killers in britain after knife killers in britain after murdering a teenager with a machete in wolverhampton. would you want these killers to be named tax cutting tories.7 >> 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.7 labour >> 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. >> but if you buy the high energy drinks in the supermarket and put them in your fridge, how are the government going to ban your 14 year olds? if you've got 14 year olds drinking them, they're already banned for under 16. >> this is what i can't understand. some of these policies at the moment, but what's the thread that unites them? nanny state thank you, let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your say first though the very latest news headlines with sam francis. >> beth andrew, thank you very much . and good morning to you. much. and good morning to you. it's just after 1:30 the headunes it's just after 1:30 the headlines this morning. the rate of unemployment is at its highest level for more than two years after it unexpectedly jumped in april. figures from the office for national statistics out this morning, show the jobless rate is nearly 4.5, defying predictions that it would remain unchanged. job vacancies also saw another sharp drop, the 23rd fall in a row . drop, the 23rd fall in a row. election news and the conservative party will launch

their manifesto later with a promise to cut national insurance by a further £0.02. labour says the money isn't there and that it wouldn't match that cut. the manifesto is also expected to include help for first home buyers, with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme . energy drinks to buy scheme. energy drinks containing large amounts of caffeine would be banned for young people under a plan by laboun young people under a plan by labour. it would see children under the age of 16 blocked from purchasing drinks , with more purchasing drinks, with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre . the party says it's in response to an outcry from parents and teachers who were seeing the consequences of the unhealthy drinks. studies show that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause increased blood pressure, sleep disturbances and behavioural problems. well, labour says there are no plans to extend that ban to adults , and elon that ban to adults, and elon musk has claimed that he'll ban apple devices at his companies if artificial intelligence is

integrated into its operating systems. the iphone makers announced a big move into ai technology , starting with a technology, starting with a partnership with openai's chatgpt . it'll be used to boost chatgpt. it'll be used to boost some of its apps and improve the siri voice assistant as part of a suite of new features due to be rolled out later this year. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to our website gb news. uncommon shirts. >> very good morning. it's 933. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, it's shocking, isn't it? two boys, the youngest ever convicted murderers convicted of knife crime since the murder of james bulger. back in 1993. >> the 12 year olds were found guilty of murdering a man with a machete in wolverhampton park in a park last year. it was actually a teen, wasn't he? >> yeah, he was 19. he stabbed

sean c seesahai in november. it was unprovoked, random and in a text exchange, the boy said , text exchange, the boy said, everyone's talking about it. >> literally everyone. everyone knows it's the other boy replied in a voice message . in a voice message. >> it is what it is. >> it is what it is. >> and the first boy wrote back, everyone knows what happened. i'm scared man, and this could be the most chilling bit. the second boy replied i'm not. and then he said idk which is an abbreviation of i don't really care . care. >> so should they be named? because of course they were. they are children, they're juveniles. and then and they've not been named. so we've got in the studio the former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire and daily mail columnist sarah vine. let's go. sarah vine, should they be named? >> well, i think the people responsible for them should be named, i.e. their parents. >> the parents. yeah. i mean, the thing is, i mean, child killers like this are not a new thing, the jamie bulger thing, there's, you know, it's not a it's not a new phenomenon. >> but i think the time has come

to say, you know, if you've got two children in this age who have clearly been exposed to the kind of influences that have led them to do something like this, you know, we talk about the drill rap, we talk about the violent video games, we talk about all that kind of stuff that, you know, there is a parental responsibility question there. i really think there is. and the thing is , i mean, i've and the thing is, i mean, i've got teenagers. i know how difficult they can be. i know how how mad they can be. but the thing is, when a child is 10 or 11, they're still children. they don't understand the consequences of their actions. really. they think everything is a game and we all know you know anyone who's been bullied at school knows how naturally cruel and aggressive children can be. it's the job of parents to sort of civilise them and to teach them not to be like that. yeah. and to and to make sure that they have the right influences in their lives so that they don't grow up to be like that. so, i mean, of course, they are the perpetrators of the crime and they are the ones who are primarily responsible, but there's a whole there's a whole hinterland there of other people whose whose fault this really is. >> well, and scarlett, there's a photograph on the front of the

mail and the sun. i think of one of the boys posing with his machete at 130 in the morning, putting a photograph out. it's a 12 year old boy doing that. 30 in the morning. yeah. i mean, i mean, sarah's right. the parents should be named and shamed. >> well, no, actually, i don't think they should be named, i don't think i mean, if the parents are named and shamed, we know the boys. i mean, i don't remember in the local community will know who they are. anyway, i actually, i, i don't i think it the parents must be going through hell. i mean, they must feel so guilty about about about about what's happened. no but actually what i, what i think is, is that that, that what we should be looking at is, is why it happened. and you say they shouldn't be up at 130 in the morning. sure but actually, what were they doing? we know that there are zombie knives. there are machetes. i mean, that's what we need to be thinking aboutis what we need to be thinking about is how do we get these weapons off the street right? >> i don't think it's about the knives at all. they could have done this with a kitchen knife. to some extent. the thing is, the boy, one of the boys, told the boy, one of the boys, told the jurors, why did he have the machete? he said, i thought it

was cool . and that's the was cool. and that's the tragedy. it's the culture, it's the culture, the culture is so, depress . saved is the word depress. saved is the word i would use, actually. >> but the thing is, is the music, as a parent, it's very difficult because now these children have all got mobile phones. so, you know, until 20 or 30 years ago, you could to an extent protect children from these terrible influences from these terrible influences from the adult world. so they didn't see pornography, they didn't see violent films. they didn't. there was there's such a thing as censorship. and the reason we had that was because we understood that young children don't understand the consequences of their actions. they are children. they are not. they're not adults. so they can't be really held responsible. but now you've got children young, eight, seven, eight who are just looking at this stuff on the internet and they their brains simply aren't ready to make the judgement . ready to make the judgement. they just aren't fully developed as humans to make the judgement about what's right and what's wrong. and if then you have parents who are not present, or who themselves perhaps have the same sort of issues, then you've got a sort of cycle of, of ever

decreasing circles where children are getting more and more exposed to this kind of thing, and then you have a very vibrant street culture, rap culture, drill , rap vibrant street culture, rap culture, drill, rap in particular, which does glorify , particular, which does glorify, knifing people and violence. in fact, one of the rappers that one of the boys idolised is himself in prison. >> they're all they've all been in and out of prison. these. i'm not exaggerating. i mean , he not exaggerating. i mean, he said the boy, one of these boys, these killers, was raised by his grandmother. he'd spent £40 on this knife . so he's obviously this knife. so he's obviously got access to money as well. doing what? we don't know. running for drug gangs, probably. possibly, and he , he probably. possibly, and he, he posted a picture of himself with this knife called prison freestyle. and that was the name of the rapper who was who was currently serving prison sentence for life for stabbing a victim. i mean, the thing is, these are who they idolise. >> some of these, some of these rappers are making a making record deals in jail. i mean, you know, particularly in

america, there's a lot of them in america who are sort of ficherin in america who are sort of richer in prison making these songs than they've ever actually beenin songs than they've ever actually been in real life. that's quite twisted. >> i mean, i still think about this central point. if the parents have to be i mean , you parents have to be i mean, you say, no, i don't. bad, but what? so what are they? >> well, i so i mean, sarah's just said that he was brought up by his grandmother, right. that actually there are serious problems, but, i mean, i think what we have to remember is this is a shocking crime. and one of the reasons it's so shocking is because it doesn't normally happen. it hasn't happened since. since jamie bulger was killed. and instead of and actually, what's incredible because because there are certainly knives on the street and there is a whole culture is actually that we need to deal with that. but but you know, britain is not going to the dogs because of this, right? this is a terrible, terrible one off. >> but knife crime is the figures for knife crime are up and down the country, the length and down the country, the length and breadth. and it's up dramatically. it is cool for

kids to have a blade . so kids to have a blade. so therefore how do we change that? >> therefore we. well i remember years ago talking to the east london police who who actually every time they caught a boy with a knife, they would go to his parents and they would talk through actually how if you've got a knife, you're more likely to be stabbed. i mean, actually, we've got to do something instead of sort of saying, you know, this is terrible. we've actually got to do something about it. >> but yeah, but you say that. but the thing is, is my son was was robbed at knifepoint two years ago in our street in chiswick, leafy chiswick, by two young men, probably about the same age as him, maybe slightly younger than him, i'd say probably 16 or 17, with zombie knives. now, you know, that is a thatis knives. now, you know, that is a that is actually not that unusualin that is actually not that unusual in the experience of him and his friends. and they're not another one of his friends. charge them another one of his friends who was in the notting hill carnival two years ago, was chased by a group of 4 or 5 of them with zombie knives. and he's a local boy, you know, it's

not like he was sort of some sort of naive, kind of so. so it is. it's a culture. it's. yes. the knives are the knives are sort of they're the instrument. but you know, it could be anything to be perfectly honest, because the culture is of aggressive gang behaviour. >> and why is prison not a deterrent? i remember hearing an interview with somebody who'd beenin interview with somebody who'd been in prison. exactly. fitting this profile , and he said my this profile, and he said my life outside was dangerous and scary. i had nothing to live for. i wanted to be in prison . i for. i wanted to be in prison. i would have felt safer. he's like, i felt safer going to prison, might even learn something. >> but going back to the parents, well, if we had decent prisons, i mean, frankly, you know, when your ex—husband was in charge of prisons, he really tried to do something. >> so that so that they came out not re—offending and there was education. >> he understood the second he went round all the prisons after he got the job. i remember him coming home absolutely ashen faced and saying, gosh, because he understood that prisons are essentially full of people who have been failed by the education system. and so you have another opportunity when

they are in prison, to try and help them be something other than what they've ended up being, and that , you know, but being, and that, you know, but that's the conservatives. the tories get very upset about that sort of thing because they think it should be punishment. but going back to the parent thing, i do think that if parents thought that they might in some way be held responsible for their children's behaviour, for underage children behaviour, i think that would be a contributing factor. there might be more proactive, improving , be more proactive, improving, there might be more proactive. exactly. they might be more. there was a case recently in america where two parents were convicted because they had allowed their child to get hold of the gun and then the gun, and then the kid had gone and shot. i think it was a school shooter. i think it was a school shooter. i can't really remember the details, but i know that that was okay. and they were convicted because they because the jury said you allowed your child under age to have access to this gun for which, you know, and so therefore you are responsible. and i think there is a moment where, as parents, you have to say , i can't just

you have to say, i can't just blame the lack of youth clubs or the drill rap or the knife or the drill rap or the knife or the this or that. i have to accept that i have not done a good job with my with my child. >> but i think sarah, in that case, actually the gun was in the house. right, and quite rightly, that the parents didn't stop the son from taking it, but and, and there was a whole gun culture in the house. but i mean, what for all we know, i mean, what for all we know, i mean, as you say, a grandmother brought this child up. i mean, we and maybe she didn't pay enough attention, but to say it's her fault, i think is really, really difficult. >> not some 89 year old granny here we're not thinking about. she was a grandmother. i think , she was a grandmother. i think, who was probably in her 50s. yeah, yeah. >> i'm not saying it's her fault. i'm just saying she should bear some responsibility for it. >> they were known to the police. these were villains already, so. and they were at school together. the teachers will have known who they were. i can't help but thinking it wouldn't have even come as much of a shock when they eventually killed somebody. at what point does somebody in that community say those two wrong'uns need sorting out ? yeah, somebody

sorting out? yeah, somebody needs to be keeping an eye on them because they're going to kill someone. >> but that's the other thing is, is the absence of a father figure in their life. we don't teach. we don't teach people how to be parents. that's the other thing is, you know, we do antenatal care losing the skill and because because of the sort of breakdown in traditional family kind of structures, a lot of people just don't know how to be parents. they don't understand. so don't worry. >> in labour's manifesto, they're going to bring in teachers are going to teach children how to brush their teeth. >> teachers are not going to teach children. >> wes streeting said it on the no, no, no. >> this morning, six minutes every morning. >> can i say it's not teachers? >> can i say it's not teachers? >> it is. it's it. i think i probably know more about this thing than you do. it's on the it's class, it's classroom assistants. and actually it's really good if children learn to look , if parents teach them look, if parents teach them well, if the parents aren't doing it. so what you say is you've got a bad parent, so we'll let your teeth rot or are we'll let your teeth rot or are we going to try and get children to brush their teeth because there is a absolute problem with with massive we're going to ban

