on gb news with andrew newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning to you. so a new week begins. tributes continue to flood in for rob burrow, the former rugby league star who has sadly died aged 41 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. five years ago . neurone disease. five years ago. >> and should it be called britain's knockout talent? the itv talent show. facing criticism over the amount of non—british acts in the final and sex is a biological fact, stop the press prime minister rishi sunak claims the conservative manifesto will include a pledge to rewrite the equality act to make clear sex, make it clear that sex means biological sex and keeping britain safe. the labour leader, keir starmer, will set out his plan for national security this morning. we'll bring that to you as it happens. >> and experts are warning that cancer cases are rising more quickly in the young than the old because of diet and an obesity epidemic.

>> and we're talking to jeffrey archer . he wrote a remarkable archer. he wrote a remarkable book about mallory who tried to scale everest 100th anniversary this year. this week, mallory's body was found just at the tip of everest. nobody knows. did he get to the top? who was on his way down? but the big mystery this week the body of mallory and his fellow climber gone missing. oh, extraordinary. so, jeffrey archer will have quite a strong view on that. and also, we'll ask him what's happening with the general election campaign. >> absolutely. let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your essay first though the very latest news to kick us off with karen armstrong . karen armstrong. >> very good morning to you. it's 932 i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer will pitch labour as the party of national security as he campaigns in the north of england. today he'll pledge to build four more nuclear submarines in barrow in furness

as part of a so—called deterrent triple lock and will also reaffirm his ambition to increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when economic conditions are right. the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. now it's seen as an attempt to shift perceptions of labour's defence stance following the leadership of jeremy corbyn, a long standing critic of nato and the trident nuclear programme . well, trident nuclear programme. well, let's turn to the tories then. the conservatives are pledging to amend the equality act to clarify the legal definition of sex. rishi sunak will say a future conservative government would define sex as biological in the eyes of the law. to clear up the current confusion, the tories claim the change will provide new protections for biological women and girls in same sex spaces, such as such as changing rooms and prisons , and changing rooms and prisons, and will help service providers like those supporting domestic abuse

victims to exclude biological males . now, the liberal males. now, the liberal democrats have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto. it will include marine protected areas and a blue flag status for rivers, which would set legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping. the party says water bosses have been able to get away with environmental vandalism by being permitted to pollute waterways under toothless conservative policies , toothless conservative policies, and prince william has praised rob burrow as a legend of rugby league with a huge heart. the former england international and leeds rhinos star has died at the age of 41 after a four and a half year battle with motor neurone disease . he was awarded neurone disease. he was awarded a cbe for helping to raise millions of pounds to promote awareness of the condition. it came just two years after he retired from playing following a stellar 17 year career, which included eight grand final victories . well, plenty more

victories. well, plenty more news as it happens throughout the day. or you can catch up right now by scanning the qr code on your screen for gb news alerts. that's it for the moment. now back to andrew and . bev. >> good morning. it's 934. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, it's very sad, isn't it 7 >> well, it's very sad, isn't it ? the former england rugby league international, rob burrow, died aged 41, after that agonising five year battle with motor neurone disease. in that period, though, he raised over £15 million for charities with the help of his leeds rhinos team—mate. and honestly, the bestest mate you could ever have kevin sinfield. >> so the prince of wales has paid tribute to rob, describing him as a legend who had a huge heart and gb news sports presenter. paul coyte joins us now to reflect on why he was such a special man. his sort of fortitude and positivity, even with this diagnosis was amazing, wasn't it, paul? >> yeah, it was because he was a

great sportsman and then went on and it was almost what pushed him through sport. i think probably helped with these battle against mnd. i don't know whether, you know, he was not a tall man. he was five foot four. so he's battled already when he was young because people would think, oh, there's no way you can make it in rugby league because we know rugby league players are like, you know, and then he not only got to play professional rugby league for leeds, he then became a true legend. over 500 games for leeds rhinos, eight super league championships, two challenge cups, three time world club championship winner as well . so, championship winner as well. so, so much smaller. i mean, i was mentioning earlier actually one of i think probably sums him up is that he got sin binned for a fight that he actually picked with a six foot five tongan. this is in the middle of a game, so this is a foot and an inch taller than him and he still went out swinging. so it's almost like this probably punching his belly button. well you know what. and i think i think it was probably the tongan

player that was more nervous about the situation than kevin, because i've watched, because i've never watched a rugby league match in my life, obviously. >> but watching some of the highlights, you know, the tributes to him, he was like a terrier on the pitch, wasn't he? very fast, so small. they couldn't catch him. >> that's exactly right. and that's what he was. he was incredibly quick and incredibly nimble and it was you've got all these big they couldn't get it, just couldn't get near him. it was 2011. there was a grand final victory where he was playing for leeds at old trafford, and he was the first player to win it. the man of the match for the second time. all 37 judges said there's no question that it's going to be rob burrow. he's the man of the match and, and he was an incredible player, an incredible player. >> his friendship with kevin sinfield, extraordinary . nobody sinfield, extraordinary. nobody can. you'd have to have a heart of stone not to be moved when they do the marathon together. kevin is pushing him in the wheelchair . yeah. and then as wheelchair. yeah. and then as they get close to the line, he lifts him out of the wheelchair and carries his friend across. i mean, it's a heart stopping . mean, it's a heart stopping. >> this was this was my last

yeah >> this was this was my last year. i can't believe it was over a year ago. so it was the leeds marathon last year. >> if you're listening on the radio, we're just watching this on the tv now is getting close to the finishing line. rob, rob's in the wheelchair and well, take a well. >> that's the captain. kevin i say the captain because he was the captain of leeds , and kevin the captain of leeds, and kevin sinfield, also equally legendary rugby player , and they were rugby player, and they were incredibly close. and kevin said that there's no way that he would stop fundraiser for mnd. this is even after the passing of rob until a cure is found. and obviously we don't know how long this is going to be. this could be for as long as kevin's life. it could be for years and years and years and years. but he's going to stick with it. i mean, he's words summed up. he said, today was the day that i hoped would never come. this is kevin sinfield, the world's lost, a great man and friend to many. you fought so bravely until the end and became a beacon of hope and inspiration. not only for the mnd community, but for all those that saw and heard your story and brilliant job that he did highlighting it. >> the fact is , it is a bit of a

>> the fact is, it is a bit of a cinderella. motor neurone disease. it kills about 2200 people a year. if you compare the number of people fatally injured or seriously injured on the roads every year, 30,000. that's why i think it's sort of almost gone unnoticed. until this extraordinary campaign, there have been others who've campaigned as well. >> i agree, but it's the thing about mnd and that i've known about mnd and that i've known about mnd and that i've known about mnd over, because we should mention doddie weir, of course, another legendary rugby. although rugby union player , and although rugby union player, and also this is someone that was like six foot seven compared to rob, who was so much smaller. but both giants, certainly in what they did because they both raised that awareness. now we've lost the both of them and it is and it kills so quickly. you know, he when he was diagnosed, we're talking four and a half years and even that is much longer than he was given. he was given two years, two years. >> he's survived by his wife, lynsey. beautiful wife and three little children. and you should we should say that lynsey and he spoke about her a lot throughout

this and saying, you know, the fact that it was that she was the love of his life, mnd and also it affects the families so badly and also the fact that she'd taken time, she was his carer 24 hours a day. >> so really, when we pay tribute to only kevin sinfield, but really it's his wife . but really it's his wife. >> i mean, it strikes from the feet and it just works its way up . up. >> yeah, it started the first that we saw of it is when he announced it and this is 2019, and he was he was going to play in a charity game and to raise money. and the first thing that went and it varies with different people, and it was his voice that had gone and you could hear the slurring started. but physically he said, i'm absolutely fine. and then he played and then that's the horrible thing about this disease from what we learn. and then it's another thing and then another thing and another thing. >> thank you paul. we want to go to leeds of course, the home of leeds rhinos. let's talk to gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley from the headingley rugby stadium this morning. good morning anna. a sad day there. what's the mood

there at headingley. >> good morning. yes a real sense of sadness. it's very sombre here. you can see behind us fans coming to lay tribute to rob burrow. there's shirts, there's flowers and with a lot of emotional messages written i'm joined this morning by katie dawson. she's a fundraiser for mnd. so far she's raised over £20,000 for research into the disease, and she's also been a main spear point of the building and development of the rob burrow mnd centre in seacroft, where construction will begin this morning as per rob's request. katie, you're dad had m.i.n.d. what does today bring back for you? it's the heartache of and the reality of an mnd diagnosis , as we know at the diagnosis, as we know at the moment, there is no cure for mnd

, so unfortunately, you know, when rob's diagnosis was made pubuc when rob's diagnosis was made public back in 2019, we knew it would end this way. and it's absolutely heartbreaking. and my heart goes out to his family. >> and what does him being such a big character, the millions of pounds that he's raised for mnd do for families that experienced and went through what you did, i think it's completely changed the dial on mnd when my dad was diagnosed back in 2016, very little was known about motor neurone disease , and the neurone disease, and the difference, you know, since rob's diagnosis , how, brave he rob's diagnosis, how, brave he has been. and courageous in sharing his journey. it's made such a difference and made people so much more aware of what the disease is, and the need for the research and, you know, the fundraising that's gone behind the centre. his legacy will live on forever with

that. >> and what will this centre mean? it's sort of a one stop shop, isn't it, for people with mnd. that's right. >> it's, lots of different specialist services under one roof, it will make such a difference. i think time is precious when you're diagnosed with mnd . my dad only had 20 with mnd. my dad only had 20 months, and when we look back , months, and when we look back, for a lot of that time, it was my mum ferrying him to and from different services, and so actually to be able to go to, to one centre, where you know, the aesthetics of it is very different to, to some of the hospitals you see at the moment, and, and have relation shapps already built. i think one of the difficult things as a family member is retelling your story, having to keep explaining, you know, the different needs of , of know, the different needs of, of the mnd patient because it manifests so differently , for, manifests so differently, for, for people. so the centre will just be a haven, if you will,

for, for the patient and for their family. >> what will that mean to you putting that spade in the ground this morning. >> it's going to be a really emotional one, for me, i felt really passionate about this centre from the moment the idea was said to me. and being part of the seven stories campaign with rob , really, really sad with rob, really, really sad that he won't be there today to see that spade go in the ground . see that spade go in the ground. but again, that that building will have his name on it, and he's there because of the magic human being that he is. so it's going to be a mixed very emotional day, i think, but very proud to be part of it. >> thank you so much, katie. thank you for sharing with us this morning. so yeah, the legacy of rob burrow lives on. and today will see many emotional well—wishers visiting the leeds rhinos stadium paying their respects to rob burrow . their respects to rob burrow. >> all right. thank you. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you anna. >> thank you anna. >> well up next as britain's got talent. well apparently not not as much as we thought . because as much as we thought. because we'll tell you why. because the

tv talent show is being accused of violating the trade descriptions act. >> and i'll explain to you why our outfits are matching this morning. very .it . it doesn't happen very often. this is gb news britain's newsroom. don't

joining us in the studio is daily mail columnist sarah varney. both giggling at rupert murdoch on the front page of the papen murdoch on the front page of the paper. getting remarried, aren't you? number five? >> eight, 93, a wife, number three. or was it wife number two? was there two? wendy. >> dame wendy was there. >> dame wendy was there. >> i think they introduced them. >> i think they introduced them. >> you missed a trick. sarah could have been you. >> oh, right. >> oh, right. >> should we talk about britain's got talent or britain's got talent or britain's lack of talent? sarah, now , some people say, why does now, some people say, why does it matter? why does it matter? i think it does matter because how can we have britain's got talent, a british girl did win. yes. this weekend. christmas. >> her name is. >> her name is. >> yes. sydney. christmas. christmas. she's a singer. i'm guessing she's going to have a christmas single out. >> she's a cruise ship singer

