>> hey. very good afternoon to you. it's 3:00 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk today, british paratroopers have landed in normandy to pay tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives when they invaded northern france 80 years ago . the king, france 80 years ago. the king, queen and prince of wales have led commemorations for the bravery of the soldiers at a national event in portsmouth, and we'll bring you live coverage of d—day, 80th anniversary events throughout the duration of the show . and a the duration of the show. and a furious row has erupted between the tories and the labour party. after last night's first tv general election debate, labour have accused rishi sunak of lying about sir keir starmer's plans to raise taxes. and that's all coming up in your next hour.

well, the show is a delight to have your company well, the d—day commemorations have been going since this morning at 4:00, we'll be joining the royal british legion commemorative service . live from normandy service. live from normandy promises to be a hugely emotional and historic moment. the last of the surviving veterans who landed at normandy , veterans who landed at normandy, normandy, eight years ago, the youngest is now 97. a massively important event will be there, live throughout the duration of that , plus live throughout the duration of that, plus loads of political debate. sunak sukh a punch on tax last night £2,000. it would cost you under sir keir starmer that stuck dominated the front pages labour party. well they struck back saying it's garbage saying it's lies. and sir keir starmer even claimed he wouldn't use the nhs even if a relative was on a very long waiting list. well guess what, we've been busy and we've unearthed footage which shows he had a very different position only about a

year and a half ago. plus there's been a stabbing in germany, in mannheim. you recall last week six people stabbed in the marketplace, including a policeman, fatally stabbed. he passed away on sunday. well, last night, a politician as germany prepares to go to the eu elections, also was injured with a knife. while on earth is going on, we'll have a full analysis. all of those debates throughout the show now send your views the usual ways gbnews.com/yoursay before all of that, it's your headunes before all of that, it's your headlines with sophia wenzler. >> thanks, martin from the gb newsroom at 3:00. your top story this hour. the king has paid tribute to the courage of veterans as two days of commemorations begun for the 80th anniversary of d—day, the queen became emotional as she listened to the veterans recall stories of storming the normandy beaches. during his speech, his

majesty spoke of the eternal debt we owe to those who lost their lives during world war ii. >> let us once again commit ourselves always to remember, cherish and honour those who served that day and to live up to the freedom they died for. by balancing rights with civic responsibilities to our country . responsibilities to our country. for we are all eternally in their debt . their debt. >> meanwhile, across the channel >> meanwhile, across the channel, hundreds of paratroopers have recreated the historic drop in normandy in honour of the 80th anniversary of the invasion . the of the invasion. the conservatives are standing by rishi sunak claim that labour would raise taxes if sir keir starmer became prime minister. labour insists the claim is a lie. it comes as both leaders traded blows on the economy. nhs and immigration as they faced off in the first tv debate of

the 2024 election campaign . the 2024 election campaign. rishi sunak claimed sir keir starmer would raid pension pots and hike taxes by £2,000 per household . shadow attorney household. shadow attorney general emily thornberry says her party is furious. >> the 14 years of the conservatives we have the longest waiting lists that the nhs has ever had . go figure. nhs has ever had. go figure. we've had a prime minister who told us that waiting lists were dropping. he lied, he told us that the number of people coming in on boats had gone down. he lied. he told us that there was that labour was going to increase taxes. he lied. unfortunately, we have a prime minister who is a liar and he demeans the role of office of prime minister. he has been abusing the, the civil service. and do you know what.7 we're furious and we're meanwhile, energy secretary claire coutinho has reiterated the prime minister's claims. >> keir starmer couldn't do is he couldn't rule out the fact that his policies , as set out by that his policies, as set out by the labour party, would cost

families £2,000 in extra taxes . families £2,000 in extra taxes. and he couldn't rule out the fact that pensioners, for the first time under labour plans, would have to pay tax on their state pension next year. and actually that's the substance of what people are choosing between and i really thought actually it was quite shocking that on all of those major issues, keir starmer was woolly. he didn't have any clear plans or proposals to address some of the challenges that the country is facing . facing. >> in other news, american amanda knox has been found guilty of slander over accusations she made in relation to the murder of her british flatmate in perugia . in two flatmate in perugia. in two thousand and seven, an italian court issued a three year sentence for wrongly accusing congolese bar owner patrick lumumba of the killing of meredith kercher . lumumba of the killing of meredith kercher. in an earlier case, knox had spent four years in jail for the killing, but that conviction was annulled in 2015. the sentence will have no practical impact, as it's covered by the time knox has already spent in jail and to

germany. now, where a local politician from the right wing alternative for germany party has been injured in a knife attack. the incident in mannheim comes just days after another stabbing attack at an anti—islam demonstration in which a policeman was killed . in the policeman was killed. in the latest incident, the attacker was detained and the injured politician is in hospital and that's according to local reports and the first banknotes carrying the portrait of king charles will go into circulation today. notes that feature queen elizabeth ii will remain legal tender and co—circulate alongside the king. the new ones will only be printed to replace those that are worn , or to meet those that are worn, or to meet any overall increase in demand. in order to minimise the environmental and financial impact of the change. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's back to .

back to. martin. >> thank you sofia. now there's only one place to start today and that's with the events to mark tomorrow's 80th anniversary of d—day. early today, british paratroopers parachuted into normandy . paratroopers parachuted into normandy. back in 1944, paratroopers parachuted into normandy . back in 1944, airborne normandy. back in 1944, airborne landings played a crucial role in making d—day a huge success. and that's cross live now to normandy and joined by gb news colleague , sophie reaper sophie, colleague, sophie reaper sophie, absolutely incredible scenes. we saw the king and queen in britain. the king gave a hugely emotional speech. those paratroopers coming down looks glorious behind you. now, please tell us more . tell us more. >> well, it's absolutely wonderful. the sheer number of events that have been put on in memory of those of the veterans and those people who gave their lives on d—day is just absolutely immense. you're joining us here in the bay cemetery where there are. i'll

just step out so you can you can get a better shot there. there are 4155 graves here, 300 of which over 300 of which are for those soldiers who were unidentifiable . it's just unidentifiable. it's just absolutely awe inspiring to see this. you just really can't believe the sheer volume of graves that are here. and this , graves that are here. and this, of course, is just a fraction of them. now you're actually catching me at quite emotional time. i spoke just about 20 minutes ago to a veteran that i've worked for with a number of years, bernard morgan. he is from the northwest where i'm from, and he fought on d—day. he he landed on the beaches here in normandy. and whenever he speaks to me, it makes me incredibly emotional. and hearing what he remembers from that day, hearing about his comrades that were lost and that he doesn't think of himself as a hero. he's just a survivor. the heroes of those men who gave their lives for our freedom. and it's incredibly

emotional to speak to any veteran, especially poignant today and tomorrow, of course, on the 80th anniversary of d—day, because it's likely that this will be the last big anniversary that we have of d—day with some of our veterans, still alive. and so ever getting to speak to those men, those incredibly brave men who were willing to put their lives on the line, it's always incredibly special. and it really is an honour to get to get to speak to, to men like that. and bernard morgan is just one of them. so an incredibly special day. and the events are going to continue, of course, the anniversary tomorrow . we'll be anniversary tomorrow. we'll be bringing you all that coverage live here on gb news. >> and sophie, i can hear by your voice that your your emotions are genuine. i completely understand that. i've i've been to that cemetery where you are, though. i went there as a boy when i was about 13, and it's totally overwhelming when you drive through those areas. they just go on and on and on,

and the sheer volume and the magnitude and the size and the scope and the landscape of that physicality , of seeing each one physicality, of seeing each one of those is one of the fallen. it's a it's an incredible place. it's a it's an incredible place. it really is. sophie >> absolutely. you you say my emotions are real. i apologise , emotions are real. i apologise, don't apologise. it is just it's just such an honour to be here. incredibly special to speak to these men and hear their stories , and it's just a special to see the graves of those who fell, and, like you say, just the sheer volume of them. it's really quite upsetting , but really quite upsetting, but we're also here to celebrate what they what they fought for and what they won for us, which is our freedom, and that is the most important thing that we respect and commemorate, but that we also celebrate what they sacrificed for us. >> yeah. sophie, a wonderful, heartfelt opening to the show.

and, you know, you're getting me going here. and the commemorative event at 4:00. i'm sure there won't be a dry eye anywhere . up to a thousand are anywhere. up to a thousand are set to attend. the last surviving veterans of d—day from the allied forces and their descendants and veterans. sophie reaper love you, darling. thank you very much for that. that means a lot. thank you very much. we'll come back to you later in the show. now, we've also been marking d—day on this side of the channel today as well. and the king and the queen were among the guests at a national commemorative event in portsmouth, where the king appeared emotional as he paid tribute to the courage, resilience and the solidarity of veterans or gb news home security editor mark white is in portsmouth. mark, welcome to the show. it's a massively emotional and powerful speech by the king. i think it was pitch perfect . i think it was pitch perfect. >> yes, it was deep and heartfelt, there is no doubt. and the emotions really were

being felt by so many people here, including the queen. there were pictures of her with tears welling up in her eyes, especially when veterans came onto the stage here. it was just absolutely incredible. two veterans, one, who came on, who had lost two legs amputated below the knee when his, tank was struck . but he still managed was struck. but he still managed to get onto that stage , despite to get onto that stage, despite being a double amputee and being 99 years of age and it was just such an emotional sight, as he said, that he considered himself to be one of the lucky ones, because, of course, the unlucky ones were the thousands who didn't come back from that operation. and it wasn't just the bloody effort to get on to those beaches, it was to try to push forward into normandy and those very heavily entrenched

german positions that took such a heavy toll on british and other allied nations. during that campaign. it was a full two months really, before they eventually managed to liberate paris. such was the attritional nature of what those troops were involved in. and you mentioned that heartfelt speech by his majesty the king. well, of course, his son, the prince of wales, also gave an emotional speech and a heartfelt speech as well. this is what prince william said. >> to many, never returned . they >> to many, never returned. they remain in some corner of a foreign field that is forever england . we will always remember england. we will always remember those who served and those who waved them off. the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters who watched their loved ones go into battle, unsure if they would ever return .today unsure if they would ever return . today we remember the bravery

of those who crossed the sea to liberate europe . liberate europe. >> you know, we do these events so well, martin. the pomp and the pageantry and also a bit of stardust sprinkled in there as well. helen mirren, did mirren did an absolutely exemplary job as the presenter of this, holding it all together . we had holding it all together. we had dancers who were up there playing the parts of gis and young english girls during world war two, we had the military bands that were playing, but i think for the vast majority, of course, if not all of the people here, the really moving moments were when we heard from the veterans, both in montage videos from their recollections and seeing them here in person. you know, they thought that the 75th commemoration anniversary would

be the last time, the last hurrah really , for these hurrah really, for these veterans and all of the military leaders. i was speaking to you throughout the day said that, you know , they are so, so in awe you know, they are so, so in awe of these , veterans who still the of these, veterans who still the youngest being 97, many of them being sent indians, they are still as determined to come here to remember those colleagues who never made it home. >> mark white, the king. so beautifully said that those stories of courage, resilience and solidarity, they cannot fail to move to us inspire us and to remind us of what we owe to that great wartime generation now tragically dwindling to so few. we are eternally in their debt . we are eternally in their debt. thank you, mark white. fantastic stuff . now of course i have lots stuff. now of course i have lots of coverage of the anniversary of coverage of the anniversary of d—day throughout the show. remember, at 4:00 we'll bring you the royal british legion

