to intimidated as she promises to stand in the upcoming election after reportedly being banned by laboun >> the chancellor, jeremy hunt, accuses labour of plotting to raise vat as the opposition claimed tory economic policies risk interest rates rising. we'll be joined by the chancellor at 8:30. >> horror on the streets of london as three adults are in hospital. one child is in a critical condition following a drive by shooting . drive by shooting. >> former south carolina governor nikki haley sparks outrage as she writes finish them on an israeli bomb during her trip to the country . her trip to the country. >> and we'll be asking, should parents be allowed to take their children on holiday during term time .7 time? >> and in the sport, olympiacos became the first greek side ever to win a european trophy last night. now, should things go to plan hanging around forever for var decisions will be a thing of the past. well i believe that

when i see it and the crowds are causing players problems that the french open shouting in the middle of points and having chewing gum spat at them. how nice . nice. >> it will be a breezier day out there with sunny spells for some, but also some showers. i'll have all of the details coming up shortly. >> good morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . gb news. so what have you on. gb news. so what have you been doing this week? because i haven't seen you since last friday. i know it's been horrible, hasn't it? it's been very upsetting. >> very upsetting. >> very upsetting. >> but i wondered if you'd got up to anything particularly interesting because i've had a pretty sort of dull week. have you? domestic? i'm like domestic. >> every time i talk to you, you're. you're walking the dog or cleaning. >> i did think i was literally stood there in the kitchen folding underpants the other day and just thought, this is my

people think it's a glamorous existence . and here i am folding existence. and here i am folding piles and piles and piles of underpants. >> yeah, i spend my life doing the washing, to be fair, well, i did, say yes to the dress on monday. did you? i did, so that was a big, big moment. well, it wasn't actually a very big moment. i was expecting more of a big moment. oh, people say you're meant to cry. i didn't cry, did did you have your mother with you? i did, and she cried. and my sister cried. but i didn't cry. but then maybe it's weird to cry about yourself, so i don't know. but i hope it's the one. >> well, you hope it's the one. yeah, well, is there a one? have you bought it? yeah. >> well, my mum did. thanks very much, ma'am, so it's too late now, so it's going to be the one, but there you go. so that's exciting. that's the only, probably the only exciting thing i've got to tell you. >> oh, no, that's very exciting though. and so that's going to be in a cupboard for a year. >> my mum's going to store it. thank you mum. again cos i don't have the space do i. i've got the smallest flat in the

universe. >> what would you do without jean? >>i jean? >> i know joan. yeah. joe >> i know joan. yeah. joe >> it's every time. >> it's every time. >> will we ever learn. yeah. she's said don't you worry. i've. i'll store so that it takes a long time to make, though. i had no idea. eight months. >> you know what? so they're making a fresh one? yeah. >> they make it for you. >> they make it for you. >> oh, right. oh, i didn't know that. >> so it takes ages? yeah, ages and ages. oh, right. so anyway, she won't be storing it for too long. anyways, that's been my week, and then we're in for an election swing, aren't we? it really does feel like that. >> yes. yeah. parliament's been dissolved now. that happened at midnight. so we now have no mps. yeah. no. which is. and that's a relief . relief. >> and there's not long to go. i mean it really is very quick five weeks isn't it. won't be saying that though. it will fill every day of that. it's going to be very, very busy. >> it's going to get a bit nasty. i think, and indeed it's sort of kicking off with the labour party over diane abbott and the row over her political future has intensified. she says she will stand in the upcoming election by any means possible,

following reports that she's been banned by the party. >> yes, diane abbott made her first public remarks on the row when she spoke to her supporters outside hackney town hall last night . night. >> yeah, she directly addressed the labour leader, sir keir starmer , telling him she won't starmer, telling him she won't be intimidated. >> but it isn't just diane abbott's future as a labour mp thatis abbott's future as a labour mp that is under question , though that is under question, though lloyd russell—moyle said that he'd been suspended by the party and could not stand under the party's banner at the election. there's also been reports that pfizen there's also been reports that pfizer, shaheen has also not been endorsed , well, in the been endorsed, well, in the election campaign trail yesterday, the prime minister was in the southwest of the country after the conservatives announced their plan to crack down on what they call mickey mouse degrees. the prime minister went to a variety of businesses in devon and cornwall who championed apprenticeships over degrees. >> well, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, and shadow health secretary wes streeting were in the west midlands taking questions from student nurses and paramedics after the party

pledged to cut nhs waiting lists. wes streeting said that labour planned to create 40,000 extra appointments every week , extra appointments every week, something that would put £1 billion into the pockets of nhs staff . staff. >> meanwhile, leader of the liberal democrats, ed davey went to a tory constituency in south wales that his party has its eyes on before travelling to bath, which is at the moment at least a lib dem stronghold. >> well, the campaigning comes as parliament has now officially been dissolved ahead of the election on july the 4th. sir keir starmer is set to travel to wales today to campaign with embattled first minister vaughan gething , who faces a vote of no gething, who faces a vote of no confidence next week. let's take a look . a look. >> stop young people going off to degrees that aren't going to support them or pay their way, and instead use that money to create 100,000 more high quality apprenticeships. i think the conservative really not thought this through properly. >> we need more apprenticeships, but actually the conservative record is really poor. they've

let young people down time and again. >> no decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. >> 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. this has been going on a very long time. >> i think the government should have resolved it and negotiated a settlement , and what they've a settlement, and what they've effectively done is kicked it , effectively done is kicked it, the other side of the general election, that's unforgivable. >> people are really clear. they want the conservatives out. and in so many areas they know a liberal democrat vote can do that. they like what we're saying on the health service , on saying on the health service, on the economy, on the environment. they like our local candidates. so we're increasingly positive about our chances across the uk . about our chances across the uk. >> that's an awful lot to get through. isn't there, we're joined in the studio now by political commentator andy williams. good to see you this

morning, andy. shall we start with diane abbott? because this has thrown the labour party campaign into chaos, hasn't it? this row is intensifying. >> well, i don't know about that. i think actually the labour party campaign so far has been very disciplined. this was probably the first day where there'd been a, you know, a bit of a misstep and it doesn't look great in the scheme of things. i'm not sure this is something that people will remember too much, but what i would say is that after the disaster of the corbyn years, labour need a zero tolerance policy on candidates who say or do things that don't accord to labour party values and unrwa . fortunately, diane and unrwa. fortunately, diane abbott wrote an article which it was an unforced error on her part. she proactively wrote an article where she made comments that that were not acceptable and so yeah, but she's been allowed she's been she's been allowed she's been she's been allowed back into the party. >> yes. so why allow her back into the party if you ought to let her stand? >> well, there's a difference between being a member of the labour party and being a ppc and being a representative of, of the labour party. and i do think you have to be held to a higher

standard. i think what's kind of regrettable and bit disappointing is that this has been allowed to drag on, because this happened a year ago, right. so the labour, you know, the labour party could have sorted this out earlier, but keir starmer says no decision has been taken by the way. so i think this this story still has a bit of a way to go. but what i think is more interesting is the other candidates who the labour party have ditched , in the last party have ditched, in the last 24 hours, you know, other hard left candidates who i just think have no business representing a mainstream labour party. >> but you're okay. fair enough. but does that make this a purge ? but does that make this a purge? >> well, i wouldn't have said that. i think that actually , at that. i think that actually, at the end of the day, it's up to the end of the day, it's up to the labour national executive committee who represents the labour party. and if labour are going to be in government and potentially have a significant majority , it's important that majority, it's important that mps are on board with what labour are trying to achieve. so if you're going round as physician , for example, who's physician, for example, who's been banned from, standing in east london, if you're going around liking tweets about, you

know, the israel, war that don't accord with labour's policy, then you shouldn't be standing. >> what about lloyd russell—moyle? >> well, he's obviously been mp in brighton for quite some time. there are allegations , about his there are allegations, about his behaviour that i think probably won't go into, but there are clearly good reasons why these people aren't being allowed to stand, but it does show, doesn't it, that there is an issue . it, that there is an issue. there is still this gaza issue at the heart of the labour party . that's something they're going to have to tackle before the next general election. yeah >> and it's it obviously it's incredibly divisive. there's no there's no way that you're going to get the entire parliamentary labour party onto the same page about this. and i think it will figure in certain seats in the general election campaign. you know, george galloway is standing again in rochdale, against paul wall, the political journalist for labour, you have other seats , i think, other seats, i think, particularly around sort of birmingham and parts of london as well, where it's going to be as well, where it's going to be a big issue, what are we to make of the tories tactics at the

moment? we're going to be talking to the chancellor later on this morning, but i mean, it's all over the express. let me just grab this, of course, all over the express this morning, and they're calling it hunts win, because for labour he's he's gone on about vat rising under labour. >> so labour's just not true. >> so labour's just not true. >> no it won't but but it's being pitched as they've been forced into this admission . forced into this admission. >> it'sjust forced into this admission. >> it's just not true. i forced into this admission. >> it'sjust not true. i mean >> it's just not true. i mean the labour party in rachel reeves have said we're not going to raise income tax. we're not going to raise corporation tax. we won't be raising national insurance or vat. and they've said that all along. that's been really clear. i think they have a point on. >> but to be fair, they haven't been that clear about vat, which is why. well no, but they they have now clarified that i don't think they've been forced into anything. >> and i don't think rachel reevesis >> and i don't think rachel reeves is ditching policies that would potentially raise billions of pounds on a whim. in terms of the tactics. look, it's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks because the 20 points behind in the polls and they're pretty desperate. i

think some of the tactics, all of this stuff about six keir starmer being so sleepy and not getting out of bed early in the morning, it's just rubbish . i morning, it's just rubbish. i mean, it's just nonsense. and i think it it looks desperate. i think it it looks desperate. i think people can feel and smell that desperation from rishi sunak actually. and i think next week in the first debate, which i believe is taking place next tuesday night for itv, that will be a really interesting moment because sunak has to do something significant to turn the tide, and i can't see any other scenario apart from the debates where he has the opportunity to do that . opportunity to do that. >> do you think it's right that that first debate next week is just labour and the conservatives should be other parties as well? >> they're the only two people who can feasibly be prime minister ultimately, if you're, you know, if you're voting reform , that's a vote for reform, that's a vote for a labour government. if you're voting lib dem, that's a tactical vote for one or the other, depending on which constituency you live in. so i think it's important that we see the two people who could be the next prime minister and the other thing is that those

leaders debates that we've had in the past, where you've had 7 or 8 people on one stage, it just doesn't work. >> look, admittedly , i think it >> look, admittedly, i think it all gets lost a little bit when there's so many people involved. the problem the problem is with the prime ministerial debate in that sense, is that it becomes actually quite presidential, doesn't it? because you know what? you're voting for a person rather than a party's policies. yeah. or indeed an individual. ppc, a prospective parliamentary candidate in your area. so it it turns the tide a bit all a little bit. >> it does. obviously, our politics has become more presidential. i think rishi sunakis presidential. i think rishi sunak is very clearly running a he's running a very presidential campaign, which i find quite surprising given that he's not the best campaigner in the world. obviously the chancellor's out today. we haven't seen much of david cameron . i know he was out. was cameron. i know he was out. was it yesterday or the day before? but generally it's all eyes on rishi. and you know he is trying to make it about him. so he'll,

he'll live or die by that. >> we are almost out of time. but on that note , it is really but on that note, it is really interesting to me how rishi sunakis interesting to me how rishi sunak is kind of playing himself at the moment as the underdog. he's been talking about the labour party, saying they're taking the public for granted. they're just going to waltz into number 10 without a plan. he is positioning himself as as not being the man who's going to get into number 10 at the moment. >> he he is. >> he he is. >> and obviously that's what the polls say. i think what's also interesting is the roles of reverse in terms of what you'd expect. the tories are running around spending money like it's going out of fashion. national service here, defence spending there, spending commitments, spending commitments. labour are making none. >> okay. all right andy williams good to see. well apart from the express talking about these £385 express talking about these £38.5 billion black hole that keir starmer has got in his plans. >> pens on who you ask? i don't think that's reality. oh well they're both accusing each other of huge black holes as a way. >> their pledges. yeah. but thank you very much, andy. good to see you later on. thanks >> now, some breaking news this

morning and the child is in a critical condition. three adults injured after a shooting in london. >> yes. police arrived at the scene after gunshots were heard near a restaurant in hackney. >> an investigation has been launched. no arrests made as at this time, but obviously that investigation is well and truly underway. >> well, joining us now is former metropolitan police detective peter bleksley. good to see you this morning, peter. i mean, this sounds absolutely horrific. what do we understand happened ? happened? >> yes. well, early reports spoke about a motorcycle driving past, quite possibly a restaurant. and somebody on that motorcycle discharging a firearm, firing a number of shots. that is yet to be confirmed. so it is a bit speculative at the moment. but what we do know is that at around 9:20 pm. last night, three adults and a child who was in a serious condition were shot, taken to hospital . and the shot, taken to hospital. and the met police inquiry is undoubtedly in full swing right

now . how. >> now. >> and peter, how does an investigation start to take place after something like this? what will police be looking at to try and catch the people responsible ? responsible? >> well, the primary motive for the senior investigator officer is find out who did this and arrest them, because sadly, the criminal history books are littered with cases like this that end up with revenge, retribution , for tat. and it retribution, for tat. and it wouldn't surprise me , although wouldn't surprise me, although i sincerely hope this doesn't happen, that within a few hours or a day or two, we hear about yet another shooting. because these kind of cases are invariably linked to the illegal drugs industry, which of course is not regulated. it's a wild west out there. and what the police will not want is more shootings, more injuries , shootings, more injuries, possibly loss of life. so the inquiry will be featuring on who

did this, where are they ? how did this, where are they? how can we catch them? >> and are you surprised that this has happened, peter? i mean, a drive by shooting like this and something which seems to a degree a bit indiscriminate , it sounds like something out of the united states rather than london. >> well, actually, the drive by shooting, using motorcycles was kind of regret. shooting, using motorcycles was kind of regret . ably finessed in kind of regret. ably finessed in colombia back in the early 19805. colombia back in the early 1980s. and it was a very common way of criminals involved in the drugs industry of assassinating one another or politicians that wouldn't toe the line as they wanted it, and so on and so forth. it is fortunately rare , forth. it is fortunately rare, very rare in the uk, but this is why the police, the national crime agency and law enforcement across the country work

tirelessly to try and take firearms off the streets because villains, in a case like this and many others have no regard for public safety, they are utterly reckless. they are untrue . and when they take untrue. and when they take firearms out onto the streets , firearms out onto the streets, innocent people so often get caughtin innocent people so often get caught in the crossfire . caught in the crossfire. >> and peter, i wanted to ask you, how prepared are i mean, the officers who'll be investigating this , i mean, investigating this, i mean, obviously you're dealing with very dangerous people who are heavily armed. are the police force or the metropolitan police geared up for your ordinary coppers rather than your your specialists, armed officers. are they geared up for this? >> well, it will be detectives that are investigating this case. and i would suspect there'll be some pretty experienced wise heads working on trying to find out who exactly is responsible.

