service at its bloated 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, creating good jobs here at home from barrow to lossiemouth, but allow us to stand up for our interests, deter our enemies and defend our values. if only we conservatives with our iron resolve who can be trusted to keep britain safe . now we need keep britain safe. now we need border security to the confidence that it is your government that decides who comes to our country and not criminal gangs. comes to our country and not criminal gangs . and that is why. criminal gangs. and that is why. thatis criminal gangs. and that is why. that is why if you vote conservative on july the 4th, the flights removing illegal migrants will depart in july, establishing the deterrent that will stop the boats. because when people know that if they try to come here illegally, they won't get to stay, then they will stop coming. and if we are forced to choose between our

security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the echr we will always choose our nation's security. we now. but labour have no answer to this question, as you saw the other week, keir starmer simply can't tell you what he would do with people who come here illegally because he doesn't believe it's a problem . now with brexit, we a problem. now with brexit, we took control of our borders, but migration has been too high in recent years and we have a clear plan to reduce it. last year we announced changes which mean 300,000 people who were previously eligible to come here now can't and we will introduce a migration cap. that means parliament and your elected representatives will vote on how many people should be able to come here every year. our plan

is clear. we will halve migration as we have halved inflation and then reduce it every single year. now we don't just need military and border security . as putin's invasion of security. as putin's invasion of ukraine has shown, we need energy security too. it is only by having reliable home grown sources of energy that we can do to send our bills soaring so in our approach to energy policy, we will put security and your family finances ahead of unaffordable eco zealotry. unlike labour, we don't believe that we will achieve energy security via a state controlled energy company that doesn't , in energy company that doesn't, in fact produce any energy that will only increase costs. and as penny put it well, on friday, there's only one thing that the

g. gb energy stands for , and g. gb energy stands for, and that's giant bills . now that's giant bills. now our clear plan is to achieve energy security through new gas powered stations , trebling our offshore stations, trebling our offshore wind capacity, and by having new fleets of small modular reactors. these will make the uk a net exporter of electricity, giving us greater energy independence and security from the aggressive actions of dictators. and let me just reiterate that with our plan, we will produce enough electricity to both meet our domestic needs and export to our neighbours. look at that . a clear look at that. a clear conservative plan, not only generating security but also prosperity for our country .

prosperity for our country. and we conservatives also have a plan to give you financial security . we will enable working security. we will enable working people to keep more of the money that you earn, because you have earned it and have the right to choose what you spend it on. now, keir starmer takes a very different view. he says he's a socialist and we all know what socialists do, don't we.7 they socialists do, don't we? they take more of your money because they think it belongs to them . they think it belongs to them. now, i know labour have been taking inspiration from one of brad pitt's most famous films. the first rule of labour tax rises is that you don't talk about tax rises , but we know about tax rises, but we know that the policies labour have already announced will require them to increase taxes on working households by £2,094. my friends, families cannot afford that and it is our job to make that and it is ourjob to make sure that that doesn't happen .

sure that that doesn't happen. now i had to take difficult decisions because of covid, but now we are cutting taxes for workers, for parents and pensioners , and we are the party pensioners, and we are the party of margaret thatcher and nigel lawson, a party, unlike labour, that believes in sound money. so today's plans and you would expect nothing less from jeremy and me, are fully funded . we and me, are fully funded. we will pay for permanent reductions in taxation by controlling the unsustainable rise in working age welfare that has taken off since the pandemic. in this party, we believe that it is morally right that those who can work do work, and that hard work is rewarded with people being able to keep more of their own money. so we will ensure that we have lower welfare so that we can deliver lower taxes .

lower taxes. and as conservatives, we believe that hard work shouldn't be taxed twice. that's unfair. that's why jeremy has been cutting national insurance contributions that only workers are forced to pay . our national are forced to pay. our national insurance tax cuts are already worth £900 to the average worker , and we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved national insurance to 6. that is a tax cut, my friends. worth £1,300 to the average worker . £1,300 to the average worker. making more progress towards our long term ambition to abolish the double taxation on work when

it is economically responsible to do so . now i also want to say to do so. now i also want to say something about the self—employed because they're the risk takers, the people who graft hard to make a living, who get our economy growing. they embody the most conservative of values, the desire to build something, to create wealth and opportunity . but setting up on opportunity. but setting up on your own means you don't have the same security that those on payroll do , so it must be worth payroll do, so it must be worth taking that risk. payroll do, so it must be worth taking that risk . we need to taking that risk. we need to make it worth taking that risk. and that means that their taxes must be cut. so in the next parliament, we will scrap entirely the main rate of self—employed national insurance

attacks abolished and enterprise encouraged. we want to encourage more people to become entrepreneurs , to set up their entrepreneurs, to set up their own businesses, to try and make something of it. so we will aboush something of it. so we will abolish that tax for millions of our hardest workers and create a new culture of enterprise in our country. we conservatives want a britain where setting up a business is as natural as taking a job. so we will do more for the self—employed so that they can do more for britain . can do more for britain. now security also means a security of knowing that you will have dignity in retirement. so we will also cut tax for pensioners with the new triple lock, plus ensuring that the state pension is never dragged

into income tax. labour by contrast, would introduce a retirement tax , meaning that for retirement tax, meaning that for those who rely entirely on the new state pension, they would be caught by income tax for the first time in our country's history . and we know labour's history. and we know labour's record from the £0.75 state pension increase to gordon brown's £118 billion tax raid on private pensions, it is clear your pensions simply isn't safe with the labour party . with the labour party. and we conservatives want to spread opportunity vie across the whole of our united kingdom . the whole of our united kingdom. we don't want you to leave the place that you call home to succeed. and ultimately, that is the test of levelling up. so we will give our young people the skills and opportunities they need to succeed in today's world. we won't cling to

outdated ideas, such as the belief that the only route to success is through university. so we will kerb funding to rip off degrees and use it to fund 100,000 new high quality apprenticeships . apprenticeships. we will build on the success of our education reforms by introducing the advanced british standard, which will enable our young people to receive a broader education and break down the split between technical and academic education that is so held our country back. we'll invest in a new form of national service to give our young people the chance to enjoy new experiences, learn new skills and feel a sense of community belonging and national purpose. national service will help us build a more unified, more cohesive society so that we can be secure in the knowledge that

we are all on the same side . and we are all on the same side. and we are all on the same side. and we conservatives also want to create a society in which everyone has a chance to own. in the last five years, we've delivered a million new homes in the next parliament. we will go even further, delivering 1.6 million new homes by speeding up planning on brownfield land in ourinner planning on brownfield land in our inner cities, and by scrapping the defective eu laws . scrapping the defective eu laws. and we will go further because we conservatives believe in tax cuts. so for young families, for the first time buyers purchasing a home up to £425,000, we will aboush a home up to £425,000, we will abolish stamp duty entirely .

abolish stamp duty entirely. and that's not all we'll do. we'll also introduce a new form of help to buy a new help to buy scheme, to get a new generation onto the property ladder. all part of our plan to build an ownership society where more and more people have the security and pride that comes from owning your own home. from macmillan to thatcher to today , it is we thatcher to today, it is we conservatives who are the party of the property owning democracy in this country. in fact, we want to make life easier for people at every stage of their lives. so we'll also give working parents 30 hours of free childcare a week from when their child is nine months to when they start school. we'll

make child benefit fairer and simpler by moving to a household system that no longer penalises single earner households , and single earner households, and ensuring that any family that earns less than £120,000 a year will receive it . that tax cut is will receive it. that tax cut is worth, on average, £1,500 to 700,000 families, showing once again it is we conservatives that are the party of the family and we will always champion them and we want all families to have the peace of mind of knowing that the nhs will be there for you. if you fall sick. so we will increase nhs funding in real terms every year and train and recruit more doctors and nurses every year. we will make the nhs work better through investing in new technology and reforming how it works. you should know that if your kids

have an earache or a sore throat or a chest infection , you can or a chest infection, you can get quick and rapid treatment without having to take time off work. and so we will expand our fantastic pharmacy first programme. but parents should also feel that it's safe for their children to walk home at night. so we will recruit 8000 new police officers, one for every neighbourhood , and cut every neighbourhood, and cut anti—social behaviour through intensive hotspot policing. and we will protect women and girls by guaranteeing single—sex spaces through an amendment to the equality act to make it clear that sex means biological. sex. now labour like to talk the country down. they want to pretend that everything would be great if they had never left

office, and pretend that somehow we have not achieved anything . we have not achieved anything. but that's just simply not right. remember the note that said there's no money left when labour left office in 2010, unemployment was higher than when they came into government. pubuc when they came into government. public and private debt was accumulating. the banking system was broken, the deficit was ballooning, and even labour accepted that after years of spending, significant cuts in pubuc spending, significant cuts in public expenditure were acquired. they went into the 2010 election admitting they would have to make cuts. labour left britain on the brink of bankruptcy . and worse, the bankruptcy. and worse, the money that labour had put into public service had not been accompanied by sufficient reform . labour's by sufficient reform. labour's welfare system was more about disguising how many people were out of work than actually getting people back into

employment, and for all the money that labour had put into education, our schools were falling down. international league tables and almost half of labour's increase in the nhs budget had been swallowed up by higher pay and more bureaucracy. and despite that awful inheritance, we've delivered the third highest rate of economic growth in the g7 third highest rate of economic growth in the 67 created 4 million jobs, 800 a day with kemi using our brexit freedoms to open up new markets. we have now overtaken france, the netherlands and japan to become the fourth biggest exporter in the fourth biggest exporter in the world and we conservatives under david took the difficult decisions to repair the public finances and control the national debt. and that meant that when covid hit , we national debt. and that meant that when covid hit, we could support people and businesses with furlough , deliver the with furlough, deliver the fastest vaccine rollout in the world and provide record funding to the nhs. we reformed welfare by capping benefits and

introducing universal credit. ians reforms mean that now work always pays. we've reduced absolute poverty , we've reduced absolute poverty, we've reduced child poverty, we've reduced pensioner poverty , we've cut pensioner poverty, we've cut carbon emissions by a third, maintained our position as nato's second biggest defence power , and boris and ben and power, and boris and ben and grant put the country at the forefront of defending ukraine against russian aggression. because britain will always stand up to tyrants . we've halved violent and neighbourhood crime, thanks to the work of home secretaries from theresa to pretty to james, and improved standards in our schools . thanks to michael's

schools. thanks to michael's reforms and a generation of inspiring teachers, english school children are not just the best readers in the united kingdom. they're the best in the western . western. world. western. world. we strengthened our united kingdom with the forces of separatism. in retreat. we legislated for equal marriage . legislated for equal marriage. and now it is not even surprising for so many people from diverse backgrounds to sit around our cabinet table. i know you all agree with me. we may not have got everything perfectly right, but that is a record i am mighty proud of . record i am mighty proud of. now this country has a proud past and a and i believe in that

innate confidence in ourselves that has always run through our island story. and just as we're proud of all that we created, invented and discovered in our past, so we can be confident and optimistic about what we will achieve in our future. but i'm not blind to the fact that people are frustrated with our party and frustrated with me. things have not always been easy and we have not got everything right . but we and we have not got everything right. but we are and we have not got everything right . but we are the only party right. but we are the only party in this election with the big ideas to make our country a better place to live . better place to live. labour offer no solutions to our problems. they would only make them worse . and all a vote for

them worse. and all a vote for reform or the liberal democrats. doesis reform or the liberal democrats. does is allow labour to do whatever they want to our country . do not forget that keir country. do not forget that keir starmer is asking you to hand him a blank cheque when he hasn't said what he'll buy with it, or how much it's going to cost you just think about what labour would mean higher taxes for every working household can you afford £2,000 to more in taxes ? french style labour laws taxes? french style labour laws that will lead to higher unemployment and more strikes? a ballooning welfare bill, higher immigration and more net zero costs. their policies will mean, as they let slip this weekend, bigger class sizes because of their desire to slap vat on school fees, labour would cave in to the demands of the public sector unions, putting up your taxes to meet the unions. extortionate demands, and keir starmer will also use that blank check to change the rules of the game to his benefit, giving 16 year olds the vote not because

he believes they are adults. he doesn't want them to serve on a jury doesn't want them to serve on a jury or do any of the other things that adults do, but because he thinks they'll vote for him and that will make it harder to remove him from power. if labour win this time, they'll change the rules so that they are in power for a very long time. so if you don't know what labour will do, don't vote for it. if you're concerned about what starmer isn't telling you, don't vote for him. and if you're worried about what labour's £2,094 of tax rises would mean for your family's financial security, don't vote for them . for them. in conclusion, let me say this we conservatives will always stand for our values, for aspiration, for freedom , for

aspiration, for freedom, for opportunity, for security. your conservative mp will deliver lower taxes, lower immigration and protected pensions and a sensible approach to net zero. now our country wants a clear plan and bold action. our country needs a secure future and it is this conservative manifesto that will deliver it . thank you . thank you. >> thank you, thank you . right.

