to the defence of johnson coming to the defence of donald trump and calling his conviction a liberal hit job as the former president promises to appeal the court's ruling in his hush money trial. >> we're going to be appealing this scam. we're going to be appealing it on many different things. he wouldn't allow us to have witnesses. he wouldn't allow us to talk. he wouldn't allow us to talk. he wouldn't allow us to do anything. the judge was a tyrant . judge was a tyrant. >> there we go. classic. donald trump also today will be meeting this week's greatest britons, the mother and daughter duo who have invented a teddy bear to help children suffering with their mental . their mental. health. >> oh, we haven't seen that before. that's nice , isn't it.7 before. that's nice, isn't it.7 it's amazing. >> i just i was telling ellie off air earlier. we've had so many emails from viewers saying, why are you running that promo with ben and ellie when you haven't done a show together for what seems like months? >> so it's been a long time.

nice. we're back. >> nice to meet you again. >> nice to meet you again. >> yes. very good. are you well? to meet you. very well. good. how was your holiday? do you have a nice time? yeah. >> it's good to go out of town. >> it's good to go out of town. >> happy? yeah. very pleased to have you back. thank you. i'm very pleased to have you watching as well. and this show is nothing without you. so we do want to hear from you throughout the program today. please. you can send your views and your comments to gbnews.com/yoursay and we'll try and share as many as we can throughout the program. >> yes. before all that, sophia wenzler has your morning news headlines. >> ben. thank you. good morning. it's 10:01. i'm sophia >> ben. thank you. good morning. it's10:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . foreign in the gb newsroom. foreign secretary lord cameron says hamas must accept the new ceasefire deal outlined by the us president, ceasefire deal outlined by the us president , joe biden. the us us president, joe biden. the us brokered proposal would begin with a six week ceasefire. hostages would have to be freed in exchange for the release of palestinian prisoners , and it palestinian prisoners, and it would mean israeli troops would have to withdraw from populated areas of gaza. hamas described the three phase roadmap as positive, but a spokesperson for

the israeli prime minister says the israeli prime minister says the war will not end until all its goals are achieved. >> it's time to begin this new stage for the hostages to come home. for israel to be secure, for the suffering to stop. it's time for this war to end . for time for this war to end. for the day after. to begin . the day after. to begin. >> former prime minister boris johnson has come out in support of donald trump, saying a second presidency is more likely , not presidency is more likely, not less, following his hush money trial, donald trump says he will appeal his conviction of falsifying business records , falsifying business records, lashing out at what he calls a scam verdict. the former us president claims there was no hush money. it was a normal non—disclosure agreement, properly categorised as illegal expense. the prime minister has promised cash for british towns as the general election campaign enters its second weekend. rishi sunakis enters its second weekend. rishi sunak is pledging to give £20

million to 30 towns across the country in a move labour has branded reckless and is an unfunded commitment. the tory party says it would add the places , many of which are based places, many of which are based in the midlands and the north, to its existing long term plan for towns. conservative minister andrew griffith says voters have a clear choice . a clear choice. >> we're about sort of a week into the full on campaign. i'd be out meeting voters this morning as i am. people, you know are not necessarily made up their mind. i think all of the polls and research i've seen show a large number of people are undecided . and the big job are undecided. and the big job of work for us all, because i think people understand what this conservative government has done, what it stands for. there's only two potential prime ministers on the 5th of july who are going to walk through number 10. i think it's clear what you get with the conservatives, we don't know enough, do we, about what labour would do . what labour would do. >> meanwhile, labour is promoting the party's power up agenda as it unveils its

battlebus . the uk ambassador to battlebus. the uk ambassador to mexico reportedly has been sacked after he pointed a gun at a local member of embassy staff. a video posted on social media, originally reported by the financial times, appears to show jon benjamin aiming a rifle at another man while looking down at the weapon sights. it was captioned in context of daily killings in mexico by drug dealers . he dares to joke. dealers. he dares to joke. according to the financial times, mr benjamin was on an official trip to two mexican states and a d—day veteran has been given an 100th birthday card in person by king charles. jim miller was invited to buckingham palace, where he told the king about his experiences of second world war normandy landings in nazi occupied france. mr miller , who turned france. mr miller, who turned 100 today landed on the normandy beachesin 100 today landed on the normandy beaches in june 1944 and took part in the allied military operation to liberate occupied

france and western europe. he said he was totally surprised and delighted to be invited to the palace . and for the latest the palace. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back to ben and . ellie. ben and. ellie. >> thanks for. yeah, and welcome to saturday morning live. the time is 10:05. and our top story this morning a tory wipe—out could be on the horizon with a new poll showing the conservatives could be reduced to just 72 seats at next month's general election. yes. >> and labour is also predicted to win a huge landslide with a possible 302 seat majority . possible 302 seat majority. >> well, joining us now is gb news political correspondent, katherine forster, who is on rishi sunak at battlebus in the nonh rishi sunak at battlebus in the north east of the country. very good morning to you, catherine.

how is morale in the conservative camp after this latest poll ? latest poll? >> well, good morning to both of you. and well, might you ask after these horrific poll results for the conservative party . party. >> well, it looks as though we might have technical issues there with catherine. this is there with catherine. this is the issue with being on no wi—fi on the bus. exactly. it could be in parts of the country where there's little to no reception, as we will try and reconnect with catherine and we'll bring her to you when we can. >> okay. whilst we try and get catherine back, here's a quick run through of the latest election campaigning. so keir starmer was in scotland yesterday, sharing labour's plans to create a publicly owned energy company called great british energy, with the promise it would bring a huge number of jobs to the area. >> meanwhile, rishi sunak is to the northwest of england. he hit out at labour's handling of the diane abbott saga, suggesting that angela rayner is the one really in charge of the party. >> meanwhile , you may have seen >> meanwhile, you may have seen this the liberal democrats and

ed davey pledged to extend free school meals to all primary school meals to all primary school children, starting with those who are living in poverty. he challenged labour to match the policy. by the way, nice to see lib dem policy being announced instead of ed davey sort of, you know, rolling down hills or riding bicycles. more more of that later, by the way, splashing around in the water. >> yes. the snp were in glasgow calling on the government to commit to an emergency budget immediately following the election. john swinney admitting that his party faces an uphill struggle. >> okay, now to look through the top stories of the day. we're delighted to be joined by writer and podcaster lewis oakley and broadcaster and life coach jenni trent hughes . good morning to trent hughes. good morning to you both. good morning. shall we start with this piece in the times, sir keir starmer, he's pitching to the centre ground of the party and actually he's making a point saying that labouris making a point saying that labour is a centrist party as well, interesting point. bearing in mind what's happened over the past couple of weeks with the so—called some would say, a purge of the left, the diane abbott saga, etcetera , etc.

abbott saga, etcetera, etc. lewis, let me ask you, is there a place for centre ground politics anymore? because i get the feeling that everything's just so tribal these days, that the centre ground is kind of diluted away. >> there has to be, there has. we can't carry on with the tribal politics that we've had over the last couple of years or election cycles either. so you know, the fact that we're seeing these polls that indicates they're going to have this massive majority may be a good thing out of it, will be that maybe, you know, as politics will become more centrist. i do think if you're going to have a centrist sort of government, you do need to have a bit of a broad church. you need a few voices from the left and the right in your party. and it does seem like he's purged a lot of the left out of there, although you could say, well, look, they had their chance in 2019 and look how that turned out. so i've got to do it. and i think he's in a powerful position. you know he can afford to lose a few seats if he wants to. so he may as well get rid of anyone he thinks doesn't toe the line. whether thatis doesn't toe the line. whether that is true centrism , is to be that is true centrism, is to be debated. >> jenny, what do you think , i >> jenny, what do you think, i am not a member of the diane

abbott fan club. however you have to. you have to know your enemy , and you have to know what enemy, and you have to know what tools they have in their toolkit, what havoc they're capable of wreaking. and he i feel he handled it very badly and should have nipped it in the bud from the beginning, because she's way stronger than he is . she's way stronger than he is. and i knew that she would end up getting what she wanted. and it makes him look bad because he should have known that she would have gotten what she wanted. and if he had given it to her quietly in the beginning, then it wouldn't have ended up in, you know, in the way that it has i >> -- >> it's an extraordinary development because diane's, majority in hackney is something like 33,000. she was pretty much, you know, some would say nailed on to win. much, you know, some would say nailed on to win . and now nailed on to win. and now there's a situation where if she doesn't run as a labour mp and she and she runs as an independent, she could well possibly win that seat over the labour cohort. so it seems like

a problem sir keir starmer has made, pointlessly vie. >> well was it him or was it rishi sunak? i think this was probably the benefit rishi sunak was hoping on in calling a general election out of nowhere that labour probably were hoping to solve this a little bit further down the line on a busy news day where no one would nofice news day where no one would notice and that would be that. but actually , the election's but actually, the election's being called a lot sooner than they were banking on. so now they've got this problem and, you know, they've had a long time, though, haven't they, louis? >> i mean, this december. but this letter was written in april 2023. it was public. it was very short . everybody knew what was short. everybody knew what was in it. an apology was issued. there was an investigation, as you say, that was found out in december. why are we now in june? and a decision has only just been made with an election 4 or 5 weeks away, i think maybe as jenny saying, she is powerful. >> she is a powerhouse, a trailblazer. whether you like her or not. i think maybe he was just a bit worried about how to even approach her and just thought, well, we'll just kick the can down the line and it'll solve itself eventually. >> but then it hasn't make him

look well, that was exactly what that was. >> what i was just going to say is that if he is incapable of managing his own soldiers, then how on earth is he going to manage the country? >> and that's what's been jumped upon by the chancellor, jeremy hunt, this week, saying, well, if you can't stand up to diane abbott, how are you supposed to stand up to the likes of putin? exactly has made it easy for the tories to attack him this week. look, we're going to try and reconnect with katherine forster, who is on rishi sunak battle bus in the north—east of the country. good morning to you, catherine. and how is morale in the tory party after that devastating poll last night ? >> 7- >> yes. 7 >> yes. absolutely horrendous. and numbers these for the conservative party if, of course, they were replicated projecting labour to have a 300 seat majority. the conservatives down to between 60 and 70 seats. the majority of the cabinet looks set to lose their seats on those projections. but of course it's just a poll. and when this

