut. >> but listen, what are you going to do? are you going to pay going to do? are you going to pay all your tax? are you going to pay 98% of your tax to the national health service? because that's the way it's going. >> well, i mean, what i'm trying to say is it's really easy saying that until you turn round to people and say, this is what we're not going to do, i've got suggestions on what they need to stop doing, and that is they need to make it worthwhile for our doctors and nurses to stay in this country, stop the brain drain going to australia and canada and the like, which means you don't have to pay for these extortionate locums and agents i'iui'ses. >> nurses. >> and there is so much money spent on that, particularly over bank holidays as well. there's a huge saving in there. and as we've talked about a lot as well on this programme, there's a lot of pen pushers, there's a lot of

bureaucracy at the top of the health services at each of these trusts. there definitely can be some savings made there. my humble suggestion, the most serious thing within the health service at the moment, and you can't criticise the health service for anything. >> but if you're like me and you're debilitated, you can't move right? and you say and you're in a bed and you can't get up and you call a nurse and you say, could you help me get to the side of the bed? or could i sit up or whatever it is, forget it, forget it. not their job, he said. that's the job of physios. we need two physios. there won't be two physios until next tuesday so i said so. i lie on this bed until that tuesday and, and you would have thought where does the service come into this? where is the idea that you're there to help a patient. you're there to care for someone. where's the motivation? it doesn't exist. >> vacation. where's the service 7 >> vacation. where's the service ? where's the matrons? where's the smell of the hospital when you walk in? >> we've got 30s to end on a high. claire let's talk about dunking. because we were talking about what's a national religion , the nhs. let's talk about what is a national sport turning into a world championship. >> the best biscuit for dunking in your tea is a chocolate hobnob. who knew i did? do we

all dunk scarlet? do you dunk? >> no, i'm a non. i can't think of anything more disgusting than having a sort of yucky. it has to have chocolate on. >> i really think to dunk because it holds the biscuits. >> it it holds it together. it really does . but we've had these really does. but we've had these things jammie dodgers, jaffa cake, jaffa biscuit. is it a biscuit i don't know but i love jaffa cakes. >> the thought of wrecking them with with a cup of tea. >> very good. thank you guys. you're welcome. good morning annie. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland . that's where the scotland. that's where the showers are going to be most persistent and quite slow moving . later on today they wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing in from the north and east

through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day across the south and in the dner across the south and in the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going to be a warmer day. highs of around 2021 degrees across southern areas . now through this southern areas. now through this evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west it will turn a bit drier this evening, actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east where we're closer to that low pressure, the more unsettled weather where we're going to

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the dot. welcome to the program. on wednesday the 29th of may. >> very nice to have you on board. you're tuned into breakfast here on gb news. eamonn holmes and isabel webster, our top story. >> this morning. rip off university degrees to be slashed as the prime minister promises 100,000 new apprenticeships in a bid to win back younger voters . bid to win back younger voters. >> angela rayner cleared and diane abbott barred from standing at the election as focus shifts away from labour policy to internal troubles . policy to internal troubles. >> sir ed davey makes a splash at windermere. but are these kinds of election gaffes stupid, or are they actually the secret to political success? that's our debate this hour and the sport. >> so if you're bereft of football and can't wait the two and a half weeks until the euros, the europa conference league finals tonight, which is olympiakos versus fiorentina, if you're interested in that one. now, the washout and the cricket as england can't get warmed up for the t20 world cup, which

starts next week, and the biggest washout of all british players in the french open. they're all out of the singles in the first round, but who cares about clay, grass is what really matters, isn't it? >> yeah. good morning. there'll be further heavy, possibly thundery downpours today for some of us. you can find out all the details in your latest morning forecast. a little later . on. >> and we're going to start with the election. and the prime minister has promised to create 100,000 new apprenticeships. we've been talking about that so far on the programme this morning. going to gauge reaction from you very shortly. he vows to clamp down on the worst performing university degrees. here's what the education minister, damian hinds, had to say on that. >> i'm not going to say to any young person, you cannot go to university . we're going to make university. we're going to make sure that when that young person does go to university, they're not going on to a course which has perhaps been a bit oversold.

they they're only going to go onto a course that's got good quality earnings potential is only part of that actually a really, really important measure of quality is about completion rates. so you know, if you've got lots of people dropping out of a course that's no good for anybody . anybody. >> well, it's been interesting getting some of the views from you this morning in relation to this degree story. david has emailed or got involved on your say saying worse degrees a few years ago. i don't know if it's still running, but there was a degree in david beckham, maggie says blair is to blame . he made says blair is to blame. he made children stay on in school till 18 and wanted everyone to go to uni labour at its best, jill says schools also play a big part in all of this. >> in students going to university, they are encouraged to apply for uni even when their grades aren't so good. honest conversations need to be had as to whether someone is suited for university or absolutely right. >> meanwhile, rebecca says my

local school was advertising for an apprentice receptionist. she said some apprenticeships are just a way of employing cheap laboun just a way of employing cheap labour. at £6.40 an hour, that's a very interesting slant in all of that. >> it's a very true slant that take advantage. i would say that it's not just about six whatever pounds and are sometimes, and especially in television in the world of broadcast where we are and they take people on for nothing, they don't get paid. and the idea is people are so keen to do it, they'll take them on for six months, six months without being paid. >> how are they supposed to do that ? that? >> it's absolutely ridiculous. l, >> it's absolutely ridiculous. i, i, had my first job in television, i asked them how much it would be, and they said £44.44. and i said, i'm sorry. that's not that's not good enough. 4488, 160. that's under two grand a year. this was in 1980. and i was earning £3,000, and i was going to get under two grand and i'm basically anyway, they threw me out because they thought, well , they threw me out because they thought, well, he's they threw me out because they thought, well , he's too greedy, thought, well, he's too greedy, whatever. and on the way out,

the secretary, he was leading me to the front door, said to me, what's wrong? they loved you. they loved you. i mean, i what, 20 years of age? and they said, you know, why did why didn't you? may be young, but i'm not stupid for six, you know, under two grand a year, £44.44 a week on this. and they said that isn't a week. that's a day. >> so. so you were young and stupid. >> the money. so the money was so good that i didn't even in those days i couldn't believe it. and all of that was when unions held tv to ransom and you got decent money in tv. how times have changed. but anyway , times have changed. but anyway, that's what it was about then. but it is absolutely scandalous and ridiculous that so many young people don't understand incentivised. they aren't paid money and they're expected just to be slave labour, and that they are basically left with these huge saddles of debt when they come out of university . they come out of university. >> is it worth it? i suppose the

argument from the government today is 1 in 8 courses could be lost to the benefit of apprenticeships. let us know what you think on that. meanwhile, today sir keir starmer is promising that cutting nhs waiting lists will be the first step in any new labour government . labour government. >> but there is turmoil within labour today. conflicting reports over mp diane abbott, and whether she has or hasn't had the labour whip returned as she's barred from standing at the next election. >> and after making a bit of a splash yesterday in lake windermere, the liberal democrats are launching their welsh campaign today as they commit an extra £1 billion to the agriculture budget and to trying to renegotiate overseas trade deals , a £1 billion to an trade deals, a £1 billion to an agriculture budget. >> i'd like to know where they're going to get that. let's find out the thoughts of city am's opinion and features editor alice denby. they do need that money though. a million £1 billion in farming. the welsh farmers. >> yeah, well, i mean, i'm not quite sure where he's saying he's going to get this money

from. i think we already have quite large subsidies to farmers. i think the frustrations that farmers have is the post—brexit regime, the fact that they're supposed to be, you know, giving over lots of their lands to rewilding , of their lands to rewilding, problems with exporting. i think these are some of the frustrations they have when you see you have the attitude there of they're only farmers, don't bother with them. >> that was that was the tone there specifically . you thought there specifically. you thought they're not important were they're not important were they're very, very important. and they they are under—resourced. >> no i absolutely think they're i mean, you're asking the editor of city am sorry opinion and features editor of city farming is not one of my areas of expertise, but i do. i know how frustrated farmers are. you talk to them. they're like, people think that we're just some sort of little smallholding. we're a massive business, a huge exporter, a big employer , and i exporter, a big employer, and i know that they they deserve much more attention than they get . more attention than they get. >> okay, let's find out the view. also with mike buckley , view. also with mike buckley, journalist and commentator. mike. farmers, what do you think ? >> farmers deserve a 7 >> farmers deserve a much better deal >> farmers deserve a much better deal. and they've been really let down by this government. and

as a result, lots of them are going to vote differently. historically, they've been pretty strong core vote for the conservative party. but i speak to people in the farming sector and agriculture regularly, and they are livid at how they've been treated by this government, in large part because of the brexit fallout, but also because of the bad deal they've had, for example, with the australian trade deal and new zealand trade deal trade deal and new zealand trade deal, which lets cheaper produce into the country . and because into the country. and because our farmers have to produce to higher standards that they simply can't compete, their livelihoods are at stake. and, as they say, to me regularly, uk food security is at stake. as a result . result. >> well, it's interesting, don't you think, that neither of the main parties are even talking about this yet it's the lib dems that have gone down this road. but what labour is focusing on today, i want to ask you about mike. we heard rachel reeves yesterday saying no budget till the autumn . she wants to get her the autumn. she wants to get her ducksin the autumn. she wants to get her ducks in a row. she wants to see how much money she has to play with and she's very much being obr led. fine but it seems though then to be able to be sort of hitting the ground running, they're going to focus on the nhs instead. we've got wes streeting on the programme ,

wes streeting on the programme, the health secretary later and he's going to say i'm going to get rid of the nhs waiting list in five years, which is a huge claim , can he do it? claim, can he do it? >> it is a huge claim . i believe >> it is a huge claim. i believe he can do it. i mean, he said himself that it's a it's a stretch target, but it's one that labour absolutely intends to meet and as he says, they have to meet it because of the lives and the health of people that's at stake. i mean, he very recently was saved from kidney cancer by the nhs, and he's told other stories of, you know, how the nhs has saved people and his family and help people and his family and help people and his family as well. you know, he knows this from personal experience, but he was comparing the nhs to nhs dentistry. you know, when he made the point that nhs dentistry really is a is a bargain basement service for people who can't afford to go private and everybody else goes private. and his, his fear is that if labour doesn't win this election, if we have another five years of the conservatives, is that the nhs itself will go, will go in this direction. it will be just that , direction. it will be just that, you know, a service really for the poorer people who can't afford anything else. everything else will go private and we really will lose that free at the point of need provision in

this country. so what they've said is they want to bring waiting lists down and, get rid of everybody on a waiting list who is waiting or meet the needs, rather of everybody on a waiting list who's currently waiting list who's currently waiting over 18 weeks, which is about 3.5 million people. that's about 3.5 million people. that's a big ask in five years, but that's what they're pledging to do. >> alice, the other big talking point today, the axe to fall on university, what are termed rip off, degree fees. what do you make of this what the prime minister is saying and where he's positioning, universities and degrees and people applying for them. well i'm interested in is how this is actually going to play is how this is actually going to play out with young people because i absolutely think it's the right policy. >> i think it's, i think he's absolutely right. you know, we said, 20% of, of people who go to university end up worse off than they would have been if they'd never gone. 1 in 3 graduates are in non—graduate jobs, and a lot of young people italk jobs, and a lot of young people i talk to are very frustrated by this. they feel they've been sold a pup that they've been promised that if they go into higher education, they'll get a better job, a better degree, and betterjob, a better degree, and they'll have this amazing

experience, this, you know, life changing three years. and they find that it's nothing like that at all. it's miserable . it's at all. it's miserable. it's depressing. they get no help from their tutors and they come out loaded with debt. but then again, another way that young people might be looking at this, as you're saying, well, okay, so i can't go into the into university, but i do have to now go into the army. and meanwhile you're giving £100 a year to pensioners. so i'm interested in how this is going to play out. i'm also interested that he is announcing lots of quite chunky policy things during the election campaign. the absolute opposite of the approach labour is taking , trying to say as is taking, trying to say as little as possible. i mean, on these nhs waiting lists of course, it's the absolute right thing to do to get rid of these waiting lists in five years. but very little detail of how he plans to do it. so i think you are really seeing a difference of approach. i mean, it does look to me like rishi sunak's trying to go on with like, i have a plan. >> the thing about those nhs waiting lists is and we should all just call it out from the start. and he's got two hopes on this. he's got no hope and bob hope, with this. so why do we even tolerate the fact five

