gb news. >> away . >> away. >> away. >> morning. 930 on tuesday, the 4th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. very good morning. >> so nigel farage has taken control of reform uk and announced his return to run for parliament in the essex constituency of clacton . he's constituency of clacton. he's outlined the voters he's targeting , but perhaps above targeting, but perhaps above all, what we're appealing to are those who intend not to vote because they don't believe there's anybody within the westminster establishment that actually stands up for them . actually stands up for them. >> and it's going to be all about immigration. the prime minister, rishi sunak , is now minister, rishi sunak, is now promising to introduce an annual cap on the number of work and family visas issued by the uk. each year. >> meanwhile, labour refuses to set specific targets to cut net migration, but they pledged to make significant difference to

the numbers, whatever that means. can any party tackle this issue correctly? >> and tonight sir keir starmer and the pm go head to head in their first tv debate of the election campaign. we'll be looking at that. >> and stormy speaks out. the former porn star stormy daniels has urged melania trump to leave her husband and claim that donald trump should be used as a punching bag at a women's shelter following his felony conviction . that's nice . conviction. that's nice. >> i'm looking at portsmouth. there'll be some lovely scenes as the boats and ships set sail for the d—day commemorations in normandy . for the d—day commemorations in normandy. mark white's for the d—day commemorations in normandy . mark white's there, normandy. mark white's there, and, of course, this will be a very special d—day for 100 or so veterans left from central on d—day. >> that's right. gbnews.com/yoursay is the email address to get in touch with us this morning. first, though, here's our anne armstrong with the very latest headlines.

>> very good morning to you. it's 932. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the conservatives say they'll introduce an annual cap on the number of migrant visas allowed for people coming to the uk. the cap on those coming here to work or join family would cap on those coming here to work orjoin family would be based on a recommendation by the migration advisory committee, and will be voted on by mps. the conservatives claim it will ensure immigration would fall each year over the next parliament. labour have called the tory plan meaningless. net migration levels are now three times higher than they were in 2019. the labour leader says his party would close the door on president putin by reducing britain's reliance on energy from overseas. sir keir starmer will announce his plan to set up a publicly owned green power company later on. a visit to the nonh company later on. a visit to the north west , he says gb energy, north west, he says gb energy, which will be based in scotland , which will be based in scotland, will help protect the uk from spikes in fuel prices like those

that followed russia's invasion of ukraine. the liberal democrats are pledging free personal care for adults in need, including the elderly and disabled . sir ed davey says he disabled. sir ed davey says he wants to pay carers an extra £2 an hour above the national living wage . and he says living wage. and he says investment in the care sector would ultimately benefit the nhs . the party leader, himself a carer for his disabled son, has described the issue as deeply personal. he will outline his party's belief that provision of care should be based on need , care should be based on need, rather than the ability to pay . rather than the ability to pay. a ferry carrying d—day veterans to france for the 80th anniversary commemorations has set sail from portsmouth. the mont—saint—michel is being accompanied by a royal navy patrol vessel , a trumpeter, patrol vessel, a trumpeter, medusa and bashir. three of them, as well as the minehunter hms cattistock and a training ship, royalist, plus a tugboat as it travels out of portsmouth harbour. quite a flotilla as part of the jw commemorations in

normandy, us troops have been out on a replica landing craft at omaha beach this morning. omaha beach was one of two beaches taken by us forces 80 years ago . well, much more on years ago. well, much more on that to come as we go through the day and you can keep up to date with all of our stories by scanning the qr code on your screen. that's for gb news alerts. our website has the details too. andrew and bev. now with more on all the day's . news. >> good morning. it's 935. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner. >> well, where to start? do we start with a huge poll giving labour the biggest victory since 1997, potentially since 1906, or with nigel farage's u—turn saying that he is going to run for parliament to become reform's mp in clacton. and of course, he's taken over as leader from richard who? oh sorry richard tice. >> we were obviously on air

yesterday morning and hopefully you were with us then and we were speculating as to what nigel might be announcing at 4:00. so let's have a quick look. so the really big message here is what i'm really calling for and what i intend to lead is a political revolt. >> yes , a revolt, a turning of >> yes, a revolt, a turning of our backs on the political status quo. it doesn't work . status quo. it doesn't work. nothing in this country works anymore . the health service anymore. the health service doesn't work. the roads don't work . none of our public work. none of our public services are up to scratch . we services are up to scratch. we are in decline. this will only be turned around with boldness . be turned around with boldness. >> so labour's campaign coordinator, pat mcfadden spoke to gb news earlier and he didn't seem too phased . seem too phased. >> our reaction was just get on with the job, keep going , it's with the job, keep going, it's an election anyone's entitled to stand. anyone's entitled to be a candidate if they put themselves forward. it makes no difference

to us. we're just going to keep on. our focus is on the voters that we need to win in all these battleground seats. that's been our focus in recent years. we're offering them a changed labour party. we think we've got a good programme to turn the page on. the conservative years, and that's what we're going to keep talking about between now and polling day. so nigel farage are sort of spun into this election campaign like a, like a bowling ball into the skittles, hasn't he? >> and we're all kind of considering what the implications of this might be. >> he will be going later to clacton in essex. that's the constituency. he's taken on quite a battle because the conservative party is defending a majority of around 24, 25,000, and he's got form for not winning. he's lost seven times before. is he going to make it eight? well, let's talk to somebody who knows all about fighting general election campaigns. lord howard as michael howard, he led the conservative party in the 2005 election campaign, and it was one of their better results. lord howard, good morning to you

, i suspect good morning. i suspect lord howard , you're suspect lord howard, you're other relieved you're not leading the conservative party into the july the fourth election, because i fear the result is going to be considerably worse than the one you experienced back in 2005. >> what we did now, do we? andrew the result depends on your viewers and the other voters. and, no election is over until the votes are cast and counted. so i believe there's everything to play for, i think we need to focus people's minds on who they want as prime minister, on the issues, on the policies , and if we can succeed policies, and if we can succeed in doing that between now and july the fourth, then who knows what the outcome might be? >> well, just even before we farage entered the race and your former cabinet colleague ken clarke once described nigel farage as the most talented politician of his generation. lord howard , even before nigel lord howard, even before nigel farage entered the race, you were looking at polls suggesting the biggest labour win since before 1997. so it was it was

everest. even before farage entered the race. >> well, andrew, you've been around a long time as i've, i, we know that polls come and go. an election should not be about the polls. they should be about the polls. they should be about the personalities of the leaders who is likely to be our best prime minister and the policies that they're putting forward. and that's what that's what we ought to be talking about. >> of course, when nigel farage comes into to the scene, michael, it's what everybody starts talking about . michael, it's what everybody starts talking about. he's on the front pages of all the papers today. it's a massive reverberations. the impact that he had of brexit, of course, has been significant. he was the architect of the biggest political change in any of our living memory. so what impact will he now have? because there will he now have? because there will be people, i think, from the left and the right that will vote for nigel. >> well, what those people need to keep at the forefront of their minds is this a vote for reform is a vote to put keir

starmer into downing street. thatis starmer into downing street. that is the simple fact. and labour's policies and keir starmer's policies are the absolute opposite of reforms and of nigel farage's so that's what people need to think about what is likely to be the result of their vote, what is likely, what is likely to be its effect on the outcome. and if they don't want keir starmer to be prime minister, and there's every reason not to want keir starmer to be prime minister, they have to be prime minister, they have to vote conservative. >> lord howard, if you read the letters page of the daily telegraph and i know you read the daily telegraph today, you will see a number of people who traditionally voted conservative saying they will vote reform because the tory party needs to because the tory party needs to be punished because it has not followed a proper tory agenda for years. and they think a substantial defeat will be a major wake up call for the tories. and they then may coalesce around a tory leader who espouses their values and traditions. do you not have some sympathy with that view? >> well, we've got to. we've got time to persuade those people to change their minds and to

persuade them that they need to vote conservative. look, we have been through terrible crises. chses been through terrible crises. crises which were much, much more serious than anything we had to do when i was in government all those years ago. we've had the pandemic, we've had the war in ukraine, rishi sunak as chancellor and as prime minister has steered it through those crises so that now we're in a position where inflation has fallen, where we have the fastest growth rate of the g7 varne when we are on course to recover and to continue to grow, and what we must avoid is a labour government, which would absolutely ruin all that vote for reform. you get a labour government or that will be ruined. >> you could be talking about 97 because you were part of that cabinet, which handed over a booming economy. the economy was booming economy. the economy was booming in 97. lord howard and yet tony blair went to on win a

massive landslide because people were fed up to the back teeth of the tories. they'd been in power for 18 years. they've now been in power for 14 years. they came to change leaders more times than some people appear to change their shoes. and that's part of the problem, isn't it? been entrenched in the power for too long? people want a change. >> well, it was an election in 1992 when we'd been in power for 13 years, much more close to the 14 years of today than the 18 years of 1997. and all the polls were against us in 1992. but in fact , john major turned it fact, john major turned it round, and won we that election in 1992 against all the odds. so who knows? we don't know until the votes are cast and counted on july the 4th. >> i have to say, you win the award for the most optimistic person that we've had on the channel recently. and believe me, there's been quite a long queue of them. >> it's not often i get awards. i'm very grateful, but >> it's not often i get awards. i'm very grateful , but the i'm very grateful, but the question that keeps coming up to my mind is about the leader of

the conservative party as well, rishi sunak, how he managed to find himself in that role as it was, and how he repeatedly polls very low in terms of his personal popularity. could this have been a different story, had you a different leader at this point? >> no. i think rishi sunak deserves great credit for what he's achieved. as i've said as chancellor and prime minister, he steered us through these terrible crises so that we're now on a path where we can see our economy growing. we can see all of all of our countries sharing in the benefits as inflation comes down and as the economy starts to grow again. and this is all at risk from a labour prime minister who, as jeremy hunt so memorably said last week , if he can't deal with last week, if he can't deal with diane abbott, how on earth can you expect him to deal with vladimir putin? >> there's a lot of speculation today, lord howard, that he might announce a tougher stance on the european convention on human rights. we know the human rights lobby has stopped flights to rwanda. would that be a

little too late ? a little too little too late? a little too late now? in the game, people won't nigel farage just mock that and say he should have done it a long time ago. >> well, i'm not i'm not privy to that information, andrew, as you seem to be. i don't know what's going to be announced later today. i do know that we alone as conservatives, have a plan to do with illegal immigration by sending people to rwanda and a plan to deal with legal migration by the annual cap, which the party has put forward today. so we are the actually the only party putting forward practical proposals which will deal with immigration, which will bring immigration, which will bring immigration down. that's one of the many reasons why people should vote for us on july the 4th. >> we've got the leaders debate tonight. michael howard, this evening, the first time that sunak and starmer will have gone head to head in the public eye, who will come out on top of that, do you think? and what might the audience be looking for? >> well, i expect rishi sunak to

come to come out on top of that and i think the audience should be looking at which of these two men do we really want as our prime minister, afterjuly the 4th? to my mind, there's no contest. we'll see tonight. >> can i just ask you one final thing in the 97 general election campaign, i used to go to the daily press conference, tory hq and michael heseltine, who was then the deputy prime minister, was asked each day, mr heseltine, what's your prediction for the tory majority? and you say, oh well it's rising every day, rising every day. maybe i could ask you, lords, how would to reprise the and michael heseltine acts and say, what's the tory majority going to be. is it rising? >> let's wait till july the 4th and then we'll see. >> very good answer. always good to talk to you. that's michael howard, lord howard who was tory leader. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> great to talk to you. well he's robust isn't he. >> triumph of optimism over reality right there isn't it. >> and the point is look they got whacked in 97 when the economy was booming. there was no reform party standing. they

won in 92 against the odds because kinnock was an idiot. frankly, he was not a great leader. and the, again, there was no reform party standing. yeah, that's making the difference. >> we need to tell you who else is standing in clacton. of course, because we have told you that nigel is there and there are restrictions around this kind of thing at the moment. so the full list is, johann jovan owusu, nepal for the labour party , giles watling for the party, giles watling for the conservative party. >> matthew bensham, liberal democrat , nigel reform uk, democrat, nigel reform uk, natasha osbourne , green party. natasha osbourne, green party. >> so the list of candidates isn't quite finalised. the deadune isn't quite finalised. the deadline isn't until later this week. it will be very interesting to see who else goes up. there's no way is that going to be the final list. there's going to be dozens of people now wanting to stand, even as independents. >> i want to know if the monster raving loony party will put somebody up, because i wrote about this in my column that they are looking for candidates. you may have to have a plastic duck though, on your ballot papen >> right. >> right. >> very important apparently.