poll dropped last night, we were having dinner, i was sitting to next somebody from the prime minister's team and looked at it with her, and she just said, you know, it's a poll, the only poll that matters ultimately is the general election itself. on july the fourth. they are focused on doing everything they can to turn things around. they're working crazy, crazy hours, she said to me. we just want to do everything we can, they don't want to have any regrets that work that they could have done come july the fifth. but what has struck me, i've been around the prime minister quite a lot in the last few weeks, both on the campaign trail and in vienna and in berlin and warsaw. before thatis and in berlin and warsaw. before that is just how incredibly, really under the circumstances, upbeat and positive and energetic he is, he seems to believe that it's all to play for. he seems to believe that the result is not a foregone conclusion and they feel that

they have got the energy, that they have got the energy, that they have got the energy, that they have got the momentum. they're coming out with new policies, out and about, talking to voters, labour playing it very safe. but of course labour have everything to lose. the conservatives have everything to gain. labour are playing it safe because they are so far ahead in the polls. they want to do as little as possible, really as little as possible, really as little as possible to jeopardise that, whereas the conservatives have very little to lose at this point. so they are, you know, throwing everything at this, but, you know, it would be a monumental mental task to turn things around . now, worth things around. now, worth saying, of course, back in 2017, theresa may was expected to win a big majority, wasn't she? that's why she went to the polls and she ended up losing the majority completely . so things majority completely. so things can always change. but there is less than five weeks now till the general election . so yeah. the general election. so yeah. let's see. >> yeah. catherine i'm not sure if you saw it, but our friend

camilla tominey wrote an interesting, to say the least, 0p interesting, to say the least, op ed in the telegraph last night headlined and whisper it quietly, but rishi sunak is making an extraordinary comeback, with starmer floundering, farage flailing and sir ed davey acting a fool. a tory revival is now on the cards i >> -- >> yeah, i did read that piece and one of the pm's people had spotted it too. and because camilla has been pretty critical, actually, of the prime minister, recently. and of course, there's many, many people up and down the country that are fed up to the back teeth of the conservatives and desperate for change. but what she was saying is that reform, you know, one thing that rishi sunak has done in going early again , advice and against pretty again, advice and against pretty much everybody's expectations is court reform a little bit on the hop? because nigel farage says he'd planned to stand, but he doesn't have the time , so he's doesn't have the time, so he's court reform. how are they really going to be able to field candidates right across the country? you know they're going

to have to do this in a rush, and also saying, you know, obviously labour haven't had a good week because they want to talk about their six steps. but we've spent days haven't we, talking about this huge row that's erupted over diane abbott. so she certainly feels and i think people feel here a little bit too, that they have got a bit of the wind in the sails. but of course, are the pubuc sails. but of course, are the public listening because many people have simply switched off completely, have decided we want rid of the conservatives, and that's the end of the matter. so we shall see. >> okay. katherine forster there for us in the north—east of england. thank you very much. thanks, catherine. >> yeah . not sure if you saw as >> yeah. not sure if you saw as well. yesterday during starmer's, trip to scotland for this energy shindig, he took a private jet, which was quite funny bearing in mind he'd criticised rishi sunak maybe a couple of days before for taking helicopter trips . so there we helicopter trips. so there we go. make of that what you will, lewis oakley , let's come to you lewis oakley, let's come to you with our next story, the telegraph. actually, it's from the daily mail. boris johnson

has penned a column in the daily mail saying that donald trump's conviction in the united states, 34 charges, guilty charges for the hush money trial was a liberal hit job that would only make his election more, more likely in november. >> it's so hard with this story to figure out what's really going on, because any time you read anything on this, people are usually really tribal. >> they really hate trump . like, >> they really hate trump. like, see, this is why it's right. or they really love him. and they say, see, this is so it's wrong. as a brit trying to read through all this and really understand, you know, but, you know, would this have happened to an ordinary person, you know, would they have really put these charges against him? no but then he's not an ordinary person. so maybe you do have to have a, a really clean slate legally, it's an odd one. i do think, well, you've got to be focused on here. what do the undecided voters in america think ? is this voters in america think? is this going to, you know, his is his conviction going to make them 90, conviction going to make them go, that was unfair. so i'm going to vote for him or is it

going to vote for him or is it going to vote for him or is it going to make them go, oh my god, these are our options. a convicted felon, all this other guy that can't get through a speech. what do you think boris is? >> intervention? ian, i mean , >> intervention? ian, i mean, are you are you surprised? of course. i mean, he's allegedly bofis course. i mean, he's allegedly boris as a right winger. some would argue he wasn't that in the latter days of his premiership, but he's he's been pretty emphatic. he said it's a mafia style hit job on donald trump. it's lawfare and it's only going to double or treble his chances of winning in november. >> i mean , call me a really >> i mean, call me a really cynical person, but i just think as boris just tried to play to a bit of trump base because he wants to go into an american speaking tour and thinks that they'll pay money to see me, i better i betterjoin team trump. i don't know, but you know, he's a former he's a former prime minister. he can he can say what he likes this is his judgement on it. it's a very odd place that places the british government and the labour party in a very odd situation where it's like, well, what do you want to say? because you don't want to say? because you don't want to say? because you don't want to come out too hard against trump because he could be the next president, but someone has been legally found convicted of a crime by their

peers. it's a very tricky situation. so i guess former prime minister is the only one that can sort of say what they think. >> jenny really interested to get your thoughts? >> i have three people looking at me , there's a history in at me, there's a history in american politics of when you want to get somebody for something and you can't get them for what you want to get them for, you poke around until you find something. so like al capone, the, you know, the mafia don got done for tax evasion. people get done for speeding tickets. that so that that's very common. so i did think absolutely that he was going to get convicted. however, i thought he was going to win the first time, which did not make me happy. and i said to all my friends in america, pull your fingers out because he's going to win. oh no, no, no, he'll never win. >> oh, don't be ridiculous, jenny. >> oh, please. lots of people like him, so. >> well, yes. >> well, yes. >> okay. okay if you want to, if

you want to talk about. wait, let me just say one other thing. and i think that he will win again. and i didn't think there was any doubt that he was going to win again. and i think that this i do agree with boris. i think that this is almost confirmed that he will win again because of why he wins in the first place, and he wins in the first place, and he wins in the first place, and he wins in the first place, because he epitomises somebody. he's going to rescue you and you don't vote for people anymore because they're going to do this or not. do that. what are they going to do for me and trump manages to convince people that he's going to make everything okay for them, and that's why they vote for him . for him. >> tom harwood actually, last night, our deputy political edhon night, our deputy political editor, he was on newsnight last night. he said the same thing about our election here, that it's not even about policy anymore. it'sjust it's not even about policy anymore. it's just about characters and brands and names. >> well, this is the thing that, you know , makes me just look at you know, makes me just look at this whole situation in dread. >> you know, america is not in the best place, and you've got trump just talking about trump . trump just talking about trump. and yeah, for me, and you know, a lot of people say he's going

to win. he's going to win. this will this will help him win. i'm just like, but surely the american people care more about themselves and their lives and what's in their pocket at the end of the month than trump's drama , but apparently no, no, drama, but apparently no, no, but that's not the thing is that they're not voting because of they're not voting because of the drama. >> he's going through. they're voting for him because they think that he's going to make their life better. that he's the only person about any of that. >> he's not talking about the issues that are affecting americans. he's talking about the issues that are affecting him. >> he talks he talks a lot about the southern border, the immigration problem, something like 10 million illegal migrants have been in the country under biden's watch. so he does i mean, illegal migration is probably the number one topic in america right now. and that that situation on the texas border is, is a big one. >> yeah. but i think it's really interesting what you were alluding to earlier, louis. i think for people who love trump, this is being seen as a liberal hit hit job. for those who hate him. they say it gives them faith in their judicial system, but for those who are undecided, those swing voters in swing states, i think that's what's

going to make this election really, really interesting. we are out of time, i'm afraid. but thank you so much, both of you . thank you so much, both of you. with us in the next hour, we'll catch up with you a little bit later on in the show. but coming up, we're going to be discussing the science of slimming. we'll have an opinion on that one. >> yeah. any secrets? well yours would be. >> just don't eat a lot. >> just don't eat a lot. >> yeah. is that you're not agree with me? >> no, i'm the same. >> no, i'm the same. >> okay. >> okay. >> that's that done. well we'll get stuck into that in a short while. >> but up next the snp is urging scots to do national service and vote out the conservatives. at the same time, we'll be heading north of the border to speak to our reporter, tony mcguire, very shortly. this is saturday morning live gb news, britain's

judith judnh raanan. >> welcome back to saturday morning live with me and ben. lots of you getting in touch this morning. one's just caught your eye, hasn't it? >> yeah, so i'm not sure what

the law is, but maybe you can tell us and we'll google it in a second. but someone says not much health and safety on that battle bus with katherine forster. the cameraman's rolling about like a drunken sailor and no one has a seatbelt on. i would have guessed that you don't need a seatbelt on a big coach. have a quick ellie's going to google it now, driver must wear a seatbelt if it's not just the driver or passengers over 14 years old must wear seat belts if fitted. >> so there you go. maybe it's not. should be. should be using him. >> let you off, catherine? >> let you off, catherine? >> yeah. very eagle eyed. all of you. you don't miss a trick. loads of you emailing in about that. so do keep your views coming in on any of the things that we are talking about today. gb news .com/ you'll say yes. >> right. moving on. the snp leader, john swinney, has urged people to take part in a scottish national service by using the general election to vote tory mps out of office. >> yes, the scottish first minister has taken his election campaign to the north—east of scotland, insisting his party can remove the remaining rump of tory mps both there and in other parts of the country. >> joining us live now is gb news scotland reporter tony maguire. good morning, tony.

