the prime minister returns to the campaign trail asking for forgiveness as he prepares to launch the conservative party manifesto , participated in manifesto, participated in events both in portsmouth and in france, and having fully participated in all the british events with british veterans, i returned home before the international leaders event. >> that was a mistake and i apologise for that. >> labour is pledging to tackle the crisis in children's health, promising 100,000 new dental appointments. we'll be speaking to shadow health minister wes streeting just after seven sir davey taking journalists on a ride as he launched the liberal democrats manifesto auto with a bang scandelous strictly as star dancer giovanni pernice is axed following growing allegations of threatening and abusive behaviour. >> more parents want their children to learn life skills such as cooking and economics . such as cooking and economics. are our schools actually doing anything to prepare children for the real world? after seven,

we'll be debating that your views very welcome and the sport this morning, prince william sends the england team on their way to germany for the euros, there's two more medals for british athletes in the european championships in rome . and carlo championships in rome. and carlo ancelotti said there's no way that real madrid will compete in next year's club world cup until a couple of hours later. the club say they actually will. >> another one of those days that looks like june but doesn't feel like it. northerly winds continue to bring a chill, but will they continue to bring some showers? join me later for a full forecast . full forecast. >> so the prime minister has returned to the campaign trail after a weekend of hiding just in time to launch the conservative party manifesto . conservative party manifesto. >> today, they're set to lay out their plans of action to cut

taxes, boost the economy and kerb migration as rishi sunak pitches to become an heir to margaret thatcher. >> later today, he will launch their child health action plan, tackling what they call this labour a crisis in children's dentistry and what they're planning to do is to create 100,000 extra appointments for children. >> well, let's take a look at some of the key moments of what our leaders got up to on the campaign trail yesterday. >> i'm prepared to take bold action to cut people's taxes, protect their pensions and bring migration down. and in contrast, labour are just going to put everyone's taxes up. that's a choice. only one of two people will be prime minister on july the 5th. keir starmer or i. a vote for anyone who's not a conservative candidate just makes it more likely that keir starmer is prime minister i'm energised about the vision that we're putting forward for the country. >> a childcare and nursery places are really essential. they're so good for children in their development and making sure that when they arrive at primary school, they've got the

skills that they need. really good for parents and carers because they can get back into the labour market when i took over the leadership of the liberal democrats in 2019, we'd had three really tough elections and we lost our way a little bit. >> and my first speech, you may remember i said , we need to wake remember i said, we need to wake up and smell the coffee and what i said i wanted to do was really listen to people listen to their concerns and make sure that when we got to this election, our policies responded to them. >> now, the right thing to do is to make work, pay . so let's lift to make work, pay. so let's lift the starting point at which anybody pays any income tax to £20,000 a year. >> and still well below the average national salary. but well above the current level, which is about £12,570 a year.

>> dear god , if i see the lib >> dear god, if i see the lib dems again going down some waterslide or whatever the heck that was about, what is that about? how stupid do they take us all to be? well, throughout this whole election campaign, we're going to hear from people across the whole country about what really matters to you and does the lib dems coming down the water slide or what else have they been doing? all stupid on a on a paddleboard. >> paddleboard in the water. well, today we meet sam richardson. they're from falmouth and they're giving us their take. >> i'm sam richardson, theirtake. >> i'm sam richardson, i'm their take. >> i'm sam richardson, i'm 29 and i'm from falmouth. so in falmouth in truro , the labour falmouth in truro, the labour party have the best chance of getting the tories out. so i'll be voting for the labour party this year because, well, i would consider myself to be centre left of centre , in my sort of left of centre, in my sort of politics, i feel like the last

14 years have been a bit of a disaster, to be honest. food bank usage is up. there's a really bad housing crisis in cornwall. everywhere i seem to go there seems to be shops closing down. the high streets are dying and i just feel like most things have been really badly handled by the conservative party so i think easton was quite a serious man, which appeals to me. i think we need, especially at the moment with the world in the state that it is. we need someone who can look at the books, make sure that the numbers add up, is someone that i feel like with his past as a human rights lawyer, i think that he's well suhed lawyer, i think that he's well suited to the role and well suhed suited to the role and well suited to the role and well suited to the role and well suited to the job at hand. i know that there's an argument that he's boring, but personally i don't . what's wrong with i don't. what's wrong with bonng?l i don't. what's wrong with boring? i yearn for the day where i don't wake up and worry about opening up my news app and seeing something ridiculous that the leader of the country has said it doesn't have to be this soap opera all the time . i don't soap opera all the time. i don't know that we should ever support one political party anyway. i think we should have our own political opinions and then towards whoever best represents those.i

towards whoever best represents those. i think that's a much better way of doing it. instead of pledging allegiance like a sports team. when you're 19, there's a lot of future left, right , so i there's a lot of future left, right, so i would say there's a lot of future left, right , so i would say that i've right, so i would say that i've actually probably seen more politically engaged young people, whether or not that's around economic or social issues, it seems to be more prevalent now than personally what i've seen for a long time, especially with things like the climate crisis. >> so sam richardson from falmouth , expressing his views falmouth, expressing his views to you gb viewers and listeners, what do you think of what you're heanng what do you think of what you're hearing from him? and he talks sense but do the politicians. >> yes. well let's get the thoughts. this morning, the journalist for the labourlist, kathleen clarke, and the political correspondent for the spectator and regular on the show, james hill. good morning to both of you. and james. should we start with the mea culpa from rishi sunak? he came out, he apologised. he wants to move on. and of course we will all be talking about his manifesto launch today and we're told to expect the third £0.02 cut to national insurance in a year. cut to national insurance in a year . didn't cut to national insurance in a year. didn't work the last

cut to national insurance in a year . didn't work the last two year. didn't work the last two times. can it swing it for him this time? >> well, i think it's going to be unlikely. unfortunately i think the key thing though, of course, is making yourself economically credible. so i think there's going to be some disappointment from what i can already pick up from the conservatives right now, which is that they wanted to have a big economic offer. but i think that the, you know, tory high command, jeremy hunt and rishi sunak think that this is the best way of trying to balance out having, you know, tax cuts that they want to see, but will also having, you know, spending that people want to have on different public services. so it's going to be some of an offer, but i think it's probably going to be the story of rishi sunak premiership, arguably, which is too little, too late. >> yeah. kathleen sunak, should he even kathleen i said sorry , he even kathleen i said sorry, sorry. we're having oh we're having a problem. all right. but not okay. thank you kathleen there. kathleen sunak, should he even be delivering a manifesto for the conservatives today after his d—day ? faux pas.

after his d—day? faux pas. >> thank you for having me. eamonn and isabel, as labourlist readers will tell you, i've never seen a campaign like this. it's just disaster after disaster. this is very last—minute, larry desperate dan stuff at this stage. i can't believe it's only a few weeks to go and we're really looking at a conservative wipe—out. i don't know what he can do to change the polls at this late stage of the polls at this late stage of the game. i you know, i'm just not convinced there's anything he can say today that's going to bnng he can say today that's going to bring back that 20 point lead that the tories desperately need, james, what about the sort of territory that reform is creeping onto . they were moving creeping onto. they were moving into sort of the tax cutting area. some people describing it as trussonomics on steroids. i mean you were talking about whether or not sunak has economic credibility. what did you make of reform's promises yesterday ? yesterday? >> well, i thought it was just sensible stuff in some ways. if you want to go after the tory base, i mean, why not offer tax cuts? along with a dollop of

criticism of the bank of england , you know, obviously they wanted to increase the amount of personal allowance from 12,500 to 20,000. so there was a kind of effort to make it not just about, sort of the tory shires, but also a lot of basic people across the country and what they're earning. i thought it was interesting stuff, some of it, and i think a lot of it would have appealed to certain mps on the right of the tory party. but i think that i do think that people will be voting reform, not so much for their economic policies, but rather their social ones, and particularly immigration. so i thought it was, you know, it's interesting to hear what they had to say, but i thought the most striking moment for me was, you know, nigel farage using it to launch an attack on the polling companies. and i think, you know, using, this election by proxy and things like the economy and the economic manifesto for reform are actually going to be other different issues which define this campaign. i like as i say, immigration will be reform's big one. so i think that what was interesting to see it, i don't think anyone seriously thinks the reform is going to be running the economy on the 5th of july next month. >> catherine, the economy tax

cuts mean tax rises as well. because you cut tax, you give people extra money in their pocket. what do they do with it? they spend it. >> the. on thursday, when labour launched their manifesto that they've told us is fully costed and we'll be seeing exactly what labour's plan for the economy is. but we've had 14 years of conservative mismanagement. as your speaker originally said, as sam said this morning, to your viewers and you know, i completely agree, and so do labourlist viewers. and of course, gb news viewers do as well. >> i think catherine, today, when you look at what labour are going to talk about 100,000 dental appointments, extra dental appointments, extra dental appointments, extra dental appointments for children, it's scandalous. it's absolutely scandalous. we live in a country where a child can't have a tooth extracted or filled. >> absolutely. and to quote keir starmer, i want to i want children to taste their dreams, not a dental appointment. and to be honest, i can't even believe we're having this conversation in the year 2024. we are one of the richest countries in the

world and we really should be looking after our children. >> okay, well, we'll be speaking to wes streeting, who is the shadow health secretary, just after 7:00. but for now, we say thank you very much to kathleen clarke and james heale for their analysis, today. well, i just noficed analysis, today. well, i just noticed the sun was rising out there. it might be a pleasant day for a tuesday morning. let's get a weather update. now we say good morning . we don't have the good morning. we don't have the weather. we have got the weather. we have got the weather. now. are we sure we got the weather? we do. alex deakin, morning. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb views. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb. news a bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june. there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming

down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day, so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, west and scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some sunny spells but expect showers over parts of northern england, the midlands, east anglia and the southeast. and even if you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm temperatures struggling into the mid teens for many and feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts. that's a breeze. will continue to bring a few showers around so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers across east anglia in the southeast, but for much of southwest england wales, it'll be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day, by and large, for northern ireland. and in fact most of scotland will be dry through the evening, just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles. temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so many places becoming dry as we

go through tonight, so always keep some showers coming in to the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn quite chilly again. temperatures well down into single figures in some rural spots. so another fresh day on wednesday . the fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday, and there won't be as many showers either. yes. still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud, but a bit more in the way of sunshine. those lighter winds as well. temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a touch warmer tomorrow. so goodbye . warmer tomorrow. so goodbye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on

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>> i think it is. >> go along with that. >> go along with that. >> make sure you fill it in. don't get the scores wrong. >> the days all that. >> the days all that. >> so four days away. england are in gelsenkirchen, in germany. >> beautiful place, is it? >> beautiful place, is it? >> i've never been there. oh, is that where? shakira. that's in gelsenkirchen, isn't it? >> well, it's very. it's rural. it's nice. it's not too built up. so. >> yeah, not like garmisch , >> yeah, not like garmisch, which is where scotland are, because we had that yesterday where we had john mcginn spinning grinders, fantastic looking the hills around them. yeah yeah yeah it's the hills are alive with the sound of music. >> oh my gosh it did not expect that. >> oh i just every time i see that i'm thinking julie andrews i can't help myself. so anyway england julie andrews was knocked over three times or so filming that she what by the helicopter. >> the helicopter. yeah. really so it came down. it was so powerful. the blades were so powerful. the blades were so powerful. it knocked her back. >> i met julie andrews to talk about that. you mentioned lovely, wasn't she? she's a lovely, wasn't she? she's a lovely woman. >> i did an audience with her at bafta at one time. she is. she is delightful because she was

delightful. she's one of the first big stars that i can sort of remember as a kid. yeah. you know, seeing her in mary poppins. yeah and whatever. >> but is it wrong to have a little thing for julie andrews back in the day? is that is that bad? no. is it bad ? no. bad? no. is it bad? no. >> she had my. >> she had my. >> it's nothing to do with the nun motivated to captain von trapp. >> so don't worry. you're not alone. that's true. >> me and christopher plummer. yeah. and eamonn, of course, but the helicopter, because it was whipping up a lot of wind, wasn't it? yes. up on the not. i'm talking. i don't mean julie the alps, but up in the alps then nearly knocked her over. yeah. so anyway, back to sukh, back to gelsenkirchen , just back to gelsenkirchen, just before they went, did you see that, the prince of wales ? that, the prince of wales? >> well, i was there. >> well, i was there. >> this was very, very real. and sweet that he was on the school run, and he asked his kids for some advice, and it was prince louie's advice that he went for. >> was he really on the school run? he was out of action. >> but the thing is, the one that looked like the kids, though, is that we'll show it in just a second, because you see

the all the england team and they're all gathered together andifs they're all gathered together and it's like it just reminded me of being a kid waiting for the headmaster to bring a special person in. and they're all sitting there very quietly. and then he makes this. he talks about, you know, it talks about, well, well, my child did say about you should eat. and it was kind of like quiet and nobody. this is this is what happened at saint george's park before they went to gelsenkirchen yesterday. >> guys, i was just thinking on the way here. what would i say today? some of you might hear it now. some of you, you know, new to the setup. i thought what could i offer? you know, all of you, your experience team here. what the england team bring. gareth, what could i say that could could help kind of put you in a way. i was on the school run this morning with the children. i said, you know, what should i what should i say to him when i see him today? and the best bit of advice i got to ask you was to eat twice as much, twice the amount you normally would eat. so i then had visions of all of you running around like massive great tummies and loads of stitches on the pitch, so i think maybe take my youngest, kind of advice with a pinch of

salt baking around the physio team. >> it felt a bit uncomfortable there. >> oh stop it, it's nice, think. >> i think we're footballers there. you just see there's no etiquette. and then the new formalities when he walked into the room, i think the first thing they all should have done was stand up and applaud. >> yeah. and there was absolutely nothing. >> they just sat there scratching themselves. they didn't know what to do. >> they just they should know what to do. they should be told you think what to do, what you think. a round of applause as he walks in. >> oh well, absolutely stood on your feet. >> anyone senior walks in? that's absolutely the thing to do. >> the thing is with him though, is it's interesting the way you see him look at them, because it was almost as if i know, you know, this is the future king, but he's still looking at superstar footballers. and i still think in his head there was a bit of harry kane over there. and then there's the you know, you kind of see that. >> but also he'll be the future king of england. and, you know, that's the sort of thing that they should have been recognising. i just thought, i thought it's ill mannered. really? >> oh, do you think it was that

bad? >>i bad? >> i think it was ill mannered. >> i think it was ill mannered. >> i think it was ill mannered. >> i do. >> i do. >> oh, actually, with you on that. yeah. but i also kept thinking. james corden might appear and start cracking. >> some gags would be best. probably be very happy with that. >> well, he's the chairman of the fa anyway. but scotland, germany. so when it comes to the euro. so things to look forward to. we've got friday scotland versus germany 8 pm. so that happens. that's the that's starts the whole euros off. and then england will play their first game against serbia. on sunday 8 pm. and they've got slovenia and denmark also in the group as well, you know it's european athletics going on. yeah. >> very good. yep, now we've got another decent 400 metre runner, and that's, matthew hudson—smith is, is our british champion and, he holds the record. charlie dobson won the silver in the european championships. this is this is kind of like flying under the radar a little bit. and i still think it's important, but there we are. there's charlie. 44.38, which is a personal best. you can't ask for any more. i don't know what was going on there with with number six. but anyway, there he is winning the 400m, which is great for our 400 metre relay team for the olympics . so i'm

team for the olympics. so i'm looking at that. you know, we think of roger black, we think of kriss akabusi, you know, from 91, pole vaulter molly cordrey, she won bronze. she's not happy about that though because she was the world champion indoor champion . and so hopefully for champion. and so hopefully for the olympics, what do you think the olympics, what do you think the difference is though, between indoor pole vault and outdoor apart from the roof, of coui'se. >> course. >> what's the difference? >> what's the difference? >> yeah, i don't know because she's the world indoor champion. >> oh right. the elements are supposed do you think because as you're a little bit of wind whipped up by julie andrews again and rain would be a problem as well, i suppose. yeah. >> i suppose , but but then why >> i suppose, but but then why have it outdoors? >> you know why . >> you know why. >> you know why. >> well, it's the olympic games, for crying out. you've got to. you've got to have it out. >> have it out. very, very tough thing. >> when i had to do it at school. >> oh, and you did pole vault at school. yeah, we did you. >> yeah. we had the commonwealth champion at our school, a guy called mike bull. right. and and therefore, yes, we were all expected to excel at such a