>> thank you, thank you. right. we've got lots of questions from the media to come, so the fun hasn't stopped. >> here we go . let's start with >> here we go. let's start with gb news. >> prime minister christopher from gb news, you stand behind in front of a slogan saying clear plan, bold action, secure future. well, why not be bold and commit to pulling out of the echr if it keeps stopping you? stopping the small boats . stopping the small boats. >> thanks, chris. i've been clear throughout that i believe that our plan is compliant with all our international obugafions. all our international obligations . but i've also been obligations. but i've also been clear, and the manifesto is crystal clear , that if we are crystal clear, that if we are forced to choose between the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the echr and our country's national security, then i'm going to choose our country's national security every single time. next, can we

go to the feet ? of prime go to the feet? of prime minister george parker from the financial times, i just you represent a northern seat from richmond. >> you've seen the opinion polls. you've seen keir starmer campaigning in the north of england . do you reflect on the england. do you reflect on the last five years and consider you may have let down the areas you promised to level up and whether indeed, there's a reckoning coming ? coming? >> george, i don't know if you were here before, but i don't know if you heard the speech from the conservative mayor of teesside who was right . teesside who was right. here. and i'll take a second to pay tribute to ben and all our

fantastic mps in the tees valley for what they've delivered for the region. i mean, ben gave you a flavour of it before because we've been working together since i became an mp . you talk since i became an mp. you talk about the north. teesside was an area that labour neglected for decades, took it completely for granted and it was ben and mps and councillors that transformed the region and i was fortunate to be able to work with them to help do that. but if you go around teesside now, every high street and town centre eaglescliffe, yarm, stockton, darlington, hartlepool is getting investment from our various levelling up funds. the new brexit enabled freeport is creating unbelievable high quality jobs in the industries of the future . the treasury of the future. the treasury campus is in darlington and as ben said, it's one thing for treasury campus to be in the north, but it's not in newcastle, it's not in manchester, it's not in leeds, it's in darlington because towns matter, which is why we're also

backing 130 towns across the country , including in the north, country, including in the north, with £20 million each. so local people can invest in their priorities. but more than any of that, what ben and the team have done, what the conservatives have done, is give everyone in teesside a sense of confidence and optimism about their futures. next we go to the bbc. >> thank you prime minister. christmas in bbc news. for much of the last 18 months, you've tried everything to try and revive conservative fortunes and not much appears to have worked. >> could we rename this document today? your last chance saloon ? today? your last chance saloon? what do you think is in this that can shift things that perhaps haven't shifted up until now? thank you . now? thank you. >> well, chris, i've been very clear. when i got this job, we'd been through a very difficult time as a country, but thanks to

the hard work and resilience of the hard work and resilience of the british people and the actions of the government, we have truly turned a corner inflation back to normal. the economy growing, wages rising, energy bills falling and that's why this election is right to talk about the future, the future that we want to deliver for our country is one where, above all, families will have financial security because their taxes are being cut. look at what this manifesto contains a tax cut for everyone in work. as we halve the rate of national insurance , a tax cut for the insurance, a tax cut for the self—employed, abolishing the rate of self—employed national insurance in the next parliament, a tax cut for pensioners, protecting the state pensioners, protecting the state pension from paying labour's retirement tax in the next parliament. because we believe in a country where you have dignity in retirement, a tax cut for parents because we want to support working families , making support working families, making sure that they get support with their children's costs and a tax cut for all young aspiring home owners. as we abolish first time buyer stamp duty, up to

£425,000, that is bold action from this conservative government, this conservative party, to deliver a more secure future. but it doesn't just stop with our tax cutting agenda. we're spreading opportunity through 100,000 new apprenticeships in a modern form of national service. we're ensuring our border security with a new legal migration cap in parliament and a plan to get the flights off to rwanda. and we're ensuring our country's energy security , but also doing energy security, but also doing it in a proportionate way that lowers people's bills, does not saddle them with extra costs and an ideological pursuit towards net zero. that is the offer in this manifesto. and there is a clear choice at this election . clear choice at this election. we are the only party putting bold action on the table to transform our country. labour have nothing to say about the problems our country faces and how best to address them. nothing. keir starmer is asking for a blank cheque and he will not tell people which taxes he is going to put up that are ultimately going to cost them

£2,000. so if you want a secure future, if you want lower taxes, if you want your pensions protected, if you want a more sensible approach to net zero and you want your border secure, vote conservative at this election . election. all right. thank you . i think all right. thank you. i think next time's radio. >> kate mccann, times radio prime minister. times radio listeners often tell us that they're fed up, that nothing works. they care a lot about the services they use every day. but there is nothing in this manifesto about the billions of pounds of cuts to local councils , to justice, to prisons that are coming down the track in the years ahead. what is your plan to prevent those billions of pounds of cuts? thank you. >> well, under our plans, kate, investment in day to day public services will continue to rise

in the new parliament. it will continue to rise ahead of inflation. but i also think it is reasonable to look for efficiencies in the public sector. and what we've seen is that public sector productivity since the pandemic has declined has declined quite significantly . now, as the chancellor set out a little while ago , if we just a little while ago, if we just recover those levels of efficiency that we had a few years ago. so nothing heroic, nothing that we haven't done before that will free up £20 billion, £20 billion that can be reinvested in public services on everyone's behalf without raising a penny of their taxes. so i think that's the right priority. right? recover where we used to be before the pandemic. focus on efficiency and productivity . and you can and productivity. and you can see that in the nhs productivity plan that we have fully funded. and if we do that, that unlocks billions of pounds that we can reinvest back into the front line to deliver better , high line to deliver better, high quality services for people, because of course, i want to see

high quality services. but as a conservative, i also don't want people's taxes to have to go up when we can get efficiencies to fund them . to do . itv fund them. to do. itv. >> prime minister, tories in government since 2010 have been pushing up the tax burden. the share of national income taken by tax to levels we haven't seen since the late 1940s. why should anyone believe you when you say you're going to cut tax ? you're going to cut tax? >> well, simply robert, because we already have . below. but i'm we already have. below. but i'm i'm upfront with people. i did have to take difficult decisions

after covid. that was the right thing to do, because when i was chancellor, i thought the right thing to do was to support our country through covid, whether it was supporting the nhs, whether it was a furlough scheme and when the energy crisis in europe hit the right thing to do was to help everyone with their energy bills. those things don't come for free and i think everyone watching knows that those things don't come for free. and you don't build our country's long term financial security by shying away from difficult decisions like that. that's not the type of leader i am. so i did make those difficult decisions. but now that our plan has worked, inflation is down, wages are rising, the economy is growing. we have started cutting people's taxes this year. everyone in work is getting a £900 tax cut on average, thanks to what jeremy has done. and we're cutting taxes for businesses making this the most attractive country in the world for businesses to invest, something that hundreds of our leading businesses described as the single most transformational thing that we could do for growth and productivity in our country, delivered it. so yes ,

country, delivered it. so yes, people can trust me when i say we're going to keep cutting their taxes. one, because we've set out a very clear plan to pay for it, because i think the welfare bill is growing at an unsustainable rate. and there is an opportunity, again, just to reverse some of the damage that covid has done to free up an enormous amount of savings that we can reinvest in tax cuts, but also because that's the type of country i believe in. and that's why people can trust me. i believe in a country where hard work is rewarded . that's why work is rewarded. that's why i want to cut people's tax when they're working hard. i believe in a country that encourages entrepreneurship and risk taking, and small businesses, which is why i want to cut taxes for the self—employed. i believe everyone should have the ability to own their own home. so i want to own their own home. so i want to cut taxes on stamp duty. i believe if you work hard all your life, you should have dignity and security in retirement , which is why we want retirement, which is why we want to cut taxes for pensioners and there is nothing more precious in life than my family and i'm sure that's the same for everyone in this room, which is why we want to support families

and we want to cut tax for them too. that's why you can trust me. >> right. >> right. >> can i go to the daily mail? >> can i go to the daily mail? >> thanks. pm jason goes from the daily mail. >> thanks. pm jason goes from the daily mail . you're targeting the daily mail. you're targeting the daily mail. you're targeting the self—employed here. do you think white van man can swing this election for you? and on the wider picture, there's a lot to say in here about tax. but unless i've missed it, nothing about the overall burden. can you today guarantee us that if you today guarantee us that if you get in, overall taxes will be lower by the time you've finished? >> yeah, i jason , because of the >> yeah, i jason, because of the measures that are announced in the manifesto and you can see the manifesto and you can see the document afterwards, the tax burden will be about one percentage point lower in every single year compared to the forecast that you saw at the spnng forecast that you saw at the spring budget a few, a couple of months ago that jeremy outlined . months ago that jeremy outlined. and, you know, you talked about a particular group. i do think

there is something that is special about those who are self—employed . now. i come from self—employed. now. i come from a small business family myself, but those people who are setting out on their own, taking that risk to do something that's incredibly brave , right? and our incredibly brave, right? and our economy is built on people like that. they don't have the security of knowing that the paycheques coming at the end of every month. they're out there working incredibly hard to provide a better life for them and their families, hoping that they can start like that and grow something bigger. and i think that is enormously brave, and they deserve all our admiration , but they also admiration, but they also deserve our support. and that's why we want to take the bold action to abolish the main rate of self—employment national insurance in the next parliament, demonstrating not just that we want people to have financial security, but demonstrating our values and the type of economy and society that we want to build.

telegraph . telegraph. >> thank you. prime minister ben morley—smith from the telegraph. manifestos are about policies. they're also about politics. there's four weeks to go. you're 20 points behind in the polls. what do you say to those who say the manifesto isn't ambitious enough and that this won't be a game changer ? game changer? >> well, ben, just to repeat what i said before , right. the what i said before, right. the tens the tax cuts that i went through, tax cut for everyone in work that will be worth £1,400 in the next parliament as we halve national insurance, a tax cut for the self—employed, where we abolish the rate of self—employment, a tax cut for everyone who's wanting to start buying their own home as we aboush buying their own home as we abolish the stamp duty for first time buyers, up to 425 k, a tax cut for families to support them as they bear their young children, and a tax cut for the millions of pensioners in our society. so yes, i do believe thatis society. so yes, i do believe that is bold and that comes on top of the action we've taken to

secure our borders, to get flights off to rwanda, a new migration cap and a more proportionate approach to net zero. but the choice of this election is clear because all elections are ultimately a choice. either keir starmer or i are going to be prime minister on july the 5th. if i'm prime minister, you will have this bold action. all you've got from the labour party is a blank sheet of paper, not a single big idea that has been put on the table in this election campaign so far , right when the first so far, right when the first announcement, we made a new form of national service, which is completely energised, conversations everywhere across the country. and yes, not everyone will necessarily agree with it, but no one can deny that it with it, but no one can deny thatitis with it, but no one can deny that it is not bold action that can transform our country and i think, transform our country for the better. nothing comparable to that from the labour party. so as people think about the choice, yes, of course there are challenges we face as a country, but they should ask themselves who has the solutions to those who has the solutions to those who is going to do things?

they're going to actually deliver the change that you want to see. the only thing that is certain about keir starmer and the labour party is that they're going to put up everyone's taxes, and they're going to put them up by £2,000, and i'm going to fight very hard to the last day of this election campaign so that that doesn't happen. yeah. thank you . okay. sky thank you. okay. sky news well . thank you. okay. sky news well. >> thank you, prime minister, central sell to voters from you is i will cut your taxes. central sell to voters from you is i will cut your taxes . but a is i will cut your taxes. but a recent poll shows that only 1 in 6 voters believe you won't raise their taxes or raise major taxes compared with 1 in 4 for labour. >> labour's more trusted on tax than you at the moment. that's your record as chancellor and now prime minister i'm sure it's

a disappointment to you. haven't you blown it? now, whatever you say. thank you . say. thank you. >> well, beth, i'm actually very proud of my record as chancellor because when i'd had that job, 3 or 4 weeks in a pandemic struck this country, i saw that it was right to do something radical, to do something bold, because that was what was required to help get the country through it. and we delivered on that. those are my values. those are the values of our party, and we will always be there to protect this country through difficult times. but we're also a responsible party. we're also a party that's not afraid to take decisions that are in the country's long term interests, even if they're difficult. you saw that with me when i said, yep , we difficult. you saw that with me when i said, yep, we did all these things. but we do need to also pay these things back and secure our children's financial futures. and you saw that with me a couple of summers ago ,

me a couple of summers ago, where i made the same argument again, that it wasn't right then to start cutting taxes until we had tamed inflation and now that we have, i've delivered on that. so i'm not afraid to do things that are difficult. the only poll that matters is the poll on july fourth. and i'm very confident as we approach that date, the choice will become increasingly clear for people. there is only one party that will continue to cut your taxes after july 4th, and it's the conservative party, and there's one party that's going to put them up, and it's the labour party and that choice will be crystal clear. right, the sun . right, the sun. >> thank you. prime minister harry cole from the sun. your manifesto here says that your processed tens of thousands of outstanding asylum claims within six months, but all the home office statistics show that speeding up the processing of asylum claims leads to higher levels of approval. when labour

suggested this exact policy, your own ministers called it an amnesty. so is this what your policy amounts to ? an amnesty policy amounts to? an amnesty for asylum seekers? and, if i may, on chris's point, you're haemorrhaging support to nigel farage. why on earth not go harder on the echr? why fudge it? thank you . it? thank you. >> so, harry, that's just simply not right on last year, thanks to the improvements that we've made , we processed more claims made, we processed more claims than at any point in the last two decades. right. and that has actually helped us release over 100, maybe 150 hotels. now back to local communities for normal use. and actually the grant rate you talk about the grant rate. the grant rate was down last yeah the grant rate was down last year. it was down. so we because we changed how we evaluate the claims. we refused far more than we had in the past. but the choice for migration is quite simple. at this election . you simple. at this election. you know, i believe you need a deterrent. all right . we've done