16 year olds under 16 year olds having high energy drinks, bev said. >> they're already banned. why are they putting that in the manifesto? >> i don't know, because i don't write the manifesto. right. but i mean, we ban, we i mean, children don't ban it. well, how can you ban alcohol? right? >> it's exactly the same when we think about it. because what we're saying is we've got these families who are failing these children and sir keir starmer was sat here. he would say, well, this is exactly why i'm introducing these measures to take the place of the, of the, the parent, because the parents aren't doing it. the parent, because the parents aren't doing it . where is it all aren't doing it. where is it all gone wrong? well, the social fabnc gone wrong? well, the social fabric is torn. >> so the government is not about there's no silver bullet. there's no there's no magic wand that anyone can wave . it's all that anyone can wave. it's all about putting in place a number of different measures that will work from a variety of different angles to create a better result. so prisons, schools , all result. so prisons, schools, all of these things. and there's you know, the problem with elections is it's all about slogans and it's all about soundbites. but the truth is this is that this is an endemic problem that goes

very, very deep because you've got generations and generations of people who don't know how to look after their children, who haven't been parented properly themselves and therefore don't understand blah, blah, blah. >> and then but but there is nothing new. there is nothing new about this. this has been i mean, i remember when the james bulger case came up and there was, oh my god, you know, this is a national thing. and actually there are parents and there have always been parents for decades, if not centuries, who do not know how to bring up their children. right. this isn't this is not a phenomena of 2024. >> well, let's ask our viewers and listeners , did you name the and listeners, did you name the parents or would you name the children or both ? children or both? >> right. up next, the issue that won't go away. sir keir starmer has refused to rule out imposing this controversial vat addition to private school fees. as soon as september. that's right, with britain's newsroom on

gb news. very good morning. it's 10 to 10 now. parents are facing a higher cost of private education. if labour come into power at the general election, keir starmer's flagship plan to add 20% vat to independent school fees is a policy that's caused a row within his own party. david morton is the headmaster at the king's school in gloucester. good morning, david, thank you very much for joining good morning, david, thank you very much forjoining us. presumably the king's school is an independent, fee paying school. just give us an idea of how many pupils do you have and how many pupils do you have and how many pupils do you have and how many families do you think this is going to impact ? this is going to impact? >> yeah. thank you. good morning. we are we're an independent day school in gloucester with 750 children. we go from three years old up to 18 years old and, the impact is going to be fairly considerable. we did a survey of our parents and we got some fairly precise figures back as to how many of them felt it was going to be unaffordable, if 20% was added on to the school fees. and that figure was that 80% of our parents said they would find it

difficult, with 10% saying they would remove their children immediately. and i think those figures are probably broadly representative of other schools across the uk like us. >> well, if i could ask you two things there, what are the fees? and if 10% of parents do take their children out of your school , is their children out of your school, is your their children out of your school , is your school still school, is your school still viable , so the fees varied viable, so the fees varied according to the age range. so they will be between around £15,000 and £24,000 for the yeah £15,000 and £24,000 for the year. they're slightly cheaper in the primary section of the school, the junior school, and more expensive in the senior school . and what we're trying to school. and what we're trying to do is avoid that 10% of parents leaving. so we've taken action already to make sure that doesn't happen, i would say that a school of our size could probably accept at 10 or 15 parents leaving something like that, but that would then remove any surplus that we make for the yeah any surplus that we make for the year. so more than about 20 parents leaving, taking their children out of the school would cause a real issue for us. >> do you have many people on waiting lists to come into your school? i think quite a few

private schools, particularly in areas maybe where the state schools don't get outstanding results. they tend to have a list of those waiting in the wings, so that is the case in some schools, but it does vary enormously across the country. in this area we have seven grammar schools in gloucestershire which are really, really popular and highly academically selective. so king's doesn't have long waiting lists. >> now, what would you say to the if the labour party were here? they'd say, very sorry about this, but we're worrying about this, but we're worrying about the 93% of pupils who are in the state sector. and if and there's a row about this, but if it does mean higher class size in the state sector for a few years, so be it. >> yes. i think there's two things about that. there's the impact on the state sector and there's the impact on the private sector. and at the middle of this is children, you know, they are the ones who are having one chance in life in their time at school. and it can make an enormous difference the size of class that you're in. the quality of the teachers that are there, the resources of the

school, and we labour shouldn't make political capital out of children's lives. i don't think that's a good idea at all. so i would say to a labour leader, were he on this, discussion, that they should look at other ways of raising money because i absolutely agree with the aim, which is increasing funding for state schools. i don't think any independent head teacher in the country would have an issue with that. but i think the way that they're going about doing it, by having a one size fits all flat tax on independent school parents is not the best way. there are other ways that they could look at as well. >> and of course, you have to give a term's notice because sir keir starmer is saying he can't rule it out till september. will you give any sort of grace to parents from september if they say, i can't now move my child, but i can't pay this extra 20? are you going to let them stay? >> well, we've taken steps at king's to make sure that our parents don't get in that situation. so we've already announced that our fee rise for september is going to be 4, we've made savings across the school, and we've said if labour add vat at 20, there would be an additional 9% at some point in

the future when that comes into action. i think labour may not have thought through the practicalities of adding vat onto school fees. there's, you know, a huge amount of work to be done with hmrc, to, to work through and there will undoubtedly be independent schools who contest it . schools who contest it. >> thank you david david morton there headmaster from king's school in gloucester. lots to discuss this morning. here's the weather with alex. >> 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. 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, 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 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, 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 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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in britain. they killed a teenager with a machete in wolverhampton . we're asking, wolverhampton. we're asking, should they be named tax cutting tories? >> finally , the prime minister >> finally, the prime minister will put tax cuts and help for first time buyers. at the heart of the conservative party manifesto, christopher hope has more . more. >> the tories unveiled their manifesto here at silverstone racetrack, but will it be enough to get the party out of second gear? we'll find out soon. >> grown labour looking after you, they promising 100,000 new child dental appointments, a ban on selling high caffeine energy dnnks on selling high caffeine energy drinks to under 16 seconds, mental health support in every school . school. >> renee was strictly come dancing fan . well, it is dancing fan. well, it is absolutely engrossed in a scandal at the moment. the star dancer giovanni pernice is axed following growing allegations of threatening and abusive behaviour . threatening and abusive behaviour. we're will bring you up to speed .

up to speed. >> i don't know, it's a great omen for the tories doing their manifesto on chief silverson , manifesto on chief silverson, because back in 97, john major launched a tory election campaign and they went to one of our famous race tracks. and the idea was that major was going to get in a formula one car. when they got there, it was on blocks with no wheels on, which tells you what did. what was the headune you what did. what was the headline you wrote, wheels fall off tory campaign. >> oh, no. what do you think about the fact that they've chosen the silverstone racetrack to launch their campaign? it's just kind of inspired a million puns, hasn't it? wes streeting was interviewed this morning. he said. it shows we're all revved up and raring to go . i mean, up and raring to go. i mean, it's so cheesy. well, christopher hope said , will they christopher hope said, will they get out of second gear or will they get out of reverse gear? you could have asked because let's face it, they're not in pole position at the moment, are they? the tories i've got a lot more where that came from. right? gbnews.com forward slash your say. let us know your

thoughts this morning. first for the very latest news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's 10:02. the headlines morning. >> very good morning to you. it's10:02. the headlines morning. t conservative party will launch their election manifesto later. cut national insurance by a further £0.02. labour says the money isn't there, though, and that it wouldn't match that cut. the manifestos also expected to include help for first home buyers, with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme. well it comes after rishi sunak dismissed rumours that he considered resigning following the fallout from his decision to leave a d—day event. early work and pensions secretary mel stride told gb news this morning that there are big and bold promises to come. >> 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 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 mel stride. >> they're speaking to gb news this morning. well, we've heard earlier that the rate of unemployment is at the highest level for more than two years after it unexpectedly jumped in april , figures from the office april, figures from the office for national statistics show the jobless rate has nearly hit 4.5, defying predictions that it would remain unchanged. job vacancies also saw another sharp drop the 23rd fall in a row. and there's some good news with inflation dropping to its lowest level since 2021, though economists had expected a bigger drop . energy drinks containing drop. energy drinks containing large amounts of caffeine would be banned for young people under a plan by labour. it would see children under the age of 16

blocked from purchasing drinks, with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre. the party says it's in response to an outcry from parents and teachers, who they say are seeing the consequences of the unhealthy drinks. studies show that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause increased blood pressure, sleep disturbances and behavioural problems , labour behavioural problems, labour says, though there are no plans to extend that ban to adults and staying with labour, the party are also pledging to add an extra 100,000 dental appointments for young people across the country, in an effort to clear backlogs across england. it would see extra slots opened up during evenings and weekends, while supervised, brushings would also aim to improve self—care for younger children. the party says it will cost around £109 million. but the shadow health secretary, wes streeting, says it will be funded by tightening tax rules. >> so we've committed to deliver 700,000 emergency nhs dentist

appointments. 100,000 of those will be targeted at children when 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 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 . arrangements. >> next to some international news for you , the hamas terror news for you, the hamas terror group has now accepted a ceasefire proposal that was passed by the un last night. the security council backed the three phase plan, which includes the release of hostages and the withdrawal of israeli forces. a senior member of hamas says the group will accept the deal and is now ready to begin negotiations over the details. it's after 14 of the 15 members of the united nations security council voted in favour of the ceasefire, with only russia abstaining . elon musk claims

abstaining. elon musk claims that he'll ban apple devices at his companies if artificial intelligence is integrated into its operating systems. the iphone maker's announced a big move to ai technology, starting with a partnership with openai's chatgpt. it will be used to boost some of its apps and improve the siri voice assistant as part of a suite of new features to be rolled out later this year . features to be rolled out later this year. and a record number of passengers have been passing through heathrow's terminals over the last 12 months. the airport's announced that 81.5 million people travelled through its complex in the year to the end of may. that's up by almost 10 million. chief executive thomas dolby would be rather says that it shows heathrow has put the covid pandemic firmly behind them . for the latest behind them. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts . just scan the code news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to gbnews.com slash alerts .

gbnews.com slash alerts. >> it's 10:07. gbnews.com slash alerts. >> it's10:07. you're gbnews.com slash alerts. >> it's 10:07. you're with britain's news stowlawn gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner in just over an hour's time we should send out were launched the conservative party manifesto. >> but you can't wait. >> but you can't wait. >> key policies will include a tax break for landlords. a further £0.02 cut to national insurance. we've had two of those already this year and help for first time buyers by raising the threshold for stamp duty. but will it be enough to turn the electorate? >> let's speak to our political edhon >> let's speak to our political editor, christopher hope, who is at silverstone this morning . at silverstone this morning. chris, we were just sort of taking the mickey out, actually out of that as a chosen location to launch your manifesto , to launch your manifesto, because the puns write themselves, don't they? the tories aren't exactly in pole position at the moment in this race to number 10. and what's the logic there? what are they telling you ? telling you? >> well, logic. morning, andrew. morning, bear. the logic of being here in silverstone is

this is a kind of, you know, part of the future. the f1 industry we have in this country is at the absolutely apex of motorsport engineering and i think that's where they want to demonstrate the importance of high level, high tech manufacturing. that's part of the of the cell from rishi sunak in terms of why he backs britain all the time. and when we were with him in belfast recently, he's with a high tech boat manufacturer. so you are seeing this idea of high tech manufacturing. that's the idea, of course, being on a race track and putting petrol in the tank and putting petrol in the tank and not being in the pits maybe and not being in the pits maybe and getting out of a second gean and getting out of a second gear. all the metaphors you mentioned work in politics too, and perhaps escaping from behind sir keir starmer's slipstream to overtake on the final lap. all that can happen in in a race and it can happen in politics too. and that's the hope. but so far nothing has worked. there's still 20 points behind in the polls. we're expecting another two 2% cut in national insurance. now, if the tories win power again, that will mean they will have halved national insurance from 12% to 6% in a

calendar year. that's extraordinary, but no one's noticing. the problem is these are bold policies they're trying to push out there. but the world appears or voters appear to have tuned out from the message. according to the polling. we know all about the national service idea, the triple lock on pensions so they won't tax the state pension. labour hasn't got an answer on that. and also on tax cuts. we're hearing that from the tory party. labour still in a mess about areas that they may be cutting or not on tax. they're only giving a guarantee to not increase some bafic guarantee to not increase some basic taxes. so they have got a message , but how can they get message, but how can they get anyone to listen. and the hope is they can grab attention today. >> all right chris that's chris hopein >> all right chris that's chris hope in silverstone we will of course bring you live as the manifesto is unveiled. i think it's about 80 pages. >> well how long is i going to take him? is he going to read it all out, you think? >> i think the lib dem manifesto was 170 pages too much. you just need about 14 bullet points, don't you? >> absolutely. ian this is a

