is too asked whether immigration is too high, nigel farage pointed to the conservatives record . the conservatives record. >> given that your 2010 manifesto, your 2015 manifesto, your 2017 manifesto said you'd reduced net migration to tens of thousands , your 2019 manifesto thousands, your 2019 manifesto said immigration would massively reduce, and that net 4.3 million people have come into the country since that time . why on country since that time. why on earth should anybody believe the fifth manifesto that promises cuts to net migration? >> because of the record of this prime minister? so we've had we've had enough. >> that's fine. i'm happy. >> that's fine. i'm happy. >> figures out today. >> figures out today. >> but commons leader penny mordaunt reaffirmed the conservatives plans to halve migration by next summer. >> whatever the public think about the numbers, what they want from their government and their parliament is to control access of foreign nationals to the uk. we can ensure that each year the numbers come down and on our plans as we are due to

halve that number, halve migration by next summer. with us, you get a cap and a plan with labour. they have no cap, no number and no plan. okay >> meanwhile, labour has outlined a mental health plan that they pledge will get people back to work as they aim to increase economic growth. their plan is to recruit an extra 8500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults with new young futures hubs to provide open access mental health services. they've also pledged mental health support will be available in every school . available in every school. earlier today, sir keir starmer set out labour's manifesto , set out labour's manifesto, reaffirming his commitment to no rises to income tax or national insurance . a conservative insurance. a conservative candidate in the general election says he received a suspicious parcel at his constituency office today, leading to bomb disposal specialists being called into his office. sir jeremy quin, specialists being called into his office. sirjeremy quin, an his office. sir jeremy quin, an ex defence minister and

conservative candidate for the horsham constituency . he horsham constituency. he received the package at his sussex office. bomb disposal experts were called in to investigate the force said the presence of the office was stood down this evening after the package was confirmed to be safe. although the force is investigating whether an offence has been committed . for the has been committed. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites now it's time for headliners . for headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners. >> it's your first look at friday's newspapers. >> i'm andrew doyle. i'm joined tonight by leo kearse and cressida wetton. are you both happy, cheery, delighted in the mood to forensically dissect the news? >> yes . basically news? >> yes. basically this news? >> yes . basically this news.

>> yes. basically this news. >> yes. basically this news. >> it's great. >> it's great. >> oh you're really happy about it okay. >> well we'll find out why. that is very cryptic from leo. we're going to start though, by looking at the front covers of the newspapers . we've got the newspapers. we've got telegraph who are leading with reform overtakes tories for first time. the times has got conspiracy of silence on cuts and higher taxes. the guardian is leading with i'll fix britain, vows starmer, amid doubts over how he will pay for it and the eye is leading with labour overtakes tories on defence but gets reality check on growing uk economy. friday's mirror has got will give nation hope.the mirror has got will give nation hope. the daily star are magic balls will stop the hand of god. those were your front pages . those were your front pages. >> all right. we're going to kick off with friday's newspapers with the telegraph . newspapers with the telegraph. >> leo, what are they going with? >> so the telegraph, they've got a lovely picture of giorgia meloni, the head of italy, meeting rishi sunak. >> and she's pulling a face as if he's just said he's going to win the election because the

real headline is that reform overtake the tories for the first time. we are the opposition now, declares farage after crossover moment in yougov poll. and just to be clear, this is this is one poll that came out today. the results came out today that puts, puts the reform party on 19% ahead of the tories on 18. labour are leading on 37, which would give them a super majority. yes. still won't translate into seats necessarily for reform. >> but you know, it's a concatenation of things isn't it. it's the announcement of farage that he's taking over as leader, standing in a certain constituency. and then it's also the d—day shambles . constituency. and then it's also the d—day shambles. i think all of this together has kind of caused a storm a bit. >> some problems, i would say. >> some problems, i would say. >> oh yeah, absolutely. i mean, the things seem to be getting worse for the tories. they announce rishi announced this election, probably with his fingers crossed, hopefully i'll be able to turn things around and, you know, i'll start getting more popular instead, he's continued the decline of the tories. what's interesting, though, is if you look at the opinion polls, labour are also

declining in popularity, but still they're still high. but if you look at the overall trend, they're coming down and it's probably because they're playing safe . whereas, you know, farage safe. whereas, you know, farage doesn't need to play safe. >> yeah, i suppose starmer is thinking, thinking not to not to campaign in the way, in the way that biden did just hide himself away in a basement. >> yeah. and he'll still win. and you know what? we don't know what anything can happen in politics, right? yeah. but what do you think about this question? i mean, you know, we have now a small party exploding in the polls, you know, and is it time that we completely obliterated our two party system? well, potentially , yes. system? well, potentially, yes. >> or it still might be the case that reform and the tories might get together. right. that's not completely out of the question. and i think farage would go for that, wouldn't he, if he had the right offer . right offer. >> oh, interesting. >> oh, interesting. >> i'm not sure they would, because the whole point of reform is that they're not the tories and they're not labour. it would make more sense for labour and the tories to combine, because they're essentially the exact same party led by the same establishment. >> farage is you know, he's got his brand and his charisma and

all the rest of it. it's kind of like if he goes into the party, it's going to become his party. >> but if they treat it, not so much as a combination, but as a parasitic takeover, that could kind of work, couldn't it? so reform kind of attaches like a barnacle. yeah and sort of just spreads through the system. and then and then the conservatives are like a wasp laying, laying an egg in the head of a caterpillar. oh, they do that, don't they? they lay eggs in living hosts. yeah. wasps are gross. >> yeah. but this would be much better. this would be a beneficial fungus that would turn the tory party from a zombie into a functioning, actually right wing party, which is, i think , what tory voters is, i think, what tory voters want. and that's why tory voters aren't going to come out and vote for, well, tory, i have to say, it's all livened up what was threatening to be a very bonng was threatening to be a very boring election campaign or even the d—day gaffe. >> i mean, it's theatrical, isn't it? if nothing else, let's move on now to the front cover of friday's times. cressida, you got the details. >> they are leading with conspiracy of silence on cuts and higher taxes. so that's about starmer, obviously, and the labour party, they've also got women left in a&e after using ozempic to slim for

