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 coincidence .

coincidence. >> i'm booted out for taylorswift. homeless people are being removed from edinburgh to make room for taylor swift fans for her show next month . for her show next month. >> she doesn't know anything about that. >> i bet she doesn't. and if she's reading the papers, she'll know. it's an appalling decision, isn't it.7 >> so i think what's happening is that the homeless people who would be normally put up in local authority hotels, are being moved out to make space for the taylor swift fans. is that the right thing to do.7 if that the right thing to do? if it's a private business, presumably you have a choice to who you want to have in your hotel. gbnews.com/yoursay for all your thoughts this morning. that and a lot more to come between now and midday. first though, tatiana sanchez with the . news. >> beth thank you. the top stories this morning. two bodies have been found in the search for a father and son who went

missing during a hiking trip in the scottish highlands. tom parry, who's 49, and his 12 year old son ritchie, were due to return to their cheshire home yesterday after visiting glen nevis and glen coe in scotland. their car was found in the three sisters car park in glen coe, where they'd stopped on tuesday to go hillwalking. in other news, the chancellor has accused labour of having a secret plan to raise vat despite rachel reeves ruling it out in a statement last night, the shadow chancellor reaffirmed labour's commitment not to increase income tax , national insurance income tax, national insurance or vat. but jeremy hunt accused miss reeves of failing to make up her mind. shadow chief secretary to the treasury darren jones told gb news the chancellor isn't being upfront. >> i mean, that'sjust chancellor isn't being upfront. >> 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 in the

election campaign, but it's just 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. >> sir keir starmer is in wales today to campaign alongside first minister vaughan gething, who's facing a no confidence vote next week. the labour leader is expected to recommit to investing in britain's steel industry amid concerns over job losses at port talbot steelworks. it's understood he'll also outline plans to cut nhs waiting times and recruit more teachers and police officers . and a child is among officers. and a child is among four people shot near a restaurant in hackney in east london. police were called to kingsland high road at 9:20 last night. they say the child remains in a serious condition. no arrests have yet been made . no arrests have yet been made. for the latest stories, sign up

to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now back to andrew and . bev. now back to andrew and. bev. >> all right. good morning. it's 934. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner. >> well, it won't go away for laboun >> well, it won't go away for labour. it's a complete mess from start to finish. diane abbott, the veteran labour mp, now says she will stand in the upcoming general election by any means possible. in other words, if they try and kick her out as a labour candidate, she'll stand as an independent. >> amazing this. they've really messed this up. she directly addressed labour leader sir keir starmer yesterday, telling him that she won't be intimidated. it isn't just abbott's future as a labour mp that's under question. lloyd russell—moyle has said that he had been suspended by the party and could not stand under the party's banner at the next election. >> he's in a brighton seat but this is a really interesting point. pfizer shaheen, who ran ian duncan—smith within about 1200 votes at the last election

in his chingford constituency. she was deselected. yes today for the chingford and woodford constituency over some past posts and social media, both of them corbynites coincidental? >> possibly not with starmer right to throw diane abbott out of the party. so joining us now is former mp labour mp bill rammell and former adviser to david cameron, philip blonde. good morning gentlemen , let's good morning gentlemen, let's start with you then. bill. this has been handled horribly. and there's sort of a whiff of, dishonesty about it. if keir starmer wants to clear out some of the corbynites , maybe he just of the corbynites, maybe he just should come out and be clear about that . about that. >> look, i'm a has been, but i don't think this has been our finest hour, look, i've had many disagreements with diane abbott, but she is a significant figure. she was the first black female mp. she's made a significant contribution to british politics, she did do wrong. i mean, you know, the statement

she made, that , there was she made, that, there was prejudice against jews, but not racism was wrong, albeit she apologised immediately. but the process has gone on for too long. my understanding, as best i can, is that a putative deal had been done whereby the whip would be restored to diane abbott. so she came back as a labour mp, but she would then retire with grace and dignity from parliament. that was torpedoed when someone within the labour party not, i hasten to add, the leader's office, said that she wouldn't be allowed to stand under any circumstances . keir allowed to stand under any circumstances. keir has allowed to stand under any circumstances . keir has now allowed to stand under any circumstances. keir has now said no decision has been made and technically that's true. it's for the nec next tuesday. but i actually hope, given the risks of this distracting from from labour's positive campaign for change, that she is allowed to stand next tuesday before we bnngin stand next tuesday before we bring in our other guests. >> bill, if i can pick you up on a couple of points in. good morning to you. firstly you do not know it was whether it was

starmers office that briefed that story, which was on the front page of the times. it was written by a very authoritative correspondent who knows labour very well, and secondly, hasn't keir starmer got questions to answer because as recently as march he was saying this is an ongoing disciplinary process about diana. but in fact, the labour's only see concluded its inquiry in december and diane abbott completed an online course about anti semitism. so hasn't he got questions to answer about his own role in this affair. >> well, on your first point, andrew, i, i, you know, i'm not in the know, but i'm reading detailed briefings in press where it's clearly been briefed that this wasn't , a briefing that this wasn't, a briefing from keir's office. secondly the process has gone on too long. yes from what i read, it concluded in december, but since then, there's been further dialogue between the nec and diane about a further apology . diane about a further apology. and that's been protracted. but i'm not defending it. you know ,

i'm not defending it. you know, this was an open and shut case, and it should have been concluded much sooner. we are now where we are, and as i say, ihope now where we are, and as i say, i hope given that opinion is hardening on all sides. and there is risks to keir, not for now, but for the longer term . now, but for the longer term. you know, three years into a labour government, he'll need support across the party. and the diane abbott decision is concerning not just the left but people in the centre. and the right of the labour party. it now needs to be dealt with. and ihope now needs to be dealt with. and i hope that, allows diane to stand as a candidate next tuesday. >> let's bring philip blonde in. philip blonde, it is an extraordinary position where somebody like me is writing in the daily mail that diane abbott has been turned into an unlikely martyr by keir starmer. i do not agree with her politics. i think she's far too hardline and left wing and extreme, but it appears to me she's been bullied . a 70 to me she's been bullied. a 70 year old woman who's been virtually bullied out of the party virtually bullied out of the party by virtually bullied out of the party by people who must be

thinking they were acting with the good wishes of the labour leader. and, as bill rammell says, she's an iconic figure. the first ever black woman mp she's taught in black history month. she's taught him politics lessons. she will be an iconic figure forever . figure forever. >> yeah, yes she will. and i think the original offence was should have been apologised for, but it was hardly the worst case of anti—semitism in labour. and i think she spoke awkwardly , i think she spoke awkwardly, which, you know, she has a history of doing, and i think she was basically trying to say that black people can't escape the colour of their skin , the colour of their skin, whereas others can. and she didn't express that well. but i'm against cancel culture. i'm against kind of excluding people because their opinions differ, so two points really in response to that, i think keir starmer has done extremely well and is very strong on antisemitism, and we know that a large portion of

the left is captured by it. so i think he deserves plaudits for excluding clear anti—semitism and those who advocate it from the party, including , letting an the party, including, letting an mp be elected under the labour banner but not supporting them . banner but not supporting them. i just don't see quite banner but not supporting them. ijust don't see quite how diane i just don't see quite how diane abbott falls into that category and therefore i it's kind of something you see on all sides of the party, which is a very centralised control of who gets to be an mp. and there's a rule that means you end up with kind of quite mediocre mps who parrot a standard line and in the end, if you look where our country is, which is polarising rapidly, were the majority populist vote has no representatives . that is has no representatives. that is a concern for the legitimacy of democracy . and this is as true

democracy. and this is as true of the conservative party, which you get, once again, is managing the lists and putting liberals into seats. as it is of the labour party. so, so i think that that the point is, is we need voices that differ from the norm , if our democracy is to norm, if our democracy is to retain legitimacy. and that's why probably like you, andrew, not my politics, but i don't think she should be excluded from parliament, bill, it's not been a great week for labour in this election campaign, has it? do you think you felt like the sort of momentum sort of stuttered a little bit this week ? >> 7- >> look, i 7 >> look, i think ? >> look, i think we're talking i think we're talking about the last day or so, and i think this needs to be nipped in the bud. it needs to be made clear. i hope that diane will be allowed to stand as a labour candidate. but there is a broader context. you know , keir has shown real

you know, keir has shown real strength of leadership by rooting anti—semitism out of the labour party, kicking jeremy corbyn out of the labour party. and i think that is part of the way he has changed the labour party and dragged it back to the centre ground. but you know, diane abbott is not jeremy corbyn. corbyn always thought he was bigger than the labour party. that's never been the way diane has projected herself and i just hope that, you know, this won't do irreparable damage. but there is a risk at the moment. this is dominating the headlines. it's distracting us from the positive agenda for change, and it needs to be dealt with. and i think it needs to be dean with. and i think it needs to be dealt with quickly. and if i, you know, i'm a very strong supporter of keir starmer. but one criticism i would make that at times of crisis , sometimes at times of crisis, sometimes the decision making is too slow. this needs to be dealt with quickly . quickly. >> the philip bill ramos says he's been very hard on anti—semitism in the labour party. when keir starmer was

leader of the labour party, a number of people quit the front bench in protest at the rampant anti—semitism in the labour party. keir starmer wasn't one of them. he carried on serving in starmer shadow cabinet in 20, backed him at the 2017 election, backed him at the 2017 election, backed him at the 2017 election, backed him at the 2019 election. that doesn't smack to me of being strong on anti—semitism until he took over as leader. >> well , andrew, you until he took over as leader. >> well, andrew, you and i both know that if you're a career politician , then it's all you politician, then it's all you essentially have to maintain your position until you can make a difference. look i would exclude, rigorously anybody with anti—semitic, kind of overtones from from the parties. i think that's right . and i've said that's right. and i've said that, but i think we can't gainsay keir starmer on this. i think i think , he supported think i think, he supported jeremy corbyn because he had to i don't think any, any of us felt that, you know, felt that he in his heart did. and when

he's in a position of power to make a difference, he has. and so i think, i think that's , so i think, i think that's, that's how all politicians who aspire to leadership behave. so i think i can't really join you in that criticism. i think that what instead we need to look at is we now have, a significantly polarised , country. we've got polarised, country. we've got actually rampant anti—semitism on our streets. the, the anti—semites and the free palestine movement have merged. and there's we've got wars of minorities on minorities. and so it's we need as a democracy in the middle of this polarisation, if we don't want to go down the american route to kind of be as broad as we can in, in creating a new consensus and i don't like the, the authoritarian

centralism, if you forgive the phrase that that we see from both parties, because that means that the population at large is at several times removed from our representatives, and that will harm democracy. >> yeah , a great point to finish on. >> former labour mp bill rammell and former adviser to david cameron, philip blonde there. i think the other thing for me is it makes me slightly worry is this is a labour issue about my racism was worse than your racism, which is effectively what diane abbott was trying to say in that article. >> black people get it much worse than jewish people, and there's a sense that people want to move beyond that sort of identity politics at the moment in this country. >> i don't want to be staring down the barrel of several years of those sorts of debates about who has who has it worse, because what people really want is to know who is going to deal with law and with law and order. >> cost of living. they're the bread and butter issues. but, but, but this could have been handled a lot better. and we now learn that the labour is only c isn't going to decide about dying up until next tuesday. well this is this is going to

run for days. >> livi has got in touch. thank you livi. labour thought they had until later in the year to get diane abbott out because if we thought the election was coming, sunak sprung the surprise election that blocked starmer's plan. there's probably a lot of truth in that. that's absolutely right, john has said this is something that should have been sorted out months ago. bad management on labour's part at jrm has said at last, two presenters i can listen to, thank you very much. jrm and craig has said diane abbott, the first black female mp and ever since has been a great example and representation of the black community. as you say, she's she can be very unpopular amongst some people, very divisive because she's got some appalling views. she can be quite grumpy in real life. i've heard quite terse and can be, i mean, let's face it, we've met quite a lot of male mps who can be a bit like that as well, and also, adam has said all they ever say about abbott is that she was the first woman black mp. it undermines that. sorry. sort of undermines that. sorry. sort of undermines when they then say that in her 37 year career, she had made a great contribution to

