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leo and nana akua. >> well, i will start off with reform uk. they're on the rise . reform uk. they're on the rise. the tories have been overtaken by nigel farage's party in an opinion poll for the first time. so do you think that reform is the real opposition party and is labour the party of tax rises .7 labour the party of tax rises? >> the left leaning resolution foundation says the party's manifesto is not clear how sir keir starmer would pay for his pledges . that's despite sir keir pledges. that's despite sir keir saying this be very, very clear, particularly in relation to working people . working people. >> no increase in income tax, no increase in national insurance and no increase in vat. absolutely. clearly set out in this manifesto . this manifesto. >> also be speaking to the mum of barnaby webber. now he's the 19 year old who was one of three people killed in nottingham last year by osvaldo calocane. she wants a public inquiry into the handung wants a public inquiry into the handling of the case and it's finally here. >> are you excited? do you care? the euros they kick off this

evening. scotland will be taking on host germany. england, meanwhile, start their tournament on . tournament on. sunday. and of course, this show is nothing without you. gbnews.com forward slash your say. give us your comments. we'll try our best to read them out as the show progresses. the euros nana. do you care? >> oh no, i'm just thinking. money, euros, sterling . i'm just money, euros, sterling. i'm just not into nana. oh, is it the football? yeah no. look, i tell you what. i obviously want scotland to win . scotland to win. >> well, stephen flynn, the snp leader, i'm not sure if you saw the other day, but he was asked whether he would support scotland. sorry, england. when scotland. sorry, england. when scotland weren't playing. do you know what he said? what did he say. no. oh which i think is a vast contrast to most england fans.i vast contrast to most england fans. i think you know, i've got, i hope scotland do well or hope other host nation teams do well if and when they're playing in tournaments. but for some reason, when it's scotland against england, for example, or the welsh, they don't seem to

like us. >> well, no, not all of them. a lot of them. yeah, i hear you anyway. >> scotland, germany tonight. england, serbia, tomorrow or sunday. so yeah , big tournament sunday. so yeah, big tournament ahead. and also that big interview with barnaby webber's mum emma coming later in the show, one year anniversary of the nottingham attacks. all that. plenty more to come on top of that as well. but before anything else, here's your news headunes anything else, here's your news headlines with sofia. >> ben. thank you. good morning. it's 934. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your headlines . the gb newsroom. your headlines. the us and ukrainian presidents have signed a ten year security agreement bolstering kiev's defence and inching it closer towards nato membership . the towards nato membership. the historic deal was signed on the sidelines of the g7 summit, which is currently taking place in southern italy . it aims to in southern italy. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion. even if donald trump were to win november's us election. the gathering also agreed to

continue alone, worth £40 billion, funded by frozen russian assets, this . a new poll russian assets, this. a new poll puts the reform uk party neck and neck with the tories less than three weeks before the election . the latest survey by election. the latest survey by yougov found nigel farage's party scored 19, with the conservatives one point behind. but the pollster cautions that the first past the post voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats. meanwhile labour scored 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point scoring i4% with the greens on seven points. specialist mental health hubs would be set up under a plan by to labour help get people back to work. it would see an extra 8500 new staff recruited to boost access to mental health support. depression and anxiety are among the most common conditions that force people out of work . while force people out of work. while an estimated 1.2 million people

are currently waiting for mental health treatment and backing, british farmers will be central to a plan set to be unveiled by the liberal democrats later . the the liberal democrats later. the party's national food strategy would include financial help for farmers who are coping with expensive energy and production costs, they say. the strategy also tackles rising prices on supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security . and for the latest security. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's back to ben and . nana. ben and. nana. >> thank you. sophia. hello good morning, and welcome to britain's newsroom on gb news with banana, banana, ben, leo and nana akua. oh, i like that banana. >> how long have you been thinking of that one? >> it was about like about two

seconds after we got. we got called clowns on, on gb news. >> i just said to nana during the news, i said, there's a trove of new users on gbnews.com/win orsay who clearly don't watch the channel. they're just there to troll. and someone said, oh, ben and nana, pair of clowns. but in more positive responses . caroline, good responses. caroline, good morning to you. you say yayi i“lappy morning to you. you say yayi happy to see ben and nana keeping me company while i do the housework this morning. it's friday tidy, but when you're done, you can come and do mine. >> because my house and mine too. yeah, mine too is terrible. i don't want to go back. >> i'll stay here. plenty of work for you. >> maybe not. >> maybe not. >> right. let's move on. first story of the day. and a big one at that. nigel farage says his party are now the official opposition. that's after reform uk overtook the conservatives in the polls for the first time. >> yeah. so in a yougov poll for the times, reform gained two points to reach 9% support, whilst the tories said unchanged at 18. labour see a slight drop in support down to 37. >> take a listen to nigel farage taking the conservative, speaker last night in the debate. penny

mordaunt to task over net migration . look at this. migration. look at this. >> given that your 2010 manifesto, your 2015 manifesto, your 2017 manifesto said you'd reduced net migration to tens of thousands? 2019 manifesto said immigration would massively reduce and that net 4.3 million people have come into the 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. >> yeah, yeah, i remember that bit. and this morning on x mr farage tweeted this clip to the prime minister guess who's back. >> guess who's back. back again. back again . back again. >> and he's wearing his seatbelt. unlike remember rishi that time . that time. >> yeah yeah. good lad. right. so reform uk now the official opposition party, former labour mp bill rammell and our dear

friend albie amankona, host of the saturday five here on gb news of course. join us now. good morning to you both . bill, good morning to you both. bill, let's start with you as the labour man. what's your thoughts on, the polling and b this claim now by mr farage that they are the official opposition and he says a vote for the conservatives is a vote for laboun >>i laboun >> i don't think, frankly, that reform uk are the opposition to the labour party. this is one opinion poll, i think it's likely to be a road poll, another poll out this morning with the same sampling period shows the tories 6% ahead of reform, and all other polls are showing clear water between the tories and reform uk and the tories and reform uk and the tories are protected by first past the post. even with these figures, reform would struggle to get more than 1 or 2 seats. but undoubtedly this opinion poll will terrify the life out of the conservative party. and look, i'm not objective, but if i could give the tories some

advice, they need to change tactics . stop saying that a vote tactics. stop saying that a vote for reform is a vote for the labour party . people have baked labour party. people have baked in the prospect of a labour government and are largely acclimatised to it. i think what they need to do is expose farage, the populist that he is presenting very simplistic solutions to very complicated problems, but undoubtedly as well , what problems, but undoubtedly as well, what this underlines is the disaster of the tory election campaign. if you watch the sky news debate on wednesday, frankly, sunak came across as a broken man, and you know, the post debate poll showed keir starmer winning 2 to 1. i even saw, you know, a focus group run by the daily mail. and the view was clear there that keir had slaughtered sunak. but they're even asking whether sunak was crying, during the debate , so but but the really debate, so but but the really important point beyond all of thatis important point beyond all of that is the real focus has got to be on the next government and the need for change. and that, i

