a promise of 1.6 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.7 the tories election campaign .7 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 coming up in your next action packed hour. what was the show? it's all kicking off on the tory manifesto trail. £17 billion of giveaways. will it be enough to tamp you? fangs could only get better , say the labour only get better, say the labour party. now they're meddling with our children's teeth . and our children's teeth. and meanwhile, rocks are thrown at nigel farage on the campaign trail. first it was milkshakes. now it's rocks. the media seems obsessed with the far right. have we got a bigger problem in the radicalised left? talking of all kicking off, we'll be live at 330 at the training ground of the england team in germany, ahead of serbia . that's at 8:00 ahead of serbia. that's at 8:00 on sunday night. rumours of 500 hardcore hooligans being shipped in to try and get it all kicking off at that match. we've got that all coming your next hour. get in touch the usual ways. it is, of course, gbnews.com/yoursay. but before

all of that is your headlines andifs all of that is your headlines and it's sam francis . and it's sam francis. >> martin, thanks very much and good afternoon to you. it's just after 3:00. the top story from the newsroom this afternoon. rishi sunak has said he's not blind to the fact that people are frustrated with him as he launched the conservatives manifesto in an effort to get his general election campaign back on track. 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. while labour has called it a desperate wish list. but rishi sunak says he's the only leader in the campaign with bold ideas. >> 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

a tax cut, my friends, worth £1,500 to the average worker . £1,500 to the average worker. >> sir keir starmer, though, 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 . often, and tories desperation. often, 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 fifth. get on with the job, roll our sleeves up. so that's the choice. before the country. >> now sir keir starmer there speaking earlier this morning. well also in the conservative manifesto there was 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 help to buy scheme. there was also a pledge to address the shortage of housing by building

1.6 million new homes, along with £8.3 billion to fix potholes and resurface roads. there'd also be a ban on smartphones in all schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month. while rishi sunak says that deterrent would be a key part of britain's migration plan clearing the asylum backlog, he says within six months. >> 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. >> 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 he supports labour's plan, which would see children under the age of 16 blocked from purchasing dnnks of 16 blocked from purchasing drinks with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre . studies have caffeine per litre. studies have shown that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause sleep disturbances, as well as behavioural and mental health problems. police have arrested a 28 year old man on suspicion of public order offences. that's after objects were thrown at nigel farage dunng were thrown at nigel farage during a campaign event late this morning. it's understood a coffee cup and possibly building rubble narrowly missed the reform uk leader, who was on top of his party's battlebus in barnsley town centre . mr farage barnsley town centre. mr farage was addressing supporters when he was then interrupted by a crowd of demonstrators. he has since said that he had been warned by police not to get off the bus . gary glitter has been the bus. gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than

£500,000 in damages to one of the women he abused. the woman , the women he abused. the woman, who can't be named, is suing the disgraced pop star, whose real name is paul gadd, following his conviction in 2015. that was for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980. glitter was briefly released in february last year before being sent back to prison after allegedly attempting to access images of children on the dark web . international news and the web. international news 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 senior member of hamas has said that the group will accept that deal that the group will accept that deal, and that it's now ready to begin negotiating over the details . stick with us. that's details. stick with us. that's the message to england fans from the message to england fans from the squad ahead of euro 2024. england's preparations for the tournament ramp up today after

gareth southgate's side landed in germany last night. gareth southgate's side landed in germany last night . that's in germany last night. that's after their defeat to iceland in their final friendly, which saw them booed off at wembley. they face serbia in their tournament's opener on sunday. and finally, they say the elephants never forget . but now 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 use individual rumbles to get each other's attention , similar to other's attention, similar to the way that we use names. evidence shows them recognising and reacting to certain calls addressed to them, and even ignonng addressed to them, and even ignoring calls addressed to others . experts used others. experts used a specialist signal processing technique to identify the subtle differences in each call . that's differences in each call. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. for more, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts.

>> thank you sam. now let's get stuck in to the next three hours. and we start with rishi sunak and the tories attempt to turn the tide of this election campaign . their manifesto campaign. their manifesto includes some eye catching policies, including a promise to halve migration, but it stops short of saying that the uk could leave the european convention on human rights. well, i'm joined now by our political editor , chris hope. political editor, chris hope. chris, welcome to the show. so the launch was live from silverstone. it's fair to say rishi was pretty revved up. the crowd was very, very appreciative . loads of detail, appreciative. loads of detail, loads of giveaways. tell us the picture. >> hi martin, that's right. well, here at silverstone and good afternoon to you on your show. yeah, we've been hearing about the tory manifesto here. clear plan, bold action, secure future much of which was announced today . we have heard announced today. we have heard before the party's been dripping out detail from this manifesto . out detail from this manifesto. so in what appears to be a

desperate attempt to try and get that polling up from from around 20% mark towards where labour is in the 40s and nothing has worked yet. and that's why much of what we heard today on gb news, when that was covered by the channel and the hero, a formula one car racing past. by the way, martin, we are at silverstone, but much of what you've heard there is what we had had briefed out recently by the tory by tory party. one area i thought was interesting was the lack of any kind of commitment on european court of human rights withdrawal, if that court keeps obstructing attempts to deal with with illegal migration crisis, what will the government do about it? i asked the pm in the press conference after his speech whether he meant bold action. well, why not be bolder? prime minister and here's what he had to say. >> thanks, chris. i've been clear throughout that i believe that our plan is compliant with all our international obligations. but i've also been clear , and the manifesto is clear, and the manifesto is 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 , country's national security, then i'm going to choose our country's national security every single time . every single time. >> there you have rishi sunak saying our country every time, our security over a foreign court, the european court of human rights, jeopardising that security , but nothing more than security, but nothing more than that. not the bold play which may have worked for people who might be going towards the reform uk party by saying , let's reform uk party by saying, let's get out of the echr if it gets in the way of that security. nothing bolder in that sense. but afterwards i did bump into james cleverly, the home secretary, and asked him about preparedness for the first flights taking off to rwanda after the election. if the tories win on july the 4th, here's what we have to say . how here's what we have to say. how many flights will take off? how many flights will 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 to the rwanda scheme. and we have made it very clear that the only thing that will stop those flights is a labour government. thank you . thank you. >> there you have it. james cleverly talking to us earlier here at silverstone. the big news, i suppose, is plans to axe national insurance for those self—employed by the end of the next parliament by 2029. we knew about the 2% cut off national insurance for employees like like anyone who works for a big company, they want to halve migration and then bring it down with a cap going through the next parliament, 1.6 million new homes, a veterans act, 30 hours of free childcare. but the concern might be that there's nothing in here to fire the imagination of the tory base. how are they going to get people to wake up and listen and watch and pay attention to the tory party that will no more. in polling this weekend, after the labour party manifesto on thursday. >> martin okay. thank you chris.

live from silverton. the big question now is will it rev up the electorate or will the wheels come falling off? chris obe always a pleasure , never a obe always a pleasure, never a chore to have you on the show and to carry this conversation on. i'm joined now by the former tory minister paul scully, who stood down ahead of this election. welcome to the show, mr scully. thanks for your time . mr scully. thanks for your time. are you there, sir? >> i am indeed good to see you. >> i am indeed good to see you. >> hello, paul. >> hello, paul. >> always a delight to see you, my friend. now then, the reaction to this from sir keir starmer, i thought was extraordinary at the start of the day, rishi sunak said he wanted to channel his inner maggie thatcher, take the party back to the economics of nigel lawson. sir keir starmer came out and said this was a jeremy corbyn style giveaway where the conservative party want to load the wheelbarrow with any freebie possible. thatcher, corbyn, which one is it? >> no, it's to be fair, it's neither of those because it's sorting out the problems of today, not of the 80s and

definitely not of jeremy corbyn, i.e. the 70s. >> frankly , it's sorting out the >> frankly, it's sorting out the problems of today. and rishi is a problem solver. what it's not doing, though, is there's a lot it's you know, he's he's shown that he needs to have more of a political bent about him because that's some of the missteps that we've had in the last couple of weeks. and what this does, it answers some of the questions. i'm really pleased that they actually use the word rewarding risks for entrepreneurs, because if you're putting your money in, where, where your mouth is and setting up a business and risking everything, you should be rewarded in the tax system. >> and so i'm really pleased that he's done the, national insurance, change for them, because not only does that help them and reward risk, it helps growth as well . growth as well. >> if we get growth, then we start to pay down the debt and start to pay down the debt and start to pay down the debt and start to improve public services i >> -- >> paul, £17 billion in giveaways, including that national insurance cut. you just mentioned . and there's also 1.6 mentioned. and there's also 1.6 million new homes speeding up of

planning on brown sites , planning on brown sites, abolishing stamp duty and a new help to buy scheme, child benefit. up to those £120,000. lots and lots and lots of giveaways. 8000 new bobbies with £2.8 trillion in debt. where does the money come from for all of this? >> well, i think that's there's two things. >> there are some difficult choices that remain in terms of, you know, public spending, and there was an eight page document that went along with the manifesto in terms of costings of that. but clearly, as i was saying , a good amount of this saying, a good amount of this has to come through growth as well because we cannot continue where we are, in terms of our trajectory around growth. you talked about housing. one of the things i wish i'd had seen was a little bit more about the supply side, about how we're going to speed up those planning reforms. and also he's talking about giving away, or scrapping stamp duty for first time buyers. but actually, if you did something at the other end as well, for older people who want to downsize, then whether you build

houses or not, there are more houses or not, there are more houses come available for younger people who want to start families, etc. >> i think you're dead right though, paul. it's okay. doing an abolishment of stamp duty, a right to buy, but a right to buy what? where are the properties? and if you're downsizing, you need to go to a medium sized property. that means that people need to go down or up. and without that supply, we still have a logjam. paul scully, thanks for joining us. have a logjam. paul scully, thanks forjoining us. always a thanks for joining us. always a pleasure to have your company on gb news. now, as i said a few moments ago , sir keir starmer moments ago, sir keir starmer was scathing about the tories announcement. and here's what he had to say. >> we have been absolutely clear that all our plans are fully costed, fully funded . we will costed, fully funded. we will not be increasing income tax, national insurance or vat, so no tax increases for working people. none of our plans require tax rises, but 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 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. well thatcher corbyn will be michael foot before the days out. >> i'll have lots more on the tory manifesto throughout the show. and at 4:20 i'll speak live to a government minister and plenty of coverage on our website gb news. com and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country . so thank you very the country. so thank you very much. now moving on to a very frightening incident today. and a man has thrown missiles at reform uk leader nigel farage. the incident happened in barnsley, where mr farage was campaigning ahead of the general election. a man ran away before police officers tackled him to the ground. when it comes, of course , after a woman was course, after a woman was charged with assault by beating and criminal damage when a milkshake was thrown over, mr farage in clacton on sea last week. well let's speak now to

our homeland security editor, mark white. mark welcome to the show. it seems there's a pattern emerging here. first, the milkshake, now a rock. where next? >> well, indeed. and that , i >> well, indeed. and that, i think, is what nigel farage and indeed other politicians out on the campaign trail are concerned about. the potential for people to not just disagree with them verbally, but actually to get violent in trying to shut down the debate. nigel farage was on an open top bus. he was going through barnsley city centre in south yorkshire on a campaign tour there, someone near a local construction site who was just by the road there threw a number of objects. there was at least a coffee cup and wet cement amongst that. i spoke to nigel farage a little earlier. he thought there may have been a rock or a stone or something

thrown as well. that person ran off and was very quickly apprehended by the police. south yorkshire police say that 28 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence in the first instance in relation to objects that were thrown at nigel farage from that construction site . now, after construction site. now, after this happened, below deck , nigel this happened, below deck, nigel gave a quick interview, he laughed it off, but it's clear that he's also deeply frustrated at what is happening now, increasingly out on the campaign trail. >> i'll tell you what i'm worried about . 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 very passionate, but indeed agree to disagree. what we've now got is a mob that want 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 . be very, very worrying 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 . 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. they will. >> and i think that is one of the concerns here, voiced by nigel, is the real worry that this could go a lot further. of course, just a week ago , course, just a week ago, milkshake was thrown over him. some people laughing about that, of course, but that incident , some people laughing about that, of course, but that incident, as far as anyone on the receiving end of it, they don't know what the liquid is that's being

thrown towards them. and of course, in this incident as well, there were harder objects than just a milkshake that was thrown at mr farage. so, there are real concerns about, as i say, not just what nigel farage may be facing at this very vulnerable time for politicians, as they have to come face to face with members of the electorate when they're out on the campaign trail. it's what they want to do. they want to get the message across, but in doing that, there is that added risk that those that are just willing to verbally disagree with someone decide that they want to get violent with an individual as well. >> mark white, food for thought. we have a big problem with with surging political violence in the uk. in my opinion. mike freer is office was arson attacked in december last year? david amess of course was killed. we talk all the time, mark, about the far right. do we have to have a conversation about the radicalised left and

