that he's been accusations that he's been trying to buy votes with a promise of funding for towns, the 100 towns across our country. >> they're going to receive £20 million each. and, crucially , it million each. and, crucially, it will be local. people in all those areas are in charge of how to spend that money, to make sure it's spent and invested on their priorities. an example of us levelling up everywhere, backing local people and their priorities and giving them the long term funding assurance to do so. the methodology that selects these towns is something that's been used multiple times before. it's all public. it's based on areas levelling up needs, looking at economic opportunity, skills, health and life expectancy. so it's an objective set of criteria. all published online. but i'm not going to make any apology for supporting towns . supporting towns. >> and just hours before that statement from rishi sunak, labour were launching their own battle bus, which is setting off on a 5000 mile journey to key seats across the country . seats across the country. speaking as his coach was unveiled, the labour leader

claimed that people in the north—east of england and the south west will. he says , be south west will. he says, be thousands of pounds worse off under a conservative government 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 service of working people, and that requires both setting out our ambition to change the country, but also the first steps, the down payment. if you like, stabilising the economy and 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 . desperately needs. >> sir keir starmer there, speaking earlier on the campaign trail. well, in other news, there's been a heavy police presence in central london today for several protest events . for several protest events. thousands of people turned out for a rally organised by tommy robinson in parliament square

this afternoon as stand up to racism staged a counter protest nearby . and at a separate nearby. and at a separate demonstration. we know of nine arrests for people trying to block traffic. the group of youth demand activists were calling for an end to military action in gaza. meanwhile, streets have been even busier at tonight's champions league final at wembley. we now know that 53 arrests, police say, have been made. that's after some fans tried to force their way into wembley stadium, others invading the pitch tonight , disrupting the pitch tonight, disrupting the pitch tonight, disrupting the game just minutes before kick off. and finally, boeing's highly anticipated spacex launch was called off earlier today, less than four minutes before it was due to lift off. it was delayed by an automated computer system, which takes over the flight sequence in the final minutes of the countdown. it's the company's first attempt to fly its starliner spacecraft , fly its starliner spacecraft, with astronauts on board carrying them to the international space station. well, nasa has now rescheduled

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crime. >> no, just. >> no, just. >> just being overweight. yeah. >> just being overweight. yeah. >> which guilty .7 yes. because. >> which guilty? yes. because. >> which guilty? yes. because. >> because you're the gammon in the fridge. i'd be. i'd be imprisoning you in your own frosty chamber. anyway. how are you apart from having a terrible introduction? >> no. i love steve link . that >> no. i love steve link. that was fantastic. totty, who doesn't want to be called is all right, but lock up your daughters does seem more. you don't know how old those daughters are, steve. they could all be very elderly. well >> thank you. >> thank you. >> that's a lot of protest there. right. let's have a quick look at sunday's front pages. the mail on sunday goes with tories sos to rishi give us tax cuts now the telegraph sunday telegraph labour will betray pensioners again says chancellor . the observer has sunak suffers poll blow as cash for votes row erupts and the sunday times has. labour offers mps peerages to step down in, the sunday express has labour's £1,000 tax raid on oaps and finally, the daily star. you're going home in an effing cardigan. and those were

your front pages . okay, we kick your front pages. okay, we kick off with the sunday times. steve >> they're going with labour offers mps peerages to step down. >> this is like part two of the saga. >> i suppose , because previously >> i suppose, because previously in what was happening with laboun in what was happening with labour, there was an issue with diane abbott. has she been banned from stepping down? no one actually from standing. there was no evidence that she had actually. but she said she had, which is not necessarily indicative of it actually happening. >> what are you trying to say about diane abbott? >> the gin and tonics on the way home might slightly take the edge off. >> i think that's what i'm trying to say, but now the idea is that there might be offering peerages to the people they don't want to stand. and i think the reason is labour surely are thinking they're going to do so well, they can afford to lose a few people. it's not like they need the seats. and if you get these heritage candidates who do really well, there's a lot of you get a bonus from being known by the people in the area. so

the legacy candidates often do well, but they're probably thinking , well, but they're probably thinking, oh, we could lose a few seats just to not have that left wing part of the left wing throwing in some grenades when they're actually in power. >> so now it's part of the left wing as opposed to the main part, which is the tory part of the left. yeah. >> another thigh and the breast. yummy. but this is more the left wing part is i think this is, it's a plan and it's not a stupid plan because if you've got so many seats to play with, why not get rid of the people who will be sniping and making it tricky for you? >> well, that does sound very sensible, doesn't it, paul? getting rid of getting rid of the ones that might be a bit difficult later on. >> yeah, the shoe's on the other foot now for, diane abbott. that's good news. but this this is a this is a it does make kind of a mockery of the house of lords, though, doesn't it? but some would say that that happened some time ago as a sort of dumping. yeah. we're just like, if you sort of time out bin we've got, we've got some rubbish that's been hanging around a really long time. where can we put it? the house of lords. but this is also starmer , lords. but this is also starmer, you know, leading with an iron

fist. but, because he's trying to get in his own peeps, isn't he. he's got some he's got some starmer rights, which sound painful to be fair, but i hope he gets well soon. >> nhs yes , but yes, but it'll >> nhs yes, but yes, but it'll be interesting to see how that pans out. >> we don't know what's going to happen with diane abbott. he's kind of he's kind of sort of managed that on friday. and you think well you haven't mate have you. you haven't managed it at all because we don't know if she is going to stand. and i'm sure she did stand, she would win. >> well, she's very confident that she is going to stand isn't she. but as as steve says, that isn't necessarily, the end of the story. >> no, i hope she does, because we are a political and satirical comics and it's easy money talking about diane abbott. >> excellent . that's the spirit. >> excellent. that's the spirit. all right, moving on to the mail on sunday, paul . on sunday, paul. >> tories s.o.s. to rishi. give us tax cuts now. so dramatic party faithful s.o.s. to rishi sunak pleading for tax cuts and what i would say is, unless