politics and public life. >> and she, of course, has a stonking majority in her constituency. >> yeah, 33,000 majority, one of the safest seats in the country. so if starmer doesn't tackle this, she could just come out and say, i'm going to stand, but i'm going to stand as an independent and could cost labour another seat. >> up next, lawless britain a child is in a serious condition and three adults are injured this morning after a drive by shooting outside a hackney restaurant last night. >> that's right in london. drive by shootings . we'll have the by shootings. we'll have the latest. >> sounds like we're in america, doesn't it? >> doesn't it? britain's newsroom on

gb news. greg. good morning. nine 3950 thursday morning . another thursday morning. another example of lawless britain. hideous event last night. a child is in a critical condition and three adults are injured

after a drive by shooting in london. >> police arrived at the scene after gunshots were heard near a restaurant in hackney. >> an investigation has been launched but no arrests have yet been made. >> so we're joined now by former met police detective chief inspector mike neville. mike, when you hear these, we hear these reports. you think, did they really say that was in britain? it's the sort of thing you expect in america, because we don't we don't have such a the same gun culture here. but is this happening more and more now ? now? >> well, the level of gun crime rose, slight , last year, but rose, slight, last year, but i think the it's not just the gun crime. it's the shocking nature of this crime. i mean, 12 years ago, my team dealt with a case where a young girl, a five year old girl, was shot in a shop in stockwell when three lads were shooting at another, another man. so these things do occur. but i just think, as you've highlighted, we tend to think of these things as some kind of you'd either see in the states or you're seeing some sort of drug riddled, country in south america. and it simply says to

people that , have the police, people that, have the police, you know, how they're losing control of the streets and that's a real worrying thing for people. >> it's a very young population in hackney, mike, population is about 260,000 people, 47% of the population come from black and global majority groups with the largest 21% being black or black british, 36% of the population are white british, it does raise some questions. i think this issue about crime , poverty, issue about crime, poverty, young men in particular, and how we tackle that issue on top of major punishments as well. >> absolutely. i mean, the big thing , the only way really the thing, the only way really the police can target these things on the streets is by stop and search and of course, stop and search and of course, stop and search is very unpopular in in places like hackney. but we've got to be honest about this and say that there's a real problem with young black men and, and violent crime. we don't know the suspects here, but when it comes

to knife robbery, for example, we know that 60% of the knife robbery, knife murders in london are by young black men. young black men are often the victim of these, things as well. and they represent about 2% of the population of london. so it's a it's a real big problem. the police are almost, have their hands tied, you know, they're damned if they do and they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't, and so it's really hard if you're that young officer on the street. and not only that, but we also see that we still walk around in a victorian way with a piece of wood in a, in a police officer's trousers, a truncheon or a taser at the most, and so we have to rethink how do we do policing when we've got incidents like this occurring and we shouldn't forget the police and crime commissioner for london, mike is sadiq khan, and he is the one who wants some less stop and search. absolutely. and what you have, though , andrew, is you have, though, andrew, is you have, though, andrew, is you have both main parties who have to share some blame here. it was theresa may who's a conservative

who did her best to reduce, stop and search. and then you've got and search. and then you've got a labour, sadiq khan also, trying to reduce stop and search. right. so you've got two you. yeah. the tories have been in power a long time. >> the clocks beating us. mike. good to see you again as always, don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom. catherine has your very important weather. >> 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 . 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. 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

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for diane abbott . the veteran mp for diane abbott. the veteran mp says to excuse me , sir keir says to excuse me, sir keir starmer. she's not going to be intimidated. and will fight to remain the mp for hackney north and stoke newington, which could mean she'll run as an independent. >> so lawless britain horror on the streets of london last night. three adults are in hospital and one child is in a critical condition after a drive by shooting in hackney . by shooting in hackney. >> cynical junior doctors? you bet. the british medical association has come under fire for announcing a six day junior doctor strike just before the general election. >> do you collect loyalty? bonus points on your weekly food shop? there are warnings this morning that doing so could lead you to overspend . that's right . overspend. that's right. so that's from which the consumer group i trust, which they're one of the organisations that i they're one of the organisations thati do they're one of the organisations that i do trust anymore, to be

honest, i used to have a bonus card because waitrose is my local supermarket, but i lost it and i've never bothered. >> i've never bothered with it again because it was rubbish. >> there are some that don't really seem to generate a huge amount of benefits, are there? and there are some shops that do really well with them. but you will have noticed at home the pnces will have noticed at home the prices which go up now if you don't have the store card, the little local tesco i've noticed. yes. big time it's can be 25% difference. absolutely. which of course is a way of forcing you onto their database and then they can use and sell your data. >> i've resisted . >> i've resisted. >> i've resisted. >> welcome to the future you. but you see, sometimes you get to the end of the bill and you think, i can't resist that? it's such a huge amount of money, you know, especially if you're buying for a family with loads of kids and stuff. it's very difficult. let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay is the place to talk to us first though. your very latest news with tatiana sanchez. >> beth. thank you. the top stories this hour. two bodies have been found in the search for a father and son who went

missing during a hiking trip in the scottish highlands. tom parry, who's 49, and his 12 year old son ritchie, were due to return to their cheshire home yesterday after visiting glen nevis and glencoe in scotland. their car was found in the three sisters car park in glencoe, where they'd stopped on tuesday to go hillwalking . the to go hillwalking. the chancellor has accused labour of having a secret plan to raise vat, despite rachel reeves ruling it out . in a statement ruling it out. in a statement last night, the shadow chancellor reaffirmed labour's commitment not to increase income tax , national insurance income tax, national insurance or vat. but jeremy hunt accused miss reeves of failing to make up her mind . shadow chief up her mind. shadow chief secretary to the treasury darren jones told gb news the chancellor is not being upfront . chancellor is not being upfront. >> i mean, that'sjust chancellor is not being upfront. >> 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 in the election campaign, but it's just

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 beenin 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. >> sir keir starmer is in wales today to campaign alongside first minister vaughan gething, who's facing a no confidence vote next week. the labour leader is expected to recommit to investing in britain's steel industry amid concerns over job losses at port talbot's steelworks. it's understood he'll also outline plans to cut nhs waiting times and recruit more teachers and police officers . a child is among four officers. a child is among four people shot near a restaurant in hackney in east london. police were called to kingsland high road at 9:20 last night. they say the child remains in a serious condition. no arrests have yet been made. former

scotland yard detective peter bleksley told gb news violence is an increasing problem in the caphal >> all actually 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 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 . possibly loss of life. >> ireland's national police and security service are involved in an operation to remove an asylum seeker camp in dublin city centre. it's after dozens of tents were placed along dublin's grand canal over several days. the government says it's not

possible to provide accommodation to all of the male arrivals. latest figures show there were close to 2000 applicants awaiting an offer of accommodation. contractors were seen installing barriers around the site early this morning . the site early this morning. international news now israel's military says it's taking control of a buffer zone along the gaza strip, effectively giving it control over the palestinian territories land border. it comes as israel continues heavy strikes on rafah, where half of gaza's population had taken refuge. israel's offensive has prompted an outcry from global leaders, with an airstrike on sunday killing at least 45 people. foreign editor for jewish killing at least 45 people. foreign editor forjewish news foreign editor for jewish news geotherm confino told gb news it's part of benjamin netanyahu's effort to contain hamas. this is where hamas has been smuggling weapons and other things into gaza . things into gaza. >> israel said they found 20 tunnels that crossed into egypt . tunnels that crossed into egypt. so this is a very significant

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alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites. now back to andrew and . bev. and. bev. >> very good morning. it's 1007 >> very good morning. it's1007 here on britain's newsroom on gb news. let's have a look at what you've been saying at home. a lot of you are sort of conflicted about this diane abbott story, particularly saying how come andrew is suddenly so sympathetic to diane abbott, given that you haven't been for many years? >> no, i've never been sympathetic to her, ever. i've opposed just about everything she's ever said or done. but she's ever said or done. but she's been bullied. >> yeah . oh. >> yeah. oh. >> yeah. oh. >> karl says diane abbott is the first black woman in parliament. should have been a shining example of how society has changed. however, her attitude towards people who are not like her is a clear demonstration of the very thing that made her appointment such big news only appued appointment such big news only applied in the reverse direction . he said she should be called out for this sort of hypocrisy . out for this sort of hypocrisy. vie, steve has said, lived on the islington hackney border my

whole life. the hackney, of course, is where the shooting happened last night. not the first shooting on my doorstep. this one was only 200m away from my door. multiple stabbings weekly never reported drugs rife which fuel this weed and crack smoked on the streets with impunity. please turn a blind eye until the shootings happen. it's always too late. and we're so sorry to hear that. >> and where is sadiq khan on all of this? when do we ever hear from him on it? you know, hear from him on it? you know, he said last week he was in rome talking to the pope about global warming. what an outrage when he's the police and crime commissioner for the capital. >> keep your messages coming. gb news. com forward slash your say. i'm just looking and sadiq khan has not tweeted out anything this morning about the shooting in hackney because he was tweeting about shooting and stabbing in london. >> he'll be doing it every day. yeah. >> we're joined now by the editor at large for the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths. charlotte, great to see you. this morning, specifically on the diane abbott story. then let's let's start there. this is what are we on thursday? it's been a busy week for labour, and there've been quite a few setbacks, it feels in their

campaign this week, none more so than this. it reflects very badly on them, doesn't it? >> it's so unedifying. and they're supposed to be the anti chaos party and nothing is more chaotic . and i read your piece chaotic. and i read your piece today andrew. i mean if keir starmer has got you sticking up for diane abbott then he's made a bit of a blunder hasn't he. >> hasn't you know that extraordinary. >> yeah. it's it is extraordinary actually to see. but it's just it is chaotic. it is chaotic. and now he's saying he's not going to make it in until tuesday, this seems very unedifying. >> challenge his, his own role in this because he's been saying constantly this is an independent process . whether independent process. whether she's readmitted to the labour party over a letter she wrote in the observer, the observer clearly didn't think it was a racist, anti—semitic letter. those wouldn't have published the wretched thing. but look, i think the letter was offensive. so why does it take a year? but then we discover , actually the then we discover, actually the inquiry was done in december, and he was telling us as recently as march, the inquiry is ongoing. he wasn't telling the truth . the truth. >> i think this is the first proper outright lie. i'm sure the first of many that he's been caught out on and it's, what, week one of the of the serious

campaigning and whether i mean he's saying he wasn't he didn't know he's leader of the party. >> he's a member of the national executive committee. that's been conducting the whole inquiry. and he's a control freak. yeah yeah. >> i mean, he and he's a real details man. it's actually what makes him very different from bofis makes him very different from boris and want something he's very proud of. yeah, but this is a serious detail to have overlooked. and what are we now? it's nearly june and this was concluded in december. and he didn't know, and it does it does worry me slightly that, you know, here we have yet another politician leading a party who tells outright lies and gets caught out. >> one of our viewers was in touch to say they wondered they were speculating whether this is just a case of one of the benefits, actually, for, rishi sunak of calling the election early and catching a few parties on the hoof , that they weren't on the hoof, that they weren't prepared for this. and actually, he had wanted to sort out the problem of diane abbott by the end of the year. and suddenly that opportunity was taken away from him. i wonder if that's true. >> i think it's i think it does make sense because he was probably hoping to sort this out

very subtly, very slowly, over a penod very subtly, very slowly, over a period of weeks before the november election. and if keir starmer, i mean, if rishi sunak knew that, then, you know, fair play knew that, then, you know, fair play to him. this is a political win for him, isn't it? >> he and he's back. and of course, he bounced reform as well because they weren't ready for an election. but the other thing this will play look, labour's already in trouble with the muslim votes because of its position on not calling for an unconditional ceasefire in gaza. this is going to really alienate a lot of black voters who traditionally vote labour, too, and think of afro—caribbean diane abbott's from jamaican immigrants, the son of daughter of jamaican immigrants. i mean, he's managing to alienate core part of the labour vote. >> that was the first thing i thought. i thought, you know, if this goes badly, african and canbbean this goes badly, african and caribbean people will will not vote for him, won't bother. you know, black lives matter. that is a big movement. and her life matters and the end of her career matters and should have been handed handled in a dignified way, given that she was the first ever black female mp. i mean, i mean, that is just