>> very important apparently. >> okay, well, we will get that final list at clacton once it is released this week. and gb news has extended an interview invitation to all of those candidates. >> up next, rishi sunak and sir keir starmer. they go head to head tonight in their first tv debate of the campaign. we're going to be joined by our top political presentation coach, who will give his tips. he may have even advised 1 or 2 of the people taking part in some of the debates this week. you're on britain's

gb news. >> 950 now. prime minister rishi sunak and labour leader sir keir starmer go head to head tonight in the first tv debate of the election campaign. >> well, let's talk to political presentation coach graeme davies, who's coached many, many cabinet ministers former cabinets. in your time there's he could if he'd wanted to keir starmer say to hell with this, i ain't turning up. the polls are showing him 25 points ahead.

that's before the nigel farage is factored in. it's his to lose, isn't it ? lose, isn't it? >> it very much is. he's got everything to lose in a debate. whereas rishi sunak is desperately trying to gain everything. the problem, though, for sunak is that tv debates very rarely offer the chance to hit a knockout blow. there might be some decent point scoring, but it's most likely to end up as a grubby no score draw. >> what does sunak sukh? what does sunak have to do to try and get even a21 win? >> well, i think he's got to do a couple of things. actually, three things. number one, he's got to change his attitude from being tetchy and annoyed when he's asked a difficult question to being more positive, a sort of come and have a go if you think you're hard enough, but without going so far that he's actually interrupting keir starmer because he tried that with liz truss in the backfired , with liz truss in the backfired, really backfired a lot. so he's got to be assertive without

being rude. that's number one. secondly, i would advise him that of course you can't come out with spontaneous new policy ideasin out with spontaneous new policy ideas in a tv debate, but he does have to find some new phrases, some new words to describe the old ones. i don't think anybody is going to be persuaded by him trotting back to. i'm concerned with delivering for the british people again. >> i've got a i've got a plan, a plan i know it's so boring. >> i'm going to keep trotting it out. >> and there is a fourth thing which would be interesting for both of them actually, ideally, depending on the format of the debate and the attitude of the moderator, sunak should try and find a way of directly facing starmer and asking him genuinely difficult questions . i don't difficult questions. i don't mean the pmqs pantomime questioning, but to mean the pmqs pantomime questioning , but to actually try questioning, but to actually try cross—examining the case. but of course starmer would be advised

to try doing that himself to see whether he can pick holes now , i whether he can pick holes now, i don't think either party is very keen on that approach because they both know that intensive cross—examine ation is dangerous for them, and also i suspect the moderator might not allow it, but that would turn this into the wild west. >> it's fascinating interviewing people involved in politics at a time like this, because they are so almost brainwashed, like michael howard, the wonderful lord howard, who i have huge admiration for. but it's almost that that sort of need to toe the party line means, graham, that they often look like they are no longer human. and how tonight do these two party leaders get across a warmth, a humanity , whilst also ticking humanity, whilst also ticking all the boxes that the party need them to do? >> the house of commons has to be a sort of dunning—kruger theme park. if you haven't got 1,000% self—belief, you shouldn't be there. and if you haven't got 92% belief in party

policies , you probably shouldn't policies, you probably shouldn't be there. and that's why sometimes a party or the politicians in that party, when they're desperately behind in desperate trouble, sometimes come across as scientologists. but it's the only way to be. i think that's rather defamatory to scientologists. >> to be fair . >> to be fair. >> to be fair. >> but i mean, you have to. they have to trot out the line, don't they?i have to trot out the line, don't they? i mean, michael howard has been put up by the tories. he's a dependable, safe pair of hands. >> well, yes, but although it's trotting out the line and one might say in the comfort of a tv studio, it's boring. it's the line. it's never going to change anything . you do have to anything. you do have to remember, the tory party is indeed the most successful political party in history history. and it never really completely goes away. in many ways. it's like a virus that keeps popping up, and so you've got to be able to encourage that virus. thank you graham.

>> unfortunately, we have to go away here. talk of that virus a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update . latest gb news weather update. it's going to be a fairly blustery day across northwestern areas. some more sunshine to come for these areas, but this morning the best of the sunshine is across the far south—east. it will cloud over here later on in the day, but it's still fairly mild out there. elsewhere further north and west, it's turning much colder through the day. that's as this band of cloud and rain moves away from the northwest, sinking into parts of wales, northern england, into central parts by the middle of this afternoon as well. we could see some heavy bursts of rain in here. now, to the north of here we've got colder air, but some sunshine and some blustery showers moving in by this afternoon . highs of in by this afternoon. highs of around 14 or 15 degrees in the north. closer to 20 degrees in the south and east. now through the south and east. now through the rest of the afternoon, that band of cloud and rain will continue to sink southwards, so

it will be a fairly bright end of the day across eastern areas of the day across eastern areas of scotland. but across the north—west, that's where we've got these most frequent showers. and you can see there is some evidence of snow falling over the high ground that's above around 800m in scotland. it'll be a fairly dry end of the day across northwestern england, parts of north wales as well, but across central parts of england and southern areas of england and southern areas of england as well, are pretty cloudy and possibly quite a damp end to the day. now that cloud and rain will continue its journey south and eastwards throughout tonight, so it will turn much clearer once that cloud and rain pushes away to the south and east. but it is going to turn much colder through the evening as behind that cloud and rain we are into much colder air, so temperatures will widely dip down into the lower single figures in rural into the mid single figures for many towns and cities, but it will be a fairly bright start to the day on wednesday, particularly if you are further south and east, actually towards the north and west it's going to be another blustery day with frequent, possibly heavy, possibly thundery showers. and again there's a risk of some

snow falling through wednesday morning over the high ground of scotland above around 600m, which is fairly unusual for the time of year. and it's going to be a fresher day wherever you are. with temperatures struggling to get into the high teens , that warm feeling inside teens, that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers

gb news. >> good morning. it's 10:00 gb news. >> good morning. it's10:00 on tuesday, the 4th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, he's taking control of reform uk in his plans to run for. he's planning to run for parliament in the essex constituency of clacton. we're going to hear from later today on gb news when he arrives in that constituency and the immigration battle will continue how. >> now. >> prime minister rishi sunak promises to introduce an annual cap on the number of working family visas issued by the uk every year, while labour refuses to set specific targets to cut net migration. >> but they pledged to make

significant differences to the numbers . but significant differences to the numbers. but can any party do it? >> and sir keir starmer and the prime minister will go head to head this evening in the first tv debate of the election campaign. i bet you can't wait. >> record low writing levels a charity warns daily writing levels for children and young people have dropped to an all time low. we're going to talk about why that's happened and as we approach the 80th anniversary of d—day, we'll bring you a brilliant report looking at the code breakers behind the scenes who were crucial to the success of the mission . of the mission. >> that kid's not using a pen . >> that kid's not using a pen. >> that kid's not using a pen. >> well, because they're always on a computer. isn't that right? or on their phone or their laptop? >> and it begs the question, do they need to be able to write with a pen? will they ever need to? >> how do they how do they send

their thank you letters for their thank you letters for their christmas and birthday? >> send a whatsapp or a quick text? i'm afraid that's how it works. or a video to grandma. no thank you grandma for christmas money, bouncing bomb, writing paper. papen >> remember that i love it. >> remember that i love it. >> listen, you see, i have a pen in my hand all the time. i'm always writing. i think we learned something as well. like the connection between our brain and our our pen. i think things go into our brains more easily with a pen anyway. what do you think? typekit to us? gbnews.com forward slash yourself. you can write me a letter, but we won't get it for maybe a week or so at first though, the very latest news with karen armstrong. >> good morning to. it's 10:02 >> good morning to. it's10:02 i'm karen armstrong. the conservatives have announced a plan to reduce the amount of migrant visas handed out each yeah migrant visas handed out each year. the cap on those coming to the uk to work or join family would be based on a recommendation by the migration advisory committee , and would be advisory committee, and would be voted on by mps. net migration levels. that's the difference between people leaving and arriving in the uk each year,

are now three times higher than they were in 2019. labour have called the tory plan meaningless , but home secretary james cleverly says it will balance the benefits and the cost of migration. >> so the last couple of years the figures have been much, much, much too high, including on legal immigration. and there are some people that like that large volume of legal migration for work purposes. but what we're doing now is we're saying in the future we will balance both the benefits of immigration. of course, there are benefits, but also the cost of immigration. >> meanwhile, the labour leader says his party would close the door on president putin by reducing britain's reliance on energy from overseas. sir keir starmer will announce his plans to set up a publicly owned green power company during a visit to the north west, he says gb energy , which will be based in energy, which will be based in scotland, will help protect the uk from spikes in fuel prices like those that followed russia's invasion of ukraine. labour's national campaign coordinator, pat mcfadden, told

gb news it will insulate britain from global fluctuations when more vulnerable to global oil and gas markets. >> it can be very expensive for individual households and everybody watching knows what's happened to their energy bills in recent years . but secondly, in recent years. but secondly, it's a vulnerability for the country. we can't just think about energy policy as energy policy anymore . it's got to be policy anymore. it's got to be thought about as part of our national security. so this drive for home grown renewable power will be cheaper for people in the long run, because renewable power is now cheaper than oil and gas . and gas. >> the liberal democrats are promising free personal care for adults in need, including the elderly and the disabled. so ed davey says he wants to pay carers an extra £2 an hour above the national living wage and investment in the care sector would ultimately benefit the nhs. now the party leader, who's a carer for his disabled son,

described the issue as deeply personal. he'll outline his party's belief that provision of care should be based on need, rather than the ability to pay . rather than the ability to pay. a ferry carrying d—day veterans to france for the 80th anniversary commemorations has set sail from portsmouth . the set sail from portsmouth. the mont—saint—michel is being accompanied by royal navy patrol vessels trumpeter medusa and bashen vessels trumpeter medusa and basher, as well as the minehunter hms cattistock and the training ship royalist, plus a tugboat as it travels out of portsmouth harbour . a tugboat as it travels out of portsmouth harbour. now a tugboat as it travels out of portsmouth harbour . now us portsmouth harbour. now us troops have been on a replica landing craft at omaha beach this morning. it's part of the d—day commemorations in normandy. omaha was one of two beaches taken by us forces 80 years ago. kenneth nick hewer told us about the impact d—day had on his grandfather , who took had on his grandfather, who took part in the landing. >> i'm amazed that he was even actually here because it was an experience he never talked about . like a lot of veterans, you