summer. summer. >> summer. >> a zembic , of course, is the >> a zembic, of course, is the weight loss drug. >> yes, the miracle drug. >> yes, the miracle drug. >> miracle drug or is it's not really for weight loss, is it? >> that's kind of like an off the peg side effect. >> that's right. yeah. it was something to do with controlling blood sugar in, i believe, type two diabetics. and then they found out oh hang on a minute. this is making people skinny. what. and then you couldn't get hold of it. and the whole world wants it. so some it says here specifically young women are ending up in a&e after buying a zenpix online. so i guess that means the dark web not on prescription because you have to be quite big to get this on prescription. >> no, no, you can just lie. >> this is the problem. they're going online and saying they're much bigger than they are, and it's actually not healthy to take the stuff. exactly. >> you know? yes. >> you know? yes. >> if you go through a doctor, you have to be i think you have to have a bmi of 30, which is quite large. right? so if you just go on, if you're just a bit plump, you shouldn't be taking it. >> right? >> right? >> well apparently not. and i mean, one of the things that happens is people get this muscle wasting problem because they don't eat enough protein if they don't eat enough protein if they treat it like a miracle cure. what they should be doing is strength training and eating protein along with it. and then

it's a miracle drug. i love it. >> you turned into joe rogan. >> you turned into joe rogan. >> you'll be talking about hallucinogens next and all that kind of thing. >> leo, this is a this is a problem. >> there is no miracle cure for weight loss, is there? i mean, this this makes you lose weight because it suppresses your appetite. yeah, it's as simple as that. but there's another thing that does that. and that's called willpower. yeah, yeah. >> but if people have willpower, they wouldn't be fat in the first place. yeah. i mean i think i think assembly is for, great for people who are fat and need to lose weight. i think it's great if it saves the government money, stops them spending my taxes on fat people who frankly shouldn't be getting any. but, but these are people abusing these are people who are already skinny, they're already thin. they've got some sort of neurosis or whatever. they want to be even skinnier. so they look good on the beach or they see, you know, filtered images on instagram. they want to they want to match with that, and also, you know, if you are, if you are a land whale, if you are enormous and you're taking it, you know, for the right reasons, you know, for the right reasons, you also need to be eating right, like like like joe rogan says, like joe rogan says being good stuff. you've got to eat. you can't. you can't train your way out of a bad diet because what you don't the body, if you

just starve yourself, obviously you're going to starve, aren't you? >> so yeah, you need to. >> so yeah, you need to. >> and when you stop taking the zembic, like if you're if you haven't set in place the good habhs haven't set in place the good habits like eating protein, working out, working out is hugely important. then you're just going to go back to being fat. >> we don't know the full side effects. >> actually. there haven't been long term studies. we simply don't know. and in many years to come we might find, do you know in the victorian era, women thought they had a miracle weight loss pill? do you know what it was, a tapeworm egg. yeah. >> no. >> no. >> and they swallowed it and they got really thin. but then they got really thin. but then they had a worm inside them. but that's actually a good thing. >> we need to have whipworms. we've eliminated tapeworms from our diet. and they actually the reason we've got so many autoimmune disorders and, you know, crohn's disease and eczema and all the rest of it in the west is because we don't have those in our diet. >> so are you suggesting we should import tapeworms ? yes, should import tapeworms? yes, i think that's terrible idea. >> lewis schaffer there is gone a bit. >> lewis schaffer i don't want worms the excrete because they're foreign foreign body. >> your body attacks them so they excrete chemicals that moderate your immune system so they don't get attacked. and without those chemicals moderating our immune system,

our body attacks itself. >> i think there might be something to be said for parasite. i think tapeworms are never good. >> we just have a yakult and move on. >> a yakult will do it. let's just go with that. okay? let's move to on the front cover of the guardian. leo, what is our favourite paper going with the guardian, they've got the big story about labour's manifesto and keir starmer, which we're going to cover in a moment. but down here, they've got this hilarious story. bookmaker told to look into election date betting. >> i should say we covered this last night, but we just covered the story that the guy who works for sunak had put a bet on. yeah, that he was going to run an election or call an election in in, in when he did. yeah. >> now the question that was lucky. >> it was, it was lucky. but the question really is did he know he should buy a lottery ticket . he should buy a lottery ticket. did he know, did he know the had sunak told him, well, who knows. >> i mean, rishi sunak has refused to say if he told this close aide, craig williams, the date of the election before craig williams placed this £100 bet on when it would happen. what are the odds on that he's facing? >> like, what's he going to win ?

>> like, what's he going to win? >> like, what's he going to win? >> it was it was five 5 to £1. it was 4 to 1 or >> it was it was five 5 to £1. itwas4to1or5to1| >> it was it was five 5 to £1. it was 4 to 1 or 5 to 1 i think nothing. >> it's not that not worth the trouble. >> i bet he's kicking himself. >> i bet he's kicking himself. >> but why is rishi not not telling us is it. i mean that sounds suspicious, but then maybe he can't. finally. rishi is a good guy. >> he's not grassing up. somebody who works for him. he could throw him right under the bus. >> he says. >> he says. >> given the nature of the inquiry, which is confidential and independent, it wouldn't be right for me to comment. while the inquiry is ongoing. >> i mean, i know it's wrong if the guy has sort of manipulated insider information. i know it's wrong. i still find it funny and frivolous. >> it's definitely funny, but it is. it is apparently a crime could constitute a criminal offence relating under section 42 of the gambling act. and what's interesting is ladbrokes obviously have they obviously have all the politicians on the wall. so they know when they come into the shop. yeah. you know to phone a hotline i wondered about that, how this got discovered. >> apparently it was the betting shop that that grassed him up. >> and i thought, well, how did they know to do that? >> i mean, if rishi sunak had put a bet on, there might have been some cause for suspicion. anyway, let's move on to the front cover of the star.