thatis mp. i mean, i mean, that is just that is a fact, i'm afraid. and he should have found a way to do it diplomatically. >> i made the point today that she's actually part of black history month. she's taught about black history and she's taughtin about black history and she's taught in politics lessons in schools. who is the first black woman? she's always going to be. yeah, a figure of political substance just because of that in its own, which is why she needed to be treated differently. >> it is it is, and it's why it's just a very serious strategic failure and such an obvious one. and actually, if he was really racially aware of, then maybe he would have thought of this. but he didn't. >> she sounds like a bullying a 70 year old woman, yeah. >> charlotte, you live in in london and am i right? you live in quite a diverse part of london as well. >> ladbroke grove? yeah. >> ladbroke grove? yeah. >> ladbroke grove in west london, just next door to notting hill, which people will, will have heard of, we've had this shooting last night in hackney and hackney is one of the most diverse communities in london. it's a very young community there as well . more community there as well. more than 50% of the residents there are under 35, 55% are under 35

years old. there are populations which are turkish, kurdish , which are turkish, kurdish, vietnamese, orthodox, jewish communities, caribbean . it is communities, caribbean. it is one of, as we might say, one of these melting pots. it also has one of the highest crime rates, what does this tell us about changing demographics quickly in certain areas of this country? >> god. well, it just shows that we haven't united communities at all because , you know, they are all because, you know, they are saying that this could be a hackney versus tottenham gang rivalry. i'm not sure. nobody is sure which community yet, but why are we having this? i don't go to war with people in notting hill because i live in ladbroke grove, so it makes me so sad that we can't just live amongst each other like this. and yeah, it's just like notting each other like this. and yeah, it'sjust like notting hill each other like this. and yeah, it's just like notting hill in a way, because actually hackney's got a lot of very wealthy people in it as well, because it's really trendy. so these young, wealthy people from the city go and live there. and as you say, it's a young community. so there's lots of young families there. and i've got lots of young mum friends that live in

that area. and it's really sad to think that there are children getting killed in the crossfire because of some gang sort of battle that's going on, and i have to say, and i don't know if this is narrow minded of me, but i always sort of thought, i'm sure me and my children will be safe because i'm not involved in a gang and i don't get involved in turf wars. so i hopefully i'll never be killed or my children will never be killed. but actually, what we're learning is that's not the case, because when guns are involved, unlike potentially stabbings, when guns are involved, you can get caught in the crossfire to be walking near this restaurant. >> yeah, it's really sad. >> yeah, it's really sad. >> we don't know who was the target. and it's also the prevalence of guns. i mean, we always talk about knife crime, but the prevalence of guns, how where are they coming from. and what is sadiq khan doing? batus pointed out nothing from the mayor of london today about a shocking shooting in north london and he is the police and crime commissioner for london, always slagging off the tories, over quite rightly over the police numbers they cut. and he was right to do that. but he's the one who doesn't want stop and search because it disproportionately affects the black community. yeah, this , as black community. yeah, this, as bev was pointed out, it's a

largely black community in hackney. >> yeah, clearly. stop and search. we have to get over our fear of talking about stop and search. and people are calling it carnage, sadiq, carnage, you know, community carnage and it's going to take off. and yet and that's actually taking off on twitter. not one tweet from sadiq khan today. nothing i mean let alone actually standing on a podium and talking carnage. carnage, sadiq carnage. they're calling it. and that's lots of different communities are calling it carnage because , you calling it carnage because, you know, black communities also don't want to be involved in this kind of stuff, and it's obviously outliers , i think we obviously outliers, i think we do need more bobbies on the beat, and i'm afraid i do. i do think stop and search doesn't need to be this horrible, dirty word anymore because all communities want their children not to be caught in gun crossfire. >> absolutely. i'll tell you what. sadiq khan was tweeting about three hours ago. he was tweeting about no fault evictions in london. london surging by 52, saying that no fault evictions are a betrayal . fault evictions are a betrayal. the failure to ban them is a huge betrayal. >> well, i'm sure that's very

important, but what's a bigger betrayal is his failure to keep the streets safe. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> i've noticed a big change in my lifetime at the streets. and how full of christ i know you worry about. >> your kids are getting older. >> your kids are getting older. >> definitely. yeah. of course, of course. >> charlotte, stay with us for just a moment. we're going to go to somerset, see how lib dem leader sir ed davey is getting on with his campaign. he's on a paddleboard this morning. where is he today? >> another gimmick. oh, no. not on. what an idiot . on. what an idiot. >> so i'm sorry. >> it seems that ed davey campaign is becoming like a round of. it's a knockout. yeah, if you're old enough to remember, it's a knockout. >> i'm afraid i am. >> i'm afraid i am. >> what is he thinking, andrew? >> what is he thinking, andrew? >> well, he's just turning into a buffoon. so we had him yesterday cycling down a hill with his legs flapping up and down like that. and then before that, throwing himself off into the water four times from a kayak. the water four times from a kayak . what do you think,

charlotte? >> i think to get noticed. yes he is, they said with the paddle board thing that he did fall in once or twice on purpose, but the other seven times were sorry, were on purpose, not by accident. >> yeah, clearly he just wants attention. >> well, it's working, but i'm not sure. is he. is he playing like the boris card ? or i can be like the boris card? or i can be a bit of a wally and people will think, okay, this is live footage. >> here we go again. he's in somerset. >> oh. so hopefully the cameraman hasn't just slipped over on the bottom of the slide there. >> well, hopefully it doesn't collide with ed davey. >> why is he wearing it? >> why is he wearing it? >> so if you're listening on the radio, we must explain. he's obviously at a water park. he's on one of these massive inflatable slides. he came down the slide on a big yellow inflatable ring. he's now sat in a two seater. >> he's got a ring and he's captured a poor child who looks desperately scared and desperate to get away from this rather peculiar man who's clutching onto him for dear life. i'm not sure if it is a child. oh, it's another man. he's not. well, let's not let's not got in his hand. >> well, let's not read too much into this. here they go, here they go. >> down the slide. here they go

down the water slide. what is the man carrying in his hand is a microphone. yeah, it's a reporter. he's managed to put a reporter. he's managed to put a reporter in the front seat of his two seater yellow inflatable ring. >> and the guy's got microphone. >> can i just say to gb news if they have any idea that they want me to accompany ed davey in one of these juvenile, gimmicky stunts, i ain't doing it. >> i'd quite like that. you know, i was i'd love to go do it. >> here's my resignation. sign me up. >> i'd quite like to be in an inflatable ring with ed davey. >> she wants me to do it. she wants me to resign. that's what she means. i mean, there's a bit of fun, and. but this is just too much gimmick. >> i just wonder whether. because he's appealing to those sort of surrey voters where everything's all sunny and nice and sweet. maybe that's what he's trying to do. he doesn't really want to draw attention to gun crime, or maybe knife crime or really serious issues. >> today he's trying to be the playful, well, a lot of his, a lot of his photo stunts, which is what they are, are around water. so he's trying to raise awareness and people feel really strongly about and they do clean rivers, clean seas. >> we'll talk about that rather

than make yourself look a complete that's a water park. >> that is a water park. >> that is a water park. >> but i guess william hated the water park many years ago and proceeded with his baseball cap on. ridiculed. >> yeah, that ruined his career for a long time. >> really did. and i think this is i think he's becoming a laughing stock. >> i think you guys should be racing commentators, by the way, because you stated very well on that slide. >> he was in a slightly better shape. it might work better, maybe not as tight. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> every time you wear tight clothes, you draw attention to his belly. it's not very nice. >> belly is hanging over those shorts. he's not a good look for the man who would be prime minister, henry nye. >> if he wants to be prime minister. and a jacket. >> yes. and he hasn't got the legs for it either. >> honestly. listen to brad pitt here. you're having a go at it. >> but i wouldn't do it. i wouldn't do it. i'd like to see you do that. >> that would entertain me for days. >> just say if gb news have any plans. i'm not doing it, charlotte. >> thank you. charlotte griffiths. thank you so much. right. our doctors using you. the patients, members of the bma are set to strike. oh, guess what a week before the general election. is it a political

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gb news. >> 1023 was britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. the noise. you can hear is carole malone going through her notes and the political commentator jonathan lewis is here as well. morning to you both. good morning. carol you probably nearly fell off your chair when you saw me writing positive things about carole malone in the mail today about carole malone >> so freudian slip . yeah. no, >> so freudian slip. yeah. no, neven >> so freudian slip. yeah. no, never, never know about diana stone. >> ever . stone. >> ever. i mean, you and i have probably have always agreed with diana, but we've never agreed with a word she's ever said, but never agree with a single word she's ever said. >> however, what i couldn't believe is the way starmer starmer and his cohorts have treated her. because whatever however you look at her, she's been a loyal cohort of the labour party for the last 35 years. she's been an mp, i think for 35 or 36, 37, 37 years, and, you know, and do i think she

should be standing as an mp? no, i don't, i think i think she makes too many gaffes. i think she says stupid things. she plays the race card too often for my liking. and she upsets people. and that's one of the reasons she'd been suspended because of a of a supposedly anti—semitic remark that she made. so do i think she should be standing? no. do i think she should be afforded some kind of respect, some kind of humanity? having served the party for that long? yes, i do, and i think the way i think this says everything you need to know about starmers labour party, this is the party that actually doesn't give a stuff about women generally, no matter women leader , they've matter women leader, they've thrown a few women into positions in the past year knowing that, you know, the elections coming up, but they they generally are not cognisant of the importance of women in this country. so i think i think they've treated her appallingly. i do as i say, i do think she is a liability. that's it. >> it's slightly smacks of this sort of i'm sorry, jonathan, but the left sometimes do this hashtag be kind, but only to certain people that we think it's fashionable to be kind to at a certain point in time, this

woman, regardless of what you think of her character, her communication skills, her her, her politics, she is totemic for that period of time for to be the first black woman we know. we keep saying it, but that was blazing a serious trail. absolutely >> look, i would say that it's not the left that's in charge of the labour party. the left has talked about be kind . they are talked about be kind. they are the ones currently being kicked out, so that's i look, i kind of i think we might have a rare note of agreement on this panel. i'm sure. nothing to do with political point scoring. andrew gwynne. no no no no no, but look, diane abbott, she's been a brilliant mp. and if you look at the things she was saying, the 80s, the 90s, she was an absolute trailblazer, such an iconic individual and so inspirational for so many people inspirational for so many people in this country, not just black people, also people, you know, on the left, people who are interested in progressive politics. i would not say that keir starmer has a woman problem, carol. i say that he has a problem with the left and we see keir starmer is the man who said not to very long ago we must the labour party must throw

a protective arm around diane abbott to protect her from all the racist abuse she gets. >> how does that square with what he's just done to her? >> very publicly? i mean, look, i starmer is clearly surrounded by people with a visceral loathing of the left and jeremy corbyn. i think that we can all agree with that. it's not something i approve of, but i think, you know, speaking completely dispassionately, that's what's happening. and i don't think that starmer wakes up in the morning with new ideas to hurt diane abbott. but clearly there are clearly there are people who have botched this completely. they did give her back the whip so she could. so if she is going to leave parliament today because parliament today because parliament is dissolved today, then she can leave as a labour, as a labour mp with her head held high that she now she now she says she wants to stand. and obviously starmer is saying that she hasn't been banned from standing so well. >> no, he wasn't saying either or actually he was. he was denied that she'd been banned. >> but hang on, just to be clear, here, the she agreed. she got the whip restored. so she's back in the labour party. she's