years from now, there will be no such thing as an nhs waiting list? mike, tell us more. what do you think ? do you think? >> well, that's entirely unfair. i mean, last time labour was . i mean, last time labour was. it's true did come down. and you look at you look at the graphs of waiting lists. they went stratospherically up under mrs. thatcher and john major. they came down to near zero under new labour 1997, 2010. and then they've gone up catastrophically since and they're now about 8 million, i think. and as wes streeting says, they're likely to go up to about 10 million if the conservatives win the next general election. labour isn't promising to get everybody off the waiting list. what it's saying is anybody who's waiting for longer than 18 weeks, which is the nhs target , will will be is the nhs target, will will be taken off waiting lists. so by the time five years from now, if you're on a waiting list, you will not wait longer than 18 weeks for any treatment. which is which is a reasonable thing because there has to there has to be some waiting list in place, but the labour's claim to do it is that they've done it before. so big, isn't it? before that, that should give us a lot of confidence and a lot of credence that they will do it again. and i said, i'll bet you £20, i just,

again. and i said, i'll bet you £20, ijust, i again. and i said, i'll bet you £20, i just, i just want to end with a, with a thought about polls. and we've all learned in the past, haven't we, that polls can't fully be trusted. and all the polls at the moment seem to be showing labour's going to absolutely crush it at the election , although i have to say election, although i have to say the latest one i've seen this morning, jl partners, saying the tories have cut the gap with labour to 12 points despite this gaffe prone first week. and i suppose possibly you could say good week for sir keir starmer, who's shown a ruthless streak getting rid of diane abbott, restoring the whip but saying she can't stand, which seems to be the deal that they've been struck. they're not completely confirmed. and angela rayner being brought back into the fold. and yet the polls seem to be saying tories are doing well, so who trusts them? who doesn't trust them? and how is it all going to end up final thought to both of you, starting with you, mike, well, the jl partners poll, i'm not saying that it's not accurate, but it is very much an outlier. all the not accurate, but it is very much an outlier . all the other much an outlier. all the other polls are still showing labour with a 2025 point lead. so i don't know whether this was just an outlier or whether it is the way that things are turning and they're just kind of, you know,

they're just kind of, you know, the first to publish those results. but even if labour only has a 12 point lead, that still will leave labour with a significant majority and the ability to do all the things that it's going to said it wants to do, including cutting waiting lists and getting rid of waits over 18 weeks. >> so i would trust in them polls because this one seems like an outlier to me. alice, do you still trust in polls, or do you still trust in polls, or do you think that actually there might be a bit of a shock or even a hung parliament out of all of this? >> yeah, i think the biggest factor in this is the unknowns, the currently undecideds and who decides to turn out on the day and who stays at home. and i think, you know, i highly likely we are going to end up with a labour government, but the size of the majority or the prospect of the majority or the prospect of a hung parliament, i think is still in doubt. >> okay. thank you. thank you very much indeed. mike and alice, let's have a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom on this wednesday morning. sadiq khan, the mayor of london, has criticised the government's failure to introduce a total ban on zombie knives . he calls it a betrayal knives. he calls it a betrayal of the safety of young people . of the safety of young people. he's calling on the home secretary to bring forward the legislation, which would include a ban on the sale of these

weapons. we'll be speaking to our reporter, charlie peters. charlie has had an investigation into this, and he reveals how easy it is to purchase these knives. and no one is doing anything about it. this is the whole thing. all these political parties will make claims going into the election. why haven't they done anything ? before we they done anything? before we get to election stage , uk get to election stage, uk drivers are paying the most for diesel in europe. >> that's according to the rac . >> that's according to the rac. new analysis shows retailers are not passing on falling prices and forecourts are selling diesel at an average of £1.55 a litre. that's £0.05 a litre more than anywhere else. earlier we spoke to motoring expert fraser brown . brown. >> £0.18 per litre is what we're seeing for retailers at the moment, in terms of what margin they're taking out of the fuel, which is a massive growth growth over anything that we've seen previously in the last ten years. >> voting is underway in the

south african elections. this will be the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the african national congress could lose a parliamentary majority after 30 years in government . there have years in government. there have been 15 is the time i read a report yesterday which said june is set to be scorcher, an absolute amazing one. and then last night i saw a report which said that there's said to be 50 days of rainfall over june said that there's said to be 50 days of rainfall overjune and days of rainfall over june and into july, torrential. >> as i was coming in this morning. i don't know about your drive, but it's you know, what a washout so far. all i want is one week, a solid seven days. i don't mind if i'm coming into work at the same time. i would just like a solid seven days of consistent sunshine. get your mood up just to feel like we've had a summer. but the best we've had, i think, is two two days, can we do it? i don't know, i don't think it's going to be the

next 24 hours. annie shuttleworth will tell us. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland. that's where the showers are going to be most persistent and quite slow moving later on today. they're wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing in from the north and east through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers . so i think risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas . however it many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day across the south and in the dner across the south and in the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going to be a warmer day. highs of around 2021 degrees across southern areas. now through this evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that

warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west it will turn a bit drier this evening, actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east, where we're closer to that low pressure, the more unsettled weather where we're going to continue to see some outbreaks of quite heavy rain. it's quite a brisk breeze as well. it's a northerly wind developing through tonight and into tomorrow morning, so temperatures will be held up because of the strength of the wind. so temperatures not dipping much below double digits across the uk. quite a breezy day to come on thursday. a lot of cloud around with showers continuing, particularly across eastern areas. we could see some more persistent rain spreading into the southeast later on in the afternoon on thursday, but from the west it will start to

turn drier as the afternoon goes on. so some late sunshine to come for many western areas, but with that northerly wind is going to be a much fresher day. see you later. bye bye . see you later. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> sold prices . lee says the >> sold prices. lee says the phrase rip off britain is there for a reason and john says i don't do diesel. it's horrible , don't do diesel. it's horrible, sticky stuff and you have to wear those silly plastic gloves when you fill up. now i have a diesel car simply because it was told to get a diesel car when you were. a lot of people are told to get electric cars and they do that and petrol cars are being phased out. now. we hear they're they're going to be extended and all sorts of things like that. i've never worn. have you worn gloves to fill up your car? >> you will not touch anything in a petrol station without plastic gloves on. >> and if they've run out i'll get paper. and if they've got to

run, i can't bear the smell on my hands. i don't like to think about where the previous drivers have been, but then i'm the same with public loos. i don't like communal things to touch. i don't know where people's grubby hands. >> i mean, surely the smell of petrol or diesel is addictive. >> no, it's revolting, but it's more actually the people than the few. it's just the sort of like, you know, goodness knows where people have been. >> i, i'm doing something wrong. i've never been anywhere where i've never been anywhere where i've worn plastic gloves every time, nor have i been told or nor would i even know . so at a nor would i even know. so at a petrol station, right on the pillars holding up the roof, there's a little cardboard box. >> i mean, because it's single use plastic. >> and what is the point of wearing plastic gloves ? why wearing plastic gloves? why they're not there to facilitate you keeping you separate from people. what are they there for? >> it's well, hygiene. i think . >> it's well, hygiene. i think. so you don't have to pick up all the germs and everything, but also probably the fumes. >> it's hygiene, not the fuel itself, the fuel. >> it's probably the fuel, but i just don't like it. it's all dirty and i like a bit of dirt.

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>> parents got nothing else. >> i know, i know, i thought it was fascinating, but i haven't seen any reason. >> there are no earthworms, there are too many pigeons and things around and things that come into the garden and eat them from your lawn, what do we do about that? i mean, it's really only birds. that and everybody says, oh, look at those gorgeous little birds , but those gorgeous little birds, but they're eating all the earthworms and we need the earthworms and we need the earthworms to cultivate the soil and all that. >> do you know what i saw at at twilight last night? >> what? a badger. badger ran across my garden. i've never seen a badger in my garden before. it's very excited. my husband thought there was a burglar. i was shouting , but he burglar. i was shouting, but he was looking very plump and healthy. >> i had a special badger run when my house in belfast was was built. they had to construct a badger run, could get across the road, no, so you could get between the garden so that it couldn't. >> there wouldn't be walls or fences or whatever . stop in it, fences or whatever. stop in it, get in anywhere. so, behind all the houses, there had to be this run that a badger could. >> and i bet the rats used it

and everything else. >> rats and rats are not where you live. >> not where i live . not all at all. >> oh, actually, we'll hopefully get to it in the papers, but i spotted a story this morning which i sent to our producer when i woke up about rats coming up through people's water pipes. yeah, they hold their breath. mice. >> mice do that as well. and the rats come up through people's toilets. >> yeah, in leicestershire , i >> yeah, in leicestershire, i think i'm going to google. >> you didn't know about that? that's common, but it's happening again. >> is it common? i thought maybe it was a thing of the past. maybe i live a sheltered life. >> i think you do. i think you do. still to come, campaign election stunts . this is like, election stunts. this is like, you know, falling off a paddleboard. elderly man standing on paddle boards. and why? anyway they could be the secret to electoral success. we'll be debating that next. what do

now. lib dem leader ed davey. he kicked off his pre—election campaign with paddleboarding, yesterday. he was always going to fall into the water, do you think that makes him great crack? really fun. fun sort of quy- crack? really fun. fun sort of guy.fun crack? really fun. fun sort of guy. fun guy or pretty stupid? well, let's have a look at this. so far. by far my taoiseach are enjoying this. >> honestly . >> honestly. so . crazy so. crazy. jumps like it's not funny .

funny. >> you know . >> you know. >> you know. >> well, we are joined by the political commentator peter barnes , who believes they are barnes, who believes they are stupid. and the journalist benjamin butterworth, who thinks they are actually key to success. good morning, chaps. thank you for joining success. good morning, chaps. thank you forjoining us. let's thank you for joining us. let's start with you, benjamin, because we've kind of heard the school of thought already that this is nonsense. do you think it's genius? why? >> yeah, absolutely . i mean, >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, let's think about sir davey something nobody has done for the last couple of years, right? the fact that he fell into that water, that he made a big splash, that it got in all the papers and on all the tv shows, it shows that these stunts make an impact. you know , two of the an impact. you know, two of the examples you just showed in that set of votes, one was boris johnson around the london olympics . chennai six from that

olympics. chennai six from that wire swinging away , and the wire swinging away, and the other was blair and brown with theice other was blair and brown with the ice creams. now these are in a handful of political moments that we can all remember. and i think when it comes to general elections, they go on for quite a long time. six weeks is really quite a while for people to have to pay attention to this stuff. and i think the goal here is to get people to notice the politicians to have some kind of positive memory, and if doing it in a slightly fun, slightly ridiculous way is how they have to do it, then clearly it works well, i suppose in relation to sir ed davey, he was specifically talking about the content of the water that he was paddung content of the water that he was paddling in. >> it wasn't like hanging from a zip line which had absolutely no he looked in egypt. >> that's basically it. peter barnes and benjamin saying it's something memorable. i look at it and i think i wouldn't see an american politician doing this. i think it's desperate. a lot of this stuff that's like boris johnson on that bloomin zipwire. he was never credible in northern ireland and negotiations after that. never, never.