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>> earlier on breakfast. >> earlier on breakfast. >> you are at silverstone. i can think of lots of analogies about car crash campaigns. >> we've committed £100 million to the emergency dentist appointments, which will be paid for by closing tax avoidance . for by closing tax avoidance. >> we're now going to be delivering some pretty big tax cuts. we've already tax cut , cut

cuts. we've already tax cut, cut taxes for 29 million working people to education in schools hasn't changed to adapt to using technology the way young people learn their interests . learn their interests. >> it is unbelievable. and taylor swift is so unbelievable that, i've interviewed her and didn't remember until isabel or someone showed it to me from six. >> welcome back. your time is 326. i'm martin daubney this is gb news. now. later in the show, after green parties across europe were shunned by voters in the eu elections, i'll ask , does the eu elections, i'll ask, does this spell the end for the net zero brigade? but now some incredible images and animal rights activists have vandalised a portrait of king charles. as you can see on your screens, campaigners from animal rising put a picture of the animated character wallace from wallace and gromit over the king's face, and gromit over the king's face, and they added a speech bubble

with words no cheese, gromit, look at all this cruelty on rspca farms. well, i'm joined now by our royal correspondent cameron walker. cameron, welcome to the show. another unsavoury incident. can you tell us more about why it happened? who these people are ? cameron's going to people are? cameron's going to come. so basically this portrait at the gallery, the philip mould gallery in london, of course, this has recently painted got a lot of headlines by jonathan yeo, the king absolutely adores this portrait. however, though so much so he wants it hung in buckingham palace. as you can see, animal rights. two activists here and the cameraman there. look pre—arrange obviously just rock up to it and put those stickers over the portrait using rollers. now i hasten to add, there is a sheet of glass or perspex over this. so it wasn't damaged, but it surely has to ask the question how on earth can these people

just rock up to what is one of the most treasured portraits in royal history? a favourite of the kings? no security guard, not even a security rope, no security whatsoever. they go up to it and they put this over the top of it. now here we are. we're talking about it. maybe we're part of the problem. we should stop giving them oxygen . should stop giving them oxygen. but this is yet another desecration of a special piece of art, in this case, one of the king's favourites. and the big question is, how can this be allowed to happen time and time again? right. cameron walker, i think we do have you now, cameron, i've been through most of the detail there, but tell us this is an extraordinary act of desecration. >> well, yes. martin, >> well, yes. luckilly martin, the portrait itself was covered in perspex, so the painting itself was not damaged. it's the first official portrait of king charles the third since his coronation. it was unveiled by the king at buckingham palace a couple of weeks ago. it now hangsin couple of weeks ago. it now hangs in the philip mould gallery in london. and, as you were saying, there two animal

rising activists entered the gallery and then wallpapered the picture of wallace's face on top of the king's and the speech bubble, which reads, no cheese, gromit, look at all this cruelty on rspca farms. now, what they were trying to do was highlight a report that animal rising had put out , which alleges 280 put out, which alleges 280 breaches, on so—called rspca assured farms when it comes to animal cruelty . now, the rspca animal cruelty. now, the rspca has denied that that particular report. i'm going to read you a full statement from them , very full statement from them, very shortly. but just to go back to the wider point here, buckingham palace are not clearly going to be commenting on this. they say they're not going to be commenting. i suspect it's because they don't want to give this group the oxygen of publicity, encouraging more acts of vandalism. and of course, i think the king's mind is going to be very much focused. although he does like wallace and gromit, we're led to believe, but i think his mind is going to be focused very much on both trooping the colour, which is happening, on saturday, as

well as, order of the garter, which is happening on monday. but an rspca spokesperson has said it's a very lengthy statement, i'm afraid, but we'll try and be quick. he said. we are shocked by this vandalism of his majesty the king. our patrons portraits. we welcome scrutiny of our work, but we cannot condone illegal activity of any kind. our staff and volunteers work extremely hard rescuing, caring for and speaking up for animals. rescuing, caring for and speaking up for animals . animal speaking up for animals. animal rising sustained activity is distracting from our focus on the work that really matters. helping thousands of animals every day. we remain confident that the rspca assured scheme is the best way to help farmed animals rights . now, while animals rights. now, while campaigning to change their lives in the future . rspca lives in the future. rspca higher welfare standards has been independently proven to make lives better for millions of animals each year and so it goes on. >> okay. thank you, cameron walker, for that royal update . walker, for that royal update. now moving on. we are moving on to there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00. in a few minutes we'll cross live to

germany where england are getting ready to kick off for euro 2024, which of course starts this friday. england kick off, of course, 8:00 pm on sunday. but first, your latest news headlines. sam francis . news headlines. sam francis. >> very good afternoon to you. it's just coming up to 3:32. the top story this afternoon . rishi top story this afternoon. rishi sunak has said he's not blind to the fact that people are frustrated with him. that's as he unveiled the conservatives manifesto earlier. his election promises include another £0.02 cut to national insurance, a ban on phones in schools and a new help to buy scheme. labour though, have called it an unaffordable recipe for more chaos. unaffordable recipe for more chaos . but speaking at the chaos. but speaking at the launch event, the prime minister said he is offering a clear plan of bold action to cut tax . of bold action to cut tax. >> 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. >> well, responding to those pledges from the prime minister the labour leader, sir keir starmer, said that the conservatives plan doesn't make economic sense and he 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, as we've been hearing, a protest group has vandalised a portrait of the king. two members of animal rising entered the philip mould gallery and stuck images to the painting from the animated series wallace

and gromit. the group says it was calling attention to what it says is poor treatment of animals on farms , adding that animals on farms, adding that they targeted his majesty due to his position as a royal patron of the rspca . and stick with us. of the rspca. and stick with us. that's the message to england fans from the squad ahead of euro 2024. live pictures here. if you're watching on television of the squad as they prepare for that tournament ramping up their preparations today after gareth southgate's side landed in germany last night, their defeat to iceland in the final friendly saw them booed off at wembley and they face serbia in the tournament's opener on sunday. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. your next update with polly middlehurst at 4:00. in the meantime, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to our website gb gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club

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welcome back. it's 338. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. now, believe it or not, there are just three days to go until the start of euro 2024. and england are the favourites with the bookmakers to win the tournament. can you, adam and eve it? well, gareth southgate's squadis eve it? well, gareth southgate's squad is training in germany for the first time ahead of their opening game and that, of course, is against serbia on sunday evening, 8 pm. now joining the studio by sky sports by broadcaster sportsbook chris skudder. chris, welcome to the show. i think we've got some live pictures. can we cut to those live pictures of the actual training session there? we are scudders. everybody is incredibly excited about this. we had a disaster against iceland, a slip up on friday, but nevertheless, looking ahead, we are now the bookies favourites are foot in germany. >> yeah, this is it. you know the squad only arrived yesterday so we're all second guessing who's going to be playing at the weekend. but you know, favourites are, the favourites for a reason . you know

for a reason. you know offensively england second to none really. don't forget though that favouritism only comes by how much money is put on at the bookies. and in this country a lot of people bet. so england are going to be are going to be. they always are shorter than they probably should be. but, you know, it's, you see the pictures, they're just leaping around a little bit while we get in focus. but, you know, it's just a question of acclimatisation now. and it's as, the crystal palace youngster who's one of the surprises, really, in the squad, i think, who, you know, we were talking earlier before we came on about whether gareth southgate's going to be here for the next for the next tournament, the world cup for me, this squad looks like it's been set up to include the next tournament, but he's he's hinted he spoke to a german newspaper today. >> did gareth saying that if england don't win the tournament this will probably be a swan song. >> so if they were to win it, they'd probably it would be a no brainer really. they'd probably say, stay on and we want you to see us through to win the big one, the world cups. >> well, we really want to win, you know, 58 years since the

last major tournament. >> don't remind me there's gareth southgate. >> look, look southgate's looking very chipper declan rice. they're chopping the ball around. they look they're looking very chipper. yeah. >> don't forget these. >> don't forget these. >> i've been to so many of these. you know the training. >> it's like a it's like a prison camp sometimes these these these big tournaments. you go there and they start training . the cameras are allowed to roll for ten minutes, and then you're thrown out, basically. so in other words, you're not going to give anything away , but, you to give anything away, but, you know, listen, it's a fabulous thing that joe gomez there, some of the young marc guehi, some of these are not, are not household names, you know, the big ones. we know harry kane and latterly jude bellingham, people like that. >> but you know, this is, to me it's a, you know, it's a mix of experience and there's bukayo saka. >> we've got a lot of stick. the other night, even though he came off the bench. >> yeah he came on 65 minutes. but he got all the stick i know and there was a few people you can imagine the backdrop to that. >> after what happened in the euros when the black players

missed penalties and they got a lot of criticism, but tournament football is jude bellingham, the golden boy who's been off doing great things with real madrid all eyes on him. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it is. i mean, people must not expect him to carry the team to victory. >> he's 20, he's 21. >> at the end of this month actually the last day of the yeah actually the last day of the year. and as a birmingham city fan myself, very proud to see jude doing so well. >> but, but for 20 year old player what composure. >> i mean the way that his game has improved in the last couple of years is astonishing. >> it's incredible. and what they what gareth likes about him so much is his mentality. he's his dad's a policeman, mixed race family. and he has been brought up so well since he was 16. i saw his debut at birmingham, at portsmouth for birmingham, at portsmouth for birmingham four years ago when he was just turned 16, and i just thought i had heard of his reputation before, but i just thought, look, he looks like a thoroughbred racehorse. and it's got this amazing mentality , so, got this amazing mentality, so, so mature, and gareth loves players like that . and he's players like that. and he's filled his squad with players he knows he can control . i mean, i

knows he can control. i mean, i think a lot of people felt why isn't jack grealish in the squad? because he's a bit of a jack the lad, you know, maybe that's why he's not in the squad. well maybe. but i think that's a mistake. so i think when it comes to tournaments you need experience and players who have been there before. you know i mentioned asia and there's people like, anthony gordon and jared bowen of west ham who, you know, he's got a lot of young players . the young lad, adam players. the young lad, adam walton, 20, at crystal palace , walton, 20, at crystal palace, be nowhere near a tournament. i do think you need , which is why do think you need, which is why i would have taken rashford and i would have taken rashford and i would have taken, grealish. but you know, listen, gareth's you know, nailed his colours to the mast and big question is cole palm another one. listen you know he played the other night and he was wandering all over the pitch. fantastic talent . but you know we must not hope hope that you know the sort of galactico let's cram the team full of. >> we need to talk about the fact that rumours in today stories and today 500 serbian

hoougans stories and today 500 serbian hooligans on the way for this match, there's no land border. we can't control that , england, we can't control that, england, historically, of course, chris, have been a target. are you expecting aggro on sunday night? no >> basically. i mean, up to 2000 fans won't be there, so there's traditional troublemakers from england have not been around for 20 years now. pretty much out. tournament still happens at home. we know that. but for international tournaments, the passports had to be handed in last week so they won't be there. you always get this serbia kind of ally themselves politically with russia, don't they? to a certain extent. the problems we had in 2016 was caused by russian hooligans , caused by russian hooligans, sergei lavrov saying the foreign minister, oh, it was all the french authorities fault. rubbish. it was. they came to cause trouble. basically england are the are the doyens the gods of hooliganism that traditionally over the years they're a target. yeah. and therefore when those who would fight back for want of a better way of putting it are not there, then innocents get targeted. >> well, you can hear the crowd