deterrent. all right. we've done lots of things that have helped us get the numbers down by a third last year, and those are all good and sensible. but in order to fully solve this problem, it just needs to be clear that if someone comes to our country illegally, they can't stay. and that means you need a safe place to send them. that's what the flights to rwanda will do, establish that deterrent. and i've said what i've said about the echr, but i'll also say our act specifically gives ministers the power to make the decisions on rule 39, things that are handed down by strasbourg. i would not have put that power in the bill if i was not prepared to use it right, and also change the civil service guidance to make it clear that they need to follow the ministerial decisions . but the ministerial decisions. but i'd also point out that, as we've seen in the last month or so, multiple other european countries all agree that having a deterrent like that safe third countries to return people is a crucial part of solving this problem. so when i made my

speech just after becoming prime minister, i said on this issue where we lead, others will follow. that is now happening. the only person who has not got that memo, normally, he's very in favour of eu alignment is keir starmer. right . in favour of eu alignment is keir starmer. right. right. could go to the express . could go to the express. >> thanks. prime minister steph spyro from the daily express . spyro from the daily express. the manifesto promises a regular rhythm of flights to rwanda every month as part of a relentless process to remove illegal migrants. can you put a figure on the number of flights you expect to take off every month, or a number of people, please? >> no, steph , we've deliberately >> no, steph, we've deliberately not because we don't want to compromise operational security, but i've been very clear that it's not just about one flight. you do need a regular rhythm of flights because you need to build that deterrent. and what i

can tell you is that the airfield is on standby. illegal migrants have already been detained, escorts have been trained, the flights have been booked. trained, the flights have been booked . the caseworkers are booked. the caseworkers are already working through it. so all the plans are in place so that if i'm re—elected as prime minister if we are in government, those flights will government, those flights will go to rwanda and we can build that deterrent. and that's a choice for everyone at this election. if you want the boats stopped , there is no way to do stopped, there is no way to do that without having a deterrent. ours is the only plan on the table. and as i ask keir starmer repeatedly the other night, what would you do with the migrants that come here illegally? there simply wasn't an answer , right? simply wasn't an answer, right? just saying smash the gang, smash the gangs is not a plan. a slogan is not a plan. right? you need to have something to do with illegal migrants. we've got a plan . he doesn't. and that a plan. he doesn't. and that means the situation will just get worse. well .

get worse. well. and i think lastly we have is it a local democracy reporter ? democracy reporter? >> hi. sorry. i think i've sat on the wrong side. yeah, yeah. my on the wrong side. yeah, yeah. my name is nadia lincoln. i'm the local democracy reporter for northamptonshire , in the county, northamptonshire, in the county, we've had a massive problem with sen children not getting enough provision, and not getting the proper education, which has also been reflected nationally , in been reflected nationally, in the most recent report, it found that there were systemic and widespread widespread problems . widespread widespread problems. why have these families been let down for so long? and what would a conservative government do to help them? yeah >> thanks, nadia. and we want to make sure that children in everywhere, and regardless of their backgrounds, get all the support and the opportunities they need to live fulfilling and thriving lives when it comes to send, in particular, we've raised the funding by about 60%

overall over this parliament. i don't have the figures off the top of my head for northamptonshire, but what we talked about in the manifesto is to open many more sen free schools , which is in the schools, which is in the manifesto and funded because we know that provision needs to increase and the manifesto makes specific provision for that because, as i said, this is about making sure children, no matter where they grow up in our society, have all the opportunities to be supported and to thrive. and that will always happen under a conservative government. good. thank you very, very much . thank you very, very much. >> well, there we have it. that was the prime minister, rishi sunak, unveiling the conservative manifesto. in it headune conservative manifesto. in it headline measures include another cut to national insurance , a white van man tax insurance, a white van man tax plan that was the rabbit out of the hat, working to abolish national insurance for self—employed individuals, but also words there on ignoring the european court of human rights. if it gets in the way of rwanda

deportations and even some stuff on housing. >> yes. >> yes. >> interesting that point on the echr. that was something christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor, asked. will he be bold and remove us from that foreign court? he said he will always choose our national security over any foreign court. >> so sitting on the fence on that one, i think, yes, a line he's used before. but clearly the party is divided over the issue of whether to extract the united kingdom from the echr. but perhaps more importantly, a new line in this manifesto, not just the phrase that the prime minister will choose national sovereignty every single time over the wishes of a foreign court. but a commitment to work with other countries to reform the way these international treaties work. now, could that be something that actually gathers some pace after the election results that we saw over the weekend in europe, it starts to look less like a pipe dream and perhaps something that

could actually be achievable. >> i think the main point he wanted to get across from that and do get in touch and let us know what you think. the main points were there and what you made of that. all but it is labour will tax you more. we are committed to bringing down your taxes and yes a few tax cuts announced there too. well get in touch gbnews.com forward slash your say we're going to have some reaction very soon indeed by our stellar panel. but we're going to bring you some breaking news. now we've had a very worrying development from south yorkshire, mark white is here in the studio . the studio. >> mark tell us, well these , >> mark tell us, well these, this is an incident in which objects from a construction site were thrown at the reform leader, nigel farage, in barnsley town centre. we've got some video of that that we can. i don't think we have some video at the moment, but we will have that soon. it basically shows someone who's wearing a red hoodie , at this kind of hoodie, at this kind of construction site at the side of

a road, nigel is on, battle bus , a road, nigel is on, battle bus, a road, nigel is on, battle bus, a reform battle bus going through, barnsley town centre. and a number of objects are thrown towards him . now, i spoke thrown towards him. now, i spoke to nigel briefly just to ask him. i think we've got the video now . you can see the video now. you can see the video there. that's nigel on the, the bus, just as these objects there. you see, i think that was a coffee cup initially . and a coffee cup initially. and there the suspect is running off down the street and is tackled by the police south yorkshire police have confirmed that a 28 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of a pubuc arrested on suspicion of a public order. related offence is currently in police custody , as currently in police custody, as i say, i spoke to nigel briefly to ask him if he knew what was thrown at him. he said cement, but he also thinks stones and a coffee cup thrown towards him as well. so clearly it's potentially serious. any of

these items, especially if it's a harder item thrown from a construction site towards you, it could potentially cause you harm. so, nigel has issued a brief statement saying i will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left wing mob with who hate our country, is what he said . and also, he also thanked said. and also, he also thanked south yorkshire police for very quickly detaining the suspect , south yorkshire police for very quickly detaining the suspect, a 28 year old man now in custody. >> it must be said it's heartening to see such rapid response from south yorkshire police . perhaps other police police. perhaps other police forces around the country could learn from how effective they were there. but, but, mark, this is of course , not an isolated is of course, not an isolated incident. it's becoming part of a pattern . a pattern. >> well, it is, and it's part of a worrying pattern of incidents in which politicians generally are being targeted and some of the attacks much more violent than the last. as far as nigel is concerned, it's only a week since he had a milkshake thrown

over him in essex, and people at the time were thinking, a milkshake. but you don't know if you're someone who has a liquid thrown over you. in this day and age, when acid is quite often used in attacks, what that liquid is, it's thrown over you. so just in that sense, apart from the fact it's horrible to have anything thrown over you, you know, it can be clearly , you know, it can be clearly, very worrying and alarming for anybody who's at the centre of that attack. and let's remember that attack. and let's remember that this follows a number of violent incidents in europe where we heard the, slovak, slovakian prime minister who was shot and seriously injured just last month. a few days later , last month. a few days later, separate incidents in germany, when other politicians and anti islamist rally , were attacked, islamist rally, were attacked, a policeman killed in one of those incidents. and then another politician a few days later in germany attacked as well. so some real concern and some concern for the authorities here

as we get right into the cut and thrust of this election campaign, when politicians are at their most vulnerable, that's when they are out and about on the campaign trail, coming face to face with the electorate. and there is always a scope for those that react badly to an individual politician's beliefs, enacting that in a violent way. so very concerning incident this and, he said after the milkshaking incident, he told a journalist he gave his reasons why he thinks this happens to him, and he said it's because he's out and about with the pubuc he's out and about with the public very close to the public, and this sort of thing happens when you, you are out and about, and so i guess the intention of these kind of incidents is to , these kind of incidents is to, make him fearful of doing such things as this. >> well, very much so. i mean, he certainly is out and about with the public. he wants to be up close and to personal,

members of the public. but he's not the only politician that does that. i mean, especially local mps. they're all out meeting their constituents, at this particular time, building up to an election. so it is a particularly concerning and worrying period for those who are charged with ensuring that our politicians are kept safe from those that might want to cause them harm. >> and yet, policing this sort of incident is so very hard because as we saw there, that was a lone wolf, a man in a crowd acting alone by by what we can see there. and obviously there were lots of people who were shocked and stunned and some construction workers who tried to pin him to the floor. but how on earth can you police things like this when it's just a singular person with some rubble? no i mean, you can have a police presence and a security presence there, but if someone wants to act in the spur of the moment, it's very difficult to do anything other than react, act after the event and ensure that, you know as much as you

can. >> you try to protect someone from an attack and ensure that a suspect is arrested . but yeah, suspect is arrested. but yeah, when you're in a public area and you're inviting members of the pubuc you're inviting members of the public to come forward to meet you as you want to present them with your political campaign , with your political campaign, how can you guard against it? and that is the very difficult, process that the police and security officials have to go through, as they have to try to look out for the known threats. but it's the unknown threats, you know, people that they don't know that are acting on the spur of the moment, that are often the most potentially dangerous individuals , depending on what individuals, depending on what they decide to do? >> yes. and people could act as though they're supporters and then commit an incident like this. thank you very much indeed, mark white, we'll bring you any more updates as and when we get them. >> yes. we'll also be looking back at the conservative manifesto nato. of course, rishi sunak announced that manifesto in a room full of journalists against a very boring blue

background. perhaps the reason why we see our politicians increasingly against these sort ofindoor increasingly against these sort of indoor controlled venues is so that they can avoid those sort of attacks that we're increasingly seeing on the streets, but we'll have all the analysis of the conservative manifesto. what does it mean for you, and does it contain anything that could possibly shift the dial in this election? >> well, that's the question, isn't it really? so get in touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. we'll be back in just a tick. this of course, good afternoon britain. we're on

>> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 on tuesday, the 11th of june. >> i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver . emily carver. >> you'll be better off under a tory government. a message from rishi sunak as he unveils the conservative manifesto . he's conservative manifesto. he's promised to cut taxes, boost defence spending and clamp down

on immigration. but do these promises add up and, crucially, will his pledges persuade voters to back the tories in the general election? reaction and analysis to come meanwhile, labour has promised a 100,000 extra child dental appointments, along with supervised teeth brushing lessons for schoolchildren . the lib dems schoolchildren. the lib dems have also focused on health, promising to create greater access to gps in rural areas and elsewhere. >> there's been another ugly scene for reform uk's nigel farage, who had building rubble thrown at him during a campaign eventin thrown at him during a campaign event in yorkshire. politician safety again at risk. we'll bnng safety again at risk. we'll bring you the details . bring you the details. >> now, did you manage to stay awake through rishi sunak's announcement of the manifesto ? announcement of the manifesto? and if you did, did you have any favourite moments? get in touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. >> yes, tom did ask for another

coffee during. during that manifesto launch, he took a lot of questions, which is good. >> i just would, i of questions, which is good. >> ijust would, i guess i of questions, which is good. >> i just would, i guess i would have appreciated a joke or two. >> a joke or two would be nice. >> a joke or two would be nice. >> yes, i get i get that it's a serious moment for the country and serious men for serious times. but my goodness, i mean, just a little bit of levity. i think the only joke we got was that the gb in great british energy from the labour party is supposed to stand for giant bills. that's the one that sticks in my mind. i think the problem is, is there's no strong story to tell, no strong story to tell, to put across to the nafion to tell, to put across to the nation . nation. >> but let us know your views. i'm sure you've got many different thoughts. gbnews.com forward slash. your say is the way to get in touch. we're going to get reaction from our panel in just one moment after the headlines. >> tom, emily, thanks very much and good afternoon to you. it's exactly 1:02, and we'll start with a round up from the conservatives manifesto launch, where rishi sunak has promised a

multi—billion pound package of tax cuts in an effort to get his general election campaign back on track. it includes another £0.02 cut to national insurance to and eventually scrap it altogether for the self—employed in total, the package of cuts would amount to an annual cost of more than £17 billion by 2030. well, sir keir starmer's called it a jeremy corbyn style manifesto which he says is unaffordable . launching the unaffordable. launching the manifesto earlier, the prime minister promised what he called a bold plan we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved national insurance to 6. >> that is a tax cut. my friends, worth £1,500 to the average worker . average worker. >> the conservatives manifesto also includes help for first time home buyers, with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme . there was also to buy scheme. there was also a pledge to address a shortage of

housing by building 1.6 million new homes across the country . new homes across the country. there's also £8.3 billion to fix potholes and resurface roads, along with a total ban on smartphones in schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month. rishi sunak says the deterrent would be a key part of britain's migration plan, clearing the asylum backlog . he says within six backlog. he says within six months, ending the use of hotels. >> that is why if you vote conservative on july the fourth, the flights removing illegal migrants will depart in july , migrants will depart in july, establishing the deterrent that will stop the boats because when people know that if they try to come here illegally , they won't come here illegally, they won't get to stay, then they will stop coming . and if we are forced to coming. and if we are forced to choose between our security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court , including the echr, we court, including the echr, we will always choose our nation's