brilliant message. gb news. com tax cutting tories. he said you can't fatten a pig up on market day . good can't fatten a pig up on market day. good point. my view is they're deliberately throwing this election but they've gone too far. they're supposed to lose narrowly. however, they may never recover because ian's alluding to the fact clearly that we have the highest tax burden in this country since 20, since 1948. >> and i heard mel stride, the work and pensions secretary, doing the media round today saying we're not putting up taxes. they are, because they frozen the income tax thresholds, which until 2028, they've been frozen since 2022, which means more people every year will be taken into tax or higher tax. having said that, labour have no plans to lift the freeze. yeah, so whoever wins your taxes are going to go up, be under no doubt whatsoever. >> no sunny uplands on the horizon. i don't think regardless of who who wins now, two boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in britain since the killing of james bulger in 1993. >> the 12 year olds are found guilty of murdering a teenager

with a machete in wolverhampton in the part of the west midlands region that has become the country's knife crime capital. >> they stabbed 19 year old sean c zahawi in november in an unprovoked attack, with the significant risk these two boys posed to the public should reporting restrictions be lifted and these boys be named well. >> can talk now to hamish brown, who is a former detective inspector at new scotland yard. hamish we if when you read the some of the coverage of the court case, you're reminded that they they are just children because they were allowed to play because they were allowed to play with. what are those spinners, fidget spinners during the proceedings to occupy their minds are supposed to be listening to what was being said because they are just children, but they've committed a heinous crime . and i would argue, crime. and i would argue, hamish, that perhaps they should be named because we can. perhaps it would , would it perhaps act it would, would it perhaps act as a deterrent to other kids ? as a deterrent to other kids? >> well, of course, it would act as a deterrent, i think, for

some people. and of course, there's a public interest should there's a public interest should the public know. so we'll have to wait to see which way the judge goes. but i do feel, you know, with this horrendous crime and lots been said about knife crime, i think the right messages have to go out. the education and i mean, in the home, in the schools , in home, in the schools, in workplaces, clubs and things like that, really, really hammer it home. and i think another measure and i'm not comfortable with it, but it's those arches in schools rather like when you, when you go on a plane, security arches just to see if it flashes up. someone's got a knife. it's not very nice thing to do. schools shouldn't have to do that. but it's a positive measure. this target hardening. and the last error i think is the police, the involvement of police and the public blow hot and cold on this. fortunately. but the stop and search is

absolutely essential. and without that, this undoubtedly will continue. and the police know what areas to look. they know what areas to look. they know the sort of people they're going to look at. and society, i think, has to come to terms with this and just acknowledge that's got to be the way forward . but got to be the way forward. but there are three main ways forward and perhaps they all apply, or perhaps just some of them, but positive action better than we've got. moment. >> yes. mish one of the boys was apparently bragging about the fact that he is now known. >> he's got the distinction of being britain's youngest knife killer , 12 years old and 73 killer, 12 years old and 73 days. if you name these kids, the risk is that they will wish to be famous. they all want to be famous . they don't care what be famous. they don't care what they're famous for. and i think if we start naming them, we run the risk of glorifying them to some extent. >> yes, that's right. but i still think there's the public

interest side and the and of course, these things do seep out through the world wide web. and, and we're powerless to stop that. >> they were known to the police. they were known to the police, hamish. and you'll have known in your time. you know these villains. you'll have known who they were. you'd have knocked on their doors 100 times. but what's happened in that decades ago, somehow the local . it takes a village. the local. it takes a village. the phrase somehow the local elders would have swept them up somehow the granny of the neighbour or somebody would have got involved and kept an eye on them, or even given them a clip around the, you know, around the area to keep them in check. now people are very scared of getting involved with other people's children , and if there's nobody children, and if there's nobody there, who how do we stop this? how do we encourage that social cohesion ? cohesion? >> i couldn't agree with you more , i live in a village more, i live in a village population 12,000 people. it's eight miles from the city. and,

and we don't see the police here, most of the cctv has been taken down, and the use of and with respect to them , i'm sure with respect to them, i'm sure they want to do a good job. but they want to do a good job. but the use of pcsos are not police officers. i find it most unsatisfying victory. but we need people certainly in uniform . if it is the pcsos, so be it to be there . we don't see anyone to be there. we don't see anyone down here. we have drugs and anti—social issues in this. in this small town which is still referred to as a village. but here i am in west sussex. referred to as a village. but here i am in west sussex . but here i am in west sussex. but we're but i could be talking about anywhere in the country and people i'm quite sure will agree with me this social cohesion that we have to get the pubuc cohesion that we have to get the public involved, but we must have the police presence to go and sort things out. i mean , we and sort things out. i mean, we have issues with shoplifters and what have you. the police know who they are, but they're not doing anything about it. and this can lead to all sorts of things. so yes, better police, pubuc

things. so yes, better police, public relationships, the police to be present. yes, i know they've got a lot on their plate, but this is terribly important and we might vote to stop the price. yeah. >> thank you. hamish. hamish brown, m.b.e. there, former detective inspector at new scotland yard. you know what my mum was that person in our local community, people would just bnng community, people would just bring round their difficult teenagers and just go. joy sought him out and they'd just put them in the kitchen and my mum would go, right, sit down. we're going to have a glass of orange juice. and she was that person and even the local school would get her in because she was a former police officer as well, a former police officer as well, a volunteer police officer. where are those people now in the community? because i think there's a fear, because they'll be safety and they'll be told to mind their own business and they'll be safeguarding issues as well. >> this wretched word that creeps into everything. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> she was head of safeguarding at our high school as well for 20 years, even after we'd left, because she wanted to stay involved in the local community. and we need those people to want. but who's got the time? everyone's working two jobs, you know, she was lucky to be a full

time mum so she could volunteer and help. >> i think sarah vine's point earlier was very important when she said, actually, name the parents, name the parents that my worry with naming the parents, well name the parents now maybe what's going to happen. >> they're going to get people putting their windows through. they're going to get abuse from the local. it's just going to and you might say, well, so what? but actually that's only going to cause more. well more for the police to do. >> they shouldn't be having a comfortable time should they? >> hard to know. let's know what you think at home. it's a really difficult issue, isn't it? gb news kids be named your say time is now 1017 i still to come. oceans 24 style robbery. this real life jewellery heist will you gobsmacked. don't miss it. this is

gb news. welcome back. it's 1021. andrew, you on the telly ? right. you on the telly? right. throughout the election campaign, we're going to be heanng campaign, we're going to be hearing from people across the

united kingdom about what really matters. nigel nelson's fault. we're not coming to you yet, nigel. hang on. 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 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 as 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 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 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, there's a lot of future left, right, when you're 19, there's a lot of future left, right , so when you're 19, there's a lot of future left, right, so i when you're 19, there'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, talking. >> right. we are now with nigel nelson and piers pottinger in the studio. where do you want to start this morning, fellas? let's talk about wes streeting. >> okay. he's turned the media

around today. he had quite a difficult interview. i thought earlier this morning where he was asked a very straightforward question. look, he'd already said labour will not do what the tories are doing. they're saying they're going to cut another £0.02 off national insurance. fine. then he was asked, would you prioritise spending on the nhs if a tax cuts waffle, waffle, waffle you can't ride both horses. it's one or the other night. >> yeah. and i think spending he's he's going to be the new health secretary. and it is it is spending on the nhs. i mean there have been areas where they've got into some difficulties over this, over things like the 100,000 nursery places. they're talking about what we we're still waiting to hear some detail about where you find the 40,000 staff to make those nursery places work. yeah. so i think we've got to that stage in the campaign where everyone's sort of shoved their policies out there. they're now being looked at. but what we need now is the detail to find out exactly how to make them work and look. >> and we saw the row yesterday bit with bridget phillipson, the shadow education secretary, then

keir starmer slapping down emily thornberry. yes let the cat out of the bag, didn't she, when she said, of course, state room, state school class sizes will have to grow. yeah. in the short term because of the vat hike on private schools, which will go into go into force immediately. it's one of the first things they're going to do. and she was slapped. she was telling the truth. >> well, probably she made a mistake, in fact, because telling the truth. no, no, no, the fact it wasn't her brief and so she was saying something that we don't know. i mean, i think if you take the, the, the tax on private school fees, we don't know what the result is going to be. and the evidence would show that money doesn't make a huge difference to parents sending their kids to private schools. so the original report, which is all based on, over the last 20 years, that the real terms increase in fees has been 55, 7% percent of kids go to private schools that hasn't changed in that time. so money doesn't seem to have been a major factor that 20% overnight. >> that's a gradual increase of

a few percent every year, 20% overnight is just not doable for various families across. >> well, i mean, the question is whether it's doable or not. i mean, the, the study was by, by the institute of fiscal studies that they were the ones who came up with the report. all this is based on. now, we don't know that the result. it's about that non—dom tax. the non—dom tax won't work if everyone leaves this tax won't work if all their parents, of all the parents withdraw their kids from private schools, and they and they collapse , the evidence so far is collapse, the evidence so far is that isn't going to happen. >> well , that isn't going to happen. >> well, nigel says that piers, we had a head teacher on today. we had one on yesterday, both from one in gloucester, very multicultural city, one from, i think it was epsom yesterday, ascot both saying it's going to have a detrimental effect on school numbers because parents are indicating they'll have to take about 10, 10% already are. >> yeah. and i mean two private schools have already have closed . and of course money matters. and this is just a spiteful and

ridiculous socialist move for no reason at all other than spite and it is it shows and 1.5 billion are really like. and in fact today the biggest bombshell which has gone unnoticed is dame harriet baldwin, who is the head of the treasury select committee, who has pointed out in a brilliant piece in the telegraph that labour are basing their stealth tax increases on their stealth tax increases on the imf recommendations that are not widely known. and these include things like capital gains tax being put on, selling your first residence. right, which would hit the housing market in an enormous way, really would penalise drivers for putting a tax on them, for driving at all on based per mile, all kinds of stealth taxes. these are the things the labour party do not want you to

talk about. and if you and also huge increases in capital gains tax, equating that to income tax which would be a colossal rise. these are the taxes that that starmer does not want to be asked about. and when asked if you notice when he was asked, would he raise capital gains tax the other day? he refused more than once to answer the question. >> i'm glad you raise that because because the guardian reported last week and you'd have seen it, nigel, that she that rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, will bring in 10 to 12 tax rises in september or october. she does have budget and a lot of them are around capital gains tax. it seems that harriet baldwin has put flesh on the bone and told us what they're going to be. yeah, but we tax on selling your first home, for god's sake. yeah well, i want people on the property. >> well, first of all, first of all, as we speak here, that is not labour policy. well, we'll see, so yes, i'm sure there will be little things. i mean, what the guardian was a big thing. >> if you're selling your first home. >> it is indeed. but but but there could be a number of number of smaller taxes where

you get into a kind of big pot at the end of it. labour are not, are not going to raise the, the main taxes, vat, income tax and so on. as we know, we've heard about the tax rises on non—doms, the windfall tax on the on the oil giants and the private schools tax. i think that we get we're getting to a stage now of trying to pretend we know what the other side is going to do to challenge you on this, because you say they're not going to raise the taxes, they are going to raise income tax because they are not going to lift the freeze on, nor the tories. >> but so we can't say labour aren't going to raise taxes because they are and so are the tories. >> yes. i mean, no one, no one has— >> yes. i mean, no one, no one has changed that fundamental thing about thresholds, thresholds stay till 2028, which means more and more people in the yeah, you're talking about 4 million people paying tax for the first time, 3 million will be paying more tax. that's perfectly true. what we don't know is about these taxes. and i think that the important thing now this is manifesto week. what voters have to do is look at each manifesto and see which they think is the most realistic. at the end of the

week. >> but always with labour, you have to look at the wording , have to look at the wording, which they choose very carefully. starmer talks about not taxing working people more, what he means by that is he's going to tax successful people who've got some money more, because the one thing the labour party cannot bear are successful people. that's who they want to penalise us. and it's again pure spite. yeah. nothing else . spite. yeah. nothing else. >> the mask slips on this, on this private school policy and the fact that they're so embedded with it, can we just change the gear a little bit? gentlemen, should we talk about these italian thieves raiding? >> talk about raising money? >> talk about raising money? >> talking about stealing? yeah, that would be the labour manifesto . manifesto. >> i wonder if starmer was buying those , didn't i? buying those, didn't i? >> what's happened? pearce. >> what's happened? pearce. >> yeah. oh >> yeah. oh >> suez 11 instead of ocean's 11 in in rome. it's a really straight out of hollywood. a gang of thieves have broken in through the underneath bulgari, which is a very expensive jewellery store in the via

condotti , which is the smartest condotti, which is the smartest street in rome , rather like bond street in rome, rather like bond street in london. and they broke in and stole all these jewels and timing it to perfection, knowing the police would come. it took the police seven minutes to get there and four minutes trying to get in because they'd barricaded the room that the entrance where they knew the police were coming . meanwhile, police were coming. meanwhile, they half inched all the stuff they half inched all the stuff they could and went back down under the sewers and escaped. >> amazing. >> amazing. >> and i suspect people will now be looking for them by smell rather than email. >> is there a film in this? well i think it is. >> it's straight out of a film. it is, isn't it? yeah. >> can i just point out that the speed cameras, which is why we have no footage? yeah, but the hatton garden robbers, who were all pensioners, they were. yeah, but they stole £14 million. this not only got away with half ,1 million, i think they'd be disappointed with their take