thing. right. very difficult. but did you waiting for your pole to snap. >> that's the thing, is that we had, like i said, we had one hurdle at our school and then we had 110m hurdle where everybody would go round in a circle and then jump over and come back round again. we had one pole vault, but the thing didn't bend, so it was just like, so you had the proper bend up and over the top. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. >> all of it. yeah. >> all of it. yeah. >> all of it. yeah. >> all of it. tis the season isn't it? sports days up and down the country taking place at the moment. >> we have pole vault though. >> we have pole vault though. >> yeah i don't know. let us know. are you going to a sports day that involves a pole vault. >> well, sports day memories next time. ron. thank you paul. >> okay. pleasure. thank you. >> okay. pleasure. thank you. >> scandal has struck strictly as star dancer. giovanni is axed following growing allegations of threatening and abusive behaviour. now, you see, i would not. i'm not sure if he was axed or he walked away from this one because there was no love lost on either side and he has denied all reports of bad behaviour. >> well, let's get the thoughts this morning of the showbiz journalist andi oliver, who

joins us down the line. good morning to you, andi. so giovanni pernice has had weeks and weeks of terrible press. we don't really know the truth about who's whether he was jump, whether he was pushed or he jumped. but it will be no more. we won't see his little toes dancing around the dance floor again, which is a shame. >> yes. well it's. was it inevitable? i mean, it's had it hasn't had a great six months in terms of publicity and neither has the programme, so i'm thinking was it the bbc saying, you know, we've had some bad pubuchy you know, we've had some bad publicity about this star? do we need to maybe let him go? or was it giovanni himself saying that, you know, he's had to maybe had to with all about what's the allegations against him? he's walked away. we don't exactly know. but what we do know is that amanda abbington, who he was coupled with last year on the last series of strictly, is left claiming that she had nasty behaviour from him in rehearsals when they were training for their for their routines . and their for their routines. and she's also been diagnosed with ptsd, which he is blaming or

claiming happened because of the training that she was put under under giovanni. so we don't know who's telling the truth. it's, it's very sad because i've met giovanni on quite a few occasions and he comes across as a very nice gentleman actually, and the fans absolutely love him . and even though the allegations are out there against him, everybody i speak to in terms of the fans are on his side. they're actually really gutted that he's that he's actually leaving the show this year and he's not on the retained list of the dancers that i mean, from the fans point of view, they don't see what goes on behind the scenes. >> all they see is an incredibly gifted dancer who we're seeing footage of now and i go back to my point that it is a shame in a way, because he was one of the best. he was absolutely fundamental to the programme. i suppose a lot of people could say it's certainly the fans seem to think so. and it's the 20th anniversary, isn't it, this yeah anniversary, isn't it, this year. and he was super excited about that.

>> well, yes, i mean, he started off on the on the strictly 2015 and he won it. of course he won it three years ago a 2021. he he won the competition with rose ayling—ellis. and as i said before, he he's got his own show now with anton, which too is he has his own show as well on his own, which tours around the country and theatres. so, it's, it's a bit of a strange one. it's a bit of like, has he been pushed or has he walked, well, it might it might come out later, but there's all sorts of things coming out because after amanda came out and claimed all this behaviour against him, a male celebrity last week also came out and voiced their opinion. now we don't know who this male celebrity is. was it somebody he was coupled with? was it somebody who was on the show at the same time that he was there? we don't know about that, but what we do know is that, but what we do know is that the bbc have basically released a retained list that they do every year with the

retained list is basically the retained list is basically the retained list is basically the retained list of the dancers who were returning. and he's not on it. so, the fans are. yeah and a lot of fans will be gutted. but as you say, we don't know the full story yet as what's gone on. >> well, i'll tell you what goes on. andy. it used to be it was a, you know, amateurs , yes. a, you know, amateurs, yes. they're dancing and you would expect people to dance like donkeys. basically no, no. we see the celebs and it's almost as if they've got to be judged. they've got to be seen as professionals. right from the very, the very start. and it's incredible pressure that no one's allowed to be, you know, a duffer. right from the start. >> now you know what i mean. i mean , you're right. you know, mean, you're right. you know, a lot of these people have never done stuff in their lives . and done stuff in their lives. and you've got to think that, yes, they are training what, eight, nine, ten hours a day. but you're going on live television in front of, what, seven, eight,

nine, 10 million people, and you're having to learn a routine , and dancers that you've never done before. so you've got the pressure of learning the dance, remembering it. i mean, it's one thing learning lines. if you're an actor or, you know, or something or a song if you're a singer, but it's a different kettle of fish altogether. if you're learning moves that you've never done before. so you've never done before. so you've got that pressure with that point. >> most of them have all been to dance school and, you know, drama school, and they're all semi—professional before they even blow the whistle , which i even blow the whistle, which i think takes something of the magic out of it really well, yeah. >> well, yeah. yeah, you can see that. i mean, we've had we've had a lot of, you know, a lot of like letting usthere a lot of, actors and dancers who people say, well, yes, they have done that before, but there's, there are the odd celebrities on there that, you know, over the years that, you know, over the years that have gone on and, and, and haven't really danced, but i guess that's i guess that's the magic of the show. you've got to

have a mixture of young celebrities and you've got to have a mixture of dancers. you've got to have a mixture of people from all different areas of entertainment, haven't you? so you're going to get people who have maybe danced before. you're going to get people who have maybe done this sort of thing, but you're also going to get people who have never like a newscaster or somebody like that, like yourself, who have never done a dance in, in their lives as well. but that's what makes them makes the show, doesn't it? because you don't know what you're going to get every year. >> no, i totally agree with isabel. i think that once you get, people who have been to dance school and stage school and they know how to dance, then that takes away any magic for me. i mean, you get it. if you had a complete duffer like me who's never danced or wouldn't know how to, then there's sort of entertainment with that with if you improve week after week type thing, the darren gough's there's a cricketer, you know, he's built like a rhinoceros and he'd never danced a day in his life, but there was an athlete in there that meant that he was able to become a dancer. >> and you saw the

transformation over the 12 weeks or so. incredible. susanna reid, even, you know, not a dancer herself, suddenly able to pull out moves that most of us couldn't only dream of. >> but my wife did. >> but my wife did. >> you see her ten weeks of that fo. anyway. anyway, andy, we've got to leave it there. thank you very much indeed. you'd like to see him stay. in short , andy. yeah. >> you know what? until on innocent has proved guilty, i guess, yes , but only because guess, yes, but only because i think it was a popular member of the cast. but if it comes out later, that has something has happened, then. no, because he, you know, you can't go on a programme like that and treat people like that. it's as simple as that. it's bullying, isn't it? >> thank you, thank you andy. appreciate it. andy is a showbiz journalist. thank you. >> now we're going to talk about cooking. a third of youngsters admit to only cooking from scratch twice a week or less, right? >> 45% of 18 to 24 year olds say the price of healthy food is the main barrier to eating better, with most opting for fast food, which is a lie basically, because fast food is convenient.

it's there, it's available , look it's there, it's available, look at the television ads. television ads are unbelievable for delivery apps, for food and fast food outlets and whatever, whatever. so question is, what can we do to get young people to eat healthy food? here's dietitian and nutrition consultant helen bond. helen, what do you think ? what do you think? >> oh well good morning. and it's a great time to be talking about healthy eating because this is healthy eating week. and indeed we need to be engaging with our younger audiences to get them to kind of shop well, cook well, and eat well. but it is a difficult battle, as you've just said, and new research today has shown, you know, 45% of youngsters in the kind of 18 to 24 year old bracket say that, you know, the cost of healthy eating is kerbing their kind of healthy eating habits. a further 40% say that, you know, they don't have time to kind of plan and cook nutritious meals . and and cook nutritious meals. and again, this research by the nutrition focus app says that ,

nutrition focus app says that, you know, 37% of this age group is having takeaways once or twice a week, which is not good news for the health both now and in the long term. that's a problem really. they don't think about their long term health. maybe they're more interested in their their weight or their attractiveness at this age. but eating habits formed at this age tend to persist into later life. we know we're eating too much fat, sugar and salt and not enough of the good things like fibre for, you know, fruits and vegetables, all of those things. so yes, we need to help this and this age group. so they have the skill set and they have the nutrition knowledge to take that forward . forward. >> so helen sort of bust some myths for us this morning. do you agree that it is impossible to eat healthily on a budget or and quickly as well? or do you have any sort of fail safe, affordable and very quick to prep meals that you'd recommend youngsters try? >> yeah, and i think technology is really important for this

younger audience. you need to engage with them to help them on the way. and that's why, you know, nutrition focused apps like yasiel can help them with the kind of plethora of kind of recipes, whether they're quick and easy, whether they're high in fibre. but i think healthy eating doesn't have to be time consuming. it doesn't have to be expensive either , but you have expensive either, but you have to have those kind of cost cutting hacks and those time consuming, things in the kitchen , you know, make use. i always say of things like peas , beans say of things like peas, beans and lentils, which are a type of pulse, very inexpensive compared to meat. and yet they double up as one of your five a day, and also a great source of plant based protein. you know, if you over get a milk or something, you have too much milk, maybe make some lattes. if you have too much bread in the house, use things like breadcrumbs to make another dish or kind of bulk, you know, use bulk recipes. so you know, use bulk recipes. so you can make something throughout the week. you're prepared so it doesn't have to be tricky, but it's knowing what to do . and i think with this to do. and i think with this audience where they're going

from the adolescent years, you know, leaving home, you know, going to university , starting going to university, starting work, we all have really busy lives, but it doesn't need to be complicated and it doesn't need to be hard. yeah. no, but there is helen, there is this audience that exists that watches cooking programs on tv, for instance. i think it was saturday or sunday, probably both . but there was a probably both. but there was a cooking programme on bbc one and there was a cooking programme on itv , there was a cooking itv, there was a cooking programme on channel 4, and i just wanted to throw a shoe at the tv, really, because was there nothing else on or nothing else available? the point being, there is an audience , there is there is an audience, there is obviously an appeal. there's obviously an appeal. there's obviously people are watching this stuff. so what are they doing? are they watching and not cooking ? cooking? >> i think that's it. the watching and maybe enjoying all the cookery programmes like i do. and i'm a typical person in the kitchen. i have must have about 100 cookbooks, but sometimes when you are time poon sometimes when you are time poor, you know you've got to feed a family or you've got to feed a family or you've got to feed yourself and everything.

you don't really know where to start. and i think that's why apps and having thing online for this younger audience makes it much more accessible. they know that they can kind of rustle up something quite quick and easy, but is nutritious . it's something quite quick and easy, but is nutritious. it's going to kind of sustain them, keep them feeling fuller, and also nourish the body. like i said, this audience tends to look at, you know, a particularly at this time of the year, they're often getting summer ready, want to getting summer ready, want to get in the bikini? so it's all about their weight. but we need to look at healthy eating is so much more than the calories that we consume. you know, food nourishes our bodies, it fuels our mind. and also it gives us all the vitamins and minerals for health both now and in the future. so yeah, don't get, you know, despondent by all the cookery programmes. start with one recipe and build it up from there. like i said, it doesn't have to be complicated. it doesn't need to be cordon bleu cookery. it needs to be wholesome food that you've cooked from scratch, because then you know exactly what's gone into it, and you can control what's gone into it. >> if you have an expensive car,

you don't put the wrong fuel into it, do you? you look after it and give it the very best that it needs. you should do the same to your body. and how much doesit same to your body. and how much does it cost to boil it hard? boil an egg, open a can of tuna and a couple of leaves of lettuce. super healthy filling, nutritious. i think i'm going to have that for lunch. i've just talked myself into that helen bond, thank you for inspiring us to do better, be healthy, appreciate it. morning to you. >> great speaking to you. i think a very attractive thing for any man or woman or any to have a partner in their lives, if that partner can cook and that partner can dance, as in . strictly >> i think peop people often think they've got the idea that's the magic formula. dancing and cooking. >> i think i've done well then with my husband you can do both of those. tick, tick. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> he thinks every day he wakes up and he she can dance. can cook. i can cook. >>- can cook. >> i don't know about that,

>> we say good morning to alex armstrong and emma burnell l as they look through the newspapers with us today. guys. good morning to you. morning. >> morning, emma. >> morning, emma. >> we start with the front page of the time, and it says conservatives offer lower taxes and help for home buyers. now we're going to hear their manifesto. where? what's in it today ? they. what do you think ? today? they. what do you think? >> i think that the tories are getting increasingly desperate. there's a scene in one of my favourite episodes of father ted where they have done several. there's a there's a crisis going on and they've done a mass, and then they've done another mass and they come along and say, is there any is there any value in doing another mass? and that feels like the tories and tax cuts at the moment. it's like they've tried this line, they've tried it and they've tried it

and they tried it and the polls haven't shifted. and there's two reasons for that. first of all, if you ask the public, they say we need more money for public services . and secondly, nobody services. and secondly, nobody believes them. well this is the problem. >> another £13 billion of tax cuts. who feasibly thinks that that's possible. and they're going to even further clamp down on tax avoidance. so last week we were told that that was going to pay for something else. i mean, yeah, and it is it is almost. >> yeah, the huge splashy promises of things that need to be paid for, whilst they also promised tax cuts , they know promised tax cuts, they know they're not going to be in power and have to deliver any of this. >> yeah, it's fascinating isn't it? i mean, it's like trying to buy votes. i think at this point with working class people who obviously do. i think working class people do need a tax cut because we are the highest tax burden in history. and i do think people want to save money. we were talking about home buyers here. yes these things should have happened. absolutely. but whether it's too little, too late for the public to actually buy this, i think

the tax burden in this country, some one day somebody's going to wake up and say, what the heck, what the hell is this all about? >> the tax burden is horrendous and near me. i'll ask any of you to name me an activity that you can do in life that doesn't involve you paying tax, because as soon as you end up spending any sort of money, a lot of money, apparently you pay very little. >> i mean, this is the problem. it's not just the tax burden overall, it's what we tax . you overall, it's what we tax. you know, we tax labour far more than we tax wealth . that does than we tax wealth. that does nothing to earn its money. it just sits there gaining more money. >> i mean i mean, look in my opinion there are just taxes on everything. i mean i am pleased to hear that they're putting out some something to say that they want to cut taxes, but no one's buying it because they've put taxes to the highest on record. so yeah, it's too little, too late. i think the public aren't going to buy into this. alex. >> what about labour today? they're focusing on health of youngsters. and you know, there will be people probably from the right of politics who will talk about the nanny state and this

interfering in family life. and there's no role for the government in that. but, you know, i have to say these all seem like pretty common sense pledges in terms of a ban on energy drinks for under 16 seconds and talking about taking junk tv ads off the tv before p.m. >> yep. >> yep. >> i think there'll be a lot of parents out there who see their kids buying all these energy drinks. they become increasingly popular with the tiktok generation. i mean, the kids can't sleep at night. they're up first thing in the morning. it's really bad. so i am pleased to hear this. and they should be banned. i'd actually ban them up to the age of 18 if it were me personally, but the only thing i would say about this is kids don't watch tv. >> i mean, you know, sort of ban it on tiktok. you've got to ban it on tiktok. you've got to ban it to work. >> you've got a ban on online advertising. if you really want this to be effective. but i actually think the ban on buying it underage is a very good thing. and this this is just a no brainer. the other part of this policy that he's putting forward is 100,000 urgent places forward is 100,000 urgent places for dental care, which is another rising issue in this

country. i don't know how they're going to deliver it because he hasn't actually said how he would, put these new appointments forward because, as we know, dentists have disappeared off the high street at a rapid rate over the last decade. so we really do need investment in dentistry in order to, to catch up and allow these appointments to take place. but i certainly agree with the with the energy drink ban. it's horrendous. you talk there about dentistry , dental surgeons, dentistry, dental surgeons, surgeons, surgeries, disappearing and there's a story here, alex, about shouting managers hurt workers morale . managers hurt workers morale. >> now, i'll reserve my judgement on this, but a study has found that workers who are told off basically have lower job satisfaction. well, don't be so rubbish at what you do. and you know , it might be better, you know, it might be better, but tell me what you think of this . this. >> yeah, i mean, look, it's pretty obvious if you're being shouted at by your boss, you're not going to be as happy as if