security . security. >> but the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the conservatives plan doesn't make economic sense and that he wouldn't match that 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 sir keir starmer there speaking earlier well away from the election campaign trail. police today have arrested a 28 year old man on suspicion of pubuc year old man on suspicion of public order offences after objects were thrown at nigel farage during a campaign event late this morning. it's understood a coffee cup and possibly some building rubble narrowly missed the reform uk leader, who was on top of the

party's battlebus in barnsley town centre. mr farage was addressing supporters at the time when he was interrupted by a crowd of demonstrators. he has since said that he was warned by police not to get off that bus . police not to get off that bus. gary glitter has been ordered to pay gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than £500,000 in damages to one of the women he 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 after reportedly attempting to access images of children on the dark web , children on the dark web, international news and 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 hostages and the withdrawal of israeli forces. the senior

member of hamas says the group will accept the deal and that it's now ready to begin negotiations over the details . negotiations over the details. and finally, they say that elephants never forget. but now researchers have found that they've actually got a particular skill for remembering names as well. new studies suggest the giant animals you'd use individual rumbles to get each other's attention, similar to the way that humans use names. evidence shows them recognising and reacting to certain calls addressed to them, and even ignoring calls addressed to others. experts used a specialist signal processing technique to identify the subtle differences in each call, just like tom and emily use for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> well welcome back, prime minister rishi sunak has set out plans for a two national

insurance cut in a multi—billion pound gamble as he attempts to get the tory general election campaign back on track. >> he launched the conservative manifesto at the silverstone motor racing circuit, where he positioned himself as the heir to margaret thatcher, or perhaps nigel lawson, with tax cutting promises as he seeks to overturn labour's stubborn 20 point poll lead. >> so the reaction in the room let's speak with gb news political editor christopher hope, who was there front and centre. christopher hope, we heard your question to the prime minister about the echr. were you surprised by his response ? you surprised by his response? >> well, hi, tom, and hi, emily. yeah, welcome to silverstone, the home of f1. he never really got off the starting blocks or past the grid at the beginning of a race. i think on the answer to that. echr question, he repeated the line with her before that the government won't before that the government won't be bullied by a foreign court and will overrule a foreign court if required, but that's not really. i think what some on the right want to hear about the take on the reform uk, party, which is hoovering up support on the right because of this

inability, i think, to grip and be firm about echr withdrawal, which so many on the right wants. so that was a difficult question for him to answer. he didn't like it and gave quite a weak answer. i mean, the tories are here. here are pushing some highlights from this manifesto. they're saying that the national insurance for the self—employed will be removed entirely by by 2029. that's £1,300 a year tax cut for the self—employed. by then. cut for the self—employed. by then . that's almost, almost an then. that's almost, almost an appeal to white van man to entrepreneurs , to people who entrepreneurs, to people who trade on their own. you've also heard there for other measures about no new green levies, that the measures we knew about to cut national insurance for those in employment by april 2027, down to 6% from, don't forget, 12% as late as last december. so there are measures here to cut taxes. the problem the party has got is no one is listening and they've got no benefit at all in they've got no benefit at all in the polls from cutting national insurance twice by 4% by a third over the past eight months. >> chris, what didn't you get a

sense of the atmosphere in the room watching it from our vantage point, it seems that the prime minister perhaps could have been a bit more high energy had he had a bit of his mojo extracted over the weekend. after the after the gaffe, the slip up after d—day. >> he's had a hard time, hasn't he? of course. he was interviewed on panorama on bbc one in prime time by nick robinson last night. he's got a lot on, i think. yeah, it did feel it felt a bit flat to me, a bit half empty towards the back of the hall where the journalists were positioned, shouting questions over the heads of the activists , it's not heads of the activists, it's not clear whether they wanted more people here or not. there was a lot of space at the back for more chairs. they weren't taken. but then again, it may have been hard to get people here because of security issues and ensuring a big crowd, you know, on a wet tuesday morning in silverstone, it might be hard to get people away from work or the campaign trail, but the tories are certainly trying to make the case for their their tax cuts.

they want us to challenge labour on thursday at their launch about what taxes they may have to increase to pay for their, their policy platform. but yeah, it did feel a bit, maybe a bit flat, but that could be just me. >> and he said he wanted to halve immigration with a cap and then bring it down further. do you think the right of the party will be impressed enough to, not issue this alternative rebellious manifesto if those rumours are true ? rumours are true? >> yeah. on those rumours, what i'm hearing about not so much a manifesto, but there might be some movement on echr withdrawal. there might be some right wing candidates who may write a letter to a newspaper or put a put a press release out saying that if they're elected, they will fight for echr with withdrawal . that could be what withdrawal. that could be what happens next. but certainly on the issue of falling net migration, well, every government for the tory party since 2010 has pledged to get it below maybe 100,000. get that number falling. it hasn't happened yet. the problem? the pm has got is that they're looking to be elected for a fifth time, having failed the

previous four elections to make it happen. >> well , it happen. >> well, christopher hope, thank you very much for joining us there. live from silverstone, there. live from silverstone, the heart of where it was happening. >> yes, but we're joined now in the studio by the director of the studio by the director of the popular conservatives group, mark littlewood, and the former labour adviser, stella santa . labour adviser, stella santa. thank you very much indeed, mark, three words to describe that manifesto launch. oh, blimey , predictable. reasonable unexciting. >> yeah, i think that's where we go. right. well, shall we turn to stella? three words. >> sad, stale, futile . well. >> sad, stale, futile. well. >> sad, stale, futile. well. >> goodness me. okay, so shall we dive into the detail now, mark, you say predictable. >> yeah . i mean, mark, you say predictable. >> yeah. i mean, i mark, you say predictable. >> yeah . i mean, i suppose the >> yeah. i mean, i suppose the i mean, it's a bit like when you get budget speeches, isn't it? we knew most of what was going to be in this 80 page document, because it's been trailed over the past few days, but you're supposed to have the rabbit in the hat. i suppose that's really the hat. i suppose that's really the break for self—employed on the break for self—employed on the white van man tax plan. >> has it been dubbed, i think that i mean, that's a good move.

so that is a tax cut, that i mean, that's a good move. so that is a tax cut , they so that is a tax cut, they haven't gone very far on tax cuts. we were expecting this further promise for a reduction in national insurance. so that's pretty much it. you've got obviously the protection of the pension , state pension will not pension, state pension will not incur income tax. so i mean , incur income tax. so i mean, fair play. there's some tax reductions there. quite a commitment on house building is at 1.6 million new homes for five years. that's actually huge commitment. >> that's now higher than the labour target, which is 1.5 million. >> yeah. that is i mean that's serious stuff. i mean whether they'll be there to implement it, i don't know. but the problem, which i think, chris hope was alluding to somewhat, is if you make some really big promises now and you say, actually, this is fundamental to the future of the country, the electorate might very well respond, well, why the hell haven't you done this in the past 14 years, then? no. so what he's going to try and do is to say, look, i can be stable if, you know, don't risk things getting worse. i know we've had a hard time, but starmer will make it worse. oh, it's all

cheery, isn't it? >> it's all. it's all suns and rainbows, stella, you say it was all futile. >> yeah. i think that the conservative party is already acting like they're the third party because they reveal the manifesto today that is full of completely unfunded promises that rishi sunak obviously cannot explain away, which is what you usually expect from the liberal democrats, from the from , from, from the green party. it's definitely what i expect. the labour party, party. i wouldn't say that. i mean, i'm sure, rachel reeves, you would argue that the labour party manifesto is extremely strict on its fiscal rule. but everyone always says, oh, the labour party , you know, we don't trust party, you know, we don't trust them on economy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. and then the conservative party, they're coming up with this manifesto now, and they have all of these fantastic tax cuts. and rishi sunak was asked by kate mccann, times radio , from times radio, times radio, from times radio, how exactly is the spending going to be increasing in public services, which is what rishi

sunak said, how are people going to see the local authorities, the prison services, all of that improve, which we know they are crumbling and he has no answer to that. his answer to this is that, somehow he's going . to, that, somehow he's going. to, tackle tax evasion, which which again , why has he not done that already? >> well, they say they can raise a several billion a year because they're already doing it. >> they're already doing it. but there what is going to dramatically change? and then the other thing they're saying they're going to do is they're going to tackle the welfare bill, which again, how are they going to be doing this? the conservatives have been tackling about certainly a big job. >> stellar. we'll come back to you in just a minute. but we've got shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth on the line. jonathan ashworth on the line. jonathan thank you very much for joining us on the show, rishi sunakis joining us on the show, rishi sunak is right, isn't he? when he says the labour party haven't been transparent when it comes to tax ? to tax? >> no, he's not right. in fact, he's lying about labour's

position on tax because labour is pretty clear. crystal clear. no increase in income tax, no increase in vat , no increase in increase in vat, no increase in national insurance. and every single proposal we put forward in our manifesto this week will explain how they are costed . in explain how they are costed. in contrast, today we've seen a desperate wish list the most expensive panic in history of commitments that rishi sunak cannot fund from savings he cannot fund from savings he cannot find, because the money is not there to fund any of his commitments . and that means with commitments. and that means with rishi sunak, we'll have five more years of chaos. just like with liz truss, and people will end up paying more on their mortgage as a consequence. jonathan ashworth of today's tory manifesto, do you do you describe the frozen tax thresholds of the last few years as conservative tax rises ? those as conservative tax rises? those are decisions that have been taken by the conservative

government, which means that working people are facing a highest tax burden since for seven. >> okay. let's pause there, jonathan, because am i not right in saying that the labour party has committed to continue those frozen thresholds, dragging more people into higher rates of tax? if you're saying that process can be described as a tax cut when the conservatives do it, why a tax rise when the conservatives do it? why is it not a tax rise when the labour party do it ? party do it? >> look, we've been very clear on tax. we're not increasing the rates of income tax, national insurance and vat. >> you're simply dragging people into higher bands. >> but we are going to put the stability of the public finances first. rishi sunak can talk all economic credibility. we know what that means. it means wrecking the public finances like under the conservatives and liz truss. it means people pay more on their mortgage. our instinct is we want to see the tax burden on working people come down, but we are not going to put forward any proposal that

is not fully costed and fully funded , that jonathan ashworth funded, that jonathan ashworth jonathan ashworth there's a few forward a programme where the money is not there. yeah, there are a few pledges that have come from the from the labour team today, about how you're going to teach children how to brush their teeth. you've also got breakfast, free breakfast for every primary school child. how's all that going to be paid for? we've been because . for? we've been because. >> because we're prepared to make tough choices. we are to prepared close the non—domiciled tax loophole and use the money from that to fully close it and use the money. >> how many non—doms are there? jonathan ashworth. >> how many non—doms are there nationals that we think we will raise over £1 billion from that change? we're going we're going to levy vat on school fees. a tough decision, absolutely. but we are honest with the british public. we're not going to pretend to the british public that they can have this big, long wish list, something they've not been able to deliver

in 14 years. but let's leave that to one side. we're not going to pretend that you can have this wish list as long as your arm and when there's no money there, we are going to make those tough choices, because we're not going to take gb news viewers for fools. that's what rishi sunak is doing. the reality of rishi sunakis doing. the reality of rishi sunak is this long wish list, this long, expensive plan means that your viewers will end up paying that your viewers will end up paying more on their mortgage as a consequence. >> you're talking of these policies as if they're sort of, i suppose, lacking in detail. and yet i've been looking through the conservative manifesto today on the issue of housing and on housing. they say specific areas where more housing is going to be built. there's going to be new quarters added to leeds, liverpool, york , added to leeds, liverpool, york, along with the already announced plan for 250,000 extra homes in cambridge. now added to intensification in london. that's 12345 specific areas where effective new towns are

intensifying . nation is going to intensifying. nation is going to take place. that's the conservative proposal . the conservative proposal. the labour party has said it's going to build new towns , but you're to build new towns, but you're not telling us where those towns will be. in fact, when we've asked your representatives time and time again , where are these and time again, where are these new towns going to be? you say you'll you'll start a commission. you won't decide until after the election. we don't get to know until after we've voted. that's taking the pubuc we've voted. that's taking the public for fools, isn't it? >> well, i've come straight from the bbc. i haven't read that particular chapter of the manifesto. i've been looking at the scorecard chapter and they're they're fantasy , they're they're fantasy, spending because the money is not there. so just help me. what doesit not there. so just help me. what does it say about planning reform in that chapter ? reform in that chapter? >> i've not seen it says it wants to abolish the eu. it says it wants to abolish the eu neutrality rules to unlock over 100,000 homes. incidentally, they're going to build 100,000 more homes than the labour party. according to this manifesto . manifesto. >> but are they going to reform planning? are they going to reform planning? because this is quite important, because, as you

know, because you've reported on it a lot. the tory mps who get re—elected to this place always block planning. but if it's in their manifesto, they'll be under an obligation they certainly would be. >> and jonathan ashworth what they say on this, what they say on this is, to my mind, remarkably similar to what the labour party is saying. you're saying new towns built with development corporations. >> are they talking about planning reform? >> the labour party describes its planning reform as building new towns with development corporation as overriding those local rules. now the conservatives have announced in the same way they've done the new quarter in cambridge, leeds, liverpool and york using the same development corporation model. now that could be described as planning reform . described as planning reform. >> so the tory mps are going to vote for planning reform. oh, the pig flying. no way. they're never going to do that. you know that as well as i do, tom. the tories were not prepared to take the tough decisions on planning. we are. we're going to build in this country the fact that we do not build in this country was described by the financial times yesterday as a disgrace and an embarrassment. >> okay. well, thank you so much

for your time, jonathan. we'll have to end it there. but thank you very much indeed, as always, jonathan ashworth, shadow paymaster general. right. okay. well, we're joined back in the studio by the director of the popular conservatives group, mark littlewood , and the former mark littlewood, and the former labour adviser, stella santokhi. do, mark, jonathan, 20 points aheadin do, mark, jonathan, 20 points ahead in the polls. do, mark, jonathan, 20 points ahead in the polls . they don't ahead in the polls. they don't have to be that, secure on absolutely everything that's in their manifesto, though. >> well, i mean, the labour party are playing it incredibly safe. i mean, i do buy into this idea that they are trying to just transport a ming vase over a polished floor. as long as they don't drop the ming vase, you know, the opinion polls would suggest they're home and hosed. there are some good things in this manifesto. i just a bit surprised that sunak didn't go a bit bolder. i mean, bold is written into the into the whole plan. there are some stuff here that i like, but , stuff here that i like, but, chris hope, picked up the echr thing . he hasn't moved the dial thing. he hasn't moved the dial on that at all. he could even have said more explicitly that if the echr blocked the rwanda flights taking off, that's it.