although, of course, as we know, the met has got a dreadful job at the moment in retaining its best officers. so detectives will put the case together. it will put the case together. it will be detectives gathering the cctv. it will be detectives working with the forensic scientists who were examining the crime scene and piecing together all of that evidence . together all of that evidence. we may later on today see a senior uniformed police officer that might do the press rounds. for example . i'm sure there will for example. i'm sure there will be a statement from the met at some point, but essentially, detectives doing the detective work and if they get to the point where there is a front door that needs to be smashed of its hinges, it will be specialist firearm officers who will then take that role on okay. >> peter bleksley, good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. >> now, the failed us presidential candidate nikki haley, has sparked outrage on a visit to israel by writing

finish them on the side of an israeli artillery shell. >> yes , the former governor of >> yes, the former governor of south carolina has been a fierce supporter of israel since their war with hamas broke out following the october the 7th attacks, miss haley said in a press conference on monday that israelis were doing the right thing. well, the actions and comments come after the israeli president said an airstrike which killed civilians in rafah was a tragic mistake. well, joining us now from washington is us political analyst eric ham. good to see you this morning , eric. tell us about morning, eric. tell us about this then, because it is , well, this then, because it is, well, causing huge amounts of criticism across the world. >> well, yeah it is. and one of the reasons for that is because we're continuing to see the ongoing large number of deaths continuing to play out, particularly in rafah. but what we have seen from former governor nikki haley is actually not unusual. in fact, in fact, dunng not unusual. in fact, in fact, during and going through her campaign and on the debate stage, she made clear that she

was extremely hawkish when it came to israel. and also how she felt about the middle east. and so this is not surprising at all from her. and in fact, this is actually par for the course for the republican party , given that the republican party, given that they believe that the united states should actually be doing more, not less, in terms of providing weaponry and other military aid to israel . military aid to israel. >> well, i mean, it's definitely hawkish. however, writing on artillery, which and we know much of this artillery has killed and injured civilians. you know, whether intentionally, accidentally or just as collateral damage, i mean, is it not that nuanced in the states? because certainly over here, people are just your average voter just wouldn't buy that ? voter just wouldn't buy that? >> no, you're absolutely right. and i think what we have seen from a number of particularly hawkish conservatives is there is no distinction from

palestinians and hamas. they tend to, i think, put them all in the same bucket . and i think in the same bucket. and i think that's what we have continued to see play out from a number of republicans and conservatives in the united states. and i think what we're seeing from nikki haley is actually a continuing of the doubling down on this sentiment. >> and she was doubling down, wasn't she? because it's not just about the shells signing activities that we can see on the screen now. but talking to reporters later, she was unapologetic, wasn't she? she continued to criticise joe biden's administration. >> well, yeah. and also to some of this is a little bit of political theatre. we know that for quite some time she had been at odds with the presumptive gop nominee, donald trump. and now we know donald trump and the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu , have a very close netanyahu, have a very close bond and connection. and so i think some of this is what we're seeing is nikki haley attempting

to try to get back into those good graces of the ex—president as he continues his run toward the white house again. >> really ? i mean, that that is >> really? i mean, that that is something which astounds me with us politics in that these people go for each other, in a in the most vicious of ways. and yet then whoever climbs out on top everyone else is, is running after them with a begging bowl. >> yeah. i mean, unfortunately , >> yeah. i mean, unfortunately, you know, in the united states, a lot of our politics is not only fuelled by money, but it's also fuelled by the theatre. and who can play the game well enough. and we know, and it was only a matter of time before nikki haley would eventually fall back in line . and that's fall back in line. and that's what we're seeing play out right now, even as we continue to see the growing isolation of netanyahu's government by the rest of the world, and even by many here in washington as well. eric walls, we've got you. >> did you want to ask you about the trump trial that you've been

covering for us, throughout the whole time? the jurors are now deliberating on it. how do you think the trial went and what will happen if trump is found guilty? >> well, the trial certainly went without the fireworks. many of us expected that we would see. it was pretty surprising that, of course, all of the jurors made it through this four week trial. and now we know that they're deliberating . and of they're deliberating. and of course, they've asked for some read backs on testimony from two prosecution key witnesses , david prosecution key witnesses, david pecker, as well as michael cohen. some suggest that that's perhaps a good sign for the prosecution. but we're now watching and waiting and now this is like a game of russian roulette, because we're talking about 34 criminal charges against donald trump . and there against donald trump. and there could be the possibility where the jurors could find guilty on some charges not guilty. and acquit on others. and i think if there is at least one guilty charge, i think that will be

very difficult for donald trump politically. we're already seeing the ex—president struggle with building a national campaign, with the infrastructure on the ground to compete nationally across the country, and i think if there is an actual guilty verdict in this case, i think that would be even more debilitating for not only donald trump before his party as they tried to take back control of washington . of washington. >> okay, eric, good to see you this morning. thanks very much indeed. this morning. thanks very much indeed . american politics. indeed. american politics. i just find extra ordinary. >> me too, because you do see these . we saw it last time these. we saw it last time around with trump. actually, i've forgotten his name . now, i've forgotten his name. now, this particular senator, it'll come to me later. who when trump was vying for the nomination , was vying for the nomination, called him all names under the sun. and then when he actually got the nomination and became president, it became best buddies and goes golfing with him and all sorts of things. there's just no shame . there's just no shame. >> i know people will say anything, but as eric hamm says,

it's about the theatre of politics, isn't it? well, it must be. surely because it's pretty personal. yeah, i can look and can look from the outside. pretty nasty. it can be. obviously they don't take it too much to heart. >> no, no, they can't, they can't. i do like i like how politics being a little bit more dull and a little bit more serious than it all just being about show. yeah. >> me too. >> me too. >> that's just me. british through and through, right? should we see what the weather's going to do for you today? is catherine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning

and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the thundery side as well. showers still persisting across parts of northern ireland and scotland. but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly moving their way southwards. further towards the west. some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well. mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north. so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards , breaking up and way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are

still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across parts of northeastern england into the southeast, with some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. but under the clear skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are, but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast . anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here, with some outbreaks of generally light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west, chilly in the east but further towards the west . that's where we'll see the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . boilers sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> now £20,000 has to be won in our latest great british giveaways. you don't want to miss out as lie—ins are going to close this friday. here's all

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>> welcome back to breakfast. the time is 631. now a person has died after falling into a passenger plane engine at an airport in amsterdam . airport in amsterdam. >> in dutch media reported the engine was running when the person was killed, meaning the plane was probably about to take off. >> well, this comes after a series of recent incidents involving extreme turbulence. ten people were injured on a flight from doha to dublin this week, and this came after a british man died on board a flight to singapore. >> let's talk to former airline pilot terry tozer, who joins us now. terry, good to see you this

morning. i mean, first and foremost, this this tragic situation with the someone being sucked into a into an engine. i can't imagine how on earth this could have happened . could have happened. >> well, any ground crew would normally be trained to keep well away from. i mean, there is a designated area , you'll notice designated area, you'll notice when you've seen aircraft being pushed back off a stand, the guy connected to the aircraft talking to the crew during the pushback. talking to the crew during the pushback . and he will be well pushback. and he will be well away, right at the front, nobody would go anywhere near the areas near the engines , because the near the engines, because the amount of volume of air that's being sucked through them is really significant . and, it is really significant. and, it is a well known hazard. and i am very surprised that anyone got, into the wrong place. >> just an absolutely horrific story . we look, we also we also story. we look, we also we also wanted to talk to you about

turbulence because we've had two horrible stories, haven't we, in the past two weeks? we had the death of a british man in that singapore airways flight from heathrow to singapore. it had to be diverted to bangkok . and then be diverted to bangkok. and then we had the incident this week where ten people were injured due to severe turbulence at dubun due to severe turbulence at dublin airport. >> yeah. i mean, the guy that died actually died from a heart attack. i don't think it was, as attack. i don't think it was, as a result of direct injury during the turbulence , although that the turbulence, although that may well have been a factor , may well have been a factor, it's a very, graphic illustration as to why you should always keep your seatbelt fastened. >> what is going on with turbulence, though? why are we heanng turbulence, though? why are we hearing so many more stories? it seems in the news about about severe turbulence . severe turbulence. >> well, i mean, that's what tends to happen , for one thing. tends to happen, for one thing. i mean, obviously, when there's an event, then everybody starts looking for more like it. but, there is a general feeling that,

turbulence, in certain circumstances has been on the increase. climate change, if you have a warmer atmosphere, you know, more energy in, more energy out. and, obviously that also tends to generate more convective weather, like thunderstorms. i think in the singapore case, they were in an area, where there were quite significant thunderstorms around, exactly how come they were unable to avoid that? we don't know yet, are we likely to see is this likely to prompt a change in some of the rules? you know, sort of less less of a dnnk know, sort of less less of a drink service, fewer meals, you know, not being able to wander around the cabin as freely as perhaps we have done in the past i >> -- >> very 5mm >> very hard to say. i mean, i would have thought more likely the airlines and the regular otas will stress the need to keep your seatbelt fastened , i

keep your seatbelt fastened, i doubt whether there were 40 or 50 people walking about on the singapore flight. i would imagine that many of those were seated , but they just didn't seated, but they just didn't have their belts done up, it's basic, safety precautions on that, you should always keep it fastened , even if, the seatbelt fastened, even if, the seatbelt signs are not on and most airlines will make an announcement similar to that pnor announcement similar to that prior to take off. but i'm afraid people don't always listen, okay, terry tozer, good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. you're welcome, it is one of those things i've said before. i tend to leave mine on. >> well, i'm going to leave mine on now because i don't usually worth it. >> no, because it's, if you suddenly drop. well, if the plane drops, you're going up. well. and, so just just keep it on. even if it's loose, it'd be all right. yeah anyway, it's just something to be aware of.

not to panic about, but to be aware of at the moment, right. let's catch up with all the sport. paul coyte is here. good morning to you. good morning. >> good morning. you know, i really hate with planes and the seat belts. my wife was a stewardess, and i was all everything. so and the thing is, it's when the plane is taxiing , it's when the plane is taxiing, once it's already landed, it's always the first person they have to go click. i've got to go get the bag. it's like, why? why don't you just stay in your seat, for crying out loud. i've had it. where? and the plane still hasn't actually got to where it's going. they've got to get up, got to get up. it drives me crazy, doesn't it? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. no i agree. and they're all pulling your bags because you're not going to move any faster. >> and then they stand like that. yeah. and it's like i can't move. it's just stay where you are, for crying out loud. i've got to be the first to get up. got to be the first to get up. >> yeah, well, there you go. sports. olympiacos. record breaking. >> how about that? olympiacos loss, managed to beat fiorentina yesterday. so fiorentina were in the final of the europa

conference league last year, where they lost to west ham. so this is the second year in a row that they've been in the final and the second year in a row that they've lost it. so olympiacos are the first greek team ever to win a european trophy. wow. so they will be i'll show you the scenes in an houn i'll show you the scenes in an hour. i mean, you can imagine what the streets of athens are. >> oh, we have there you are. >> oh, we have there you are. >> look at this. look at that. >> look at this. look at that. >> i look. >> i look. >> it's a wonderful scene. it's actually piraeus, which is just north of athens. you know, that's where the where the ships go into now. and that's where the olympic flame left from. >> i remember that, yes, i do know that i'm going to bring that up again. >> how could we forget? but of course, how could we forget? but anyway. and interestingly, it was, it was played at the home of aek athens. so whether they actually had an advantage which of their rivals. so that's where they played the game anyway. and it went on and on and it went to it went on and on and it went to it went on and on and it went to it went to extra time four minutes from the end. i el kaabi

scores the winner. but then again it was the old var thing. so with four minutes to go i don't know who's going to be more nervous. the fact that you may lose it or might win it. but anyway, it was it was deemed that the goal was good and then olympiakos were the champions. >> shall we talk about your favourite thing in the world which is var right. well your least favourite thing. >> well it's, it's actually this could work. oh this could work. we're on board. this is good. next season, there's a new system which is being introduced which involves i, i and force fields. >> oh eight now, you like a force field, don't you? >> this is a pricked up. i thought they had. >> this is sounding very star trek, so i'm liking it. >> identifies when attackers are in front of defenders. it's it cut. it could cut delays by 30s at least because this is the problem is when you're sitting around waiting, there's a goal scored and then everybody cheers. and then you have to wait is it isn't it. and it's just a nightmare. so what they are using steven, is limb tracking which. well this is what they did have limb tracking

which followed 36 points on the body which was used before. now now 10,000 surface mesh data points per player and 200 times per second it will look. >> are they going to have to wear something for that to work? >> yeah, they have to wear a full body suit. a full body suit. you can't actually move in it and you know, but it will at least tell whether they're off side. in fact, they'll be so slow they can't move. and actually get offside. but seriously, this is they've they've in, in all the stadiums. and i saw this at spurs a couple of weeks ago. they're having all these new cameras fitted. so there's like cameras all the way along the top of the stand. so hopefully, however this works when it comes to technology i have it's a lot of work for me. so but but the thing is though, it's a lot of work. but you're talking about hundreds and hundreds of millions. it goes around the world. everybody sees it. these things are going to be right and it's going to be quick, has to be quick. and that's the problem. so anyway, looks like finally, fingers

crossed it's going to be after the autumn. so once autumn comes they have the first international break. that's when they're going to implement it. and, hopefully it will cut all the problems out. but i believe it will see it. >> yeah. well you never know, now here we go. david goffin. >> david goffin. >> david goffin. >> oh, very good. got that right, did i? yeah. >> where's he from? >> where's he from? >> where? belgium. >> where? belgium. >> he is from belgium. >> he is from belgium. >> it is like poirot, not french. >> that's right. belgian joke. >> that's right. belgian joke. >> david goffin has a problem at the french open. now the french open obviously is going on at the moment, but probably the french fans are more vociferous than any other tennis fans in the world. wimbledon, obviously, we like to think we're all very , we like to think we're all very, you know, very correct and we clap in the right places. obviously a little partisan towards british players. now that's after the game. now have a look at david here. now i'll tell you what happened to him once you see him. now see he's got his hand to his ear. yeah now he had 3.5 hours of hell from the french fans because he was playing a medici pericard

who's from france . so they were who's from france. so they were not only partisan towards him, but they were really awful towards david goffin. so there was one point. it was just jeered all the way through the game. and not only that, but he had a piece of chewing gum. i laugh, this is awful. someone spat chewing gum at him. i don't you'd have to be a good shot, though, wouldn't you? but anyway, yeah, yeah, it was, it headed towards him and he was just like, this is ridiculous. so he said, when you're insulted for three and a half and a half hours, it just goes too far. he says it's total disrespect . it's says it's total disrespect. it's just like football. so. and it's getting that way. and also, novak djokovic was booed. this is because he dusted himself down, because he fell on the clay and okay, so they gave him a hard time for that really. that was my impression of a french fan getting very angry, by the way. and also and it happened with iga swiatek. now iga swiatek, one of the finest players has ever been. she played the former world number one, naomi osaka. now she was very careful after the game how

she complained about the fans because she said that the fans were shouting in the middle of a rally and it's putting them off. this is anyway, this is what iga swiatek had to say to the fans yesterday. >> i have huge respect for you guys and i know that we are playing basically for you because this is entertainment and we're also earning money because of you. but sometimes, you know, under a lot of pressure when you scream something during the rally or right before the return , it's right before the return, it's really, really hard to be focused. this is serious for us. we're, you know, fighting our whole lives to be better and better. and sometimes it's just hard to accept that because we're playing for the stakes are big and there's a lot of money here to win, so , you know, here to win, so, you know, losing a few points may change a lot. so please , guys, if you can lot. so please, guys, if you can support us between the rallies, but not during that will be really, really amazing . really, really amazing. >> isn't it great? i love the way they're all cheering, whereas they're the ones that

are doing it. so really she could have just said, will you just shut the. >> i like the way she said about supporting us rather than i thought she did it really well. >> she did it very well. >> she did it very well. >> i wouldn't have mentioned the vast amounts of money they're going to make it a couple of times then. >> yeah, yeah, i think i think what she was was just trying to say, look, you know, i know we get paid a lot of money and i appreciate that. but please just support us and stop making the noise and civilised sport. of course it is. yeah. yeah, of course it is. yeah. yeah, of course it is. but. but it's one thing about the french open and also the times of the games as well. they're saying that that was a later game. so that was about 930, 10:00 at night. and they're saying the later it goes, the more you get to have a dnnk goes, the more you get to have a drink and enjoy yourself. >> la p&o. >> la p&o. >> exactly. yeah. yeah. in fact , >> exactly. yeah. yeah. in fact, i think they were drinking that, it was oranges ripened in the tropical sun. that is cointreau. you remember him? you remember that guy? >> no. you don't remember the cointreau went? no no, it was the smooth french guy. >> what? this control? >> what? this control? >> no. >> no. >> yeah, but he was, orange is

