days starting from out for five days starting from the 27th of june. speaking at a campaign event just this afternoon, rishi sunak said it was politically motivated and not in the interests of patients or staff . or staff. >> today's action by the junior doctors on the same day as the labour party are having a health day does slightly ponder the question as to whether this is politically motivated. it's hard to escape that conclusion, given the timing and to call a strike in an election campaign, especially as we found a constructive resolution with the remainder of the nhs workforce . remainder of the nhs workforce. >> meanwhile, according to labour nhs waiting lists and the targets would be met within five years of a labour government. that's according to a new pledge by sir keir starmer. the plan would see an additional 40,000 appointments in england each week, and they'll be taking place during evenings and at weekends, they say bringing wait

times within the 18 week target. the conservatives have called it copy and paste politics and pointed to the conservative plan to invest instead in nhs technology . but sir keir starmer technology. but sir keir starmer said it will help health workers get on with their job. >> not the only thing that we do for the nhs , but just the first for the nhs, but just the first thing, which is to have 40,000 extra appointments and operations every week. so that means using operating theatres in the evenings, on the weekends . so 40,000 will pay for that by getting rid of the non—dom status completely. that's the special tax status for the super rich. that means they don't pay their tax in this country. i think if you live here, you should be paying your tax here. so we'll get rid of that. we also want to get in the money that isn't being paid in tax by those that are avoiding it. >> sir keir starmer well, labour hasn't taken any decision. it says, to bar diane abbott from standing as an mp for the party. the mp reportedly told media she

had been blocked from running for the party. but sir keir starmer confirmed this afternoon those reports, he said, weren't true. she did have the whip removed last april following comments she made about jewish, irish and traveller people not suffering racism all their lives. but after an internal labour party investigation, the whip was restored just yesterday. miss abbott has apologised for her comments and has been sitting as an independent mp . in the meantime, independent mp. in the meantime, she was a close ally of the former leader of the labour party, jeremy corbyn, and served as his shadow home secretary. it's still unclear, though, whether she will contest her seat in north london, now in new york, jurors have begun deliberating in donald trump's so—called hush money trial. prosecutors alleged that a payment was made to the former aduh payment was made to the former adult film star stormy daniels, which could have contributed to trump's election victory. a conviction would not end his bid to return to the white house, but polls suggest it could cost

his support among independents and some republican voters. >> these charges are rigged. the whole thing is rigged. the whole country is a mess. between the borders and fake elections . and borders and fake elections. and you have a trial like this where the judge is so conflicted he can't breathe . he's got to do can't breathe. he's got to do his job. and it's tough for me that i his job. and it's tough for me thati can his job. and it's tough for me that i can tell you. >> trump speaking this afternoon. well, for the latest stories, you can always sign up for gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen right now or go to gb news. carmelites . go to gb news. carmelites. >> thanks, polly. well, let's get stuck into what happened on the general election campaign trail today. here was wes streeting pitch for labour to deal with the nhs earlier today in worcester , 40,000 more in worcester, 40,000 more appointments in our nhs every week through extra evening and

weekend clinics, £1.1 billion directly into the pockets of nhs staff so that we can get those waiting times down to get those waiting times down to get those waiting lists down and we will double the number of diagnostic scanners because it is outrageous that so many people, 1.6 million in our country, are waiting in anguish and anxiety for those diagnostic tests and scans . wes streeting channelling scans. wes streeting channelling his inner tony blair, there in wanting to get the waiting lists down, health secretary victoria atkins responded with this the very fact that the strikes have been called, they've also promised a full pay restoration of 35% that will cost in the region of £3 billion. >> so these announcements today show , first of all, they do. show, first of all, they do. they have no plan. they do not understand the scale of the issues facing the nhs, which we have been working out carefully over the recent months to drive down waiting lists in in england, as we have been ,

england, as we have been, whereas in wales, where the labour party runs the nhs, they've been going up. >> victoria atkins , they're >> victoria atkins, they're pointing out that as labour was setting out its pitch on the nhs , we heard from the british medical association that doctors will go on another five day strike in the middle of the election campaign . so tonight election campaign. so tonight i'm asking you, who do you trust with the nhs .7 do you think with the nhs.7 do you think labour would do a betterjob if you've got more confidence in the conservatives, perhaps you think reform would reform the nhs. email me at farage @gbnews .com or on x with the hashtag farage on gb news. as you know, let's catch up with the liberal democrats. ed davey had a very interesting day yesterday where he spent most of his time in lake windermere . gb news lake windermere. gb news political correspondent olivia utley has been with the yellows in the west country. olivia >> i have, i've been touring around with the lib dems on their yellowhammer one bus, as they're calling it yellowhammer, which they're promising will

smash up the blue wall of the tory south. we're in the west country now. this used to be home to swathes of lib dem seats, but they all fell in the 2015 general election. there are just a few yellow bricks in a sea of a blue wall. these days. bath where we are, where we've just moved from and somerton and frome, where i am now, are two of them. the lib dems are very much hoping that they can win back lots and lots of seats in the south west. they're only polling at about 9% at the moment. that's compared to 25% that nick clegg was polling back in 2010. and it's about level with the reform party . but ed with the reform party. but ed davey doesn't seem too worried about because the lib dems campaign tactic in this election is to concentrate all their efforts and their resources on about 30 or 40 seats, which they really think they can win. most of those seats are held by conservatives, although a few are held by the snp. what's noticeable , though, is that only noticeable, though, is that only one sheffield hallam, is held by