rarely heard any war stories, and i knew he was in the army, but that was it. growing up as a kid, you know, never heard any stories, it wasn't until i got a box of letters from my mom, from granddaddy to grandma, talking about, his time in france . about, his time in france. >> now, emergency teams, including ten fire engines and some 70 firefighters are tackling a major blaze in east london. it broke out in the ten floor construction site in canning town . there have been no canning town. there have been no reports of any injuries so far. people in the area are being advised to keep their windows and doors closed. the cause of the fire is under investigation . the fire is under investigation. the royal college of nursing is warning or of an irretrievable downward spiral in the nhs because of declining numbers of nurses starting degree courses, a new report has found. the official nhs workforce plan for england will be almost 11,000

recruits short by 2025, if the current trend continues. now ministers were urged to prioritise a plan to increase student applications for the next years to tackle the crisis . next years to tackle the crisis. well, nursing students pay university fees of over £9,000 a yean university fees of over £9,000 a year, which has caused applicant numbers to significantly drop . a numbers to significantly drop. a 91 year old man has become the first person in england to be fitted with a groundbreaking artificial cornea. 91 year old cecil john farley says his sight is now improving thanks to the procedure, which he underwent after 15 years of suffering from problems with his eyes. doctors hope one day the new artificial corneas could reduce the need for human donations. mr farley says the transplant surgery has enabled him to continue to see his 83 year old wife, elizabeth , his 83 year old wife, elizabeth, which presumably is a plus. and now for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by

scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to the website for more details. now back to andrew and . bev. and. bev. >> 1007 you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. a lot of you getting in touch in your droves and droves. >> absolutely. gary has said morning folks, about labour and tories. if we keep voting for the same old, same old, we will keep getting the same old, same old. this country needs radical change. apparently i said the wrong date. did i say it was the 4th of may? >> i did try the 4th of july. american independence. >> no. today is the 4th of june. none of us. you're living in the future? i'm living in the past, thank you, george, for pointing that out. i still can't believe we're in june. i don't know how that happened. i remember saying that happened. i remember saying that january was dragging on. that was only five minutes ago. >> three weeks, and we're at the longest day. >> i can't get my head around that at all, nigel will send,

immigrants back to france. he said , says ruby, that would be a said, says ruby, that would be a good idea. a lot of you commenting on immigration in this contest tonight between sunak and starmer. it's at 9 pm. and on itv. two will be love island will be launching at 9 pm. so people are saying that actually they think more people will watch love island. maybe, if sooner can. starmer did it in their swimming trunks. i might get a few people tuning in of course we would say, patrick christys. at 9 pm. is a much more entertaining watch than those two droning on. and actually, i'm no doubt that will just be one big bore off. and patrick will tell you what happens anyway. so watch patrick, and, here we go. colin has said, i've been saying for quite a while now. i find it even hard to sign my name because i so rarely use a pen. does anybody else feel the same? and this is because there's some research. go on. can you sign your own name? >> gb news pen. yeah and a gb news pen. >> you've got used to doing this. so signing your book recently, haven't you? >> yeah.

>> yeah. >> very nice, very lovely. it's a lovely, lovely handwriting. we might show you our handwriting in a little while. i agree, says jm, there should be more handwritten letters sent. i remember as a child having to sit down and write thank you letter. >> yes, at christmas and birthdays . birthdays. >> however, due to ever increasing costs of postage, this has become increasingly more expensive. my christmas card list has now dwindled to the absolutely necessary. those who do send anything by post seem to be sent to be penalised for doing so. in order to encourage postal use, it would seem more cost effective to reduce the price of stamps, not increase it. >> fascinating. isn't it? so. and of course, lots of you are getting in touch about nigel. of course you are. nigel farage, who's, electrified this very tedious. otherwise i think general election campaign. yeah. what have we got to go for? weeks in a bit. well, so labour is on course to win a landslide. according to the latest gb news people's poll, it sees 46% of the public voting for labour, while 22% would vote conservative. a yougov poll says labour's on course to win 422

seats in the commons, with the tories on just 140. that would be even bigger than the 97 blair landslide. >> and that was before nigel farage announced that he was standing as reform uk's mp in essex. but could this all change with the tv debate tonight between rishi sunak and sir keir starmer? well joining us now is political commentator benedict spence and the political editor of huffpost uk, kevin schofield. >> morning to you both, gentlemen. let's go to you first, kevin schofield, it's all for sunak now because starmer is so far ahead. he's got to pull something out of the bag. >> yeah. and i'm not sure what it is that he can possibly do to turn it around now. i mean it was remarkable. last night in the space of an hour, we had nigel farage announcing that he was going to stand. and then we had this, yougov poll drop at 5 pm, which shows, confirms what p.m, which shows, confirms what every other poll has been saying, that labour are on course for a massive majority. vie, i really don't think there's anything that rishi sunak can do tonight. i think

he'll come out swinging . he's he'll come out swinging. he's got to be the one that sets the pace, gets on the front foot, tries to grab the headlines, tries to grab the headlines, tries to, force keir starmer into some sort of misstep or gaffe . but ultimately i don't gaffe. but ultimately i don't think really it's going to change many people's minds. i mean, people will tune in largely. i think , having already largely. i think, having already decided which way they're going to vote and anything short of, keir starmer, i don't know, collapsing, passing out, punching rishi sunak. i think that's the only thing that can possibly turn this election around now. >> benedict, is there something a bit old fashioned and outdated about these head to head debates between two men? there was some amazing statistics about how few young people are going to vote conservative in the next election. this this sort of event just doesn't cut through with the younger voters, does it? >> well, i think that's as much a reflection on the calibre of the two people, debating or in the two people, debating or in the case of the big bbc one, the seven people debating. look, i

think the seven person, one is a bit pointless. i think it turns into a bit of a sort of a question time style jamboree. people get lost, people sort of descend into shouting over each other. but when it comes to the two leaders head to head, i do think, actually that you can land some blows, so to speak, but as you say, it's not because people will necessarily be looking at it in a linear format. they might just be looking at how it's clipped later, of course we all remember the, the famous clip between donald trump and hillary clinton where, she said something i can't remember what. and donald trump's response was to say, because under me you'd be in jail. yeah, and, and that sort of went viral and did magnificently for, for donald trump. we're not going to see something like that with rishi sunak or sir keir starmer, because neither of them have that kind of charisma. they're not very good with one liners. you know, anybody who has had the misfortune of sitting through a prime minister's questions will be able to tell you that these are not, rabble rousers. they're not barnstorming performers. so in that sense, no, this isn't that sense,— ne; this isn't going that sense,— he; this isn't going to that sense; he; this isn't going to have much of an really going to have much of an impact. as kevin says, unless something truly unexpected

happens, live in front of the nafion happens, live in front of the nation and even then, i suspect keir starmer might even edge it even. even if it was him who committed, committed the faux pas , i suspect, actually, he's pas, i suspect, actually, he's sort of looking here and thinking, look, just don't say anything too ridiculous. and this is a shoo in. >> can kevin, do you think if, rishi was to introduce a policy white rabbit out of the proverbial hat, that could change things? there's talk that he could do something on inheritance tax or even beef up his position on the european convention on human rights. it would be most unconventional, unprecedented, in fact, to do it in a tv debate . but it would in a tv debate. but it would guarantee maximum exposure and it would really put starmer on the spot. and he's not very good in my experience of being put on the spot . the spot. >> no, you're right. i mean, that may well be something that, they have in their locker. you know, that would be a bit of a hail mary pass really. you know, just to try anything to shift the dial. but we've already seen policies being announced, from the conservatives. they've been they've been pretty hyperactive actually during the campaign so far with national service, 1 or

2 other things. but again, nothing seems to be shifting the polls. in fact, nothing has really shifted the polls in 18 months, pretty much since rishi sunak became prime minister. it looks as though the public have already made up their mind. so yeah, we might well see something that will grab the headlines. we'll get , you know, headlines. we'll get, you know, a splash in the paper tomorrow, but ultimately, i think we just have to come back to this realisation that the public want change. they've made up their minds. they might not be completely convinced. i think it is safe to say by labour, there's no great love or adulation for keir starmer. there's no great love or adulation for keir starmer . but adulation for keir starmer. but i think people just want some fresh faces. at the top of government. and unfortunately for the conservatives, that means that they're on the way out. >> benedict, be psychic for a moment. what went through rishi sunak's brain at 4 pm. yesterday, when he heard that nigel farage was going to stand for reform? >> i imagine it was a bit like, you know, those vietnam films where you just hear the white noise and everything else goes silent and you can just sort of see into a thousand yards away. i imagine it was something like

that , he was i imagine it was something like that, he was already going to lose. that's the thing. everybody already, i think, understands he was already going to lose. but this is where any possibility that he could even make it vaguely respectable. oh, you've got 90 seats rather than 70 seats. well done rishi. not going to happen . and i think going to happen. and i think that this is this is possibly even the moment where some within his team will be looking at him and going, would we really be worse off keeping you at this point? actually, would nobody be better at this point? because i think not that that would happen, but just generally speaking, it has been such a disaster from the second it was launched. you know, the idea of going early, you know, launching it in a way, without your policies properly laid out, nothing has gone well. and now, just to add insult to injury, nigel's thought, you know what, i'll come back because i reckon i'll come back because i reckon i can, you know, punch a seven shades out of these people. it's just it's not going to get any better. and he is on course for perhaps the worst ever performance in conservative electoral history. that's not a record that he wants, because that puts him right up there with liz truss in terms of how fondly he'll be remembered. and

everybody thought that would be a very easy thing to avoid, and somehow he's going to manage it. >> okay. thank you both. gentlemen kevin schofield and benedict spence. >> there doesn't matter whether you're on the left or right. they're both agreeing. it's hopeless that the tories . that's hopeless that the tories. that's the point. yeah, but i do. >> it is hopeless for the tories. but i do still wonder whether reform can steal some seats off labour. >> i think they can labour as well. >> that red wall, the red wall where there's a lot of traditional working class labour voters who voted for boris because they said he would get brexit done because they were fed up with brexit, he said he would get it done exactly, and they were fed up with labour labour councils that haven't delivered and they might be drawn to farage. >> no income tax until you earn 20,000 and he'll spend a lot of time in the red wall. >> he won't just be in his clacton constituency, he'll be in the red wall. so that'll be interesting. >> talking of the clacton constituency, we have to give you the full list of those who have declared so far. and they are. these are people who didn't think they were going to get their names heard on the telly so much did they? yovan a wusu

nepal for the labour party, giles watling for the conservative party matthew benson and for the liberal democrats, nigel farage for reform and natasha osborne for the green party >> the list, of course, isn't finalised yet, as the deadline isn't until later this week. i think it's thursday and when that list is completed it'll be published on the gb news website. i suspect the monster raving loony party will definitely get a candidate there because nothing else we know there's going to be a lot of attention when that result is called. so many people now, they'll be on the stage. >> there will be so many people, independent palestinian candidates will also no doubt be now looking to stand in that area . area. >> we've extended invitation, of course, to speak to all of the candidates. >> you know where we are now, then, up next, can you guess what the prime minister orders when he pops for a cheeky nandos ? have you ever been to nando's? once. oh, don't forget, are the outlets are available this is britain's newsroom