your boss is praising you. i mean, so i yes, obviously, you know, you would be. what the question is, is your boss shouting at you because you're bad at your job, or are you or is your boss shouting at you because your boss is a bit of a, you know, a do gooder or manager or a poor manager? because there are managers who do shout. and i've had some managers who have shouted at staff, not necessarily myself. thankfully and i'm like, well, you know, is that called for? and is there a better way to deliver that message than to scream and shout at them, sometimes it just deters the employee and what you really want is employees who are going to be creative and have freedom to fail so they can innovate, so i think there's a bit of to and fro on this one, if you ask me. >> i mean, part of the problem is that very, very few managers have ever been trained in how to manage you. you do well in a job, in the skill set that you have in that job. the only way up in most companies and most organisations is then to take on management responsibility . so management responsibility. so that's your promotion. but at no point in between those two steps are you actually trained in the

completely different skill set of people management. so lots of managers just don't have that natural ability to motivate people in, in better ways. so they fall back into, you know, being a dictator rather than an enabler . enabler. >> and quite often the job moves on from the time when they actually did the job. so not only can they not manage people, but they have no idea about the job that the person they're lecturing, how it actually works. so i can imagine this is awful for people who are humilis, and nobody should be humiliated as part of their employment. >> well, how do you get people to do the job right ? to do the job right? >> you you employ the right people. >> you don't need me to tell you about this industry and people who work as journalists who can't spell. >> well, yeah, well, that's totally different. i mean , well, totally different. i mean, well, it's not totally different because they've got master's degrees in journalism , have they? >> yes, i have a master's degree in journalism and spellcheck turned on all the time, so that's reasonable. but if i were to hand in copy that was poorly written, not poorly spelled, but

poorly written , then i would poorly written, then i would expect critique and feedback. but there is a difference between critique and feedback, and quite harsh. >> well, what do you do about eejits who can't spell? >> but i mean eejits who can't spell should run it through spellcheck. i mean, it really is in this day and age. they should eamonn saying though, like i mean, i do think there's a sometimes if you've given someone feedback time and time again, you're just going to lose your rag and that's totally reasonable. >> you are a human being. you're not a robot, right? so i think that's a perfectly reasonable reaction. if you've given someone the scope to fail and they don't learn and they don't listen to what you're saying, yeah, i can get why people would. >> alex, you've raised a very, very interesting point earlier there. >> and you said that kids don't watch tv, they don't watch kids tv. and i find that so sad because i was, to a degree, educated by children's television that i watched as a youngster. and i thank god that i had such a blessing of rich, innovative tv available to me. and i look now at what's available on these handheld

devices to people. and you think how do they stand a chance? how do they actually stand a chance? well absolutely. >> and i that combination that we had in certainly the 70s and 80s of entertaining and education, i don't think there's anyone of my age group who doesn't count to 12 with a certain tune in mind that came from sesame street. yeah, and i so i do worry that the desperation of what's on tiktok or wherever the kids are, i'm 49, so i'm not there , is not 49, so i'm not there, is not giving them that same quality level that we got. well, it's definitely like bagpuss or sesame street. >> it's definitely not. i've got i'm a i've got a lot of brothers. i'm one of six. so i've got lots of brothers and most of them are younger. they're in their early 20s, 21, 2018, 19 and that stuff that that's fed to them on tiktok makes them spell poorly. i mean, one of one of my little brothers spelling is so poor i'm constantly correcting it because they talk in slang. well, they're not reading. they're not well, they're not reading.

they're getting fed these sort of subtitles that are also not correct, by the way. a lot of them are just badly translated. and then they go on to write like that in their essays. and i'm proofreading one of my little brother's essays and i'm like, can you go back and rewrite it? like, that would be the time where i might get a bit shouty. i'm like, that doesn't make sense in english. >> if there had been a smartphone ban, they'd have been a lot better off get them reading books and they might give them a book. >> fair too late, unfortunately. >> fair too late, unfortunately. >> despair, right? where should we go next to make us despair a bit more eurozone chaos. >> france have called a general election ammo. >> yeah. macron has taken a very , very big gamble, he he's not running in this election. it's not the presidential election. it's for the parliament. but, his election comes in, i think 20, 27. please correct me if i'm wrong on that , but he's wrong on that, but he's essentially dissolved the parliament because the far right party led by marine le pen, the front national, assembly. national. sorry. they were previously the front national, have, done very well in the euro

elections and macron is basically gambling that they will either the french people will either the french people will say, well, actually , when will say, well, actually, when it comes down to our own country, we don't want them in charge. we just want them, you know, causing a bit of havoc in europe, or or they will do well and then not be, able to govern well when they get there. and that will then shore up his position. >> yeah, but just as the world's about to descend on france for the olympics , i mean, it is the olympics, i mean, it is a very brave strategy. >> well, it's fantastic . >> well, it's fantastic. >> well, it's fantastic. >> let's just tell the brits here this is fantastic for your euro because it's tumbled the euro to a two year lows, £0.84 versus the versus the pound. so. so this is great if you're going on holiday. so it's this perfect season for it. >> that going to september when i go to greece that would be great. >> exactly right. but you know yeah it's a really big gamble. and i do think that there's a lot of questions as to whether this was a good a good call

because marine marine le pen is now lapping this up. >> imagine a prime minister gambling and taking election before he needed to . before he needed to. >> sounds familiar. >> sounds familiar. >> thank you both very much indeed. >> thank you both very much indeed . the guys are going to be indeed. the guys are going to be back in about 40 minutes time. alex armstrong and emma burnell, thank you very much indeed. >> it's weather with alex deakin i >> -- >>a >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. news. news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june. there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day, so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, western scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some sunny spells but expect

showers over parts of northern england, the midlands, east anglia and the southeast, and even if you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm. temperatures struggling into the mid teens for many and feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts. that breeze will continue to bring a few showers around. so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers across east anglia in the southeast, but for much of southwest england wales, it'll be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day, by and large, for northern ireland. and in fact, most of scotland will be dry through the evening. just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles, temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so in many places becoming dry as we go through tonight, we'll always keep some showers coming into the northern isles . we'll keep the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn quite chilly again. temperatures

well down into single figures in some rural spots, so another fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday and there won't be as many showers either. yes, still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud, but a bit more in the way of sunshine. those lighter winds as well. temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a touch warmer tomorrow. goodbye >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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>> the prime minister returns to the campaign trail asking for forgiveness as he prepares to launch the conservative party manifesto , participated in manifesto, participated in events both in portsmouth and in france and having fully participated in all the british events with british veterans . events with british veterans. >> as i returned home before the international leaders event that was a mistake and i apologise for that . for that. >> labour will pledge to tackle a crisis in children's health, promising 100,000 new dental appointments. talking to the shadow health minister, wes streeting, very shortly , sir ed streeting, very shortly, sir ed davey takes journalists on a ride as he launched the liberal democrats manifesto with a bang scandal at strictly. a star dancer giovanni is axed following growing allegations of threatening and abusive behaviour and with more parents wanting their children to learn the skills, life skills such as cooking and economics are our

schools preparing children for the real world? >> that's our debate at 7:20 and in the sport this morning for days now to the euros. >> the england team have arrived at their base in gelsenkirchen, lie—in ahead of the olympics. two medals have been won by british athletes at the european championships , which is going on championships, which is going on this week, and the superstar baseball player playing in london at the weekend, who seems to love soccer more than his own sport. but why wouldn't you ? sport. but why wouldn't you? >> another one of those days that looks like june but doesn't feel like it? northerly winds continue to bring a chill, but will they continue to bring some showers? join me later for a full forecast . full forecast. >> so we're starting with the election this morning. the prime minister has returned to the campaign trail after a weekend of avoiding the cameras. just in time to launch the conservative party manifesto. >> well, the conservatives will lay out their plan of action to

cut taxes, boost the economy and kerb migration as rishi sunak pitches to become again an heir to margaret thatcher. >> well, labour will launch their child health action plan, tackling what they call a crisis in children's dentistry , and in children's dentistry, and will create 100,000 extra appointments for children. >> let's take a look at some of the key moments of what the leaders got up to in the campaign trail yesterday. i'm prepared to take bold action to cut people's taxes, protect their pensions and bring migration down. >> and in contrast, labour are just going to put everyone's taxes up. that's a choice. only one of two people will be prime minister on july the 5th. keir starmer or i. a vote for anyone who's not a conservative candidate just makes it more likely that keir starmer is prime minister i'm energised about the vision that we're putting forward for the country , putting forward for the country, for childcare and nursery places are really essential. >> they're so good for children in their development and making sure that when they arrive at primary school, they've got the

skills that they need. really good for parents and carers because they can get back into the labour market. >> when i took over the leadership of the liberal democrats in 2019, we'd had three really tough elections and we lost our way a little bit and my first speech, you may remember i said, we need to wake up and smell the coffee. and what i said i wanted to do was really listen to people, listen to their concerns and make sure that when we got to this election, our policies responded to them. >> the right thing to do is to make work , work, pay. so let's make work, work, pay. so let's lift the starting point at which anybody pays any income tax to £20,000 a year. that's still well below the average national salary, but well above the current level, which is about £12,570 a year. >> let's now bring in the shadow

secretary of state for health and social care. we say, good morning to wes streeting, who joins us now. where's looking at, at rishi sunak today and what he's going to say as regards the conservative manifesto , do you actually think manifesto, do you actually think he should be in charge of the tories today after the, debacle at the weekend ? at the weekend? >> problem that we're going to have to solve as a country by choosing change at the general election on july the 4th, i actually thought rishi sunaks judgement, the values that he demonstrated around d—day, the choices he made, demonstrated why he just doesn't get it. and one of many reasons why he shouldn't be prime minister, i thought his mealy mouthed apology afterwards, i think, just demonstrated that he didn't really understand why people were so upset and angry, but that's not in many respects, the

worst thing this government has done. worst thing this government has done . when you look at the state done. when you look at the state of our economy, the state of our pubuc of our economy, the state of our public services, the extent to which people are really struggling in britain at the moment, i just don't think with the best will in the world. rishi sunak really understands those pressures, and he certainly doesn't have answers . certainly doesn't have answers. i mean, from what i've read in the newspapers, it says a lot wares about you politicians and the circumstance that you operate under, because there'd be some 24 year old advising say, well, here's what you're going to do on friday, prime minister. >> you're going to stay here for the british commemoration. and then we've got an itv interview for you, which is more important if you get back home and do that and he listens to that, it says and he listens to that, it says a lot about maybe sunak lack of experience or his desperation. i would have thought , yeah, i would have thought, yeah, i think there is a lot of desperation hanging in the air. >> but ultimately, you know, it's very easy to blame the advisers in these situations. but advisers advice wise

ministers decide and rishi sunak has to be the one that owns that decision. and i never thought i would i would say this, i had a very low opinion of boris johnson by the end of his premiership, but but i actually think rishi sunak displayed worse character traits than bofis worse character traits than boris johnson. i don't think borisjohnson. i don't think that he would have left our veterans and left world leaders early. i think he would have understood the importance of that day and the importance of being there as the country's prime minister, i don't i just don't think rishi sunak is the right character for number 10. i don't think he understands why his actions have caused such offence . and i also don't think offence. and i also don't think he understands the challenges and the pressures that families are going through at the moment. and if he did, he certainly wouldn't be now splurging a whole load more unfunded spending commitments today, which ultimately , if he's given which ultimately, if he's given the chance and the arsonists are giving the matches back , that's

giving the matches back, that's going to send the economy tanking and it's going to get send people's bills, rents and mortgages rising, speak to the conservatives a little bit later on in the programme about all of that. >> but let's speak to you about your plans. you're talking about the challenges facing children and families. you want to ban fizzy drinks, or the sort of energy drinks for under 16, and junk food adverts on tv before 9:00. and you're also hoping to magic up 100,000 extra dental positions or appointments for youngsters. how are you going to do that ? do that? >> so just on the energy drinks first. so this is a ban on energy drinks to under 16. so these are the drinks that have got over 150mg of caffeine per litre. it's things like your monsters, your your prime energy drinks. these single cans you know half a litre contain more caffeine than five cans of coca cola. to give you a sense of just how highly caffeinated these things are, and we're

responding to concerns from parents and teachers about the extent to which kids, particularly teenagers . but i've particularly teenagers. but i've heard examples of kids as young as nine being wired on these sorts of drinks. they're not sleeping properly. it's affecting their concentration . affecting their concentration. it's affecting their wellbeing as well as their physical health. so we're going to take action on on that. so sorry i missed that point. >> i just wanted to know why you think it's the government's role to decide what children should be drinking. surely parents should be taking that more seriously. >> that's right. but i think parents also want to see action because parents can't always have eyes on their kids. you know, they send their kids off to school, kids on the way to and from school. they can pop into a newsagent or, you know, shop on the high street and get wired on these things. and, you know, some a lot of parents watching will remember the i think it's slightly faded now, but there was a huge fad around prime energy drinks. and you know, these these becoming collector's items and being

traded in school playgrounds , traded in school playgrounds, and when that becomes the case, i think the government has a role and responsibility to step in. and we are being more activist when it comes to kids on dentistry. so we've committed to deliver 700,000 emergency nhs dental appointments. 100,000 of those will be targeted at children, there are dentists out there that are willing to do the work, but we have to pay them. so and we've committed , we've so and we've committed, we've committed £100 million to the emergency dentist appointments, which will be paid for by closing tax avoidance and also closing tax avoidance and also closing the tax loopholes that are currently left there by the conservatives in their non—dom arrangements. so it's a fully costed , fully funded policy as, costed, fully funded policy as, as as with the wider nhs dentistry challenge, the dentists are there but they're not doing work in the nhs as a contracts. such low value. so the monday after the general election, i'm going to get the british dental association in to start the process of wider

contract reform so that we can rebuild nhs dentistry, because i'm just really conscious of the fact that nhs dentistry is non—existent in huge parts of the country, and those who can afford it are going private, and those who can't are being left in a poor service for poor people and that that's not right. >> whereas it leaves me scratching my head and i think, i mean, i don't know, i, i've got a tooth in my head today, but, you know, bearing in mind when i was a youngster and what we were allowed to eat and whatever. but do you know what dentistry was available? >> nhs dentistry was used to come to you, didn't they? >> in northern ireland? did they come round to the houses and things? was that. no i've made that up. okay. ignore me. >> made that up. yeah. forget that. no. >> the. so, so actually sit and go. isn't it an absolute scandal and a disgrace that a political party has to legislate for this has to make sure that that children will be, proud to smile , be be happy to smile, be confident to smile. whereas nowadays it just must be

horrendous . horrendous. >> yeah. and it's not just kids. i mean, there are lots of adults out there. i mean, i've heard some really shocking horror stories come into my inbox of diy dentistry. people pulling their own teeth out, stories from people who basically struggling to find work because they've got, prominent teeth missing , not they've got, prominent teeth missing, not socialising they've got, prominent teeth missing , not socialising because missing, not socialising because they're too embarrassed and, you know, i think your your fundamental point there eamonn how have we got to this point i think is absolutely the right challenge. and my worry is that nhs dentistry is bad enough today. if the conservatives get a fifth term, we might end up with this being the future for our whole nhs. because i'm looking at the numbers of people that are now voting with their feet and are paying for private scans, paying for private treatment in some cases, now getting themselves into serious debt because understandably, people think, well, i'm putting my health first, so i'll, i'll borrow or i'll put this, this scan on the credit card and worry about paying for it later.