think, will be a labour government bill. >> you said simplistic solutions to complex issues, which you've accused. nigel farage of. i mean, you could argue the labour party have come up with some very simplistic solutions to complex issues. i mean, one of those could be the vat on private schools. i mean, that's just a very simplistic answer to a very complex situation, you know , so i'm just coming back to know, so i'm just coming back to that. so it's not just them. i think the labour party are also guilty of that. but i've got to. do you want to respond to that? hold on now. yeah hold on now. >> now, you know, the vat on private schools is about fairness and it's about getting investment into state schools and 6500 teachers for whom, sorry . fairness for the vast sorry. fairness for the vast majority of people in this country, the 93% of people who send their kids to state schools. >> but when i talk about how will the others they. yeah when italk will the others they. yeah when i talk about simplicity with farage, the commitment to raise the tax threshold to £20,000 a yean the tax threshold to £20,000 a year, one is colossally

expensive , tens of billions of expensive, tens of billions of pounds, no sense of how we pay for it. >> but there's also an issue of principle £20,000 a year is not far short of the average national wage. do we really want the hold on? do we really want the hold on? do we really want the vast majority of people to have no stake in the tax system? >> well, you know, but you know, you could be it could be argued that that's a reasonable pledge and that maybe, you know, there'll be explanations as to how that will all be funded. and we will scour through all of the manifestos of all the different, parties to find out how they're going to do it. albie amankona let's go back to the question before. so is reform uk. they're ahead of the tories in the polls. are they potentially the opposition to the labour party, labour party, reform uk? >> are ahead of the tories in a poll, not the polls . and poll, not the polls. and actually if you look at the polls collectively, i was looking at some analysis from ben riley—smith from the telegraph earlier on. you actually see that the reform party are at about 1,314% and

the conservative party about 22, 23. now, that doesn't mean that a poll, that one poll from yougov for the times isn't going to be concerning for the conservative party. the reform party have been encroaching on the conservatives particularly since nigel farage took over as leader a couple of weeks ago. but it is not true to say that the reform party is the official opposition in the united kingdom. in fact , if you want to kingdom. in fact, if you want to talk about a different party forming the official opposition, it's actually more likely to be the liberal democrats than it is to be the reform party because of the first past the post political system. so it's totally inaccurate to say that the reform party is going to be the reform party is going to be the official opposition to labour if they win the next general election . general election. >> i'll be nice of you to mention your party. the liberal democrats are of course, poke fun at you every week, calling you a lib dem in disguise. what did you make of penny mordaunt's, response to nigel farage last night when he was, confronting her about migration ? confronting her about migration? he laughed. the crowd laughed. i mean, that was pretty embarrassing, mean, that was pretty embarrassing , wasn't it? embarrassing, wasn't it? >> no, i don't think it was

embarrassing. the crowd is going to laugh at anything a conservative says at this point in the election. >> what she said was funny. i didn't think it was funny. >> what she said was accurate. rishi sunak is actually bringing down net migration . if you look down net migration. if you look at the if you look at the trajectory that the ons has predicted , rishi sunak is predicted, rishi sunak is bringing down net migration by about half. next year. he also has next year crossings by a third in the last 12 months. so look , people are going to laugh look, people are going to laugh at what conservatives say because the conservatives look like a joke at the moment because the election campaign is going really badly , whether or going really badly, whether or not they are saying things which are accurate or inaccurate . are accurate or inaccurate. >> and bill, can i ask you about this situation with sir keir starmer and the comments he made about his father, who of course we know he was a toolmaker . he we know he was a toolmaker. he said that at the sky makes tools debate. the crowd laughed and he's now spun this into an attack on his dad personally, saying that the crowd were laughing and making fun of the fact his father was a toolmaker. the truth is , people are

the truth is, people are laughing because he repeats that line over and over again . they line over and over again. they weren't laughing at his dad. he knows that though. can you accept that point? >> yeah, i do accept that point. ben i think the audience did laugh because they've heard it before , but they're a before, but they're a politically engaged audience. the vast majority of people are just switching on to the election campaign . and what that election campaign. and what that statement about his background and his father provides is cut through to show that he's from an ordinary background, and he can relate to people . and one of can relate to people. and one of the other post debate opinion poll findings was that in terms of the question, are the leaders in touch with ordinary people? keir outperformed sunak by 71% to 13. so you know , for to 13. so you know, for politically informed people to laugh about keir talking about his background, i don't mind. it's the broader electorate that m atters. matters. >> well i mean look to me looking at them, a lot of them seem out of touch anyway irrespective of party, but i'm just going to ask you very briefly about the three taxes

that labour refused. they say they're not going to cut. so that's income tax , vat and that's income tax, vat and national insurance. but there's a hole in their finances. national insurance. but there's a hole in their finances . and a hole in their finances. and this was pointed out. i'm just wondering, have they clarified which taxes that they are going to be raising ? to be raising? >> well, we're very clear. we're not going to raise income tax . not going to raise income tax. we're not going to raise vat. we're not going to raise vat. we're not going to raise vat. we're not going to raise national insurance. and we will take we pay for everything. the tory party will take no lectures from the tory party. how will you from the tory party. how will you pay from the tory party. how will you pay for everything? the biggest hold on who? the tory party. who burdened us with the biggest tax burden since the second world war. but the way we're going to pay for it. >> to be fair, labour did leave the pot empty, didn't they? there was no money left, is what they said. >> well, we've got we've gone through a global banking crisis and the tories signed up to every element of the labour spending plans when we were in government until the financial crash, now , you know, in terms crash, now, you know, in terms of the way we fund our program, it's about economic growth driving the economy. it's about a massive house building program. it's about a national

wealth fund to bring in £3 of private investment for every £1 of public investment, but we're not going to do it through tax and spend bill. >> so sorry to interject. we are running out of time. but labour's own costings document shows net tax rises of 8.5 billion in 20 2829. and add that to the current obr forecast tax as a share of gdp rises to 37.4, that's the highest in history. the ifs has confirmed that as well. i'll leave that with you. we're running out of time. we have to go to a break. albie amankona bill rammell, thank you very much for joining amankona bill rammell, thank you very much forjoining us amankona bill rammell, thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> all right. stay with us. up next, how's the fever hit you yet? euro 2024 kicks off tonight. you're with britain's newsroom