very happy. she's got this dignified exit. so she can stand down at the age of 70 as a labour mp. and then she reads with horror a front page story in the times coming out that evening, which says definitively she's been banned from standing, written by a correspondent who's very plugged into the labour party . and i would be certain party. and i would be certain the source came from starmer's office, i'm sure. why else? why else? >> how so ? >> how so? >> how so? >> look, andrew, look, i don't you can't you can't be saying if it's come from starmer's office, he's not responsible because he is. what does that say about him as a leader? >> well, if he's not know that there are people in all kinds of political offices who don't get things right, who come on this line and go above their pay grade. look, okay, okay, i'm not saying i'm not saying it's been handled well. >> let's go back a bit farther now. come on. because i'm not going to have this about him not breathing back in. he's been saying now for months that this is an ongoing process. the investigation into anti—semitic ism. it is not an ongoing process. it was finished in december. the investigation is finished in december, not been denied. so he knew that and he still saying it's an ongoing process. so he has no all the way along. so he is very aware

think. >> well i think he's actually lying. >> well look, look, when he said that i don't know what he knew when he said the process had was still ongoing. it might well have been . i mean, look, if have been. i mean, look, if i suppose you could have a generous reading that says the process is still ongoing, the nec hasn't decided whether the labour whip hasn't decided whether to. >> he's a he's a leader of the party, a control freak, leader of the party. quite right. he's a member of labour's nec committee, which concluded in december . the investigation committee, which concluded in december. the investigation was over and her punishment was to do a two hour online course on anti—semitism. he did know that, andrew, and yet he continued to say it was an ongoing process smacks it to me. he's lying . smacks it to me. he's lying. >> yes. >> yes. >> i am extremely thrilled to tell you that i'm not a keir starmer's spokesman, and i don't know what happened like it was mine. look, if keir starmer look, i would welcome a journalist asking starmer exactly what he knew about diane abbott. but i think that and you think we'd get a straight answer. the fundamental point is that i believe that diane abbott should be given the right to

stand again in hackney, north and stoke if she wants . and stoke if she wants. >> what starmer has done now as laboun >> what starmer has done now as labour, starmer as labour. >> starmer hasn't ensured her longevity. now she probably was going to slip away quietly . going to slip away quietly. >> i mean, it's ironic, wouldn't it, because neither the monster was going to retire. >> btec yes, she was going to retire because my mistake and now she's not very well won't retire and she probably should, but now she won't. as i said, she's become a martyr. >> there's a broader conversation here, which i am happy to have about the way that laboun happy to have about the way that labour, the labour leadership, is treating members of the left. you had faiza shaheen, who i think is brilliant, is astonishing. a completely horrifying came within 1200 votes of getting iain duncan smith in chingford, and it was very powerful for her because you know her, you know, her mother died and she blamed the benefit system for that. and obviously duncan smith was the architect of that benefit system. it was very, very personal for her, and she was looking forward to sort of taking the political fight to end duncan smith in a seat that is very winnable for labour now. and i just feel so, so sad for her that this happened. and then also, you know, you have a really difficult a related issue about lloyd. lloyd russell—moyle , labour mp for brighton

kemptown, who announced yesterday that there had been a complaint made because a complaint made because a complaint made because a complaint made about him, which means that he's now suspended and unable to stand all the complaints that were made about the tories in the past two years, where labour demanded that there were immediately. i'm not carol, i'm not i'm not issuing any kind of judgement on the substance of the allegation. i'm saying that there is a problem in politics when someone can make a complaint right in the window where if you have a suspension , then you are not suspension, then you are not going to be able to be a labour mp or an mp. >> sorry, a lot of a lot of tory ministers had complaints made against them , and the demand against them, and the demand from labour was that they be suspended immediately while investigations were going. >> i don't know what the answer is, but it is a problem when people just before we wrap up this section, let's just take a little look at ed davey. >> i want both of your opinions on this. this is ed davey, a water park. this morning promoting the liberal democrats trying to win your vote. here he is. >> what a joke . >> what a joke. >> what a joke. >> it's a joke he's in on. i think it's brilliant. no one's talking about lib dems. >> he looks ridiculous. well,

they are now for the wrong reason. >> people. look, if you if you like, he's weeing himself. he looks like he's enjoying himself. >> looks like he's weeing himself. there's a difference. maybe he is . himself. there's a difference. maybe he is. he makes himself. there's a difference. maybe he is . he makes pratfalls maybe he is. he makes pratfalls and they just again, he's still weeing himself, i mean, and a politician who makes pratfalls and is in on the joke why boris johnson do that? >> seriously, why would you do that? >> because he wants to show that he doesn't take himself seriously, and he's in on the joke and we're talking about him. >> he looks like a pillock. >> he looks like a pillock. >> no, he doesn't, he does, he doesn't. >> he looks like a pillar. >> he looks like a pillar. >> he looks like a pillar. >> he looks like he looks honestly, it's a bit like that moment. >> with what? his name er, kinnock. where he fell in the sea. >> i was different, kinnock wasn't in on the joke. >> none of you have been on the joke. if you wasn't a joke and you look foolish, it's not. >> i think politicians take themselves too seriously. let's ask our viewers and listeners, do you think it's clever politics by ed davey, or do you think he's making a complete laughing stock of himself? >> gb news comment your say? let us know your thoughts first though. thank you both jonathan and carol. tatiana has the headlines.

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>> so we're crossing over now to labour leader sir keir starmer, who's launching the party's election campaign in wales.

>> and thank you all for that. incredibly warm reception. when we walked in. it was fantastic to see everybody in the room . to see everybody in the room. such a great feeling. and abergavenny, what an amazingly beautiful place. what a beautiful place. what a beautiful constituency. we arrived last night. the sun was shining. it was absolutely stunning. not long ago vic and i and the kids were at crickhowell. we holidayed up there and, you know, it's a really beautiful part of wales . really beautiful part of wales. and many people in this room will have been to the bear pub, i'm sure, in crickhowell. the food there is, if you haven't been, make sure you go before you leave this part of the world. and as caroline harris will attest. vic and i holiday in wales. every year we go down to swansea . she looks after us to swansea. she looks after us and last year in the gower, we're in oxwich. actually, it was really, really beautiful. so i love being here and it's fantastic to be back here today in wales and what an opportunity, what an chance to

launch our campaign because rishi sunak has finally called the general election. he's given us our chance to take our case to the country. and i don't know about you, but i think wales has been waiting for this general election for a very, very long time. >> rishi sunak. sorry, that isn't rishi sunak. instead, it's only week one of the election. >> he's talking about rishi sunak. it's so frustrating, isn't it, when you want them to come on and tell us your policies are going to do. stop slagging off the rest of them. right. once we introduce you now to john and michelle rendell , to john and michelle rendell, have a very, a sad story, tragic story. and john, you're facing terminal brain cancer. yes. but you're also having to battle an insurance company at the same time. what's happened? >> tell us. so i've got a grade three astrocytoma brain tumour.

ionce three astrocytoma brain tumour. i once i was diagnosed, i tried to do my claim with, my insurance company and was rejected. it was then they then also cancelled my life insurance and also cancelled my wife's policies as well. >> and this is zurich insurance zunch >> and this is zurich insurance zurich and their point was because you you'd had some dizzy spells which you hadn't told them about. they say dizzy spells equates to, a brain tumour, which there's no medical evidence to support that. >> and the guy i was talking to suddenly turned into some medical profession . medical profession. >> they ignored all of the medical profession they ignored. >> i was with king's college hosphal >> i was with king's college hospital. they ignored them. king's college hospital were the experts there. so i had my surgeries with. that's who i've been with the whole time, they ignored them to the point where they actually weren't even replying to emails. and the policy that they weren't paying out and you were expecting

£25,000? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> that was a critical illness claim. >> critical illness because you've got a critical illness. clearly it couldn't be more critical, could it. >> no brain tumour. >> no brain tumour. >> and but they flatly refused flatly refuse that, so they refused that early march. and then i argued it appealed it. and then they outright final response was it was the end of march. >> and why did they cancel your policies, michelle? >> well, according to them , >> well, according to them, there was no reason for it. once we once daily mail got involved as well, once they argued it with him, they then turned around and said that was a mistake, that a computer error . mistake, that a computer error. >> and then they wanted the payment for the two months that we'd missed. >> that was the other thing. they didn't ask for the money for the two months that they deleted the direct debit. >> and then they reinstated the direct debits themselves to take the money. yeah. >> michelle, you've you've got a lovely poorly husband and you're also worrying about paying the bills and what the future holds. yeah what impact is this having on you on a day to day basis?

>> i try not to think too much about the future because it does upset me, i'm kind of thinking when john does go, i'm left with a mortgage to pay, and two young children. how old are your kids? five and three. >> right ? five and three. >> right? yeah. >> right? yeah. >> so it's incredibly tough. >> so it's incredibly tough. >> and are you working ? >> and are you working? >> and are you working? >> i haven't worked since having a children. right. and that's a decision we made when we had children that i was going to stay at home and look after them and obviously look after john. now which is obviously something else. >> at £25,000 would have made a huge difference. >> yeah. so it would make a difference when john's still working and his office has been really good to him. yeah, my company have been really good. they've been really supportive. >> what do you do, john? >> what do you do, john? >> i work for a company called smart office solutions, we supply printers, photocopiers . supply printers, photocopiers. >> he does. so he's working from home. >> so you can work from home? >> so you can work from home? >> yeah. so i've been working from home doing support calls. >> and the it side of things in the, in the grand scheme of things, this amount of money is a drop in. >> yeah. it's nothing for a company like zurich. and that

must be both saddening and infuriating. >> yeah i think they could. they could make all this go away because there's been big social media side of things as well with friends, different companies , all sharing companies, all sharing everything, all their story. >> and i've read some of the statement, sir, we're sorry to hear of the very difficult circumstance . mr rendell's circumstance. mr rendell's family experiencing your terminally ill. and they're calling that difficult circumstances . how did it calling that difficult circumstances. how did it make you feel when you read that? >> i'd just find it completely insulting. >> i'm incredibly angry about the whole situation. >> angry? i feel insulted , is >> angry? i feel insulted, is angry. and the way they their letter where they their final response, anything their actual wording was we deem this a deliberate misrepresentation of yourself. so have you accused me of lying because you had dizzy spells and you didn't brush? i didn't tell them about a doctor's appointment after the policy side. and they also said in the letter , because i in the letter, because i originally went in hospital in june, but they didn't know i had brain tumour, they didn't know what it was.