cressida, you're all over this story. >> oh, magic balls will stop the hand of god. >> it's something to do with football, well, the subtitle says boffins create footie gizmo to end cheating. >> like in 86. that's the worst sentence ever . the word boffins sentence ever. the word boffins is in there. they love the word boffins, don't they? what have the boffins essec's? >> that sounds like emily carver west country. that's very familiar to me, so england will never be cheated out of victory like we were in 1986 by maradona's hand of god , thanks maradona's hand of god, thanks to new gizmo. is this to do with filming? what happened and looking. well, that's not a new gizmo. >> what a camera! so you could just press rewind and check if maradona just cheated a blurry pdf of the first sentence. >> andrew. okay, i have to predict what this might be. >> i mean, you know , i mean, >> i mean, you know, i mean, surely because he got away with it, because why? why? because because the ref didn't see it and they weren't allowed to look at the cameras or something. >> yeah, they didn't have var or whatever it's called now. they didn't have that back in 1986. and for some reason we haven't moved on to talk about something else. >> no, no, this is a weird story

that i mean, we're not exactly on the pulse here. >> the maradona story from 1986. isn't he dead ? isn't he dead? >> yeah, he died as well. so he's not even here. yeah, yeah. he was. he he could have done with some mozarabic. he put on a lot of weight. did he, you know, coupled with cocaine use. it's not a good combination being short, fat and a cocaine. >> but he was apparently a bit of a genius. >> oh, amazing footballer. >> oh, amazing footballer. >> yeah. even with the hand business. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. well, that's part of the genius. >> the fact he got away with it. >> the fact he got away with it. >> yeah. use your. use your hand as a foot. yeah who could do that? >> that is. that is actually a form of genius. fair play. okay, so that's the front pages dealt with. but coming up we're going to be discussing britain's massive future spend on sickness benefit and learning about white male tears. see you in

welcome back to headliners. i'm andrew doyle. i'm still here with leo. leo. leo says leo. harry on the autocue. it's actually leo kearse and cressida allen. anyway, we're going to

kick off. we're going to kick off with the guardian. keir starmer has vowed to turn the page forever on what's this about held back potential . what about held back potential. what is it? yeah. >> held back potential, possibly in the labour party . they seem in the labour party. they seem they seem like they've held back some of their potential because they're not showing any. but yeah, keir starmer says he's going to put wealth creation at the heart of the labour manifesto. he's vowed to turn the page forever on held back potential, and you know, pledges economic growth. >> can i ask one question how? >> can i ask one question how? >> well this this is the thing he hasn't really said how he says wealth creation is going to be his number one priority. yes. pro—business and pro—worker hxan pro—business and pro—worker hxar. yes. and said that he saw potential being held back everywhere. >> yeah. he also said we don't have a magic wand. okay we're getting closer. >> that's what he calls, women with a penis. but he says he says the real cause, the real reason there's poverty is. or the real reason people aren't generating wealth is lack of housing, the cost of living crisis, low wages and children with rotting teeth. i've never

seen anybody you know, being like, i can't start this business because i saw a child with rotting teeth . with rotting teeth. >> well, they're quite scary, those kids. but there's. >> i mean, that's a that's a kind of. he's basically thrown out a bunch of aphorisms and catch phrases at this point to try and get it. but, i mean, we know that it's nonsense because labour won't generate wealth, because if they did that, i mean, maybe tony blair did a bit, but it was all, you know, the short termism of, you know, open borders and deregulation. but he says nothing. i mean, basically nothing causes poverty. labour will try and fix poverty. labour will try and fix poverty. nothing causes poverty. it's just the default state. what you want to look at is what causes prosperity and what causes prosperity and what causes prosperity and what causes prosperity is people being free and also having a small state and cutting tax. we pay small state and cutting tax. we pay so much tax, you know, you put a tax on cigarettes to stop people smoking. what do you think an income tax does? and they're going to put tax up again. i mean they've got to because we're facing an absolute fiscal nightmare. >> well cressida you know i did read this article. there is there is a paucity of detail here. did you detect some detail that i missed.

>> no i didn't and i mean it's yeah just what leo said but thicker really as soon as you're not going to do it with the wand, that's the only thing i got. >> no, there's not going to be any magic involved. >> there's not going to be any magic involved. and it's a politician telling you that they've got the secret to wealth generation, which is it's like it's like kate moss giving you advice on dieting. it's like, i don't think you've ever grappled with this, kate. it's never been your thing. you know? you that's not what you do. the idea that a, a politician is advising on how to create amazing business, i mean, i suppose he has. >> i would love the detail. he does say redistribution can't be a one word plan for our poorest towns and regions. okay so what's the what's the ten word plan? what's the you know, give me more words. >> i mean, luckily there's somebody in the world right now who is turning around a sort of stultified socialist state and turning it into this flourishing capitalist wonderland. who's that? >> javier milei javier milei . >> javier milei javier milei. >> javier milei javier milei. >> he's taking the state. he's being like a fuehrer, like the state having a huge state. for some reason, we think, oh, if we just if we have more jobs in the state, this is all just a sort of a pointless keynesian stimulus. you might as well have

people digging holes and filling them in again. >> i've worked it out. he's going to do what liz truss did. that's going to be the big surprise. it'sjust that's going to be the big surprise. it's just that's why he's being soft on detail, because he wants it to be a big twist. >> you know what isn't mentioned in here? the pared back manifesto focuses on the party's five missions economic growth, clean energy, halving, crime, reforming child care and education, and building an nhs for the future. he doesn't mention immigration at all, but the labour have been saying that they can solve the small boats crisis. >> but, well, it's not one of their five missions. >> oh, maybe it's a sixth mission. >> labour are going to solve the small boats crisis by having planes instead of going to rwanda. they're going to go from calais to dover, and that's nobody's going to come in by boat anymore. they'll just be flown in by labour. >> well, i mean, it's a kind of solution. i suppose we're going to move on now to the telegraph. rishi sunak getting nice and cuddly with maloney. what's this? soon puts on affectionate display with maloney and they're really hamming it up here. >> they're saying that mr sunak and giorgia meloni were pictured holding hands and staring into each other's eyes, which i think