labour and ed davey is being very careful not to criticise keir starmer very much at all. i asked him about it yesterday. i asked him about it yesterday. i asked him about it yesterday. i asked him whether keir starmer would make a good prime minister and he didn't say no. he didn't say yes, but pressed three times he would not say no. ed davey is determined to put this all in. the tories court. every bull has been smashed over to the tories court. here's what davey had to say about the conservatives earlier today. >> i think the conservatives have really not thought this through properly . we need more through properly. we need more apprenticeships, but actually the conservative record is really poor. they've let young people down time and again and since 2015 they've cut the number of apprenticeships for young people by 170,000. so this is a mission of failure. >> a mission of failure. very stark words from ed davey there. this is all for the lib dems about unseating conservatives. and they're really hoping to get a few cabinet scalps soon.

tomorrow will be off to the south—east of the country, where they have their eye very firmly on jeremy hunt's seat. it'll be really interesting to see how they do, but they're looking pretty chipper, pretty hopeful, and they think they gain perhaps 30 seats. >> olivia, thank you very much for that. i smell the whiff of a lab lib pact in the aether . and lab lib pact in the aether. and it will be interesting to see, won't it, whether the chancellor, jeremy hunt, suffer as a portillo moment on the night of july the 4th. thank you, olivia. and before i bring nigel farage into the conversation, who's watching me present his show in the studio? just a little bit intimidating, i shall speak to roy lillie, who's a former nhs trust chairman, about labour's plans for the nhs. roy, lovely to see you this evening. thank you for your time . look, it's a pretty your time. look, it's a pretty blairite. it's a pretty blairite offering , isn't it, from wes offering, isn't it, from wes streeting. he's saying that he wants to cut the waiting list by more than blair did. it's no secret that they've spiralled completely out of control since covid. the labour party are saying that they could reach 10

million by 2029. i think they're basing it on the fact that they rose by 600,000 since mr sunak became prime minister, 17 months ago.the became prime minister, 17 months ago. the bigger question for our audience is, roy, how do you solve a problem like the nhs? we love it. we rely on it when we're in crisis, but at the same time, isn't there this notion that pouring ever greater sums into it doesn't make that much difference if it's not being managed correctly? and if money is being wasted? >> yes. i mean , that's a fair >> yes. i mean, that's a fair criticism of people. it's a very complex organisation. it's difficult to understand. i mean, if you look at labour's , waiting if you look at labour's, waiting list promise, for example, if they're going to get back to the 18 week waiting list , well, you 18 week waiting list, well, you can balance 18 weeks when there are 3.5 million people waiting, that's the pool of people that don't have to wait longer than 18 weeks. there's. and bear in mind , there's all the moment you mind, there's all the moment you take somebody off the waiting list, somebody comes on so you can balance 3.5 million at 18

weeks, and there's 7.5 million people waiting. so over five years, they've got to reduce the waiting list by about, five, 5 million, something like that. it's eminently doable . and the it's eminently doable. and the nhs would probably have done it anyway. regardless of, you know, whatever new policy streeting comes up with. but but to address your problem more directly , i mean, i've been in directly, i mean, i've been in and around the nhs for over 50 years now and i've seen just about every, you know, wheeze and comic book policy that they can come up with. and i think really my sort of up sum is that the system itself, i'm not talking about the funding of it. that's a different issue. but the actual system, how it works, primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, that kind of thing that really does work. the reason that the wheels have come off is that before covid, we went into covid with waiting lists at about 4 million, 4.5 million and 40,000 vacancies in nursing. the reason for that was

pnor nursing. the reason for that was prior to that, the nhs had had ten years of flatlined funding. it just can't cope with that. so we didn't recruit enough, train enough, innovate enough, buy enough, innovate enough, buy enough , you know, modernise enough, you know, modernise enough. so we went into covid with a big problem. covid kind of threw a cloak over it all and everybody just muddled through and the government threw money at it. now of course the chickens are coming home to roost. and if you look at international comparisons, per head of population, we have fewer nurses, fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer doctors, fewer scanners, fewer just about everything . we're in the bottom everything. we're in the bottom of the league table with a sustained period of investment. and it didn't. that's why the money's having to go in now, because they're chucking money at it to try and catch up . but at it to try and catch up. but with a sustained period of investment and to leave it alone , that the big issue is that everybody comes in and wants to reorganise everything, and the nhs is just gone through a reorganisation to scrape the last vestiges of andrew lansley off its boots and try and settle to down something more sensible. streeting is talking about

another reorganisation, which is the last thing we want so i mean, i think the up some of what i'm saying is the system works fine. it's been underfunded for a substantial number of years in terms of outcomes. they've been poor as well, simply because the nhs is chock a block and everybody's waiting. given a period of calm and no strikes. and i can't emphasise enough the extent to which strikes are very disruptive . it's not just on the disruptive. it's not just on the day of the strike, it's the run up where you have to get people out of hospital to clear the beds and then afterwards catching up. i mean, for one day strike. you've got three weeks grief for and after. so if we can, if we can get over the strikes and give the nhs time to get it, catch its breath. i think the wakes will come down and we'll see a very different health service. >> roy lilley, thank you very much indeed for sharing your wisdom and experience on the nhs this evening. yeah, it strikes me that five more days of strikes are the last thing the