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welcome back. it's 321. i'm martin daubney , and this is i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now, later this hour, i'll have lots more ahead of tomorrow's 80th anniversary of d—day . and don't forget that at d—day. and don't forget that at 4:00, we'll show you the royal british legion service live from normandy . british legion service live from normandy. now to a furious war of words that erupted after last night's election tv debate, rishi sunak has been accused by labour of lying by claiming a sir keir starmer government would increase taxes by £2,000. here's a reminder of what the prime minister said inflation is back to normal, wages are growing , taxes are now being growing, taxes are now being cut. >> keir starmer would put all that progress at risk. he would put up everyone's taxes by £2,000, £2,000 in higher taxes

for every working family in our country. after all the hard work and sacrifice we've been through, that's not the right course of action. i don't know why you want to put up people's taxes . taxes. >> well, let's speak now to our political editor for hope, who's in portsmouth . chris, welcome to in portsmouth. chris, welcome to the show. well, last night was the show. well, last night was the night when officially the gloves came off. rishi sunak landed that sucker punch, £2,000 extra taxes. the newspapers ran with it . sir extra taxes. the newspapers ran with it. sir keir extra taxes. the newspapers ran with it . sir keir starmer looked with it. sir keir starmer looked startled. and today it's fair to say the labour party are utterly furious about it. >> and hi martin, welcome to portsmouth, where sir keir starmer has been visiting. that's right. well, the big row is about a number. it reminds me very much of the 2016 eu referendum, when the big rally then was a weather leaving, the european union would tip £350 million back into the nhs. well, the row this time is a figure at £2,094 to be exact, which the

tories say labour will impose on britons over the next four years to pay for their unfunded spending plans. the tories say that now there's been a big battle today. we heard from james bowler, who's the permanent secretary of the treasury. he said that this information announced last night or presented again last night by the pm, rishi sunak should not be presented as being produced by the civil service. of course . by the civil service. of course. rishi sunak, the prime minister, said it came from independent officials . in fact, the figure officials. in fact, the figure last night, the £2,000 or so isn't even new. it was announced by the chancellor, jeremy hunt, a few weeks back, so you'd have thought labour might have got their ducks in a row about that. and yet when it was produced last night repeatedly by rishi sunak, it took the leader of the opposition, sir keir starmer, a good half an hour to question it and deny it. and today they've been on the trail, and deny it. and today they've been on the trail , the front been on the trail, the front foot amongst the labour party, calling the labour, the tories a lot of liars for producing this figure. the tories have hit back. they've gone through the line by line. spreadsheet of

this figure. they tell us that 21 out of 28 of the lines come from official treasury. figures, so they're saying that this figure is correct . we can use figure is correct. we can use it. there are 100% behind it. they say it's even a lowball figure. they say they be conservative on the estimates that the labour government would cost britons. in fact, the figure is many, many billions more, they say, so keir starmer is on the warpath about it. he's been talking to journalists and those interviews will play out shortly, and also i asked him for you , martin, about an for you, martin, about an interesting question he raised last night in the debates. he said there, didn't he, how he wouldn't use private health care even if a loved one was waiting for treatment on the nhs. i asked him if that was really the case and you'll see his answer play case and you'll see his answer play out shortly on gb news. >> well, i'm fascinated to hear what the answer was because , as what the answer was because, as you know, chris, i spoke to you a short while ago. we've unearthed footage from just a year ago where he said, actually, it would be a good idea to relieve the burden on the nhs and go private. in fact,

that's the line that wes streeting has been putting out about the future direction of travel, about the nhs under the labour party. so fascinating response lies ahead. a lot of people, of course, will be saying that this is another example of sir flip flop, but it did seem last night, chris, that rishi sunak, he won the snap poll 5149. almost again, another new brexit. but it does seem that he's taken the initiative on this tax line. it stuck and people are talking about it and thatis people are talking about it and that is irritating for the labour party. >> they don't want to be talking about a tory figure that they questioned. they did. they dispute that figure entirely. say it's built on on on a political estimates of their figures. that's not fair. political estimates of their figures. that's not fair . and figures. that's not fair. and they'll be annoyed that being asked repeatedly on a visit to here portsmouth about that savanta, by the way, did give keir starmer a win, 44% against sunak on 39. 17. don't know . the sunak on 39. 17. don't know. the yougov poll had 51% in favour of sunak , 49% of starmer. it was sunak, 49% of starmer. it was definitely a fightback from

rishi sunak. i felt i was in there in the spin room, as you saw last night, talking to michael gove and the like about what they thought, along with, wes streeting and other senior labour figures. it felt that for me that after six days of being pummelled by mega polls , pummelled by mega polls, starting with the gb news poll last friday from electoral calculus running through series of mega polls of ten tens of thousands of people polled each giving the labour party a three figure majority. it felt to me that finally we saw the pm come out fighting. not before time for the tory party. >> i think chris out there live from portsmouth, thank you very much. look forward to seeing that sir keir starmer clip later in the show. thank you. now, it was a very controversial clash between rishi sunak and sir keir starmer in that first tv debate last night. who better to analyse what happened last night than the man who moderated the first ever leader's debate in 2022? the legend, the great alastair stewart. alistair, an absolute joy to have you back. we had you on the show yesterday for the warm up, the look ahead to the debate you looked in, you

chaired that cleggmania the original clash of the titans back in 2010. what did you make of last night? who do you think landed the sucker punch? >> i totally agree with what christopher was just saying to you, and that is that the prime minister, as i predicted to you when we were talking about it yesterday, would come out fighting. >> the thing that struck me as i sat at home watching it was that rishi didn't look like the guy who was 25% behind in the polls , who was 25% behind in the polls, and that sir keir was the guy who was set for the biggest landslide since tony blair, i thought that rishi looked confident. >> was fleet of foot. and gave as good as he got. >> and i thought sir keir , as >> and i thought sir keir, as i predicted, looked nervous, loyal, like and, lacking of, lacking in charisma. >> so i think it was a victory, as the polling has suggested, for rishi sunak. >> and what we'll see now is there's an extraordinary situation where there's £2,094 tax claim. it's stuck . it's

tax claim. it's stuck. it's dominating the news agenda. so keir starmer being forced to dance to that tune today and with just a dramatically that the labour party has challenged the labour party has challenged the tories to another tv debate specifically about that claim. darren jones is the shadow chief secretary to the treasury, wants to take on anybody from the tory party in a second debate. the first debate, they didn't get the result. they want another debate. it's like brexit. >> well another debate. wouldn't be a bad idea. but as you and i discussed yesterday , i actually discussed yesterday, i actually think the really exciting debate would be, nigel farage and or richard tice versus, both of them because, as robert buckland was saying earlier on on gb news, we got quite close to the ideology of the thing, last night and the institute of fiscal studies, which is entirely impartial . entirely impartial. >> jul, has said whoever wins the general election is going to have to look at the level of

taxation if they're going to keep the size of the state and the level of social services the same. whoever is in power is probably going to have to put taxes up. so if sir keir is saying, no, no, we won't have to put any taxes up at all. and rachel reeves had tried to say that on, on television earlier as well, and rishi sunak is saying there'll be no change in tax at all. i suspect that that is the area that we need to have a discussion about. but as buckland said, and as as reform uk have said throughout the real debate is the size of the state, what the government tries to do for us and on our behalf, well, the state, the nhs, its size, its its remit and how much that costs because that's what tax is all about. and we didn't get that last night, but we got quite close to it. and the follow up question that could have been asked last night and should have been to sir keir starmer, is what did you mean

exactly when you said the other day i am a socialist, would you bnng day i am a socialist, would you bring all four of the labour party constitution back in? because it's the same argument that tony blair and gordon brown used to have, and tony would never have said, i'm a socialist and gordon would have said it every day and every night. >> on a brief point, do you think it was chaired perhaps as firmly as it may have been? juue firmly as it may have been? julie etchingham allowed them to talk over each other. it was quite hard to hear them. she was quite hard to hear them. she was quite polite. i suspect alastair stewart, you'd have been a bit firmer of hand . firmer of hand. >> i thought julie did okay. i think her problem was the format, and i remember very clearly, apart from i, i agree with nick was by going enough. thank you. thank you much to brown. thank you, mr cameron, the format let her down because she's them talking over each other is what debates about. if you go to a real debate, whether it's at school or university, that's what people do. and what

we were crying out for was the audience . and the best bit on audience. and the best bit on television last night was patrick christie's post mortem programme, where he had a dozen people who'd sat and listened carefully to it as members of audience, and they got a real debate going about the big issues and about what was at stake in this general election. >> so alison stewart , very >> so alison stewart, very quickly, do you have that down as one nil to rishi sunak ? as one nil to rishi sunak? >> yes, i do very clearly. >> superb . alastair will have >> superb. alastair will have loads of course, from you throughout the rest of this general election campaign. always an absolute delight to have you on legend. thank you very much. now remember at 4:00 we'll show you the. >> we had a few technical problems. >> not now . you're loud and >> not now. you're loud and clear. now remember that 4:00. we'll show you the royal british legion service live from normandy. but first, it's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> the headlines this hour. >> the headlines this hour. >> the headlines this hour. >> the king has been paying

tribute to the courage of veterans. >> as two days of commemorations lie—ins have begun for the 80th anniversary of d—day , queen anniversary of d—day, queen camilla became emotional. she listened to veterans recall stories of storming the normandy beaches, and during his speech, his majesty the king spoke of the eternal debt we owe those who lost their lives during world war ii. meanwhile, the red arrows have performed a fly past across the channel. hundreds of paratroopers recreating the historic drop in normandy in honour of the 80th anniversary of the invasion . in other news of the invasion. in other news today, election campaigning is on the quieter side today to allow for the d—day commemorations. allow for the d—day commemorations . but labour has commemorations. but labour has accused rishi sunak of lying over claims he made that if the opposition wins the next election , tax for working election, tax for working families will go up by £2,000. dufing families will go up by £2,000. during the leaders debate last night, the prime minister suggested sir keir starmer's plans include a £38 billion black hole in the funding . seven

black hole in the funding. seven men have been convicted of child sex abuse offences against two young girls in rotherham during the 2000. the men, all from south yorkshire , were found south yorkshire, were found guilty following a trial at sheffield crown court . sheffield crown court. >> the offences were committed between 2003 and 2008. >> the men were prosecuted following an investigation by the national crime agency as part of operation stovewood, which is a major investigation into child sex abuse and exploitation taking place in rotherham between 1997 and 2013. the two victims in this case were just aged 11 and 15, when the offending began. let me just bnng the offending began. let me just bring you a breaking line of news that we had just coming into us. before we hand back to martin. a 25 year old woman has been charged with assault after a drink was thrown at nigel farage. the reform uk leader had been campaigning in essex yesterday when he was doused with a milkshake coming out of a

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1944. but back during the second world war, this coastal paradise held a secret, for it was home to the headquarters of the combined operations planning. d—day george newlands, a volunteer at the local largs museum , talks about the museum, talks about the buildings at the heart of scotland's best kept wartime secret. >> sandie vara was taken over and became the combined operations headquarters for the duration of the war, and then a conference of about 110 military personnel took place in the hollywood hotel , as was then. hollywood hotel, as was then. it's little known, but that conference was one of the most important preplanning things for the whole operation. >> the varne diogo jota guest house was owned at the time by the derby family, and although mrs. derby moved out, mr derby stayed on his efforts. rewarded with the rank of chief petty officer . flats now stand at the officer. flats now stand at the site of the hollywood hotel. the location of the critical field of cloth and gold conference .

of cloth and gold conference. only the name remains. signalling history was made here. one thing that won't have changed in 80 years is largs promenade. being a popular site for a stroll. so how much did today's locals know about the history made on their doorstep? where do you think that would have been planned . have been planned. >> here maybe. >> here maybe. >> yes. well done . so i think >> yes. well done. so i think that's quite cool that it happened at a wee scottish town like this. >> yeah, london. >> yeah, london. >> it was that building right behind me over the corner. really? yeah hollywood house. >> it's gone now. >> it's gone now. >> it's gone now. >> it's been replaced by flats. but there were meetings here in largs , nana. largs, nana. >> i've lived here all my life and i wouldn't have known that long time largs resident gordon scott says younger generations are beginning to take a keen interest in the approaching anniversary. >> the younger generations are much more interested in maybe my generation was again, it was. it was more recent to my generation. so my parents were my father were trying to forget it. they didn't talk about the

war, but it's a time that's gone on. you know, we've looked back and we've realised the tragedy of it all. in truth, history was made all across scotland. the sheriff muir atlantic wall was used to practice breaching techniques . oban was a testing techniques. oban was a testing ground for the mulberry harbours . chaff was tested for the first time at tantallon castle in nonh time at tantallon castle in north berwick, and even largs has more stories to tell. >> hms largs was the command ship for all the land use that took place in sword beach in june 1944, so she was quite an important little ship. >> two of scotland's surviving d—day veterans passed the torch to the younger generation this week , but by the next landmark week, but by the next landmark anniversary, it will most certainly fall on the shoulders of youth to champion their story. their courage and their sacrifice . tony mcguire, gb news. >> wonderful stuff. now next we'll hear from a d—day veteran. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

>> earlier on breakfast. >> earlier on breakfast. >> it's a really fitting place to reflect on 80 years since the event that really turned everything in world war two. >> i would say i'm not the sole organiser. one of the. >> one of the many. >> one of the many. >> my great aunt was an officer in the women's royal air force. she took a contingent of women's royal air force personnel over to the continent on d—day. >> what keir starmer couldn't do is he couldn't rule out the fact that his policies, as set out by the labour party , would cost the labour party, would cost families £2,000. >> national sausage roll day, right, and greggs , the bakery right, and greggs, the bakery they have. >> look at the size of my sausage roll. >> eamonn from six. >> eamonn from six. >> it's breakfast on gb news.

