warns that a vote for reform and warns that a vote for reform uk would lead to a decade of labour rule . labour rule. >> an out of touch in a tv interview to be broadcast later, rishi sunak was asked what he had to live without while he was growing up. take a listen to his answer. >> all sorts of things, like lots of people, there'll be all sorts of things that i would have wanted as a kid that i couldn't have. right. but famously, sky tv. so >> oh it's awkward. that is, you know, the plight of the potholes. labour's turning to local issues, promising to fix i million potholes every year if they come into power and farage under attack again. >> a man has been arrested for throwing a rock at the leader of reform uk, nigel farage, while he was on the campaign trail. he says it simply won't stop him campaigning . in. campaigning. in. >> got david davis in the studio

from, just after the news, actually in just a moment. and also kevin maguire will be here. that will be a pretty lively, i'm sure . don't go anywhere. i'm sure. don't go anywhere. gbnews.com/yoursay to have your say on our show this morning. first though, the very latest news with karen armstrong . news with karen armstrong. >> good morning to you. it's 931. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the uk economy failed to grow in april in a blow to rishi sunak's claim, the country has turned a corner . country has turned a corner. official figures show growth flatlined to o, official figures show growth flatlined to 0, down from 0.4% in march, in line with economists expectations. retail sales were down and construction output also contracted, partly because of the wet weather in april. the lib dems say the tories have utterly failed to deliver on their promises, and shadow chancellor rachel reeves says it's further evidence their economic plan isn't working. >> it's this prime minister and this chancellor that has

presided over this state of affairs with an economy that's barely grown these last 14 years. yesterday day, the prime minister published a desperate wish list of giveaways. but the frankly, the money is not there . frankly, the money is not there. and if the prime minister did have a chance to implement this, what would end up happening is that mortgages would go up by £4,800 for the average family. the country can't afford five more years. of the conservative, only labour has a plan to grow our economy and tackle the cost of living crisis. >> however, the tories say today's figures show the economy actually grew by 0.7% in the three months to april grant shapps says people will feel the benefits. >> there are £17 billion, essentially of tax cuts, particularly to national insurance, and there, but also assistance for people through things like help to buy. so you'll be able to buy house with a 5% deposit, will permanently scrap stamp duty and for pensioners will have the triple lock plus that means your

pension under the conservatives, your state pension will never be taxed, unlike under starmer, who will tax your pension. >> and labour says it will fix a million potholes every year if the party wins the general election. they claim the damage has caused by poorly maintained roads cost drivers on average £250 or almost £500 million last yean £250 or almost £500 million last year. a labour says it will direct special funding to councils to fix potholes, and has promised to bring down the cost of car insurance . for the cost of car insurance. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code or go to gb news. com slash alerts now back to andrew and . bev. >> very good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. so rishi sunak admitted he had to live without sky television as a child. >> it was apparently a terrible hardship. let's take a listen to

this interview he's done as part of the election campaign . but of the election campaign. but before that, we're going to tell you what happened yesterday. of course, we had the manifesto launch. >> 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. >> 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. >> we believe in the long term we need to be back at the heart of europe, but we're being really clear that we're not going to pretend that's going to be easy. and regrettably, the conservative party have so poisoned britain's relationship with our nearest neighbours, our allies, they've undermined trust

i >> -- >> and i 5mm >> and i may need to change tactics slightly, but i'm going to make one promise to you and the tens of thousands watching this live online and the media and my promise is this i will not surrender to the mob. i will not surrender to the mob. i will not stop campaigning . this not stop campaigning. this democratic process must continue i >> -- >> it's a complete gift for him, isn't it .7 you know, louts. it's isn't it.7 you know, louts. it's actually it's actually . well, in actually it's actually. well, in the studio is the associate editor of daily mirror, my old sparring partner kevin maguire and david davis, former brexit secretary david, it is a gift for farage, isn't it.7 >> yes it is, of course it is. i mean , every time that happens, mean, every time that happens, he gets one of them. yeah. gets him on the front. on the front page as it were. yeah. you know, and i'm not going to give in to the mob. i thought he was leading it but but but a different mob david i know, i

know that was a good that was a good quip though, because the he paints himself as the victim and he was at that moment. >> but who's filming the attack? it's his own side. and then he puts it on, on the web. i'm not saying they well, they were filming the crowds. >> the scenes were full of people, kevin, that were applauding him, waving at him. >> he would have gone to barnsley and few people would have noticed if that idiot hadnt have noticed if that idiot hadn't thrown a cup. and then some wet cement and being being arrested, being arrested and deserves whatever is coming their way. if found guilty. but it is a gift. and those protesters, it's qatar totally counterproductive to whatever cause they have. yeah political stupidity is not a prosecutable crime. >> unfortunately, no . >> unfortunately, no. >> unfortunately, no. >> but it it does play to the trump thing at the anti—establishment and the anti—establishment and the anti—establishment candidate. yes. and it reform is proving david, is it not an existential threat to the tory party. >> well it's intended to be i mean, it's very dangerous to measure from your own constituency because it's anecdotal rather than data. i'm

not seeing much of it at the moment, but the but he wants to destroy the tory party. he said it in term's, you know, and it's, you know , nigel can always it's, you know, nigel can always keep two impossible ideas in his mind at the same time. right. he's an old mate of mine. on the one hand, he's saying wants to destroy the tory party. the other hand, he wants to lead it. yes. you know the likelihood, if he's remotely successful with the first is he's never going to be let in. in the second. but he would. >> but his his ambition therefore, would be to destroy it in the short term and build it in the short term and build it back with him at the helm. maybe in the longer term, that indicates a degree of precision i've never seen in politics. >> listen, if he if he succeeds, i don't think he will. but if he succeeds, what he'll actually do is let labour in for a couple of terms and he keeps pretending. not stories wrong before, but he keeps pretending that labour and tories are identical, and they're plainly not. you know, a lot of my i think the reason i've got a lot of tories in my constituency actually being quite determined to vote is, is saying we're terrified of laboun saying we're terrified of labour. you know, i talked to a pensioner yesterday and she

said, you know, i'm just i've just now started taking my pension. i'm terrified. it's going to happen in the next few years. >> what are they terribly worried about specifically, what are they terrified about in her case? >> taxes. it varies , but in her >> taxes. it varies, but in her case it was taxes and possibly some sort of burden on her pension. remember brown, before raided pension funds and he and he damaged. he damaged the pension industry, which he would depend on. he put limits on what we could do in terms of saving for our pensions. so she's worried about all that. you know, kevin, one of the things the tories have done is they've said there will be no tax on the bafic said there will be no tax on the basic pension. >> they're putting a lock on it because what, because personal allowances are rising in 2028 and otherwise people might be drawn into it. >> what they've said is another policy. we have freezing income tax thresholds at 2829, which will will hit will hit pensioners at some point . and pensioners at some point. and the calculation is you'll, you'll get i think it's £0.28 back at the end of the period. you won't pay £0.28 on your pension, your state pension. if

the conservatives go through with that policy. but it's really they're trying to say we're going to we're going to shield you from something else we're doing to everybody else. that's what it effectively is. more pensioners now pay tax than ever before. i think it's 60% because thresholds have been frozen in and people's occupational pension people are taking them up. yeah. occupational pensions. so i think it's 60% of pensioners now pay think it's 60% of pensioners now pay tax. it was something like half that not very long ago. so under the conservatives far more pensioners are paying a little bit careful kevin because bear in mind pensioners are getting wealthier in a sense. >> their pensions are getting bigger . bigger. >> that's a good thing. >> that's a good thing. >> and yeah, absolutely a good thing. you know. but it will pull them into the into the zones which but it is, but it's the freezing of the income tax threshold. >> you after you earn 12,500 pounds, you start paying and labour income tax with that policy. all parties. well yeah they're they're inheriting they're they're inheriting they're inheriting a mess. >> the tory manifesto yesterday . >> the tory manifesto yesterday. is it going to move the dial david. but the latest poll showing the tories 18 points behind i think slowly it will i

mean for a variety of reasons. >> some of it just tone. i actually i didn't see it yesterday. i was out on the streets, you know knocking doors, knocking on doors and things. so i watched it at 6:00 this morning, which is i don't recommend. and the tone was, you know , we know we've not got know, we know we've not got everything right. you know, which is the right tone . you which is the right tone. you know, i mean, bear in mind we've had in the last few years a number of generational events from the 2008 crash through to the pandemic, through to the ukraine war, the european war and so on. these are huge events which they have had big impacts on.the which they have had big impacts on. the sort of national balance sheet, how much we owe and so on.and sheet, how much we owe and so on. and it limits what you can do. and he's you know, he said, well, i haven't got everything right, but and that's i think the right tone for this, you know, this national service announcement which just sort of appeared out of nowhere. >> grant shapps has been on the tv this morning explaining that it's actually only one weekend a month for a year, optional if you want to do it. that's a classic example of where it looked like rishi sunak was

throwing something out. a bit of red meat for the right leaning, conservative voters out there. but actually, when you dig into it, it was just all style and no substance. >> now it looks like the nick one of my ideas. yeah, well, you could talk about more reservists, but you would want it to be a little more substantial. well, what what what what what i wanted was to actually dramatically increase our reserve forces. yeah. and this is this this could be a way of doing it. i mean, it depends if they do it like the swedes, you know, actually, it's a privilege to it. you know, they have to sort of compete for it, you know, so you get really good sort of officer material if you like, and, you know, if you get them in for one year, you encourage them to stay in reserves thereafter. that's what i would do. and i think, you know, i think, listen , there is know, i think, listen, there is a there is a reasonable argument to be made that we're in 1937 again with putin and all that. yeah. and we ought to start preparing in a way that the country can live with. now, we've had the odd general say, let's have conscription. that's not going to happen , not in this

not going to happen, not in this day and age. but this is a is a softer and more sensible way into it. and, you know, reserve soldiers, citizen armies have won battles against regular armies since marathon. you know, you know, for 2500 years. and we need to build a citizen army. it's a stepping stone. >> i don't accept where 1937. but this national service idea has been so mis sold , it's has been so mis sold, it's fallen apart because i was under the impression from the launch that 30,018 year olds would spend a year in the army, navy, air force, and now you find out it's going to be 25 days. so 12 weekends a year. now wasn't sold as that. so it's not national service at all. but if it is, it was the way it was reported. yeah. well that's what they're saying. everybody got it wrong. yeah. everybody come on, come on. did they correct it? now if you're going to do that and you're going to do that and you're going to get more and i can see greater reserves, i can see where david's coming from . see where david's coming from. and i've got some sympathy with

that. but if you're going to do that. but if you're going to do that you've already got army cadets and sea scouts. you would just expand them and give them money to try and get more 18 year olds in, rather than thinking of setting up this completely new scheme which will undermine them. >> i still think it's quite popular. a lot of. let's have a quick listen to rishi sunak in this interview this morning where he was challenged about how can he relate to ordinary voters. this is what he said, all sorts of things. >> like lots of people. there'll be all sorts of things that i would have wanted as a kid that i couldn't have. right? famously, sky tv so daily mirror's mocked him on the front. >> what was your headline? >> what was your headline? >> kevin rishi i didn't have a dishy . dishy. >> i mean, pretty good headline . >> i mean, pretty good headline. >> i mean, pretty good headline. >> it's a good headline, you know? >> but that's what he gets so wrong , isn't it? you can say, wrong, isn't it? you can say, i think, am i right? >> i didn't have sky tv either, but along with the indoor loo. yeah, but but but i think to be honest and say, well i didn't have an awful lot, but i didn't really want for much either. >> he's just pulled out sky tv and said famously, sky tv, what does he mean?