hpened >> yeah, but he was, orange is ripened in the tropical sea. don't remember that. >> no, i don't remember that. >> no, i don't remember that. >> my, what was it that, leonard rossiter used to advertise the advert with? >> that was martini. >> that was martini. >> was it with, with joan, with joan collins in the back of the dnnk? joan collins in the back of the drink? yeah. >> there you go. so classic days of adverts. >> i'm going to send these all to you today, ellie, i'm going to you today, ellie, i'm going to send you all the video. that orange juice happened in the tropical zone. >> yeah, i feel transported . >> yeah, i feel transported. >> yeah, i feel transported. >> and, by the way, baby racing is what i have for you in the next hour. >> baby racing. baby racing. oh, yeah. >> inefficent. >> inefficent. >> inefficent. >> i waited anticipation . i'm >> i waited anticipation. i'm sure you do, paul. thank you very much indeed. see you later on, now, do stick with us. we're going to be going through the papers next on

breakfast. >> all right, let's see what's

in the papers this morning. we're joined today by podcaster lewis oakley and political commentator lin mei. good to see you both this morning. lewis, let's start with the telegraph. should we? and diane abbott kicking up a storm. yes. diane abbott has warned keir starmer last night that she will not be intimidated and has vowed to remain as an mp for her constituency . constituency. >> so this obviously, i think you covered it a little bit earlier in the show, but obviously this big storm kicking off as is she is she kicked out? can she stand, can she not stand? why didn't you sort this out sooner? i mean, the state of our politics really bothers me. you kind of thought this was sort of reserved forjust you kind of thought this was sort of reserved for just the tories of kicking people out and people being stood down. but the labour party clearly having some problems here as well. i mean, i guess this is sort of a bit of a bunder guess this is sort of a bit of a blinder for sunak in the way that they probably thought they had more time to silently shuffle her off and no one would notice. but now we're having this in the middle of an election campaign. >> she was she's only just been readmitted to the party. so why readmitted to the party. so why readmit her at this if you're

not going to let us? >> they wanted to give her the opportunity to, you know, we've we've brought you back in. you're a historic mp. and now you can bow out gracefully and say you're, you know, you're going to retire and take care of your allotment or whatever. if they ever met diane abbott. >> no, ijust they ever met diane abbott. >> no, i just think it's do you know what? i've been saying this and i've had so much backlash about this, but i've always said to people, you think the labour party, they love to, deliver this idea that the people for ethnic minorities and the people for gender, this and gender that, you can clearly see that they treat her differently to other people because other mps have said some controversy things and they've not been treated like diane abbott . treated like diane abbott. >> no. well, no. >> no. well, no. >> but come on, diane abbott is , >> but come on, diane abbott is, controversial in her own, in her own way. that's not necessarily got anything to do with her skin colour , has it? colour, has it? >> well, why have why have they treated her this way but not other people that have said controversial things? there are two mps that are white males that have said things that were, you know, just as controversial

and they restored the whip for one of them and they didn't suspend the other one, and they can still stand with her. i don't like to discuss race as the first reason as to why someone's treated someone, but why else would she be treated that way? >> but there are reports of this. this purge of the left. left side of the labour party. yeah, we're hearing that lloyd russell—moyle , who's a prominent russell—moyle, who's a prominent corbynite, he's been suspended from the party over claims about his conduct. and then we've also got faiza shaheen , who's known got faiza shaheen, who's known as the chingford corbynite, she isn't being backed by the party ehhen >> yeah, but i think this is the thing. you need a broad church, whether it's, you know, the conservatives needing more centre leading to the right. so they can represent people who have those sorts of opinions, and you need labour to have, again, a broad church, people that are centre moving to the left for them to just try and eradicate all of the left leaning. and also it goes , even leaning. and also it goes, even if you are conservative leaning, general speaking people like myself, we are for free speech

and i just think labour are doing what they always have. they're showing their self that they want to stifle free speech and no one can have opinions on anything. >> i think they can. it's about what your opinions are though. that's not just a free range on anything. but the thing is, they know that they are going. i mean, the polls say they're going to have a landslide. so this is a great time for keir starmer to get anyone out of the party that doesn't toe the line and doesn't do as he says he has that, you know, that flex now, he's not going to count on every. do you think they'll have a landslide labour? >> i don't think they will. >> i don't think they will. >> well, i think it's a very real possibility. >> i think it'll be close to them. the polls are leading us to believe, but i still think they'll walk it. with their hands tied behind their back. but here's the thing. what i will say, you know, we've got five weeks left of this election campaign. it does bother me that we're focusing on just one mp and wish she treated right. or wish she treated wrong. we are a country in an awful state. i we need to be focusing on the big

problems that are coming. and again, we're sort of talking about westminster. do the do the british people really care? it's going to be a diane abbott stands or not or do they care about their business? >> i think i think on with both parties. we're going to see all of these sort of stories that are inconsequential because they're headline grabbers. but like you said, it's detracting from the real issues that people care about. the cost of living. all right. >> well, on that then the times limo says, the prime minister is , well, almost promising lower interest rates, which is interesting because they're not interesting because they're not in his gift . in his gift. >> yeah, this is the thing for him to even suggest, you know, back me because, you know, interest rates are going to decrease whether he's there or not. they're still the bank of england are still going to lower interest rates. so this is a bit of a red herring personally, he's suggesting that nothing labour will do will lead to any form of success in that area. but like i said, if labour get in, is the bank of england going to now say, well, actually we've

decided in august we're not going to lower interest rates, it's the oddest thing to see, isn't it? >> it's not in his power. also, you have absolute no credibility. you have overseen the highest tax burden. you've seen the biggest rise in the cost of living. and yet suddenly you're the man with the plan. well, and there's no plan. it's just a statement. >> no, but but i mean, what the implication from this is what he's saying is that, you know, the markets are going to be unsettled , which there may be unsettled, which there may be with a change of government and a change of party in government. is it going to unsettle the markets? is it going to cause problems, which is going to require the bank of england to maintain or even increase interest rates? >> i don't think they want i think they'd be unsettled with an election anyway. and, as we can see, they've been massively unsettled under liz truss , his unsettled under liz truss, his colleague, and the reason why interest rates will be lowered is due to energy prices. so again, that's nothing to do with him. >> so it's again, it's just an old pledge to come outwith, give us something concrete. i mean, it's probably better that

you were in control, something that you're in control of anyway i >> -- >> louis, it is interesting, though, isn't it, how the pm is positioning himself as the underdog. i mean, he talks about laboun underdog. i mean, he talks about labour, the labour party taking the british people for granted and gliding into number 10. >> yeah, well, i think what can he say in this , in this incident he say in this, in this incident other than obviously he's seen the polls. it looks good for laboun the polls. it looks good for labour. and you know i do think we need to put pressure on laboun we need to put pressure on labour. so he's sort of right in that sense of we need we need scrutiny on labour because for too long their strategy has been let's say nothing. let's watch the tories fall over. but actually now we're in an election campaign. it's like, let's see the detail and let's actually think about what could go wrong. fair enough. but when we look at the last 14 years of your party, well, we know what could go wrong with you. >> but then i have to i do have to say this people always leave out the element of covid. no one would have expected that people leave out the war that has affected internationally. if you look at interest rates across the west, it's not just us. so i don't like this whole rhetoric of everything that we've

experienced in the last 5 to 7 years has been solely about the conservatives, but they haven't done as well as they could. >> well, sorry. >> well, sorry. >> yeah, they might not have caused the pandemic, but it was within their power to decide our response to it. and we know how they respond. do you think labour would have would have done better? no, they would have done better? no, they would have done harder, faster, longer. so both of them, i mean, you know, we're not presented with the best options here. let's be honest. very true. it is a little bit of who who do you hate the least. >> yeah. well that's that's no way to do it. is it, frankly, lewis, what's this in the star about? earthworms? because that's one of the. give us something slightly lighter to talk about. >> yeah. so, earthworms could wriggle their way out of existence completely unless drastic action is taken. experts have warned so their population has decreased by a third in the past 25 years. obviously, we need earthworms because they help with the ecosystem, they help with the ecosystem, they help things to grow. they you know, they feed birds, and i do think this is a story that british people, i genuinely think will will care about. you

know, we and we need to because it's our food source. >> well, it's one of those things where it's a bit like a bit like bees. you know, if you lose bees, we're all scuppered. if you lose earthworms, we're in a bit of a problem as well. >> i think the problem with this story, though, is there's not really a clear answer on what to do. no >> well, on that note, we've got to leave it. louis lie—in, thank you both very much indeed. >> let's get the weather now with catherine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the

thundery side as well. showers still persisting across parts of northern ireland and scotland. but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again , still heavy at of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly moving their way southwards. further towards the west. some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well. mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north. so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards , breaking up and way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across parts of north eastern england into the southeast, with

some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. but under the clear skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are. but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here with some outbreaks of generally light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west. chilly in the east, but further towards the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> good morning to you. it's 7:00 on thursday, the 30th of may. today, a labour civil war.

diane abbott warns sir keir starmer she won't be intimidated as she promises to stand in the upcoming election after reportedly being banned by laboun >> the chancellor, jeremy hunt, accuses labour of plotting to raise vat as the opposition claimed tory economic policies risk interest rates rising. we'll be joined by the chancellor at about 8:30. >> horror on the streets of london as three adults are in hospital. one child is in a critical condition after a drive by shooting . by shooting. >> former south carolina governor nikki haley sparks outrage as she writes. finish them on an israeli bomb during her trip to the country . her trip to the country. >> and should parents be allowed to take their children on houday to take their children on holiday during term time? we'll debate that later . debate that later. >> and in the sport, olympiacos became the first greek side ever to win a european trophy. last night, the chairman of saudi arabia's entertainment authority

, he's acting like he's done us a huge service by announcing the tyson fury. oleksandr usyk rematch will be in riyadh again in december, and crowds are causing players all sorts of problems at the french open. from shouting in the middle of points to having chewing gum spat at them. nice >> it will be a breezier day out there with sunny st giles' for some, but also some showers. i'll have all of the details coming up shortly . coming up shortly. >> good morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . on. gb news. >> lots to be getting in touch on. diane abbott this morning. mike bauer good morning to you. makes the point. this isn't just about diana. it's about starmer showing his lack of strong decision making. he appears weak and will flop flip flop when a crisis raises its head. >> i do sort of think you've got if now is the time to make a decision , whatever you're going

decision, whatever you're going to do. i'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, but make a decision. yeah. and then, and then we all know what's going on.then then we all know what's going on. then if diane abbott wants to kick up a fuss, if it goes against her, well, that's entirely her prerogative , isn't it? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think there's questions about for the labour party about that investigation because that letter was written last year, wasn't it. it was very short letter by diane abbott, which she later apologised for , why she later apologised for, why did that investigation take so long? why was she only brought back into the labour party this week? yes. >> don't know. >> don't know. >> lots of questions. we'll be talking to labour party a little bit later on, so we'll put that to them. >> but the row about her future, her political future, has intensified because she says she's going to stand in the upcoming general election by any means possible. now, that means, of course, that she could possibly stand as an independent. but all that following reports that she's been banned from standing by the labour party. well, she made her first public remarks on the row when she spoke to her supporters outside hackney town hall last night. yeah, she directly

addressed sir keir starmer, telling him she won't be intimidated. >> well, it isn't just diane abbott's future as labour mp thatis abbott's future as labour mp that is under question, though. lloyd russell—moyle said that he'd been suspended by the party and could not stand under the party's banner at the election. there's also reports that faiza shaheen has not been endorsed by the party. >> well, in the election campaign trail yesterday, the prime minister was in the southwest of the country. the conservatives announcing their plan to crack down on what they call mickey mouse degrees. the prime minister went to a variety of businesses in devon and cornwall who championed apprenticeships over degrees. >> the labour leader, sir keir starmer, and the shadow health secretary, wes streeting , were secretary, wes streeting, were in the west midlands taking questions from student nurses and paramedics after the party pledged to cut nhs waiting lists. wes streeting said that labour's plans to create 40,000 extra appointments every week was something that would put £1 billion into the pockets of nhs

staff. >> the leader of the lib dems, sir ed davey, went to a tory constituency in south wales that his party has its eyes on and then went to bath, which is a lib dem stronghold. >> well, the campaigning comes as parliament has now officially been dissolved ahead of the election on july the 4th. sir keir starmer is set to travel to wales today to campaign with the embattled first minister there. vaughan gething, who faces a vote of no confidence next week. let's take a look . let's take a look. >> stop young people going off to degrees that aren't going to support them or pay their way, and instead use that money to create 100,000 more high quality apprenticeships. i think the conservatives have really not thought this through properly. >> we need more apprenticeships, but actually the conservative record is really poor. they've let young people down time and again. >> no decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. >> today's action by the junior doctors on the same day as as the labour party are having a

health day, does slightly ponder the question as to whether this is politically motivated. >> this has been going on a very long time . i >> this has been going on a very longtime. i think the long time. i think the government should have resolved it and negotiated a settlement, and what they've effectively doneis and what they've effectively done is kicked it, the other side of the general election. that's unforgivable. >> people are really clear . they >> people are really clear. they want the conservatives out. and in so many areas , they know a in so many areas, they know a liberal democrat vote can do that. they like what we're saying on the health service, on the economy, on the environment. they like our local candidates. so we're increasingly positive about our chances across the uk . about our chances across the uk. >> let's talk to political commentator andy williams , who's commentator andy williams, who's here in the studio, on diane abbott. it's a valid point, isn't it, that ellie made a minute ago, the idea that keir starmer needs to make a decision on this, she's saying she's been told she can't run. keir starmer says, well, i don't know anything about that. and i and

it's everything is left in the mire. >> well i think it's a decision ultimately for labour's national executive committee and i believe that decision is going to be taken this week. what i would say, though, is that keir starmer, he's accused of it's going to be tested in the run up to a general election in. yeah, a general election that was called earlier than people expected. but i do accept that it's taken too long to sort this out. and i think that i think it should have been sorted quickly. there was no ambiguity about what she said. it was published in national newspapers. so, i think there's a definite lesson for the labour party here that they need to be, quicker at sorting these sorts of things out. but keir starmer is accused time and time again of being sort of weak and flip flopping and all of these things. actually, if you look at the way he's behaved and the way he's changed the labour party over the last four years, he's been incredibly decisive and ruthless incredibly decisive and ruthless in a way that i think is really underrated. >> the optics aren't good, though, are they? when you've got diane abbott standing outside hackney town hall last night saying she's going to stand. however, however

possible, implying that she's going to have to stand as an independent and then you've got sir keir starmer having to respond to that, saying, oh wait, no decision. hasn't been made just yet. doesn't look like a man in control. >> well, i, i worry that it could be a forerunner. if you look at, you know, if labour win the big majority that we're expecting them to win. and there's nothing i've seen so far in this campaign to suggest that there's going to be any other outcome. i think it could be a forerunner for the divisions within the labour party being exposed, because there's no doubt that if labour end up with 400 mp5 doubt that if labour end up with 400 mps or doubt that if labour end up with 400 mp5 or 380 doubt that if labour end up with 400 mps or 380 mps, there will be that will be a very broad church, right? there's going to be people on the, on the, on the far left of the labour party who are trying to drag starmer to the left and, and he's going to have to be really strong and decisive in holding the line and pushing through his programme. >> all right. so is this why some people are saying this is a purge ? he's trying to clear the purge? he's trying to clear the most far left people out of the party. well out of the out of

the, the parliamentary party away from being candidates now. >> well, if you look at a lot of the people on the far left who over recent years have had, you know, lost the whip or been , know, lost the whip or been, excluded from standing for the labour party, they've all done things or said things that have disbarred them. and actually, it's you, you know , starmer and it's you, you know, starmer and the nec, they wouldn't just be getting rid of people because they didn't fancy them. all of these people have done or said things that have given starmer and the leadership a reason to, move them aside effectively . but move them aside effectively. but yes, there's no doubt about it. he wants a group of mps or future mps who are on side with him , who back his programme and him, who back his programme and who are on board with sort of mainstream centre left political thinking, now the campaign today seems to be on the economy. yesterday it was more and more on health, and we've got a really interesting cover on the times today. bakhmut for low