>> it's breakfast on gb news. >> welcome back. time is 346. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. remember at 4:00 we'll bnng now. remember at 4:00 we'll bring you the royal british legion service live from normandy ahead of the 80th anniversary of d—day tomorrow. but before that, let's get more fallout from last night's first election tv debate and the shadow attorney general, emily thornberry, has accused the prime minister of lying when he claims that labour's plans would result in the average family paying result in the average family paying £2,000 more in tax. >> we've had a prime minister who told us that waiting lists were dropping. he lied . he told were dropping. he lied. he told us that the number of people coming in on boats had gone down. he lied. he told us that there was that labour was going to increase taxes. he lied . to increase taxes. he lied. unfortunately, we have a prime minister who is a liar and he demeans the role of the office of prime minister. he has been abusing the, the, the civil

service. and do you know what? we're furious. >> however, the conservatives have doubled down on the claim with the chief secretary to the treasury, laura trott, denying that her party is misleading the pubuc that her party is misleading the public on labour's tax plans. >> what is absolutely clear is that due to independent analysis , labour have a £38 billion black hole in their policies that will lead to £2,000 of extra taxes for every family up and down the united kingdom. >> this is underpinned overwhelmingly by hmt analysis treasury analysis. so people think that the labour party are going to win this election. they need to start saving, but it was presented as being entirely independent, wasn't it? >> those figures. >> those figures. >> and that's not quite the case, is it? they're not being misleading the public. >> no, not at all. what was very clear in the permanent secretary from the treasury's letter today is this followed a very long established process of opposition costings . it set out opposition costings. it set out very clearly on gov.uk, including all of the assumptions that have been put in there as well. we have on occasion used

the labour party's own internal analysis of these figures. we've done that to be fair. >> and now let's get back to normandy, where in a few minutes time, a royal british legion service of commemoration will take place. my gb news colleague ellie costello is there for us. ellie, welcome to the show. huge hugely emotional coverage throughout the day and yesterday you've been fantastic. the king gave an amazing speech in portsmouth earlier on. he said we are all eternally in their debt. and yet, poignantly, ellie, he referred to tragically these courageous men are now dwindling to so few. and ahead of the service this afternoon, an incredibly poignant words . an incredibly poignant words. >> incredibly poignant words there, martin. and the focus this year on d—day, 80 is truly about the word legacy . it's about the word legacy. it's heanng about the word legacy. it's hearing the story of those veterans veterans who will not be with us. unfortunately, for

many years longer. now we're in bayeux cemetery , which is the bayeux cemetery, which is the largest commonwealth war cemetery in france for second world war. the men that fell in the second world war. and i've just been speaking to a veteran here called ronald hendry, who's been speaking about his experience on d—day as an 18 year old boy from clacton. >> but what is on my left hand side are rows and rows of graves. and that's what we've really come for. and we must remember when we talk about d—day, what we've come for is this very thing. here is the boys that can't get up out of that ground, and they're the ones. i'm filling up now. that ground, and they're the ones. i'm filling up now . yeah, ones. i'm filling up now. yeah, i'm now in fact , are the ones i'm now in fact, are the ones we've we've come to honour today. not us. them . today. not us. them. >> so emotional listening to ronald hendry speak there. i

called him a hero and i thanked him at the end of our interview. and he said, i'm not a hero. the men in the ground here, they're heroes . they're the ones that heroes. they're the ones that never came home. and it is that sense of just being so humble. those men that did go home feel as though they can't be honoured because they aren't here in the ground at bayeux. but it is so important, martin, to hear their stories and to hear their legacy. and what exactly happened here 80 years ago. you might be able to hear the pipes in the background there. that is because the royal british legion is just about to start a service of commemoration . you might be of commemoration. you might be able to see our great veterans now being wheeled from the afternoon tea, which has just been hosted with the princess royal and sir timothy laurence, the veterans have been in there sharing their stories together and they're now being led, many of them now in wheelchairs, to that special service. you might be able to make out the band playing there in the background, and there is going to be a focus

on legacy, on the veterans testimony and of course, this is all going to end with an act of remembrance and wreath laying at the end, just to remember the men , the men in this very men, the men in this very cemetery and their ultimate sacrifice for our freedom . sacrifice for our freedom. >> amazing stuff. ali costello, bayeux cemetery a place i went as a boy. the magnitude, the size of it. the power of it is astonishing. thank you very much for joining us. and of course, we'll cross back for that royal british legion show. very, very soon. now, boeing's highly anticipated starliner live capsule is due to blast off from florida shortly. i think we can see now a last minute problem with the computer system delayed its launch on saturday. it's now in the in the final minutes of countdown that delay. now it's the company's first attempt to fly its spacecraft with astronauts on board the international space station .

international space station. khalife . spectacular stuff. and khalife. spectacular stuff. and you can see that that's the starliner taking off there from cape canaveral in florida. so far, it looks like a successful launch, a magnificent sight , launch, a magnificent sight, truly magnificent sight . truly magnificent sight. it's a delayed on saturday, moments before its launch , a computer before its launch, a computer failure kept this craft grounded. now it's away . grounded. now it's away. >> amazing stuff. >> amazing stuff. >> now, now, in a few moments

time , we'll bring you the royal time, we'll bring you the royal british legion service. live from normandy. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel .

good afternoon, and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. and let's take you straight to normandy. now where? in a few minutes time, a royal british legion service of commemoration will take place. and i'm joined in the studio by the military historian peter caddick—adams to talk through these at this historic event . so the service historic event. so the service is commencing now . peter, can is commencing now. peter, can you give us an idea of the

numbers of servicemen we can expect to be there today? >> yeah. i mean, sadly, there are only about 25 from the united kingdom. >> the americans have brought over nearly 50. i think there's one remaining frenchman who took part in the invasion, and but of course, we've got other servicemen up and down the united kingdom who are celebrating in their own way and probably aren't able to, to travel, so it's, it's a poignant moment because this is the last, really the very last moment that will involve people who were actually there celebrating a big anniversary of d—day. there were masses for the, the 50th. and it's been feeding ever since . it's been feeding ever since. you will remember the 75th. yes. which, which had quite a few. but this is, these valiant old warriors won't be with us for much longer . warriors won't be with us for much longer. and so clearly, we have to , commemorate their

have to, commemorate their sacrifice as a shorthand for, the 156,000 people who landed just on that day alone. >> and the youngest now is 97. >> and the youngest now is 97. >> so just underlining peter caddick—adams the age of these servicemen, the king spoke very movingly earlier on in portsmouth, said we are all eternally in their debt. and he very movingly said the courage, the resilience and solidarity of these servicemen cannot fail to move us, to inspire us and to remind us of what we owe to that great wartime generation. now, tragically dwindling to so few. >> well, i think it means a lot to the king, because, of course, his mother served in the second world war, in uniform as a member of the auxiliary territorial service , and his, territorial service, and his, his grandfather , king george vi,

his grandfather, king george vi, not only went to normandy , ten not only went to normandy, ten days after the invasion, but had served in the first world war. so there's this long tradition, even within the royal family, of smelling the gunsmoke, wearing the uniform, not just talking the uniform, not just talking the talk, but actually being actively involved in conflicts on behalf of the nation, so here we are at at bel—air. i mean, there's a huge number of british and commonwealth service personnel buried here, but it's not the only cemetery in normandy there are. there's another half dozen scattered around, much smaller, but so this is, again representative of other services that will be taking part in and around normandy . normandy. >> and it was this is chosen on the outskirts of bayeux because this is where one of the big field hospitals were , where the field hospitals were, where the wounded were taken. and those who didn't make it were, were buned who didn't make it were, were buried here on the site . so buried here on the site. so their graves haven't actually been moved since 1944.

>> and i went to this area as a teenagen >> and i went to this area as a teenager. it never, ever left me. peter, the sheer magnitude of driving through that normandy countryside, a seemingly endless sea of those tombstones , just sea of those tombstones, just orderly calm, the serenity that surrounds it. of course, very, very different scenes 80 years ago. yeah >> i mean, normandy was a, you know, very pastoral area . and, know, very pastoral area. and, when the soldiers it had survived the war very, very much intact without very much damage until the allies came, and then we absolutely welded it from the air, from the sea, the soldiers fought through it for about two months. and so the poor old normans, who themselves lost huge numbers of civilian casualties , had, you know, had casualties, had, you know, had had a fairly quiet war. there's one of the veterans in a wheelchair, and they're nearly

all wheelchair bound now, but it makes their presence there all the more poignant that they, at their age, are determined to make this final journey. >> and we spoke with one of the veterans earlier, peter. and even 80 years on, he became very, very emotional and he said, i'm not here for me. i'm here for those who didn't make it. he talked about the young lads. he saw die on the beach, drown at the sea in the hail of bullets that came out because of course, they were going on to beaches where they they were met with massive nazi resistance . with massive nazi resistance. >> yes. i mean, i was there a few years ago with one chap who commanded a tank and he said, i just want to go and have a word with my radio operator. and he went off to this quiet corner where his, you know, his, his close chum had been buried and had been killed in front of him. and so there was, you know, it it telescopes from the strategic

and hundreds of thousands of people being involved right down to the personal where you have, you know, commemoration between 1 or 2 people on that level and all these all of these are veterans and their families. let's not forget a lot of those people there in the crowds will be there commemorating, another generation, their families who fought, there in 1944, so there's a there's a round of applause there for the veterans as they finally approach the war memorial there. >> peter . >> peter. >> peter. >> yeah, it's an interesting cemetery as well. i mean, it holds all sorts of different ranks and victoria cross winners, as well as soldiers, sailors and airmen. and we have to remember that this was an all in effort. it wasn't just a ground soldiers. in effort. it wasn't just a ground soldiers . there were an ground soldiers. there were an awful lot of sailors, not just royal navy, but merchant navy

too, whose ships were sunk and they were drowned, there are guder they were drowned, there are glider troops , there are glider troops, there are paratroops, and there are airmen whose aircraft were shot down supporting the allied effort . supporting the allied effort. but not everyone here was killed on d—day itself. the campaign was, finishes in august. and so all all of the dead from any of that period are concentrated here. and it's fantastic that there commemorated and peter the return journey for these old boys must be one of very, very mixed emotions. >> on the one hand, huge pride they've made this trip. they're able they're physically able to make this trip perhaps one final time. peter. yet, as we saw with the veterans we spoke to on gb news earlier, that huge emotion you're confronted with, we grew up on the romance of war. my generation, my grandfathers, fought in this war, not at d—day, but later on. the reality came out and these lads saw

unimaginable horrors. >> yeah, i mean, i grew up in what i call the airfix school of military history, and, and when there were plenty of people who could talk to in the pub who who'd served there in, in one respect or another, and those who go back now are amazed at the commemoration and respect that they're getting. they keep saying, i'm not a hero. i was just part of a generation that was and we all did something, which is very true. but they can't. they they find it amazing that these ceremonies, the flypasts, the paratroop tours, jumping in the navy, anchored offshore , and the world leaders offshore, and the world leaders are still gathering to commemorate this , 80 years on. commemorate this, 80 years on. and it just underlines how important it is for the world, but how society has changed. you know, they they just fought in a battle they didn't expect it to be commemorated like this. and there was a re—enactment there of the paratroopers landing earlier today. >> that's around about 1

earlier today. >> that's around about1 p.m. >> that's around about 1 pm. and even seeing that, that that historic site with an echo of the past as you said, this was a battle fought on land , sea and air. >> yeah. i mean, it was the biggest thing the allies ever did in the second world war or have done since. and that's why there are a lot of military folk there are a lot of military folk there who come to study it every yeah there who come to study it every year. it's not a long lost battle that whose antics are events are gathering dust on a shelf . it's breathed in very shelf. it's breathed in very real terms , by visiting service real terms, by visiting service personnel from all the countries and plenty who who weren't necessarily directly involved. the swedes come to learn as well as the germans, the italians, the french , the british, the french, the british, canadians and americans. of course, they all have their their moments. so it's the further we go away from d—day. the curious thing is, the more , the curious thing is, the more, noise it makes and the more we

commemorate it, which i think is absolutely right. >> and the king was talking here about it's our privilege to hear these testimonies , he said so these testimonies, he said so movingly earlier at portsmouth , movingly earlier at portsmouth, peter. but he also added, our role is not purely passive . it role is not purely passive. it is our duty to ensure that we and future generations do not forget their service and their sacrifice in replacing tyranny with freedom . with freedom. >> yeah, i mean, the second world war, of course, ended in 1945, and within four years, the coalition that landed on the shores of normandy on d—day, reformed as nato. and the commander on d—day , general commander on d—day, general dwight eisenhower, became the first commander of nato. so, in a way , history didn't really a way, history didn't really stop. it just was a continuity right through to today, with that, that same theme of combating, tyranny , we have the combating, tyranny, we have the royals there .