>> you know, you know what i mean. this is my 11th election campaign, right? i'd thought ten parliamentary campaigns before in every single one. people make mistakes and this is one of those. >> oh come on, it started with the rainy lectern, david. it's been one mistake after another. >> the rainy lectern. i think, was terrible staff work, i grant you that. >> and then coming home from d—day, a little early, that's gone down very badly. >> you know, you're going to tempt me to tell you a story. >> the 65th anniversary, right of d—day. i went to. why? because then the survivors were between 83 and 100 years old. right. so i thought there wouldn't be there for much longer. so i went to that. i raised some money for people to go as well, for vets to go. and when i was going, you might remember this brown wasn't going at all. that's absolutely right. until obama was going . and then until obama was going. and then in order to rub shoulders with obama, he goes , the veterans obama, he goes, the veterans were really furious there. they had a reason that wasn't a diary mistake. that was a political decision by him. and you'll

remember that i do. >> and he rightly got criticism for it. well, we didn't make we didn't we. but we now but we now know that, sunak thought are not going at all. and grant shapps was going to stand in for him, but he went. >> not going at all. you mean for the last event? >> no, for the initial event, the french thought he wasn't going well, that's ridiculous. >> oh no no no no no. >> but when you go and you leave early. no, no. brown brown ticket. >> i think the daily mirror is slipping into fake news. >> no, no, i think, i think i think you'll i think you'll find i think you'll find i think i think you'll find, david, this is quite a common knowledge now. no, no , you may not want to know it. >> the idea the british prime minster was not going to be there on june the 6th is for the birds. >> no. >> no. >> well hang on, you would have said him coming back early to do to do an interview. yeah, yeah, to do an interview. yeah, yeah, to do an interview. yeah, yeah, to do an interview pre—recorded was for the birds criticised it. >> he was always going to be on june sukh. that is ridiculous. even by your standards. >> i don't want to come between friends. >> you can cover him. grant shapps grant shapps was lined up. no, grant shapps was lined

up. no, grant shapps was lined up. not true. >> right. we're going to take a quick break, though. don't go with us. you guys are staying with us. you guys are staying with us. you guys are staying with us as well, aren't you? right. labour are pledging to fix 1 million potholes. but isn't this the job of your local council? well, yes, and they would say they haven't had enough money from the tories. but anyway, we'll get to the bottom of that. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. good morning. it is almost 950 now. with us in the studio. still is. associate editor of the daily mirror, kevin maguire and former brexit secretary david davis . david davis. >> we were talking about rishi earlier. and of course, this the d—day is going to haunt him throughout the campaign because every time he does a tv interview is asked about it. i was talking to a labour, a labour mp, labour canvasser the other day to an mp now who said it's not. it's not surfacing on the doorstep at all. in a whole weekend of campaigning. she didn't hear it mentioned once . didn't hear it mentioned once. >> what's the what's your

experience in in the last week once. right, and that was it. most people, they've got other things they want to talk about cost of living, cost of living tax, you know, the local school, whatever it might be. and of course, this is always a thing i very often the things that seem to flash up in the media are not always what's going on on the doorstep. but back in 2005, when i shadow home secretary, we thought we were really winning the argument on immigration. you know, 85% of people cared on the doorstep. it was schools , doorstep. it was schools, hospitals. yeah, yeah, money in my pocket, money in my pocket, the sort of domestic family issues . and we're seeing the issues. and we're seeing the same here really. >> is reform a big issue though? and farage, who's this extraordinary political figure . extraordinary political figure. >> well, you know, he's he's you know, he's a fantastic campaigner is although he's his judgement is judgement on, on on polling isn't always that good. one minute after the end of the brexit vote on when it was 2016, he and i had a conversation on the phone and he said, we've

lost. but i said, we haven't, we've won. i've just put a bet on it right ? so he didn't always on it right? so he didn't always call it right. but but the real risk of a you make a labour government more likely because, you know, basically a vote outside a three seats, maybe a for vote reform is a vote effectively for labour. and if labour do win, then it's a vote to increase their majority. and i hate big majority parliaments. so i've lived through a few . so i've lived through a few. i've been a public accounts committee chairman in one of them, and, you know, holding government to account . the most government to account. the most important part of what parliament does , it makes parliament does, it makes government better. it stops the government better. it stops the government doing things like taxing too much, wasting money and so on. and if the majority is too big, that's a very dangerous thing . and that's also dangerous thing. and that's also what he's playing to, and he's ignonng what he's playing to, and he's ignoring all the consequences of his. >> the criticism will be that people will vote reform because the tory government has not been tory enough.

>> david, which is which is i can see why, you know, i can see why. i mean, these are people who naturally vote for me, you know, but the but but it's the outcome is perverse . the outcome outcome is perverse. the outcome is it's basically the same as spoiling your ballot paper. really if the outcome is perverse, you end up getting more labour or more socialist, you know, one of one of one of his lines is, of course, there's no difference between two parties. it's rubbish. you know, it's courses are different, and, you know, my voters fear that they fear it. so, you know, i think and just one other thing, other colleagues are finding the same thing. they talk to potential reform voters and find they're very like this. you know, they're sort of they're worrying about the consequence of actually creating a labour majority . majority. >> how are you feeling as a labour man at the moment, kevin? >> well, i'm not a member of the labour party. i've actually voted six different parties or labels in all elections . but in labels in all elections. but in tories, yeah, yeah. i'm not a natural conservative, i think. i think it's fair. that is fair to

say. but but but farage and reform are a gift for keir starmer and labour. why? why do you rarely hear labour figures attacking farage and reform ? attacking farage and reform? because they almost want to encourage them tacitly, and they're going to do it publicly because they take most of their votes from david's party. and it will. that fracture on the right will. that fracture on the right will increase labour's majority. that's unquestionably the case, don't you think? >> there's a lot of labour voters who like nigel farage. there's a lot of red wall people i >> -- >> no, no, there are people, i think. no, not labour voters . think. no, not labour voters. no, no, not labour voters. there are people in the red wall and some of them are working class. if you're suggesting labour voters are more working class who do like him. yeah, absolutely. but they're not they're not labour voters that labouris they're not labour voters that labour is going to do well in this election . keir starmer is this election. keir starmer is expected to be the next prime minister, which is remarkable given that he inherited the fewest labour seats since 1935. scale of the victory is probably still three weeks in a day to go

is up for grabs. still three weeks in a day to go is up for grabs . but but farage is up for grabs. but but farage will damage david's party, not laboun will damage david's party, not labour. right. >> david davis that's right kevin maguire, thank you so much. >> we've got to take a quick break. but in a minute, an amazing footage of a burglary that gets . that gets. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. another chilly one out there this morning. for most of us though, it's going to be a fine day with lighter winds feeling just a touch warmer than yesterday, but it's certainly cold out there this morning. we've had clear skies through the night does mean quite a few of us waking up to blue skies this morning. a few showers are possible today across parts of yorkshire down to the east midlands, east anglia 1 or 2 over northeast scotland, but most places dry quite a bit of cloud by this afternoon, but still some decent spells of sunshine , particularly in the

sunshine, particularly in the west, and temperatures a little bit higher than yesterday , but bit higher than yesterday, but still below average for most of us for the time of year, but with lighter winds , a bit more with lighter winds, a bit more sunshine, it should at least feel a little bit more like june through this evening. i think we'll see those temperatures falling off again pretty sharply. still quite a bit of cloud coming to in the northeast. a few scattered showers likely to continue across the northern isles. still some good spells of sunshine across western scotland. a bit more clouds across northern ireland come the afternoon and sticking around into the evening. the odd shower still possible over eastern england, but most of england and wales will stay dry through this evening, and some good spells of sunshine coming through. but, as i said, temperatures dropping pretty speedily under those largely clear skies. it will be a bit of a chilly start again tomorrow morning. signs of a change though. on the way behind me the cloud is starting to thicken. the breeze is starting to pick up as well, so through the night it'll turn cloudy across northern ireland, western parts of wales, but elsewhere generally clear skies and temperatures yet again dipping down into single figures well

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gb news. >> at 10 am. on wednesday, the 12th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. >> bev turner final roll of the dice . is it for the prime dice. is it for the prime minister? well, he promised a £17 billion in tax cuts and warned a vote for reform , i.e. warned a vote for reform, i.e. nigel farage, will lead to a

decade of labour rule . decade of labour rule. >> and how out of touch is he in a tv interview broadcast later tonight, rishi sunak was asked what he had to live without whilst growing up and this was his answer. >> all sorts of things , like >> all sorts of things, like lots of people, there'll be all sorts of things that i would have wanted as a kid that i couldn't have. right. but famously, sky tv, so . famously, sky tv, so. >> how could you manage without sky tv 7 >> how could you manage without sky tv ? the plight of the sky tv? the plight of the potholes labour is turning to local issues, promising to fix 1 million of them every year if they come into power , how are they come into power, how are they come into power, how are they going to pay for it? >> and in america , joe biden's >> and in america, joe biden's son hunter is found guilty on all three counts in his federal gun trial case. he now faces a possible 25 year prison sentence and in england, over 65 to be offered health mots at the front doors of a&e departments to free up space and cut needless admissions .

admissions. so the a&e story basically for over 65 and you get to a&e, they're now going to check your blood pressure, ask you about your diet , take your weight, ask your diet, take your weight, ask your diet, take your weight, ask your pulse or but but if you get to a&e, you generally will have a lot of that done. you qualify for that, don't you? not yet . for that, don't you? not yet. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> are you feeling have you had a fall recently, dear? no not yet. and then they will give you kind of tips on how to exercise so you don't fall over. i'm guessing that if you're a doctor or a nurse in a&e, you've got better things to do. >> yeah, i mean, haven't they got enough on their plate already? >> it's a really strange situation and it's going to lead to a queue of people going to any to get the mmt who won't see, who've got nothing wrong with them at all. >> i'm not feeling very well. can i have my mot please? >> yes. would you do my blood pressure? would you listen to my heart? and would you tell me how not to fall down? make a prediction. >> this won't happen. >> this won't happen. >> i think you're probably right. gb news. com forward slash your say to get involved

with the show this morning. first though, the very latest news with . aaron. news with. aaron. >> good morning to you. it's 10:02 i'm aaron armstrong. the uk economy failed to grow in april in a blow to rishi sunak's claim, the country has turned a corner. official figures show growth flatlined to 0, down from 0.4% in march, which was in line with economists expectations. retail sales were down and construction output also contracted. it was partly because of the wet weather in april. the lib dems say the tories have utterly failed to deliver on their promises, and shadow chancellor rachel reeves says it's further evidence the tories economic plan isn't working . working. >> it's this prime minister and this chancellor that has presided over this state of affairs with an economy that's barely grown these last 14 years. yesterday today, the prime minister published a desperate wish list of giveaways. but the frankly, the money is not there . and if the money is not there. and if the prime minister did have a chance

to implement this, what would end up happening is that mortgages would go up by £4,800 for the average family. the country can't afford five more years. of the conservatives, only labour has a plan to grow our economy and tackle the cost of living crisis . of living crisis. >> however, the tories say today's figures show the economy actually grew by 0.7% in the three months to april, and grant shapps says people will feel the benefits. >> there are £17 billion, essentially of tax cuts , essentially of tax cuts, particularly to national insurance, and there, but also assistance for people through things like help to buy. so you'll be able to buy a house with a 5% deposit, will permanently scrap stamp duty and for pensioners will have the triple lock. plus that means your pension under the conservatives, your state pension will never be taxed, unlike under starmer who will tax your pension. >> labour says it will fix a million potholes every year if the party wins the next general election. they claim the damage caused by poorly maintained

roads cost drivers on average £250, or almost £500 million last year. labour says it will direct a special funding to councils to fix the holes, and has promised to bring down the cost of car insurance too. a shadow transport secretary, louise haigh , has accused the louise haigh, has accused the conservatives of letting motorists down and promises labour will turn the tide of neglect . neglect. >> the state of our roads is a massive cost of living issue for drivers. we're all seeing our car insurance premiums driven up because of the cost of repairs. it's estimated that drivers had to shell out £500 million last yearin to shell out £500 million last year in pothole related incidents, and with an average of £250 per driver. >> the liberal democrats have outlined plans to end what they've described as a sewage scandal in england and wales. they've promised to transform water firms into public benefit companies, banned bonuses for water bosses until leaks stop and they would replace the

regulator, ofwat, with a tougher governing body. the party's leader, sir ed davey, says their clean water authority would be given new powers to reform the sector . a man's been charged sector. a man's been charged with using threatening behaviour after objects were thrown at nigel farage. it's understood a coffee cup and other items from a building site narrowly missed. the reform uk leader, who was campaigning on an open top bus in barnsley. police say 28 year old josh greely has been charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence. he's been released on bail and will appearin been released on bail and will appear in court later this month . well, the green party is launching its manifesto later, promising to raise taxes for the wealthiest in society , and the wealthiest in society, and the party would add a 1% tax on assets worth more than £10 million and an 8% national insurance on wages over £50,000. the party say proceeds would be used to fund improvements to health, housing, transport and

the green economy. they've previously promised to spend £50 billion a year on health and social care by 2030, and get your fly swatters ready and your bug spray out, too, because a new kind of mosquito has been discovered in 13 countries across the european union, the asian tiger mosquito is thought to be the most invasive of the species in the world. now, health experts have linked the new insect to a rise of dengue fever in europe. it's understood warmer conditions have allowed it to spread further across europe in recent years , europe in recent years, travelling alongside humans and also through the transportation of goods. so keep an eye out for that tiger mosquito and you can keep an eye out for our latest news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to the website for more details. gbnews.com now back to andrew and . bev. and. bev. >> good morning. it's 1007.