>> neven >> no.and neven >> no. and that's the point. the only people that say that all pr is good pr don't work in pr that's that's the reality of it. you know these stunts. yes. he might be entertaining, but they undermine the credibility. you know, we are going into a general election where there are very serious issues. people have got major problems and politicians behaving like this for just attention is i'm sorry forjust attention is i'm sorry i it cheapens our politics. and i it cheapens our politics. and i think these politicians have to suddenly start to realise that , you know, this to suddenly start to realise that, you know, this is really serious stuff and ed davey messing around here. i'm sorry if whoever thought that was a goodidea if whoever thought that was a good idea should be fired with immediate effect, because it is pathetic. >> but he's also pathetic because he believes it's a good idea and he he was always going to fall into that water. >> i mean, that was, oh, definitely. and the lib dems have got i've got quite a history of doing these stunts now, particularly ed davey had smashing the blue wall, closing the door on boris, you know , the door on boris, you know, this has become his little brand thing that he thinks is getting him attention in a good way. it's not. >> however, i think where benjamin is absolutely right is that for people? you see, benjamin, we talk about people who are interested in politics.

most people are not interested in politics. they may vote, they may not. they don't really care whether they do or not. but they will remember. oh, he's he's a good laugh or he stands out from the crowd or whatever. and that's all these folk really need. >> yeah. and i think that's a really good point. you know, the one thing about a general election is that millions more people will pay attention who don't at any point in the rest of the period and take boris johnson as the prime example. now, i'm not sure he was a very good prime minister. i'm not sure i wanted him to be prime minister, but the thing that stood him apart was that he was personally popular and that wasn't really from his sets of policies. that was because he was famous. it was because of things like, have i got news for you? as well as the stunts he did. and i think there's a message there, because the hardest thing , a politician, the hardest thing, a politician, the hardest thing, a politician, the hardest challenge they have is being heard is getting people to sit down and giving, giving them a hearing . and if stunts like

a hearing. and if stunts like this, if an element of comedy, of absurdity, if that gets people to listen to open their ears, then that is progress. >> benjamin. is it though? you've just killed your own argument because you're saying you're not sure you actually wanted him to be prime minister, but that actually got him elected. and are we there for subscribing to politicians who are , you know, empty, vacuous are, you know, empty, vacuous celebrities rather than putting forward meaningful change for the country? and i suppose peter , that would be what you would, would be saying as well. yeah definitely. >> and i think it's important to remember that not every politician is boris johnson. you know, this this kind of personality. politics doesn't work for everybody . ed davey is work for everybody. ed davey is let's be honest, he's about as dull as dishwater. and this, this little stunt kind of proved that a little bit more that it doesn't work for him. this is the thing. these stunts work for particular people . you've got to particular people. you've got to have that kind of personality. if not, then, then they just become a bit cringe. i think the prime example of that is theresa may and her consistent dancing. you know, people thought it was entertaining and then it just got somebody who was just like, tell that woman to stop the

robot . robot. >> the robot just got what what i would say to you, peter , is i would say to you, peter, is that the best example of all of this on what benjamin's talking aboutis this on what benjamin's talking about is donald trump, this on what benjamin's talking about is donald trump , because about is donald trump, because like boris johnson, who became well known presenting have i got news for you? donald trump presented the apprentice, he became a tv personality , first became a tv personality, first of all, and people there knew him . they knew who they were him. they knew who they were talking to right from the start because he had that profile. >> i think that's true. but i think you hit the key word there and that's personality. you know, boris and donald are big personalities in general, and ed davey isn't. he's most politicians aren't politicians usually. politics attracts usually. politics attracts usually very awkward people. so when you put them in these situations , they come across as situations, they come across as ten times even more awkward than they probably already are. and i think at some point, you know, the advisors are people are putting these kind of stunts together, have to suddenly realise that, you know what might work for one person doesn't work for everybody. >> well, thank you two for working for us this morning. we've got to leave it there.

really appreciate it, peter barnes and ben butterworth there. thank you very much indeed. your views very, very welcome. get in touch with us and tell us what you think , what and tell us what you think, what what i think you want your politicians to be. >> who would be a politician? >> who would be a politician? >> honestly, if you have to a make a fool of yourself. b be up for all the criticism and the scrutiny , we've had the prime scrutiny, we've had the prime minister on an overnight train last night . minister on an overnight train last night. there's no minister on an overnight train last night . there's no sleep for last night. there's no sleep for the election. i mean, who would do it? would you do it? would you step and put your head above the parapet in the current climate ? let us know. climate? let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay sport next. >> see you

now amongst the things that we want to talk about on sport this morning with paul. is, football results. yes. and the bbc, in their wisdom, decided to ditch their wisdom, decided to ditch the whole idea of, football results for, you know , heart of

results for, you know, heart of midlothian. two, clydesdale four or whatever it is that's all gone, right ? gone, right? >> yes. yeah, that was the start of the season. so we often play this, don't we, where you try and guess what the score is because the tone of the voice is . yeah. and the and if it's a draw. ha ha ha. yes. that's it. so yeah i know the tune. i just don't know the words. so that's it. so, so james alexander gordon was the voice. then he died and then he passed away ten years ago now. and it was from qatar. yeah ten years. ten years. seriously. passed away ten years ago. >> remember him like yesterday? well, yeah. >> and he was reading the football results from 1973. so for many, many years . and people for many, many years. and people miss him. so this is i mean i don't know about you, but i'm always a little wary about anything that's i where is this bnngs anything that's i where is this brings james alexander gordon back to life. and you can put in any score you want. and he reads it, and then you can get james alexander gordon reading the score. right. i don't know

whether i've played with this with my phone. okay. in fact, i spent hours doing this. okay. here we go. here we go . what do here we go. here we go. what do you think of it so far? oh, here we go, here we go, here we go. oh, look at that. terrible. let me try it. let's try it one more time, okay. forfar athletic for east fife five. on he's very excellent. >> it's not bad. >> it's not bad. >> is it. how about how about this one. excellent. oh >> is it. how about how about this one. excellent. on if we can get another one. >> arsenal. no. tottenham hotspur six. >> what are the chances. what are the chances . what are the are the chances. what are the chances of that. >> it's like fantasy football i know it's manchester united six liverpool one. >> yeah. another one. >> yeah. another one. >> yeah. another one. >> yeah the one. where did you get the one from. >> well i just thought i'd do him a favour you know because there'll be complaints otherwise. so that's it. and it is really really good. so anybody can do this because they sent me a tweet yesterday and i thought you know, it's something that we should highlight. so it's you can log on to this and follow this. absolutely. the football results.com, i believe is the website. and then you could put your own scores in and

like we just did there. but generally the results will come out on saturday and they will simply type in the results and they will be read by the late great james alexander gordon. >> exactly . >> exactly. >> exactly. >> and they do that for every game. and then you can listen to them as they should be read. so there we are. so james alexander gordon, and then he does it all properly and it's all on air. that's brilliant. so all the sport that's going on. but this is the thing that i've just been all over all day. it's the thing to do. he's five five, four, five, four. yeah. >> very good. thank you, my friend. it's a pleasure to see you again. i might have some sports news for you in an hour. yeah. no. let's give you some sports news next time. thank you very much indeed, we've got the newspapers. we've got claire muldoon, we've got scarlett mccgwire

next. so we're just looking at the stories in the papers today.

we're doing that in the company of claire muldoon and scarlett mccgwire and scarlet. i'd like to talk to you about the front page of the daily telegraph, where rishi sunak is saying he talks to boris johnson about the election. so how often would he talk to him? >> well, i think i think if you read it, he says, i talked to him only the other day. so they appear to have had one conversation, who? where? rishi sunak said how terrible it would be if keir starmer gets to be prime minister, which obviously is something they probably do both agree on. and that and that's it. but we know how we know how much boris loathes rishi sunak. i mean, he blames him for everything. >> don't forget, though, boris johnson and michael gove managed to patch things up and michael gove famously stabbed boris johnson in the back. so he has history for fall outs and patch ups and he liv golf party. >> he's fallen out with sunak as well. >> yes. and i you know this was in the podcast with, with camilla tominey and he talks about how, you know, he's a very

busy man. because he obviously hasn't appeared on the campaign trail yet, but it's early days. i wouldn't be surprised if at the last, at the end of the campaign, we see a bit of boris. >> oh, i assume we would. i mean, what what does boris love? i mean, he loves he loves all the cameras being on him and everything. i mean, i think when you say about, gove and boris making up, remember the last thing boris did before stopping, sitting down, stepping down as prime minister was to sack gove. i mean, you know, he did never forgive him for what he did, so i would be i would be surprised if , if, if i would be i would be surprised if, if, if boris didn't do something for the tories in the campaign and maybe they both have to sort of grit their teeth and, and appear together written and, and appear together written an op ed, hasn't he, after the election was called extolling the virtues of the party but not mentioning rishi sunak once , but mentioning rishi sunak once, but apparently he's got a long planned family holiday which takes up a lot of the campaign period. >> so . >> so. >> so. >> well, well, this is half term. it might, it

>> well, well, this is half term. it might , it might be, it term. it might, it might be, it might be true. and i also think he's got some other foreign trips planned which probably will earn johnson, as he contesting a seat. >> does he retiring. is he. do we know what he's doing. >> he's not contesting a seat. he's gone. >> he's not even an mp anymore. >> he's not even an mp anymore. >> so he resigned. yeah >> so he resigned. yeah >> well it was he wasn't he, he he. yeah he he was, he was he, he. yeah he he was, he was he, he did resign because he was pushed out, found to have misled parliament and then it was going to force a by—election and. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and so what's going to happen with the mps that defected over to the other side, like natalie elphicke, if she went over from conservative to labour. >> right. and, they're her constituents . raisi obviously constituents. raisi obviously have a labour candidate she can't stand. she's standing down. >> standing down. she's standing down. >> they . yes, the question is, >> they. yes, the question is, is what happens next? but but but all. yes. she's standing down, the other one. >> dan the doctor . >> dan the doctor. >> dan the doctor. >> the doctor in tunbridge wells

is standing down. >> the woman who backed , reform. >> the woman who backed, reform. she's also standing down. yeah, yeah. >> wow. i mean, most mps appear to be standing . to be standing. >> if you want to be a tory candidate, there are a lot of opportunities at the moment because they haven't been able to fill all of the seats . as far to fill all of the seats. as far as i'm aware. >> i think it's just so disingenuous for the people who voted them in. i think it's ridiculous. yes. well if you wanted to protect your child from allergies , would you feed from allergies, would you feed a baby peanuts ? claire well, you baby peanuts? claire well, you definitely should. and you should, introduce weaning of all sorts as soon as you possibly can. >> be very brave to give a baby peanuts. >> well, they're not talking about tiny babies. i mean, it's once, once , you know, there are once, once, you know, there are a few months old. it's once they're on solids and you just give them a little bit of peanut a smooth peanut butter. honestly, it it's i mean, it's been shown medically. i mean, there's that it will it will

prevent most allergies but say but say they were already allergic to that and there was a bad reaction. >> well then they would deal with it. but the reality is the scientists have followed up on children aged 6 to 12 and older, and they found that 15.4% of the children who avoided peanuts had developed an allergy to them, compared with just 4.4% of those who had eaten them from an early age. >> and we were encouraged to have peanut butter whilst we were pregnant . yes, my cohort, were pregnant. yes, my cohort, because it might pass through the placenta of course, i'm a firm believer of this. so with dunng firm believer of this. so with during weaning it was a snack that we were encouraged to give our our 6 to 12 month babies was a little tiny rice cake with a smattering of peanut butter. >> and did you do this? did you? yeah but we've got no allergies in the family of any sort, so i well, nor have we, but i think going back to this historically there were hardly any allergies and any event. >> and now all of a sudden, which the anecdotal research would show as well. and, and some evidence would say that the

increase in elective sections has also increased to the number of allergies, because children do not pick up lots of, immune things, immune boosting things in the birthing canal. >> jess phillips, the former shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, says that domestic abuse orders are not worth the paper. they are written on. tell us more. >> i mean, i mean, this is actually quite shocking. so you have these orders that say men aren't allowed to go near women who are worried about and then nothing happens . and there's a nothing happens. and there's a story here of somebody, you know, who was shot by a woman. and what's interesting is this is page ten of the times. and on page 11, obsessed man jailed for stabbing pregnant ex. and there is a real, you know, two women a week are killed by their partners or ex—partners and finally something something is being done about it. i mean, i remember when i was a young journalist that if, if there was a killing and they said, oh, it's a domestic, it didn't count

as a proper murder, right? because obviously she'd done something. and now, i mean, i do have to say that they are taking it seriously, but we need to do more because over and over again, you look at the court cases of these murders and actually the police had been the police had been warned about it. the woman had gone these very, very rarely come out of the blue in this case of the obsessed man who's jailed for stabbing his ex . i mean, he, he, he left his clothes on her doorstep and said, i'm not leaving until you come back. >> the most dangerous person most women will ever come into contact with is their husband . i contact with is their husband. i mean, statistically, you're much more likely to be killed by your partner than by any stranger or person that you've had nothing to do with. and actually, the most common time to be killed by your partner is on holiday. >> so what can we do to help women and how? what can we do to prevent this from happening ? i prevent this from happening? i mean, do we do we come together as a society and help seriously? absolutely. >> abuse call and as you say you