royals there. >> you just slightly obscured, i think that is prince william and princess anne, is it? we've just come into view momentarily . come into view momentarily. >> yes. and of course, prince. princess and the princess royal, very much involved in, military observance, not least now through, through her husband , who? >> yeah, that's princess anne there . that's princess anne there. that's princess anne coming into view, as you said, that royal connection, not just one of lip service, but of actual service . actual service. >> i took some of some of the royal family that the present duke of edinburgh, duke and duchess of edinburgh on a private battlefield tour of normandy about 20 years ago. and they were very, very keen to learn . we went through the learn. we went through the cemeteries, and they wanted to know all about the headstones, the, the various units they were , colonel in chief of and it meant a great deal to them. they

took a real, real interest, and they had done a lot of reading around the, the d—day landings as well, which which brought home to me how serious they take it seriously . they take it, as it seriously. they take it, as heads of a nation , but they they heads of a nation, but they they understand , that really d—day understand, that really d—day and the events of today and tomorrow are shorthand for now, for our understanding of the second world war. this is how the second world war was fought and won. and it begins in normandy on the 6th of june. we have local dignitaries there joining the royals, and that doesit joining the royals, and that does it not. >> peter underlines and cements the huge coming together of the different nations, particularly the french, extending their gratitude during this moment they lived under nazi tyranny. the french resistance , of the french resistance, of course, were a huge part of the d—day build up, helping to disrupt and cause chaos to allow

the allies to have some degree of surprise. but the huge bonds built between the french and the allies live on all these years later . later. >> yeah, i formed a great friendship with a french resistance fighter, who i hope is still with us. jean jam, who's about 98. he he made his home in the united kingdom after the war, but he walked out of his school in the summer of 1944, joined the french resistance and was awarded a croix de guerre, a french medal for capturing germans who were on their way to try and battle the allies in normandy , and they the allies in normandy, and they made a, you know, a very impactful, impression on the battle . they stopped german battle. they stopped german reinforcements going up to the invasion front. and earlier on, of course, they they'd been gathering all the intelligence that allowed us to know where all the german positions were. the gun emplacements , the, the the gun emplacements, the, the

different tank units. and so on. so, the french were vital to, to our understanding and success of d—day. but we couldn't have done it, of course, without the resources and logistics of the americans and the canadians as well. i mean, it is really a coalition effort . coalition effort. >> and as you say, a huge plethora of other nationalities joined in. obviously the main people who get the credit are the british and the americans , the british and the americans, but a huge plethora of nationalities from around the world joined in. >> yeah. i mean, there's, there are australians there because there was a small, very small, australian contingent , but, australian contingent, but, there were norwegians in destroyers, there was a greek detachment there by stephen ambrose , operation overlord , the ambrose, operation overlord, the invasion of germany. and here we have an extract being written, but being read aloud from an american historian, stephen

ambrose, who i knew before he he he passed away a while ago, but he passed away a while ago, but he was the inspiration, in his studies and his written work for that famous movie, saving private ryan, and so he became very much the voice of d—day, 20 and 30 years ago. and his book is still very much in print. >> it all came down to a bunch of 18 to 28 year olds. >> they were magnificently trained and equipped , but only trained and equipped, but only a few of them had ever been in combat , and few of them had ever been in combat, and they had never heard a shot fired in anger. they were citizens , soldiers, not citizens, soldiers, not professionals . but when the test professionals. but when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned , they fought for or abandoned, they fought. they were soldiers of

democracy. they were the men of d—day. and to them we owe our freedom . wokester from from the freedom. wokester from from the late stephen ambrose about, the d—day landings. >> and as he said, it all boils down to a generation who were 18 and 19, who had never been in combat before. and this was their baptism of fire, if you like, and it could have all gone so horribly wrong. i mean, it was an endeavour that we now know was incredibly successful , know was incredibly successful, but there was a huge fear that it would go wrong because either the germans would react very strongly or the weather was against us. and of course, we crossed the channel in very poor weather, and, our expectations of a lot of people drowning didn't materialise . but, if you

didn't materialise. but, if you look around the headstones in the british and commonwealth war cemetery here at baor, you'll see a the majority of the ages are 18, 19, 20, 21. and it is a whole, you know, war is the business of fit young men. today more women. >> but in those days it was very much a sort of male preserve . much a sort of male preserve. >> and explain to us the flags that we're seeing on screen there, peter, the march past. yeah >> so the, the royal british legion are running this particular service and they have branches around the country and each branch has a standard or a flag and they have brought them with them. so the royal british legion are comprised personnel, and they have a branch in nearly every town and village in the united kingdom , and they're tri united kingdom, and they're tri service as well. army, navy, air

force, marines and so on, but they've all brought their standards with them. and if they're not here, they'll be doing a service somewhere in the united kingdom. and these are the standards that you see on remembrance sunday in our, towns and villages. but it's right that they're they're here. they're getting an airing in this normandy countryside that, as you reminded us, was , 80 as you reminded us, was, 80 years ago tomorrow would have been whistling with shot and shell , smoke, masses of aircraft shell, smoke, masses of aircraft overhead, and var is a small city, but the important thing about bayeux is this is where william the conqueror comes from. so the 1944 invasion is the 1066 invasion of england by william the conqueror in reverse. and it's exactly this countryside where william, duke william of normandy , as he was william of normandy, as he was then, comes from.

>> okay, now a number of british veterans have made the trip to normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d—day. one of them is ronald hendry from clacton on sea, and he's been speaking to our presenter, ellie costello. >> i was on oboe seaman on board a ship called hms ulster , which a ship called hms ulster, which was a destroyer and, it came in upon the d—day beaches at the time as we came out of the clyde. >> and when we came in out of the clyde , instead of turning the clyde, instead of turning north, we were going, i thought we were going convoy in. we turned south for some reason that we didn't understand. and then we got down to about somewhere about cornwall. turned back , went back again. couldn't back, went back again. couldn't understand that either because you must realise the royal navy in them days and they were informed the staff ever. you never knew where you were going until you actually got there. well we up and down the irish

sea and then the next thing we were on our way and it turned out it was the early light. a 5th of june to. and we came into july on the fifth. on the sixth, july on the fifth. on the sixth, july rather of 24 hours. yeah. and when we reached the, the isle of wight, where it was dark and we didn't realise that there was a fleet of ships already there, and, and i was with the ship called the belfast, and the dutch did us and also the destroyer , ondine and, and, when destroyer, ondine and, and, when we reached the isle of wight, we saw these strips of light on the water, and they were swept channels, and the four of us went through here, and it was about somewhere about midnight when the captain came on the tannoy and said to us, you will be now going to , we are now

be now going to, we are now going to, go to france to, help liberate europe from the tyranny and so forth and so on. what what the captain said officially, i can't remember , officially, i can't remember, but that was the gist of it. and i can remember , particularly at i can remember, particularly at that moment, the silence , the that moment, the silence, the silence on that ship was almost unbelievable . and, it was so unbelievable. and, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop . quiet you could hear a pin drop. you couldn't even hear the engines running and, we got over that. and at about, i suppose about 2:00 in the morning, we went to accent stations. in my particular case, that was b gundeck . i can't particular case, that was b gundeck. i can't use particular case, that was b gundeck . i can't use the word gundeck. i can't use the word scared because it was all so sudden and it was just a state of apprehension, i suppose you would call it. no, i can't say i'm scared, i don't think the fright comes until the first salvo goes, you know , and then salvo goes, you know, and then of course, you settle down to do

the job in hand . but, it was the job in hand. but, it was about somewhere about 7:00 in the morning before the, the belfast and the orion, which was in another section. so it was the belfast, the orion and the, the belfast, the orion and the, the anne diamond us opened fire at about 7:00. but what is on my left hand side are rows and rows of graves. and that's what we've really come for. and we must remember when we talk about d—day, what we've come for is this very thing. here is the boys that can't get up out of that ground, and they're the ones. i'm filling up now. that ground, and they're the ones. i'm filling up now . yeah, ones. i'm filling up now. yeah, and i in fact , are the ones and i in fact, are the ones we've, we've come to honour today. not us. them. we were the lucky ones that come back . i lucky ones that come back. i mean, i've just told you, i'm 88 plus and i've been lucky. i've

lived all these years and i've lost all that life. so my feelings are are rather temperamental. really it's, one day, one moment. my feelings go from one thing, and i feel like stewing over another thing. i pull myself together, and i'm able to remember what what i did, we were. incidentally, we fired for about well over two hours at the at particular targets in our little section , targets in our little section, which was king's section, and we fired for about, i reckon over two hours continuously. and it's the first time in my navy career that i the first time in my navy career that! ever the first time in my navy career that i ever saw a gun barrel where the paint blistered. it was so hot the gun barrel got so hot, the paint listed, and i'd never seen that before . and we never seen that before. and we got i remember i was in what was known as the 25th flotilla and

that was the u—class, and with a lead in a ship called the grenville. and that was the 25th of tiller. i'd never seen them altogether before . never, altogether before. never, ronald. thank you. but we were on that particular occasion . on that particular occasion. >> thank you so much for your time. it is an honour and a privilege to meet you. yeah. thank you so much for your service. >> well, i can i can go on and on. if you're amazing, you truly are a hero. >> thank you so much for your time. thank you. it's an honour to meet you. >> there's a heroes. they're not me. they're oh. we shall think about them at the service soon. i hope. and i'm sure we will. and you will as well. >> thank you very much. you're all heroes. thank you. >> thank you for your help. >> thank you for your help. >> it's hard, isn't it? not to get choked by that. you know, ronald hendry, they're saying they're the they're the heroes. we're the lucky ones. i've also been marking d—day on this side of the channel today. and the king and queen were amongst the guests at a national commemorative event in portsmouth, where the king appeared emotional as he paid

tribute to the courage , tribute to the courage, resilience and solidarity of veterans and prince william was also at the event. a few hours ago . ago. >> too many never returned . they >> too many never returned. they remain in some corner of a foreign field that is forever england . we will always remember england. we will always remember those who served and those who waved them off. the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters who watched their loved ones go into battle, unsure if they would ever return .today unsure if they would ever return . today we remember the bravery of those who crossed the sea to liberate europe . liberate europe. >> and the king so succinctly put it, we are all eternally in their debt . now senior labour their debt. now senior labour figures are claiming rishi sunak lied about their plans to increase tax by £2,000 in last night's tv debate. and i'm going to get to the bottom of it. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

>> earlier on breakfast. >> earlier on breakfast. >> it's a really fitting place to reflect on 80 years since the event that really turned everything in world war two. >> i would say i'm not the sole organiser. >> one of the many of the many. >> one of the many of the many. >> my great aunt was an officer in the women's royal air force. she took a contingent of women's royal air force personnel over to the continent on d—day. >> what keir starmer couldn't do is he couldn't rule out the fact that his policies, as set out by the labour party , would cost the labour party, would cost families £2,000. >> national sausage roll day, right, and greggs , the bakery right, and greggs, the bakery they have. >> look at the size of my sausage roll. >> eamonn from six. >> eamonn from six. >> it's breakfast on gb news. >> it's breakfast on gb news. >> welcome back. it's 426. i'm

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power over four years, has been accepted by people. so labour's come out all guns blazing to say the figure is a lie isn't true. the tories have hit back. they've given a briefing saying that, in fact, 21 out of out of 28 of those measures, they talked about are actually based on official treasury figures. they're not political ones. other ones are also . ones, other ones are also. ones, required per head in new taxes is actually a conservative small c guess or estimate. it's not not, not as high as they could have gone. they've also haven't included the cost of hitting the 2.5% on defence spending. for example . but earlier, here, here example. but earlier, here, here in portsmouth, sir keir starmer has been here helping with the d—day . and he was asked by d—day. and he was asked by journalists about the issue in in wales, where vaughan gething the first minister, is facing a vote of confidence and also about this question of the £2,000. and here's what he had to say .