those tax cuts are all the way to down zero, it's not going to make too much difference. but of course, this is a this is a reaction to the latest poll that we've seen that gives tories no more than about 70 seats, which is incredible , 70 seats. and is incredible, 70 seats. and they're talking about the lib dems having 59, 60 seats. so that would just give them another ten more seats than the lib dems. and ed davey will win those seats. just travelling around the theme parks of england , sliding down wet things england, sliding down wet things and sitting in wet stuff . and sitting in wet stuff. >> well, absolutely . it makes me >> well, absolutely. it makes me laugh the way this is worded, where it says, jeremy hunt admitted to the mail on sunday that two tax cuts to national insurance had had failed. sorry, two cuts to national insurance had failed to swing public opinion, he revealed. >> that revealed it. >> that revealed it. >> big news. >> big news. >> thank you jeremy. >> thank you jeremy. >> first, i was really fun around the budget when we had to be reminded of the fact that in the january before, we'd had that cut to national insurance because no one cares about national insurance. the only way

they made it a headline is by saying, at some point we will aboush saying, at some point we will abolish it entirely and then have to increase income tax, which but i think, i think this could happen. this makes sense because if you're heading for annihilation anyway, why not cut taxes? it just means that when the other people get in, they have to raise them again. and then you can spend the rest of then you can spend the rest of the time saying there are high tax labour government. so it would be a trick, but that's what they've got left. >> fair enough. sounds like a good trick. the sunday telegraph next, please, steve. >> i mean, they do have labour will betray pensioners again, says chancellor. loads of, loads of front pages having a go at the pensions side of stuff, i mean betray. they've already got a triple lock. what more do you want? you got maths in your favour also, you should say thank you to the sunday telegraph. they say say chancellor, rather than his surname, which when you read in the front pages is risky business. never work again. but they also have cooper training for jobless will end reliance on migrants i think is an important story because this is what we've talked about for ages, that as a nafion talked about for ages, that as a nation we've relied on cheap labour coming from abroad and what you want in an ideal situation, if you have

unemployed people is to employ them. it helps you out. here's them. it helps you out. here's the problem. >> you ready for the it'll never catch on. no revolutionary stuff. >> and there's another reason why it won't catch on. because you then have to pay them enough to do those jobs. and the article actually points out there's effectively businesses get a benefit from bringing in foreign labour so you can get rid of that. but also it will mean if businesses have to pay more to employ british people to do the jobs, the cost will make its way through the system and this will be inflationary. remember when we were saying we give pay rises to nurses because it would be dot dot dot inflationary. they're aiming for inflationary. they're aiming for inflationary now . so i guess inflationary now. so i guess politicians think there's good inflation and bad inflation. and they don't like the ones that they don't like the ones that they have to pay for. >> well yeah okay. but but we do we do want the, the minimum wage. not not the minimum wage, but we want , wage. not not the minimum wage, but we want, we'd like to think that, that poorly paid jobs wouldn't just get plugged by people who are prepared to work for next to nothing in terrible conditions. wouldn't we? yeah. >> we should be paying more. i mean, the amount of money you'd need for me to vote to pick some fruit with my bad back is. i

mean, i wouldn't get a lot of fruit as well. it would not be worthwhile for anyone. but. yeah we should be paying these. these jobs should be actually paid enough to live off so you don't have to half subsidise it through some weird tax credit. >> trained up a few brits to do all the deliveroo stuff. then they would they would definitely have better conditions , wouldn't have better conditions, wouldn't they? and there are some people working in this country in just the most appalling conditions. not on the papers, not on the books, no rights, bad stuff . paul >> well, yes, if you're looking for an answer to that question, is it bad stuff? i'd say yes, but poorly paid jobs for immigrants? it's bad stuff. but i mean, the idea of training jobless will end reliance on migrants. well, that's what we should have done before we before tony blair opened the floodgates and that's essentially when it started. but i was i was listening to a podcast last night, which i won't name, but and it was talking about how the immigration issue had had disappeared from about the like the late 60s, early 70s to the early 2000 as a massive political issue. it had disappeared to some, to some degree. that and it was reintroduced as a result of

labour trying to flood the market to build the economy again. and we just haven't stopped. and at that point we were making complaints about tens of thousands of immigrants , tens of thousands of immigrants, net legal immigrants coming in. now it's nearly a million, nearly a million per year, which is a massive issue for us. so i would say this is a little bit after the horse has bolted. it'd be interesting to see going back to the original story of labour and betraying pensioners. these two things are linked really because there are both ends of the scale, but it's all about the scale, but it's all about the economy and i can't see anything other than labour managed a decline of the economy. taxes are already extremely high under the conservative party, the highest taxing conservative party, i think, in all time. and labour aren't exactly going to tax. they're not exactly going to cut taxes, particularly if they're going to try and fund pensions. so i think we end up with a managed decline. i don't know what happens because we've got some pretty stark choices and they're both rubbish. >> yeah, we will see. okay. let's finish this section with the daily star on sunday. paul >> yeah you're going home in a

flipping cardigan. so this is southgate sparks 130% rise in old man clobber. by which they mean cardigans a waistcoat wearing england boss gareth southgate has sparked a craze in grandpa fashion after appearing in a posh magazine wearing a cardigan before the euros , i cardigan before the euros, i would say against the backdrop of the general election and all the other things going on in the world, not such an important story. but steve, i'm not. >> yeah, steve's a hipster. yes >> yeah, steve's a hipster. yes >> i thought that was steve on there. >> yeah, well, obviously steve, any thoughts on this, yeah. >> it annoys me when people are used to be footballers. we're really in shape, wear stuff and look good in it, and people go, oh, everyone's gonna be wearing it. i will not be wearing a cardigan because i will look exactly like the middle aged cardigan wearing man, i would be. i can't pull off anything other than a tie. and even that looks slightly off today. so you do what you can. you know what mean? >> you look lovely, steve, right? >> you pull a few things off, mate, but i apologise for paul coyte, that's the front pages out of the way. join us. in part