that's not a future for health care in the country that i want to see. and with nhs dentistry, there are dentists out there like that's unlike some of the other staffing challenges we've got in the nhs, where it's going to take time to recruit people. the dentists are there, but the problem is the value of their contracts and that's why i'm treating this as such a priority that i've said if labour wins the general election, it's still an if. by the way, we'll get them in on the monday after the election to start that process. so we can get the dentists back into the nhs. into the n hs. >> into the nhs. >> sorry to interrupt. we're really short on time, just quickly before i let you go, because you are focusing on youngsters this morning, particularly private schools, your shadow attorney general, emily thornberry, admitted that your 20% vat on private school fees could lead to larger class sizes in the state sector. now, sir keir starmer said that his shadow attorney general has got your policy wrong . just explain your policy wrong. just explain to us exactly where these children are going to go as parents decide they simply cannot afford this huge hike in private fees . private fees. >> yeah, and emily made an honest mistake. and i've done

that once or twice this campaign. it's going to happen. we're all human, what we what we've done is, look at the tax breaks that are enjoyed by private schools, looked at the challenges in our state schools where we've got, you know, teachers who aren't qualified in maths, teaching maths at gcse in a way they really shouldn't be. and we're going to that gap by ending the tax breaks on independent schools . we don't independent schools. we don't believe that's going to increase class sizes in state schools, not least going to go well, let's just bear in mind independent school fees have gone up above inflation every year for more than a decade. so these schools that are now, you know, pleading poverty and saying this is going to be a disaster, i just don't buy it has gone up by 20% in one year. >> you know, you've seen inflationary rises over the years, but not in such a huge way as labour is proposing to do to tuition fees. and i just ask one last time, where exactly are all of these children that will no longer be able to be in the

private sector, be schooled if they're not going to be in these larger classes? are you going to build new classes, new classrooms, new schools? >> well, as i say, two things. firstly, independent schools will have to cut their cloth accordingly. and i suspect because they are businesses , because they are businesses, that they will not set their price point at a point that sees parent numbers and pupil numbers fall because they are businesses and they're and they have a business like approach to their fee setting, which is why they've put their fees up above inflation for more than a decade. and secondly, look at the demography of our of our of our youth cohort. now we're actually seeing a decline in numbers of kids in, in state schools because of demographic trends. so we won't see class sizes rising . i actually think sizes rising. i actually think what independent schools will do is not pass on this cost to parents. they will cut their cloth because their businesses rely on pupil numbers. and that's why i don't believe the special pleading. and finally, we're being honest. there are difficult choices at this

election. the public finances are in a mess, and we are unapologetic about prioritising the 93% of kids who attend state schools, who do not get a second chance in life, do not get a second chance in those core subjects like maths , where we've subjects like maths, where we've got shortages, we're putting those kids first. and i think thatis those kids first. and i think that is the right labour thing to do. >> wes streeting , very >> wes streeting, very interesting to hear from you. thanks for your time this morning . morning. >> thank you. nice to talk to you. >> thank you. we'll leave it there. so wes streeting is the shadow secretary of state for health and social care. it's, it just seems rather strange that you get. you know, i always think that politics should affect our everyday lives. and if you get a political party that then says, hey, there's at least 100,000 kids that can't open their mouths in this country because their teeth are falling out. i think that's a terrible thing. and it obvious that it should be dealt with. and talking about £0.02 off your national insurance or whatever. it's not the same thing. and

this is where i would say if the tories are making mistakes, one of the areas they're making mistakes is they're coming up with policies that aren't affecting people, can't see a tangible difference to their their lives. want to know what you think? of course. get involved. gbnews.com forward slash have your say where did you get the idea that the dentist called round to? >> i don't know, i'm sure i read that in your autobiography . i've that in your autobiography. i've made that up years ago, many, many years ago. >> or wikipedia, my autobiography where the dentist in the olden days, dentists used to travel round to people's schools and schools right ? schools and schools right? >> yeah. they come with fluoride and all sorts and give you. that doesn't happen now. was that in your book? have i made that up? i don't know where i got that wrong. >> i'm slightly concerned about my they could come to schools, but you said twice. >> yeah okay. well either school or home. i feel like there were some special dentistry that i didn't get and thought was interesting. >> but anyway, there were dental inspections at schools.

>> yeah, yeah, there were, there were things like, that's a good thing. and we're going to get the views now of labour lists. kathleen clark and political correspondent for the spectator james heal there. james, what did you think of what you heard from the shadow secretary of state for health and social care? >> well, i thought it was a lot more stronger on the dental announcement than on labour's plans for a vat raid on private schools, i think that, you know, labour keeps saying, oh, what i think private schools will do is this and that. well, all we have to do is look at reports showing that already two private schools are reported to have closed their doors already. a lot of them are saying, you know, we can't afford our parents can't afford to have a 20% one off rise. and i think you're absolutely right, isabel, when you made the point that, yes, fees have gone up by over the past 20 years, but they've gone up at steady rates of around 5% rather than kind of one off whack of 20. so i always think it's interesting when labour try and put words in the mouths of independent schools, but well also james, i mean, we were out of time with him. >> there's so much more i wanted to say to him, but the way he

talked about private schools as being private businesses and as if they were running huge profits with shareholders that were getting dividends, i mean, everything that these schools make, they plough back into the schools, but also with outreach to the local state schools as well, providing minibuses, allowing people to use their resources and their facilities. i think it is a mischaracterisation largely of the private sector. let's get kathleen clark's thoughts on all of that, because this has really succeeded, i think, in stoking, sort of a lot of bad feeling between the two sectors. at the heart of all of this is children , of course. >> and that's exactly what wes was talking about. labourlist readers will know that wes is a stand out member of the shadow cabinet, and we're looking forward to seeing what he does over the next few weeks. i think, look, keir starmer went to a state school. he will hopefully be the next prime minister. wes streeting went to a state school. he will now hopefully have one of the most important jobs in government. it is possible, and i don't think we should be doing down state schools, and that's coming from someone who went to a state school . school. >> no one's talking about doing down state school. sorry. just to be clear, the concern is that

they're going to lead to overcrowded state schools that some of the most deprived children can be squeezed out of the best state schools. i mean, it's such a huge, policy this i could i could talk about it for hours, but what what about the dentistry element in all of this, kathleen? because this is fair, as eamonn is saying, they've really identified something that is a real sad indictment of britain in 2024. if there are kids that feel they can't smile because of the state of their teeth . of their teeth. >> or just a horrible thing to hean >> or just a horrible thing to hear, obviously that's that's just terrible. and actually , the just terrible. and actually, the british dental association said back in january that their dentists told them that eight out of ten dentists have now seen people going to dentist with diy dentistry, which actually doesn't even bear to think about at this time in the morning. so look, this is exactly what we should be doing. and the party of sure start is back again with some great promises for young people and children. >> okay, kathleen clark james heale appreciate your take on all of that this morning. thanks very much indeed. >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> i remember on fridays, my dad had four other brothers and, friday my dad used to go to the newsagents and he would get his our comics whatever for friday to be able to read . but also to be able to read. but also he'd come back with a bag, a paper bag for each of us, and there'd be fruit parcels in it. jelly babies in it. there would be cola cubes. there would be all sorts of things high on earth. i have a tooth in my head.ii earth. i have a tooth in my head. i i really don't know. >> there's no justice in the world because i never had sweets growing up. i know you think it's very strange, but i've got loads of fillings and i can never work out why. no sweets ? never work out why. no sweets? >> you must have been having an apple pie or something. >> i can't think why, but i've just got bad, bad teeth. so there we go. anyway too much personal info from from us this morning. let's get a check on the forecast. is alex deakin. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june . there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming down from the breeze is coming down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day, so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, western scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some sunny spells but expect showers over parts of northern england, the midlands, east anglia and the midlands, east anglia and the southeast . and even if the southeast. and even if you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm. temperatures struggling into the mid—teens for many. feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts. that breeze will continue to bring a few showers around. so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers, of course, east anglia in the southeast, but for much of southwest england, wales it will be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day, by

and large, for northern ireland. and in fact, most of scotland will be dry through the evening. just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles, temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so many places becoming dry as we go through tonight, so always keep some showers coming into the northern isles . we'll keep the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn quite chilly again. temperatures well down into single figures in some rural spots, so another fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday and there won't be as many showers either. yes, still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud, but a bit more in the way of sunshine. those lighter winds as well. temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a touch warmer tomorrow. goodbye >> that warm feeling inside from

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watching on demand. good luck. >> okay, so here's a question we want to put to you this morning. when you think of your school experience, did school really prepare you for life? should school? should part of school's job be to prepare youngsters for work? >> we'll be discussing that next. stay

>> now you look back at your school years. and what do you think i mean? very well educated that we were. and brilliant job by the teachers . but i think in by the teachers. but i think in my particular school upbringing, far too many homeworks and. so nine subjects a day, nine homeworks a night. absolutely ridiculous. slave labour. you would be, you know, you'd be up at seven in the morning and you wouldn't be in bed till 10:00 at night. and you were doing homeworks until that time. and i don't think that progressed me in life. and i felt that at

school i didn't learn anything practical. i learned nothing about finance . i learned nothing about finance. i learned nothing about finance. i learned nothing about cooking, for instance, and i feel that i should have. that's what i feel was missing. >> yeah, i learned stuff about sewing and stuff , which i wish sewing and stuff, which i wish they hadn't wasted my time on. i've never picked up a needle and thread in my life. quite sexist, very sexist. i didn't get taught anything about finance, so that was an interesting journey . i went on interesting journey. i went on through my 20s trying to get my head around council tax and mortgages and all rent and all of these things , and it was of these things, and it was probably more difficult than it should have been. but i do also really believe in education for education's sake. i don't want my kids to go to a factory that is just preparing them for the world of work. >> no, but i think it should be an option because i think very few should be a rounded education. very few of us are actually dedicated to being, i suppose what's what am i looking for anyway? being being just brain boxes for the rest of your life, academics or whatever. voters, only a fifth of voters

think schools prepare your kids for work, compared to two thirds who believe the education system doesn't give pupils the skills they'll need for employment. >> so does school prepare children for work? let's get the thoughts this morning of maths teacher, author and broadcaster bobby seagull regular on the programme. good morning. he thinks schools don't prepare children and we've also got the political commentator jonathan gibson who thinks they do. jonathan, let's start with you because perhaps out of all of the views you've heard from us this morning so far, you might be on your own on this one. tell us more. us more. >> us more. >> yeah, thank you very much. and look, i certainly don't think that schools are perfect by any means. i think that you know, bodies of work like finance, teaching people about taxes , how to tax return, taxes, how to tax return, different vocations would be an amazing thing. but i think, unfortunately, our schools are not necessarily in a scenario or in a place yet where we have the resources and have the abilities to be able to provide that. that alone, even kind of fundamental understanding of the core subjects and if you look at the

educational attainment that we're reaching in this country , we're reaching in this country, it is quite shockingly low, i think there are elements in which we can't ignore school plays an important role, and i think this is often taken for granted in some ways, whether that's in social skills, in teamwork , building on people's teamwork, building on people's communication, placing some form of time management and also responsibility . i of time management and also responsibility. i think of time management and also responsibility . i think those responsibility. i think those sorts of things with, for example, discipline, behaviour , example, discipline, behaviour, peer structure actually need to be fleshed out. much more within schools. and the basics really need to be reached, which i think are not being reached at many of the schools in our country at the moment. and we're seeing teachers leaving, we're seeing teachers leaving, we're seeing clips of very bad behaviour at schools and a lack of that sort of discipline and structure before possibly we can even think about somewhat reaching national curriculum level when it comes to teaching things like finance, like cooking, which obviously requires great resources and would be amazing things to do. okay, so you think you think that that is sort of missing from the curriculum .

from the curriculum. >> that's how you squeeze it all in. bobby seagull is a teacher. he's a maths teacher, a friend of this programme. what do you think , bobby? think, bobby? >> so i've been in schools now for secondary and sixth form for a decade now. and what i think is again, i think teachers, we try our hardest to deliver what the curriculum gives us. but sadly, i think schools in the uk and probably many parts of the world is still very victorian. if you look at some of the video clips that you showed during the earlier segment, it showed children sitting in rows in tables with the teacher on the front. that's pretty much what happenedin front. that's pretty much what happened in the 1870s, 1880s, 18905. happened in the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s. and now we're in the 2020s. education is still that one way system. so education in schools hasn't changed to adapt to using technology. the way young people learn, their interests and again, what isabel said is school for like education for education sake or is it the other side? is it a factory to create just workers for the future? i don't think

it's either side. it's somewhere in the middle. but currently we're not getting it right because when i see my students and they leave and again, some of my students are in the middle of my students are in the middle of their gcses. the last maths gcse was down yesterday, so well done my students. but in the summer in the middle of august when they pick up the results, down the months, down the years when i see students often when they tell me, miss seagull, you know, you did a really good job of teaching us the maths, but we didn't learn the things that we needed to learn. yeah, again, the budgeting, the personal finance. you mentioned isabel. yeah. even something like how to cook a basic meal because these are young people that some go to university, some do apprenticeships, they don't have these basic skills they need for life. and i feel with schools it's not okay if it's not on the curriculum . we can't deliver it. curriculum. we can't deliver it. so i feel as if there needs to be a top down revolution in terms of what we can teach and what we can deliver. so at the moment people do their best. but i think education fails young people in some ways. >> yeah, i tell you who fails young people often parents, parents and jonathan, what do you think about the

responsibility of parents? i mean, sometimes to teachers and maybe to fill in areas that a lot of parents should be fulfilling, but they don't and they never will. >> yeah. i think if you look at the differences in attainment across schools, like one of the really significant reasons is because of the amount that parents actually care about education and i think that's just a strong indicator in terms of how the child will perform, because school exists to provide some sort of structure. and i think structure is incredibly important, important thing in a child's life. and i can speak from experience and not being that long ago, for myself. but i think that if you don't have structure at home, it kind of works against everything that's trying to be built upon at school. and i would just say in response to the previous comments, i agree, but i think in order to get the fundamentals, you know, to be able to even act independently, you need and we need to really establish strong roots of structure and of understanding of basic maths and english, which are really, really important. and again, missing in

so many elements of school. so i think we can talk about this as well in the context of higher education, specifically, where i do completely agree with bobby that, you know, there's way too much focus on academia when you talk about getting things like maths, right? >> and as both isabel and i are a bit lost on that front arithmetic, i'll take anybody on my times tables, whatever stayed with me all throughout my life when i got to grammar school, it was it was much more difficult for me understanding maths. and here's the thing. bobby never had to use the sort of skills that that you may well be teaching . teaching. >> sin cos tan pythagoras theorem in my in my never, never had to use it. >> never missed it, didn't need it. and i should have been given the option by at least third year to have said right be a lot of that eamonn it's not for you. instead of being made to take it and fail it, in fifth form or sixth form.

>> yeah. if i, if i can speak on to that point, eamonn, why i would say is that with maths, i personally think there should be two parts of the curriculum. one, there is the sort of advanced track for students that we think will end up doing sciences, computing and take on further maths. so those people, they do need access to pythagoras, trigonometry as you mentioned. but for some students who may not use maths beyond, there should be almost a separate core maths curriculum of the maths that's relevant to day to day life. you know, whether it's simple things like to how use maths in a spreadsheet or how to use maths or budgeting or personal finance. and at the moment we sort of fail students by forcing everyone to do. even though i find intrinsically attractive and beautiful, we're forcing them to do these things, which maybe they might see as irrelevant. >> you never know. >> you never know. >> i'm always worried about that. you never know what the consequences will be of that. when i was at secondary school, they streamed maths . i was in they streamed maths. i was in they streamed maths. i was in the bottom set, which meant i couldn't take the gcse, which would get an a grade. the highest you could get was a c. my mum was not having it, she

was absolutely not having it, bless her, because she was good at maths and had a—level maths and went to cambridge. she tutored me within an inch of my life, got me moved up a set, was able to take that gcse. if i hadnt able to take that gcse. if i hadn't got an a and my gcse maths i wouldn't have then been able to get into the university that i then went to for a totally different subject, not maths related, but you had to have an a in maths. so i've had a closed doors for me at the age of whatever 14, 16 and i always worry about separating people. i think we should be pulling everybody up if we can, anyway, it's an interesting debate. we have to leave it there. we're after time. jonathan gibson bobby seagull. thank you very much for your thoughts. thank you. bill, i do hate maths though. still gives me the shivers thinking about gcse maths. >> horrid but amazing tribute to you to actually have ended up getting it and through that sort of tuition. >> thanks my mum. really? >> thanks my mum. really? >> no, i never got it. i sat it twice, failed it twice and then just lied on my cvs after that and said that i got it. no one ever checked, so don't do that at home. >> don't do that. do do that. >> don't do that. do do that. >> don't do that. do do that.