revving them up there. i've got to ask you, scuds. in a word. we ask it every time. is football coming home? >> i think there's a very good chance. but. listen, don't bet your house on it. i can see england getting to the semi finals. certainly and then a big semi—final against france, who we. oh and we owe portugal as well for some penalty shoot out defeat. so fingers crossed. but you know a great chance. certainly. yeah. >> well the mouth is watering. there's harry kane. they're all getting ready. the big build up in germany chris skudder an absolute delight. i hadn't really hadn't really sunk in. this tournament is happening. by jove , it's real. there are the jove, it's real. there are the boys. they're getting revved up, ready to face serbia. i think. >> the cameraman, though. >> the cameraman, though. >> yeah. the cameraman. i think he's had a bit on the jungle juice. been on the jagerbombs. all right. thank you very much. chris got a superb thanks for all your company in the studio. brilliant keep watching this. i just want to keep watching that and moving on. a labour government will bring in a scheme aimed at teaching kids as young as three. how to brush their teeth. it is a good way to

ease the uk's dental crisis. or an example of the nanny state going too far. fangs could only get better. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 348. i'm martin daubney. welcome back. it's 348. i'm martin daubney . vie. this is i'm martin daubney. vie. this is gb news now. 4:00. i'll have more analysis on the conservative manifesto and ask, is there anything in there that might scare the labour party? now let's get more on sir keir starmer's party. a day after labour unveiled plans to give free breakfast to all primary school children, the party's been talking about 100,000 extra dental appointments to help clear a dental backlog, and our political correspondent katherine forster has spent the day with the labour leader and she joins me now. catherine welcome to the show. so things are going to get better for labour party in 97. now fangs can only get better. they're

talking about dentistry and health care. tell us more . health care. tell us more. >> good afternoon martin from lincoln. and yes, i was up in teesside this morning with sir keir starmer and the shadow health secretary, wes streeting. they were visiting a school talking to journalists about their two announcements today that are part of their child health action plan. yesterday they were at a school talking about child care, today talking about child care, today talking about dentistry specifically. and they say they're going to make another 100,000 appointments for children because sir keir starmer says that the most common reason for a child to go to hospital is actually to have a tooth taken out.labour actually to have a tooth taken out. labour say that over half a million less children saw a dentist last year than they did as recently as 2018, so they want to change that. also so they're announcing that if they get into government in three and

a half weeks time, as does look very likely at the moment that, they will ban super high energy dnnks they will ban super high energy drinks with a very high caffeine cost content. so that's things over 150mg of caffeine per litre. so things such as red bull, etc. that many teenagers are quite keen on drinking because of course it's very bad for your health and also very , for your health and also very, very bad for your teeth. and they were also watching a supervised tooth brushing session. now this is something that was announced by the labour party back in january that if they come to power, they want children from age 3 to 5 to basically do supervised tooth brushing in schools. and he was asked whether this wasn't all a bit nanny state and he basically said he didn't care because children's dentistry along with dentistry as a whole, is in crisis. and if it means less

children losing their teeth before the age of ten, then so before the age of ten, then so be it . be it. >> thank you. catherine vause, a live from lincoln on the labour campaign trail. thanks for joining us. i'm joined now by the teacher and the great friend of the show, mr bobby seagull. bobby, it's always a delight to have you on. so three solid policies. you're a teacher. you know, about kids in schools, free breakfast clubs. that was yesterday is now dentistry. we've talked about that before , we've talked about that before, teeth brushing lessons and red bull energy drinks being banned for under 16 seconds as a trio of packages. bobby how useful as a teacher, as somebody who's aware of child's health, how useful do you think this is? >> so again , i've been in >> so again, i've been in schools. >> i've said to you before for about a decade now, and we've got through the three policies one by one. >> so the first one is about the free breakfasts. of course, these things cost money, but i've seen so many young people come to my schools , come to the come to my schools, come to the

first lesson, and they're not fully like awake. >> maybe they're not slept properly, but actually it's a lot of them haven't been eaten properly overnight or breakfast. >> and again, there are separate questions about parents and parental responsibility. but at schools we need to deal with what we have right now. so i think one yeah, the free breakfast thing is definitely something that will make an impact. then we talk about the dentistry. and again, this is one where i was initially a bit cynical, thinking, teachers, we can't be burdened with every single thing. but as the stats show, for 5 to 9 year olds, the most common reason for missing school and hospital appointments is poor dental health. again, we as adults know that when you got as adults know that when you got a toothache, you know it sounds like a minor thing, but it really does impair your ability to work. so for young people in particular as well. so i think if we can nip the bud as soon as possible, if that means 3 to 5 year olds getting that sort of supervised teeth brushing by external experts or teachers being trained how to do it, you know , of course teachers should know, of course teachers should be teaching numeracy and literacy, but i think it's one of those things where there will be a long term benefit. and the

final thing, energy drinks. >> bobby. >> bobby. >> oh gosh, martin, this is like the bane of any secondary school teacher students. they don't have breakfast, but they'll come in with their whatever monster these high caffeinated drinks off their faces. it's horrible , off their faces. it's horrible, they think, oh, sir, i need a quick i need, i need to get focused but actually it means they have a little boost for about five ten minutes and the rest of the morning or afternoon, they have no ability to focus. so i think that one thing, actually, i'm really incredibly behind is the teacher. >> okay. bobby seagull a lot of people say this is nanny state interference gone mad, but you know, about kids in classrooms. i trust your word. always value your opinion. bobby seagull. thank you very much and i hope you saw those pictures there of the european championship. warm bet you're excited as a west ham fan. too bad none of your players are there anyway. have a good one. bobby seagull always a delight now moving on rishi sunak has unveiled the tories election manifesto plan . it election manifesto plan. it includes a promise to halve migration, a pledge to build 1.6 million homes and massive bumper tax cuts. but is it enough to turn this election campaign

around, or is it simply lacking on detail ? an around, or is it simply lacking on detail? an astonishingly, keir starmer attacked it as corbynism you couldn't make it up. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel that's your weather with aidan mcgivern . mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb 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 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 . 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

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it is 4:00. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. all across the uk. today. rishi sunak made

housing a major focus of his manifesto giveaway with major stamp duty cuts help, first time buyers and a promise of 1.6 million new homes is his plan a concrete offering, or is it foundationless and in response to the prime minister's bumper giveaway, labour leader sir keir starmer astonishingly branded it a jeremy corbyn style manifesto. they will load everything into the wheelbarrow. also, keir should know about corbyn's style giveaways . he backed two of them giveaways. he backed two of them in 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 earlier today. first milkshakes are now rocks. do we have a serious issue with escalating political violence? do we need to talk about the radicalised far left? that's all coming up in your next hour. so rishi has

delivered his manifesto £17 billion in giveaways, national insurance cuts and an abolishment of ni insurance cuts and an abolishment of n! for all who are self—employed. stamp duty cuts, a promise of protecting pensions. and the big question is where will the money come from? and on from that, will it make a blind bit of difference to how you intend to vote? is there enough in there to tempt you to vote conservative? if so, let me know. how are you going to vote? get in touch. use your waze gbnews.com/yoursay. but before we get stuck into all of that, it's your headlines and it's polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon to you. well, the top story from the newsroom today is that rishi sunak says he isn't blind to the fact that people are frustrated with him as he launched the conservative party's manifesto today , the party's manifesto today, the prime minister promised a

multi—billion pound package of tax cuts, including another £0.02 in the pound cut to national insurance. in total, he says, the cuts would amount to an annual cost of more than £17 billion by 2030. labour has called that a desperate wish list, but rishi sunak says he's the only leader with bold ideas. >> 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. >> thank you. live to central london right now where the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, has taken to the podium to answer back to the conservative party's manifesto, was a desperate wish list of unfunded promises from a weak prime minister >> we know where these sorts of unfunded promises from conservative party prime ministers lead . they lead to

ministers lead. they lead to higher mortgages, leaving you and your family worse off. they've done it before, and their manifesto today is proof that they will do it all over again . this is a recipe for five again. this is a recipe for five more years of tory chaos, which will leave british people paying the price today , i want to the price today, i want to address directly the costs of the conservative party manifesto. the money is not there and it will mean £4,800 on your mortgage. this election falls at an important moment for the british economy. 14 years of conservative governments have brought us to this point, 14 years of political chaos , 14 years of political chaos, 14 years of political chaos, 14 years of political chaos, 14 years of rising taxes and low growth resulting in the first parliament on record where living standards are lower at the end of the parliament than they were at the start. our national debt at the highest

level since the 1960s. and while their rhetoric today is about tax cuts, their record is one of tax cuts, their record is one of tax rises, 26 increases in tax in this parliament alone, yielding the highest tax burden in 70 years. the conservatives are gaslighting you, and no one will believe their claims . are gaslighting you, and no one will believe their claims. i have been clear throughout my time as shadow chancellor. i want taxes on working people to be lower. in the last parliament, i opposed tax rises and i supported cuts in tax , and i supported cuts in tax, including to national insurance, but only when they are fully funded. labour's manifesto will include an ironclad commitment . include an ironclad commitment. there will be no increases in income tax , national insurance income tax, national insurance or vat with the labour

government for the duration of the next parliament. but we will only cut taxes when the money is there. in contrast, the tories offer promises they cannot fund from savings that they cannot find, and when it comes to the plans in this tory manifesto, the money is simply not there and it will mean £4,800 more on your mortgage. to pretend otherwise is dishonest and it's irresponsible . over the last 4.5 irresponsible. over the last 4.5 hours, we have gone through the conservative manifesto line by line. they claim that their plans are fully costed and fully funded , but analysis that we funded, but analysis that we have conducted since publication has identified £71 billion of unfunded commitments over the course of the next parliament, the consequence of an increase in day to day borrowing to fund the commitments made in this

manifesto would amount to a second tory mortgage bombshell, because higher borrowing at this scale would force the bank of england to increase interest rates . the result would be an rates. the result would be an increase in the average mortgage totalling £4,800 over the course of the parliament. this is serious. i worked as an economist at the bank of england before entering politics. i know the importance of sound money and having a firm grip on the pubuc and having a firm grip on the public finances. if these conservative policies are followed through, it poses a real threat to our economy and to household incomes. now, i want to be transparent about how we've reached the figures, because i am determined that the labour party will hold ourselves, that i will hold myself to higher standards than the conservative party holds . so the conservative party holds. so we have set out clearly in the document we're publishing today ,

document we're publishing today, the logic and the workings behind all of our findings. in particular, i want to draw attention to five serious errors in the conservative party's manifesto. let me take each of them in turn. first, they have spent much of the first three weeks of this campaign pushing their national service proposal, but their costings for their plan but their costings for their pmnomh but their costings for their plan omit the costs of equipment, accommodation or training. of the 30,000 new military recruits on any reasonable assessment. that plan will cost double their costings and it would consume the entire revenue that they can reasonably expect to raise from cracking down on tax avoidance. that leaves many of their remaining plans unfunded . second, the plans unfunded. second, the tories claim that their crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion would raise £6 billion. but the truth is, despite trying to mimic labour's plans, they have failed to account for the

near £900 million of investment needed to meet their pledge. third, the tories claim that they can make more than £1 billion of efficiency savings from government agencies. but the truth is they've provided absolutely no detail whatsoever. this is not a credible plan. fourth, the tories claim that they can raise £1 billion from scrapping poor performing university courses . it's because university courses. it's because they have no plan to cap the number of student places that falls apart. if students simply choose to study a different course. and fifth, the tories claim that they can make £12 billion in savings in welfare . billion in savings in welfare. but the truth is that claim is simply not credible . it is true simply not credible. it is true that under the conservatives, the welfare bill has spiralled since 2019, spending on benefits to support disabled people and those with health conditions has risen in real terms by £20 million. and under rishi sunak as prime minister the taxpayer

has been losing £1 million every single hour to benefit fraud and error . that single hour to benefit fraud and error. that is their record and there are savings to be made . there are savings to be made. but the idea that the conservatives proposals can save £12 billion is pure fiction . £12 billion is pure fiction. reform of the work capability assessment. reform of footnotes, increased sanctions for people out of work for more than a yean out of work for more than a year, and increased funding for mental health, all announced , mental health, all announced, all included in the baseline from the office for budget responsibility. each of the other three proposals are no more than vague ambitions , with more than vague ambitions, with no detail of how they could produce the savings that they're aiming for. of seven separate pledges on welfare that they made today, in every case, the money has either already been banked by the obr or they have no credible plans on how to make the savings. they're much heralded one single penny of new money relative to the obr