gb news. hey. good morning. it's 1021. hey. good morning. it's1021. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner. >> we're going to cross briefly now to labour leader keir starmer. he's been talking to reporters in bolton. >> let immigration get out of control . we've got record control. we've got record numbers of people coming to this country and they've now said they're going to have a visa cap. they've not said what the number is, so they've got a visa cap without a cap, we did have a visa cap before. rishi sunak. erg to get rid of it, which they did in 2020. and now they're going back to it. but without a number, it is utter chaos. they've lost control . and that's they've lost control. and that's why this election can't come soon enough. because i think the country is crying out to say, just end the chaos. that's insert some control, turn a page and start to rebuild the country with labour. and on immigration we have to tackle the central issue, which is that we need a skills strategy in this country. so we don't have to have so many people arriving on work visas, and we have to hammer down on

bad bosses who aren't complying with labour standards. and we would ban them from recruiting people from abroad. if you don't comply with our labour standards, you shouldn't be allowed to recruit from abroad . allowed to recruit from abroad. >> criticise the conservatives for not setting a number, but you also haven't set a number. >> do you want to guarantee to people that you will cut net migration every year? >> yes, i want immigration to come down. it's far too high. the irony guarantee that you will cut net migration every year. will cut net migration every year . net will cut net migration every year. net migration is far too high. this government has lost control. it is now more than twice as high as it was when we were in the eu. that's the irony of it. this prime minister is actually, for all his tough talk, he's the most liberal prime minister when it comes to immigration. those numbers have gone through the roof. they need to come say that you will guarantee that it will come down under a labour government. they need to come down. we've got a plan to bring them down, but you can't wish them down. that's what the tories are doing. just

plucking numbers and wishing and hoping for the best. you have to understand why they're high. the skills strategy isn't here. we need to fix that. and we need to bear down on bad bosses who are undercutting labour standards. that was what we would do. >> okay, a tweet. >> okay, a tweet. >> well, that's keir starmer on the campaign trail in bolton. we've got our panel here. piers pottinger, who's advised all sorts of tory politicians over the years, and nigel nelson, our chief political commentator. look, we've got the big debate tonight. if you were advising sunak, who is now facing mission impossible , isn't he? yeah. impossible, isn't he? yeah. >> i mean, i think i said on this programme, rishi soon gone and yes, it's just getting sooner , i mean, they're digging sooner, i mean, they're digging a hole deeper and deeper for themselves. and actually it was very noticeable in that clip with keir starmer, how he seems to me to be coming over in a much more confident manner, do you think he's going during the campaign? i think he's that that showed he was much more confident. and of course, what he said was right, and the conservatives just dishing out

these policies in a kind of haphazard way isn't having any effect on the polls. all show it's having absolutely no effect on the electorate . but what i'd on the electorate. but what i'd be saying to rishi tonight has a really big chance, because the one area where i think he has a real opportunity is face to face with rishi, with, keir starmer. if he gets to put the right questions. for example, starmer declared himself as a socialist and i would use the quote from winston churchill, who defined socialism . as he says, it's socialism. as he says, it's a philosophy of failure , the creed philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. of ignorance, and the gospel of envy . its inherent virtue is the envy. its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. and there is our greatest prime minister talking about socialism. i'd ask keir starmer to define socialism because he said he's a socialist. yeah, and of course he won't want to do that because he really will frighten some of the people who'll be voting for him.

>> what do you think? i mean, your man starmer , he doesn't. if your man starmer, he doesn't. if he if he went on stage and said nothing , it wouldn't he if he went on stage and said nothing, it wouldn't impact much in the polls, would it? >> i wouldn't have thought so. i'm not the way, not the way things are going. we've had a week of it. the polls are getting worse rather than better. we've seen the latest, the mrp ones, which are the most detailed types of polls. they're just coming up with, with figures that are worse than the previous week, so i think that what happens that tonight's debate is you've got you've got someone like, like keir starmer, a professional prosecutor , he a professional prosecutor, he will deploy all those talents against rishi sunak. will deploy all those talents against rishi sunak . rishi sunak against rishi sunak. rishi sunak is in the dock over 14 years of tory rule. and i can see that keir starmer will just pick him apart on those various things. >> he's not very good at in pmqs. why would he be any better tonight? >> i just think it's a different format. i think pmqs is a slightly different thing, you tend to take sort of one subject of the day. yeah. he can range

over a whole load of things. and this is what i mean about his sort of prosecutor skills. he can then drill down into what, sunak says. and that's the way to, to, to, put him . to, to, to, put him. >> so the question really is, is whether keir starmer is going to answer any of the questions directly, which he's very good at avoiding. and it was noticeable when nigel farage made his announcement yesterday. when it came to questions, he does at least answer every single question directly and doesn't come up with some platitudes attacking the other side because he doesn't want to answer the question. even if nigel doesn't want to answer a question, he answers it. yeah now keir is bad at that. and if rishi is good enough to push hard enough, this is his opportunity . he let's face it, opportunity. he let's face it, it's keir starmer. it's his debate to lose tonight. i mean, the polls are so far ahead, in fact, i would be advising if i was advising keir to do as few

of these debates as possible because he can only it's going to be hard for him to go further ahead unless rishi makes a complete mess of this. >> there's meant to be one in a couple of weeks time. yeah if you were labour and this you're this far, would you just say i'm sorry, i'm busy. >> i don't want to look as though i would tell him they can't look as though they're running scared. but equally, why have debates when you don't need to? and in this country, debates tend not to have quite as much effect as they do in america, say. but of course, the exception being clegg, who did very well in that famous debate. yeah, against cameron. but, you know, you know , it'll be know, you know, it'll be interesting to see the viewing figures tonight. it will. how many people of the electorate are actually interested in this? because boredom is here and the only fizz in the election so far was nigel yesterday. >> absolutely. and it's also i'm sure you're aware of this, piers, but it's the launch of the new series of love island on itv2. at the same time tonight, nigel is going to be glued to it, which you're just waiting

for. >> his invitation to join the programme. >> i have no idea. so i will have to tune in. >> but there is a there is a kind of relevant point about that, which is about the generations. and we've had these polling about the fact that so few under 30, nigel will vote for the conservatives. i mean, it was something like, wasn't it less than 5, 5. >> yeah. yes. i mean, i mean, as you go up the age range that once you're over 65, you seem to be a tory, even some of those, those are now saying and they do still watch old fashioned tv and they might, might be watching on terrestrial tv tonight. >> but actually, benedict spence made the really good point. this debate is going to be how it can be clipped up for social media, for tiktok. how will they get in these little soundbites, these little moments which might turn the dial a little bit of that, i agree, but also i think it's very important with the polls. >> one mistake, an awful lot of these polls, except for the mirror mrp, but a lot of the modelling that is all based on demographics. and when it comes to demographics , it's very to demographics, it's very difficult to separate reform and

conservative voters, with in any meaningful way. conservative voters, with in any meaningful way . and so there's meaningful way. and so there's a lot of a grey area between reform and conservative. and while everyone is saying reform may not get any seats, there may be some very big surprises here because things are so bad for the conservatives. and i mean , the conservatives. and i mean, in clacton, where nigel standing a good friend of mine, giles watling, is the standing mp , a watling, is the standing mp, a very, very nice man, a former actor and of course , he was actor and of course, he was actually once in priscilla, queen of the desert. believe it or not. yes, in the touring version and giles is a nice man and very popular locally . but and very popular locally. but the poll i've just seen from clacton shows nigel ten points aheadin clacton shows nigel ten points ahead in clacton now. gosh. so i mean even arrives and that's before he's even started or officially launched in clacton . officially launched in clacton. so i think, you know, the signs are very, very good for reform. i think nigel coming back as timed this brilliantly and rishi

tonight is going to have to really convince this reform voters or people who are like more likely to vote reform that he is a true conservative, which i'm afraid to say he doesn't look like. >> no. and but another pitch, he might it might get this desperate. they have to say, if you vote reform, you're going to give labour a landslide. well, might that be the tory pitch in the end, which it will be the tory pitch. >> they're already saying it and that's why they come out saying a vote for reform is a vote for labour when it comes to, to, nigel standing in a seat, i think he's got to realise that it's not good enough just to be nigel farage. so douglas cars might be. well, well, douglas , i might be. well, well, douglas, i was with nigel down in south thanetin was with nigel down in south thanet in 2015, so spent some time with him on the campaign trail. i thought he was. he was a shoo in because he was being mobbed. he was, having selfies at every sort of second step. there was no question everyone wanted to shake his hand, but

that didn't quite turn into votes. so he. so he came near. he came second, aren't we? yeah. but with with clacton. the point that douglas carswell, he won he won the seat for ukip said is the point about that is you've also got to be a local mp. you've also got to represent your constituents, listen to their their concerns , which their their concerns, which won't be about some of those big issues. yeah. >> no. and giles is a very good local mp. there's no doubt about it. >> and giles, you might know him best because he played the vicar in bread. do you remember that series carla lane's bread? he was the vicar in that. >> and his father, jack watling, was a great actor and his sisters, well, one of them particularly delicious , was a particularly delicious, was a great actress, too. >> he might be going back to acting quite soon. >> well, he bear with us and we have to. we have to give you. >> we have to give you this list again. here we go. labour party. there we go. yovan awassi nepal zhao's watlington conservative party, matthew ben selim , party, matthew ben selim, liberal democrats, nigel farage, reform. >> natasha hobson, green party more candidates may yet, come

forward and we have invited them all onto gb news to talk to us. >> right. it is nearjust after 1030. thank you. gentlemen, we've got the latest news now with . aaron. with. aaron. >> very good morning to you. it's 1032. i'm aaron armstrong . it's 1032. i'm aaron armstrong. the conservatives have announced a plan to reduce the number of migrant visas handed out each yeah migrant visas handed out each year. the cap on those coming to the uk to work or join family would be based on a recommendation by the migration advisory committee, and would be voted on by mps. net migration levels. that's the difference between people leaving and arriving in the uk each year are now three times higher than they were in 2019. labour have called the tory plan meaningless, but home secretary james cleverly says it will balance the benefits and the cost of migration . the labour leader migration. the labour leader says his party would close the door on president putin by reducing britain's reliance on energy from overseas. sir keir

starmer will announce his plan to set up a publicly owned green power company on a visit to the nonh power company on a visit to the north west. he says gb energy, which will be based in scotland, will help to protect the uk from spikes in fuel prices like those that followed russia's invasion of ukraine. the lib dems are promising free personal care for adults in need, including the elderly and disabled. so ed davey says he wants to pay carers an extra £2 an hour above the national living wage investment that would ultimately benefit the nhs. the party leader, a carer for his disabled son, has described the issue as deeply personal. he outlined his party's belief provision of care should be based on need rather than the ability to pay , and a than the ability to pay, and a ferry carrying d—day veterans to france for the 80th anniversary commemorations has set sail from portsmouth with a flotilla of other ships. the mont saint michel is being accompanied by three royal navy patrol vessels, a mine hunter, a training ship and a tugboat as it leaves

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>> very good morning. so it's the 80th anniversary of d—day approaches. the commemorations are beginning ahead of official events in portsmouth and normandy over the next two days. >> well over the past week, gb news has been speaking to veterans and remembering those who fought for our freedom. >> so joining us this morning is gb news home security editor, mark white from portsmouth and gb news reporter sophie reaper from arromanches in normandy. sophie, what's happening there ? sophie, what's happening there? >> well, it's a hive of activity here in arromanches. and joining me now, we won't keep anyone waiting . we have the first waiting. we have the first battalion, light infantry and their nominated spokesperson richard, very nice to see you this morning. everyone but also you yourself. yeah. talk to me about yourselves . why was it so about yourselves. why was it so important that you wanted to be here for the 80th anniversary of d—day? >> well, some of us were on the beaches on the 40th anniversary in front of reagan and the queen. we decided to repeat that