>> good morning. it's1007. you've all been getting in touch at home. thank you. ian says. i really hate these sound bites. rachel reeves trying to get in all her buzzwords . is she paid all her buzzwords. is she paid by the lie, some of you saying we've heard a lot from rachel reeves, but where is jeremy hunt? it's hunt the hunt, isn't it? the moment . it? the moment. >> where is he? well, the chance he's still the chance of the exchequer. although they're no longer mps. so. but he is fighting a rearguard battle in his surrey constituency because his surrey constituency because his majority was once 28,000. it's now down to about 9000. had been boundary changes , so his been boundary changes, so his nana majority has been split in half. i think he will be now. michael gove has quit potentially the, what we call the michael portillo moment in 1997. d0 the michael portillo moment in 1997. do you remember where were you when michael portillo lost his seat? i was in the times newsroom and the times was supporting the tory party at the time. and the editor was rather shocked when portillo lost. there was a roar came up from the newsroom floor because people were sick of the tories.

they'd been in power for 18 years. and just because you work for a tory paper doesn't mean everybody there supports it. but and i think a lot of people cheered. so will hunt be that moment or will it be grant shapps? >> he's also desperately unpopular with the public. maybe there's a reason why they've not. they're not rolling him out. >> yeah, i don't think he's a great media performer either. no. you see who they've wheeled out today? grant shapps he's not a bad media performer. >> no, he's he's similarly a little robotic, isn't he? the sort of needs this. he needs some warm tories out there, don't they. and david has got in touch to say labour say they will fill a million potholes a yean will fill a million potholes a year. well, that means by 2039, all the potholes will be filled up. this flip flop thinks people are stupid. i did think that. i thought a million. yeah. good luck. there's about ten times that on my journey in it's only about seven miles. >> and if you live in sussex where there presumably a lot of potholes, one way they're going to pay for this labour say they're going to cancel this £328 million bypass, which has been planned for years. these things take years, far too long. it's going to be cancelled. so

that's going to cause quite a lot of alarm and upset in. it's a bypass around the historic town of arundel, which is very beautiful, with a lovely castle . beautiful, with a lovely castle. >> of course, now the tories have launched their election manifesto with £17 billion worth of tax cuts promised by the prime minister, including abolishing national insurance for almost every self—employed worker. >> well, our political editor, chris hope, is with the prime minister on the conservative party, battlebus chris, are they pleased with the reaction, the reception , or are they a little reception, or are they a little irritated that the clips of his interview with itv are yet again overshadowing all they're trying to do? because it's all again about d—day ? about d—day? >> that's right. and. morning, andrew. morning, bev. yeah, i think, the political cycle now as we can train dashing through the, yeah, i think they will be a perturbed maybe by those clips overnight from the itv interview airing tonight when the pm said that he didn't have sky and

that's been interpreted on social media as him saying it was quite . was quite. >> what we're experiencing here, this is the problem with the uk in a nutshell, right? no wi—fi on trains. if you want us to work from home and you want us to not use our cars, get some blooming good wi—fi on the trains . trains. >> and it's not just broadband, is it? i was trying to have a conversation. i was up in yorkshire at the weekend on with the election, and i was trying to have a conversation on the phone.i to have a conversation on the phone. i just gave up. yeah, because it kept going into black holes in 2024, how hard can it be? >> how hard can it be if one of them put that in their manifesto yesterday? we are going to fix the wi—fi on every single train across the country. i'd probably vote for them. yeah right. you might be wondering, what's the latest with the liberal democrats at davies in warwickshire? speaking about the party's plans for a clean water authority. but first, of course, he took a dip. of course. let's have a look . have a look. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so you've got so you've either got a sit down on here or jump either got a sit down on here or jump in and swim to the green stairs once you're over on the green stairs, you're more than welcome to go on. now i think i know who should go first, but if you're listening on the radio.

>> ed davey is in wet suit. we're very typically getting used to seeing him in a wet suit with a life vest on and a yellow helmet, and he's jumping into what looks like a man made pond of some kind. perhaps, is it an outdoor swimming pool? it's a little hard to make out, but there appears to be some sort of. >> and who's the victim? he's taking with him? who's half his size? who's about to go in the water? >> i think there's an assault candidate. here we go. water assault course. this is in worcester. oh, that won't be warm. he's just jumped in. water is a very sort of nice greeny blue colour for if that's a fresh water pond. >> he does front crawl. he swims. i'm a breaststroke swimmer. yeah. so there's now four of them in the water. they're making a splash. >> that's what he's been doing. more liberal democrats. >> but nobody's talking about his policy. >> no, but we are talking about him because of the things he's doing. and he would say, well, that's maybe the point, right? this video caught our eye because we criticise the police a lot, don't we, for not actually solving crimes. well, two thieves tried to rob a west london opticians. watch this . if

london opticians. watch this. if you are listening on the radio, this is a, opticians. this is in on chiswick high road in in west london. it's 4:00 in the morning. there are two men have broken in. they've got balaclavas on hoods and they're emptying one cabinet into a plastic bag into an orange plastic bag into an orange plastic bag. the alarms clearly are going off and the traffic is moving on the outside on the main road. and then suddenly one, two, three, four plainclothes police officers arrive with tasers. brilliant. they get them on the ground straight away. how many police officers are there? one, two, three, four. five. six. seven. possibly. brilliant >> and that is proper policing. it's what you want. community action. because high streets are being battered not just by internet competition, but by shoplifting. yeah. and thieving. and that is brilliant. and we don't i think we criticise the

police. what we think we criticise is the way they're directed, the priorities they're given by their chief constables . given by their chief constables. but that is policing in action and well done then. yeah. and and well done then. yeah. and and still who's going to pay for the blooming shop window to be repaired . repaired. >> they didn't see them coming though. they should have gone to specsavers didn't they. they picked the wrong opticians. right. let's talk to former detective superintendent at scotland yard, shabnam chowdhury , shabnam. good morning. it's. i wanted to show that footage because it's just so satisfying to see the bad guys get caught for a change. do you think it was coincidental that there were so many undercover police passing at that moment? >> oh, no. absolutely not, good morning to you both. that is most likely an intelligence led operation . so the likelihood is operation. so the likelihood is there'd been either some sort of a tip off beforehand , or priests a tip off beforehand, or priests had the intelligence that this was going to occur. remember, this was at 4:00 in the morning. but what i would say, it's an absolutely fantastic job. it really gave me a warm feeling of what policing was like two decades ago. this kind of policing was actually the norm,

and the reason why it was the norm was because the public used to give information on a regular bafis to give information on a regular basis , because the relationship basis, because the relationship and confidence was so much better , but an absolutely better, but an absolutely fantastic result. let's hope that these two get banged up very quickly. and for a long penod very quickly. and for a long period of time, because i suspect they've probably been involved in other jobs that suspect they've probably been involved in otherjobs that may involved in other jobs that may not be likely to be proven. >> and it's interesting you say intelligence, so do you. somebody who knows these two creatures clearly tipped off the police . police. >> yeah, i mean, it may have been an operation that had been ongoing for some time because, you don't get that many police officers, certainly not in plainclothes , rocking up at 4:00 plainclothes, rocking up at 4:00 in the morning. most police officers are out in uniform on patrols in their regular areas. this turn up was very, very quick. so as they would say in the elite flying squad, they were already vie, on the plot, so to speak. so they would have been scattered around in particular locations waiting,

for them. this was something that was quite regular that i, as a police officer, was involved in when i worked on the crime squad back in the day. we'd get information, we'd get intelligence . we knew there was intelligence. we knew there was going to be a burglary coming off at either a, you know, a premises or i remember a laundrette that was going to get broken into. we plotted up all over the place and, bingo, we got the guys and, we were to apprehend them. >> and how satisfying is that moment for the police officers involved? shabnam >> it's one of the best feelings. every police officer wants to catch the bad guys without a shadow of a doubt. but when you catch them, as they say, suspects on premises , the say, suspects on premises, the feeling that those officers would have had would have been absolutely amazing. because they know that they're protecting the public, you know , the shop public, you know, the shop owners themselves said they've had a few problems previous and they're really glad, you know, it has cost them some money because as you say, they've got to now probably increase their insurance because of damage caused. and some of those

glasses would have been damaged. you know , these criminals aren't you know, these criminals aren't going to pay for them, but it's a great feeling for police officers. i think generally when they catch the bad guys. >> yeah . brilliant. >> yeah. brilliant. >> yeah. brilliant. >> and i think it's almost a pubuc >> and i think it's almost a public service to have that sort of footage put out on the internet because it encourages people. it shows that the police are on the side of the good guys and trying to take down the bad guys, and we need to see more of those clips, i think. don't you ? those clips, i think. don't you? >> yeah. i mean, listen, i'm quite critical of policing when i think it's necessary, but actually, on the other hand, there are thousands of hard working police officers who work behind the scenes who go out and do this type of work on a day to day basis , convicting burglars, day basis, convicting burglars, robbers, you know, some of those bafic robbers, you know, some of those basic crimes like shoplifting is really difficult to resource and to police . but in general, the to police. but in general, the majority of police officers come to work every single day to do a good job to protect the public and to bring offenders to justice. yeah. >> and it's so lovely to see shabnam chowdhury, thank you so

much for joining shabnam chowdhury, thank you so much forjoining us this morning much for joining us this morning . it was actually the police had loaded that footage. oh, good. facebook. that was how i well that's terrific. >> and they should do it more often because it will encourage people who often think the police aren't on our side. they are, >> it's great to celebrate the police for once, isn't it? it is. right up next, there is a huge scandal brewing. england fans are to be served weak shandy in germany in the first euro match against serbia. >> how do they drink? >> they do now. >> this is britain's newsroom

gb news. >> 1020 ulez britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> thank you forjoining us this >> thank you for joining us this morning. >> i'll throw out the election. we'll be hearing from people across the country about what matters to them. who is it this week? >> i'm david lee. i'm 45, from mansfield. the biggest issue for me is basically putting money back into people's pockets, shops are closing, people are out of jobs and the regeneration

of a place like this is really needed. of a place like this is really needed . i'm a business owner. needed. i'm a business owner. i've got a small shoe repair shop. i've got a small shoe repair shop . i've got to put my prices shop. i've got to put my prices up because my costs everywhere have gone up. so to put money back into people's pockets, lower taxes and get more shops open, that's what i want to see in a place like this. i think people around here feel disillusioned with politics, with government. they talk about all this money that this town's being given to level up , and our being given to level up, and our money is going to be given to the places in the to north level up. but what levelling up has happenedin up. but what levelling up has happened in mansfield, this marketplace , it used to be full marketplace, it used to be full of stalls. now, as you look at it , there's a handful of stalls. it, there's a handful of stalls. mansfield has always been laboun mansfield has always been labour. you put a red ribbon on a donkey round here and it would have got in, but then we come to 2017 and it switched allegiances and went conservative. and i think a big reason for that was

obviously brexit. in the past. i voted for labour for conservative, even for ukip. but at the moment i'm on the fence of which way i'm going to vote and i'm not going to look at rishi sunak or keir starmer, on which one of those i'm going to vote for, or even the other parties . i'm vote for, or even the other parties. i'm going to look at what the politicians say they're going to do for my town, mansfield . right. mansfield. right. >> stephen pound and mike parry are with us in the studio this morning. morning, gentlemen. do you want to start ? does she mean you want to start? does she mean us? do we want to start with shandy ? do you want to start shandy? do you want to start with some weak beer, stephen pound? >> well , pound? >> well, i'm sorry, call me old fashioned, but we've got a nasty game coming up against serbia. and what is the euro's football in the euros. so the england team, when they're not, is it nasty? >> because the serbian fans are not very pleasant. well, not very pleasant. >> i mean, they basically there's two gangs of ultras there, you know, and you know, there, you know, and you know, the red star and the partisan ones and, you know, they actually beat somebody to death, you know, in, in the change room of that place. look, the point

being, do you think the serbian fans are going to dilute their slivovitz and their vodka, whereas we are going to be drinking instead of the normal german beer, you know, and fair play german beer, you know, and fair play to the germans, they do make a decent beer. yeah. and instead of the 4.5 that you normally expect, this is going to be 50% lemonade. well i'm sorry, you know , do you imagine sorry, you know, do you imagine bobby moore being served a pint of lemonade and they'll they'll get over it in some way. >> i did the world cup in germany in 2006, covered it. i covered it and travelled all over the country. but our first game on sunday is at gelsenkirchen version. >> okay, it's a beautiful football ground, but it looks like a supermarket. okay. it's very. so it's where in fact jose mourinho won his first champions league with porto. >> so you heard it here first. >> so you heard it here first. >> yeah, that's that's his fame. but i travelled with the fans all over the country and generally speaking, in my view, since the bad old days, england fans are very well behaved when we travel abroad, our reputation is not what it was in the 80s when, you know, there was terrible violence everywhere we went. and so this once again, as