is a bit dramatic. if you catch the camera just at the right time. they are doing very briefly, but it's not that i genuinely don't get this. >> the telegraph here is spinning this in a really odd way, greeting with a warm embrace. pictured holding hands staring into each. it's like, are they just implying that they're having it off? because that's what that's what the telegraph seems to be implying. >> single now you know, she broke up with her husband or boyfriend, did she? >> is that what is that relevant? is that what's going on here? >> i don't know, i mean, they are they are both, i guess, relatively young and attractive for politicians. so maybe maybe they're going with that. oh they're going with that. oh they're in the a grade. yeah in they're in the a grade. yeah in the political cafe advert type thing. >> he just needs some mates this week doesn't he. and he's turned up and it's like somebody he knows at a party. so he's clinging to her for dear life. look, we're friends, we're friends. >> but look, there's all sorts of detail in, you know, announcing packages and all the rest of it in this article. why does the telegraph lead with this weird mills and boon ish thing? what's going on? >> because it's celebrity and people are interested in the sort of in that, that sort of thing. but the nuts and bolts of it is that rishi was there to

try and encourage european leaders to get more, donate more , armaments and support to, to ukraine, which, which is successfully done. and that's one thing. if you can be proud of one thing that the tories have done, it's they've sort of led the vanguard first. >> yeah. so why didn't the article lead with that rather than he caressed her softly in the moonlight. that's a bit boring. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and also maloney shows, you know right now we've just had the euro elections and everybody's like oh my god the hard right are coming. the hard right are on the march. if you read the bbc and maloney shows that, you know, this supposed hard right or far right when they're in office, they're actually, you know, quite sensible . two sensible. sensible. two sensible. >> she hasn't done much about migration, has she. >> no. that's yeah. >> no. that's yeah. >> so that was her big thing. and then she gets a visit by the illuminati okay. >> and gets told what they have to do. >> all right. let's move on. now this article is the times is a think tank has raised concerns over sickness benefit spending chris o'shea britain to spend one in every £44 on sickness benefits , analysts warn. benefits, analysts warn. >> so it's going through the

roof. >> is everyone ill? somebody's going round everyone's. >> everyone's ill. yeah. it's been getting worse and worse. just to give you an idea of how it's escalated in current prices, spending on sickness benefits has risen from 28,000,000,000 in 2000 and 8 to 38 billion on the eve of the pandemic , but it's since jumped pandemic, but it's since jumped to £59 billion. wow that's a massive amount of money. >> is it just the case that we are getting less healthy as a nafion? are getting less healthy as a nation? or is it that there's a lot of layabouts scrounging off the system? go. >> it's a little from column a and a lot from column b, so people are getting less healthy . people are getting less healthy. we're so fat. we've now got to take diabetes drugs just to just to try and like, stay buoyant in water and, also the covid pandemic lockdown showed a lot of people that sitting around doing nothing, getting money from the state is quite an enjoyable life. it's fun. so they've thought, well , i don't they've thought, well, i don't want to go back to work. why am i working when the government can give me money and do nothing back on? >> i don't think it's enjoyable. i think it's just once you're into it, you you're in a bad

way, aren't you? i can show you for you. >> i can show you some very, lazy people who don't want to get a job at all. and i think it's terrible. this is one of the worst things about lockdown is it's sort of shown people that, you know, you can be a leech on the on the state, and it's broken. that seal. whereas before they might have some shame about leeching off hard working people in society, such as me doing sometimes you do work? >> very hardly. >> very hardly. >> i do, sometimes as many as four hours of tv a week. you do? >> so yeah. yeah yeah. those miners had no idea. yeah. you know, what you do is real salt of the earth stuff. yeah. i mean, i do worry about this idea that we should just trash the welfare state. i mean, i think the welfare state is important as a kind of safety net for people who really, really need it. these figures do suggest that there are some people who are definitely not really needing it. >> i have to agree. it says that new disability claims have doubled since the pandemic pandemic to 40,000 a month. it can't be the case that that's just massive. >> yeah, it can't be just something in the water, can it? >> it's all this. well, yeah, they put stuff in the water. it does stuff to the frogs. oh you

don't want to. >> are we going all alex jones now. yeah, but it turns him gay doesn't it. >> yeah it does, but it also, there's all this mental health stuff. everybody's got these made up conditions like adhd that, you know, pretend to have. >> okay, well, we're going to move on to this, story about white tears. who's got this? >> that's right. that's me. so farage asks why his labour opponent likes drinking the tears of white people. this is. >> no, that's not going to be an election winner, is it? well not in this particular, not in this particular particular, constituency constituency, which is apparently 93% white. yeah. >> so, i mean, unless people have got a lot of tears and they're wishing a politician would come along and take them away and drink them so they didn't have to throw them in the. >> but isn't this just a fence archaeology. you know, like they've looked back at this labour candidates old tweets. at one point the candidate said something about how he likes to dnnk something about how he likes to drink white tears. yeah, yeah. no, that was ages ago. >> it is a fence archaeology and i think farage is right to do it, because it's been done to

pretty much all reform candidates. you have these, these, little nerds on the internet picking through all their social media posts, going back decades till they can find a joke that they made or something that they said that's actually a reasonable opinion, but they don't make a run, twist it and present it out of context. i think it's ridiculous. it's and this is so this is one of the candidates saying, going, going into 2020, i'm going to continue to be vocal about how to tackle racism and the fact i drink white man tears on a regular basis. and this candidate replied to the post saying, my favourite drink . post saying, my favourite drink. and it's like, now you want white people to vote for you. >> yeah, but the candidate didn't write the original tweet, just the reply. this, you know, so is that okay? >> i think that will do. i don't think we should be doing offence archaeology. but you know, obviously farage has had it this week. >> is it racist, cressida, to say to say that you drink white male tears? >> yes. i should think it is. andrew >> yeah. the countryside is racist. then this is definitely racist. then this is definitely racist. yeah >> i would suggest that politicians being racist isn't good. yeah, i'm going to stick my neck out on that. and this is.looks my neck out on that. and this is. looks like an example of that. anyway, we're going to