interest rates. sunak ten hag. >> yeah, i mean, i find this down to the bank of england. >> yes, and obviously the argument he's making is that inflation has come down and therefore interest rates are likely to follow . they obviously likely to follow. they obviously haven't followed as quickly as he was hoping or expecting. and i think partly that's why we're seeing this july election because he was hoping that we might have 2 or 3 interest rate cuts in the run up to the autumn, and that would tell a better economic story. but that economic story for rishi sunak is it's telling, i think that he's saying bakhmut for lower interest rates because he's not promising growth because he can't, and because he hasn't delivered any. so he promised in his pledges, in his pledges in july . sorry, january 2023, he july. sorry, january 2023, he said, i will grow the economy o.1% said, i will grow the economy 0.1% growth in 2023. it's still doing better. it's a technical win. >> well, yeah . but then but well >> well, yeah. but then but well and it is a technical win. you're quite right. except labour were cooing like mad when we went into recession . and that we went into recession. and that was actually only a technical recession. it was a technical

recession. >> if you look at if you look at the conservatives record cake and eat, if you look at the tory record over the full sweep of the last 14 years on the economy, it's really bad growth. there's barely been any the tax burden is higher than it's been since the second world war. incomes have grown in the last ten years by 11. it's pathetic. inflation has way outpaced that way, outpaced. we had 11% inflation in one year and wage growth in ten years has been the same. >> has any other country within within the eu for example, done any better than odds? significantly better than us? >> i think i'm right in saying not right now, but we're outgrowing germany at the moment. but if you look at the last ten years, that's not the case.in last ten years, that's not the case. in fact, most western european countries have done better over the last ten years. right now we're doing a bit better. i accept that the united states is a different situation, but i think there's a really interesting lesson from biden in the us that if you invest in the economy, if you invest to grow and you put the right policies

in place, you can turbocharge things. and i think that's what labour are offering is actually a really serious , thoughtful a really serious, thoughtful plan for investment that the tories just haven't outlined . tories just haven't outlined. >> so jeremy hunt then says they can't be trusted on the economy. he says he's backed them into a corner. they came through this late night promise yesterday that they're not going to increase vat, he says. there's this £38.5 billion hole black hole in the labour party's pledges. >> well , all pledges. >> well, all of pledges. >> well , all of the pledges. >> well, all of the labour party's pledges have been fully costed. in fact, i would like to see labour going further in terms of what they're committing to spend because they're not really committing to spend much at all. if you look at it, they're actually being very conservative, but they've been they've been fully costed on taxes , is that people are not taxes, is that people are not obuged taxes, is that people are not obliged to pay , i.e. non—dom, obliged to pay, i.e. non—dom, which means people don't have to pay which means people don't have to pay the taxes. >> if they're a non—dom, they can leave the country and they take them out, take themselves out of that. the schools , the out of that. the schools, the private schools, well, people don't have to keep sending their children to private schools so they can withdraw from those. so

if that happens in any significant way, labour's fully costed plans aren't fully costed anymore. no. >> and they'll have to adapt accordingly . and they need to be accordingly. and they need to be agile in terms of the way they do things by the way, though, those policies they don't raise in the scheme of things that much money that you're talking about, sort of 4 or 5 billion here or there, which. >> well, that's what they boast of every time we interview a labour politician over the past 18 months, that's all they've said. >> so it's non the non—dom non—dom tax loophole for easy me to say. >> and taxing private schools i think the tories look it's i agree we need more detail there. it's the same with the tories. i see that all of the policies they've announced over the last week or so are going to be paid for by clamping down on tax avoidance. it's like this mythical amount of money that we're suddenly going to get by hmrc having more resource. it's very strange. and i also think that the priorities that the conservative that jeremy hunt and the conservatives are choosing to focus on are really

a really strange, you know, offering pensioners a tax break when they're the rich, that's tried and tested method , though, tried and tested method, though, isn't it, to go after older voters. yeah. the sort of over the over 70 vote because people over 70, the only demographic who are actually backing the tories. >> but you said that they're the richest part of society. >> they are. >> they are. >> oh, right. >> oh, right. >> okay. >> okay. >> they are. i'm not saying gbnews.com/yoursay. >> there's there may be some who are in a better position. there's an awful lot of people who are retired. absolutely. who are really, really struggling . are really, really struggling. and that is absolutely true. >> but statistically they are on average the wealthiest strata of society. that's that's a fact. of course , there are people who of course, there are people who are struggling all over the country. and actually the last parliament was the worst for living standards in history. >> but that's why it's dangerous, isn't it, to use to use, those sort of, strata , if use, those sort of, strata, if you like, because, i mean, how do politicians do it? a politician couldn't go out and say and say what you just said

because. but it's true. they'd because. but it's true. they'd be hung, drawn and quartered. well, it's true in general terms, but you've got to appeal to you've got to focus on individuals, haven't you? and you can't write off a whole, you know, hundreds of thousands of pensioners who are really struggling well and say, well, some of you are doing i think the i think the conservatives have made a really clear choice that they're going to back older people, pensioners at the expense of young people who are going to have to pay their taxes to fund this. >> and do national service . >> and do national service. >> and do national service. >> right. what's wrong with that? >> well, i mean, it's just it's ludicrous. it's the it's the maddest general election policy that i've seen announced that i can ever remember. i mean, it's absolutely bonkers. they've they've they've pulled it out of thin air. they don't know whether they're going to criminalise people or not. they don't know whether footballers are going to be exempt or not. they don't know how many people are going to do actual national service in the army, or whether they're going to be volunteering and by the way, it's not volunteering if it's compulsory. i mean, it's just bonkers. okay. andy we're going to leave it

there. we've given you we've given you a fair crack of the whip this morning. well thank you.so whip this morning. well thank you. so there you go. >> thank you andy. >> thank you andy. >> let us know what you think. gbnews.com slash. also lots of lots of you got in touch already . i'm not going to necessarily read some of them out front of you. andy. you've not gone down too well with some of our pensioner viewers. i'll say that much. but anyway, keep your thoughts coming through this morning. >> yeah. gbnews.com/yoursay now failed us presidential candidate nikki haley has sparked outrage on a visit to israel by writing , on a visit to israel by writing, finish them on a side of a new israeli artillery shell . israeli artillery shell. >> the former governor of south carolina has been a fierce supporter of israel since the war with hamas broke out following those attacks on october the 7th. miss haley said in a press conference on monday that israelis were doing the right thing well. >> haley's actions and comments come after israel's president benjamin netanyahu , said that an benjamin netanyahu, said that an airstrike which killed civilians in rafah was a tragic mistake.

>> let's talk to the foreign editor of jewish news, yotam confino, who joins us now . good confino, who joins us now. good to see you this morning. yotam, what's the sense there about this controversy surrounding nikki haley? is it understood in israel ? are people just israel? are people just dismissive of the naysayers ? dismissive of the naysayers? >> in all honesty, it's not what tops the news list here. obviously, nikki haley's visit was covered and also her writing on on the bombs. i think very, very few people really either condemn it or really take it seriously. it's clearly a political scheme, a way for her to portray herself as being very pro—israel, anti terrorism , but pro—israel, anti terrorism, but nikki haley is well liked among most israeli politicians , and most israeli politicians, and she could she could be in the next trump administration. who knows . so she's being treated knows. so she's being treated very well. her former colleague danny danon, israel's ambassador to the un, the former israeli ambassador to the un, was showing her around and

companioning her. and i think they know that nikki haley is possibly the future of american politics. so she's being treated very well and not a lot of negative coverage here of her. >> it has been criticised inside israel, though, hasn't it, by some peace activists. i've got one here from alan lee green, who says that it was performative politics from nikki haley. and we don't need your filthy death promoting politicians here in israel as well. >> yeah, obviously there are many activists, left wingers who want this war to end period and who condemn people like nikki haley, who despise her, who despise donald trump, for that matter. but i would say generally in israel, it's not something that riles people up. it's not something that causes a lot of condemnation simply because most people are sending their daughters and their sons to the front lines or to serve in the army. right now , many in the army. right now, many fathers are in gaza right now.

so the fact that nikki haley is writing her signature on a bomb is, is not something that gets them wound up. there are people , them wound up. there are people, like i said, activists who see this as a very distasteful, display of political arrogance when people are being killed , when people are being killed, but again, i wouldn't say that it tops the list of, of news down here. >> paint a picture jossom for us of what is happening at the moment with with the situation in rafah and, and what the plans are because it's only a week or so ago, wasn't it, that the, the defence minister was, was being very critical of, of the prime minister they seem to be a lot of disagreements about how to move this forward, what should be done, never mind all the international pressure that's growing. so what is the situation now ? situation now? >> so if we if we start with rafah, more than a million people have been evacuated from this city. israel has taken control with a very strategic, border buffer zone that separates gaza from egypt. it's

a 14 kilometre buffer zone, which is crucial to control because this is where hamas has been smuggling weapons and other things into gaza. israel said they found 20 tunnels that crossed into egypt. so this is a very significant strategic, aim for israel that they now control this. and in terms of the political situation, netanyahu is being bombarded with criticism from left and right. yesterday, another war cabinet minister said that he has failed miserably in achieving the aims of the war, which is to bring back the hostages and to defeat hamas. he said he's delusional and that he calls for election also, starting september. so it's just a matter of time before he also leaves the government. we know that benny gantz, his companion from the same party, will likely both of them will likely leave the government soon. and on the other side, netanyahu is pressured by some of his more radical ministers who want to reoccupy gaza and go to war with hezbollah. so netanyahu is once again extremely, he's

manoeuvring in extreme pressure . manoeuvring in extreme pressure. ihave manoeuvring in extreme pressure. i have to say. >> i've also been hearing from the national security advisor to netanyahu, who says the israeli war on gaza is going to continue until early next year. >> yeah, that's a very bad news, because every day soldiers die in gaza , this is a horrendous in gaza, this is a horrendous situation for the entire nation to look at. seven more months, possibly of the hostages still being in gaza. that's the main , being in gaza. that's the main, cause of concern here. seven more months. that means that israel would at that point have been at war in 15 months with no end in sight. and the longer israel is at war in gaza. we have to remember this. the longer this war continues against hamas in gaza, the bigger the likelihood of an israeli war full on war with hezbollah in, in in lebanon, israel cannot accept the situation where thousands, tens of thousands are still displaced on the northern border with lebanon because of hezbollah's

daily attacks . and most israelis daily attacks. and most israelis are simply fed up with this. they want a solution to the issue of hamas in gaza. but more importantly, i would say a solution to hezbollah, which is much stronger, much more an aggressive actor and an aggressive actor and an aggressive actor and an aggressive actor that could really cause a lot of mayhem for israel if they don't solve that issue. >> okay. but i'm confino good to see you. thanks very much indeed. >> thank you . >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now, 7:21, let's take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. >> well, gb news can reveal environmental activists plan to target the uk's busiest airports in the last two weeks of july . in the last two weeks of july. just stop oil plans to target airports, including heathrow and gatwick, at the height of the summer getaway in order to cause maximum disruption. apparently, the group is also running a series of online courses aimed at encouraging and informing volunteers on how best to carry out its protests .

out its protests. >> homeless people are being removed from accommodation in edinburgh to allow taylor swift fans to stay in the city. shelter scotland the people they support are being taken by taxi to glasgow and aberdeen amid a squeeze on hotel accommodation . squeeze on hotel accommodation. >> guitar owned by john lennon, found in an attic, has sold for $2.9 million at auction. it's a 12 string hootenanny acoustic. it was used in the recording of the help album in 1965. it hasn't been seen or played on for more than 50 years. >> well, that'll be good to find your attic, wouldn't it? >> a hootenanny hootenanny, just that. i mean, it's a phenomenal how they've managed to, authenticate it and all that. i don't know, there must be some. there must have been something there with it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i wonder what kind of

condition it's in if it hasn't been played in 50 years. >> i don't know, $2.9 million. so nice, isn't it? that's. that's quite something, loads of you getting in touch, pensioners , primarily at the moment, not at all. happy with what andy williams was saying about pensioners being the richest demographic in society. i mean, he's got a point. technically but that doesn't that doesn't reflect how individuals. but you can't just say everyone over 60 or 65, whatever it is, therefore well off because just we know that isn't the case. we know that isn't the case. we know that isn't the case, but it's when you break it down into these big blocks, but anyway , he these big blocks, but anyway, he is a political commentator with a left wing slant. as you're aware. but we talked with we talked with political commentators from all slants and we bring you all perspectives, which is what this is all about, especially during an election time. you've got to you've got to the whole point of this is whether you agree with it or

not, is that you have to listen to what these people say, and then make your own mind up ahead of election day . of election day. >> i'm not going to tell you how to vote, and we will be, of course, hearing from all parties across this campaign. william h has been in touch on your point to andy williams there. what happens to labour's spending plans when the non—doms up sticks and move to monaco? >> yeah, yeah, i mean , it's an >> yeah, yeah, i mean, it's an interesting point. you can't base everything on taxes that people are not obliged to pay because you can just move . and because you can just move. and people who are non—dom tend to have loads of cash anyway and able to move and are able to move. >> yes. and, people who are sending their children to private school and they find it a bit of a pinch, simply won't send them to private school, will they? if they've got vat on top . oh well, that's, that's top. oh well, that's, that's pulling them out of private schools. >> so they're talking about they could lose up to 40,000 students though. we're talking to labour last week and they were saying no, they factored all this in and there's some kind of who are some independent group who did a study who said that, that is not

going to happen. but, i mean, you just don't know, do you. just you don't know. and then also there's a big question, where do these students, if they are pulled out, where do they go? is there a is there are there places for them to go in state school. >> so and what does it mean for the school system then the education system. lots of questions that we can put to labour a little bit later on. >> right. let's see what the weather's going to do for you today with catherine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning, we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some

heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the thundery side as well. showers still persisting across parts of northern ireland and scotland, but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday . otherwise highs of here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again , still heavy at of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly moving their way southwards. further towards the west. some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well. mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north. so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards , breaking up and way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially

across parts of north eastern england into the southeast, with some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. but under the clear skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are. but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here with some outbreaks of generally light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west. chilly in the east, but further towards the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> now how do you fancy £20,000 in your pocket? it's all there. it's got to be won. every single penny of it in our great british giveaway. but the lines close tomorrow. here are all the details you need. >> it's the final week to see

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going to have some more details on the tragic shooting in london last night. that's next on

breakfast. >> now a child is in a critical condition. three adults have been seriously injured after a shooting in london. >> well , police arrived at the >> well, police arrived at the scene last night after gunshots were heard near a restaurant in hackney. >> the investigations underway , >> the investigations underway, but at this point, no arrests have been made. earlier, we spoke to former met police detective peter bleksley . detective peter bleksley. >> reports spoke about a motorcycle driving past, quite possibly a restaurant and somebody on that motorcycle discharging a firearm , firing discharging a firearm, firing a number of shots. that is yet to be confirmed . so it is a bit

be confirmed. so it is a bit speculative at the moment, but what we do know is that at around 9:20 pm. last night, three adults and a child who was in a serious condition were shot, taken to hospital and the met police enquiry is undoubtedly in full swing right now . how. >> now. >> and peter, how does an investigation start to take place after something like this? what will police be looking at to try and catch the people responsible? well the primary motive for the senior investigating officer is find out who did this and arrest them i >> because sadly, the criminal history books are littered with cases like this that end up with revenge, retribution , for tat. revenge, retribution, for tat. and it wouldn't surprise me. although i sincerely hope this doesn't happen, that within a few hours or a day or two, we hear about yet another shooting. because these kind of cases are

invariably linked to the illegal drugs industry, which of course is not regulated. it's a wild west out there. and what the police will not want is more shootings, more injuries , shootings, more injuries, possibly loss of life. so the inquiry will be featuring on who did this, where are they ? how did this, where are they? how can we catch them? >> and are you surprised that this has happened, peter? i mean, a drive by shooting like this and something which seems to a degree a bit indiscriminate , it sounds like something out of the united states rather than london. >> well, actually, the drive by shooting, using motorcycles was kind of rigged . notably finessed kind of rigged. notably finessed in colombia back in the early 19805, in colombia back in the early 1980s, and it was a very common way of criminals involved in the drugs industry of assassinating

one another or politicians that wouldn't toe the line as they wanted it, and so on and so forth. it is fortunately rare rare in the uk, but this is why the police, the national crime agency and law enforcement across the country work tirelessly to try and take firearms off the streets because villains in a case like this and many others have no regard for pubuc many others have no regard for public safety , they are utterly public safety, they are utterly reckless. they are untrained . reckless. they are untrained. and when they take firearms out onto the streets , innocent onto the streets, innocent people so often get caught in the crossfire . yeah. the crossfire. yeah. >> and, peter, i wanted to ask you how prepared are. i mean, the officers who will be investigating this , i mean, investigating this, i mean, obviously you're dealing with very dangerous people who are heavily armed. are the police force or the metropolitan police geared up for your ordinary coppers rather than your your ,

coppers rather than your your, your specialists, armed officers, are they geared up for this? >> well, it will be detectives that are investigating this case. and i would suspect there'll be some pretty experienced wise heads working on trying to find out who exactly is responsible. although, of course, as we know, the met has got a dreadful job at the moment in retaining experienced officers. so detectives will put the case together. it will be detectives gathering the cctv vie. it will be detectives working with the forensic scientists who are examining the crime scene and piecing together all of that evidence. we may later on today see a senior uniformed police officer that might do the press rounds. for example, i'm sure there will be a statement from there will be a statement from the met at some point, but essentially the detectives doing the detective work and if they get to the point where there is a front door that needs to be

smashed off its hinges, it will be specialist fire arms officers who will then take that role on that. >> was peter bleksley talking to us a little bit earlier on in the programme. now do stay with us on breakfast because of sport with

welcome back to breakfast. it's 740. we're going through the sport now with paul coyte. who is here with us. morning. >> good morning. roper conference league final was last night. yeah. how about that? >> and a bit of history. >> and a bit of history. >> and a bit of history. >> a bit of a history. because before last night, panathinaikos were the only greek team to have ever reached a european final back in 1971. but olympiakos are now the only greek team to have won a european final because they beat fiorentina. look at they beat fiorentina. look at the celebrations that that's just one person's house. look at that, look at that. i mean, look at that.