steve has already pointed out, is punishing the wrong people . is punishing the wrong people. it's punishing the wrong people. the germans are saying, well, keep an eye on the english to try and defend them from the serbians. well, why don't you keep your eye on the serbians and try and dilute the amount of booze they're going to drink ? booze they're going to drink? because our boys are going to be okay. we are well behaved abroad now, and a lot of that is to do with the fact that the government and the fa work together to make sure they know where our fans are acceptable levels of behaviour, and that they get the message if you you get banned and if there is bad behaviour, it often it's an isolated they get the individual and they're banned from football . the banned from travelling again. they can have their passport taken away, you know and that's been very, very effective. the german police are pretty effective. but as steven has already pointed out, the old serbian mob are are unusually aggressive in their support of their country . aggressive in their support of their country. right. >> that's putting it mildly. but the problem is, most of the problems actually relate to actually the way they control it within the stadium. i mean, i used to go to a lot of away matches and i fulham shirt with these colours don't run written on the back of it and but you

know we actually had a good time. we had a laugh. we never actually attacked anybody but these, these people partisan and these, these people partisan and the other team red star, they actually have a shocking reputation. so what we need is crowd control, separation , some crowd control, separation, some proper policing on the day and not actually giving this nonsense about making the british fans drink lemonade. no. >> and it's true. and also you'll find there'll be more england fans there, many, many more. there's going to be 40,000 in germany. yeah, exactly. but steven is also right in saying that in every state we have a dividing line . okay. and that dividing line. okay. and that dividing line. okay. and that dividing line. okay. and that dividing line separates the two sets of fans. what they have to stop are the missiles going from one side to the other. and that can be done properly with netting and all that kind of stuff, but also by making sure that the people go into the stadium without missiles and flares. yeah. and flares are is it interesting? >> yep. and beverley but you like you like rugby when you, when you go to an international rugby match, there's no separation of the crowd. they actually have you know england and ireland actually amongst themselves . yeah. why is it, is themselves. yeah. why is it, is it just because they're all toffs i don't know, i don't know, it's a cultural i think

it's tribal. >> yeah. and is it the male thing. >> yeah. right. should we talk about yesterday's tory manifesto announcement and the reaction to it, mike parry , did rishi sunak it, mike parry, did rishi sunak go far enough in terms of changing the dial for votes? >> well, what i think represents exactly what labour are going to do is this headline in the guardian. yeah, right. because it says tories implausible, £17 billion tax giveaway condemned. that's the voice of the guardian. the guardian is the voice of the incoming labour government. so what they're saying is you won't get any tax cuts from us because they're implausible and they don't work. well, hang on. you've got to have the ambition to make tax cuts if they do work. and this is that to me. i mean, you know, keir starmer saying i'm a socialist, keir starmer saying i won't use the nhs. and now this is a banner really for labour, there won't be any tax cuts. that's the way i've read it. well, hang on a second, mike. >> i mean i thought that was an absolute car crash at silverstone because when he made this promise, what you then say, where's the money going to come

from? he said it's going to come from? he said it's going to come from two places. it's going to be cutting down on tax avoidance. what well, that's what your lot keeps saying. and it's they do. no we don't we do not do we put this morning. that is only one aspect of the hang on.the is only one aspect of the hang on. the other one was is going to save on the benefits. they're going to cut your sickness benefit, cut your unemployment benefit, cut your unemployment benefit and it's actually going to give to the even the richer people. i'm sorry. you know, this this idea of raising the bill since covid has gone up £70 billion. >> why? >> why? >> well , because there are >> well, because there are people staying at home who should be back at work, and that's where they should be. but let's make the system work. but you cannot you cannot predicate an entire economy on taking money away from the weak and the vulnerable . many, many i'm vulnerable. many, many i'm sorry. many of them are. when you actually meet them face to face, you can talk about a group of people and call them shirkers or slackers, whatever. but when you actually meet people face to face, as i did for years in my surgery, many of those cases are heartbreaking. >> season sickness benefits are going up from 69 billion to 90 billion during the course of the next government. i do not believe people are getting routinely sick at such a huge rate . it can't be right. but you rate. it can't be right. but you can imagine it. >> you cannot imagine if this is

a you can't go into the bank and say, you know , i want to borrow say, you know, i want to borrow a huge amount of money and i'm going to save it by taking, you know, you know, granny's pension. it's bonkers. i'm sorry. this is this is like i think when keir starmer said it was like jeremy corbyn, do you remember? everybody's going to get free broadband on their allotment shed and all that nonsense. what nerve. >> he had to say that the labour leader has said this is jeremy. a jeremy corbyn was promised , a jeremy corbyn was promised, promising the world he was in his shadow cabinet for three years. man he kind of drafted up the jeremy corbyn in 2017 and primed in 2019. a rotten old marxist, he campaigned for and he's had time to the tories. >> how could he? god loves a sinner who repents. >> well , that's right, but he >> well, that's right, but he kind of drafted the jeremy corbyn church. no he didn't. >> and when he ran for the leadership , he ran on jeremy leadership, he ran on jeremy corbyn's manifesto ten policies, all of which he's ditched. i think he secretly believes all of them. he's a real he's a he's the most left wing leader. labouri the most left wing leader. labour i believe that as well. andrew can i say won't use private medicine to save his own family. >> clearly. clearly you've not spent as much time with him as i have.

spent as much time with him as i have . believe you me, he's have. believe you me, he's a social democrat. >> i don't believe that for a minute. i honestly don't believe that for a minute. you look back at his history. look back at the start of his career as a lawyer when he says, oh, i've prosecuted thousands of people. he was a human rights lawyer helping people to stay in this country. and i'm not i'm not saying that maybe they shouldn't have had help, but it does indicate to you where he thinks his priorities are . his priorities are. >> well, i'm sorry i worked with him in northern ireland. he was chief prosecutor in northern ireland. and i have to say, i have immense respect for the man. the hardest job in the world. imagine being a prosecutor in northern ireland and he did it and he did it brilliantly. and as far as i'm concerned, i respect him for that. right >> well, should we be worried though about they're going to take more of our income. should we, should we be worried about the fact that labour will just fill the tax coffers? >> oh come on. >> look, look this this 2094 business. basically, it's over over four years. so that's what, £500 a year, which is like £50 a month. it is like 41m. >> quite a lot for some families. >> well i agree, but the point it is to not £20,000. it is not. >> and this is because what about the rises and capital gains that are coming? the guardian said 10 to 12 rises

around capital gains. she's going to announce some sorry october, november the guardian andrew that is the guardians wish list. >> god forbid the day we ever come when we actually listen to the guardian. >> i'm sorry, but capital gains is so pernicious because capital gains is a tax on what you've saved to try and make your future better. you put it into a house, and then you sell the house, and then you sell the house and owe tax. >> you again, talking about potentially having capital. >> no, that's not a capital gain property on your sole property on on your own liveable property i totally agree. >> not tonight. this yet stephen, you're a first time buyen stephen, you're a first time buyer. you sell your property the first time and there's talk that labour are going to put capital gains tax on the profit you made on your first property. it's not been denied. >> of course they're not. i'm sorry. that's nonsense. no nobody nobody is saying that. we'll see. >> nobody is saying that. >> nobody is saying that. >> yeah right. >> yeah right. >> lots more stories to get through with you. this morning. >> we've got jude bellingham's underwear to come here. >> we haven't even got round to jude bellingham in his underpants. >> that's, that's some contract that because, of course , the that because, of course, the previous pull that face. >> that's not the face you were pulling. you're looking at it just before. >> yes. no. >> yes. no. >> the previous model, of course, was david beckham. so he's filling big pants.

>> he's not pulling tattoos. >> he's not pulling tattoos. >> he's not copying david beckham who's desperate to get his knighthood. >> did you see that? the other day? >> yes, i know rod stewart's looking of handsome men. >> aaron armstrong is here with you. news? >> i think there's tax issues. >> i think there's tax issues. >> very good morning to you. 1031 here in the gb newsroom, i'm aaron armstrong, the uk economy flatlined in april in a blow to rishi sunak's claim the conservatives plan is working. official figures show growth fell to 0, down from 0.4% in march. retail sales were down and construction output also contracted, partly because of the wet weather in april. the lib dems say the tories have utterly failed to deliver on their promises. shadow chancellor rachel reeves says it exposes the damage done after 14 years of conservative chaos. it's this prime minister and this chancellor that has presided over this state of affairs with an economy that's barely grown these last 14 years. >> yesterday, the prime minister

published a desperate wish list of giveaways . but the frankly, of giveaways. but the frankly, the money is not there. and if the money is not there. and if the prime minister did have a chance to implement this , what chance to implement this, what would end up happening is that mortgages would go up by £4,800 for the average family . the for the average family. the country can't afford five more years. of the conservatives, only labour has a plan to grow our economy and tackle the cost of living crisis. >> however, the tories say today's figures show the economy actually grew by 0.7% in the three months to april, and grant shapps defence secretary says people will feel the benefits laid out in their manifesto . laid out in their manifesto. >> there are £17 billion, essentially of tax cuts, particularly to national insurance , and there, but also insurance, and there, but also assistance for people through things like help to buy. so you'll be able to buy a house with a 5% deposit, will permanently scrap stamp duty and for pensioners will have the triple lock. plus that means your pension. under the conservatives, your state pension will never be taxed , pension will never be taxed, unlike under starmer, who will tax your pension, and two men

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>> you could have had a cup of tea . i would have made you one tea. i would have made you one if it was. and we don't tell everyone, but we hide our biscuits. >> we do, because the producers eat them all. we hide them on the bookcase, marianne said. well, said . andrew starmer has well, said. andrew starmer has no moral compass. he contradicts himself all the time. he supported corbyn and now he condemns him reversing the law on the prosecution of northern ireland soldiers. the list of his empty u—turn commitments is endless. how can anyone in their right mind trust this man? and debbie says why is the nhs just doing mots for pensioners? working age could do with that. two we pay the taxes and claim the sickness benefits that they want to cut. we're going to talk to a gp about this in just a moment. actually dave says roll on july the fourth. i'm sick to the back teeth of hearing the rubbish being spouted by both major parties. every time they're in front of a camera, it's they're in front of a camera, wsfime they're in front of a camera, it's time they got real. and neil was talking about stephen pound and what stephen was saying. he says, wake up, mr pound, your party are telling lies on tax. any party who say

they're not going to increase they're not going to increase the basic taxes we pay is just a complete lie. they will go after all other taxes, inheritance tax, pensions, business tax, tax on banks, oil and gas and then increase stamp duty on houses. it all lies from reeves and captain snoozefest. >> and of course, they've already said the tories say they'll cut national insurance again . again. >> it'll be worth another £450 a yean >> it'll be worth another £450 a year. but labour said they wouldn't do it because they we can't afford it. but then they say, well we don't know what's in the books. they can't have it both ways. >> no, absolutely well, trevor said. treev has said labour are planning to apply capital gains tax liability on the home that you live in when you sell it. in effect, you will have to compulsorily downsize every time you move under labour. such a good point. >> it's they're going to be challenged about it because the labour manifesto launches tomorrow and, and i think there will be a paucity of information about tax. so they will be challenged. most of the questions i suspect to starmer will be about tax. and they should be because that affects us most. >> and the property market is so critical to everything, to the to the main macro economy

movement. it's also just critical on a very basic level to how people feel about safety and the security of where they live. >> if you buy a house often, you then buy a new bathroom or a new kitchen. that's good for small builders. >> it's hugely social mobility. >> it's hugely social mobility. >> you want the young people to be able to get on the housing ladden be able to get on the housing ladder. all of that ties in with property, right? american president joe biden's son, hunter, has been convicted of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun. >> the jury found the 54 year old guilty on all three counts against him. he could face up to 25 years in jail. it makes him the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime extraordinary , isn't it? crime extraordinary, isn't it? we've got the president of the united states convicted of a criminal offence , and now the criminal offence, and now the son of the serving president is a criminal. >> absolutely. well, joining us now is us political analyst eric ham . good morning. eric, thank ham. good morning. eric, thank you so much forjoining us this morning. i mean, what this tells me is that the top of american politics is riddled with criminality and corruption that normally has stayed behind the