what's this all about? then i would have thought maybe in my ignorance, that the snp should be focusing on the labour vote as opposed to the tories. >> yeah, that's pretty much bang on. i mean, scotland is interesting, unlike england. you know, there are no labour tory marginal seats here in scotland . marginal seats here in scotland. the snp is essentially fighting on two fronts. now, they have said that they want to, you know, enlist if you like scots into this national service to boot the tories out. but the conservatives only actually have six seats after the 2019 election, and they are, you know, not the biggest threat. labour who came out of the last election with just one seat. they've since doubled that to two last year, but now they are projected some polls are saying to get as many as 26, 28 seats. now that is qatar eutrophic as far as the snp should be concerned . and certainly this concerned. and certainly this past week, as we've been

following the snp around scotland on this election trail, you know, it has kind of dawned on me on the long drive up to aberdeen today that we haven't actually heard anything too substantial from john swinney or the snp. now, it's very early in this election campaign, but so far the two key messages, which have been repeated over multiple days, is this national service to boot the tories out and also, you know, a vote for the snp is the only vote that would ensure that they will keep labour in check, you know, and keir starmer almost putting out this assumption that keir starmers labouris assumption that keir starmers labour is going to be the next government, so, you know, it's quite interesting now labour of course, have, you know , they course, have, you know, they brought out the gb energy idea yesterday and introduced that to scotland, that is, you know, due to be headquartered here in scotland, that if it goes ahead, it's worth saying , you know in it's worth saying, you know in john swinney used yesterday's opportunity in glasgow to say that, you know, to urge caution

essentially against this scheme because it could lead to the loss of significant number of jobs up here in the north east. now, to me, that was a prime example of, you know, where he could have introduced the plan to protect jobs in the north east, protect jobs in the oil and gas sector, because labour, as we know now has plans to not allow any more oil and gas licences. and that, of course, would be a huge blow to this part of the country. >> okay . tony mcguire, good to >> okay. tony mcguire, good to see you this morning. thank you very much . very much. >> all right. thanks, tony, it's officially summer. is it? >> no, it doesn't look like it. if you step outside, i feel like it. i was reading something yesterday that apparently is going to be one of the wettest summers ever. 50 days of rain wouldn't surprise me. >> and three days of rain. the met office put a statement out this morning, or one of their meteorologists did, saying that april and may were the warmest in maybe the last 100 years or something. >> well, it certainly didn't feel like it here. yeah, but

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us. welcome back. 1034 ben and ellie with you on saturday morning live. a few more comments. flying in one from caroline for

you. ellie. morning, ellie. >> morning, caroline. >> morning, caroline. >> love your cardi. where did you buy it? please? >> thank you. zara. >> thank you. zara. >> not primark, not primark. i'm sorry . sorry. >> and actually lewis, one of the producers here said that his mum saw me in zara on oxford street and i was like i live in zara on oxford street. i do love zara, that would be why i love but yeah, this is from zara, fred burton. >> good morning fred, you say ben, i stopped eating less and put on weight. fred i'm not sure if that's scientifically possible. >> well, it depends what you're eating actually, as well, doesn't it? i know you say it's just about numbers, but it is about what's inside your food. yeah, we'll find out more. we're going to find out more in just a second. that links very well actually. and one from sally anne who says morning ellie and ben, please could you go back to your usual light hearted saturday morning live , where saturday morning live, where you'd showcase independent british retailers and businesses 7 british retailers and businesses ? applaud a good hearted brit who'd done something selfless and wonderful . plus, ben, isn't and wonderful. plus, ben, isn't ellie supposed to be teaching you about fashion ? we need a you about fashion? we need a break from all of this election stuff . yes, sally anne, we stuff. yes, sally anne, we understand, it's because we're in a general election campaign, and we have to do a lot of

politics, we have to represent all parties throughout the programme. so things are going to look a little bit different, aren't they, for the next five weeks. >> come on then, give us a fashion tip . fashion tip. >> get yourself to zara. yeah, well, i just say to you today i'm wearing light blue and you've worn light blue. yeah, i know brands are available. >> i heeded your advice. yeah, there we go. >> we've coordinated. >> we've coordinated. >> i've done a stephen dixon and, colour coordinated. >> yeah, so we will be back to normal form in five or so weeks time, but, yeah, we're with you , time, but, yeah, we're with you, and we hear you. >> it'll be quite a gruelling 5 or 6 weeks. yes. so bear with us. now, let's move on to the next topic. health trends and diet fads. they continue to flood social media. you've probably seen them on instagram and whatnot. and weight loss experts say that seven of the 13 most popular diets today are so complex, you need a scientific degree to understand them. >> yes, new studies show that 95% of us spend less than half an hour on research before adopting a new health trend, and that a third of us think that the more complex and scientific that a diet sounds, the more

accurate we believe it to be. >> okay, so why is that? and why are so many diets kicked into touch within a week? joining us now to get to the bottom of it is chief medical officer at vogue, doctor aram chowdhury . vogue, doctor aram chowdhury. good morning to you, sir. good morning. thank you forjoining morning. thank you for joining us. am i being a bit mean by just saying losing weight is as simple as eating less and getting off the sofa more? >> well, i think it's great you bnng >> well, i think it's great you bring up this point. >> i think the mantra around move more, eat less has been around for quite a while, and we're seeing the science is always evolving. in the era of obesity, we know a third of people today are obese, two thirds are overweight or obese. and so we know this is a huge pubuc and so we know this is a huge public health problem. and our current methods and approaches just haven't worked. and so i think people are struggling in being able to solve their weight . i think we've seen that people are able to lose weight, but whether they're able to sustain that, that's the that's the main challenge we're seeing right now i >> -- >> it seems to me like there's a lot a lack of education when it comes to what people should

actually be putting inside their bodies. i mean, 95% of people spend less than half an hour researching a diet before adopting it. you don't actually know what you're doing. >> i think that's a problem. i think broadly, what we've seen is that there's just so much information and there's so much exposure to social media and misinformation. there's a plethora of diets dating back almost from the 1960s, from atkins to low carb to intermittent fasting place . you intermittent fasting place. you know, there's just alkaline diets. i've heard of cabbage soup diets. yeah. and we've just seen a plethora of people who come to see us who've been trying to lose weight for over ten years, and they've tried a multitude of diets and failed. and it's not necessarily just the lack of information . it's the lack of information. it's actually being able to implement what they're learning and what they're hearing about . but i they're hearing about. but i think based on the research that we've done, people are only understanding a very small component, and they're certainly having a bias for what they're hearing. that's increasingly complex. so we call this authority bias . so when people authority bias. so when people hear complex terms, they actually believe the diets more

credible. and that's what our research demonstrated. >> it sounds clever doesn't it. it sounds like it's got some substance to it. what do you make of ozempic and other weight loss drug injections? >> i was going to ask. >> i was going to ask. >> sorry, are we are we just going to eliminate, diets altogether with these so—called wonder drugs? >> yeah. so? so i'm always keen to look at obesity as a complex, multifaceted problem and not to be reductive to just one solution because it's different components that will move the needle for individuals. we know that that really with obesity, we're sitting at the intersect of biology vie, where almost 80% of biology vie, where almost 80% of why we're obese is due to our genetics and our inherited components. and then there's lifestyle components and the environmental factors . so glp environmental factors. so glp one medications, certainly a lot of interest in them. why. because i think it's been challenging to treat obesity. and this is the first substantive drugs we've seen where we're getting life changing results. so at voi we've seen people who have been trying for so long and they're able to lose ten, 20% of their weight within 6 to 12 months. and actually, what they're

finding is that they're able to keep that weight off kind of individuals that we were seeing. they said they couldn't even look in the mirror. 90% of them saying, we don't like looking at ourselves. they lacked confidence to go shopping. and so the impact on their lives has been quite transformative. but in terms of the medications themselves, they're one tool which we're seeing a lot of promise. but there are other components you also need to try to work on, to be able to move, you know, your weight and your, your well—being. >> how helpful or unhelpful do you find social media when it comes to talking about diet culture? because you do we have more access, don't we? as you say to a conversations about diets and different ways of losing weight , but you also have losing weight, but you also have anybody offering that advice. it's not just nutritionists or medical experts. does that concern you ? concern you? >> there is a degree of concern there, but i think it's great that their conversation is happening. like we're aware of a lot of individuals who are suffering in silence. they've been fobbed off by health professionals . i been fobbed off by health professionals. i mean, been fobbed off by health professionals . i mean, there's a professionals. i mean, there's a lot of fat shaming that goes on. and so they're able to at least

access some information. what i would encourage people to do is to try to then look at that information, try and critique it . but i don't think you need to fully understand every element of it yourself. i think seek help. go speak to a health professional. i would say myself. even health professionals themselves lack the training in nutrition and weight loss. and so you need to potentially look at more specialist services that have a bit more insight onto actually what's going to be appropriate for you. i think also with social media, it's always important about contextualising what you see and learn to your own life , because what we would own life, because what we would implement in terms of an individual who's potentially a ceo super busy or a single mum that changes dramatically. and i think it's a fallacy to think that we have these static lives. there's always a birthday happening or there's that you're going on holiday and your gold dinner out with friends , dinner dinner out with friends, dinner out with friends, and you want to be able to enjoy those things, but be able to have sustainable results. there's a huge difference between losing weight and maintaining weight because your biology fights against you. >> yeah. deffo, look , it's

>> yeah. deffo, look, it's wedding season. lots of weddings coming up. my instagram is full of my friends getting dolled up and, you know, heading to big gatherings. any tips for people to lose weight safely in a quick, relatively quick amount of time to get in top tip shape for weddings? yeah >> and i think great, great question. i do strongly believe and this is a marathon. so ultimately if your aim is for having a great sort of weight, your health being, being at a top level, you really want to look at sustainable lifestyle changes. so that means looking at your nutrition , looking at at your nutrition, looking at your exercise, cutting down on your exercise, cutting down on your ultra processed foods, trying to maintain habits that you can achieve. i think very much we get paralysed by perfection and think very binary. i often get asked, what's the healthiest vegetable ? what's the healthiest vegetable? what's the healthiest oil? well, actually it's more doing 80% of great things and good things and actually giving yourself little. >> come on, adrian, we want a fad diet for the next six weeks to get our viewers slim. >> that's the problem is that

people want the quick fix, but it is as sometimes sometimes you need it. lifestyle. yeah, it is a lifestyle, though. it's just committing yourself, isn't it? as you say, 80% being good, committing yourself and also 20% of what you like. >> i think you mentioned a, someone who'd emailed in, but an individual who actually loses weight actually realises that they actually have to take less and less calories because your body adapts to try to regain the weight. because we're built on trying to survive where there's been a poverty of food in the past . but actually we live in a, past. but actually we live in a, in a, in an environment right now where you can get a plethora of food whenever you want on tap. >> same in reverse as well. when you become more muscular and fitter, you need more calories to just maintain your your maintenance levels. and the science . i love all the biology science. i love all the biology and the science of it. it does, you know, when you're losing weight and you're a calorie deficit after so many weeks, say a couple of months and the weight loss has plateaued . i weight loss has plateaued. i found from research and self—experience that it's a good idea to have a big feast of one day where you feast and you eat over the calories, and it kind of kick starts your metabolism, your metabolism starts to reduce as you lose weight .