to say. >> well, i think it's really important to see this for what it is. it's game playing by the conservatives with plied playing along as well. what vaughan gething wants to do is to deliver for the people of wales, and i think people in wales want him to deliver for them. so that's where his priority is, and that's where my priority is. it's game playing by politicians in wales . he it's game playing by politicians in wales. he wants to get on to deliver for the people of wales. he's right about that. we've been very clear throughout that all of our plans are fully costed and fully funded, and that means no tax rises for working people. and i'll spell that out. no income tax, no national insurance, no vat. what you saw last night was a prime minister with his back against the wall, desperately trying to defend 14 years of failure. resort thing. and it was a flash of his character and insight into his character to lies. i don't say that lightly to lies about labour's plans , about

about labour's plans, about health, waiting lists, about you know, the tax lies from the prime minister and after last night, i think it's really important to appreciate that the choice at the next election is even more important, because it's a choice between more of this chaos division now lies and turning the page and rebuilding with labour. >> that's keir starmer speaking in portsmouth a few moments ago, and it shows to me, i think is a memories here. martin of the 2016 brexit referendum. a big row then about £350 million a week going back to the nhs after brexit. that was disputed at the time, but it kind of supports the guy. the election has just got started in big time. okay well that was a claim on the side of a bus. >> chris, you're all aboard the labour battle bus and will cross back to you because i know you've got an exclusive for us in the next hour on the nhs from sir keir starmer.

in the next hour on the nhs from sir keir starmer . that's all to sir keir starmer. that's all to come. thank you very much, chris. i've just heard that the first minister of wales, vaughan gething, is facing a vote of no confidence, less than three months after he got the job, and we'll cross live to wales a little later this hour to cover that story. but first, this your headunes that story. but first, this your headlines with polly middlehurst . and. >> the headlines this hour, commemoration events have been taking place in portsmouth and in normandy in france , marking in normandy in france, marking 80 years since the d—day landings . speaking earlier on landings. speaking earlier on today, his majesty the king paid tribute to veterans, saying their stories could not fail to inspire the nation and the prime minister, rishi sunak, as well as the labour leader sir keir starmer, are also attending the event alongside the king, queen and prince of wales as well as armed forces veterans. in other news today, sir keir starmer has branded rishi sunak a liar over claims he's made about labour tax costs in last night's

television debate, the prime minister alleged repeatedly that sir keir starmers party have a £38 billion black hole in their financial plans. £38 billion black hole in their financial plans . the labour financial plans. the labour leader says it's a desperate lie i >> -- >> it's unforgivable what's happened to the nhs and to come into power for 14 years and leave the nhs in a worse state than when you found it, is unforgivable in politics. and rishi sunak stood 18 months ago, janet and said that those waiting lists, which are now nearly 8 million, he said he'd get them down. he'd made a promise , he said he'd be held promise, he said he'd be held accountable. they were 7.2 million at the time. now they're 7.5 million. so they've gone up . 7.5 million. so they've gone up. and that bears down on the nhs . and that bears down on the nhs. >> and the welsh first minister could lose a vote of no confidence in the senate this afternoon because two of his labour members are unwell . show labour members are unwell. show live scenes if we can, in cardiff, where that debate is getting underway. the conservatives brought that motion following the collapse of a cooperation deal between

vaughan gething applied cumrag reports suggesting he won't resign even if he does lose because it isn't a binding vote. we're expecting that vote to happen around 6:00 tonight. full coverage and analysis in the build up to that happening in martin daubney show next. those are the headlines. for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites . carmelites. >> thanks very much, polly, and thanks to everyone who's got in touch today via your age. we've got a huge amount of very emotional messages. on the topic of d—day, i read out a few of those messages about d—day and those messages about d—day and those incredible men who helped to liberate europe. a little later in the show, and if you want to have your say, there's plenty of time to do it. and here's bev turner with all of the details. >> we are proud to be gb news the people's channel. and as you know, we always love to hear your views. now there's a new

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now. later in the show, we'll get reaction to the shock news. the one of coronation street's most famous stars is to leave the soap after 50 years on the cobbles . before that, rishi cobbles. before that, rishi sunak and sir keir starmer went head to head last night in their first tv debate and the issue of tax was one of the hot topics. but the prime minister reiterating his claim a labour government would increase taxes by over £2,000 for every household . household. >> the choice that this election is, with my clear plan and bold action to keep cutting your taxes to give you financial security or put all that progress at risk with higher taxes, £2,000 worth of higher taxes, £2,000 worth of higher taxes under the labour. >> well, joining us now is gb news economics and business editor liam halligan to make sense of this with on the money liam halligan an absolute delight to have you on the show. as ever, it's all kicked off.

he's a liar. we're furious, said emily thornberry earlier on jonathan, they're all going mad about this earlier on. now what you're telling me liam halligan £2,000. the figures are coming under some dispute of their their repute, their origin. can you help a simple man like me make sense of this? >> i can only try, martin. i can only work with the raw material that i've got. so let's. let's have a go, shall we? look, there's still a month to go before polling day on july the 4th. and already the jabbing fingers are being pointed. the politico fur is flying. but what is actually happening here? a lot of the voting public, the cheesed off british public, is looking on saying why are these mad politicians? why are they going bananas? why are they having rows about economic forecasts built on complex assumptions in 2029 to 2030 that probably won't come true anyway, given, as harold macmillan said ,

given, as harold macmillan said, events, dear boy events, what's actually happened here? let's have a look at a gb news on the money graphics. it wouldn't be on the money without a graphic, would it? let's take let's have a look at some of these details of this row. all this stemmed from last night's leaders debate on itv , where sunak and starmer on itv, where sunak and starmer went head to head and rishi sunak was claiming repeatedly it was like a tory attack line. labour will put up your taxes by £2,000 for every household . the £2,000 for every household. the prime minister kept saying it again and again, like a kind of campaigning machine gun. the tories said starmer, has repeated has pushed back against this. but the tories have been saying that this £2,000 for every household number, it's backed by treasury analysis showing that there's a £385 showing that there's a £38.5 billion black hole in labour's spending plans. if you divide that by the number of households in the uk , you get two grand. in in the uk, you get two grand. in terms of the tax bill, according

to the tories . terms of the tax bill, according to the tories. but a tory cabinet minister had to concede this morning on the radio that that two grand wasn't. every year it's over the next four years. so it's still a lot of money but a lot less than was claimed. and then, in a blow for the tories , is the treasury's the tories, is the treasury's permanent secretary. the permanent secretary. the permanent secretary, the kind of senior civil servant, the person that oversees whitehall's most important department, which is the treasury. he wrote a public letter sort of chiding the tories, saying look, there was some basis, some treasury basis to this number that you've put out and you're using some treasury components in terms of the costing of labour's spending plans. but you've made all kinds of other assumptions, political assumptions, to get to your £2,000 for every household over four years tax figure. so don't go around claiming that they are treasury figures . the treasury treasury figures. the treasury has not been involved in these tory estimates , says the tory estimates, says the permanent secretary. look, so this is kind of backfired on the

tories. they're now claiming that it's all straight up. all the numbers are kosher, if you like, but what does this amount to? it's sort of campaigning by spreadsheet . what's happened to spreadsheet. what's happened to political rhetoric? what's happened to leadership ? what's happened to leadership? what's happened to leadership? what's happened to leadership? what's happened to charisma? what's happened to charisma? what's happened to charisma? what's happened to telling car parks full of british voters in the rain and at village halls around the country and standing on a soapbox and saying, i have this vision for our country. follow me. i will take you there. it's going to be tough, but these are the choices i'm giving you compared to the other people , compared to the other people, labour and the tories spending plans. you literally can barely get a cigarette paper between them, and they're arguing about minuscule differences. as forecasted, four and five years hence. i'm a trained economist, a highly trained economist, probably the only one who's regularly on television. and let me tell you, forecasting the pubuc me tell you, forecasting the public finances is to, you know, many decimal places, 4 or 5 years hence. you might as well get a medicine man to do a rain

dance. i mean, this is not science . this is a very grubby science. this is a very grubby art in the, in the rather, not particularly positive sense of the word art. i don't like to see politicians rowing about inane economic assumptions when they should really, at a time of real concern for the country, when an awful lot of people out there are worried about getting through this cost of living crisis, worried about the economic security of themselves, their children and their grandchildren. do we really want to see two extremely wealthy men wanging on about economic assumptions , about forecasts assumptions, about forecasts four and five years hence? i'm a trained economist. i should like that sort of thing. i don't like it, and i'm sure a lot of the pubuc it, and i'm sure a lot of the public doesn't like it either. >> well, liam halligan, we've always enjoyed the way you boil it down to bite size chunks, but the point is this that £2,000 figure, it may be of dubious origin, but it's stuck. everybody's talking about it. liam >> and this is the ultimate

cynicism of modern politics. you put something out there , you put something out there, you know it's going to wind up the opposition. you know the opposition. you know the opposition are going to contest it, as labour have, in my view , it, as labour have, in my view, on this occasion. i'm not a partisan reporter on this occasion. i'm still weighing up the evidence, but it seems to me for now in terms of the battle of the spreadsheets, labour has got the better of the tories in terms of credibility , at least terms of credibility, at least on this £2,000 figure. but the tories know know that we're all talking about it. so it's £2,000 tax, £2,000 tax, £2,000 of tax. who's going to remember in the pub that it's not over a year, it's over four years. who's going to remember that. this is based on assumptions by special advisers rather than neutral treasury economists . this is treasury economists. this is what happens when you get really, really, really into the weeds. we should be looking into the weeds of what the government has done and the government's response to that, rather than trying to get into the weeds of future forecasts, which take it

from me, are little more than educated guesswork at best. so i want to see lots of positive campaigning. i absolutely abhor the fact that frontbenchers on both the main parties now are now routine. in calling the other side liars, liars, pants on fires. what kind of example is that to our kids and to the world? we are one of the world's leading democracies. westminster is the mother of parliaments. it is the mother of parliaments. it is lauded around the world. and yet our politics is becoming increasingly over combative and, increasingly over combative and, in my view, light on detail and big on heat, low on light. >> liam halligan masterfully put as ever, boiled down with succinctness clarity , succinctness clarity, digestibility. always an absolute pleasure. liam halligan always on the money. thank you very much for being on the show. thank you. good lad. now vaughan gething has been first minister of wales for less than 11 weeks,

but he's already facing a vote of no confidence. how has it gone wrong for him so i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's

welcome back. it's 10 to 5. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. at 5:00, we'll cross live to normandy as we mark the 80th anniversary of d—day. which, of course, is tomorrow. before that , the labour welsh first minister, vaughan gething, is about to face a vote of no confidence in the welsh senate . confidence in the welsh senate. he appeared to get emotional earlier during the debate ahead of the vote and was comforted. mr gething was only elected in march but has had a turbulent first few months. he's been criticised for accepting campaign donations from a man convicted of environmental offences, and the cooperation deal between labour and plaid cymru has collapsed, and i'm now

joined by martin shipton, who is the associate editor of nation . the associate editor of nation. comrie, thanks for joining the associate editor of nation. comrie, thanks forjoining us on comrie, thanks for joining us on the show. martin martin, a dramatic moment, a huge vote ahead. what can we expect, what it is. >> and i think to the surprise of many people, there is a very strong possibility that vaughan gething is going to lose this vote, people need to understand that the mathematics are very finely balanced. >> in the senedd, there are 30 labour members and 30 opposition members and therefore in the normal course of events, if there were a tied vote, the presiding officer would vote in favour of the status quo , which favour of the status quo, which would effectively mean that vaughan gething would get through. however there are a couple of labour members who are ill and they are not going to be participating in this event at all, which means that the opposition has the majority. so therefore we're going to be faced with a position where it's extremely likely that the first minister will be the subject of

this no confidence vote and that he will lose it. now, the thing is that it's supposed to be technically a non—binding, vote, which means that he's not obuged which means that he's not obliged under the constitution to stand down, even though the senedd will have voted, a motion of no confidence in him. and the indications are that he's going to try and tough it out and stay on. even though a majority of senate members voting have voted against him, which is an unusual, extremely unusual constitutional position. >> so most likely, martin, as you say, he will lose that vote, but he'll just carry on as normal anyway. but will that leave him mortally wounded in terms of his credibility moving forward ? forward? >> well, i think that already in wales he's lost an awful lot of credibility. a polls show that , credibility. a polls show that, i think he's got a negative rating where about 60% of the people think that, you know, he, his has behaved badly and therefore he doesn't have the

credibility. and normally, of course, wales is a labour, inclined country, and you would expect the labour leader to have a considerable degree of support, but that just isn't happening now. and i think he's lost a lot of credibility. and since the story first broke in february about this massive £200,000 donation from this convicted criminal, and it was nafion convicted criminal, and it was nation coverage that actually broke that story, there's been a succession of scandals that have hit him and, you know, barely a day goes by without somebody coming forward with some new piece of information, which is to his discredit. piece of information, which is to his discredit . and i really to his discredit. and i really don't think that it's sustainable for him to go on for much longer. >> okay. all eyes on the senate that vote is coming very shortly. thanks for joining that vote is coming very shortly. thanks forjoining us on the show, martin shipton, the associate editor of nation. comrie, thank you very much. now i've got a quick email to read before we go. we've had loads and loads of emails on the topic of d—day, of course, and in particular, sophie reaper at the top of the three got very