scenes. and to be honest, i'm quite glad that we're seeing some of it in public. >> well, yes, we do see here in the united states, the justice system is in fact working. however, we have to recognise that hunter biden is not a politician, although he is the son of a politician, he is not involved in this election, he has not served in government and he has not been involved in actually any public grift , what actually any public grift, what we are seeing, however, is this is a system where there has been accusations of weaponization of the justice system and things like that. but clearly, what we're seeing is this is a system that's actually working. >> he could face a prison sentence, but if i'm right, eric, later in the year, he faces more potential charges over tax evasion, which could be much more embarrassing for the president. >> well, it could be even more damaging for hunter biden because while he was convicted of this gun charge, because this will go down as a first offence, he's likely to not see a lot of

jail time, if any jail time. however, when he goes to trial on this criminal tax evasion charge, if actually convicted, he could serve 70 years in prison and he will actually be. and because he will be a convicted felon already, that will certainly weigh into his sentence in that particular trial. so this is by no means over for the president's son. and of course , we know how this and of course, we know how this could be personally impactful for the president, particularly as he looks ahead to re—election because the president has a very close relationship with hunter. >> does he not? and he speaks to him. i read 2 or 3 times a day. and he's not exercising the right to use a presidential pardon, which of course, potentially he could. >> he could he could either pardon him, he could commute his sentence, but he has said that he would not do either of those things. and so what we're seeing here is this could be potentially damaging for hunter

biden looking at jail time and both of these criminal trials, to say nothing of what the legal cost that he's certainly racking up here and also it's something that will weigh heavily on the president , not only that will weigh heavily on the president, not only as he that will weigh heavily on the president , not only as he looks president, not only as he looks to re—election, but also as he looks to try to wrap himself around these key issues where we see the president is heavily engagedin see the president is heavily engaged in in terms of the conflict in gaza and, of course, the ongoing war in europe. eric just tell our british audience, because there may not be familiar with the hunter biden laptop story. >> so several years ago, when hunter biden was, very much a drug addict, he took a laptop to a repair shop and he left it there. now, there has been all sorts of incriminating in, information on this laptop, hasn't there? and he's avoided any sort of prosecutions , any sort of prosecutions, despite the fact that the images on that laptop are shocking . on that laptop are shocking. >> well, yes, we know about his drug use. we know about his his

his relationships with his his his relationships with his his his deceased brothers , widow. we his deceased brothers, widow. we also know about the ongoing , also know about the ongoing, scandal with one of the mother of his children, a former stripper, and dealing with and refusing to pay child support. so hunter biden has had a very salacious life and lifestyle . salacious life and lifestyle. it's something that has been a bit of a problem politically for the president and his family , the president and his family, but because of these struggles, what we are at least seeing publicly is the president and the president's family continue to wrap their arms around hunter biden because, in fact, of his struggles with addiction , it's struggles with addiction, it's just if, hunter biden is then convicted of these tax charges, too, and then gets a very long prison sentence, is that going to make it more difficult for the democrats to attack donald trump with his own criminal conviction ? well, no, because if conviction? well, no, because if hunter biden is not running for

office, however, donald trump is . and we know that where this also i think diverges is, donald trump , as we see also i think diverges is, donald trump, as we see in the also i think diverges is, donald trump , as we see in the most trump, as we see in the most recent case where he was found guilty, he was guilty of attempting to try to influence an election by paying off a porn start to keep her quiet. and we know, of course, the other charges also deal directly with election integrity . hunter biden election integrity. hunter biden has no such issues, and of course, we know based on what we're seeing, neither does his father . father. >> the issue, of course, that might be looming for biden will be the business dealings of hunter biden, particularly in ukraine. and that damning line, about 10% for the big guy. but thatis about 10% for the big guy. but that is a conversation for another time , eric, we haven't another time, eric, we haven't got time to go into it. but thank you so much for your analysis this morning. >> us political analyst eric, you sort of feel it could only be in america. >> this it's president as a criminal conviction. the president's son has one probably going to get a second one later in the year and could end up in

prison for 20 years. >> see, i think i honestly think my theory being that biden is quite happy to have hunter. he's not happy, but hunter out of the way in prison. yeah. given what he could be charged with and given the way that his father might be dragged into some of those allegations, i still think maybe just put him away on this quietly. >> i don't think that will go away. the republicans will make sure it doesn't go away well, and so they should. >> now the nhs will begin offering health mots to older and frailer patients . that's you and frailer patients. that's you andrew, it in the script you're britain's newsroom on gb

so older and frail patients we see. not about me. we'll be given health mots . apparently at given health mots. apparently at the entrance of a&e departments in hospitals to avoid unnecessary admissions. >> so the nhs says this could be a lifeline for many patients, allowing them to be assessed more quickly . doesn't make much more quickly. doesn't make much sense to us, though, does it?

>> well, let's the pharmacy historian govind, who's a friend of this program, joins us now , i of this program, joins us now, i don't quite understand how this is going to work. sorry. morning to you. i mean, does it just not mean that hospitals are going to just get a queue of people saying, i'm on my way to aisne, there's something wrong with me because they think they might get a free mot de . get a free mot de. >> i think it's a question that i am also asking because to me it's all about prevention. i don't want people to be going to a&e if they don't need to. i think there are some really key points in this in that they're targeting over 65 and those who are frail , old, and we know that are frail, old, and we know that if people of those in those categories end up in hospital, they can have , more issues. so, they can have, more issues. so, you know, if you end up in a hospital bed, you decondition so your body gets used to not getting out and about each day, not being out of bed as much. there's lots of issues that come with a hospital stay. so it's great that we're going to try and keep them out of a&e. but to me, it should become it should be earlier than that. we should be earlier than that. we should be having this information much

earlier than someone going to a hospital. >> but for in this a&e sorry, this, this assessment a&e that we're talking about is some pretty basic, measurements your height, your weight, your blood pressure and a conversation with a patient. is that really if you've if you've gone to a&e because there's something seriously wrong with you, which is what most people use a&e for ? is what most people use a&e for? still, isn't that all done? on a very basic level anyway, it should be being done , absolutely. >> it's part of getting the whole picture of an individual health. so, i'm interested to know how they are going to staff this, to be honest, because we know that a and e are busy enough.the know that a and e are busy enough. the royal college for emergency medicine actually said that last year. i've got i thought it was quite important and more than 250 patients a week in england may have died unnecessarily last year due to very long waits for a bed in a&e

, so it's all very well having mots, but we need it to help people stay well much earlier. and not just that though. unfortunately, people do go to a&e unnecessarily so. i've had patients , for example, who go, patients, for example, who go, i've run out of medication. so i went to a&e where they absolutely can't do anything for you there. you need to come to the pharmacist. so it's all about getting people to the right place in the health service, which i don't think we're that good at at the moment i >> -- >> and talking to the right place. >> does this mean nhs staff are going to have to be permanently positioned in the entrance of our major hospitals to intercept someone and say, how old are you? where are you going? and to do these? health mots and how long will they take? >> well, absolutely. and they're saying they're going to be staffing these for ten hours each day, that's a lot of resource . and i'm questioning resource. and i'm questioning why people are already not having these , not knowing these having these, not knowing these measurements already in the community. so i know we offer an ambulatory blood pressure check for some patients . so they take

for some patients. so they take home, something they wear, which measures their blood pressure over the course of hours because we know if you just rock up to a health service, sometimes that can increase your blood pressure and what they call white coat syndrome. so your blood pressure goes up because you're a bit stressed. so i'm very keen to see how this plays out, but i hope it's, actually going to have some tangible benefits and actually think long term rather than just, you know, a bit of a tick box exercise at a&e front doon tick box exercise at a&e front door. okay. all right. thank you so much. pharmacist and govind, for helping us to understand that a little bit. >> well, i think shares our scepticism. yeah. >> it's a really strange policy i don't. >> and it's almost like from nowhere. >> it's not in a manifesto. it's come out of nhs england said right, come on, we're going to come up with something. >> we've got to come up with something. let's just do this. people that are anyway, keep your messages coming this morning and still to come, you'll be really excited about this. >> the green party are about to launch their general election manifesto. i hope it's not on a piece of paper. it might be because they don't want to waste any paper. surely this is

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gb news. way. >> 11 am. on wednesday, the 12th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> thanks for joining pierce and bev turner. >> thanks forjoining us pierce and bev turner. >> thanks for joining us this morning. so it's manifesto launch day for the green party. they're going to be making their pitch to the nation in hove. we'll bring you that live swipers wearing a green dress. it's coincidental . it's coincidental. >> out of touch. in a tv interview to be broadcast later, the prime minister was asked

what he had to go without when he was growing up. this is what he was growing up. this is what he said. >> all sorts of things. like lots of people . there'll be all lots of people. there'll be all sorts of things that i would have wanted as a kid that i couldn't have. right. but famously, sky tv . so now, while famously, sky tv. so now, while campaigning in humberside, keir starmer pledged to tackle potholes and promised that labour won't raise income tax. >> national insurance or vat. >> national insurance or vat. >> have a listen to all of our plans are fully costed, fully funded. >> there will be no increase in income tax in national insurance or vat . or vat. >> and in america, joe biden's son hunter , found guilty on all son hunter, found guilty on all three counts in his federal gun trial case. he faces a possible 25 year prison sentence, looks like america's a criminal running for president, while the current president has a criminal . son. >> how excited are you about the green manifesto? >> can't wait. i'm stressed. i'm

struggling to remember the name of the leader of the green party because they divvy it up. caledonia two. there'll be a joint leader. >> oh, who's the other one? >> oh, who's the other one? >> i can't remember, don't know. >> i can't remember, don't know. >> good point. oh, caroline. >> good point. oh, caroline. >> lucas. and they're doing it. >> lucas. and they're doing it. >> caroline lucas famously was. >> caroline lucas famously was. >> yeah, she she was. yeah. and but she stands she stood down at the last election and we will talk about taxation. and it's all right for keir starmer. so they're not going to raise income tax. they too are going to freeze income tax thresholds which means more people will pay more tax . it's dishonest. they more tax. it's dishonest. they should tell the truth. >> so tuned for that green party manifesto because i do think that what they do do very well is i believe me, i yeah, this is entirely coincidental , i'm not entirely coincidental, i'm not wearing green. >> notice the they appeal to the younger votes. the greens. that's where they will steal the votes from. is the younger people. >> so let's see what they've got on offer and they'll take them off the labour on the labour left. don't pinch votes completely at first though. >> the very latest news baron armstrong.

>> hi there it is 11:02 i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the uk economy failed to grow in april in a blow to rishi sunak's claim. the country's turned a corner. official figures show. growth flatline to 0, down from 0.4% in march, which was in line with economists expectations. retail sales were down and construction output also contracted, partly because of the wet weather in april. the lib dems say the tories have utterly failed to deliver on their promises, and labour leader sir keir starmer says it's further evidence their economic plan isn't working . economic plan isn't working. >> the one thing that everybody expected and needed from rishi sunak was stability. after the disaster of liz truss. what he's now done is become the latest version of liz truss with unfunded commitments. and i think the public know voters know that there's a cost to that and they want an alternative. and that's why i'm really pleased that tomorrow in our manifesto, we will take a different approach. we will set out the case for growth , for

out the case for growth, for rebuilding, for putting our nafion rebuilding, for putting our nation first to go forward . nation first to go forward. >> well, the tories say today's figures show the economy actually grew by 0.7% in the three months to april. and defence secretary grant shapps says people will feel the benefits from their manifesto pledges . pledges. >> there are £17 billion, essentially of tax cuts, particularly to national insurance, and there, but also assistance for people through things like help to buy. so you'll be able to buy house with a 5% deposit, will permanently scrap stamp duty and for pensioners will have the triple lock plus that means your pension under the conservatives, your state pension will never be taxed, unlike under starmer, who will tax your pension. >> the liberal democrats have outlined plans to end what they describe as a sewage scandal in england and wales. they've promised to transform water firms into public benefit. companies, banned bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks stop, and they would

replace the regulator, ofwat, with a tougher governing body . with a tougher governing body. the party's leader, sir ed davey, says their clean water authority would be given new powers to reform the sector . a powers to reform the sector. a man's been charged with using threatening behaviour after objects were thrown at nigel farage. it's understood a coffee cup and other items from a building site narrowed . he building site narrowed. he missed the reform uk leader, who was campaigning on an open top bus in barnsley . police say 28 bus in barnsley. police say 28 year old josh greely was charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence . he's provoke unlawful violence. he's been released on bail and will appearin been released on bail and will appear in court later this month . brendan cox, husband of the murdered labour mp jo cox , says murdered labour mp jo cox, says violence is not the answer to solve political debate . solve political debate. >> i think it's deeply i think it's deeply depressing that people think that you can resolve political disagreements with intimidation, with violence and, you know, some people think these things are a joke. the