and she works in a gym. >> first woman to win in nine years. >> yeah. i mean, i don't watch it anymore, but. >> but some people clearly do. but apparently five of the last in the final were not british born or even live here. >> right? yes. >> right? yes. >> so description. why call it britain's got talent? i know it's bizarre, isn't it? i always think of britain's got talent. i always think of those eccentrics. do you remember those that brilliant father and son team? yes, the turkish or were they greek or something? >> or greek? and they did. brilliant. sort of hilarious dance. >> the dad with the big fat tummy. >> exactly. so i always think of it as a sort of competition for sort of enthusiastic amateurs. yeah eccentric. it's turned into a sort of, it's not that. i mean, because because, i mean, i'm sure she's very good, this girl, but she does already have a career in music, so it's not as though it's, you know, it's not normal people basically having a go. >> you're thinking, let's see what we can do. >> exactly. and i always thought it was just ordinary people having a go . you know, i want having a go. you know, i want sort of and that was the joy of it was that people came on and they were completely out of

tune. and but now it's much slicker. >> it sums up as well this, this difference between the british pubuc difference between the british public and most people on the telly. yeah, because the judges do not notice this lack of british involvement in or at least if they do notice it, they're not saying anything about it. but the viewers notice the imbalance and just four of the imbalance and just four of the foreign acts made it through to the final. in the end , to the final. in the end, possibly too many. there were none at all. for the first six series. there were no non—british people in the final. but and it does seem if they don't live in britain either. >> i mean, if you live in south korea and work in south korea, why are you in britain? >> well, i suppose you know, you've got if you're doing a show that's that's you've got to have certain parameters. >> it's because they won. simon cowell's show in south korea so they can come over here. yeah. it's all i mean i do think the whole thing is just a bit of a it's a bit of a thing for simon cowell. >> of course it is you know. >> of course it is you know. >> yeah. but it is. but there was a massive protest in london. there was loads of protest in london on the weekend. >> always, always are. >> always, always are. >> and there was one, a patriotic protest in london on

saturday, as it was described. there was hundreds of thousands of people there. there were students against tyranny, were there? there was tommy robinson, was there much maligned , was there much maligned, divisive figure. but these people would say, we are feeling the need to walk on the streets of this country because we no longer feel we can assert our british identity. and that's the distinction between the people who are running a program like britain's got talent, the judges who are sat there no one's mentioning the elephant in the room. and then there are people having to go out and protest to say, can we sing? can we sing rule britannia, wave a flag? >> well, what would happen if somebody who wasn't british, who lived in south korea, won it? that would cause quite a stink. i think they have in the past. >> have they have they always been won by britain? but but the two issues are connected. >> well, i mean, i think there's a difference between patriotism and xenophobia. right so the two are the kind of the same, the different sides of the same coin. and i think patriotism is great and people like to feel a sense of identity. they feel a sense of identity. they feel a sense of identity. they feel a sense of belonging. you know, they understand what their flag is for and they kind of the, you

know, british values which we all adhere to. and then there's xenophobia, which is sort of, you know, we hate anyone who's not british. so i think , i not british. so i think, i think, you know, what i think that march that we saw at the weekend was actually quite patriotic. i don't think it was xenophobic at all. i think it was a nice sort of. they all seemed very kind of peaceful and, you know, there wasn't any sort of there wasn't any horrible rhetoric or anything like that, certainly much less horrible rhetoric than we're used to seeing from the pro—palestinian marchers , i pro—palestinian marchers, i think britain's got talent, i think britain's got talent, i think it's i, you know, it's just it's a silly thing. if you're going to call it british britain's got talent, you've got to just, you know, you've got to say that's the list. you know, these are the list of things that you have to have in order to qualify to enter. and one of them is that you have to be british. >> so let's talk briefly about rob burrow, who died of motor neurone disease. >> 2200 people a year roughly die, which isn't many, but i think you've actually known. >> well, it's awful actually. funnily, i know two people who have died of this horrible disease and it is absolutely devastating. it's the worst possible thing. i can't it's actually one of the reasons that i'm in favour of assisted dying, because having seen two of my friends die from it, i just

can't imagine, you know, you are your brain is completely fine. you're trapped in this shell of a body . you can't do anything at a body. you can't do anything at all. i mean, for him as an athlete , i mean, it's awful for athlete, i mean, it's awful for anyone who gets a bit for him as anyone who gets a bit for him as an athlete. you know, your body is your instrument. and we saw footage of him and how amazing he was. i mean, just to lose, just to be stuck in that carapace of a body must have just been horrendous. and there is no cure. there is no prospect. there is nothing that they can do to alleviate it, to stop it, to slow it down. there's nothing. it is just a horrible death. this could change things. >> do you think that because he's raised 15 million. but that's not a lot. well, it's a lot of money from him. but in terms of medical research, you think of the hundreds of millions that are raised every year for cancer. >> i mean, the thing is, of course, as you say, the numbers aren't aren't, aren't that big. but but i think just in terms of the kind of disease it is, and i'm sure if you found a cure for that, it would also have application in other diseases of that sort. you know, devastating

for his family. devastating. awful. poor man. i mean, 41. yeah. >> should we talk about kemi badenoch being out and about this morning? yeah. talking about, how the conservatives will now having had 14 years to tackle this issue , are now going tackle this issue, are now going to protect women's spaces. >> well, i have to say they have been banging. they have been going at this quietly for a long time. i mean, the reason we're talking about it now is because there's an election campaign. so obviously we're sort of setting the different parties are setting out their different stances. and i think, you know, against a background where keir starmer still can't tell you what a woman is. the conservatives are saying, you know, they're nailing their colours to the mast and saying, this is quite right too, and i think that's fine. that's why we're talking about it. but they have actually been doing it. and actually badenoch has been working a lot behind the scenes on this to try and, you know, get it. but the thing is, it's only recently that we've had the cast report, which was a few months ago, that this the whole conversation on this trans thing has changed. >> and we have to end our conversation. right. exactly. the clock. sarah, i'm so sorry.

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of cloud across the south of the uk generally the best of the brightness across parts of wales and the southwest of england, and the southwest of england, and temperatures still doing quite well in that sunshine into the high teens locally. even still 20 degrees in 1 or 2 spots. notice, though, across northern england, parts of northern ireland, the cloud thick enough to give 1 or 2 spots of rain in places and the best of the sunshine still reserved for parts of central scotland, with blustery showers packing in there towards the northern isles as we head into the evening and through the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain across the central slice of the uk continue to journey southwards, but tend to journey southwards, but tend to break up, leaving a legacy of a fair bit of cloud across much of england and wales into the overnight period. and although there'll be clear spells towards there'll be clear spells towards the north and northwest for a time, notice as we head towards tuesday morning further outbreaks of rain moving in across the north—west of the uk, and some of those turning heavy in places by tuesday morning itself quite a mild night with all the cloud around. but notice as we head into tuesday, quite unsettled day unfolding, those outbreaks have rained towards the north—west, starting to split their way south eastwards towards england and wales. as we head into the latter stages of tuesday, 1 or 2 heavy bursts in

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gb news. >> morning. it's 10:00 gb news. >> morning. it's10:00 on monday, the 3rd of june. how did that happen? this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me. bev turner and andrew pierce >> well, the tributes are continuing to flood in for rob burrow, the former rugby league star who has died at 41 after his battle with motor neurone disease, anna riley has more . disease, anna riley has more. >> us emotional tributes are pounng >> us emotional tributes are pouring in here at the leeds rhinos stadium for rob burrow tragically passed away

surrounded by his family at pinderfields hospital . pinderfields hospital. >> and britain's not got talent, the itv talent show is facing criticism over the amount of non—british acts on the show . do non—british acts on the show. do you find it as strange as we do? >> and nurses have declared a national emergency in the nhs. they say patients are regularly being treated in corridors and in some cases they struggle to supply oxygen. should have thought of that before they went on strike and keeping britain safe. >> labour leader sir keir starmer is going to be setting out his plan for national security during this show this morning. we'll bring you as much of that as we can tolerate . of that as we can tolerate. >> i'm one of the most fascinating attempts to scale everest was 100 years ago this week , mallory and his partner

week, mallory and his partner disappeared . they found disappeared. they found mallory's body just at the peak, just before the peak of everest . just before the peak of everest. did he get to the top or didn't he? bizarrely, they've discovered the bodies of the two climbers gone missing . so climbers gone missing. so jeffrey archer has written a really good book on mallory. he's coming in to tell us all about it. brilliant. >> let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your essay. we'll be reading them while we get the news from . aaron. news from. aaron. >> good morning to you. it's 10:02 i'm aaron armstrong, sir keir starmer will pitch labour as the party of national security later, as he campaigns in the north of england, he will pledge to build four more nuclear submarines in barrow in furness as part of a so—called deterrent triple lock , and will deterrent triple lock, and will reaffirm his ambition to increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when economic conditions allow. the conservatives have said they will meet that target by 2030. now it is seen as an attempt to

shift perceptions of labour's defence stance following the leadership of jeremy corbyn, who was a long standing critic of the uk's trident nuclear programme. shadow armed forces minister luke pollard says defences labour's priority . defences labour's priority. >> that's our commitment to not only build the four new nuclear submarines at barrow. we need , submarines at barrow. we need, but to ensure a 24 hours a day, 365 day continuous at sea nuclear deterrent is preserved, with a further commitment to ensure that any upgrades that are needed to keep those submarines operational to secure that deterrent are made by a labour government. defence really is the bedrock of our labour policy , because the first labour policy, because the first duty of any government is to keep the country safe. and that is what keir and john healey will be laying out today. >> meanwhile, the conservatives are pledging to amend the equality act to clarify the legal definition of sex. rishi sunak will say a future conservative government would define sex as biological in the

eyes of the law. to clear up the current confusion , the tories current confusion, the tories claim the change will provide new protections for biological women and girls in same sex spaces, like changing rooms or hospital wards, and will help service providers like those supporting domestic abuse victims to exclude biological males. labour have called the policy an election distraction, but women and equalities minister kemi badenoch says it's an important conversation . an important conversation. >> the problem we're solving is for many organisations , ones for many organisations, ones like rape crisis centres, prisons, for instance , where prisons, for instance, where people may identify as a woman even though they're biologically male and they don't know what to do. and we are clarifying what pubuc do. and we are clarifying what public authorities need to do, what perhaps individual private institutions , men's rights are institutions, men's rights are a lot of them are worried about being sued even when they're doing the right thing. so this is a tidy up of law so that we can create a better space for this conversation .

this conversation. >> the liberal democrats have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto. it will include a blue flag status for rivers, which would set legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping and protected marine areas. the party says water bosses have been able to get away with environmental vandalism by being permitted to pollute waterways under toothless, conservative policies . prince william has praised rob burrow as a legend of rugby league with a huge heart. the former england international and the charity fundraiser has died at the age of 41. he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, before being awarded a cbe for raising millions of pounds to promote awareness . of the condition. it awareness. of the condition. it came just two years after he retired from playing following a stellar 17 year career, which included eight grand final wins.

former team—mate jamie jones—buchanan says rob was one of a kind. >> he was an amazing person. he was a superhero. i think everybody in life has got an origin story and this young, unassuming lad from castleford who had a gift, a physical gift, loved rugby league and decided to use that gift in rugby league. and it was one that everybody looked at and thought, oh, this fella is tiny. he's too small. he'll never be able to play small. he'll never be able to play a game like rugby. and not did he just prove everybody wrong. but he used that gift to be world class , to stand out, to be world class, to stand out, to be world class, to stand out, to be different. and he found his sense of purpose. >> the royal college of nursing is warning the number of patients being treated in hospital corridors amounts to a national emergency. the union says people are being left without access to oxygen, and they're enduring intimate examinations in places like cupboards and car parks , with cupboards and car parks, with some dying in corridors. the rcn is calling for mandatory reporting of patients who are cared for there to show the extent of hospital overcrowding. it comes after a survey of almost 11,000 frontline staff across the country showed how widespread the practice has become, and smoking charities

are urging the next government to revive legislation designed to revive legislation designed to ban young people from ever being allowed to legally smoke. new analysis has revealed the majority of british people are backing the plans to phase out the sale of tobacco . the law the sale of tobacco. the law would have made it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after the 1st of january, 2009. the prime minister said he was disappointed the law would not make it into the statute books before the general election . we can get the latest election. we can get the latest on all of our stories by signing up to gb news alerts. the qr codes on your screen, the details are also on our website. now it's back to andrew and . bev. >> 1007 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. and you are getting in touch in your droves this morning. >> right you are. nikki has said bev and andrew are you both coordinated in red so you can carry on your left wing leanings

? >> but 7 >> but that's fair to only accuse me of left wing leanings about 40 years. >> i had a pink dress laid out this morning. my >> i had a pink dress laid out this morning . my little girl this morning. my little girl came in. she said, is that what you're wearing, mummy? i said, yes, she went, what's your co—presenter wearing today? and i said, oh, i don't know. so we turned on the tv. there he was. and she went, right, i'll go and get you a red dress. >> how sweet is that? >> how sweet is that? >> bless her. she got the red dress out for me so that we'd match. >> yeah. nothing to do with political leanings, because, i've never voted labour in my life, and i have no idea who i'm going to vote for in this election . election. >> i'm just putting it out there. i have no idea. well, i'm certainly not bakhmut keir starmer i can't, i genuinely don't know. i am one of those people at the moment, and i know there are millions of them. yeah, there are who have no idea who we're going to. >> that is why, although the polls still show labour with a 20 point lead, there is still a huge chunk of lord ashcroft's poll at the weekend michael ashcroft poll showed huge , huge ashcroft poll showed huge, huge numbers of undecided . numbers of undecided. >> no, i genuinely don't know. and there are a lot of people who are undecided.