emotional on her report from normandy and a load of you have said they will send their best wishes. bill says this i was watching sophie at the cemetery in normandy and i had tears streaming down my face. it was just so emotional . helen has just so emotional. helen has this quickly sophie reaper reduced me to tears with the emotion she showed talking to those very, very brave heroes that gave everything for us. now there's a new way to get in touch with me @gbnews and post your comments. gbnews.com/yoursay of course, it's been a very, very emotional day in normandy, where services have been taking place to mark the 80th anniversary of d—day, we had the royal british legion service earlier, and we'll have more coverage from normandy after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel. but first, here's your weather with annie shuttleworth. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

solar sponsors of weather on. gb news. hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it should stay fairly dry and bright for many southern and central areas through the rest of the day, but showers will persist across the north and west, and here it's going to feel particularly cool for the next couple of days. in fact, we've got a cold air mass across the uk. it's fairly cold for the time of year and it's being brought in by this brisk northwesterly wind. and where the winds are quite strong. across the northwest there will be a cool feel this evening and some fairly persistent showers. there's a risk of some hail and thunderstorms in there. we could also see some showers moving into north western england, parts of wales into the midlands overnight and that will introduce a bit more cloud. so it will be a milder night for these areas overnight. but still across where we see the skies clearest overnight across eastern areas of scotland, we could see a touch of grass frost by tomorrow morning. so another fairly chilly start for some of us into thursday, but a good amount of sunshine across eastern areas of scotland, across aberdeenshire, down towards the lothians and the borders as well further north

and west, though, some fairly persistent heavy showers . and persistent heavy showers. and we'll see those rainfall totals start to build up. so you could see some spray on the roads in these areas, northwestern england as well as into wales. the midlands see a risk of some showers, but many of us are waking up to a dry and bright start tomorrow. once again. despite the chilly feel, it's going to be another cool feeling day. still fairly brisk northwesterly winds across the northwest, but elsewhere the winds will be a little bit lighter . so winds will be a little bit lighter. so in any sunshine, particularly across the south and in central areas of england and in central areas of england and wales, it's not going to feel too bad at all temperatures still climbing up towards the mid—teens. we could see 19 degrees across the south. it's a little lower than it has been lately, but as i said, it won't feel too bad in the sunshine in the south. but still, that cool feel will persist across the northwest of scotland in particular, but also northern ireland. southern areas of scotland as well. through a lot of thursday evening as well. further showers to come a bit more widely on friday before it turns a little bit dry and brighter into the weekend, with temperatures climbing a little.

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. all across the uk. on today's show, keir starmer has hit back at criticisms over comments he made in a live tv debate last night over using private health care and a day of events to mark the 80th anniversary of d—day, has seen british paratroopers land in normandy to pay tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives when they liberated northern france eight years ago tomorrow. and the king queen and prince of wales have led commemorations for the bravery of the soldiers at a national

eventin of the soldiers at a national event in portsmouth , we'll bring event in portsmouth, we'll bring you live coverage of d—day, 80th anniversary events throughout the rest of the show and at the end of an era in coronation street , as end of an era in coronation street, as helen worth announced that she'll quit after playing gail platt for an astonishing 50 years. that's all coming up in your next hour . what the show your next hour. what the show delight to have your company also vaughan gething. the welsh first minister is about to face that vote of no confidence, which is expected to lose. we'll have that as it comes through. plus coming very soon. an exclusive new line from chris hope, who's been speaking to labour leader sir keir starmer. a few moments ago in portsmouth last night on the tv debate , last night on the tv debate, people's jaws hit the floor when keir starmer was asked would you use private health care in

britain if a relative of yours was on a long nhs waiting list? and he said no . well, we've and he said no. well, we've unearthed coverage previously where he said actually the labour party should be using more of the private service on health care fronts and indeed, where's street agrees. we put him on the spot. we've got that coming up for you very, very soon, so don't go anywhere now. get in touch with all your views, hundreds of comments coming in. you all say he's on the topic of d—day already. you're as emotional as we are out there. please keep them coming in. i'll read out as many as i can before the end of the show. and the way to do that, of course, is gbnews.com forward slash your say. but before all of that it's your headlines with polly middlehurst . polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you and good evening to you. well, our top story from the newsroom tonight is that his majesty the king

says the uk is eternally indebted to those who fought and lost their lives on d—day, 80 years ago. events have been taking place in france and in portsmouth, where eight decades ago, 150,000 men set off from for and the largest seaborne invasion in history. hundreds of personnel parachuted into normandy to remember those who did the same all those years ago. well, speaking earlier, king charles paid tribute to veterans, saying their stories could not fail to inspire the nation. >> let us once again commit ourselves always to remember , ourselves always to remember, cherish and honour those who served that day and to live up to the freedom they died for by balancing rights with civic responsibilities to our country. for we are all eternally in their debt .

their debt. >> his majesty the king, well away from d—day commemorations lie—ins and on to politics now. and sir keir starmer has branded rishi sunak a liar over claims he made about labour's tax costs in last night's television debate . the prime minister debate. the prime minister alleged repeatedly that sir keir starmers party have a £38 billion black hole in their financial plans, but the labour leader says that's a lie . leader says that's a lie. >> what you saw last night was a prime minister with his back against the wall, desperately trying to defend 14 years of failure. resort thing. and it was a flash of his character and insight into his character to lies. i don't say that lightly to lies about labour's plans , to lies about labour's plans, about health, waiting lists, about health, waiting lists, about , you know, the tax lies about, you know, the tax lies from the prime minister >> meanwhile, the energy secretary, claire coutinho , secretary, claire coutinho, disagreed with that. she instead

reiterated the prime minister's claims keir starmer couldn't do. >> is he couldn't rule out the fact that his policies, as set out by the labour party, would cost families £2,000 in extra taxes and he couldn't rule out the fact that pensioners, for the fact that pensioners, for the first time under labour plans , would have to pay tax on plans, would have to pay tax on their state pension next year. and actually that's the substance of what people are choosing between. and i really thought actually it was quite shocking that on all of those major issues, keir starmer was woolly. he didn't have any clear plans or proposals to address some of the challenges that the country is facing . country is facing. >> claire coutinho well, in more exclusive election news, sir keir starmer has been defending his choice to rely solely on the nhs, despite earning £128,000 a year as an mp and opposition leader. in an interview, the labour leader told gb news he has unwavering confidence in the health service and referenced his life saving treatment that his life saving treatment that his mother received. he says it

was the nhs that pulled her through. >> every time i grew up with my mum's suffering, she was extremely ill, she nearly died several times and she was treated on every occasion by the nhs on an urgent basis. i have 100% confidence in the nhs and thatis 100% confidence in the nhs and that is why i wouldn't use anything other than the nhs and i wouldn't for my relatives. but this is a lived experience for me because as i was growing up, particularly when i was a teenager, i was in the high dependency unit with my mum and we nearly lost her a number of times. but she was absolutely clear that it was the nhs that pulled her through. every time i say thank you to them and i would use them and when you dpp sir keir starmer well, extraordinary scenes today in the welsh senate, the welsh first minister has been spotted crying during a debate ahead of a vote of no confidence on his leadership. >> let's show you those live scenes then. inside the cardiff senate, where debate is now taking place, the conservatives brought a motion of no

confidence following the collapse of a cooperation deal between vaughan gething and plaid. kumri reports are suggesting , though he won't suggesting, though he won't resign. and even if he does lose because it isn't a binding, a binding vote, we're expecting that vote to happen around 6:00 tonight. full coverage right here. gp news the liberal democrat leader, sir ed davey, has apologised for speeding, saying he missed the temporary signs on the m1 in bedfordshire. he says he quite rightly paid a fine and had three points added to his license . he was caught to his license. he was caught doing 73 miles an hour in a 60 zone. he also said the failure to provide documentation had been a genuine oversight, with the case brought before magistrates in march. and lastly, today, the first banknotes carrying the portrait of king charles will go into circulation today notes that still feature the image of her late majesty queen elizabeth ii will remain legal tender and

circulate alongside those beanng circulate alongside those bearing the king's image. the new notes will only be printed to replace those that are worn, or to meet any overall increase in demand. in order to minimise the environmental and financial impact of the change. that's the news. for the latest stories. do you sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. >> thank you very much, polly. now first up, this hour a row is hotting up over comments made by sir keir starmer on last night's tv debate on the use of private health care. now the labour leader said he wouldn't go private even to save the life of a relative, insisting instead he stick with the nhs. well, he's hit back at that criticism and let's speak now to our political edhon let's speak now to our political editor, chris hope, who's on the labour battle bus. chris, welcome to the show. it was an

astonishing admission last night. today, chris, everybody is talking about tax and the battle back over that £2,000 claim. but an astonishing claim that sir keir starmer made when he was asked if a relative was on a long waiting list. would he go private? he said no. people's jaws hit the floor, particularly considering he earns a good amount of money. so you put this question to him. what did he say ? >> 7- >> that's 7 >> that's right. martin. yeah, it was surprising, wasn't it, that that individual may be paid 120, £22,000 just by parliament, wouldn't want to use some of that money to alleviate a relative who's suffering , who's relative who's suffering, who's saving care. but he said no last night and i chose to ask him the same question again, challenged him about that question for gb news just now in portsmouth. here's what he had to say. >> i grew up with my mum's suffering. she was extremely ill. she nearly died several

times and she was treated on every occasion by the nhs on an urgent basis. i have 100% confidence in the nhs and that is why i wouldn't use anything other than the nhs and i wouldn't for my relatives. but this is a lived experience for me because as i was growing up, particularly when i was a teenager , i was in the high teenager, i was in the high dependency unit with my mum and we nearly lost her a number of times. but she was absolutely clear that it was the nhs that pulled her through. every time i say thank you to them and i would use them when you dpp, you did have it, then . did have it, then. >> and at the end there i also asked him when he was director of public prosecutions, if he actually paid for private health care, then he said no , no, i care, then he said no, no, i think that's quite interesting. he's paid £122,000 as mp and party leader. his wife works, but were his children or any family members to get very , very family members to get very, very ill waiting for treatment in an nhs queue and there's lots of

people doing that. he wouldn't pay people doing that. he wouldn't pay for help , pay for health pay for help, pay for health care, and that's a choice which many people choose to take private health care. he wouldn't. and that says something about his principles. >> it does perhaps , chris, and >> it does perhaps, chris, and fair play to him. but it's also worth pointing out that in previous interviews, when he's been specifically asked on the labour party's policy regarding using private health care to alleviate the burden from the nhs, he said a very different thing in an interview with sky news last january , when pushed news last january, when pushed on this matter, he said one of the issues we've looked at is whether we're using the private sector effectively. a number of people do go from the nhs to the private sector. our research shows that this has been underused and we could do more of it, and that would help to clear 230,000 people off those waiting lists. and when he was further pushed, so more use of the private sector under labour, he simply answered yes , yes, he simply answered yes, yes, i mean, you're totally right,

martin. >> the difference there, of course , is and wes streeting has course, is and wes streeting has told us on your programme, hasn't he, that he would use private health care to clear the entire nhs waiting list if he could. i think what's happening here, labour aren't saying that you or i or anybody can't use private health care. he's saying that the keir starmer as leader of the opposition, even faced with, you know, a child, a loved one in severe pain, wouldn't try to get earlier treatment by paying to get earlier treatment by paying for it. and, you know, that's quite a challenge for him. but that's where he sits. >> okay. i mean, some may say it's a very principled stand. others may say it directly contradicts his own policy platform. but chris, help. thank you very much for putting sir keir starmer on the spot in portsmouth. and good luck on labour's battlebus cross back to you soon and throughout the week. always a pleasure. thank you very much. now moving on to the events to mark tomorrow's 80th anniversary of d—day and earlier today, british paratroopers parachuted into normandy back in 1944, airborne

landings on the 5th of june played a crucial role in making d—day the success it proved to be in the last surviving d—day. veterans have also been attending commemoration events in northern france as they look to pay tribute to their fallen comrades on the very soil where they fell. and probably for the last time earlier on, we spoke to d—day veteran ronald hendry. >> but what was on my left hand side are rows and rows of graves, and that's what we've really come for. and we must remember when we talk about d—day, what we've come for is this very thing. here is the boys that can't get up out of that ground, and they're the ones. i'm filling up. that ground, and they're the ones. i'm filling up . yeah, i'm. ones. i'm filling up. yeah, i'm. and i in fact , are the ones and i in fact, are the ones we've, we've come to honour today. not us. them >> you now see in that clip a

number of times today. >> you now see in that clip a number of times today . and it number of times today. and it still gets me every time. and a number of british veterans have made the trip to normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d—day. and that was ronald hendry from clacton on sea. he'll be speaking to ellie costello now. we've been marking the d—day on this side of the channel today as well. and earlier on the king and the queen were among the guests at the national commemorative event in portsmouth, where the king appeared emotional as he paid tribute to the courage, resilience and the solidarity of veterans. and prince william was also at the event. a few hours ago . ago. >> too many never returned . they >> too many never returned. they remain in some corner of a foreign field that is forever england . we will always remember england. we will always remember those who served and those who waved them off. the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters , fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters who watched their loved ones go into battle , their loved ones go into battle, unsure if they would ever return