because frankly, frankly, that's probably just a bracelet in bulgari. >> obviously, if they had stuff of really, you know, millions of dollars worth of jewellery, they'd put it in a safe. these were all apparently still in display cases, which also tells you if you own a jewellery store in rome, maybe take it out of the case at night and put it in a safe. it's like most sensible jewellers here. >> very good. right. pearce. >> very good. right. pearce. >> nigel, thank you so much. we will be. i want to show in the second half of the show amazing footage of a jewellers in london being robbed and the police reaction to it. i'm going to try and dig that out for us as well. don't go anywhere. first, though, the headlines with sam francis. >> just coming up to 1032, the top stories from the newsroom. and i will start with some news just coming into us this morning that gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than £500,000 in damages to one of the women that he abused . that the women that he abused. that woman is suing the disgraced pop

star, whose real name is paul gadd, following his conviction in 2015 for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980. so that news just coming to us this morning, that gary glitter has been ordered to pay gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than half £1 million in damages to one of the women that he abused . and in other news, he abused. and in other news, this morning, the prospect of an imminent cut in the bank of england's interest rate has been deau england's interest rate has been dealt a blow after the latest data shows that basic pay is still rising. wages were up 6% in the first three months of the yean in the first three months of the year, figures from the for office national statistics also show unemployment rose slightly . show unemployment rose slightly. the jobless rate is now nearly 4.5, defying predictions that it would remain unchanged . the would remain unchanged. the conservative party will launch its election manifesto later with a promise to cut national insurance by a further £0.02. labour says the money isn't there and that it wouldn't match that cut. the manifesto is also

expected to include help for first home buyers, with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme . energy drinks to buy scheme. energy drinks containing large amounts of caffeine would be banned for young people. under a plan by laboun young people. under a plan by labour. it would see children under the age of 16 blocked from purchasing drinks , with more purchasing drinks, with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre . the party says it's in response to an outcry from parents and teachers who were seeing the consequences of the unhealthy drinks . studies show unhealthy drinks. studies show that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause increased blood pressure and sleep disturbances . and elon sleep disturbances. and elon musk claims he'll ban apple devices at his companies if artificial intelligence is integrated into operating systems. the iphones makers announced a big move to ai technology , starting with a technology, starting with a partnership with openai's chatgpt . it'll be used to boost chatgpt. it'll be used to boost some of its apps and improve the siri voice assistant as part of

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gb news. welcome back. so giovanni pernice will not return as a professional dancer for the next series of strictly come dancing, the bbc has launched an investigation into the italian dancen >> because there's been a series of complaints from three contestants about his conduct. >> so joining us now is showbiz reporter stephanie takyi stephanie. what's what's happened here? what's the background to this story? a lot of our viewers may not watch strictly. it's unusual for a dancer that was doing well to be taken off the series completely. >> definitely. he, giovanni was a much loved dancer on strictly. he's been on there for nine series. you know, we saw him in 2021 when he helped rose ayling—ellis win the glitterball trophy. that was the first deaf contestant to win it. last year, he had actress amanda abbington. and there was a lot of rumours,

a lot of stories coming in the newspapers that they weren't getting on. she dropped out in week nine and eventually in an interview, she did , she said interview, she did, she said that she suffered post—traumatic stress from being on the show. she's now launched a lawsuit against the show, primarily giovanni saying that he was threatening towards her. he was quite abusive and abrasive , so quite abusive and abrasive, so this is, you know, she's kind of struck a match and then two other complainants who have been on the show have also said that he was also abusive towards him. giovanni of course, denies these claims. and he says, you know what's been taken as my passion and my ambition to see these professional , these celebrity professional, these celebrity dancers do well has been mistaken and it's been claimed for abuse. and obviously we know with the bbc now, as with any reality show, there is that duty of care. so for unfortunately for giovanni, he's going to be missing this season, which is a shame because it's the 20th anniversary is going to be a monumental one, and he is very

much loved by the viewers and post—traumatic stress. >> is that really what they're saying ? isn't that what soldiers saying? isn't that what soldiers who are on the frontline in afghanistan and iraq and who were in northern ireland for years, endure ? i mean, so he was years, endure? i mean, so he was a hard, tough taskmaster during rehearsals, post—traumatic stress. is this not a little bit over exaggerated? stephanie >> well, andrew, in this day and age where a lot of people are sensitive about their mental health and on these reality tv shows don't go on a reality. the strict side, well, you know, they took the paycheque . so it's they took the paycheque. so it's okay for the paycheque. but you have to earn. you have to earn your money when you're doing these strict rehearsals and you know what? there is kind of like this backlash that is happening against strictly, where a lot of these contestants, after they've taken the paycheque , andrew, taken the paycheque, andrew, they'll be like, i found it quite difficult. it was tough on my mental health, dealing with the backlash from the public. if they're not dancing properly. so, you know, in this day and

age where people are so sensitive, people are always going to find something wrong about these realities . and rafe about these realities. and rafe varne, he has been the target . varne, he has been the target. and even if he does clear his name , the damage has been done. name, the damage has been done. you know, how can you yourself, from all the abusive allegations? you know, the problem is when they do invite these celebrities onto these reality shows, they're not actually doing thorough mental health checks to see what is their breaking point here. because there's a majority of celebrities who do love strictly come dancing. but for someone like amanda abbington , she like amanda abbington, she clearly found it quite difficult and found the pressure too hard . and found the pressure too hard. and you know, she does say she had post—traumatic stress. who are we to say she didn't have that? >> okay, so it's not a great line. stephanie, it's funny, we he won it a couple of years ago. he did win it. he won it with with the death. >> yeah, he did, he did. >> yeah, he did, he did. >> and i saw that with debbie, who used to be married to paul

daniels was one of. he was with her too. and i've talked to her about her time. she said it was the best experience of her life since paul died. amanda abbington is no snowflake. >> the woman who's made that allegation says she's got ptsd. who is she? >> what's she? she's an actress. >> what's she? she's an actress. >> you might know her face, she she has done. no, no, no. she's done.i she has done. no, no, no. she's done. i think she was on sherlock. >> oh, well, she was married to, the actor in sherlock. >> she. >> she. >> yeah, she she's a very . she's >> yeah, she she's a very. she's one of these actresses that you may not know her name, but you would definitely know her face. and she's a bit of a chameleon. she's played blonde characters in certain in shows, and then she's. she was in mr selfridge. she was in sherlock, crooked house. after you've gone her partner that she adores and lives with. he was a stunt man who was in a wheelchair. not long after they they met. he was paralysed. she's a tough cookie. >> she's married to martin freeman for her, she was. >> so for her to make this allegation , i think you have to allegation, i think you have to take it quite seriously. bbc obviously are taking it seriously. there is an official

investigation. if the police need to be involved, i'm sure they will be. and as you say, she's made the allegation and then two other more, more women from the series have come forward to say they want to also make similar complaints. it's that fine line, isn't it? perhaps where at what point is robust coaching in that room? crossing a line ? crossing a line? >> but he's being cruel. >> but he's being cruel. >> he wants to win and if he thinks they're slacking or not pulling their weight, he's going to be tough on them. >> i think there's going to be more to come out from this. >> but he's denied any wrongdoing. he wrote this on social media. i reject any suggestion of abusive or threatening behaviour and i look forward to clearing my name. >> we'd love to hear what you think this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay is up next though. find out why 20 branches of barclays banks were smashed up and sprayed with red and what can be done to stop it

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want to hear what you think. you can send your views, your opinions. you can text us or. or you'll post your comments by visiting gbnews.com. forward slash or save. >> you can send us a views. you can. you can send us nice things. >> we don't mind if you send us abuse or you can't send us pictures. >> luckily enough. yeah. >> luckily enough. yeah. >> no. exactly. well someone says don't encourage abuse. i get plenty anyway, so not a day goes by without some abuse. that's part of the job, right? >> what have you been talking about? you are saying ella said. for heaven's sake, she's a snowflake bear. this is about amanda abbington. she couldn't handle a perfectionist. she decided to ruin his career. >> i feel a bit like that. >> i feel a bit like that. >> persecution of males continues, how does bev know that amanda abbington isn't a snowflake? that doesn't make sense . i've seen i know, i know, sense. i've seen i know, i know, we're a little bit i don't mind in transparency. i've had i've had some interactions with amanda abbington. i've always found it to be she's just not a snowflake , but post—traumatic stress. >> what soldiers endure. been on

the front line, having been shot at by the taliban. >> and it does seem like a strange use of that phrase. >> i guess what i would say is, i suppose, the pressure cooker of strictly is in itself. >> they get paid, but that's why they get paid. so much money that they don't get paid that much money to do strictly anymore. over £100,000 is a lot of money. >> i don't think it is that much. >> is it? i think it is. >> is it? i think it is. >> have they asked you to do it? is that what they offered you to do? strictly no. >> and who? who, who. who was? i'm trying to think who's got the most money in strictly. >> don't know. i think they have a flat fee. my ex—husband did it, remember? yeah. >> they had they do a what did he get? >> i don't know, it was after the divorce. otherwise i found out, it was. it's a flat fee. but then if you stay in after so many weeks, you then then you get extra per week. i think if you get to the final. >> he was out. the final. >> he was out. the final. >> oh, was he. i could have told him that was going to happen. >> two left feet. >> two left feet. >> yeah. rowers to be honest, sportsmen aren't terribly good

dancers. >> no, particularly. >> no, particularly. >> there was one cricketer who did well in it a few years ago forgotten his name. don't know. >> right. >> right. >> i think he won it and matt dawson won it. the rugby player, actually. okay. gbnews.com/yoursay to send us your messages now. pro—palestinian activists have vandalised 20 branches of barclays across england and scotland. >> why? >> why? >> they sprayed red paint, threw rocks and smashed windows across london, bristol and edinburgh. >> they're demanding that the company distance itself from israel's weapons trade and fossil fuels. a city of london police said three men, aged between 34 and 45, have been arrested in connection with criminal damage at the barclays on moorgate yesterday. >> well, let's talk now to the government's adviser on political violence and disruption, lord walney. lord walney, we all support the right to protest and demonstrate this is just mindless vandalism. >> yeah, it's criminal sabotage and it is very deliberate in its attempts to try to these people to force their way into the conversation to and effectively intimidate the public and elected governments into doing what they want. it's totally unacceptable. and we need to be

able to push back against it and do more, i think, to deter this kind of thing happening . kind of thing happening. >> well, guys, how do you deter it ? it? >> well, you look at what is happening and clearly the activists at the moment are not being deterred by the threat of being deterred by the threat of being arrested and being taken to, to court for their vandalism. and you can look at the problems with the criminal justice system, the fact that it's often takes very long to, to get people to to, trial and sometimes charges can be dropped. but in what i'm recommending to the government, it's one of the recommendations in the review into political violence. it was published just before the election was called, is to do more to restrict the activities of groups like this palestine action group that choose to use lawbreaking as a core tactic to try to change people's minds, to do more, to stop them being able to advertise freely on social

media, to raise money as they can now. i mean, it is absurd that we have this situation , that we have this situation, that we have this situation, that actually this group are , that actually this group are, you know, actively, advertising what they do recruit, having training sessions , which is training sessions, which is quite open that they are training people to break the law and then have been live tweeting from the scene of their criminal sabotage in the past and asking people to join them. that shouldn't be acceptable. and i and i think the government can, can do more to be able to crack down on those kind of activities. >> but that should be presumably a new law that covers maybe the use of live broadcasting. a crime. is there anything in the statute book at the moment that would cover that? >> no. well, what what i think we should be able to do is to say that, say that organisations that do that are clearly , and

that do that are clearly, and very deliberately breaking, breaking the law to change, to be able to change, try to change people's minds is that they, they shouldn't be able to operate freely as organisations. and you look at the, you look at terrorist prescription in this country. and that has been effective in saying to, in effective in saying to, in effect in banning an organisation. it's not perfect, but it is really effective in cracking down on their activities. and i think you can use that model. these people i'm not suggesting necessarily that they are terrorists. you wouldn't be labelling them as terrorists, but you'd be using that model of restricting the capacity of an organisation to operate and applying it to these types of organisations that routinely break the law to get what they want , it's just what they want, it's just mindless violence and vandalism against these properties , isn't against these properties, isn't it? these men, three men who've been arrested . what hopes do you

been arrested. what hopes do you have that they will be served the correct penalty ? and the correct penalty? and sentencing, i shook them. >> i'd also make them clear up the mess. i'd make them clear up the mess. i'd make them clear up the mess. i'd make them clear up the mess. lord walney, i'd make them scrub the red paint off those walls in high vis jackets, and then i'd give them a criminal sentence. >> i won't comment on anyone who has been , arrested, individuals has been, arrested, individuals who've been arrested. but i mean, clearly the system is not working to properly, deter people. i think restorative justice is important. i think something to understand about the way that the it groups like this and activists operate is, you know, actually , i understand you know, actually, i understand why we use the term mindless violence. it's not mindless, actually. people are deliberately doing this because they think it's going to be effective. and so we need to do more to be able to show that actually you are going to intimidate people, break the law