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welcome back to headliners. i'm cressida wetton , still joined by cressida wetton, still joined by steve and alan and paul cox . and steve and alan and paul cox. and we're hosting a night with the headliners live and you can join us for an evening of comedy with andrew doyle. leo kearse, simon evans and josh howie. more information . scan the qr code on information. scan the qr code on the screen now or you can visit gbnews.com okay, starting this section in the independent, steve, have the latest polls revealed anything unexpected about the general election, or do we kind of know what they already say? >> we know what they already say. let's do it again. tories heading for election wipe—out as new mega poll suggests they could win just 66 seats. it's not a poll, it's a mega poll. mega poll , poll, poll, it's

mega poll, poll, poll, it's i could do germ available for voiceovers and jingles if anyone wants it, it still means that people who. this is how we'll get. it's what we'll get to if we do the long version of this, people who like the news will say , oh, this is definitely say, oh, this is definitely going to happen. people who don't like the news will say, what if polls ever been right? >> and then 2017, that's when they were right. >> that's when they're right. yeah. but also they'll they'll point to polls didn't say brexit. so like this is how discussions go , but it's discussions go, but it's interesting because it takes into effect the tactical voting and it could see outcomes even more 1997 than 1997. we could see deputy prime minister oliver dowden gone, james cleverly gone , defence secretary grant shapps could be gone. all of his names, you know, he's got loads of different names. that's a lot of loss. this is bad for news us because all of these tories suddenly being jobless. because all of these tories suddenly being jobless . where do suddenly being jobless. where do you think they're going to want a tv show? if kemi badenoch apparently could be listed as one of the people who loses his seat, if she turns up with, like, the where there's smoke, there's fire as a pitch for a tv

show. late night, we're gone. i'm just saying, i do not stand a chance. >> you don't think the headliners fans would be up in arms? >> three of them would, the conservatives could win just 66 seats. as you said earlier on, that's not that many more than lib dems. this is it gets it gets. if you read it all, you start to feel a bit of sympathy like, oh, bless. ouch. >> that's a major fall. >> that's a major fall. >> it's too much . i >> that's a major fall. >> it's too much. i keir >> that's a major fall. >> it's too much . i keir starmer >> it's too much. i keir starmer on for a landslide. we're still heanng on for a landslide. we're still hearing that. sure, the glamorous keir starmer i think at a time when politics is so exciting, it's unbelievable to think that both major parties are so ridiculously uninspiring. >> we're not getting a result here based on keir starmers politics or policies . we're politics or policies. we're getting a result as a reaction to the tories. i know that's kind of the sort of thing, cliches that are rolled out all the time. it's exactly what it is. because nobody can really point to what keir starmer is going to do that excites them in any way. it's like rishi sunak and keir starmer is like choosing your favourite canned meat to go camping with. it's like you've got to eat, but you know which one you're going to

go for. sperm or corned beef. i bet you love can bloom and do mate , i've got to go. i'm mate, i've got to go. i'm flipping hungry. oh, the key . flipping hungry. oh, the key. >> but isn't this like. i mean, i don't know a lot about football. isn't this like , when football. isn't this like, when you're enough goals up, you play defensively. you wouldn't go out there and say, here's a policy that people could hate if you just oh no, you're absolutely i mean, great stuff, by the way, concerned. >> you don't know about football. yes, indeed. yes indeed. jim, but yeah, absolutely. keir starmer, all he's got to do is do nothing. he's got to keep that's, you know, keep doing what you're doing. diane abbott out of the way. and anything outrageous just keep going okay. >> we're in the sunday telegraph next with someone celebrating liz truss. and that someone is liz truss. and that someone is liz truss. and that someone is liz truss. paul. >> yeah, amazingly, blair was the worst prime minister, not me, says liz truss. so miss truss, who is defending her south—west norfolk seat , told south—west norfolk seat, told the eastern daily press. the local press in that area , the local press in that area, the worst prime minister in recent years is tony blair, who created things like the equality act, the human rights act and climate and the climate change act. but,

i mean, she might have a point about tony blair, but he was in power for about 13 years. i think he went on foreign trips that lasted longer than her tenure as prime minister. so it's a bit rich. i know what she's trying to do. she's trying to deflect and perhaps , you to deflect and perhaps, you know, all the things she says about her premiership as prime minister are true, and that she wasn't given a chance, but she did try to get ten years of politics into a month. so you can't make that work. it's just not going to work in a in this environment. no. >> and do you think this is her warming up to come back? steve, do you think she's shadow boxing in the wings? oh definitely . in the wings? oh definitely. >> i mean, it might happen if there's only 66 seats and she's one of them. of course she could be leader. they could all have a crack at it. the rate they get through them. but you're right. 13 years of tony blair, like, give yourself some credit, liz. if you had longer, you could have done worse. so you saw this. honestly, there's a bit where it goes through what happened with the liability dnven happened with the liability driven investments that had the longer impact on our economy. when the mini—budget hit, it affected these ladies. and she