we will issue our letter of withdrawal. right. so he might think that they won't. but if they do, we will do x. he was a bit wishy washy than that. so i would have preferred him to be somewhat bolder. i don't buy the idea that the sort of the money isn't there. i mean, you can chop and change your spending commitments. the idea that we start with all the government spending commitments and work from there. i mean, you can start with your tax position and work backwards the other way round . so i welcome the tax round. so i welcome the tax cuts. wish there was a bit bolder , bit clearer. wish we'd bolder, bit clearer. wish we'd actually if they were going to go all the way to silverstone , go all the way to silverstone, seen a rather more imaginative backdrop than just the standard blue conservative screen with the logo on it. i was hoping he was going to do a lap or two in a mclaren. yeah, during the referendum campaign, boris johnson took a took a lap in a very fast car. >> that was a seminal moment, but stellar talking to jonathan ashworth there, it seemed like he sort of tacitly admitted the labour party will be raising taxes on ordinary working people. they're keeping those tax thresholds the same if they're if they're describing

that process under the conservatives as tax rises on ordinary working people , why is ordinary working people, why is that process under the labour party not precisely the same? >> it's not the same to say that the labour party is going to implement policy that is going to raise taxes when what they're actually doing is they're just accepting a policy change that has already taken place. that's what they are saying. >> tax rises that are already baked in whatever. >> but but yeah, exactly. i get what you're saying. and yeah, it's true. like could the labour party cut taxes further? i'm sure they want to. i'm sure they would if they if the finance of the government would allow that. but we know very well that there is a massive, massive funding gap right now in the government and, and, and everyone is asking how exactly is this going to be financed? so i find it completely irresponsible and very easy for rishi sunak to say that. very easy for rishi sunak to say that . don't you worry, we're not that. don't you worry, we're not going to cut spending. we are just going to cut taxes, because how exactly are they going to do that? this fella, keir starmer, calls himself a socialist. >> so therefore he probably likes tax . why would he likes tax. why would he necessarily want to cut taxes.

how do you know that for sure. >> well because i know that he says that he doesn't want to raise taxes for working people. and i believe him when he says that this is a very socialist thing to do. >> well, there we go. stella and mark stay with us. we're going to have more developments on the attack on reform uk's nigel farage. stay with us. you're watching good afternoon britain. we're on

gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. some breaking news now, as animal rising activists have graffitied a king's new portrait as part of their campaign for the rspca to drop their assured farm scheme . drop their assured farm scheme. >> yes, this is quite something. this is the portrait that was quite controversial, wasn't it? everyone had a view on this , on everyone had a view on this, on this very latest portrait of the monarch. and by the looks of it, these animal rising activists have taken it upon themselves to, slap some kind of sign. it's

gromit from wallace and gromit, isn't it? and i just find it just. >> just beyond belief that the security in this gallery can see people wander in with massive, sticky , comedy, stickers . and sticky, comedy, stickers. and not just that, but big paint rollers, too. and think, oh, nothing's going on here. these two people, it's very normal to walk into a into a portrait gallery with two massive paint rollers. i just find it very, very hard to understand quite how we arrived at this situation i >> -- >> and -_ >> and why was there a camera set up there with a cameraman? i cam seems a bit. seems a bit bizarre. >> no, all very odd. although i suppose we should say i believe the painting it does have glass in front of it. i'm not as , in front of it. i'm not as, egregiously angry at this as i would be if they'd have gone in and sort of smashed it, or i am, because we learnt from, you know, milkshake over nigel farage that's now turned into a

construction site. >> debris. you know, one thing comes after the other. if you let people off for this type of thing . yeah. then, you know, thing. yeah. then, you know, they feel, feel emboldened somewhat. it is anyway. improperly. >> yes. well, the labour party is pledging to add an extra 100,000 dental appointments for young people in an effort to clear backlogs across england . clear backlogs across england. >> yes. so it would see extra slots open up during evenings and weekends, paid for by clamping down on tax rules. >> oh, that old chestnut. well, joining us now is our political correspondent katherine forster, who hopefully has some details . who hopefully has some details. and catherine, you're on a moving bus. let's hope that this this signal holds up. but do tell us. >> yes. good afternoon. from somewhere in north yorkshire. i'm really not sure exactly where we are at the moment, but yes, i was with sir keir starmer and the shadow health secretary, wes streeting , this morning. wes streeting, this morning. they were visiting a school and talking about their child health action plan. so 100,000 new dental appointments for children

specifically. they say that last year alone, over half a million fewer children were seen by a dentist than just back in 2018. and sir keir starmer was saying that the most common reason for a child to go to hospital is to have teeth removed. so there's been some criticism, hasn't there, about the sort of nanny state element of this. he was watching a class have this supervised tooth brushing that labour have said that they will bnngin labour have said that they will bring in for 3 to 5 year olds if they get into power, and they're also saying that they would ban very highly caffeinated energy dnnks very highly caffeinated energy drinks for under 16. that's not things like coca cola, 50mg of caffeine per litre or more . so caffeine per litre or more. so sort of red bull, that type of things, but , sort of red bull, that type of things, but, sir keir starmer says doesn't really care about allegations of the nanny state

because such a bad way, but also we were talking to him in view of the conservative manifesto about their manifesto and their tax plans . and he was asked tax plans. and he was asked about a tax cuts and the tories promises of tax cuts. let's have a look at what he had to say. >> we have been absolutely clear that all our plans are fully costed, fully funded and 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 this is coming from the party that's put tax to the highest level since , 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 labour is so important. but six first steps. we're ready to go on july the 5th.

>> is quite something that jeremy corbyn referenced, wasn't it? because of course it's not so long since the keir starmer served in jeremy corbyn's cabinet and indeed campaigned for him to become prime minister twice. but now what jeremy corbyn pledged in 2019 is being held up. an example of a very, very, you know, unwise ideas. so what a change of fortunes . what a change of fortunes. >> very interesting indeed. now, using that as a bit of a derogatory, describing word for their manifesto , a certain their manifesto, a certain leader of the labour party who campaigned pretty vigorously for, for jeremy corbyn, i can't remember that sort the media studios saying this is a fully costed manifesto. >> do you remember that meme? i did the free wi fi frontbench. it was all fully costed, so we were told turns out it wasn't, but, coming up, we're not only going to be on board the labour battle bus , we're hearing from battle bus, we're hearing from the lib dems as well. what on earth could ed davey be possibly

up to? he's got to go one up from a theme park, so that coming up after your news headunes. headlines. >> very good afternoon. it's 133. the top stories from the newsroom this lunchtime . rishi newsroom this lunchtime. rishi sunak has promised a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts in an effort to get his election campaign back on track. it includes another £0.02 cut to national insurance and to eventually scrap it altogether for the self—employed. in total, the package of cuts would amount to an annual cost of more than £17 billion by 2030. sir keir starmer's called it a jeremy corbyn style manifesto, which he says is unaffordable. launching the manifesto earlier, the prime minister promised what he called a bold plan we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years , taxes in the coming years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved national insurance to 6. >> that is a tax cut, my

friends. worth £1,300 to the average worker . average worker. >> but the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the conservatives plan doesn't make economic sense and said that he wouldn't match that national insurance cut . insurance cut. >> money's not there for the 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 sir keir starmer there speaking earlier. well let's take a look at some of the other key pledges from the conservative manifesto. it includes help for first time home buyers with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme . there was also

to buy scheme. there was also a pledge to address a shortage of housing by building 1.6 million new homes, along with an £8.3 billion pledge to fix potholes .

>> well, 138 is the time. good afternoon. britain. now we go back to our breaking news story. the reform leader, nigel farage, has had building rubble thrown at him on the campaign trail in south yorkshire. >> let's get the very latest with our homeland security ednon with our homeland security editor, mark white, who joins us now. now, mark, you've spoken to nigel about precisely what happened , what went on? happened, what went on? >> well, he was on the campaign bus going through barnsley town

centre , when someone in the centre, when someone in the crowd started throwing objects from a building construction site just by the side of the road. here you can see nigel on the top of that bus, and then items being thrown. there was a coffee cup, which seems maybe innocuous enough. items taken out of that , bin there. wet out of that, bin there. wet cement. we believe was thrown at him, mr farage believes that perhaps stones were thrown towards him as well. you can see that the police very quickly , that the police very quickly, catch up with this individual and apprehend him. according to south yorkshire police, a 28 year old man was arrested on suspicion of causing , criminal suspicion of causing, criminal damage on a public order offence. he has now been taken into custody. now, nigel farage was interviewed very briefly just after this incident

unfolded, and he expressed his frustration and also his concern about just how far, people that want to make a point like this are prepared to go. this is what he said. >> i'll tell you what i'm worried about. >> let me just make sure it's the right one. >> if you think about this a week after we commemorate d—day, which was done so that we could live in a democracy where we can agree to disagree, we can be very passionate, but indeed agree to disagree . what we've agree to disagree. what we've now got is a mob that wants to close down all debate. >> a mob that had prepared to use violence to achieve their goals, and that for a democratic country is very, very worrying indeed. country is very, very worrying indeed . be okay. me i'm used to indeed. be okay. me i'm used to it. i don't like it. of course not, because this is stopping me doing what i want to do. you know, i'm at my best going out, meeting people and talking to them, having debate with them, you know, going around the pubs or whatever i do. and these violent youngsters are stopping me.

>> it's very, very frustrating . >> it's very, very frustrating. >> it's very, very frustrating. >> he didn't hit you this time, didn't hit me this time. >> he didn't hit you this time, didn't hit me this time . but, didn't hit me this time. but, yeah, i mean, you do wonder to what lengths these people will 90, what lengths these people will go, and that's a point i think that he's trying to make is just how far will people be prepared to go in trying to make that point? >> he's clearly is laughing it off in a sense, but he is obviously deeply frustrated because his campaigning style takes him right out face to face with the public. but he's not the only politician doing that now because we are in this general election campaign in. so all mps are out, all politicians and candidates are out there meeting the electorate and trying to get their message across and potentially putting themselves in harm's way. it's a difficult one for the police. the security services , to know the security services, to know where the threats lie and often when it's a spontaneous event like this incident in barnsley

or a week ago in essex, where a milkshake was thrown over mr farage, then it's difficult to guard against that. and although you can see from the pictures, there that milkshake, of course, mr farage, his detractors, no doubt sort of laughing and cackling about this. but the fact is it could happen to any politician. and it might not just be something as innocuous as a milkshake we've seen in europe, in slovakia, in germany, some really quite violent incidents where politicians have been targeted by those that disagree with them. >> mark. >> mark. >> mark, great to get nigel's instant reaction there. very interesting. it seems he has the attitude of the show will go on, but you say that he's been arrested on a on a public order offence, is that right? not some attempted assault, what else could this be? >> well, you. what you get is a

holding arrest in the first instance, public orders as good as any, really, just to arrest an individual and take him into custody. it might be that at a later date, he might be charged with assault. but that's just the process that the police will go through . just grabbing go through. just grabbing someone and arresting them on pubuc someone and arresting them on public orders. probably the first thing that comes to mind in doing that. but the person is in doing that. but the person is in custody now. they'll be interviewed. the police will be reviewing the video that we have and other people's videos and cctv , as well as interviewing cctv, as well as interviewing eyewitnesses to find out exactly what was thrown at mr farage, because clearly , if it was, because clearly, if it was, objects that could have caused some harm, then the potential, charges that this individual could be facing, would potentially be more serious as well. and this is the point. they, you know, well. and this is the point, they, you know, politicians, politicians just don't know . we politicians just don't know. we know of course, there is a

tradition in this country of, protest and vociferous protest at events. but when it starts, crossing over into items and objects being thrown at individuals, individuals being physically attacked, that's when it becomes, of course, much more worrying and a much greater potential threat to the politicians out on the campaign trail . trail. >> it's a hugely, concerning incident, but i suppose one silver lining is just the response of the south yorkshire police. there acting in a way, i think, to sadly see too many police forces don't act when incidents like this happen. the tackle that we saw was really quite impressive. of course, aided by those construction workers who helped the police out there . and bravo to them, out there. and bravo to them, but mark white, thank you so much for bringing us all the very latest on this developing story and this story that's