nhs needs right now. but i'm sure the junior doctors will disagree. as promised , joining disagree. as promised, joining me in the studio now is the man himself, gb news presenter nigel farage. another busy day for you. i see you've had a haircut. ihave you. i see you've had a haircut. i have absolutely ready with a haircut . i have absolutely ready with a haircut. right. let's i have absolutely ready with a haircut . right. let's talk about haircut. right. let's talk about a few different stories which are, you know, both kind of disturbing and amusing in equal measure . first of all, michael measure. first of all, michael heseltine's had a go. let's just see exactly what he said in his , see exactly what he said in his, appearance at the hay festival today. this is what he said . today. this is what he said. racism is basically what underpins ukip and reform , i'm underpins ukip and reform, i'm just over 90. i have lived through some of the most tumultuous events of our time, and anyone who is looking for the common theme, it's racism. so reform of racists . nigel. so reform of racists. nigel. >> yep, i've heard that from heseltine time and time again. by heseltine time and time again. by the way, i thought he'd finally been put out to grass, but clearly not. he is, of course, a fanatical pro—european , fanatical globalist. he, if he's in my personal company, he

sort of physically has to. i mean, he literally can't speak to you or not, no. not really, not really. i mean, i have done some debates with him head to head, he's filled with bile, hatred, intolerance . he's hatred, intolerance. he's a proper he's a proper, full on, modern day liberal, you know, he can't accept that anybody else has a different view. so rather than saying, well, you know what, i've got a different point of view. he sinks to abuse. he's been doing it over and over with ukip, with me . ukip, with me. >> you wonder whether he does it so much that people still listen. >> he's an old bore. >> he's an old bore. >> okay, on that bombshell. let's move on to the next story. you're talking about how much you like a debate you're on question time. i know tomorrow night. do you know who you're on with? no, it's just been announced. >> wes streeting i know. >> wes streeting i know. >> okay, piers morgan. >> okay, piers morgan. >> good lord. >> good lord. >> happy about that. >> happy about that. >> well, i didn't know piers had any opinions. oh, no, it's really. well, what? do you know what he stands for? >> and then on the other, he has an opinion. >> yeah, he moves with the wind. >> yeah, he moves with the wind. >> quite surprising opinions. you never know. that's quite

good sparring. it should be you. streeting and morgan. >> well that program which used to be massive. you know when we were all younger. i'm older than you but robin day and then dimbleby of course for 25 years it was the real agenda setting programme of the week. it's diminished hugely over the years. this will be my 37th appearance on question time, but first one for five years, if piers is on, well, yes , it could piers is on, well, yes, it could be great fun. >> could be fireworks you were made to sign. i've been on question time myself, and i am a familiar with the paperwork you have to sign. >> i couldn't believe it. having done 36 question times in the past, albeit not for five years. >> not that you're counting. >> not that you're counting. >> so i had to put you no name, no problem with that email. okay, fine. phone number. all right. you better have that in case i get delayed in traffic. and then i had to look to clause 13. yes. was i happy for my data to be shared? and i never check. inever to be shared? and i never check. i never check the details. but oncei i never check the details. but once i did, i was horrified. oh all right, so you didn't have to clarify your gender or anything like that on the form. >> are you non—binary ? can i

>> are you non—binary? can i just flirt with us now? >> i put a bloody great big no with an exclamation mark. i wasn't going to fill it in right before i came on air. >> diversity, diversity and inclusion, of course. indeed. of course. no hassle. time would be proud not playing that game, earlier i was waiting to come on, and obviously i'm flicking through my emails and i get all of the telegraph kind of westminster copy coming through. and one of my colleagues, i think it was nick guttridge, had written a piece suggesting that you had suggested that you might be up for a deal with the conservatives can you just clarify that, because you said something about having a conversation with tories in return for something i was asked this morning on on one of the sun programs i was on. >> i was asked, well, why wouldn't you stand down for x? why don't you stand down for y? well, number one, i'm not the leader anyway. but over the years, you know, what did i do? in 2019? i formed the brexit party. we got rid of mrs. may. departure is a huge favour. i stood aside for boris johnson over the years when i led ukip, we stood aside for various eurosceptics rather than me being asked all the time what

i'm going to give the conservatives. what are they going to give me back? >> well, what would you have asked for? stand aside in 30 seats that we can win? >> well, that sort of thing. but but they will give us nothing. they would rather they'd rather the party was obliterated. and we've seen this before. they'd rather be obliterated than even talk to me. >> well, so there is no deal. rishi sunak has responded. oh, really ? to the idea of a deal. really? to the idea of a deal. let's see what he said. there is only going to be one of two people who is going to be prime minister on july the 5th. it's either keir starmer or me. so the choice for everyone in this election and the vote for anyone who isn't the conservative candidate, is a vote to put keir starmer into number 10. pressed about whether he was ruling out such a deal, mr sunak said yes, good. >> it was never going to be a deal anyway. this is pure media speculation on the back of me saying i give all the time, i get nothing back. what are they going to give? but here's the truth of it people will, in a couple of weeks time, sit down for breakfast on a sunday