.today unsure if they would ever return . today we remember the bravery of those who crossed the sea to liberate europe . liberate europe. >> and the king also emotionally added such stories of courage, resilience and solidarity . we resilience and solidarity. we cannot fail to move us, to inspire us, and to reminders of what we owe to that great wartime generation. now, tragically dwindling to so few, finally saying we are all eternally in their debt and they get lots more on the d—day commemorations on our websites, of course. and thanks to you, gbnews.com is the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got breaking news and all of the brilliant analysis you've come to expect from us here @gbnews now, next, i'm going to discuss the safety of politicians during this election campaign. and this, of course, follows the attack on nigel farage yesterday in which he had milkshake thrown over

him. should this be clamped down on or should it just be a part of the campaign trail? looking forward to a fierce debate on this. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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a wide range of issues, starting with last night's tv debate between rishi sunak and sir keir starmer , and i think viewers can starmer, and i think viewers can make their own mind up about that spectacle . that spectacle. >> i'm here to talk about liberal democrat policies on health and the economy and the environment, on this tax question, the joke is that rishi sunak knows more about putting up tax than any prime minister in history . up tax than any prime minister in history. he's put up taxes to record levels. >> and what he didn't say last night, and what liberal democrats are criticising the conservatives for in their election program. they've got more tax rises in the budget . more tax rises in the budget. >> jeremy hunt has admitted he's increasing taxes throughout most of the next parliament. >> that's a conservative record . >> that's a conservative record. >> that's a conservative record. >> you it's emerged, got done for speeding , doing 73 miles >> you it's emerged, got done for speeding, doing 73 miles an hourin for speeding, doing 73 miles an hour in a 60 zone. why were you going so far over the speed limit? >> it's not really. >> it's not really. >> well, no, i was sorry about that. it was on the m1, there was a temporary speed, notice

for a period, and i'm afraid i missed it, so i apologise and paid the fine. >> quite rightly so, you're visiting a care home today? >> this is something that is very close to your heart. >> you made a big announcement yesterday. >> you've said that you want to be the voice of carers. can you tell to people who may not know about you a bit, about your own personal experience, why it is so important to you? >> yeah, i've been a carer much of my life , my father died when of my life, my father died when i was four and my mum became ill when i was nine and then terminally ill when i was 12. >> and my brother and i looked after her until she died when i was 15, so that's quite an experience, i was very close to her, then my nan and grandad started looking after me. and then when my lovely gnaana, my mum's mum, became frail, i looked after her quite a lot . looked after her quite a lot. >> and i loved going around care homes like we are today, because it reminds me of my lovely nana, and then i, my wife and i have a

lovely son called john who's quite severely disabled. he has an undiagnosed brain condition, which means he can't walk or talk. >> and he's 24 seven care. >> and he's 24 seven care. >> and he's 24 seven care. >> and we're have a wonderful relationship with him. >> so i know a lot about caring. >> so i know a lot about caring. >> and it's both a tough job at times , but it has that way that times, but it has that way that you get very close to your loved one, but because i've had that experience, i've said i wanted to be the voice of carers, the liberal democrats have always championing the carers for many years now, and i want to use my experience to promote our policies to, to help carers, whether they're paid carers, working wonderful care homes as we are here today, or the millions of family carers who look after loved ones at home. >> why do you think it is that successive governments have just neglected the whole issue of social care? and what does it say about our society that this is just sidelined over and over ' 7 m. again? >> i think too many politicians

don't seem to understand it, and that means you're letting down the people who need the care. >> you're looking after, letting down the loved ones who are helping and providing that care. and actually, you're ultimately you're looking, you're letting down the nhs. i mean, one of the key things that liberal democrats are saying in this election, if you want to rescue the nhs from the mess that it's in, a key part of our solution is to really support social care by paying care workers more and also supporting family carers more who do the vast bulk of the caring. if we did that so much better, it would relieve the nhs so much . so much. >> there are people stuck in hospital, tens of thousands now as we speak, who could go home, are ready to go home, ready to be discharged and it's terrible for them and their families that they're stuck in hospital. >> they want to be at home. but the care packages and the support for family carers just isn't there. >> and that means that the nhs is at its knees. it means people are being treated in hospital corridors, which is dangerous and undignified because the beds

aren't there, because people aren't there, because people aren't being discharged . so if aren't being discharged. so if you have an overview of the health service, you know that social care and family carers are utterly key to sorting out the nhs. >> and just finally , today >> and just finally, today you're talking about a potential £18 billion black hole because of long term sickness. >> you're wanting mental health mots can you tell us a bit about what you're proposing and how we'll be paid for? >> well, the evidence shows that certain times of your life people get under mental health stress sometimes when they become a parent for the first time when they retire, and at other stages. >> and if we could provide special mott for their mental health at those moments and would also look at children and young people actually as a priority, then you can then really turn things around. and for our economy , it means that for our economy, it means that many people could be able to go back into work. >> so it's a really essential investment for our economy to . investment for our economy to. >> and just finally, you've been

at the d—day commemorate lie—ins. it's incredibly important , lie—ins. it's incredibly important, isn't it, to mark this, just to comment on that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, listening to some of the veterans, seeing them and imagining what it must have been like to be a late teenager and early 20s and going on to those beaches and thinking of how the whole country had that effort to fight for freedom and for democracy. it was a moment we should always remember, always recollect, and it brings me back to my own grandparents, my nan and grandad, because my dad, my granddad, fought in the war in nonh granddad, fought in the war in north africa, in italy, and my lovely nana used to look after evacuees from the east end of london and talking to some of the residents here, they have memories of what it was like growing up during those war years, and i don't think we should ever forget the sacrifices people made . sacrifices people made. >> now , a 25 year old woman has >> now, a 25 year old woman has been formally charged with assault and criminal damage relating to an incident yesterday in which nigel farage

had a milkshake thrown at him. and we can't do talk too much about that incident because of the charge . but it does raise the charge. but it does raise the charge. but it does raise the whole issue of politicians safety during this general election campaign . you see election campaign. you see pictures on your screen there of nigel farage in the aftermath of that milkshaking incident. that's our topic of debate today, and i'm joined now by the former labour aide stella isaac levido and political commentator alex armstrong, who both join me now , why don't we start with now, why don't we start with you, stella? because there's been a curious reaction to this, owen jones, left, commentator called it art. stand up to racism , who basically are racism, who basically are fronted by diane abbott , posted fronted by diane abbott, posted a laughing emoji above it. is it really a laughing matter when a standing politician is assaulted like this, i think we can definitely make light of a milkshake because it is not actual physical violence . actual physical violence. >> i do not condone her actions. i think it was misjudged. i

think it's definitely a bad thing to do, especially because what have you achieved now? we are talking about this and all the headlines are about the milkshake on nigel farage's face, rather than actual policies and debate. but i don't think it's physical violence. john edwards from the new statesman made a very good point that, look, if you don't think that, look, if you don't think that it's violence with nigel. yeah, sure. >> okay. stella, can we please not talk about this specific incident and let's keep it generally on the issue of political violence. alex, can i cut to you now? is this type of behaviour towards any politician acceptable ? acceptable? >> no, it's absolutely not acceptable . acceptable. >> and there's many reasons why it isn't. you know, let's just take anyone who would be in that environment like, you know , environment like, you know, throwing something over a politician, perhaps thinking about it and a random person walks up to them and says, hey, i've got this here, this milkshake or something like that. >> why didn't you chuck that over this? this politician, that person may not even know what they're holding. it could be something extremely dangerous, like acid. you know, acid attacks are at an all time high, particularly in london. >> but across the country in

general . and we're seeing the general. and we're seeing the death of multiple mps, not just here in the uk but in europe. >> we just had a former a current prime minister, sitting prime minister in europe, shot multiple times . multiple times. >> we need to get much tougher. you know, this is not the 1990s anymore. >> there is a serious rise in crime against politicians. >> there's a lot of hatred towards them and the left making fun of it all, making fun of things like this, saying it's just a milkshake or it's just an 999 just a milkshake or it's just an egg throw at somebody are completely missing the point. >> there would be absolute outrage if something like this had happened to angela rayner or jess phillips . jess phillips. >> you know, there would be cries of the far right, the far right, and all this nonsense, but as soon as it happens to someone they disagree with, they're very happy to laugh about it. but the double standards are pretty clear to most people in the public. >> stella. >> stella. >> alex, that was a terrible argument. you said this was this is not the 1990s. you are suggesting that politicians used to be used to be safer. actually, politicians used to get killed. they did use to politicians used to get murdered a lot more often in the past.

and i'm going to remind you that ed miliband got egged. john prescott got let's alex let stella talk. >> then you get your go. >> then you get your go. >> stella blair got egged. politicians are not. they didn't used to be safer. and it is not the same. this is not having a milkshake thrown at you is not the same as having political, actual political violence. i do not condone the action, but politicians, the world over have eggs thrown at them all the time. all right, we have to move on, again, we can't talk too much about that incident . just much about that incident. just the notion in general that we can all agree political violence. i hope you all agree political violence of any form against any politician, of any stripe has no place in modern politics. thank you very much. stella and alex, for that debate. now there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00 and later this hour i'll be joined by coronation street legend after a corrie star said she's leaving the fabled cobbles after an astonishing 50 years. but first it's your headlines with polly middlehurst.

>> first of all, let's bring you some breaking news from wales, where first minister vaughan gething has lost a vote of no confidence tabled by the welsh conservatives . let's show you conservatives. let's show you the live scenes from cardiff, where that vote has just taken place. the conservatives brought the motion following the collapse of a cooperation deal between mr gething and plaid kumri. vaughan gething has only been first minister since march. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has given his backing to the party's leader in wales, telling reporters on the campaign trail today mr gething has been doing a great job. this is, of course, a breaking news story. more details published soon. but that is the outcome of that vote in the senate in wales. meanwhile veterans from across the world have been marking the 80th anniversary of d—day . considering the beginning d—day. considering the beginning considered to be the beginning of the end of world war ii, events have been taking place in

france and in portsmouth, where 80 years ago, 150,000 men set off for the largest seaborne invasion in history. speaking earlier, his majesty the king paid tribute to those veterans, saying their stories could not fail to inspire the nation . fail to inspire the nation. >> let us once again commit ourselves always to remember, cherish and honour those who served that day and to live up to the freedom they died for by balancing rights with civic responsibilities to our country . responsibilities to our country. for we are all eternally in their debt . their debt. >> well, as far as the election is concerned, sir keir starmer has branded rishi sunak a liar over claims he made about labour's tax costs in last night's television debate , the night's television debate, the prime minister alleged repeatedly that sir keir starmer's party have a £38

billion black hole in their financial plans. billion black hole in their financial plans . the labour financial plans. the labour leader says that's a lie . now, leader says that's a lie. now, in more exclusive election news, sir keir starmer has defended his choice to rely solely on the nhs despite earning a six figure salary. in an interview, the labour leader told gb news he has unwavering confidence in the health service and referenced the life saving treatment his own mother received on the nhs. he says that pulled her through every time i grew up with my mum's suffering, she was extremely ill, she nearly died several times and she was treated on every occasion by the nhs on an urgent basis. >> i have 100% confidence in the nhs and that is why i wouldn't use anything other than the nhs and i wouldn't for my relatives. but this is a lived experience for me because as i was growing up, particularly when i was a teenager, i was in the high dependency unit with my mum and we nearly lost her a number of times, but she was absolutely clear that it was the nhs that pulled her through every time i