>> yeah, i think loads are out there and that's that's who starmer sunak is pitching out. >> so people say, oh yeah, another policy , yet another another policy, yet another policy. he's pitching to those undecideds . undecideds. >> absolutely. there's a lot of them, a lot of us out there we're talking about britain's got talent, the fact that there's apparently not many british people in it, and we were talking about why there was this march in, in london on saturday, and mike said i couldn't make the march on saturday due to commitments . saturday due to commitments. >> i was proud the britishness march, wasn't it? a british patriotic march. >> great. proud to see so many people on the march. it made me proud to be an armed forces veteran and served my country. i'll be at the next one on july the and i didn't see it, but i hope there were lots of union flags and flags of saint george, they sang rule britannia i they sang rule britannia! >> so good. >> so good. >> lots of little old ladies with flags. >> it wasn't very good. >> it wasn't very good. >> the football hooliganism that it was. it was. >> well, and i've seen quite a lot of the pro—palestinian marches. >> i'm afraid they're unpleasant and they're threatening and they're divisive, and the language is terrible and the noise is appalling. >> and there were arrests at the protest at the weekend. there were no arrests at the

patriotism march. now labour are keen to talk about defence today. any minute now , we're today. any minute now, we're expecting sir keir starmer to make a speech about it. >> yeah. you can't walk through it. yes, exactly . it. yes, exactly. >> but while we wait for that, let's talk through their proposed plans. let's talk through their proposed plans . they're calling proposed plans. they're calling for a nuclear deterrent. triple lock , which includes lock, which includes a commitment to construct the four new nuclear submarines in barrow in furness. and let's talk now to former head of counter—terrorism at the mod major—general chip chapman. good morning, chip. great to see you as always . so this commitment as always. so this commitment then to construct the four new nuclear submarines in barrow in furness is that what we need to keep us safe? chip what it is. >> and actually under labour policy, it was first in two thousand and seven that blair said that they would , renew said that they would, renew trident. it will be dreadnought. so as the ultimate deterrent, you probably need that. more importantly, it's what he says about the 2.5% in the future. now actually, regardless of what party gets in, that will be conditioned by two things. firstly, whoever gets in power

from the 9th to the 11th of july is the 75th anniversary of nato, where there might be a nato commitment at that to go to a enhanced gdp percentage. the current 2% came from the 2014 cardiff summit to be enacted by 2024. but the reality for all defence and all departments is that the comprehensive spending review finishes in this financial year, and every departmental expenditure limit for all departments will be set by what comes out of that next yeah >> so the difference if we were to put blue water or red water between the two sides, ship the tories are saying they will spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence. labour is saying they will as soon as resources allow. that's the difference . so we don't know as difference. so we don't know as soon as resources allow. could be ten years time. >> that's right. the conservatives want is by 2030. yeah, that would not necessarily be the lifetime of this parliament. the labour one is by when resources allow. and it is that which the context of the

comprehensive spending review, which gives you the context of when those resources might allow you open the books up of every department, the tories are making a big picture on defence because they say you can trust us on defence and they'll make the point that keir starmer was in jeremy corbyn's shadow cabinet in the 2017 election. >> the 2019 election. and we know that, there were times in corbyn's career when he didn't even really see the point of an army. let alone a nuclear deterrent. but can the tories really make this stick charge when they have seen on their watch defence spending tumble alarmingly? in my view , i don't alarmingly? in my view, i don't think they can. >> i think what starmer is trying to do is absolutely put blue water between him and corbyn. and corbyn was, for most of the armed forces and wider society, a threat to national security, sort of more, more friendly to hamas and the british army, i think where starmer has made a mistake, in my view, is that he should have probably given this speech in

scotland because the real clear blue water is that the snp do not, favour the renewal of trident. and if he wants to take seats in scotland, that is a place to, put this policy in train, not in the north—west of england , really. so i think he's england, really. so i think he's missed a bit of a trick there. >> and remind us, chip, why? because how many defence jobs related to the nuclear deterrent are in scotland? >> well, the main thing, of course, is that both coalport, the armaments depot is in scotland and that's where, and faslane is where the nuclear boats are along with most of the shipbuilding for the royal navy . shipbuilding for the royal navy. so not to renew that policy from the snp should they get into power. the snp, that is, and have an independent scotland seems to be the wrong approach. actually, the key thing for labour is, you know, i've been following for a number of years. john healey's pronouncements, the shadow defence secretary, everything he says is pretty sensible and would align with the conservatives. so there's no real blue water in defence terms at the moment between the conservatives and labour. it's

just whether you believe that, starmer is the party of national security and has made that break with that perception of corbyn, because you might recall in 2019, people in the british army were pasting photos of corbyn on on the gallery. rangers and shooting his face. that's how badly regarded , corbyn was. i badly regarded, corbyn was. i don't think you'll see that with starmer. >> chip, what did you make of the conservatives announcement to reintroduce a type of national service for the young people of this country as a true military man, did you greet that with a bit of a wry smile? >> well, i think the main thing is it people miss the point. it was really about participation , was really about participation, the tories citizenship and the national service element . the national service element. the army element was only about 5% of the 700 people who were coming up to 18. now, i absolutely agree with participatory citizenship and being a good citizen. so it was sort of mis sold, even though he

used the term national service . used the term national service. i think the main thing for any government in the future is not that, but there needs to be a coherent plan in any future defence policy of how we regenerate and reconstitute both the industrial base. should there be a war in the future , there be a war in the future, which will probably be long, and how we go to enforce structure , how we go to enforce structure, which is also larger? >> sorry to interrupt you. we have to chip in here, i'm afraid, because keir starmer is taken to the speech and taken to the to the stage. here he is in greater manchester talking about labour's defence plans and as the labour mp for north east derbyshire . derbyshire. >> and thank you, john, for all your support and your leadership on this vital issue . now this on this vital issue. now this week is the 80th anniversary of d—day . so i want to start by d—day. so i want to start by remembering the bravery of those soldiers who sailed from the south of england to the beaches

of france, their individual courage and collective strength of our troops, who sacrificed that day, turned the tide of the second world war, brought liberation to europe, secured our freedom this week and every week we will remember them and week we will remember them and we will honour them . some gave we will honour them. some gave their lives so we could live freely. others returned home to build a new britain . we salute build a new britain. we salute those who remain with us today and keep the memory of their fallen comrades alive . and we fallen comrades alive. and we recognise with one voice as a nafion recognise with one voice as a nation , that our debt could nation, that our debt could never be paid in full. but of course we can honour their

sacrifice with our decisions today, and we must, because sadly, the world we live in today is perhaps more dangerous and volatile than at any time since then . and frankly, for my since then. and frankly, for my generation , that's a shock. generation, that's a shock. i remember vividly the day the berlin wall came down in 1989. i remember how i felt a sense of freedom, of possibility , vie of freedom, of possibility, vie of peace. europe countries once again free to choose their own futures, new allegiances being made for friendships forged out of the scars of war, and above all, a sense as the wall came down that nothing like that could happen again . an end of an could happen again. an end of an era . i didn't could happen again. an end of an era. i didn't think could happen again. an end of an era . i didn't think that could happen again. an end of an era. i didn't think that in my

lifetime i would see russian tanks entering a european country again. the rumble of war rolling across our continent, soldiers kissing their children goodbye, desperate families fleeing across european borders in search of safety . but in that in search of safety. but in that moment, as we saw those pictures from kyiv, i understood the post—war era is over and a new age of insecurity has begun , an age of insecurity has begun, an era where the burden of history for people and nations will once again be heavier on our backs. national security is the most important issue of our times, something which of course is always true and which for us, if we're privileged to serve our country, will become our solemn responsibility . we that's not

responsibility. we that's not something i say lightly. the security and defence of our nafion security and defence of our nation is personal to my family. like so many families, i have relatives who served in the second world war. my mum's brother, my uncle roger, served in the falklands on hms antelope and i remember the terrible wait when his ship was bombed. my mum's fear as she sat by the radio every day listening for news and then the relief. a long week later we found out that he'd survived. so i know the courage and the service, the sacrifice that allows us to sleep soundly at night from our forces and their families . i forces and their families. i know it, i respect it, and i

will serve it with every decision . it is part of my story decision. it is part of my story and the reason why i said from day one of my leadership that the labour party had to change. change for a purpose, to respect your service , face the future in your service, face the future in this dangerous world and above all, to keep britain safe . that all, to keep britain safe. that is why, with my changed labour party , national security will party, national security will always come first. that's a message i took to kyiv last year when i visited president zelenskyy a pledge of unwavering british support in the face of russian tyranny. but we have to be resolute , not just we have to be resolute, not just in our support for ukraine, but

also in this era at home, we must face down malign actors who try to attack and weaken our nafion try to attack and weaken our nation and not just through traditional warfare over air, land and sea, but with hybrid threats to our energy supply. cyber security information warfare. now i would prefer if politics were kept out of this issue, even at this election, throughout the whole of this parliament, i have deliberately not been partisan over security yet. just before this election, the tories questioned this labour party's commitment to national security, and i will not let that stand. the people of britain need to know that their leaders will keep them

safe, and we . safe, and we. will. furthermore, the truth is that after 14 years of the tories, we are less safe and less secure. now, you don't have to take my word for it. the tories own former defence secretary says the government has failed to take defence seriously. we have the smallest army since the time of napoleon, at a time when other countries are firmly on a war footing . and so, even as we war footing. and so, even as we work tirelessly for peace, we have to be fit to fight it. so let me be unequivocal. this labour party is totally committed to the security of our nation, to our armed forces and importantly, to our nuclear

deterrent . deterrent. just a few weeks ago , i visited just a few weeks ago, i visited bae systems in barrow in furness . i was the first labour leader to visit in 33 years. i saw the nuclear submarines being made. i saw an industry that supports the local community, and i met workers who were proud to be doing their bit for our national security. they deserve our full support and they will get it. the nuclear deterrent is the foundation of any plan to keep britain safe . it is essential. britain safe. it is essential. thatis britain safe. it is essential. that is why labour has announced a new triple lock commitment to our nuclear deterrent. we will maintain britain's continuous at sea deterrent 24 hours a day,

365 days a year. deliver all the needed upgrades and we will build four new nuclear submarines like the ones i saw in barrow. that won't just keep us safe, but will also support good jobs and growth across the uk . one of my first visits after uk. one of my first visits after i became leader of the labour party was to plymouth, the front line of defence in this country . line of defence in this country. devonport alone employs 2500 service people and civilians. it supports 400 local businesses and generates about 10% of plymouth's income . and when plymouth's income. and when i was there i met the shipbuilding apprentices talented, ambitious young people, and i looked them in the eye and i promised that i would fight for the future of plymouth's defence industry. and i will, because it's only by harnessing and supporting the

strength of proud communities like plymouth , barrow, aldershot like plymouth, barrow, aldershot and so many more, that means we can safeguard our security and our growth for decades to come . our growth for decades to come. i mean, look at ukraine now, industrial capacity is an absolutely critical part of security . so with labour, security. so with labour, britain will be fit to fight within the first year of a labour government . we will carry labour government. we will carry out a new strategic defence review . we are absolutely review. we are absolutely committed to spending 2.5% of gdp on defence as soon as possible, because we know our security isn't just vital for our safety today , it's our safety today, it's absolutely central to our success for the future. national security and economic security must go hand in hand .