>> do do that. life is about what you got away with it. >> no, no . >> no, no. >> no, no. >> you've got what have you do, get caught. >> well you could be thrown out of it. >> put in prison. >> put in prison. >> no, but you could get thrown out, i don't know. >> well, i happiest years of my life. school happy. i love school as well, of my life, i love school. mr >> tremendously. and that's the thing i think for children, it should be an amazing experience. it should be a really good, happy experience. no child should be deprived . best going should be deprived. best going to school off a morning. let us us know your paul will sport after

there are 24 teams taking part in the euros . there are 24 teams taking part in the euros. there are. how many of those clubs ? those are many of those clubs? those are those teams. hi. where a red shirt. >> oh my goodness me . >> oh my goodness me. >> oh my goodness me. >> many. >> many. >> not many. denmark. oh, you'd

have to name them. this could take this could take me some time. just give me. thank goodness, 17 out of 24 i'm going to go five, 6909 okay. >> nine. right. and then the next colour comes as blue and then yellow. right right. now i wonder what it is. what's the attraction. so many of the teams when you look at their first choice kit. oh i know just look the same. >> yeah. you're going to say what attracts them to wearing a red shirt? >> i thought the same man united. i knew they were. >> i knew we were going to go somewhere. is that what it is? >> there's a suggestion that red is a dominant colour and it's quite intimidating with with teams, but. oh, i just thought just just which usually it's usually flag isn't it. >> it's usually related to the flag is the colour of the shirts that they would wear. i mean, the dutch wear orange because of the dutch wear orange because of the history and orange and all that stuff. and the english, you know, england will wear white, scotland will wear blue because of the saint andrew's flag. i guess that's the dominant colour

on that. so i guess that's maybe it, well, real madrid carlo ancelotti's team will wear white, except they won't be wearing it in the club world cup. >> well, they will be now this is, it's a, it's a, it's a bizarre one because carlo ancelotti was asked about the club world cup because it's next yeah club world cup because it's next year. yeah and there's 32 teams there. and this is fifa probably trying to make more money. yeah. or infantino trying to make his mark and have a legacy. and anyway so it's going to be a club world cup. they're going to have it in the united states of america. and they're going to just try and make it like the world cup. but for clubs. so there's only man city and chelsea will be representing england. >> why would why on earth would chelsea be represented. >> because they do it. you know, the coefficient thing that they tried with the champions league for next year. it's how many times you've won this and done this, it surely should be the best couple of clubs. well we'll leave us out anyway. but that's. but that's not the point. >> yeah, but the, the best clubs that year. >> yeah. well carlo ancelotti

gave an interview and now carlo ancelotti is said fifa can forget it. the club and footballers will not participate in the tournament. won real madrid game is worth ,20 million. and fifa wants to give us that for an entire tournament. no way. like us, other clubs will refuse the invitation within the hour. real madrid statement said. our club will compete as planned as we face with pride and the utmost enthusiasm to make our millions of fans. what does that mean? >> are they getting more money? >> are they getting more money? >> dream again with a new title? probably doesn't. it's just something that they said that they get involved in. carlo. because the thing is, it's another month during the summer. they're expecting their players to go out and play. not not interested, not andrew gwynne man united aren't they? spurs on their. we're not interested, not bothered, not bothered, no , why bothered, not bothered, no, why would you get a tattoo of the eiffel tower? >> well this is we're talking a little tennis here, because this is carlos alcaraz . yeah. who won is carlos alcaraz. yeah. who won the french open. i think we'd probably see carlos there. won the french open, on sunday. so he's decided that what he would

do is now get a tattoo to celebrate that fact. you get olympians, don't they? every olympians, don't they? every olympian has the olympic rings tattoo now, so he's going to have. tattoo now, so he's going to have . well, we've got a few have. well, we've got a few suggestions. there's carlos there. there we are. how about that one? that's very classy, don't you think? it's very good or that's if he's got three arms. i suppose that's probably comes in handy. i don't know who that is. a little heart there. maybe on the eiffel tower? no, but that's what he's suggesting that he's going to get. oh that's very classy, mario. across them, just in case you forget where the eiffel tower is. is that i can't think of any reason to get any tattoo of anything on my body. really? >> would you get a tattoo? >> would you get a tattoo? >> no, not for me. >>— >> no, not for me. >> not for me either. isabel. >> not for me either. isabel. >> no, i don't. >>— >> no, i don't. >> people were old fashioned. >> people were old fashioned. >> well, it's very trendy. well, the thing is, they'll they'll come and go. but. yeah, if you fear it's there for there for the rest of your life. yeah, right. >> you're back again. 8:20, my friend. we'll see you then. okay. >> thank you. >> all right. stay with

well, the. >> the boss of a water company. i don't know so many water companies with strange names, but anyway, she's got herself a bonus of £300,000. yeah. tell us why . alex. why. alex. >> yeah . good question. that's a >> yeah. good question. that's a gotcha question right there . gotcha question right there. >> i don't know why she's got a bonus because it's an absolute disaster. what she's done supposedly. i mean, she must have got the bonus based on her performance . performance. >> so this is, pennon, the water group is called pennon. and it's revealed that the chief executive saw her pay package jump executive saw her pay package jump 58. yeah and that's despite seeing pollution incidents nearly double at south west water last year. nearly double at south west water last year . so what is what

water last year. so what is what is the obsession. what is the magnetism and why should you be paid. £860,000 a year to run a water company? >> i mean, look, it's ridiculous, right? and we're talking about public services here that everyone needs to use . here that everyone needs to use. now, the real the real scandal in this is that this is the same water company that had the 300, sorry, that had the outbreak of that parasite that caused people to get extremely sick and end up in hospital. i think the public are sick to death. sick. i mean, i'm sick to death of seeing these highly paid private sector people who are running services that are critical to human beings, to , to live off of and beings, to, to live off of and can't even run the business properly and are then paid this ridiculous amount of money. it's bonkers , let's stay with the bonkers, let's stay with the theme about bosses of these huge companies and talk about bp. emma, staff there are being told they must disclose their intimate relationships, but it doesn't apply to the boss. it can do what he wants.

>> i mean, once again, one rule for them, one rule for the rest of us. i mean, i'm always a little uncomfortable about these rules because most people traditionally have met their partners at work. >> i agree , agree, and yeah, >> i agree, agree, and yeah, that's that's a natural thing. >> if you spend eight hours a day, five days a week with people, that's where romance is likely to happen. the problem, of course, is when that's abused . so it's not a question of don't have romances , it's don't have romances, it's a question. and i mean, at what point do you declare, like, i don't understand the rules of young romance these days because i watched love island or something , and there seemed to something, and there seemed to be a million more steps than there were when in my day you met someone at a party, you had a snog, and then you're like, should we be boyfriend and girlfriend? whereas now you have to be talking and then you're talking about talking, and then you might be talking about being a all the while you're exclusive, all the while you're having sex. but at which one of these points do you disclose after you've been on two dates?

imagine it goes wrong at that point. >> well, can i can i just give you the alternative view on this? because if you are a boss of somebody and you're in charge of somebody and you're in charge of a big department and you've got an employee working underneath you, they get unfair, they get unfairly treated because they might get a pay rise, they might get special treatment. and therefore for everyone else, that's like, well, that person sleeping with the boss, you know, it's bad. and that's i certainly understand be part of the same exact . exact. >> well one would suggest rather than just the mere minions 100. >> i mean, i think there are power imbalances that you do need to absolutely manage. >> you're completely right on that, alex. and there are abuses that, alex. and there are abuses that happen. but i would say that happen. but i would say that the thing to do is deal with the abuses, not the love. >> i couldn't agree more with that. >> yeah, quite right with that. >> yeah, quite right with that. >> emma, could you tell me what the this phenomenon. absolutely incredible taylor swift phenomenon , is and, being phenomenon, is and, being involved, i mean, what she's doing in scotland and packing out stadiums and it's, it is

unbelievable. and taylor swift is so unbelievable that, i've interviewed her and didn't remember it until isabel or someone showed it to me. yes. >> and i what was that? i interviewed everyone, yeah, yeah, but the point is, we're not worthy. >> no. >> no. >> yeah , but what is so worthy >> yeah, but what is so worthy about taylor swift and, you know, but. >> and really, people are addicted to her, people absolutely adore her. and i think what's fascinating about taylor swift is that she does reinvent herself with each new album, with each new tour , and album, with each new tour, and the eras tour that she's on now is a kind of way of looking back at each version of taylor swift that's come along and i think that's come along and i think that that refreshing of her image that is part of what is so appealing. and i think also like when i was, much younger, music was really tribal. you were an indie kid or you were into, you know , a rap or you were. and it

know, a rap or you were. and it feels like she's appealing across the board. and mums and daughters, dads and sons all love her. >> yeah, i would agree with that. >> okay. we love you too. you're going to be back in 40 minutes time. alex armstrong and emma burnell. >> in the meantime, here's alex deakin with your weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june . doesn't really feel like june. there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming down from the breeze is coming down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day, so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, western scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some sunny spells but expect showers over parts of northern england, the midlands, east anglia and

the midlands, east anglia and the southeast . and even if the southeast. and even if you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm. temperatures struggling into the mid teens for many and feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts. that breeze will continue to bring a few showers around. so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers across east anglia in the southeast, but for much of southwest england wales, it'll be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day, by and large, for northern ireland. and in fact, most of scotland will be dry through the evening. just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles, temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so many places becoming dry as we go through tonight, so always keep some showers coming into the northern isles . we'll keep the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn quite chilly again. temperatures well down into single figures in some rural spots, so another

fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday and there won't be as many showers either. yes, still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud, but a bit more in the way of sunshine. those lighter winds as well. temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a touch warmer tomorrow. goodbye >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

participated in events both in portsmouth and in france , and portsmouth and in france, and having fully participated in all the british events with british veterans, i returned home before the international leaders event . the international leaders event. that was a mistake and i apologise for that conservative view on all of that shortly. >> labour are pledging to tackle the crisis in children's health. they have promised 100,000 new dental appointments. >> sir ed davey takes journalists on a ride as he launches the liberal democrat manifesto with a bang . manifesto with a bang. >> what was the bang anyway? it didn't bang there. there's the princess of wales. not. here's the question could she make a surprise appearance at the trooping of the colour? cameron walker will be revealing all and in the sport this morning. >> prince william sends the england team on their way to germany for the euros. england team on their way to germany for the euros . are two germany for the euros. are two more british medals for british athletes at the european championships in rome and in tennis. harriet dart bet the umpire £50,000 that her decision

was wrong over a line call in a game with katie boulter and it's just as well for the umpire that she didn't take the bet . she didn't take the bet. >> another one of those days that looks like june, but doesn't feel like it. northerly winds continue to bring a chill, but will they continue to bring some showers? join me later for full forecast . full forecast. >> it's been a busy programme this morning and you've been very good getting in touch. >> yes, we were talking about the great british getaway people deciding they're bored, they're fed up , deciding they're bored, they're fed up, everything's terrible. they want to leave the country and lots of you have been getting in touch with your thoughts on all of this. livy says, i wish they'd bring back the equivalent to the £10 poms. i'd probably be too old, but i would tell my kids to grab it and go. that course was the path to get down to australia for a tenner and start a new life. >> sarah. good morning, very

nice to have you on board today. eamonn, you are so right about leaving the uk. my husband and i are moving to the south of france to retire in a few years from now. and it's not just about the weather, it's the immigration, the politics which are rigged to be so similar regardless of whatever party is in charge , the lawlessness, the in charge, the lawlessness, the rise of extremists, so much more . but we definitely, as a result, will be moving away from the uk. >> bernadette i left the uk with my family in 2005. we came back in 2017 as i missed my family. i can't believe what's happened to our country. it's very sad if it wasn't for my children and grandchildren. i would move again. but linda says we are one of the luckiest countries in the world. but full of spoilt, entitled people who don't realise what we have. if you think the grass is greener somewhere else , off you pop. so somewhere else, off you pop. so there we go. linda says it as she sees it. keep your thoughts coming in this one. you do it via our website gbnews.com forward slash your say to the election. >> i and the prime minister has returned to the campaign trail

after a weekend of hiding from the media, just in time to launch the conservative party manifesto today . manifesto today. >> so what can we expect from it? well, it's thought that they will lay out plans for 2% cut to national insurance in a bid to revitalise their campaign, labour are going to launch their child health action plan that will tackle what they call a crisis in children's dentistry. >> 100,000 extra appointments for children will be created . for children will be created. earlier on the programme, we heard from the shadow health secretary, wes streeting pratensis, out there that are willing to do the work, but we have to pay them so and we've committed, we've committed £100 million to the emergency dentist appointments, which will be paid for by closing tax avoidance . for by closing tax avoidance. >> well, let's take a look at some of the key moments of what the leaders got up to on the campaign trail yesterday . campaign trail yesterday. >> i'm prepared to take bold action to cut people's taxes, protect their pensions and bring migration down. and in contrast, labour are just going to put

everyone's taxes up. that's a choice only one of two people will be prime minister on july the 5th. keir starmer or i, a vote for anyone who's not a conservative candidate just makes it more likely that keir starmer is prime minister i'm energised about the vision that we're putting forward for the country . country. >> we are child care and nursery places are really essential. they're so good for children in their development, making sure that when they arrive at primary school they've got the skills that they need. really good for parents and carers because they can get back into the labour market. when i took over the leadership of the liberal democrats in 2019, we'd had three really tough elections and we lost our way a little bit. >> and my first speech, you may remember i said, we need to wake up and smell the coffee and what i said i wanted to do was really listen to people listen to their concerns and make sure that when we got to this election, our policies responded to them . policies responded to them. >> now, the right thing to do is to make work pay. so let's lift

the starting point at which anybody pays any income tax to £20,000 a year. that's still well below the average national salary, but well above the current level , which salary, but well above the current level, which is about £12,570 a year . £12,570 a year. >> well, throughout the campaign , we have been hearing from people right across the united kingdom about what really matters to them. >> well, today we meet sam richardson from falmouth. i'm sam richardson, i'm 29 and i'm from falmouth. >> so in falmouth, in truro, the labour party have the best chance of getting the tories out. so i'll be voting for the labour party this year because, well, i would consider myself to be centre left of centre, in my sort of politics, i feel like the last 14 years have been a

bit of a disaster to be honest. food bank usage is up. there's a really bad housing crisis in cornwall. everywhere i seem to 90, cornwall. everywhere i seem to go, there seems to be shops closing down. the high streets are dying and i just feel like most things have been really badly handled by the conservative party. so i think keir starmer is quite a serious man, which appeals to me. i think we need, especially at the moment with the world in the state that it is. we need someone who can look at the books, make sure that the numbers add up. he's someone that i feel like with his past as a human rights lawyer, i think that he's well suited to the role and well suited to the job at hand. i know that there's an argument that he's boring, but personally i don't. what's wrong with boring? i i yearn for the day where i don't wake up and worry about opening up my news app and seeing something ridiculous that the leader of the country has said it doesn't have to be this soap opera all the time. i don't know that we should ever support one political party anyway. i think we should have our own political opinions and then towards whoever best represents those . i

whoever best represents those. i think that's a much better way of doing it. instead of pledging allegiance like a sports team. when you're 19, it's a lot of future left, right, when you're 19, it's a lot of future left, right , so when you're 19, it's a lot of future left, right, so i when you're 19, it's a lot of future left, right , so i would future left, right, so i would say that i've actually probably seen more politically engaged young people, whether or not that's around economic or social issues, it seems to be more prevalent now than personally what i've seen for a long time, especially with things like the climate crisis. >> well, that's what sam richardson thinks. what do you think ? let us know this morning think? let us know this morning your reaction to that. but for now, we're going to check in with our political correspondent olivia utley and katherine forster, who both join us now, katherine forster out on the road. we'll come to you in just a moment, catherine. but to start with you, olivia, because it's the conservative manifesto that they will be hoping can turn things around for the prime minister after what would probably have cost him his job in any other circumstances, is a £0.02 cut to national insurance, the third in a year going to be the third in a year going to be the thing that does it, given that it hasn't shifted the polls at all in the last few months .