40 years on and come and march from utah beach all the way to pegasus bridge, where we're in a parade where we march over at midday on the 6th of june, marking d—day. midday on the 6th of june, marking d—day . our operation is marking d—day. our operation is called ham and jam, which it was called ham and jam, which it was called back in, the d—day, where they took two bridges, one of them being, which was pegasus. and it's the ox and bucks light infantry that took that bridge. and we're the descendants of the ox and bucks light infantry. >> well, there's quite a few of you. i think if we pan out, we can see just how many of you there are. talk to me a bit about the light infantry. i know we were speaking earlier. you weren't very known for being the fastest in the world for your march. do you want to talk to me a bit about that? >> yeah, well, our tradition is to march at 140 paces to the minute and, back in the day, we were a skirmishing regiments, and we got to the battle quickly. and that's how we won our wars. or our battles. and, you know, that's why we're famous. and also the bugle. so we were commanded by the bugle, for all of, you know, going to the cookhouse, going to battles down to the tents and everything. and that's where you

see the bugle on all of our shirts. >> okay. now, of course, we're at arromanches today, which is part of gold beach, one of the british beaches on d—day. how important is that a part of your heritage ? does it? how does it heritage? does it? how does it feel to you to kind of know that it was british men that were landing here on d—day all those years ago? well it's very poignant for us just to walk because we're doing the whole coast. >> we're seeing it from an angle of what the germans would see it from. and the british attacking. so when we walk round my friend john shrigley, he's a historian. he tells us what happened where, and it makes us even prouder as we're marching around. >> amazing gents and ladies, thank you so much for joining >> amazing gents and ladies, thank you so much forjoining us this afternoon or this morning. i'm not quite sure what time we're on, but we'll be bringing you all the latest here in normandy as over the coming days. >> thank you. sophie oh, it'd be nice to be out in the fresh air this morning, wouldn't it? mark white is down in portsmouth. what's happening there? mark >> well, the brittany ferries that was carrying some 30 veterans heading off to normandy are left here just after 8:00

this morning, a sizeable crowd gathered , actually, to see that gathered, actually, to see that ferry leaving here, which was flanked by a royal navy minesweeper . the royal navy minesweeper. the royal navy patrol aircraft and a couple of the old world war ii era era patrol torpedo boats as well, heading across to normandy with those veterans and really quite a poignant sight because it is expected to be the last major d—day commemoration in which we will see veterans attend, at least in any sizeable numbers. the last time on the 75th anniversary, it's estimated there was some 500 d—day veterans still living in the uk. that number is now below 100, but many still wanted to be here, and the crowds certainly appreciated that this is what some of the crowds said to me when i spoke to them earlier, andifs when i spoke to them earlier, and it's just a privilege to be

here today with the freedom that we all have and that a lot of people maybe take for granted a little bit fantastic, fantastic taste. >> i think more people should be here really, really kind of loud. >> can'd actually, and, really cool. >> well , cool. >> well, among the veterans on that brittany ferry is george chandler, who was on board, one of those motor torpedo boats guarding the fleet of some 7000 vessels involved in the d—day landings . and he was up at omaha landings. and he was up at omaha beach and he spoke to me. this is a man who is over 100 now. he's virtually blind . is a man who is over 100 now. he's virtually blind. he's is a man who is over 100 now. he's virtually blind . he's very he's virtually blind. he's very deaf. but his recollections of what happened that day, the horrific scenes that he saw on omaha beach, are still so vivid . omaha beach, are still so vivid. let's have a listen to what he said. >> i'm fortunate we had to die outside and watched it going on.

and it wasn't it wasn't very nice to actually watch these kids . and they were kids. they kids. and they were kids. they were young. i was 19 at the time. these kids were younger than me. i know they were, we we've all heard of the brash america you . boy, oh, boy, were america you. boy, oh, boy, were we pleased. they were like that . we pleased. they were like that. every time i talk to somebody about d—day, i'm there . i'm about d—day, i'm there. i'm there on d—day. watch these young american rangers tried to get into the. so some of them were killed before they even got off. they were small craft. >> as george says, every time he talks about d—day, he's back

there 80 years ago. and he and his comrades that are on board that ferry heading to normandy will lay a wreath just off the coast of normandy at 1:00 this afternoon before several days of commemorations. >> oh. thank you. moving. thank you. sophie it's what real men look like, isn't it? >> oh, what a moving interview, wasn't it? i mean, and of course, the youngest of them are 98. yeah and they tell terrific stories. some of them never want to talk about it. no, because it's still so painful. i'm sure , it's still so painful. i'm sure, and so many of them didn't even get out of the get out of the barges . barges. >> yeah. amazing. shocking, right. key messages coming this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your say. but up next the national literacy trust has warned that the number of children writing in their spare time has fallen to a record low. so at home you can judge our writing. we've done a little. we were told to write my favourite

thing about andrew is, and i've put his , digestive biscuits. put his, digestive biscuits. >> well, which have been stolen by the producer who's called james fanning. we're going to name him jamie. my favourite thing about bev, i've been very nice about her is that she says it as it is, even if i don't often agree with her. >> oh, that's nice, but but but we write. >> but i write all the time and don't do i write all the time. >> i'm just letters and i write cards. >> embarrassed about how superficial i was about your digestive biscuits. >> see what i mean? superficial. >> see what i mean? superficial. >> i could have said my favourite, she says, her utter lack of depth. >> i thought you were going to say. >> my favourite thing about bev is that she leaves the building at 12:00. i don't have to see her until 930 the next morning. >> that's my second favourite thing we're going to have a cup of tea

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their spare time has dropped to an all time record low, according to the national literacy trust. >> so only 3 in 10. fewer than 3 in 10 young people aged 8 to 18 said they like writing outside the classroom . and surprise, the classroom. and surprise, surprise, it comes amid a sharp rise in screen time. >> but does it matter? what are we losing? the founder of london letters, jennifer bishop, joins us now. jennifer, this is such a fascinating topic. what are we losing if the next generation can only ever type information and not write it down? >> well, i think it's quite a terrifying prospect to think that the younger generation might not be able to use a pen anymore, and we are certainly headed that way where we're losing the ability for like just the actual ability to write letters isn't focused as much on in schools anymore. and there's much there's been a huge shift, understandably, in the use of screen as ipads, because kids need to learn how to type, they need to learn how to type, they need to learn how to type, they need to know how to surf the internet. but what we're losing is that connection through the written word. by doing that, like things like greetings cards won't be sent anymore. yeah,

that'll be that'll be forgotten. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> cards . >> thank you. >> cards. thank you >> thank you. >> cards . thank you letters. >> cards. thank you letters. thank you cards. they won't they won't, they won't be done anymore because everything will be fired off instantly in a whatsapp message. >> now, i know that if i write something down, i am more likely to remember it and retain it. and remember being at uni and loving sitting there writing handwritten notes. the next generation. we see them now at university. they sit there typing . are they are we losing typing. are they are we losing something neurologically ? has something neurologically? has anything been proven about that cognitive process ? cognitive process? >> yes. so it's absolutely been proven that when we write stuff down, we're more likely to retain that information. there is a scientific correlation between the physical act of writing and you able to being able to remember that information. so when you're writing your university notes, you know, you'll you'll remember what you've written down and how you've written it and stuff. and that's personal to how you've remembered that experience. so when we're typing it, it's almost as if we're in like autopilot. we're sort of we're listening and watching someone speak, but we're not actually taking that information in. and

yes, we might go back to it, but wouldn't it be fantastic if in the first place we had taken in to begin with and we'd save ourselves some time as well? and i think the actual writing it down using your handwriting , down using your handwriting, thatis down using your handwriting, that is creating like physical movement with your hand. and when we're doing something physical with our hands, that's creative, like writing, it's opening up pathways in our brains as well. >> what is london letters and why are you so passionate about this? >> so london letters is a stationery company that's centred around the promotion, i suppose, of letter writing and the lost art of letter writing and trying to encourage more people to spend time with pen and paper, the idea being purely because it's a very meditative process . it's relaxing. letters process. it's relaxing. letters are very important and i believe that written words are extremely powerful . and now, as we're powerful. and now, as we're moving to almost a completely digital world, i believe that a letter that's been written by hand with sort of a slow consideration has actually never

been so powerful. i imagine there's a lot of political leaders that get or mps, for example, that must get thousands upon thousands of emails per day. they do. but i wonder how many letters they get, and i wonder if they pay more attention to those letters. do you know what the irony is? >> that now that we are in a digital world, you've got more chance of being hacked and there's no privacy. i know certain people in the public eye who've gone back to fax machines, really, so that because they're concerned about information being accessed, they're using a fax machine because emails, because you can just receive that fax, which could be a handwritten letter. yes. that you fax. yeah. and then the person rips it up and it's gone. so you might actually there might be a glimmer of hope in this. yeah. >> that would be fantastic. >> that would be fantastic. >> how do you how through your searching company. how do you promote writing then. >> so we actually run one of our most successful products is a pen pal club for adults. so we've got only over 650 members currently. and i founded the company three years ago. so there's a huge audience of people that are still interested

in letter writing. and i think we probably all had a pen pal when we were younger. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but now as adults, there's people who want to still connect and make a friend through the written word. so we have new members joining every day at the moment who are looking to write to someone, and we put them in touch, and then they get writing andifs touch, and then they get writing and it's amazing to see that people can put their faith in a stranger just through the written word. >> we're up against the clock a bit, jennifer, but do you think teachers are on board with this as much as they should be? >> i think there's a lot of pressure from the schools that they work for, but i believe that individual teachers would be on board with this. and we have a lot of teachers in our pen pal club that i've spoken to directly who want to promote it, ihope directly who want to promote it, i hope so where's your pen pal? >> where does your pen pal live? >> where does your pen pal live? >> my pen pal? my own pen pal is america. very nice. >> brilliant. can i be your pen pal, jennifer, please? yeah right. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. and he's got the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on .

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news. >> morning, 11 am. on tuesday, the 4th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. very good morning. >> so, nigel farage has taken control of reform uk and announced his plans to run for parliament in the essex constituency of clacton. he's speaking from there very soon. we'll bring you that live snoozefest or gripping tv . snoozefest or gripping tv. >> starmer and sunak will go head to head tonight in the first tv debate of the election campaign. are you gripped and free adult care lib dem leader sir ed davey pledges that his party would offer free personal care for older or disabled

people at home. >> i'm fascinating this record low writing levels a charity warns daily writing levels for children and young people have dropped to an all time low because, of course, they're always on their gadgets and stormy speaks out. the former porn star stormy daniels has urged melania trump to leave her husband and claimed that donald trump should be used as a punching bag at a women's shelter following his felony conviction . conviction. >> dating melania trump needs marriage guidance from stormy daniels. do you? >> that whole story absolutely stinks. yeah, i'm concerned we're going to be talking to a republican representative this morning. >> you would think he'd got 34 separate criminal convictions, but actually the money that was paid to stormy daniels, for whatever reason , was allegedly whatever reason, was allegedly was in 34 separate tranches. so that's why there's 34

convictions in britain. that would be one charge. yeah >> democratic jury, democratic judge , democratic area, judge, democratic area, democratic attorney general. >> they found donald trump guilty and his ratings have soared . soared. >> what a surprise. right? let us know your thoughts this morning on everything that we're discussing. gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though, the very latest news with karen armstrong . news with karen armstrong. >> very good morning to you. 11:02 i'm aaron armstrong. the conservatives have pledged to reduce the number of migrant visas handed out each year. the cap on those coming to the uk to work or join family would be based on a recommendation by the migration advisory committee, and would be voted on by mps. net migration levels. that's the difference between people leaving and arriving in the uk each year, are now three times higher than they were in 2019, home secretary james cleverly says their plans will strike a balance between benefits and cost.