said that neither her or nor kwasi kwarteng knew about them. that does not make you a good prime minister. i think that makes you a bad one, doesn't it? >> if you don't know what you keep that to yourself, liz. >> google it. >> google it. >> brilliant. okay, a story in the independent about the dark web. now, steve. now, i thought the dark web was for buying drugs, guns, other exciting stuff, but apparently you can get really boring things on there as well. >> yeah, over two thirds of mps have had their data leaked to the dark web, a new study finds. and it makes you feel sorry for the dark web. you're on there using the tor browser, trying to look at the very dodgy adult entertainment. and then liz truss details come across. put your eye off. nearly 450 mps had their personal information exposed, including their parliamentary emails, which are publicly known anyway . i mean, publicly known anyway. i mean, also, why don't sign up for things with your parliamentary email. get a yahoo account like i do to sign up for all the stuff. >> i think that's what this is telling us, isn't it? i mean, we're all occasionally i'll see a friend and they say, oh, i've been hacked on such and such and you must change your thing. and

i go, yeah, and then i do something else. yeah. this is a reminder, isn't it? we all need to be a bit more switched on so their passwords are out there, aren't they? >> for these third party sites, if you sign up with your parliamentary email and your password is known, then these hackers will try your password. so we'll be okay. unless we think that our mps are stupid enough to reuse the same password, are we doomed, but also it says the information includes, their emails already public, their twitter handles, the whole point of which is to be public. so i'm not sure how much of a leak this is, but it does say the study found that british mps demonstrated worse account security than our european european counterparts taking back control and giving that control to russian hackers. excellent. >> that's something to be proud of, isn't it ? of, isn't it? >> i think so, it's always, you know, if you're not going to be the best at something, be the worst at something. that's what my mum used to say to me. and that's the policy i did throughout my whole of my education. but yeah, i mean, we probably ought to try and encourage mps to protect themselves from being compromised in some way, but, you know, you kind of at the end of the day, you're it's as old as time itself, isn't it? you

know, compromised mps, they're all compromised. they're all humans, some of them are an absolute wrong'uns. and it's very easy. and you can't, you know, you what can you do, how can you protect someone? the type of person who wants to be an mp. cresta has got all sorts of things to hide. so the least of things to hide. so the least of least of their worries. well, that's not true. i actually know, actually know someone personally who's going, hopefully going to be voting as an mp in the next election. she is, quite a lovely person, but other than that, all of them seem rubbish. change your mind very quickly i did, yeah, because i suddenly realised i knew a personal friend. >> yeah. sounds great, the sunday times next. and jacob zuma's had a makeover. paul >> jacob zuma. so yes, the south africa election anc vote collapses in most seismic poll for 30 years. so this is the african national congress also the party of nelson mandela, of course, and with 99% of the voting districts declared the, the party has been left with what looks to be like 40% of the vote, which won't give them a majority for obvious reasons , majority for obvious reasons, and they'll need to form a

coalition. this is the first time this has happened since the end of apartheid, and it's ushered in sort of a watershed moment for south africa in terms of their politics. south africa has changed a great deal, i'd imagine in those 30 years. i don't know enough about the politics of south africa to comment and say it definitely has. but the idea that the anc have been in power for 30 years and nothing's changed, i don't think would be true. so they anyone who's in power for 30 years, particularly in a democracy , that's a good democracy, that's a good stretch. and quite clearly, from what i've read in this article, they've rested on their laurels a little bit and they've been caught. >> it's an unbelievable stretch isn't it. 30 years. and it's the same thing i think as we were saying beforehand about the details are a bit difficult to fully understand. all of the smaller parties and all that they stand for. but it does make you realise when you have a system that leans towards coalition, you just get a variety of different messages. there's no line—up. even they're saying themselves . there's no saying themselves. there's no good option, there's just least worst options. and having a political system that focuses on

the least, least, worst option doesn't really inspire, but we can relate to them. >> yeah . okay. finally, in this >> yeah. okay. finally, in this section, steve, the metro with news of an air issue to rival anything we've seen from louis schaefer. >> well british ambassador to mexico sacked for pointing assault rifle at staff. >> i mean that's one way to motivate, isn't it? but video footage of this john benjamin said he was sitting in the front seat of a car pointing a rifle at someone in the back in what appears to be a joke. you know, the oh, i've got a gun, i'm going to shoot you. that joke is hilarious, isn't it? oh, i nearly got shot, the foreign, commonwealth and development office has not officially announced that he's gone . announced that he's gone. however, it does say that he was the ambassador between 2021 and 2024. what a great way to fire someone. update their wiki and tell them to google themselves. it's a lovely way of doing it. he also caused controversy in 2012. there was a tweet which he says was meant to be private that was offensive and that what a great argument. sorry, i didn't mean for everyone to read this offensive thing. i just i was just being offensive,

privately offensive, just between me and racist bob. >> i mean, i don't know what you're worried about. >> should you be sacked for a joke? no should you be sacked if you're a diplomat for not being diplomatic? yeah >> there's a chance, isn't it? i love how in the article it says that the employee looked uncomfortable and unfortunately , uncomfortable and unfortunately, when you look at the imagery, the face has been blurred out. so you just have. you can't imagine the look of horror. yeah. >> i mean, he was just a bit of bants, isn't it? at the end of the day, you've got assault rifle . are you going to do are rifle. are you going to do are you going to do you know, if louis schaefer was sat in the back of a car and threatened to shoot him? >> i've often thought about bringing a water pistol on here, but it would affect the mix. okay. right we're at the half way point coming up, the nhs has room for more genders. the brits don't enough babies and vorderman has committed crimes against fashion. don't