know log it as such. but there needs to be heavier penalties . i needs to be heavier penalties. i mean, the first incident of this, these guys need to be locked up, surely. >> well, yeah, but it's difficult when you're in the position. i would imagine . and position. i would imagine. and when you're on the receiving end of something like that , how you of something like that, how you can actually remove yourself, disassociate yourself when all you're thinking about are the children, the mortgage, the bills. >> shame. >> shame. >> do you want to shape exactly . >> do you want to shape exactly. >> do you want to shape exactly. >> it's very complicated and emotional, but absolutely there needs to be significant changes. >> there has to be zero tolerance as well . tolerance as well. >> there really has to. you're absolutely right. but also, i mean, a friend of mine used to run jewish women's aid and the first thing she did was she went to the rabbis to say to say, i'm not a marriage breaker. i'm actually trying to keep women and their children safe and working within the faith. so i think people, people of faith can actually do an awful lot. so that so that they understand that so that they understand that there are there are

incredible problems that, you know, that's a really important point . point. >> and in my own faith, it would be i'm a everyone i think knows i'm a practising catholic. and i think if the church would be able to come out and say, look, women, if you're being abused, it's not right. it's not a marriage , seek help and it's marriage, seek help and it's okay to leave a marriage. it's okay to leave a marriage. it's okay to leave a marriage. it's okay to leave a marriage violated instead of waiting and waiting and waiting until in. don't stay there for the children's sake. >> yeah, well, because it teaches them as well. and you create. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> no, there's a smiling rishi sunak on the front of the daily telegraph, but the i kyrees a story today. he makes a big thing about this triple lock, and how he doesn't need us. won't be caught out on this and they won't be worse off. whatever it is. but clare, how much have the. i calculated that as a pensioner, you will save because he's protecting your quadruple lock eamonn £0.28 a

week, £0.28 annually to £150 a year over three years or something. >> no, it's £400 that they'd save and then it becomes 100, £100 a year, £14, £64 billion worth of government expenditure . worth of government expenditure. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> it's saying here it would save retirees relying on the state pension just 1460 a year by 2028. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so i mean, you know you know really i can't stand this. i mean, these are lies. yeah, these are lies. and these guys get away with it. and because the rest of us, we sit and do these interviews, we don't know these interviews, we don't know the calculations. no, we can't work them out. but if you find out you're lying, you can't sit smiling like that behind a mic. prime minister, if it's a lie , prime minister, if it's a lie, it's a lie. £14, 60 a year by 20. >> well , they'll be very careful >> well, they'll be very careful with their language, won't they? >> i'm sure. well, i don't think they are. and i don't think they will going forward, isabel, because the conservatives have gone two points up in the polls and labour came down one, i

mean, labour are still ahead according to some polls. most polls , polls anyway. well, polls, polls anyway. well, that's the other thing. >> well , he that's the other thing. >> well, he can that's the other thing. >> well , he can still that's the other thing. >> well, he can still claim he's doing something about all of this. >> you know, that he adds, but it's just chasing. >> and you made a really good point earlier, damon, where were they for the past 16 years when all of these, points of the manifesto should have been there 7 manifesto should have been there ? yeah. >> and also, where's the money going to come from? >> yeah. well clawing back tax apparently going to see you again in, 40 minutes time. >> here's annie shuttleworth with the weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland. that's where the showers are going to be most persistent and quite slow moving later on today they wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing

in from the north and east through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas . however it many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day across the south and in the dner across the south and in the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going to be a warmer day. highs of around 2021 degrees across southern areas. now through this evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west it will turn a bit drier this evening, actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east where we're closer to that low pressure, the more unsettled

weather where we're going to continue to see some outbreaks of quite heavy rain. it's quite a brisk breeze as well. it's a northerly wind developing through tonight and into tomorrow morning, so temperatures will be held up because of the strength of the wind. so temperatures not dipping much below double digits across the uk. quite a breezy day to come on thursday. a lot of cloud around with showers continuing, particularly across eastern areas. we could see some more persistent rain spreading into the southeast later on in the afternoon on thursday, but from the west it will start to turn drier as the afternoon goes on, so some late sunshine to come for many western areas, but with that northerly wind is going to be a much fresher day. see you later. bye bye . see you later. bye bye. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

top story this morning. rip off university degrees to be slashed as the prime minister promises 100,000 new apprenticeships in a bid to win back younger voters . bid to win back younger voters. >> dan abbott has broken her silence, revealing she has been banned from standing as a labour candidate as focus shifts away from labour policy to internal troubles . troubles. >> ed davey makes a splash at lake windermere . but are these lake windermere. but are these kinds of election gaffes stupid or the key to political success? an emergency meeting of the united nations security council is taking place as global condemnation of israel's actions in rafah grow. >> we'll be talking about that shortly . shortly. >> and in the sport. roland—garros has become a graveyard of red clay. poetic, isn't it ? for british tennis isn't it? for british tennis players, they're all out of the singles in the first round. okay

it's the best i've got. manchester united may be forced out of next season's europa league, and bayern munich have got the burnley manager who took them down, and chelsea nearly have the leicester manager who took them up. >> good morning. there'll be further heavy, possibly thundery downpours today for some of us. you can find out all the details in your latest morning forecast a little later . on. a little later. on. >> let's start with the election of. the prime minister has promised to create 100,000 new apprenticeships, as he vows to clamp down on the worst performing university degrees. >> earlier, we spoke with the education minister, damian hinds. >> we're not going to say to any young person you cannot go to university. we're going to make sure that when that young person does go to university, they're not going on to a course which has perhaps been a bit oversold. they they're only going to go onto a course that's got good quality earnings potential is

only part of that actually a really, really important measure of quality is about completion rates. so, you know, if you've got lots of people dropping out of a course, that's no for good anybody . anybody. >> keir starmer today will promise that cutting nhs waiting lists will be the first step in any new labour government. >> but there is turmoil within labour as well. diane abbott has broken her silence this morning to reveal although she's had the whip restored, she is banned from standing as a labour candidate in july's general election . election. >> and after making a splash yesterday, the liberal democrats are launching their welsh campaign today as they commit an extra £1 billion to the welsh agriculture budget and to renegotiating overseas trade deals. >> well, let's stick with all things lib dems for a moment. olivia utley joins us this morning from their campaign bus. she's been out and about in wales . good morning to you, wales. good morning to you, olivia, after the sort of stunt

of yesterday, what can we expect from sir ed today and what likelihood of success do they have in wales ? have in wales? >> well, the lib dems are being very tight lipped about what's planned for today. every day on the lib dem campaign trail is a surprise. we didn't know until yesterday morning about the paddleboarding stunt, but the lib dems i've spoken to here are very, very happy with how it went. ed davey is top of the headunesin went. ed davey is top of the headlines in quite a lot of places, which is exactly what they wanted in wales. they're feeling quite optimistic. the campaign generally in the whole country is very much focused on investing in rural areas in the south—west of england, their sort of lib dem heartlands, places like devon and cornwall, there are a lot of rural communities and so a lot of thought and expertise has gone into how the lib dems can direct their policy to rural areas. now that should help them in places like where i am today in knighton in wales, this is a border town between england and

wales and the welsh valleys. it's a pretty set up town, but it is in a very rural area and the lib dems are very much hoping that their policies about clearing pollution in rivers, something they've been talking about a lot over the course of the whole of the last parliament and dental care, particularly in rural areas, for children, will win them some votes. in wales. they are really, really hopeful that they might be able to get an mp. they don't have any mps in wales at the moment, but they are hopeful, hopeful about winning one in the next parliament. >> they obviously keen to try and become the third largest party again. they were absolutely destroyed, weren't they? after that coalition, a lot of people saying they'd never forgive them after their u—turn on tuition fees, do you think that they've regained much trust and although they're polling around the same as reform , much more likely to be reform, much more likely to be able to translate that into significant number of votes and bump snp to down fourth party, i think the lib dems stand a relatively good chance of becoming the third largest party

again. >> of course, it all depends on what happens with the snp. we're all predicting a sort of implosion of the snp after the fiasco of nicola sturgeon and then humza yousaf, and if that does happen, then i think the lib dems do stand a pretty good chance they're doing what the lib dems do best at the moment and really concentrate their efforts, concentrating their resources on particular target seats. they have a handful of target seats, most of them held by conservative mps, a few of them held by the snp in scotland, which they are hoping to regain, many of which they held before that disastrous cameron—clegg coalition disastrous for the lib dems, i should say. the campaign is also very, very different from the campaign that they ran in 2019. obviously, the big problem for the lib dems is getting people to vote for them, because people believe that the lib dems just can't win a general election. now in 2019, the lib dems tactic for trying to overcome that was by saying that the lib dems could win a general election. we kept hearing the slogan jo swinson, your next prime minister. she was then the

leader of the lib dems. jo swinson ended up losing her seat and it was pretty embarrassing for everyone involved . ed davey for everyone involved. ed davey is taking a very, very different approach this time. there is no talk about him becoming the next prime minister. it is all about unseating specific conservative mps in specific seats around the country. what they want to be is the third largest party, and particularly they want to unseat some conservative cabinet ministers, including jeremy hunt , whose seat they very much have an eye on. ed davey is being careful not to criticise keir starmer too much. the lib dems clearly think that keir starmer will be the next prime minister and that possibly there could be and that possibly there could be a situation if the polls narrow in the run up to the election, as they so often do, where ed davey could end up being a kingmaker. that's the sort of dream scenario for the lib dems in this election. >> anyone being careful? labour have ruled out any sort of coalition with the snp, but they haven't done that with the lib dems, so both of them clearly keeping their doors open. neither of neither of the other leaders saying i agree with ed

yet though. do you remember that penod yet though. do you remember that period i agree with with nick was the catchphrase of the 2010 election. that feels a very long time ago. olivia thanks very much indeed . much indeed. >> do you ever say i agree with eamonn? >> occasionally not enough really. >> an emergency meeting of the un security council has proposed a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in gaza. the resolution, proposed by algeria is in response to israel's latest airstrike over the weekend, which killed 45 civilians. >> the incident was described by benjamin netanyahu as a tragic mistake . mistake. >> it comes as the biden administration has said the recent deaths in rafah and israel's ground operation does not cross a us red line . not cross a us red line. >> well, let's discuss this in more detail with the political editor at the jewish news , lee editor at the jewish news, lee harpin. welcome to the program. good to see you this morning. goodness me, what a terrible few days we have seen . there was, of days we have seen. there was, of course, the strike on sunday night and i believe another 21 dead from further strikes , where dead from further strikes, where do you stand on all of this?