becoming part of a pattern. >> yes, it certainly is. yes. what happened to just, you know, debating your disagreement ? debating your disagreement? ants. wouldn't that be nice? it would be. wouldn't that be nice? you go out to campaign for something you believe in, and what do you get, some, construction debris, flying your way. >> what's wrong with a good old egg? when did when did we lose? >> i don't approve of the egg, enhen >> i'm not. i'm not entirely against eggs, i think. i think it's good old fashioned british tradition to egg a politician. okay, i'll give you an egg. >> and when you least expect it. >> and when you least expect it. >> i'm not a politician , but >> i'm not a politician, but anyway, anyway . yeah. rotten anyway, anyway. yeah. rotten fruit. eggs. that's okay. milkshakes. construction debris. that's where i draw the line . yeah. >> fair enough. yeah. fair enough. each to their own. anyway, coming up, said davies on the campaign trail in devon today. promoting his plans a rural gp fund. what exactly

well. good afternoon. britain it is 149 now. and throughout the election campaign, we're going to hear from people across the united kingdom to find out what matters to them. so, is it nhs waiting lists? is it the impact of immigration, the cost of living, crime and policing, or all of the above? >> our reporters have been to meet voters from all four nations, and we'll be hearing from them regularly before polling day . today, for the polling day. today, for the first time, we meet sam richardson from cornwall. >> 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. 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 90, cornwall. everywhere i seem to go, there seems to be shops closing down the high streets are dying, and i just feel like most things have been really badly handled by the conservative party. so i think keir starmer was quite a serious man, which appeals to me. i think we need, especially at the moment with the world in the state that it is. we need someone who can look at the books, make sure that the numbers add up, is 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 soap opera all the time. i don't know that we should ever support one political party. anyway. i think we should have our own political opinions and then towards whoever best represents those.i towards whoever best represents those. i think that's a much better way of doing it, instead of pledging allegiance like a sports team, when you're 19,

it's a lot of future left, right , so i would say that i've actually probably seen more politically engaged young people, whether or not that's around economic or social issues, it seems to be more prevalent now than personally what i've seen for a long time, especially with things like the climate crisis. >> well, that was sam from cornwall . now, sir ed davey has cornwall. now, sir ed davey has continued, the liberal democrats general election campaign with visits to devon and somerset today. >> yes, he's promoting the party's plan for a rural gp fund . now they claim that around 1.8 million people cannot reach their gp at the moment. so this is a proposal to solve that. >> let's speak to gb news political correspondent olivia utley. joining us live , live utley. joining us live, live now, olivia, you've been following the liberal democrats for quite some time. i'm surprised that this announcement hasn't come alongside some giant stunt . stunt. >> well, absolutely. it might be that ed davey is getting a bit tired of the stunts at this point after paddleboarding. >> cycling, the roller coaster

yesterday. this is a hugely ambitious announcement from the lib dems. they want 8000 more gps across the country , and they gps across the country, and they want everyone to have the right to access a gp within seven days or 24 hours if they urgently need one. now, of course, that raises a big question about costing the liberal democrats say it will cost about £1 billion. how are they going to pay billion. how are they going to pay for it? well, what i'm finding really interesting about the lib dems manifesto and their whole campaign this time around is essentially the lib dems seem to be pitching themselves as the left wing alternative to the conservatives. keir starmer has seized the centre ground, and it sounds as though he's going to go pretty softly, softly on tax and spend the lib dems, meanwhile, are all for increasing public spending . this increasing public spending. this gp plan is hugely expensive. they're planned for social care , they're planned for social care, is hugely expensive too, and to do it, they are shamelessly saying that they will be raising capital gains tax. they will be

raising other taxes that the conservatives have cut . they'll conservatives have cut. they'll be pushing doubling council tax for people with second homes. they'll be taxing the super rich , all those sorts of things which you might expect to hear from someone, from the kind of jeremy corbyn wing of the labour party. it'll be fascinating to see how this manifesto, how the lib dems go down in this election. it does look as though ed davey is on track to win sort of 40 or 50 seats, which would make the lib dems an electoral force again for the first time since about 2010. whether it will matter very much is another question. if the polls end up narrowing lots , we could just narrowing lots, we could just end up in a situation where the lib dems become kingmakers . but lib dems become kingmakers. but at the moment it looks like labouris at the moment it looks like labour is set for a pretty substantial majority. >> well, thank you very much indeed. >> olivia utley, our political correspondent. there is an issue that, many people are very concerned about. of course. >> yes, certainly. well, what did you make of rishi sunak's manifesto launch? did he manage to stay awake through all of those announcements? well, we'll be hearing from some of our

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gb news. >> good afternoon. britain it's 2:00 on tuesday, the 11th of june. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood. >> now. >> now. >> rishi sunak has unveiled his party manifesto, telling voters they'd be better off under a tory government . they'd be better off under a tory government. he's promised to cut taxes, boost defence spending and clamp down on

immigration. do the promises add up? and, crucially , will they up? and, crucially, will they keep him in number 10? reaction analysis to come. meanwhile labour has promised 100,000 extra child's dental appointments, along with supervised teeth brushing lessons for school children . the lessons for school children. the lib dems have also focused on health, promising to create greater access to gps in rural areas . areas. >> elsewhere, there's been another ugly scene for reform uk's nigel farage, who had building rubble and stones thrown at him during a campaign eventin thrown at him during a campaign event in yorkshire. polish politician safety again at risk. we'll be bringing you all the details. it's interesting because of course we've had the big, conservative launch of their manifesto, a rishi sunak there. how long was it all in all? about 45 minutes, i'd say, with all the questions. >> yeah, the speech about 15

minutes, then half an hour for questions. they were detailed questions. they were detailed questions. and i think he came a bit more alive, actually, at the questions than in the speech. >> but we also want to know your views. >> please do keep them. we will come to them very soon, promise. >> but also on some of labour's pledges today, some might call them a little nanny state, a little nanny statist, these are sort of public health interventions. so supervised toothbrushing at schools. we've heard that one before, but it's seemingly confirmed today. also, what was it ? what was it? >> banning energy drinks. >> banning energy drinks. >> yes, banning energy drinks. and of course the primary school children all having a free breakfast. to know your thoughts, here's the interesting thing about the banning of the energy drinks. i think this is it might actually be a bit classist. they're not banning coffee with. they're not banning posh coffees from starbucks or costa coffee really with the same caffeine quantity . vie. same caffeine quantity. vie. i mean, if you buy a big coffee with the sort of whipped cream and all the nonsense around it and all the nonsense around it and all the mocha, a big mocha, i mean, whatever you get. i mean, why is that okay? why is

that okay? but we sneer at a can of monster or red bull, so a 15 year old could buy a frappuccino with three shots of coffee, but not a monster. >> the other brands are available. >> i think this is just class warfare . warfare. >> well, get your views in gbnews.com/yoursay. is it the nanny state in action or is this what we need to improve our children's health? let us know, but let's get the headlines with sam . sam. >> tom. emily, thanks very much and good afternoon to you. it's just coming up to 2:03. the top story this afternoon. rishi sunak has now admitted that people are frustrated with him as he launched the conservatives manifesto earlier in an effort to get his general election campaign back on track. speaking at the launch, the prime minister promised a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts, including another £0.02 cut to national insurance. in total, those cuts would amount to an annual cost of more

than £17 billion by 2030. rishi sunak says he's the only leader with bold ideas . with bold ideas. >> we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years , meaning that the coming years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved national insurance to 6. that is a tax cut, my friends, worth £1,500 to the average worker . £1,500 to the average worker. >> well, some of the other key pledges in the conservative manifesto 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 . there was also to buy scheme. there was also a pledge to address a shortage of housing by building 1.6 million new homes across the country , new homes across the country, along with £8.3 billion to fix potholes and resurface roads. there'd also be a total ban on smartphones in schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month. rishi sunak says that deterrent is key to britain's migration plan.

clearing the asylum backlog. he says within six months and ending the use of hotels. >> that is why if you vote conservative on july the 4th, the flights removing illegal migrants will depart in july, establishing the deterrent that will stop the boats. because when people know that if they try to come here illegally, they won't get to stay, then they will stop coming. and if we are forced to choose between our security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the echr we will always choose our nation's security . nation's security. >> and returning to the matter of tax cuts, sir keir starmer has called the conservatives plan a jeremy corbyn style manifesto and said 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 jamie oliver has said that a ban on the sale of energy drinks to young people would be a welcome relief for parents and teachers. >> the tv chef says that he supports labour's plan, which would see children under the age of 16 blocked from purchasing drinks, with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre . that's after caffeine per litre. that's after studies have shown that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause sleep disturbances, as well as behavioural and mental health problems . behavioural and mental health problems. police behavioural and mental health problems . police have arrested problems. police have arrested a 28 year old man on suspicion of pubuc 28 year old man on suspicion of public order offences after objects were thrown at nigel farage during a campaign event late this morning. it's understood a coffee cup and possibly some building rubble

narrowly missed the reform. uk leader , who was on top of the leader, who was on top of the party's battlebus in barnsley town centre . mr farage was town centre. mr farage was addressing supporters when he was interrupted by a crowd of demonstrators. he said that he had been warned by police not to get off the bus for his safety . get off the bus for his safety. gary glitter has been ordered to pay gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than £500,000 in damages to one of the women he 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 after reportedly attempting to access images of children on the dark web . children on the dark web. international news now and the hamas terror group has now accepted a ceasefire proposal that was passed by the united nafions 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 withdrawal of israeli forces. a senior member of hamas says the group will accept the deal and that it's now ready to begin negotiations over the details . negotiations over the details. and finally, they say that elephants never forget. but now researchers have found that they've got a particular skill for remembering names as well. new studies suggest the giant animals use individual rumbles to get each other's attention, similar to the way that humans use names . similar to the way that humans use names. evidence similar to the way that humans use names . evidence shows them use names. evidence shows them recognising and reacting to certain calls addressed to them, and even ignoring other calls addressed to others. experts used a specialist signal processing technique to identify the subtle differences in each call . that's the latest from the call. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. another update in the next half hour. in the meantime, you can sign up to gb news alerts . just scan the code news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts .

com slash alerts. >> well, the big political news today the prime minister set out his party manifesto. he's telling voters they'll be better off under a conservative government. >> he's made a number of pledges , which include tax cuts, a clampdown on immigration as well. but do his promises add up and can they persuade voters to back him and remain at number 10? >> well, i speak with gb news political editor christopher hope, who has been at the launch . christopher, i guess the big thing is tax cuts. >> yes. hi, tom. hi, emily. that's right. £17 billion worth of tax cuts. the tories are trumpeting the big headline figure. the big new idea is abolishing national insurance for self—employed . and by the for self—employed. and by the end of this parliament, there's also 2% off national insurance for those the millions of us who are employed by other companies, that's by 2027, they're paying this through welfare cuts to

saving as much as 12 billion a yearin saving as much as 12 billion a year in the welfare system. there is a document here produced called costings document, which we've been going through with experts behind the scenes from the tory party the party here, though, is selling itself as bold choice , and it itself as bold choice, and it does need bold choices to try and chip away at this 20% plus lead for the labour party in the polls. and earlier, when the pm rishi sunak announced this manifesto, i asked him why his party wasn't being bolder about the echr, the european court of human rights. and here's what we had to say. >> thanks, chris. i've been clear throughout that i believe that our plan is compliant with all our international obugafions. all our international obligations . lie—ins. but i've obligations. lie—ins. but i've also been clear, and the manifesto is crystal clear, that if we are forced to choose between the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the echr our and our country's national security, then i'm going to choose our country's national security every single

time . time. >> that was mr sunak talking to us earlier in a question we asked him at the press conference, and afterwards we got hold of james cleverly, the home secretary, to ask him why he can't be bolder and just say we're pulling out of the echr rather than this idea of not being bullied by a foreign court . how many flights will take off? how many people might take off? how many people might take off by august if you win on july the 4th? >> well, the pm has made it clear that if we return a conservative government and only if we return a conservative government, we have a regular drumbeat, multiple flights per month until the boat. >> how many people, how many people? >> well , there's no upper limit >> well, there's no upper limit to the ryder scheme. and we have made it very clear that the only thing that will stop those flights is a labour government. >> thank you . they have no upper >> thank you. they have no upper limit and there's 100,000 people waiting to be taken out of this country. maybe go to a third country. maybe go to a third country or to rwanda. and then making it very clear to us in briefings that this will this these numbers will carry on, the drum beat will take off. they

need to scale up the flights. the planes are ready, the aircraft are ready, the airports are ready . all the party needs are ready. all the party needs to do is to win the election on july the 4th. chris it's a hugely, meant to be a big, big moment in this campaign. >> it's meant to be, perhaps what could be a turning point in this campaign. it was certainly seen that way in 2017 when the labour party manifesto was leaked. people suddenly started reassessing where these parties stood . it kicked off something stood. it kicked off something really quite seismic in how polls shifted. do you get a sense that anything like that might happen after today ? might happen after today? >> well, it's hard to judge, isn't it, from silverstone and we're looking of course, at the feedback from gb news viewers , feedback from gb news viewers, at our your survey section of our website. but normally these kind of documents, these are moments in the campaign which are meant to set alight the party's polls almost put perpetual into the tank, given what silverstone of the party's