as you lose weight. >> so if you lose it with rapid velocity , then actually you'll velocity, then actually you'll find that your your body just kind of starts to try to gain back those calories. and we call it the set point . trying to not it the set point. trying to not get too scientific, given that we're already talking about this being quite complex, but actually your body wants to try to revert back to what it was before you'd lost the weight. and so you're really fighting your biology. so you've got to use multiple methodologies from the behavioural to change medications to coaching to really making yourself accountable. but i think most people know what to do. it's really trying to support them in the implementation of that for their lives and sticking to it. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> consistency is key. >> consistency is key. >> good to see you. thank you very much. we can talk to you all morning, but we can't. i'm afraid, because we've got to speak to our greatest britain, which is coming up after this short break. this is saturday morning on gb news, news channel

welcome back to saturday morning live. the time is 1047. we're about to meet our greatest britons. i've already given us a giggle in the studio, but a view has just caught your eye. so shall we share that first? yes. terrence, he said. >> hi, ben. i saw you crossing buckingham palace road yesterday and tooted you from my national express coach . great to see you. express coach. great to see you. you did? i thought you were about to run me over because i had some headphones in and i went, er. do your impression of being scared, terrence? oh. oh, yeah. sorry. terrence. yeah. so he hung out the window and went, whoa! >> yes, that's what i said. hey, mate. >> thank you, terrence, for your support. >> terry. he loved it. he's been talking about it this morning, and, someone has emailed in that there's no name, but it says the past few weeks, i've been busy doing work on my house. >> i have no sofa to lounge on, or do my usual stuffing my face with rubbish food. i've been busy, busy, busy. and as a result i feel slimmer, fitter and healthier. >> oh well. brilliant stuff. we don't know your name, but that's good. good to know. do you keep a slim jim in slim jim? we'll call you that. gbnews.com/yoursay now, here on

saturday morning. it's our favourite part of the day, isn't it? we love to give a spotlight to amazing people who do amazing things. and today we've got two fantastic individuals who have invented a teddy bear to help children who are suffering with mental health. yes. >> so lynn and samantha crilly came up with the idea for the trouble muncher toy following samantha's own battle with an eating disorder and ocd. >> yes, the teddy comes with a notepad and encourages its owners to write down what's troubling them, and then they can pop the note into the rucksack on the bear's back. >> we're delighted now to be joined by both lynn and samantha crilly in the studio. congratulations! first of all, to you both, and also joined by the trouble munchers. >> hello. >> hello. >> tell us about the background of this project. when did it start? and of course, it stems from your own troubles, i guess. >> yeah. so i've, i've, i've struggled with mental health most of my life actually. and oh no it's fine, i've got mum. >> oh, i feel quite sorry for you, but. >> and one, one thing i always did was message my mum, and it

was a thought just disassociation kind of technique. i would message you even now. i message you thoughts that come into my mind, but massively . when i was younger massively. when i was younger and i thought, what happens if you're younger and you don't have this, so that's where the trouble muncher came into thought of you. write your troubles down, put it in the rucksack . go to bed. yeah, he rucksack. go to bed. yeah, he eats them up , rucksack. go to bed. yeah, he eats them up, but rucksack. go to bed. yeah, he eats them up , but the parents eats them up, but the parents actually take the note out and they can read the troubles. so it's both benefiting the parents, but also thought disassociation and kind of the middle man. if there's not really much, much communication going on for many reasons. but yeah, that's i can imagine for a child it's really cathartic to actually write things down. >> yeah, they don't know a problem. shared problem. >> yeah. and i think in today's technology fuelled world, yeah i think we go back to basics and it just helps them to process by writing it down. everything's so instant these days. it just helps them to write it down.

they can write it down with their with their parents or their with their parents or their carers and share it with them as they're doing it and make it sort of like a fun exercise . but, or they can do exercise. but, or they can do it. what i have known is that some people have written their troubles down and then just left the bear on the side, gone to school, knowing that the parents are going to take the troubles out of the back of the backpack because there's a pad. share your troubles. >> so? so it's like an indirect way of telling your parents how you're feeling, what you're going through. such a great idea. what's the feedback been from parents who have got a trouble muncher for their kids? what have you got? stories. >> it's been really good, in one household, he sits on the kitchen side and i think during the day, the parents, the children put their worries in or at night, and then they know that their parents will look at it during the day and it's gone into some schools as well, like into some schools as well, like in the library, sits in the libraries or the cosy corners or the different places that they can go for nurture. you'd imagine you'd want one of these trouble munchers in every

classroom , in every school, up classroom, in every school, up and down the country, because children who are being bullied for example, who feel like they can't tell their parents they're too embarrassed to talk about it. >> this is such an important tool, isn't it, for children to communicate that it's just a friendly, non—judgmental face? >> i mean, some kids aren't quite aware that their parents do pick it up, and that's something that might be discussed that further down the line , but yeah, it's just a line, but yeah, it's just a safety net in case your kids come and try and talk to you. but everyone's so busy these days, it's quite hard to be in the right place at the right time to listen . so you might try time to listen. so you might try your best, but miss it at some kind of point in your day. your best, but miss it at some kind of point in your day . so. kind of point in your day. so. and he just works as a safety kind of guard for any kids that can't talk about their troubles . can't talk about their troubles. >> so and i've got two kids and i try and speak to my four year old sometimes about how his day has been or something that happened the previous day. if there was an incident, maybe he was a little bit naughty and we, you know, took away his, i don't know, the tv or something for an houn know, the tv or something for an hour. and i say to him the next day, how did that make you feel? but because he's so young, he's only four, he can't really

articulate or find the words to, tell us. but i guess with this, it's a new sort of dynamic of communication. >> yeah. i mean, even if they just write down a couple of words or just something. so the parents are aware that something's going on and the teachers are aware that something's going on, they can keep an eye of who's kind of put writing in it and etc. so it's just opening that conversation that might not have been opened before. >> what's it been like for you to as an experience as a mother and daughter duo, you have been through this without the trouble muncher. what's it like now working on this project together ? >> 7- >> it's ? >> it's amazing. it's 7 >> it's amazing. it's really nice to be able to give back something that i was very blessed to have, and i am very blessed. i still am, but it's very rare. i think it's i mean, parents try their best, but we're probably a bit too close. it's a bit weird, but it is a bit weird. >> i'm the same with my mum. >> i'm the same with my mum. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> yeah yeah, yeah. with your mum's. >> yeah. we're so close. >> yeah. we're so close. >> yeah. like i told you, everything, everything . yeah. everything, everything. yeah. >> like everything's too much. >> like everything's too much.

>> yeah, i messaged and i'm like, oh dear, i wish you good for the rest of the day, but no, it's amazing. and it's something that we've been wanting to do for a while, isn't it? >> i think mental health issues are quite have grown and are quite prevalent, especially in our younger generation . yeah. our younger generation. yeah. and at the end of the day, they're our future for tomorrow and they need support and help. and i think communication gone are the days where you go down and i think technology has taken over a lot of communication with. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and i think it this goes back to basics. like i said before of just talking. >> yeah. well you were saying mums mental health counsellor and you had a young young child who was had snapchat i so you talked to an ai and snapchat and that's what they talk to you now rather than if any parents, any parents want to get hold of the trouble munchers, i where can i get one? >> for example, i'd love to take one home for you can have one? >> yeah. what's the website? >> yeah. what's the website? >> website? do your website. >> website? do your website. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's, lynn crilly. com. they're available on there or my

instagram which is lynn underscore crilly. there you go lynn crilly. >> com i've got it up in front of me right now. thank you to you are this week's greatest britain. thank you. thank you for having us. the weather now . for having us. the weather now. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast . from the met latest forecast. from the met office. the start of june and a beautiful start for most of us. high pressure building in from the west, bringing fine weather and some warm sunshine. although it's not going to be completely sunny everywhere, there is some cloud to talk about for east anglia in the south—east. first thing a few light showers. they tend to disappear by the afternoon, but we keep the cool breeze coming in from the north sea. likewise, there'll be some patchy cloud elsewhere, especially for northern england into the midlands to and parts of wales where the odd light shower couldn't be ruled out. but these are the exceptions. for many. it's a fine saturday and plenty of warm sunshine.

highs of 21 or 22 celsius away from that cooler east coast into the evening. we'll see plenty of sunshine across much of scotland, just some fair weather cloud out there, particularly over the hills and for western scotland and southern parts as well. temperatures likely to reach the high teens or even low 20s. some decent sunny spells for northern ireland as well. as we end the day that thicker cloud, i think for the pennines into the peak district, parts of the west midlands and mid wales, just 1 or 2 light showers. these will be the exception for many places. it is a dry saturday with that high pressure in control. now overnight we're going to see patchy cloud here and there, but plenty of clear spells. one exception western scotland. thicker cloud arrives here along with some patchy rain and drizzle that will keep temperatures in the double figures. but where we've got the clear skies elsewhere, temperatures dipping into the single figures, even the mid to low single figures in 1 or 2 sheltered spots. but we begin sunday with long, sunny spells