must go hand in hand. and we also know that playing our part on the world stage makes us stronger and better off at home. so make no mistake , i at home. so make no mistake, i am absolutely committed to rebuilding relationships with our allies. i went to the munich security conference back in february. i met world leaders from the us, europe and the middle east. i met the secretary—general of nato and i pledged to each of them that with a labour government, pledged to each of them that with a labour government , the uk with a labour government, the uk would be a point of stability in a chaotic world that we would always meet our international obligations, take our responsibilities seriously, be a leader on the world stage once more, because when i spoke about d—day at the beginning, i more, because when i spoke about d—day at the beginning , i wasn't d—day at the beginning, i wasn't just talking about respect for

our past. i was thinking about our past. i was thinking about our future as well, because that is the best example of what cooperation can achieve in the face of fascism and aggression. ourjoint face of fascism and aggression. our joint endeavour , our shared our joint endeavour, our shared values, our common respect for freedom, democracy, liberty that's what we're fighting for. and that fight never stops . and that fight never stops. there is a narrative you sometimes see that our values are a point of weakness. that's what putin thinks. are a point of weakness. that's what putin thinks . but he's what putin thinks. but he's wrong. ukraine has shown that , wrong. ukraine has shown that, and we must be prepared to stand up as well. those values are our cause and our strength . let me cause and our strength. let me be clear .

cause and our strength. let me be clear. this cause and our strength. let me be clear . this is cause and our strength. let me be clear. this is not cause and our strength. let me be clear . this is not a party be clear. this is not a party political issue . this is a political issue. this is a national issue . it affects every national issue. it affects every single individual, every community. and labour will always put our country first. we will serve working people across our nation, respect our armed forces as they continue to protect our country . but on july protect our country. but on july the 4th, there is a choice and you can choose to rebuild our country that is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with european allies. that leads the way in standing up for our values and our freedom all around the world, and that we'll never shy away from doing our duty at home and abroad. a stronger, safer, more secure britain with labour. that is the choice . it's time to stop the choice. it's time to stop the chaos, to turn the page and

rebuild our country together . rebuild our country together. thank you very much . thank you very much. >> well, a crushingly dull speech, in my view. >> a serious speech on a serious subject. >> andrew matthew laza, and emma woolf here to matthew laza you've been advising labour leaders can you ever put some zip into his speech? >> well, i think he can, i think. why doesn't he? well, i think. why doesn't he? well, i think what he was trying to do here, i mean, it was noticeable. there's no party branding for the speech . i think what he the speech. i think what he wanted to do is deliver a low key a he looked like he was in an undertaking. well, well, he's actually standing in front of a selection of military veterans who are candidates because even in these late selection for mps who have announced they're retiring , we've selected a royal retiring, we've selected a royal marine colonel in, in birmingham and raf, come, squadron leader in, in east london. so i think he's trying to emphasise , that he's trying to emphasise, that labour can be taken seriously on defence. but the tories shouldn't make defence a political football , which political football, which they've been trying to do. so i

thought it got the tone right on this subject. i mean, i agree with you that sometimes, you know, on a tubthumping political speech, he needs to make sure he gives it the welly, but on this, i think this is what he wanted to do, which is get across a serious message. i mean, when you're talking about his nuclear triple lock , you don't want to triple lock, you don't want to be giving it too much rhetoric on on this subject. >> emma, will defence affect anybody's voting strategy? >> it will not. i'm sorry. homeland security, hostile states , you know, cyber states, you know, cyber security, information warfare. these are not issues which ever, eveh these are not issues which ever, ever. and i was talking to a labour party activist . they do labour party activist. they do not come up on the doorstep. of course these things matter. absolutely no question. defence matters massively. but for me this is the prerequisite of any capable government is that they are across that. and as for you matthew laza saying that you know this shouldn't be a party political football, everything is health, shouldn't be a political football. i don't want the nhs to be everything is everything's up for grabs in an election campaign. why should why should people? why should children's education? why should the nation's health be a

political football? i mean, surely defence is, if anything is in between political differences in a political football and the tories have tried to make this and the surprise timing of the election. >> one of the reasons is that the tories have been saying just before the election was called, that you couldn't trust, you couldn't trust labour, that in an uncertain world, the country would be at risk under labour. and i think that's what he's trying to do is make clear that that absolutely won't be the case. that's why he's made absolutely clear that we not only will we maintain britain's nuclear deterrent under a labour government, but the triple lock sets out three things that are necessary to keep it effective for five years. >> because in the 2019 election, 2017 election, he was backing the unilateralist jeremy corbyn to be labour leader who had no wish whatsoever to maintain the trident nuclear. so what's interesting is campaigning to make him our prime minister. >> so what's interesting, andrew, is both the 2017 and the 2019 manifesto, even though jeremy himself, 2019 manifesto, even though jeremy himself , who 2019 manifesto, even though jeremy himself, who is no longer part of the labour party, jeremy himself was a unilateralist the both of those manifestos committed to keeping the nuclear deterrent so those are the manifestos they keir fought on and the shadow cabinet. jeremy, jeremy had his own personal view, but that wasn't the view of the party. >> we haven't talked about this

yet, but can we? we haven't got long. i just want to know. we've got this debate tomorrow night on itv, labour versus the conservatives. this is the first of the election debates, isn't it? sunak versus starmer. who's going to come out on top, do you think emma , probably starmer. i think emma, probably starmer. i mean i think sunak doesn't have a lot to lose. the thing is we see them every week now in, in prime minister's questions. so we kind of know that we know the script, i don't think i don't actually think it's well, i know it's not going to shift the dial at all, i think probably starmer will will be up for it. i think he'll probably be, you know, probably, probably give a decent performance. do you think people will watch? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i'm not sure that this one is going to be, is going to be watched in the way the first one was in 2010 when it was a three way with nick clegg and with famous, phrase. i agree with nick, i don't they're going to be agreeing with each other more yesterday. labour doesn't think that this format is particularly keir's strength , so they will be keir's strength, so they will be a bit nervous if you i mean, rishi likes these sorts of debates and of course, he's done rather a lot of them because of the two tory leadership

contests. and do you remember that he got a little bit carried away in the one against liz truss? he seemed to be a little bit, arrogant with her. i think he she got a little sympathy. and one of the debates, i remember that he sort of, sort of, sort of kept interrupting her and seemed a little bit too much of a jack in the box, and that seemed to go badly for him. so he'll need to watch that. and as you said earlier, andrew keir will need to make sure he comes across with enough passion and not too loyally. >> starmer has made to lose because he's absolutely. >> yeah. yeah, exactly. >> yeah. yeah, exactly. >> so labour will be nervous going nervous going into it. but i think it'll be a score draw basically. >> will he be too risk averse. >> will he be too risk averse. >> well that's what they'll be trying to tutor him not to be. they'll trying to say that yes you need to, you need to, you know, you need to not have any own goals, but you can't come across saying nothing because otherwise that becomes be another example of britain's not got talent in the political sphere. >> right, right. we're going to be discussing that as well for the rest of the morning. now, though, aaron, with your headlines. >> it's 1033. headlines. >> it's1033. i'm headlines. >> it's 1033. i'm aaron armstrong. well, as you've just been hearing, sir keir starmer has reiterated his commitment to maintaining the uk's nuclear

deterrent. the labour leader is committed to what he called a deterrent triple lock, including the construction of four more nuclear submarines and an ambition to increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. as soon as possible. sir keir says national security is the priority of a changed labour party, which has moved on from the jeremy corbyn era. he was joined on stage in greater manchester by a number of ex—forces members, who will be standing for labour on the 4th of july. well, the conservatives have vowed to change the equality act to ensure biological sex is a protected characteristic. rishi sunak will say a future conservative government would define sex as biological in the eyes of the law. to clear up the current confusion , the tories claim the confusion, the tories claim the change will provide new protections for biological women and girls in same sex spaces , and girls in same sex spaces, like changing rooms, and it will help service providers like those who support domestic abuse victims, to exclude biological

males. labour called the policy an election distraction . the lib an election distraction. the lib dems say the tories are waging a phoney culture war over gender recognition. meanwhile, the liberal democrats have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto . it will include manifesto. it will include protected marine areas and a blue flag status for rivers, which would set legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping, which the party says water bosses have been able to get away with environmental vandalism by polluting waterways under toothless, conservative policies . and prince william has policies. and prince william has praised rob burrow as a legend of rugby league with a huge heart. after he passed away at the age of 41. the former england international and charity fundraiser was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019 before being awarded a cbe for helping to raise millions of pounds to promote awareness of the condition. it came just two years after he retired following a 17 year career, including eight grand final wins, so all

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news. with some breaking news. in the last few moments, nigel farage has tweeted this. >> he said i'll be making an emergency general election announcement at 4 pm. today. what do you think that could be? is he going to stand for the well party? >> i think he was bruised by the reaction to his decision not to stand at the election. he's fought and fought and lost seven times. remember he said he was he talked a lot about the importance of the american election . election. >> i think nigel was trump. i think so i think nigel genuinely has the interest of this country at heart. i believe that and despite the fact that maybe that

letter, the announcement that was maybe a little clumsily worded to suggest that he considered america to be more important, i think he clarified that later in the day on gb news when he spoke to tom harwood, and in that he said in terms of world safety, in terms of the relationship with china and russia, america was going to be more important. and he felt he could do a more diplomatic work in that arena . but i think he in that arena. but i think he has probably been affected by the reaction of the british public, because i know a lot of you felt, let down by nigel. >> a lot of you want well, we saw we saw the reaction here. our inbox was overflowing alight with you know, a lot of you getting in touch to say that you felt let down by him. >> so let's see, he's going to make an announcement at 4:00 today, will he be standing very possibly. do you want him to let us know? gbnews.com/yoursay say now, tributes just continue to flow in this morning for former england rugby league international rob burrow, who died aged 41 after that five year battle with motor neurone disease , he was one of the disease, he was one of the sport's most successful players, having won eight super league

titles and two challenge cups , titles and two challenge cups, was a champion off the pitch too. >> through his determination to help from former team—mates, he raised more than £15 million for motor neurone disease charities . motor neurone disease charities. joining us now is our yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley, who is at the headingley ground of leeds in leeds. anna >> yes, there's a real sense of sadness here. hundreds of people have been turning out to pay their respects to rob burrow, their respects to rob burrow, the rugby league legend you may be able to see behind me, there's a lot of flowers that have been laid, shirts and other tributes. rob was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019 when he was just 37 years old. that diagnosis came two years after he retired after a 17 year career with leeds rhinos . he career with leeds rhinos. he also represented rugby internationally for great britain and after his diagnosis , britain and after his diagnosis, ipsis. he raised millions of

pounds along with his friend and former team—mate kevin sinfield former team—mate kevin sinfield for mnd. it's currently a condition where there is no cure and in rob's case it led to him being reliant on a wheelchair and losing his speech. but today , from the money that's been raised, there's a new rob burrow mnd centre that's been built in seacroft in leeds today as a one stop shop for people with mnd to give them and their families support after their diagnosis. i've been speaking to people today who've been paying tribute today who've been paying tribute to rob and here's what jamie jones—buchanan, a director at leeds rhinos, said . just tell me leeds rhinos, said. just tell me about rob and what kind of a person he was. >> it was an amazing person. >> it was an amazing person. >> he was a superhero . i think >> he was a superhero. i think everybody in life has got an origin story and this young, unassuming lad from castleford who had a gift, a physical gift,

loved rugby league and decided to use that gift in rugby league. and it was one that everybody looked at and thought, oh, this fella's tiny, he's too small. he'll never be able to play small. he'll never be able to play a game like rugby and not did he just prove everybody wrong. but he used that gift to be world class, to stand out, to be world class, to stand out, to be different . and he found his be different. and he found his sense of purpose and he used that purpose every single day. didn't waste a moment, didn't waste any energy . found his waste any energy. found his sense of belonging here. the leeds rhinos in that blue and amber jersey leeds rhinos in that blue and amberjersey marching leeds rhinos in that blue and amber jersey marching on together, and the sentiment that's been left there behind me , some of the messages is just unbelievable, i think. and i'm quoting one in particular, says the spirit of leeds and that spirit shone, transcended not just rugby league or the sport, but a nation touched so many lives, and, and he inspired so many young people to, to be themselves and to prove the doubters wrong. and then in the second chapter of his life, the nominee was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. and i remember it like it was yesterday . 15th it like it was yesterday. 15th of december 2019. i found out

and between then and 2nd of june 2024, it did exactly the same. and i found it a sense of purpose to bang the drum and shine a light on the m and d community. those that needed it the most to leave a legacy to raise millions of pounds and to be a voice and continue to have the courage, even though physically every ounce of his is being had been robbed from him , being had been robbed from him, he never stopped shouting and doing the right thing for the for the right reasons. and i think that's what we all need to learn from that journey, from that memory, from rob's legacies , is to fight for what we believe in. >> rob is survived by his wife and three young children and continues as we just heard, to leave that legacy behind in the rugby community. and for all that, the work and campaigning he's done for motor neurone disease. >> thank you. anna anna riley there up in leeds this morning. >> well, up next, did who secretly moved the british explorer's body, who vanished