move on now. we are halfway through. we've got ellen's latest tinkering with x. we've got alleged misogyny at the bbc and oxford exams being rudely disrupted . don't

welcome back to headliners your first look at friday's newspapers. we're going to kick off this section with the mirror. people are fuming at elon musk. what's going on? >> people fume about worst ever x update and beg for it to be reversed. >> worst ever x update one of all the things he's done. >> this is the worst. and what is it, he's made it so that when you like a post, it's anonymous. good. so i can't look and see what's andrew doyle liked . oh, good. >> i can go back to liking all my evil, far right, pornographic whatever mr musk has tweeted today to say that likes have gone up significantly. well, the thing is, it's actually a good system because people do this really stupid thing of going through people's likes to

determine whether they are guilty of wrong. think this was how all the stuff started with jk rowling, because she liked the tweet of a gender critical feminist. and of course it went from there. and this, this is good. so now we can see how popular tweets really are, because people are going to be less afraid to like them. and i think this gives us a better sense of what's going on in society. right? >> no, i think you've just revealed why it's a terrible idea. so jk rowling would never have become a crusader for what is good and right. and just in society if she hadn't been, you know, caught liking this tweet well. >> or maybe eventually it would have happen anyway, continuing pretending to be left wing instead of the vicious. i think she's very much left wing. liam i think this is i think it's a good thing. i think honestly , i good thing. i think honestly, i think now i can go back to liking the things i like. >> but no, there's, there's a, there's a reason i look at the when, when somebody does a tweet, you know, denigrating me in some way. yeah i'll look at who's liked it and i block them all because i'm petty and i can't do that. and also i look at who's liked my tweets and i see if they're like nice people

and i sometimes follow them. >> i'm sorry if i'm shopping for a garden gnome and i go to the notcutts twitter account, i want to be able to like those gnomes without getting abuse for it, right? >> i don't think they're the most problematic thing you've been involved in, andrew. well, lots of people are complaining because they're saying that it spoils the way they use twitter. i think some people generate traffic because somebody might think, oh, i enjoyed andrew doyle's work. what else is he liked? and then i see there's some argument. but, you know, it seems to me that this is a great move for honesty and as for your system, leo, i've just blocking anyone who likes a particular tweet. >> that's not going to work because elon is going to apparently stop blocks eventually. really? he did. well, he said it. what are you going to do? and then i'm fine with it. i'm just i'll just i'll just put i'll just lock my account. but i mean, but i mean thatis account. but i mean, but i mean that is a bad idea. i think what happenedis that is a bad idea. i think what happened is he said he was going to do that. and then loads of people pointed out, yeah, that's actually a really bad idea because stalkers are going to go crazy. yeah. you know, so but i don't know, he just he's a bit

of a maverick. he does whatever he wants. >> you could have two buttons. a pubuc >> you could have two buttons. a public like and a private like. >> yeah that would a retweet would be a bit like that's. >> can you still see who's retweeting? well presumably. so if you could do that, you can still get the gist of who's liking what. yeah. you can still block them. >> they're just more committed than like, us all right. >> well, look, we're going to move on now to the times, judges job titles. what's this about? >> so judges rushed to delete job titles from online profiles. so the lady chief justice and lord chancellor are clamping down on social media rules as one judge receives a formal misconduct warning for liking an anti—israel post. so this is obviously going back to liking issue, right? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> basically it's a similar thing. it's a related thing. so this is tan ikram. so he's a judge, and, earlier this year, tan ikram allowed three women convicted of terrorism offences to walk free. it subsequently emerged that the judge had liked a post that branded israel a terrorist state and called for a free palestine. so, i mean, it's pretty, so that's relevant unless , remember, leo, it's very unless, remember, leo, it's very easy to accidentally like a tweet . tweet. >> i've got quite fat thumbs.

and every now and then i just like when i'm scrolling . like when i'm scrolling. >> no, that's i think that's absolutely true. >> it's like when people hack my account and write things, i don't want them. you know, it happens all the time. it's terrible. >> that's so. yeah, i'm not fooled. and also anonymity. they're like, let's make these judges anonymous so they can continue having offensive or , continue having offensive or, you know, these, these prejudicial opinions . is this prejudicial opinions. is this the problem? i don't want it to be anonymous. i want to be able to see what judges think. the law should be applied without fear or favour. >> would you accept a judge who had liked that tweet and then turned up to work and said, now when i'm at work, i leave my politics out exactly because that's what he is. >> because judges are meant to be impartial. you should look, leo, let's let's take the judge. in the donald trump case, he donated money to an anti—trump campaign. but when he was in the court room that went out of his head, he was completely impartial from start to finish. >> yeah. no. >> yeah. no. >> if you want to be a judge, you've got to just say goodbye to some things from the old part of your life. you're not allowed to be, you know, a prejudiced

bigot anymore. you're not going to be allowed to be hugely partisan if you're going to be, you know, presiding over these cases. and i think, you know, it's kind of it's kind of disgusting that somebody can can be so biased. and then obviously, then display his bias, or at least be aware of your bias, and maybe don't let the people who sympathise with terrorists walk free. >> i mean, it's a bit weird sympathising with terrorists to begin with, whether you're a judge or not. but anyway, let's move on now to the bbc. in the centre of a sexism row. what's this? cressida? >> bbc plunged into misogyny row after boss claims female sports stars were not experts. >> oh, this is the new head of bbc sport talking. talk about gender critical feminists. this is an article in the express. exactly >> yeah. so, alex k joel cauchi i think, wrote an article for the times. this is 2019 saying that, who is it? sharon davis and martina navratilova were not experts on the subject of trans athletes. now, of course, sharon davis certainly has given this some thought. yeah, she's she's written a book, written a book about it. so i don't know what