>> it's a mass on the brain. >> it's a mass on the brain. >> when we first mentioned anything, right, it was just a mass of my brain. they turned around and said, if we'd known you'd gone into hospital in june, we would have cancelled your policy there and then let's see the other half of the statement from zurich. >> they say the report provided by mr rendell's gp, confirmed that he had experienced medical episodes before the policy started. mr rendell had a duty to disclose this information to us before the 1st of may 2023 as your gp been supportive. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. gp's wrote letters, there was no doctor's appointments are very rare. i'm appointments are very rare. i'm a very healthy and genuinely very healthy person. i still am considering i don't go to the. >> there was one one very slight dizzy spell in february which he thought nothing of. otherwise we would have obviously done something about it. yeah. he's not had headaches. he's not had any symptoms of having a brain tumour. even now with knowing that he's got brain tumour, he still hasn't got any symptoms. >> how long have you been with zunch >> how long have you been with zurich insurance? >> well , this is the thing. >> well, this is the thing. >> well, this is the thing. >> this was the thing we. we changed policy from. we was with royal london. right, we've been

with him a few years. we changed policy on our financial, gold as our mortgage and said this is a better deal. runs along with your mortgage, right? change we changed on the 1st of may. which side do you. >> you've got a gofundme page running now as well, haven't you? yeah how's that going? >> that's that's gone over 25,000. oh good. which is, which is the people care. >> yeah. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> we've had some really nice. >> we've had some really nice. >> we'll get the address from you.cani >> we'll get the address from you. can i ask you a very personal question, john? do you know how long you've got? >> no, no they haven't, they've i've the whole way through. they've told me it's life shortening , they've told me it's life shortening, but they've told me it's life shortening , but they haven't shortening, but they haven't said how long. at the moment i'm in a very good place. i'm. i'm fit. other than what's in my head, i am healthy. i had a i had an mri scan yesterday on my brain, yeah. yesterday >> tuesday. sorry. yeah. >> tuesday. sorry. yeah. >> sorry. yeah. so i yeah i don't know what day is and i'll find out in a few weeks the results of that and that will

tell us whether because they can only the surgeries i had, they only the surgeries i had, they only removed half the tumour. the other half is inoperable because of, veins and arteries going through it. sure. so i'm on a year of chemo now , right. on a year of chemo now, right. which is to try and control the heart. knocking you out, making me very tired. >> yeah . you finished your >> yeah. you finished your second round yesterday? yeah. so? so he was very tired. >> i'd do five days in a row of tablets. finished it yesterday morning. it does make me very tired. >> have you got support, michelle? >> we've got friends and family that are very supportive. yeah, i'd be lost without them. yeah, yeah. >> so it's the moms who kind of have to keep the ship afloat. isn't it? on time? >> and how are the little ones doing? do they know dads? >> they know that , he's got >> they know that, he's got a bad head, right? they're obviously very young. so there's only so much we can tell them in hospital. they've seen him in hospital. they've seen him in hospital. they've seen him in hospital. they know that he's not very well, but generally day to day, he's quite well. so they just add like a five and a three year old, which in some ways is good.in year old, which in some ways is good. in other bad ways it's bad. yeah. but it's tough, hasn't it? >> i'm, i'm a big arsenal fan.

>> i'm, i'm a big arsenal fan. >> bad luck didn't win. >> bad luck didn't win. >> well yes i know, i know but arsenal were were brilliant . arsenal were were brilliant. they. so i've got season ticket. yeah and one of my friends who's been doing lots of stuff for me, he contacted arsenal and they agreed for me and my son to go down to meet some of the players. how nice. after a game. yeah. so little things like that have been made. >> yeah, it's been a bad year, but we are trying to do things. >> so what's the crowd? what's your crowdfunding page called? >> how do we find it, so is it gofundme? >> a gofundme? yeah. >> a gofundme? yeah. >> there it is. support rendell family fight against brain cancer. >> cancen >> so if you put that into your google support rendell, which is if you're listening on the radio, it's spelled r e n d l e family fight against brain cancen family fight against brain cancer. and that will bring you to the justgiving. >> and i know your mp adam holloway is backing you too, isn't he? >> so what's my watch? is just said, donation . oh, brilliant.

said, donation. oh, brilliant. >> oh that's great. >> oh that's great. >> that's that's gb news readers and literally viewers already donated five. >> about five donations have just come in. thank you very much. well thank you. >> well, very best of luck. you too. can we keep in touch with you? absolutely. yeah. and let's hope they do the right thing. that insurance company. >> good luck. yeah. >> good luck. yeah. >> that's me. good luck. >> that's me. good luck. >> lovely to meet you. >> lovely to meet you. >> thank you for having us on. >> thank you for having us on. >> pleasure. right. >> pleasure. right. >> stay with us. a lot more to

>> so moving. wasn't. >> so moving. wasn't. >> it was moving . perspective >> it was moving. perspective check, isn't it? when you meet people like that and they're going through something so hellish, a couple of dizzy spells, and the insurance company says you can't have your money. honestly, i hope she looks after herself. michelle i did say to her as she left, keep. make sure you keep your tank full as well. when the families are going through something like that, the women often have to keep it all going,

right? junior doctors are striking for five days next month, but is it a coincidence it was announced on the same day that labour launched its nhs election campaign . well, let's election campaign. well, let's ask a junior doctor. bhasha mukherjee , who's been a regular mukherjee, who's been a regular on this programme. lovely to see you this morning, doctor, a coincidence. it seems like too much of a coincidence . on the much of a coincidence. on the very day labour are trying to talk about health. somewhat sidetracked by diane abbott, the bma announces five days of strike in the run up to general election. unprecedented. i've never heard of that. in all the years i've been covering general elections, look, it has to be strategic . strategic. >> we've been trying to be strategic throughout the bma , strategic throughout the bma, have been in conversation with the government for three months when the strikes were halted again and yet again. >> we're now over a year into this strike motion, and the government have still not been able to offer something reasonable. and it's really quite taxing on us as well to just keep feeling like there's hope and then the hope gets taken away. i think this is a

very strategic move by bma and also the junior doctors to essentially create some political, debate date and also right up to the elections , allow right up to the elections, allow the public to decide who they want to vote for, essentially just because ultimately the pubuc just because ultimately the public are suffering as a result. the junior doctors, they're all suffering as a result of all of this commotion that's happening. >> doctor mukherjee, do you really think a five day strike a week before a general election is going to get you a 35% pay rise? i've never heard of anything more ridiculous. this is a blatant political strike. and who cares about the patients who are going to have their appointments cancelled ? appointments cancelled? >> i think this question needs to be really asked of the government. no no, i'm asking you the question. >> i'm asking you the question because you're supporting this strike. >> yes. and i hear what you're saying in terms of patients feeling like this is going to affect them. ultimately, the dates of the strikes are also including the weekend dates when

a lot of things are, you know, on minimum, will you answer the question, do you really think this is going to elicit any more money from the government five days before a general election? we can only hope that this will. >> oh come on, come on. >> you're an intelligent woman. it's a political strike. >> it has it has to be a political strike because we're deaung political strike because we're dealing with. >> you have admitted it, then. good. you've admitted it. why didn't you say that? in the beginning? >> i've admitted that we've. throughout the whole period, this has been a strategic move to get the politicians to listen to get the politicians to listen to us. that's been the aim throughout . throughout. >> health secretaries shadow health secretary wes streeting was interviewed this morning. bashir and he said i will say now we cannot give this 35% pay increase. we just can't. so he said, we will talk to you, we will negotiate . but that's off will negotiate. but that's off the table, but you're still going ahead with the strikes. i think that's all he can say at

this stage, isn't it? >> wes streeting doesn't wield any power at this stage himself. he he, however, is stated that he's open to discussion and he's open to offering us alternatives to maybe this 35% figure. i've spoken to him myself , to maybe this 35% figure. i've spoken to him myself, and he has offered that. although this can't be done immediately, there's a possibility that this can happen over time. there needs to be conversation that needs to be conversation that needs to be continued. it's really, really saddening that after three months of conversation yet again, the government has not been able to offer us anything, anything that's reasonable at all. >> every single person in this country currently knows somebody that has been recently disappointe by the nhs, whether thatis disappointe by the nhs, whether that is seeing a gp being on a waiting list, getting treatment, it's horrific out there and as much as i think doctors should be paid probably better than they are, there is this apparent lack of compassion from doctors about how bleak the situation is for the public. >> there is nothing we can do

about it. this is the whole point of the strike. >> the strike is you can call the strike off, gaining more staff. >> we are losing junior doctors at every single year and this is adding more and more pressure. why do you think people can't get appointments with their doctors? because there aren't enough doctors. we can't get hold of doctors. we keep having to employ people on a locum rates who don't know the system. they do not get the continuity of care. you're not going to get the same level of care if you do not have staff retention. that is what this whole purpose of the strike is. >> okay. all right, doctor bhasha mukherjee good to see you again as always, we've run out of time. it's nearly 11:00 already. >> disgrace! >> disgrace! >> it's a disgrace

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>> thank you forjoining us. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you for joining us. >> so time's up for diane abbott, the veteran mp tells sir keir starmer i will not be intimidated as she fights to remain the mp for hackney north and stoke newington . and stoke newington. >> lawless britain horror on the streets of london. three adults are in hospital and one child is in a critical condition after a drive by shooting last night and booted out for taylor swift, homeless people are being removed from edinburgh to make room for taylor swift fans for her show next month , and sliding her show next month, and sliding into power is at it again. the liberal democrats are setting out their plans to fund mental health professionals for all england state schools, and here's their leader on a waterslide . waterslide. >> we were all held on the edge of our seats for a little bit too long there if you're watching on the tv, but i don't know about you. i was looking forward to watching him come

down that i know he did look at one point as if he was actually weeing himself. >> it's not a good look. >> it's not a good look. >> it's not a good look. >> i think it's brilliant. i have to say, i love this. if ed davey can keep doing these every day, it will give us something to chuckle about in this very long. but are we? >> but are we laughing with ed davey or are we laughing at him? >> oh, i'm doing a bit of both. he's definitely in on the joke. he's definitely in on the joke. he definitely knows that he's playing to the crowd and he's raising awareness of clean water. that's why so many not the kind of water you were talking about. andrew but that's why so many of these clips of him involve water parks and paddleboarding and stuff. i think it's good. i like it. do you gbnews.com/yoursay let us know your thoughts first, though. here's tatiana . though. here's tatiana. >> bev. thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom . stories from the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer has launched his election campaign in wales , his election campaign in wales, where he's assured that his party are the party to help struggling households with the cost of living. the labour leader also recommitted to investing in britain's steel

industry amid concerns over job losses at port talbot steelworks. he also outlined plans to cut nhs waiting times and recruit more teachers and police officers. sir keir rejected the notion that the prime minister was laying an ambush by calling the vote early , and added it is time for change. >> with that sense of national renewal taking our communities , renewal taking our communities, our countries forward for the for the future and so i say to you, if you're a family, there's been struggling with the cost of living for a long time now . and living for a long time now. and i mean struggling, struggling across wales, struggling elsewhere. if you're a business that's been absolutely up against it these past few years . against it these past few years. >> meanwhile, plaid cymru is launching its general election campaign at an event in bangor. the party's leader in up, yorwerth, is there, promising to keep the conservatives out of wales and keep labour in check

in the brilliant catrin wager in this new seat of bangor, aberconwy , we see what plaid aberconwy, we see what plaid camry is made of champions of our communities, champions of wales, people who will always fight against injustice wherever we find it . meanwhile, the we find it. meanwhile, the chancellor has accused labour of having a secret plan to raise vat despite rachel reeves ruling it out. in a statement last night, the shadow chancellor reaffirmed labour's commitment not to increase income tax , not to increase income tax, national insurance or vat. but jeremy hunt accused miss reeves of failing to make up her mind . of failing to make up her mind. shadow chief secretary to the treasury darren jones told gb news the chancellor isn't being upfront . upfront. >> i mean, that'sjust upfront. >> 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 in the election campaign, but it's just 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 beenin 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. >> in other news, two bodies have been found in the search for a father and son who went missing during a hiking trip in the scottish highlands. tom parry, who's 49, and his 12 year old son ritchie, were due to return to their cheshire home yesterday after visiting glen nevis and glencoe in scotland. their car was found in the three sisters car park in glencoe, where they'd stopped on tuesday to go hillwalking . ireland's to go hillwalking. ireland's national police and security service are involved in an operation to remove an asylum seeker camp in dublin city centre. it's after dozens of tents were placed along dublin's grand canal over several days. the government says it's not possible to provide accommodation to all of the male arrivals . the latest figures arrivals. the latest figures show there were close to 2000 applicants awaiting an offer of

accommodation contractors were seen installing barriers around the site early this morning . the site early this morning. israel's military says it's taking control of a buffer zone along the gaza strip , along the gaza strip, effectively giving it control over the palestinian territory , over the palestinian territory, his land border. it comes as israel continues heavy strikes on rafah, where half of gaza's population had taken refuge. israel's offensive has prompted an outcry from global leaders, with an airstrike on sunday killing at least 45 people. foreign editor for jewish killing at least 45 people. foreign editor forjewish news foreign editor for jewish news geotherm confino told gb news it's part of benjamin netanyahu's effort to contain hamas. this is where hamas has been smuggling weapons and other things into gaza . things into gaza. >> israel said they found 20 tunnels that crossed into egypt . tunnels that crossed into egypt. so this is a very significant strategic , aim for israel that 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. bombarded with criticism from left and right . yesterday, 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 is delusional and that he calls for election also, starting september. >> and a guitar used by john lennon has become the most expensive beatles instrument ever sold at auction. the frame is 12 string hootenanny. acoustic guitar was found in an attic after it was presumed lost for more than half a century. it sold for £23 million to a telephone bidder at the hard rock cafe in new york. lennon famously performed the song you've got to hide your love away on the guitar in the 1965 film help ! for the latest film help! for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news uncommon words. now it's back to andrew and . bev.