, commit these acts of sabotage. you're not going to get your way i >> -- >> thank 5mm >> thank you, lord warnock. the clock is against us, i'm afraid. thank you. so much. good to see you. and when i said mindless, i realise it was the wrong word. but what i mean is it's not going to make any difference. i'm not gonna make any difference to the war in the middle east. idiots. right. here's the weather. >> 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, 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

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 many places becoming dry as we go through tonight, so 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 fresh day on 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 ehhen 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

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machete in wolverhampton. would you want these killers to be named tax cutting tories? >> the prime minister will put tax cuts at the heart of the tory party manifesto, which is being launched shortly. we'll bnng being launched shortly. we'll bring that to you as it happens , bring that to you as it happens, and labour want to look after you. >> they've launched their health plan for children this morning . plan for children this morning. >> and the lib dems launching their rural gp fund, and promise that all patients will be seen by a doctor within seven days. olivia utley has more . olivia utley has more. >> yes, the lib dems are trying to be the left wing party of opposition, while keir starmer takes the centre ground. but how are they doing in the polls? find out more with me very soon . on. >> so rishi sunak is currently , >> so rishi sunak is currently, what? filling up the tank with petrol? changing the tires is it silverstone to launch the tory

manifesto today . what do you manifesto today. what do you think he's doing. putting his helmet on. >> are they in reverse gear? first gear. all the puns. >> i hope he's got his fireproof outfit on. i can tell you that, because no doubt the press will because no doubt the press will be a bit unkind to him tomorrow morning. i don't know what he's going to add this manifesto don't already know. >> there are rumours that in addition to the cut in national insurance, there could be something , a pledge on income something, a pledge on income tax that would be really interesting. >> but what can what can he possibly say? >> in fact, let me ask you, what can he say? >> a cut in income tax that would win your vote. >> but is that enough? you can't see your gp, your potholes in the roads . see your gp, your potholes in the roads. nothing see your gp, your potholes in the roads . nothing works. the the roads. nothing works. the trains are dirty. nothing's on time. what can he offer you? >> it would be. it would be clearly watford. >> labour. because labour already said they won't cut national insurance like the tories will. an income tax cut as well. big gap between the two parties. yeah, yeah it looks like there is a little bit of difference like you say. >> well you think it's a big gap i guess it will it be a huge gap if they cut tax as well? >> it would be if they cut it

because you can promise it. but will you deliver it. remember bofis will you deliver it. remember boris johnson said be a lock on national insurance, vat and income tax. you put up national insurance gbnews.com/yoursay to tell us your thoughts this morning. >> firstly with the very latest news, sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just coming up to 11:03. and as we've been hearing the top story today, rishi sunak is expected to announce a further £0.02 cut in national insurance when he outlines the conservatives election manifesto in around an hour's half an hours in around an hour's half an hour's time. rather, the manifesto is also expected to include help for first time home buyers, with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme. it comes after rishi sunak dismissed rumours that he was considering resigning following the fallout from his decision to leave a d—day event. early work and pensions secretary mel stride told us this morning that there are big and bold promises to come. >> 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 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 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 . further in our manifesto. >> but responding to those plans from the conservative party the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the tories plan doesn't make economic sense and that he wouldn't match the national insurance cut. >> money's not there for the tories desperation , and what tories desperation, and what they're producing is a recipe for five more years of chaos. >> and i think that's why it's so important that we see this election as a choice, because we can't go on like this. we need to turn the page, rebuild, start with labour. we we've got six

first steps that are ready to go on july the 5th. get on with the job. roll our sleeves up. so that's the choice before the country. >> now well away from the election trail, the rate of unemployment is at the highest level for more than two years after it unexpectedly jumped in april. figures from the office for national statistics out this morning, show the jobless rate is nearly 4.5, defying predictions that it would remain unchanged. job vacancies also saw another sharp drop the 23rd fall in a row, and there was some good news, with inflation dropping to its lowest level since 2021, though economists had expected a bigger drop . tv had expected a bigger drop. tv chef jamie oliver says that a ban on the sale of energy drinks to young people would be a welcome relief for parents and teachers. labour's plan would see children under the age of 16 blocked from purchasing drinks, with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre . studies show that per litre. studies show that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause sleep

disturbances, as well as behavioural and mental health problems. well, jamie oliver says previous governments have failed to put the health of children in their manifestos , children in their manifestos, but health hasn't been put central to any manifesto in the last 20 years. >> ever, ever , ever. you've >> ever, ever, ever. you've never seen it on a bus with a number. you've never seen it important, right? so this is really exciting for me. it means they're looking at the detail. it means they're looking at the science. it means they're looking at supporting kids and families, especially the ones that are struggling. it means they're looking at supporting teachers. it means they're looking at supporting better outcomes in schools and then therefore health. so this is exciting for me. it means they're getting into the detail. and then the question is what next? >> gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than £500,000 in damages to one of the women he abused. damages to one of the women he abused . the woman, who can't be abused. the woman, who can't be named, is suing the disgraced p0p named, is suing the disgraced pop star whose real name is paul gadd, following his conviction in 2015 for abusing her and two other young people between 1975

and 1980. he was briefly released in february last year before being sent back to prison. that was after attempting to access images of children on the dark web overseas. the hamas terror group has now accepted a ceasefire proposal that was passed by the united nations last night. the un security council backed the three phase plan, which includes the release of hostages and the withdrawal of israeli forces. a senior member of hamas says the group will accept the deal and is now ready to begin negotiations over those details . negotiations over those details. and finally, stick with us, is the message to england fans from the message to england fans from the squad ahead of euro 2024. england's preparations for the tournament ramp up today after gareth southgate's side landed in germany last night. defeat to iceland in their final friendly saw them booed off at wembley last week and they face serbia in their tournament opener on sunday. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. your next

update at 11:30. until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to our website, gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome back. we're going to show you some unbelievable footage. beau biden. in just a moment. i mean, it's getting cruel now. wheeling that man out on stage. we don't you don't miss this. but first of all, let's have a look at what, you have been saying at home, sorry. just loading. we like the system, but it does. it does have a. you know what? while this is, this is loading. let's have a look at this. yeah >> this is joe biden, the president of the united states, the most powerful man in the world running for office again in a few months time. look at this. >> so he's at an event, clearly music festival. everybody around him dancing next to the vice president, kamala harris bopping. >> quite a good mover. >> quite a good mover. >> and he doesn't move at all. he looks like he doesn't even know where he is. he's completely static. if you're

listening on the radio, lots of people around him and you can see the gentleman to his left who clearly wants to be dancing to the music is awkwardly sort of clapping, and then he puts his arm around joe biden and talks to him and basically give the guy an excuse to not be dancing. >> and biden has this fixed grin on his face because he doesn't know what to do, but he knows he's got to smile. he looks a bit like a waxwork dummy in madame tussauds. >> it's just awful. >> it's just awful. >> it's just awful. >> i here's my suspicion , ian. >> i here's my suspicion, ian. i don't think he will stand. i think at the very last minute they will pull him from the ticket. they will say his health is not up to it and they will put somebody else in at that last moment, perhaps michelle obama. >> well, she she's already said she wouldn't do it, but yeah, but she doesn't want to do the campaigning. >> she doesn't have to do it. now. the boring bit is the campaigning. she didn't have to do any of that. she can just wait in the wings, let him make her the person who would make a difference. >> here is the first lady. if she said, darling, you've got to give up, would you? would you listen? because i think otherwise they're going to have to take him out with the men in

the white coats. >> i have no doubt that whoever his handlers are, they are having that conversation with her about how to play this strategy because they will keep him there. and especially if trump ultimately does end up running for the republicans, then they will. well, yeah, i mean, i'm sure he will, but i think that's even that's not a done deal. yes, i'm sure he will, but then what? who do they who do they put against trump at the very last minute to scupper his plans anyway? fascinating right? two boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in britain since the killing of jamie bulger in 1993. >> the 12, the 12 year olds were found guilty of murdering a teenager with a machete in wolverhampton last year. >> they stabbed 19 year old sean seesahai seesahai in november in an unprovoked attack . in a text an unprovoked attack. in a text exchange, the boy said is this what's awful ? what's awful? >> everyone's talking about it. literally everyone. everyone knows . knows. >> to which the other boy replied in a voice message, it is what it is. >> and then the first boy wrote back, everyone knows what happened. >> i'm scared man, and this

could be the most chilling bit. i think the second boy replied i'm not and said i drc, which is basically a way of saying i don't really care. >> and because he of course, in particular seems to be revelling in the notoriety. joining us now is a social justice campaigner and no stranger to this program. winston davis. and no stranger to this program. winston davis . winston, good winston davis. winston, good morning to you. the have we got winston. here he is. here's winston. here he is. here's winston. morning to you winston. winston. morning to you winston. winston. the obvious question is how on earth do these boys get access to this terrible weapon? but also, what's gone terribly wrong in their homes that they're posting photographs with this machete at 1:30 am. in the morning, and they randomly pick on someone and murder him, almost for fun , i mean, yeah, almost for fun, i mean, yeah, look, obviously very, very sad case, these , these boys, and case, these, these boys, and first to go back to the, you know , should we be naming them know, should we be naming them as the killers, is it in the public's interest? i'm not sure about that . i do think that the

about that. i do think that the wider conversation, as you've just said , about what's going on just said, about what's going on in their homes, actually is further than that. it's actually more about, firstly, how are they getting access to these knives and, and how much of an impact has social media, and music had on these young boys. you know, 12 years old to the point where they think that only one of these knives is cool as they said in their statement, and that posing with them , you and that posing with them, you know, to make them look, look good, they're the questions that we need to be asking. i mean, there are people that are doing a lot of work to try and get these knives off of the streets, and that's what the focus should , should be on, on, on a practical level, like immediately like the sale of these. sorry. >> go on. well, i was going to say for me, winston, it's not about the knife. it could be a machete knife. it could be just a knife that they get from the

kitchen. if they've got that sort of murderous intent and the complete lack of empathy for another human being, these boys are operating within some sort of moral vacuum. there's no judgement in their life. no one has called them to task. you must meet little scallies like this all the time, winston. what could save them from a life of crime ? crime? >> so i think that, you know. look, the boys 100% that what they've done is, you know, disgusting . you know, murdering disgusting. you know, murdering someone, the crime they've committed is shocking , but they committed is shocking, but they are still boys. and there are many thousands of boys that are you know, like, like this, on the verge of being like this, that are carrying knives to look cool for protection of whatever it is and actually to like in the charity that i'm chair of south side young leaders academy, we focus on early intervention. so actually at 12, 13 years old, we're finding that the drop off rate and the boys that come to us is massive from 12, 13 years old. we're finding 12,13 years old. we're finding that when we're getting boys at eight years old and we're able to keep them for 3 or 4 years

and instil in them a sense of identity, they talk about this moral compass and actually get hold of them early. that's the key to it, and at 12 years old, you know, they're on they're on the path. you know, we go from 12 years old, maybe they haven't stabbed someone, but they might get expelled from school. and as soon as they get expelled from school, they're on that path there to criminality and potentially prison in the future. what would you what would you say, winston? >> because there is a debate. we're having this debate here on the program. should these boys be named? they're children. of course they're children. they are 12. but what they've done is heinous and monstrous. and, a lot of people say we have a right to know who they are and who their families are and why they're in this position in the first place. >> so we looked at the exchange just now on the text messages there from from them. >> one of them clearly is like a leader within this, although they've been done on joint enterprise. one of them is the leader in this. and you can see that he's he's like he's morally bankrupt. yeah. but then there's the other one, the other one in

this who actually is, you know, scared and thinking about what's happened. and he's showing remorse even in, you know, behind the closed doors. so, so then to name both of them, you expose them, one of them that might have a chance in ten, 15 years time to try and turn his life around and try and do something else , cutting that something else, cutting that chance away and then just creating another person that's going to be there, that is going to come out and like the bulger killers, one of them seems to have, you know , turned it around have, you know, turned it around and gone off the radar. and the other one continuing to commit crime and being a danger to our public. >> there's no excuse for this sort of murderous criminality, winston, but these boys would have been eight and seven when they were locked at home when they were locked at home when they couldn't go to school. they've had two fundamental, influential years in their life where there was no sport, no teachers, no social workers , no teachers, no social workers, no wraparound care, no support. and what impact has that lockdown penod what impact has that lockdown period had on this generation ? period had on this generation? >> so exactly what we just said. you said social social media. so

they're getting they're learning not from school . they're getting not from school. they're getting it from tiktok and instagram. and you know , and all of the and you know, and all of the influences that make it normalised to not care about life, there needs to be greater, regulation on kids accessing social media. they say there's an age limit to it, but as soon as they've got a smartphone, that's it. they're locked in and they're watching it. whether they're watching it. whether they're posting stuff or not, they're posting stuff or not, they're on it and that there needs to be regulated. it's like you can't just you can't just let children, they said eight, nine years old, watch people getting their heads chopped off and people, you know, all mad stuff that you see on online, whether whether it be violence or sex or whatever it may be, all of it is going towards dehumanising and desensitising these young people. that's what we need to get a grip on and how do and that's the point, isn't it? >> these kids have access to things that i never even heard of when i was their age, but they can see stuff that is not meant for children's minds because their minds aren't big enough and broad enough to contend and to tell the difference between right and

wrong . wrong. >> well, the fact is that the minors haven't even developed. we know that, you know, with with young, young men, you're the prefrontal context of your brain doesn't even fully develop to your mid 20s. so by giving it to your mid 20s. so by giving it to children at 8 or 9, their brains literally the neural the neural pathways in their brains literally haven't even developed properly. so 100% you they've that's got to be stopped and actually an education back to parents that, you know giving your your kid a phone. i know it's convenient to give children a phone and to give them a smart device. it keeps them quiet. but how the dangers and the damage that it can cause going forward, and not just actually in terms of extreme circumstances like this, but in terms of normal life interacting with other, people and other young people to do your studies, to have focus, to have drive to have an actual, an expanded like attention span. these things are being deprived of our children, even if they're not coming out committing crime. what's that saying for the next generation? >> winston, we the front page of the papers this morning as well.