>> so the last couple of years the figures have been much, much, much too high, including on legal immigration. and there are some people that like that large volume of legal migration for work purposes . but what for work purposes. but what we're doing now is we're saying in the future we will balance both the benefits of immigration. of course , there immigration. of course, there are benefits, but also the cost of immigration. >> and labour leader sir keir starmer says the conservatives are responsible for rising immigration and points out this reverses the decision the party took four years ago when it reformed the immigration system as part of brexit. >> the conservatives have let immigration get out of control. we've got record numbers of people coming to this country and they've now said they're going to have a visa cap. they've not said what the number is. they've got a visa cap without a cap, we did have a visa cap before. rishi sunak. are you to get rid of it , visa cap before. rishi sunak. are you to get rid of it, which they did in 2020, and now they're going back to it. but without a number, it is utter

chaos. >> the liberal democrats are promising free personal care for adults in need, including the elderly and the disabled. sir ed davey says he wants to pay carers an extra £2 an hour above the national living wage. and he says investment in the care sector would ultimately benefit the nhs. now ed davey , who's a the nhs. now ed davey, who's a carer for his disabled son, described the issue as a deeply personal one and he will later outline his party's belief that provision of care should be based on need, rather than the ability to pay . a ferry carrying ability to pay. a ferry carrying d—day veterans to france for the 80th anniversary commemorations has set sail from portsmouth . has set sail from portsmouth. the mont saint michel ferry is being accompanied by three royal navy patrol vessels , as well as navy patrol vessels, as well as a minehunter and a training ship, and a tugboat as it leaves portsmouth harbour . us troops portsmouth harbour. us troops have been on a replica landing craft at omaha beach this morning. that's part of the d—day commemorations in normandy. omaha, one of two beaches taken by us forces 80 years ago. kenneth inikori told

us about the impact d—day had on his grandfather, who took part in the landing. >> i'm amazed that he was even actually here because it was an experience he never talked about. like a lot of veterans, you rarely heard any war stories, and i knew he was in the army, but that was it. growing up as a kid , you know, growing up as a kid, you know, never heard any stories, it wasn't until i got a box of letters from my mom , from letters from my mom, from granddaddy to grandma. talking about, his time in france . about, his time in france. >> ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters have been tackling a major blaze in east london. it broke out in the 10th floor construction site in canning town . no injuries have canning town. no injuries have been reported so far, but people in the area have been advised to keep their windows and doors closed , and the cause of the closed, and the cause of the fire has yet to be established. an investigation has begun. the royal college of nursing is

warning of an irretrievable downward spiral in the nhs because of declining numbers of nurses starting degree courses , nurses starting degree courses, a new report has found. the official nhs workforce plan for england will be almost 11,000 recruits, behind target by 2025 if the current trends continue . if the current trends continue. ministers were urged to prioritise a plan to increase student applications for next year to tackle the crisis in nursing. students, though, pay university fees of more than £9,000 per year, which has caused applicant numbers to drop significantly . a 91 year old man significantly. a 91 year old man has become the first person in england to be fitted with a groundbreaking artificial cornea. a 91 year old cecil john farley says his sight is improving thanks to the procedure , which he underwent procedure, which he underwent after 15 years of suffering with problems with his eyes. doctors hope one day the new artificial corneas could reduce the need for human donations. mr farley says it's enabled him to

continue tinue to see his 83 year old wife, elizabeth . and year old wife, elizabeth. and for more on all of our stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. the qr code is on your screen. the details are on our website now it's back to andrew and . bev. and. bev. >> it's 1108 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. in fact, it's 1106. >> don't wish them morning away, andrew. >> we've got such a good time. and of course coming. we're building up, of course, to nigel farage arriving in clacton. i imagine he'll be on that rather iconic pier and he'll be making his speech there. it's going to be. it'll be. it's the most excitement, isn't it? during this election campaign, which has been devoid of excitement, whether you like him or loathe him. and i appreciate he's a marmite character. nigel farage is making what we call the political weather. >> ian has got in touch and said, you know what, karma, karma keir starmer needs to say

more often the phrase utter chaos. you're right. it's like word bingo. we should do word bingo when we hear these mps talking at the moment. didn't we? all these candidates, no one's no one's an mp anymore, are they? >> no. >> no. >> we have no mps at all. they they cease to be an mp. yesterday. >> that's utter chaos. >> that's utter chaos. >> keir starmer would say. and we have a plan is what rishi sunak says, joe said if schools were given the time and the opportunities for children to go into care homes, they could be challenged to write a stories of the residents. these would also keep a sense of history and local respect within the community. i love that idea, joe. >> when we were kids doing our school stuff at work, at school, i mean, you were marked on your content, you were marked on your punctuation. you also marked on our handwriting. >> not anymore. >> not anymore. >> and if it was illegible, you would be marked down. >> not anymore, if schools promoted pen pals between schools, then it could be an avenue where children could have peer to peer support around daily life. it's so true, leslie said. we had pen pals in school

with a french school. they had to write back to us in english and we had to reply in. >> but also it gives you an insight into another culture, another way of thinking about things. >> and yeah, but what they do now is they go on tiktok and they watch someone on a beach in, you know, wherever. and that's how they learn about the world, isn't it? somebody in a bikini doing showing them what sun tan tock now. >> and i never look at people in bikinis on beaches. >> why does that not surprise me ever or anybody in a beach on tiktok? >> i, i use it because it's a way of getting information out there, isn't it? yeah, it is. >> you should be writing letters. this is the thing. we are in a state of flux, aren't we? it is a time of cultural change, but we are losing things. issues like that lady jennifer said. >> do you know what cognitive process with the letters i've had about my book? >> i'm going to reply to every single person by handwriting because they wrote to me, and it's rather because it's very personal thing, much more personal. >> putting it in an email, a lot of you are talking about lib dems, policy of free adult care

for people in need, vivien has said it's already available . said it's already available. it's called continuing health care. >> yeah. i mean, i think we've got to be careful about these announcements because, none of the parties have addressed the elephant in the room , which is elephant in the room, which is the social care package. now, the social care package. now, the lib dems are saying they'll pay the lib dems are saying they'll pay carers an extra £2 an hour or more. just a start. but where's that money coming from? >> it did sound quite generous, didn't it? just the idea that you would just be given. i've got a friend who's nursing her mother at the moment. >> so when we had carers for my dad with his dementia , was that. dad with his dementia, was that. did that mean my mum's going to have to pay the carers an extra £2? because where was she going to get that from. >> yeah. and maureen said just to say i think andrew and bev show is one of the best on gb news. they say it like it is and she also likes michelle dewberry. so do i. >> only one of the best. maureen. >> we're not competitive here. oh yeah, you're right. >> all part of the gb news family. we all love each other most of the time. >> now labour is on course to win 422 seats in the commons,

beating a landslide achieved by tony blair in 1997. >> this yougov poll. in this yougov poll, the tories are predicted to win a mere 140 seats and think back to 2019. they had about 360. yeah, it's a scale of what's happened in the last five years. >> and that poll was before nigel farage announced that he was standing as reform uk's mp in clacton . in clacton. >> so labour's campaign coordinator, pat mcfadden, spoke to gb news earlier. he tried to keep the smile off his face and try to pretend, in my view, that he didn't seem particularly fazed about nigel farage. his late entry into the race. >> our reaction was just get on with the job, keep going, it's an election anyone's entitled to stand. anyone's entitled to be a candidate if they put themselves forward. it makes no difference to us. we're just going to keep on. our focus is on the voters that we need to win in all these battleground seats. that's been our focus in recent years. we're offering them a changed labour party. we think we've got a good programme to turn the page on

the conservative years, and that's what we're going to keep talking about between now and polling day. i'm sorry, i've named pat mcfadden for many, many years. >> he used to work. he used to work in number 10 when blair was prime minister. they are cartwheeling around labour hq today because it is a gift that they prayed for. they were disappointed. one of the virtues of sunak going early was that it caught, we thought reform uk on the hop. they didn't have candidates in the right places, they didn't have enough money. and nigel farage says he wouldn't run. well, nigel farage is now running. so that whole strategy about an early election has unravelled. >> you absolute vie. we're asking today, could rishi sunaks fortunes change with this debate tonight as he squares up to keir starmer? let's talk to political correspondent katherine forster about this. catherine, the other thing that occurs to me, as much as labour are celebrating that nigel farage might steal some votes from the tories, i personally also think nigel farage appeals to a lot of labour voters who are sick of both sides, basically of the

political uni party. >> well, yes, certainly. i mean, he cuts through to ordinary people, doesn't he, in the way that somebody like boris johnson did, in the way that donald trump does in the states, like him or loathe him, people have a view on him and there's plenty of people think that both rishi sunak and sir keir starmer are frankly just a bit dull. and some people will say that there's not much to pick between them. but you know, rishi sunak has had a pretty rough ride in this general election campaign so far, starting with getting rained on with the announcement and being photographed near exit signs, etc. etc. they've made all these policy announcements. the polls have not shifted at all. well, in fact, they have shifted, but they've shifted in the wrong direction for the conservative party. so nothing seemed to be working. and then yesterday they had a double blow, didn't they, of first of

all, these polls are pretty much predicting a wipe—out. and then the sort of exocet missile into their campaign of nigel farage saying that he'd had a change of thought and having previously said the day after the election was announced that he was going to focus on the states , that it to focus on the states, that it was too tight to get organised for the general election. now announcing that he's going to stand in clacton now there's about a 25,000 majority there, but he could well win because of course, ukip represented that seat before. so this, debate tonight on television , there is tonight on television, there is a huge amount riding on that for the prime minister because of course, the prime minister number 10 desperately need something to change, whereas sir keir starmer wants nothing to change, wants to take as few risks, say , say as little as risks, say, say as little as possible. so it's interesting because it's normally the person

defending the person in charge who isn't keen on the debates. but rishi sunak has said, yeah, i'll do as many debates as you like. sir keir starmer has said no, just two. thank you . and no, just two. thank you. and they're both quite untested because of course, rishi sunak wasn't elected. he was , he was wasn't elected. he was, he was only elected by mps but not the membership and not the british public. you know, and sir keir starmer, elected by the membership too. so, number 10 will be hoping that they get positive, energetic rishi rather than tetchy rishi, which we occasionally do see. and sir keir starmer will be hoping that nothing goes wrong . nothing goes wrong. >> all right, catherine, just before you go, he can't afford to be tetchy, can he ? to be tetchy, can he? >> no, he really can't. and i have to say i've been around the prime minister quite a lot in the last month or so. he has been quite incredibly to me, given the polls , very, very given the polls, very, very upbeat and positive , despite

upbeat and positive, despite despite everything i have seen no trace of tetchy rishi. but we have seen it going back here and there occasionally he can get frustrated and get a bit irritable, and, you know, occasionally in the leadership debates with liz truss as well, he would talk over her. he didn't always come across, well, there's going to be a huge amount of pressure on him tonight. oliver dowden , the tonight. oliver dowden, the deputy prime minister, is prepping with him. he's prepped lots of leaders before. but yeah, a lot of pressure on the prime minister tonight. >> all right. that's katherine forster our political correspondent. do you remember one of the probably can't remember. why would you the debates between truss and sunak in the tory leadership contest. sunak interrupted truss 20 times in 12 minutes. it looked very it looked very bad. look unchivalrous no i don't and it looked like he was bullying her and i think he's learnt a lesson

from that. don't interrupt. let people finish. oh do you know what she means? >> pot kettle black right? here is a full list of those who've declared their candidacy in the clacton constituency to interrupt here. >> we have to do this because this is election rules. you want to carry on? no, no. if you wonder why we keep doing it, is the law of the land. >> joe van awassi, nepal labour party giles watling for the conservative party matthew bensalem, lib dem nigel farage reform. >> natasha hobson, green party. >> natasha hobson, green party. >> so stormy daniels has called for donald trump to be sentenced to jail and to be the punching bag at a women's shelter. >> this is, of course, after trump was found guilty of falsifying falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to the adult star before the 2016 election. >> even so, would president trump still run for presidency if he's in a jail cell? yes, i think we know that he will. but let's speak to jennifer ewing from republican overseas now. jennhen from republican overseas now.