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financial report. >> thank you. we have a huge amount of your sales coming in and the number one topic, of course, has been d—day. huge amount of respect and praise for sophie reaper and ali costello. gb news reporters over in normandy, both of whom got very emotional during the show. i've got to say, i had something in my eye for a few moments during today's show. very quickly on the topic here, serena says this. i want to give that world war ii veteran who was interviewed by gb news a massive hug. it breaks my heart how humble these boys are. god bless those, all of them who are still with us. and i'll echo that, i'm sure everybody watching will too. now, my favourite part of the show. it's time to cross to michelle dewberry michelle dewbs & co. michelle dewberry michelle dewbs & c0. of michelle dewberry michelle dewbs & co. of course, after their sixth or seventh, the queen of prime time political debate. jubes what's on your menu? >> thank you very much, martin. well, i've got two of dewbs& co favourites. i've got aaron bastani and peter hitchens joining me tonight, and of course we'll be looking at that vaughan gething news that's just broken. i also want to pick up on some of the aspects that i've heard polly picking up on there

about this ridiculous notion that keir starmer was on about, that keir starmer was on about, that he wouldn't even use private health to save his loved ones. i mean, don't be absurd. but anyway, we'll look at some of that also as well. david blunkett, he's been speaking out about prisons. he's suggesting things like pop up nightingale courts to process backlogs and this whole kind of network of smaller prisons popping those up as well. is that the kind of answers that we need to fixing the criminal justice system? i say just have done with it, get more prisons, get more people in them, and get the streets safer. that's what i'd like to see. and also get this. i find it quite concerning, actually. a poll of young brits 18 to 24 martin say that over half of them believe that over half of them believe that israel shouldn't be allowed to exist. i want to unpick that as well. >> okay, well, a varied menu as even >> okay, well, a varied menu as ever, a smorgasbord of delights. dewbs& co six till seven right after this. thank you very much for joining us. always a forjoining us. always a pleasure. and there's a new way to get in touch with us if you want to get your point across on his bev turner with all of the

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election. channel. >> welcome back. it's 20 to 6. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. a politician from germany's afd party has been stabbed in the city of mannheim. the attack comes less than a week after a police officer was killed and five others were injured in a knife attack by a 25 year old from afghanistan at an anti islam rally in the city's square . now, reporter charlie peters joins us now with the latest. charlie, welcome to the show. an astonishing state of affairs. a mass stabbing on friday, a politically motivated stabbing by an afghan refugee police officer fatally stabbed. he died on sunday. and now another attack , this time on attack, this time on a politician who is currently standing in an active election cycle. charlie peters . what on cycle. charlie peters. what on earth is going on in mannheim? >> well, it's a normally sleepy

town in southwest germany, but for the last week it has been the scene of extreme violence and chaos . the scene of extreme violence and chaos. last night's the scene of extreme violence and chaos . last night's attack and chaos. last night's attack in mannheim reportedly conducted by a man who is now receiving psychiatric psychiatric treatment in the local area . treatment in the local area. now, reports indicated that it was an afd candidate for the upcoming municipal elections who approached the man, and we can play approached the man, and we can play footage of the attack last night, though with a warning. it does contain some distressing images in it. the supposed victim here, heinrich koch, the afd politician , approached the afd politician, approached the individual who was seen tearing down an afd. the right wing parties, posters in the area. he's then seen brandishing what appears to be a knife and slashing at the victim , who then slashing at the victim, who then cries out police! police! and that's when the clip ends. now, as we understand it, the victim , as we understand it, the victim, mr koch, has received treatment for injuries to his ears and his

stomach. the police said that a 25 year old man has been arrested, and that comes as you said, after a 29 year old police officer was killed in that vicious attack. that mass stabbing attack in daytime in the city centre on friday. that incident has sparked a national conversation in germany about migration in these upcoming eu elections, and in an election where immigration has been at the centre of the discussion. the assailant , the suspect who's the assailant, the suspect who's now in custody, he has he was afghanistan born, but he's been in germany since 2013. he has two children. he wasn't in the country illegally . but in country illegally. but in reaction, the interior minister has said that they are looking to speed up deportations to afghanistan . varne from those afghanistan. varne from those who pose a security risk in the country. that's proving controversial because in 2021, germany actually ruled out deportation to afghanistan due to the new taliban run administration. the afd said

they were shocked and appalled by last night's attack and the chaos, and the discussion about the rise of violence in this town continues to rumble on and charlie peters, as you say, germany goes to the polls tomorrow. >> this is a huge election for the future of the european union. the afd, of course, are renowned for being there against the european union. this is clearly a politically motivated attack. if they were taking down literature, removing posters , literature, removing posters, that's an offence during an electoral cycle , the politician electoral cycle, the politician apprehended the individual. he was attacked for his trouble. charlie peters something very , charlie peters something very, very sombre is going on in germany. we saw nigel farage on the streets of britain yesterday, but this is a disastrously, potentially dangerous political attack on germany. and as you said, there's now a massive conversation about immigration and criminality kicking off in the country. >> yeah, that's right martin. and it's not just politicians in

the last week being attacked , it the last week being attacked, it was michael sternberger, supposedly anti—islam activist who was attacked and stabbed in that attack on friday in the city centre. he was the main focus of the mass rampage from that knife attack, from that afghan born assail. that knife attack, from that afghan born assail . but there afghan born assail. but there have also been reports of other political attacks in this election cycle. over the last few weeks, the chancellor , olaf few weeks, the chancellor, olaf scholz, has made reference to this widespread concern, and that concern will be heightened after last night's incident caught on camera of someone tearing down right wing afd posters and then stabbing a candidate, a politician, as he approaches him and asked him to stop charlie peters. >> an astonishing story. thank you very much for bringing gb news viewers up to date. an excellent report as ever. what's this going to do at these elections ? how would you feel if elections? how would you feel if this level of political violence was the backdrop to our own

european elections took place five years ago in this country , five years ago in this country, an astonishing situation where politicians are being attacked like this now, moving on, one of coronation street's longest serving stars has stunned fans of the soap by revealing she's quitting after an astonishing 50 years in the show . we'll have years in the show. we'll have a good discussion on that next with the former colleague of the stan i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. 549 on martin daubney. on gb news. we're on the final furlong now. to a massive showbiz story that broke this afternoon . and that is this afternoon. and that is helen worth, who, of course, plays gail platt in coronation street, is going to leave the soap after an epic 50 years. she say she's had the most wonderful

job on the most wonderful streets in the world, and let's bnng streets in the world, and let's bring you now. one of the most famous scenes is from back in 2003, when gail has just found out that her husband, richard hillman, is a serial killer. >> i'd rather they live with the stigma forever than live with you for another second. >> gail, i know i scared you just now, but you can trust me, i swear. >> no one else will ever get hurt. >> and now it's out in the open. >> and now it's out in the open. >> there's no need for any more lies. >> i'll always be loyal to you. >> i'll always be loyal to you. >> oh, yeah. you'll never have a seedy little affair . but you seedy little affair. but you might hit me in the face with a shovel. >> no , never. >> no, never. >> no, never. >> you think your dad running off with another woman. >> so worse crime than clubbing someone to death? >> you twisted your norman bates with a briefcase . with a briefcase. >> well, the final curtain is about to fall on helen worth.

and i'm joined now by another corrie legend, charlie lawson, whose character, of course, jim mcdonald lived across the cobbles from gail platt. for many years. welcome to the show, charlie. i can see you looking at those images there and has to be said fantastic actor. in 50 years many of us just grew up with these characters and basically think they're part of our family. can you shed light on some of your happy memories of the talent of helen worth ? of the talent of helen worth? >> well, helen was quite a private, professional lady, she she put it this way. >> she was never out in the lash with me. but we saw each other every day. >> she was a consummate professional and still is, this this initially surprised me, but then i thought about it, and i'm frankly not surprised having spoken to certain senior members of the cast over the last period of the cast over the last period of time, you know, when helen

joined or even when i joined, there was a cast of 25. i would put another 75 on that. now perhaps, it's a different animal now . totally, you know, 4 or 5, now. totally, you know, 4 or 5, six episodes a week when helen started, it would have been two. she lives in london, she's not getting any younger. and she's done 50 years, for god's sake. nobody can ask any more of that. and listen, helen, look at that. we smile. god bless you, darling . i we smile. god bless you, darling .i hope we smile. god bless you, darling . i hope you have a great retirement. the thing that i find interesting is that . and i find interesting is that. and i don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but, this may start , a trend. there this may start, a trend. there are a number of people in corrie who are. i mean, william roache is over 90. barbara is not far behind. sue nicholls. you know, these people are getting on and much as we would love to see them die in harness, so to speak , i wouldn't want to see any of them die, frankly. but i mean,

you know, dying harness, as we say, i wouldn't be surprised. and there would i blame any of them who've done their time 50 years, or, for god's sake, you know, if they want to have a nice, quiet last 20 years of their lives with all the money they've made and, you know, so be it. they've made and, you know, so beit.the they've made and, you know, so be it. the trouble with actors is that we very, very rarely hang our boots up unless, the bank balance is full, which is very seldom is. but but also we live for attention. and when you're when you're in the most famous programme on the planet, that attention nine times out of ten is extremely , an extremely ten is extremely, an extremely good experience . being famous is good experience. being famous is infinitely nicer than not being famous . so we infinitely nicer than not being famous. so we tend to stay infinitely nicer than not being famous . so we tend to stay where famous. so we tend to stay where we're comfortable , martin, i'm we're comfortable, martin, i'm banging on now, and i don't want to forget to say well done. sophie and ellie and all you people for over the stuff you're doing in normandy. however

helen. god bless you, darling, i hope, west kensington, is still waiting for you. i remember about the only thing helen and i had in common was our love of good food and fine dining and wine. >> johnny, we're going to have to leave it there, mate. we're gonna have to leave it. i'm so sorry, but you're just in mid—flow there. the final furlong. johnny lawson. always a delight to have you on the show. nice tribute there to helen worth. that's it from me. dewbs& co is up next. and don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast, followed by britain's newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev and then tom and emily, of course. and it's good afternoon britain from midday. i'll be back. my mush is back at three. i'm martin daubney this is gb news. thanks forjoining us today. and that's your weather and it's annie shuttleworth . shuttleworth. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

solar sponsors of weather on. gb news. hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it should stay fairly dry and bright for many southern and central areas through the rest of the day, but showers will persist across the north and west and here it's going to feel particularly cool for the next couple of days . in for the next couple of days. in fact, we've got a cold air mass across the uk. it's fairly for cold the time of year, and it's being brought in by this brisk northwesterly wind and where the winds are quite strong across the northwest . there will be a the northwest. there will be a cool feel this evening and some fairly persistent showers . fairly persistent showers. there's a risk of some hail and thunderstorms in there. we could also see some showers moving into northwestern england, parts of wales into the midlands overnight, and that will introduce a bit more cloud. so it will be a milder night for these areas overnight, but still across where we see the skies clearest overnight across eastern areas of scotland , we eastern areas of scotland, we could see a touch of grass frost by tomorrow morning, so another fairly chilly start for some of us into thursday, but a good amount of sunshine across eastern areas of scotland, across aberdeenshire down towards the lothians and the borders as well further north and west, though some fairly

persistent heavy showers. and we'll see those rainfall totals start to build up. so you could see some spray on the roads in these areas. northwestern england, as well as into wales, the midlands see a risk of some showers, but many of us are waking up to a dry and bright start tomorrow once again. despite the chilly feel , it's despite the chilly feel, it's going to be another cool feeling day. still fairly brisk northwesterly winds across the northwest, but elsewhere the winds will be a little bit lighter. so in any sunshine, particularly across the south and in central areas of england and in central areas of england and wales, it's not going to feel too bad at all temperatures still climbing up towards the mid—teens, we could see 19 degrees across the south. it's a little lower than it has been lately, but as i said, it won't feel too bad in the sunshine in the south. but still, that cool feel will persist across the northwest of scotland in particular, but also northern ireland, southern areas of scotland as well. through a lot of thursday evening as well. further showers to come a bit more widely on friday, before it turns a little bit dry and brighter into the weekend with temperatures climbing a little

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that question seems to be the welsh first minister, vaughan gething , who has literally just gething, who has literally just lost a vote of no confidence in the welsh parliament. whoops. let's discuss . also, what do you let's discuss. also, what do you think to this? do you reckon we should be offered mental health minutes? that is a new lib dem proposal. is it a good one though or not? and a poll out today. though or not? and a poll out today . get this. everyone says today. get this. everyone says that more than half of young brits that's aged 18 to 24, if you're wondering, think there is real shouldn't exist, your thoughts on that ? also tonight thoughts on that? also tonight i really want to talk about the