at all in the last few months. >> well, absolutely. i mean, the big reveal in this manifesto today seems to be this £0.02 cut in national insurance, which will take it to down just 6. will that make any difference? the evidence that we've seen so far suggests probably not. the chancellor lowered national insurance by £0.02 back in the autumn budget and again in the spnng autumn budget and again in the spring budget, and no difference whatsoever was made in the polls. rishi sunak has sort of painted himself into a corner in a way with this because jeremy hunt, the chancellor , said in hunt, the chancellor, said in his last budget that he would like to see national insurance scrapped altogether. so the conservatives have to pursue this policy, even if it doesn't seem to be making very much of a difference in the polls at all. also, we have the labour attack line on this policy, which is that the problem with scrapping national insurance is that that that that tax will have to, they believe, be added on to, to income tax, which is also paid by pensioners . so labour is

by pensioners. so labour is saying that the tax burden will actually go up for pensioners, even if it goes down for working people. and of course pensioners are a core part of the tories everyday vote. so this might actually go the other way. in the polls. you could end up seeing the tories fall even further. another big policy that we're expecting to see in the manifesto today, which rishi sunak has trailed in an op ed for the telegraph. this morning, is a new and improved help to buy scheme. well, one part of thatis buy scheme. well, one part of that is making permanent the increase in the threshold of stamp duty to £425,000. now that is great for first time buyers. the problem is that that temporary increase in the threshold has been in place since the mini—budget back in 2022, so first time buyers aren't going to feel a wonderful boost from this policy as far as they can see, it , it's already they can see, it, it's already been baked into conservative

policies. so again, not something that is likely to give the conservative an immediate boost in the polls. already there are murmurings that conservative backbench mps aren't happy . that's before the aren't happy. that's before the manifesto has even been launched, and the guardian has even run a story today suggesting that right wing mps could potentially gather together next week and do a press conference releasing alternative manifesto pledges. their own different manifesto. now, i've spoken to some right wing mps who you might think would be perhaps in that wing of the party, and so far they say that we are not at that stage, but the very fact that there are rumblings of a potential alternative manifesto on the day of the launch, the day that the prime minister is coming back onto the campaign trail, shows just how bad things are for the conservatives. labour are leading by about 25 points in one poll at the moment, and the thinking is that might actually go thinking is that might actually 9° up thinking is that might actually go up in the coming days. >> just a word on the lib dems.

they launched their manifesto yesterday and whilst we're heanng yesterday and whilst we're hearing lots of sweeties being offered from various political parties, they came out and said we will reverse all of the tax cuts being made by the conservatives. quite a brave approach perhaps just being very honest. olivia >> it is a brave approach because labour has said that it won't raise any of the three main taxes. so national insurance, income tax or vat . insurance, income tax or vat. the lib dems had to say that really, because their promises at the general election are very, very expensive indeed . very, very expensive indeed. they've said, for example, that they will have a mental health practitioner in every single school across the country. their free school meals offer is even more generous than labour's. they've promised another 8000 gps, particularly in rural areas, and say that it will be written into the law that people have a right to see their gp within one week. that is all very, very expensive . not to very, very expensive. not to mention their huge reforming plans for social care, which many think are long overdue. but

the way the liberal democrats are planning to do it would be very, very expensive indeed. and there were lots and lots of questions. i was with ed davey on the liberal democrat bus a couple of weeks ago. all the questions were essentially about how these expensive policies are going to be costed . we've got a going to be costed. we've got a little bit more of an idea from the lib dems now, essentially lots of tax rises. interesting. okay, olivia, thanks very much. well, let's pick up with catherine. she's out and about on the labour bus today. we've heard from wes streeting already this morning, and their focus is very much on youngsters and their health and their dentistry. tell us more . dentistry. tell us more. >> yes. good morning eamonn and isabel from the north—east. the bus will be leaving in just a little bit, but the focus on children at the moment, from labour today we had plans for extra child care places and free breakfast clubs and today we're heanng breakfast clubs and today we're hearing about their plans for 100,000 extra appointments for children . now they say that

children. now they say that 540,000 fewer children saw a dentist last year, compared to 2018. and we hear all these horror stories , don't we? of horror stories, don't we? of children having to have teeth extracted because they are so rotten and they're also planning a ban on very highly caffeinated energy drinks for under 16 seconds. so that's not your sort of diet coke. those are things with 150mg of caffeine per litre or more. so you're sort of red bull, those types of very, very caffeinated energy drinks that, kids so often like, they will expect trading standards to be enforcing this. so this is part of their child health action plan. they've already announced things like supervised tooth brushing in schools for 3 to 5 year olds. and you know , we'll year olds. and you know, we'll we'll be hearing more this morning from the shadow health secretary wes streeting, on a visit with sir keir starmer of

course, labour's manifesto is coming out on thursday, it's pretty slim from what i understand . we're about 30 pages understand. we're about 30 pages or so, probably no major surprises because they are, of course , so far ahead in the course, so far ahead in the polls. they very much got this safety first approach. they just don't want anything to go wrong. but i have to say, although they say no complacency, they are, as you would expect , feeling pretty you would expect, feeling pretty chipper . chipper. >> okay. no drama. starmer seems to be the way they are performing . thanks very much, performing. thanks very much, catherine. appreciate it. in the north—east of england, we're not told where. it's said to be something of a mystery where they're out and about, but the nonh they're out and about, but the north east somewhere. >> let's have a look at what else is happening. news wise this morning, two boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in britain since the killing of james bulger in 1993. they're 12 years of age, and they were found guilty of murdering 19 year old sean zahawi last november in an

unprovoked attack. the jury's decision to convict the boys was unanimous . unanimous. >> unemployment has risen to its highest rate since the summer of 2021 as the jobs market has weakened, according to the office for national statistics. unemployment has lifted to 4.4% in the three months to april, up from 4.3. >> the united nations security council has voted to support an israel—hamas ceasefire plan . the israel—hamas ceasefire plan. the proposal sets out conditions for a full and complete ceasefire and the release of hostages held by hamas and the exchange of palestinian prisoners, 14 of the 15 security council members voted in favour of the us drafted resolution. russia abstained and jury deliberations have begun. >> in the case of hunter biden, the son of president biden, who's accused of lying about his use of illegal drugs when he bought a handgun in 2018. hunter biden, who did not testify, denies the charges and if

convicted , could face up to 25 convicted, could face up to 25 years in prison . absolutely years in prison. absolutely shocking to reflect on those 212 year olds in that unprovoked attack. lots of discussion about whether or not they should be allowed to have this identity. anonymity because they are so young, or is actually the public interest in this case, so great that we should actually be able to name them, you know, have they forfeited their right to remain children, having you know, indiscriminately killed somebody with a machete? let us know what you think about that. this morning. the murderers would slash their murders . would slash their murders. >> doesn't matter what age they are. and they should be named. probably as well. so they are 12 year old machete murderers. let's get a weather update for this tuesday, we hope. fingers crossed it's going to be bright and nice . and nice. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june. there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, western scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some sunny spells, but expect showers over parts of northern england, the midlands, east anglia and the southeast, and even if you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm temperatures struggling into the mid teens for many and feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts. that breeze will continue to bring a few showers around. so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers across east anglia in the southeast. but for much of southwest england wales it will be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in

because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day, by and large, for northern ireland. and in fact most of scotland will be dry through the evening. just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles, temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so many places becoming dry as we go through tonight. we'll always keep some showers coming into the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn quite chilly again. temperatures well down into single figures in some rural spots . so another some rural spots. so another fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday and there won't be as many showers either. yes, still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud, but a bit more in the way of sunshine. there's lighter winds as well, temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a

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all. well, the princess of wales is considering a surprise appearance. we are told at the

trooping of the colour. she missed the final rehearsal last weekend, and she sent a letter of apology, as well as she continues with her recovery from cancer. >> cancen >> well, let's get the thoughts. by royal correspondent cameron walker i mean, by royal correspondent cameron walkeri mean, i by royal correspondent cameron walker i mean, i thought the advice was not to speculate and that we weren't sure whether or not she'd be making an appearance. but i suppose people are just really hoping. >> yeah, there's certainly a lot of public interest in this , i of public interest in this, i think. but as you say, i think any cancer charity would tell you, i don't think we should. it's not right for us to speculate as when somebody is going to be returning to work or not. the facts are she is colonel of the irish guards. irish guards are trooping their colour this year. she did not go to the colonel. review the final rehearsal , as it were, last rehearsal, as it were, last weekend. but she did write a letter. kensington palace has not ruled out a balcony appearance, but i think it's incredibly unlikely. the reason being it's the king's birthday parade and i think if she did appear on the balcony, it would upstage that event. kensington palace have always said that they will provide an update when

there is one. the princess herself has asked for the space and the privacy to recover , and and the privacy to recover, and i think speculation kind of puts unnecessary pressure on on the princess. and at the end of the day, she's a human being, and i think she's clearly been through a lot since january. and i think perhaps a lot of us would say we need to respect her wishes. >> i think the truth is, as you say, whenever she does decide she's ready, that will become the story. and so she'll be mindful, won't she, that she doesn't really want to overshadow. because i know we were talking at the d—day event last week. wouldn't it have been fabulous if she'd been well enough to come? but she wouldn't have wanted to come back then and detracted from from the veterans. so. so there we go. we'll we'll see as and when she'll do it, i do it. >> my grandfather fought for the irish guards so. >> wow. yeah. >> wow. yeah. >> and he was he was stationed here at london at their barracks in london. so, yeah, i could feel i could represent the irish guards family connection name. >> there you go. it can be an ambassador, a appearance. >> that would be good. >> that would be good. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> need a green tie. >> need a green tie. >> what about the king, he's, a

attending an event tonight, which is to become something of a calendar feature. >> yes. the kings foundation used to be known as the princes foundation. it's one of the charities he founded, i think, in the 1980s, when he was prince of wales. the, headquarters is dumfries house. he also has another kind of area at highgrove, and it creates kind of opportunities for young people, particularly when it comes to rural, rural skills and learning. those skills. trust then? no, totally different charity. so the prince's foundation, and if you remember, david beckham has recently become an ambassador for that charity. and the king, bearing in mind he's done a lot recently over the last couple of weeks, and this is only going to be he's got trooping the colour this weekend as well. he will be attending these awards and it will be happening every year. i think it's a bit of a perhaps an image rebrand for a charity. if you remember, there was a bit of controversy around the former chief executive of the charity, michael fawcett, which ended badly for him, so but the charity is trying to perhaps rebrand itself. >> so the idea is that he would

train or give opportunities for employment in that sort of country sector. is it for young people ? yeah, exactly. people? yeah, exactly. >> it's kind of traditional skills, something that king charles has championed all the way through his professional life, as it were , kind of life, as it were, kind of traditional craft, still stonemason masonry, weaving, things like that. and he loves the organic stuff that goes on at highgrove as well. >> and the inaugural awards will be held inside saint james's palace, which will be a real treat for those that get to go this evening. wonder if becks will put in an appearance as well? >> quite possibly. i wouldn't rule it out, speaking of footballers, prince louis has been giving some advice ahead of the euros. tell us more. >> yes. he has. so, prince william yesterday went to wish the england team good luck ahead of the euros at saint george's park. the england national football centre. and he spoke to the 26 players going. and he said i was doing the school run this morning with george, charlotte and louis and i asked my children, what should i tell the england players? and prince louis, his youngest, piped up and said, well, they should eat

twice as much as they normally would, which got a bit of a laugh. harry kane, the england captain, said, he's not quite sure how that would go down with his nutritionist, but hey ho , i his nutritionist, but hey ho, i suppose prince louis was just trying to offer his his help and guidance to the england players through the lens of a six year old. >> very good.thank good. thank you much, cameron. >> we've got paul coyte.

the.the the. the west ham stadium didn't host football at the weekend. it hosted soccer here to tell us more. paul coyte. >> oh, it's bazball. oh o'brien. oh, sorry. >> yes, yes yes, yes. yeah. >>— >> yes, yes yes, yes. yeah. >> right, right. it was , it was. >> right, right. it was, it was. they were americans there. >> i didn't see any english people the whole time i was there. it was all americans. they fly over from philadelphia, 100 thousands of them, to go and see the philadelphia phillies play see the philadelphia phillies play the new york mets. bryce harper are you familiar with

bryce's work? >> oddly enough, no. >> oddly enough, no. >> no , no, i know isabel is. >> no, no, i know isabel is. >>— >> no, no, i know isabel is. >> bryce is a huge, huge star in baseball in the states . he's as baseball in the states. he's as big as you can get, right? but he's. this is. big as you can get, right? but he's. this is . have a look at he's. this is. have a look at this. this is after he hits a home run. >> he hits a homer. >> he hits a homer. >> listen to what he says after he's done it. oh, wow. let's go . he's done it. oh, wow. let's go. >> oh, i love soccer i love soccer , i love soccer, i love soccer. >> and he tried to do the knee slide the football knee slide, but realised that actually only really works on a wet surface. so he only slid a little bit. so he's just this probably got some nasty. >> yeah i know mama's gonna have to do that for him, but actually enormous hit it out of the stadium. >> it was a great it was a really great event. third time they've done it. it's amazing. so they're not doing it next yeah so they're not doing it next year. but then the year after they're going to be back again. >> didn't understand it. and also think they've got stupid outfits and why all the americans coming here to do it i

mean great, bring the money in and the hotels and it's good for the economy. >> but they love london. >> but they love london. >> this is beautiful. >> this is beautiful. >> you don't know the outfits. the thing is, they haven't changed in, like 100 years. no, they're the same. >> i like it, i like i like it. >> i like it, i like i like it. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> bit of tradition. i think you look well i wouldn't want, i wouldn't know, i don't think i wouldn't know, i don't think i would look fabulous. >> no i wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't want that. >> i think that would be quite funny anyway. >> euros. little word on the euros. >> yeah. four days away, england arrived in gelsenkirchen and we heard cameron talking about that prince william, speaking to the team as well, rumours, though, that alex, that, trent alexander arnold is going to move into midfield. so not playing at right back. so the thing that that gives it away is the fact that gives it away is the fact that he's been given the number eight, which generally how he's looking into clues, looking into formations, looking into players that are going to be there. but he's got the number eight shirt, so it looks like he's going to be playing alongside declan rice in midfield. first game for england, then he's sunday and then scotland begin the whole thing against germany, and that's friday at 8 pm, and we've got to have a birthday. >> i was just looking at the

scottish bus there, which is very cartoon like. >> i thought the english bus was excellent. yeah. really classy . excellent. yeah. really classy. i thought i'd like to be on board that, but i think that scottish one was a bit cartoon like. >> do you think so? >> do you think so? >> i don't know what it was like inside the england bus. that is. it wasn't. it wasn't the england bus. >> it wasn't the scotland scotland between the scotland bus. >> then it's all the scotland there. >> you like that one? >> you like that one? >> oh that is the. >> oh that is the. >> sorry. yeah. you're not happy with that one. >> no . well the scotland bus was >> no. well the scotland bus was like that yesterday but the england bus, that's not the england bus, that's not the england bus, that's not the england bus i saw on the news last night was the nelson's coach last night. >> oh that was, that was the one that took them in england. this is the one that's in germany. all right. yeah. yeah. so that's, that's now that's the one that's going to take them around germany. okay okay. we'll have to do something about the livery there then. well time for a birthday. let's have a birthday a cheeky one. >> come on. >>- >> come on. >> who is right? a real legendary a real sports legend. three time world champion . who three time world champion. who will you know who this is? have a look. have a look there. and we can see. and there he is. 1969, 1971, 1973 world motor racing champion , sirjackie

racing champion, sir jackie stewart. so who is jackie stewart. so who is jackie stewart who probably had next to emerson fittipaldi ? the finest emerson fittipaldi? the finest sideburns in motor racing has ever been , they were ever been, they were aerodynamic, but how old is sir jackie stewart? >> 93. >> 93. i >> 93. i think >> 93. i think you >> 93. i think you overcooked >> 93. i think you overcooked it i >> -- >> oh, -_ >> oh, dear. >> oh, dear. >> i overcooked it slightly. >> i overcooked it slightly. >> i overcooked it slightly. >> i think he , i think he's he's >> i think he, i think he's he's close on 90. i'll say 87, 87 is close. >> you want to go again 8385. right in the middle. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> happy birthday sir jackie >> happy birthday sirjackie stewart. >> happy birthday. sorry i overcooked it . overcooked it. >> well happy rac. very interesting man. lovely man. to talk to. yeah, very interesting man. very good. >> okay. charlton trouser. >> okay. charlton trouser. >> yes. he likes the tartan trousers. >> i like a tartan trousers. can't go wrong. yeah. >> don't like the baseball uniforms. but you like a top trouser. don't say no. >> i didn't say that. >> i didn't say that. >> no, i like a kilt. >> no, i like a kilt. >> okay, i think a kilt. >> okay, i think a kilt. >> have you ever worn a kilt? >> have you ever worn a kilt? >> oh, gosh. yes oh, god. loads of times. >> yeah. you've never worn a