andrew and. bev. >> very good morning. it's 1107. >> very good morning. it's1107. it's thursday, it's a bank holiday, but i don't never know what day it is on these these weeks when we've had the had the monday off. right. let's see what you've been saying at home. you have been busy. thank you ever so much. gb news. com forward slash your say avril says the junior doctors tell us an average weekly tell us an average weekly wage and we can make a decision. i think that's a really good point. we talk about this 35% 30 you know. yeah it's hard. >> well some junior doctors are on 90,000. not all of them. no. some are because junior their junior doctors, until they reach the level of consultant, they're not junior. >> many of them david says . i >> many of them david says. i would just like to say that i will not be voting in the general election, because i was only going to vote for nigel farage. the rest of these so—called leaders are compulsive liars and that is my opinion. anyway so that's a vote loss for reform. >> yeah , it's going to be. >> yeah, it's going to be. >> yeah, it's going to be. >> i'd love to see a bit of polling on how nigel's decision not to stand has actually affected the he was the biggest beast in reform's jungle. of

course he was . and a lot of course he was. and a lot of people were sort of pinning their hopes on him standing for them. i did watch nigel's, conversation with tom harwood later the day because we were on air when he released his statement and it sounded in nigel's statement. i think it was on character , mystically, was on character, mystically, badly toned. that because i think nigel gets those things right. but i think a lot of you responded in the way that we did here, which was to say, well, hang on a minute. this looks like nigel's prioritising america over the uk. and then i watched this interview with tom that evening, and i actually changed my opinion on that a little bit, because what he was saying is the world is a dangerous place. it's really two sides of the same backside here. if it's a conservative versus laboun if it's a conservative versus labour. and he was saying, i will concentrate my efforts on america and trump with an aim to bringing about world peace, which might sound grand. and apologies, nigel, if i am paraphrasing there, that wasn't clearly verbatim what he said, but i thought he made a good case actually, as to why he would support reform for six weeks and then turn his attentions to america. but i know that a lot of you at home feel disappointed by that, what

else have you been saying , john else have you been saying, john has said no, bev, he's a joke . i has said no, bev, he's a joke. i presume you're talking about ed davey. yes. and he's making the party into a joke. what are the post office people think about it? it's a very good point, because, of course, he was in charge of the post office ed davey, wasn't he, when? yeah, all of that was going on. and craig says i was 80 over 20 in favour of voting reform over the tories. but a labour government terrifies me. i'm now switching more towards voting conservatives to keep labour out that , craig, conservatives to keep labour out that, craig, is conservatives to keep labour out that , craig, is exactly what i'm that, craig, is exactly what i'm talking about. i think the reform voters who even those who felt dead set on it, are sort of changing their path a little politically at the moment for all sorts of reasons , right, all sorts of reasons, right, moving on, a shocking example last night of lawless britain , a last night of lawless britain, a child is in a critical condition and three adults are injured after the shooting in hackney in london, police arrived at the scene after gunshots were heard near a restaurant. >> an investigation has been launched but no arrests have been made at this time. >> our reporter charlie peters

is there at the scene this morning. good morning charlie, for those people who are watching outside of london, what kind of area is hackney and how safe does it normally feel ? safe does it normally feel? >> well, dalston high street here is a bustling city area . here is a bustling city area. >> it's in the central east london. this area is popular with all sorts of communities, very young people here, lots of students. but it's a mixed community as much parts of east london are. but last night they were in shock and there was chaos here. but shortly before 920, several shots were heard in the restaurants on the street just behind me, where a motorcycle pulled up and a man shot at a restaurant here. four people were hit. all of them were taken to a major trauma centre, one of them a child we understand currently in a serious condition. and the most troubling part of this situation, of course, is that we do have a mass shooter on a motorcycle on the loose. the

metropolitan police confirmed last night . detective, the last night. detective, the deputy assistant commissioner, matt ward, has said that fast moving enquiries were ongoing . moving enquiries were ongoing. but there's no information this morning on how that investigation is going. so that person is still on the loose. the london ambulance service, as you can imagine, they deployed very heavily here last night alongside the metropolitan police, the met's special task force, the territorial support group and specialist firearms officers swarmed this scene. but just before 920, several people hit in what we're we're not sure about the motive behind this attack, but it appears specifically targeted at the restaurant behind me here at the scene. now very quiet. enquiries continue, but no arrests at this moment. >> okay. thank you so much , >> okay. thank you so much, charlie. charlie peters there in hackney. so joe labour civil war not a great start for the first week of the campaign is it.

>> and who would have thought it was diane abbott of all people would trigger it. >> that's right. because of course, keir starmer has been accused of calling the left, particularly in the form of diane abbott from his party. >> you know, pfizer . shaheen, >> you know, pfizer. shaheen, who was going to be labour's candidate in chingford, she fought the seat last time against sir iain duncan smith, the former tory leader . she the former tory leader. she found out yesterday she's being dropped as well . dropped as well. >> so decisive action worthy of a prime minister or her or her. starmer made a mess of this. we're joined now by our south—west of england reporter jeff moody, who's been speaking to voters in devon about what they think. morning, geoff. where exactly are you ? where exactly are you? >> good morning. well, i'm here in a fairly sunny south molton this morning, i've been talking to people for most of the morning about what their beliefs and thoughts are. and i must say, a lot of people have been saying they really don't care less, which i think is quite worrying. but that does seem to be the message people have seem to be very, very disillusioned. what? i've managed to speak to a couple of small business owners. paul couple of small business owners. paul, you owned the print shop down the road, don't you? yep.

are you disillusioned? >> i wouldn't say i'm disillusioned . disillusioned. >> i think i'm a little bit concerned about what the future holds at the moment, over the coming five years, a bit difficult with the campaign at present, no one's really showing a way forward . it's only just a way forward. it's only just been announced, and i just don't think they've got the policies sorted out just yet. >> who do you think has got their policies more sorted out? who would you veer towards at the moment i'm sitting right on the moment i'm sitting right on the fence, to be perfectly honest with you, in north devon here, it's a very strong liberal democrat area , and so they will democrat area, and so they will be campaigning hard. democrat area, and so they will be campaigning hard . the seat be campaigning hard. the seat here in north devon is held by the tory candidate , you know, so the tory candidate, you know, so it's really a two horse race here, but it's just nobody has yet really. there's a lot coming out from rishi sunak at the moment, but it's almost a knee jerk and headline grabbing policies. nothing really that affects us here as a me, as a small business owner. >> okay. thank you very much. well, david, you you work in the insurance, you run the insurance company just across the road, don't you , has anything, what

don't you, has anything, what sort of, what stands out for you sort of, what stands out for you so far, so far , i think it's so far, so far, i think it's a bit of a slow burner. it's easy for the current government. incumbent government to, you know, elaborate on policies and bnng know, elaborate on policies and bring out new policies. obviously, the opposition are waiting for their manifesto launch, and then they sort of flesh out their policies . so flesh out their policies. so it's early days for us to the electorate and us as business owners to judge, you know, who and where we should put our vote and where we should put our vote and our trust and trust and integrity is a big, big issue in this as a business owner, what are the main issues, do you think? what are you looking for from the parties? i think it's stability in all honesty. we we've gone through a, an unprecedented period, what with the pandemic, covid, we've got a european war going on currently. these outside factors have really affected , our economy really affected, our economy and, and the environment that

we're as businesses are having to work within, both as a small business and we are a small business. but the larger conglomerates as well. so it is that stability . we need a period that stability. we need a period of stability where hopefully we can then plan and invest and go forward. paul, we saw a very shaky start from rishi sunak out there in the pouring rain with things can only get better blaring in the background, but since then the tories have sort of taken control a little bit, haven't they? they lead the agenda at the moment in terms of policy. that's they release policy. that's they release policy. that's they release policy. that's what people are talking about throughout the day. is that how you feel that they they've turned a corner in their campaign. >> they've turned a corner in their campaign and they're releasing a lot of policy, but they've been in power for a long time, and suddenly they're coming out with lots of new policies. well, why hasn't some of this fed through in the past 14 years? it's a bit like somebody coming into my shop and saying , well, you know, what's saying, well, you know, what's the best price you can give me? so i give them the best price. they say, well, i'll get it cheaper down the road. and then

i come back and say, well, actually i'll do it a bit cheapen actually i'll do it a bit cheaper. give them do it from the start. don't come in a little bit later on and trying to entice people in, so i think that's my concern. and david's already said about it, it's also already said about it, it's also a degree of credibility, you know, we really need to have some focus, and particularly here in north devon, you know , here in north devon, you know, we've got a big problem. actually, it sounds mad, but we've got a big problem with lack of dentists, you know, we don't have access to a dentist in this town. really? in nhs dentists, but also the road network. the road network is in a terrible state down here, and that's playing big on, on, you know, electorate mind everyone here more or less drives a car or certainly uses the road, but they are just crumbling, you know, they're not potholes anymore. the roads are actually worn out. so i think whichever government comes in, whichever party comes in, they need to have a credible plan to actually increase significant funding, not just to devon county council, but to all county councils, because they've been starved over the past 12 years and necessary funds. >> okay, david, labour is now saying they're the company for

business. is that how you feel it? do you feel that they've turned a corner, that they've turned a corner, that they've turned a corner, that they've turned a page and are now a credible force when it comes to business? i certainly think they've moved more to the centre to become more electable, whether or not that actually means they're the party for business, it's too early to say . business, it's too early to say. so many of their policies haven't been announced, i'm assuming that the those who are higher pay grade than myself have factored in a labour victory , and that the banks and victory, and that the banks and the and the markets are , you the and the markets are, you know, have factored that all in and ready for it , so i can't say and ready for it, so i can't say that labour necessarily are for businesses for the future, and touching on what paul said, you know, the conservatives have beenin know, the conservatives have been in 14 years, i agree. but at the same time rishi has only beenin at the same time rishi has only been in in power for the last couple of years type thing, and his influence is now coming to the fore. very bold to go early. i thought he would go in the autumn, when there was a bit more momentum to the recovery,

lower interest rates, electricity bills, fuel bills coming down, that sort of thing. but he's gone early. i think he's a man of integrity, more so than his predecessors. but he's picking up that poisoned chalice so , you know, that's his bed and so, you know, that's his bed and he's he's got to lie in it and work with it. so we move on from there. gentlemen. thank you both very much indeed. integrity seems to be the word that's coming out of this chat as to who has the most integrity , we who has the most integrity, we don't know at this stage, but i'll hand you back now, if you are. if you are in the area, if you're in south molton in north devon, this morning, do come along and tell us what you think. but for now, back to you. >> thank you. jeff. how lovely. i'd love to be in devon today. and isn't it brilliant? i love heanng and isn't it brilliant? i love hearing what the public think. you are so smart. they're all so i >> -- >> they're not in the bubble, which we probably spend too much time in. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> let's be for yourself, right. still to come , almost 21, £29 still to come, almost 21, £29 million was lost in courier fraud last year. how can we stop