what's your analysis? can you see why israel is becoming increasingly isolated on the on the international stage? >> well, i think we actually need to go back to october the 7th. the horrendous hamas massacre and israel's response and israel's justification for responding in the way it did it, was to inflict maximum damage on a hamas and to bring the hostages home. eight months, eight months on, i must ask, where are we now ? there's still where are we now? there's still 130 hostages unaccounted for. i think it's fair to say israel has taken out substantial numbers of hamas operatives, including in sunday's attack, where they took out a further two. but are they any way near to , to inflicting the ultimate to, to inflicting the ultimate damage on hamas is i can't see an end game in sight. >> i would suggest that perhaps there is a chance that they are making it worse, that they are increasing the number of people who will want to join hamas

because they are seeing children being scorched and decapitated in the way that many israelis were on october the 7th. and the images that we saw from this safe zone, many people say, is a turning point for them. >> i'm party to a couple of whatsapp groups, a jewish whatsapp groups, a jewish whatsapp groups, a jewish whatsapp groups, community groups and some of the messages in there. i've seen people change and people who are very strong defenders of israel, and now actively saying, i can't stand those images. i don't know how to respond to them. and i think that is, you know, that's an increasing response of many, many jews. not only in this country but across the world, we are asking questions and we are saying, you know, surely there's no military solution here. it just leigh talking about a military solution, as i understand it, there were two operatives taken out in that airstrike yesterday. never mentioned. now, listen, what happenedis mentioned. now, listen, what happened is absolutely

horrendous. but what i'm trying to say is the objective that the israeli forces are trying to achieve is not even being talked about, even if those were two very important operatives that were eradicated , why is that were eradicated, why is that message being i would agree. >> i mean, israel, i don't believe israel has been particularly good at putting its message across, i thought the response to the rafah attacks yesterday, i thought it was , you yesterday, i thought it was, you know, it wasn't clear, it was a slightly confused message. they were trying to suggest that the bombs weren't strong enough to, you know, cause big craters . you know, cause big craters. >> but there was a secondary blast. >> they were huge bombs. they were still huge bombs. and i think israel was referring to the actual weight of the explosive content rather than the. so i think israel is partly to blame. but i do think, you know, israel, there is a bias against israel, definitely out there. but israel is, of course, its own worst enemy. >> that's going to continue. yeah as you say, israel is its own worst enemy. i just want to

make this point as well. >> i was in the west bank, november 2022 meeting with palestinians. november 2022 meeting with palestinians . and these were palestinians. and these were quite, you know, some of these palestinians were quite active in the in the protests against settlers. but we sat down there was 20 british jews. they made us lunch . and they said to us, us lunch. and they said to us, you've got to understand at this point , we you've got to understand at this point, we hate netanyahu, but we hate hamas as much as netanyahu. i worry today whether they would still make the same point about hamas and because of israel's response, people that , you know, response, people that, you know, held a hand out to us are now being dragged further. >> do you think that netanyahu has catastrophically mismanaged this, or do you think he's between a rock and a hard place? because actually, if you don't have the security of israel , you have the security of israel, you don't have israel. you know, that's the whole purpose of its existence is to create a safe place for a persecuted people. >> no, i agree, i agree that, you know, it's a nightmare situation for netanyahu, but he's also in a nightmare situation because of his, his own doing. and i don't believe

netanyahu seriously wants two states. i mean, he's actually said it. he does not want a two states. >> he wants to annihilate hamas, but he wants a greater israel. he means the annihilation of gaza. so you have hamas who don't want two states. >> you have netanyahu, who don't want two states. it's a dreadful situation. >> civilians . >> civilians. >> civilians. >> and i also think israel has a responsibility not to just its own citizens, but to its citizens around the to world jews like me around the world. and, you know , it's this is and, you know, it's this is a really troubling time. and i'm i'm seeing jews , some struggling i'm seeing jews, some struggling to stand by israel. i've seen other jews taken into very dark places now. and, you know , i places now. and, you know, i think this country is still a very tolerant country. but i worry about the impact. >> what do you what are you worried about, lee? i mean, i can tell you're upset by this. and isabel us military is between a rock and a hard place. and people like yourself seem to be in that position. but you're trying to be apologetic for the state of israel here. but you're

finding it hard. >> i'm find it hard. i've got family in israel. my family. i've got family living in israel. so you feel it. you feel it deep and you feel a deep sense. you know, every time i go to israel, there's something inside. and i feel. i feel at home there. but i go the west bank and i see what's going on in gaza now. and i, you know, i'm struggling and i'm not alone. i know i'm not alone. and, but then if you were in charge, if you had military, military authority, what would you be doing or suggesting? >> not only what would you would you be withdrawing? would you be coming to some sort of agreement, some sort of ceasefire or or pulling all? >> i'm not a military expert, it must be said. so i can't. but i think there's got to be negotiations . some think there's got to be negotiations. some in some think there's got to be negotiations . some in some way. negotiations. some in some way. there's got to be qatar, particularly beau biden. i think every european country, including us, who i spoke to keir starmer yesterday, i interviewed him and he was talking about our moral duty. and i do think there is one in this country. you know, we have a ceasefire in a two state

solution. >> i mean, there doesn't seem to be any appetite from from the region. >> no, we need a process. obviously, it's, you know, and to talk about go to israel now and speak about a two state solution. i mean, it's not on the agenda really. it's not there because people are you know, you're critical of benjamin netanyahu personally. >> yes. would you go so far as to say you hope that the icc carry forward these arrest warrants for him and for his defence minister because of the issues around, as they claim, starvation of civilians wilfully causing suffering, wilfully murdering and of course , also murdering and of course, also for the leaders of hamas as well. >> well, i recognise the independence of the icc, but i think it would be wrong to sort of prejudge until we see the evidence they so we're still waiting for, for the evidence to be provided. let's assess it then , i don't know. i think it's then, i don't know. i think it's a bit early to very honest answer. >> thank you very much, lee harp, and appreciate your time this morning from the jewish news. >> jewish. thank you very much. >> jewish. thank you very much. >> thank you very much indeed, other stories on this wednesday

morning. this is what we've got for you, news within the past houn for you, news within the past hour. and that is the board of royal mail , has said that it has royal mail, has said that it has agreed to . a £3.57 billion agreed to. a £3.57 billion takeover offer from czech billionaire daniel kretinsky epp group, his business already owns 27.6% of the company. shareholders will vote on any such deal in the at the next annual general meeting, and that's going to be in september , that's going to be in september, the mayor of london has criticised the government's failure to introduce a total ban on zombie knives, calling it a betrayal of the safety of young people. sadiq khan is calling on the home secretary to bring forward the legislation, which would include a ban on the sale of weapons. we'll be speaking to our reporter, charlie peters, a little bit later on in the programme, who will be revealing how easy it was for him to purchase these knives . purchase these knives. >> britain's drivers are paying the most for diesel fuel in europe. that's according to the

rac. new analysis shows retailers are not passing on falling prices and forecourts are selling diesel at an average of 155 a litre. that's 5 pm. more than anywhere else . this is more than anywhere else. this is what motoring expert fraser brown had to say . brown had to say. >> £0.18 per litre is what we're seeing for retailers at the moment in terms of what margin they're taking out of the fuel, which is a massive growth growth over anything that we've seen previously in the last ten years. >> and the amazing thing is the cheapest place to get diesel anywhere in the uk . wait for it anywhere in the uk. wait for it is northern ireland, which normally has the highest prices because of where it's located on the periphery of, of europe. but apparently that is because we have more independent retailers, petrol stations than in the rest

of the country who have just got the big boys playing it out between themselves. >> now, here we are, almost in june. not really much sign of summer on the way. perhaps almost the opposite. so much rain and thunderstorms. annie shuttleworth has your forecast . shuttleworth has your forecast. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news. weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland. that's where the showers are going to be. most persistent and quite slow moving later on today they wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing in from the north and east through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas . however it many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day

across the dner across the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going to be a warmer day of around 2021 degrees across southern areas. now through this evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time , bringing short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west. it will turn a bit drier this evening actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight, across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east where we're closer to that low pressure. the more unsettled weather where we're going to continue to see some outbreaks of quite heavy rain. it's quite a brisk breeze as well. it's a northerly wind developing through tonight and into tomorrow morning, so temperatures will be held up because of the strength of the

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next. welcome back. >> we are talking all things election this morning. >> yep. yeah, let's return to that now. and liberal democrats are launching a welsh campaign today. are launching a welsh campaign today . and they have a lot of today. and they have a lot of things planned. i'm not going to talk to helen morgan. helen's the mp for north shropshire and you're getting the chequebook out. helen, i think it's very interesting . and i was looking interesting. and i was looking at £1 billion for farm and for agriculture in general. and i thought, well, that's a lot of money is that for the whole country. but it's just for wales. yeah >> no, that's for the whole country. that's a, that's a billion. the agriculture, the agricultural budget. yeah. >> yeah, it's money that will be well needed. can you tell people where it would go . where it would go. >> yes. so since, the

conservatives changed the way that they would subsidise farming, they moved from a basic farming, they moved from a basic farm payment system to a system that rewards farmers for more, environmentally sustainable practices, which is which is all very well and were broadly supportive of that. but it's been a really botched transition where the basic payment has been phased out too soon. and the new system isn't really ready to go or clearly understood. coupled with a really, really difficult, environment for farming at the moment , environment for farming at the moment, we're seeing a lot of farmers go bust, and obviously we need them to produce our food for the future. so it's really important that we get this right and that we get enough money into farming so that we keep our farmers in business so we can produce food and protect the environment going forward . environment going forward. >> and what makes you think that farmers in wales would trust the lib dems? i mean, you don't have any mps there. you don't have a history of mps there. this would be new territory for you . be new territory for you. >> well, montgomeryshire was our safest seat for a number of years actually. so we do have quite a strong history in wales, but and obviously brecon , radnor but and obviously brecon, radnor

and cwmtawe is a seat that we have held as well previously and that we are very hopeful of taking back at the general election. so there's a good reason for us to point to our history in wales, but also farmers in wales are, you know, fed up with, with the labour government and the way that they've managed their agricultural transition , they agricultural transition, they distrust the conservatives. and so we are offering a really positive alternative for wales and its rural areas. reality is, if you were able to effect policy change, that would be in some sort of coalition or , or some sort of coalition or, or confidence and supply deal, presumably with labour rather than obviously an all out majority. >> and we've seen, haven't we, in the past, what a coalition with the lib dems means in terms of being able to honour your promises. why would people trust you after the u—turn on tuition fees, for example ? fees, for example? >> well, i don't think that we do need to be in coalition to influence policy. i mean, the windfall tax was our policy. we thought of it in october 2021, we managed to get that to become

government policy. and it's one of the reasons people have benefited with that help towards their energy bills over the last winter, so i disagree with you. we're not thinking about a coalition. we're focusing on getting those mps elected, and we'll worry about the shape of the government. i think after july the 4th. >> helen, i think it's a very, very important message to a much neglected community and industrial factor in this country. the farmers, but tell me this. what did you make of your leader ed davey yesterday on that paddleboard in lake windermere ? windermere? >> well, he's highlighting a really, really important issue about , the dreadful situation about, the dreadful situation with sewage pollution in our waterways. and obviously, he's having a bit of fun on the campaign trail, and that's great. but this issue is really, really serious. we've got a credible and sensible plan to tackle the abuses of the water companies while they've taken huge dividends and racked up huge dividends and racked up huge amounts of debt while allowing raw sewage to be pumped into our rivers and beautiful

lakes like windermere. and so it's very important that that's at the heart of our manifesto . at the heart of our manifesto. and that's what he was highlighting yesterday while paddung highlighting yesterday while paddling paddleboarding. and i'm sure he had a bit of fun while he was out there as well. >> okay. see but i just don't know. i'm just not sure that's what people remember. you know, they just they forget the very important message that you've put out there. and they just see him clowning around and falling into the water. but however, i accept your point and it's a terrible situation. and what these utility companies have been allowed to get away with, and somebody's got to stand up to them at some stage. >> absolutely. and that's why our policy is around setting up these public benefit companies , these public benefit companies, which will ensure that profits made by the water industry are ploughed back into that essential infrastructure to be able to manage heavy rainfall and prevent these awful sewage outflows into our into our rivers and streams. >> okay. helen morgan, mp for nonh >> okay. helen morgan, mp for north yorkshire , shropshire even north yorkshire, shropshire even and launching that welsh campaign today. and launching that welsh campaign today . thank you very campaign today. thank you very much indeed. thank you for your time. >> appreciate it. we've got the sport coming up. we're going

right, latest sports news. now, let's get right up to date. including the tennis, the french open. paul coyte . here with us open. paul coyte. here with us this morning. >> clay, i'm not a clay court specialist. i'll be honest with you.soi specialist. i'll be honest with you. so i would have been very good for me either french open, well, i think as far as i'm concerned, i think you as well. i think it's closed. the french open now. it's now the french closed because we've got no british players left in there in the singles whatsoever. all out in the first round. all of them out in the first round. so it's been a graveyard , quite frankly, been a graveyard, quite frankly, there were two brits standing yesterday , and that was only yesterday, and that was only because they played yesterday. their first round was later on in the week. so dan evans let's have a look at dan evans dan evans got beaten against holger rune of denmark. so dan evans it does like an argument with the umpire. and he ended up doing a

bit of that as well yesterday. so dan evans goes out against holger bruno who's going to go somewhere. katie boulter , our somewhere. katie boulter, our last hope who got through to last hope who got through to last night , last hope who got through to last night, she was beaten by paula badosa of spain , and the paula badosa of spain, and the thing is, in typical british style , you know, she won the style, you know, she won the first set, lost the second four two up in the last set, ended up losing six four. >> so it's just teasing us. >> so it's just teasing us. >> aren't they talking about losing, vincent company. right. so yeah he gets burnley relegated . relegated. >> correct. >> correct. >> hi. then i just i just don't understand it how his reward is to become manager of the mighty bayern munich? >> i it's a real strange one, isn't it? there's a couple of decisions. so i'm looking at this vincent company. he was the captain of manchester city. he worked with pep guardiola , which worked with pep guardiola, which automatically makes any player or anybody's work with him or anybody seen him, a viable manager because he knows pep and therefore pep is the best. so anyway, he went to burnley. it was a anderlecht for a while and

went to went to burnley and took them up into the premier league. and i was saying the football they're playing is incredible, but in the premier league it was a disaster. yeah, but bayern munich are still interested and we'll look at him and think but again it was like we were talking about before young managers , everybody's looking managers, everybody's looking for young managers, the new future. and so is it. i mean it's a very strange one for bayern munich. it could be the fact that he was manager of burnley and the players, you know, with respect, weren't at the calibre of the premier league. maybe it's that they like the way he wants to play football . maybe that would suit football. maybe that would suit him because he'd be better with the players or by munich, i don't know. but it is a strange decision that the burnley relegated manager goes to one of the european giants. yeah, very bizarre, and you know, i think thomas tuchel will be in a lot of demand, you know who was there. but i think he'll be a lot of demand, particularly in the are they now going to look at him and think, well he's won. >> you know he's he's got it. >> you know he's he's got it. >> i think he has got it. >> i think he has got it. >> he's one of the older ones.