morning with the family brunch, whatever they do, and they'll realise the election's over. labour have won. so actually the real debate, if you are centre, centre right, the real debate isn't about who's going to be the next prime minister. that is settled. it's over. it's about who who's going to be the voice of opposition in the next parliament. >> fair enough. we've just got some breaking news which you can react to as well. diane abbott has said by any means possible, i will continue to stand as the candidate for hackney north. so just to put this into context, after she wrote what appeared to be an anti—semitic letter to the observer newspaper some months ago, she was stripped of the labour whip. she has recently had the labour whip restored after apologising pretty quickly. to be fair, undergoing anti—semite ism awareness training and squaring things with labour. but subsequent to that, she then told the telegraph this morning that even though she'd had the whip restored, that she wasn't being allowed to stand for labour. keir starmer then appears on the campaign trail saying oh, i haven't heard anything about

this. and actually she's perfectly free to stand for laboun perfectly free to stand for labour. she hasn't been banned, but it's still ongoing, this investigation. so now she's saying that she wants to stand for hackney north. i don't know whether that means for labour or as an independent. your reaction? i mean, she's been around the block a bit. she was first elected to hackney north in 1987. i'm going to say it's a long time, 70 years old. yeah. let's not take this away from her. you know, she was the first black female mp in parliament. she's been a massive pioneer and an inspiration to people of colour coming into politics. i think the way that starmer has handled this has been poor. if you're going to give the whips up to back to somebody, you surely allow them to stand for your party. it wasn't the same with corbyn. they took the whip away. they didn't give it back. >> it's he's got himself into a terrible mess. i suspect she will stand for labour. that's that's the way it feels to me. right now. because having gone as far as to restore the whip, how can they possibly not let us stand as a candidate? i guess that would happen. but there is a ruthlessness now in the labour party. they are. i mean, he wanted to clear out the

corbynites and i get that because he wants to save the country. i've changed the labour party and to give him credit, to some extent he has. yeah to some extent he has. but i think in diane abbott's case, they'll make an exception. >> he's well also it's overshadowed all of the nhs stuff today. so it's been spectacular. >> yeah. and that's bad party management indeed. >> so. right. thank you very much. thank you. loving your hair i've enjoyed it. well done. well we do come back i mean it's your show after all. let's be honest, coming up next, we're going to be speaking about mickey mouse degrees and whether they're worth the paper they're written on. don't go anywhere.

welcome back to farage with me. camilla tominey. before the break, i asked you. who do you trust with the nhs? let's get your responses. steve says it all sounds good. the trouble is, will anyone want the nhs to do the overtime? yeah that's right. well, people and staff actually

want to do it without rebels and going on strike. good question, connor says honestly , it can't connor says honestly, it can't get much worse than it is under the tories. labour will probably improve the nhs substantially, but at what cost? again, good question. i can only foresee taxes going up right? question. i can only foresee taxes going up right ? let's get taxes going up right? let's get into mickey mouse courses and whether they're worth the paper they're written on. so this is an announcement from the government. i mean, they're dropping lots of things on the youth of today, aren't they? we've had national service. we've had national service. we've now got this idea that some university courses aren't delivering. you know, students are paying over nine grand a year for a university course, which might not give them a particularly good job at the end of it, might not give them decent earnings. and gillian keegan, the education secretary, is making the point. keegan, the education secretary, is making the point . why not is making the point. why not strip out some of these courses that aren't delivering and exchange them for apprenticeships? she's saying that we could have 100,000 more apprenticeships, which would be apprenticeships, which would be a good thing . rishi sunak a good thing. rishi sunak reacted to the idea earlier this afternoon . afternoon. >> today, a new announcement on apprenticeships stop young people going off to degrees that aren't going to support them or

pay aren't going to support them or pay their way, and instead use that money to create 100,000 more high quality apprenticeships or big ideas that will deliver a secure future . future. >> well, adam hawksby, the deputy director of onward , the deputy director of onward, the think tank, joins me now. adam, lovely to see you , i mean, lovely to see you, i mean, regardless of whether this is an attractive offering to people who might vote conservative if they're under 24, if there are such people in the country. adam i can half see the point from the perspective of i think these days students don't quite know what they're signing up for. i think ucas, the body which kind of controls university applications, isn't honest about the break—up. between face to face learning and online, there was a piece in the guardian last week, students saying, you know, attendance is low because we're not really incentivised to go to lectures anymore. so if these degrees aren't worth the paper they're written on, maybe they should be scrapped. >> and this is actually what's really interesting about the announcement today, because, as you say, two parts of it, one is the 100,000 more apprentices by the 100,000 more apprentices by the end of the next parliament.