some of the england footballers going out to the euros, amazing young black guys who've done really well, amazing role models for these kids. really well, amazing role models for these kids . and yet we've for these kids. and yet we've got a problem with young black men glamorising knives, rape , men glamorising knives, rape, drugs through the music industry, which is so powerful. unless you've got teenagers , i unless you've got teenagers, i don't think you realise how influential this cultural depravity. and i don't use that word lightly. it is depraved. some of the things that these people are talking about, why are there not more black commentators talking about how problematic that is ? problematic that is? >> so two things here. both. right, firstly , it's definitely right, firstly, it's definitely not just a black, boys problem. this, this drill music, this street culture. it's not just affecting young black boys . if affecting young black boys. if you go up to liverpool, you go up to manchester or other areas where there is poverty and depravity of predominantly white areas, you'll see a lot more

white boys that are behaving in this way as well. >> and then the second these black guys, they're looking up to the black rappers and the singers, and a lot of them are americans. some of them are based here as well. the perpetrators of the creators of this music, black. >> well, again, you'll have to look back at the history of where these musics come from and who's been funding it and who's been who's been orchestrating it. and actually goes back to the thing about why are we not seeing more positive black role models on the news and media? well, who controls the media? who allows these headlines to go out? last last week we had a classic example of it. england lost against, iceland at the football. saka was on the pitch for 25 minutes and yet he gets all of the back pages saying how how bad england played and how bad it is. someone's controlling that narrative to put him on the back pages. >> and you're not you're not suggesting that the people who write those sports stories are picking on him because he's black, listen, you can do it for your own interpretation . listen, your own interpretation. listen, your own interpretation. listen, you take it for your own

interpretation. i'm saying to you, there were 15 other players, 14 other players that played on that pitch. he paid for 25 minutes, yet he took up the central back pages of 2 or 3 of the main newspapers. why was that? well, perhaps he played really badly . and he was really badly. and he was a contribution to the whole of that game for 25 minutes. >> well, i just i've worked in news for years. i don't accept that there's any endemic racism on sports staffs. i just don't buy that. i think that's too extreme a view . i don't i don't extreme a view. i don't i don't know anything about the football match either. so i'm struggling here. >> i think it's a stretch. >> i think it's a stretch. >> i think it's a stretch. >> i know, but but but no, but bears >> i know, but but but no, but bear's making a point and i'm just trying to come back to you and understand that there are people that control the narrative. so look, there are people out there, young black guys out there that are doing great, positive things, but they don't. it doesn't make for good news. you know, i could give you i'll give you a whole list of people that are doing great things, but it's not making for good news. do you know what? someone's controlling that narrative. >> and winston, do you know what i want on the front page of the papers? i want these drill artists and these rappers to be

criticised in the press, and they never are. and they aren't on mainstream media. mainstream media is not touching these guys. it's all over social media where they have a free reign to perpetrate violence, misogyny , perpetrate violence, misogyny, rape, drugs, criminality and that's what our children are absorbing. >> let me give you one example. right. there's a guy called farren paul, right . right. there's a guy called farren paul, right. he runs a, a page on a charity called faze amnesty. his main focus. he was amnesty. his main focus. he was a victim of knife crime. his main focus is going out educating young people , taking educating young people, taking knives and weapons off of the streets . he doesn't get funding. streets. he doesn't get funding. he goes around doing it off his own back. he's got a good following on social media. i've never seen him in mainstream papers. i've never seen him on a mainstream news channel, and he's doing work for years and he's doing work for years and he's changing life physically taking these zombie knives, going to police stations with him, but no one's going to him and backing him and giving him funding or giving him highlighting the good work he's doing. and there's so many other

people that are doing that, you know, there's, a guy from williams, safe home who's down in south london. he's doing the same thing. he runs a charity called mentality again , trying called mentality again, trying to change the narrative of young black boys in, in and around south london. >> good. you know, there are people, you know, and we applaud those people. and, winston, that is specifically why i wanted you on the show this morning in our meeting, i said, we need somebody that works with these kids who is a positive young male black role model who is doing great work. and we really appreciate you coming on this morning. social justice campaigner winston davis. thank you tom. thanks. >> good to talk to you. still to come we're on the countdown to rishi sunak launches that tory party manifesto. i bet you're waiting bated breath. you're in britain's newsroom on

725. we're going straight to say listen to keir starmer. the labour leader who's in the north

we st. west. >> wait one second, mate. >> wait one second, mate. >> oh, we thought he was in the nonh >> oh, we thought he was in the north west. we told to take throw straight to give someone who's actually in the north—east. not the north—west ehhen north—east. not the north—west either. sir we have been absolutely clear that all our plans are fully costed, fully funded. >> we will not be increasing income tax, national insurance or vat. so no tax increases for working people. none of our plans require tax rises . but plans require tax rises. but this is coming from the party that's put tax to the highest level since, you know, for 70 years. and they're building this sort of jeremy corbyn style manifesto where anything you want can go in it. none of it is costed, it's a recipe for more of the same. and that's why this choice of turn our back on this, turn the page and rebuild with labouris turn the page and rebuild with labour is so important. i've got six first steps. we're ready to go on july the 5th. >> piers pottinger is back with us in 19 hours. and jeremy corbyn, he's got a bit of a cheat meant for him when he served in that terrible marxist shadow cabinet for three years. >> and he did say jeremy corbyn would make a great prime

minister. he did something he's never rescinded. yeah, yeah. but i'm afraid this manifesto coming up, i can't think of another election in my lifetime where a manifesto has meant so little because it's too little, too late. and no matter what he says, and i'm sure we're going to get some great promises about tax cuts now, that's what i think. but it's too late. and of course, the man, the real villain of the piece is jeremy hunt. yeah, no, it's been complete invisible in this campaign because he's so concerned , as usual, about his concerned, as usual, about his own future. he's he spends the whole time in his own constituency pretending he's a good constituency guy because he's desperate to save his own neck and he won't. and he hasn't done all the things that he could have done because he wanted to seem prudent. chancellor thinking of the future and the big ticket jobs he's going to land, having been a chancellor and i think he is

the real villain of the tory party and also, of course, an avid remainer who who would love to, like starmer, get closer to brussels and the eu. although last weekend we saw the eu change dramatic hinckley to the right, and that might not make starmer's , future intentions starmer's, future intentions quite as easy as he thinks. >> and i think there is a chance in the manifesto in addition to the national insurance cut we already know about, they're going to promise that they might promise an income tax cut. is he is right. it's too late, i'd be very surprised if they did promise an income tax cut. so i think the national insurance is the one that we're we're expecting at the moment, an income tax cut. it's a question of how how ever would you afford it , i mean, if of how how ever would you afford it, i mean, if they of how how ever would you afford it , i mean, if they were of how how ever would you afford it, i mean, if they were doing something with tax thresholds , something with tax thresholds, that's the key. that would be a really important that would be a really important that would be a really big one to actually to, to re reset the date of 2028 before the freeze ends or just

bnng before the freeze ends or just bring it forward. something like that would, would make a major contribution. but at the moment, all the tory mps that i've talked to are on the front line. they're not even mentioning sunak, they're not mentioning the tory party they're trying to win their seats based on them and saying, look, i'm your representative up in westminster and doing it that way. >> incumbency is worth how many? a few, i know. >> i mean, it's a personal vote type of plea. and we all know personal votes don't really count for that much. but equally they feel that they're being tarred, tarred by, a very dodgy brush from keir starmer. keir starmer, sorry. rishi sunak rishi sunak, and so they're just trying to ignore him. >> what did you make pierce of suella braverman saying that the conservatives should welcome nigel farage into the party? >> well, i think that , when she >> well, i think that, when she said it and before nigel made his d—day mistake, just explain

what you mean by that. well, i mean that when nigel said that rishi was out of touch with our culture, that was a little bit going a bit too far because , as going a bit too far because, as he may have been out of touch with the electorate in some ways, but to. it did sound a little bit racist to me. and nigel has been on the up, and i'm afraid he's now on the way down and there were a lot of people i knew who were on the cusp of voting reform and voting for him, but when he made that remark about culture and that rishi doesn't understand our culture, i'm afraid that i think has cost him, i wonder if we'll see the front page of the telegraph here, because they've put on the front page nigel farage and the photograph, and we can we can focus in on this front page. >> it's not flattering or at least flattering photograph. they can find. well i have i wonder if that's a sign. the telegraph i think it's his flirted with farage and now it's the flirtation is over.

>> i think nigel is a terrific man in many ways. he was doing a terrific job and there was no doubt that reform had huge momentum. but i think with the demographic profile of the people, he was winning over many of them. and i know several people who've told me this personally that they they're put off by when he went just that bit too far attacking. >> i think that's absolutely right that that to start talking about. it's very dog whistle. you start talking about rishi sunak doesn't understand our culture as if the prime minister comes from a completely different culture. born in southampton when he's born in southampton, went to a major pubuc southampton, went to a major public school in in this country, the one thing he is, is part of our culture. so to separate that i think is a bit dodgy. >> i want to i totally know what you mean, but i want to defend this a little bit. if i say rishi sunak is not part of our culture, what i mean is he is a globalist. he's one of those families that doesn't live anywhere. he will not live out

his days in this country. he's got his house in california that he'll go to. his children will be schooled all over the world. he's your ultimate technocrat in that regard. i don't think he does share our culture. i think nigel's talking about him in that regard. not as necessarily that regard. not as necessarily that he's not british born. >> well, if he was talking about him in that way, he didn't make it sound like it, and he should have made that clear, because i think most people took it a different way. and i think when the polling show comes out , the polling show comes out, it'll show, reform having peaked a little bit too early in this campaign. >> although latest polling showing that nigel's more popular than rishi sunak, with the public. >> well, that would be after d—day. >> that was after d—day , and i'm >> that was after d—day, and i'm sure that is the case. >> what did you think of that, piers? i was interested to know your opinion. >> well, it's extraordinary because rishi was at school at winchester, where i was, and in winchester, where i was, and in winchester college there is a place called war cloisters , place called war cloisters, which you walk through every day to go to the classrooms . and to go to the classrooms. and when you walk through it,

because it has all the names of the former pupils who died in the former pupils who died in the two world wars , inscribed on the two world wars, inscribed on the two world wars, inscribed on the walls of the cloisters when you walk through it, you nod your head, you bow your head in in commemoration. and you do that every time you walk through. so as a boy, you are. it's instilled in you the memory of wartime. and so i think what rishi did upon i mean, it was unforgivable. it was a catastrophic moment for him. it is it is what is undoubtedly cost him even more seats than he's going to lose . and it was he's going to lose. and it was something that whatever the apology , it doesn't work. and apology, it doesn't work. and i think the real problem is the people advising him, surrounding him are clearly not up to the game because this is the worst, worst , most conservative worst, most conservative election campaign i have ever seen by a mile. >> i and you've advised on a few of them i have. >> again, i want to defend him a