poll rating, the problem i think , is that a lot of what's in this document has been known before. it's been briefed before in the first three weeks of the campaign, almost the party's been just trying to get the engine going and turn the engine on and find a policy which will which will get the get the party moving in the polls. i think national insurance for compulsory national insurance for those in their late teens, certainly started a debate around kitchen tables in voters and gb news viewers and elsewhere. but whether that's enough , i think, to fire up the enough, i think, to fire up the engine of the poll rating we wait to see. i think thursday is a big day for labour's announcement, and they'll be challenged quite a lot about costings. will they cut , for costings. will they cut, for example, the welfare budget, like the tories are saying they will do today? and if not, where will do today? and if not, where will you find the money required for your spending programme? will you borrow more or increase taxes in ways they haven't subscribed yet? i do not see it as a moment to cut through, but of course we'll wait and see about the polling. polling polls at the weekend after this big week has gone past the

manifestos . manifestos. >> yes, there may well be a quite a few self—employed who might rethink considering a big tax cut could be coming their way. thank you very much indeed, christopher hope gb news political editor, who's been at the launch for us some of you have got in touch about the manifesto already , someone here manifesto already, someone here lady, i think just lady is your name, never thought i'd be saying this, but the manifesto launch was much better than i'd expected, worst part was the answer about send in schools that special needs at the end. not enough effort made in that response, but all in all, better than expected, others of you not so impressed? >> well, we want to understand, of course, precisely what people really think of these pledges and whether it will be impactful for the electorate. >> yes. we're joined now by some of our gb voices , david baume, of our gb voices, david baume, a pet, from watford and adrian gell, a former caterer from shropshire , thank you very much shropshire, thank you very much indeed for joining

shropshire, thank you very much indeed forjoining us, shall we start with you , david, what did start with you, david, what did you make of that manifesto? launch was there something in there for you? >> well, as you said before, it's been known most of this has been leaked over the last couple of weeks. anyway, the tax for self—employed, obviously. i'm going to applaud that one. >> it's great, but i think there's much more in there, which rick , people want to hear about. >> the fact is, rwanda flights will go ahead. and if we have to, we'll leave the echr we have women being biologic recognised as women in sport and in life. and there's nothing about anti—trans. this is about a biological fact. and some women are scared to be, are scared of what's going to happen with them. we have the, that army for national service. i think most older people are going to applaud that because, in fact, my mother in law, who's 87, said

it should be two years, not a yeah it should be two years, not a year. if we need to bring back some pride. and what we have to stop is allowing the negative of life, where a small minority will shout it over everybody else. it's not fair and make the majority feel unsafe or uncared for. >> okay adrian, i what did you make of the big announcements today ? today? >> well, i thought it was quite interesting and sorry , i think interesting and sorry, i think to, to start off with, you've got to remember that five years ago , the manifesto was written ago, the manifesto was written by boris johnson , which was by boris johnson, which was eventually taken over by rishi sunak over the last two years. but the last two years, it hasn't been his manifesto , today hasn't been his manifesto, today we've been given the opportunity to listen to his manifesto and, as david said, you know, i a lot of this has been, effectively

leaked or already, i'm not that surprised by much of it. i'm slightly disappointed that there is nothing in there about the reduction. of inheritance tax or getting rid of inheritance tax altogether, i'm disappointed about that. but actually and yeah, there are things like, his promise to, to get these flights to off rwanda, where we've heard that being going on actually for the last two years anyway. and, but i don't know quite what the difference is going to be between pre—election and post—election. >> well, adrian, what did you make of his adrian, sorry to butt in, but i'm interested to know what you made of, his answer to the question on the european court of, of human rights, he didn't say that they would pull out of it, but he

said that he'd always put the rwanda flights first. were you convinced by that answer , you're convinced by that answer, you're absolutely you're absolutely right. and it and it does worry me slightly. i mean, i remember looking back, david cameron years ago said that actually he would rather have our own british bill of human rights. so and i don't what i would have quite liked to have heard actually, almost was, was sunak saying, we will get out of the echr, but we will introduce our own bill of rights, which would have been a conservative bill of rights, that could have dealt with many problems that, that we, that we face at the moment does he have the balls to stand up for the echr order? i'm not too sure that he does, because if he did have, why hasn't he doneit if he did have, why hasn't he done it already ? and as you say, done it already? and as you say, not saying it as a policy that we will pull out of the echr,

what he's saying is that he will stand up to the echr and make sure that our borders are secured by our own laws. i find that a little bit wishy washy . that a little bit wishy washy. >> of course, we did have our own bill of rights originally 1689. it was a marvellous document. i don't know why we chucked it, but, let's return to you , david, because i, i suppose you, david, because i, i suppose in a tighter election where the polls are neck and neck, potentially a moment like this, a manifesto launch matters more. do you think many people will be paying do you think many people will be paying attention, given just the gulf in the polls ? it's not gulf in the polls? it's not likely much of this will be implemented , i think what a lot implemented, i think what a lot of people are going to be waiting for is thursday, where labour actually have to say what they will do, because at the moment all we've had is bluster and hot air about what everybody else is doing. we've seen the liberal democrats manifesto, which basically seems to go play, go play. it's unfair with ed davey if you really want to

have that sort of, parliament, so it's going to be interesting to see how labour are going to counteract the conservative manifesto for the first time, probably since tony blair's time, we have the labour and the conservative as two ideologically different parties , ideologically different parties, and we will then have a choice to make on which ideology we wish to follow. >> well, thank you very much for taking the time out of your day to speak to us. really appreciate getting your response to that manifesto launch. david baum, you are a part from watford and adrian gel, a former caterer from shropshire. really good stuff. thank you. very interesting to hear the instant reaction on, some things stick out, don't they? >> they certainly do. well, up next we'll be discussing the attack on reform leader nigel farage after someone threw rubble stones and building material at him whilst out on the campaign trail in south yorkshire earlier

good afternoon. britain. it's 2:23. now the reform party leader, nigel farage, has had building rubble thrown at him on the campaign trail in south yorkshire . yorkshire. >> well, let's get the very latest with our home and security editor, mark white, who joins us now, mark, tell us. >> well , joins us now, mark, tell us. >> well, nigel farage was on an open top bus. he was campaigning in barnsley town centre when a number of objects were thrown towards him. now, one object, we can see the video , here. now one can see the video, here. now one of the objects is clearly a cup, but it's also reported that some wet concrete and nigel farage, i spoke to him a little earlier. he thought that there was at least one or more stones thrown at him as well. but that's not

been confirmed by the police. you can see the man quickly pursued by the police and then tackled by that officer . they tackled by that officer. they say it's a 28 year old suspect who has now been arrested, initially on suspicion of a pubuc initially on suspicion of a public order offence. he is in police custody and will be questioned as the police obviously we look at the cctv, look at videos like this one that we're watching at the moment and interview eyewitnesses to find exactly what it was that was thrown towards nigel farage. now, mr farage was, just moments later interviewed in on the bottom deck of that bus. and this is what he told reporters , i tell what he told reporters, i tell you what i'm worried about. >> let me just make sure it's the right one. if you think about this, a week after we commemorate d—day, which was done so that we could live in a democracy where we can agree to disagree, we can be very passionate. but indeed agree to

disagree. what we've now got is a mob that wants to close down all debate. a mob that had prepared to use violence to achieve their goals, and that for a democratic country is very, very worrying indeed . are very, very worrying indeed. are you okay? >> me ? i'm used to it. >> me? i'm used to it. >> i don't like it. of course not. >> because this is stopping me doing what i want to do. >> you know, i'm at my best going out, meeting people and talking to them, having debate with them, you know, going around the pubs or whatever. i do. and these violent youngsters are stopping me. it's very, very frustrating . he didn't hit you frustrating. he didn't hit you this time, didn't hit me this time. but, yeah, i mean, you do wonder to what lengths these people will go. >> and i think that's a point. there nigel farage saying you wonder to what lengths these people might go. he was laughing it off, but he's clearly frustrated because it may be you know, cups this time or wet concrete or whatever the objects

from this construction site were . but the next time it could be something much more dangerous that could really harm, mr farage or another politician, that objects are thrown out . that objects are thrown out. this is a time during a general election campaign when politicians and candidates to be mps are at their most vulnerable because they're out in constituencies across the country, coming face to face with the electorate. and most people are grown up , they people are grown up, they realise that you can agree to disagree, but there are those that will just go that step further as well. >> mark white, thank you very much for bringing us that. it's a certainly a concerning development and appears to be part of a pattern. very. >> and on the same day that animal rising, the activist group, decided to take it upon themselves to, well , graffiti themselves to, well, graffiti vandalise more like, the portrait of the king, the latest

one, the red one in the, philip mould gallery in london. i have to say , they they slapped on to say, they they slapped on a sort of a picture of wallace, the gromit and a bit of a speech bubble over it as well. >> to me, that doesn't tug on my heartstrings in the same way that throwing something over or doing something, wanting, wantonly vandalising. >> imagine if you're a parent, right ? and your child starts off right? and your child starts off by flicking bits of sweetcorn across the room. it's messy, right? and you just indulge that you let it go. you say, oh, he's just being a child , he's just just being a child, he's just being a child. next day he starts throwing his pasta across the room, next day starts kicking you in the shins, next day starts, you know, vandalising something out in the town centre. these things, you know, if you if you let them go at the lower level, it just gets worse and worse and worse. i'm convinced of that. >> yes. i completely agree with you, but i think crime and punishment in general. but i don't i don't think this instance is something that is equivalent to those things that are that are violent, that are

frankly, wantonly messy for want of another word. >> i know it shows a disrespect any sense of authority angers me anyway . anyway. >> well, have you checked the time? it's nearly 230. 230 because the labour party is pledging to add an extra 100,000 dental appointments for young people in an effort to clear backlogs across england. >> yes, it would see extra slots open up during evenings and weekends , paid for by clamping weekends, paid for by clamping down on tax rules . down on tax rules. >> let's speak to mark jones, now the founder of toothless in england. mark, what do you make of these proposals ? of these proposals? >> good afternoon. lovely to be with you again , proposals are with you again, proposals are great, aren't they, it's what is delivered in the end that matters and will matter to tens, hundreds of thousands of families across the country who are finding it impossible to get their children, let alone

themselves in, to see a dentist . themselves in, to see a dentist. >> and, mark, what do you make of this other proposal to have, supervised teeth brushing , at supervised teeth brushing, at schools, for 3 to 5 year olds, is that the nanny state gone mad, or is this something that we actually need ? we actually need? >> well, i think at the moment you have to take into account where this country is as far as the state of its overall oral health. it's in a catastrophic state. we're in the middle of a dental crisis with dental deserts up and down the country. and what we've lost , deserts up and down the country. and what we've lost, and we've lost it for quite some time now is the education part in critical part of early years education to try and teach our children and to get them into good habits, undertaking good habhs good habits, undertaking good habits like brushing their teeth regularly , reducing the amount regularly, reducing the amount of sugar they take in. so yes,

supervised, brushing your teeth in schools, we think and we've said this for quite some time, we think it's a good idea, but it has to be. it simply must be delivered by oral health care professionals. we can't rely on already overstretched, teachers to undertake this, important work. and i think we all recognise that it is important work that we teach our children. >> well, no, i can totally understand that point of view. after all, it seems that teachers are becoming more and more sort of social workers for children, and in far too many parts of the country. but mark, obviously your proposal there would would cost a lot more money than what the labour party are proposing with, just sort of daily tooth brushing lessons. i mean, if you're going to bring in external professionals, you're going to have to pay them i >> -- >> well, i think there's an overall, of course, you have to pay overall, of course, you have to pay for everything these days, but again , we've said for a very but again, we've said for a very long time, you know, the priority his in westminster need

to be focused on putting patient need first for far too long now since , 2006, oral health care since, 2006, oral health care provision in this country has been target led rather than patient led. and it's patient needs that must come first. and children's health if we get the, children's health if we get the, children in adopting good habits with regular brush , teething, with regular brush, teething, brush, brushing your teeth , brush, brushing your teeth, their long term health into their, you know, 60s like me. yeah. at this age and beyond is going to be far better than not. if you don't have that early education in good habits, regular brushing your teeth, then your oral health and overall general health and wellbeing will be, not as good as it should be. >> yeah. so i guess the argument is that investment in the early

days may, you know, save money in the long run. i guess that's the hope. i wonder if there's just a we should just have a massive pr campaign. if parents really aren't you know, brushing their children's teeth and getting them and supervising them in the morning and the evening, then maybe a big campaign drive, maybe, thank you very much, mark. mark jones, founder of toothless in in england, we don't want kids. we're falling out teeth , do we? we're falling out teeth, do we? well, i mean, apart from the milk teeth, that's okay. >> well, this is the other thing. the labour party keeps on saying that the most common reason a child goes to hospital now is for their teeth. and it's like, good, good. that means. i mean, why else do you want a child to go to hospital? this doesn't necessarily indicate a rise in problems with teeth, but but it does indicate a fall in diseases of other kinds. >> yes, that may be true, but there may also be a rise in dodgy teeth, but anyway, coming up, we're speaking to our royal correspondent as animal rising vandalised, a portrait of king charles. that's after your headunes charles. that's after your headlines with sam .