100 years ago at the peak of mount jeffrey archer has written fascinating book about all this. joins us

gb news. well, it was exactly 100 years ago this week. george mallory and his fellow explorer andrew irvine set off to conquer mount everest . they. their bodies, everest. they. their bodies, they got almost to the peak. or did they get to the peak? but in mallory's body was found in 1999. but in the years since , 1999. but in the years since, we've discovered this week his corpse has vanished. now here to tell us more is the best selling author jeffrey archer, who wrote author jeffrey archer, who wrote a fascinating book, which i've read, paths of glory. jeffrey. good morning. now >> morning, andrew. >> morning, andrew. >> this this expedition of mallory and irving has triggered all sorts of books and tv dramas and plays. this is another twist in the extraordinary tale, because a we don't know if they got to the peak and were on their way down, or they perished on their way up, but now there's

another twist in the tale, because it appears certainly mallory's body has gone well. >> now you have to think chariots of fire, because it's exactly the same year as that mallory attempted to conquer everest as harold abrahams won the 100m in paris in 1924. now this young man was at magdalene college, cambridge, and he wanted to conquer the highest mountain in the world. frankly, very few people in england or the rest of the world, for that matter, knew about mount everest. this was, for him, an obsession. he made three attempts on the third attempt. we do not know if he got to the top. we do know that his body was found 702ft from the top, and to pick up your question,

andrew, was he on the way up or was he on the way down the purists say he never reached the top. he was in a three piece suit, rolled umbrella , hobnailed suit, rolled umbrella, hobnailed boots. how could he do it ? i boots. how could he do it? i looked into the facts very carefully, and he promised his wife , his very beautiful wife, wife, his very beautiful wife, ruth, that he would place her photograph on the top when they found his body, his photograph was not in the wallet in his jacket. so romantics like myself will tell you he did reach the top. i spoke to the great, sir christopher bonnington about this, and he said, geoffrey, you're a romantic. he didn't reach the top. i spoke to bear grylls, who did reach the top . i

grylls, who did reach the top. i sat him down and said, now listen, young man, did he reach the top? and bear grylls replied , who gives a damn, geoffrey? he was the greatest climber that ever lived. he didn't know where to go. when i reached the top , to go. when i reached the top, there were signposts all the way to the top . he had no idea he to the top. he had no idea he was a genius , way ahead of his was a genius, way ahead of his time. >> so what happened to his body , >> so what happened to his body, jeffrey? who would have taken it and why? >> well, now one of the mistakes, andrew, which will interest you greatly is that the royal geographical society , god royal geographical society, god bless them, were full of a bunch of snobs and their secretary, mr hicks, didn't want the second best climber in the world. a man called finch, to climb with him to the top because they didn't approve of the fact he was

divorced , so? so no, hold your divorced, so? so no, hold your breath, children . hold your breath, children. hold your breath. so they selected a 23 year old rower called irving, who got an oxford blue, very fit man, very brave. good man. but he'd never climbed a mountain in his life . but he'd been to his life. but he'd been to oxford, so they chose him to fly, to go with mallory. and i think , again, the purists tell think, again, the purists tell me that his inexperience audience may have been the reason mallory died. right now, if you look at the facts, his body has been found as you pointed out, mallory's body has been found. but irving's body has never been found, and neither has the kodak camera that irving had on him. so kodak

would. course they say. wouldn't they say otherwise ? kodak said, they say otherwise? kodak said, find us the camera and we'll develop the film and tell you the truth . the truth. >> there are hundreds . i must >> there are hundreds. i must find the actual figure of how many people climb mount everest now, geoffrey, every year, because it can look like a road of shops, a shoppers on a saturday afternoon , can't it? saturday afternoon, can't it? now they're sort of shoulder to shoulder . shoulder. >> quite right. you probably get a mcdonald's on the way. take yourself back to 1924, 100 years ago and think of him looking up, wondering which route should i go? which way should i go? can i go? which way should i go? can i go? is there possibly a chance? but i fell in love with geoffrey. >> we're going to hold you there because we're going to break, but we're going to keep you on after the break because we want to talk to you a bit longer. so stay with us. jeffrey archer. we're also going to talk to him about trump and the election. yeah >> just quickly, we're going to update you with your weather.

>> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we saw plenty of fine weather across the bulk of the uk through the weekend, but things are turning more changeable during the week ahead. most of us are seeing some rain at times, but equally still some warm sunshine to look forward to too. at times. that's the detail for this morning though, and outbreaks of rain affecting northern ireland southwest scotland moving south into parts of northern england. as we head through the day , most as we head through the day, most of that fairly light and patchy, but the odd heavy burst in places to the south of that much brighter, particularly across parts of wales and the south—west of england, but generally a cloudy day across the south of the uk than during the south of the uk than during the weekend. the best of the sunshine, generally reserved for parts of scotland, although towards the far north quite a few blustery showers around . few blustery showers around. still quite warm, though when the sun does come through temperatures into the low 20s at best as we head into the latter stages of the day into the early part of the evening. quite a bit of cloud across the south of the uk, generally the best of the

brightness across parts of wales and the southwest of england, and the southwest of england, and temperatures still doing quite well in that sunshine into the high teens locally, even still, 20 degrees in 1 or 2 spots. notice though, across northern england, parts of northern ireland, the cloud thick enough to give 1 or 2 spots of rain in places, and the best of the sunshine still reserved for parts of central scotland, with blustery showers, packing in there towards the northern isles as we head into the evening and through the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain across the central slice of the uk continue to journey southwards, but tend to journey southwards, but tend to break up, leaving a legacy of a fair bit of cloud across much of england and wales into the overnight period. and although the big clear spells towards the north and northwest for a time nofice north and northwest for a time notice as we head towards tuesday morning further outbreaks of rain moving in across the north—west of the uk and some of those turning heavy in places by tuesday morning itself quite a mild night with all the cloud around. but notice as we head into tuesday, quite unsettled day unfolding those outbreaks of rain towards the north—west, starting to slip their way south eastwards towards england and wales. as we head into the latter stages of tuesday, 1 or 2 heavy bursts in places the far south and southeast holding on to some

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gb news. >> 11 am. on monday, the 3rd of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. thanks for joining us. so britain has apparently got no talent. the itv talent show is facing criticism over the amount of non—british acts on the show . non—british acts on the show. did you think the same thing and at last, although why has it taken so long? >> sex is a biological fact. prime rishi sunak claims the tory manifesto will include a pledge at last to rewrite the equality act. to make clear sex means biological sex and nothing to do with changing your gender.

>> and what is nigel farage going to announce ? the honorary going to announce? the honorary president of reform uk says that he's making an emergency announcement about the general election this afternoon at 4 pm, an expert's warning that p.m, an expert's warning that cancer cases are rising more quickly in the young than old because of, you've guessed it, obesity . obesity. >> well, that's a mighty good tease by nigel farage. >> he's clever in he. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> he's going to build up and build up and build up, and everybody will assume that he's changed his mind and he is going to run for the general election tuesday. nominations have to be in. so he's got until tomorrow . in. so he's got until tomorrow. so the time scale would work. >> it would. you'd better be tuned into martin daubney this afternoon. of course it will be in martin's time when nigel makes that announcement. gbnews.com forward slash. your say is the message board to talk to us this morning.

say is the message board to talk to us this morning . we'd love to to us this morning. we'd love to hear from you. first though. here's aaron with the . news. here's aaron with the. news. >> good morning. it's a minute past 11 i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer says national security will always come first under his changed labour party. he's reaffirmed the uk's commitment to a nuclear deterrent , reaffirmed the uk's commitment to a nuclear deterrent, claiming it's a fundamental, vital part of our defence. labour are pledging to build four new nuclear submarines and increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp . defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when economic conditions are right now, the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. sir keir dismissed . it 2030. sir keir dismissed. it concerns his shadow foreign secretary and deputy party leader voted against the uk having nuclear weapons just eight years ago, and he's criticised the tories for politicising the issue. >> prefer if politics were kept out of this issue even at this election , throughout the whole election, throughout the whole of this parliament, i have

deliberately not been partisan over security yet. just before this election , the tories this election, the tories questioned this labour party's commitment to national security and i will not let that stand. the people of britain need to know that their leaders will keep them safe, and we will. >> meanwhile, the conservatives are pledging to amend the equality act to clarify the legal definition of biological sex. rishi sunak will see a future conservative government would clear up the current confusion. the plan would set out the protected characteristic of sex means biological sex, allowing organisations to bar transgender women from single—sex spaces, including hospital wards and sports events. labour have called the policy an election distraction, but women and equalities minister kemi badenoch says it's

an important conversation to have. >> the problem we're solving is for many organisations like rape crisis centres, prisons, for instance , where people may instance, where people may identify as a woman even though they're biologically male and they're biologically male and they don't know what to do. and we are clarifying what, public authorities need to do. what perhaps individual private institutions, rights are a lot of them are worried about being sued even when they're doing the right thing. so this is a tidy up of law so that we can create a better space for this conversation . conversation. >> the liberal democrats have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto. it will include a blue flag status for rivers, which would set legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping . the party says water dumping. the party says water bosses have been able to get away with environmental vandalism by being permitted to pollute waterways under what they say is a toothless conservative government reform

uk's honorary president nigel farage, says he'll make an emergency announcement about the general election later this afternoon. it follows criticism over his decision not to stand as an mp at this election, and you can keep up to date with coverage of that here on gb news at 4:00. meanwhile, prince william has praised rob burrow as a legend of rugby league with as a legend of rugby league with a huge heart after he passed away at the age of 41. the former england international and charity fundraiser was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019. he was then awarded a cbe for helping to raise millions of pounds and promoting awareness of the condition. it came just two years after he retired from playing after a 17 year career. former team—mate at leeds rhinos, jamie jones—buchanan says rob was one of a kind. >> he was an amazing person . he >> he was an amazing person. he was a superhero. i think everybody in life has got an origin story and this young, unassuming lad from castleford

who had a gift, a physical gift, loved rugby league and decided to use that gift in rugby league. and it was one that everybody looked at and thought, oh, this fella is tiny, he's too small. he'll never be able to play small. he'll never be able to play a game like rugby and not. did he just prove everybody wrong. but he used that gift to be world class, to stand out, to be world class, to stand out, to be different. and he found his sense of purpose . sense of purpose. >> the royal college of nursing is warning the number of patients being treated in hospital corridors amounts to a national emergency . vie. the national emergency. vie. the union says people are being left without access to oxygen and are endunng without access to oxygen and are enduring intimate examinations in places like cupboards and car parks, with some dying in corridors . the rcn is calling corridors. the rcn is calling for mandatory reporting of patients cared for in such conditions, to show the extent of hospital overcrowding. it comes after a survey of almost 11,000 frontline staff showed how widespread the practice has become , and smoking charities become, and smoking charities are urging the next government to revive legislation designed to revive legislation designed to ban young people from ever being allowed to legally smoke.

new analysis has revealed the majority of british people are backing the plans to phase out tobacco sales, and the law would have made it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after the 1st of january 2009. now it was one of the prime minister's pledges, but says he's disappointed that the law won't make it into the statute book after he did call the general election for july . with general election for july. with the latest on all of our stories, you can scan the qr code on your screen to get gb news alerts. the details are also on the website. now back to andrew and . bev. andrew and. bev. >> we're going to be talking to jeffrey archer again in just a moment because isn't he remarkable? >> he is. >> he is. >> is he 84 or 80? >> it's extraordinary. and he's still right. he still starts his daily routine writing at 6:00 in the morning to our pictures every day. and his books are still best sellers. he's amazing.