little bit on that, nigel, because he would say i was there for the main ceremony. the veterans had all left. king charles was still there. william was still there. prince was still there. i have a country to run and a manifesto to prepare that we're launching today. i made an early exit, but i defend my right to do so on that day. >> it was just a huge mistake. i mean, the optics were absolutely appalling. what it showed to me was that he really doesn't understand anything about politics. he's made loads of political mistakes during his time. there was a classic he i mean, if you're being cynical about it, he had a chance of a photo op with all the world leaders he could be next to, to macron , next to biden instead. macron, next to biden instead. >> i don't like any of those. >> i don't like any of those. >> no, no, i'm sure you don't. >> that is being cynical with a certain electorate. i can't stand trudeau. i think he's a revolting dictator . revolting dictator. >> but but it's still it's good. good for electoral world stage . good for electoral world stage. yes. it makes him look prime ministerial accused him of being a globalist. >> i, i liked him saying i'm not bothered about that lot. the veterans. yes. the commemoration. yes. maybe it's

seeped into him that he didn't feel he needed to make a public show. well, he'll be there. >> he'll be off on thursday to the g7. yeah, with those very people, with those very people. >> and he won't leave early. >> and he won't leave early. >> and he won't leave early. >> and at this time, i think he'll be there till the very end of the after eight minutes, the photograph with the world leaders, he can strut his stuff on the international stage. >> starmer would have given his right arm to be. >> absolutely. this is the point. yeah. >> there was no chance of that photograph for him. >> no, absolutely. but i mean, that's the cynical side of it. quite simply. once he was there, once he'd been with the veterans, he should have known. i've got to stay to the bitter end i wipe out today. this is the veterans day. >> why, why, why wouldn't the british public before trudeau? every time? >> but why wouldn't he want to be there? well, it's much more. >> it's much preferable to campaigning in britain. yes. >> and particularly when you're on the losing side to sign off the manifesto, a meeting at 6:00. you could have had the meeting at 10:00. >> of course he could. >> of course he could. >> 12:00, 6:00 in the morning. >>12:00, 6:00 in the morning. yeah, it was, it was still going to be there the next day. >> it was a catastrophic

mistake. and it does, as nigel said. i mean, his political judgement is terrible. yeah. >> and he's happy to apologise every time he opens his mouth. >> yeah. i mean, he's a decent man in my opinion. he's a man of integrity and i respect his intelligence. yes, but i don't respect his political judgement because it's poor and he's surrounded by the most appalling cabinet in living memory. >> not that we see the cabinet. well, we're just seeing they're running scared. and man called mel stride. who else are we seeing in this campaign? >> yeah, absolutely. and mel stride, for goodness sake, were compensatory disaster or richard holden even worse with that catastrophic interview, tory chairman john craig, john craig, who was doing a pool interview and john is the nicest interviewer you could get and the fairest. and yet holden made a complete mess of it and even drove john to distraction. it was absolutely suicidal . was absolutely suicidal. >> why are we not seeing the cabinet? do you think they are too busy fighting their seats? they're worried about their seats, nigel, or is it a bit of

that? yeah push himself forward at every opportunity because he wants to try and increase his popularity. >> i think that we've come to presidential campaigns in this country. so we normally see the prime minister out there right at the front. some of the other ones, yes, jeremy hunt may lose his seat. so we haven't seen seen any sign of jeremy hunt there on the campaign trail , but there on the campaign trail, but i think that it's the way we design it. we've got this idea that it's keir starmer versus rishi sunak much in the way it would be biden versus trump. >> yeah. and we only see in labour's campaign we see starmer rachel reeves not many others. >> no you don't you see wes streeting because health health is don't see much of angela rayner and i think i think that the, the answer is for a british election, we ought to see far more people. yes because they're the people who are going to run the people who are going to run the country, let me just read out some of the messages we're waiting for. rishi sunak. he's going to be launching the conservative with bated breath. >> we're waiting silverstone with bated breath at the racetrack. >> what do you think about the choice of venue piers choosing silverstone to make the announcement? >> well, i have no idea why he

picked it. >> i think it's about being at the forefront of technology and its thrusting british industry. >> i don't know if you were there. >> mark steyn is probably the most run down f1 track , the most run down f1 track, the whole lot of them. >> i didn't know that . >> i didn't know that. >> i didn't know that. >> yeah, he's got peeling paints, an old racetrack , but paints, an old racetrack, but but nigel were you there a lot of empty space. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> in 97, when major launched his campaign, i don't know which racetrack it was. and there was going to be a photograph with a brands hatch formula one car. the blooming thing was on a was perched on bricks. the wheels have come off. >> they take them. >> they take them. >> so all the headlines was wheels come off tory campaign. >> so i think what should have launched it on the bibby stockholm actually are , well stockholm actually are, well then at least there'd be someone on these boats . but. on these boats. but. >> or on a or on on these boats. but. >>oronaorona on these boats. but. >> or on a or on a plane to rwanda. a plane to rwanda. >> somebody. the home secretary has been to rwanda. no one migrant has been to rwanda. let's be fair one. but he was happy to go and we had to pay him to go. maybe that's where we should have done it.

>> yes. well, of course, if it was next week, you'd be royal ascot, which would be much more appropriate. >> yeah. quite. quite, let's have a look what people are saying at home. janet has said i know exactly what nigel farage meant when he said that sunak didn't understand our culture. he's first generation immigrant. they often don't have the historical perspective around the sacrifice made by fathers and grandfathers and uncles and brothers and cousins, as the family wasn't here then, even though they are living in england, their immediate culture is not british. yet, she says you need a few generations for that to instil. what do you make of that? pierce no, sorry, i don't buy that. >> yeah, i go along with a no as well for something like that, that it's suggesting . what? what that it's suggesting. what? what nigel was trying to suggest. >> yes. if >> yes. if >> and his dad was a gp. mum ran a local pharmacy. >> i've never heard that before. keir starmer. doesn't he make more of that? and keir starmer, i'll tell you. >> my dad was a toolmaker. >> my dad was a toolmaker. >> angela rayner, i tell you , i love. >> by the way, did i tell you i had a baby when i was 16? my life was so terrible and hard.

they just weird all this stuff out. >> we can't stand it, really. >> we can't stand it, really. >> it's very tedious. >> it's very tedious. >> it's very tedious. >> i know it really is. >> i know it really is. >> but also, our viewers are actually saying that this is the conservatives are just trying to pull down nigel farage, that that the conservative are scared of nigel farage. pierce. and therefore you're certainly are. you're scraping the barrel to criticise him. >> well, i think i mean, nigel farage. yes, of course he's the he is a huge he's not just a threat now. he's reality . he threat now. he's reality. he because he's going to take an awful lot of votes from the conservatives. and there is no doubt about it, i think he would have taken more if he hadn't made that one remark. that's my only point. but i don't think i think he may just have peaked, but we'll see. >> we've still got four weeks. we have, we have, we have. >> and again, this is this is sunaks fault for calling a six week campaign she didn't need to do in france. >> that they called election on

sunday. and the first part of the vote will be before our election, and that's what we should adopt in the old days. >> in the old days, we used to have three week elections and now we seem to have they get longer and longer and the six week election is just too much and it bores everybody to death in the end. >> so this person has got in touch. they're calling themselves dark days ahead, they said are the mainstream media and the tories are running scared. the attacks on nigel farage will be frequent from now until the election. he already explained what he said and he wasn't being racist. why is it the tories always bring out the racist card when farage is doing well, it won't work anymore. >> now he look, nigel farage can take it. he dishes it out very well. he would perform very well in the leaders debate on friday and he dishes it out and he was more focused, i think, in his attack on rishi there, where he accused him of being not patriotic. and i thought that was a fair comment. >> that is better. yes. yeah. and i mean, again with nigel, he's such a good performer. he's got four weeks to recover from this, which i suspect he will do. yeah. i mean, we're getting

peaks and troughs already in this election. yeah. and the charts are going up and down every week, as you'd expect in a campaign. so he's got plenty of time to come back, much more so than rishi. >> there could be a trump effect as well. remember as it were, if the mainstream media attacked nigel farage so much and people feel disenfranchised, disconnected, and they think he is anti—establishment , that is anti—establishment, that might play in his favour. >> well, i mean, certainly he is anti—establishment. that's the whole and that's his his reason to exist . so i think that when to exist. so i think that when it comes down, the trump, the trump sort of argument is valid in the sense that nigel farage will always have his core voters. he'll have his base, just like president trump has his base. so no one cares about trump being a convicted felon . trump being a convicted felon. those people will vote for him anyway. yeah, where where the problem comes. and i think this is where the point piers was making is when you broaden that out, that nigel will have those voters will stick with him. but

other people who are not quite sure might decide not to go that way. exactly >> that's my point exactly. >> that's my point exactly. >> he wouldn't object to it. he is a marmite character. yeah for sure. yeah. and twas ever thus . sure. yeah. and twas ever thus. >> yeah, but i mean so far he's the success of this campaign . the success of this campaign. yes. don't forget it was always from day one being labour's to lose. yeah. because if you go into an election 20 points ahead. yeah i mean you've got to be pretty hopeless to lose. yeah. with that kind of weight, theresa may hardly ever happened. >> theresa may nearly managed it. >> of course, she very nearly did. yeah. >> and of course we're going to see the manifesto launch, which just they're getting preparing for it in silverstone as piers pottinger points out, one of the most rundown formula one tracks in the whole of the country. >> in the world, definitely in the world. >> with that kind of backdrop, it might as well be anywhere. >> well, i mean, what's the point of having it somewhere? >> which doesn't, i know, and you imagine all the headlines tomorrow. >> reverse gear, second gear. pit stop, pit stop. yeah. >> what we other things. >> what we other things. >> well, he wasn't. he's not at

the front of the grid. all of that stuff. >> all of those jokes and blow out. yeah, yeah. if it goes overtaking undertaking. yeah, so , so. and there's somebody else. 0h, , so. and there's somebody else. oh, gillian keegan, it's gillian keegan. >> so she leapt on the education secretary. >> who is the mp ? she was. she's >> who is the mp? she was. she's the candidate in chichester. she's got a big fight in her hand.so she's got a big fight in her hand. so she is introducing it. that's an interesting choice. >> very interesting choice. why would he have gillian welch seducing him? >> female needs to be careful. the roof doesn't fall in. >> yeah, because she'll blame. because the taxpayer pick up the bill. >> that's right. yeah, yeah. >> that's right. yeah, yeah. >> and she's not penny mordaunt. >> and she's not penny mordaunt. >> i think that's penny morton important. right. >> but she but of course this this feeds into the criticism that i've been making that we've not seen enough of the team. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> education is a hugely important part of them. but i bet you education will form a very small part of the manifesto, although i suspect they're going to raise the they're going to raise the they're going to do something on faith schools, don't you think, nigel? >> yeah, i mean, that, i think catholic schools, there may be a rule where if they only want to take catholics, they can. yes, it may well be. there'll be

something in there on that. i mean, they've certainly been talking about that, talking about that in the past. yeah, so, but i mean, education has hardly i don't think it surfaced in this campaign at all. has it. no. oh. apart from labour are going to bring in, they're going to teach children three and four year olds how to brush their teeth. nanny state. >> but if you remember the absolute chaos when the announcement about the school roofs falling in, we haven't heard anything since that. no, about whether they've been fixed or whether anything has fallen down. and also nothing. and that big panic countrywide panic, and why the education secretary decided to own it for the government when it's a problem for education authorities all around the country, because i've been around since the blair government, she caused that panic. she did unnecessarily. yeah >> every time i meet her she says, oh, it's andrew pierce. why do you write such terrible things about me? why? why do you think sectors have a guess ? think sectors have a guess? >> she's seen a sort of being quite normal, isn't she ? well, quite normal, isn't she? well, she went to a comprehensive and she went to a comprehensive and she didn't go to university , she she didn't go to university, she she didn't go to university, she she didn't go to university, she she did an apprenticeship. >> imagine a world where she's

given that 93% of people won't go to state school in this country . it's unusual to have country. it's unusual to have somebody in government who went to state school. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and she didn't go to university. she did an apprenticeship. and she's very proud of the fact she did an apprenticeship. >> but she's from liverpool. she is a great tradition in comedians. yeah, you know, jemmy tarbuck, ken dodd. yeah, just to name two. so maybe she's telling a few jokes now to keep them all happy. yeah, i can't see them rolling around the room can, you know, so. and then nigel, look ahead. we've got labour's manifesto launch coming on thursday. >> yes that's right. yeah. >> yes that's right. yeah. >> they've gone long. >> they've gone long. >> yes. >> yes. >> yeah , probably best to go >> yeah, probably best to go last on something like this. reform is next week and reform is next week. so but i mean for, for labour to come after the tories i think that's always a good way they can pull apart the tory manifesto for the next couple of days, then launch their own. yeah, and i think they've got a few things they need to clarify to actually make it work. >> this thing on vat, on school, private schools , which piers was private schools, which piers was earlier talking about, pure class war envy. >> it is. yeah