kilt? >> never want to kill? no, no, ho. [10. >> no. >> ever worn tartan trousers? >> ever worn tartan trousers? >> never want to. i've worn a charlie rowley. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> right. we've got to say goodbye to you. much as i can continue this conversation statement. >> the. >> the. >> the. >> the home's name is part of the mctavish clan. >> right. >> right. >> and the mctavish tartan is the. is what you wear as homes. >> oh, right. okay yeah. maybe you could wear that tomorrow. >> okay. yeah. good idea. still to come making the news with alex armstrong and emma burnell plus , we'll be speaking the secretary of for work and pensions. >> and that is

us. >> joining us now to go through what is making the news is political commentator alex armstrong. and journalist and playwright emma burnell and emma. we want to start with what are mickey mouse degrees and what are not termed mickey mouse degrees ? degrees? >> so this is a conversation almost as old as academia

itself. what is a worthy degree and what isn't? and for most of my lifetime, one of the ones that was always held up as a pointless degree was media studies. but actually the british society have done a big piece of work now and shown that not only are people with media study degrees absolutely a huge part of our creative industries, one of the few really good success stories that we've got in industrial britain these days. but also that media literacy is so important in this digital age. and, you know, we've been talking a lot about sort of tiktok and the effects that people that these different choosing your own media is having on people . so having on people. so understanding what's behind all of that is absolutely essential. so i am standing up for media studies, not just because i've got a journalism master's, but because i do think it's really, really important that we understand that what you what might have been called a mickey mouse degree 25 years ago is the is the degree is the career of

the future and the important topic of the future and what might be being called a mickey mouse degree right now in 25 years. let's see how important that is. >> yeah. and i think with this, with this sort of, as the article says about the dangers of ai. ai is going to take a lot of ai. ai is going to take a lot of those office jobs out. you know, traditional finance degrees, for example, were maybe maybe actually redundant and actually humanities and things talking about human stuff might become more relevant. absolutely >> maybe. >> maybe. >> alex, let's talk about the harry dunn inquest that this, of course, is the story that centred around anne sacoolas, who got diplomatic immunity to get out of the country after killing harry dunn in a road traffic accident, and his mother has been speaking and describing unspeakable hurt, another unspeakable hurt, another unspeakable hurt, another unspeakable hurt caused by anne sacoolas . what's she done now? sacoolas. what's she done now? >> i mean, so, you know, this is such a tragic story from start to finish. i mean, you know, i can't believe we're still talking about it because i feel like justice should have been served by now. but the poor mother of harry dunn, you know, the young man who was killed by

an oculus, who was working for the us government has now refused to attend the inquest into his death . not only has she into his death. not only has she dodged jail and, you know, justice being served, now, she's sort of put the salt on the wound, so to speak, and is refusing to even go to the inquest. and she doesn't even have to be there in person. she could be there remotely. and she's still refusing to do it. and, you know, it's just it's a massive failure of british international relations to not have put our foot down with the american government and go, you know, this is one of your people. if this had been done on us soil, i can guarantee you the british person would have been served justice. we would have been extradited over there. why can't we have the same in return? it really is a massive failure of our foreign. our foreign office to not have dealt with this. >> but there were special rules appued >> but there were special rules applied here, weren't they? i mean, they are diplomatic immunity and whatever. yeah but do you not feel that should be reserved for really special circumstances , diplomatic circumstances, diplomatic immunity, where there might be some foreign engagement or

something? >> not not the killing of a citizen? no >> hit and run. >> hit and run. >> yeah. you know, that's that for me is a flagrant breach of what should be the rules. >> it doesn't feel very diplomatic, let's put it that way. >> not at all. not at all. >> not at all. not at all. >> we've got meryl stride, who we're going to speak to very shortly . and i want the both of shortly. and i want the both of you to give me opinions on the prime minister and this advice that he took on friday, and not to stay on for the international gathering at on the normandy beaches. >> emma, i just can't understand what he was thinking. >> i just cannot understand him. i kind of understand why he would think that that was a good idea. >> i know, i mean, look, there are two elements to this. there's the just moral and emotional element where he's the prime minister of the country whose veterans are still alive. but, you know , may not be there but, you know, may not be there at the next big anniversary. and this is a fantastic, you know, emotional moment that he that he

wanted to skip that out early. i don't understand on a human level as a political consultant, as somebody who says this is how you build your image, this is how you build a campaign. why he didn't want to be the person in those photographs, why he thought that it would be a wise political move to do this is just so far beyond me. i think, incomprehensible, especially since it probably would have been the last international gathering of such stature. >> that is absolutely . >> that is absolutely. >> that is absolutely. >> is there a case to be made for somebody who's under extreme pressure and very, very concerned about trying to win the next election? well, that's presumably what was in the back of his mind that he i think i think there is isabella. >> i think they can look back on thatcherite situation and, you know, she she was dethroned when she was abroad doing foreign business. and you could have had an argument that don't be obsessed with what's going on from on the foreign stage. concentrate on the domestic stage. but that would have been bad advice. yeah, absolutely . bad advice. yeah, absolutely. >> i mean, i think it's an

absolute disgrace what the prime minister has done. and i think the seeing the footage from the veterans afterwards, he said he's let our country down was exactly correct. and i can't believe that the conservative party leader, the party of winston churchill, didn't think it would be appropriate to stay and be present. it would be appropriate to stay and be present . a general and be present. a general election is a general election, and the damage that he's done is irreparable. in my opinion. he has now lost possibly thousands, maybe millions more votes. he looks incompetent , his team looks incompetent, his team looks incompetent, his team looks incompetent, his team looks incompetent, and quite frankly , this is one of the most frankly, this is one of the most important events in our diaries in britain. >> well, given your strong views on that, what do you make about ian gribben, who's standing to be a reform mp ? and he basically be a reform mp? and he basically made the comments that we should have been neutral against hitler and reform, have said they are not going to drop him. in light of this, i do think it's interesting for reform to criticise rishi sunak for coming back early from a veterans meeting , but allowing somebody meeting, but allowing somebody to make comments like that, and he made a number of other highly

offensive comments for which he has apologised and said were taken out of context. but he hasn't been dropped. >> no, and i do think the reform should drop him. i don't think there's any place for those kind of comments in on in this day and age, and i think most people who are going to vote reform and there's going to be millions of people that do will, will agree with that. and i think that that farage and tice should have a look at what's been said and say, actually, right on the right just after d—day, this is not appropriate and we should drop this candidate immediately. okay. >> i think we have got mel, mel stride available and we can't cross to him now. so we can sort of, speak to him about events that that are going on. mel stride, good morning . stride, good morning. >> good morning eamonn. >> good morning eamonn. >> yeah we're having a discussion here in studio about the prime minister and what went on on friday and in normandy and i just want to get inside your head as to, you know, does he make that decision or is he advised to make that decision to leave? and in short, do you think that the conservatives

would save a few seats at the general election if he stepped down? in other words , should he down? in other words, should he be leading the party today ? be leading the party today? >> we should absolutely be leading the party today and what he's going to be setting out today in our manifesto, eamonn is a very clear choice. it's a binary choice between ourselves as a party, which now is seeing the highest joint level of growth in the g7. we've got inflation down to near normal levels, we've got rising , real levels, we've got rising, real wages, which has been going on now for 11 consecutive months, and we're now going to be delivering some pretty big tax cuts. we've already tax cut cut taxes for 29 million working people worth £900 for an average earner. we're going to go further in our manifesto today. so there'll be more of that to come. and the other part of the choice , of course, is labour choice, of course, is labour with no plan, just kind of trying to protect this poll lead that they've got and say nothing at all with a £385 that they've got and say nothing at all with a £38.5 billion black hole, how would you

commitments , how would you commitments, how would you excuse i understand the argument you're coming forward with there, but basically what would your excuse for the prime minister be as to making what i think you would assume was a tactical mistake, like . it was tactical mistake, like. it was most certainly a mistake . and most certainly a mistake. and the prime minister is quite rightly and very promptly accepted that and come forward with a very unequivocal public apology for what happened. and i know that he will be feeling this very deeply, personally. and i say that because i know him quite well, and i know him to be a deeply patriotic person, which is having seen him around the cabinet table, eamonn quite close up for some time now. i know how much he cares, for example, about veterans and our defence. and that's why we've got a veterans minister at the cabinet table as well. it's why we've continued to fund the veterans unit in the cabinet office and will continue to do so if we're re—elected and indeed come forward, go even

further , come forward with new further, come forward with new laws to legally enshrine the support that we are providing for our veterans in terms of welfare and health and housing and all the things that matter to them. so look , a mistake has to them. so look, a mistake has clearly been made, a very sincere apology has been given, but our prime minister is a deeply patriotic person and yes, absolutely should be leading us into this general election. >> people will make their own minds up on that, of course, but just tell us exactly the thinking behind a third £0.02. cut to national insurance in a yeah cut to national insurance in a year. under this particular version of the conservatives hasn't moved the dial. previously in terms of the polls. clearly a desperate campaign given recent events, what makes you think things will change this time as a result of it, and how on earth are you going to fund it? this talk of £13 billion of further cuts being made in the manifesto today, by overhauling welfare and clamping down on tax avoidance again . avoidance again. >> so let's just take the

funding of the commitments that we're going to come forward with on the tax side first. so on on avoidance and evasion in the tax system over the time that we've beenin system over the time that we've been in office since 2010, on average, 6.7 billion a year is what has been saved through clamping down on avoidance and evasion . and the figure that we evasion. and the figure that we are committing to here is £6 billion in five years time. the labour party, incidentally, are committing to about 5 billion. that figure is entirely achievable . now our record shows achievable. now our record shows that in terms of welfare, what people expect from welfare is a system that is fair to the most vulnerable , and those that need vulnerable, and those that need support expects people to work if they're able to work. and there's work available. and we've said that in the certain circumstances where people refuse to do that, we will take their benefits away . but their benefits away. but overall, they expect a system thatis overall, they expect a system that is sustainable and fair to the taxpayer. now, if you take working age benefits with a health and sickness element to them for working age people,

that total £69 billion of spending today, that is forecast to rise to 90,000,000,000 in 5 years time, £21 billion increase. that is unsustainable and that is where we will bring those levels down. if we can just hold the level that the case, case level, at today's level that would save 14 billion more than we're we put into our scorecard. and if we got it back to the level it was before the pandemic, it would save £35 billion. so the £12 billion figure is eminently achievable with the plans that we have want to burst your bubble or take away any surprise you may be having, but i'm just noticing that you're at silverstone racing circuit there today. >> can you can you tell us why you're there ? you're there? >> well, apart from all the cliches that i've heard on the media around this morning about being revved up and ready to go, which i think is fairly appropriate, look, this is a centre of advanced manufacturing

and engineering excellence, as well as being a racetrack . and well as being a racetrack. and these are the kind of sectors in these are the kind of sectors in the future that are driving our economy, which is why, you know, we're the fourth largest export of goods and services in the world. now climbing up those league tables. so i think it's very appropriate that we're at this particular location in i was going to say, i'm sure you're hoping to get in pole position. >> i just want to ask you, because i know that this manifesto is being, sort of pegged manifesto is being, sort of pegged as being for pensioners, parents earners and those who want to buy houses. but some ons figures came out today. not great. no progress in bringing down the pace of wage growth. we're unlikely, therefore, to see a bank of england interest rate cut before the general election. it's more bad news for homeowners . homeowners. >> well, i think it's very good news for those that are earning in the economy that real wages for the 11th month in a row have been growing. as regards interest rates, the general direction, for example, with

mortgage rates , is downwards. mortgage rates, is downwards. and that's because we've done all the heavy lifting now of getting inflation down from just over 11% back in the autumn of last year, down to 2.3% today, down to normal levels. and that achievement in itself is driving interest rates down. there's no doubt these are matters for the bank of england as you know, who are independent. but there's no doubt that the general trajectory now for interest rates is going to be lower, which of course, will help millions of homeowners up and down the country by the guardian reporting that the tory right's got a set of demands. >> if the manifesto fails to move the dial, just give us your yes no, really, on whether or not you think the manifesto is going to appease a very noisy and very unhappy right wing of your own party. >> i think it's going to be very positive for anybody out there in my party or not in my party, but this is the general electorate. anybody who wants to see taxes coming down, who wants to see greater financial

security in the future, who wants to see us continue to grow the economy? we're now growing at the joint fastest rate, okay. of the countries in the g7, people that want to see that progress maintained rather than higher taxes under labour. >> thank you very much indeed, secretary of state for work and pensions, mel stride . pensions, mel stride. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june . there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming down from the breeze is coming down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day, so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, western scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some sunny spells but expect showers

over parts of northern england, the midlands , east anglia and the midlands, east anglia and the midlands, east anglia and the southeast. and even if you've got the sunshine , it you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm temperatures struggling into the mid teens for many and feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts . that of these north sea coasts. that breeze will continue to bring a few showers around . so for this few showers around. so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers across east anglia in the southeast. but for much of southwest england wales it will be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day , by sun has set. but a fine day, by and large, for northern ireland. and in fact most of scotland will be dry through the evening. just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles. temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so in many places becoming dry as we go through tonight. so always keep some showers coming into the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places , but where we have the places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn quite chilly again. temperatures

well down into single figures in some rural spots. so another fresh day on wednesday . the fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday and there won't be as many showers either. yes, still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud but a bit more in the way of sunshine. those lighter winds as well. temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a touch warmer tomorrow. goodbye >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

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with eamonn holmes and isabel webster. our top story this morning. the prime minister returns to the campaign trail asking for forgiveness as he prepares to launch the conservative party manifesto , conservative party manifesto, participated in events both in portsmouth and in france , and portsmouth and in france, and having fully participated in all the british events with british veterans, i returned home before the international leaders event . the international leaders event. >> that was a mistake and i apologise for that. >> labour pledging to tackle the crisis in children's health. they promise 100,000 new dental appointments as sir ed davey takes journalists on a ride as he launches the liberal democrats manifesto . and could democrats manifesto. and could the princess of wales make a surprise appearance at the trooping of the colour? cameron and walker will be with you to tell, you know . tell, you know. >> another one of those days that looks like june but doesn't feel like it. northerly winds continue to bring a chill, but will they continue to bring some showers ? join me later for

showers? join me later for a full forecast. >> so here we are, week three of the election campaign , and the the election campaign, and the prime minister has returned to the campaign trail after a weekend of hiding from media cameras just in time to launch his party's manifesto this morning. >> well, the conservatives will lay out their plan for a 2% cut to national insurance in a bid to national insurance in a bid to revitalise their campaign. >> now going to be delivering some pretty big tax cuts. we've already tax cut. cut taxes for 29 million working people worth £900 for an average earner. we're going to go further in our manifesto today . manifesto today. >> well, labour will today launch their child health action plan, tackling what they call a crisis in children's dentistry, creating 100,000 extra appointments for kids. and earlier we spoke to the shadow health secretary wes streeting pratensis, out there that are

willing to do the work, but we have to pay them so and we've committed , we've committed £100 committed, we've committed £100 million to the emergency dentist appointments, which will be paid for by closing tax avoidance . for by closing tax avoidance. >> no politicians will all have their say. what we're interested in is what you think. and throughout the campaign, you're going to hear from people right across the whole country about what really matters to them. >> yes, people of all persuasions today we meet sam richardson, who's from falmouth. i'm sam richardson, i'm 29 and i'm sam richardson, i'm 29 and i'm a falmouth. >> so in falmouth, in truro, the labour party have the best chance of getting the tories out. so i'll be voting for the labour party this year because, well, i would consider myself to be centre left of centre, in my sort of politics, i feel like the last 14 years have been a bit of a disaster, to be honest, food bank usage is up. there's a really bad housing crisis in cornwall. everywhere i seem to 90, cornwall. everywhere i seem to go, there seems to be shops closing down. the high streets

are dying, and i just feel like most things have been really badly handled by the conservative party so i think keir starmer was quite a serious man, which appeals to me. i think we need, especially at the moment with the world in the state that it is. we need someone who can look at the books, make sure that the numbers add up. he's someone that i feel like with his past as a human rights lawyer, i think that he's well suited to the role and well suited to the job at hand. i know that there's an argument that he's boring, but personally i don't. what's wrong with boring? i yearn for the day where i don't wake up and worry about opening up my news app and seeing something ridiculous that the leader of the country has said it doesn't have to be this soap opera. all the time. i don't know that we should ever support one political party anyway. i think we should have our own political opinions and then towards whoever best represents those. i think that's a much better way of doing it. instead of pledging allegiance like a sports team when you're 19, it's a lot of future left, right, so i would say that i've actually probably