the other is using the funding for that almost £1 billion from these low quality courses. and when you look at young people and the decisions they're making, when they're choosing what they want to do, post 16 or post 18, we did some research recently that found about 430,000 of them want to do an apprenticeship. they used the ucas system and they consider doing it, but two thirds of them can't find an opportunity near them. there's massive unmet demand and that's why some of the commentary today, people saying, well, it's all well and good for you to want other people's kids to do apprenticeships. they're not the gold standard. there's actually just wrong. lots of young people want to do these courses, but it's partly the employers aren't coming forward. it's partly that the places don't exist. and so new investment alongside reform of the apprenticeship levy is really welcome. >> also is there this sense a little bit like the divide between secondary moderns little bit like the divide between secondary modems and grammars of yesteryear, that people look down their noses ? a people look down their noses? a bit of apprenticeships. you mention this whole irony of rishi sunak , you know, the rishi sunak, you know, the winchester former winchester head boy who studied ppe at oxford, saying there are other routes to a good career than

university. well hang on, come on mate. yeah. >> so i think that's really changing. so, you know, when we've done work around the country, we've seen a lot of young people that say, well, hang on a minute, i can get a qualification while earning money while the rest of my mates might be trying to live on a maintenance loan or striking up a lot of debt. so i think the opinions about apprenticeships are shifting. and that's particularly because, you know, in the economy that's being developed, whether you're working in kind of coding or engineering, actually your bass, your rolls—royce, your other major companies, they want to bnng major companies, they want to bring people in on those apprenticeships, apprenticeship routes. the key thing is making sure the system works for those big companies. and the government haven't quite cracked that today. >> the centre for policy studies, i know has suggested that if you do a level three apprenticeship, then you could end up earning between 77 and 117,000 more than you do as a graduate at university. saddled with student debt and indeed, a student loan. can i just ask you a question? because i thought this was interesting. the telegraph did some analysis on the degrees that delivered when it came to earnings, and those that didn't. which subjects do you think yield the highest earnings, so presumably computer

science . engineering. science. engineering. >> i thought that it's actually medicine and dentistry. apparently over the course of five years across all universities in the uk, that average salary is 53,000 uh.huh, which do you think is the lowest earning degree for a specific university? which what course do you think you might not earn that much money when you graduate? >> so i think as a subject overall it's creative arts, funnily enough, for me it's media journalism and communications. >> so there's1 degrees from the >> so there's 1 degrees from the university of hull where they spoke to students. and over the course of five years, this is department for education. data suggested they only earnt 16 grand. yeah i can identify with that because i started on a local paper, the hemel hempstead gazette. i think my first salary was ten grand, although i had studied law at university. but this is interesting in regard to the mickey mouse nature of it. i don't think journalism degrees are mickey mouse, no, but there was a module in this course in disney studies. oh, okay. >> very good. >> very good. >> but but this idea that this

is what worries me slightly. adam, you're then having this kind of courses which are in the creative arts, lots of people working @gbnews in journalism, graphic designers, all of the people behind the scenes that create good programming, you know, they're creative geniuses and they might not have earned much out of university, but that doesn't denigrate the course that they've done to get there. >> absolutely. and that's why i think it's so important that the announcement today isn't about closing down a particular institution or a particular subject. it's about courses that aren't delivering value. and so some creative arts courses, media courses, journalism courses are incredibly prestigious. do deliver those earnings . and they're not the earnings. and they're not the sort of courses that can be looked at, but other courses. so the cps also did some research looking at the lowest progression rates . and actually progression rates. and actually it's in courses like business or economics that are fantastic when they're at a good university but don't deliver when they're at a bad one. so that's why it needs to be course specific, because it's about the quality of the education that young person is getting, not kind of discrimination or doubt about particular topics . about particular topics. >> okay. adam hawksby, thank you very much from onward for your

insight into that topic. the other thing is, i always think you know , students, they're very you know, students, they're very good at demanding value for money in other areas of their life, and then sometimes they're saddled with the course, which doesn't pay. but hey, coming up next, i'm going to be talking to charlie peters because he's got hold of yet more zombie knives online. it's

welcome back to farage with me. camilla tominey. now charlie peters, gb news reporter is in the paddington studio. and i think he's going to show us something, which horrifies me. not just as a journalist, but indeed as a mother. because he's been, going online and seeing what kind of knives he can buy without. i think charlie having to give any id. charlie, tell us that's right, camilla. >> because yesterday sadiq khan said that the government had failed to protect young people and communities in london by not clamping down on issues with

zombie knives. so i've recently checked about how easy it is to acquire these knives, and i bought two a twin set of 20 inch blades, a pointed edge , a blades, a pointed edge, a cutting edge, and a serrated side. as per the government's definition on zombie knives since 2016, six different home secretaries have made announcements on banning these zombie knives. now, there have been several times when they've made those announcements, and yet those bans clearly haven't worked. i was able to purchase these knives online without showing my id online and not also having to show my id in person. in fact, when they were delivered , i wasn't even at the delivered, i wasn't even at the location. now, while that criticism has been quite strong, it's expected that the government did want to ban these knives by september of this year as part of an amendment to the criminal criminal justice bill. however, that bill has not been prioritised in the government's wash up before the election, so

those amendments won't come in this new ban is about zombie style knives because the original proposed ban on, as i said, several different home secretaries made that call included a definition where a zombie knife had to have threatening violent words or emblems on the blades. now that has to be updated as of january this year. by now, the most recent home secretary, james cleverly, who removed the need for violent language or emblems. as our viewers would have seen, the knives that i purchased don't have any emblems or words on them. so that's that's a loophole that many people have been able to avoid, both manufacturers and people seeking to purchase them. well, i spoke to purchase them. well, i spoke to a police officer and several also former serving officers who told me that the problem isn't necessarily the supply of knives, but that the met is struggling with stop and search. and of course, this is a problem not just in london, but across the country . and the real the country. and the real problem is with a lack of confidence in policing officers who want to make a difference