forecast . we have been here forecast. we have been here before. it was less than two years ago that the conservatives set out tens of billion pounds of unfunded commitments . they of unfunded commitments. they crashed the economy, set mortgage rates spiralling and put pensions in peril . in the put pensions in peril. in the end, you got the mortgage increase, but you didn't get the tax cut. and that is exactly what you'll get all over again. don't judge 14 years on 49 days, says rishi sunak. and they should be judged on the whole of their 14 year record . but the their 14 year record. but the damage done in those 49 days will last for years . last year, will last for years. last year, 6.4 million people across england and wales saw their rent increase or had to remortgage. a further 1.5 million households have either remortgaged this year or will do so in the second half of this year, paying on average an additional two mortgage payments every single month. and this manifesto is

final confirmation, if any were needed, that they have not learned their lesson. this is this is about tory future, not just about tory past. this is about tory future, not just about tory past . a recipe just about tory past. a recipe for five more years of chaos. cast your mind back to a little over 18 months ago . rishi sunak over 18 months ago. rishi sunak was supposed to be the antidote to liz truss . he was supposed to to liz truss. he was supposed to steady the ship. you have to ask what happened to that rishi sunak ? instead of drawing a line sunak? instead of drawing a line under the chaos, he's determined to write the next chapter of it more undeliverable promises from an ungovernable party. just two weeks ago, rishi sunaks chancellor said that a third cut to national insurance wouldn't move the dial. and now that we find in a last minute, desperate scramble, that is exactly what they are proposing . but with no they are proposing. but with no plan to pay for it. they are proposing. but with no plan to pay for it . and here's plan to pay for it. and here's the thing if they did believe

that their sums added up, if they thought that they would get they thought that they would get the all clear from the office of budget responsibility , they budget responsibility, they wouldn't have put these plans in a manifesto . they would have put a manifesto. they would have put them in a budget. they know their numbers don't add up, and their numbers don't add up, and the conservatives desperation will put our economy at risk. the money is not there and it will mean £4,800 on your mortgage. you will see something very different when we publish our manifesto on thursday. a fully costed, fully funded, credible plan . i will not raise credible plan. i will not raise taxes on working people and i will not raise income tax, national insurance or vat with the labour government for the duration of the next parliament. in fact, i want taxes to be lower, but i will not play fast and loose with the public

finances. the change that we offer will be built, can only be built on the basis of iron discipline. i know that economic stability is the foundation for economic success. we will not enter an arms race on unfunded election promises. enter an arms race on unfunded election promises . we have election promises. we have started as we mean to go on every policy we announce, every line in our manifesto will be fully costed and fully funded and that is the attitude that i will take into the treasury . a will take into the treasury. a labour government will not waver from that was rachel reeves there, giving her response to rishi sunaks party manifesto , rishi sunaks party manifesto, which was launched this morning at silverstone. >> let's get some reaction now. back in our studio, our political correspondent olivia utley is with me. so is the political commentator and property expert russell quirk. he was jabbing in there with his comments in real time. let's start with you, olivier. it's fair to say the gloves are well and truly off. rachel reeves.

they're saying rishi sunak's manifesto was a desperate wish list. unfunded promises, a recipe for disaster. she went on to say that they've costed up everything in rishi's manifesto. the true figure, she claims , is the true figure, she claims, is £71 billion of increased borrowing , which then she said borrowing, which then she said because she worked at the bank of england, the bank of england would have to raise their interest rates and that would lead to you, the voter , having lead to you, the voter, having £4,800 extra on your mortgage. she's torn £4,800 extra on your mortgage. she's tom the heart out of rishi's numbers. the gloves are off. >> well, it was a pretty extraordinary speech to hear from a labour shadow chancellor. this is the sort of attack lines that you expect to hear coming from conservatives after a labour manifesto or budget. it was all about how the money is not there, your taxes will rise, it's irresponsible, etc. it feels as though labour is very much trying to pitch itself as the party of sound money. as for the party of sound money. as for the content of what she said, i mean, she made some very interesting and probably quite

accurate points there about some of rishi sunak's, commitments. he has said, for example , that he has said, for example, that he will cut spending for universities by outlawing mickey mouse degrees. well, as rachel reeves points out, the tory figures don't seem to take into account that lots of people doing those so—called mickey mouse degrees will not not go to university. they'll simply do a different degree instead , said different degree instead, said the very specific calculation of how much this is going to cost the average person in their mortgage is pretty disingenuous. i mean, she said, it's going to cost exactly £4,800. that's a very strangely specific number. the thinking behind that is that if you do sort of a huge giveaway, there'll be a kind of run on the pound as there was at the almost was that in the 2022 mini—budget and you end up in a situation where the bank of england has to raise interest rates again. of course, it's impossible to say the bank of england is independent. exactly

how much interest rates would be raised by. and of course, you can't say exactly how much it's going to cost the average person, but that's if you like a bit of a brexit side of the bus tactic. you say a big, impressive, very specific sounding figure and the tories will have to spend the rest of the week explaining why it's not £4,800, but people will be thinking, well, how much is it then? and that's the sort of questions that rachel reeves wants people to be asking. i mean , it's so far from, from mean, it's so far from, from from the corbynism of days of old. this is an extremely from what she's saying, it sounds as though the labour manifesto is going to be extremely sort of cautious, softly, softly, if you like, quite small c conservative. it will be fascinating to see what labour members think of this, because of course , labour needs to get of course, labour needs to get all the centre votes that it can. it needs to be taking voters away from the conservatives. but to do that, it does need people pounding the streets in the next few weeks. and those will be labour members who on the whole are quite a lot further to the left than keir

starmer and rachel reeves. but yeah, a pretty extraordinary reaction in terms of the politics of it. this very much sounded like a conservative shadow chancellor it did. >> and russell quirk, we got you in to talk about property. of course, your portfolio of knowledge is much bigger than that.in knowledge is much bigger than that. in particular. you were you were scoffing and wanting to get involved about the specific link that rachel reeves made there between increased borrowing and the bank of england and your mortgage rates. they're obviously trying to put the frighteners on the tories. tried it first. £2,094 per household extra tax. the labour party have just doubled down. now it's £4,200 on your mortgage. >> they're all throwing these wild and fabulous numbers around aren't they, just to scare the electorate? >> it's all becoming very confusing. >> not to mention, as olivia says, rather disingenuous. i think these numbers are literally just being pulled out of hats. >> and frankly, i don't think we can take too many lessons on the economy from labour, can we? i'm old enough to remember the last labour government, and unfortunately the one before that when we had rubbish piled on the streets. inflation that made zimbabwe look cheap. >> and let's not forget that note from liam byrne. should we?

there's no money left. >> so rachel reeves may well have worked at the bank of england. i don't know what she did there. >> she was in a particularly senior role, but believe me, just because she worked at the bank of england doesn't mean that she's going to single handedly carry the economy to prosperity. >> the link between borrowing more, which, frankly, labour are going to have to do, particularly if they're going to fund all these fantastical things around net zero and the great british energy company, you know, these these things in terms of the increase in borrowing, it's inevitable, i think, that we're going to have to increase borrowing no matter which government gets in power. >> but the relationship between borrowing and consumer interest rates just simply isn't a series of dots that you can join. >> so i'm not sure that rachel reeves knows her economics very well, but she made that claim there. >> and these claims, as olivia said, these big numbers, they stick, you throw them at. well, everyone talks about labour party tax rises after that first tv debate. now they've thrown this one out there £4,800 on your mortgage. that will be scary to people, but the fact of the matter is, is it based on

extrapolation? is it based on reality? >> it's not based on reality at all. and unfortunately , these all. and unfortunately, these these politicians, whether it be lib dem, labour or conservative, let's just do this for balance as we've we've got rules to adhere to. i think they're all in danger of disengaging the pubuc in danger of disengaging the public even more with these wild claims and these silly things that they're throwing out to scare and indeed to try and attract. >> russell, i just have to interject because we've got some breaking news and we've just heard that the jury has reached the verdict in hunter biden's trial in wilmington. in delaware, president joe biden's only surviving son faces three charges tied to the possession of a gun while using narcotics, and he has pleaded not guilty . and he has pleaded not guilty. he's pleaded not guilty. there he is. he's come out, he said. not guilty. for those of you just catching in, hunter biden, of course, is joe biden's only surviving son. the jury has reached a verdict, and the gun possession trial and its not guilty. not guilty is the verdict. we'll have more on that story after the break. let's get

back to the studio now and have a quick chat on the obe seb gorka russell, quickly moving on. let's go to let's go russell, back to you. i got you and talk about housing. let's quickly nibble at that. can we a promise of a 1.1. 6 million extra homes. everyone's promising more homes. where are they going to build them? abolishing the stamp duty entirely on houses up to £450,000. and you help to buy scheme. will any of this help? because without supply , all this because without supply, all this will do surely, is increase demand. >> well, martin, i'm afraid the question really is, is any of this new? and i'm afraid most of it isn't. so first time buyers right now don't pay stamp duty up to £425,000. that was something that was introduced in 2022, albeit as a temporary measure to a 2025 or rishi sunak is doing is stating that that now will become permanent. so it's not new. and in fact, if you bought a house today as a first time buyer, as long as you complete by march 2025, you won't pay that stamp duty. help to buy. yes, that's now finishing all that's being done here by rishi sunak is reheating that. and frankly, when it comes

to house build numbers. so you know those those numbers that we need to see in britain, which the experts say is about 300,000 new homes every year, all that the parties now are doing is, is playing, frankly, top trumps with the numbers. we haven't built more than 210, 220,000 homes per year for decades since the macmillan government, both labour and the conservatives and the liberal democrats , of the liberal democrats, of course, all saying that they're going to build these huge numbers of homes 1.5, 1.6. no doubt the green party will come out with 1.7. reform will come out with 1.7. reform will come out with 1.7. reform will come out with 1.8, you know, let's see who can hit 2,000,001st. it's a prophecy, but unfortunately , martin, it's unfortunately, martin, it's a pipe unfortunately, martin, it's a pipe dream. none of them have doneit pipe dream. none of them have done it over decades. none of them are going to do it. >> and of course, with 750,000 net migration to the country, we're going to need a lot more houses anyway. russell quick, thank you very much. olivia utley. also superb. thank you very much for joining utley. also superb. thank you very much forjoining me here in the studio in westminster. i've got lots more coming up on that tory manifesto throughout the show. in the next few minutes i'll talk to a government minister and a member of the

shadow cabinet. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel >> thank you. was that the verdict? it was,

>> breaking news. huge story. the jury has found a verdict in hunter biden's gun trial. hunter biden is guilty on all three counts related to illegal gun possession. hunter biden, of course, joe biden's only surviving son. that's just been announced there in in wilmington, delaware. hunter biden guilty on all three counts related to illegal gun possession after a three hours of deliberation a week long trial , in the biden family's trial, in the biden family's hometown of wilmington, delaware , it featured some some agonising testimony about his addiction to crack cocaine, much

of which came from close relatives. and now the verdict has been delivered. hunter biden guilty on all three charges relating to illegal gun possession. an astonishing breaking story. we'll have more of that later in the show . back of that later in the show. back to domestic politics now, and let's get more reaction to the conservative manifesto, which has come out today. and i'm joined now by darren jones, who's the shadow chief secretary to the treasury. welcome to the show, darren. we just heard we just heard an extraordinary speech there from rachel reeves calling rishi sunak manifesto a desperate wish list 26 increases in taxes , £71 billion of in taxes, £71 billion of increased borrowing. she claimed , will lead to £4,800 on every single person's mortgage. is that figure true, or is that yet more lies, damn lies and statistics . statistics. >> well good afternoon. i mean, it's true. >> on the basis of the

conservative party manifesto that was published today, the conservatives had the chance to set out how they were going to fund their policies in their manifesto today, and they haven't even tried to be frank. >> i mean, that's why we've said it's the most expensive panic attack in political history, because there are tens and tens of billions of pounds of unfunded spending commitments. >> they've not said how they're going to pay for that with any confidence whatsoever. >> and so we can only assume they will pay for it through additional borrowing. and that has implications on interest rates and mortgages, as we all found out after liz truss. and we calculate that to be, on average, an additional £4,800 on mortgage rates for people that have mortgages on their homes now, i think it's an astonishing comment. >> earlier on, sir keir starmer said that rishi sunak plan is like jeremy corbyn, a jeremy corbyn giveaway. well, sir keir starmer backed those manifesto giveaways from jeremy corbyn twice in 2017 and 2019. i think it's a bit rich for sir keir starmer to be yielding corbynism as some kind of ghoulish weapon.