>> you can't really work out what's going on. >> there's so much idea. i don't know whether the whole of athens is on fire, whether it's just a firework display. but you know what? when i was talking about panathinaikos on monday, their their basketball team won a european final and they were going crazy for that. so for the first football team to actually win a european final, look at that fireworks all over athens. and it was actually being played in athens. it wasn't at their home ground. it was at ak athens, a home ground where they beat fiorentina. but you got to spare a thought for the italians because because it's their second final in a row and they've lost both. they lost to west ham last year and now they go and lose to olympiacos. so anyway well done to olympiakos. no it's well i liked them . no it's well i liked them. >> praise for them. >> praise for them. >> very pleased for them. >> very pleased for them. >> it's nice to have something new and different i agree, which is what we're not getting with fury. usyk. yes >> well we aren't going to get the second fury usyk now, which is going to be in december. the rematch. oh back in riyadh i you know it is. it's back in riyadh now. this is saudi arabia's chairman of general

entertainment authority. his name is turki al ashik and has said that the world will watch another historical fight. again. our commitment now, this is really lovely of them. yeah. our commitment to boxing fans continues. so they're doing it for us in riyadh. we hope you enjoy it. so it's like, there we are, our gift to boxing world. it seems to be this is where is it like the home of boxing. now i'll tell you what it is the home of cash. that's what it is. pay the money. that's why we're going to have the fights over in saudi arabia. don't like it, but there you go. now is unlikely that all four belts, because it's the unified, it's the undisputed championship of the world, which usyk now one win. well, because he won the extra belt that that tyson fury had it seems unlikely that it's going to be all four belts on the line now. it's only going to be three because the ibf, who are one of the who were one of the boxing board of control, they're saying, well, actually we would like usyk to fight another

fighter. so anyway, it's all right. but anyway , it will it right. but anyway, it will it was it was a great fight. so the rematch is going to be in december in riyadh. >> okay. >> okay. >> should we do some baby racing . yeah. this is the because i want to know what on earth this is. >> well this is the future of sport. now before we actually show you the baby racing, it's. well, what are you thinking? >> i really don't know. is it pushing prams or something? >> no, no, it's. they do this at half time. they did it or in the break or whatever you would call it at the savannah bananas. baseball so you get these parents. they were lying. their babies up, you know, like you get like snail racing or anything. and they would so they line the babies up and then the parent at the other side, come on, come on, come on. no. have a look at this. there we go. now look at this. there we go. now look at this. there we are. there's the parents. there's the babies who are lined up on one side. there's the finish line and there's the starter. and we're off. so the babies are like, well, what are we doing here? so the parents, well, there's one in the lead. that's

one in the lead. the one in the yellow shorts has gone forward. but look at the one in the blue trousers, the one in the blue trousers, the one in the blue trousers and the pink top. he's flying forward. now you're going to be thinking the one in the pink top is going to win this easily. right? okay okay. well watch very carefully just at the finish line. the parent is so proud thinking my child has won me the competition. and oh are we going to finish well no no no walker. no no we stopped. the kid has stopped. you got about a few inches to go. so now the yellow trousers are moving forward. the one in the blue trousers, the pink top. look at the mother is going. come on. come to mummy here. and baby does not want to know. so now. so now look at this. an outsider here. we've got the one with the yellow trousers. but we got the one in the full yellow. baby grow. looks like it's going to take the title. it keeps stopping. look at that coming. get your hands over the finish line. oh, and there's the winner. and the one with the pink top and the blue trousers sitting there looking around, just going. i have no idea what's going on here. mom.

>> what did he win? >> what did he win? >> oh dear . >> what did he win? >> oh dear. oh, i don't know what a rattle or something. a good prize in america. >> it's probably about $50,000. >> it's probably about $50,000. >> probably $50,000 or all. the farley's rusks. you can eat . oh, farley's rusks. you can eat. oh, so, yeah, i don't think they do those anymore, but isolate those two. >> oh, and that winning parent looks so proud. good arm. cute. >> i think there should be a stewards inquiry. she's leaning over the finish line. that's not right. >> var wasn't exactly a photo finish, was it? >> wasn't. >> wasn't. >> paul. thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. do you stay with us? we're going to be going through the papers next on

breakfast. >> okay. time for the papers this morning with podcaster lewis oakley and political commentator lin mei. good to see you both once again. lewis, let's start with the guardian , let's start with the guardian, should we? which is oddly looking at the evening standard .

looking at the evening standard. >> yes. sad news, i think so. london's evening standard has announced plans to shut its daily newspapers, and it's going to be replaced with a weekly edition, and it'll bring an end to almost 200 years of the publication in the capital. i think it's quite a sad story. it's interesting looking at the reasons why this is happening so it's blamed wi—fi on the tube because everyone's on their phone. no one's picking up a newspaper. and also the work from home culture. now, since the pandemic, no one's on the trains anyway to be reading it so they don't think, well, they're not turning a profit. they're actually in quite a bit of debt, so i think it's quite sad, but it is the way a lot of media is going now. >> things to come. definitely. i think if, legacy newspapers don't keep up with signs of the times, then we're going to see more follow suit . more follow suit. >> yeah, i think a lot of newspapers now, they're trying to become sort of lifestyle brands. so not just bring you the news, but also give you recipes and fitness tips and be sort of an all encompassing sort of lifestyle guide. i mean, you know, what does it say about our country when, you know, the main newspaper of our capital can't

be funded anymore? it's not think about it. >> we have here, we have, phones in our palms now, and legacy news is struggling to keep up with that person with the phone breaking news. and oftentimes i've seen things on twitter or whatever or x now and i see the legacy print the news and they're like two days late. and i knew that already on x. >> so they need to be better at analysis then. don't they have sort of a, you know, this story from yesterday, but actually here's some really the wider in really because that's probably the thing that the news we have that's in our pocket can't do now. it's really quick. we've got to get it out now. there isn't as much time to really delve into it. and what does it actually mean. and i think people you know what i do think people you know what i do think people want a bit of a slower pace.i people want a bit of a slower pace. i don't think it's good for our mental health to constantly have the ills of the world being beeped into your pocket every five seconds. >> yes, but you're you're old now, lewis. >> yeah, i've been told this by 15 years. >> well, well, exactly. >> well, well, exactly. >> that's what you need to bear

in mind. and it's all. it is all changing whether we like it or not. >> well, it is very true. >> well, it is very true. >> it highlights, doesn't it, the challenges that print media has now. and we were just discussing in the break actually, that they're pushed onune actually, that they're pushed online and then it's all behind a paywall. yeah. so fewer people can access it anyway and i don't many people wouldn't pay for it. >> i don't i don't know if it sounds bad, but as soon as i see, you know, sign up for £2.80, i'm like, i can find it elsewhere, i just don't. and also, well, i did sign up actually for one of the newspapers a while ago just because i wanted to read one particular article so you can get it for free or get a free month. >> so i think, well, i'll sign up and then cancel, then cancel it. to cancel it, you had to ring them up rather than just doing it, and it was a real pain. i just thought, well that's it. i'll never i'll never sign up for you ever again. >> now, stephen, you're showing your age because the young have a website. you just throw the link in and it'll just bring it up for you. really? i'll send you the link after this, all right? >> oh, but do you support do support newspapers? >> yes. lin mei, let's have a

look at the express, shall we? and this is the junior doctors strikes that they've called. they've been accused of cynical tactics. >> yes, they've been blasted yesterday after announcing five days of strikes leading up to the general election. now, rishi sunak has accused them of being in cahoots with the unions . and. in cahoots with the unions. and. but when you actually look a little bit deeper into this, i wouldn't say that they're actually cosying up or supporting labour in any way because their demands are for an increase, nothing less than 35% and wes streeting of the labour party has come out and said this is not realistic . so the reality is not realistic. so the reality is not realistic. so the reality is this has this actually isn't going to necessarily assist labour because they've already said we're not going to be doing that increase for junior doctors. >> yeah, it's fascinating to look at it this close to an election because it's going to, as you say, it'll cause as many problems for labour if they get in as it would exactly. >> i think it's interesting because i do have sympathy with them. what they do, the work

they do is incredible and they do deserve to be paid. and, you know, the problem i've got with this is it's so close to an election. it's so political. and also like, realistically, no one has any power to do anything about it at that time. no one can change anything anyway . can change anything anyway. >> they will start to lose support as well, because within a year since march 2023, they've striked ten times. and you know, we've had a look at our waiting list. there's 7.7 million people on there at the moment. and it's just people are suffering. so to see junior doctors who really and truly understand you have to have a good wage to live . but have a good wage to live. but you don't become a doctor to be a multi—millionaire. you, you, you become a doctor because you want to help people, because you're passionate. so it's frustrating for those waiting on. i agree it's not going to help their cause, to be honest. >> we've got someone in our family that uses the nhs a lot. and i can tell you, since the pandemic you've seen those waiting lists in real time go up andifs waiting lists in real time go up and it's like, you know, they're not being you should be paid a

fair wage. absolutely. but also this is people's health on the line. there's nothing more important than your health. yeah. >> no. well i agree it is a tncky >> no. well i agree it is a tricky one. >> i say they're not going to get those demands met. whoever's in government, it would seem . in government, it would seem. look, we're out of time. it's been very tight today. lewis lynn, thank you very much indeed. we'll see you a little bit later on. >> let's get the weather now with catherine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the thundery side as well. showers still persisting across parts of

northern ireland and scotland. but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly moving their way southwards. further towards the west. some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well. mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north. so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards , breaking up and way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across parts of north eastern england into the southeast, with some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities

holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. but under the clear skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are, but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast . anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here, with some outbreaks of generally light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west, chilly in the east but further towards the west . that's where we'll see the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

be intimidated as she promises to stand in the upcoming election after reportedly being banned by labour. >> yes, welcome to wales, where sir keir starmer is going to lay out his plans for wales. but it's all being overshadowed by a huge row that's erupting over diane abbott. she's saying she wants to stand, she believes that she's going to be banned. keir starmer is saying it's not a done deal and a couple of others have been suspended too. i'll bring you the details shortly. >> the chancellor, jeremy hunt, accuses labour of plotting to raise vat as the opposition claimed tory economic policies risk interest rates rising. we'll be joined by the chancellor in about half an hours chancellor in about half an hour's time. >> horror on the streets of london as three adults are in hospital. one child in a critical condition after a drive by shooting . by shooting. >> the former south carolina governor, nikki haley , sparks

governor, nikki haley, sparks outrage as she writes finish them on an israeli bomb during her trip to the country . her trip to the country. >> i'm going to be debating this hour whether parents should really be allowed to take their children on holiday in term time and in the sport this morning, olympiacos became the first greek side ever to win a european trophy by winning the europa conference league. >> last night, fury two is planned for december in saudi arabia , the new home of boxing, arabia, the new home of boxing, but probably won't for be all belts this time. and spectators are causing players all sorts of problems at the french open, from shouting during points to jeering and even spitting, chewing gum . it wouldn't happen chewing gum. it wouldn't happen at wimbledon . at wimbledon. >> it would be a breezier day out there with sunny spells for some, but also some showers. i'll have all of the details coming up shortly. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on gb news is . it's all

and this is breakfast on gb news is. it's all kicking off in the politics today and a whole different. i'll tell you what it will be for the next five weeks. i tell you what it feels like, though. at the minute is it's just a case of literally, who do you believe? and we're going to be talking to the chancellor in about half an hour. he's saying that labour has got a black hole in its finances and it's going to hike vat if it gets into power to pay for it all, which, all right, is a is a fair enough analysis if you think that's right. but labour has come out and said, no, we will promise not to put up vat. at which point the conservatives say, we're back to in a corner, so who do you believe ? i mean, it's who do you believe? i mean, it's literally who do you believe? all the stuff that you cannot quantify either. which way can you?i quantify either. which way can you? i mean, how do you prove it? either. which way? this is the. it's like a roll of a dice. i wonder if you are you in a position now? where do you know who you're going to vote for? or

are you still in that vast amount of people who are undecided? are you just going to stay at home? love to know what you're going to do. gbnews.com/yoursay say on that one because i still know. just talking to people down the pub or what have you, loads of people have said to me, i, i really don't know. i haven't decided , i think i can't work it out. >> most people that i talk to on the street now are saying exactly the same thing. undecided, not sure what they're going to do on the day, will the next five weeks be a decider for you? don't know. it's certainly very busy, isn't it? it is. it's being said every single day, almost . almost. >> we need a bit. i sort of think we need clear messaging from the parties, whereas at the minute it just seems a bit of a rough and tumble. >> well, something new every day. isn't there at the moment. >> so it's like, how do you actually there's almost too much information to make your mind up. or you might agree with one party on one thing on one day, but the next day they're talking about something else and you disagree with the other. you agree with the other side.