and also enzo maresca. yeah. who we were talking about yesterday who was the manager of leicester now. looks like he's going to chelsea i mean he's he's sitting there. he's on amte power. you've got the sporting directors of chelsea are flying out to talk him round. but he's never been a premier league manager. he he's another one worked under pep guardiola. and you know what. he looks a bit like pep guardiola as well which means which means therefore he'll agree. just like pep guardiola. sixth premier league manager for in five years for chelsea. so what's this story here? >> deshambo versus the rope bryson dechambeau. >> well this is a this is one that's going around social media at the moment. and it did happen about a year and a half ago. so i've seen this bryson dechambeau. but have a look at it anyway if you think that footballers when they collapse down have a look. hampstead golfers as well. bryson dechambeau walks into the rope. there he is. did you see that right. there's the rope and he's down, now give him a towel. give him a towel. someone hand him a towel. you, me, that . there we towel. you, me, that. there we are. so he snatches that off him and then he rolls around on the

floor for ages. and this is going everywhere. so he's crocked. >> he's crocked. >> he's crocked. >> yeah. he's walking. he's walked into a rope . walked into a rope. >> and where did it get him? in the shins. so he's not happy. >> oh no it's quite, it's quite high up. it's quite high up rope. it could be a bad injury. >> maybe it didn't get him in the shins. maybe it was slightly higher. >> maybe i think so. who knows. with me, i'd probably be able to walk under the rope. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> oh, by the way, he's okay, he's okay. he'll. he'll play again. >> that's what we need. >> that's what we need. >> coity. right. we're going to get the latest now from our political editor. he has been travelling down to cornwall. he's on the campaign trail with the prime minister in the south—west of the country. good morning to you, christopher, look, we want to hear about all things conservative, but i think we need to start really with with the breaking news this morning that diane abbott herself has confirmed that she is being blocked from standing for hackney north by the labour party. >> yes. morning. all morning, eamonn from penzance here. we've been on the overnight sleeper train with the prime minister. he was on board with us. he's just been giving out bacon

butties to journalists on arrival. he didn't eat one on camera. not not an ed miliband moment like in 2015. but yeah, he's here trying to push , trying he's here trying to push, trying to say it's a tory seat. derek thomas held it in 2019, but he's trying to show that the tories are pushing out into lib dem heartlands. as we enter the second full week of this election campaign. but that's right. labour news dominating today with diane abbott banned from standing as a labour candidate at the election. the deaduneis candidate at the election. the deadline is very shortly. of course she has got the whip back. she is an mp for a day because tomorrow parliament is dissolved and tomorrow all mps become candidates again . i think become candidates again. i think this could be storing up problems for keir starmer, going forward. certainly on the election trail today, i think wes streeting is on the broadcast round. he'll be pressed very hard about why on earth the party can't come to some form of elegant solution to diane abbott over those remarks that she made in a letter to the observer, about race and about jews and black people . now, she jews and black people. now, she was investigated. that investigation closed. she's done

some training , he's an mp who's some training, he's an mp who's been the first black mp for, i think, 80 years when she's elected in, in the late 80s and someone who has said, sorry for what she said, she has apologised for any offence caused, and it's interesting, i think the labour are not finding a way to deal with this problem. she is a totemic figure in the labour movement, there is a suggestion, a source being quoted from within labour that perhaps her coming out and saying she's been barred from standing is a ploy to try and bounce the labour leadership into some sort of deal. so i wonder if you know, this isn't the end of the matter . the end of the matter. >> yeah. i mean, if were keir starmer here, he would say this is a matter for the national executive committee, which of course runs membership runs, who can stand and not stand for the labour party. but there's no question. i think it looks to me like labour labour leadership has mishandled this. they could have found a way to sort this problem out. it will, i think,

store up problems on the left already. the left are quite quiet while labour are so far aheadin quiet while labour are so far ahead in the polls. but it worked. sir keir starmer to become prime minister. this may come back to haunt him just really quickly. >> before we say goodbye, i know you've been on the sleeper train, was rishi sunak sleeping on that train? because famously he's talked about how he really struggles without a full night's sleep, and we know he's got a penchant for helicopters, so i wondered if he hopped off at the first stop and whizzed down by some other mode. or is the poor chap out on the campaign trail with very little sleep, yourself included, and. >> listen, it's not that bad on the sleeper train i enjoyed it. >> isabelle's rocked a few hours of sleep, he was he he was about 4 or 5 doors down from me in the carriage. so he was definitely. we saw him board and we saw him get off. so i think he definitely came here by sleeper train. and when we on arrival, he gave out bacon. butties to all the journalists again today, just briefly. he's visiting apprentices on a construction site . the tory party is looking site. the tory party is looking at new measures to save hundreds

of millions of pounds to 900 million, £900 million by by axing what they call mickey mouse degrees, mickey mouse courses, which don't don't result in good jobs for many people. so they're here. it's today's a skills day for the tory party. good stuff. >> thank you chris, glad you enjoyed your breakfast. right. we're going to take a break there. claire muldoon scarlett mccgwire all the stories that are

well, if you go to scottish secondary school or your child. does you know someone who goes. for practically any child that goes to one of these schools, can self—identify their gender. so they can they can basically say, they are whatever they want to be. claire muldoon and scarlett mccgwire are here this morning. claire, your view on this story? this is in the telegraph. >> it is. and it's actually on

the back of the cash report. these numpties in scotland have read this, and yet they still allow 95% of the children to self id in 17 of the different genders. the lgbt youth charity that gets £1 million of taxpayer funding a year enables them to become whatever they want. furries, anything . and on the furries, anything. and on the and this is why this is so important and this is who thinks this is a good idea. who does the schools lgbt scotland, the department of education or i mean scotland traditionally is quite a conservative country. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so why anymore with the snp and greens involved. >> right. so the snp and the greens could have something to do with this. >> well they do have something to do with it because they're enabung to do with it because they're enabling it. eamonn right. they are underpinning this element of choice of children on the back of the scientific evidence report did so well in the cash report. they're taking no , no report. they're taking no, no junk rated at whatsoever. isn't swinney distancing himself a little bit in the campaign from

from all of this? >> is it just getting slow to sort of change within the schools , or is he still as schools, or is he still as wedded to these kind of self—id policies? i'm not entirely sure. yeah. >> i don't think he's entirely sure yet either. i think he blows with the wind, as we say in glasgow. and he will he will change direction, change the course, whatever way it suits him. but this is publicly funded, publicly funded money that's going into these, these charities. and they're giving absolutely no regard for the safeguarding of children. >> quite unscientific . then this >> quite unscientific. then this whole thing, i mean, it's literally what what where you feel that day. >> exactly. right. but it's what is i mean, it's not just in scottish schools, it's in it's in schools throughout the country . country. >> it's what kids are doing at the moment. and actually what the moment. and actually what the cast report said, quite rightly, is you mustn't be giving them drugs, but actually you need to listen to the children because sometimes, i mean, i think some of it is just being trendy and, and doing things for things sake. but

actually sometimes the children really are messy. and what the cast report says is we've got to we've got to listen to the children and they've got to get which has been adopted in england and wales, but not in scotland. >> the snp have continued with children being able to self id and not tell the parents. >> well, it's ridiculous . >> well, it's ridiculous. >> well, it's ridiculous. >> it's. >> it's. >> yeah i just i'm not saying that they shouldn't be able to self id , i just relate it to my self id, i just relate it to my own schooling and i never knew anybody who wanted to be anything else. rather than what what they were, were, and that's , that's a difficult thing that i just wonder how in 30 or 40 years things have changed so much . much. >> because there's the optic, there's the magnifying glass on it. and this if you're okay, then everyone's okay. it's such a selfish way to look at things. >> let's talk about james blunt, scarlett, so he had sued the news of the world. he got a settlement. he he won, this is,

well over ten years ago, but he's got some interesting emails as a result of all of this. >> he does. i mean, all the people who sued the news of the world over, over hacking do have very interesting emails, some of which are has has actually come, come out in prospect in another nick davies piece. this is about how the news of the world paid women to sleep with celebrities , women to sleep with celebrities, and they had a special studio flat where it happened, and then the women would ring up, would, would, would, would give reports to the news of the world and what the celebrities of these victims that he had to sleep with one of these beautiful women. well, he did say the women. well, he did say the women were very beautiful and he would have liked to, i think he was never quite approached enough, but i mean, you know , enough, but i mean, you know, actually, if you think about it, this is this is what was happening is the news of the world. they run these sting stories about this celebrity going, this married celebrity going, this married celebrity going to bed with somebody. and

actually, they they were making sure it happened. i mean, it's really scary. i mean, what the way the news of the world behaved so manipulative . behaved so manipulative. >> there's no wonder that a lot of celebrities go crazy because you get to a stage where you don't know who you can trust, who is a, you know, a wolf in sheep's clothing and who is truly your friend or your own counsel. >> i think that's the best. >> i think that's the best. >> can we not talk about wolves? to talk about rats, charlotte. charlotte, not charlotte. >> scarlet. >> scarlet. >> scarlet? yes. >> scarlet? yes. >> what we've got here. scarlet rats invading home. >> really awful story about. i mean, i just hope it's not really true about rats coming up through your toilet. >> of course it's true. it's always been true. >> well, i've never, ever. i've never met anybody that it's happened to. and so i have a horrible as cats. yes, a horrible as cats. yes, a horrible picture of a rat. sort of. i mean it for those of us women who sort of sit down every time. i mean , it might be

time. i mean, it might be slightly frightening if you're a man and you're looking down at it and it comes up. but i mean, the thought of my sort of rather vulnerable bottom, i think it's a everybody needs a cat. and how much is it the pest control people saying it's a problem. so they say there is a record number of rodents and we have 150 million in the country. well i think they say in london, in london that you're never more than a yard away from a rat or something. oh, just horrible is two for every person in the country. >> yucked maybe two. >> yucked maybe two. >> and some of those persons are rats as well. >> exactly. that's to be said, claire, here's an interesting thing about, a girl who had an addiction. now, she had a strange addiction. tell us, tell us what it was. >> this girl has an addiction to yorkshire puddings, and she . she yorkshire puddings, and she. she went to a therapist and the guy put her through some hypnotherapy to stop her eating for seven years. has finally eaten a proper meal. thanks to hypnosis . tallulah dent, who was