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minutes after 9:00. and the opening match of the euros between the hosts, germany and scotland takes place this evening. broadcast live. paul coyte is to here tell us more. >> paul, i'm very excited. are you not nana? not at all. >> you know, as i said, abroad at the back of my head and i'm now looking at the edge of my skull. >> well, let me ask you this, because i know ben is going to because i know ben is going to be all over it. but when things start getting a little more exciting, when you start getting the, you know, the momentum starts to build and people start getting into the england games because it's always the first ones. same with scotland as well , although scotland have never been past the group stage, so they haven't experienced that. but when you get to the knockout stage and then it starts getting a little exciting, surely you get taken in by it then, right? >> a summer of excitement. >> a summer of excitement. >> i actually have no idea what you just said there. see, but the thing that's that's why people that are not into sport and when it gets exciting, understand why we love it so much. >> because it's the passion , >> because it's the passion, it's the excitement. there's no thrill like when your team, or

especially when your country scores a goal in a big, big tournament. >> we've got to get there first. so england's first game is sunday, but tonight scotland kick off proceedings against germany. >> they do now germany of course. i mean to anybody that even doesn't know anything about sport would think oh germany in munich for scotland it sounds like a tricky proposition. but scotland have done really well there. they are, training in beautiful garmisch. it's a wonderful look at that. how scenic is that beautiful ski resort of garmisch? that's where they were. they had it. they actually had an event last night, and i think rod stewart was there and they had who's left of the bay city rollers there. it was like this alpine scottish night. i don't think the players were there celebrating. so so many fans there. >> as an englishman, do you want scotland to do well of course if they play england you don't want them to win. but i always want our host nations to do well. but when it's in reverse, do you really? >> you surprise me, i do. >> you surprise me, i do. >> i want scotland to do well, i want wales. if they're in it, i

want wales. if they're in it, i want them to do well. but when it's the reverse, they hate us. >> it's true, it's true, it's true. well, i'm not scotsman, so i'm the wrong person to ask this, but it's that's that's. it's the old enemy. this goes back a very, very long time. but i'm with you when it comes to scotland. i will always want scotland. i will always want scotland to do well unless they're playing england, because for obvious reasons. but i do want them to do well now. germany, they do stand a chance. you never know. i mean, scotland had a really good qualifying group where they beat spain . group where they beat spain. germany haven't been out of the qualifying groups in two world cups, but they are playing at home so they're going to hit them on the break. okay. >> and just in 10s england's game against serbia on sunday, there's no alcohol or at least it's been reduced because they're worried about your football hooliganism. yes. shandies. yes. what an outrage. well, on that note, we'll leave it at that. scotland okay. tonight. >> so. so you want me to say what i think? well, go on. scotland germany tonight, i think. germany three nil, unfortunately. but we will be supporting scotland. all right. thanks, paul. and you can go without the beer. you'll be fine. okay. >> this is britain's newsroom on gb news. we'll be back in. just a tick. alex how's your weather?

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over the northern isles. more persistent rain here throughout with a brisk easterly wind across the mainland of scotland. there will be some sunshine, but as i said, be prepared for showers, not as wet as yesterday across northern ireland. here too, some good spells of sunshine, but the showers will come and go as they will frequently across england and wales. and when the showers come , the temperatures will drop between them in the sunny spells . shouldn't feel too bad, but certainly feeling very fresh this evening . if you're heading this evening. if you're heading out and you will still need that umbrella handy. more showers to come and go through the overnight period, all milling around an area of low pressure. you can kind of see here from the graphics . again, it won't be the graphics. again, it won't be as chilly as recent nights. and so temperatures in some towns and cities holding up in double figures into the weekend, it's little change. the low pressure is still dominating, which means again, it will be a case of some sunshine, but also be for prepared heavy showers, some slow moving downpours over northern england, parts of eastern scotland in the south, a brisk wind tomorrow means the

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gb news. away. >> good morning . it's 10:00. >> good morning. it's10:oo. it's friday, the 14th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you, too. coming up, reform uk on the rise. the tories have been overtaken by nigel farage as party in an opinion poll for the very first time. do you think reform is now the real opposition party? as nigel says , opposition party? as nigel says, and on the campaign trail, labouris and on the campaign trail, labour is setting out their plan to tackle the mental health crisis. >> olivia utley has more .

>> olivia utley has more. >> olivia utley has more. >> yes, the labour party has laid out plenty of plans to tackle the mental health crisis in its manifesto. but the million dollar question is can they pay for it? find out more with me very soon and we'll be speaking to the mother of barnaby webber, the 19 year old who was one of three people killed in nottingham last year by valdo calocane. >> she wants a public inquiry into the handling of the case that moved the nation and trooping of the colour. >> over 1400 parading officers , >> over 1400 parading officers, 200 horses and 400 musicians taking part in parade tomorrow. and don't forget, you can also follow all the events here on . follow all the events here on. gb news. >> don't forget to keep those comments coming in. nana was just doing a nice little jig doing this thing there with the

music. don't ask me to repeat that. i meant to be a serious journalist. nana. yes. >> well, you know. >> well, you know. >> yeah. not sure what happened to that, talking of trooping the colour tomorrow, a very special edition of saturday morning live. ellie costello as normal. i'm not there. unfortunately but andrew pierce paul gildroy pierce will be with ellie, with a special broadcast of trooping the colour. so tune in to that from 10 to 12. >> yes, but as ever, get your comments in gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, let's get your latest news with sofia . news with sofia. >> gnaana. thank you. good morning . from the gb newsroom at morning. from the gb newsroom at 10:00, the prime minister says a vote for reform uk risks handing a blank check to the labour party. a new poll by yougov puts nigel farages party neck and neck with the tories less than three weeks before the election. the pollster says the close result represents a seismic shift. shift in the voting landscape. but they're also cautioning that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats.