to do. >> wait, so is this guy claiming he's an expert? well, this is the thing, because i don't think he is. >> he also compared having separate categories for trans athletes to having special categories for jamaican sprinters and ethiopian marathon runners. so i'm going to say no, he's not an expert because that's a very awkward and unfortunate comparison . it's unfortunate comparison. it's dodgy as hell at all because as far as i know, jamaican people and people that run marathons, they all go through the same puberty. what's really significant about male athletes at birth compared to female athletes is that they have a different puberty, different strength, different bone density, all the rest of it, not bone density . yeah. bone density. yeah. >> well, they do have they do have different bone density. absolutely. >> the point is that this guy's got it completely wrong. and we know that sharon davis knows better. so she's calling him out. >> but don't worry, because he's only the new director of sport at the bbc. i mean, look, the thing isn't this leo, another case he knows he has. he's just an ideologue. he knows nothing about this. he thinks that it's perfectly fine for men to compete in women's sports. and he's going to be in charge at the bbc. i mean, come on. >> well, i mean, men competing in women's sports, it's going to

be good for rishi sunak ade, who likes to win when he bets . likes to win when he bets. that's a good point. >> yeah, he'll he'll enrol. >> yeah, he'll he'll enrol. >> she's bet on the one who's a foot taller and 20 stone heavier and has a penis. and you're going to win the boxing. >> but this is i mean, this is bad news, particularly when the bbc is at the moment so captured by this ideology. we don't need people in positions of power at the bbc propagating these lies and then accusing seasoned , and then accusing seasoned, famous athletes like martina navratilova of not knowing anything about. she knows a bit more than you, mate. yeah. >> and also trying to back it up with an explicitly racist comment that says that trans people are like people from ethiopia . yeah. and it's like ethiopia. yeah. and it's like trans people are not like people from ethiopia. trans trans people have a have a completely different biology to, to women . different biology to, to women. they've got different chromosomes and stuff. >> how can you not know that? and if you and if you don't know that, how can you then call other people lacking in expertise? yeah, it's not great. >> spectacular level of ignorance where you can do that. yeah. so little about it that he's going home to sleep at night. he's fine with this. yeah. it's gonna age really

well. good luck. >> yeah. it's mental, isn't it? okay, let's move on to this next story. it's from the telegraph. oxford university. forced to cancel exams. these are these protesters again. what's going on? >> yeah, palestinian pro—palestinian protesters. so oxford university has has cancelled exams, for second year chemistry students that were due to take place on thursday morning, this comes after six demonstrator stormed the east school building in the university's exam school complex at around 9 am. the protesters hung pro—palestine flags out of windows, including one saying all eyes on rafah. i think he plays for real madrid, and an oxford university spokesman said the incident was unacceptable and went further than necessary. i mean, this is just students do this. they've always done this. they've always rebelled against mummy and daddy and, you know, pretended they want to bring down the system that a couple of years later, they're going to be working in, but yeah, they're pretending. they're just acting out. pretending they want to destroy civilisation. >> there's a difference, though, isn't there? because peaceful protests on campus. i support 100. it's always gone on. but once you've actually prevented

an exam from going ahead, you're actually preventing someone else's freedom . and at that else's freedom. and at that point, they should be thrown out. clearly, absolutely. >> and previously a month ago, arrests were made by thames valley police when they arrested demonstrators on suspicion of aggravated trespass , from the aggravated trespass, from the people from the same group occupying another building at the university. so why no arrests this time? >> i love this idea. people keep talking about freedom of speech, and when you've got people actually harassing, sending threats to people actually committing violence , freedom of committing violence, freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to break other laws , like this is break other laws, like this is just a complete misunderstanding of the concept. >> yeah, but then we've had this for years, it was, you know, under critical race theory, black lives matter and, and this sort of anti—white stuff and really, that should have been clamped down on because this is just the anti—semitic protests are just an extension of that critical race theory, yeah. >> it's very bizarre that people are the authorities aren't standing up to it and doing something about it. anyway, we're going to move on to this now. this is a story in the guardian special needs support. who's got this? >> me record 576,000 pupils have

special needs support plan in england, which is a lot. the number of children and young people in england requiring support for special educational needs and disabilities has increased sharply. so we've now got local authorities who have issued 84,400 of these education, health and care plans last year. and of course it costs loads of money. >> so why the jump? great question. are we living in an over diagnostic culture? is that partly we might be. >> that would be my suspicion. it reminds me of when you go to the supermarket and there's all those disability bays and you think, really, are there that many disability? i'm not i don't know, it's like it's going up all the time. >> why don't they have some disability bays for actual disabled people and then some lazy bays, lazy people. when that work, that's that's a great idea. >> and yeah, considering a lot of the and we were just talking about it with the rise in people claiming, sickness, disability, they can't all be sick. they can't all i mean some will be right. >> yeah, some. >> yeah, some. >> yeah, some. but >> yeah, some. but we >> yeah, some. but we can't >> yeah, some. but we can't have this, you know, it'd be weird if

there's suddenly this huge increase. >> well, i noticed it because. >> well, i noticed it because. >> genuinely sick. but this, this whole special needs thing, basically you've got you've got people who get money if their special needs kids . so. people who get money if their special needs kids. so. and people who get money if their special needs kids . so. and they special needs kids. so. and they can suck all this money out of the, the system, out of the state, out of the taxpayer. so they're going to make more for special needs kids so they can get more money. >> it's more than that though as well. there's also parents who like to have their kids diagnosed with this stuff because it excuses why they're so badly behaved, but it also gives them extra time in exams. i mean, i taught at a very posh school, and what you found is posh parents who could afford these private doctors would diagnose their kids with these elaborate things, and then they would get it would just really benefit them in terms of exam time, in terms of tolerance. i had one parent who had got their kid diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder because someone cut a bit of her hair off at a party. i'm like, you weren't in vietnam ? you weren't in vietnam? >> how old was this kid? >> how old was this kid? >> like 12? >> like 12? >> i mean , so sad for that child >> i mean, so sad for that child thatis >> i mean, so sad for that child that is not learning resilience. >> it's really not exactly, exactly. >> boy scouts go camping. you know , it's not nice.