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which profession makes you more likely to cheat on your partner. we'll be speaking to a psychotherapist to find out exactly what is going on in british relationships, and steph takyi has all the latest showbiz news, including taylor swift , news, including taylor swift, who's got herself into the headunes who's got herself into the headlines again after a number of homeless people have been sent out of edinburgh to make way for tourists ahead of her upcoming performances . upcoming performances. and we are going to be hearing from rishi sunak on his battlebus in the north—east of england at around 1135, so don't miss that this show is nothing without you. so do keep your views coming in this morning. we've had loads already, haven't we, this morning? >> very funny ones. some which we can't read out on air but very funny nonetheless. so keep them coming in please. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> gbnews.com slash uk. >> gbnews.com slash uk. >> but before we do anything else, sophia wenzler has all your news headlines .

your news headlines. >> ben thank you. good morning. it's 11:01. >> ben thank you. good morning. it's11:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . foreign in the gb newsroom. foreign secretary lord cameron says hamas must accept the new ceasefire deal outlined by the us president, ceasefire deal outlined by the us president , joe biden. the us us president, joe biden. the us brokered proposal would begin with a six week ceasefire. hostages would have to be freed in exchange for the release of palestinian prisoners , and it palestinian prisoners, and it would mean israeli troops would have to withdraw from the populated areas of gaza. hamas described the three phase roadmap as positive, but a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister says the war will not end until all its goals are achieved. >> it's time to begin this new stage for the hostages to come home. for israel to be secure, for the suffering to stop. it's time for this war to end . for time for this war to end. for the day after. to begin , said

the day after. to begin, said former prime minister boris johnson has come out in support of donald trump, saying a second presidency is more likely, not less. >> following his hush money trial, donald trump says he will appeal his conviction of falsifying business records, lashing out at what he calls a scam verdict. the former us president claims there was no hush money. it was a normal non—disclosure agreement, properly categorised as illegal expense. properly categorised as illegal expense . the prime minister has expense. the prime minister has promised cash for british towns as the general election campaign enters its second week. rishi sunakis enters its second week. rishi sunak is pledging to give £20 million to 30 towns across the country , a move labour has country, a move labour has branded reckless and is an unfunded commitment. the tory party says it would add the places , many of which are based places, many of which are based in the midlands and the north, to its existing long term plan for towns. conservative minister andrew griffith says voters have a clear choice. we're about sort of a week into the full on campaign. >> i'd be out meeting voters

this morning as i am, people you know are not necessarily made up their mind. i think all of the polls and research i've seen show a large number of people who are undecided. and the big job of work for us all, because i think people understand what this conservative government has done, what it stands for. there's only two potential prime ministers on the 5th of july who are going to walk through number 10. i think it's clear what you get with the conservatives, we don't know enough, do we, about what labour would do . what labour would do. >> meanwhile, labour is promoting its power up agenda leader sir keir starmer, deputy leader sir keir starmer, deputy leader angela rayner and shadow chancellor rachel reeves unveiled their battle bus, which will travel 5000 miles across the country. they're describing the country. they're describing the conservatives levelling up pledge as a phoney gimmick, saying they have data showing which areas will be hit if the tories get back into government. their figures suggest that in the north east of england, people will be £5,400 worse off. and in the south—west families

will be £4,300 poorer. >> won't change the powers with you because the voters with you. you have to vote for change. we have changed this labour party and put it back in the service of working people. >> what we're asking now, humbly asking, is the opportunity to change our country and put it back in the service of working people , and that requires both people, and that requires both setting out our ambition to change the country, but also the first steps, the down payment , first steps, the down payment, if you like, stabilising the economy, making sure we can deal with our waiting list, getting back people back into work, setting up great british energy to keep bills down. they are the first steps to the change this country desperately needs. >> the uk's ambassador to mexico has reportedly been sacked after he pointed a gun at an embassy staff member. a video posted on social media appears to show john benjamin aiming a rifle at another man while in a vehicle. it was also captioned in context

of daily killings in mexico by drug dealers . of daily killings in mexico by drug dealers. he dares to joke. the foreign office says it's aware of the incident and has taken appropriate action. and king charles has personally given a d—day veteran who turned 100 a birthday card. jim miller was invited to buckingham palace, where he told the king about his experiences during the second world war. mr miller landed on the normandy beaches in june 1944, and took part in the allied military operation there . he said he was totally there. he said he was totally surprised and delighted to be ianed surprised and delighted to be invited to buckingham palace and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. corach rambler alerts. now it's back to ben and . ellie. >> thanks, vie and welcome to saturday morning live. the time is 11:06. loads of you are getting in touch this morning.

thank you so much. we're going to start with elizabeth who's beenin to start with elizabeth who's been in touch saying ellie is right, which is nice to hear. >> always, always. >> always, always. >> yes. we'll just leave it at that. yeah. full stop. it's not just about eating less. it's about what you eat that matters. i lost two stone in about three months by simply reducing carbs by half, increasing protein and veg, and minimising sugar and alcohol. but i do enjoy what i like when i'm going out. alcohol. but i do enjoy what i like when i'm going out . it's like when i'm going out. it's all about balance. >> exactly. all about balance. andrew, you say i found the keto diet with exercise was the only diet with exercise was the only diet that has ever worked for me, and it worked quickly and easily. keto. if you don't know, it's pretty much just all fat, no carbs. so steak , eggs, no carbs. so steak, eggs, avocados, that kind of thing. >> it wouldn't be for me. >> it wouldn't be for me. >> and paul on the trouble miniature toy that we were just talking about with our greatest britons this week says maybe kids should put their smartphones in a trouble muncher that would get rid of their mental health issues. i do feel sorry for children in this day and age, don't you? yeah, we're raising children in this day of age , i say all the time when i age, i say all the time when i was a kid, if you got bullied, you got bullied on the playground. >> you went home and that was

your refuge. these days, you're added to whatsapp groups 24 over seven. it'sjust added to whatsapp groups 24 over seven. it's just it's constant. so i feel very, very sorry for children. >> yeah, so do i. children. >> yeah, so do 1. well, do keep your views coming in this morning. we'd love to hear from you don't we? gbnews.com/yoursay yes. >> right now, a tory wipe—out could be on the cards with a new poll showing the conservatives could be reduced to just 72 seats at next month's general election. yes labour is also predicted to win by a huge landslide , with a possible 302 landslide, with a possible 302 seat majority . okay. well seat majority. okay. well joining us now is gb news political correspondent katherine forster good morning catherine. is this new poll this morning a surprise to any of the conservative cohorts you're with up there ? up there? >> honestly they don't want to discuss it . i >> honestly they don't want to discuss it. i was >> honestly they don't want to discuss it . i was with one of discuss it. i was with one of the pm's team when this broke last night. we were just having dinner and basically they just batted it away. they said, you know, it doesn't matter what the polls say at the moment . the polls say at the moment. the only poll that matters, of course, is on the 4th of july. they are focused i mean, it must be dispiriting this, mustn't it. come on. because this poll in particular is predicting pretty

much a conservative wipe—out. it's saying that labour are on course to win 300 extra seats from where they are now, and the conservatives to lose 300. it's saying that if it were replicated in the general election, labour would get a 300 seat majority in the conservatives would be down to between 60 and 70. only less than ten more than the lib dems. so it must be dispiriting. but they are trying very hard to focus on the job in hand. they know that they've got less than five weeks to turn things around. they think they're being very proactive. the prime minister still seems very upbeat, very energetic, and they they are coming out with lots of policies, coming out with new things all the time. they say they have to because they've got to do something to try to counter this poll lead. of course, labour, in contrast, and not saying terribly much, trying to make themselves a smaller target as possible. they don't

want to do anything that's going to jeopardise that lead. so the conservatives today here in nonh conservatives today here in north yorkshire on the campaign trail, the tories announcing new funding for towns, some £20 million extra for some 30 towns, including places like bognor regis, halifax , perth and regis, halifax, perth and preston. but the problem is, are voters listening? because going out and about around the country, so many people say to me they're sick of the conservatives and they're not wildly enthusiastic about labour and many of them going to vote for reform because they're just so fed up. worth saying on this projection reform not forecast to win a single seat. >> okay, catherine, thank you so much for that. we'll come back to you later in the day, i am sure. >> well, we're going to be heanng >> well, we're going to be hearing from rishi sunak in around 25 minutes time on that new funding for 30 towns. so we'll bring that to you just after 11:30. now to go through the top stories in the papers today, we're delighted to be joined by writer and podcaster

lewis oakley and the broadcaster and life coach, jenni trent hughes. morning to you both, jenny. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i have found ed davey and the lib dem campaign to be absolutely fascinating in the past week or so. it seems as though ed davey has taken it upon himself to be quite the comedian with campaign stunts in the past few days. i think yesterday was wearing a chef hat, baking biscuits, and we've seen him on a children's water slide in that big yellow rubber ring, and we've also seen him fall off his paddle board many times up in the lake district. what do you make of what you've seen from ed davey? >> when i first moved to this country, it was the time of the late great paddy ashdown and who to me was such an incredible, incredible politician. and when i look at ed davey now embarrassing himself, the lib dem party, i just want to shudder. they've used the word madcap to describe his activities and madcap is one of

those words that when you hear it, you know that whatever it is just terribly wrong. and the thing that upsets me is that i actually know quite a bit about the lib dems . and as a party, the lib dems. and as a party, i think that at this point in time, they probably have the strongest and best collection of people in their running for, running for office, working on the on the ground level. but what they need is a different leader. and i've been rabbiting on about this now for about three years, and this current behaviour is i keep i'm calling them all up going, you see, this is what i've told you get rid of this man lewis. >> he's just having some fun, isn't he? he's showing his character. you've got the likes of starmer and sunak are accused of starmer and sunak are accused of being droids and robots. sir davey surely is just going against the grain and having a laugh. >> look, if we're being serious, i agree with what jenny said, but if i think of what the nafion but if i think of what the nation needs in this election campaign, then yes, we need some

