we came into chance to do what we came into politics to do, which is to change the lives of millions of people for the better with a labour government. we'll do that with our sleeves rolled up, a serious plan for the future, and take our argument to every single doorstep across the country , and ask people to back country, and ask people to back the case for change. ask people to give us a mandate to change this country for them , their this country for them, their family, their community, and our country. thank you very much, chris. you did do a double question , but nonetheless, on question, but nonetheless, on immigration, we do need to have lower immigration. as you know, immigration is at the pretty much the highest on record by the numberjust a few months the number just a few months ago. so this government has lost control of immigration. it's important to look at the reasons for that. and the main driving reason is because they haven't got any skills strategy. we haven't got the skills that we needin haven't got the skills that we need in this country. and that's why not only is our plan here a plan for growth, it will also deal with immigration because this government has gone to immigration as their growth

lever. i want to go to skills, wealth creation, investing in businesses in this country. thank you chris. that's not an invite to everybody to do two questions by the way. but out of respect for chris, i did it. sophie the mirror sophie asks seven from the daily mirror. >> sir keir, your manifesto says you'll develop an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty . do you have a target for how many kids you want to lift out of poverty? >> well, we will have a strategy for dealing with poverty, just as the last labour government did . and we took millions of did. and we took millions of children out of poverty and we will do so again. that does require a strong plan to deal with those issues that bear down on poverty and children . that's on poverty and children. that's housing, that's education, that's health, that's good jobs andifs that's health, that's good jobs and it's wealth creation. because without the wealth creation that we need for our country, it's very difficult to do the support that we need in our country. and that's why i say we are the party of wealth creation. this is a plan for wealth creation . it is a plan

wealth creation. it is a plan for growth. that is the single driving mission of what i hope will be an incoming labour government. thank you. sophie martina from the sun. martina >> hello, sir keir, martina beck from the sun. >> in order to clear the asylum backlog, you said that you would let small boats migrants currently here enter the asylum seeker system. >> but what is the plan for new people who arrive here illegally? because there is nothing about that in the manifesto. would they be able to apply for a claim , if so, isn't apply for a claim, if so, isn't that just an incentive for more people to come? well look, those that are already here are already in the system. >> they're just not being processed. and that means the government has got a hopeless situation where tens of thousands of people are not being processed. so the one thing that can't happen is that they're removed to the country they're removed to the country they came from, even if they got no right to be here. that is the chaotic state of this government . they're not processing the claim. even clear cases where people shouldn't be here, they

can't be removed . we've got to can't be removed. we've got to fix that. we've got to fix. we've got to fix , the loss of we've got to fix, the loss of control of our borders under this government . nobody but this government. nobody but nobody should be making that trip across the channel in small boats. and the way that we will do that is with our border security command, which is set up specifically with new powers, a new command with new resources to smash the gangs that are running the vile trade of putting people, vulnerable people in boats to go across the channel. now, before i was in this job, channel. now, before i was in thisjob, i channel. now, before i was in this job, i was the chief prosecutor . for five years. i've prosecutor. for five years. i've worked with law enforcement across countries to smash terrorist gangs, sophisticated terrorist gangs, sophisticated terrorist gangs, sophisticated terrorist gangs. terrorist gangs, sophisticated terrorist gangs . and i will terrorist gangs. and i will never accept that. the only gang that apparently we can't smash is the vile smuggling gangs that are running this trade. i'll never accept that. thank you so much. chris, from the times , chris. >> chris smith, from the times, you've made it very clear that

you're not putting up taxes on working people. >> you've left other taxes on the table , and you've also said the table, and you've also said there'll be no return to austerity. you're putting a lot of emphasis on growth. but, you know, as you said, there is no magic wand. there is a chance that your growth plans don't happen as quickly as you want. so people want to know what is your instinct in that situation if the sums don't add up, is your instinct in that situation if the sums don't add up , is it if the sums don't add up, is it to borrow more? is it to cut spending, or is it to put up taxes? >> chris, this manifesto is a total rejection of that defeatist approach that the only leavers are tax and spend. it's a total rejection of that . it's a total rejection of that. it's a total rejection of that. it's a plan for growth. i accept there's no magic wand . i accept there's no magic wand. i accept that you don't get growth without a plan . that's what all without a plan. that's what all the forecasts are based on, that things won't change. can't change will flat line. that's why we're having this discussion about tax and spend i reject that. that's why this is a plan for growth. a carefully thought through plan for growth. hundreds and hundreds of conversation engagements with

businesses, with communities , businesses, with communities, with local representatives and leaders about the change that we can bring about. and some of it is obvious stuff. it's common sense stuff. planning holds up infrastructure all of the time . infrastructure all of the time. years and years are lost in pretty well every infrastructure project. we can't get things done. we can't get things moving. we can't build things, whether that's big projects or the houses that we need. we don't have an industrial strategy that actually makes sure we've got the skills and the initiatives in the places that we need them. we haven't got a national wealth fund at the moment which invests in the future of our country and gets the private sector to invest with it. all of these things will make a material difference, and i have absolute confidence in the plan for growth that we're putting before the country . and i will not accept the defeatism that says all that we can hope for in this country is to flatline. that is the absolute opposite of the hope that we inject through this manifesto. thank you, chris, very much . ben telegraph thank

you. >> ben riley—smith, the telegraph, keir starmer, your rhetoric suggests you want taxes coming down, but this manifesto explicit has taxes going up. >> i think in the costings pages by about 7 to 8 billion. >> so can you just be crystal clear. >> you're going into the election with a platform of tax rises. >> the tax rises we've set out in the manifesto were the there's no surprises ben, this morning, as you will see, you'll have gone through the document quickly. you'll go through it no doubt, at length later on. there are no taxes, no tax rises that we haven't already announced it, yes. we want to bear down properly on the non—dom tax status and make sure that the super rich pay their fair share in this country. yes, we want the oil and gas companies to pay fair tax on the massive profits that they're making. yes, we want to make sure that private eqtu want to make sure that private equity loopholes aren't there again for wealthy. and yes, we've taken the tough decision in relation to vat. so we will

take all of those measures. but what you won't see in this manifesto , though, is any plan manifesto, though, is any plan that requires tax rises over and above those that we have already set out , out because we've been set out, out because we've been very, very clear, particularly in relation to working people, no increase in income tax, no increase in national insurance and no increase in vat. absolutely clearly set out in this manifesto. thank you. ben. jason from the daily mail . jason from the daily mail. >> thanks, sir. keir, you've said that taxes are too high just to follow on ben's question. >> you're manifesto, i think, is going to put them up about £8 billion. the tories say they're going to cut them by 17 billion. are you happy fighting the election on that tax divide. and can i just pick up one from, beth's interview with you last night, which i don't think you ever quite got around to answering . you're among friends answering. you're among friends here. did you really think jeremy corbyn was going to be a great pm? >> well, look on the tax question , you can see what the question, you can see what the conservatives are doing every

day. they are desperately putting a new policy , a new putting a new policy, a new gimmick on the table, which is unfunded . now, if there's one unfunded. now, if there's one lesson from liz truss and what happened to the economy, it's if you make unfunded tax cuts, then it damages the economy and working people pay the price . working people pay the price. and i was in stafford just a few weeks ago during this campaign, in the kitchen of a woman who was a paramedic and her wife who works in a jewellery shop. they've been they bought their house five years ago. they were on a fixed rate mortgage. they've got two kids. they that has come to an end after five years. they've hunted around. but the best mortgage they can get is one that's hundreds of pounds more. and they can't afford it. and they're going to have to move. that is the price you have to move. that is the price you pay have to move. that is the price you pay for unfunded tax cuts. and rishi sunak, he was supposed if there's one thing that he was supposed to do , it was to supposed to do, it was to provide the stability after liz

truss. and here he is repeating it and he'll be working. people who pay the price for that . who pay the price for that. any relation to jeremy corbyn in the last election ? i didn't think we last election? i didn't think we would win the last election. i didn't think that we were in a state to win it. that is reinforced by the work that we have now done. we were rejected by the country and i first decision i took was if you get rejected that badly by the country, you don't look at the voter and say, what on earth are you doing ? you look at your you doing? you look at your party and you change it. and i've led this party through that change. and jeremy corbyn is not just not a labour candidate , just not a labour candidate, he's expelled from this party. thatis he's expelled from this party. that is how much change we have brought around . a kitty at the brought around. a kitty at the i thank you kitty donaldson from the i newspaper , you're giving the i newspaper, you're giving the i newspaper, you're giving the impression of a man in a

hurry . tony blair made the bank hurry. tony blair made the bank of england independent in the first week of his landslide. what would appear? what would prime minister keir starmer do in the first day? first week of a labour government? and how long will you give voters before they judge you on your ability to make changes? >> the first thing i'd do is return politics to service. to service to serve this country. i came into politics to serve . i came into politics to serve. i had a career in the law before this. my wife rather thinks i should have stayed with it. but i changed. but i changed because i changed. but i changed because i wanted to serve my country. and i think politics in the last 10 to 14 years has become too much about self—entitlement and not enough about service. so the mindset change, if we are able to come into government on day one, the most important thing will be service country first, party second. every decision will be dictated by that. is it country first service of the country. and i'll be judged on that service as i have been in

the past. i work with the police service of northern ireland, changing that so that it had the confidence of both communities with others. i worked at the crown prosecution service , a crown prosecution service, a service prosecuting every criminal case in england and wales to protect the public. and i've changed the labour party into a party that, again, is once again in the service of working people and what we are now seeking is the opportunity to change our country to put it back in the service of working people. that will be the big change from day one, and everything else hangs off that country. first party second. thank you kitty very much . pippa thank you kitty very much. pippa from the guardian pippa pippa crerar from the guardian, we all know that voters trust and confidence in british politics has never been lower. >> there's been numerous political scandals over the years that have played a big role in that. if you win the election, will you set up your

new ethics and integrity commission within the first 100 days, and are you watering down your ban on ex—ministers lobbying the government from five years? rishi sunak has struggled to lead a government of integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level. but can you do any better ? >> 7- >> yes, and 7_ >> yes, and i'm 7 >> yes, and i'm determined that we will do better because i've beenin we will do better because i've been in public service all my life. i've been held to high standards all my life. i've led from the front all of my life. and yes, we will get on with changing the codes and the ethics codes and the guidance thatis ethics codes and the guidance that is in place straight away in government. but i know that nobody will believe it's changed until they see the action that follows. you do need strong codes. you do need good commissioners. but you need to take action, and you need to take action, and you need to take action, and you need to take action when people breach those codes. and that's what we will do . just as i those codes. and that's what we will do .just as i knew those codes. and that's what we will do . just as i knew when we will do. just as i knew when we were changing the labour party, i said on day one i would rip

out anti—semitism by the roots . out anti—semitism by the roots. i knew i'd be judged not by what i knew i'd be judged not by what i said on day one, but what i did on day two, three, four, five and six and on and on and on.and five and six and on and on and on. and so it will be the same in government. we are going to turn this around to put politics back in the service of working people will be judged by the actions that we take, as well as the promises that we make. thank you, pippa, very, very much. jim, from the feet . jim, from the feet. >> jim. >> jim. >> jim. >> jim picard, financial times the private equity industry has been lobbying very hard for you to dilute the removal of the carried interest loophole that that industry enjoys. it seems pretty clear from the documents in the manifesto that you're still hoping to raise over half £1 billion from doing that. is it your guarantee that the amount they pay in tax will go up from £0.28 in the pound to 45? or is there still some wriggle room in that policy? >> thank you jim, we are absolutely determined to change the rules to close this

loophole. and the money that is set out in the schedule at the back of the manifesto tells you how much yield there will be from that. so that's the plan . from that. so that's the plan. that's how we'll carry it out, and what you will see and thank you for drawing attention to it for everybody who's got the document is in the last few pages about page 109. rachel is demonstrating, the page that says every policy is fully costed and fully funded. she's got it open. she wrote every word of it, and that is important because you can only build the wealth that we need in this country. on the foundation of stability. thank you all so much for coming. thank you for your questions. much for coming. thank you for your questions . thank you, all your questions. thank you, all of you. onward we go to change. thank you . thank you. >> and there we have it. the leader of the labour party , the leader of the labour party, the man. if the polls are correct, who will be the next prime minister of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland? outlined a manifesto, a manifesto he says is for change.

although i have to say, i don't think we heard a single new policy in that speech. it was a safety first manifesto. yes >> someone asked, didn't they, in the audience, one of the journalists there asked her whether this was captain cautious. he said, you know, he made the point that he wants no surprises for people. serious man, for a serious job. is the narrative. well, in the studio we have political commentators benedict spence and jonathan lewis who join us now , now, lewis who join us now, now, benedict, three words to describe that manifesto launch. >> can i just sigh? >> can i just sigh? >> three times? no. can i say, oh my god , is that is that oh my god, is that is that acceptable, steady . stolid, acceptable, steady. stolid, uninspiring, steady, stolid and uninspiring. >> jonathan. safe and predictable. >> necessary. okay, so i think some overlap on the spectrum in agreement here that this was not agreement here that this was not a wizz fizz bang event and it

didn't . there were no sparkles. didn't. there were no sparkles. it didn't need to be, starmer is so far ahead at this point in the campaign, all only thing can go is the only way things can go is down. so he just needs to keep that fabled ming vase in the hands across the polished floor. i think the floor is not polished anymore. it's more of a it's more of a sort of a nice carpet. now, if you can afford, you can afford to drop in. it still might not break. >> actually trying to scuff the floor. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> but but then but they're not doing it. look unless by barring any spectacular deus ex machina and you know, those can happen. we have no idea. but it seems as though labour can lose a significant chunk of their support at this stage and still win a healthy majority. obviously, labour doesn't want to do that, so they're kind of rehashing what they've already said and they're sort of promising not to raise major new taxes , we can have a taxes, we can have a conversation about whether that's prudent or whether actually whether we need new taxes. but at the moment it seems that they kind of want to the narrative is rebuilding the wreckage that the tories have caused, and that's going to be a

kind of a campaign of repairing stuff and after that, you can then go on to renew the country. >> and yet, benedict, this is, looking at all of the things that are being expended and spentin that are being expended and spent in here, looking at the limited tax rises that the labour party has admitted to, there will be, ceteris paribus, a higher tax burden , after five a higher tax burden, after five years of labour. but but also if we're judging these numbers to be correct, the cuts that were in the last budget destined for those unprotected departments over the next four years, they're still taking place. so we're going to get tax rises and some areas of spending cuts. >> yeah. what do we hear something like that before say about 14 years ago i can't remember who it was who brought in sort of similar ish policies. it's do you know what it's this is why i think it's very sort of uninspiring because it does seem to be very much sort of almost keep us on the exact same status quo, but fiddle around the edges slightly. well, here are some cuts that are already coming down the line. here are some very small tax rises that are