throwing of the milkshakes, the throwing of the milkshakes, the throwing of the milkshakes, the throwing of eggs, the throwing of paper cups. but these things aren't because what they do is that they create a poisonous culture in our democracy. they make people who are willing to go further than that, not just throw things, perhaps throw a punch. perhaps worse than that, more likely to do that so you can disagree vehemently with people like farage, which i certainly do . but we have a certainly do. but we have a responsibility to uphold the right of candidates, no matter, their views as well. >> the green party is launching its election manifesto any time now. it's promising to raise taxes for the wealthiest in society , and the party would add society, and the party would add a 1% levy on assets worth more than £10 million, an 8% national insurance on wages over 50,000 a yean insurance on wages over 50,000 a year. the party say proceeds would be used to fund improvements to health, housing, transport and the green economy . transport and the green economy. they've previously promised to spend £50 billion a year on

health and social care by 2030. at two. men have denied chopping down the sycamore gap tree . last down the sycamore gap tree. last yean down the sycamore gap tree. last year, a daniel graham, who's 38, and 31 year old adam carruthers are accused of causing more than £600, £600,000 worth of damage to the famous landmark and also of damaging hadrian's wall. it stood in a dramatic dip in northumberland for more than two centuries, until it was felled in september, sparking a national outcry, and the pair attending court wearing balaclavas over their heads . and balaclavas over their heads. and you should perhaps get your fly swatters ready, get your bug spray out, because a new type of mosquitoes has been discovered in some 13 countries across the eu , the asian tiger mosquito is eu, the asian tiger mosquito is thought to be the most invasive of its species in the world. health experts have linked the new insect to the rise of dengue fever in europe , and it's fever in europe, and it's thought warmer conditions have allowed it to spread across much of europe in recent years, travelling alongside humans and

also through the transportation of goods . you can get the latest of goods. you can get the latest by scanning the qr code for gb news alerts. our website also has the details now it's back to andrew and . bev. andrew and. bev. >> 1107 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner, we will be having the green party manifesto launch.i having the green party manifesto launch. i know you've been waiting with bated breath, perhaps even wearing a green frock to , be there in sympathy frock to, be there in sympathy with them or empathy with them or spirit, whatever you call it. but, but, but, but but we've got in the studio with us. we're delighted to say overseas. jennnen delighted to say overseas. jennifer, big moment yesterday in america with the president's son, criminal conviction. >> absolutely. so just to remind your audience , hunter biden, the your audience, hunter biden, the president's son, was convicted on three charges with regards to guns and lying on some forms,

basically saying that he was not a drug addict, when in fact, a jury a drug addict, when in fact, a jury found that that he was. so he's convicted of those those three felonies. the sentencing will not be for a few months, so we won't know what the sentence is. it could be jail time. i doubt very much that it will be because it's his hometown, willington. wilmington, delaware . they like the bidens there, the most important two things i think, that have come out of this is number one, we now know that the laptop from hell is real. and in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, as you'll recall , it 2020 presidential election, as you'll recall, it was supposed to be russian disinformation , it to be russian disinformation, it was, you know, not real. it's real. we now know that. so >> so that's his laptop. >> so that's his laptop. >> this is his laptop. >> this is his laptop. >> pretty explosive material. >> pretty explosive material. >> yep. and if you recall the new york post, you know, america's oldest newspaper was basically censored . you know, basically censored. you know, thanks to a lot of the, you know, the old twitter and everyone was censoring that. so that's election interference for sure . number two, this allows

sure. number two, this allows the democrats to say, see, we have a fairjustice system. we'll go after democrats as well, which is fine, except for this. these gun charges are the only charges that were facing hunter that do not tie him back to his father, the president, joe biden . i mean, if you really joe biden. i mean, if you really wanted to go after hunter, it would have been on more about the influence peddling. you know, whether it's ukraine, whether it's china, we now know that there were 20 different bank accounts that biden family members had and, sending money to that. so the foreign agent, the fara, as we call it, that probably is what should have been investigated. but again, that'll tie it to the president. so this is a safe way. that's right. to and that's, that's kind of what i was saying this morning. >> and the fact that biden's statement is saying, you know, i will accept this , package of will accept this, package of papers, which, as you say, hunter biden guilty of buying

gun illegally, and the president saying, i will stand by this. and i thought, i bet you will, because this is a safe way, exactly, of putting him behind bars, getting him out of the picture. and as you say, it's one of the few accusations that does not lead back potentially to the president of america. >> that's exactly right. and you'd think that the republicans would jump on this and go, yay! you know, we got somebody . but, you know, we got somebody. but, it's interesting, a lot of republicans have come out and said, look, i have no doubt this hunter deserves to be in jail for something, but this isn't it. and actually, they don't like it because of the possible infringement on second amendment rights , saying, you know, rights, saying, you know, because he was an addict. oh, does that mean he can no longer own a gun? so a lot of the pro—gun people are almost in defence of this , but what if the defence of this, but what if the president himself, this is a personal blow for him because he's close to his son? bev and i were looking at some footage of him yesterday . he was in a him yesterday. he was in a line—up where people were dancing, and he clearly barely knew where he was. it was embarrassing to watch his

degenerative powers are clearly fading. sorry. his powers are degenerating quicker and quicker if you're watching, if you listen on the radio, we're showing this clip again. he's staring vacantly into space while people are dancing alongside him, including the vice president. it's shocking to watch, it's shocking to watch. >> got a grip anymore? >> got a grip anymore? >> that's true. and that's been the case for quite some time. and this is sad. you know, it's actually it's very sad. it almost . i told your colleague almost. i told your colleague last night, it almost looks photoshopped because he's so still. and then you've got the man dancing in the sequinned dress and you've got, you know, george floyd's brother there, and you know, they're trying to basically do their identity politics around juneteenth event, yeah. the george floyd's brother. so yeah, but this poor guy and, i have said for months and months and months i do not see how he can make it to november. i don't see how he can you ask any washington insider and they say, no, this is our 9”!!- and they say, no, this is our guy. you know, we're going

forward, what happens though? >> sure. because my suspicion is that they will keep him in there for as long as possible. at the last minute, they will use his health as an excuse to pull him. and then what happens? jen >> do we then get that terrible vice president? >> well, actually, andrew, that is that is one option. so there's basically three ways that they could do it. one, it would be he just drops out now for health reasons. and kamala harris becomes our president. they are going to do anything to avoid that because as, as well, she's not popular. >> she's less popular than he is, and he's the most unpopular president, including jemmy carter in the history. >> so i think it's like 37% or something. so that's one option not going to happen, number two, they go to the democratic national convention in august, and the delegates that were sent there that pledged to vote for biden , they actually can fast biden, they actually can fast and furiously change their mind and furiously change their mind and vote for somebody else. that is a possibility, right? be very dramatic. and the third one is he , gets the nomination at the

he, gets the nomination at the dnc in, in chicago in august. and then afterwards they realise, okay, he cannot do this. and the democratic party decides on someone else who would it be? that's a great question, you know, we've heard everything from the governor of michigan, gretchen whitmer, perhaps teaming up with with the governor of my home state, gavin newsom . newsom. >> we've got to wrap up their journey. sorry. go to the green. jennifer ewing there. >> i'm sure you're really looking forward to. >> yeah , yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. >> we're going to go over to hope where the green party is launching their manifesto. here they are , john. they are, john. >> and it's so lovely to be here in brighton and hove with you. >> the wonderful thing about being a politician is you get to have conversations with people in your local community. those thousands of conversations with people in hundreds of different places have brought us to where we are today with a shiny new manifesto ready to be unveiled, our manifesto is based on

investing to mend broken britain and offer real hope and real change. >> our manifesto is about the sort of country we want to live in, where we move beyond the politics of fear and distrust, the sort of safe and brighter future we want to build for our children, the sort of world we want to build together . want to build together. >> for a world where everyone has access to the health services they need, everyone has a warm and secure home, and we all have clean air to breathe . all have clean air to breathe. our offer to voters is real. hope and real change, and our manifesto lays out exactly what that will look like. this manifesto isn't more of the same. it's a look at what things could be like and soon, if we're willing to invest at the rate necessary and to be bold and ambitious, we reject the pessimism of the other parties who don't believe we can

safeguard our publicly funded health system that we can't provide warm and secure homes for everyone, that tackling the climate crisis is too challenging for us. we reject this pessimism. we're confident that our vision for the future of the country is one that most people share . our manifesto people share. our manifesto tells them, tells you that it is possible we plan to transform our economy for good. >> we can't go on with an economy where most people are working harder and yet getting poorer, while inequality keeps growing, we reject an economy based on unfairness and instead embrace a fairer, greener economy. our manifesto lays out a bold but simple plan to bring our water companies , our our water companies, our railways and the big five retail energy companies into public ownership. we would end . this

ownership. we would end. this would end the rip off of rising bills, appalling service and shareholders trousering millions. we would restore our ailing high streets to urban and rural and recognise their value to the communities they serve by investing in support for small and medium sized businesses, we would overhaul our tax system to make it fairer. at the heart of this would be a tax on the very richest. the top 1% of people requiring them to pay a bit more into the pot from the tories and laboun into the pot from the tories and labour. we've been hearing a race to the bottom on tax. they think £0.02 off here and a penny off there will impress voters . off there will impress voters. and they think that people won't cotton on that. this means even more devastating cuts to public services like the nhs that we rely on every day. but that's not what we're hearing on the doorstep. people are telling us they want something to be done about the state of our public services, about our broken britain. they think there just

must be a way to fix it. and voters in this country know that to mend broken britain, we have to mend broken britain, we have to invest in our future. greens have the courage to say that we would change the tax system to make it fairer and make this investment possible . yes . and investment possible. yes. and they're right, because here it is a plan that would see billions go into the country's collective pocket to pay for the future of our public services , future of our public services, like the national health service , a cornerstone of everything we hold dear in our country. >> we launched our nhs offer last week and we were so proud to hear the feedback from nhs workers . they felt that someone workers. they felt that someone finally was willing to take the action needed to support them, and the critical work they do every day. an investment of £50

billion, more than any other party in health and social care, to defend and restore the nhs. we would ensure that you can see a gp rapidly and on the same day , if it's urgent, we would guarantee an nhs dentist for everyone. we would make personal social care free at the point of use, like the nhs . we would use, like the nhs. we would bnng use, like the nhs. we would bring mental health treatment up to the same standard as physical health and unlike any other party, we would say a categorical no to privatisation in our health service. yes. >> sean has spoken about the severe insecurity in our rental market, the unaddressed crisis in housing, as well as our support for renters. we would provide genuinely affordable housing through our right homes, right place, right price charter

and create 150,000 new social homes every year by the end of the next parliament. unlike laboun the next parliament. unlike labour, we would end the right to buy scheme that takes so many homes that are needed out of circulation. yes. yeah . and we'd circulation. yes. yeah. and we'd tackle our energy bills to our energy bills are still sky high because we have the worst insulated homes in europe. so over a five year period we would invest £30 billion in insulating homes up and down the country to reduce emissions and bring energy bills for down good. so people aren't afraid to put the heating on when winter rolls around. because a warm, secure, affordable home is something that millions of people in this country don't have. but it is so important. a basic building block for a happy and successful

life . life. >> now, if you look at the other parties , the climate crisis has parties, the climate crisis has been pretty much absent from this election campaign so far. the other parties are running away from their promises on climate only the greens understand that the solutions to the climate crisis are also the solutions to the cost of living crisis . the climate crisis is crisis. the climate crisis is the most serious. we face as a global community. our commitment to you is that our protecting our climate and nature lies at the heart of all of our policies . we won't give you fake numbers or spin the data , but we will or spin the data, but we will strive every single day to take the action that's needed. so what are we promising? we would stop all new fossil fuel projects in the uk and cancel those that have been recently licensed, like rosebank .