know, it's not nice. >> i'm not saying that was a nice i think that was bullying. but it's not post—traumatic stress disorder. it's just not. >> and i'm not saying that some of these cases aren't valid. but what's strange is in this article, there's no mention of the parents at all. it's all about what the authorities can do. yeah, that just makes me cringe. i don't well, i know you don't want the authorities bringing up your child. >> well, it depends like a chinese style authority. you know, where they don't get any of the special treatment. >> and you think that would be good? >> they get whacked with a ruler or whatever. >> bring back corporal punishment. that's your message? >> it'sjust punishment. that's your message? >> it's just a ruler. yeah >> it's just a ruler. yeah >> no, it's fine, i agree. i mean, i was thrashed at school and i turned out really well. anyway, final section to go. we've got philosophy. the impact of warm weather on politicians and why generation z mind getting spots . see you in

welcome back to headliners, your first look at friday's newspapers. we're going to kick off this section with the daily mail. academics are not happy

about dead white male philosophers, which seems to be most of the philosophers. >> so woke academics have sidelined philosophers such as aristotle and socrates in favour of decolonising classrooms . oh of decolonising classrooms. oh my god, getting rid of dead white men, out of the weird pale steel meal that, you know, set the rules that we govern our lives by. >> i'm so sick of this nonsense. >> i'm so sick of this nonsense. >> instead, they're, they're recommending this is so us. by the way, this is the school of oriental, oriental and african studies. i was accepted to a master's there. were you? yeah. yeah yeah. >> that's so incongruous. are you kidding? you know, well, in an ironic way or something. >> no, no, no, international studies and diplomacy. right. but, basically, they want to they want to replace, aristotle and socrates and plato, pale, stale males with, with an indian american feminist, a nigerian gender theorist , and a japanese gender theorist, and a japanese zen expert. so they're booking it, like live at the apollo. >> wait a minute, leo. this is the school of oriental and african studies. yeah. so they

have some justification not to focus on europe. >> oh, but this is this is the recommendations for all, for all universities, i believe that's absolutely crazy . absolutely crazy. >> yeah. i mean, come on, plato aristotle . are these not the aristotle. are these not the heart of western civilisation? >> wasn't about colour, was it? he didn't say. when you're thinking of a form of a pen, make sure it's an african pen. >> i was banging on about race all the time. white privilege. that's all it was, right? >> i think this is really. >> i think this is really. >> i think this is really. >> i mean, it's genuinely insane offensive. >> also proposed as an end to an exams, pen and paper tests and essays said to unfairly hinder students who are neurotypical or diverse from diverse cultural backgrounds. how prejudice is that ? yeah. backgrounds. how prejudice is that? yeah. don't think you can handle exams. they're not for you. no >> we need an abrupt sea change. and now, from now on, if you're not, if you're neurotypical or whatever they call it, then yeah. no, sorry. whatever they call it, then yeah. no, sorry . you got to be yeah. no, sorry. you got to be neurotypical to do the exam. i mean, if you're not if you're not neurotypical, sorry, you're going to be washing cars . going to be washing cars. >> is this the implication here that, say, a black student can't can't get aristotle because

because of the skin colour situation, because that strikes me as properly racist and. >> oh yeah, absolutely. and also all the, you know, for a fact that all the people involved in this are the sort of people who, like spin a chair around the wrong way and sit in it and like, hey guys, let's vibe, you know what i mean? it's like, but yeah, it's ridiculous. they described aristotle, plato and socrates as armchair theorising, which is also incredibly ignorant. i mean, plato was his name means broad. he was also a wrestler. they were all, you know, and they didn't have armchairs then. >> they weren't invented. >> they weren't invented. >> socrates was, you know, put on trial. there's so much interesting stuff in so many battles they went through. >> i love them scraping the barrel to find philosophers who aren't dead white and male, and they're acting like it's still june 2020. >> yeah, it's like it's been four years, guys. >> come on. »- >> come on. >> pathetic. okay, we're going to. although the rock wrote a philosophy book, dwayne the rock johnson, maybe they should just do that. yeah, that beats plato every time. yeah, i'm actually quite a fan of the rock. we're going on to the times. now. a new study suggests that as

temperatures rise, political discourse dumbs down precedent. >> that's right. think politicians talk nonsense. it gets worse in warmer weather. which is interesting, isn't it? after rishi's speech in the rain. because they're telling you that could have been so much w0 i'se. woi'se. >> worse. >> oh, no, no, i mean, that was like the gettysburg address, apparently. >> there you go, a new study suggests that as temperatures rise, political discourse dumbs down. the study analysed more than 7 million parliamentary speeches made in eight countries, including england. that's a lot of speeches , a lot that's a lot of speeches, a lot of speeches. i guess there's some ai involved. there must be or a very big grant, since the 19505, it or a very big grant, since the 1950s, it found that higher temperatures were linked to a significant reduction in the complexity of language. >> i don't buy this. i think this is one of those things that are coincidental but not causal. yeah, i think, you know, which happens quite a lot. >> yeah. although i mean, with climate change, they're going to say this is going to be another impact of climate change. >> although is that what it is? >> although is that what it is? >> i saw that like may was the hottest month on record. this is what they genuinely put in the bbc. it was the hot i'm like, no, i was there. >> yeah, i remember me. >> yeah, i remember me. >> it wasn't the hottest may on record. it's ridiculous. and