>> it is. yeah >> it is. yeah >> i don't think it's that it's definitely going to put a larger class sizes certainly in the first year or two. >> well, again, we have to we have to see if a schools close down somewhere in financial trouble anyway it might do for them and whether or not parents withdraw their children. but we are talking about 1.5 billion you can raise from this, which is quite a lot. so there's a number of things that labour have already earmarked to actually spend that on right how. >> now. >> just telling you, ben houchen, who won, turned the tide in the mayoral elections in may, he's the mayor of teesside. i think nigel ben houchen, tees valley. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> tees valley, he's speaking now. he had a great success. look, he had 72% of the vote four years ago. he got about 58% of the vote this time. well he woi'i. >> won. >> it was important. >> it was important. >> yes important. and but and he put the boot in on rishi sunak. >> but crucially, he didn't have rishi sunak on his leafleting material or barely even had the conservative party on his marketing materials. >> he's a man that some people thought could potentially be a

tory leader, but he's taken a peerage, so he's not interested in that. he's still only 38. quite interesting. he is . quite interesting. he is. >> he's very impressive. >> he's very impressive. >> it is. >> it is. >> he looks older than me, so he could still renounce his peerage and, and take the job along with david frost , and, and take the job along with david frost, david cameron, david frost, david cameron, david cameron. >> do you think we'll see much of david cameron in this campaign? >> well, we haven't seen any of him so far, apart from when he stood in for the prime minister for that. yeah. >> i have a theory on this. the sunday times reported that he was apoplectic that the prime minister came back early, and he told him not to do it. i have a theory that he probably said, you go back, prime minister, i'll stand next to the president of the united states. i'll be photographed. i need to burnish my international credentials. after the greensill lobbying scandal, which destroyed his reputation. that's my machiavellian theory . machiavellian theory. >> i think david cameron's probably enjoying a beer with jeremy clarkson in chipping norton. yeah, i mean , well, he's norton. yeah, i mean, well, he's also travelling around the world quite a lot, and there are quite a few crises that the foreign secretary ought to be dealing with. >> he thought he had a year as foreign secretary, which is why he came back, because he does need to improve his reputation

because he hasn't got one. yeah. >> and also he's bought and he was bored. i mean, he was he was sitting in his shed not doing very much. so he had to come out and given a job like foreign secretary. yeah i would imagine he's having great fun doing that. >> well, i imagine he'll be at the g7. yeah. so that's what he's doing at the moment preparing for that. because even though it's a complete waste of time for, for them, they've got to go through with it because it is obviously a vital meeting. >> it gives the prime minister a chance to shine on the world stage, particularly now we've had the un and hamas agree to the israeli, proposed ceasefire, which is the big news of the day, really, which is that is huge news. but israel won't agree to it. >> well, i mean, it's meant to have emanated from israel in the first place. so, so the, the far right. well, the far right, the right. well, the far right, the right in israel won't like it. they want to keep the war going . they want to keep the war going. >> well, then hamas will just use the ceasefire as a time to regroup, rearm and get ready. >> well hang on, i mean, i mean, if this plan works, the idea

would be a six week ceasefire and a permanent peace after that, with the return of all hostages, i don't believe hamas, well, okay, their creed is to destroy the state of israel. >> yes. >> yes. >> that's right. that that is right. i don't believe them. but the. but if they've been been sufficiently decimated during the, during the war and the palestinian authority can take oven palestinian authority can take over, or take over gaza, there is a chance of a lasting peace there. right. >> well , i there. right. >> well, i don't believe a word they say. >> well, you can't believe what hamas says, but, nevertheless, they apparently have said they agree to this, so we'll have to see what happens. but this surely is one of the most important things . along with the important things. along with the ukraine situation still something that we keep pushing away . yet the situation in away. yet the situation in ukraine is critical and putin is making increasingly militant noises and threats. and the biggest danger to europe at the moment is russia, without any

doubt. and these are very big issues. the world goes on, aside from these elections and yet foreign policy rarely surfaces in a general election campaign. >> no. even though even though the world is at its most unstable for years, minutia of constituency. yeah. brushing your teaching kids how to brush their teeth in a classroom. >> yeah, well . >> yeah, well. >> yeah, well. >> and cost of living. i mean, important to say important things that actually do affect people, cost of living and so on. but you can understand that voters don't care hugely about what is going on in the rest of the world, unless they're directly threatened by it. >> it's the pound in your pocket. it is. and after labour win, they've used the word change. and that's what we'll all have loose change in by the time they tax us out of existence . yes. existence. yes. >> if you're just joining us, we're waiting for rishi sunak to take to the stage in silverstone to launch the conservative manifesto . nuff said on twitter manifesto. nuff said on twitter has said silverstone go round in circles there you see all the started .

started. >> of course they will. >> of course they will. >> yeah, it won't be a fast lane. slow lane. yeah. >> their lap of honour. >> their lap of honour. >> it's. yeah they're going to come there. yeah exactly. do we have when do we last have a british motor racing world. lewis hamilton. >> yes lewis hamilton. yeah. yeah i don't . yeah i don't. >> and do you think they're going to get labour going to be very excited that jamie oliver appears to be endorsing them. is that a big is that big for labour the sort of showbizzy endorsements i'm always a bit sceptical about. they tend to unravel. >> yeah, they do a bit. so i think they would be pleased rather than ecstatic about it. it's nice to have the name there, a famous name that people can recognise is quite obsessed with tv chefs because they use tom kerry. >> they did? yes. >> they did? yes. >> tom kerridge is the other one who brought restaurant chain. he recently went bust, leaving lots of people in huge debt. exactly. yes. he shouldn't forget that the person i'd want endorsing my campaign, i must say, because there were i mean, literally dozens of small firms were never paid. >> yeah. and he's a very high and dry. and he's a very rich man. >> not me, guv, not my fault,

but parents against him. example of how a labour supporter has no idea how to run a business. >> unfortunately, parents trust him though, with their children's diet and health. if he's endorsing the labour party's campaign to feed kids better in schools, a lot of parents will listen to what jamie oliver says. he killed the turkey twizzler. remember, just to give you a little bit of background gossip of what's going on at silverstone, our very own camilla tominey has tweeted, lovely catering ladies at silverstone, uk tell me that they offered to serve breakfast, croissants, etc. to the assembled press this morning, but the conservatives declined the offer of food. so now we have a group of hungry journalists covering the manifesto. >> not good, because the journalists were warned to bring their own food. >> were they really? yes there were, yeah. not just saying they had to bring their own food. >> oh, this is the cut price tory party. >> well that doesn't look good, does it? that doesn't. well don't get very good good write ups on the back of that. >> no, no, no. >>— >> no, no, no. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> well a nice croissant and he's still banging on ben houchen.i he's still banging on ben houchen. i don't know why he thinks anybody's vaguely interested in anything. he's got

to say. i mean, he's got he's doing the warm up act, but, it's the main chance. >> we've had two warm up acts. yeah, yeah. >> do you think we'll get a juggler next? >> well, maybe ed davey could ed davey could. >> come on your swim trunks? >> come on your swim trunks? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yes, yes, yes, maybe. >> maybe that's what the prime minister should own. a water slide or something. >> he's had a good week, though, ed davey. i think he has. >> i mean, but it seems like he's ticking off something on his bucket list all the way through. i desperately want to fall off a of a water paddleboard and. yeah. and, desperately want to go down a fun ride in thorpe park , doesn't fun ride in thorpe park, doesn't seem to damage him at all. and he's likely to get an awful lot of mps under the present polling. yeah, he should. he could come back as the official opposition. the way things are looking, it's a great party to be a leader of because you've got no policies. >> you've got no chance of power. yeah. you don't really have to do anything. and mugs all over the country will waste all over the country will waste a vote on you. >> yeah, well they did do something in coalition. >> i mean, they certainly tempered what the tories were doing and introduced various things . the doing and introduced various things. the personal doing and introduced various things . the personal allowance

things. the personal allowance at, over 12,000. now that is a lib dem idea. so they were able to actually influence government when they were, when they were in it. the problem was it destroyed their party for ten years after. >> and they also presided over the post office scandal because three successive post office ministers between 2010 and 2015 were lib dem when this scandal was at its worst, and they reported to the secretary of state, who was vince cable, lib dem. i know it's on their watch. >> dave. he again has managed successfully to avoid any questions about the post office scandal for which he has yet to properly apologise as well. yeah and that is the serious side of it. >> yeah, i've just seen some, breaking footage on twitter of nigel farage on the reform big blue bus in south yorkshire today, and he had rocks thrown at him. well, that's a poor protester that nigel's just posted this footage. no doubt emily and tom will bring you this. there was a big crowd there and a left wing, as nigel is describing them. a left wing,

violent mob took rocks out of a builder's bucket and threw them up to the bus. >> and you see, people thought it wasn't. it hit him, it hit him, and that could have hit him in the face. and of course, he had the milkshake thrown at him. that could easily have been acid. well, he got hit by a rock. this is a gift for nigel. >> and this is what i'm saying about the trump effect. yeah. if enough people start literally physically attacking the man. yeah, that we like an underdog in this country. we vote for people who are being. >> yes. that actually gives you sort of it gives you votes. >> well, it will give him votes. and they've caught it. so they should anneliese to the ground. he should be charged with a criminal. i mean, that's, assault. and it's a pretty big rock. he's picked up a big rock walking from past a building site of, like, concrete. >> he's taken out and it hits him. it does hit him. yeah >> he's not hurt. he's not hurt, but he's thrown to. >> yeah. and then the builders. looks like the builders are actually the ones who represent who. and who reprimand him. who grab him. >> and there's the police. >> and there's the police.

>> look at the dozy police very slowly. and then one of the police gets this guy and wrestles him to the ground. and good for them, we're still waiting for for the rishi sunak to deliver the conservative party manifesto. i should say , party manifesto. i should say, with bated breath. i hope you have been breathing since. because you'll have expired. >> you know what? >> you know what? >> i think he's back to london. >> i think he's back to london. >> he's left. >> he's left. >> he's left. >> he's gone early. >> he's gone early. >> yes, here he comes. here we are. >> so we'll hand over to rishi sunak to launch the tory manifesto. he's getting a round of applause. standing ovation. but they are all typekit tory party members. thank you . thank you. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you, thank you. >> well, good morning everyone. it's great to be with you all and great to be here at silverstone. nowhere better, in fact , to mark the fact that our fact, to mark the fact that our economy has truly turned a

corner . now economy has truly turned a corner. now we're a month away from the grand prix here, and we can be confident about even more british success. seven of the world's ten leading formula one teams are all based here. more grand prix cars are made in this country than anywhere else, and the uk has won more titles than any other nation. so formula one is a great example of all our strengths coming together, our technological know how, our innovative advanced manufacturing capability and the skill of our workforce. 25,000 engineers and apprentices are involved in this industry, and formula one isn't the only thing they do here at silverstone . as they do here at silverstone. as nice as it would be for brad pitt to turn up at our manifesto launch, he's currently filming just outside with a brilliant british crew, one of the many uk based productions taking place thanks to our support and tax cuts for the creative sector. so from the northern studios in

hartlepool to pinewood to the coming crown studios in sunderland, britain is truly now the creative capital of europe, so that . so that. so just thinking about that, the fact that we can lead the world in such competitive fields should make us all enormously proud of our country , but proud of our country, but crucially optimistic about our future , because we brits can future, because we brits can outcompete the best in the . outcompete the best in the. world. and what we conservatives want is more british success stories. and that's what our manifesto will deliver . now. the manifesto will deliver. now. the last few years have been some of the toughest. our country has faced in decades. we were hit by

covid, and then the spike in energy prices following putin's invasion of ukraine. but economic stability is now returning inflation back to normal . real returning inflation back to normal. real wages been rising for almost a year now, and the economy growing healthily again. so the question now is who is to best turn that foundation into a secure future for you? your family and our country? now? this manifest show is our clear plan for the united kingdom. it's about the bold actions that we will take to deliver that secure future. and we conservatives know that security is essential for success, and that's why we're raising defence investment to 2.5% of gdp by 2030. to deal with the increasingly uncertain world that we live in. this is the biggest sustained increase in the defence budget since the end of the cold war, and one that keir starmer will not match. labour would rather keep the

civil service at its bloated pandemic level, rather than give our armed forces the equipment they need. and when there is a war in europe , turmoil in the war in europe, turmoil in the middle east, china flexing its muscles in the south china sea, we are in a world of increasing threats, and we must show our enemies that this country, with our allies, will stand strong. now, this axis of authoritarian states russia, china, iran, nonh states russia, china, iran, north korea must know that their attempts to destabilise our world will simply not succeed. now is the time for bold action, not an uncertain keir starmer as our prime minister. now our increase in defence investment will not only fire up our

defence industrial base,