when he backed corbyn twice . when he backed corbyn twice. >> well, all that keir has been pointing out is that the conservative party manifesto is pretty big today and has lots of spending commitments in it, and they've not set out with any sense of realism whatsoever how they're going to pay for them. >> and the last time that happenedin >> and the last time that happened in british politics was, i'm afraid to say, jeremy corbyn's manifesto, but he's not a member of the labour party anymore. he's not standing as a labour mp and the labour party has changed under keir starmer. and you will see from our manifesto later this week that all of our policies are fully funded and fully costed. >> and it was saying here there are five serious errors in there. picking through the detail it really feels now. darren jones, the gloves are truly off. the two parties are at war over tax and the economy. >> well, we're just pointing out the failings of the conservative party most voters across the country know that because they've already paid the price after liz truss tried to do this, and now rishi sunak is trying to do it again, they

should have learnt the lessons and they haven't. and that's why in this election campaign we're pointing out that on average, £4,800 additional bills on your mortgage payments as a consequence of what rishi sunak and the conservatives are proposing, is something that we don't think people should vote for. okay >> thank you very much for joining us for a quick blast there. darren jones, who's the shadow chief secretary to the treasury, thanks for joining us. and let's quickly rejoin mark spencen and let's quickly rejoin mark spencer, the minister of state for food, farming and fisheries. mr spencer , welcome to the show. mr spencer, welcome to the show. so rachel rees we just heard there absolutely come out swinging tearing into rishi sunak's manifesto launch earlier saying it's a desperate wish list of unfulfilled unfunded promises, a recipe for disaster. and she's pulled this figure out of the air £4,800 on every single person's mortgage because of the extra borrowing that this would cause £71 billion of increased borrowing. what's your reaction to that, mr spencer? >> well, i you know, i think you know , that is a bit rich coming know, that is a bit rich coming from them when we've clearly seen that their unfunded

promises that they make are going to cost everybody £2,000 a yean going to cost everybody £2,000 a year, ours are fully costed. >> that's what you would expect from the conservative party. that's what you get with the conservative party. you do get that, sound economic management and vision. >> that's why we started to see a change in the direction that we've, we're seeing now in the economy following the global pandemic and putins invasion of ukraine. we're now just starting to turn the corner, get inflation under control, start to grow faster than japan, germany, the us , france, italy, germany, the us, france, italy, you know, and i think now is not the moment to pull all of that risk. now we're just starting to see that increase in our economic growth. let's not put that at risk by going back to keir starmer and rachel reeves. >> i don't think it was extraordinary today that sir keir starmer was accusing rishi sunak of a jeremy corbyn style giveaway. i mean, have we gone through the looking glass? keir starmer backed corbyn twice . starmer backed corbyn twice. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> and i think that's what you get with the current labour party. >> they will tell you what you want to hear. >> they will tell you anything that they think will secure your

vote until you actually try and pin them down on the detail. >> and then all of a sudden they go quite quiet and there is no detail behind it. >> there isn't a plan, they don't seem to want to talk about the future. >> they want to talk about the past. >> so when you ask them a question, what would you do about this? >> the answer you get is, well, we're in a terrible place at the moment, and we wouldn't have done what the government has done what the government has doneis done what the government has done is the answer you get. you don't actually get a vision or a plan as to what their solution is. >> and i think that is the marked difference in this election. you can either choose rishi sunak, who does have a plan, who will tell you what you need to hear, or keir starmer with no plan, who will tell you what you want to hear, in terms so that he can get your vote. >> okay. thanks forjoining us. mark spencer, the minister of state for food, farming and fisheries, the war on tax is well and truly underway. the conservative party say it will cost you £2,000 more under laboun cost you £2,000 more under labour. now labour saying of course you £4,800 more under the conservatives. what to believe we'll keep picking over this, of

course, throughout the show. and of course more on that. hunter biden guilty verdict just been reached. an astonishing story. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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frightening incident on the campaign trail today. and a man has thrown missiles at reform uk leader nigel farage. the incidents happened in barnsley, where mr farage was campaigning ahead of the general election. a man ran away before police officers tackled him to the ground. as footage on your screens now you can see that man there picking up lumps of rock. it looks like from a building site bin, chucking them at nigel farage as reform party battle buses running away there. then you can see and the police apprehend him further down the road. and this comes after a woman was charged with assault by beating and criminal damage when a milkshake was thrown over mr farage in clacton on sea last week . let's speak now to our week. let's speak now to our homeland security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show. so 2019, mr farage was milkshaked in newcastle milkshaked again last week. now the ante has been upped , the ante has been upped, projectiles have been thrown. mark. we seem to have an escalating problem with political violence. tell us more about this incident.

>> yeah. there's some real concern about the potential for this escalating even further in the weeks leading up to the general election, because politicians are at their most vulnerable. they are out and aboutin vulnerable. they are out and about in constituencies right across the country , determined across the country, determined to try to meet members of the public, of the electorate, to try to get the message across , try to get the message across, as nigel farage was doing today. on top of that battle bus in barnsley town centre , when barnsley town centre, when someone just by the side of the road where there was a construction site threw a number of objects at the bus and towards nigel farage, he ducked and managed to avoid those objects. now it's clear that one of the objects was a cup . don't of the objects was a cup. don't know what it was containing. there was some wet concrete apparently thrown, but nigel farage also believes that there

may have been a stone or harder rock that was thrown towards the bus as well, that is now being investigated by south yorkshire police, who detained a 28 year old man on suspicion of a public order offence. he is now in police custody and being questioned after this incident unfolded. just a few minutes later, nigel farage from the safety of the lower deck , safety of the lower deck, laughed it off but it was clear that he was very frustrated about what is becoming now a regular occurrence of him being targeted out and about on the campaign trail. >> 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 agree to disagree. what we've now got is a mob that want 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 . are you okay? indeed. are you okay? >> me ? >> me? >> me? >> i'm used to it. i don't like it . of course not. because this 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 . frustrating. >> it didn't hit you this time. >> it didn't hit you this time. >> it didn't hit you this time. >> it didn't hit me. this time. but, yeah, i mean, you do wonder to what lengths these people will go. they're all. >> and that is, i think, one of the real concerns that nigel farage and other politicians have about the potential for this to escalate into more serious violence. we've seen in both germany and slovakia in recent weeks, political

politicians targeted and being seriously injured in those countries. so some real concern. and in fact, the home secretary, james cleverly, has issued a brief statement this afternoon about this incident in which he says there must be no place for violence and intimidation in our politics, and these actions should be condemned by everyone. he goes on there to thank south yorkshire police for their prompt response in arresting the suspect. and i think the fact that the home secretary has felt it necessary to comment really indicates just how concerned politicians are about the potential during this election campaign for there to be incidents where politicians are being targeted, not by those who disagree, just with the stance that a particular politician has on an issue. we've always had a proud history of political

disagreement, but those who are willing to cross over from verbal disagreements into what is political violence, mark, what do you think something more sinister is happening here? >> we seem to have a media class prevents the counter terror. organisations seem obsessed with the far right. but certainly since october the 7th mark, it seems to be more of a radicalised left wing movement. certainly since the palestine protests took to the streets in britain, we've seen an arson attack on mark mike fryer's office. he stepped down from politics. conservative mp of course, david amess was murdered in october 2021. we saw parliament just around the corner from here, surrounded and that impacted an actual vote going on side. we're seeing constituency offices of parliamentarians from the labour party surrounded by those from the hard left. the pro—palestinian support hours. is this something you think we

need to talk about? we need to have an open conversation because if it's getting too dangerous for politicians to campaign during a live electoral cycle, mark white that is not a healthy democracy . healthy democracy. >> no. and we've always had issues with the left or indeed the far left. i remember covering many may day protests when, you know, that was activists and far left, groups that were involved in some really serious violence against the, the police and against, businesses that they saw as offending their particular sensibilities. so, yes, there's always been issues, from those on the, the left and those on the right , on the, the left and those on the right, but i think it's less about that and more about those who can't just anymore, it seems, except that you can disagree with an individual . you disagree with an individual. you can argue your points with an individual and then agree to

disagree and leave it just at the political rhetoric. there is now a movement on both sides. it has to be said where people want to, really just enact that disagreement out in much more physical terms and that can, as we've seen in germany and as we've seen in germany and as we've seen in slovakia, result in really significant , we've seen in slovakia, result in really significant, and serious incidents. and of course, in this country , you course, in this country, you mentioned of, of course, david amess, but we remember, jo cox as well. so the there is just a real concern that from whatever our side of the political spectrum, this may come from, that as we get into an increasingly heated political campaign, that there may be those individuals who are willing to cross this line . willing to cross this line. >> great words spoken there. mark white, we can disagree , but mark white, we can disagree, but we should not take it to the level of physical confrontation that has no place on british streets. mark white, thank you

very much for your expert insights as ever. now coming up, we'll get more reaction to the us president's son, hunter biden, who's been found guilty on three counts, including lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun. that's just broken there in delaware, the hometown of hunter biden. we'll have more on that soon. i'm martin daubney on that soon. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's channel

welcome back. it's 447. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. president joe biden's son, hunter biden, has recently been convicted of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun. a jury in wilmington, delaware federal court found him guilty on all three counts against him, making hunter biden the first child of a sitting us president to be convicted of a

crime, a verdict democrats may seize upon to counter donald trump's claim of a justice system weaponized against him. well, joining me now to discuss this is a spokesperson for republicans overseas uk, jennifer ewing. jennifer, welcome to the studio on a hugely controversial day, for the benefit of a british audience who may not be aware of this case, we've got a general election going on after all. can you bring us up to speed about the charges behind this, the story and the verdict? sure, sure . sure. >> and in america at the moment, there's a lot of lawfare going on. so even those of us who are sitting in america paying attention to this can't, can't follow all of it. so basically, the laptop, you know, the laptop from hell that had been suppressed before the 2020 election. once that turned out to be real, which we now know a lot of things came from that, and also, one of the things that happenedin and also, one of the things that happened in this case in his hometown of wilmington, delaware, where the bidens are from, this case was about lie

lying on a gun form saying that he was not addicted to drugs. right. and there was a lot of testimony, and there was a lot of evidence showing that that was not true. he was still very much using crack cocaine and other drugs during that time. so he was convicted on all charges. we'll find out later in the summer what the sentencing is. he could go to prison. i doubt very much that he will. this is his hometown town. they love the bidens. i really hope that , the bidens. i really hope that, the republicans don't turn this into some kind of lawfare. and as a matter of fact, there was talk that president trump were to , that president trump were to, were he to win would come in and pardon hunter biden because he's now a convicted felon. so he would pardon him. president trump has a brother that was an alcoholic. so he understands. so do most of americans. you know, they have addiction in their family. so, yeah. and the other thing that i think is interesting is if i were to be a

cynical person , i would say this cynical person, i would say this is the one charge that hunter biden is looking at that does not does not tie the crime to president biden. right. there was some tax charges that he's actually going to face trial in california, i believe next week, as well as some foreign agent around briberies from, you know, ukraine and china. so those could link to president biden. this does not. so it is a again, if i was going to be cynical, it is a good way for people to say, hey, this is a fairjustice hey, this is a fair justice system. we go after democrats as well. >> and hunter biden is a man not without his issues, his addictions been very public about that. in fact, some of the evidence , jennifer was agonising evidence, jennifer was agonising and its brutality of his crack addiction. he was waking up in the morning. he got his was did he get his sister onto drugs as well? >> well, what it was was it was his deceased brother's ex—wife

who he started dating after beau biden, his brother died and she , biden, his brother died and she, yes, got addicted to crack cocaine. so, yeah, there were some really sad, sad stories coming out of that. so, you know, i wouldn't wish addiction on anyone this. and certainly this is playing out in front of the whole world. the irony, actually, is, i believe president biden is due to speak at an event today about this exact law. you know , president exact law. you know, president biden has been very sort of, you know, pro more gun laws and this law saying that a former addict cannot own a gun is exactly what his son was just convicted of. >> so and moving on from the hunter biden case, we initially got you in earlier to talk about joe biden himself. you mentioned he's about to do a speech and yesterday at a juneteenth celebration at the white house, joe biden seemed to totally freeze mid—sentence. he seemed to go into kind of, here he is.