june, what are they going to tell me? june is like incredibly sunny and i've you know, i'm getting an incredible tan. it's nonsense. >> okay, well, we're just going to move on now to the telegraph. spots are back in fashion. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so acne apparently having spots is trendy for gen z. they get because they get these stickers instead of just having some cream that you rub on the spot or just squeezing it. spot orjust squeezing it. i didn't put anything on it. you get these cool stickers that you stick on the spot. they draw the stuff out. i don't what what it is. and then , you know, all the is. and then, you know, all the proper silly words. >> they draw out impurities. they draw out impurities. >> that's no, it really does that. it's a hydrocolloid . that. it's a hydrocolloid. >> but it's a fashionable thing to actually have the medication . yeah. >> it's got a little like, you know, they've got brands and stuff. they're popular on tiktok, so kids like having them on their face. it reminds me a bit of, in iran, the women like to walk around with their bandages on their nose as if they've had a nose job, because it's a sort of it's a cool thing to have. >> what have you got really bad acne, though, when it's all over the place? i've been thinking about this. >> you'd end up with a starry beard. yeah >> i mean, i find this is bad enoughin >> i mean, i find this is bad enough in our day because clearasil, you know, they had

skin tone. clearasil, which was basically bright orange. and it was awful, you know? so shade. yeah. so i mean, i don't think i think this is bizarre. and we're going to finally move to on this one.the going to finally move to on this one. the mirror matty healy's future wife, has poked fun at the current trend of hot rodent boyfriends . what's that, matt boyfriends. what's that, matt healy's fiance, gabriella pokes fun at fat rat taunts and embraces hot rodent boyfriend trend. apparently, it's good to look like a rat rishi, so it's good to have acne and to look like a rat. >> yeah, is that really what we're going with now? >> way to look. >> way to look. >> what? >> what? >> well, apparently there's these kids with their trends. do you know this guy matt healy? i don't matty healy. i don't even know who he is. he's the frontman for 1975. >> yeah. what's 1970s frontman for 1975. >> yeah. what's1970s a year in it? >> band. is it a band named after a year. >> but don't name after a year because you get confused. >> i think you're talking about the year. yeah, that's a good point. >> yeah. i didn't think of that. >> yeah. i didn't think of that. >> yeah, they could have put more thought into that, but googled him to see what it looks like. he doesn't look like a rat at all. no i mean, i grew up with incredibly ugly pop stars.

so like shane macgowan, for example, looked like a rat. shane macgowan, shane macgowan looked like a rat. not a healthy rat either. >> no, no. >> no, no. >> okay, well, enough rat chat. let's move on now because we actually have no time left. so we're gonna have a look at the front pages for friday. and so we're leading there with the telegraph, which has reform overtakes tories for the first time. the times has got conspiracy of silence on cuts and higher taxes. conspiracy of silence on cuts and higher taxes . the guardian and higher taxes. the guardian is leading with i'll fix britain, vows starmer . and the britain, vows starmer. and the eye has got labour overtakes tories on defence. but gets reality check on growing uk economy. the friday mirror has got we'll give nation hope and the daily star has something about maradona. weirdly, even though it's not 1986, those are your front pages. that's all we've got time for. thanks so much to my guests leo kearse and cressida wetton. we're going to be back tomorrow at 11:00 when paul cox will be joined by who knows. you'll have to tune in to find out. and if you're watching at 5 am. please stay tuned because now it's time for breakfast. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather

on . gb news. on. gb news. >> evening. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news tomorrow. well, there'll be some sunshine, but be prepared for some heavy showers and gusty winds at times as well. we've seen some blustery conditions today across the west from this area of low pressure. it's been bringing these weather fronts , bringing these weather fronts, which have been bringing in outbreaks of rain spreading steadily now to northern scotland and across eastern england. it will turn a little dner england. it will turn a little drier through the night, that rain tending to move away from much of wales, the midlands and southern england. a few showers will follow in behind the winds, easing a touch but still quite breezy and a very mild night. not really for the time of year, but certainly compared to most nights of late temperatures holding up in double figures , so holding up in double figures, so it won't be as chilly first thing tomorrow morning. there'll be some sunshine over the midlands and parts of eastern england, but still quite breezy along the south coast, and it won't take long before the showers get going, certainly across wales. expect some showers through the early part

of the morning coming into western scotland . northwest western scotland. northwest england parts of northern ireland may start dry. england parts of northern ireland may start dry . a ireland may start dry. a different start to the day here compared to today , but across compared to today, but across northern scotland, very different day here because after a largely fine day today, there's going to be much more cloud rain and a fairly brisk wind. and that may stick around across the far north of scotland for most of the day. elsewhere, we'll be chasing the showers through. there will be some sunshine, but the downpours will never be too far away. all areas having that kind of really changeable day. one minute it's fine, ten minutes later it's chucking it down with rain, the showers zipping through on a fairly brisk breeze, and when the sun's out, well, it will feel a little warmer than it has done for most of this week. temperatures still below average for the time of year, but a little bit higher than many days this week. it's showery right through the weekend . yes, again through the weekend. yes, again on saturday. some sunshine, but some heavy thundery showers likely over central and eastern parts. some slow moving downpours further north as well, and it stays blustery in places with further sunshine and

showers on sunday. goodbye .

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quite an emotional response when asked about people who laughed at his dad being a toolmaker. and on the eve of euro 2024, we'll talk about england's chances with former manager sam allardyce . allardyce. don't forget you can get in touch with me as ever by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay first, though, here's the news with tatiana sanchez . camila, with tatiana sanchez. camila, thank you and good evening. the top stories this hour. some breaking news just into us now. a 57 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of a newborn baby girl found in northampton in 1982. that is coming to us from

northamptonshire police . more on northamptonshire police. more on this breaking story as we get it in other news, the keir starmer set out labour's manifesto today , reaffirming his commitment to no rises to income tax or national insurance. the labour leader put economic growth and stability at the core of his party's plan , promising to end party's plan, promising to end what he called a desperate era of gestures and gimmicks. back on the campaign trail in crewe, he rejected rishi sunak suggestion of higher taxes and said britain will do better under labour. >> it is a manifesto that rejects fundamentally the proposition that britain can't do better than this, that we have to go on in the way we've been going on in the last 14 years. it is a rejection of that . britain can do better, britain will do better . and with our will do better. and with our manifesto and a mandate for a labour government , we will take labour government, we will take our country forward and that will be felt in every community across the country. >> chief secretary to the

treasury laura trott said labour's numbers would mean