seen more politically engaged young people, whether or not that's around economic or social issues, it seems to be more prevalent now than personally what i've seen for a long time, especially with things like the climate crisis. >> oh, there we go. let us know what you think about sam richardson's views this morning. but for now, we're going to check in with our political team. we have our political edhoh team. we have our political editor, christopher hope, and our gb news political correspondent olivia utley, and katherine forster all out and aboutin katherine forster all out and about in various places for us this morning. and let's go to you. first of all, christopher, hope you are at silverstone. i can think of lots of analogies about car crash campaigns . will about car crash campaigns. will the tories be able to get things back on track with this third attempt at cutting national insurance , in the hope that it insurance, in the hope that it will change the dial with the polls morning and morning from silverstone, the home of uk formula one. >> yeah. can i get out of second gear? put some petrol in the tank, get out the pit lane onto the track . all those all those the track. all those all those metaphors work i think here at

silverstone , that's right. a silverstone, that's right. a cutting of a further 2% cut in national insurance, we're briefed, will be announced today here as the tories launch their manifesto. that means it will have halved in a year if the tories get back into power , and tories get back into power, and they have a quick budget to enact that measure. so the hope is they can try and get their polls going forward. but the problem they've got isabel and eamonn is that so far cuts in national insurance have been two cuts so far back in november, one in february or january . one in february orjanuary. hasn't worked, hasn't worked at all. so why will a third one work? why will anyone give them credit? and how can they make the public the voters start to listen to this party when they're 20 points behind in the polls. that's the challenge for rishi sunak here in silverstone and i suppose the mea culpa last night, an attempt to get people to stop talking about the d—day disaster. >> do you think that that will draw a line under it ? draw a line under it? >> or surname? is that the french? >> what he's saying he's begging for forgiveness there from from

veterans. i mean, there's nothing more you can say if you're begging world war ii heroes. not to look badly on you. you've almost lost the argument. it's day five of that. that row since he was due early from those d—day commemorations late last week, and we're still talking about it. it is cutting through a worryingly , i think, through a worryingly, i think, amongst members. members are worried about it. that's what is difficult for the tory party. these are the guys who go get the vote out for the tory party if you get voters who couldn't care less about an election, it's about actual members, key supporters who are cross about it. that's what we're we're hearing. and that's why i think there's a huge challenge. i mean, no one thinks he's a bad guy. rishi sunak he understands the sacrifice of our war heroes. in the second world war, it was just dreadfully bad judgement. he didn't see the political damage caused by it. and it's a judgement issue, i think, which is dogging him. >> okay, let's go to katherine forster. thanks, christopher. katherine forster. you're out and about on the labour bus today. what's the mood there ? today. what's the mood there? >> yes. good morning, eamonn and

isabel. we're in teesside and, on our way to here. wes streeting , the shadow health streeting, the shadow health secretary and sir keir starmer talk about children's health. yesterday they were in a school talking about child care. today it's health. now they're announcing an extra 100,000 appointment dental appointments for children to be paid for by cracking down on tax evasion. they're saying that over half a million less children saw a dentist last year, compared to just back in 2018, and they're also planning a ban on those very, very highly caffeinated energy drinks for under 16 seconds. we know that quite a lot of teenagers have a liking for those. they are, of course, atrocious for children's teeth and health in general, so that wouldn't be your sort of coca cola. it'd be more like your red bull and things like that. and this is part of their child health action plan. they've

already announced, of course, supervised tooth brushing for 3 to 5 year olds. and their manifesto not coming out until this thursday, it's going to be quite slim, about 30 pages, i understand, they want to basically give us few targets as possible because of course, there are over 20 points ahead in the polls . all they've got to in the polls. all they've got to do at this point is a basically not drop the ball, make sure that nothing goes wrong . so that nothing goes wrong. so really a safety first approach. but although they say they're not complacent, they are of course feeling very , very upbeat course feeling very, very upbeat at this point in the campaign. >> okay, catherine, thank you very much indeed. well let's go. last but not least to you, olivia, standing by in westminster with an update on the lib dems, who updated us all on their manifesto yesterday. pretty expensive pledges there and also plans, i think the only party to come out and say they want to reverse brexit. >> well, absolutely. i mean, the lib dems have launched a pretty

ridiculous campaign so far. i think we can all safely say, but what they've promised in their manifesto isn't a laughing matter at all. the lib dems are essentially trying to set themselves up as the left wing opposition to the conservatives. keir starmer and the labour party are clearly trying to seize the centre ground . and as seize the centre ground. and as catherine was just saying there, it sounds as though their manifesto is going to be a softly, softly sort of approach, not changing very much about what the conservatives have promised with tax and spend . promised with tax and spend. meanwhile, the lib dems are promising huge things with tax and spend. they are promising to reverse a lot of the conservative tax cuts over the last few years, so they're promising an increase in capital gains tax. they're promising to. i think it's double the council tax paid on second homes. they're promising to tax the super rich. they're promising levies on big banks and they are wanting to, divert all of that money that they are raising into the nhs and social care . this the nhs and social care. this sounds far more like a sort of

traditional left wing labour manifesto. now, at the moment, what the lib dems say doesn't matter all that much. it does look as though as though they're going to do pretty well. they could win back sort of 40 or 50 seats, making them a force in british electoral politics again. but it doesn't look likely that they could be in a situation where they could come close to government. that could all change, of course, if over the next few weeks the polls begin to narrow, we could theoretically see, even though it doesn't look like it at the moment, get into a situation where labour is sort of just enough ahead in the polls that we could be looking at a hung parliament with labour as the largest party. if that were the case, keir starmer might have to agree a sort of pact, some sort of, perhaps an official coalition or if not a confidence and supply agreement, like theresa may had with the dup, with the lib dem party. and i think what will be really, really interesting if we do get to that situation is what would happen about brexit. as we know, the liberal democrats are now

saying very openly that they would be happy to rejoin the eu, rejoin the single market. keir starmer was a huge rejoiner back in the day , but he's cast off in the day, but he's cast off that cloak altogether and now sounds like a serious brexiteer. he's done that to try and get the red wall back on side. what would happen if he had to go into some sort of a pact with ed davey? could we end up in a situation where britain would be rejoining the single market? this is all very theoretical at the moment. labour is 25 or so points ahead in the polls, and it looks like they're heading for a pretty big majority. but everything could change in the next three weeks, very much to olivia utley katherine forster and christopher hope. >> all out and about for us this morning. appreciate it. >> the princess of wales is, we heah >> the princess of wales is, we hear, may be making a surprise appearance at the trooping of the colour. according to some reports, she missed the final rehearsal last weekend as she continued with her recovery from cancer and she had a apologetic

letter for all of that, all of which leads me to believe this is all a lot of nonsense, but we'll find out now from the lips of our royal correspondent, cameron walker . she's not of our royal correspondent, cameron walker. she's not going to the trooping of the colour, is she? >> well, in her letter, eamonn, the princess said that she wishes to be back very soon. i don't think we should take that. is she's going to return to work imminently. i think it is unlikely that we're going to see her on the balcony for trooping the colour. it's the king's birthday parade. she wouldn't want to upstage that event, but kensington palace has not ruled it out. but what we need to remember is the princess of wales is, is still undergoing cancer treatment , or she's at cancer treatment, or she's at least recovering from cancer treatment. she's still a human being. and i think a lot of people would say it's not perhaps right to speculate as to when somebody living with cancer will be returning to work . we will be returning to work. we know she's colonel of the irish guards. she will be disappointed she wasn't at the colonel review last weekend, but she did, of course, write a letter. but the princess herself, if you think back to that video, she did in march, wished for the time and

space and privacy to recover. >> and the palace are pretty much saying please, just remember because i think it's got to fever pitch a little bit. again, with speculation. certainly some of the papers about why don't you come back palace very much saying we don't want to have to be back in a situation like we were in march where she was forced to do something that she didn't really want to do? >> yeah. kensington palace maintains that they're going to only give an update when there is an update to give. at the moment, there clearly isn't one, and i think a lot of people online, okay, there's a lot of speculation, but many people who i see online are also saying we need to respect their privacy and give her the best wishes. >> meanwhile, her children are making the news. prince louis yeah. >> prince louis, so prince william yesterday went to wish good luck as president of the football association to the england's men team ahead of the euros 2024. he talked about with the players, him being on the school run yesterday with george, charlotte and louis and he asked his children what should i tell the england players when i go and see them at saint george's park? and prince louis, the youngest, piped up and said they should eat double helpings before they

before they go and play football, to which harry kane's a joking response. the england captain was not quite sure how my nutritionists would feel about that. >> it's good that the kids are football fans as well with with dad being president of the fa. >> absolutely . and he's also a >> absolutely. and he's also a huge fan of aston villa, prince william and we've seen him bring his oldest, prince george, to a number of matches over the last few weeks as well. so i think they are genuinely football fans.i they are genuinely football fans. i believe princess charlotte also likes playing football as well, so i feel like prince louis though with that advice, he's almost taken over prince harry's role as everybody's favourite sort of naughty prince . naughty prince. >> yeah, he's always yeah, well the kids be at trooping the colour, do you think? >> possibly, but never confirm whether the kids are. but they've been in the past, but they've been in the past, but they have been there in the past and obviously the prince william's happy for them to be in public because we've seen prince george out there. so i think perhaps they're more likely than the princess. >> okay, good to know. and i know you'll be there covering it for us here in gb news. >> good stuff. so she is, william on one of those horses there. is he? we don't. the

reason the reason i ask was, you know, we see so many of the royals riding. you rarely see him riding, but he would be expected to, wouldn't he? >> so what we do know is the king for trooping the colour this year is not going to be riding a horse. so he did so last year. but because of his ongoing cancer treatment, he's going to be riding in a carriage and he'll be inspecting the troops from the carriage. now i can't i don't know exactly what footage this is. this looks like to me last year's trooping the trooping the colour is that what it is? i don't know if it is. the king was. there was riding the horse and. yeah. you see the princess there with her green hats. this is last year's trooping the colour, at buckingham palace have also always said that there's going to be adaptions made for the king as he continues his cancer recovery and continues his treatment. he's also in his 70s, so he's going to be there. he's determined to be there, but adaption is going to be made. yeah, fantastic. >> thank you cameron. >> thank you cameron. >> thank you cameron. >> thank you, thank you. right. it's time now for the great british giveaway. your chance to make this summer really special. we're offering you £16,000 worth of prizes. so £15,000 in cash and a whole host of other goodies.

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newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev. guys. good morning . and bev. guys. good morning. and what's your talking point today? >> should those 12 year old boys who've been convicted of murder with the machete blade killing a random teenager ? well, should random teenager? well, should they be named? yes. yeah >> what on earth are we trying to do to protect them? they're not coming back out onto the streets, are they? they hope not locked up for a very, very, very long time. hope so. >> and of course, they're being treated as juveniles. i mean, they are children effectively. but it's an interesting and of course, how many times did we hear from the conservative government that they were banning machete blades? yeah. and it never happened. >> we've talked about this endlessly. they never have, i don't know why how difficult it must be or not, but what is the motivation for 212 year olds? i know to kill so horrible and the photograph on the front of the mail today of the 12, one of them with the machete coming out of his trousers . of his trousers. >> 130 in the morning. you've >>130 in the morning. you've

got to ask about where. where are the parents in all of this? how do you how do you hide an 18 inch machete in your bedroom? >> look, i think for this this is an absolute failure of society in so many ways. this story, when you've got a 12 year old that they've got no parental, they're living in a moral vacuum. they've got nothing but bad influence, awful music, no roll. the music part. it sounds trite and silly to say they're influenced by music , but they're influenced by music, but there is a problem with that. >> it was the rap music. >> it was the rap music. >> they listened the culture that i listen to, this music my kids put it on in the car and they are posh, little white, middle class kids. they listen to this music and i'm able to say to them, hang on a minute, kids, do you know what that means? do you know how violent that that lyric is? do you know what that means about women? if you are listening to that, those sorts of influences and you have nobody in your life that can offset that and teach them right or wrong, who's playing that influence? >> where are they listening to it from? >> they will just upload music onto their music.

>> so it's not coming from a radio station? >> no. you couldn't play this music on a radio station and you couldn't go and buy the record in a shop and the dreaded internet, and it's the, the content they're exposed to. will brutalise, a 12 year old to the extent that they are immune to understanding there's a complete lack of empathy of what this violence means for the family of this poor victim. >> and yet, in the in the court, they were allowed to play with these little gadgets, which is what, as if they were children. >> gadget spinners, gadget spinners? >> yes, spinners. so while they were giving evidence and i so the courts acknowledged it. on the courts acknowledged it. on the one hand they were children, but on the other hand it's, it's a monstrous. >> but somebody's still allowing these children to be out on the streets at 130 in the morning. >> eamonn i don't understand . >> eamonn i don't understand. >> eamonn i don't understand. >> we're going to look at one of them is raised by a grandmother. no parents in the picture, you know, where are the teachers? where are the where are the youth workers? where are the sports clubs that should be keeping these kids busy? it's like we've just forgotten about children in this country. sometimes it feels right. >> well, that's the main topic

for discussion. thank you. oh, you're also going to have the conservative party manifesto. >> the manifesto. >> the manifesto. >> so exciting. >> so exciting. >> tory. very exciting. >> tory. very exciting. >> all right then, you two. we look forward to it. thanks very much indeed, eamonn. and i'll be back bright and early from 6:00 tomorrow morning . tomorrow morning. >> thanks for watching. have yourselves a good day. whatever yourselves a good day. whatever you are up to. >> bye bye. here's the weather. >> bye bye. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt boiler solar. sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. bit of a chill out there today. it doesn't really feel like june. there'll be some june sunshine around. there'll also be a fair few showers around as well. now the breeze is coming down from the breeze is coming down from the north, hence the chill. quite a bit of cloud developing through the day so it's not going to be sunny everywhere, but much of the west, northern ireland, wales, southwest england, western scotland staying dry and fine and even further east. there'll be some

sunny spells, but expect showers over parts of northern england, the midlands, east anglia and the midlands, east anglia and the southeast, and even if you've got the sunshine, it isn't warm temperatures struggling into the mid teens for many and feeling cooler with that wind, particularly on some of these north sea coasts. that breeze will continue to bring a few showers around. so for this evening, yes, plenty of showers across east anglia in the southeast. but for much of southwest england wales, it will be a fine evening. not very pleasant for sitting out in because temperatures will be dropping pretty sharply once the sun has set. but a fine day, by and large, for northern ireland. and in fact, most of scotland will be dry through the evening. just the odd shower coming in, but still a significant chill, particularly over the northern isles. temperatures here quickly dropping back down to single figures and feeling cooler with that wind, which will continue to blow through tuesday evening . to blow through tuesday evening. the showers though, well, they should tend to fade away. so in many places becoming dry as we go through tonight . so always go through tonight. so always keep some showers coming into the northern isles. we'll keep quite a bit of cloud in some places, but where we have the clear skies it is going to turn

quite chilly again. temperatures well down into single figures in some rural spots, so another fresh day on wednesday. the winds there won't be as strong on wednesday and there won't be as many showers either. yes still a sprinkling over eastern england and northeastern scotland, but i suspect many areas will be dry as we go through tomorrow. some cloud, but a bit more in the way of sunshine. those lighter winds as well. temperatures still below par for this time of year, but it'll probably feel just a touch warmer tomorrow. goodbye >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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lawless britain. 212 year old boys have become the youngest knife killers in britain after murdering a teenager with a machete in wolverhampton. would you want these killers to be named tax cutting tories? >> the prime minister will put tax cuts and help for first time buyers at the heart of the tory manifesto, which is being launched this morning . launched this morning. >> and is labour going to look after you? labour promised 100,000 new child dental appointments, a ban on selling high caffeinated energy drinks to the under 16 seconds and mental health support in every school. does that make sense to you ? you? >> and the lib dems are launching their rural gp fund and promise that all patients will be seen by a doctor within a week. oh, that's going to be really get voters going, isn't it? ban high energy drinks for under 16 years. how do you ban them? >> well i think they're already

banned for under 16. >>