welcome back to headliners. kicking off this section with

the sunday telegraph. and a request for more genders to be recognised by the nhs pool. haven't they run out yet? >> you would have thought so, wouldn't you? we should have more gender categories, says nhs abuse services chief. i don't think they should be having anyone in charge of abusing services, but they do. doctor binta sultan made the comments in an online panel discussion this month, hosted by ucl, entitled intersectionality vie in inclusion health. why does gender matter? question mark, where she introduced herself as a brown, cisgender muslim woman, and in old money for those who don't recognise it, a woman, to be fair , she was at an be fair, she was at an intersectionality conference, so she she's kind of being paid to talk about these things . and talk about these things. and these things do go on. we complain enough about it. we know that they do. i don't you know, the nhs is a national health service. that's what the n and the h and the s stands for and health really does depend on biology. you know, you administer the treatments based

on the biology of the patient. i don't know why i'm talking like that, but it's just it just feels like it just feels like you've nailed it personally and we need to be very clear. so from my perspective, we do need to be clear on biology. however, i don't want to be too hard on her even though i totally disagree with her. there's every right to her view. and she's at an intersectionality conference being asked to speak about these things, and she's impassioned about it. you know, she believes that men can, excrete breast milk, etc, etc. and indeed that it's as good as the original breast milk, which i can tell you is not. >> well, helen joyce says that, that doctors should be able to treat everyone with respect without needing to know their gender identity. they do need to know their sex, but would you agree with that, steve? i think she's exactly right. well, the point that has been made in here is that it's about storing information, isn't it? >> it's about having sex recorded on the form and also a part for gender. and then the drop down box is massive and you could whittle it down to like male female . no thanks. i don't

male female. no thanks. i don't want to answer. and then you get the same kind of information. so it depends how much you'd obsess about using that extra data field. because the doctors would all be using the other one, the sex one. that would make it important, i should have highlighted it. there's a bit where they listed some of the other genders, which included a genden other genders, which included a gender. you can't have that . gender. you can't have that. that's already a word. that's a list of stuff to get through in a meeting. yeah, that's a big problem. >> that's a good point. >> that's a good point. >> you found the flaw, steve. okay, we're in the sunday times next and more news that brits enjoy brunch much more than parenting steve. >> our future depends on us having plenty of children. this is said by aria babu is a pro—natalist . i believe the pro—natalist. i believe the children are our future. treat them well, teach them well and they will lead the way. that was said by whitney houston and look what happened to her. so the welfare state will not remain sustainable in the uk unless we have more kids. is the basic theory here? people who say this don't have kids because later on this baby says who does not have children would like to in the future. yeah well, i got to and i'm telling you, she's calm down

on it. right. twos are bad enough. and i realised that's not enough to repopulate. you need apparently 2.1 as a replacement rate. the problem is you can't have that. you have to have three if you want to do more than two. and that would kill me at my age. but, i mean, there are loads of interesting things in this pro—natalist argument. rich nations slow down about having kids, which just goes to show that other things are more fun. if you've got nothing else to do in life, you knock out loads of kids. if the world is your oyster, you think, well, maybe we do it later and well, maybe we do it later and we have fewer of them. plus, also, we're paying ourselves into a corner by having an economy where we call ourselves rich. but you need two adults who are both working to afford anything, which then makes it tncky anything, which then makes it tricky to have kids. it's another one of these stories where i think it's all to do with not being able to have enough housing. if you can't afford a house, you're not going to start a family. so all of this needs to be in there as well. the argument against it is saying there are too many people in the world, and to those people, i say we're the uk. we could we could quadruple our birth rate and it wouldn't move the dial on the global number. so feel free to knock out some kids if you want. >> if you want. what do you

think? i mean, you are a parent with a house. this idea that you have to have a house. i don't really buy that. i think it's much more the people i know, the people in my sphere. it's much more about the fact that they just don't find child rearing very appealing. yeah. >> of course. i mean, a lot's changed over the years and there's some interesting facts in there on, it says, i'm not sure our welfare state is going to be sustainable when instead of 4 or 5 workers for every retiree, there's likely to be two workers for every retiree. i hadnt two workers for every retiree. i hadn't really thought of that. and i know that's something that's out there, and we're currently at 1.49 or 1.5. and as steve rightly pointed out, we need to be at two essentially, or 2.1. but the way they talk about it is like they just basically want to create this level of socialism where you can have birthing farms, you know, you just got you just got people making love and generating kids and, you know, we've got paid child care and shelter for them to all be in. that's a cult. that's what happens isn't pro—natal. >> it's more of a right wing point of view at the moment. but maybe musk is saying, you know, because normally you're attenborough is saying to many people, you know, he sounds like that. it's quite wispy these days.