>> do you know what? if you sold 320 million books like jeffrey archer has ? you had to be that archer has? you had to be that disciplined, don't you? and it clearly keeps you very cognitively switched on. he's remarkable. and let's just see what you've been saying at home. anita has said, i'm sorry that keir starmer and labour haven't stopped putting the government down. so it's only fair that they show exactly what they do or don't do. if they don't like it, maybe they should not do it. there's a lot of words, i'm not quite sure, but i see what you mean, anita, about the fact that they spend a lot of time criticising the conservatives. >> well , because. >> well, because. >> well, because. >> but starmer's whole pitch is n14 years of tory chaos, misrule, three or 4 or 5 prime ministers. whatever it is, that's his pitch. it's not about the policies. he's keeping those under wraps. >> one more message. depher says if farage announces that he's standing in the election, having already said he was going to but didn't as he wanted the six months to prepare, then he has even less time . now. he's even less time. now. he's grandstanding. or perhaps he's parting company with reform, which i think he's previously done with another party. go

figure. as the yanks say. >> well, it is, it's interesting because i think nigel was shaken by the reaction he was . by the reaction he was. >> he doesn't like to let the british people down. he really doesn't. and i think a lot of your responses were they you felt that he had let you down, but now we're having to get back to jeffrey archer. >> but we've lost him on the link, but we're going to try and get it back. but now, of course, you will know you don't need us to remind you. this week will mark 80 years since more than 150,000 allied troops risked their lives in the biggest ever, invasion, storming nazi occupied beaches of normandy. of course, it was d—day, so looking ahead to this anniversary is our reporter sophie reaper, who is in normandy. >> good morning, sophie, over to you . you. >> where? bonjour. to you both from. beautiful bayeux. this morning. we're here in this town ahead, as you say, of the build up to that 80th anniversary of d—day on thursday of this week, the 6th of june, it will be 8 to 80 years since 1944, when the allied troops stormed those five

beaches here in normandy . now, beaches here in normandy. now, this place is absolutely incredible. and the atmosphere has already started to build up over the coming days. we're expecting thousands, if not tens of thousands of people to descend on bayeux and its surrounding areas . now, we've surrounding areas. now, we've been here this morning speaking to some of the locals, but also some of the people who've travelled in, including one couple who've already made the journey over from new york. they lost a family member on d—day is they feel that they come over and that they celebrate and commemorate that family member, but also all of the other troops who sacrificed themselves for freedom in europe. here's what they had to tell me. >> they're here to celebrate the basically the liberation of the world. how the how the course of the world may have gone one way. fortunately for the allies and everybody else, france included,

we have, you know, it changed the course of the world. and now we, and now we can live in relative, you know, freedom. and it's, that's that's what that's why it's so important to me. >> it's about liberation of a people of, of oppressed, you know, area europe, which was under siege by by the nazi germany and about that, that freedom isn't free, that in order to restore freedom , it we order to restore freedom, it we have to pay a price sometimes. and sadly , it was my family, but and sadly, it was my family, but it could have been anybody's family . and yeah, coming family. and yeah, coming together is really important. and i think it's important for heaung and i think it's important for healing and it's important in celebrating one of, of what we have as people on this planet to be focused on more of what we have in common, and that's our humanity than what our differences might be.

>> and i think marianne really summed that up there. the importance of celebrating and commemorating those lives that were lost, but also those veterans that actually survived d—day. i know over the coming days, the royal british legion certainly will be bringing over some of those veterans who who remain. and fortunately, there aren't many of them left. it's likely that this 80 year anniversary will be the last big anniversary will be the last big anniversary where we will have living veterans from d—day, so people will be coming here to show their respect and to really just mark such a momentous occasion in history. >> sophie reaper thanks for that. that's sophie reaper. and of course, we'll be in normandy all the way up to d—day on the very special day, 80th anniversary, very important milestone, of course, the youngest, i think some of the youngest, i think some of the youngest veterans will be 98. i met a few of them at the palace the other day. did you at a garden party? and 1 or 2 of them were in the early hundred. >> amazing. >> amazing. >> aren't they really with it? really articulate. >> a lot of you are speculating about nigel farage and what he's

going to do at 4:00 this afternoon. i've got the giggle, she's got the giggles. >> we've got jeffrey archer back, jeffrey archer is back. we were talking to him about this extraordinary story about amazing man, mount everest 820. jeffrey, we've just just before we move on to other subjects , we move on to other subjects, what do you think has happened to that body? some people are suspecting the chinese have moved the frozen, mummified, whatever corpse. what do you think has happened? >> i confess, i have absolutely no idea. when i did my research for the book , i was aided by the for the book, i was aided by the great audrey selkin, the expert on everest and it was in her book that i got the idea for writing paths of glory because she wrote one sentence. he was in love with two women, right? one was called ruth, the other was called salamanca, goddess, mother of the earth. and she killed him .

killed him. >> oh, extraordinary! >> oh, extraordinary! >> extraordinary, jeffrey. extraordinary story. while we've got you, you've always taken a huge interest in american politics. i know you talk a lot to senators and congressmen and women . how likely is it that women. how likely is it that donald trump, women. how likely is it that donald trump , despite the donald trump, despite the criminal conviction now he's made history as the first former president serving president to have a criminal conviction that he could actually go on and win the white house. what's your view ? view? >> well, i rang senator bradley last night who i was up at oxford with, who stood for president, of course, himself. and i speak to him every sunday to get the latest opinion and he has been up until now convinced that if trump was convicted , it that if trump was convicted, it would make a difference. when i spoke to him last night, the senator said he'd changed his mind. he was now convinced it didn't make a difference. trump would win . we live in

would win. we live in a celebrity age when we eat ourselves. and he said, it's a sad day for america. >> so and i see that the amount of £72 million poured into his coffers. jeffrey, within 24 hours and his poll rating went up 4 or 5 points after the conviction. >> i don't know about the 4 or 5 points. bill bradley thought it was two points, but he told me it was $69 million. they raised in 48 hours. extraordinary. so i suggest that mr sunak must do something pretty devastating if we're going to get that sort of money. well, let's well, let's well, let's get you on that, jeffrey, because there's the debate tomorrow. >> i know you'll be glued to it, it's for starmer to lose, isn't it, because he's so far ahead in the polls what sunak got to do to make it a game changer ? to make it a game changer? >> well, you make a point. but to be fair, andrew, they're

neither either of them. what i call charismatic speakers, they're neither of them going to do, in the words of john kennedy, make the stones rise and walk ahead of me. that isn't going to happen. what happened in the election with john major when we were quietly going along, thinking we were going to lose? in fact, at this stage we were quite away behind the labour party. but the mistake came from labour. so you're right to say he has everything to lose, because when, a kinnock, when neil kinnock made his speech in sheffield and it went berserk in front of 20,000 people, i remember saying to the prime minister, i can get you wembley and i'll fill it. no, no, said john major, we'll go to manchester and do 500. how right he was , because that was the he was, because that was the finish for the labour party. so

the point i'm making, andrew, you're quite right. he will have to make a mistake, yeah. where do you think it's gone wrong jeffrey? >> for the conservatives with all of the polls now suggesting it will be a significant drubbing, can you pin it on any particular issue ? particular issue? >> the british people always get a bit tired of a party when it's beenin a bit tired of a party when it's been in power for a very long time , i rememberjohn major time, i rememberjohn major saying .to me when we won that election against kinnock, they'll throw me out head first in five years time. jeffrey and i said, why prime minister? and he said, frankly, they've had enough of us. and i think that was true at the end of the blair brown government, they had enough. and i think the truth is the reason the polls aren't moving is simply time. it hasn't helped that we've had four prime

ministers in five years, but i wouldn't point to any one thing because i would say one thing about our current prime minister. i think he is a thoroughly decent man with unquestionably a first class mind , but he's got so many mind, but he's got so many obstacles up against him. i think these polls aren't going to shift a great deal . to shift a great deal. >> okay. all right, that's jeffrey archer. thanks >> i'm talking about everest. of course. his book, which i read parts paths of glory. jeffrey, great to talk to you. and we may even talk to him after the debate, because don't forget, it is the debate tomorrow between prime minister and leader of the opposition and interestingly, normally it's the prime minister who is on the defensive. but i feel the whole way through this campaign, it's the leader of the opposition who's on the defensive. well, because he's so far ahead. >> it is his delusion . >> it is his delusion. >> it is his delusion. >> it is his delusion. >> it is his to lose, and like a lot of people who were very undecided. >> yeah, he's still he's ultra cautious. >> sunak. sorry. starmer and i

think, maybe he will drop . but think, maybe he will drop. but remember, he's a lawyer. >> he shouldn't be. yeah, he shouldn't be. >> this is the opening up in. exactly right. still to come this morning, rishi sunak says that he'll change the law to keep trans women out of female loos. but why has it taken so long with britain's newsroom on

gb news? good morning. it's 1122 gb news? good morning. it's1122 now. rishi sunak says that he will change the law to protect women's spaces like loos and changing rooms by clearly defining biological sex in the equality act. >> so why has it taken so long? >> so why has it taken so long? >> they've only been in power for 14 years. >> well, joining us now is conservative mp for penistone and stocksbridge miriam cates. good morning miriam . kemi good morning miriam. kemi badenoch has morning. good to see you. it's been writing about this in one of the papers this

morning. and she says that people will say this is just electioneering, and they could have done it sooner . electioneering, and they could have done it sooner. is that the case? >> well, of course , it's always >> well, of course, it's always the case that things could have happened faster. >> but actually, this has been, as part of the plan for a while. a year ago, this was debated in parliament, just less than a year ago as a big debate in westminster hall, a number of mps , including myself, spoke mps, including myself, spoke about the need to do this and that was off the back of a campaign run by the charity sex matters , and also matters, and also recommendations from the equalities and human rights commission, recommending that kemi badenoch did exactly this. so of course, this is now a policy announcement mid campaign. it will be in the manifesto, but had the election not been called when it was, i do understand that this would probably be in part of next term's legislation. if you like . term's legislation. if you like. but yet of course all these things should have been done sooneh things should have been done sooner. i absolutely agree , but sooner. i absolutely agree, but i'm really pleased that the government is proposing this now on a on a practical level, miriam, what will this mean for women but also for trans people

is, if you allow me just to go back in time a little bit, is, if you allow me just to go back in time a little bit , the back in time a little bit, the problem has arisen because in 2004, the labour government passed something called the gender recognition act, which enabled people to change their birth certificates. so somebody who as an adult had or wanted to go through transition could actually apply to have their birth certificate changed. so let's say they were born male. they could have it amended to say female. now i personally don't agree with that act. i don't agree with that act. i don't think you should be able to change a historical document. but but there we have it. that is in our law . then in 2010, the is in our law. then in 2010, the equality act was passed also by the outgoing labour government that introduced protections against discrimination on the grounds of race and disability and all sorts of things that everybody would very much agree with, but also on the basis of gender reassignment, if you like. so you can't discriminate against somebody, you can't not give someone a job, for example, on the basis of them being trans, which again , the vast trans, which again, the vast majority of people would agree with. but the difficulty has