they going to have that much of an impact? if you want to sort of fix the large problems, the structural problems that we have in this country , it doesn't in this country, it doesn't really matter if you're left or right wing. you do need something a bit more bold than simply, we're going to fill the potholes . potholes. >> there is nothing really here about the planning reform that they keep talking about . i have they keep talking about. i have to say, i haven't read every single word of this manifesto. i've got. i've got summaries here. people are going through it as we speak, and we'll bring you all the detail as we comb through this with a fine tooth comb . but they do talk about comb. but they do talk about making it easier to build stuff in the country, i can't quite see all of the details. >> well, i couldn't see very much detail at all. and lots of people talk about making it easier to build things, and then they go back to their constituencies and they say, thank heavens we've stopped anything from being built. and i think one of the issues that the labour party has at this election is, okay, yes, they're going to win a very large majority because a lot of people are fed up with the conservatives. but the same principles still apply. the same people who might be switching from conservatives to labour. ultimately, on a local level, don't want things built in their areas. and i think there is an understanding. this is partly

why they're being so cautious that a lot of this labour support is built on sand until there is something a bit more concrete there for them to show the electorate and say, this is what we've given you, rather than just we're just we're not the date. >> when you say sorry, when you say it's built on sand, are you suggesting that labour might have it's wholly collapsed before the election or are you saying it afterwards? >> i think in five years time i don't expect sir keir starmer to still be prime minister or if so, by a very narrow margin, simply because i think without a much bolder plan than what i've seen today, i don't think he can address the structural issues that has done for the conservative party. >> you know what? i actually agree with you on some level, we're going to have the perfect alignment that it has right now. it could afford to include some policies which are, by the way, quite popular, nationalising pubuc quite popular, nationalising public utilities , a popular public utilities, a popular policy. it could it could afford it could afford to do that and it could afford to do that and it wouldn't actually lose support. >> but jonathan, i wouldn't be so sure about that because jeremy corbyn, lots of his policies were individually polling very highly indeed, but put all together in. emily. >> that's when you hit the nail

on the head. >> the british public rejected it. >> hit the nail on the head. keir starmer has been cautioned for good. >> cautious for good reason. >> cautious for good reason. >> here it's about vibes. starmer's vibe is completely different from corbyn's we are living in. >> it wasn't too long ago that he was being the laughing stock. he was the one who was polling dreadfully. he was the one tanking in the polls. >> he turned this around by moving away from those types of policies. >> well, he's turned what? he's turned things around because the conservatives self—immolated. yeah, the conservatives were riding high and then they did it all to themselves after owen paterson partygate, a counterfactual here, because i remember the last time the conservatives self—immolated under theresa may they failed on brexit. >> they were attacking each other, they were a divided party. but people didn't flock to the labour party because it didn't seem under because under jeremy corbyn. >> right. >> right. >> there were these are two things that have to happen at the same time. >> oh, i'm absolutely giving starmer credit. >> starmer would not have be able to absolutely. the anger with the conservatives unless he'd made labour look at least on the surface, safe. but here's the thing you can't actually have a policy manifest .

have a policy manifest. >> so such as in 2017, which starmer said should be the basis for labour's prospectus going forward, not the 2019 manifesto, but the 2017 manifesto mainstream social democratic platform with sort of free tuition, etc. so some, some, some national ization of public some nationalization of public service's 2017 manifesto, could it not have been the case that it not have been the case that it wasn't taken particularly seriously? >> people looked at the pledges and said, oh, they want to do this, they want to do that. but no one genuinely people thought theresa may would be getting a 200 seat majority in 2017, so we didn't apply the same scrutiny to the labour manifesto in 17 that we did in 90. >> theresa may's problem was that she was honest with the electorate. she came up with an idea how to pay for social care, and the voters thought and then said nothing, a change. i don't want anything to do with that. that's ultimately what happened there. i mean, it's actually the irony. there is, i think jeremy corbyn himself at that stage played very little role in the reckoning. it was in the next election that people had enough exposure to and realise actually, whatever the policies are, i don't like the idea of being in number 10. but no, i think we are sort of in agreement here and we're talking about, you know, oh, well,

people might be very sort of apprehensive about big policies. let's say, hypothetically, sir keir starmer had stood up there today and said, we're going to build 20 new nuclear power stations . it's going to cost stations. it's going to cost a catastrophic amount of money. do you think that loses him very much support in the grand scheme of things? i don't know, i think it's very much i think it's very much dependent on what the policies are around what area now. yes, it would probably lose him the support of quite a few nimbys in certain areas who don't like the idea of progress. i think he can afford to do that because his lead is so large. >> journalists saying , well, the >> journalists saying, well, the labour party is actually committing explicitly to this, this, this and this. i think one of the big advantages for keir starmer that we've seen actually over the last few years is how inexplicit he has been, how vague some of these commitments are. and yes, we get certain guarantees on three specific taxes, but a host of 15 other taxes, but a host of 15 other taxes, they're not going to make any commitments on at all. >> i think if we are going to take the british public as reasonably intelligent, they would understand that sometimes an economy requires a bit of a kick start and that they look at it and they might go, oh, well, that will cost an awful lot of

money. but right now we have no money. but right now we have no money for anything else. >> isn't that exactly isn't that exactly the point that people recognise that rebuilding things costs money? and how do we how do we get money borrowing and tax increases obviously growth as well. but there are people who recognise the size of the national debt. >> that is something i think that really does worry a lot of people. and, you know, whilst we talk about people not necessarily wanting their taxes to move very much in either direction because they recognise the importance of taxes, i think that they'd far rather pursue growth as you know, saying to people, this is something that long term will spur growth and bnng long term will spur growth and bring debts down, rather than just saying, well, let's just borrow more in the short term. i do think people quite they understand the difference. >> i would like to know what people at home make of it all. gbnews.com/yoursay is the way to get in touch. we're just going to have a little look through what you're sending us already. because it is you that matters . because it is you that matters. we want to know what you make of that manifesto launch. do you trust that keir starmer doesn't have some tax hikes up his sleeve, that we don't know about yet? do you think it was right that he didn't offer anything new and bold that we hadn't heard before ? is he captain

heard before? is he captain cautious? should he should have been more bold. >> after all, there was one member of the audience who seemed to think so. let's take listen. >> clear evidence of a changed labour party and clear evidence of the change we need for our country . a changed. thank you country. a changed. thank you very much . the same old tory very much. the same old tory policy. >> yeah , we gave up on being >> yeah, we gave up on being a party of protest. >> five years ago. we want to be a party of power. >> is a good line. yes, it is a good line. that one, isn't it? we gave up on. >> is it really ? it's a really >> is it really? it's a really good look. it's not something that i necessarily agree with in some ways, but i think it's a very powerful rebuke to that argument that labour should be much, much bolder . i argument that labour should be much, much bolder. i think that labour should be bolder, but obviously there is a balance between labour being bolder and labour slipping into territory where people don't think it can deliver on those strategies and

people get worried. the biggest risk for labour is that people are scared of it, and starmer has done a lot to make the unscary. no one can feasibly say that labour is scary. people are trying, but no one believes that anymore. people were scared by corbyn. they're not scared of him. it's a bit like 1997. >> the tories put out all these posters saying new labour, new danger with sort of red eyes, photoshopped on upon, tony blair's face. but i suppose keir starmer has had a lot of practice with people protesting . practice with people protesting. this isn't the first time i've been at a number of events where keir starmer has spoken, where there have been climate protesters, left wing protesters , even a protester in favour of av, of alternative voting systems who threw glitter over him at the last labour conference. and then a couple of conferences ago. i was also there. the number of people who stood up. the speech was meant to take an hour. it ended up taking two hours that there were that many protests . this this is that many protests. this this is a guy who knows how to deal with a guy who knows how to deal with a protester now. >> oh, absolutely. and as you say, the line about not being a party of protest, i think stings even more for the conservatives, seeing as they've spent the last two years protesting that they

can't do anything because of leftie lawyers or the civil service, and they were the ones that had been in government. i think that that really does speak to people as saying, actually, yes, we would like a party that is a bit more keen on action and governing rather than just talking about something. and here is this man who just bats away. protesters like they like they're not there. this is, having said that, given the economic and social issues that face the country, as i say, it is going to be a very difficult couple of years for the labour party. no matter how good sir keir starmer may or may not be, they are going to struggle on a number of issues and the fear is that as they start to flounder a little bit, which they will on on certain issues, they absolutely will that they begin to pander more to these sorts of things, these more sort of headune things, these more sort of headline grabbing ideas was that perhaps lean into a little bit into what, of course, people say are the culture war issues to get more of a headline , get more get more of a headline, get more of a splash, make it look as if they're making sort of social progress that perhaps doesn't really need to be made, but plays very well with the guardian and that's how you will see. i think that they are struggling is when that sort of starts to creep back into the

mainstream. and i do think it's going to happen. >> the honeymoon period, maybe, maybe a short one. who knows, jonathan, graham is still a little fearful. he's got in touch , he says. starmer says touch, he says. starmer says wealth creation is the number one priority so he can take it all off you with new taxes. well, look, i mean, it is no, but it is a huge change, isn't it? talking about wealth creation being the number one priority of the labour party rather than , say, redistribution. >> well, i think that if you to be generous to labour, even even the labour party under corbyn talked about wealth creation because it's never been a labour policy to stop the economy growing. the idea is that you grow, you grow the economy and then you redistribute it so you know, we could be generous to labour and say that they still want to redistribute money. they're not going to cut. they haven't promised to sort of cut income tax or national insurance. i do actually think that we should be raising the income tax thresholds. there's nothing progressive about making the lowest paid more, lowest paid pay more tax . and in the paid pay more tax. and in the 70s, paid pay more tax. and in the 705, it paid pay more tax. and in the 70s, it was actually written into law that the income tax

thresholds would rise in line with inflation. these were part of the prices and income policies that did deliver a wage price spiral in 20% inflation. wage price spirals are from the 70s. term it was, but at the same time, it's still reasonable to say that to have a principle that the personal allowance in particular should rise in line with inflation, that's fair, because more people have tried that stealth tax. that's the reason why the tax burden is the highest that it's been for 70 years. so but but look, we come back to the conversation that we were having before that we need a transformative government a transform ative government actually a transformative government actually whatever strike because britain is on its knees and that requires money. we can't just be sort of dishonest with a with the public. and the public knows that because if the conservatives thought that tax cuts are the answer to everything they did pledge to aboush everything they did pledge to abolish income tax, vat and national insurance and then go to a landslide. that's clearly insulting based intelligence. i mean, benedict, is it any surprise that people aren't too scared of tax rises across the board? >> because take this stat some 54% of uk households, 36 million

people already receive more in benefits, including the value of health and education, than they pay health and education, than they pay in tax. most people are net takers. >> yeah, it's a sad but true phenomenon that actually we really do need not even the super rich, just the sort of the vaguely wealthy quite desperately in this country because they shoulder so much of the tax burden. and if they do decide to go abroad because they're spooked by the prospect of even higher, raises on things like corporation tax or capital gains or anything else, actually , yes, you will struggle even more and then it will become a question of right. well, we have to borrow because otherwise services will collapse. i don't think it's a bad line for laboun think it's a bad line for labour, though ultimately to lead on wealth creation rather than jobs. i mean, deng xiaoping was able to sell the idea of capitalism to the chinese by literally staying, saying to be rich is glorious is completely turning on its head. however, many decades of maoist thought. and it's worked spectacularly well. why is it that sir keir starmer can't do something vaguely aspirational here? and that perhaps is partly why this manifesto is rather disappointing in its lack of ambition . ambition. >> and yet, emily, you're raising those numbers, over half of people , net recipients rather

of people, net recipients rather than net contributors , that has than net contributors, that has been rising in recent years for mainly one reason. not that benefits have risen massively , benefits have risen massively, but the number of people getting older has grown . yeah. and we older has grown. yeah. and we have a system whereby people are now who are retiring, are getting more out of the state pension system than was put into it through national insurance because of the way this is set up and because people are living longer. that's a very hard nut to crack. >> yeah, it is a very hard nut to crack. >> should we throw that to benedict and say, have you tried telling them that, that they haven't put as much in as perhaps they think? i mean, it doesn't go down very well when you say to people, actually, you're getting hundreds of thousands of pounds more on average than you ever put into the system. and they turn around and go, well, this is nonsense. i've paid in my whole life and i deserve a gold plated nhs. and actually all of my wealth should be protected. part of the issue with that, of course, though, is this country has become sort of addicted to very low paid migrant labour in many ways, actually, to prop up that older

population. you see that in the nhs, you see that in the care sector, but these are not young people coming in actually , the people coming in actually, the average age of the care worker is in their mid to late 40s. so those are people who then end up coming and in a very short space of time, also are then reliant on the system itself. now that is very interesting. so this is again and why do those why do those figures come from i honestly i can't remember where i was reading this earlier. i will send it to you. it's but i was also reading this against because i was having a conversation on another station the other day. >> they're not all in their 21 years old and no, no, no. ready to work for 50 years old. >> no. that tends to be the deliveroo and uber drivers who are in their early 20s. but something else, of course, that needs to be borne in mind of this is it's not even a long term solution. even if you were to bring it down to people in their 20s because of demographic collapse across the world at the moment, it's a very it's an issue that most countries are struggling with, and it isn't something that wealthy countries can just rely on indefinitely, which is to say, our populations are ageing. we can just import cheaper labour from elsewhere in a very short space of time. again, as the chinese discovered

youn again, as the chinese discovered your, you know, your base of people that you can actually pull from reduces far too quickly that you can replace it. and if that's happening in the third world as well, it's happening in india. it's happening in india. it's happening in india. it's happening in places like nigeria. ultimately, you also lose your migrant base as well, at which point then you turn around and go, did we invest in automation? did we invest in pro—natal policies? oh no, we didn't because we were spending it all on the elderly. right? >> well, on that depressing note , benedict spence will stay with us and so will jonathan list. >> and he'll show us his receipts and his research and his data , but yes, we'll have his data, but yes, we'll have much more analysis of starmers pledge to the country. that's after your headlines with . an. after your headlines with. an. >> very good afternoon to you. it's 1233. i'm aaron armstrong, labouris it's 1233. i'm aaron armstrong, labour is launched its election manifesto. as you've been heanng manifesto. as you've been hearing focusing on economic growth and political stability. sir keir starmer stressed wealth creation is labour's number one priority, describing his manifesto as a credible long term plan built on stable

foundations with clear first steps which he said would not mean a return to austerity. sir keir says people have had the hope beaten out of them. he accepted things will not change overnight and rejected an allegation made by rishi sunak last week by promising there would be no new tax rises under laboun would be no new tax rises under labour. other than what's already been announced. >> i don't believe it's fair to raise taxes on working people when they are already paying this much, particularly in a cost of living crisis . so let me cost of living crisis. so let me spell it out. we will not raise income tax. we will not raise national insurance. we will not raise vat. that is a manifesto commitment . commitment. >> well, plaid cymru is launched its manifesto pledging to fight for economic fairness and more funding for wales leader redknapp. yourth says he would invest £4 billion owed to wales from hs2 into better public

transport in all parts of the country. he's also called for the current funding model for devolved nations to be scrapped and replaced with a needs based system. he says if labour wins the general election, plaid cymru is committed to keeping westminster in check. >> but we can influence the change ahead of us, keeping the incoming labour government in check, not giving them a free pass to take welsh votes, but then cast wales interests aside. i am proud to stand on a platform which offers a positive vision for our country, a genuinely positive vision for our country, which offers a real alternative to the increasingly joined up thinking of the two main uk parties and a platform which gives people the opportunity to vote for fairness, for ambition and for wales .