>> oh it is, i don't and i guess in a politic speak it is, it is a right wing thing because, you know, you speak to most left wing people, they'll tell you that the climate's going to kill everyone. so that's why they won't have children. they won't have children because no one will have children with them. >> yeah. no, it's all it's all very fashionable with the tradwives, staying in the sunday times, a story about not sending emails outside of work hours. does this sound like heaven on earth, or does this fill you with anxiety? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> it's interesting. this, isn't it, hell on earth. i think. but what would labour's ban on work emails after 5 pm. look like? portugal has the answer, steve. so, contacting staff out of hours is against regulations in 17 countries. the uk could become the 18th. portugal being the main protagonist here. and their law states that any company with greater than ten employees can be fined up to ,10,000, which is 8500 pounds currently for contacting their staff outside normal working hours, which in portugal means eight hours a day slash 40 hours a week, they apparently can do it if there's an emergency. this is fascinating because it's

obviously facilitated by the progress of technology, the rapid progress of technology over the last 15 to 20 years, where essentially we can not everybody but people with desk jobs can work from home. you still got to dig holes in the ground. you can't do that at home. otherwise you've just got one massive hole in the garden and no one wants to buy. >> i bet even the people digging the holes in the ground are still getting the updates and the team emails. yeah, sure. don't forget it's christmas jumper day and all of that stuff. >> we have created an environment though, that because you see this all the time, you know, sort of people are measured by how presenteeism, how long are they in the office. how many hours have they done. also we've created this misnomer that more hours means greater output. that's a nonsense. i remember back when i had a real job, i'd often stay in the office late to make it look like i really wanted that promotion . i really wanted that promotion. i really wanted that promotion. i was doing no more work. i could just say it at appraisal time. i worked hard this week . time. i worked hard this week. what about? >> i don't agree with that. i think this is like the rent cap of , of emails think this is like the rent cap of, of emails because there are people who , if you're an people who, if you're an entrepreneurial person or you're

trying to get ahead, you don't want the government coming in and saying, no, you can't do any extra work at the weekend. >> and i think everyone but the entrepreneur can do work at the weekend. but they can't bother people that they're employing . people that they're employing. you know, i, i mean, no, because there's lots of grey areas. >> i mean, i've worked in start up companies where technically this would cover them, but it's just not the spirit of the organisation . and it's not the organisation. and it's not the spirit of the spirit of the organisation. >> is the problem. like back in the old days, people would the boss would have to walk round to your house and knock on the door to bother you at 9 pm, so it is possible to not the only people who ever did that was ebenezer ebenezer scrooge around a bob cratchit on christmas. and look what happened there. whereas you can run a business without having like 24 over seven access to all of your staff. if there's an emergency, someone pushes back saying, oh, what if it's an emergency? it's in the legislation. you can email in an emergency , we're more likely to emergency, we're more likely to have a version like the french one, where it's not illegal to send an email, but you can't presume it will be replied to until they start work. and if you punish someone for not replying, then that could be punished. and to the point about presenteeism. i once read four

hour work week by tim ferriss. i think it is a book that tells you to how really be more effective. i got fired within six months, so presenteeism definitely is worth it. >> brilliant. >> brilliant. >> okay, moving on to the express now steve. and news of an event. even headliners panellists can get to after work i >> -- >> sadiq khan wants london to host super bowl despite 3:30 am. finish time. the mayor said a.m. finish time. the mayor said he wants to make london the sporting capital of the world and by the time those nfl fans have made their way around those low traffic neighbourhoods with the big planters in the middle of the roads, they'll be home by about half seven. it'll be rush hour traffic. still, we won't nofice hour traffic. still, we won't notice the difference, he was interviewed and he said he wants london to be like the home of all these sporting events. fair enough. they'll make money. but why? that is an odd one to pick the one that's so american. let america keep it. because what you'd need is all of these american football fans to get on a plane, to fly across to london, to then go to the event and then fly back. all of that extra carbon surely undoes all of the ulez. absolutely. >> i think it's his midlife

crisis . >> i think it's his midlife crisis. i think he should just get a cardigan like gareth southgate and stop showing off because he likes showing off, doesn't he? he likes big events. >> he does. he does like showing off, now we already do host american football, a big american football, a big american football, a big american football matches in this country . we do at wembley this country. we do at wembley and we do at the tottenham hotspur stadium, so i think, i mean, i'm not normally here to create the balance for sadiq khan for sure, but i guess having big sporting and cultural events is good for london, is good for the uk. it's good for the economy, the we do already have these types of types of things here, just not that late . things here, just not that late. and steve's point about it being american, it's a good point because the reason it would be so late is because we'd have to make it so late so the americans could watch it. at the same time, there's no point putting it on in the evening at our time, because it just wouldn't it just wouldn't work for them, could they not have a delay like they do with doctor who? >> see, sports people are very strange. they're not into that sort of thing. they want to watch it all together, don't you? >>i you? >> i don't understand them, don't i? >> i am the sports people

representative. >> could you say that it's really good that we have them. the article mentions the euros in 2021 when there was chaos, borderline riots, and that bloke famously put a firework up his bottom . and yet he didn't do bottom. and yet he didn't do anything for guy fawkes. >> just missing this for the first time. >> the front. >> the front. >> no, i don't remember it. i don't think i would have been that interested. finishing this section with a fashion piece about carol vorderman's latest understated look in the express pool >> good old carol. voldemort, causes a stir, flaunting curves in a woke as flip t shirt and skintight leggings. so carol vorderman has been clear about her intention to use ruthless tactical voting to destroy the conservative party. they're doing that on their own. carol, you're playing very small part in that has now mixed politics with fashion. there's no inverted commas there should be for a divisive new look. now she's. >> here we go. >> here we go. >> there's the photo. >> there's the photo. >> there's the photo. >> there it is. look, quite a look, isn't it? it is, isn't it? it's. i think it's mutton dressed as lamb. >> oh, well, i'll have to push

back on that, paul. >> she looks, she looks fine. she looks nice. i don't think there's enough for space the rest of the letters of that f word. that's what bothers me. it's. it's the same space as as it's a two letter word that begins with f. >> i think we know where she's going. really? i think we know what the sentiment of the t shirt is. >> yeah. i mean, she can wear what she likes, i'm here to take the mickey out of it, and i'm proud to do it. >> she's here to promote her new book. >> yeah, exactly. of course she is. it's quite the change around for her. she was schmoozing with conservative mps not that long ago, you know? and now all of a sudden, she's the biggest socialist the world's ever seen. and she's going to bring the tories down. i think it's just because she misses countdown and she probably ought to move on. >> fair enough. okay. that's it for part three, join us in the final for the latest in science of thinness, soap and uranus, don't

stop talking about canned meat.