ansen with. but the difficulty has arisen because the equality act uses sex and gender almost interchangeably, which at the time nobody raised an eyebrow. but of course, since then those two things have come to mean something very different. and we've got into a real mess because lots of public services don't know whether they're allowed to forbid biological males from entering toilets , males from entering toilets, changing rooms, playing sports, hospital wards because they don't want to be sued for discriminating against somebody who may be a man but presents as a woman. so this is why we've got into this confusion and why we desperately need this clarification. >> do you think it matters to anybody, though, this issue in terms of how they're going to vote? miriam, when you're knocking on doors at the moment and going around campaigning, does anybody open the door and say, what i really want is clarification on on what a woman is ? is? >> well, actually, they do open their doors and they do speak about sections for women and girls specifically . obviously, girls specifically. obviously, as a as an mp, i particularly have have stood up on these issues. so i think, you know, part of it is that my constituents, some of them recognise that, but certainly a

lot of women and fathers of daughters are very concerned about what it means for women to go into toilets and changing rooms and play sports and not be able to know, not be able to have guaranteed to them that they won't find men in their changing rooms. now, there have been some horrific incidences . been some horrific incidences. kemi badenoch herself wrote about one of these today of girls and women who have been attacked, sexually abused by men who have come into their toilets, their their safe spaces . so these incidences certainly happen. but it isn't just the incidences themselves, it is the fear of them. and the point of having single—sex spaces is to protect women and girls and nobody is saying that all men or all trans people are a risk. of course not. but the point about safeguards is that unless they apply to everyone, you can't keep people safe . if you want to keep people safe. if you want to work in a school, you have to have a dbs check. that doesn't mean people think that you're suspicious. it'sjust mean people think that you're suspicious. it's just we apply it to everyone . no men should be it to everyone. no men should be able to go into women's changing rooms. that's how we keep people safe. it has to apply to

everyone. and that's the purpose of this announcement today. >> all right. that's miriam cates. >> who is the, former tory mp ? >> who is the, former tory mp? of course, she's no longer an mp. there's no mps now. they all. >> good point. >> good point. >> they are no longer mps from thursday. thanks for joining >> they are no longer mps from thursday. thanks forjoining us, miriam. thanks, matthew , lars is miriam. thanks, matthew, lars is with us. and emma woolf matthew laza are all over the place on this? no. >> absolutely not. i mean, what's hilarious about this announcement is it is actually meaningless. kemi badenoch has been out on the airwaves this morning , and she was asked very morning, and she was asked very simply the question if a if a trans woman who's had a gender recognition certificate is sent to jail, what jail will they go in as of before this, this, this , this much trumpeted change, they'd go into a women's prison under this much trumpeted change, they'd go into a women's prison. so it's exactly the same. what she's what she's trying to fight is a paper tiger, which is self id, which is what the, scottish government, the snp government tried to introduce and which labour's been absolutely clear it will not introduce here. >> well hang on, labour weren't in scotland. labour in scotland supported it. >> well. labour in scotland was split on it and they supported. they've changed them. they've changed their minds because

they've listened to an issue like that. >> they've changed their mind on an issue like that and what they did get is what they did get is they got the they got the legislation in scotland changed. >> what actually happened is, is when it was initially proposed , when it was initially proposed, they objected to it. they got some some protections put in and the price for that was that they voted. most of them voted for it. >> the truth is that rishi sunak's government here kicked it into touch by using by using the devolution act. >> we backed that. we backed them using the devolution act. and i think it should be a uk wide responsibility. so again, that's another paper tiger. the issue is now i mean, you know, can be right today in the times she uses some examples which you know are very serious examples about people using bathrooms. nobody's going to be asking for a birth certificate to go into the bathroom. so, a bit of clarity for public organisations is one thing, but to pretend this is some great change to the law is another, and there can be no way, you know, nobody is suggesting that we get rid of the gender, the ability to change your gender. but everybody believes both labour and the tories believe in keeping that as a process. you have to go through emma . have to go through emma. >> well, look, i think it is actually extremely important.

it's not a meaningless change. biological. what they're saying is biological sex is not the same as gender identity. why shouldn't women have the right to safety within changing rooms , to safety within changing rooms, within, hospital wards, within bathrooms ? it is actually bathrooms? it is actually incredibly fundamental. i think miriam cates i mean, by the way, she's one of the rising stars, isn't she? she's so good, and it's interesting that kemi badenoch and rishi sunak and miriam are all claiming this one for themselves, but i think that, you know, same thing with with female doctors. why shouldn't we have the right to ask for female doctors within intimate care, within midwifery and all of that? and by the way, one other personal bugbear of mine, i don't want to be called a cis woman. i haven't changed my identity. i was born female . my identity. i was born female. i've been female my whole life. i've been female my whole life. i completely accept that other people may want to change their identity, but don't change my name. i'm not a cis woman . identity, but don't change my name. i'm not a cis woman. i'm a woman. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> so i mean, the thing is, i mean, i can understand your arguments, emma, but but the issue about this proposed change issue about this proposed change is it doesn't mean it won't actually make a difference to whether or to those, those same single—sex spaces, because

people who have actually changed, legally changed their gender will still be legally allowed to access them. when you dig down into the detail, when kemi is actually confronted and said, you know now what she has said, you know now what she has said, you know what i think everybody thinks is that special provision should be made. there's been talk, you know , there's been talk, you know, frankly, single sex wards and hospitals would be a great starting point. the government's failed to deliver single sex wards in hospitals, which is massively bigger issue than the very small number of transgender people in involved. i mean, i absolutely agree with you. i mean, you know, single sex wards in hospitals are vital. it's a shame the tories haven't delivered them. >> it's one more number. >> it's one more number. >> let's do one more story before we go to the news. emma do we want to talk about britain's got no talent could do? >> i'd love to talk about rupert murdoch's fifth wedding. go on then. oh, fifth wedding. isn't that the triumph of hope over experience? i think this is really romantic. i know matthew will disagree with me wildly on this one. i think it's really romantic. he's 93. he's marrying a lady in her late 60s. it's not a lady in her late 60s. it's not a sort of dolly bird. she's a very, very intelligent woman. scientist. very, very. yeah, exactly. she also isn't a sort of trophy hunter. you know, there's no suggestion because

she was married to a billionaire russian billionaire before. i think it looked like a lovely ceremony . and i think, good for ceremony. and i think, good for him. life is not over in your 90s. and says the lady who's hoping to meet, you 90s. and says the lady who's hoping to meet , you know, that hoping to meet, you know, that special person in her 80s, special person in her 80s, special billionaire, but also emma. >> but i think all his children were there. but also wendi deng, wife number three, i think. >> number third wife. >> number third wife. >> yeah, she was there too, i think. >> good for them . >> good for them. >> good for them. >> well, i bet it was a lovely do. his wife. >> it's such an ageing society. >> it's such an ageing society. >> .co.uk to the billionaire elon is the covid. they got married in a californian vineyard. >> it's his vineyard. >> it's his vineyard. >> yeah , his vineyard, of >> yeah, his vineyard, of course. funded by his children and his former spouse , as you and his former spouse, as you say, wendi deng. yeah. >> i mean, i mean, i mean, i think you're right, emma, that the fact is, is that she's clearly not a trophy hunter because she's already been married to a billionaire. and the prenups will be, you know, pages longer than longer than the phone book. for those who know what phone books look like, so, yeah, it's said to protect the kids, which is all about the inheritance. so actually, you know, good luck to them. you know, good luck to them. you know, let's hope he finds in the i think we can fairly say the twilight years. he finally

finds, finds, finds a sustainable one. this i think should be it, though, i think i don't think i think they should try and make this one last. >> right. thank you both. we've got to go to aaron for the news. now, don't go anywhere . now, don't go anywhere. >> it's 1131. now, don't go anywhere. >> it's1131. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom as sir keir starmer has reiterated his commitment to maintaining the uk's nuclear capabilities. the labour leader is committed to a deterrent triple lock, including the construction of four new nuclear submarines and an ambition to increase defence spending when economic conditions allow. speaking in barry, alongside ex—forces members who will be standing for labourin members who will be standing for labour in the general election, he says he was forced into campaigning on national security by the tories. prefer sir, if politics were kept out of this issue, even at this election , issue, even at this election, throughout the whole of this parliament, i have deliberately not been partisan over security

yet. >> just before this election , >> just before this election, the tories questioned this labour party's commitment to national security, and i will not let that stand. the people of britain need to know that their leaders will keep them safe, and we will. >> meanwhile, the conservatives have been accused of phoney culture wars after announcing plans to amend the equality act. so when it refers to a person's sex, it can only mean biological sex, it can only mean biological sex rather than gender. rishi sunakis sex rather than gender. rishi sunak is campaigning in the south—east today. he'll set out proposals that would stipulate that those who are biologically male but identify as female should be barred from using single—sex spaces. labour have called the policy an election distraction . the lib dems have distraction. the lib dems have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto. it would include a blue flag status for rivers, which would legally set

binding targets to prevent sewage dumping. the party says. water bosses have been able to get away with environmental vandalism by being permitted to pollute waterways under the toothless, conservative policies . and tributes continue to be paid to rob burrow , who has died paid to rob burrow, who has died at the age of 41. the former england international and charity fundraiser was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019. he was awarded a cbe for helping to raise millions of pounds to promote awareness of his condition . prince william his condition. prince william has praised rob burrow, saying he was a legend of rugby league with a huge heart. he had a 17 year career including eight grand final wins. for the latest stories you can sign up to gb news alerts. the details are on our website or the qr code is on your screen right now.

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conservatives, but that doesn't look very likely, does it, considering everything they've said so far . said so far. >> if he's going to run, where would he go? the favourite would it be clacton in essex? >> clacton in essex is an area thatis >> clacton in essex is an area that is demographically hugely favourable to parties like reform and before that, ukip. it's the seat that it's the only seat in the country that has returned. a ukip mp at a general election. that was douglas carswell in 2015. of course, he won it in a by—election the year before as well. he was previously the tory mp for that seat, one of the reasons behind his defection from the conservatives to ukip in 2014 was he was shown a list internally at cchq of all of the seats in the country most favourable to ukip. clacton was top right, but of course there's south thanet as well, where nigel farage stood in 2015. he lost, of course, to craig mckinley , who's now standing mckinley, who's now standing down. but of course labour is strong in that area as well, so that might be why he might not go for south thanet . the other go for south thanet. the other option, hartlepool. well that's interesting. now that's where richard tice stood in 2019. it's currently a tory seat but labour richard tice move away from it.