hypnosis. tallulah dent, who was 11, has munched six plane aunt bessie's for dinner every day since she was four. i'm sorry, but i'm sure the mum could have knocked that out of her before she had to go for hypnosis. i do give up. who feeds your child? six yorkshire puddings every single day. because the child said she doesn't. >> she wants it. >> she wants it. >> want? yeah, she wants it or she doesn't want to eat anything else. and do you know what the term is? i couldn't believe this, the her our therapist said he diagnosed her with wait for this avoidant restrictive food intake disorder mic drop. that's just ridiculous. >> at four years old. i mean, this is just i mean, i had a very, very fussy daughter where, i mean , a friend of mine said, i mean, a friend of mine said, can you give me the foods that misha does eat? because it's going to be a lot. it's going to be a lot shorter than the ones that she doesn't. but actually, i mean, you know, we worked on it. she's now completely normal. but even then, i mean, you know,

peas were in it and things like that for yorkshire. i mean, you just think feeding a four year old yorkshire pudding all the time for six years, there's something every meal. >> yeah, there probably is to be honest. that is clearly something up and often linked to autism. and i say this because, my best friend's son has that condition and he would only eat one specific type of fish pie, nothing else. when they were all peanut butter on a bagel. and whenever they went on holiday, she had to take a suitcase with 6 or 7 of this particular meal. and it was she was tearing her hair and she got another child. that's completely normal. it was avoidance, restrictive, and still to this day, and apparently he's now because he's old enough at 7 or 8 to be tested for autism. and it is a form of autism that you have the sort of food texture related, problems. >> well, that's even more worrying than the therapist didn't realise that this was unked didn't realise that this was linked to autism and treated her accordingly. yeah, so we then

moved from that to, a well, another food concoction, this has been reported in the star today. scarlett, tell us more . today. scarlett, tell us more. >> well, so a man who is obsessed with guinness likes mixing his guinness and one of the things he mixes for breakfast, right? he has baked beans and guinness, half and half . but beans and guinness, half and half. but sometimes he adds an 999 half. but sometimes he adds an egg and. and first of all, you think this is just disgusting. and then one realises that he's on tiktok and you just think, how much is this for? just for publicity. >> his yucky concoctions include eggs, red wine and monster energy drinks. >> well, he mixes the monster energy drinks with the guinness. >> what a waste of a guinness. i mean, he just. >> you know what? you can't genuinely say these things are wonderful. he says. it's not as bad as you think. and you think what? why do you want to drink something that you don't think is going to be very nice ?

is going to be very nice? >> you know, one of the things you're going to be talking about, before the end of the program, about a 9:15 or so this morning is these zombie knives. and, you know , these and, you know, these politicians, they're all talk about sunak and his £0.28 of a year better off, whatever that was he was talking about yesterday , the quadruple lock or yesterday, the quadruple lock or whatever. and but anyway, when whatever. and but anyway, when what he should have been talking about was zombie knives, why hasn't he banned them? >> why hasn't he? and why haven't we had any knife armistice days where you go in and you hand in your the weapon and you hand in your the weapon and why is it so easy for children to buy these weapons , children to buy these weapons, these weapons, murderous things. it's appalling ? it's appalling? >> why? why are they allowed to say. i mean, because most of them are bought online. not not in shops. right. and you just think, why can't we do something so that you're not allowed to? so you can't buy a zombie knife from amazon ? i mean, zombie from amazon? i mean, zombie knives should just be banned completely . there is never completely. there is never a reason a zombie knife.

>> oh well, it's all sorts of engraving on it and it looks ceremonial. >> really sharp on both sides, you know. >> and it's all to do with a lot of these martial arts. is it stupid tv, futuristic things, game of thrones type programs, you know , whatever. anyway. you know, whatever. anyway. completely unnecessary. join us at a quarter past nine to find out more about that at clare scarlett. thank you very much indeed. say hello. good morning to annie. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland . that's where the scotland. that's where the showers are going to be most persistent and quite slow moving later on today. they're wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing in from the north and east through the day . so most

through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day across the south and in the dner across the south and in the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going to be a warmer day. highs of around 2021 degrees across southern areas. now through this evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west it will turn a bit drier this evening, actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue , heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east where we're closer to that low pressure, the more unsettled weather where we're going to continue to see some outbreaks

of quite heavy rain. it's quite a brisk breeze as well. it's a northerly wind developing through tonight and into tomorrow morning, so temperatures will be held up because of the strength of the wind. so temperatures not dipping much below double digits across the uk. quite a breezy day to come on thursday. a lot of cloud around with showers continuing, particularly across eastern areas. we could see some more persistent rain spreading into the southeast later on in the afternoon. on thursday , but the afternoon. on thursday, but from the west it will start to turn drier as the afternoon goes on. so some late sunshine to come for many western areas, but with that northerly wind is going to be a much fresher day. see you later. bye bye . see you later. bye bye. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

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wednesday. the 29th of may. welcome. >> very good to see you, eamonn holmes. isabel webster here. this is breakfast @gbnews >> our top story. rip off university degrees to be slashed out as the prime minister promises 100,000 new apprenticeships in a bid to win back younger voters. >> dan abbott has broken her silence this morning. she reveals she's been banned from standing as a labour candidate, and focus has shifted away now from labour policy to internal troubles. wes streeting coming up very shortly . up very shortly. >> sir ed davey makes a splash at lake windermere, but are these kinds of election gaffes stupid, or the key to political success? >> sadiq khan hits out at the rise in zombie knives. we'll be joined by our reporter charlie peters, who's conducted an investigation into this, and he will tell you just how easy, unfortunately, it is to get your hands on a knife like this. why should that be so? why isn't something being done about it ?

something being done about it? >> good morning. there'll be further heavy, possibly thundery downpours today for some of us. you can find out all the details in your latest morning forecast a little later . on. a little later. on. >> well, we're starting with the election this morning, and the prime minister has promised to create 100,000 new apprenticeships as he vows to clamp down on the worst performing university degrees . performing university degrees. >> keir starmer today will promise that cutting nhs waiting lists will be the first step in any new labour government will be getting direct reaction to that very shortly. but that might not be getting most of the headunes might not be getting most of the headlines for labour today because there seems to be some turmoil within the party. >> diane abbott has said she's been banned from standing as a labour candidate in july's general election, and after making a splash yesterday, the liberal democrats are launching their welsh campaign today as they commit an extra £1 billion over the country to the

agriculture budget. well, let's speak to olivia utley, who joins us from south wales this morning . good to see you, olivia. the lib dems trying to reclaim some seats that they have previously held, but they don't have any in the country at the moment. could these proposals appealing specifically to farmers be the ones that clinch it for them ? ones that clinch it for them? >> well, that is very much what the lib dems are hoping . they the lib dems are hoping. they don't hold any seats in wales at the moment. they did until pretty recently. hold this seat where i am at the moment. a border town between england and wales . they won it in wales. they won it in a by—election in 2019, but lost it three months later to the conservatives in the 2019 general election. ed davey is now hoping to win back this welsh. welsh. welsh seat and a few others around the country, and to do so , he has promised £1 and to do so, he has promised £1 billion to the agriculture sector to go towards training new farmers . he is also new farmers. he is also promising lots for rural communities in wales. now this

is a tactic which he can sort of transpose over to wales from some of the liberal democrat campaigns in the south—west of england, in devon and cornwall, which used to be lib dem heartlands. before that coalition between david cameron and nick clegg. there is a lot of support for the rural community, particularly in making sure that rivers become less polluted and in ending the dentist drought. this is something which ed davey has been talking about in parliament a lot over the last 4 or 5 years. the liberal democrats are really hoping that on those two issues, those two issues, which particularly concern in rural communities, he can bring across the tactics that he's been using to great effect, actually, in by elections and local elections in the south—west of england. he can bring that over to wales. and along with that agriculture subsidy , that agriculture subsidy, that agriculture investment, he is hoping he can win some seats over here. the issue, of course, is that actually agriculture is devolved over to the welsh parliament. so actually proving to welsh people

that he will be able to do anything at all to help welsh farmers is going to be a pretty steep hill to climb. >> in reality, the lib dems know that they're pretty unlikely to ever achieve a majority. they'd like to be the third largest party again, which they were before the snp clinched the spot, but there is also the possibility that sir ed davey could play a key role in forming a government come july the 5th. he could be a kingmaker or indeed be part of some sort of coalition >> well, exactly. i've been speaking to liberal democrats on this tour over the last few days, and their dream scenario is that over the next few weeks, the polls narrow enough to the point where ed davey could be a potential kingmaker. with that in mind, the leader of the liberal democrats is being very, very careful not to criticise keir starmer. i asked ed davey yesterday if keir starmer would make a good prime minister. he obviously couldn't say yes, but

even when pressed on the issue three times, he didn't say no. there is a lot of criticism of the conservatives the liberal democrats tactic is to concentrate all of their efforts, all of their resources, their not inconsiderable resources on a number of target seats, mainly in conservative held areas and a few snp held areas . and their hope is that if areas. and their hope is that if they manage to do that and manage to pick up something like 40, maybe 50 seats in westminster , and then the polls westminster, and then the polls begin to narrow. keir starmer's poll lead diminishes. then they could be in a situation where the liberal democrats could perhaps go into coalition with the labour party, something which the lib dems haven't ruled out. but interestingly, the labour party hasn't ruled out enhen >> olivia, thank you very much indeed. have yourself a good day. thanks for your input into to our programme so far this morning. thank you very much indeed. now what have you at home been saying ? get in touch home been saying? get in touch with us. this is how you do it. and you just get in touch.

gbnews.com/yoursay say in these had to say in a good few subjects here. good morning. a&e says the uk taxpayer is under attack. fuel prices are artificially high as part of nudging us towards electric vehicles. they're paying farmers to produce less food , which is to produce less food, which is one of the big topics today, which will inflate prices further, or mortgages, shopping pnces further, or mortgages, shopping prices real fares and insurance have been hiked up to empty our bank accounts. and these are areas which i think a lot of you will be feeling pain on car insurance, particularly . just insurance, particularly. just horrendous. you can't even get some cars insured nowadays , lots some cars insured nowadays, lots of you getting in touch this morning on a whole range of the political spectrum. we are expecting any minute to be speaking to wes streeting, the shadow health secretary, and he's talking about tackling waiting times within the nhs. stevens got in touch . my wife stevens got in touch. my wife works for the nhs. they're already doing overtime in weekends to reduce the backlog. tell your politicians to catch

up and live in the real world. well, i'm told that wes streeting is standing by and presumably can hear that. so let's put that directly to him. good morning, mr streeting . it's good morning, mr streeting. it's not exactly the most radical suggestion, is it? trying to get these guys to work weekends and over time, a lot of them putting in the hard yards already to try and bring down waiting times, aren't they? >> i mean, what we're talking aboutis >> i mean, what we're talking about is an extra 40,000 housing reform that's been tried and tested at a small number of hospitals, like guy's and saint thomas's . the hospital i can see thomas's. the hospital i can see out of my office window in westminster taking that same approach and adopting it right across the nhs, putting £1.1 billion into the pockets of nhs staff to deliver those extra evening and weekend clinics. i accept what your viewers said, that there are already staff who are doing lots of work at evenings and weekends, and there may be some staff who say, do you know what? i can't take on any more shifts and the reassurance i want to provide to

them is that no one is going to be forced to do this. the approach we've seen in london and in leeds, in other parts of the country, has been one where staff have opted to do it, have volunteered to do it, albeit paid fairly. the overtime rate to do it, and that's had amazing results at guy's and st thomas's. they got this clinic up and running within six weeks. they are now doing on one day the same number of procedures they would normally do in the space of a week. so that investment linked to that reform will deliver better results alongside doubling the number of diagnostic scanners. not just more scanners, but i enabled scanners so we can get through the 1.6 million people who are waiting anxiously for those diagnostic tests and scans. and finally, we're going to use spare capacity in the independent sector. we can already see people who can afford it paying to go private and being seen faster. i'm not going to see working class people left behind. we'll use that spare capacity funded on nhs terms , so no one pays nhs terms, so no one pays a penny for it, and also making better use of things like high street opticians to reduce the