jennifer, thank you for joining us this morning. so we're all still kind of digesting what this, guilty charge will mean for donald trump. and stormy daniels has been on british tv this morning just kind of just throwing a bit more salt in the in the wound, actually, just how is this playing out with the american electorate ? american electorate? >> sure. so actually, as a side note, i'm in oslo , norway at the note, i'm in oslo, norway at the oslo freedom forum, and i'm really surprised at how many people here are looking at what's going on in the us with the political persecution of donald trump. and, these are by no means all conservative people, a lot of them old school liberals . and they can just see liberals. and they can just see we can't use the justice system in this way. so that's the side note. but, and andrew, thank you so much for pointing out that it's basically 34 guilty, you know , for 34 guilty charges, but know, for 34 guilty charges, but for the same thing 33, times, because a lot of people do not

point that out. so, with regards to stormy daniels, i mean, as we know, we did not even need to hear her testify, it's strange that the judge allowed that. i think they just wanted to further , you know, make it look further, you know, make it look more salacious, tarnish trump's reputation, maybe hope to get a few more women that, you know, didn't like the look of this alleged affair that had taken place in lake tahoe. many many years ago. but, this case at the end of the day was an outdated misdemeanour case about book keeping. it was a bookkeeping error , and because that it had error, and because that it had outrun the statute of limitations and as you guys pointed out, you know, the district attorney had run on, i'm going to get trump and the judge is a big partisan . we can judge is a big partisan. we can go into that a little more. and then of course manhattan new york city, voted 85% against trump. so that's what he was

looking at. and this, in order for them to revive this frankenstein case, they needed to attach it to a felony. and it wasn't until the very last day that you know, we even knew what the felony charges would be, whether it was federal election or, you know, a tax violation . or, you know, a tax violation. and also the crazy, unprecedented , instructions that unprecedented, instructions that the jury was given that they didn't even have to agree on what the felony charge was . what the felony charge was. >> jennifer, what about a lot of people are speculating about the, no show of melania, the former, his wife, she wasn't at the court case, she said nothing. should we read much into that ? no. into that? no. >> is the answer no . i mean, >> is the answer no. i mean, that was exhausting. that was six weeks, you know, jump half the time was, like, boring , my the time was, like, boring, my understanding is they made the courtroom as uncomfortable as possible. one thing that we know about president trump is that he

doesn't do virtue signalling . he doesn't do virtue signalling. he just like he doesn't do identity politics. he's authentic . and politics. he's authentic. and oftentimes that's what gets him into trouble because he's speaking off the cuff and saying things that people say, i can't believe you just said this out loud. but, you know, i know a lot of these politicians when they get in trouble, especially if it's something around, you know, an infidelity or something like that, which , by the way, like that, which, by the way, actually wasn't what the case was about, they make their wife stand next to them, so it looks like everything's okay, he didn't feel the need to do that. no, i wouldn't read anything into it. >> jennifer, i can't have you here without just reflecting for a little bit on the congressional testimony yesterday, that doctor anthony fauci. so if you're watching in this country , he's a bit like this country, he's a bit like the patrick vallance chris whitty character. he was the head of the nih during the pandemic. he got absolute an absolute kicking yesterday . it absolute kicking yesterday. it was full 2.5 hours. i watched it. it was it was joyous for me. it was therapy because a lot of

people will see this man as being responsible for pushing the fear for masking children at schools, etc, and for vaccine mandates . what were the dynamite mandates. what were the dynamite moments for you ? moments for you? >> sure, sure. and i know everybody is, you know, looking at marjorie taylor greene's testimony, which was full of lots of drama and actually some very quite sad pictures of beagles being experimented on. but the real star, i thought was the republican congressman from georgia, rich mccormick, who is a medical doctor himself, who treated patients throughout, the you know, the pandemic and basically said , you know, to basically said, you know, to fauci, replayed something that fauci, replayed something that fauci had said that was something to the effect that it is proven when we make people's lives difficult , they will give lives difficult, they will give up their ideological b'zz and

get vaccinated. so this is done . get vaccinated. so this is done. and then a couple other highlights. just quickly, he basically said all of that six feet, you know, which is how we measure in america the distance we needed to stay apart, where did you come up with that? what was the science, no science. no science that was arbitrary. and what about masking children, bev, as you just, you know, talked about, yeah. i'm not sure where that came from. so they absolutely destroyed faith in america's public health institutions . and i don't have institutions. and i don't have to tell you, i mean, the amount of people that were bullied and shamed and silenced simply for wanting a debate or discussion on on the origin story of covid or max , vaccine mandates or or max, vaccine mandates or masks, we should have been having those discussions all along. that's right. censorship is out of control. >> yeah, it was wonderful to watch yesterday . yeah. jennifer watch yesterday. yeah. jennifer ewing from republicans overseas . ewing from republicans overseas. thank you so much for joining

us. now can you guess the prime minister's favourite nando's? >> no , as i've only been once >> no, as i've only been once and i know it's all about chicken. i'm struggling. but we're going to tell you this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. 1026. with britain's 11. gb news. 1026. with britain's11. gb news at 1020 1127. you know what we're talking about. digestives. beverly turner is actually eating one at the moment. >> you just caught me eating it in my biscuit. can i thank nigel nelson? we sent him on a biscuit run. he went out. we did. thank you. went to marks and spencer's, bought art digestives. thank you. >> torquay food piers pottinger. you'd been asked this question on the campaign trail. if you were prime minister. what is your favourite nando's order? i think you might be able to answer it. well i think for rishi, obviously as a lame duck prime minister, he's going to

put some peri peri on his lame chicken. >> oh, god. >> oh, god. >> to spice it up a bit. very good, as he needs to spice up the campaign again. i would be going for the extra hot peri peri to give it some real spice, i mean nando's. i remember when they started and they. i thought they started and they. i thought they were very good and i used to take my children to the one in cambridge and, i, i thought they were very good, the nicely grilled chicken. but i more recently, i think it spread so and become so big. i think some of the outlets are less appealing. >> nothing works anymore, piers. everything's gone down hill. >> it's interesting. >> it's interesting. >> but when he was asked this because he was at a football girls football team, he did. he was able to answer that sunak he said his favourite order was a half chicken, medium spice with chips and broccoli and it's good broccoli. so he can't have been making that up. >> oh no. >> oh no. >> i'm sure he had. he's got two children. yes, absolutely. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> his girls will will take him. it's where the kids always want

to go, but he's a bit dull that he does say though. >> yeah, i like nando's. >> yeah, i like nando's. >> i mean, i would actually swap rishi's broccoli for the corn of the cob is my only sort of. right. a change for it, but i'm not sure. >> do. very nice corn on the cob. yeah, i'm. >> i'm not sure i'd vote for somebody just because they eat nando's. no. okay well, this might swing your vote. >> the prime minister said he likes to mix it up sometimes. and he gets boneless chicken thighs. >> well, why not? >> well, why not? >> what is the appeal? is it very. is it inexpensive? >> well, yes a it's quite cheap. it is also very quick. right. and it is, it is spicy. it is also very quick. right. and it is, it is spicy . and you and it is, it is spicy. and you can actually choose the level of spice. >> can you have a vegetarian version . version. >> hello. me i think you probably can, but they also have unlimited soda drinks. >> right. so if you go and you want your lemonade and your diet coke or i did go with my nieces and they said , uncle andrew, you and they said, uncle andrew, you can have a more fizzy drinks, but i haven't had any fizzy drinks. >> i had a cup of tea. i was so boring. >> i like fizz, i like is in alcohol quite well. gin i'm silly. >> yeah, but we are going to get

so many more of these, aren't we? the election campaign, these questions asked of these leaders about these random, banal issues. yeah, exactly , right. issues. yeah, exactly, right. let's talk about this then. pierce, this is about the number of children who enjoy writing in their spare time has dropped to an all time low. do you use a pen? and what do we lose if people don't write with a hand anymore? >> well, i still write thank you letters, and i think, i mean, i don't get many, and it's not because i'm mean, it's just that people don't bother anymore. and it's a pity. i remember on boxing day my parents would make me sit down. and to anyone who had been kind enough to send me a present, i had to write thank you letters there. and then on boxing day. and it was a very important part of the ritual . important part of the ritual. and, thank you letters are a good discipline. and also writing is a good discipline because what you write converts into language and language. and these days you hear if you travel on the underground or a

bus , you hear all these bus, you hear all these teenagers. their most common use of word is like, everything is like this, like like , like like. like this, like like, like like. and if you actually force them to write something down, you wouldn't see the word like appean wouldn't see the word like appear. such a good point. and i would make them write more. yeah. it's also because writing is a very good discipline, nigel. >> it's also about the fact that i want to be able to communicate with somebody without having charging my battery. you are always reliant on something being charged. if you can never write something. yeah. >> i mean, ideally, i mean, writing is the way is the way to do it. i mean, i always wanted to be a writer since i was eight years old, so going into journalism was a natural kind of kind of move there. were you a good writer at eight? yes. i was actually one subject i was good at. >> it's still a very good writer. >> yeah, the only thing i would say about this is that creativity comes in many forms. so if kids are kids actually want to design a computer game, or they want to build some kind of different communication device, the everything is moving. so quickly that those

laptops you've got there probably in five years time will be obsolete, will be using something completely different. so the idea that kids are so much more computer literate than than we are , and if they're than we are, and if they're using that for to get their creative juices going, i think that's a good thing. so it's not just a matter about writing. >> it was spike milligan who who got me into writing. i read his silly verse for kids as a child, and i wrote him a verse back saying, i do not like reading poetry . it is a dreadful bore, poetry. it is a dreadful bore, but this one's very easy. there isn't any more. and he wrote back , did he? and it became, it back, did he? and it became, it turned into a actually, i have a lot of correspondence with spike, and i wrote to each other over the years, and some of my letters and some of his to me are in a book of his letters, actually. but he he was reading that verse was what really got me interested in poetry , which me interested in poetry, which i've always been very interested

in. >> interesting. oh, it's reading and writing are two basic skills, but should be encouraged at all times. >> well, you know what they do now. the kids, they talk to text so they record their voice and it turns into text. so we won't even be typing. >> i only found out the other day you can do that. >> yes. >> yes. >> exactly. right. aaron is waiting very patiently for us with your news. here is. >> i'm told patience is a virtue now. 1133 i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. good morning. the conservatives are proposing an annual visa cap in an effort to reduce immigration. the plan would affect those coming to the uk to work or join family, and would give parliament a direct role in setting the levels of the cap, with mps having a vote on the number net migration levels are now three times higher than they were in 2019, when the conservatives claim it will ensure immigration falls each year over the next parliament. home secretary james cleverly says it will help provide them with a balanced

assessment of both the advantages and costs of migration. however, labour says it's a rehash of failed announcements, with sir keir starmer accusing the tories of plucking numbers and hoping for the best. he says the government's lost control of net migration, adding it's more than twice as high as it was when we were in the eu, claiming labour has a plan to bring it down without outlining one. he's expected to announce labour's plans to set up a publicly owned green power company, gb energy, on a visit to the north west . on a visit to the north west. the liberal democrats are promising free personal care for adults in need, including the elderly and disabled. sir ed davey says he wants to pay carers an extra £2 an hour above the national living wage. and he says investment in the care sector will benefit the nhs. sir ed davey, who's a carer for his disabled son, has described it as a deeply personal issue. he will later outline his party's belief that the provision of care should be based on need, rather than ability to pay , and rather than ability to pay, and a ferry carrying d—day veterans

to france for the 80th anniversary commemorations has set sail from portsmouth. the mont—saint—michel is being accompanied by royal navy patrol vessels , three of them a vessels, three of them a minehunter and a training ship with a tugboat as well. quite a flotilla as it travels out of portsmouth harbour . us troops portsmouth harbour. us troops have been on a replica landing craft at omaha beach this morning. that's part of the d—day commemorations in normandy. omaha, one of two beaches taken by us forces 80 years ago . more on that as we go years ago. more on that as we go through the afternoon . or we can through the afternoon. or we can get more right now by scanning the qr code for gb news alerts . the qr code for gb news alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> that quick look at the markets the pound buys you