meanwhile, labour scored 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14% with the greens on seven points. specialist mental health hubs would be set up under plans by labour to help get people back to work. it would see an extra 8500 new staff recruited to boost access to mental health support, depression and anxiety are among the most common conditions that force people out of work. while an estimated 1.2 million people are currently waiting for mental health treatment . shadow health treatment. shadow health secretary wes streeting told gb news that poor health care is keeping people out of the labour market, and it's costing the country billions. >> the health secretary and i'm able to deliver those 40,000 extra appointments every week and the double the number of diagnostic scanners and 8500 extra mental health staff to cut the more than a million people waiting for mental health treatment . not only are we waiting for mental health treatment. not only are we going to be able to get people back to

health in lots of those cases, that means people back to work. so we've currently got 3 million people who are both off sick and off work in our country. not their fault they can't get the treatment . but if we get people treatment. but if we get people off waiting lists, not only will we be getting them back to health, we'll also be getting them back to work. that will help drive economic growth . help drive economic growth. >> backing british farmers will be central to a plan set to be unveiled by the liberal democrats later, the party's deputy leader, daisy cooper, will be on the campaign trail in the east of england promoting her party's national food strategy . it would include strategy. it would include financial help for farmers who are coping with expensive energy and production costs. the party says. the strategy also tackles rising prices on the supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security. the us and ukrainian presidents have signed a ten year security agreement , bolstering kiev's agreement, bolstering kiev's defence and inching it closer towards nato membership. the historic deal was signed on the

sidelines of the g7 summit, which is currently taking place in southern italy. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion. even if donald trump were to win november's us election, the gathering also agreed to continue a loan worth £40 billion, funded by frozen russian assets . campaigners from russian assets. campaigners from several movements , including the several movements, including the grenfell fire infected blood scandal , are grenfell fire infected blood scandal, are uniting today to demand the recommendations for pubuc demand the recommendations for public inquiries that can't be ignored. a walk will take place in west london to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the grenfell tower disaster that claimed 72 lives, the first phase of a public inquiry ended five years ago, but campaigners say some of its recommendations still haven't been implemented . still haven't been implemented. the group say they're joining forces to call for better oversight in the aftermath of pubuc oversight in the aftermath of public inquiries. oversight in the aftermath of public inquiries . tesco has public inquiries. tesco has revealed a strong increase in the amount of groceries bought

in the last three months, as inflation eases. the uk's largest supermarket firm revealed the total retail sales grew by 3.4% in may, compared with the same time last year. this came on the back of a 5% increase in food sales, with high demand for fresh produce helping to drive higher sales volumes . and as britain waits volumes. and as britain waits for grey skies to clear, greece is sweltering through its earliest ever heatwave . tourist earliest ever heatwave. tourist sites have been forced to close and elderly people are taking refuge at special cooling centres as temperatures in some areas push past 43 degrees, the deputy mayor in athens says emergency services are keeping watch on anyone experiencing difficulty . vie experts say difficulty. vie experts say greece has been severely impacted by climate change in recent years, with rising temperatures fuelling deadly fires and erratic weather conditions . and for the latest conditions. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back

to nana and ben. thanks. >> at 1006 here on britain's newsroom on gb news with ben elliott and anna akua. lots of emails flying in on gbgb gbnews.com/yoursay. not least about the fact that scotland are playing germany tonight. and i wondered whether, as an england fan, people would support or at least hope scotland do well, whilst england aren't playing. george you say ben, i'm scottish, we don't hate you. it's your tory government we hate. it'sjust it's your tory government we hate. it's just a good old rivalry . and dan says, ben, i'll rivalry. and dan says, ben, i'll never support other uk teams. they're playing for their countries. i support england and that's it. and tony, you say ben and paul, you're in cloud cuckoo land as the average english and scots fans do not like each other, i like you, i hope you do well. >> i like everybody, but i can't be bothered with football so that's that right? but i thought this was an interesting one because we're talking about reform and whether they would be the next party in terms of the opposition to the labour party

and go fakeness says, i've got more seats in my car than reform will win. that's two. and eric mackenzie says for the avoidance of any doubt, rodney starmer, the father of keir starmer , the father of keir starmer, owned the oxford tool company. just so if anyone missed out that and forgot about that, dave west, he says that labour are just as scared as the conservatives of losing votes to reform. that's why both parties are trying to shrug them off and there's one from andrew needham, he says labour 20% on private schools is a self—defeating policy . non—doms leaving the policy. non—doms leaving the country, which i said all along it was not guaranteed money. so how could they say their policies are fully costed? >> interesting, very. i'm not sure if you saw a very interesting interview from our political editor, christopher hope, with sir keir starmer yesterday on the labour battle bus, where he was talking about the fact that he was laughed at by the crowd in that sky event, when he said his father was a toolmaker again. sir keir starmer for some reason, is trying to make out that people were laughing at the fact that his father was a toolmaker, or

at least owned a tool making factory, when clearly that wasn't the case. people were laughing because he repeats the line so much , but they all keep line so much, but they all keep doing it. >> i mean, angela rayner, i don't know how many times she said about the care thing, but she's repeated that a few times. i mean, it all gets a bit boring. we don't want to hear that. we just want to hear the policies of all of the parties and what they're going to do for us, not what they've, you know, their backgrounds and so on. but i think that's in response to the fact that rishi sunak is coming across, many would say, as completely unrelatable. and in particular, obviously, that d—day thing is never going to go away as it no, well, talking of the tories, look, apparently, quote unquote, the tories are imploding and we will take over them in the polls. that's what reform uk leader nigel farage says after that. well, pretty bombshell i'd say. yougov poll putting them ahead of the tories for the first time. >> and last night the conservative penny mordaunt and nigel farage were among those that went head to head in the seven party debate. let's have a listen. >> 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 50. we've had no. >> that's fine. i'm happy. >> that's fine. i'm happy. >> figures out today. >> figures out today. >> well, that one gets me every time. >> makes you giggle doesn't it? gets you. well look on, x this morning, formerly known as twitter , mr farage tweeted this twitter, mr farage tweeted this clip to the prime minister yes. >> he said, guess who's back? back again. back again. >> nigel farage on the back of a car with his seatbelt on, singing along to is that eminem? yes, yes. he's back. that's what he's saying. but what are the other parties up to today ? other parties up to today? joining us now is the political correspondent olivia utley . so correspondent olivia utley. so olivia, what about the labour party then? what are they up to

today ? today? >> well, wes streeting, the shadow health secretary is on the campaign trail this morning laying out in more detail labour's plan for the mental health crisis. now, this is something the conservatives have talked about as well, because of the massive burden it places on the massive burden it places on the workforce, more people than ever are out of work due to long term sickness in some places. birmingham and too , manchester birmingham and too, manchester it's up to 1 in 5 adults of working age between 16 and 64 are out of work and not looking for work because of long term sickness. now, there are lots of reasons that long term sickness is on the rise. one of them is, of course, nhs waiting lists. there are people who are in chronic pain who can't go back to work until they have an operation, but they can't have that operation. but one of the huge ballooning reasons for the increase in people in long term sickness is mental health problems, particularly in the under 40s. so this is a is a really important and salient issue for both major parties. the conservatives have talked

about tackling it by ending the sick note culture. labour is talking about tackling it by getting to the root cause of mental health problems. so they're promising to have another 8500 mental health practitioners in the in the service of the issue , treating service of the issue, treating both adults and children. and they've promised a mental health practitioner for every single primary and secondary school. now, all sounds like a great idea in theory. the big question, of course, is how will they pay for it? so far they've said that they'll pay for it by closing tax loopholes. essentially cutting down on tax avoidance and evasion. obviously thatis avoidance and evasion. obviously that is something that the conservatives to have tried to do over the last 14 years, and it is a bit easier said than done. and also cutting down on tax evasion and avoidance is something which labour has promised to pay for plenty of other policies as well . so it other policies as well. so it will be interesting to see over the course of the day whether we get a little bit more detail on precisely how this pretty expensive mental health policy is going to be paid for.