you can see on screen there, this is a celebration from yesterday. he completely physically freezes. he doesn't seem to know where he is. a lot of people saying, jennifer, is this guy okay, look, martin, i mean, first of all, you look at that and it's very sad , you that and it's very sad, you know, that it's clearly somebody in the stages of while i'm not a doctor, dementia or other cognitive decline. >> it actually looks photoshopped. that picture, doesn't it? i know it's not, but he's totally still everybody else, including, you know, george floyd's brother and then some man dancing in a sequinned dress and kamala harris trying to get her husband to dance. and he's just he's frozen, as you say. this is sad. and i think if the democrats were honest, they would say, we need another candidate . this is elder abuse. candidate. this is elder abuse. but the trump derangement syndrome is so strong and they do not want president trump to get elected again. and it's looking like he will, he's ahead in the swing states and he wins. on the issues. >> you know, it's funny i

jennifer i spoke with one joe biden's former chief of staff last week. i specifically said to her, look, a lot of people are saying joe biden doesn't seem quite right now. you speak to him regularly. how is he? and she said, oh, no, no, he's he's as sharp as he was 20 years ago. so, so the official line at least they're putting out is that he's compos mentis. there's no problem at all. this is scurrilous rumours, but there seems to be a mounting body of physical evidence. we can see where something looks a bit amiss. no, completely. >> and i agree with you. everything we're hearing out of washington, for people who are probably far more plugged in than i am, is he's going to be the candidate . that's it. we'll the candidate. that's it. we'll see you at the debates on june 27th, one thing to note about these debates is it was joe biden and his team's decision to move them from september up closer to june. right. and they're also doing it without they're also doing it without the election committee. for the first time ever, my personal view, and it's contrarian, is that this is going to be a test case for can joe biden actually do a debate? i doubt very much he can. we've seen the energy

differences between him and president trump, at which point they've got three options. >> okay. thank you very much. jennifer ewing , republicans jennifer ewing, republicans overseas for joining us. jennifer ewing, republicans overseas forjoining us. that's all for this hour. but still more loads to come with me. martin daubney on gb news. first your weather and here's aidan mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb 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, and many places will end up dnen and many places will end up drier, with clear spells developing the longest clear 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 . see the best of the sunshine. >> first thing some decent sunny spells for much of central and 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 as 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, eastern england and the south east through the afternoon. a few sharp showers once again are possible in between some drier and brighter interludes, but towards the west, as well as for

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heart of westminster all across the uk. £17 billion in heart of westminster all across the uk . £17 billion in tax the uk. £17 billion in tax giveaways. a promise to halve migration. a pledge to build 1.6 million new homes and help first time buyers. rishi sunak launched his manifesto at silverstone racetrack today. will it rev up the voters or will the wheels come off? the tories election campaign ? and, tories election campaign? and, in response, the prime minister's bumper giveaway ? minister's bumper giveaway? labour leader sir keir starmer extraordinarily branded it a jeremy corbyn style manifesto that will load everything into the wheelbarrow while 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 early today in barnsley. first milkshakes and now rocks. do we have a serious issue with escalating political violence from the radicalised left and activist from animal rising have caused a major upset by vandalising the king's new

portrait to highlight what they consider animal cruelty at rspca approved farms. more of an unholy row . and that's all unholy row. and that's all coming up in your next hour. what's been an extraordinary day in politics? sir keir starmer has compared rishi sunak to jeremy corbyn. rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor a moment ago, compared rishi sunak to liz truss. i think it's time to make your minds up. who is he? truss or corbyn? and isn't it a bit rich for sir keir starmer to compare anybody to jeremy corbyn when he backed jeremy corbyn twice at the electoral polls? also in the last half an hour, hunter biden has been found guilty on all three counts relating to illegal possession of a firearm. will have all of that and much more . get in that and much more. get in touch, use your ways and it's gbnews.com forward slash your

say. but before all of that is your headlines and it's polly middlehurst. >> martin thank you and good afternoon to you. well, rishi sunak says he's not blind to the fact that people are frustrated with him. he said as he launched the conservative party manifesto today, the prime minister promised a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts , including package of tax cuts, including another £0.02 in the pound cut to national insurance . in total, to national insurance. in total, the cuts would amount to an annual cost of more than £17 billion by 2030. labour is calling that a desperate wish list, but rishi sunak says he's the only leader with bold ideas . the only leader 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 £1,300 to the average worker .

£1,300 to the average worker. >> well, responding to the conservative manifesto, the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, said a short time ago that the conservative plans will lead to a second tory mortgage bombshell . bombshell. >> here's what she said tories claim that they can make £12 billion in savings in welfare. but the truth is that claim is simply not credible. it is true that under the conservatives, the welfare bill has spiralled since 2019, spending on benefits to support disabled people and those with health conditions has risen in real terms by £20 million. and under rishi sunak as prime minister, the taxpayer has been losing £1 million every single hour to benefit fraud and error. that is their record and there are savings to be made. but the idea that the conservatives proposals can save £12 billion is pure fiction . £12 billion is pure fiction. >> rachel reeves speaking a short time ago. well, the conservative manifesto also includes help for first time buyers with changes to stamp

duty and what's being called a new and improved help to buy scheme. there was a pledge address, a pledge to address a shortage of housing by building 1.6 million new homes. there's also £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 the deterrent would be a key part of britain's migration plan, clearing the asylum backlog within six months and ending the use of hotels . 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 , migrants will depart in july, establishing the deterrent that will stop the boats . because will stop the boats. because when people know that if they try to come here illegally , they try to come here illegally, they won't get to stay, then they will stop coming . and if we are will stop coming. and if we are forced to choose between our

security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court , including the a foreign court, including the echr, we will always choose our nation's security . nation's security. >> well, tv chef jamie oliver says a ban on the sale of energy dnnks says a ban on the sale of energy drinks to young people would be a welcome relief for parents and teachers. the tv chef says he supports labour's plan, which would see children under the age of 16 blocked from buying drinks with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre. study show that high levels of caffeine among young people can cause sleep disturbances, as well as behavioural and mental health problems as well. the home secretary, james cleverly, has condemned the attack on nigel farage after objects were thrown at him during a campaign event this morning. police have arrested a 28 year old man on suspicion of public order offences. it's understood a coffee cup and possibly building rubble narrowly missed the reform. uk leader , who was on reform. uk leader, who was on top of his party's battlebus in

barnsley town centre in yorkshire. mr farage was addressing supporters when he was interrupted by a crowd of demonstrators . he said he'd been demonstrators. he said he'd been warned by police not to get off the bus . convicted sex offender the bus. convicted sex offender and former pop star 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 woman, who can't be named, is suing the disgraced 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 attempting to access images of children on the dark web . now, children on the dark web. now, the hamas terror group has now accepted a ceasefire proposal that was passed by the un last night. the security council backed the three phase plan, which includes the release of hostages and the withdrawal of israeli forces. a senior member of hamas says the group will

accept the deal and is now ready to begin negotiations over the details . and as you've been details. and as you've been heanng details. and as you've been hearing throughout the afternoon on gp news, president joe biden's son hunter biden , has biden's son hunter biden, has been convicted in the united states of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun, a jury use to illegally buy a gun, a jury has found the 54 year old guilty on all three counts against him. it makes him the first child of the sitting president to be convicted of a crime for the first time. he was accused of not disclosing his crack cocaine addiction when completing forms to buy a gun in 2018. charges. at the time, he denied . now they say elephants denied. now they say elephants never forget. but now researchers have found they have a particular skill for remembering names. new studies suggest the giant animals use individual rumble sounds to get each other's attention. similar to the way humans use names. evidence shows them recognising

and reacting to certain calls addressed to certain individual elephants, and even ignoring calls addressed to others. experts used a specialist signal processing technique to identify the subtle differences in each call. that's the latest sign up for gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you polly. now we start with rishi sunak and the tories attempt to turn the tide of this general election campaign. their manifesto includes some eye catching policies, including a promise to halve migration. but it stops short of saying that the uk could leave the european convention on human rights and i'm joined by our political correspondent olivia utley, and also by the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards, peter olivier. welcome to the show, olivia. let's start with you. so chris hobe asked the first

question at the manifesto launch today. gb news political editor, and he said, if you want to be bold, prime minister, why not simply leave the echr? well, exactly. >> and the tories have come actually quite close in their manifesto to seeing, saying that they would be prepared to leave they would be prepared to leave the echr. they've said that uk sovereignty will always trump european law, but it doesn't actually say that they will just pull out. and lots of eurosceptics on the conservative backbenchers say that the time has already come to pull out of the echr. basically what rishi sunak has done here is a bit of a fudge. let's have a listen to what he has to say. >> i've been clear throughout that i believe that our plan is compliant with all our international obligations. compliant with all our internationalobligations. but international obligations. but i've also been clear, and the manifesto is crystal clear , that manifesto is 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 . security every single time. >> so he says there that he will always choose the country's national security over the european court of human rights. but you know, there are conservative mps who argue that already the country's national security has been threatened because of the echr the rwanda scheme hasn't been able to get off the ground yet. months ago, rishi sunak said that he wanted to see flights leave the tarmac by the spring. that didn't happen. by the spring. that didn't happen . arguably that is because happen. arguably that is because of echr law. so why is he actually stopping short now of just pulling out? he's got a lot of pressures from him on both sides of his party. this was an issue when parliament was sitting. it is still an issue now and there are conservative mps in those blue wall seats. the chancellor of the exchequer, for example , who tended to vote. for example, who tended to vote. those seats which tended to vote remain the prime minister is being very careful not to anger those constituencies , while at those constituencies, while at the same time trying to keep his

eurosceptic mps on board, which is why eurosceptic candidates , i is why eurosceptic candidates, i should say, on board, which is why we have this sort of fudge about the echr which we saw just there. >> olivia, a familiarjuggling act. peter, i was turning to you. now, do you think actually the conservatives want to leave the conservatives want to leave the echr, or are they just throwing this out there as a bit of red to meat appease the brexiteers? but they won't actually ever do it, will they? >> i think they want to not lose the election. i mean, all sorts ofideas the election. i mean, all sorts of ideas have been thrown out by tory backbenchers and dismissed as fantasy. and remember, 30 years ago people said pa will never leave the eu and then it came to pass. >> they were several decades. >> they were several decades. >> they were several decades. >> the reason why i'm incredibly cautious and lukewarm about this is rishi sunaks relative weakness, and i think you both use the word juggling. you know, this does not come up on the doorstep. >> in the last five years i've campaigned in labour seats, tory seats and swing seats. >> this has never come up, not even once. >> and we know in this election that it's, immigration and cost of living and nhs waiting list of living and nhs waiting list of things. so european convention on human rights does not come up on the doorstep.

>> therefore, why is the prime minister talking about it? >> answer he's talking to his own side or he's talking about because maybe nigel farage is talking about it. >> anyway, let's move on. because sir keir starmer was scathing about the tories announcement earlier. he said it was a jeremy corbyn style manifesto. >> we have been absolutely clear that all our plans are fully costed, fully funded . we will costed, fully funded. we will not be increasing income tax, national insurance or vat, so no tax increases for working people. none of our plans require tax rises, but 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 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. well, that's what sir keir starmer said in the last hour or so. >> shadow chancellor rachel reeves has also got stuck in to

the tories . we have, of course, the tories. we have, of course, the tories. we have, of course, the people's channel. so we went out and about in wakefield earlier to find out what locals there thought about the tory manifesto . manifesto. >> absolute rubbish, waste of time . when i look at the time. when i look at the country, what it is now i've seen i'm 84, i've seen the different governments. it's absolute rubbish. the promises are that they never come out, they don't come right with it. at the moment i don't know exactly who i'm voting for. i'll be honest, i have voted conservative but i've also voted labour at times. i've also voted liberal. at the moment i have no idea . i don't understand idea. i don't understand politics, but i think they're all a pack of liars. >> i, i actually don't agree with politics whatsoever, they all make promises that they don't keep, and i've stopped voting , to be honest with you. i voting, to be honest with you. i don't see the point because the goal as bad as each other. >> absolute rubbish. >> absolute rubbish.