>> hopefully we start to get some clarity once the manifestos come out. >> well, that will be the key, won't it? the manifestos will be the key because that's what they are meant to stick to. you break are meant to stick to. you break a manifesto promise during the course of your time in office. and that's the you'll be held to that. you can do it. but it's controversial. so we shall see. anyway, amidst all of this, there's a big row over diane abbott, her political future is well in the balance. really she says she's going to stand in the upcoming general election by any means possible, so that means possibly as an independent. following reports , at least, following reports, at least, that she's been banned from standing as a labour party candidate. >> well, diane abbott made her first public remarks on the row when she spoke to her supporters outside hackney town hall last night . night. >> yes, she directly addressed sir keir starmer, saying she won't be intimidated. >> well, it isn't just diane abbott's future as a labour mp thatis abbott's future as a labour mp that is under question, though. lloyd russell—moyle has said

that he has been suspended by the party and could not stand under the party's banner at the election. there has also been reports that faiza shaheen has not been endorsed by the labour party. well on the campaign trail itself yesterday, the prime minister was in the south—west of the country. >> conservatives announcing their plans to crack down on mickey mouse degrees . he went to mickey mouse degrees. he went to a variety of businesses in devon and cornwall who championed apprenticeships over degrees. >> the labour leader, sir keir starmer, and shadow health secretary wes streeting were in the west midlands taking questions from student nurses and paramedics after the party pledged to cut nhs waiting lists . wes streeting said that the labour plan to create 40,000 extra appointments every week is something that could put £1 billion into the pockets of nhs staff. >> meanwhile, sir ed davey, the leader of the lib dems , went to leader of the lib dems, went to a tory constituency in mid wales that his party has got its eye on before heading to bath, which is a lib dem stronghold. >> well, the campaigning comes

as parliament has now officially been dissolved ahead of the election on july the fourth. sir keir starmer is set to travel to wales today to campaign with embattled first minister vaughan gething, who faces a vote of no confidence next week. let's take a look. >> stop young people going off to degrees that aren't going to support them or pay their way, and instead use that money to create 100,000 more high quality apprenticeships. i think the conservatives have really not thought this through properly. >> we need more apprenticeships shapps. but actually the conservative record is really poor. conservative record is really poor . they've let young people poor. they've let young people down time and again. >> no decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. >> 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. this has been going on a very long time. >> i think the government should have resolved it and negotiated

a settlement , and what they've a settlement, and what they've effectively done is kicked it , effectively done is kicked it, the other side of the general election, that's unforgivable. >> people are really clear. they want the conservatives out. and in so many areas they know a liberal democrat vote can do that. they like what we're saying on the health service , on saying on the health service, on the economy, on the environment. they like our local candidates. so we're increasingly positive about our chances across the uk . about our chances across the uk. >> well, let's talk to our political correspondent katherine forster. and i know you're in wales. aren't you ready for sir keir starmer's arrival? we'll talk to you about that in a second, but on the on the diane abbott issue specifically , this is turning specifically, this is turning into a bit of a mess, isn't it? >> border . stephen into a bit of a mess, isn't it? >> border. stephen and ellie from wales. yes. a bit of a mess , i think possibly an understatement. it's all been going very smoothly for labour, hasn't it? up until, yesterday. because this is now a huge and

really quite messy row. diana of course, was the first female black mp to be elected to parliament. she is a huge figure in politics, but she spent the last year up until literally a day or two ago, suspended from the labour party over an opinion piece she wrote in a newspaper saying that, that travellers, redheads, etc. jewish people did not experience racism all their lives that was perceived as being anti—semitic. she was suspended . ed and then, suspended. ed and then, apparently we now hear that that investigation wrapped up months ago. she did a course. she apologised immediately, but the whip was only given back to her, i think the day before yesterday. but she thinks she's being blocked from standing in this election. sir keir starmer has said no decision has been taken. but diane abbott has come out fighting , in hackney last

out fighting, in hackney last night, basically saying she's going to fight to be reselected and not ruling out possibly standing as an independent mp . standing as an independent mp. if not, also so we've had in the last day a couple of other corbynista big supporters of jeremy corbyn on the left of the labour party , lloyd labour party, lloyd russell—moyle, suspended out of the blue over allegations apparently dating back about seven years. we don't have any details on that. and also last night, faiza shaheen, she was the local labour mp for chingford. that's iain duncan smith's seat. and she went on telly last night, said that it had come from literally nowhere where she's extremely upset. apparently over a few tweets that she liked over a few years. so it does feel like there is a bit of a purge of the corbynistas going on that perhaps labour want a party with

with fewer divisions in it. so keir starmer has managed to keep a very good lid on divisions within labour. but of course it looks like they could be heading to a big majority. so it's very messy. it's grabbing all the headlines. sir keir starmer is wanting to talk today about labour's plan for wales , but labour's plan for wales, but will he get much of a look in with that . because this row is with that. because this row is not going away. >> no it's not gone. it could threaten to overshadow this visit to wales today by sir keir starmer. he's going to be campaigning with vaughan gething today. isn't he. what are we expecting to hear from sir keir starmer . starmer. >> yes. well there are six steps for wales of course, worth beanng for wales of course, worth bearing in mind that because wales has a devolved parliament in the senate, there's a lot of things that central government is not responsible for. they're not responsible for education. they're not responsible for transport or health. and they are responsible for police, for justice, for national security,

for defence, etc. so perhaps some announcements around that. but, you know, he'll be standing alongside the welsh first minister, vaughan gething . he minister, vaughan gething. he was only elected a couple of months ago and he's had a pretty rocky start. there's going to be a vote of no confidence in him next week and basically , while next week and basically, while campaigning, he accepted a £200,000 donation, from a man, that had been convicted of environmental offences . his. environmental offences. his. now, there was a lot of unhappiness at the time because that was a huge donation and may have helped him win his position, so lots of questions for him. so i suspect what's going to happen is rather than lots of questions about what sir keir starmer is trying to talk about, we're going to get lots of questions about diane abbott and lots of questions about vaughan gethin's future, and that £200,000 donation. >> so, okay, catherine, for now,

thanks very much indeed. >> well joined now by our south west of england reporter, jeff moody, who's speaking to the general public about what matters to them in the upcoming election. good morning to you, jeff. and where are you this morning ? morning? >> good morning. what i'm here in south molton whenever i want to get some sort of a barometer to get some sort of a barometer to how people are feeling about politics, about the political situation, about the economy. i always come here because it's a very good barometer to talk to stallholders in the market. so i've managed to persuade one of them, pauline, to come out and talk to me this morning. pauline, what are the main issues that you're facing? i just don't think that any of them are fit for purpose, to be honest. none of the politicians are torn. none of the parties at all trust anything that they're saying, to be honest, the labour party, i don't know how they think that they're going to finance whatever they're doing because they're not honest. they're full of waffle. i don't do waffle. you've got to be straight with the general

public. they think we're all idiots and we're not, is this across the board? is there no politician that you think is worth some stupid things that just don't work? >> the thing ideas of stopping children at the age of 18, smoking, how they're going to monitor it. i do not know. they can't even stop people from taking drugs , let alone taking drugs, let alone monitoring them smoking. i mean, it's all gimmicks and you can't have gimmick ideas. >> as you were saying to me earlier on, there is one politician that you would vote for, one person that you would for, one person that you would for vote if he was standing. >> yes. nigel farage, i think he's a wonderful person. he comes out with really practical common sense and he's a good quy- common sense and he's a good guy. i mean, i've got a lot of issues with what's going on in the world, the issues of the immigrants coming over is only because of what's happening in the world, there's what's happening in, in paris, you know, in gaza with israel . i

know, in gaza with israel. i feel for the israeli people. but two wrongs don't make a right, and you know that they they're going into gaza. they're killing all these people . thousands and all these people. thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands. they've been doing this for a long time. and it's about time that the palestinian people had their own state out of the parties that are standing. >> is there one party that you think has a better policy when it comes to the middle east, or a policy that that attracts you a policy that that attracts you a bit more? >> i just think that, you know, none of them have got it right. none of them have got it right. so they need to sort of get their heads together and say, ceasefire. let's start and look at palestine. >> nobody's got it right. apart from nigel farage, in your opinion, nigel farage. >> yes, because he's got it right. whether he's saying about the immigrants coming over at the immigrants coming over at the end of the day , we've got the end of the day, we've got too much coming in. we've got too much coming in. we've got too many cultures coming into this country. and the, the british are totally different from the cultures abroad and

especially women. and they don't like women very much. women are not even second class citizens. >> thank you very much, pauline. let's talk to bill now. you're a sheep farmer. i've talked to you several times on gb news. yes you have. you're a friend of the station, aren't you. all right, you go back to your stall. thank you go back to your stall. thank you very much. so, what do you think the main issues in this election are for you, i thought that lady sort of talked to, if not sense, a lot of what people are saying , i not sense, a lot of what people are saying, i think the issue is trust, i think there's a lot of trust, i think there's a lot of trust that, you know, has been taken away over the last, well, forever, really. and politicians aren't trusted at the moment. that's not great, nigel farage good bloke, but he's not standing, is he, you know, he's made a calculation, he obviously knows he wouldn't get elected, but he can be influential. but not doing. it's difficult. it's very early in the campaign to know where things are going. but to me, i think, i think the tories coming out with the sort of the triple lock plus on pensions and the national

service , you know, they might service, you know, they might sort of sounds a bit like pie in the sky, but if they put it in their manifesto, you know, people are going to take notice of that sort of thing, the labour party really are just trying to avoid making gaffes, and they've got a little bit of and they've got a little bit of an issue at the moment with diane abbott. but whether that will blow over, i don't know. but i mean, it just shows that that absolutely tight control of the labour party is keir starmer's thing and being everything. the tories aren't you know, is what he's trying to appeal to. so we're not getting much meat from, the tories. we're getting we're sorry from, from labour. we, we're getting some policies from , from the some policies from, from the liberals. but of course they can't actually give £1 billion to agriculture if they're not in government. and i don't see them using that as, you know, a final straw , if they're going to enter straw, if they're going to enter a coalition so they can say what they like, but actually, you know, they're not i mean, and locally, of course, they're the second party. so it's important what they, what they like . and

what they, what they like. and in the south west generally they're, they're a force. so but it's not local elections. it's not by elections . everybody gets not by elections. everybody gets a vote. everybody goes to the polling booth and makes their cross. and it's on that day that we'll know , you know, the we'll we'll know, you know, the we'll have the influence of, there's a doctor strike going on, i just stop oil no doubt. i'll be out there causing chaos. the no flights will have taken off, but, i mean, the tories can say, well, if, you know, if you wait , well, if, you know, if you wait, if i come back next week, the they'll be taken off. but if keir starmer is in charge, they won't be taking off. so there's all sorts of things going to happen and the whole atmosphere will change towards the end, i think, and like i said, it's very early in the piece. let's see what happens. i mean, i think the, the main danger for labouris think the, the main danger for labour is something, you know, like the diane abbott thing will just derail their campaign, which is not doing anything controversial, so yeah, i think it's i like an election. i'm rather expecting another one,

you know, quite soon after this one. so i'm quite happy . one. so i'm quite happy. >> another one so soon after this one. i hope you're wrong. i hope you're wrong, that's it from me for now. down in south moreton. but if you're around in south moreton or in north devon in general, do pop down and say hello. it'd be great to hear what your opinion is as we go into the second week of the general election campaign. but for now, back to you , jeff. for now, back to you, jeff. >> thanks very much indeed. loads of you getting in touch, actually, as as jeff's two guests were talking, a lot of you agreeing with what they have to say , also, a couple of you to say, also, a couple of you coming up with things like, better the devil you know than the devil you don't. kim says both parties are the same beast with a different name, which is which is an, an interesting tip, but there's a, there's a lot of feeling out there. there's not much sort of clear water between the two. richard says, i a bit like , pauline was saying there , like, pauline was saying there, i don't trust either of the main

parties. i know reform can't get into power, but change has got to start somewhere. i'm going to be voting for them, pauline is very popular on gbnews.com. you'll see lots of you saying you'd vote for her, she was up for a seat. yeah yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? >> all of this. i mean, there's so many views this morning, which is, which is interesting that it's grabbing your attention. it's all grabbing your attention, which is, which is good because you need people to be engaged in it. i mean, you want the turnout to be high because that's then you get a proper democratic result, isn't it? yes. >> but you will see that on gb news throughout the general election campaign, we are going to have people's panels up and down the country hearing from real people, real voters, about the issues that matter to them. and we know that's what you like as well as you'll expect lots more of that to come in the next five weeks. right >> but in the meantime, let's see what the weather's going to do for you today with catherine.

>> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the thundery side as well, of these could be on the thundery side as well , showers thundery side as well, showers still persisting across parts of northern ireland and scotland . northern ireland and scotland. but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly

moving their way southwards. further towards the west, some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well, mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north, so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight penod evening and into the overnight period , any showers should period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards , breaking up and way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across parts of northeastern england into the southeast, with some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. but under the clearer skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are. but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here with some outbreaks of generally

light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west. chilly in the east, but further towards the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . boilers sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> now some good news for you this morning. £20,000 has to be won in our great british giveaway. and don't miss out because lines are going to close this friday tomorrow. so here's all the details you need for 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 really could be yours this summer . hurry really could be yours this summer. hurry as lines close tomorrow you've got to be in it tomorrow you've got to be in it to win it for another chance to win £20,000 in tax free cash.

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next. now, it's half term across lots of the country at the moment. you may have noticed it if you try and get out and about anywhere, but if you want to go on holiday in half term, well, guess what? it's a lot more expensive. but if you want to take the family away. so it's not surprising , is it, that not surprising, is it, that people say, well, i'm going to do it at other times of the year dunng do it at other times of the year during term time because it's an awful lot cheaper, even though a lot of schools, of course, start throwing fines in your direction . but is it something you should just be allowed to do ? just be allowed to do? >> yes. so we are debating this morning. should parents be allowed to take their children on holiday during term time ? on holiday during term time? well, we're joined now by inclusion consultant kirsty nicole hadley, who believes you should be allowed to take your children out during term time, and lord lucas, who believes you shouldn't. very good morning to both of you. let's start with you, lord lucas . why shouldn't

you, lord lucas. why shouldn't you, lord lucas. why shouldn't you be allowed to take children out during term time? >> firstly, because it's disruptive . give to the rest of disruptive. give to the rest of the class. it means the teacher has to spend more time when your child gets back. getting them back up to speed. secondly, because you've signed up that you wouldn't and you ought to be good for your word. third, early because it gives your child entirely the wrong impression of the importance of school and of working hard at school. there will obviously be exceptions , will obviously be exceptions, but the rule should be don't do it. you wouldn't let a teacher do it. why should you do it? >> there valid points, kirsty, aren't they? >> yeah, of course they are. yeah, but i think that, what we're seeing right now is a societal shift when it comes to how families view school post pandemic. and i think we've got a lot more concern around our children's anxiety, and less concern around their attendance. and i think that this period of time that we're living in right now is a lockdown hangover, if

you like, the price of which is a mental health crisis and a cost of living crisis . and i cost of living crisis. and i think that you've got to zoom out and look at the wider reasons of why people might be choosing or not even choosing to do this. like it's not a choice. do you know what i mean? like, if they want to have any sort of holiday, then this is what they have to do, and i think that term time breaks have the potential also to be a learning opportunity. i think we've got to look at what we view our houday to look at what we view our holiday to be almost oh, kirsty. >> kirsty with with the greatest of respect. nobody takes their kids on holiday for a learning experience. come on, i disagree completely. >> i mean, if you look at enrichment opportunities which are on the curriculum, when children go on, camping trips and trips abroad where they can focus on learning languages,

practising the languages that they're already learning at school, they can bring to life geography and history, which is particularly important for children. remember that struggle to sit at a desk like kids with adhd and autistic kids. any kids that aren't particularly academic that actually need to learn in a more kinetic way. the bringing things to life is the thing that will actually make the learning stick. >> lord lucas, what do you make of that? could these trips in term time actually be an education in themselves ? education in themselves? >> well, yes, but it's hard to say that of a skiing holiday, isn't it? or sitting on a beach , isn't it? or sitting on a beach, you could, but it still imposes a cost on the school , you could, but it still imposes a cost on the school, and it ought to be done. i mean, schools are , well, used to schools are, well, used to helping parents deal with children who are having difficulties. and if a holiday in term time is the right thing for that child, i would expect a school to agree to it and say, okay, we'll we'll we'll take the hit , but just

okay, we'll we'll we'll take the hit, but just to do it randomly because you feel like it, because you feel like it, because it's cheaper, i understand that, but it's and maybe a school, some schools really operate the last week of term as a sort of wind down time for teachers. and everyone's watching videos , and being watching videos, and being absent in that week is no problem at all, schools could i suppose , program a week out of suppose, program a week out of houday suppose, program a week out of holiday time when they were doing things that weren't essential to the curriculum? and so parents could take holidays, but that's really just advantaging those who can afford to go on holiday. advantaging those who can afford to go on holiday . well, we to go on holiday. well, we really need to do something for the kids who can't to there's they're taking the hit. >> there is a big issue here, lord lucas, as to the cost and perhaps an answer to this would be some sort of regulation that doesn't allow, these, you know , doesn't allow, these, you know, companies, travel companies to hike their prices just as much