>> okay. and in terms of the liberal democrats, what's ed davey been up to? has he got any more stunts in the bag for us? and also, i guess policy would be quite keen to hear about as well. >> well, ed davey is having a quiet day today. i'm speaking to daisy cooper, the deputy leader of the lib dems. later this morning they are pushing nhs and social care at the very forefront of their manifesto, and it seems what they're trying to do is sort of position themselves as the left wing alternative to labour. now that might sound a bit odd, but from that , from labour's manifesto, that, from labour's manifesto, we can see very clearly that labouris we can see very clearly that labour is trying to seize the centre ground. they're talking about wealth creation , they're about wealth creation, they're talking about not raising taxes. they've promised not to raise corporation tax. even so, the lib dems are basically trying to be the party that says we are the party of wealth redistribution in a sort of much more classic labour vein. so they're talking about raising capital gains tax, possibly corporation tax as well , in

corporation tax as well, in order to pay for their huge sweeping reforms that they are planning to the nhs and social care . ed davey has a severely care. ed davey has a severely learning disabled son, teenage son, and he's talked about the difficulty in accessing care for families like his. so i think that's going to be something which we'll hear a lot more about from the lib dems in the next few weeks. >> and what's the sort of overall i'll take from yesterday's seven way debate? were there has anyone talking about anyone who they felt maybe won that debate, although it wasn't a debate, was it? it was more of a discussion. >> generally, it seems to be. well, exactly. and overall, the consensus seemed to be, you know, it was pretty sort of unedifying all around. we didn't really hear anything new. it was a it was a great night for nigel farage, mostly because that poll showing that reform have now edged ahead of the conservatives dropped about half an hour before he was on air. so the conservatives try and use this

attack line against reform, that attack line against reform, that a vote for reform is essentially a vote for reform is essentially a vote for labour on the grounds that, you know, if you vote for reform, you're splitting the right wing vote and a labour mp will get in. but yesterday , will get in. but yesterday, nigel farage actually turned that on his head and said that now that reform are ahead of the conservatives in the polls, you could argue that a vote for the conservatives is a way to get labour into power. so nigel farage was looking pretty chipper last night and you couldn't blame him for it. that poll was really, really good news for reform. and of course it came from yougov , which is it came from yougov, which is the sort of gold standard of pollsters which made it particularly useful for the reform party. it'll be interesting to see what they do with that in the days ahead . with that in the days ahead. >> and, olivia, just tell us how the prime minister is getting on at the g7 in italy. i think in the last hour, he said that voting for reform would hand labour a, quote, blank check and insists that the tories will not be the third party come election day . day. >> well, yeah, exactly. i mean, it's tricky for the prime

minister off the campaign trail at the moment, sort of walking around italy trying to look like around italy trying to look like a statesman while at home. all of this terrible news for the conservatives come out. it is clear that the conservatives are now taking the reform party pretty seriously. a couple of weeks ago, the prime minister was sort of saying he wasn't very interested in what was happening to reform. obviously, the emergence of nigel farage into the campaign has changed all of that. and the conservative party and the prime minister is now really desperately trying to remind sort of core conservative voters , people who've been voting conservative all their life but are now thinking of switching over to reform. he's trying to tell them that there is no point in voting for reform, even if they are ahead in the polls, because all it will do is split the conservative vote. but of course, that line has a lot less of an impact now that reform is ahead of the conservatives in the polls. so yeah, this is really, really bad news for rishi sunak . yet more bad news rishi sunak. yet more bad news for him and might be seen later on as a turning point in this election campaign from the conservatives losing to the conservatives, losing almost all

their seats and that supermajority that grant shapps has been warning about for laboun >> olivia hartley, thank you very much. of course , it was very much. of course, it was just the one poll, wasn't it, that they're ahead. but not all the polls at the moment. but, you know, it'll be interesting to see how that transpires. what do you make of these seven people debates or discussions or whatever they want to call these things? >> it was okay. i think the leaders should do it. i don't think penny mordaunt should be there. i know rishi sunak has got the g7, you know , got the g7, you know, responsibilities and whatever else. i think sir keir starmer should have been there as well. but talking of the g7, did you see, joe biden's latest gaffe? >> oh no, i haven't. >>— >> oh no, i haven't. >> what happened yesterday there was a what we call a parachute. a para jumper came in, with all the g7 leaders there meloni, rishi sunak, trudeau and so on, all six of them bar biden, you know, looking in admiration at this guy coming down. biden meanwhile. oh, no , he turns meanwhile. oh, no, he turns around. we'll have to try and find the clip to play for later on. but he turns around and starts wandering off. and then emmanuel macron and maloney see what's happening, and they have

to sort of run over to him and usher him back over to the to what? everyone's looking at the lead , the leader of the free lead, the leader of the free world people. >> that's him right? still to come. why is the zenpix treatment sending women to a&e? stay tuned. will not want to that. find out next on

>> hello. welcome back. 1020 ben and gnaana with you on britain's newsroom. only on gb. news now. throughout the election campaign, we'll be hearing from people all across the united kingdom about what really matters to them. today we go to east yorkshire. >> my name is john dimaline. i'm from withernsea in east yorkshire and i'm aged 61. i've beenin yorkshire and i'm aged 61. i've been in business for a lot of years , probably 40 plus years. years, probably 40 plus years. we're involved in property , we're involved in property, property maintenance, property rentals. i think that immigration needs to be better controlled . the concern for me controlled. the concern for me is the criminal element. it's the it's the gangs, it's the

trafficking. it's the human trafficking. it's the human trafficking that goes on. one of the things that concerns me, and it's a historic thing, really is that when you look back over the wars that this country has fought and many, many people , fought and many, many people, many of our ancestors, all our ancestors have given their lives , laid down, their lives for this country. i think there would be turning in their graves to see the way that the country is not being invaded by the back door , but is losing what we what door, but is losing what we what we are. i consider to be traditional core british values . traditional core british values. i've never really been a big politically motivated person . politically motivated person. i've tended to not really bother. i've cracked on with business and thought , well, business and thought, well, whoever gets in gets in. it says i've got older , that i would be i've got older, that i would be more inclined to vote, and my leanings now i just don't see that i could vote conservative and i haven't voted for him for many, many years. and if i was going to lean any particular