fun. and you know, you're seeing these videos of them falling off and doing silly things and that is kind of, you know, what elections are about. you know, these politicians are pretending they're normal people and would, you know, go and pull a pint or whatever it is. so i think it bnngs whatever it is. so i think it brings a much needed bit of fresh air into the situation. you've got to think as well, lib dems, you know, maybe they're a bit of a gateway vote, but if that makes sense, they kind of, you know, target more. the young and they've got to kind of talk the language they're talking. and that's you know, i think lib dem is probably i haven't seen any polling on it probably the younger people. that's probably who they vote for first before they get into labour and conservatives, you've also got to think it is a lot now about social media. i mean, you know, people that are watching the news like this or reading newspapers, they want to know about policy. but for the people that probably only are interacting with the general election through social media clips and memes, they're probably doing quite well . i probably doing quite well. i don't think it's going to help the country at all, but it's interesting at least. >> and what do you think about jenny's thoughts on ed davey not

being the right leader? because there are a lot of people out there are a lot of people out there who would be angered by this sort of carry on by sir ed davey, and they'll never forgive him for his role in the post office scandal. and they just say they they're so angry by that. >> yeah, i actually do agree with that. he's not he's not the leader they need at this moment. i don't know who exactly it is, who you know, who they've got to choose from. but he's not he's he just doesn't cut through. i mean, to be honest , he just doesn't cut through. i mean, to be honest, you he just doesn't cut through. i mean, to be honest , you know, if mean, to be honest, you know, if you'd have asked me three weeks ago who's leading the lib dems, i would have. i would have not said it with confidence. it's only in the last few weeks because it's been falling around all over the place. i remembered his name. so they need some more memorable, charismatic, but someone that can also inject a bit of fun and positivity and make people believe you know what things can get better. >> well, talking of policy, jenny, the lib dems have pledged to tackle high football stadium ticket prices and tv subscription prices by planning ten free to air premier league games a season. if the lib dems make government. i mean, i'm not

sure how a they'd enforce that, but b i mean, is that a vote winner ? free premier league winner? free premier league games for the electorate? >> well, it seems to me that he's aiming for two groups of people that don't particularly care the under seven or under eight who think that people falling down all over the place and wearing funny clothes is entertaining and people who spend a large percentage of their money on television subscriptions. so so, you know, he's aiming for two groups that's not going to bring in very many votes, in my opinion. >> i mean, it's the detail that we're lacking here. i mean, how would you possibly implement this? >> who knows? i mean, this is just pie in the sky stuff and no one cares about. come on. there's so many issues facing our country at the moment. premier league football subscriptions is where you're going. i mean, it's laughable. >> okay. lewis, you wanted to talk about this story, didn't you ? in the times, the push for you? in the times, the push for britain to have more babies? yes >> there is a huge push for more people to be having children , people to be having children, we've got a declining birth

rate, a decline to 1.49% in 2022, there's two issues to this, right? because one of it i agree with and the other part i'm not so in agreement with. so i'm not so in agreement with. so i agree that it should be easier to have children as someone that's got three kids, two that are very young, the cost of childcare, the cost of trying to also the way, family dynamics have shifted. you know, i spent most of my weekends at my grandparents . we now live away grandparents. we now live away from our family. so you don't have that help at hand. it is really hard to be a parent and it's also an aspirational thing. people want to be parents. and the fact that so many people are put off these days is, you know, something that needs to be tackled. my issue is that they're saying it's about, the future economic risk to the economy , that basically if we economy, that basically if we don't have enough children, then we won't have enough taxpayers to look after the elderly. well, i mean , that's a bit of i mean, that's a bit of a because they'll plug that with migration. >> that seems to be the argument i >> -- >> well, -_ >> well, no. but at the same time, we're hearing a! is going to replace all our jobs. so i do to replace all ourjobs. so i do think we need to have, you know,

maybe some form forward looking beyond a five year plan of like, well, what is 2050 actually going to look like? are we going to need this many people if we've got robots serving us in shops and all this kind of thing, maybe we should plan for the amount of people we're going to have. >> jenny, elon musk, the tesla spacex boss, richest man, bringing up all my faves today. >> he, i'm quite sure i am. >> he, i'm quite sure i am. >> he, i'm quite sure i am. >> he says that the plummeting birth rate worldwide is a bigger existential threat to humanity than climate change of course, in japan, there's a well—known stat that if they carry on with such a low birth rate in just 70 years, there'll be no japanese people left. italy's birth rate is in the gutter, ours is in the gutter, as lewis said, probably down to a myriad of reasons. people can't get homes, which means they're not having families. but this also coincides with data that suggests young people, especially young men, are having the least amount of sex, compared to previous generations. so is it also a case of men just don't know how to talk to women anymore? they're too stuck on their phones playing video games. is there anything in that? >> no, no.

>> no, no. >> well, i wanted to get back to the elon musk thing , for a the elon musk thing, for a minute, as far as i know. isn't he personally trying to eradicate the problem on on his own? how many children does he like? >> 9 or 10 kids or something like that , i get really like that, i get really perturbed when people start blaming things on men do this. men don't do that. it's men's fault. it isn't. it's everybody's fault. and one of the things that i don't understand, i don't know about you two, we can talk about it . you two, we can talk about it. one of the things to me about being in love, one of the first things that, you know, oh, this might be the one, is you want to have a child with this person, so you know that , to me, is so you know that, to me, is actually a natural primaeval urge. and it really bothers me. yes it is very, very expensive. when i got married , we did when i got married, we did without, you know, we did without, you know, we did without to be able to raise our child. and i think that we do need to have continue to have

children. and when people tell me i'm not having a child because i can't afford it inside, that actually makes me really sad because i feel if you can do it and if you want to do it, then having a child is just the greatest thing. >> it's easier said than done, but i agree with you. i've always said just if you think you can't afford it, just do it. and it sounds very responsible , and it sounds very responsible, but just do it and things will happen and things will work out. you'll find a way, because so many generations before us have gone through much worse. single mums working multiple jobs, you know, living in really terrible homes . you just find the way homes. you just find the way through. but as i said, i know it's easier said than done because of course you want to raise a child in the best possible way with a nice, loving home, in a stable relationship. so i do get it. >> but i don't want to be like the politician that was on earlier and, and you know, and not not answer your question, but i, i do think that it is something i do think that it is something i do think that it is something that we have to do ,

something that we have to do, that it's really important that we have, you know, that we all try to have children , but for try to have children, but for the right reasons, right? >> not for the future economy. >> not for the future economy. >> yes. well, no. >> well, you will certainly have a view on that gbnews.com/yoursay do send them in to us. we'll try and share as many as we can throughout the programme. lewis oakley, jenni trent hughes, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> lots more to come in the show . lots of showbiz, including that taylor swift story. apparently all her fans saw the homeless people in edinburgh were booted out of local hotels. is that right? >> i don't think that's actually down to taylor swift. >> no, you're in fierce defensive taylor this morning. but we'll we'll find out more about that very very shortly. also which professions mean you're more likely to cheat on your partner. send your thoughts in. we'll read them out in just a sec. this is saturday

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morning live. let's go straight to the prime minister, rishi sunak, who's on the campaign trail in the north of england today, launching his battle bus, acting in a way that's threatening our values and our interests abroad and at home, threatening the integrity of our borders. >> and these uncertain times demand bold action and a clear plan to deliver a secure future for this country. that's what we conservatives offer. and look at what you get from the labour party. just take the one issue of borders. we're the ones taking bold action, getting the planes off to rwanda, establishing that deterrent so that people know that if they come here illegally , they can't come here illegally, they can't stay across europe. the penny has dropped that our approach is the right one. the one person who doesn't get that is keir starmer. it's going to release everybody that we've detained , everybody that we've detained, cancel those flights, offer an amnesty to illegal migrants, making us the soft touch of europe. when it comes to asylum seekers. and we absolutely can't let that happen. and in every way, labour would make our country less safe and less

secure. now keir starmer and the labour party want you to believe that this election is over before it's even started. the result is a foregone conclusion . result is a foregone conclusion. well, you know what? i'm going to work my socks off every day of this campaign, talk to as many people as i can, earn the trust of the public. and you know what? i don't think the british public like being taken for granted. do they know ? for granted. do they know? because whilst we're putting bold ideas on the table , a new bold ideas on the table, a new form of national service, the triple lock , plus 100,000 new triple lock, plus 100,000 new apprenticeships, we've heard nothing from keir starmer and the labour party. not a single new idea about what they would do in the future. and remember, if he was happy to abandon every promise that he made to become labour leader as soon as he got that job, what makes you think that job, what makes you think that he wouldn't do exactly the same thing all over again if he became prime minister, and ultimately, if he doesn't stand for anything himself, how can he stand up for all of you? right? he can't just see. just see

what's happened over this diane abbott situation . right. and it abbott situation. right. and it confirms what we know about him is that he doesn't stick by anything he says, just constantly changes his mind . and constantly changes his mind. and it's clear that angela rayner is in charge of the labour party and not him at the end of the day. and if he's given in to her and the left on that, imagine what he'll give in to when it comes to higher taxes, the unions demands or weakening our defence and security. now, these uncertain times call for bold action, a clear plan to deliver action, a clear plan to deliver a secure future that's what we're about. we're working for a britain where we have a renewed sense of confidence in our communities. a pride in our country, a britain where your hard work, everyone's hard work is rewarded, where the opportunities that were there for the previous generation are there for the next. and a britain where, above all, your safety, our security is assured. that's the secure future that we're fighting for at this election. that's the secure future that our country wants and deserves. and with everyone's support, that's a

secure future that we can all deliver. so let's go out there and smash it. all right. >> an energised rishi sunak. they're launching his battlebus in north yorkshire, talking about how only the conservatives have a plan after this, general election, and accuses sir keir starmer of taking the great british public for granted. what do you make of it, ben , yeah. do you make of it, ben, yeah. interesting. i wouldn't say he was energised . i think we have was energised. i think we have a differing opinion. >> rishi sunak that was that was quite energising. >> and we did giggle at one moment where he was kind of it was like a pantomime esque rallying cry to the crowd. what was it he said ? isn't that right? >> isn't that right? >> isn't that right? >> or something akin to that? >> or something akin to that? >> but i mean, we won't stand for that, will we? >> lie—in. yes. and he did say he's going to work his socks off in the run up to the election. >> well, rishi sunak, i mentioned it this morning to katherine forster camilla tominey, telegraph column yesterday says that actually

whisper it quietly, quote unquote. but apparently sunak and the tories are making a big comeback. but we'll see over the next 5 to 6 weeks. >> now, do stay with us. we're going to go to a short break. we've got lots more coming up. we're going to be going through the showbiz, and we're also going to be talking about which you're most likely to cheat in, apparently. lucy