but feel as though they don't have the political backing they need. but no, we do know that this ban is unlikely to come in now. in fact, there was a compensation scheme that's expected to come forward in august for these new zombie style knives, as in the ones that i've got sat beside me now. so that means, in a way, i'm incentivised to hold on to these knives until august , where i can knives until august, where i can get paid to hand them back in. well, in reaction to these findings, i did have a statement from a conservative party spokesperson who told me that they would take no lectures from sadiq khan on crime. they went on to say that knife crime has risen by a shocking 20% last yearin risen by a shocking 20% last year in labour run london, and that khan was the only police and crime commissioner to , to and crime commissioner to, to miss a police recruitment targets, adding that he failed to recruit 1000 extra officers even with the money from the conservative government

available for recruitment, they went on to say that we ban zombie knives. in 2016 and cyclone knives in 2019, and the sale of illegal knives online is a priority in the online safety act. the choice is clear in this election. stick to the plan with rishi sunak and the conservatives, or go back to square one with sir keir's laboun square one with sir keir's labour, who have no plan to tackle crime well. a labour source told me that the party had been urging tories to take action on knives for years. they went on to say that on their watch, knife crime has actually soared by a staggering 80% since 2015. this is just another example of the tories chaotic failure to keep our country safe. and they said that labour would bring in new youth mentors and swift sanctions for those carrying knives. a lot of political conversation, but the fact of the matter remains i've been able to purchase these knives. i'm not going to face any sanctions for doing so. >> charlie, thank you very much indeed. >> charlie, thank you very much indeed . i mean, absolutely indeed. i mean, absolutely horrifying stuff. these knives

surely are only really used for hunting, and therefore you'd think to yourself, if you need a license to own a shotgun, you need to own a licence to have a knife like that. but anyway, madness. total madness . let's madness. total madness. let's catch up with the diane abbott situation with adam cherry, who spent the day in hackney, tv news reporter extraordinaire gb news reporter at large. let's call you that. thank you. good promotion. fantastic. give us the latest. because i was confused . obviously, we've got confused. obviously, we've got the breaking news of her statement. does it mean that she intends to stand in hackney nonh intends to stand in hackney north as a labour candidate or as an independent? >> well, it's not entirely clear yet. so the statement for those who missed it was i will be the candidate by whatever means possible. i will not let myself be intimidated by. of course, starmer's labour party. we can assume there because those are the ones who are clearly blocking this in the first place. yeah, i am going to be your mp. now, that would suggest to me that whether or not, the labour party and keir starmer specifically let her stand with

a red rosette or not, she's going to be there on july the 4th. now, funnily enough, as you say, i was there in hackney today. yes. and i mean, this is just a hot mess for labour. how are they, as nigel said, how they've allowed this to to, go on for over over a year now is just something else. and if they don't let her stand as a labour mp, i think she might be in with just like 33 33,000 vote majority in 2019. she's been there since 1987. and as we'll show when i was in hackney, it was very clear that she still personally popular, more so than the party itself. so actually just take a look at this and this will give you a flavour of how she's received in hackney. >> everybody should have a second chance. but if we're going to let somebody in that's going to let somebody in that's going to let somebody in that's going to mess it up, then it's not going to be a good. >> do you think diane abbott has been mistreated by the labour party? >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> so would you vote for her again even if she stood against labour? >> yes, i would do that. yes >> yes, i would do that. yes >> my thought. i think she's been mistreated. i think it's again like he said, it's about

racism. simple as that. that's the only thing i can think of. so would you say the labour party has been racist towards her, towards her? >> yes, i think she's she was mistreated. i think it's a mixture of opinion. >> i think that if you say something that is that's deemed a bit offensive, i think yeah, it's going to you're going to get a bit of scrutiny. if she says something towards, let's say, the muslim community, that would definitely 100% also get suspended. i think she was quite good for hackney. she cleaned up hackney quite well. yeah. >> very well in fact. and i don't think there was no excuse to . to. >> yeah. mistreated. yeah. i think that that was for so many years. yeah. my spirit like very much i like her very much. >> they're very popular , very >> they're very popular, very popular. and that's just a selection. i spoke to a lot more people and that was the consensus. so i think whatever decision she makes, you know, she is in with a real shot there regardless of what labour do. >> also, interestingly , this is >> also, interestingly, this is happening at the time that jeremy corbyn is launching his

campaign as an independent. >> of course, of course. and it it's not the only time this is happening in the last 24 hours. right. so we've got lloyd russell—moyle, who was the labour mp for brighton kemptown. he has said in the last hour, vexatious and politically motivated complaints about my behaviour eight years ago are now being used to block him from standing as a candidate for labour at the next election. he says it's a false allegation i dispute totally and i believe it was designed to disrupt the election. he's going to cooperate. but now clearly this is going to take up a lot of his time up to july the 4th. >> so this kind of accusations of moderate labour stitch ups the this yes, i suspect this is a morgan mcsweeney plan. >> is the is the head honcho in starmer's team. and it's the rise of the stormtroopers. right. they want to gut the party of the old foes of the old left. and this is the changed labour party in its in its true colours. i mean, those individuals aren't here to defend themselves. >> however, i can see the kind of cut of his jib because he's