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12:39 now. sir keir starmer made his pledge to the country at the labour party's manifesto launch today in manchester, where he vowed to prioritise economic growth and stability across the uk. in labour's plan to change britain . britain. >> well, let's cross live to itv news political correspondent olivia utley olivia. what's this captain cautious . captain cautious. >> it was pretty cautious. i thought that the moments where keir starmer struggled the most in the q&a at the end was when he was asked by our chris hope about illegal immigration, he says, or illegal immigration, he wants to get immigration down, but he refused to put a figure on it. and then, strangely , the on it. and then, strangely, the other moment that i thought he struggled was when he was asked what he would do on his first week in downing street. now, that's something that prime ministers are prime ministers to be are normally all too keen to talk about. but keir starmer sort of softly, softly, gently , sort of softly, softly, gently, gently don't ruffle any feathers approach sort of precludes him for talking about his goals for the first week in office, people have called this the sort of

ming vase strategy. he's so far aheadin ming vase strategy. he's so far ahead in the polls he has this sort of ming vase and all. his job now is to carry that ming vase carefully across the floor and into downing street, that he's basically going with the most sort of centrist kind of manifesto that you can possibly imagine. in fact, in large parts, it sounded a lot more like a conservative manifesto, all about boosting growth. very, very little about wealth distribution. he kept saying that he's not going to raise the three main taxes. he's going to make britain a more business friendly place. i thought that it was quite interesting. and this has been picked up on in the last couple of days, although he has said repeatedly that he won't be raising income tax, national insurance or vat . tax, national insurance or vat. so the three main taxes on working people . he is being working people. he is being very, very cautious about talking about capital gains tax and council tax and fuel duty. it sounds very much as though in the first term of a labour

government, those taxes would rise because labour has made some quite expensive commitments and they are going to need to find the money from them somewhere. >> yes . and the conservatives >> yes. and the conservatives attack line of a labour government costing everyone £2,094 in higher taxes is are people listening to that ? people listening to that? >> i think both parties seem to have decided that their tactic for this election is to come up with very, very specific figures that the other party is going to cost the average family. i know rachel reeves was saying yesterday that the britons would add another £4,800 to their mortgage repayments under a conservative government because of rising inflation. i would call this a sort of side of a bus brexit strategy. are people listening to the conservatives? well, to be honest, the polls suggest they are not listening to the conservatives. keir starmer is still so far ahead in the polls and barring some absolute catastrophe, it does very much look as though he's going to be the next prime minister. >> well, thank you very much

indeed. olivia utley , our indeed. olivia utley, our political correspondent in westminster. now we want to turn to something a slightly different, i don't know if anyone seen at home, but nigel farage was doing some media interviews this morning, and he was asked about his game plan, and he suggested that he would provide a better opposition to a potential labour government and that he could lead some kind of conservative reform coalition. interesting, interested to know the views of our panel on that one. >> well, of course we're still joined by political commentator benedict spence and political commentatorjonathan liz. two commentator jonathan liz. two political commentatorjonathan liz. two political commentators here, benedict, can farage really provide an opposition within parliament? >> i mean, well, we don't know how many seats the tories are actually going to get. he could certainly provide a very vociferous opposition, even if not the most numerous. and that would, i suppose, depend on the makeup of the conservative party after i'm just imagining that image of tiananmen square , where image of tiananmen square, where there is one man, one solitary

man, standing in this line of tanks. >> now, farage have been driving tanks. >> so i think i think that's fortunately for sir keir starmer, sir keir starmer can't set much of a military on nigel farage, as entertaining as that would be in terms of leading a sort of a reform tory coalition of opposition , i just can't see of opposition, i just can't see that that would be in the best interests of either party. i mean, ultimately nigel farage, he has no future with the conservative party even if they were to offer him some sort of olive branch, at some point they would try to do him over later on because they understand in much the same way as with boris johnson, there are some characters that are too large, actually. then to allow anybody else to breathe. that's why very for a very long time, actually, there was a lot of opposition within the conservative party to allowing boris johnson to become leader, because everybody knew once he's there, it's going to be very, very, very difficult to get rid of him. >> so turned out not to be. >> so turned out not to be. >> well, it turned out not to be by his own, you know, by his own stupidity, which is perhaps what they should have counted on, but nonetheless, there was the effort, of course, to make sure that he wouldn't be the leader of the first time around. when theresa may did. i also think,

ultimately, that the reform party is effectively the vehicle for nigel farage and his character at the moment? i think once you get rid of that, i think it begins to dissipate and this is my issue that i have long term with reform . it's long term with reform. it's a cult of personality. now, i don't think that that's a bad personality necessarily. he's a very charismatic person. he has lots of policies that chime a great deal with the public, but right now it is basically just him. nobody is going out as intelligent and as interesting as they might be. ben habib is not getting people out on the stump. neither is richard tice . stump. neither is richard tice. they are not the big draws, it's nigel farage. if you sort of have him subsumed by the conservatives, that's that. >> no. what he's not going to be subsumed by the conservatives. if there's any party that's going to be subsumed, it's the conservatives into reform. you can have this. this is like a hostile tories have 100 seats and reform have two. it doesn't it doesn't matter to him. this is if farage is going to entertain any deal. it'll be on farage's terms because he knows that he is in the ascendant. he has momentum. the conservatives, even at 100 seats, will be effectively decimated at a rump of a party. >> let's remind ourselves of what he said this morning. so he said the tories may well be dead

. he said. so he thinks the conservatives are just going to be essentially wiped out and not be essentially wiped out and not be able to provide an opposition . so he is the only person who could lead a centre right party and provide whatever it is. >> it's not going to be centre right. >> emily, i'll offer a bet to anybody here on this panel that in five years, if only one of the parties survives, it'll be the parties survives, it'll be the conservatives. in ten years, i'll say absolutely that reform won't be a major party and that the conservatives still will be. >> it's interesting. >> it's interesting. >> if anybody wants to take that bet, i'll be 100. >> i he talks about canada doesn't he a lot about canada in 1993. what happened? there was a new party called reform . spoke new party called reform. spoke to a lot of the issues that reform in the uk speaks to . they reform in the uk speaks to. they actually displaced in terms of the number of seats the conservatives. but when was it 2005 that they finally got back into power? it took them a decade to sort of do the whole, negotiations, dealings , they, negotiations, dealings, they, they became the conservative party of canada. now, a lot of the leading figures were

actually from the reform party, but the branding was still conservative. would that still count? >> i don't i don't think that's going to happen, though. and i think if you look at the way that the conservatives have run this election and this is something that's gone slightly under the radar, is the way in which certain individuals have been parachuted into certain seats by the conservative party against the wishes of local members. and these tend to be people who are big fans of people who are big fans of people like rishi sunak who have been here, spads or aides to people in that setup. >> if anything, the party is becoming more moderate . becoming more moderate. >> they are doubling. yeah, there is a that you can see certain mps talking about. no, the tory party can't go to the right. it must stay in the centre. that's where elections are won. they are doubling down on this. and i do think it's going to be an existential battle between the two. but if it isn't a win for the centrists at the next leadership contest, it'll be a figure who is far, far enough to the right for it to not really matter so much what nigel farage does or says. >> is there not one figure who is actually not particularly far to the right, but is loved by a lot of people on the right, and who has actually been raised by a lot of people on the tory left as the only man to stop nigel

farage. if this future merger might appear a possibility. john major, boris johnson oh my god, well, that's what margaret thinks. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> margaret says boris, are you going to talk about priti patel? i thought man which man? boris johnson, boris johnson has been raised by tory centrists as he's raised by tory centrists as he's raised by tory centrists as he's raised by himself. man, he is no farage. there's no chance that bofis farage. there's no chance that boris johnson is getting a sufficient purchase with the british public. he's not getting a second chance. he's having a quite nice life right now , quite nice life right now, earning an absolute fortune on the circuit . he would do it for the circuit. he would do it for his own vanity. boris johnson doesn't want to put the hard well, he's in the opposition shaving. >> there is sporadically. >> there is sporadically. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> exactly. how many chances did the italians give berlusconi until he died. >> and look what happened. >> and look what happened. >> kept on giving him more and it didn't work out so well for him. trump's about to get another shot at the white house and he organised a riot outside. the people are very tolerant. >> winston churchill of course, did a few years on the american speaken

did a few years on the american speaker, boris johnson is known of the opposition. >> johnson is no churchill. that's for sure. >> well, may i just say that margaret says boris and nigel would be an unbeatable team, so there you go. you're not the only one thinking that that could be a possibility. double headed parties. >> you just end up with accusations of tweedle dum and tweedle dumber, right ? tweedle dumber, right? >> well, coming up throughout the election campaign, we want to hear from you. please do let us know what your thoughts are on labour's manifesto and what you make of what we've been talking about with regards to nigel farage, could he end up leading a conservative party? we'll be reading out

break. right. the views are coming in thick and fast. gbnews.com/yoursay john says having lived through elections since 1964. i'm disappointed that the labour party still have no clear policy inasmuch as how they are going to achieve any of they are going to achieve any of the objectives lives. if one of

the objectives lives. if one of the aims avoiding taxation is to increase fuel duty, then all pnces increase fuel duty, then all prices will increase and so will inflation. people want more detail, jonathan. people want more detail. >> i think it's fair that people want detail. but starmer has, you know, trodden a fine line between doing enough to steady the ship and not revealing anything that might accidentally set things off course. he's in a strong enough. he's in a strong enough. look, i obviously i've said many times i would like starmer to be bolder and i would like him to sort of spell out exactly what needs to change. he is in a sufficiently strong position that he doesn't need to do that. that's because the conservatives have self—immolated and that's where we are. we are. >> we are. >> okay, well , this is what his >> okay, well, this is what his response, this is what keir starmer's response to that accusation was. i'm not going to offer things i can't deliver. i'm running as a candidate for prime minister, not a candidate to run the circus. >> okay, i think most, most, most members of the public would look at it and say, okay, well, we'd quite like some control of

the circus because that is what it appears to be. it honestly, the thing is, i think jonathan's right. he doesn't need to at this moment in time, give people the receipts. and in a way, actually that's sensible in case he needs to do things that are very unpopular later. >> attack of a blank check. you don't know what you're going to get. >> i think that's the one thing that he hasn't said, though, is that he hasn't said, though, is that there is going to be blank. he's been very, very cautious and he must have said a lot of his lieutenants that he's sent out wes streeting in particular on the nhs, have been very clear and very consistent, saying there isn't a blank check. there's going to have to be reform before there is any money for these things. >> i think it's been very limited time. let's get to one more view, richard says. unfortunately keir starmer could promise the world to the population of the uk. however, he's turned around and changed his mind so many times and ultimately that is a concern. i think for some people. >> yeah, i think so. so coming up, keep your views coming in. please do. coming up as starmer sets out his vision, rishi sunak, the prime minister, is back on the international stage. he's this is all following the, d—day debacle, isn't it? >> yeah. he's at the g7 in italy

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>> well. good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 >> well. good afternoon. britain. it's1:00 on thursday, the 13th of june. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood now. labour launched their general election manifesto today , didn't election manifesto today, didn't they? we've heard from keir starmer as he pledged his plans to ensure economic stability, growth, cutting nhs, waiting times and reforming planning rules to build 1.5 million new homes. >> stability and change this comes as nigel farage reveals

his plan to lead a merged reform conservative party. well could that provide a stronger opposition to labour or frankly , opposition to labour or frankly, will it have any seats at all? >> meanwhile, following the d—day debacle, the prime minister is back representing britain on the international stage at the g7 leaders summit in italy. can he recover ? in italy. can he recover? >> plus, the first images of a hit woman who used a hijab to disguise herself as have emerged , the suspect allegedly tried to murder a family in birmingham, but that was before her gun jammed . jammed. keir starmer had a message today. it's change the word change was written behind him in big bold letters. what's his plan? stability vie stability .