licensed, like rosebank. we would be more ambitious than any other party when it comes to renewable energy investing , to renewable energy investing, to ensure that our energy can come from wind and solar power , a from wind and solar power, a secure energy supply and action on the climate crisis go hand in hand. on the climate crisis go hand in hand . our investment in public hand. our investment in public transport support to switch to electric vehicles and homes heated without fossil fuels means we would put this country on path to being net zero years ahead of other parties . the ahead of other parties. the science is clear the desire from voters is clear. now. we need representatives in parliament who are ambitious enough to make it a reality . it a reality. >> there is so much more in our manifesto that we are proud of plans to clean up our water companies once and for all by

bringing them back into public ownership . a commitment to scrap ownership. a commitment to scrap tuition fees. so our young people aren't burdened with debt for life . and increasing the for life. and increasing the budget for schools so teachers don't have to choose between books and biros . and a new clean books and biros. and a new clean air, big pardon and a new clean air, big pardon and a new clean air act to safeguard our children's health. now is the moment to be ambitious, not unrealistic, but ambitious to be clear about the kind of country we want to live in, about how broken our public services are and the action that's needed to fix them. because we can have an nhs that works, we can have an

economy that benefits everyone, not just the very richest. we can have affordable housing that's actually affordable. think of that. we can have . we think of that. we can have. we can have real hope and real change for the future . change for the future. >> now we're not expecting to form the next government. we're realistic about that. to but when the conservatives are booted out of number 10 on the 4th of july and labour take oven 4th of july and labour take over, we plan to be there in parliament in greater numbers to speak up for you on the issues you care about, like a revitalised nhs bold action on the climate and a fair economy . the climate and a fair economy. because with more green mps in parliament, we will push labour to stop backtracking on their

promises. we will be there to drive them, to be braver, to be more ambitious, not to take timid baby steps towards change, but to actually do what's necessary to fix our country and get us back on track . so this is get us back on track. so this is our offer to voters a manifesto that lays out exactly what real hope and real change looks like. an ambitious but realistic plan for the future that we can all be proud of . be proud of. >> green party launch. they're clapping themselves . and the clapping themselves. and the one, the one thing i absolutely agreed with, of course, was when he said, we're not expecting to form the next government. i would think that's a fair assessment. >> well, the joint leader, carla denyen >> well, the joint leader, carla denyer, who describes herself as a pansexual , nontheist quaker. a pansexual, nontheist quaker. now, do we know what a pansexual

is? >> stephen pan i have a horrible feeling. i do know, but it's not the sort of thing that i could actually repeat on a family programme. >> so pan meaning every everything like pandemic. >> so pan meaning every everything like pandemic . yeah. everything like pandemic. yeah. >> pandemonium. >> pandemonium. >> pandemonium. >> pandemonium . >> pandemonium. >> pandemonium. >> anything else? yeah. no, i think she'd be very careful with this. >> yeah, i think so as well. >> yeah, i think so as well. >> and what is the other bit? she's a, she's a, she's a and a nontheist quaker . nontheist quaker. >> yeah. >> yeah. right. >> yeah. right. well >> yeah. right. well that >> yeah. right. well that really that's kind of, that's going to go well down your dome. >> you don't want identity politics do you think. >> don't vote for the greens two democratic in this country and allow too many people from too many differing political factions to get involved in the debate. when we're choosing a new government, because even in this industry, broadcasting, every time you mention a potential candidate, you have to mention that the 5 or 6 candidates who are running for that same seat, we're so democratic, it's unbelievable. and people take advantage of it. >> i quite like that, though. it's the only pan sexual nontheism nontheist quaker

nontheist quaker. i suppose she's the only one of those in the. >> well, i wouldn't i wouldn't put money on that. >> that's true. maybe she's the only out pansexual nontheistic quaker running for election. >> did you have to denote define your gender stephen pound not in the least. >> i did have a large number of photographs of my wife and kids on the election leaflet. right. >> listen, while we're being a little bit silly, but is there is a bit of a serious, story behind this, mike, the number of adults in britain who are wearing nappies. yeah and this is, this is a health story , is, this is a health story, aduh is, this is a health story, adult nappies are being used as sales have increased by 13. last yearin sales have increased by 13. last year in the uk, we spent a staggering nearly a quarter of £1 million on these products, 1.16 billion individual items. so why are so many adults needing to wear nappies? >> i don't know, it's not a very attractive story, is it? you know, but it's something about the health service. i mean, this is linked to dementia. i don't think it's linked to dementia. to me, it's a sticking plaster

situation because these people have got more serious conditions. obviously we're all getting older as a society, so more people are going to have this problem. i mean, for women, we know it can develop after childbirth and this sort of thing. and for men, sometimes is unked thing. and for men, sometimes is linked to the prostate cancer deteriorating as you get older. so clearly it's becoming, a more frequent occurrence. and it seems to me that instead of addressing it in a way where we need experts to nose it, they're just saying to these people who comment, oh, look, here's a thick pair of pants. it's not really a nappy. it's incontinence underwear, incontinent and saying, you'll be all right , incontinent and saying, you'll be all right, go home. and that causes both the distress because people doesn't feel very good having to wear that sort of thing, but also no dignity, distress, but also the possibility they have got a real condition which is not being properly examined and treated. >> but mike, i mean, i spent ten years working at the middlesex hospital and a lot of this is to do with the nursing care, what used to happen. and we used to

have every, every ward had a sluice where we actually cleaned the bedpans out. and that was the bedpans out. and that was the porter's job was to actually go and put the bedpans in the nurse's job was to actually go to the bed and help the patient up to sit them on a bedpan. and that's what they do. either not enough nurses or there not enough nurses or there not enough trained nurses, or they're agency nurses who simply won't do it . and it's easier. won't do it. and it's easier. and i know we nurses are amazing , brilliant life savers. yeah, some of them aren't true . and some of them aren't true. and the idea is that it's easier to wrap somebody up in an ink pad than it is to actually come. excuse me, nurse, can you bring the bedpan? >> yeah, that is exactly it. but i think this is just a terrible. it's a stain on our population, but a stain on our bed sheets. >> these are people who are visiting their doctor or going to , a&e. not people in hospital. to, a&e. not people in hospital. it's people who are just being i think. >> i think it's both. >> i think it's both. >> it's both. is it both? yeah. but but for the ones that who go to hospital looking for an explanation of their condition and to be told, oh, you need to do is wear a thicker pair of underpants, you know, you'll be okay. i mean, it's scandalous. >> this story , it seems it seems >> this story, it seems it seems wrong because we all know, don't we, that if you interfere with

the urinary process in the body, infections follow very quickly . infections follow very quickly. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> can we. can we move on? >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> well, i'm glad we're talking about it. i'm glad we. i thought we might be a little bit more childish on this. stephen, i'm glad to see you being quite grown up. and baby nappies are a third of the price. as well as these adults. >> well, i think one of the extraordinary things about life in the 21st century is my wife works in it. she's at the food bank at the moment, and one of the things they have there is people come in and steal the nappies, disposable nappies from there because they have a huge resale value there. the number of people who come and say, i've got ten children, you know, i want a whole load of size three and size fours and it's because they and then they're selling them on from the bank because they're so flipping expensive. >> isn't that awful? yeah. >> isn't that awful? yeah. >> because i mean, when my kids were my kids were children. you know, babies. we had terrorists. because the thing with terry nappies, you can then reuse them and reuse them and end up using them for shoe polish or just as a cleaner. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> and it's not that difficult in japan , demand is now in japan, demand is now outstripped, demand for adult nappies, outstripped baby nappies. >> that one company, the

japanese manufacturer oji holdings , is now switching from holdings, is now switching from making baby to adult nappies only because of the demand. >> yeah, but they have a hugely ageing population, a massive problem in japan, where there are now the population. i think the median age of the population is about also the landfill issue as well. oh god , don't go there. as well. oh god, don't go there. >> it'sjust as well. oh god, don't go there. >> it's just it's just awful. i think it's a terrible story. yeah, well, i'm sure you've got many years until you have to deal with this. andrew, ahead of you. >> this is becoming a this is becoming a theme today, andrew peirce's age. i mean, it's a bit insensitive when stephen's about 20 years old. >> don't show a lot of respect. >> don't show a lot of respect. >> and the rest. yeah. >> and the rest. yeah. >> stephen. >> stephen. >> how old are you? stephen? >> how old are you? stephen? >> i'm 75. i'll be 76 on polling day. >> well, i'd have said you were ten years younger than that. david davis was sitting on that just not so long ago. and he's 75. two and a half to tell you, stephen, he looks a lot at stephen. he looks a lot younger than you. >> well, that's a bit harsh, isn't it? sorry. are are stephen was born on the 4th of july, 1948. >> me and the nhs. >> me and the nhs. >> you know what? >> you know what? >> he's the 3rd of july, actually. but i mean, yeah.

>> and you're one of our quickest guests. stephen, i love having you. and you, mike. >> and we do love you. >> and we do love you. >> right? we've got to move on. >> right? we've got to move on. >> you have a strange way of showing it, my dear. >> oh showing it, my dear. >> on he does. yes. believe me, he really does. right. here's the latest news headline with aram and aaron armstrong. >> it's 1131. aram and aaron armstrong. >> it's1131. good morning to you. i'm aaron armstrong . the uk you. i'm aaron armstrong. the uk economy flatlined to 0% growth in april, a blow to rishi sunak's claim. the conservatives plans working. retail sales were down. construction output also contracted, partly because of the wet weather. in april, the tories pointed to figures showing the economy had actually grown in the previous three months to april . but the lib months to april. but the lib dems say the party's utterly failed to deliver on their promises. and shadow chancellor rachel reeves says it exposes the damage done after 14 years of conservative chaos . of conservative chaos. >> it's this prime minister and this chancellor that has presided over this state of affairs with an economy that's barely grown these last 14

years. yesterday, the prime minister published a desperate wish list of giveaways . but the wish list of giveaways. but the frankly, the money is not there. and if the prime minister did have a chance to implement this , have a chance to implement this, what would end up happening is that mortgages would go up by £4,800 for the average family. the country can't afford five more years. of the conservatives, only labour has a plan to grow our economy and tackle the cost of living crisis i >> -- >> in the 5mm >> in the last half an hour, the liberal democrats have outlined plans to end what they've described as a sewage scandal in england and wales. they've promised to transform water firms into public benefit companies, banning bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks stop, and replacing the regulator , ofwat, with a the regulator, ofwat, with a tougher governing body . the tougher governing body. the green party has launched its manifesto with a promise to raise taxes for the wealthiest in society and ensure no one is scared to put the kettle on. the party would add a 1% tax on

assets worth more than £10 million, an 8% national insurance on wages over £50,000 a year. they say proceeds would be used to fund improvements to housing, transport and the green economy. and they've also launched plans to boost health and social care by spending £50 billion a year. well, that's it for the moment. but you can get the latest on all of our stories by signing up to gb news alerts. the code is on your screen. the details are @gbnews .com/ alerts i >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> a quick look at the markets the pound buys you $1.2753 ,1.1863. the price of gold is £1,813.61 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8196 points. >> cheers britannia wine club

proudly sponsors the gb news financial report a woman oh, the gossip going on here. >> tom and emily are here. are you possibly what we're talking about? >> yes. well, i won't repeat what's going on on the show today, guys. >> well, this, conservative messaging, it's changed rather a lot from, for vote us for a good government to, try and avoid a labour super majority. >> i mean, what on earth is going on? have they totally, completely given up at this point? yeah, they know they can't win, so they're just trying to limit the scale of the labour landslide. >> we've been scouring over the social media adverts that the conservatives are putting out now. >> these are targeted adverts, but if you go behind the scenes on companies like facebook, you can see what they're targeting at various different people. and there's one advert in particular that shows a seat projection of the conservatives in third place behind the liberal democrat. yeah, yeah, this is a conservative advert . yeah. and conservative advert. yeah. and they're genuinely using these

mrp polls that show that the conservative party could come behind the lib dems, but the lib dems would be the official opposition . and the opposition. and the conservatives are putting that out. it's an extraordinary moment in the campaign into voting tory and not to vote reform. >> it might work for some voters, it might work for some voters. but isn't it a sad state of affairs where you have probably a lot, a lot of people in this country who are not voting for anything. they're voting for anything. they're voting against the other side. lots of people voting against the conservatives, lots of people voting against labour. so there you go. that's the state of it. >> there's no great enthusiasm. >> there's no great enthusiasm. >> same in the us though too, agree. >> well, this is the interesting point. when the labour party win and it will be a when not an if in my view, how long will the honeymoon last? not long. if, if, if they're winning by default this sort of oh they're all terrible. we might as well go for the other lot. that sort of philosophy . i wonder how of philosophy. i wonder how short that honeymoon will be and