desperately wanting to distance himself from the corbyn years. and it seems as if diane abbott and maybe lloyd, who's appeared on gb news a lot, let's be honest, on the left, might be convenient scapegoats. who knows? it's a story that will run and run during the campaign. adam, thank you very much indeed. wowzers. well, coming up next, we're going to talk about majorca and why protesters there have launched a war on. hang on a minute. tourism doesn't make any sense. stay tuned . any sense. stay tuned. >> earlier on breakfast, 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. >> just why would he do a stupid stunt like that when he was always going to end up in the water? >> they were only going to go onto a course that's got good quality earnings potential is only part of that. >> i mean, this is a clown show andifs >> i 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 by easy. was it to buy one of these? >> i mean, 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 from six. >> it's

>> welcome back to farage with me. camilla tominey. now if you're thinking of booking a summer holiday, if you haven't already, you may want to avoid mallorca. because. would you believe protesters are threatening to bring the airport to a standstill over tourism? about 10,000 protesters took to the streets of palmer, mallorca's capital, at the weekend to seek kerbs on tourism. they complain about airbnb style rentals undermining the right to affordable housing, scarce water being used to fill swimming pools and roads being congested with holiday makers cars. well, to discuss this, let's speak to two different protesters. amaya espindola is a member of the mallorca protest group bank de tom moore and resident, and is a resident

there. and julia is an bennazar is a spokesperson for the menace tourism mavda . i hope tourism mavda. i hope i pronounced that well enough ladies testing me on my spanish here. look, first of all, amaya, i mean , from a british point of i mean, from a british point of view, this strikes me as slightly self—defeating because one imagines that mallorca and indeed palma in the surrounding area absolutely exists on holidaymakers . holidaymakers. >> yes. well, it's just to be clear, this is not about, it's not against to be against tourism . it's about, tourism. it's about, massification , it's about. massification, it's about. because now nowadays we have even tourists complaining about the, the quality of their, their own enjoyment, their own pleasure of their holidays and vacations. so it's, what we are looking for is to get, a regulation in which everybody can enjoy we you can have actually as a, as a british, you can have fun in mallorca, like everybody deserves . but for

everybody deserves. but for that, we as residents need to be also, taking care of, we, we have the right to have, you know, a proper , proper housing know, a proper, proper housing and to develop our lives here. so this is what we are complaining about is not just, being against tourism . being against tourism. >> okay, julia, i can see you nodding there. and i take the point that amaya is making. although some of the protesters had signs up which read, go home. foreigners, tourists out. so there's a suggestion from the campaigners that it's environmentalism and the fact that you need housing. is there a little bit of brit hating going on there too? julia? >> well, yes, indeed. and just to go with what my colleague before said, we need to put some context, some historical context into this, because yes, we were told that we lived because of tourism back in the 60s. it was very necessary and it was very positive to the society. but at this moment we have been increasing, increasing the

number of tourists and we received last year, 18 million tourists while we are a population of 1 million people. so then the numbers are very bad.so so then the numbers are very bad. so yes, indeed. and as you said, it's a thing of being rich and being not, millionaire, for example. so one thing that we are saying is limiting tourism, but for example, it's not putting the tourist more expensive. so we don't want to receive, again, more rich tourists . so because we want to tourists. so because we want to the tourist industry to stay democratic. so it's about putting a limit, putting a cap for all of the tourism industry. okay >> but isn't that going to be very damaging to incomes and the local economy? amaya, as julia said there, you've had an increase in tourism. you're almost a victim of your own success. everyone wants to go to mallorca because it's beautiful and the people there are very hospitable. i note that tourism makes up 45% of your island's gdp . you've got 2.5 million gdp. you've got 2.5 million people employed by tourism . it's

people employed by tourism. it's 20% of the jobs on the island are all in hospitality . so are are all in hospitality. so are you not shooting yourselves in the foot? >> no . the thing is, i do >> no. the thing is, i do understand that this, this idea that it understand that this, this idea thatitis understand that this, this idea that it is true we live from tourism, but this is this is getting out of hand, and, it is not for, for example, people are not for, for example, people are not coming here anymore to work. there is a lack of people actually able to work because they cannot with with their salary. they cannot afford a place to live. we used to have people coming from different places in spain to come to mallorca for the season, because it was profitable for them as well . and this balance, it's, well. and this balance, it's, it's, you know, the scale went really different now. and, this is this is kind of the thing we are trying to regulate, though we are as the bank terms, we are not experts of the on the matter. we are just suffering and seeing how people are leaving the island because they cannot afford to live in. >> okay, julia, finally and