way, i think i'd try and find something a bit more common sense based that i mentioned earlier. so i'd probably lean towards the new reform party . towards the new reform party. >> ooh, well, the numbers seem to see how the polls move, but we're joined in the studio this morning with the former editor of the daily star, dawn neesom arne slot, the author and broadcaster, amy nicole turner. right. dawn, i'm going to start with you, story about women left in an e after using ozempic. that's the slimming drug, isn't it? really really. >> shocking story. front page of the times. nana, basically young women, young, beautiful women who do not need to lose weight. by who do not need to lose weight. by the way , are buying the by the way, are buying the slimming drug ozempic, one of the brand names. others are available online. i mean, it costs around about 150 to £200 for a month's supply, but simply to get beach body ready to lose weight. now this drug was invented and prescribed for people who are genuinely obese and suffering type 2 diabetes. member of my own family is on it for that very reason. type two diabetic but there are no checks

and balances. all you get it. i mean, i did this for the person in my family who needed it, and i filled in a form online and it was just so easy just to not tell the truth about what they were getting it from good sources. soufces. >> sources. >> but they're ending up in a&e because. because or because because. because or because because it's it is a prescription drug. >> you've got to take it seriously. you can overdose on it and it's not suitable for everybody. and unless you really do really need it for obesity or type 2 diabetes, it's really not a good thing to take. it can have severe side effects, serious side effects include allergic reactions. >> of course. increased thyroid cancer risk. yeah. gallstones, swelling of the bladder. >> but even the side effects that just come with taking it like extreme nausea. >> yeah. and diarrhoea and things like that. >> really uncomfortable to be on this drug. but when i heard this came out and everyone was saying miracle drug, wonder drug, i thought this is going to be exploited by young women, young insecure women, and particularly people who suffer with eating disorders. and guess what? it's actually coming true. so this is

the whole idea of getting beach body ready, which we thought we were past that, you know, body positivity and everything was having a real impact. but i think this just comes back to show the pressure that women are unden show the pressure that women are under, that they're willing to go on this drug, which , yeah, is go on this drug, which, yeah, is intended for to treat diabetes. >> i mean , the thing is just to >> i mean, the thing is just to look good in a bikini. yeah. you've got, in theory, love island on telly. you know, you're not selling a reality of what most of us look like in bikinis and swimwear, and it's just like. and people are got this image of what they've got to look like these days. >> i don't think there's anything wrong with aspiring to be fit and look as best you can healthy. however, however, i don't think you should be taking drugs to do that. just go down the gym and eat less. >> i agree, and actually when the zembic came out, i was slightly annoyed because of how hard i work in terms of fitness and training and diet and exercise. these people could just take this thing and then get to jabbed up, get a bit, be like me. >> but there's a difference, isn't there? but being healthy , isn't there? but being healthy, that's not how you and you can you shouldn't. healthy can look all different ways. you're not necessarily going to be stick thin and healthy. you can be a bit bigger and still be healthy.

and i think this was this is ultimately a shortcut. do you think you can be overweight and obese? well, i think that our parameters are quite limited. so you could be what you mean. you can you could be in a larger body and still be healthy. there are runners. there are people who run marathons who are sick. but i think when i say, look, look, all bones are slim. >> yeah, all bones are the same, thickness. usually there's not like somebody who's big boned and suddenly larger bone. so, you know, people who are obese or overweight, it's unhealthy. so there is a place for this drug, i think it's not for young imagining different things. >> all i'm saying, well, what are you imagining? i think i'm saying that not everyone fits into that size ten expectation of what health is. and you'll get a lot of women who are who set weight is higher. yet because of the ideals we promote. within society, there's a pressure to be smaller than they naturally are, and that's what leads them. >> i think there does drugs. i think there does need to be a bit of societal pressure. >> absolutely, but not thin . >> absolutely, but not thin. >> absolutely, but not thin. >> when it thin just it's unhealthy. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> when sadiq khan banned those

tube adverts of the beachbody ready products , what is it, ready products, what is it, protein shake or something? i mean, i completely disagreed with that. i think people should have a bit of pressure to look good, not just for society and for other people's impression of health for themselves. i think. >> i think for health as well. people should be healthy. i don't think it's about what you look like. i think it's about your health with you, just before we move on, clive, on your side. can you hear? diabetic. i cannot get ozempic on the nhs as so much is being bought privately. interesting. >> okay, great. >> okay, great. >> very interesting. all right, well, let's go on to this one then. how men become their dads when they're just 43 years old. amy nicole turner. >> well, my husband's 44, so that means he became his dad last year. according to his survey . so the parameters set by survey. so the parameters set by the survey , things that include the survey, things that include growing nose and ear hair means you're becoming more like your dad, dressing more for comfort and style and knowing where the stopcock is and being confused by modern music, which makes me think i've become my husband's dad, if that's what everyone

agrees with on modern music. >> yeah, well, absolutely. i mean, don't get me started on taylor swift, but baa baa baa baa baa i didn't i said, don't get me started. nana, but i mean, this i mean, this is a poll of 1000 dads, 50% of men cnnge poll of 1000 dads, 50% of men cringe when they find themselves saying or doing something their dad would have done. and you know, the one that gets me is like, we all do it. i'll do it. you groan when you sit down or stand up and it's like, when did i start doing that? >> i've done that for a while. exactly. >> when did i mean, i'm really started doing that, but i'm at the age now where i actually walk by, you know, you catch your reflection in a shop window or something. and i'm actually thinking, oh, it's me now. and it's like, no, no, no, that's me. so it's even worse than becoming your dad. i mean, i love my dad, but another thing on this list was watching the weather instead of the news. >> oh, no, we're never going to do that. >> well, we have very good weather forecasts. >> look, there's one story here. i don't know whether to go for the cheating husband who sues. apple is a businessman preparing a legal case, claiming that his divorce was a direct result of compromising texts that had been wiped from his iphone, still

being visible on the family imac. >> here's a thing don't send compromising texts in the first place. exactly. blithering idiot. i'm getting try and be faithful. >> but something that he said, which i find astounding astounding. he said if you are told the message is deleted, you are entitled to believe that is deleted. well, when his wife was told he wasn't sleeping with sex workers, she was entitled to believe that that was true also. so he seems to think that that lie was fine. but the fact that apple didn't delete his messages on both devices is an absolute outrage. i think he needs to check his outrage . check his outrage. >> i mean, i think i think that's his fault. he should be more if you're going to do that. i obviously don't agree with it at all. i think it's atrocious, especially if you're married. but if you're going to cheat, i love the way you put that in there, ben. >> right. very atrocious. >> right. very atrocious. >> not not good. you know, your tech and you're not going to get caught. i mean, what an amateur mistake. >> well, i mean, you know, his wife's better off without him. >> just karma also just don't cheat. >> don't cheat. dawn neesom. >> don't cheat. dawn neesom. >> ashley madison. >> ashley madison. >> isn't it? amy? nicole tanner. thank you very much. right. stay with us. this is gb news. we are britain's election channel. it's time now for your latest news