>> what makes you say that ? >> what makes you say that? >> what makes you say that? >> well, look, it's a country how. >> now. >> it's. it's all gone to pot, hasn't it? >> that's 14 years. >> that's 14 years. >> through austerity years, they've been riddled with corruption . corruption. >> they've ridden the gravy, the taxpayers gravy train to infinity and beyond, and they've taken everything they want for themselves. and the country has suffered well. >> there's loads to respond to there . there's disaffection there. there's disaffection amongst voters is astonishing. people seem furious with the political class. but before we get to that, olivia and peter, let's just rewind a bit. that astonishing attack by sir keir starmer, comparing rishi sunak to jeremy corbyn. starmer backed corbyn twice in two elections. how on earth can can a labour leader echo that rattled the ghost chains of jeremy corbyn about a prime minister who's a conservative? well he's attacking his predecessor and the man rishi sunak hopes to succeed this. >> i mean, it was clearly an off the cuff remark, but he'll actually be quite happy with it.

one, because we're talking about it. two, because he got a jibe in against the prime minister and the prime minister is relatively weak. but three crucially, he's drawing a point of distinction between himself and jeremy corbyn's leadership. and remember this phrase we're heanng and remember this phrase we're hearing every hour on all channels under keir starmer has changed labour party, the labour frontbench are hammering home the point that they're different from the hard left, just as tony blair and neil kinnock would both pick fights with the far left of the labour party to make a point, the general voting pubuc a point, the general voting public that labour has come back to the centre ground. so i think we'll be quite happy with that. >> but don't you think it'd be best just just to bury the word? don't even mention the corbyn word, because every time it comes back, people start to think, well, you voted for that 9”!!- think, well, you voted for that guy. you backed that guy twice. >> well, i think that might have been the strategy. but in the heat of a general election, when you're being attacked around the clock by the conservatives, it's obvious that the word corbyn's gonna come up. so actually deaung gonna come up. so actually dealing with it as keir starmer did would with a bit of a joke with a serious political point about the labour party coming back to the centre, probably works okay. rather than just

reading out a script about how he was campaigning for the labour party in 2017. >> all right. and olivia utley that next, rachel reeves delivered a withering monologue she went through. rishi sunak's manifesto said it was £71 billion of increased borrowing , billion of increased borrowing, blew it apart in a five point post—mortem . but she she then post—mortem. but she she then compared rishi sunak to liz truss. i mean, make your mind up, is it? is he jeremy corbyn or is he liz truss? >> well, i think that the logic behind what keir starmer and rachel reeves were both driving at is that this manifesto is irresponsible. that's what labouris irresponsible. that's what labour is trying to get at, that there's too much spending here and that as they keep repeating, the money isn't there for it. rachel reeves attack on the manifesto was pretty startling in that it very much seemed to come from from a from a right wing perspective, if you like. it was all about responsibility. it was all about responsibility. it was all about, the danger of this becoming, it was all about, the danger of this becoming , too much this becoming, too much spending. and so the bank of england would have to raise interest rates. and so mortgage rates could increase for people . rates could increase for people. she actually put a figure on how

much mortgages would increase £4,800. not exactly where. sure where that came from, obviously you can't work out in that much detail just how much this could end up costing, but essentially , end up costing, but essentially, this was a pretty cautious , this was a pretty cautious, response from the labour party. it was all about the tories , it was all about the tories, spending where they don't have money. in fact, it sounded like a pretty small c conservative response to that manifesto. it'll be really interesting to see on thursday what labour have to say themselves because so far they have been treading ever so softly. they know that their 25 points ahead in the polls, they don't really need to say anything about what they're going to do. they only have to not be the conservative party. but on thursday they do have to pubush but on thursday they do have to publish some sort of manifesto. and what are they going to say about tax and spend? so far, they've said that they won't be raising any of the three major taxes, and they've criticised the conservatives for too much spending. so is the labour plan going to be? let's just carry on as we are. >> okay, olivia, peter, stick

with us because there's another big story on the campaign trail today. and a man has thrown building rubble at reform uk leader nigel farage. the incident happened in barnsley , incident happened in barnsley, where mr farage was campaigning ahead of the general election . a ahead of the general election. a man ran away before police officers tackled him to the ground. then it comes after a woman, of course, was charged with assault and criminal damage when a milkshake was thrown over mr farage in clacton on sea last week. olivia utley, there has been a pattern emerging now. first the milkshake, of course, not the first time. 2019 in newcastle on the eu campaign trail, mr farage was milkshake. this seems to be something more sinister. an upping of the ante lob lobbing lumps of rubble. >> well, as you say, there does seem to be a pattern and it does seem to be a pattern and it does seem to be escalating. i mean, this is a pretty shocking incident and actually, to give them credit, west yorkshire, west yorkshire, i think police is investigating it very, very promptly indeed. it's all being looked into. now let's just have a listen to what nigel farage himself had to say after the

event. >> 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 want 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 indeed. be okay. me i'm used to it. i don't like it. of 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 round the pubs or whatever. i do. and these violent youngsters are stopping me. it's very, very frustrating . frustrating. >> didn't hit you this time. >> didn't hit you this time. >> didn't hit me this time. but yeah.i >> didn't hit me this time. but yeah. i mean, you do wonder to what lengths these people will go. they're all so peter owen

was nigel farage. >> they're making light of it. but do we need to have a conversation about the radicalised left ? we hear all radicalised left? we hear all the time about the right wing, but look at what's happened since october the 7th, in particular on the streets outside here. parliament it was basically barraged by people. the anti—semitism on british streets has gone through the roof. mike freer left parliamentary office because there was an arson attack on his office. december 23rd radical leftists outside labour party constituency mps, officers now nigel farage targeted twice in a week . do we need to talk about week. do we need to talk about the radicalised left? >> any attack on a politician of any stripe is an attack on all of us, because it's an attack on democracy and our right to vote. >> now i don't agree with nigel farage on much. >> i think he's very divisive , >> i think he's very divisive, but there is no excuse for violence at all. i would say there is a fringe element. sadly, in all stripes of politics, and it gives me no pleasure to say that if you look at the counter terrorism watch

list published by the home office and the police and so on, they have a concern about islamic extremism, but also about home grown neo—nazi elements on the right. >> but but as you also said, we've seen some protests in london about what's going on in the middle east. it's not the far right doing all these attacks. >> well, that was on palestine. >> well, that was on palestine. >> this is the far left that's coming on to the saturday marches. yes it's legitimate to marches. yes it's legitimate to march for peace. >> it's legitimate to criticise another government. what we must not do is make jews in london feel unsafe and that is a worry. and that's why i think many of us feel the police could have been a bit more rigorous. when a fringe element are shouting hateful anti—semitic slogans in central london, does that soft policing, precipitate itself in things like this? >> a lot of people on the political left were commentating. they thought it was hilarious that nigel farage had been milkshaked last week. first the milkshake, then a piece of rubble. what next? well ho. 110. >> no. >> violence is hilarious and it's a risk of a sliding scale . it's a risk of a sliding scale. one can understand voters, however, perhaps wrong to

chuckle over a milkshake, but it's still a crime because it's an attempt to harass and intimidate someone. as you said, the risk is something escalating. we all know the damage a rock could do. blindness a head injury. and you know, it's sincerely my hope that this is just one isolated moron who's not particularly involved in politics. but obviously the thing that we pay the police and the security services do is to look for political movements that have a more fundamental, violent intent. >> superb stuff. peter edwards and olivia utley, thank you very much. an excellent opening to the hour. just finish off pictures there on screen of that quy's pictures there on screen of that guy's now been apprehended 28 year old men man moving on. animal rights activists have attacked a painting of king charles yet more morons i martin daubney on gb news britain's news channel

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news. now to some incredible images . an animal rights images. an animal rights activists have vandalised the portrait of king charles. as you can see on your screens there now, campaigners from animal rising put a picture of the animated character wallace from wallace and gromit over the king's face. they added a speech bubble with the words no cheese, gromit, look at all this cruelty on rspca forms. what can you say about that? well, here's a man with a few choice words. no doubt it's the royal correspondents, michael cole, who joins me now. michael, what can you say about these people? over to you. >> well, it was an act of pure stupidity and utterly contemptible. these one issue zealots, they demean themselves and they dishonour the cause for which they say they're fighting. i tell you what, martin, if they tried that in the hermitage museum in saint petersburg and

the putin's police came in, i'd have a little bit more respect for them because they wouldn't be treated as gently as they are in a gallery in mayfair in central london, the only good thing about this childish episode is that the brilliant portrait of the red king by jonathan yeo was not damaged in any way. the king apparently thinks it's brilliant, and i thinks it's brilliant, and i think he's absolutely right, yeah. there we see them again. it's real student stuff, isn't it? you know, they're lame brains and, i'm not even going to explain what they think they're doing, and why they want to criticise the rspca, because that just gives them the oxygen of publicity. if they have a case to make , let them make it case to make, let them make it in a sensible, civilised way , in a sensible, civilised way, and we might listen. >> but michael eyebrows will be

raised. questions will be asked about the lack of security around this painting. it's one of constitutional importance. it's a favourite of the king. it's a favourite of the king. it's on public display. we know these pressure groups target things like this. these pressure groups target things like this . it's pretty things like this. it's pretty obvious actually. looking back with the benefit of hindsight, this may have happened. as you said, there is perspex over the screen , but not a security guard screen, but not a security guard in sight, not even a velvet rope. michael cole this looks embarrassing for the gallery. >> yeah, i do, i agree, what's the cameraman doing there? was it all set up? i mean, at least there are two cameras here because we're seeing the pictures. one camera shot and there seems to be another cameraman there. is he part of the stunt or not? philip mould, of course. is the man who appears on fake or fortune, with, fiona bruce. i'm sure most people have seen that programme . people have seen that programme. he's a very distinguished, artist himself, i believe, and also, somebody who knows a great deal about art and the value of

it. now it's nasty. and these things i think, are counterproductive because anybody who might be willing or open to persuasion on, on this, will be put off by it because it's vandalism. let's call it what it is. it's utter vandalism. it's unnecessary. we live in a democracy . if you have live in a democracy. if you have a case to make, make it in a civilised way , not in a way civilised way, not in a way which alarms and threatens other people and also damages property. had that great picture, been destroyed or damaged in any way ? we would damaged in any way? we would have all been diminished because it was painted , by jonathan yeo it was painted, by jonathan yeo for a specific place where it will eventually hang. but it's part of, the story of this country . and it's, i think, country. and it's, i think, probably one of the best portraits , of his majesty the portraits, of his majesty the king at any time during his life . so we could have lost a lot, it's really another example of what we saw with nigel farage

today. somebody's going to get injured. i was with mrs. thatcher on the road for five years. her two detectives, they were brilliant guys. they were great at catching eggs. you know that. you could have made an omelette by the end of the day in the in the battle bus, because of the number of eggs they caught. and of course, we remember john prescott rather reacting to somebody who wanted to throw something in his face. you'll remember that he reacted rather robustly. i think most of the country applauded him for doing it . doing it. >> okay. thanks forjoining us. michael cole wallace and gromit. more like wallace and gromit. always a pleasure , michael cole, always a pleasure, michael cole, to have you on the show. and there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00. and i'll tell you all about labour's plan to tackle the uk's dental crisis. and guess what? they're going to pay for it by scrapping the non—dom status. fangs can only get better. but first, it's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst .

polly middlehurst. >> the top story this hour. rishi sunak says he isn't blind to the fact that people are frustrated with him, as he unveiled the conservatives manifesto pledges today. his election promises to include another £0.02 in the pound cut to national insurance , a ban on to national insurance, a ban on phonesin to national insurance, a ban on phones in schools and a new help to buy scheme. labour's called it an unaffordable recipe for more chaos. but speaking at the launch event earlier, the prime minister said he's offering a clear plan of bold action to cut tax 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 £1,400 to the average worker . average worker. >> well, responding to the tory manifesto , the shadow manifesto, the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, this afternoon said the conservatives plans will lead to a second tory

mortgage bombshell. >> the tories claim that they can make £12 billion in savings in welfare . but the truth is in welfare. but the truth is that claim is simply not credible . it is true that under credible. it is true that under the conservatives, the welfare bill has spiralled since 2019, spending on benefits to support disabled people and those with health conditions has risen in real terms by £20 million. and under rishi sunak, as prime minister, the taxpayer has been losing £1 million every single hour to benefit fraud and error. thatis hour to benefit fraud and error. that is their record and there are savings to be made. but the idea that the conservatives proposals can save £12 billion is pure fiction . is pure fiction. >> well, as you've been hearing, a protest group has vandalised a portrait of the king. two members of the group, called animal rising , entered the animal rising, entered the philip mould gallery and stuck images to the painting from the animated series wallace and gromit . the group says it was gromit. the group says it was calling attention to what it