as they do during holiday times . as they do during holiday times. >> i think that would be really hard. i mean , someone who's hard. i mean, someone who's renting a holiday cottage in the country charging the same price in december as they do do in august. i tend to think don't think that works. i think you would just you would just lose money by doing that. and i it's i see why they do it. i think we could get together and see. right. what can we do to get round this, but it's hard because if you as soon as you start choosing one week, that's not part of the regular holiday time, do you do the same for all schools? and then it becomes holiday, or do you allow different schools to do different schools to do different things? and then you've got your kids at three schools and what do you do about it? >> well, i actually have some recommendation around this, so i'm very pleased to hear that as a suggestion, i think that, whoever the incoming government is going to be, i think this is a brilliant opportunity for them to call a select committee inquiry into further regulation around travel companies , and

around travel companies, and look at if there's a possibility of placing a potential price cap on these travel companies, and, you know, that goes for british rail as well. and all of our train companies here, like i travelled from brighton to london the other morning and it was £65. it's you know, it's crazy , and i think what as to crazy, and i think what as to your points about, if we allocate a specific week, then the prices will go up in that penod the prices will go up in that period as well. i've got a recommendation on that too. i think if we gave schools the authority to grant families, maybe 5 to 10 flexible days a yean maybe 5 to 10 flexible days a year, that could be counted as learning out of school, i.e. source of like an alternative provision or enrichment opportunity, then the families could cash those in, if you like, whenever they needed to , like, whenever they needed to, for as long as they sort of. we could put some kind of criteria around that, like the children would bring back a scrapbook of

what they learned, or they could write a paragraph on their experiences . and, you know, experiences. and, you know, a houday experiences. and, you know, a holiday doesn't have to be disneyland, a holiday can be a camping trip. you know, i think that we we've we've gotten into this crazy , mindset that this crazy, mindset that a houday this crazy, mindset that a holiday has to be a big, expensive trip abroad, and it really doesn't. you know, children are quite happy in a caravan. >> okay , look, we've got to >> okay, look, we've got to leave it there, sadly. but kirsty, nicole, hadley and lord lucas, really good to get both of your perspectives on that. thanks very much indeed. do let us know what you think . us know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay do stay with us still to come. >> we're going to be joined by the chancellor shortly. we'll be talking to him about many of the policies and the policy pledges that have been put out by the tories. this week. so do

breakfast. >> all right. let's see what's

in the papers for you this morning. with the podcaster lewis oakley and political commentator lin mei good to see you both. >> morning. you, too. >> morning. you, too. >> in the mirror, lewis. we're dipping into our savings every month to cover the cost of living. yeah. >> it's appalling. so almost half of people are using their savings each month to cover everyday costs , and some 45% do everyday costs, and some 45% do it at least once a month . i it at least once a month. i mean, it's, you know, it's one of those things where you almost think , how are we supposed to think, how are we supposed to improve this conversation if just having a normal job means you cannot afford your bills, then i think a lot of brits think, well, what's the point? what is the point? you know, some people are turning to second jobs now. still struggling to be able to afford their bills, and the fact that everyone's savings is being used up. i you know, it's almost like this should be the issue that everyone's talking about in this election. >> but isn't that what they're there for? aren't savings. they're for a rainy day. and we have the rainy days are continuous, far more frequent than they once were. >> us . >> us. >> us.

>> yeah. but i think also across parties, they've said, you know, this is a difficult time based on the current wars based on inflation. and this is internationally, this is not just the uk, the price of energy, even though that's going to come down and they've all said, you know, we need to tighten our belt and sometimes we have to do that, even if it is for a couple of years. is this not what savings are supposed to be for? >> well, that's easy for the millionaires in, that are mps to say that. >> but for the everyday working person that is seeing their hard earned money that they've managed to stash away for maybe a house or a car, or to help their kids, the fact that they're having to use that to cover bills and basic groceries, it's shameful. yeah >> are we run out? >> are we run out? >> well, 27, it says can't save anything at all. yeah. now that's a worry because if then you've got no rainy day fund for whenever you need it. >> i think that's the thing. and i just think there's not really a turnaround in sight. you know, listening to these politicians and i just i'm not convinced and ijust i'm not convinced that anyone's going to actually turn this around. there are some things that might sort themselves out by themselves ,

themselves out by themselves, like energy. but, you know, you really and i think for young people as well, young people starting out, if you see that your parents are having to use their savings just to cover everyday bills, you know, what hope does that give you? what inspiration have you got to. oh, i better try really hard. like they did. well, you know, a lot of people have tried really hard. this isn't about people being lazy. this is people that have got hard working jobs. still and it's not enough. >> it's concern, isn't it? people living paycheque to paycheque, lynn may on that point actually, let's look at a story in the mirror, shall we? the multimillionaire prime minister, rishi sunak, visited one of the poorest areas of the country yesterday, wearing a monogrammed £750 backpack. they report yes . report yes. >> so, he was seen visiting one of, i won't say the poorest, but an area that isn't exactly affluent. and he was wearing this, it was a black duffle bag. and if you have the chance to google it or have a look at it, i don't think it was ostentatious. it doesn't have loads of mono print like one of these flash designers. and i

think here is just a story that a journalist has grabbed. i don't think anyone would have looked at that and said, this is £750 and keir starmer wore a jumper for 500. so why does it m atter? >> matter? >> okay. well on on that, on that note , i'm very sorry. we that note, i'm very sorry. we are going to have to stop you in your tracks and we're going to take a short break because coming up in just

all right. let's get into the nitty gritty of the election campaigning. the chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt, is standing by for us. good to see you this morning . can i kick you this morning. can i kick straight off with watson? a lot of the papers this morning with the prime minister saying a vote for tories is a for vote interest rate cuts. how on earth can he claim that ? can he claim that? >> morning, stephen. morning, ellie. well, it's very sorry.

i've got a bit of echo in my ear, which is rather it's. >> i know it'd be very distracting . we'll, we'll we'll distracting. we'll, we'll we'll try and get rid of that for you. but in the meantime, just plough on and see if you can ignore it. please >> it's just repeating back to myself . myself. >> okay. oh, well, try and sort that out. >> hopefully we can reconnect it with the chancellor. >> to be fair to you, if you can hear yourself back in an earpiece, it is very, very distracting. >> awful. as you could attest to. you're talking about this in the break. >> just the first time i had a producer in my ear the other day, and it was just trying to focus on what you're actually doing and saying, and then you've got someone producing, no, we're not going to do that story now. i'm just intrigued. so it can be really distracting. >> do you see? >> do you see? >> do you feel a little bit dizzy sometimes? >> we're not as stupid as we look. you know, there's a lot going on up here. this job isn't as easy as it seems, in terms of. i mean, we'll get back to the chancellor as soon as we can. yeah, but in terms of what's being claimed by the tories today, what what do you

make of it, lynn? >> i just i make of it, lynn? >> ijust i don't make of it, lynn? >> i just i don't see how. and sometimes i do really fight for rishi, but i can't see how i can support him saying, you know, vote for me because interest rates will be cut when we can see that they're going to be cut anyway. it's not his decision. the bank of england are going to have a look at, you know, the lay of the land and they are more than likely going to cut interest rates in august. >> it's a tale as old as time, though, isn't it, that they won't claim it? they'll say it's nothing to do with us when interest rates are being hiked up. but then at the moment they're coming down, it's their responsibility and it's all down to them. >> it almost feels like an axe that's cheated on you like five times now. saying this time will be different, doesn't it? it's like, oh no, trust me, this time will be different. i just think, you know, look at your record. i think the tories problem is that, you know, a lot of british people support what they're saying, but they can never really implement it. and that's not just with the economy. it's like you've said that you would support, you know, immigration. you said that you would sort this and that and whatever it is, it's all just come to lies.

it's like, why would we trust you again? it makes no sense. >> yeah. you were saying earlier that the reason why he's potentially saying this is because there could be some unrest if there is a labour government which will send the markets in, in a shock, so to speak. >> but that must that must be the argument he's making. surely that's the implication. >> maybe i just don't. i just think people are going to be extremely critical of every single thing that the conservative party say. and i just don't think this is justifiable. as we know, interest rates are probably going to come down because energy prices are coming down. and that's not just a uk thing that's internationally. so to claim this is some sort of victory is a little bit disingenuous. from from the pm. >> but it's all about the plan, isn't it? and the plan being followed through and turning an economic corner, which we've seen, you know, in inflation's right down, interest rates are going to come down in the next few months. and all right. it's not directly to do with what the government's done, but in terms of the way the government has squeezed itself on spending in things has influenced the general economy. >> yes and no. i mean, we're

still seeing spending commitments coming out of them. are they going to spend 2.5 billion to give everyone a national service or whatever it is? i just don't think that. i just think their whole credibility or the economy , the credibility or the economy, the very thing that they're meant to, you know, be their leading thing. we're really good on the economy. they just have proved not to be. i mean, it was only this weekend where the labour, the labour team was saying, like, you know, their plans are uncosted and how the tide has turned. so i just i just don't think that they can make a credible argument on the economy anymore. >> well, like you say, lewis, it all comes down to trust, isn't it? i mean, if you look at the tories, you think, how are things going to be different this time around if you get another five years when we're seeing the highest tax burden in over 70 years, but then you've got the chancellor, jeremy hunt, on the front page of the daily express today saying that, well, labour's plans aren't costed. there's a £385 labour's plans aren't costed. there's a £38.5 billion spending black hole when it comes to the labour party. yes, it's all about trust, isn't it? and can the labour party be trusted with the labour party be trusted with the economy any more? tories can be, yeah, and they have , made

be, yeah, and they have, made this promise that they will not increase vat. >> but , increase vat. >> but, according to the conservatives the labour government will increase vat to , government will increase vat to, to fill this black hole of 38.5 billion. now, i don't want to see an increase in vat , do you. see an increase in vat, do you. >> well no, but but you see, it's interesting because i mean obviously it's a black holes. well 38.5 billion the tories say is in the labour's spending issue. 71 billion is what labour says the tories have got. well i mean they could then turn around and say well the conservatives are going to increase vat to cover this black hole . it's cover this black hole. it's being denied by both sides. >> so it's like i said recently, i do not think by any stretch that the conservatives have been financially viable recently and they've let a lot of people down, but at the same time, we down, but at the same time, we do not account the conversation never goes towards that. the massive pandemic , it never goes massive pandemic, it never goes towards the huge impact of the war. and when we look across the pondin

war. and when we look across the pond in the us, if we look across the eu, they're struggling as well. so can we place everything, the entirety of the burden on the conservative party? and how would have labour dealt with it? well, no. >> but in terms of the black hole, that's about future spending. that's future spending plans, isn't it, that they're not they're not meeting. well this is the thing i just you would hope that . would hope that. >> and i think maybe on the labour side you could say, well, this is, this was all of rishi's plan, right? he's caught them off guard. so they hadn't got all of their spending and done all of their spending and done all their finances. but on the on the tory side, you would hope that if you've called a general election, there is no black hole. you've got everything costed out. and the fact that it hasn't just shows to me more incompetence. >> i think everyone is shocked by this. i would have liked to have seen him go up to november, just to see if they could prove that they can do what they say they set out to do. i don't think this was really his plan. >> was it to call a general election now? i think, yeah. >> why do you think you went early then? >> oh, so well. so many reasons.

i mean, it caught nigel off guard. so that saw off a bit of the reform threat. i think you probably had a load of mps waiting to defect. so doing this now means that you've got less people defecting. also, that rumour, we don't know how true that he's got a nice little job lined up in california. no, i mean that i have i have to say, i think i think that's that's a sort of vindicate active rumour because there is no way on god's good earth that that that would be the, that he would be doing this to tie in with the new jobs or because of term time for the children in the states. >> nonsense. well, we don't know. no, that's absolute nonsense. here's a man whether you believe him or not, whether you believe him or not, whether you like him or not, whether you'd vote for him or not is a man who's the prime minister of our country. and is campaigning to continue to be the prime minister of our country , but minister of our country, but also not a stupid man, a man that can see the polls and knows the way this is probably going. you think he'd run a general election campaign? he'd he'd alter the path of the entire country for the sake of his children going into school in america. well, i'm not saying that i don't know him well

enough to. >> why there. this is a man i think this is a man who does know his figures. he's very intelligent. and he set out a load of plans for us to see that he can do so. why would you bnng he can do so. why would you bring the general election before he can do? yeah. >> well, your view on. >> well, your view on. >> well, your view on. >> well, i personally, i think because it's all about turning the corner is a phrase in the economy, isn't it? >> you're inflation is coming down. inflation is down. interest rates will come down. the economy is growing, albeit slowly. now either. if you leave it to november, people can say, well, it's not grown as much as you'd want. or interest rates haven't come down as far as you would want. whereas at this point it's aspirational, isn't it? you say we're turning the corner . continue. you can keep corner. continue. you can keep this going. that would be my argument as to why he's done it. i don't actually know. >> yeah , but that seems to be a >> yeah, but that seems to be a pretty sensible idea. >> i would think . >> i would think. >> i would think. >> possibly. >> possibly. >> i think it was brave and i think and i do think the brits like an underdog, if that. you know, if i think immigration

might have a lot to do with it as well. >> i know it seems like a small card, but the whole if you vote for me, we're forgetting in 2019 they were massively voted in because of net migration and to bnng because of net migration and to bring that down. so if he says, i'm ready to get those planes off the ground and i won't unless you vote for me, it's quite a big thing. >> yeah, no, i agree. i agree that could sway a lot of people. do you think then rishi sunak is foolish to rule out a coalition with reform? >> i mean, i think reform can't afford to do a coalition with him , if that makes sense. it's him, if that makes sense. it's like, you know, the whole reforms, whole thing is the conservatives haven't been conservative. we're true conservatives , as you know, vote conservatives, as you know, vote for us. so if they then got in bed with the tories , it would bed with the tories, it would especially. well, yes. >> what would the point of reform, what would the point be, especially if they stood aside in the 2019 election. >> they were the brexit party then. but i think that then all trusted politics goes right. if you if you've been sort of saying the tories are awful for what, five years and then you go and do a pact with them. so i

think it's more that reform can't afford to do a pact with them. >> yeah, right. >> yeah, right. >> you too. thank you very much for being here this morning. thank you for filling in for the chancellor, who decided he can't cope with the echo this morning, which is. which is fair enough, but good to see you both this morning. thank you very much. >> let's get the weather now with catherine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast. that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the thundery side as well, showers still persisting across parts of northern ireland and scotland.

but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly moving their way south further towards the west. some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well. mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north. so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across parts of northeastern england into the southeast , with england into the southeast, with some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11

degrees. but under the clear skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are. but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here with some outbreaks of generally light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west, chilly in the east but further towards the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news as

>> good morning to you. it's 9:00 on thursday, the 30th of may. today, diane abbott warned sir keir starmer she won't be

intimidated as she promises to stand in the upcoming election after reportedly being banned by laboun >> sir keir starmer will be here in south wales today trying to talk about his six steps to change wales under a labour government. but is it going to be drowned out by this massive and very messy row about the future of diane abbott? i'll bnng future of diane abbott? i'll bring you the details shortly . bring you the details shortly. >> the chancellor, jeremy hunt, accuses the labour party of plotting to raise vat, as the opposition claimed tory economic policies risk interest rates rising horror on the streets of london as three adults are in hospital, one child in a critical condition after a drive by shooting . former south by shooting. former south carolina governor nikki haley sparks outrage as she writes finish them on an israeli bomb dunng finish them on an israeli bomb during her trip to the country.