hello. welcome back to headliners. we begin the final section with the observer. there's now international interest in uranus. steve. >> thank you. once in a lifetime, uk and european space scientist urged to join nasa's mission to uranus. here we go. all of the mentions of the planet name, astrophysicist call for international cooperation for international cooperation for this ambitious probe of uranus. the plan is to send a robot to uranus that will investigate it. because you can't send humans to uranus because of all the gas , because of all the gas, scientists argue that uranus has features that give it special scientific importance. it's unique because of the way that uranus rotates . but why team up? uranus rotates. but why team up? he says, actually get into the story they think. i mean, i suppose it's a funding thing, but they say there's a history of like europe and nasa teaming up for space projects. i remember the 1 in 1999 where we sent a probe to mars and just nutted the thing because they got confused between imperial measurements from the americans , measurements from the americans, from the europeans. let's not team up again. we're terrible at

this . this. >> oh, brilliant. i didn't know that. that's great. how's your, nasa uranus history knowledge? >> that's just between me and my p.e. teacher. but . p.e. teacher. but. >> oh, dear. >> oh, dear. >> oh, dear. >> oh , dear, oh, what a time to >> oh, dear, oh, what a time to admit to it. i just can't get past all the uranus stuff i just keep.i past all the uranus stuff i just keep. i mean, i'm all for collaborating in space. but no, when it comes to uranus, it matters, doesn't it? >> an extra inch is. anyway, i think steve's nailed it there. the measurement. >> what did i nail? >> what did i nail? >> okay, story in the sunday telegraph. now, about what causes obesity? paul and they're saying it's definitely not cake. >> no , it's nothing to do with >> no, it's nothing to do with the cake. no, the hardcore team of the hardcore team of scientists . that's a sentence scientists. that's a sentence hasn't been said before working to end obesity forever front and centre of this medical revolution. as we mostly know

now, is that it's the wegovy or the ozempic , drugs which were the ozempic, drugs which were first used as diabetes treatments that can be prescribed as off label for shredding pounds. so it's interesting this is not a cure by any stretch of the imagination. we're talking in this like it is to some degree. it's a treatment. it's a bit like the vaccine we talked about yesterday. there's not a vaccine. it's a treatment in the sense that you've got to be fat in order for you to use these, these drugs and that doesn't really solve the problem. it's good that it relieves the immense weight on the nhs , well, immense weight on the nhs, well, that's it, isn't it? they're currently spending 6.5 billion a yean currently spending 6.5 billion a year, and this figure is expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050. so i'm really torn on this because sometimes i think, oh, for goodness sake, can't you just eat broccoli? and i'm a bit short tempered about the whole thing. and then i think, no, it's in all our interests, isn't it? yeah. >> i mean, empirically, if you could just eat broccoli, people

would have done that by now and we wouldn't have the problem. so all of the no, just fix it shouting clearly hasn't worked. can't work because otherwise it would have worked by now. this. the article is interesting because it never mentions that we go in ozempic are the same drug, so it feels like it's been written by someone who's not, you know, googled the full thing andifs you know, googled the full thing and it's this danish company that makes it, which the same nafion that makes it, which the same nation that gives us weight loss drugs is selling us bacon. i see how this makes a bit of extra cash for them, but, what they're looking for is like a pre—emptive cure. something that you and i love. the bit in it where they say it would effectively be untestable. you give someone a drug that stops them being obese in later life, so they grow up not obese. and you think, i don't know if they ever would have been. it'll be impossible to really test it. but i think there's a lot to be said for this. people think it's the easy route out. it's replaces a hormone that makes you feel full and people might have higher levels of that. so if you get two people, one with high levels, one with low levels, they could both be thin. the person with high levels just has a normal day. the other person has to be starving, hungry every day of their life. so this drug just levels that playing field.

>> yeah, well that does that sounds pretty. i'm sold, we're in the daily star sunday now on christmas shopping just got even eafien christmas shopping just got even easier. steve, disgusting facebook market advert for breast milk soap leaves people horrified. reddit was set ablaze with comments. people calling it disgusting. as a father of a four month old child, my fridge has a lot of breast milk in it right now. i also have a coffee machine with a steam arm and every day it's hard to not do. do you know what i mean? just to see if it would froth like normal. because you can make a cappuccino with it. so i'm the wrong guy to be doing this one. the accompanying photo the a little bit very much a baby chino, the soap it says, was looking more like a slab of blue stilton than a refreshed, refreshing cleanser. breast milk. blue cheese is also a possibility. when you've got so much just in the fridge, you've got to find a thing to do with it. but critics on social media said yuck. but there's one person who said, i'm astonished how extremely grossed out people are by breast milk. like babies literally eat it and drink it . literally eat it and drink it. it's too gross to put on your skin. if it were cow's milk, how is it any less gross? it still comes out of their boobs . they comes out of their boobs. they have. have i missed something in