change. >> well, it's not that hard to understand, is it ? >> well, it's not that hard to understand, is it? he's been calling the current government, the current administration, chaotic . so obviously change is chaotic. so obviously change is stable. stable >> rishi sunak came to power, promising stability. he did deliver stability. inflation fell to 2.3, right up from around 12% in. if anything , around 12% in. if anything, there's been too much stability. the economy literally flatlined in april. that was as stable as you can get . zero growth. you can get. zero growth. >> yes. but tom, their whole narrative is that it's been a chaotic, chaotic time under the conservative different leaders, different infighting, different factions, etc, etc. and so therefore change for them equals stability . and yet get it, get it. >> and yet i'm just reminded of the titular character in the american series veep, selina meyer, who runs to the us president. and her slogan is

continuity through change. >> okay, well, that is bad. >> okay, well, that is bad. >> and it's much maligned that is bad. and i just had a flashback. stability through change really well. >> gbnews.com/yoursay i say, what do you make of, of that really, yeah. gbnews.com/yoursay the headlines . the headlines. >> hello there. good afternoon to you. it's just after 1:00. i'm aaron armstrong. labour has launched its election manifesto focusing on economic growth and political stability . sir keir political stability. sir keir starmer stressed wealth creation as labour's number one priority, describing his manifesto as a credible long term plan with no return to austerity. now, after he was briefly interrupted by a protester, sir keir rejected suggestions of higher taxes, insisting there would be no rises under a labour government. >> i don't believe that it's fair to raise taxes on working people when they are already

paying people when they are already paying this much, particularly in a cost of living crisis. paying this much, particularly in a cost of living crisis . so in a cost of living crisis. so let me spell it out. we will not raise income tax. we will not raise income tax. we will not raise national insurance. we will not raise vat. that is a manifesto commitment . manifesto commitment. >> meanwhile, in cardiff , plaid >> meanwhile, in cardiff, plaid cymru launched its manifesto pledging to fight for economic fairness and more funding for wales leader rena yorath says he would invest £4 billion owed to wales from hs2 into better pubuc wales from hs2 into better public transport for the whole of the country. he says the current funding model for devolved nations should be scrapped and replaced with a needs based system, and has promised to keep westminster in checkif promised to keep westminster in check if labour wins the election . election. >> but we can influence the change ahead of us, keeping the incoming labour government in check, not giving them a free pass to take welsh votes, but

then cast wales's interests aside. i am proud to stand on a platform which offers a positive vision for our country, a genuinely positive vision for our country, which offers a real alternative to the increasingly joined up thinking of the two main uk parties and a platform which gives people the opportunity to vote for fairness, for ambition and for wales . wales. >> well, rishi sunak has left the campaign trail to join world leaders at a meeting of the richest g7 nations in southern italy. the us president, joe biden, is expected to urge fellow members to support ceasefire negotiations in gaza and encourage the hamas terror group to accept a proposal backed by israel. the gathering is also expected to discuss the growing threat posed by iran and a boost in funding for ukraine in its war against russia . the

in its war against russia. the gambling commission is investigating, reports one of rishi sunak's key aides placed a bet on when the election would take place just three days before it was called. craig williams served as the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary. he admitted to, in his words, putting a flutter on when the election would happen some weeks ago but says he doesn't want routine inquiries to distract from the campaign . to distract from the campaign. now britain's welfare bill is expected to rise by more than £20 billion a year by the end of the next parliament. a report from the resolution foundation has found. that's being driven by entire vie almost entirely by pensioners and those with a health condition . with the health condition. with the overall cost of welfare bigger today than at the beginning of the financial crisis in two thousand and seven, spending on the state pension has grown the most, followed by disability and incapacity payments . while incapacity payments. while benefits not related to health or housing have fallen , both

or housing have fallen, both main parties have committed to the triple lock pension rise. although the conservatives have pledged to cut spending by £12 billion a year. cancer research says more than 380,000 patients haven't been treated on time over the course of almost a decade. the charity found a key nhs target where 85% of people start treatment for their cancer within 62 days of a referral was last met back in december 2015. the royal college of radiologists says delays in care are becoming routine, reporting are becoming routine, reporting a 30% shortfall in radiologists and a 15% shortfall in oncologists . the conservative oncologists. the conservative party says cancer survival rates continue to improve in the uk, and has pointed to its plan to improve technology in the nhs. finally, wizz air has once again been ranked as the worst airline for delays despite a recent surge in fares. the budget carrier's departure from uk airports were, on average, more than half an hour behind

schedule last year. that's according to the civil aviation authority. it means wizz recorded the worst punctuality for uk flights for a third consecutive year . more on all of consecutive year. more on all of our stories available. by scanning the qr code on your screen or going to gb news .com/ alerts. now back to tom and . emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:07 now packed show today. sir keir starmer has called to turn the page after 14 years of conservatives in government. >> yes. at labour's manifesto launched today, the party leader said wealth creation is now his number one priority and his speech was briefly interrupted by a protester claiming labour policies were too similar to that of the conservatives. yes, but sir keir starmer says labour stopped being the party of protest. five years ago. >> goodness me. well, following the launch, shadow home secretary yvette cooper spoke to

gb news about her plans to cut migration so we want to bring net migration down. >> it has trebled under the conservatives over really a very short period of time . we're also short period of time. we're also clear to set out some practical ways to do that, because we know one of the biggest issues has been the big increase in overseas recruitment, because there's been a complete failure to tackle skills shortages, to tackle training issues here at home. so we want to link the immigration system to new requirements on training, to new requirements on training, to new requirements on training, to new requirements on skills. and i'll just give you one example that i think sums it up, which is that engineering visas have near doubled in the last few years . doubled in the last few years. engineering apprenticeships have near halved. that is a system thatis near halved. that is a system that is not working . that is not working. >> okay. that's the shadow home secretary. let's cross lie—in gb news political correspondent katherine forster, who has been at the event in manchester for us, catherine now an empty looking room. but what was the mood like when it was packed with the labour activists ?

with the labour activists? >> buoyant, frankly, tom and emily, you know, we had the barbie music playing when the shadow cabinet took their seats and then keir starmer was given and then keir starmer was given a rock star welcome and, well, they might welcome him like that because three weeks today people will be going to the polls. and short of something absolutely unforeseen and catastrophic for the labour party a week tomorrow, sir keir starmer is likely to be our next prime minister so sure, there's cautiousness here. they're being careful, but they are feeling very confident. and i think really you can sum up the whole manifesto simply in this image and this one word of change, change. it's written absolutely everywhere because they feel that so many people, after 14 years of as they put it, conservative chaos, have simply

had enough and are ready to give labour a chance. now the manifest show about 133 pages, dozens of pictures of sir keir starmer looking authoritative and prime ministerial. even here we go. he's at the d—day commemoration . he's talking to commemoration. he's talking to vladimir zelenskyy when , of vladimir zelenskyy when, of course, we know that the current prime minister was is not there. he was asked about the manifesto, not having any real surprises . and he said, look, surprises. and he said, look, it's not about rabbits out of a hat. this is not a pantomime. i'm running as a candidate to be prime minister, not a candidate to run the circus. so he's having none of this argument that he's a bit dull. it's all a bit boring . and we know there's bit boring. and we know there's about £8 billion of tax cuts coming. he says there's no return to austerity, but i have to say, according to the fiscal

rules that the conservatives are adopting and that labour are adopting and that labour are adopting to, there's going to be exceedingly tough choices for any incoming government tax rises, cuts to unrwa, unprotected public services like the courts, like local councils, etc, you know , so whoever gets etc, you know, so whoever gets in there is going to be a very difficult months and years ahead.so difficult months and years ahead. so the change that labour are promising and the growth that labour are promising, we're heanng that labour are promising, we're hearing that again and again, aren't we? wealth creation all about growth. we used to hear a lot of that from liz truss. but of course we know growth takes a very long time to develop. it's not something that you can just click your fingers and magic up, baby. >> you can find me under the lights. diamonds under my eyes. turn the rhythm up. don't you want to just come along for the ride? ooh, my outfits so tight.

you can see my heartbeat tonight i can take the heat, baby. best believe that's the moment i shine. ooh, it's not exactly. things can only get better. is it ? it? >> you know the barbie soundtrack just as well as i do, tom. my goodness. >> and no , it's not. that wasn't >> and no, it's not. that wasn't the music for sir keir starmer. ihave the music for sir keir starmer. i have to say, it was the shadow cabinet. >> it just struck me. i can't remember what the what the music was for sir keir, but yeah, the mood here, they are very optimistic and you know, they've been out of power for 14 years. >> they think they think they're going to get back in. >> okay. well thank you very much indeed. katherine forster political correspondent there in manchester and are now empty room. that was quite the performance , tom. performance, tom. >> there it was a dramatic reading of a dramatic reading . reading of a dramatic reading. barbie dancing. >> not to music. not to music, no. do you know what though ? i no. do you know what though? i think it's important to dig into the manifesto a little more . you the manifesto a little more. you know, things like the race

equality act that will make sure that businesses not only do gender pay gap reporting, but also disability and ethnicity pay gap also disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting. these are the sorts of things that the government want to introduce the incoming labour government, if they are elected , that is votes they are elected, that is votes for 16. house of lords. they are elected, that is votes for 16. house of lords . reform, for 16. house of lords. reform, house of commons reform, constitutional reforms. there's a lot to get our teeth stuck into. >> and i think a lot of businesses perhaps haven't wagered the new compliance dufies wagered the new compliance duties they'll have, because lots of businesses will say it's fine to have a one of these race acts because they don't discriminate in whatever. but you're going to have to prove that to the government. you're going to have to have a whole new department of, hr compliance , whereby you go through all of the characteristics of everyone who works for you and submit reports to the central government, perhaps, i mean , government, perhaps, i mean, that's an expense on business that's an expense on business that i'm i'm not sure. sounds particularly pro—growth. >> yeah. so more more devolution an to an extent at least two mayors. and we know that , most

mayors. and we know that, most of the mayors now are, are laboun of the mayors now are, are labour, although there is some suggestion that this devolution could be precisely the other way round. >> so if, for example , >> so if, for example, significant planning projects are taken away from local councils and given to the regional mayors, instead, they might have more of an eye to growth than just saying that there's some local opposition to this thing, so it won't be built. okay well plaid cymru also launched their manifesto today. also launched their manifesto today . the party's leader, run today. the party's leader, run up lowith, has called for more funding and economic fairness for wales. >> well, gb news political correspondent olivia utley joins us now. and olivia , plaid cymru, us now. and olivia, plaid cymru, perhaps haven't had a lot of attention in the general election so far. what are they saying ? saying? >> well, essentially, plaid cymru , who is the opposition in cymru, who is the opposition in wales, is trying to take the ground that labour have left. and what i mean by that is labourin and what i mean by that is labour in their manifesto are very, very clearly trying to seize the centre. they're trying to get those tory votes which

leaves a gap for parties like plaid cymru to become the party of the left. and that is exactly what they tried to do. in their manifesto today. they accused the labour party of their manifesto of being austerity painted red, and they promised that they would do things like decrease , analyse the softer decrease, analyse the softer drugs. they said that they wouldn't want to renew trident. it sounds a bit jeremy corbyn esque there, and they promised to add £20 to child benefit. this was a much more left wing manifesto, and what they're asking is for welsh voters not to give labour an easy ride. straight into government. they want to put up some sort of opposition and to do that they're being the party of the left. it's actually very similar to what the liberal democrats are trying to do in england . are trying to do in england. >> no, it is a very, very interesting proposition. of course, in 1997, we saw plaid cymru gain some ground, but they've always struggled to get

more than around three seats. so they're actually going to be a significant player in the next parliament. or is this all just leading up to what they are actually setting their eyes on a future welsh assembly? us sorry, senate election , it does feel senate election, it does feel more like they are focused on the senate election. >> i mean, to get anywhere in this parliament, they would obviously be having to work with another party, potentially the green party, but again, it doesn't look as though the green party is getting massive momentum in this election ehhen momentum in this election either. it does sound as though they are not too focused on a general election. they're more focused on a possible senate election. i mean, that said , election. i mean, that said, they are proposing these very left wing ideas. it could be that what they're trying to do, if they do manage to build up votes, even if they don't actually get seats out of it, even if they're just sort of splitting the labour vote, it could persuade labour to be sort of pushed to the left in wales, which is something that the party would like to see as well. obviously, plaid cymru traditionally as the party of welsh independence. but yet again we saw almost no mention

at all of welsh independence in that launch there. there is just no real appetite for it in wales electorally. and that is really probably what's ultimately holding plaid cymru back in the polls. >> well, thank you very much indeed. >> well, thank you very much indeed . olivia utley there, our indeed. olivia utley there, our gb news political correspondent . gb news political correspondent. i mean, they've been in the seven part debates. they have . seven part debates. they have. >> yes. rhun ap iorwerth, has been , perhaps not making the been, perhaps not making the biggest splash. i think, if anything , in 2015, everyone sort anything, in 2015, everyone sort of said, oh, we quite like the, the plaid cymru leader at that time, leanne wood. she made her she made quite a name for herself in that seven way debate, i'm not sure that rhun ap iorwerth has particularly made the same splash, although he did use to work for the bbc for quite a long time . but he for quite a long time. but he took over the leadership around last year. >> oh well, let's get reaction to labour's manifesto with chief secretary to the treasury laura trott . trott. >> this is labour's tax trap

manifesto . it only contains tax manifesto. it only contains tax rises. no tax cuts. under labour's own published figures. it will take the tax burden to levels never seen before in this country. and that doesn't even include the £2,000 of taxes which are going to levy on every working family across the country. so it's not actually so much what is in this manifesto. it's what's not in this manifesto, because labour have not ruled out taxing your home, your car, your pension, everyone at home needs to be very, very clear. their taxes will rise under the labour, the prime minister's pps, craig williams , minister's pps, craig williams, we found out that he bet on the general election the day it's going to happen. >> when did you learn that he'd done this? and do you think he should be suspended as a candidate? >> well, at the foreign secretary, i think dealt with this this morning. i secretary, i think dealt with this this morning . i know this this morning. i know there's an investigation ongoing, so i shouldn't say any more. i think what's important today is the dividing lines that we're setting up on tax , on we're setting up on tax, on immigration, on energy security. what is clear is that the conservatives have a plan for this country, and labour party have no plan other than putting

up your taxes. >> there's, laura trott's view, it's very difficult for the conservatives to continue on this tax line that labour will increase your taxes because keir starmer and rachel reeves continue to insist that they will not, although they haven't 100% ruled out tax rises. they continue to say no plans. >> there are two things here. there are the tax rises that they've specifically ruled in in they've specifically ruled in in the manifesto, and we keep going over them, whether they're extending the windfall tax or the private school tax , there the private school tax, there are lots of taxes that might have knock on effects. anyway. those ones that they have admitted to raise the tax burden on, according to labour's own costings, by 2028 it raises the tax burden by over £85 billion. that takes it to 37.4% of gdp. now, if the history buffs amongst us will know, of course, that in 1948 that's the most recent record of that, the record high on record of tax in

the uk, 37.2. so actually this is nought point 2% higher than the highest tax burden on record . the tories are promising the highest tax burden in 70 years. the labour party is promising the highest tax burden ever. >> that's may be the case, but i suppose that they will say to that, to that that they'll be growing the economy. so it won't be such a huge chunk of gdp, so there you go . make of that what there you go. make of that what you will gbnews.com/yoursay we'll get to some of your views . we'll get to some of your views. but, coming up, we're going to be hearing from gb news voices across the country finding out which manifesto appealed to you most. we're also discussing the rather peculiar story of a suspect who allegedly tried to murder a family in birmingham before her gun jammed . she's before her gun jammed. she's been called the hijabi hit woman

>> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:24. now we want to hear what you really think. has labour won your vote with the manifesto pledges ? pledges? >> well, we're joined now by some of our gb voices. i'm delighted to say adam jekyll's a retail manager from leicester. nicola france , a self—employed nicola france, a self—employed interviewer from henley on thames, and phil arnold, a retired gas manager from sheffield. oh, this is fantastic . you're all from all across the country. who should we start with? nicola, let's start with you. ladies first, nicola, what did you make of what you heard from sir keir. >> it's terrifying. there's absolutely no detail, it's quite frightening. if anything , it frightening. if anything, it makes me more nervous. i think beth rigby, hit the nail on the head when she said. what are you trying to hide, you know , trying to hide, you know, they've talked very clearly about taxes. they're not going to increase, but there's been no mention of the taxes. they are going to increase. you know , we

going to increase. you know, we all know we're bankrupt. we all know that whoever's in charge is going to have to raise taxes. so where is that money going to have to come from , so it was have to come from, so it was very light on detail and huge policy areas, and absolutely no mention of that will have huge ramifications for the future of the country. you know, things like net zero, brexit, immigration and freedom of speech , gender, self id, you speech, gender, self id, you know, where's all the detail on these things ? these things? >> i know it's an interesting perspective. some people might say that the conservative moves have also been a little bit light on the detail in their , light on the detail in their, plans, unless we're to believe that there'll be £25 billion of cuts to departments, which i'm sure some people might believe. others might think there might be some stealthy tax rises coming ahead. adam jekyll's what did you make of it all? >> well, i think two words, kind of uninspiring and ambitious. >> really , you know, i really >> really, you know, i really appreciated kind of rishi sunaks policies other day on lowering national insurance, especially as somebody who's looking to buy as somebody who's looking to buy a home soon, the stamp duty cut that he mentioned, i'd really

like to see keir starmer come out with something that was ambitious forward for, you know, looking forward to the future when it comes to reducing taxes over the long term rather than just kind of the wishy washy pledge we've got of no increases but just no plans, which, you know, with with politicians all the time. >> we don't know what that actually means until they're actually means until they're actually in government . and i actually in government. and i think that's kind of the way i look at across the whole thing that this is definitely a more centrist manifesto, especially than we saw in 2017 and 2019 under corbyn. i think it's been a much more centrist campaign. as somebody who wouldn't normally align with labour, that is somewhat refreshing, that maybe there is some adults back in the room. there is some fiscal responsibility that's being looked at, but it's just a question of actually when they do get into government , which it do get into government, which it looks like. i think we all know they will, especially with a potentially large majority that we're seeing in the polls, whether it will just start to slide leftwards again, whether that's with keir starmer still as prime minister or if things get tough, they're looking for another leader, and i just think that what we see right now isn't necessarily what we're going to

get under a labour government. and that's what concerns me the most. i think. >> okay. very interesting, phil arnold, you're a tired gas manager from sheffield. thank you very much indeed , a lot of you very much indeed, a lot of people asking whether they know the true keir starmer . do you the true keir starmer. do you think you do the true keir starmer? >> i don't think he knows himself. he doesn't exist , does himself. he doesn't exist, does he? and as for these manifestos, i don't really see the point of them. they're not love. they can just stand there and say what they think. the voters want to hean they think. the voters want to hear, hoping that they'll they'll buy it. well, i don't buy it. i won't be either manifesto . so, i just think that manifesto. so, i just think that they cannot come out with things . and then when they get in, if they get in, they don't produce anything, but when it comes to manifestos, there is one really important constitutional convention around them, which is if something is in the manifesto of the winning party, the house of the winning party, the house of lords, by convention, does

not block it. one of the reasons the rwanda bill faced so much trouble from the house of lords is it wasn't in the manifesto. so returning to the manifesto, perhaps actually this we can read the things that will find an easy passage through parliament, and then other things might find a harder passage through parliament. >> yeah, but there all ambiguous these manifestos, aren't they? they don't come out with specifics. they're all very like the cake with no icing on it, you know, they just little snippets they put in that hopefully they'll lead to people making up their own decision and what they want. they just need a little grain of sand in expecting a sahara desert. >> phil, you sound you sound. there was a survey that was out yesterday. i don't know if you saw it, but it showed that trust in politics and politicians is at a record low. it sounds like you may well have taken part in

that survey. not trusting what the manifestos actually say on them, adam, you're quite young. i think it's fair to say you look young down the line, labour is polling very well among the young. i think the conservatives are at rock bottom. last thing i saw thought it was about 8% of 18 to 24 year olds. are you still considering the conservative? have you made your mind up ? mind up? >> to be honest with you, i think that, none of the parties are really coming forward with a solid proposal of looking what we're going to do long term. i mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of the labour policies amongst other people my age might sound popular in the short term, but actually the impact they're going to have on us long term isn't, you know, it's not a viable solution . i mean, just viable solution. i mean, just talking about the one that they've discussed votes at 16, it might poll popularly, but actually is it going to have a significant impact when we're looking at getting mortgages in the future, when we're looking at kind of the tax burden we're having to pay? i mean, i work at

the minute, but a lot of people, my age, they're still in university. they're not working these full time jobs that are going to require them to pay and to pay into the system so much, and when they do actually start getting those paycheques and starting seeing the tax potentially rising, then that's not going to be as popular policy. so i think, look, it is upon the conservatives and all the other parties to come to us with a really solid, manifesto for the future, to say this is how we're going to sort out the problem of the government deficit, getting that tax burden back down, because , you know, back down, because, you know, everybody points out, we say it time and time again, the tax burden is at the highest it's ever been. and that's just not a positive future that i'm looking forward to, to buying a house to work in this economy. and i think it's upon them to then come up with something solid . come up with something solid. >> so if, phil, were you just coming in there , let's bring coming in there, let's bring nicola in. >> let's bring nicola in because she needs in a second time to speak. because we're running out of time, nicola, what are your friends and family telling you? have your, you know, your the people around you. have they made their minds up? are people

still floating voters in, out of your friends and family , some of your friends and family, some of them have. >> i mean, i would say that pretty much everyone i know is totally disenchanted with politics. nobody believes a word that any of them say. frankly. you know what's written in each and every one of their manifestos. will they deliver ? i manifestos. will they deliver? i doubt it, you know, there's no trust that, you know, some people have made up their minds whether they've actually , you whether they've actually, you know, whether they actually have any real knowledge about what the you know, what the party's like and what what they intend to do. i don't know, but yeah, there's a real disillusionment out there, i would say. >> and nicola, looking at what has happened over the last three days, we've got the major manifestos from the two major parties. do you think it will have changed a single thing about this election campaign? we're now halfway through this election campaign. goodness me. i think a lot of us are kind of hoping it will end sooner rather than later. >> well, in some ways it's kind of irrelevant because i think we

all know, unfortunately, that labour are going to have a landslide lead, which is why i was astounded today that really there's almost no policies in their manifesto. you know, we need to know what the future is, so i think just, you know, looking at the other manifestos, it's almost. well, i wouldn't say a waste of time. you know, i think, you know, we have to be open to the fact that there there are other parties and we can get some good opposition in parliament, yeah . parliament, yeah. >> mel and phil, just a quick word, because i cut you off. have you decided who you're going to vote for, yes or no ? going to vote for, yes or no? >> oh, yes he has. >> yes, he has. he's made up his mind. okay, well there you go. that's another option. of course, thank you very much to you all. nicola, phil and adam. good stuff, coming up, rishi sunakis good stuff, coming up, rishi sunak is back on the international stage with g7 leaders. yes >> we'll have the very latest pictures. that's after your headunes pictures. that's after your headlines with . aaron.

headlines with. aaron. >> it's 133. headlines with. aaron. >> it's133. good headlines with. aaron. >> it's 133. good afternoon to you. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. we start with some breaking news. a childminder has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for the death of a seven month old baby. harlow collinge died after being shaken by 63 year old karen foster. the infant suffered severe brain injuries and was taken to hospital but died several days later. foster, who was found guilty of manslaughter, was a registered childminder but was breaking ofsted rules on the number and ages of children that should have been in her care . should have been in her care. labour has launched its election manifesto focusing on economic growth, change and political stability . after he was briefly stability. after he was briefly interrupted by a protester, sir keir starmer rejected suggestions of higher taxes to come, insisting there would be no new rises under a labour government . government. >> i don't believe it's fair to raise taxes on working people when they are already paying

this much , particularly in a this much, particularly in a cost of living crisis . so let me cost of living crisis. so let me spell it out. we will not raise income tax. we will not raise national insurance. we will not raise vat . that national insurance. we will not raise vat. that is national insurance. we will not raise vat . that is a national insurance. we will not raise vat. that is a manifesto commitment . commitment. >> plaid cymru has launched its manifesto pledging to fight for economic fairness and more funding for wales later , funding for wales later, rhiannon yorath says he would invest £4 billion owed to wales from hs2 into better public transport for all parts of the country and called for a £20 per week increase to child benefit . week increase to child benefit. he says the current funding model for devolved nations should be replaced with a needs based system, and has promised to keep westminster in check if labour wins the election, asking voters not to give them a free pass. voters not to give them a free pass . more in voters not to give them a free pass. more in our full bulletin at 2:00. or you can scan the qr code on your screen to get gb news alerts. the details also on the website.

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good afternoon. britain. it's 1:39 now. conflicts in ukraine and gaza are taking centre stage at the g7 summit . at the g7 summit. >> yes. prime minister rishi sunakis >> yes. prime minister rishi sunak is having a break from the election campaign to travel to

the political and economic forum in italy , where he's meeting in italy, where he's meeting with world leaders including emmanuel macron and joe biden. there you can see him. >> could be his last big gig with all of the world leaders. they've stuck him right on the end there. well, which are now joined by geopolitics expert marco vicenzino and marco, what on earth is on the agenda for this summit ? on earth is on the agenda for this summit? and on earth is on the agenda for this summit ? and frankly, will this summit? and frankly, will they be paying attention to what rishi sunak is saying? >> listen, rishi sunak passed . >> listen, rishi sunak passed. >> listen, rishi sunak passed. >> it's seems likely that passed the 4th of july, who will be prime minister? >> very unlikely. so i think for the most and it's not only him, it's also you look at president macron in france , he was he was macron in france, he was he was decimated in the european elections . that's why he called elections. that's why he called for a dissolved parliament, called for snap elections . you called for snap elections. you have president biden going. this may be his last summit. obviously, it's an uphill battle for the american election, you have schultz in germany. he was hurt in the european elections by the far right, and the real one here is the host of the

event, prime minister giorgia meloni. she actually she's the strongest one standing out of all the leaders right now, because her party came out very strong at the top of the list in the european elections. now, with respect to the issues, the issues that above is ukraine, russia primarily about $50 billion of loans in ukraine had a service that there's been debate. and this seems to be a consensus, at least for now, that 300 billion in russian assets that lie in the west, primarily in the european union, the interest from those 300 billion will be used to service the loans of 50 billion that will be made to ukraine. so and there's a lot more details to work out towards the end of the yeah work out towards the end of the year. but i think they'll sign something provisional at this specific summit . you also have specific summit. you also have the issue of china. china. i think there's unanimity amongst all in the g7 about china's industrial overcapacity distorting global markets. and that's a real serious issue. also, middle east is that all will be pushing for a ceasefire and the conflict in gaza, and

also issues like artificial intelligence. now we live in a world whereby we call it a fragmenting world, a far more dangerous world. and you largely have three poles, one we can call the revisionist, the revisionist autocracies, which would be russia, china, iran and some other countries , the global some other countries, the global west, which is represented by the g7 . and then what people the g7. and then what people call the global south, i refer to as the global rest , which is to as the global rest, which is 140 countries, each with their own interests and differing interests. now, the g7 has often been accused of being elitist. hence what the g7 does is that it's trying to reach out to that global rest. they're inviting the leaders of developing countries like india, brazil, argentina to turkey also. so this is they're trying to put up a face. but the thing is, the key thing to understand is that in these three poles, the g7 is struggling right now . and the struggling right now. and the level they want to show is unity, strength behind ukraine. but once again, domestically at home, many of those leaders may not be there within a year.

>> but marco, you mentioned brazil and india specifically . brazil and india specifically. these are two countries that are members of brics, which of course isn't a formal organisation or it's becoming slightly more of a formal organisation with regard to links between , china and russia links between, china and russia and india and brazil and the rest of them, south africa as well. now, but crucially , where well. now, but crucially, where do these two rising powers sort of fall between those two poles and have the recent election results across europe and the likely election results in the united kingdom as well, weakened the status of some of these players in italy today? >> yes. i mean, it weakens the hand of the uk. the us remains once again, it's up for grabs this election in the us. it's not looking good for biden . i not looking good for biden. i think for the west in general, there is a lot of issues that need that. their internal politics are weakening. their strength as a unit as that global west in terms of what we're talking about, we can call them the middle powers. countries like brazil,

argentina, turkey, there's two key organisations that they have a representation in, and one is the brics that you refer to. and the brics that you refer to. and the other one is the g20. and those are two important forums . those are two important forums. the brics is once again brazil, russia, india, china , south russia, india, china, south africa, and they've invited others. the debate within the brics is two ways. the chinese are trying to use the brics as to as something that they can they can push forward their agenda internationally, while on the other hand, within the brics, you've got countries like india and brazil that are trying to push for greater economic representation in the world, for the countries within the brics. so you have primarily china leading one pole within the brics and india leading another pole within the brics with the support of brazil. let's shift to the g20 , the g20. support of brazil. let's shift to the 620 , the 620. i support of brazil. let's shift to the g20 , the g20. i think in to the g20, the g20. i think in my opinion, it's the forum that really represents . it's what the really represents. it's what the power structure is, is gearing to in the world today is you have a lot more representation , have a lot more representation, the 20 biggest economies in the

world. and at the annual g20, there's actually a lot being discussed . obviously, there's discussed. obviously, there's not going to always be unanimity in the g20, but i think it's a it's the most important forum because it's where you have the greatest representation of countries of the real reflection of global politics around the world. while the g7 represents wants that global west once again, revisionist autocracies global west and the global rest represented by more than 140 countries, we're living in a very difficult , fragmenting very difficult, fragmenting world and it's not getting any eafien >> and marco , just very quickly >> and marco, just very quickly to finish, how important are these summits as events? because sometimes they're accused of being simply talking shops for leaders to take nice pictures, to have nice conversations with other leaders to feel good about the future and so on. but how important are they really? >> it depends. the specific time in history or that specific moment. many times. the most times the agendas are set in