pressure on the 600,000 people waiting for eye care in the nhs, and freeing up the things that the nhs that only the nhs can do. so this is a serious plan that gives me the confidence to tell your viewers that within five years we can hit the 18 week waiting time standard that labour met when we were last in government. and i urge people do not give the matches back to the arsonists in the conservative party who led us to this point in the nhs. the worst crisis in history. labour delivered the shortest waiting times. the highest patient satisfaction even highest patient satisfaction ever. when we were last in government, we did it before. we will do it again, well, you know well said. very enthusiastic there. but where's talk is cheap and providing those services is not cheap and a lot of them will be provided by freelancer agency staff , and they're very staff, and they're very expensive. how are you going to pay expensive. how are you going to pay for all of this ? pay for all of this? >> well, it's a fully costed , >> well, it's a fully costed, fully funded package. the £1.6

billion package for nhs waiting times is funded by clamping down on tax avoidance, closing the non—dom loopholes that, surprise, surprise, the tories have left in their for their mates. leopards don't change their spots. bear that in mind on july the 4th, and that means we'll be able to fund this capacity in the nhs linked to reform. and that's what people can expect from the nhs, because , as i have heard from gb news viewers before, whether they work in the nhs or they're patients who use the nhs, we can all see examples of waste and inefficiency and at a time when people have been absolutely clobbered in terms of higher taxes, higher rents, higher bills, higher mortgages, we can't just say to the country, we're just going to tax people more to pay for the nhs. so we've got to make sure that that 160 odd billion pounds that goes on the nhs is money that is well spent because it's your money and we take it seriously . and we take it seriously. >> you're going to be very much front and centre, aren't you? if labour lead the election rachel reeves yesterday saying no budget until the autumn, so you

will be stepping in as delivering the first change, i suppose, with these proposals to try and cut down waiting times, i put it to you that you have a huge challenge on your hands, because ten years ago, 30% of government expenditure was on the nhs. today it is half of all government expenditure. and yet you have to deal with the unions , your friends, your your donors, the people who have been dragging the nhs through endless strikes and want more money spent on the nhs. so how do you square that with this pledge, this enormous pledge to bring down waiting times within five years, at the same time as deaung years, at the same time as dealing with unions who want more cash? >> well, i'll say a couple of things. firstly the british medical association is not and never has been affiliated to the labour party or donated to the labour party or donated to the labour party. in fact, you know, the labour party's got some scars on its back, going right back to nye bevan days when the bma initially opposed the creation of the nhs and he had to negotiate hard to get it off the ground with the bma. of course, their positions now changed. we've won the argument,

we've moved on, but on this central challenge of how much money we're spending on the nhs today, i absolutely accept the way you put it, and i think it's really important to acknowledge the fact that rishi sunak says, on one hand, we're spending huge amounts of money on the nhs , but amounts of money on the nhs, but on the other hand, we're seeing the worst crisis in its history. and that's what happens when you have a government that only does investment but doesn't do reform. and the fact that he's barely mentioning the nhs in this election tells you everything you need to know about the tories and the nhs . about the tories and the nhs. they have failed spectacularly. it's one of his own five pledges he made when he became tory prime minister. he's broken it and now he's running away from his record , hoping that by, you his record, hoping that by, you know, scattering some policies around on national service. we'll talk about that instead of the nhs and even when his tory mps go on holiday during the campaign, i think he thinks, well at least we're talking about that and not the nhs. i mean, this is a clown show and it's mean, this is a clown show and wsfime mean, this is a clown show and

it's time to bring this circus to an end. and only a labour government can do that. >> okay, speaking of circuses, what about the treatment of diane abbott? there's all the hoo ha about what exactly your leader knew about when this investigation was completed, whether or not he was telling the truth, saying that that was still going on. but this morning, lots of confusion. it seems as though she was given the whip. the whip was restored after this racism investigation, and the view, presumably from the national executive committee, was that she would quietly resign and not want to stand. but seems, from what she's been saying this morning on the airwaves, diane abbott very much wanting to stand and she's being barred by the labour party. is that the right treatment for a veteran labour? the first black female mp in the party? >> well, firstly, and on that final point, i absolutely acknowledge and respect her achievements in politics and being that trailblazer , i being that trailblazer, i absolutely do. and the second thing i would say is, and you mentioned the sort of reports this morning, i've only been picking this up as as i've been

going along in terms of the reports, i'm not involved in the process. i don't know what decision has been made and on what basis at this stage , i've what basis at this stage, i've been out talking about how we cut nhs waiting lists this morning. i do think that on the 4th of july, what is on offer is a party that has changed fundamentally from the one that was rejected in 2019, and all of those issues that led to labour being rejected. could we be trusted with the money? could we be trusted on law and order? could we be trusted on national security? keir starmer has not only changed the labour party , only changed the labour party, but led the labour party to a point where the labour party is unhedin point where the labour party is united in pursuit of good management of our public finances. tough approach to law and order and an unwavering commitment to nato, our armed forces and to defending ukraine against russian aggression. but against russian aggression. but a parcel, yes, a different labour party? >> yes. no >> yes. no >> should she come back? viewers choose change without change. labour party sounds like a no to me. the decision is not mine. it's it's. its decision is not mine. and i'm not going to

disagree with the decision that has been taken by people in the labour party who actually have responsibility for it. they will have looked into this, i haven't, so i'm not going to be a commentator. i'm going to leave it to the decision makers and stand by their decision, whereas we'll let you go. >> thank you very much indeed for your time today. wes streeting is the shadow health secretary and you heard he's appealing to you, saying, what do you think you'll judge labour eventually, let us know what you think. yes get in touch with us and tell us how you think they're doing. if they if you think they will win the election, if you think they will make a difference. >> gbnews.com/yoursay britain's newsroom coming up at 9:30. andrew pierce and bev turner here to tell us what is coming up. >> can i just say about that? he knows exactly. i know diana, but that story broke in the times last night. he's had hours to read into it. diane abbott was an mp, became an mp 37 years ago. i don't have a never agree with anything she's ever said or done, but she's an historic figure. first black woman mp. there's what sort of investigation was it? she wrote

a letter to the observer in which she open and shut, downplayed racism against jewish people. she said black people , people. she said black people, what do they need to investigate? it was a letter in and it sounded to me like, wes streeting thinks it's time for her to go back. >> yes. so, i mean, that's clear and i just be honest. yeah, just be honest instead of but time for her to go. >> why? because she's 70? because she represents the left of the party. >> and she's a former ally of corbyn, who was in the shadow cabinet with keir starmer. >> but then she was made to undergo this anti—semitism awareness course after what she wrote. i mean, the humiliation that she's had to do that in a way and then not be allowed to stand, it's just cruel. just they've just kicked her out . they've just kicked her out. >> even john mcternan, who's on the very blairite wing of the party, tony blair's former political secretary, said they've humiliated her. they have humiliated her and, you know, she has suffered more racism . well, more abuse than racism. well, more abuse than probably any other mp in parliament. >> francesca's comments not so long ago about how she made him hate all black women. yeah, awful. >> i mean, she's gone through a

terrible time and i think it's shameful. >> it's an awful way to treat her. we all say and defend, but she's not popular. >> so no . well you know, so she >> so no. well you know, so she had a 33,000 majority in 2019. >> so she was popular amongst her constituents . yeah. but yes her constituents. yeah. but yes you're right. with the public she's very divisive. there's no doubt about that. >> guy's got to leave it there. we'll see you at 9:30. thank you very much indeed. the great british giveaway competition ends on friday. have a go . ends on friday. have a go. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what would you spend that on? well, whilst you're thinking about it, listen to some of our previous winners getting that winning phone call from us. >> you're the winner of the great british giveaway. >> oh, nick. oh, dear. >> oh, nick. oh, dear. >> oh, nick. oh, dear. >> oh my god, are you joking? you know what? >> i've never won anything like this in my life. on my god, this is amazing. >> thank you . >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hurry! as lines close on friday for another chance to win £20,000 in tax free cash text

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next. sadiq khan has criticised the government's failure to ban zombie knives, labelling it a betrayal of safety . he's calling betrayal of safety. he's calling on james cleverly to fast track legislation and bring forward a ban on the sale of these weapons . gb news reporter charlie peters has purchased some of these and brought them into the

studio with us. this morning. how easy was it to buy one of these? >> it was extremely easy. they have been banned several times in recent years, but i was able to purchase these two blades. a twin set of 20 inch blades under the zombie knife definition, which is over eight inches a sharp point , which is over eight inches a sharp point, a which is over eight inches a sharp point , a cutting edge, which is over eight inches a sharp point, a cutting edge, a serrated side, and indeed gaps in the middle. the original ban, announced in 2016, said that a zombie knife had to have threatening language. as you can see, this blade has no threatening language or images on it, and so more recently . but on it, and so more recently. but it's just threatening itself. >> i mean, it's quite, quite frightening looking, isn't it? >> that's why the definition was updated. this year in january by the home secretary, james cleverly, who said that a zombie style knife needed to be banned, removing the definition of threatening language or emblems on it. now five different home secretaries have tried to ban these blades over 15 different times in recent years. sarah

newton, the home office minister in 2016, first brought out this proposed ban and then a year later, there was another announcement from home secretary amber rudd and they pushed forward again in three years later to try and clamp down on these weapons, noting that knife crime was soaring. that didn't work. and so we heard also later from priti patel when she was home secretary, she launched a surrender scheme. and this was very controversial because it was only brought in a few months later, which meant that for a while you were incentivised to hold on to these weapons and then knowing that you'd be able to hand them in and get paid for it. and now we've heard in january, this most recent effort to ban them , changing the to ban them, changing the definition from zombie knife to zombie style knife that has attracted criticism from the mayor of london, sadiq khan, bogged down in this detail. >> their offensive weapons. why can't you just simply say these are not for sale , they can't be are not for sale, they can't be for sale and you're going to be doneif for sale and you're going to be done if you're caught in possession of one?

>> well, it's clear the government has struggled so much to achieve that ban. the sale of knives is legal. of course we need them for our kitchens, for everyday life, for gardening and all the rest of it. but clamping down on these weapons in particular has added that particular has added that particular definitional concern, and in particular, the threat posed by them in gang crime and gang warfare, really in london and more recently in west yorkshire, that has attracted so much of concern. now a labour source told to me yesterday that they thought that the government had failed to crack down on the issue, urging the tories to take action on knives. they said that knife crime has soared by a staggering 80% since 2015. all right. well you're going to be reporting on this throughout the day. thank you very much indeed. that's a brief taster. we want people to get in touch with their views as to what they think of this. and what do they think of this. and what do they think the solution is. charlie thank you very much indeed. so disturbing, we'll say goodbye to you. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a brighter day today. there's still some very heavy and thundery showers around though, and a weather warning for thunderstorms across much of scotland. that's where the showers are going to be most persistent and quite slow moving later on today they wrapped around this area of low pressure, so they'll be pushing in from the north and east through the day. so most persistent across eastern areas. but in the west there's still a risk of some showers. so i think sunny spells and showers for many western areas. however it should be a bit of a dry day across the south and in the dner across the south and in the drier weather. with the dry weather, temperatures will climb a little higher, so it's going to be a warmer day. highs of around 2021 degrees across southern areas. now through this evening, the showers will really continue across scotland in particular where we have that warning in force. it's here where they turn, where they will be quite slow moving so we could

see quite a lot of rain falling in a short space of time, bringing some localised flooding issues. there's also some heavy showers to come through this evening across parts of northern ireland. further south and west it will turn a bit drier this evening, actually across devon and cornwall, much of the south coast. it should be a fairly fine end to the day and it will likely stay clear across many southern and central areas throughout the night. tonight across the east, though, some heavy showers will continue, particularly the north and east, where we're closer to that low pressure, the more unsettled weather where we're going to continue to see some outbreaks of quite heavy rain. it's quite a brisk breeze as well. it's a northerly wind developing through tonight and into tomorrow morning, so temperatures will be held up because of the strength of the wind. so temperatures not dipping much below double digits across the uk. quite a breezy day to come on thursday. a lot of cloud around with showers continuing, particularly across eastern areas. we could see some more persistent rain spreading into the southeast later on in the afternoon on thursday, but from the west it will start to turn drier as the afternoon goes on, so some late sunshine to come for many western areas, but

with that northerly wind is going to be a much fresher day. see you later. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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