how quickly, suddenly this anti—politics feeling, which of course is being diverted towards the labour party at the moment, might well quickly be then diverted against them. i think politics has been incredibly volatile for the last, well half decade , and it's not going to decade, and it's not going to stop being that volatile when the other lot. >> and i'm sure you've been talking about that survey about trust in politics. no rock bottom. well, there's a new survey of quite a few people. >> i saw that headline this morning. i'm glad you're handung morning. i'm glad you're handling that this afternoon. really interesting. as to why people don't trust politicians. >> yeah. rock bottom. so yes, i think that does go into that narrative of people voting against something. >> election campaign is not going to it's not going to change anything. it's going to make them trust politicians even less, because this is all these promises. >> you know, you've got billions of tax cuts from the conservatives. you've got rachel reeves not telling us which taxes she's going to raise. well, you've got the greens there saying, oh, wealth tax will fix everything. people don't buy it, do they . they're don't buy it, do they. they're going to take. yeah. >> because of course, of course billionaires will will, will of

course be delighted to give up their assets. >> be delighted to stay in a country that wants to take away their assets, because we know that no billionaires at all like to, you know, move to new york or los monaco or or to san francisco. >> right. emily and tom, from midday, for now, though, we're going to be telling you why the war on cars is hitting young people so hard. don't go anywhere

we' re we're going to cross live. not live. actually, to labour leader sir keir starmer is campaigning in humberside. he says that there are no financial holes in his manifesto except some potholes. >> all of that plans are fully costed, fully funded. there will be no increase in income tax in national insurance or vat and we'll launch our manifesto tomorrow. there'll be no tax surprises and none of our plans

require tax rises over and above the rises that we've already set out. but what you will see tomorrow is a plan for the future of the country, a manifesto that sets out how we will rebuild and renew the country, and sets out the first steps that we will take in government on day one to set us down that path of renewal and rebuilding. so it'll be a very different manifesto to the one that the tories unveiled yesterday. >> when you ran for the leadership, you said you wouldn't trash jeremy corbyn's record yesterday, you went out of your way to trash his manifesto. why should people trust you ? trust you? >> the point i was making is this that , the one thing, the this that, the one thing, the one thing that everybody expected and needed from rishi sunak was stability after the disaster of liz truss . what he's disaster of liz truss. what he's now done is become the latest version of liz trust with unfunded commitments. and i think the public know voters know that there's a cost to that and they want an alternative .

and they want an alternative. and that's why i'm really pleased that tomorrow in our manifesto, we will take a different approach. we will set out the case for growth , for out the case for growth, for rebuilding, for putting our nafion rebuilding, for putting our nation first to go forward. and we'll set out, of course , our we'll set out, of course, our first steps in government, steps that we will be able to do on day one to get going on the health service, on energy, on recruiting the teachers we need in our schools. so we'll be looking forward to putting that forward tomorrow. >> okay. and the itv question, rishi sunak told itv news that he had to go without sky tv when he had to go without sky tv when he was growing up. sorry for the prime minister. do you feel well? >> i'm going to resist the temptation to be drawn into commenting on what rishi sunak may or may not have had when he was growing up. what i do know, and what i will say is this that he was supposed to be. he was supposed to provide the stability after the disaster of liz truss, but he's become the latest tory version of her with unfunded promises in his

manifesto. and across the country , people know there's a country, people know there's a cost to that. they want an alternative to that. tomorrow they'll see that alternative because we'll set out a manifesto full of hope, of change, setting out how we will rebuild and renew the country, including the first steps that we will take on day one. if we come in to serve this country. >> okay, that was keir starmer this morning. do >> okay, that was keir starmer this morning . do you want to say this morning. do you want to say how much you enjoyed that? >> well, i just think it's just dull isn't it. get a grip of it i mean he's look we know his campaign. they're so far ahead . campaign. they're so far ahead. just be risk averse, very cautious. don't say anything which is hostage to fortune. you know who's not dull? where's the radicalism? our viewers . radicalism? our viewers. >> jacqueline says do not put the greens back on the screen, please. gb news. i need to go and have a lie down now. i'd like to see more. nigel farage, please, right we are. but we're going to go on to sir ed davey, the liberal democrat leader. he's been talking to reporters in warwickshire in his wetsuit .

in warwickshire in his wetsuit. >> with the water company, it's being allowed by the conservatives to keep pumping their filthy sewage into our rivers. our lakes , our beaches rivers. our lakes, our beaches and seas. and it's got to end. so we keep coming back to them. we're not going to apologise for that, we've explained how serious the problem is to our environment, to public health and it affects leisure activities. so here we are having some fun. yeah, but making the point that millions of people like going into water, like swimming, like paddleboarding, like doing other water sports . and if we don't water sports. and if we don't clean the water up properly, they won't be able to enjoy that . as well as it being damaging to the environment and public health. so we're saying today let's have a tougher new regulator. we're calling it the clean water authority, and it backs up all the liberal democrat policies to end this sewage scandal. >> how much more power will you give that authority over ofwat? >> and also, what were you doing scotland. >> because obviously this is a devolved issue. >> scotland, northern ireland have different types of regulation. >> and then one quick factual question where's it going to be based.

>> well first of all, it would have all the powers of ofwat and much more. so there are powers that lie with the environment agency that could come in, powers that lie with the drinking water inspector and elsewhere. we get them into one regulator so the water companies can't play off regulators to each other, and the regulator can actually do what the british people want, which is to get clean water. we would work with our scottish colleagues, our welsh colleagues, colleagues in northern ireland. they are devolved. they can decide what they want to do, but i'm sure they want to do, but i'm sure they share our ambition. certainly the scottish liberal democrats and the welsh liberal democrats and the welsh liberal democrats share our ambition to clean up water across the united kingdom in terms of where it will be based. you know, i think it should be based in one of the areas that's been most hit by this sewage scandal, you will be aware of the gdp figures which are out today. >> what is your view of what that tells us about where the economy is going and perhaps about the conservatives decision to go now for an election rather than waiting? >> well, as the time ticks away

from rishi sunak and his premiership as he has his last few days in office, i'm afraid the economy is petering to , the the economy is petering to, the conservatives promise to grow the economy , to make it more the economy, to make it more prosperous. and they failed utterly . and whether it's the utterly. and whether it's the cost of living which has hit people so hard with the energy bills, the rent, the mortgages, the food bills and the conservatives done nothing to help with that, or whether it's the economy not growing properly, the conservatives have so mismanaged our economy. from liz truss's appalling mini—budget to rishi sunak's failures, they should get out of the way and liberal democrats have some really attractive, positive ideas to rebuild our economy and help people with the cost of living. >> sky news is hosting. >> sky news is hosting. >> that was ed davey and frankly , if there are liberal democrats who are in there making a noise about clean water, then great. we need the next government to do something about the state of our world. >> and the lib dems have really owned this campaign . they've owned this campaign. they've doneit owned this campaign. they've done it very well. they've been banging on about it for a long time because it is disgusting how much sewage and pollution is

being pumped into the rivers by by water companies. and the directors take fat directorships , sorry, take fat dividends out of the company. >> we said that keir starmer was in homicide. a lot of you getting in touch to say it doesn't exist . bev, you didn't doesn't exist. bev, you didn't say you idiot, but you kind of did. it ended in 1996. it's lincolnshire or east yorkshire , lincolnshire or east yorkshire, depending on where you are. apologies for that. by that mistake , right. let's take a mistake, right. let's take a quick break. but still to come , quick break. but still to come, we're going to tell you why young people are giving up with cars. really, they've got no choice but to so. very depressing. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. good morning. it's 1150 gb news. good morning. it's1150 now. young people are saying that driving a car is near impossible these days. >> there's apparently a shortage of 1 million >> there's apparently a shortage of1 million driving >> there's apparently a shortage of 1 million driving tests. >> and car insurance is written by. guess how much? 67% for teenagers in just 12 months.

>> so joining us now is head of insights of autotrader mark palmer. good morning mark. give us a little bit of background on these statistics because it sounds like a very bleak picture for young drivers . for young drivers. >> yeah. good morning, that is right. yeah. young drivers. it's interesting to see the, the headune interesting to see the, the headline you've got there. why does britain, hate cars so much? what we're finding, actually, is that young people really, really want to drive. but there are barriers in the way for them. so as you call out a couple of things there. so, insurance costs have really gone up. and also there are just far fewer affordable cars for younger drivers to get into these days , drivers to get into these days, it is a war on all motorists at the moment , it is a war on all motorists at the moment, mark, isn't it? the car is this radical symbol of freedom and privacy. i would go so far as to say, and what do teenagers want above all else? freedom and privacy . it's a real freedom and privacy. it's a real loss for that age group in particular. >> yeah, definitely. younger drivers have said, you know, we surveyed them just recently, 4000 younger drivers and 70% of them, think that owning a car

has become more important to them than they might have thought in the past. and just for the reasons that you described there, actually, you know, mobility, independence , know, mobility, independence, but also they're, they're worried about public transportation and whether they can trust that to get them to their place of work and so on. so, yeah , definitely, younger so, yeah, definitely, younger drivers are still want to drive cars , but it's much more cars, but it's much more difficult for them to do so. >> on what basis can the insurers justify a 67% rise in insurance mark when we see inflation now has fallen to around 2 or 3? >> yeah, i'll be honest, i'm not going to. i can't talk for the insurance industry. costs have gone up across the board , over gone up across the board, over the last few years. there are a number of factors in that that i probably could talk to. the first of those being really the cost of cars. has gone up, over the last few years, which is a really a factor of the pandemic. still, you know, the long shadow of covid is still affecting the car industry and access to, you know, free supply, car costs have gone up. so insurers have got to cover that sort of thing. repair costs have gone up. of course, energy salaries, all those sorts of things. so just

fixing cars as, as i guess gone up. but the insurance, business will be able to give you a bit more information on that. so we're short of time, but really we're short of time, but really we're looking at the fact that in the car almost, i was going to say in the future, but now as well, it's just for the rich , well, it's just for the rich, no, i wouldn't say so. i mean, there's still plenty of affordable options for people, and cars are just not, you know, they're not a purchase that you can choose to leave or not. the, you know, the car market, the used car market especially is in really rude health. plenty of people are still, looking to change their cars . good, but it change their cars. good, but it has become more difficult to, for younger people to get into those cars. >> okay. mark palmer, their head of insights at autotrader, we here @gbnews, we love the car and we will support you. >> haven't had one for 30 years. >> haven't had one for 30 years. >> car oh, i couldn't live without my car. right. that's it from britain's newsroom. this morning. good afternoon britain with tom and emily is next. we will see you tomorrow. >> see you then. and have the conservatives given up on this

election. >> senior conservatives saying that now the threat is labour having a super majority . have having a super majority. have they resigned themselves to defeat. and we'll have all of that after the weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. another chilly one out there this morning. for most of us though, it's going to be a fine day with lighter winds feeling just a touch warmer than yesterday, but it's certainly cold out there this morning . cold out there this morning. we've had clear skies through the night does mean quite a few of us waking up to blue skies this morning. a few showers are possible today across parts of yorkshire down to the east midlands, east anglia 1 or 2 over northeast scotland, but most places dry quite a bit of cloud by this afternoon, but still some decent spells of sunshine, particularly in the west, and temperatures a little bit higher than yesterday . still bit higher than yesterday. still below average for most of us for the time of year, but with

lighter winds, a bit more sunshine, it should at least feel a little bit more like june through this evening. i think we'll see those temperatures falling off again pretty sharply. still quite a bit of cloud coming into the northeast. a few scattered showers likely to continue across the northern isles. still some good spells of sunshine though. across western scotland. a bit more clouds across northern ireland come the afternoon and sticking around into the evening. the odd shower still possible over eastern england, but most of england and wales will stay dry through this evening and some good spells of sunshine coming through, but, as i said, temperatures dropping pretty speedily under those largely clear skies. it will be a bit of a chilly start again tomorrow morning. signs of a change though. on the way behind me, the cloud is starting to thicken. the breeze is starting to pick up as well, so through the night it'll turn cloudy across northern ireland, western parts of wales, but elsewhere generally clear skies and temperatures yet again dipping down into single figures well down into single figures well down into single figures well down in some rural spots. again, not far off, freezing in some locations. another bright start,

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gb news. way. >> good afternoon. britain it's 12:00 on wednesday, the 12th of june. i'm tom harwood , and i'm june. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. don't give starmer a supermajority. that's the new warning from senior conservative figures ahead of the general election. but is this simply an admission of defeat from the downtrodden conservatives ? downtrodden conservatives? >> meanwhile, is labour being transparent over its tax plans? there are growing warnings that the party isn't being open enough about huge taxes that may come , and joe biden's son, come, and joe biden's son, hunter, becomes the first child of a sitting us president to be convicted of a crime. >> what does this mean for the general election campaign?