fields? >> oh, i do love cow boobs . >> oh, i do love cow boobs. >>— >> oh, i do love cow boobs. >> any other thoughts on this, paul? >> well, no, there were some some some jokes online that made me laugh about it. this guy said he, he said it's a mixture. ingredients. one person jesting with now with exfoliating power of pubic hair. and i just started reading the comments about this stuff and it just made me laugh because, you know, i'm a silly, infantile boy. but of course it's going to outrage people. it's probably more natural than curls. we often have this sort of debate . not have this sort of debate. not often. christopher and i don't just talk about breasts and milk. it is a main feature sometimes in our conversation, but i don't know. >> i wouldn't buy it a marketing challenge, isn't it? okay, last story. now some fantastic news in the observer poll . in the observer poll. >> okay, so scientists develop method of making healthier, more sustainable chocolate by mashing up pulp and husk of a cocoa pod instead of taking, taking the beans. scientists have made a sweet and fibrous gel which

could replace sugar in chocolate. no thank you absolutely no thank you. you can keep your pulp and husk. i will. i can taste the husk. >> okay? >> okay? >> you can keep your pulp . >> you can keep your pulp. >> you can keep your pulp. >> i want my child. >> i want my child. >> the show is nearly over . >> the show is nearly over. >> the show is nearly over. >> so let's take another quick look at sunday's front pages . look at sunday's front pages. the mail on sunday tories s.o.s. to rishi. give us tax cuts now the sunday telegraph labour will betray pensioners again, says chancellor. the observer has sunak suffers poll blow as cash for votes row erupts and the sunday times has. labour offers mps peerages to step down. sunday express labour's £1,000 tax raid on oaps and finally, the daily star. you're going home in an effing cardigan and those were your front pages. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guests, steve and paul. we're back tomorrow at 11 pm. with some other headliners. and if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. good night. >> hello. here's your latest

weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to a lot of fine weather across the uk over the next day or so, but as we go into the new working week, things will turn a bit cooler and more unsettled from the north. high pressure is dominating at the moment, the high located just to the west of the uk, but that's keeping things pretty quiet weather wise and certainly as we head into the evening, we hold on to a lot of fine dry weather cloud tended to melt away across england and wales, so plenty of clear weather as we go into the early hours of sunday. we'll see 1 or 2 mr fog patches falling by sunday morning and notice some rain just pushing into the far north—west of the uk. by the early hours of sunday 2000, city temperatures hold up quite well, generally near double figures, but in some rural spots we could dip down to 2 or 3 celsius so we could see a touch of frost in 1 or 2 very rural spots. by sunday morning. so sunday gets off to a pretty fine start across the east and south—east of scotland. lots of sunshine around, but nofice lots of sunshine around, but notice out towards the west and northwest, thicker cloud bringing some outbreaks of rain and that cloud of rain will also work its way in across parts of northern ireland. so some patchy rain here as we start sunday. but for england and wales, it's

set fair. plenty of sunshine around, pretty much unbroken sunshine in places , just sunshine in places, just a legacy of some low cloud to clear from the far south—east. first thing in the morning. dufing first thing in the morning. during the rest of the day on sunday, those outbreaks of rain in the north—west will gradually start to migrate further south and east across other parts of scotland, across northern ireland, eventually reaching the far north—west of england by the very end of the day. east of scotland and down towards the south—east, and two for much of england and wales. lots of sunshine here and again feeling quite warm in that sunshine, particularly towards the south—east of england. highs here of 23, possibly even 24 celsius. that's into the mid 70s in fahrenheit. always a bit cooler though, towards the north—west. given that cloud and rain, the band of cloud and rain edges further south into england and wales as we go into monday. to the south of that brighter skies, 1 or 2 showers and much brighter weather, but turning cooler too. across the north of scotland with highs up to 19 or 20 celsius across the south of the uk nearer the low to mid teens further north, generally turning more unsettled and cooler during the week ahead, though . though. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

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saturday five. welcome to the saturday five. welcome to the saturday five with me, ben. leo. this evening. i know it's normally darren grimes in this presenters chair, but he got so worried about the migrant crisis, he's gone to the english channel himself to protect our borders . here he is, captain borders. here he is, captain grimes, preparing to to take the high seas. have we got a picture? there we are. i told him earlier , darren. eurovision him earlier, darren. eurovision was a couple of weeks back, mate, so. yeah. have fun with that. no albie amankona either. he swapped his gb news seat tonight for the one he always wanted, and we always knew as a tory mp. i actually spoke to the lib dems earlier tonight, but they told me albie was even too wet for even them. and speaking of wet, benjamin butterworth is here too. he's about the only labour type about, well, not about to enter. rather parliament, judging by the latest polls. and we'll get stuck into that very shortly. we're also joined by political commentator and former nadine zahawi adviser james price, plus zahawi adviserjames price, plus the wonderful gp and medical writer doctor renee hoenderkamp, and the lovely broadcaster and media commentator paula london. now you know the drill. we each

take turns to present our views on a topic, and then everyone else piles in. and of course we want to know your views as well. send them to gbnews.com/yoursay and we'll read them out as soon as we can. but before we start tearing each other apart, here's your saturday night news with sam francis. >> ben, thank you very much. and good evening to you. it's just after 6:00. a look at the news tonight, and we start with election news. the battle lines are being drawn in the fight for votes with both the conservatives and labour attacking each other's economic records . today, the prime records. today, the prime minister says his opponents will run out of money, while labour leader sir keir starmer says the country's crying out for change. speaking to a crowd in front of the conservative campaign bus earlier, rishi sunak pledged to give millions of pounds to towns across the country if he's re—elected , adding another 30 to re—elected, adding another 30 to the 70 previously announced . the 70 previously announced. >> the 100 towns across our country, they're going to

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