advance . so when the agendas are advance. so when the agendas are set in advance, these summits become a formality like you're pointing out. but during times of crisis, like we have now, we have in a world of multi crisis , have in a world of multi crisis, these summits are very, very important because you have things that are changing on a daily basis. moment by moment and by the time when the agenda is set to the actual summit, things can be very different. so these summits in times of crisis play these summits in times of crisis play an extraordinarily important role when these leaders are able to meet face to face. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed for your expertise. marco vincenzino . very good. marco vincenzino. very good. now, coming up, the latest from an international manhunt underway for an alleged american hit woman after a botched revenge you won't want to miss

well away from the politics. an international manhunt has been

launched for an alleged american hit woman after a botched revenge killing. >> yes. 44 year old amy betro from chicago. is accused of being hired by her father and son. mohamed aslam and mohamed nazir from dhabi to reportedly wipe out a rival family. quite incredible. >> the dhabi duo have now been found guilty of conspiracy to murder at birmingham crown court, but the search for the alleged assassin continues. >> joining us now is the former head of the national counter terrorism security office , chris terrorism security office, chris phillips. chris, this seems like an extraordinary, unusual story. is it ? is it? >> yeah, well, very unusual in as much as she clearly wasn't a very good hit man. hit woman, and the fact that so many countries are involved, you know, the us she's come over from the us to do this, there are plenty of people in the uk. i'm sure that would have taken this on, but it does just go to show the dangerous place our streets are becoming . and

streets are becoming. and although this is five years ago, this is, this is really quite worrying that we've got these things going on, across the uk . things going on, across the uk. >> and she was disguising herself in a hijab . herself in a hijab. >> yeah. i mean, it's almost a comedy film, isn't it, but, the, the simple fact is, anyone with a gun pointing it at someone is, is a really dangerous thing. and i think the police should be applauded for for, actually locating this and, you know, understanding exactly what's happened, it's obviously taken them a long time . and this case them a long time. and this case has taken a huge amount of time to come to justice. but of course, the hijab, and wearing those kind of disguises, it is quite worrying, in our streets, particularly if people are walking around with guns not to be sexist, chris, but she doesn't look like a someone you'd expect to be an assassin . you'd expect to be an assassin. no, i mean, if you watched, films on the on the tv, on netflix or whatever, she doesn't feel the criteria of being a top hit man, but but clearly, i

mean, i don't even really know yet. i don't think it's clear , yet. i don't think it's clear, actually, how she became selected or chose to do this , i selected or chose to do this, i mean, or a history. and i think that will become clearer if she does ever get arrested and come to justice. well you mentioned a bit like a comedy film, i suppose some like it hijab , but, suppose some like it hijab, but, really, when we come to things like this , how seriously should like this, how seriously should we take it? >> this could have been had the gun not jammed. this could have been a lot a lot less of a laughing matter. really >> yeah. and people walking around with the guns. i mean, we've always thought the uk is, is pretty clear of guns. we don't have as much gun crime as other countries. but but you know , this is just one more know, this is just one more incident where a gun was involved and was able to get into the country, and i think , into the country, and i think, you know, we are moving in this country towards having to arm the police just to protect themselves when dealing with incidents across our country, particularly in our inner cities. >> and, chris, how common are revenge killings now in the united kingdom , well, i mean,

united kingdom, well, i mean, you know, we've imported a lot of problems from across the world. it's not it's not just revenge killings. it's inter—family killings. and unfortunately, there are there are growing trend that we've had over the last ten, 15 years, and i don't see it going away. i think these are the sort of things that we're going to have to deal with. and, and we're going to have to ask our police to deal with. and that's why maybe we need to start arming them, full time. >> but hang on, is this an input or an output problem ? of course. or an output problem? of course. policing them, trying to stop them wouldn't it be better to sort of, i don't know, deliver a cultural change so that people don't feel like they have to deliver these honour family killings? >> how do you do that in the first place? >> yeah , you're quite right, and >> yeah, you're quite right, and we'd love to be able to do that, i think. i think the trouble is violence and really hard violence and really hard violence with, with drug gangs and things, and gangland killings , even across their killings, even across their cities are growing to such an extent that we need to take

quite draconian measures to stop that from happening. and, and, you know, giving the police the protection that they need to deal with. it is just one of those things. >> and, chris, just very quickly , how do you how do people find a hit woman , a hit man, an a hit woman, a hit man, an assassin? is this all done on the dark web ? whatsapp? the dark web? whatsapp? >> yeah, well, the dark web is a is a fantastic method of communicating with people that you know, you can buy drugs, you can do most things on the internet, on the dark web, yeah. i mean, i don't know how they came across this woman or, you know, whether she's ever done anything like this before. it certainly seems to be, a, you know, was botched, but the whole thing seems to be quite bizarre , thing seems to be quite bizarre, but of course, there are people out there that are willing to do this, and, you know, we don't we don't want to tell too many people how to get hold of them. >> well, thank goodness she didn't achieve her aim, thank you very much indeed. chris phillips, former head of the national counter terrorism security office. yeah. mind boggles a absolutely bizarre. >> well, coming up, nigel farage has revealed his plan to lead a

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>> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:00 on thursday, the 13th of june. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver . june. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. labour launched their general election manifesto today. their general election manifesto today . we've heard from keir today. we've heard from keir starmer as he pledges plans to ensure economic stability, cut nhs waiting times and reform planning rules to build over a

million new homes. >> this comes as nigel farage reveals his plan to lead a merged reform conservative party could they provide a stronger opposition to a potential labour government? >> and of course, throughout this election, we want to hear from you, our gb news reporter has been speaking to voters in bristol today. we'll be hearing what you had to say in that region very shortly . region very shortly. it's an interesting prospect, isn't it , it's an interesting prospect, isn't it, pitching yourself to not lead your party in parliament, but be elected and then merge your party in parliament? well i assume that nigel farage is looking at the situation rationally and knowing that even if he has a decent vote share, it'll just be him.

>> he's not. there's not going to be a huge number of reform mps in the comments, because that's just the way our system works. so he's thinking long term, isn't he? well, maybe longer term. >> i mean, if we look to 2015, 3.9 million ukip votes, one mp in clacton could it be that in this general election there'll be 3.9 million reform votes and one mp in clacton? yes >> interested to know that if we do have a labour government come july, whether you think nigel farage, if he does get elected, there's a lot of ifs here. there's a lot of ifs here. if he does get elected in the seat of clacton, will that will he be able to provide a better opposition than the conservatives it's an interesting thought, isn't it? >> a solitary voice, solitary voice against a tidal wave of laboun voice against a tidal wave of labour. i mean, maybe, maybe he would. maybe he would. but. goodness me, it would be an uphill battle, wouldn't it? >> it would be an uphill battle. gb news. com forward slash. your

say is the way to get in touch. let's get the headlines with . aaron. >> good afternoon. it's 2:02. i'm aaron armstrong. labour has launched its election manifesto focusing on economic growth, political stability and change. sir keir starmer played down suggestions of a labour supermajority and after he was briefly interrupted by a protester, rejected suggestions of higher taxes , insisting there of higher taxes, insisting there would be no new rises under a labour government. >> i don't believe it's fair to raise taxes on working people when they're already paying this much, particularly in a cost of living crisis . so let me spell living crisis. so let me spell it out . we will not raise income it out. we will not raise income tax. we will not raise national insurance. we will not raise vat . that is a manifesto commitment i >> -- >> plaid cymru has promised to fight for economic fairness and more funding for wales after

launching its manifesto in cardiff, leader rhiannon yorath said he would invest £4 billion owed to wales from hs2 into better public transport for all parts of the country and he called for a £20 per week increase to child benefit . he increase to child benefit. he says the current funding model for devolved nations should be replaced with a needs based system, and has promised to keep westminster in check if labour wins the election. asking voters not to give them a free pass . not to give them a free pass. well, rishi sunak has left the campaign trail to join world leaders at a meeting of g7 nafionsin leaders at a meeting of g7 nations in southern italy, the us president, joe biden, is urging fellow members to support ceasefire negotiations in gaza and encourage hamas to accept a proposal backed by israel . the proposal backed by israel. the three day gathering is also discussing the growing threat posed by iran, and a boost in funding for ukraine in its war against russia . a childminder against russia. a childminder has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for the death of a seven month old baby.

harlow collinge died after being shaken by 63 year old karen foster. the infant suffered severe brain injuries and was taken to hospital, but died several days later. foster, who was found guilty of manslaughter, was a registered childminder but was breaking ofsted rules on the number and ages of children that ought to have been in her care . the have been in her care. the gambling commission is investigating reports one of rishi sunak's key aides placed a bet on when the election would take place, just three days before it was called . craig before it was called. craig williams served as the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary. he admitted to putting a flutter on when the election would happen some weeks ago, but says he doesn't want what he has described as routine inquiries to distract from the campaign . britain's welfare bill campaign. britain's welfare bill is expected to rise by more than £20 billion a year by the end of the next parliament. a report from the resolution foundation

think tank found. that's being dnven think tank found. that's being driven almost entirely by pensioners and those with a health condition, with the overall cost of welfare bigger today than at the beginning of the financial crash in two thousand and seven. spending on the state pensions grown the most, followed by disability and incapacity payments. while benefits not related to health or housing have fallen, both main parties have committed to the triple lock pension rise , the triple lock pension rise, although the conservatives have pledged to cut spending by £12 billion per year. cancer research says more than 380,000 patients haven't been treated on time over the course of almost a decade, the charity found a key nhs target, where 85% of people start treatment for their cancer within 62 days of a referral was last met back in december 2015. the royal college of radiologists says delays are becoming routine, reporting a 30% shortfall in radiologists and a 15% shortfall in

oncologists. the conservative party says cancer survival rates continue to improve in the uk , continue to improve in the uk, and has pointed to its plan to improve technology in the nhs, and wizz air has again been ranked the worst airline for delays, despite a recent surge in their fares. the budget carrier's departure from uk airports were, on average, more than half an hour behind schedule last year, to according the civil aviation authority. it means wizz recorded the worst punctuality for flights for a third consecutive year. it was followed this year by turkish airlines and second with tui third. you can get more on all of our stories by signing up to gb news alerts. the codes on your screen. the details are also on our website. now it's back to tom and . back to tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:07 now. sir keir starmer has

set out his plans to change britain and rebuild the country. his words speaking at labour's manifesto launch in greater manchester today , he claimed manchester today, he claimed that the labour party is the party of wealth wealth creation, not wealth creation. so although they did create, you know, the first time that wales had had a national government, 1997 devolution, they did sort of do a bit of wealth creation in a way, in a way. let's cross live to gb news political correspondent olivia utley , correspondent olivia utley, olivia. interesting to hear the labour party talk about being the party of wealth creation . the party of wealth creation. >> well, absolutely. i mean, in terms of its content, this manifesto was very, very cautious. softly, softly, gently, gently numbered. keir starmer knows that he is so close to number 10 now he doesn't want to upset the apple cart at all in terms of sort of vibe of the manifesto, if you like. it was very much centred in nature, actually. at some

points it sounded much more like a conservative manifesto. it was all about growth . it was about all about growth. it was about wealth creation. there was very little about sort of wealth redistribution, as you would expect to hear in a sort of classic socialist budget. rishi, keir starmer has very much planted the tanks on rishi sunaks lawn with this one. interestingly, i think it sort of opens up some space to the left of the labour party now, which plaid cymru is clearly trying to fill up in wales. their manifesto is all about, raising child benefits, making sure that that trident isn't renewed. i mean, they're not going to get that, obviously, because plaid cymru normally get, you know, a handful of under five seats in the uk parliament. decriminalising soft drugs. these are all sort of policies which are much more left wing. labour manifesto would be aiming at sort of thing jeremy corbyn would have wanted to do. and i think also the lib dems are looking to fill that to space the left of labour, which keir starmer seems to have

vacated . they talk a lot about vacated. they talk a lot about the nhs. they talk about, tax rises. they don't seem to be ashamed of the idea that they will have to raise tax in terms of tax for the labour party. keir starmer has said over and over again that he will not be raising taxes for working people, and by that he means he won't be raising national insurance, vat or income tax. but he is being very, very careful what he says about other taxes. and it's now looking increasingly likely that he will be raising council tax fuel duties, something that the conservatives have frozen for many, many years, in large part due to the sun newspaper's campaigning force and council tax. so that could actually hit people's wallets pretty hard. it'll be interesting to see if we get any more detail on that from keir starmer in the days and weeks ahead. at the moment, it sounds as though labour is going to keep us quiet, as it can basically for the rest of the campaign and just hope that their good luck continues and it

is good luck. >> many people have been talking about how keir starmer has been walking ever so carefully, holding this fragile ming vase of a 20 point poll lead, and yet every single other party seems to be doing their darndest to get out of his way, to make sure he has a very, very clear journey across this shiny ballroom floor, holding this ming vase . ming vase. >> well, absolutely. i feel like we're mixing our metaphors a bit here, but it does feel sometimes as though, keir starmer is the luckiest man in westminster. all have his ducks seem to have fallen into a row. last year we saw the sort of implosion of the snp which could could give him a really clear path in scotland to retain all of that territory that was lost . now sort of over that was lost. now sort of over a decade ago. obvious.i the conservative party has had a pretty torrid time over the last five years or so. rishi sunak promised that he was going to

steady the ship when liz truss left, and he does sort of seem to have steadied the ship. but the ship is at the bottom of the ocean. meanwhile, the liberal democrats are running the slightly bizarre campaign. it does look as though they're going to pick up sort of 40 or 50 seats, but which would be very impressive for them, would make them an electoral force in uk politics once again. but ed davey is making life very, very easy for keir starmer. i've interviewed ed davey quite a few times over the last few weeks, and he's very reluctant to criticise the labour leader at all. so as you say, tom, it does feel a little bit as though all the other parties have almost cleared the way, deliberately or not, for keir starmer to make it to number 10 and olivia nigel farage, leader of the reform uk party, of course , they're party, of course, they're polling quite close, not far behind the conservatives now , 1 behind the conservatives now, 1 or 2 points by some, poll polls that have been done, he's had quite a lot to say. he's aiming high. >> yeah. absolutely fascinating. this intervention from nigel

farage. he would be happy to lead a conservative reform joint party. now, i think there are plenty of backbench conservative mps who might not be willing to say so publicly , but rather like say so publicly, but rather like the idea of that. it's interesting, though , because i interesting, though, because i think it points to some some splits within the reform party. i think richard tyson and ben ben habib, who are in charge of the party before nigel farage made his dramatic return, a week or so ago, are much more anti—conservative than nigel farage in some ways, actually , farage in some ways, actually, they're much more labour and they're much more labour and they're economically they don't seem to be sort of the small status thatcherites that nigel farage sees himself as. so i think there are some splits in the reform party which we should keep an eye on. and obviously this will raise huge splits in the conservative party. as i say, i think there's a quite a large handful of conservative mps. suella braverman, the former home secretary among them, who would love to see nigel farage come over to the conservative party. whether he'd lead it or not is another matter. and then there are plenty of conservative mps from