>> and we've been asking this morning , should parents be morning, should parents be allowed to take their children on holiday during term time ? on holiday during term time? >> it will be a breezier day out there with sunny spells for some, but also some showers. i'll have all of the details coming up shortly. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on . this is breakfast on. gb news. all right. let's talk about diane abbott. should we? it's all causing a bit of a stink for the labour party because. cause she's got the labour whip back or had it back like a day before parliament was dissolved. so what's going to happen with her now? well, she says she is going to stand in the upcoming general election by any means possible. now that follows reports that she won't be adopted as a labour parliamentary candidate. >> well, diane abbott made her

first public remarks on the row when she spoke to her supporters outside hackney town hall last night. >> she addressed the labour leader, sir keir starmer, and she said she won't be intimidated. >> but it isn't just diane abbott's future as a labour mp . abbott's future as a labour mp. thatis abbott's future as a labour mp. that is under question, though lloyd russell—moyle said that he had been suspended by the party and could not stand under the party's banner at the election. there are also reports this morning that pfizer shaheen has also not been endorsed well on the campaign trail yesterday the prime minister was in the southwest after the conservatives announced their plan to crack down on what they call mickey mouse degrees. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, and shadow health secretary wes streeting were in the west midlands taking questions from student nurses and paramedics after the party pledged to cut nhs waiting lists. wes streeting said that labour's plan to create 40,000 extra appointments every week was something that would put £1 billion into the pockets of nhs staff. >> meanwhile, sir ed davey,

leader of the lib dems, went to a tory constituency in mid wales before travelling to bath which, apart from a little sort of blip , about ten years ago, has always been a labour lib dem stronghold. >> well, the campaigning comes as parliament has now officially dissolved ahead of the election on july the fourth. sir keir starmer is set to travel to wales today to campaign with embattled first minister vaughan gething , who faces a vote of no gething, who faces a vote of no confidence next week . let's take confidence next week. let's take a look . a look. >> stop young people going off to degrees that aren't going to support them or pay their way, and instead use that money to create 100,000 more high quality apprenticeships. i think the conservatives have really not thought this through properly. >> we need more apprenticeships, but actually the conservative record is really poor. they've let young people down time and again. >> no decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. >> 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. >> this has been going on a very long time. i think the government should have resolved it and negotiated a settlement, and what they've effectively doneis and what they've effectively done is kicked it, the other side of the general election . side of the general election. that's unforgivable. >> people are really clear. they want the conservatives out. and in so many areas they know a liberal democrat vote can do that. they like what we're saying on the health service , on saying on the health service, on the economy, on the environment. they like our local candidates. so we're increasingly positive about our chances across the uk . about our chances across the uk. >> all right. let's head to south wales and our political correspondent katherine forster. it does seem a little extraordinary, catherine. the talking about the future of wales today. but you've got keir starmer who's going to be dogged with questions about diane abbott and others and vaughan gething, who's going to be dogged by questions about this

no confidence vote that's going ahead. >> yes. good morning stephen and ellie. yes we're here in south wales as sir keir starmer will be wanting to talk about the plans of a possible labour government in westminster for wales. but it's going to be a lot of questions. i'm sure, about diane abbott and indeed vaughan gething and those, questionable donations that he received for his campaign that ultimately helped him to become first minister here. on diane abbott . of course, she was the abbott. of course, she was the first black female mp to come into parliament. she was an mp for 37 years. she's a huge, huge figure . and she was suspended figure. and she was suspended over a piece that she wrote for over a piece that she wrote for over a piece that she wrote for over a year. she was only readmitted to the party a couple of days ago, but she says that she is being banned from standing and she is deeply,

deeply unhappy about that. she's saying she's going to fight to stand to represent her constituents for the labour party. now, sir keir starmer is saying, no, that is not the case. no decision has been made. a final decision will have to be made by the nec, the ruling body of the labour party , by next of the labour party, by next tuesday, but also lloyd russell—moyle, one of the corbyn supporters, and has now been suspended over allegations of something that he's alleged to have done about 7 or 8 years ago. we don't have the details and also pfizer, shaheen, she thought she was going to stand as the labour candidate in chingford . and that, of course, chingford. and that, of course, is sir iain duncan smith's seat in 2019. she came within a thousand votes of taking that seat off him . she had a baby by seat off him. she had a baby by caesarean section just six weeks ago and she was already out and about campaigning . but last

about campaigning. but last night she learned that she was not going to be allowed to stand because of a social media posts and likes that diane abbott is incredibly upset and across the political spectrum, actually. i mean, clearly these are corbyn supporters. these are people of the left, and there seems to be a little bit of a purge going on, perhaps, but the way that, diane abbott in particular is not going down well, people like jess phillips have spoken up even the daily mail have said that she has been treated poorly. and the conservatives, of course, are making political capital out of all this. jeremy hunt, this morning, capital out of all this. jeremy hunt, this morning , the hunt, this morning, the chancellor has said if keir starmer can't deal with diane abbott, how on earth is he going to deal with vladimir putin? the conservatives hope to capitalise on this. give the message you're not safe with labour party.

stick with us. >> okay. katherine forster there for us in south wales. thank you very much indeed. >> all right. should we head to the south—west because our reporter jeff moody is there for us this morning gauging reaction from you about what matters to you in the upcoming election? morning, geoff. >> good morning. what i'm here in south molton talking to local residents about how they feel about the election, how it's gone so far, paul , let's start gone so far, paul, let's start off with you. thank you very much for joining off with you. thank you very much forjoining me. what are the main issues that affect you in this election , the cost of in this election, the cost of living, really, the economy , i living, really, the economy, i think this government are running around like headless chickens , i don't know if chickens, i don't know if i completely trust the labour party, but i think it's time for a fresh change. >> traditionally, who have you voted for? who do you normally voted for? who do you normally vote for? >> traditionally, i vote

conservative, but i've lost all confidence in this. our present government , who i elected in government, who i elected in there, but i just think. i think it's there, but i just think. i think wsfime there, but i just think. i think it's time for a new approach , it's time for a new approach, which, try something different . which, try something different. it can't be any worse than it already is. >> so you're considering going from conservative all the way to labour? >> that's right. yeah. >> that's right. yeah. >> do you do you trust labour? probably a little bit more than i do the conservatives at the moment, i think that the only thing that would have made me stay with conservatives is if they had brought back , boris they had brought back, boris johnson for all. although he was he was a bumbling fool at times. he got things done, i, i, i think the, the cabinets that we've had since then are just

not. i think they've got the wrong people with the wrong jobs. okay and i, i think it's time for a change. >> paul, thank you very much. you're on board with labour now. now, you bill local sheep farmer. your tory through and through, aren't you? nothing. nothing's going to stop you from voting tory, is it. >> well, it might do, but not this time, certainly not labour, with all due respect to what paul just said, i'm. i still think the tories have got the best plan. and i know i sound a bit like i'm. i'm parroting what sunak says, but i think, you know, there is a plan and they are sticking to it, and, and the labour party seem to say we've got the same plan, but we'll do it better. so i, i've got no confidence in, in labour with the history of labour governments has always been that they come in, you know, in a blaze of glory and go out with leaving no money behind. so have you, have you been tempted by reform ? >> reform? >> no, not i understand the

message. >> it's a it is a popular message , that they're bringing message, that they're bringing forward . and i can see why forward. and i can see why people want to vote for them, particularly people that are maybe on the right of the conservative party who feel that the tories aren't, aren't, you know, doing what they said they would on immigration and things. but but i think the practicality is that, you know, we're going to either have keir starmer or rishi sunak in number 10 come the middle of july. and i've got more confidence in the tories successfully doing it , you know, successfully doing it, you know, maybe getting a flight away, than i have in labour, whose plan seems to be to just do what the tories are doing again, but do more of it. and where's the money coming from is always a question. okay bill, thank you very much indeed. >> and thank you very much to you, paul. what if you do have an opinion and you are in south molton or down in north devon somewhere, do pop along to south molton. i'm outside the pannier market and i'll be here all morning, so i'd love to hear from you. but for now, back to

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next. all right. let's head to westminster once again this morning. see if we can talk to the shadow chief secretary to the shadow chief secretary to the treasury, darren jones, who joins us now. good to see you this morning, can we start off talking vat because the conservatives say you've got a £385 conservatives say you've got a £38.5 billion black hole, and vat is the only way you're going to fill it. they're wrong, we don't have unfunded policies. all of our policies are fully

funded and fully costed, and we will not be increasing vat , nor will not be increasing vat, nor will not be increasing vat, nor will we be increasing income tax or national insurance in the course of the next parliament. if we win the election on july the 4th. >> so all right. but how do you continue to fund all of your pledges if everything is , is pledges if everything is, is based on, these various taxes which people don't have to pay like non—dom because they can move out of the country, the private education vat, which they people can pull their children out of school, if that's how you're funding all of this, unless you're basing everything else on growth, which isn't guaranteed. how is that really viewed as fully, fully funded, fully costed ? funded, fully costed? >> so our first, six steps, which is on the nhs, on schools, on, dealing with small boat crossings, tackling anti—social behaviour and switching on gb energy , is all fully funded and

energy, is all fully funded and fully costed and they're funded in the way that you've just alluded to, which is the tax loophole changes that we've set out. so vat on private school fees , private equity boss bonus fees, private equity boss bonus payments, tackling non—dom loopholes and investing in tax avoidance as well. so helping people to pay taxes properly , people to pay taxes properly, and then the windfall tax on the oil and gas, majors as well. and that revenue is all the revenue that revenue is all the revenue that we need in order to fund those six first steps, which we've set out, as i said, are fully costed and therefore fully funded. >> i mean, jeremy hunt, the chancellor unfortunately weren't able to speak to him a little bit earlier on. we had technical issues, but he is on a bit of a victory lap this morning, saying that he is essentially backed the labour party into a corner, and you will now not raise vat or you say you won't raise vat as a result of his pledges that he made in the first place? >> i mean, that'sjust he made in the first place? >> i mean, that's just not true. i mean, i kind of understand why jeremy hunt is trying to confect a story where, you know, the

tories have scored a point against the labour party and the election campaign, but it's just not it's just not correct . i not it's just not correct. i mean, rachel reeves, our shadow chancellor, has been consistently clear even before the general election was called, that we think the tax burden under the conservatives has become too high. it's the highest it has been in 70 years on working people, and we want that to come down because we want it to come down. we're not going to be increasing taxes on working people. so we've been very clear that those taxes i've mentioned, income tax, national insurance, vat will not be going up under a future labour government because the conservatives have taxed people too much as it is, and we want them to come down, not up. we've been saying that for months and months and months. not because, jeremy hunt, issued a press statement yesterday. >> yeah, but but that's all aspirational, isn't it? when you say i mean, it's all well and good to say to people watching and listening right now. well, you know, under a labour government, we would want your taxes to come down, but there's no guarantee or no promise that they will. >> well, no, i'm giving you that promise today that we will not be increasing national insurance, income tax or vat on

working people. but the long term sustainable approach to further tax cuts is to get growth back into the economy, because people also want their pubuc because people also want their public services funded. and we have to fix some of our public services as well. and that will take a bit of time. we've made no secret of the fact that if we win the election on july the 4th, it will be the worst fiscal inheritance that any party's received since the second world war. those six first steps fully funded, fully costed in the way i've set out, is where we start. that's our down payment on change. and then we'll have to roll up our sleeves and do the hard yards to turn the country around. >> can i ask you what's going on with diane abbott? will she be a parliamentary candidate for the labour party? >> so diane abbott is a member of the labour party . again, of the labour party. again, she's had the whip restored following the conclusion of an independent complaints process, independent complaints process, independent of any politicians keir starmer me or otherwise . keir starmer me or otherwise. and now that the general election has been called , diane election has been called, diane and other candidates that have not been endorsed yet in their

constituencies, will need to talk to the national executive committee of the labour party who make the decision on behalf of us, because we haven't got time now to do the local processes that might normally happenin processes that might normally happen in the way that i had to a few months ago, for example. so by the end of this week, i think there will be a communication from the national executive committee with all of our candidates in every seat across the country, then fully endorsed, working really hard to campaign for people to persuade them to vote labour and to vote for change. on july the fourth. >> yeah, but what appears to be clear and what is what you're being accused of by left wing members of your own party is a purge of the left because of all the people who, for whatever various reasons, currently don't have endorsements . they're have endorsements. they're people who are, to the left of the party, people who formerly were very supportive of jeremy corbyn. >> it's just not true to say that there's a purge of the of the left. there are existing labour mps who would define themselves as being on the left

of the labour party. a number of them i work with over many years, who have been endorsed as candidates and are standing for re—election as the labour candidate in their constituency at this election. if there was a purge of the left, they would be purged and they haven't been. and that's why there isn't one. >> but they're in limbo, aren't they? they haven't been endorsed by the labour party . we've got by the labour party. we've got lloyd russell—moyle, who's saying he's been suspended from the party over claims about his conduct. he's not able to clear his name. now, as parliament has been dissolved. faiza shaheen, she , has also been poised to be she, has also been poised to be suspended , she's a known as the suspended, she's a known as the chingford corbynite. this is over. chingford corbynite. this is over . tweets that she had liked over. tweets that she had liked on the platform x. then of course, we have diane abbott, which is all about this letter that was in the observer over a year ago. all three of these people are corbynites . you can people are corbynites. you can see why you are being accused of this left wing purge of your party. >> well, look, all three of those examples are examples of colleagues who, unfortunately,

are in an independent complaints process at this stage in the election in which, you know, it's a difficult place to be because you can't be endorsed as a candidate. if that's the case. and look, it's not for me to define some of my colleagues, but if i point to, you know, andy mcdonald or ian lavery or other people who are zarah sultana, who i've worked with in this parliament, who are on the left of the party, they are endorsed to run as labour mps in their respective constituencies. but the key point here is that this factionalism, the story of factionalism, is not really relevant. it's fictitious and created to try to create a narrative. the labour party is back in the service of the country. we put the country first. the party second. we're all working really hard to set out the change we think this country needs and hoping to persuade people to vote for that change on july the 4th, with brilliant candidates in every constituency across the country who have all been working enormously hard to try to secure the trust and support of voters in their respective constituencies. that's the offer that we're putting forward at this election change. if people

vote for it on july the 4th, we're just about out of time in 20s. >> is it sensible for keir starmer to be out campaigning with vaughan gething today? who is certainly a bit of a tainted character at the moment? >> i don't think it's fair to say vaughan gething is a tainted character. >> i mean, there's been a political attempt in cardiff to have a poppadom , but i'm sure have a poppadom, but i'm sure he'll be fine in dealing with that. and we've got a very proud record to stand on with our colleagues in welsh, labour. and keir is there today campaigning with vaughan and welsh labour to set out how a change in westminster can deliver a change in wales as well. >> okay, darren jones, we're out of time. good to see you this morning. thank you so much for your time. >> all right. that's it from us. we'll see you tomorrow. up next, britain's newsroom with andrew and bev >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's a case of sunny

spells and showers today, but it is going to be breezy, giving a cooler feel for some of us. so through this morning we've got a band of rain across parts of northern wales, into the midlands and the southeast. that's gradually going to sink its way southwards. it's going to break up through the morning and that will leave a case of sunny spells, but also some heavy showers breaking out. some of these could be on the thundery side as well, showers still persisting across parts of northern ireland and scotland. but they're going to be lighter here than what we saw on wednesday . otherwise highs of here than what we saw on wednesday. otherwise highs of up to 18 or 19 degrees, but a brisk wind coming in from the north so exposed to that it will feel quite chilly as we go through the evening. we've got showers continuing across the south—east of england again, still heavy at times through this evening. they're going to be slowly moving their way south and further towards the west. some late sunny spells and across northern ireland. still a few showers persisting and for parts of scotland as well. mixed in with some late sunshine as well. but we have still got that brisk wind coming in from the north.

so as we go through thursday evening and into the overnight period, any showers should gradually continue to sink their way southwards, breaking up and fading away. that will leave plenty of areas with some clear spells at times, but we are still going to hold on to quite a lot of cloud, especially across parts of north eastern england into the southeast , with england into the southeast, with some patchy rain here. otherwise, towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. but under the clear skies, temperatures falling into the single figures. so a mixed start on friday morning. plenty of dry weather around, especially further west that you are. but across eastern parts, especially across parts of yorkshire and down into east anglia in the southeast. cloudier conditions here with some outbreaks of generally light rain, but best of the brightness is going to be focused across the west, chilly in the east but further towards the west. that's where we'll see highs of 18 or 19 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

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gb news. >> 930 on thursday, the 30th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning to you. so it's >> very good morning to you. so wsfime >> very good morning to you. so it's time up for diane abbott, the veteran mp tells sir keir starmer. i won't be intimidated as she fights to remain the mp for hackney north and stoke newington. this is a big mess for labour and lawless britain, i'm afraid. >> horror on the streets of london is three adults are in hospital and one child are in a critical or in a critical condition. after a drive by shooting and cynical junior doctors, the british medical association have come under fire for announcing a six day junior doctors strike, ending two days before the polls open on july. >> the fourth. what a

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