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welcome back. your time is 537. we're on the final furlong. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. throughout the election campaign, we'll be hearing from people across the united kingdom about what really matters to them. issues such as the nhs waiting list, the impact of immigration, the cost of living crisis and crime and policing. now our reporters have been to meet voters from all four nafions meet voters from all four nations and we'll be hearing from them regularly before polling day. and today, for the first time, we meet sam. >> 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, there's a lot of future left, right , so i there's a lot of future left, right, so i would say there's a lot of future left, right , so i would say that i've right, so i would say that i've actually probably seen more politically engaged young people, whether or not that's around economic or social issues, it seems to be more prevalent now than personally what i've seen for a long time, especially with things like the climate crisis, is . climate crisis, is. >> and with the people, shannon, that sam with his people's voice. lots more of those throughout this general election campaign . i love them now. day campaign. i love them now. day after labour unveiled plans to give free breakfast to all primary school children, the party's promised to introduce 100,000 extra dental to appointments clear the backlog and our political correspondents katherine forster has spent the

day with the labour leader and she joins me now. catherine breakfast yesterday and today it's dentistry and a war on energy drinks. tell us more . energy drinks. tell us more. >> yes. good afternoon . martin >> yes. good afternoon. martin from lincoln. i was with sir keir starmer and the shadow health secretary was wes streeting this morning at a school where they were watching a supervised tooth brushing. that's part of their child health action action plan. and also announcing another 100,000 urgent dental appointments for children to take place if necessary, at evenings and weekends. because labour says that half a million fewer children saw a dentist last year compared to just back in 2018. the other thing they're announcing today is that if they get into government in, what, three and a half weeks, as seems very likely at the moment according to the polls, they will ban those very highly

caffeinated energy drinks for under 16 seconds. so, you know, the red bulls, those types of thing that quite often kids are quite partial to in their teens, they're saying they will bring in a ban on those. and keir starmer was asked by broadcasters whether this wasn't all a bit nanny state. let's see what he had to say. >> the, sort of state of the nafion >> the, sort of state of the nation can be measured in many respects by the health of our children. it's in a terrible place, and i was shocked, genuinely shocked to learn that more children go into hospital to have their teeth taken out between the ages of 6 to 10 than any other operation. i'm not to prepared simply stand by and let that happen, which is why we've championed, you know, supervised teeth cleaning. we've been watching that this morning, and i don't really care what people call it. if the price for a child of not taking action is losing your teeth between the ages of 6 to 10, that's a price. that's too high. as far as i'm

concerned . concerned. >> so that's the message from sir keir starmer. he doesn't really care if people think it is nanny state because he's horrified by the number of 6 to 10 year olds going into hospital to lose their teeth. so basically, he says, bring it on. if you're going to accuse him of the nanny state stuff, he really doesn't mind . doesn't mind. >> well, thank you. katherine forster live from lincoln giving us plenty to get our teeth stuck into throughout the day from the labour campaign trail. see you again tomorrow. now a reminder of the big news that broke in the last hour. and joe biden's son, hunter biden, has been found guilty of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun . drug use to illegally buy a gun. we'll have the full story after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel

welcome back. time is 546. we're on the final. final furlong. i'm martin daubney on gb news. now. let's get more reaction to the tories manifesto , which came out tories manifesto, which came out earlier today. and as you'd expect, lib dem leader ed davey says voters simply cannot believe the conservatives >> i think people are going to feel that this is another broken promise that won't be delivered by the conservatives. they promised tax cuts before and we've seen tax rises. taxes have gone up to record levels under the conservatives. and actually, if you look at their budget forecasts , they're still forecasts, they're still freezing tax allowances for people. >> so tax is actually going to go >> so tax is actually going to 9° up >> so tax is actually going to go up under the conservatives. >> and i think that's the problem with rishi sunaks conservatives. they try to make out they're going to help people and they've made so much worse for people . for people. >> well, i'm joined now in the studio by our political editor, chris hope. chris, you've been at silverstone, you've motored it back and you come bearing gifts you've got. >> yes. we have it.

>> manifesto. >> manifesto. >> this is the moment at which the second moment of the campaign, if you're the tory party, you can see it there because what happens is they call the election . that's the call the election. that's the first moment. the second moment is the manifesto . because until is the manifesto. because until that point, it's all just ideas and chatter. there's not a lot in it, martin. we didn't know already. what's happened is the tory party has been so far behind in the polls, 20 points behind. they've been milking it, mining it for ideas to try and get the polls going in the right direction. we know about national service . we know about national service. we know about the. as of this week on national insurance, we know about the triple lock plus on pensions, not taxing pensioners on their state pension income tax after 2028. we know all that stuff. that's all in here. there are bits and bobs in here, notably, alleviation of national insurance for entrepreneurs, white van men and women and the rest who are self—employed. by the end of this parliament in 2029, if they get elected again, £17 billion worth of tax cuts, that's the offer , but i think that's the offer, but i think for me, i asked the question of

the prime minister in silverstone and called first gb news is called first prime minister, which is a good moment for us to why where's the bold action you need to get the polls going in the right direction. by which i meant echr withdrawal. be bold, because that's what the reform uk party are doing and he couldn't go there. so it's a bit safety first. still, i think . safety first. still, i think. but we have got now a document to go over for gb news viewers and here it is. >> and to use one final torturous motoring metaphor , you torturous motoring metaphor, you love doing them the day i do, will it rev the voters up or is it just reheating what we already know? rachel reeves astonish attack on this saying it's a desperate wish list. unfunded promises, channelling the spirit of liz truss £71 billion. it will put £5,000 almost on everybody's mortgage. they've gone to war on this today. >> yes, yes they have. now the second document i shall show you the viewers is a costings document. now this is very important because this is how labour will be attacked on thursday by the, by the tory

party. that's why labour are going after it. now in here there's a section called the welfare gap tackling the tax gap. we've been through those numbers with officials from downing street. they're saying they can save 12 billion on the welfare bill by 20 2930. they say that it's gone up by by then. it'll be up by 18 billion on the pre—pandemic figure. so these are obtainable figures. you won't see labour going after the welfare bill in the same way. that's interesting. and the tax gap we know about that don't we. when the tax evasion tax avoidance plan announced by, rachel reeves, that's 6 billion, say by 2930. so how they make save the money to avoid putting up taxes is very interesting. and welfare reform is a line i'll be following through on thursday. >> but rachel reeves has said actually they've been through the same costings document and they reckon that this will equate to £71 billion of increased borrowing. they say that the conservatives numbers don't add up. >> some of those numbers are slightly finger in the wind. certainly the tax gap is often can be overestimated by people trying to get big numbers to make your sums add up you add a

bit billion here, billion there and pretty pretty soon a lot of money. so that's what happens often in these numbers. that's why we'll be scrutinising that with the tory party and with labour on thursday. >> superb chris hope always coming back here for a quick pit stop all the way from silverstone. a final pun of the day. thank you very much for getting back and sharing that with us and let's get more now on that big breaking news that we brought you in this past houn we brought you in this past hour. and that's this president joe biden's son, hunter biden, has been convicted by a jury of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun. i'm joined now by the us political journalist laurie laird. laurie, it's always a delight to have you on the show, a huge story. tell us the ramifications , as we tell us the ramifications, as we do talk a lot about presidential figures and court cases and convictions. >> but yet hunter biden , >> but yet hunter biden, convicted of, as you said, gun charges and whether he could have had the possession of these jugs, have had the possession of these jugs, guns because he was on drugs at the time, his defence was he had been clean for a very short period of time. clearly the jury did not buy that and didn't take for long the jury to

come to a conclusion. only three hours. and in fact, we understand that the took a vote this morning. it was 11 to 1. there are 12 jurors, one holdout, but it only took three hours for that dissenting vote to fold. so a pretty quick verdict . i to fold. so a pretty quick verdict. i think the to fold. so a pretty quick verdict . i think the next to fold. so a pretty quick verdict. i think the next thing we'll be looking for is what is the sentence he could be looking for a maximum looking at a maximum of 25 years. now, no one thinks he'll get that maximum . thinks he'll get that maximum. this is a first conviction. but the other thing is that he probably is going to see the inside of a jail cell. yeah and it could be, as you say, 25 years. >> it may take three months to reach that verdict. and of course, hunter biden's woes aren't over. he will still face aren't over. he will still face a fresh tax case after this one. lorillard. and the big question is will this have any impact? will it be politicised in the massive presidential race we have coming up ahead of november the 5th? >> it and that's the question, isn't it? and should hunter biden's sentencing for this one

could come in october, right before that november fifth vote, those tax tax trials in california begin on the 5th of september. so he will be mired in legal things in the run up to the election. the golden question does this matter? and it's a big question. i think that as journalists, we tend to really cover these things. i mean, they're fascinating, but there wasn't a whole lot of evidence that americans were following the trump trial all that closely. so there'll be even less interest in this biden trial. but it does give the republicans a stick with which to beat the democrats. and it creates an opportunity to sort of set some kind of equivalence with donald trump's conviction and hunter biden's conviction. now, we had these , loose talk of now, we had these, loose talk of an impeachment investigation against joe biden. i think talk of that may pick up and that's the last thing that joe biden wants to see in the headlines. in the run up to november. >> grace of lorillard, always a delight to have your opinion. thanks for joining delight to have your opinion. thanks forjoining us on gb news

now got time for a quick couple of emails before we finish the show. on the topic of nigel farage, jane says this i am disgusted by the person who threw a brick at nigel farage. he could have been seriously hurt if it had gone over the bus or ricocheted off the side. it could have easily hurt a member or hit a member of the public, or hit a member of the public, or even a small child or baby. what on earth is going on in their heads and on the topic of their heads and on the topic of the animal rising protesters vandalising the king's portrait, jason says this these people should be jailed for at least five years. all they will never stop . and darren, how is this a stop. and darren, how is this a fair point? i'm wondering how these protesters even got that giant roller into the gallery past security or darren. indeed, where were the security? they were simply no security. they just rocked up to it and put those big stickers all over it. so we've got another quick email here on hunter biden, president joe biden will probably pardon his son, says brian. well, that's all from me for now. dewbs& co, of course, is up

next. that's six till seven. i'll be back tomorrow at 3 pm. thanks for all of your thoughts. it's been a very , very busy day. it's been a very, very busy day. has rishi sunak meant to change your mind on manifesto launch? that's a big topic. i'm martin daubney this is gb news. but that's your weather and it's aidan mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb 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, and many places will end up dnen and many places will end up drier, with clear spells developing the longest clear 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 affecting northeast scotland as well as the central belt and southern parts . but otherwise it's mostly parts. but otherwise it's mostly dry and northern ireland sees some patchy cloud but dry conditions as we begin the day . conditions as we begin the day. a few showers into the western part of wales and cornwall. >> otherwise , for much of >> otherwise, for much of england and wales, fine weather continuing, but but 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, eastern england and the south east through the afternoon. a few sharp showers once again are possible in between some drier and brighter

interludes, but towards the west, as well as for scotland, northern ireland a dry afternoon with sunny spells and lighter winds so feeling more pleasant even if temperatures are still suppressed compared with the june average coming in at 17 or 18 celsius. wednesday evening sees clear spells for a time, certainly across central and eventually eastern parts. but in the west the cloud thickens. and then on thursday, a band of rain crosses the country followed on friday and saturday by heavy showers . showers. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler as sponsors of weather on

of the tories to unveil their manifesto. i'm asking you a simple question. was it enough to get your vote or not? and nigel farage has suffered yet another public assault. what is causing this toxicity in the election campaign, and how on earth do we stop it? and yesterday's plan was schools feeding all the kids their breakfast. today's plan is schools organising teeth brushing. where is the line between parenting and the nanny state? and this absolutely horrendous case of 12 year olds hacking a lad to death with a machete has sparked a massive debate. today i'm asking you should those kids be named? some people say yes. don't even stop their name. their parents to others say absolutely not what say you and why ? all of that's say you and why? all of that's come and more. but first, let's get the 6:00 news with a legend thatis get the 6:00 news with a legend that is polly middlehurst.