briefly, what's your message to british holidaymakers who might be scanning the websites as we speak, thinking about coming to majorca this summer. >> so this is not a war against tourists. i think it's a very important point to put, but also try to be responsible to when you come to visit the island, understand that there is a culture behind this holiday destination and try to be responsible. like rape cases are increased crazy 75% in the last years. the rental per capita has decreased 100 positions in the last ten years. so yes, be at least be empathetic with the situation that we are living. we understand that we have a very complex situation that we need to deal with our governments, but still try to be responsible , but still try to be responsible, try to behave as much as reasonably possible . reasonably possible. >> try not to drink. try not to dnnk >> try not to drink. try not to drink too much as well. julia is probably another message to brits abroad, but that was the point. yes, i love how you're being very subtle about it. that's fair enough ladies. thank

you very much indeed for joining me this evening. good luck with your campaign. >> thank you very much. you >> thank you very much. you >> well, coming up next is state of the nation with tom harwood . of the nation with tom harwood. we're like utility players here, tom, aren't we? we're covering all the shows while the politicians go off. >> i'm sure your last guests will be delighted that my houday will be delighted that my holiday to ibiza was cancelled. thanks to this general election. but here we go. the world's smallest violin. >> here. because with all of your extra shifts, you'll be affording to go to the maldives next year. oh. >> fingers crossed, fingers crossed. >> quickly run me through. what have you got? >> my goodness. big show today, jake berry, the former tory party chairman. he'll be on. we'll run through some of those promises from the conservative party. do they stack up? we're also going to be talking to a political presentation coach , political presentation coach, the kind of person that trains cabinet ministers and party leaders how to look like normal people. this, of course , in the people. this, of course, in the run up to these debates, how on earth do they do it? we've got an expert who's trained several senior cabinet ministers on how to appear human. and of course, this scandal running through the labour party . both diane abbott

labour party. both diane abbott and lloyd russell—moyle have their candidacies in question. could they both run as independents and what does it say about the organisation within the labour party ? big within the labour party? big questions to answer. >> very much. looking forward to this. sounds excellent, but you can see me tomorrow night again at 7:00. doing a nigel farage impression. but before we go to tom and state of the nation , i tom and state of the nation, i think it might be the weather with annie shuttleworth. there you have it . you have it. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be another showery day tomorrow. the showers will be much more focused across eastern areas and it should stay a bit drier across the west. that's as high pressure is slowly building in from the west. but in the east low pressure is still in charge and that will continue to bring some pretty heavy outbreaks of rain to parts of southern scotland, northeastern england, through this evening. that's where there's a weather warning

in force until the early hours of thursday. heavy rain will push into parts of wales, possibly the south—west of england as well, by tomorrow morning, so risks of outbreaks of heavy rain by tomorrow morning. a fairly mild night, though temperatures only dipping down as low as 11 or 12 degrees for many towns and cities. so a mild start to the day. but it will be quite a cloudy day and there will be some heavy rain around across the north—east of scotland. actually, it will turn much drier than it has been today through tomorrow morning. some brightness across parts of the central belt as well . but the central belt as well. but elsewhere further south across northern ireland, northern england as well. cloudy, with a risk of some showery outbreaks of rain. it's particularly this band across central england into parts of wales where it could be quite a wet start to the day. there's also a risk of some heavy showers breaking out across the south coast. first thing some areas will stay dry and i think across the west it will get drier through the day as the rain becomes more focused across central and southeastern areas of england. low pressure

still not too far away from the east coast , and that will be east coast, and that will be dragging in more in the way of cloud. an onshore breeze as well. so that will bring a cooler feel tomorrow for many of us, but still in the sunshine, temperatures climbing up to the high teens, that's not too bad at all. it will still feel fairly pleasant. there'll be more in the way of sunshine to start the day on friday, particularly across western areas in the east. it's still going to be a fairly cloudy day with some outbreaks of rain that could turn heavy as we head into the afternoon, but signs of things improving for the weekend. much more in the way of sunshine to come and temperatures climbing towards the low 20s. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news.

>> good evening. i'm tom harwood , deputy political editor of gb news, bringing you the state of

the nations 2024 election coverage tonight . the prime coverage tonight. the prime minister has vowed to shut down so—called mickey mouse degrees in a new policy that will target courses that don't deliver good enough outcomes, while also promising funding for 100,000 extra apprenticeships each year. i'll be speaking to the former chairman of the conservative party, jake berry , and the party, jake berry, and the british medical association has announced a five day walkout of junior doctors coinciding with the same week as the election. is there a very faint whiff of ted heath's 1974 is there a very faint whiff of ted heath's1974 election gambit? when he asked who governs britain and got back the answer, not you. as the labour party ties itself in knots over whether diane abbott was banned from standing in the election, will be assessing a poll that has given the tories a little glint of positive news news they desperately need. plus, as the first election debate has been confirmed for next tuesday, we'll be speaking to a man who's trained some of the most successful politicians in our

time in public speaking and presentation. i'll be asking him for his predictions. state of the nation starts now . the nation starts now. and through it all, i'll be joined by a most theatrical panel associate. associate comment editor of the telegraph, mumtaz ahmed and the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop. that's all coming up after your very latest headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> tom, thank you and good evening to you. well, the top story tonight is that the labour veteran mp diane abbott, has vowed to be the mp for hackney nonh vowed to be the mp for hackney north and stoke newington for as long as is possible. she said tonight she told a rally of local supporters in london that she would always stand with them. earlier, sir keir starmer

said labour had not taken any