>> well boston he's gone to boston and skegness, another demographically very favourable seats towards reform uk. >> one of the highest brexit votes in the country there. but hartlepool is an interesting one because if you want to come through as a third party, you need two other parties to have a reasonably strong base. it can't be a sort of one versus one. it's got to be a more marginal for the other two. so his big hope would be coming through the middle . those are the sorts of middle. those are the sorts of seats that we need to look at. >> is there a little bit of tension at the top between richard tice, who has to remind us that he is the leader? fabulous photograph and nigel farage with all the great photograph of one of the papers at the weekend of richard taking pictures of nigel with everybody else. >> there was a queue of people wanted nigel. nigel is the big star, the stardust, that's how it is. >> you can't deny it. >> you can't deny it. >> realistic about that, is he? he knows that nigel farage, i know, is an ace card for them. i don't think he might. which is. >> which is why it's interesting that all the social media stuff about reform , it says reform uk about reform, it says reform uk and first sentence in the biography on twitter it says led by richard tice, just in case

anybody thought otherwise. picture ummayad every photo there and there's conspicuously little nigel. i mean, perhaps if they were thinking about maximising their vote, they'd swap that round. >> but we'll be building up to this announcement. yeah, yeah. >> so you both, you're 100, are you? 99. >> i'm 90% sure he'll be standing. yeah. >> me too. >> me too. >> well, i'm not so sure. who knows? it might be a tease . knows? it might be a tease. >> right? all that and more with emily and tom from midday. for now, though, this is britain's newsroom on gb news. we're with you for another 20 minutes.

let's briefly return to the breaking news from earlier in the programme. nigel farage has tweeted this morning that he'll be making an emergency. general election announcement at 4 pm. this afternoon. that will be dunng this afternoon. that will be during martin daubeny's show, of coui'se. >> course. >> well, joining us now is our political editor, chris hope, who is on the battle bus with

the prime minister. but, chris, if we can drag you away from the conservative party, what's your intelligence telling you about nigel farage? is he going to throw his hat in the ring? after all, it would be an eighth time. >> an eighth time. hello. morning to you, andrew. morning, bev. i think this is looking like he. he's going to say he wants to stand now. senior figures in reform uk are blindsided by this. they are scrambling to get back to london southern to get this to understand what's going to be said by nigel farage at 4 pm. but just look at the rooms. look at the fact he gave that interview to harry cole on the sun's youtube channel, saying he wants an offer from the tory party. nothing came. he was in ashfield on saturday. he was mobbed, mobbed by people wanting selfies, pictures . he loves all selfies, pictures. he loves all this stuff. he's in the weekend. sunday telegraph saying he wants to take over the tory party and he knows jolly well the only way to take over a party is by being on the pitch. being an mp, he can't be an mp if he doesn't stand all the odds. i think tom and you both say 90% chance that

he will say he wants to be an mp. now, i would concur. i think it's looking highly likely he himself is not answering the phone to gb news this morning, it just looks like that's where we're going. and this, this will if it happens , electrify what if it happens, electrify what has been quite a soporific campaign , because i think we had campaign, because i think we had that polling on friday night about reform uk. we give them 12% of the vote on july fourth, according to that electoral calculus, mrp mega poll , according to that electoral calculus, mrp mega poll, and zero mps. now that might change if farage enters the race. the election race could be about to get electric. >> all right. thank you chris christopher hope there in henley on thames. if i'd known you were there, chris, i'd have sent you around to my mum and dad's for a cup of tea. they'd be happy to see you any time. of course, have a good day. there by the river. the rowing boats behind him. >> well, what do you think? send us your views and post your comments. and do you want to see nigel farage throw his happening? it would be for an eighth time. he's lost seven, seven times previously, and of course , landscape now though.

course, landscape now though. >> yeah of course, of course world. >> he did say in that statement last week that he wanted to spend a lot of time in the united states with donald trump. he's really believes in donald trump. if he gets elected to parliament, he won't be doing much spending much time with donald trump, will he? >> no, let me see what you have been saying here, i know that obviously you get you're all invested in nigel's political journey. not all of you. most of you are . so patricia said if you are. so patricia said if nigel stands for the tories , so nigel stands for the tories, so if, folks, if nigel stands for tories, where where are you? oh this is patricia talking. this is the thing about this, this message board. you can also talk to each other , here we go . ref, to each other, here we go. ref, sorry. just let me. we've just reloading these messages, will richard tice stand down as leader? >> i don't think it matters for the reform. >> reform party because nigel nigel's president and but but if one if they both got elected to parliament, bev who would be the leader then. and matthew has said, i hope he doesn't step down now this is an interesting

theory. john, who's a gb news member, says, i think it was piers morgan that did this. and the questions on bbc question time. now, if you didn't see question time, where would you when you can watch gb news, just before the weekend and nigel was on with piers morgan and piers morgan did say to him or they did have a little bit of, they did have a little bit of, they did competitive one upmanship about their tv careers. given that nigel still has a show and piers morgan lost his well, the piers morgan lost his well, the piers morgan lost his well, the piers morgan did brag that he's now a youtuber, which seemed a little strange, but of course nigel has to take some flack now for the fact that he isn't standing as an mp and people are holding his feet to the fire over that issue. they are. and nigel being nigel, he will do what is right for nigel, but he will do what's right for the country. and i think he senses a lot of people's dissatisfaction. are him not standing for reform? maybe that's going to be an announcement at 4:00. >> i'm struggling to think what else it could be. >> maybe he's declaring himself a woman on the day that kemi badenoch says they're changing the rules on gender. >> now, that would electrify the campaign. it really , really

would. >> talking of insanity, stormy daniels says that donald trump should be jailed after his felony . that's right. don't go anywhere. this is britain's

gb news. >> now if you think of bath, you may think of period dramas. beautiful georgian houses and roman baths. and a genteel way of life. >> but i thought we would talk about britain's got talent. >> no, listen, this is a good story. i love a seagull story. residents of somerset city are being terrorised in their sleep and his bath by the sea. they're being they're being plagued every single waking moment. andrew, don't belittle the people . people. >> i went to bath for a weekend last year. i didn't see a seagull. i'd say i didn't. it's jeff moody about terrorising seagulls . seagulls. >> they're lurking on the

rooftops, waiting to pounce . rooftops, waiting to pounce. hungry, destructive, dirty and very loud. writer and historian tim newark has had enough of his new neighbours, but they're the very worst neighbours you can get. >> they wake us up at 4 am. in the morning and disturb our sleep . they rip open so—called sleep. they rip open so—called gull proof bags and strew that rubbish all over the pavement, they deposit vast amounts of disease laden faeces on our streets, on our buildings, on our cars . our cars. >> everything but the new neighbours are of the feathered variety . seagulls, thousands of variety. seagulls, thousands of them coming in from the sea and claiming the streets of bath for themselves. >> if people acted like that, the council would do something about it. but the gulls, they feel they can't touch them because of natural england's very strict rules that stop, stop us from even touching nests . so the council feels their hands are tied, but it's a residents who have to put up with this, and i don't see why

we should have to live with girls. no one voted for that, but they did vote for the council . council. >> in a statement, the council's cabinet member for neighbourhood services said we know that urban gulls can become a nuisance and even cause distress for people in some instances , however, we in some instances, however, we are limited in how much we can do to solve this because it is illegal to interfere with the birds or their nests. we urge residents and businesses who are experiencing problems with gulls to ensure they aren't making their roofs and gardens an attractive target by removing outdoor waste wherever possible . outdoor waste wherever possible. impossible though on bin day , a impossible though on bin day, a census of the uk's main sea fowl species says seagulls have seen a drop in their population since 2002. there's 100,000 fewer gulls than there were at the millennium. that's a fall of 41, and that's why they're protected . but tim newark says this is wrong. >> i would like natural england

to get sensible and see that it's not possible for residents , it's not possible for residents, city centre residents to live next to gulls. and we must be able to control their numbers. we must be able to get rid of their nests, and we can't have these incredibly strict rules that are stopping councils from acting for us. >> bethany's somerset council have applied to natural england for a licence to destroy nests, but they're unlikely to succeed unless they can prove that people are being physically attacked . until then, bath's attacked. until then, bath's noisy neighbours are here to stay . jeff moody, gb news you stay. jeff moody, gb news you see revolting, aren't they? >> bath has got terrorising seagulls. it's got no see. but they are revolting . they are revolting. >> they are revolting and they're too big and they are . they're too big and they are. >> they take your ice cream out your hand. >> yeah, i know people who've got places by the sea. and it is a menace now. >> it is a menace. they swoop and. and i've come in here stealing our sandwiches . i know,

stealing our sandwiches. i know, shocking, what about britain's got talent? why why? we've got to have the. we've got to start a campaign to have the program renamed as britain plus. plus the rest of the world's got talent. >> i think you meant our program. no, no. oh, britain's got no talent, apparently. yes. well, well, i don't watch britain's got talent anymore. there was a time when i did, but it just is a bit pointless now. partly because, as you say, you watch it and you go, well, hang on a minute. >> what's south korea got to do with it? >> hi, south korean, i'd quite like to see what talent we're generating, right. let's see what you've been talking about at home. are they talking about nigel? >> well, no. >> well, no. >> brent is very cross with me for giggling about the squirrel that squirrels the seagulls story said . it that squirrels the seagulls story said. it might that squirrels the seagulls story said . it might seem funny story said. it might seem funny to you, but you don't have to live with it . there we are. live with it. there we are. that's told you that i consider myself told off. i'm sorry. and a lot of you are speculating about nigel farage. emily and tom will be talking about this , tom will be talking about this, marcus said. the election is going to be electric if farage comes back, farage, starmer and sunak are all the same, promise

the earth and deliver nothing, including farage, in that i think maybe he's being sarcastic about nigel electrifying the election. well, something needs to. >> well because it's been pretty dull and the polls haven't moved. they've stuck exactly where they are. labour with a lead of about 20 points. the tories are coming out with policy ideas all the time. but are people listening right. >> thank you very much. emily and tom will be here with you any second now. andrew and i are done for the day. we'll see you tomorrow morning. see you tomorrow morning. see you tomorrow . tomorrow. >> nigel farage has been dipping his toe back in the world of politics, but could he about to be taking the plunge? yes. could he return to a full, full time role, perhaps standing for parliament? that coming up this afternoon. >> and we're going to be on both sides of the channel as the preparations for the 80th anniversary of d—day ramping up. we'll be there with you at after the . weather. the. weather. >> looks like things are heating

up. boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news as. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we saw plenty of fine weather across the bulk of the uk through the weekend, but things are turning more changeable during the week ahead. most of us are seeing some rain at times, but equally still some warm sunshine to look forward to too at times. back to the detail for this morning though, and outbreaks of rain affecting northern ireland southwest scotland moving south into parts of northern england. as we head through the day , most as we head through the day, most of that fairly light and patchy, but the odd heavy burst in places to the south of that much brighter, particularly across parts of wales and the south—west of england, but generally a cloudier day across the south of the uk than during the south of the uk than during the weekend. the best of the sunshine, generally reserved for parts of scotland , although parts of scotland, although towards the far north quite a few blustery showers around still quite warm though when the sun does come through temperatures into the low 20s at best. as we head into the latter stage of the day into the early part of the evening. quite a bit of cloud across the south of the uk, generally the best of the brightness across parts of wales and the south—west of england,

and the south—west of england, and temperatures still doing quite well in that sunshine into the high teens locally, even still 20 degrees in 1 or 2 spots. notice there, across northern england, parts of northern ireland, the cloud thick enough to give 1 or 2 spots of rain in places, and the best of the sunshine still reserved for parts of central scotland, with blustery showers, packing in there towards the northern isles as we head into the evening and through the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain across the central slice of the uk continue to journey southwards, but tend to journey southwards, but tend to break up, leaving a legacy of a fair bit of cloud across much of england and wales into the overnight period. and, although it'll be clear spells towards the north and northwest for a time notice as we head towards tuesday morning further outbreaks of rain moving in across the north—west of the uk and some of those turning heavy in places by tuesday morning itself quite a mild night with all the cloud around. but notice as we head into tuesday, quite unsettled day unfolding, those outbreaks have rained towards the north—west starting to slip their way south eastwards towards england and wales. as we head into the latter stages of tuesday, 1 or 2 heavy bursts in places , the far south and places, the far south and southeast holding on to some sunshine and brighter skies , but sunshine and brighter skies, but with blustery showers packing in

across much of scotland and northern ireland, and generally a cooler day than in recent days, peaking at 21 celsius in the southeast, that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sperm answers of weather on

gb news. >> way . >> way. >> way. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on monday, the 3rd of june. i'm tom harvey, and i'm emily carver the tory war on gender law. the conservatives pledged to shake up the equality act and end legal confusion over the definition of sex and protect female spaces. much needed clarification. or will just stoking the culture war. >> and keir starmer has declared labouris >> and keir starmer has declared labour is the party for national security. he's promising to build more nuclear submarines to help keep britain safe , but he help keep britain safe, but he continues to refuse to commit to

match the tories defence spending . spending. >> has nigel farage changed his mind over standing for parliament? the honorary president of reform uk is to make what he says is an emergency election announcement later today , and preparations later today, and preparations are ramping up for the 80th anniversary of d—day. >> we'll hear about the enormous commemoration efforts this week from our reporters on both sides of the channel . of the channel. well, this exciting news breaking , what? in exciting news breaking, what? in the last hour or so, nigel farage and emergency general election announcement all capitalised . capitalised. >> and yes, what on earth could that mean? an emergency general election announcement seems to lean more on the policy side, and less on the policy side of things, and more on the, mechanics of an election, perhaps candidates strategy.

>> strategy? what is