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in the, in the conservative campaign , they've been studious campaign, they've been studious about not mentioning migration . about not mentioning migration. we can think of all of the different announcements that the tories have made so far in this campaign. they've talked about national service , they've talked. >> they've made all sorts of different policy proposals. but yes , now they've come out yes, now they've come out straight with a cap on immigration. funny that, isn't it? nigel farage wants this to be the immigration election . be the immigration election. he's saying net zero immigration is the way to go . and then the is the way to go. and then the tories come up with a cap. >> although he was tripped up this morning, he was mentioning net zero migration. he admitted that would mean 600,000 people could come in as long as 600,000 people left, because that was the number who left last year. it must be said, a lot of the people who left are actually recent arrivals as well. so sometimes that can skew the figures a little bit . figures a little bit. >> recent arrivals from where do we know where from? >> i'm sure there is a breakdown. i don't have the numbers in front of me, but, but there is also a lot of aspirational brits are leaving. >> unfortunately, a lot of

ambitious brits moving to, you know, places like a lot of highly trained dubai and australia, highly trained junior doctors that we paid a lot of money to train. >> yes. >> yes. >> not very helpful, is it? but totally my research often centres around uber drivers. >> i like to know where they're from and how long they want to live here and where they would go then. and you know what my very straw poll has been finding a lot of people here from afghanistan, syria, eritrea, they're going to the kazakhstan area. they're going back to kazakhstan . kazakhstan. >> i know just living conditions are better because living conditions are cheaper. i'm not joking because they're looking at some of these countries around that area and they're saying, we're sick of being here. >> i can't i can't afford anything. i can't get on the property ladder. i'm going to kazakhstan. >> do they have west end theatre in kazakhstan? do you think i don't have a good theatre, andrew? >> a good theatre scene. i'm not sure it would be the. >> i'm not sure you'd love it, no real industry though. >> there an energy producing country in a way that we've sort of stopped producing.

>> hence the money that's coming. >> that's another big fight today, a big battle over the old oil and gas industry, labour have a lot to say on energy policy, but there seems to be a bit of a battle in scotland over all this. oh, well, we'll discuss that. we'll we'll, we'll lay it all out. >> but of course, the big, big news is that the local candidacy of nigel farage is launching today. we'll be showing some of that, of course , in conjunction that, of course, in conjunction with all the other parties in our fair and balanced way of coui'se. >> course. >> always. >> always. >> right. all that from midday with emily and tom. for now, though, this is britain's newsroom on gb news. don't go

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nearly d—day. >> that's right. and quite rightly, we often think of the men who fought on the normandy beaches, and quite right too, we think of d—day. but there were also hundreds and thousands of women crucial to the success of operation overlord. >> and some of these women were recruited by the government and worked day and night to decode secret german messages. >> historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop paid a visit to one of these codebreakers . of these codebreakers. >> operation overlord, the unprecedented allied campaign to liberate western europe and defeat the nazis, has long been immortalised in films, books and documentaries. much less well known is the crucial role hundreds of thousands of women from all walks of life played in d—day. they occupied numerous vital roles, including at bletchley park, where the majority of recruits were female, working around the clock to deliver ultra intelligence on enemy movements in france for the allies, among their number was ruth bourne. nowadays she's 98, but then she was a young

wren fighting the same war as the men on the beaches. ruth operated one of alan turing's bombe machines that helped decrypt enigma encoded communications . communications. >> we were initially told the work we were doing was specialised . it was to be quite specialised. it was to be quite hard work . hard work. >> so you are the coalface of the decryption with the bombe machine. but once this ultra rich material is being harvested, you then have to translate it differently from the original german . so to the original german. so to rewrite it. yeah. so the germans don't know that you've been reading their hand. yeah. >> like the good old fashioned rac that we used to do at school i >> -- >> could 5mm >> could you say what it was like to first meet a bomb and what those bombs did? >> well, we met the bomb . it was >> well, we met the bomb. it was a little bit surprising . it was a little bit surprising. it was a little bit surprising. it was a very tall. i think it was seven feet high or six foot wide. about two foot deep. and

it made a chugging noise as the wheels , all these wheels were wheels, all these wheels were going round and round . going round and round. >> do you have any idea of the bigger picture of what you're doing? >> absolutely not. but it was another job where women went and operated the machinery while the men went to war for many, many years. >> you weren't aware of the impact of what you were doing, and i find no really interesting. >> it was only after 30 years when the security blanket was lifted and the first book came out . i lifted and the first book came out. i read the importance of the enigma secret. >> it takes a long time, not just for women's war effort to be recognised, but more specifically the secret work that women did . ruth didn't get that women did. ruth didn't get a bletchley park medal until the late 1990s, and then the

resistance. her legion d'honneur in 2019, aged 94. >> now i know how important the work was. my life would have been complete different if it hadnt been complete different if it hadn't been for not just doing something in the war didn't make my life different , but when it my life different, but when it all came out, the importance of what we'd done, i was very privileged to have been chosen. and no , i'm very privileged . and no, i'm very privileged. thank you ruth, thank you for sharing . sharing. >> the modesty, the modesty, the privilege for her to be part of that extraordinary operation. because cracking the enigma code definitely speeded up the end of the war. you stopped the u—boats

taking out all our merchant shipping. extraordinary. and there she says, it was a privilege for her to be part of it. i think it was a privilege just to hear her. >> wasn't it written with a pen and paper? yeah. now up next, we are being warned about ticket fraud and scams online. we'll have some tips to stop you being a victim of it's too easy to be fooled. this

gb news. it's 1150. so. gb news. it's1150. so. music and sports fans could be in for a cruel summer. as the threat of ticket scams rises. with taylor swift and the euros the biggest targets ? targets? >> do you know i won't be buying tickets for either? >> you. this may not. you may not be in the sweet spot of this story. but anyway, more than 1 in 3 people have bought an event ticket which turned out to be fake or know someone that has. >> that's so depressing, is it? well, joining us now to help us through this minefield is fraud expert jim winters. jim, how

easy is it to be gullible and to get caught? and what are the signs we should look out for, jim? >> well, fraud is the most common type of crime in the uk at the moment, and we're moving into the summer. lots of big sporting events coming up, lots of big touring artists and festivals. so it's kind of rich pickings for fraudsters . so it's pickings for fraudsters. so it's incredibly easy to become a victim, we've noticed an increase in nationwide in purchase scams, which prompted the research we did that shows, as you said, shockingly, 1 in 3 young people either know somebody who's been the victim of a ticketing scam or have been a victim themselves, and that's because a website will look genuine. >> jim, is it like so you'd get ticketmaster, you get atg, these big sites which work on behalf of a venue and they sell the tickets. so you go on to a website, you think it's genuine, you put in your card details, you put in your card details, you give them your money and it turns out to be a scam site is that how it works? >> that's how. that's one of the ways that it works. but unfortunately, there are so many different ways of buying tickets

these days that also gives the fraudsters lots of different avenues to explore for. so fake websites is a big problem. our research at nationwide also showed that unsolicited emails are a big problem . about 20% of are a big problem. about 20% of the people we spoke to who'd been victims had received an email out of the blue and responded to that. we've seen unsolicited messages on social media and of course , fake media and of course, fake websites. make sure when you're buying that you're using an official retailer, you can look for the star affiliation, which is the society of ticket agents and retailers . that will give and retailers. that will give you the reassurance that you're deaung you the reassurance that you're dealing with an official retailer, but there are other things you can do to keep yourself safe as well. so we tell people we'd ask people to always use their credit or debit card. you get much better consumer protection . don't ever consumer protection. don't ever buy a ticket using a bank transfer and really look out for tickets for events that you know have been sold out, or events where the tickets haven't yet been released. those are red flags as well. >> and with the ticket prices on these scam sites often be unrealistically cheap, say for a taylor swift concert. or do they

push the prices up? they can be that old adage that if it looks too good to be true, it always is very appropriate when it comes to scams, all types of scams, whether that's an investment scam or a purchase scam , like one of these scam, like one of these ticketing frauds that we see. >> but tickets are expensive, so the impact can be quite significant financially. the nationwide research revealed that the average loss is about £400, which is a huge amount of money. but the impact, of course, isn't just financial, it's emotional as well. being the victim of a scam can be tremendously damaging to your wellbeing and the disappointment. imagine you thought you'd got tickets for taylor swift, only to find out it was a scam . it has a terrible it was a scam. it has a terrible impact on people. >> do we have any idea? jim we're against the clock. but are these people who are running these people who are running these sites often uk based or overseas? >> no, unfortunately, that's the nature of the internet that they can be based all over the place, which is why getting hold of these people and stopping them is incredibly difficult. so nationwide, looking for better collaboration between all of the

players in what we call the scam ecosystem so that social media sites, big tech like firms like google, even the telecoms industry, the best way to kind of combat these criminals is to work together. >> sure, sure . okay. thank you >> sure, sure. okay. thank you so much. fraud expert jim winters there. join us again. jim, that was really interesting. we barely scratched the surface of that topic right . the surface of that topic right. emily and tom are here with good afternoon britain. we'll be back tomorrow morning at 930. >> see you then . >> see you then. >> see you then. >> has this general election been blown wide open, or has it turned into a for race second place? well, nigel farage is launching his candidacy today and something that hasn't been talked about enough. >> is the battle brewing over labour's energy plans? looks like they want to make it even more expensive for oil and gas suppliers. more windfall taxes. how will that impact the industry and how are businesses reacting? all of that after the weather? >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of

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gb news. >> way . >> way. >> way. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday, the 4th of june. >> i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. >> new battleground on immigration. rishi sunak vows to bnng immigration. rishi sunak vows to bring down migrant numbers by introducing a new cap on visas if he wins the general election . if he wins the general election. >> but could this be down to nigel farage's shock decision to stand for parliament for reform uk? he's calling for net zero migration. >> meanwhile, the labour party has pledged to bring energy security to the uk and end its dependence on fossil fuels from overseas. but a new battle is

brewing over plans to tax oil