the one nation branch of the tory party who think that nigel farage is absolutely toxic and the last thing that the party needs. so i think after this election, when the conservative party is presumably sort of trying to raise itself up from the ashes, there'll be all sorts of very difficult questions about what the conservative party stands for and whether nigel farage has a place in it. yes. >> it'll be very interesting to see if their vote share continues to rise as we get closer and closer to the election. thank you very much. olivia utley gb news political correspondent. >> well, plaid cymru have also launched their manifesto today in wales. we're talking about what was the phrase that i used welsh creation, welsh, welsh , welsh creation, welsh, welsh, welsh creation, welsh, welsh, welsh creation. well, the leaders. but the party's leader, rhiannon us, has called for more funding and economic fairness for wales. >> common threads, which runs through this manifesto, is fairness . firstly, fair funding fairness. firstly, fair funding for wales plaid cymru is the

only party advocating for the abolition of the barnett formula, which has seen wales lose out to the tune of billions of pounds now over the years. it's not a begging bowl, it's just doing what's right. enabung just doing what's right. enabling investments in public services and in the economy. even lord barnett, himself the architect of that formula back in 1978 when i was that size, said that it had passed its sell by date many years ago . by date many years ago. >> remap iorwerth had had a giant dragon behind him. i don't know, just a shadow. it looked like it was creeping up. goodness me, i'd be terrified. well, there's their manifesto launch as well. >> on the same day as the labour party's now , labour have pledged party's now, labour have pledged not to raise income tax, national insurance or vat. they've said they will raise over £7 billion in other taxes, which seem to be largely on the wealthy . so does this leave wealthy. so does this leave middle england with a choice to emigrate or give up, that's

certainly what our next guest thinks. we're joined by telegraph columnist annabel denham. annabel, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. i read your column this morning in the telegraph , and it sounds as the telegraph, and it sounds as though you're a little bit worried . worried. >> well, i am, i think that what labour are doing here once again, is hammering middle england. >> you know, it's all very well suggesting that those who are ficherin suggesting that those who are richer in society should pay their fair share. but ultimately hard working people do have a breaking point, and if they are faced with a choice of working harder for lower and lower rewards, or taking their success, taking their talent , success, taking their talent, taking their capital overseas, then perhaps they'll choose the latter. and those who may find it difficult to emigrate, they may not be as mobile. they may have family in the uk, they may simply not have the armies of tax advisers who could help them navigate emigration , or may not navigate emigration, or may not just be quite wealthy enough to

do so. why wouldn't they just give up? we are really becoming a nation of dependents now, and because growth is flatlining, we're almost shifting towards a position where we are in a post growth society where actually it's more rational for people to try and take all they can out of the state than it is for them to continue paying more and more in. and i'm not sure that there was anything from labour's manifesto this morning to offer any reassurance on any of this. it does look like it's going to be the middle to higher earners who will be punished more. olivia was talking about higher council tax, possibly bringing capital gains tax in line with income tax. these are the sorts of punitive levies which will punish, middle england and those higher income earners, perhaps more than anybody else. so no, i think that this is immensely troubling. keir starmer has been very thin on detail, which i think should worry us. i don't think should worry us. i don't think he's set out any kind of

vision or properly thought out agenda for britain, you know, very much looks like we're going to have more of the same, perhaps a little bit worse. and as i say, the backdrop to this, the context for this is very troubling indeed. stagnating productivity, flatlining economic growth. we have an increasingly regulated economy. pubuc increasingly regulated economy. public services which are crumbling despite the fact that government spending as a proportion of gdp is now over 40. when it was 32% in the 1990s, all of the indicators are moving in the wrong direction, and i don't think that keir starmer has a solution. >> annabel, am i right in thinking that we've already seen a bit of an exodus when it comes to millionaires and billionaires in the last few years? are people already voting with their feet when it comes to the tax regime ? regime? >> certainly there are some signs of that. yes. in 2023, according to some migration investment experts, the uk was third in the world for outflows of the wealthiest in society,

behind china and india, and as i say, who can blame them? it's almost rational to be looking at where you could put your wealth, where you could put your wealth, where you could put your wealth, where you could put down some roots, where you may be in a more favourable tax regime than you would be in the uk. it's not easy for everybody, but certainly i, you know, and i think we're going to have more of that. of course, there were rumours, there were concerns raised afterjeremy hunt , the raised afterjeremy hunt, the so—called conservative chancellor, scrapped the non—dom status in the march budget that that was going to lead to fewer people coming here. so in fact, we're facing a double whammy of those who are wealthy, who are living in britain, who let's not forget, are often, you know, the ones who are paying the largest amount of tax. according to the ifs, top 1% are now paying 29% of all income tax. they're making a huge contribution to our economy. the people who are here, they're emigrating, but also are we disincentivizing wealthy people from coming to live and spend here in britain? it's a double whammy.

>> yeah. >> yeah. >> the top 1% paying more than a fifth of all tax. i mean, how much more do we think we can reasonably squeeze out of the top 1? it's incredibly disproportionate as things stand and as the nobel prize winning economist arthur laffer , economist arthur laffer, summarised, sometimes if you keep cranking that tax rate up, your returns actually go down. if those disincentives to wealth creation or indeed incentives to emigration get too high. >> that's right. we are at or close to our taxable limit now, certainly in certain areas . and certainly in certain areas. and you know, if you look at what happened when george osborne increased the corporation tax rate and actually it led to lower revenues pouring into the treasury coffers, you can see our laffer curve in action, and we live in a very globalised economy now where money is extremely mobile. people can vote with their feet if they feel as though the system is not working for them. and i just make another point , which is it make another point, which is it isn't just simply the higher

rates of tax that we're expecting people to pay, but it's the narrative that accompanies it that i think is so damaging. we have moved away from a position in this country where we celebrate wealth and we celebrate success, and we remember that often that wealth and that success is acquired by creating businesses, creating products that people want to buy, creating jobs that people can fill and towards a position where we almost view it with scepticism . i mean, look at some scepticism. i mean, look at some of the narrative that we had this week from the green party when they were talking about imposing a wealth tax. it's all about people not paying their fair share. how can those with the broadest shoulders pay more? well, in fact, the people with the broadest shoulders are already paying a vast amount in tax, and we ought to remember that, annabelle labour would say , and they have said that they appreciate the tax burden is at appreciate the tax burden is at a 70 year high, and they have no plans to raise taxes on working people. >> are you saying that you're expecting taxes to come quite quickly , that we haven't heard quickly, that we haven't heard about yet ?

about yet? >> well, there have been lots of non—denial denials, haven't there , this week when it comes there, this week when it comes to council tax bands being rhiannon assessed when it comes to capital gains tax, of course, labour have announced this triple lock. they will not be raising income tax, national insurance or vat, but that still leaves a huge amount on the table about which they've been very quiet. now, who can blame keir starmer for doing this? think about the politics. they've got this 20 point lead with halfway through the election campaign, the polls are not budging. he is, as tom said, carrying that ming vase across a highly polished floor. he does not want to repeat the mistakes of john smith in 1992, when he had that shadow budget that spooked voters. every voters, everybody thought that the 92 election was a foregone conclusion , but the tories were conclusion, but the tories were able to weaponize against it and accused labour of bringing in some kind of tax bombshell. this is what keir starmer and his advisers will be looking at very closely and trying to avoid repeating. and it looks it does

look like they're succeeding. >> well, annabel denham, thank you so much for talking through all of that. it's a it's a brave new world we're stepping towards really where neither party is really where neither party is really being perhaps entirely honest about its future plans. >> it does upset me, looking at the statistics on on immigration, how we're losing often young as well, hardworking, ambitious people who, you know, look at the system of taxation in this country. and i think, you know what? you know, it's not just about the weather. why people leave and they think that, you know, they can keep more of their cash if they move elsewhere or make more in the first place, make more average wage in the united states, materially higher than the average wage in the united kingdom. >> well , ed kingdom. >> well, ed miliband shared his thoughts on climate change and getting bills down, for energy bills for families at

home. >> good afternoon. britain. it is 2:26. now. we've got 21 days before they've got to go. well, that's what the labour candidate for brent east, dawn butler, posted on her twitter account, referencing an early noughties garage tune. yes, that's garage , garage tune. yes, that's garage, not farage. let's have a listen. >> dawn butler nelson production come on 4th of july. >> don't forget to 21 days to go. >> we got 21 days to go. if you like, let me know. let me add the shadow . got 21 days because the shadow. got 21 days because you gotta go. preciate d—day. where did he go ? where did he go? >> say you wish you had d—day. where did he go? like, don't let a liar run the show. >> like don't let a liar run the show. if you like me, let me know. let me add a shadow. got 21 days before they gotta go. >> 21 days to go 21 days to go 21 days to go 21 days to go 21

days. say who you like 21 days to hagath toys won't like me anyway. >> but i won't hesitate. cause labour party are here to stay. we're going to the very top the tories that time is up. cause tories that time is up. cause tories they took us up 21 days to go. say 21 days to go if you like me, let me know. >> let me have a shadow. got 21 days before they gotta go vote to boxt boiler. >> that's enough of that. that's enough of that. thank you, right. well thought. i've got a guilty confession. you like the song? >> at labour conference each yean >> at labour conference each year, there are always two highlights that i enjoy most. one is the mirror party that's on the last night. it's always good fun. there's karaoke. the other is dawn butler's annual disco, right, which takes place on the second night from memory and every single time it's just and every single time it's just a huge amount of fun . she's in a huge amount of fun. she's in the middle there. there's line

dancing. everyone's involved , dancing. everyone's involved, and there's party activists, mps, journalists and you and me. and i've been. i've been there every year that i've been to labour conference. it's enormous fun. and i do think that sometimes these sort of silly little things just can, can lighten things up. >> i mean, i've seen quite a lot of reaction to this, lots of disapproving comments. it's about how, oh, how we've fallen as a country where our politicians are doing a music videos. >> yeah. you wouldn't want the shadow chancellor to be doing something like this , perhaps. something like this, perhaps. >> i don't know, i don't know, so , yes, that is dawn butler, so, yes, that is dawn butler, who's, campaigning for brent east with her little garage rap, no, i think each the youth vote. >> will it get the youth vote? >> will it get the youth vote? >> i'm not sure it's going to swing brent east in this election. i mean, given that was a seat that voted twice under jeremy corbyn, but as we've mentioned, brent east, it's only fair that we mention all the

other candidates standing in that particular constituency for the green party there's nida al farage, foliage , there is an farage, foliage, there is an independent called jenna clarence joseph falwell, reform uk has, zbigniew of kovalchuk, and the workers party of great britain has james mortimer, dawn butlers for labour. and i believe we've got some more amin macfadyen independent jamila robertson for the conservative and unionist party. adil sheikh for she's an independent or he is and the lib dems have jonny singh as well. >> goodness me, i think i should have read those out. >> actually should have done. blimey. >> so terrible. >> so terrible. >> i, i normally you have about four candidates in a constituency. why does dawn butler have about 100. >> well there you go , let us >> well there you go, let us know your thoughts on that type of campaigning literature. come campaigning media have to say preferred the music video than i

did reading out that list of names. yes, i could see that. we could all see that was a struggle for tom. a little bit of a struggle. but you got through it. you got through it, you got through it. but actually it's quite interesting because, reform uk actually have the most tiktok followers, don't they ? tiktok followers, don't they? and they have a huge amount of views on their tiktok. so there is the, you know, the debate around or the question of whether reform will actually get more of those youth vote that the tories have lost. >> although the labour party has more video views , but the reform more video views, but the reform party has more followers , lots party has more followers, lots of interaction as well, which is crucial. yeah, i suppose the one thing that that that that is clear, whatever these debated statistics, the conservatives are very much trailing on tiktok . well, there you go. let us know what you've seen on tiktok if you're on that social media platform, if you don't have it, don't get it. total waste of time. total waste of time. anyway, coming up, we'll be getting more reaction from bristol to labour's manifesto launch. were they impressed the people of bristol? were you

underwhelmed, let us know . underwhelmed, let us know. >> it's 231. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. well, labour has launched its election manifesto focusing on economic growth and political stability. sir keir starmer played down suggestions of a supermajority, saying things won't change overnight . but after he was overnight. but after he was briefly interrupted by a protester, sir , he rejected protester, sir, he rejected suggestions of higher taxes to come , insisting there would be come, insisting there would be no new rises under a labour government . but chief secretary government. but chief secretary to the treasury laura trott disagrees . disagrees. >> this is labour's tax trap. manifesto it only contains tax rises. no tax cuts under labour's own published figures , labour's own published figures, it would take the tax burden to levels never seen before in this country. and that doesn't even include the £2,000 of taxes which are going to levy on every working family across the country. so it's not actually so

much what is in this manifesto. it's what's not in this manifesto, because labour have not ruled out taxing your home, your car , your pension. everyone your car, your pension. everyone at home needs to be very, very clear . their at home needs to be very, very clear. their taxes will rise under labour. >> a childminder has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for manslaughter after the death of a seven month old baby, harlow collinge was violently shaken by the 63 year old karen foster. the infant suffered severe brain injuries and was taken to hospital, but died several days later. the family of harry dunn have accused the us government of obstructing their son's inquest. the teenager was killed in 2019 when his motorcycle collided with a car that was driving on the wrong side of the road. the driver and sacoolas was an employee of the us government, where she was not present at the four day inquest, nor were there any representatives from the us embassy. harry's mother, charlotte , says she's disgusted charlotte, says she's disgusted with how things have been handled. >> if they further disrespected harry, they've disrespected the

future that he could have had and it just further bolsters my opinion that they have totally have no regard for myself, my family, our wider family. >> they they just don't care . >> they they just don't care. >> they they just don't care. >> gb news alerts are available for more on all of our stories, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com slash alerts i >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> markets look like this at the moment. the poem buys you $1.2785 ,1.1845 the price of gold £1,815.20 per ounce. the ftse 100 is at 8190 points. >> cheers. britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb financial report