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gb news. >> 1122 with britain's newsroom on gb news. with andrew pierce and bev turner. we have the panel back. karen maloney is here. jonathan is here. seconds out. round 3 or 4. >> whatever it is we've had round two out there. actually, we have something else. >> now. let's talk fashion. oh yes, let's talk election. >> fashion. favourite catwalk. well, this is very, very a very fashionable jumper. jonathan. >> can i just say so people getting in touch saying you had that jumper on last time you were on tv. >> oh no. >> oh no. >> oh, that is such a faux pas. how would anyone remember that? i didn't even remember that. >> amazing isn't it, because it's so memorable? >> i think it's nice. i think it matches your eyes, john. >> i did wash it. i did wash it, everyone. >> it doesn't smell. i can confirm who's who's fashion are we talking about, carol? we're

talking. >> this is this is interesting how two different papers cover in essentially the same story. so in the daily mail they're running a piece saying that starmer on the campaign trail was wearing a £500 jacket. now this doesn't make. and you will know this may make bev. it's called sandro . i know it and called sandro. i know it and can't afford it. and you know a jumper is like a hoodie. >> there he is. this is a hoodie. >> it's a hoodie. that's a sandro hoodie. >> doesn't he look splendid? >> doesn't he look splendid? >> and he looks terrible, but it doesn't matter. and then another story is about starmer , and he's story is about starmer, and he's £750 sunak sunak sunak and a seven star sunak sunak . seven star sunak sunak. >> we do that all the time, you know, it's a two s's. yes >> so. and he's got a £750 backpack now, you know, you know. but i don't like it and i think it's very insensitive. however the doing the opposite wearing you know wearing dumbed down clothes and stuff from you know, home bargains or whatever is, is also cynical in itself. do you know what i mean? >> because sunak suits cost about 2500 pounds, and starmer's people make the point all the

time. >> i've forgotten where he gets them from, but they're about £350, which is frankly not a lot for a bloke suit, because if you're in it all day like i am, they're going to wear out and go very shiny very quickly. >> but, you know, starmer is a billionaire and it would be a very cynical. >> starmer is a billionaire. >> starmer is a billionaire. >> his wife is a billionaire. >> his wife is a billionaire. >> his wife is a billionaire. >> his wife's sunak. >> his wife's sunak. >> oh, i've done it again. >> oh, i've done it again. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> almighty. >> almighty. >> because that's because they're so sort of similar. you know, this is the thing. clearly they're they're not similar in many ways. >> but in terms of who they are dull bev, they're i know, but in terms of the fact that they are very , very wealthy people who've very, very wealthy people who've made lots of money and also politically, i find them quite hard to distinguish between the two. >> it's no wonder we get them mixed up. >> it's a world of difference between starmer and sunak on pretty much everything, but particularly when it comes. >> no, no, no they're not. the fashion is not. sunak is as carol was was i think trying to say sunak is a billionaire. he's married to a billionaire and clearly he can afford, you know, the most expensive things that money can buy. does that matter and does it matter? >> jonathan? >> jonathan? >> i think it will. that's a

really interesting conversation to be had in politics about whether rich people, whether super rich people can ever actually understand what it's like to be poor. >> i think michael has time rose very far as deputy prime minister in the tory party. he was a very rich man worth 500 million. nobody made a fuss about his money. >> i think that, and i don't think people necessarily making a fuss about the fact that, oh, laboun a fuss about the fact that, oh, labour, do labour do, labour do. but people take exception to the fact that his wife was a non—dom, for example. no, the fact that there's a potential conflict of interest, you know, when the child care policy was announced, there were questions asked about what financial interests his wife might have. in one of the companies that was, you know, sort of providing services that is where that is where people his moderna shares have a massive right. that's that's where people have the right to be interested . i do right to be interested. i do think there are questions to be asked about whether sunak can ever sort of identify with people who are poor. he's struggling about his family, and when they first came here and how they had to work and they struggled. >> he talks about as a gp, mum was a pharmacist. >> i mean, that's not such a big struggle. some people sitting at home on, you know, who are on low paid jobs would not. if

you're a doctor, it's not a big struggle. but but i do think to do the opposite is very cynical to dress down, to wear cheaper clothes, to try and connect to people, you know , you connect to people, you know, you connect to people, you know, you connect to people with the way you talk to them. you connect to people with you talk to them about their life experiences. and to be honest, the jackets and stuff. i don't think it matters. >> it's a particularly british thing. i couldn't i wouldn't have thought american politicians are given the same scrutiny about the type. >> so much money in everything. >> so much money in everything. >> their clothes are amazing. >> their clothes are amazing. >> american politics is so much more money. i mean, the amount of money that is used is spent in american, but there's no limit . limit. >> eyewatering i mean, we have limits here, thank god. >> also , people earn about three >> also, people earn about three times more. 2 or 3 at least. >> we're very interested in social class in this country. >> of course we still always we still get excited about what the women politicians are wearing. >> absolutely. there's cemeteries are the £900 amanda wakeley trousers that ran on for weeks, and all our shoes and our shoes, they were all £300 a pair. there's a balance between what carol saying about dressing down in a kind of cynical way

and wearing, you know, incredibly expensive clothes. they're going to make people , they're going to make people, like, rub people's nose in it. >> would you wear a £500 hoodie if you could afford it? >> well, i'm very unhappily saying that i can't afford it, andrew. i'm just saying, if you can, if i, if i, if i, if i could and in the right, in the right situation, and i want to dress up then. >> sure. >> sure. >> there's no right situation. i gifts you a £500 gorgeous jacket. >> where are you going to wear it? >> i wouldn't wear it necessarily a £500 jacket if i thought it was going to get damaged in any way. but i really don't think it's a very big story that's. don was wearing a jacket that he likes. i think ultimately people should wear clothes they really like. if they can afford slightly more expensive clothes, that's not doing anyone any. >> i just wish rishi sunak would wear suits that fit those trousers are irritating, but that monogrammed look taller. >> sunak backpack on the train going to cornwall. that was cringe. that's not the same as wearing a. >> he probably didn't buy it himself. >> it's probably a prison for his wife. his wife? yeah, probably. >> talking of class, let's look at what's going on with the taylor swift concert. jonathan, homeless people are being moved

out of hotels. are they to accommodate taylor swift concert goers? >> yeah, there is a shortage of hotel rooms in edinburgh, and so a lot of the, the hotel rooms that would have been used by the council for short term accommodation for the homeless, have now been sort of, you know, given over to, people coming for the concert. and so homeless people have been , taken to, i people have been, taken to, i think, aberdeen and, glasgow. >> so they've not been kicked out on the street. they've just been taken to another city. >> this is, i think, look, there is a such an important conversation to, to have about the way this country and councils treat homeless people. >> and i think just that the political point, i suppose, is that what we saw during covid is that what we saw during covid is that the people can sort out homelessness, we can deal with homelessness, we can deal with homelessness when it becomes a national public health issue . national public health issue. homeless people were taken off the streets and given housing. it's not a political priority and that's why people are still on the streets. but that's the

scottish government's fault. >> what do you think, millom? >> what do you think, millom? >> i think it's the scottish government's fault. i mean, you know, they will always they always try to blame everything that's happening in westminster. but the scottish government is devolved. they have massive problems in the health service, in housing and homelessness, in drug taking, high drug capital of europe, so yeah, that's that's their fault. but can we talk about can we talk about these junior doctors? >> yeah. we've just got to read a statement from from from scotland which comes from the council. there it is. all right. they say about kicking out the homeless. we use it reluctantly as a last resort. we're aware of the situation. we're working with the affected households to find appropriate alternative accommodation pretty brutally. >> but taylorswift is much more important now. yes. >> thank you very much. she's a taylorswift. >> i wouldn't be surprised if she invites them all to the concert, because she's got very good pr she does, i think, for her to be honest. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> doctors malone, junior doctors. >> now, i find this story astonishing . so they've called. astonishing. so they've called. they've called a strike just days before the election. now, i spend a lot of time on television arguing with junior doctors. so always pretend they're on the bones of their backside and they're really not,

you know, you know, third, fourth year, they're on 65 grand a year, which is not bad. however, they've called the strike and they spend their whole lives saying, this is not political, this is not smashing the tories. and this is the most cynically political move you can possibly imagine. and starmer has will not condemn them. he said. i don't want these strikes to go ahead. that's not the same as condemning them. however, don't tell me there hasn't been some collusion here between the labour party and the british medical association, which is highly political . they're doing highly political. they're doing this on purpose. and i and i just think, you know, this just they're using patients as pawns in their fight to hurt the tories , to get smashed them out tories, to get smashed them out of government altogether. this is vulnerable sick, a lot of them elderly people who have been waiting for operations like cataracts because they're going blind and not because they can't walk. and all of those operations are going to be shelved yet again. a million cancelled appointments and operations because of these strikes. it's the most cynical i completely vile what i would what i would say is , it's

what i would say is, it's basically my, my opinion is conditional. >> if there is a truth in what the health secretary says, that she is unable to negotiate with the doctors during the purdah period, the pre—election purdah period, the pre—election purdah period, they're not going to write a check with week before the election. >> jonathan, for god's sake. >> jonathan, for god's sake. >> well, look, if you if that's true, that the government is unable its hands are tied, then government stops government .gov the civil service has gone into purdah , doesn't stop. purdah, doesn't stop. >> civil service is in purdah continues. >> so there is there is still a minister in every department, but obviously civil service is not allowed to do overtly political things. and obviously parliament's not. >> but you are aware they've had a pay >> but you are aware they've had a pay rise, aren't you? you're aware that they've had a pay rise that for some is the equivalent to 8.1, and for others the equivalent to ten point something percent. so they've had a pay rise, which they've had a pay rise, which they took and they carried on. >> striking the pay rise they had is not covering for the amount they've lost. >> this is nonsense. what about the point if ministers hands are tied, which i argue they are, what's the point of this strike? >> well, if ministers hands are

tied, then i would argue you know, that i would personally not advise them to strike because it's because they're not going there physically. if they are physically unable to get what they want. if, however, a minister is advised that they can negotiate during the pilot period, then i think we spoke to a junior doctor just a moment ago. >> eventually, she admitted, it is a political strike, all at the expense of every person who's a hospital appointment will be cancelled. andrew >> all shameful. andrew. all strikes are shameful. >> no they're not. this is affecting people. >> people might die because of this strike. >> i think that's quite inflammatory line to end. >> how can. why is that inflammatory? when doctors withdraw their services, people are put at risk. no one, no one withdraws emergency care. >> people . >> people. >> people. >> people. >> people die as a result of this strike. >> if it's not enough, doctors and nurses to look after patients at the best of times , patients at the best of times, how can emergency care medical? >> we have to go . >> we have to go. >> we have to go. >> we're now in an emergency. carol. jonathan, thank you so much . we've run out of time, much. we've run out of time, tatiana sanchez is waiting very

patiently with you. news at 1133. >> beth. thank you. the top stories sir keir starmer has launched labour's election campaign in wales, promising to help struggling households with the cost of living. the labour leader also pledged to fight for the future of steel in wales, amid concerns over job the future of steel in wales, amid concerns overjob losses at amid concerns over job losses at port talbot steelworks . he also port talbot steelworks. he also listed the six pledges that labouris listed the six pledges that labour is making in its campaign, including delivering on economic stability and cutting nhs waiting times. sir keir rejected suggestions that he'd been ambushed by an earlier than expected election, saying that it's time for change with that it's time for change with that sense of national renewal taking our communities, our countries forward for the for the future . the future. >> and so i say to you, if you're a family , there's been you're a family, there's been struggling with the cost of living for a long time now. and i mean struggling, struggling

across wales, struggling elsewhere. if you're a business that's been absolutely up against it these past few years, if you've been serving your country vie or serving your communities, then this election, this election is for you . this election is for you. >> meanwhile, played country is launching its general election campaign at an event in bangor. the party's leader, train up george iv, is there, promising to keep the conservatives out of wales and keep labour in check . wales and keep labour in check. in other news, two bodies have been found in the search for a father and son who went missing dunng father and son who went missing during a hiking trip in the scottish highlands . tom parry, scottish highlands. tom parry, who's 49, and his 12 year old son richie, failed to return to their cheshire home yesterday . their cheshire home yesterday. police enquiries are ongoing but the circumstances are not believed to be suspicious. for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb

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there on the scene to try and digest it all. tell us whether it all adds up. >> what part of the country are they in somewhere like dover? >> oh goodness me, i don't actually know. they're in the south east. very good question, very good question. >> very good answer. >> very good answer. >> now, you're not supposed to show us up, andrew. sorry. no, it's not just reform uk that we'll be covering. of course, this growing civil war within the labour party, the most extraordinary thing, i think that many of us have seen when it comes to candidate selection. >> now, jeremy corbyn was massively criticised from the labour rights for introducing what he wanted to call mandatory candidate reselection, whereby every candidate had to be voted in again by their local party. this, this is very different. this, this is very different. this is taking the local party out of the situation and people are being hauled in front of committees at the last possible minutes, five minutes to midnight the day before dissolution. and being told we found a tweet from you or learning in the press. >> that's what faiza shaheen, the labour candidate for chingford, says. >> but but isn't, isn't the view. starmers people say this is all good. actually, we don't

care about this. of aukus, it shows starmer is being tough and decisive that they want to say, and that would be a good argument. >> were it not for one diane abbott. i agree, because what this has shown is it's a botched assassination. >> it really is. >> it really is. >> and the labour party thought they could get rid of her quietly and bump her off. but clearly that hasn't worked. >> and so what? >> and so what? >> what would have been seen as a clean and sort of smooth operation, a ruthless operation from a ruthless leader, has actually turned a bit into that reshuffle that we saw back in 2021, when keir starmer tried to sack angela rayner and ended up giving her six jobs instead. >> i've done a piece in the mail saying father diab showing that he's strong and decisive. it shows him as bumbling and incompetent because they've really messed this up with diane abbott. she's people like me are writing positive things. >> i mean, look at every front page. abbott. des starmer tried to stop me, i know, and i chose it shows that there is this this tension and this chaos at the top of the labour party. >> and i wonder if some of keir starmer's inexperienced political advisers, people who've been brought in from not

particularly political elements of the world, for example, sue gray, she was a civil servant. there's been a lot of criticism in a lot of the press that she finds it hard to make a decision and could this sort of indecisiveness at the top of the labour party play ? labour party play? >> but i wonder if civil servants never make decisions to the general public, though perhaps people will look fondly on this. here's a quick question . i think keir starmer is doing the right thing. >> which political party do you think has the most followers on tiktok? >> the labour party reform really? >> there's something for your press conference yet. reform have got 125,000 followers on tiktok and labour have got 108,000, although although i looked at, yes, i looked at analysis of the number of views that these parties were getting. >> okay. >> okay. >> labour launched their their tiktok account only a few months ago, whereas reforms had. >> it's about more views more than a year, right. >> and labour have launched a small number of videos, but each one of them have got many, many more views. so tens of millions of views on these videos. >> but i must say, on tiktok, underneath every labour video, which vote reform, vote reform,

vote reform, they're very, very, aggressive aggressive on there. >> yeah. interesting. right. emily and tom will be here from midday. don't go anywhere though. you've got another 20 minutes with us.

>> for five weeks to the election . 35 days to go. is that election. 35 days to go. is that why i'm exhausted? >> because i have to say, this week has felt very long, and it's only been a three day week for us so far. >> 35 days. and they. they used to take sunday off. they don't anymore because there was that view. you have to respect the sabbath. so also it's seven day a week. we've got this. >> well and i would say actually the tories had a terrible start with oh what's his face singing in the rain outside.

>> number 10 with no brolly raisi off his trolley or brolly . raisi off his trolley or brolly. but i think that labour have had a bad week. >> i feel i feel like i need to apologise to the viewers and listeners. the fact that we got five more weeks, but i have to say i am quite enjoying it and i do hope you're enjoying our coverage because we were sort of treading water politically for such a long time, weren't we really? the whole of this year waiting for this announcement? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and he did it did surprise us. and, i mean, if you remember, when we were here last wednesday, it was beginning to break in the morning. we thought, yeah, yeah, but he did. >> and stephen has said, i've just caught you snacking . i'm just caught you snacking. i'm sorry. have you got a food trolley behind you? well no, it was just a croissant. >> it was wicked. matt in the gallery trying to humiliate me. >> we get very hungry doing this job, you know, we like. >> we sit here. it is our thursday treat. >> we have a croissant, courtesy of miss turner. so that's all very nice. i buy the biscuits all week. you're all very. and i get. i get two a day, if i'm lucky. >> yeah , talking of looking >> yeah, talking of looking silly and also talking about croissants, because i'm sure you'll have something to say

about this. andrew is ed davey. here we go again, he's he's at a water slide park. oh, water stripes coming down the water slide and his bright yellow inflatable. >> see what i mean ? >> see what i mean? >> see what i mean? >> it looks like he's weeing himself. >> that's what. >> that's what. >> i'm sorry. it's not a horrible look. >> have you ever been on a water sude? >> have you ever been on a water slide? andrew >> no, i'm never going on one. >> no, i'm never going on one. >> i would pay good money to see you come down a water slide happening? on please. let's do it. it's an outside broadcast. >> is he going to do a gimmick day? >>i day? >> ihope day? >> i hope so, because i have to say, i for one, i'm really enjoying ed davey one. >> if we can find the clip of him cycling down a hill and then he starts using his legs like he was on a windmill, but he knows a very elegant look. >> you know what? he knows that liberal democrats were not going to get talked about in this election campaign. labour, conservative, and actually quite a bit of reform because they're not in the debates either, because it's only two people can because it's only two people can be prime minister and that's election after election. >> it's sunak or starmer. so why would you have the lib dems in the debate? >> so he's doing what he can only do, which is to say we know

we're a bit of a joke as a party. we know we've slipped down your radar, so i'm going to slip down a few slides and hopefully get back in the talking points. and it's working. he's in the papers , working. he's in the papers, we're discussing it. we're finding it very entertaining. yeah. will it translate to votes? i think it probably will. >> yeah. well the poll i mean also the polls pretty much haven't changed. one poll cut the tory labour lead from 15 to 12, but most polls still put labour about 20 points ahead, which means they're heading for a very big majority. lawrence andrew and bev. >> oh, here we go. >> oh, here we go. >> now here's ed davey gimmick yesterday. look at him on the back. what's he doing that for? if you're listening on the radio, he's flapping his legs like he's on a windmill. >> he's becoming like a character out of benny hill. yeah, look at that. >> if you're old enough to remember benny hill, i wouldn't have been, i'm sorry to say. >> but if he'd fallen off his bike, it would have been a hoot. he's got his helmet on. >> don't give him ideas. i can promise you. >> i know he will. >> i know he will. >> and cyclists are a menace. and he's proving what a menace he is. he can't control a bike. how can he control the economy? >> i think it's i think it's great. i'm really enjoying the

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>> with britain's newsroom on gb news. with andrew pierce and bev turner lotz. you've been getting in touch. >> you have. and also , we've >> you have. and also, we've just seen its breaking news story about the royals. you don't think it's particularly exciting? no. but tell us what you really think this is about. the prince and princess of wales have to decide whether george, charlotte and louis go to the trooping of the colour in june. why is that not a big an

exciting story , andrew pierce. exciting story, andrew pierce. >> why would those children want to be put through that look ? to be put through that look? it's a lovely, important occasion and it celebrates the monarch's official birthday, and what's more interesting is will the king be there because of his health? >> he must be. >> he must be. >> he'll be there. he's all right. so out and about. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and ordinarily he would be horseback because the queen used to do it. horseback. but, and of course they're rehearsing for it today too, but whether the children are there , is it children are there, is it interesting? i think we're watching. is kate's going to be there? i don't think the princess of wales will be there. >> not in june, but it would be really nice to see. lovely to see them be lovely to see. we would love to see the children. you can hear all about this actually on gb news royal podcast, the royal record with karen walker and digital royal editor svar nanan—sen , who are editor svar nanan—sen, who are there discussing this particular story on the gb news podcast . if story on the gb news podcast. if you want to listen to that right, let's see what you do. >> you think they'll go, i think they will. >> i think if the royal family have got any sense, they will do what the royal family is meant

to do for the british public, which is come out from time to time and be the you know, i don't mean this in a derogatory, but to be the little people in the doll's house that we like to play the doll's house that we like to play with, that's the role that they serve to the british people also. >> it's quite it's a spectacle. and for little ones, quite a spectacle because of the horses, the military uniforms, they will probably enjoy it. >> they probably would enjoy it. yes, they probably would enjoy it. right. hang on a minute. i've lost my gbnews.com/yoursay. i've lost my gbnews.com/yoursay. ihope i've lost my gbnews.com/yoursay. i hope you've got it at home. everybody because we love seeing your messages as they come in on this message site as well. there we go. you can also talk to each other. if you aren't using this, you can use it on your phone. you don't have to be sat at your computer or your laptop like this, i'm just loading up the comments now. here we go, michael says starmer and co must have been drinking thames water , have been drinking thames water, this morning, and, and paul has said before you put your cross in the box just for my sanity, think about each individual. you are voting for in the labour cabinet. and then imagine some of them representing britain on

the world stage. angela rayner i have is a mixture of some mothers do ave em and benny hill. yeah. >> well, angela rayner will be our deputy prime minister this is angela rayner, who was begging in that, video clip the other day. those muslim men to support her. and they weren't even the body language was terrible because she's worried about the position on palestine and this unedifying . and this unedifying. >> and this is why i think starmer. sunak. has made a lot of the safety of the world at the moment, because i think people do feel that if we are edging closer to war, we might prefer the conservatives than angela rayner going up against. yeah, absolutely . yeah, absolutely. >> now, i know it's going to be a big factor in this in the program coming up a little later. but is nigel farage is going to make a major speech. >> he is. >> he is. >> and it's very, very difficult to understand who's the leader of reform uk right now. >> there seems to be nigel farage. well, do you remember the sdp—liberal alliance where you had, sort of a double header of two davids, two davids trying and a lot of fighting over sort

of who would be the official leader of the opposition were they to be breaking through in that 1983 election? >> it almost feels like that sort of double headedness is going on with reform uk because because richard tice is the leader and he's standing for parliament in hartlepool. >> nigel. >> nigel. >> not not in hartlepool. >> not not in hartlepool. >> he stood in hartlepool last time and he was going to stand in hartlepool and now he's going to stand in boston and skegness. >> and i asked him about that and he said it wasn't true that he was jumping ship constituency. >> did he. yes he did. >> did he. yes he did. >> oh i think that's public knowledge though. but you've heard it from the horse's mouth quite literally. yeah. are you sure that wasn't before? he then announced he was going to do it anyway. >> it was only about a week ago that this was confirmed. >> well, hopefully we'll find out today. it would be nice to know where he's actually standing as a candidate. isn't this the perfect scenario, really? >> nigel farage doing all this media, getting all the exposure on bbc question time tonight . on bbc question time tonight. >> that panel show he's nigel's on question time tonight is he alongside piers morgan. >> it's going to be quite the one. but but but but honestly i do think there is a bit of

tension at the top of reform uk over this . over this. >> is it. isabel oakeshott, a close and personal friend of richard tice, has been saying richard tice, has been saying richard tice, has been saying richard tice is the leader, not nigel farage on twitter. and i think that sometimes there might be a bit of tension. >> and where does that leave the wonderful benhabib? >> who is the household name? nigel farage. >> oh, all that to come from 12:00. we are done for the day. you two need to hot foot it over there. see you. see you next week. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers 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 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 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

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emily carver . emily carver. >> now. richard tice and nigel farage are set to make their first big policy announcement on immigration. but there are growing divides within the party over a potential deal with the tories and labour. >> civil war. keir starmer is accused of culling left wing candidates, but with diane abbott hanging in the balance, has he botched his own purge ? has he botched his own purge? >> and the bbc's highest paid star, gary lineker, is back claiming he's tweets about politics, so that he can look himself in the mirror at night. but should he put his phone . down? >> well, it's all go for the reform party today. >> we are very shortly. >> we are very shortly. >> very shortly indeed. >> very shortly indeed. >> expecting nigel farage and richard tice to set out reform uk's first major immigration policy for the general election. >> and we should say as of today , it's a level playing field, because at midnight,