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to gb news. com slash alerts. >> 1132 ben and ellie with you on saturday morning live only on gb news now. a very interesting story coming up, one that a lot of you have been getting in touch about. lots of theories . touch about. lots of theories. so get this right. almost half of those seeking to have an affair . they are of those seeking to have an affair. they are happier with theirjob affair. they are happier with their job than with their primary relationship . but what primary relationship. but what exactly does a cheater do for a living? >> well , living? >> well, medical assistants and nurses surprisingly top the lists of professions for female cheaters and it's jobs in it or tech for male cheaters, which i think is less of a surprise. no, this is all according to a survey by the dating site ashley madison. >> okay, so why do people cheat? to answer this, we're joined now by broadcaster and psychotherapist lucy beresford . psychotherapist lucy beresford. good morning. lucy. morning, lucy.isit good morning. lucy. morning, lucy. is it okay of me to say naughty nurses in this day and age? am i going to get cancelled for that? >> you're out. >> you're out. >> been cancelled. see you. that's the door. but yes, you're talking about the caring professions. >> and i think it's very appropriate that women. >> well, because they're very nurturing, very loving, very giving. whereas the males who are in tech and it very

strategic kind of working in their lives in terms of 3d chess, and that's maybe how they structure their social life as well . well. >> but you think the caring jobs like being a nurse, you'd have such guilt to, to cheat on your partner. >> i think the interesting thing is why do people cheat? yes. and from this survey it's very clear that actually nearly a third of people who are married say that they are happily married, even though they are cheating. >> so what does that tell you? and i think what it says is that some people are not looking to blow up their primary relationship when they're having an affair. what they are discovering is that that primary relationship is not fulfilling all of their needs. they don't feel validated and they don't feel validated and they don't feel heard. they don't feel seen. and if you are a very giving person, if you're very loving, that can be incredibly demoralising. but some of the other interesting information was that 1 in 4 people or four out of ten, actually, sorry, four out of ten people were first born that if you're likely to cheat, the chances are you

might be the first born in your family, whereas only 1 in 10 are actually only children . which actually only children. which suggests to me that only children are much more self—sufficient emotionally. >> is there a link between high pressure jobs? maybe nurses ? pressure jobs? maybe nurses? infamously? you know, they're working long hours, underpaid, stressed out? is there a link between jobs of that nature and cheating? maybe as a relief ? cheating? maybe as a relief? >> absolutely. as a stress release, one might almost say. but then again , that's the other but then again, that's the other question around why do people have affairs? is it just about sex or is it about emotional connection? is it about emotional validation? and increasingly, people are discovering that their primary relationship is just not a place where they feel safe to let their vulnerability out, and that you can find a relationship with someone who can do that. and you only have one life. and also in terms of non—monogamy, ashley madison did another piece of research last year about whether people are actually becoming more accepting of the fact that you're not going to stay with the same person for the rest of your life. i have to say that one of the most interesting things about this is star signs . interesting things about this is star signs. it interesting things about this is star signs . it says that star signs. it says that actually, if you're leo, if

you're a male, chances are you're a male, chances are you're going to cheat. and if you're going to cheat. and if you're female , it's much more you're female, it's much more the air signs like sort of or even fiery signs like sagittarius and aries. so watch out . always ask, always ask what out. always ask, always ask what that person's star sign is when you go on your first date. >> but it is interesting, having said that, this survey found that personality didn't actually come into it that much. it was about half and half. if you're an introvert or an extrovert that you'd be likely to have an affair. >> i think that's right. and i think that just speaks to the fact that all people want to have a good emotional connection. so it doesn't matter whether you're really social or whether you're really social or whether you're really social or whether you're someone who has to recharge your batteries in private time, that actually we only ever want three things in life. we want to feel safe, we want to feel loved, but we also want to feel loved, but we also want to feel heard. and in increasingly, a number of marriages and long term relationships, we get into grooves. we get into ruts, and we stop hearing our partner. we stop listening to them, and they stop listening to them, and they stop listening to us. and that is a surefire way of having an

affair. >> well, so the top five professions among female respondents of cheaters, one was the medical assistant nurse, as we've already covered, number two were teachers and professors. number three, marketing and pr specialists. fourth, stay at home parents. is that the lonely housewife kind of thing? >> i think it could be, yes. and actually, what's really interesting is that a lot of single men sign up to ashley madison in order to meet married women. so they both parties are not necessarily looking, as i said at the beginning, to blow up the primary relationship, what they're looking for is an extra kind of experience. and i think if you're feeling very unvalidated emotionally, if you're emotional needs are not being met, that is a very dispiriting place to be. and if they're not being met in your primary marriage , that's a very primary marriage, that's a very lonely place to be. >> are we losing what is just a traditional, faithful marriage where just two people are just married for life, they're in love and they're not looking elsewhere. >> but that was a construct that was created in sort of the 15th century. >> you think it's outdated? >> you think it's outdated? >> i think i think it's worth

paying >> i think i think it's worth paying attention to the fact that if you lived to 40, you could expect to be with your primary partner for the rest of your life. if you can live to 110, which frankly, anyone who's gen z could realistically with medical advancements , live to medical advancements, live to 110, can you realistically expect to grow and nourish and nurture the same person that you met when you were? >> or are you going to be having sex at 110? >> i hope so , you never know. >> i hope so, you never know. >> i hope so, you never know. >> miracle wonders the top five, by the way, just to finish off the top five, male respondents were tradespeople , it techs, were tradespeople, it techs, then engineers, sales managers and construction workers. maybe not so many surprises in there. >> no. lucy beresford , good to >> no. lucy beresford, good to see you this morning. thank you very much. do let us know what you think about that, gbnews.com/yoursay. and makes me quite sad . quite sad. >> yeah, it is sad, but i think it's, it's today's age with social media. there's lots of promotion of what do they call it, poly, poly, polyamory, whatever it's called .

whatever it's called. >> polyamorous. >> polyamorous. >> polyamorous? >> polyamorous? >> yeah. things. >> yeah. things. >> yeah, i don't know. >> yeah, i don't know. >> let us know what you think. i know you'll have a view. now it's know you'll have a view. now wsfime know you'll have a view. now it's time for your weekly dose of showbiz news. and we have our favourite person in the studio. it's our lovely stephanie takyi with us. good morning. >> i was so interested in that chat. >> i was so interested in that chat . i was like, as a single chat. i was like, as a single person, you think to yourself, oh my gosh, what hope do i have? >> i know it's awful isn't it? >> i know it's awful isn't it? >> is what i would say. >> is what i would say. >> lucy is a good point. no bad thing. >> that's a good point, actually. single and free to mingle. >> and you've got pat schedule. >> and you've got pat schedule. >> yes i do. it's now getting to the summer, which means we have awesome films coming up and one that i'm really, really excited, which shaped my childhood was beverly hills cop, and it's back for the fourth instalment with eddie murphy. we've got a clip here so we can tease the viewers with. good morning everybody. >> it's another beautiful day here in beverly hills. >> it's another beautiful day here in beverly hills . what the here in beverly hills. what the hell was that ? hell was that? >> let me guess . foley

>> let me guess. foley >> let me guess. foley >> did you say foley ? foley. who >> did you say foley? foley. who stole a helicopter? >> i didn't realise that you couldn't really find helicopters. otherwise i would have came up with a different idea. i told you, it's a bad idea. i told you, it's a bad idea . idea. >> oh, that looks. >> oh, that looks. >> i cannot wait for it to come out . it's >> i cannot wait for it to come out. it's almost >> i cannot wait for it to come out . it's almost been 20 years out. it's almost been 20 years since we've seen eddie murphy play since we've seen eddie murphy play axel foley. it's been one of those legendary, legendary characters that people just love him for. it's full of comedy, full of a bit of detective work. it's due out in july. he said he found it quite difficult filming this because he said when he first done the first edition of this, he was in his 20s. he's now in his 50s having to do all this high impact action work, which he said did take its toll. but by the looks of it, it looks pretty. >> he looks good, though he does. >> he doesn't age. he's a bit like a vampire. eddie murphy, but i think it will be good. and it's on netflix, so people do not have to go far. they do not have to venture to cinemas, and they can watch it and stream it

from home. so i think it will be a good instalment for the classic theme. >> you know the song, the soundtrack. >> i've heard a bit of it, ben, and i think it's got a bit of a 2024 remix to it. you can still tell it's the same song, but it's just got this kind of remix to it. but you know, you have to satisfy gen z and then us all, they'll just pay a bit of it so it'll keep us happy. no, it looks fabulous. >> and that's set to come out in the autumn. >> yes. no, july, july, july, july. the third, july the 3rd. early a month to go just before the general election. >> wonderful. ooh. should we talk about taylor swift , please? talk about taylor swift, please? >> gosh. >> gosh. >> out there, isn't there ? >> out there, isn't there? >> out there, isn't there? >> we need there is. i think a lot of people are trying to take their anger out on taylor, because they think she's shifting the homeless people in edinburgh city, and that is not the case. so basically she's coming with her eras tour, which is sold out to edinburgh, and this month on the seventh and the eighth and ninth, edinburgh at the moment they've got a housing emergency and what they do with their homeless people , do with their homeless people, they put them up in tourist

accommodations. taylor's concert has sold out to 200,000 people, so can you imagine? they've taken up most of the accommodation there. so now the council are facing a problem of what they're going to be doing with these homeless people who usually stay at the hotels for a week. so they're shifting them to aberdeen and newcastle at the moment. but to be honest, i don't think taylor's going to take this because she's getting a lot of negative press for this. but usually when taylor comes into town, she always donates to food banks, to charities and stuff. so i can imagine she's going to invest quite a bit into edinburgh and for their homeless people. >> some would argue that having a palace as big as taylor swift, she should maybe , i don't know, she should maybe, i don't know, get all the homeless people a place to live. maybe oh gosh, that's pushing it. >> but you never know. i think with all this bad press coming out, i don't think taylor is just going to turn up in edinburgh and just do her shows and forget what is going on. she'll do something. and you know the good thing about this now it puts it out there because we're now all talking about it and you know , a lot of the