>> well. good afternoon. britain. it's 2:37. and up next is martin daubney. he's up next, and he joins us now. martin what have you got in store ? have you got in store? >> well, of course we're going to be poring over this labour manifesto . so they're calling manifesto. so they're calling him captain cautious. but actually it's keir starmer. more of a del boy because there's no risers on income tax, no vat, no money back. no guarantee is he selling us a hooky deal. how is he going to pay for everything . he going to pay for everything. and at 5:00 we'll sit down with him and we'll probe him further, particularly on the big questions that haven't been answered today . like, what are answered today. like, what are your immigration targets? will be asking him directly. can nigel farage save the tories? seemingly on death row? could he bnng seemingly on death row? could he bring them back from the dead? with the merger with the reform party? is that wise? is it the right thing for the country, or

is it a complete capitulation and a sell out and the g7? what's the point? everyone that's going there is either recently had a good hiding at the electoral polls or they're on their way out. people like biden, trudeau , macron, schulz. biden, trudeau, macron, schulz. what right have they got to give away $50 billion of our to money ukraine? plus remembering one year on today in nottingham , my year on today in nottingham, my home city valdo calocane stabbed and killed three. i'll be speaking to the editor of the local newspaper who's staggeringly said things have got much worse in the city since that fateful day. that's all coming three till six. >> goodness me, martin, a varied and chock a block show as usual. look forward to it. but yes, let's return now to that battle bus that keir starmer is back on. he's launched the labour manifesto , of course, in greater manifesto, of course, in greater manchester this morning. >> yes. he set out his plans, which he claims will change britain and rebuild the country after 14 years of conservative rule . rule. >> but the labour leader's speech was briefly interrupted

by a protester claiming his policies were too just conservative. >> oh, i thought we were going to see it there. yes he was interrupted. apparently she was a climate activist. >> always the case. >> always the case. >> who's upset? presumably with not enough net zero pledges. >> i say it's always the case. it's not always the case. because in at the labour conference last year, of course, keir starmer was covered in glitter by a protester and i was thinking i was standing there just sort of yards away from it, thinking, my goodness, is this, is this a climate protester? is this a palestine protester ? is this a palestine protester? is this a palestine protester? is this an lgbt protester? is this a corbynista protester? none of the above. no. this was someone protesting in favour of changing the voting system. so it takes all sorts as well. >> that is a good point. one of the things that is in their manifesto is votes for 16 year olds. so if labour are elected, 16 year olds will be able to

vote. so there you go. make of that what you will. >> well, shall we cross to katherine forster? who's on the labour battle bus now, catherine, this has been, perhaps the most expected manifesto launch that anyone has ever seen . you've been poring ever seen. you've been poring through some of the detail, but i don't think any of the headune i don't think any of the headline measures are actually particularly new shadow cabinet that they are very . that they are very. >> but no, you're right, 130 pages, very that one word change. to be honest, i don't think there's anything really. here >> oh, goodness me, the buffering is just terrible. sorry, catherine. the reception is just. sorry, catherine. the reception isjust. it'sjust not sorry, catherine. the reception is just. it's just not good enough, is it? >> well, we'll see if we can get back to catherine, because she's got the manifesto there in her hands. that's the next five years of government, if we're to believe the polls. it is interesting, though, some of the things that were leaked in the press , because it's not all press, because it's not all things that were announced by

the labour party. some of these leaks include forcing members of the house of lords to retire at the house of lords to retire at the age of 80. yeah. some of the other leaks include that votes at 16 pledge as well. but also a new committee to be set up by the labour party on modernising parliament. could it be that the man when he was a barrister, keir starmer, who wanted to get rid of wigs and gowns, are going to get rid of gowns for clerks in the house of commons. they get rid of white tie for doorkeepers in the house of commons. they're going to get rid of the requirement to wear a suit. if you're a member of parliament, are you going to get mps swanning in int parliament, are you going to get mps swanning in in t shirts and trainers? well that would be disgrace. >> i don't want to see any of our mps in t shirts in the house of commons. i mean, seriously ? of commons. i mean, seriously? >> well, they're going to be setting up this, this committee to review some of these working practices in the house of commons. there could be no more late night sittings. it could be a much more shorter working day for mps, but also , let's not for mps, but also, let's not forget that when tony blair got

in, he did something quite similar and changed a lot of the ways that parliament worked. he got rid of the top hat. yes. if you wanted to raise a point of order during a division, you had to wear a top hat . that was up to wear a top hat. that was up until blair's first term. they used to keep a pop up opera hat under the speaker's chair. and so when someone wants to raise a point of order, there's video of this, because the commons was, of course, televised in the in the early 1990s, i think 1990, it started being televised maybe 89. and, and there's video of people making these points of orders. betty boothroyd for she was the speaker at the time. mid—'nineties shouted get the hat! they have to throw the hat across. we will put the hat on their head and then make the point of order. sadly. sadly, under blair, we lost that tradition . we lost that kind of magic. >> oh, tom. tom tom tom tom tom. he gets very excited, doesn't he? but i think it would be sad to lose traditions. more traditions. i quite like them, but hey, votes for 16 year olds.

big one. house of commons constitutional reform. all this. yes. lots in there. race equality act could be that our politics starts to change quite a bit in how it looks, because, i mean, if you say that 16 year olds can vote, well, 18 year olds can vote, well, 18 year olds can vote, well, 18 year olds can stand to be mps. >> they can vote. are we going to get 16 year olds being able to get 16 year olds being able to stand to be mps, get 16 year old? >> goodness me, i'm not sure my blood pressure could deal with 16 year olds in the house of commons. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> if they can suddenly vote, why couldn't they stand to be? >> we can't have stands to reason. >> they can't have a high caffeine , caffeinated energy caffeine, caffeinated energy drink. they can if they're 16, if they're 15 and 364 days, they can't. >> that extra day , it makes all >> that extra day, it makes all the difference, right? >> well, throughout the election campaign, we're hearing from people across the united kingdom about what matters to them. >> yes, issues such as nhs waiting lists, immigration impact and the cost of living crisis, crime and policing. our reporters have been to meet voters from across all four nafions voters from across all four nations of the united kingdom . nations of the united kingdom. we'll hear from them regularly before polling day. here's one.

i'm murray hecht. >> i'm 50 years old. >> i'm 50 years old. >> i live in brighton. >> i live in brighton. >> the issues that are important to me are anti—semitism, social care and education. >> in the past, i was a staunch labour voter. i was a member of the labour party. that all changed in the corbyn era, when anti—semitism reared its ugly head. >> and i became, i suppose, what you would call a floating voter to vote for keir starmer . to vote for keir starmer. >> i'd like to hear from him that he's going to kerb these marches that happen every week in london, that he's going to listen to jewish people and what their fears are and take it seriously and show us that he's actually going to do something rather than paying lip service and not doing anything, really. >> my job is at the moment, i'm a full time carer for my mother, who's housebound and disabled. >> there's a t mum and i want to see things improve for her and also carers . also carers. >> i have to survive on £81 a week, which is nothing . so i'd week, which is nothing. so i'd like to see an overhaul of the carer's allowance and also more

carer's allowance and also more care for people who need it. i have a dilemma of who i'm going to vote for. i haven't fully decided because i've got to weigh up the pros and cons. obviously i'm thinking about social care and the issues that are close to my heart, and i know that the conservatives haven't had a great track record with this over the last. however many 14 years that they've been in power. so i've got some weigh up. do i vote for labour with the anti—semitism? do i vote for conservatives who i know are going to cause problems with social care and my personal situation? so it is a real dilemma for me at the moment. situation? so it is a real dilemma for me at the moment . a dilemma for me at the moment. a dilemma for me at the moment. a dilemma for me at the moment. a dilemma for murray. emily, what are you holding in your hand? there >> oh, just, a little, gb news muffin, i think, yeah. here we 90, muffin, i think, yeah. here we go, i've got one. i've got one as well. i'll bring it over to you. there you go. both red and blue. why do we have these cakes, emily? >> because . >> because. >> because. >> because, believe it or not, it is three years, tom, since this channel. first launched. >> three years? yes, three.

>> three years? yes, three. >> they said we wouldn't last three months, but my goodness, this channel has come such a long way since that, if i do say myself, slightly ropey. launch night. on the 13th of june, 2021, but my goodness, now we're in 2024, three years on air. this channel. i mean, it's defied this channel. i mean, it's defied a lot of expectations. >> you know what i think it's worth saying thank you to you at home for supporting the channel for this long, for telling your friends about it, for telling your family about it. when i meet people, when i'm out and about , in my life meet people, when i'm out and about, in my life and i meet people who watch the channel, there's a sense of family. there's a sort of sense of, oh, gb news, we're part of a team, so that's, that's just quite brilliant, really. >> so i won't raise a glass, but i will raise cupcake and, we'll see after

break. good afternoon. britain. it's ten minutes to three. and joining us now on the day of labour's manifesto launch is the shadow secretary of state for science, innovation and technology. peter kyle. peter, thanks so much forjoining us, i want to dive right into policy because i noticed you spoke, pretty powerfully about this data centre in buckinghamshire that was rejected by this government. you said labour would approve it, but i'm reading your manifesto now . and reading your manifesto now. and the way in which i think you would approve these things, like laboratories, digital infrastructure, gigafactories and whatever is by designating these central government, designating these as nationally significant, that's not planning reform at all. you're just fast tracking certain projects that you pick and choose. why not change the framework ? change the framework? >> thanks. >> thanks. >> it's great to be with you today. i'm sorry that the gb news cupcakes haven't arrived with me here. i'm sure you're

sure . having having gone to all sure. having having gone to all the trouble to bake them. you're sending them? they'll be on the way shortly. but actually, to your point about, you know, planning and data centres and labs and 1.5 million homes that we will build over the course of one parliament. yes, of course we will expedite. >> we will use the power of central government to have national priorities, but we have also done the second thing you've asked. we will review every single national policy planning framework , as soon as planning framework, as soon as we can. we can. >> we can. >> we know that there are thousands of them. >> it will take time, but we are going to review the entire planning framework that we have, the structure we have. >> we will have priorities. i, as secretary of for state the department for science, innovation and technology, if i get the privilege to serve , i get the privilege to serve, i will make sure that that department is orientated towards our national priorities and we will push them forward . will push them forward. >> we will deliver them. >> we will deliver them. >> we will strive to deliver the change our country needs. >> it'sjust change our country needs. >> it's just that when contentious issues are got

through the house of commons and indeed the house of lords , it's indeed the house of lords, it's so much easier to get them through. even for a government with a big majority . if they're with a big majority. if they're in the manifesto, you can point to the manifesto, say, look , we to the manifesto, say, look, we were elected on this, we must do this. and i'm reading your planning reform here. it just looks incredibly vague. you're not saying anything about what system you will have. you're not saying anything beyond, we're going to have some development corporations, some new towns and some nationally significant projects. you're not saying that you're going to change the system. so i worry that when the labour party starts to do this because most economists say this will be really good for growth if you can actually get planning reform passed, but you have no detail at all in your manifesto, you're going to run into the same problem. boris johnson did when he and his big majority tried to get planning reform passed with robert jenrick. it failed in the manifesto or not because don't forget that the tories had things in their manifesto. >> they didn't, couldn't . they

>> they didn't, couldn't. they still couldn't get the legislation through, for they had planning reform in their manifesto. and three bills were put forward for planning reform. all three of them never made it through. >> peter, this is what i'm saying. they didn't have any detail in their manifesto . detail in their manifesto. exactly. exactly as you don't have any detail in your manifesto , you're going to fail manifesto, you're going to fail in the same way boris johnson did. we have in our manifesto. >> we have national priorities and we have aligned in the manifesto. we have been explicit that we will have an industrial council that will independently set the priorities for our country, that will that will form an industrial strategy for that, for those priorities set out in our industrial strategy , out in our industrial strategy, which will span the decade of national renewal that we are standing on for those priorities. all aspects of central government and, right through to local government will be aligned to those priorities. and that includes planning that is there in the manifesto. we will reform every single national planning framework. will reform every single national planning framework . we national planning framework. we will bring things certain priorities into national priorities into national priorities driven forward by central government, because our

economy needs the building in it. we need data centres, we need lab space. we need homes being built. yes, we will make sure that these things are dnven sure that these things are driven through and we will have any legislative changes we need. we will do. but many of them don't need planning legislation. >> peter, will you the example you gave could have happened within the law. yes. yes of course. and you can call it the secretary of state for local government can call these things in. but the minister, peter kyle, will will you start the larger planning reform within the first 100 days? we are going to get to work on this from day one. >> you know, we're going to get to work on it straight away because we want to make sure that we go forward with these six steps forward. each of them will will have a significant impact on people's lives whilst getting cracking on changing the fundamentals of why our economy is not running properly, why we have zero growth and high taxation, and yes, planning reform will be part of it. but

don't forget the example that you gave was a minister that didn't like one building that could be seen from the m25. so stop the £2 billion investment into our economy, which would have created more than half £1 billion of investment into our economy every single year thereafter. >> okay, peter . >> okay, peter. >> okay, peter. >> carl, i just want to get a question in on something else . question in on something else. votes for 16. why? why >> because at the moment, right across in our own united kingdom , 1617 year olds are voting in ,1617 year olds are voting in the scottish elections for their parliament, for the senate elections in wales and across the channel. would you support mps? >> would you have mps at 16? >> would you have mps at 16? >> well, excuse me, but they are mps. what i've just talked to you about. they are in a country within the united kingdom and nobody has ever stood up, including anybody in gb news has stood up and said that those elections are not valid or they've been distorted. so let's just go through what this means. >> elected mps , peter, period >> elected mps, peter, period over a five year period of a of a parliament. >> right now, if you turn 18 the

week after a general election, then you're not voting until you're 23. so would you have mps in the house of commons aged 16, politicians aged 16? >> we're not si king. >> we're not si king. >> no, no, no, we're not seeking to change that. but don't let's don't let's conflate the fact that being an mp is different from being able to vote for an mp, being able to go into tesco's and buy a product. i think we've run out of time. >> but peter, carl, thank you so for being such a

>>a >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. and all across the uk. on today's show, sir keir starmer has launched labour's manifesto and said he's not complacent about election victory despite his massive lead in the polls. and while the labour leader continues his

election campaign, rishi sunak is more than 1200 miles away in italy. i'm asking today what is the point of the g7 summit and if the tories are thrash on july the 4th, as seems likely, will they join forces with reform uk? well, nigel farage has revealed today that he would be willing today that he would be willing to lead a merged reform and conservative party and find out why england's most patriotic estate is feeling the pinch ahead of euro 2024. apparently it's all to do with the price of those flags . that's all come in those flags. that's all come in between now and 6:00. welcome to the show . it's welcome to the show. it's a pleasure to have your company. well, today was the big reveal, sir keir starmer finally launched the labour manifesto . launched the labour manifesto. but does it contain anything we haven't heard before ? for all

haven't heard before? for all the detail seems to be old now