headlines with sam. >> just after 2:30, the top stories from the newsroom this afternoon. rishi sunak has promised a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts in an effort to get his general election campaign back on track. it includes another £0.02 cut to national insurance to and eventually scrap it altogether for the self—employed. in total, the package of cuts would amount to an annual cost of more than £17 billion by 2030. sir keir starmer has called it a jeremy corbyn style manifesto which he says is unaffordable. speaking at the conservatives launch event earlier, the prime minister said he is the only leader with big ideas promising to cut taxes . to cut taxes. >> we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years , meaning that the coming years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved national insurance to 6. that is a tax cut, my friends, worth £1,400 to the average worker . £1,400 to the average worker. >> but the labour leader, sir

keir starmer , says the keir starmer, says the conservatives plan doesn't make economic sense and that he wouldn't match the national insurance cut. >> money's not there for the tories desperation , ian, and tories desperation, ian, and what they're producing is a recipe for five more years of chaos. recipe for five more years of chaos . and i think that's why chaos. and i think that's why it's so important that we see this election as a choice , 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 sir keir starmer there. well let's take a look at some of the other key pledges from the conservative manifesto. so that includes help for first time home buyers with changes to stamp duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme. there was also a pledge to address the shortage of housing by building 1.6 million new homes , along with million new homes, along with £8.3 billion to fix potholes and resurface roads. they'd also be

a total ban on smartphones in schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month , and a protest group has month, and a protest group has vandalised a portrait of the king. two members of animal rising entered the philip mould gallery and stuck images from the animated series. wallace and gromit to the painting. the group says it was calling attention to what it says is poor treatment of animals on farms . it says they targeted his farms. it says they targeted his majesty due to his position as a royal patron of the rspca . for royal patron of the rspca. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts

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afternoon. britain now, up next at three is martin daubney. he joins us now, martin, a big day, what have you got coming up on the show ? the show? >> yeah, we'll be casting an eye over that £17 billion rishi sunak manifesto giveaway . sunak manifesto giveaway. >> extraordinary. the sir keir starmer has called it a corbyn style giveaway. he should know he backed two of them. 1 in 2017 and 1 in 2019. the spectre of corbyn haunts this election again. who'd have thought ? it's again. who'd have thought? it's the labour party using it against the tories and it was. things are going to get better. in 1997. now. fangs could only get better. why the labour party meddling with our children's choppers? it's not their job to take care of our kids, is it? leave them alone . and also leave them alone. and also political violence. now in 2019, i was sent through the press round the day after nigel farage was milkshaked in newcastle. it's getting worse. milkshake! last week this week, today rocks. we talk about the far

right's being the problem. let's face facts. the problem is the radicalised left, the bekind brigade. they're the ones with the real problem. what do we do about them? and at 3:30 today, the european championship training session with england kicks off will be live there from germany. looking at a sunday night 8:00 kick off with serbia. 500 hardcore hooligans are being shipped in. will they all kick off on sunday night? that's all coming on the show three till six. >> oh marvellous. a lot of stuff. they're looking forward to it, particularly seeing what's going on in germany , what's going on in germany, hopefully the england team can sort of pick up from , from, from sort of pick up from, from, from how we started this tournament. i mean my goodness bit concerning all of these, hoougans concerning all of these, hooligans being bused in by the sounds of things. >> are they really things could kick off. it got pretty, pretty dangerous back in 2016, didn't it ? you remember it? it? you remember it? >> well, i mean, was it was it that bad? >> i think it was fisticuffs. >> i think it was fisticuffs. >> it was a bit of fisticuffs, you know. >> we'll see. we'll see.

hopefully people will be well behaved. >> i'm sure they will be, yes. >> i'm sure they will be, yes. >> in other news, the kingsport tree has been vandalised by animal rights protesters . animal rights protesters. >> these animal these activists say these animals. well they perhaps some people might think that they are. but these activists from animal rising plastered the face of the cartoon character wallace from wallace and gromit in a demonstration attacking the rspca. nothing says we like animal rights more than attacking the rspca. >> well, joining us now is our royal correspondent, cameron walker, a cameron . this portrait walker, a cameron. this portrait was quite controversial, when it came out, and now this . came out, and now this. >> yeah. it's the first official portrait of king charles the third since the coronation, as you said, unveiled a couple of weeks ago at buckingham palace by the king. it now hangs in the philip mould. gallery in london. and this afternoon, around midday, two animal rising supporters entered the gallery and plastered those two images onto the portrait. now, king charles is a big fan, as we

understand it, of wallace and gromit, animal rising spokesperson says it's meant to be a light hearted protest over a very serious issue, because there demonstrating about the fact that they they've kind of done this investigation on, and they found that 45 rspca assured farms, they allege even that there's breaches of government rules when it comes to animal cruelty. now, the rspca has been contacted for comment on this. of course, by attacking the king charles portrait, it has created this oxygen of publicity , hasn't this oxygen of publicity, hasn't it? and now everybody is talking about the fact that they're all talking about this report and animal rising protesting against this portrait. now it's the royal society of the protection of cruelty to animals. king charles is the royal patron of the society. but as you can probably expect, buckingham palace are not commenting , on palace are not commenting, on this issue. i suspect it's because they don't want to give, animal rising any more publicity than they've already got by pulling this stunt. but if those of you who are worried about the portraits, i do understand it's

covered in perspex glass, you can kind of see the reflection there on this video we're playing now on television. so the portrait itself not damaged there we go. >> so not damaged of the portrait. i suppose we can only assume that they knew that that was going to be the case. what do you think the king might make of all of this ? of all of this? >> well, animal rising hope that hope the king is going to find it very, very amusing indeed. i'm not sure if he will or not. we do know he has a keen interest in animal rights and the environment as well . and he the environment as well. and he has, of course, been associated with the rspca for some time and patron, since he became king back in september 2022. the caption reads that they pasted onto his portrait. no cheese gromit, look at all this cruelty on rspca farms. so the khalife is trying to draw attention to the issue, whether there's any truth in these allegations . we truth in these allegations. we don't have rspca response, but we have certainly contacted them. i suspect king charles isn't going to give it much

notice. i suspect he's got more important issues to deal with, like trooping the colour at the weekends and the garter ceremony next monday. >> well, quite , thank you very >> well, quite, thank you very much indeed. cameron walker, our royal correspondent for bringing us the latest. you know, i don't care if there's any truth to the allegations. that's not the point. you can't just storm into an art gallery and take it upon yourself to, vandalise in that way. doesn't matter if it's harmed the picture underneath or not. it'sjust harmed the picture underneath or not. it's just an outrageous sense of entitlement. ridiculous how many far left activist groups do we have in this country now? it's like there's a million splinter groups. >> do you know what? i think they're all the same people. >> it does seem to be. they just swap their hats. >> it's the people who are in the palestine thing. they're all in extinction rebellion. they're all in just stop oil. they're all in just stop oil. they're all in just stop oil. they're all in animal rights. it's exactly the same people. they just swap their hats. >> isn't there another animal? an animal rebellion. animal rebellion? yes a splinter of extinction. yeah, that's the same people. >> but on wednesdays , not tuesdays. >> right. okay. so they sort of have, you know, weekends is the animal rights. oh, no. >> yeah. well, sometimes they

try and do these joint protests and sort of you had you had the, the, the stopping oil people doing a palestine protest and, and you know what? it wasn't any larger than a size of a normal just stop oil protest because it's exactly the same people . it's exactly the same people. these are professional protesters. it's all that they do. >> then you've got pro—palestinian protesters taking it upon themselves to vandalise a 20. i think it is. now. barclays branches across the country spraying them with red paint. a lot of them have had their windows completely smashed in, terrifying. >> for local residents, that is materially different, right? >> well, i don't know if it's all part of the same thing, isn't it ? people thinking that isn't it? people thinking that their cause is so important and that everyone else, if they're not as concerned by it as they are , you know, has to put up are, you know, has to put up with this type of thing. no, we can see here from, some of the, some shops in bristol that have had the most egregious, level of violence levelled against them, smashed glass, red paint, all in this, palestine in protest.

>> the front of barclays, they're completely destroyed. >> yeah. and with everything else going on, this isn't this hasn't had half as much. enough press attention. i mean, it's really quite incredible. this has happened at a number of branches across the country to concerted attempt to intimidate. i think certainly it is. that's that's highly intimidating. >> absolutely. and raises this general sense of, of lawlessness. let's hope the people behind it can be locked away for a very, very long time indeed. well, let's hope so. >> but coming up, the euros start this friday. but england fans have been warned by german police that over 500 serbian target them at

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500 serbian hooligans. who could target england fans for when teams face off on sunday in england's first game of the tournament in the german city of gelsenkirchen . gelsenkirchen. >> very well done on that pronunciation. i wouldn't have had a clue , officers in germany had a clue, officers in germany are getting ready for the prospect of major fan disorder at what has been branded the most high risk match of euro 2024. >> well, this is sparking fears following england's previous euros campaigns, which have been marred by riots , most recently marred by riots, most recently before their 2016 opener against russia , as well as the final of russia, as well as the final of the last tournament three years ago. yes, it did get rather, worse . quite a bit of violence. worse. quite a bit of violence. >> wasn't there? a bit of fisticuffs we can get now? we can speak to the football writer harry harris. because, harry, how concerned should we be about tensions ahead of this game? >> oh, very concerned, i've been round the world following england and, most of the tournaments, we've been talking about the hooligans more than

anybody else, that's a problem that we, we've experienced all the time, so unfortunately, yeah , i think we need to be very concerned, there will be a massive police presence, but what i experienced most is that because the hooligans now know that the security is so tight in and around the stadium that they congregate at, railway stations , congregate at, railway stations, city centres, bars, and of course, you know, england fans don't do themselves any favours . don't do themselves any favours. as we can see, they become a target with their behaviour, you know, mostly bare chested , know, mostly bare chested, excessive drinking. larking around, throwing chairs around, etc. being brutal. you know, all the bravado we've seen in the past . and of course, we used to past. and of course, we used to lead the way in hooliganism, but we don't anymore, the rival fans are much better organised, and certainly, in volumes and

numbers, and i think the media have a very interesting role to play have a very interesting role to play here. the more we're talking about it, particularly in the newspapers, the more we're inflaming a situation and inevitably going to cause these riots to happen because, the hoougans riots to happen because, the hooligans are going to see it as a challenge. so even even genuine fans were going out there with tickets, wanting to see the football. it will attract hooligans who have no interest in the football and have no tickets. they would just be going out there for the violence. >> so do you feel uncomfortable talking about it, >> so do you feel uncomfortable talking about it , talking about talking about it, talking about it in the media? i mean, i was going to ask you to remind us how bad this sort of thing can get. >> well, we've seen it with the portrayal of black players in the bad performance , in the last the bad performance, in the last match that they became the focal point and that became an issue. should the media be targeting those particular players, and i think we have to take it to, to

this point as well. how much should the media be, you know, highlighting this kind of violence that's going to take place, you know, it's , you know, place, you know, it's, you know, fair enough reporting it if it takes place and condemning it and finding solutions to it, but preview it in such a heavy handed way, is going to inflame it because it's a challenge to a lot of hooligans to go out there ticketless. but si king violence. >> what is it about football that attracts quite often a level of violence ? level of violence? >> well, because because it's so territorial. it's so, you know, intense national. we're talking about international football in particular. where a political aspects , become ingrained into aspects, become ingrained into the sport, where it shouldn't be. and, you know, there's so much chanting that we find with the english fans that are so inflammatory and political, and they don't even know what

they're singing about, so it is a recipe for disaster. and yes, well , harry, a recipe for disaster. and yes, well, harry, thank you very much indeed for joining well, harry, thank you very much indeed forjoining us and talk indeed for joining us and talk to us about that. >> harry harris, you're a football writer. really great to get your your view. that's it for us today. >> it's got a lot of very, very quickly as indeed we're back tomorrow at 12. >> for a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news. news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. >> a lot of cloud out there today. some of that cloud giving sharp showers, particularly in the east. >> but the showers will tend to ease later as an area of high pressure begins to move in from the west. >> however, we've still got ahead of that high. >> a cool northerly airflow that's particularly notable across northern and eastern parts of the uk, with limited

temperatures through the afternoon and quite a lot of cloud, with showers running into the east of england and northeast scotland, those showers will tend to become restricted to coasts overnight , restricted to coasts overnight, and many places will end up dner and many places will end up drier with clear spells developing the longest clear spells in the west , where spells in the west, where temperatures in some sheltered spots could dip to 3 or 4 celsius first thing wednesday. >> however, that's where we'll see the best of the sunshine. >> first thing some decent sunny spells for much of central and western scotland . some cloud western scotland. some cloud affecting northeast scotland as well as the central belt and southern parts. >> but otherwise it's mostly dry and northern ireland sees some patchy cloud but dry conditions as we begin the day, a few showers into the western part of wales and cornwall. otherwise, for much of england and wales, fine weather continuing, but there's always the chance that we'll start the day around north sea coast with showers, and those showers will develop more widely across the midlands and eastern england and the south—east through the afternoon . a few sharp showers once again

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uk . today. 17 billions in tax uk. today. 17 billions in tax giveaways, a promise of 1.6 million new homes and help for first time buyers. rishi sunak launched his manifesto at silverstone today. will it rev up voters or will the wheels come off? the tories election campaign ? and in response to the campaign? and in response to the prime minister's bumper giveaway, labour leader sir keir starmer extraordinarily branded it a jeremy corbyn style manifesto that will load everything into the wheelbarrow. well, sir keir should know he backed two of corbyn's manifestos in 2017 and 2019, and a man has been arrested after he threw lumps of rubble at nigel farage on the campaign trail in barnsley. first milkshakes and now rocks do we have a serious issue with escalating political violence from the radicalised left? and talking of which, vegan activists from animal rising have caused a major beef by vandalising the king's new portrait to highlight what they consider to be animal cruelty at

rspca approved farms. and that's all