and you know, a lot of the councillors are saying we've got this housing emergency. councillors are saying we've got this housing emergency . so this housing emergency. so actually taylor swift indirectly is making us focus on what are we doing with the homeless people in edinburgh. >> yeah. shaun bailey hasn't it. look, we've got 45 seconds. yeah. what would you like to tell us about. >> let's talk about j—lo. so apparently it's trouble in paradise with her and ben affleck. and yesterday she came out and announced that she's cancelling her tour in the us. she said she wants to spend more time with her friends and family, which is obviously making people think, okay, maybe their marriage is really on the rocks, but to be honest , if you rocks, but to be honest, if you want my opinion, i think it's because she had low ticket sales. like i don't think you want to be jlo and perform in half empty stadiums. >> they were spotted without their wedding rings . their wedding rings. >> they were. and every time i see them, ben, they just don't look happy. but you know, she's quite a workaholic and he likes to be out of the limelight. so, you know, we're talking about couples here and it's just how do they balance that. and if she's saying she's taking time out to be with her family, hopefully they will be mending their relationship. yeah. >> well, let's hope so. we'll

watch this space definitely i know good to see you. thank you, thank you. >> thanks for looking forward to that new film netflix. >> gonna chill out next month. yeah. >> all of that to look forward to after the general election. now we'll back after this short

break. >> welcome back. i'm sorry. hello? >> no. don't worry. welcome back to saturday morning live. now, do you remember the willy wonka fiasco earlier this year? yes. >> with the really rubbish. like event set up. >> yes. people paying good money to go to this event turned out to go to this event turned out to be a bit be a bit of a flop. but it's happened again. >> oh no. >> oh no. >> but this time with lego . >> but this time with lego. >> but this time with lego. >> oh dear. yeah, a lego event apparently held as the world's largest brick festival, has seen visitors demanding a refund over the flop after calling the event bleak and a rip off. we had this, of course, with winter wonderland as well. do you

remember over christmas? oh no, i didn't see that a few years back. maybe one, this december gone as well. there was winter wonderland, apparently meant to be some magical experience, you know, very fairy tale like and wintry. and it was just a bit of fake snow in the corner and some very like. no. and parents had paid , you know, sort of 70, £80 paid, you know, sort of 70, £80 for a ticket. that's so expensive. >> this is the thing. do we have pictures of this? i hope we do. visitors claimed in this instance that they were greeted with a near empty room . here we with a near empty room. here we go. it looks like a village hall, doesn't it? this is at the brick fest live experience at birmingham's nec venue over the bank holiday, and there's just very little going on. just a few lego blocks in the centre of the room. if you're listening on the radio, it looks like the warehouse is just too big for the setup. >> maybe just get a smaller room. it'd probably look better. we're joined now by george goscinny's, owner of the yellow brick lab. apologies if i pronounced that incorrectly. george. how do you pronounce it? >> no problem . >> no problem. >> no problem. >> it is a good thing because there you go. >> you had it. had it. >> you had it. had it. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. tell us about this event. i mean, it

looks pretty underwhelming, but was it actually underwhelming for parents? what are the reviews like having been there for the kids and their mums and dads? >>i dads? >> ihavent dads? >> i haven't been to witness it myself. >> it was brought to my attention by your crew, in fact, and i had a look a little bit in it. >> it does look a little bit underwhelming. people go to these type of events with high expectations, spectacular models being built, rare if you like, figures to have a closer look at, etc. so yes , i would imagine at, etc. so yes, i would imagine that the people that went there were not exactly surprised by the positively surprised. i mean by the result. >> and it's such a shame, isn't it? especially especially for lego enthusiasts, of which there are so many in this country, you being one of them. as the owner of the yellow brick lab, tell us a bit more about that. >> well , yellow brick lab a bit more about that. >> well, yellow brick lab is just using the most powerful , >> well, yellow brick lab is just using the most powerful, in my opinion, toy in the world to as a vehicle, as an instrument, if you like to introduce children to robotics and

computer programming . so we're computer programming. so we're trying to make the most of play and learning through play without realising it. so this is what we do. we organise, after school clubs mainly, or work within schools to , put the within schools to, put the learnings that the children learnings that the children learn every day through their stem, curriculum , into practice, stem, curriculum, into practice, giving them a hands on experience in building robots and then bringing them to life with computer coding. >> and, george, just on a basic level, what is it about lego that kids love so much? what is it that captures their young minds? because i mean, to me, i never played with lego as a kid, but it's just bricks that you step on and it's kind of, you know, does your head in a bit and it hurts your foot. >> that is quite painful indeed. i think that what appeals with the lego system is the fact that there are limitless possibilities to bring to life your imagination and everything that you can naturally come up

with. so people just love building and building and converting and trying to, to , converting and trying to, to, to, to bring to life what they have in their minds. so it is something that you can do either on your own or you can do it with friends as it's something that you feel very satisfied completing yourself. once you are following instructions or very satisfied when you finally manage to bring to life what you have in your mind . have in your mind. >> george gert's royals we are out of time, i'm afraid, but really good to see you. this morning. thank you, george, very much . much. >> okay. elsewhere, the iconic iwm duxford summer air show returns to the skies today. yes. >> this year the event theme is, of course, d—day 80, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of the famous normandy landings. anniversary of the famous normandy landings . the normandy landings. the anniversary is next thursday. >> joining us now from the events is gb news reporter will hollis. good morning will, what's the latest ? what's the latest? >> yes, well, some 38,000 people have descended on the imperial

war museum in duxford because they want to see the aircraft that made d—day a success. yes. this week the country and the world marks 80 years since the d—day landings. the largest land, sea and airborne mission in history . land, sea and airborne mission in history. now a lot of people will be coming down here because they have a family connection and want to feel a little bit closer to that family history. but many people are just here to see the fantastic aircraft that are going to be on display. today. we're talking spitfires and hurricanes , but another big and hurricanes, but another big one, the dakotas, the transport aircraft that thousands of paratroopers jumped from into normandy. and in special honour of remembering those people, a hundred parachutists are expected to drop into the airfield behind me. that's if the weather holds up. the wind is a big thing to consider when you've got people jumping out of aeroplanes, just like it was back in 1944. the d—day landings were delayed by a couple of days just because of the weather.

now, while there are lots of aircraft that people are excited to see, there are some aircraft missing from the battle of britain memorial flights last week when squadron leader mark long crashed the spitfire in raf coningsby, all of those aircraft were grounded and the ministry of defence say that while they are investigating right now , are investigating right now, they can't safely start flying those aircraft again until they come to the conclusion of what happened.so come to the conclusion of what happened. so that means that those aircraft aren't here today, but they're also not going to be at the d—day 80 commemorations in portsmouth on the fifth or in normandy on the sixth. but here, in special tribute to squadron leader mark long, who flew as part of the battle of britain memorial flight at raf coningsby and was due to be their new commanding officer, there's going to be a special tribute to him later today, we can imagine there would be and we can see so many people milling behind you will, and it is so important, isn't it, that those brave men that took part in the d—day landings

are remembered and honoured ? are remembered and honoured? yes. well, they say it's 80 years ago, but even for people that weren't around then, that weren't even children then it is especially important because it is heritage and it is identity. but more than anything it is honounng but more than anything it is honouring the people that at a time when everything was at stake, they really did give everything . and while today is everything. and while today is about acknowledging some of that heritage , seeing some fantastic heritage, seeing some fantastic aircraft flying and even sort of acknowledging what happened in a special connection, it is ultimately with many of these sorts of events, just like it is with remembrance, about remembering what young men did 80 years ago. >> well said. will hollis there for us in duxford . thank you for us in duxford. thank you very much. >> well, thank you for joining us today. we're coming to the end of the show a very quick email from terence. we've been married for 46 years. the secret sharing compromise and giving each other space. sadly, today's

people are more selfish and wrapped in the world on their iphones. so there we go. nice little heartwarming message to finish off. >> we'll be back at the same time, same place next week. up next is dawn neesom. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello! >> hello! >> here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we've got a lot of fine weather in store across the uk this weekend. some warm sunshine, but we'll see rain into the north—west later. >> it's high pressure that's dominating at the moment. >> sitting out towards the west of the uk. >> that's giving us the generally fine and settled conditions. a bit of a northerly breeze, certainly down towards the southeast, so a bit of a chilly feel here. and that's certainly the case as we head into this afternoon. >> there will be lots of fine settled weather around, certainly towards the north and northwest of the uk. lots of sunshine across scotland and northern ireland and down towards the far south of england too, with some patchy cloud across central parts of england into parts of wales might just produce the odd shower, but on the whole it's set. fair temperatures in the south up to 21, possibly 22 degrees 72, in

fahrenheit and fairly warm towards the north in places to 20 celsius in the central belt, for example. as we head into the evening, we'll hold on to lots of sunshine across scotland, but a patchy cloud down towards the south—east might just produce the odd shower, but on the whole it is set fair for the end of the day and set fair to across northern ireland again. some patchy cloud so sunshine a bit hazy here. lots of sunshine across the north of england, almost wall to wall sunshine in fact here to end the day and across england and wales still some patchy cloud around. but on the whole too here it will be dry to end the afternoon as we head into the evening and through the overnight period. the cloud across the south will tend to fade, so we'll see lots of clear weather around across the bulk of the uk, seeing some patchy mist and fog developing in places and turning quite chilly in rural spots too. although towns and city temperatures will generally hold up near double figures. i think in some rural spots we could dip down to 2 or 3 celsius, so we can't completely rule out a patchy frost by the morning. tomorrow. notice by sunday morning we've got some outbreaks of rain arriving across the far north—west of the uk and that will gradually slip its way

south eastwards into the north and west of scotland, into parts of northern ireland too, as we go through the day on sunday. but elsewhere, once again, a lot of fine settled weather around, lots of sunshine and if anything, a little bit warmer down towards the south and south—east of the uk. here we could see temperatures up to 23, possibly even locally 24 degrees, a bit cooler with the cloud and rain there towards the north—west >> looks like things are heating up boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb news

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