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>> good morning. it's1033. i'm sophia wenzler in the gp newsroom. your headlines . the newsroom. your headlines. the prime minister says a vote for reform uk risks handing a blank check to the labour party. a new poll by yougov puts nigel farage's party neck and neck with the tories . less than three with the tories. less than three weeks before the election, the pollster says the close result represents a seismic shift in the voting landscape. but they also caution that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats. meanwhile, labour scored 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14, with the greens on seven points. specialist mental health hubs will be set up under a plan by to labour help get people back to labour help get people back to work. it would see an extra 8500 new staff recruited to boost access to mental health support. depression and anxiety are among the most common conditions that force people out of work . while an estimated 1.2 of work. while an estimated 1.2 million people are currently

waiting for mental health treatment, shadow health secretary wes streeting told gb news that poor health care is costing the country billions . costing the country billions. backing british farmers will be central to a plan set to be unveiled by the liberal democrats later. the party's deputy leader, daisy cooper, will be on the campaign trail in the east of england promoting her party's national food strategy. it would include financial help for farmers who are coping with expensive energy and production costs , the party and production costs, the party says. the strategy also tackles rising prices on the supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security . ensuring better food security. the us and ukrainian presidents have signed a ten year security agreement bolstering kyivs defence and inching it closer towards nato membership. the historic deal was signed on the sidelines of a g7 summit, which is currently taking place in southern italy. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion . war against russia's invasion. even if donald trump were to win

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financial report. it. >> right. it'sjust coming up to >> right. it's just coming up to 37 minutes after 10:00. good morning. this is britain's newsroom with me. nana, akua and also ben leo. now, remember these horses who bolted through central london and even hit a double decker bus a couple of months ago? >> yes, i remember those poor souls. they were quite badly injured, weren't they? well, listen, they're recovering well and are even set to feature in the king's trooping of the colour parade tomorrow. so to get you in the mood for some pageantry and pomp and ceremony, why not? joining us now is former royal correspondent michael cole. good morning michael. good news that these two. good morning. good news that these two horses are set to feature . i'm more concerned feature. i'm more concerned though about the princess of wales . there's a hint that maybe wales. there's a hint that maybe she could appear on the balcony. or is it just conjecture? >> well, you make all the relevant points for about tomorrow. one of the great set pieces of the royal year. but ben, you're absolutely right.

tennyson. one of the horses that was injured, will be taking part in the procession, along with 240 other horses . another couple 240 other horses. another couple of horses. trojan and vanquish. they'll be guarding the royal premises, but unfortunately two of the others, vida and quaker . of the others, vida and quaker. they're still in horses hosphal they're still in horses hospital, but they are apparently progressing well. that was a terrible event. it was very fortunate that more people weren't injured. it was an appalling, people weren't injured. it was an appalling , occurrence. those an appalling, occurrence. those workmen dropping, heavy an appalling, occurrence. those workmen dropping , heavy bits of workmen dropping, heavy bits of masonry as the parade went by and the completely spooked those horses . but moving on to your horses. but moving on to your other point will, catherine, princess of wales, be at the trooping of the colour? of course, the trooping tomorrow will be of the second battalion of the irish guards . and who is of the irish guards. and who is the colonel of the irish guards? none other than the princess of

wales. and you remember last year she wore a very striking emerald outfit, on the balcony , emerald outfit, on the balcony, rather indicating her allegiance to the emerald isle, were i giving them pr advice? if it were possible, if the doctor said yes, it would be a very good opportunity for her to make a reappearance because one she wouldn't have to say anything. and two, people would be reassured about her returning to good health. >> oh. he's gone. we just lost. oh. hello, michael cole there. but i think it's quite fascinating. the trooping of the colour. i was just doing a little bit of research about what it is all about, and it's quite fascinating, really. >> do you know what it's what makes britain great. and in a time where so many of our traditions are being eroded away and people trying to, you know, just strip us of our identity , just strip us of our identity, it's a great event. michael kopech, michael cole, he's back with us. hello, michael. where did you go? you went carry on. sorry about that. >> disappeared .

>> disappeared. >> disappeared. >> ben and i, it's. i'm an occasional visitor. it's a great pleasure to be with you, but you've been asked the question about the princess of wales, and i don't know whether anybody got that answer. it would be an extremely good thing if the doctors allow. if she is well enough for her to make a reappearance on the balcony, not having to sit necessarily through the two hours of the ceremonial and the parade. but were she to do so, it would be a very appropriate , because she is very appropriate, because she is the colonel of the irish guards, andifs the colonel of the irish guards, and it's the irish guards, second battalion, that is trooping their colour tomorrow. and you may remember last year she wore a very striking emerald outfit on the balcony , emerald outfit on the balcony, emerald of associated with the emerald isle. of course . and if she were isle. of course. and if she were to do that, it would be good in several ways, because one, she wouldn't have to say anything, second, we would all be reassured about her return to the best of possible health. and thirdly, it would scotch all the

stupid and vile rumours that have been racing around the world about her present condition. i won't even repeat them. giving them currency would only, legitimise them in one way or another. but let us hope she may appear. if i were giving them pr advice . and i must say, them pr advice. and i must say, they haven't asked me yet, i would say if it is possible she should be there because everybody would like to see her. >> well, harry, and dare i say it, meghan , what about them ? it, meghan, what about them? >> listen, ben, you can go down to the betting shop and put fiver on it. they will not be there. the california two will be staying away. and i'm sure you know that hurts him because he had, his best life. really, when he was in the army, when he was in the army air corps and he was in the army air corps and he was in the household cavalry. indeed. he was, he was a member of the household division . and of the household division. and i'm sure it hurts him that he doesn't have those associations because he prized them most highly. but in this life. nana, isn't it true you make your bed

and you lie in it? >> exactly. and whatever is in there, it's unfortunate . if there, it's unfortunate. if that's not very nice, anyway, i'll move on, because otherwise i'll move on, because otherwise i'll get myself in one of my monologues again. michael, i want to ask you though, some people hear the word trooping of the colour of trooping of the colour, what does it actually mean? >> well, it's a ceremony that goes back many centuries, essentially in time of war, when armies fought along fronts, the members of the regiment had to be familiar with their flag, their colours, so that if they were separated, they knew where to rally and to see their flag. so what happens is that their new colours, which were presented by the king to the second battalion of the irish guards a little bit earlier , guards a little bit earlier, that will be trooped along the front of all the members of the regiment, so that they are familiar with their flag and they can rally to it. during the time and the confusion of a battle. but it is a very important event because the king is the commander in chief of the

household division, which is the five regiments of guards and the two mounted regiments. the life guards and the blues and royals. so he in fact, it's the army's birthday present to the king. okay. his birthday is in november. november? the 14th. but always this saturday in june is the official birthday. and this birthday parade is the army, and particularly the household division of the army saying, happy birthday , your saying, happy birthday, your majesty. the king will be there. he won't be riding astride at the head of the procession, but he will be going in a carriage, we presume with the with her majesty queen camilla sitting together. and then he will go along the front of the parade , along the front of the parade, reviewing the troops in that way, her majesty the late queen. queen elizabeth the second, for 40 years she rode a straight astride to the trooping of the colour until 1986. and i was

there when she took to her a dinky little carriage, which we immediately nicknamed queen victoria's go cart. immediately nicknamed queen victoria's go cart . and she went victoria's go cart. and she went in this carriage, and then took her place on the dais to take the salute . the salute. >> all right. michael cole, thank you very much for your expertise this morning. and if you didn't catch, the intro at the top of the show this morning , a special gb news coverage show of trooping the colour tomorrow, ten til midday tomorrow. saturday with ellie costello and andrew pierce . tory costello and andrew pierce. tory boy pierce. yeah, well, don't miss that. >> yeah, do not miss that. but up next, stay with us for a gb news exclusive as we find out that prisoners have been rapping about a rather topical issue. stay tuned. this is britain's newsroom on

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this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> very good morning to you. thanks for joining >> very good morning to you. thanks forjoining us. now, look, i mentioned a bit earlier about the g7 summit in italy and joe biden's latest gaffe. so a parachuter lands in front of all the world leaders, us president joe biden , giorgia meloni joe biden, giorgia meloni trudeau, rishi sunak there as well , ursula trudeau, rishi sunak there as well, ursula von der lie—in, the us, sorry, the eu commissioner and joe biden, as you can see here, if you watch on television, just wanders off, starts having a conversation with a officer. well, i think there's an officer just out of shot. >> but look, there's no one there. >> look at george. he's not giorgia meloni saying, joe, joe, come back here. we're all looking at this parachuter , it's looking at this parachuter, it's astonishing really. and it's the latest in a litany of gaffes from the president, who some argue , some say, not least argue, some say, not least donald trump. >> he puts on his glasses, though, like someone in top gean >> some would say he's past it, but extra ordinary footage from the g7. and i'm not sure if you saw overnight , the g7. and i'm not sure if you saw overnight, president or ex—president donald trump did an interview, a podcast with youtuber joe, joe rogan, interview, a podcast with

youtuberjoe, joe rogan, logan youtuber joe, joe rogan, logan paul youtuber joe, joe rogan, logan paul, where he said vladimir putin invaded ukraine because he saw what happened with joe biden's evacuation of afghanistan, the completely botched mission where they left afghanistan after many, many years of occupying the country. and he said that putin just saw that and the state of it and said, why not? let's go for it. he said it never would have happened under his watch as president. and he called it the most embarrassing day in us history. so the next couple of months in the us election is going to be interesting, to say the least. will joe biden last the, the duration? >> well, that's the thing. well, moving on now for a gb news exclusive prisoners have been filming pro hamas wraps for tiktok from their cells. dup me. >> so with loud beats playing from a speaker, one video shows them not condemning hamas and them not condemning hamas and the atrocities of october the 7th, and even making gestures towards the camera. let's take a look for gaza , your free look for gaza, your free palestine, free palestine and gaza. >> man oh man. and crazier. no longterm yo—yo yo, look at this .

longterm yo—yo yo, look at this. all i see is drama. look at the, trading cards. >> well, gb news reporter charlie peters, who uncovered this story, joins us now. charlie, talk us through this . charlie, talk us through this. >> well, this is an ongoing crisis that the prison service has had to deal with for many years now, which is mobile phonesin years now, which is mobile phones in jails. >> now, the prison service told me that they do not tolerate mobile phones in prisons and prisoners found with them face extra time behind bars. but in reality , there is a widespread reality, there is a widespread issue of prisoners having phones in their cells, and not just small ones that can be smuggled in for texting, but full on mobile phones like the one you would have seen filming that footage we just saw. and that accounts i saw that on a very few number of views, but i'm tracking this stuff all the time, and they had several other videos published over a six month period in including an interview with a convicted murderer, a several part interview, and indeed, footage of someone, quote, pimping their cell so updating what was in

their cell, giving them a cleaner, giving them all that sort of new stuff and moving it around. they've got speakers in their cells, they've got these phones that appears in the footage. i've seen to be an enormous amount of personal freedom afforded to these prisoners. the prison service say that they've got a digital media investigations unit. they work with social media companies to bring this footage down when they find it and when we raise it with them as journalists. but at the same time, it's clear that they are struggling massively to prevent these phones from being smuggled in. >> well, we see it year after yeah >> well, we see it year after year. the tabloids mainly are numerous stories in the sun uncovering what they call, you know, prisons akin to something like butlins or pontins. you know, i'm not sure if you've seen a story in the telegraph a few months back showing that 1 in 5 muslim prisoners is now white. there's a growing theory that, prisoners, white prisoners are being converted to islam. i don't know if there's anything, you know, linking to this to growing content about hamas and so on. had you seen that in the telegraph recently?

>> i haven't seen that. but i do know that due to staff shortages as it relates to this issue with phones, there has been an issue for inspecting cells. they're meant to be in there at least once a month, looking through, making sure there aren't phones in the cells, making sure there isn't any other contraband because it's not just mobile phonesin because it's not just mobile phones in these cases. there's also plenty of drugs in the cells. lots of footage on tiktok that i've seen, particularly in the last week, stuff was still sifting through of prisoners very high on what appears to be synthetic drugs that they often show off in the footage. this is published to the public. everyone can see this. so to what extent this digital media investigations unit is successful, as you know, up to the viewers and the listeners to decide. but it does appear that there is a widespread amount of information and footage being uploaded on an almost daily basis. >> and these are serious prisoners, aren't they? they're not just katzie open prison convicts . these are, you know, convicts. these are, you know, proper these are hardened criminals. >> now , for obvious reasons, the >> now, for obvious reasons, the pfison >> now, for obvious reasons, the prison service won't tell me where which prison was where this footage originates from. but they do say that this is a

serious offence, and they're looking into an additional 45 days in jail for anyone caught with a phone. >> but you would think that somebody there would see that there is an issue. so what is what is wrong with the prisons that they're not able to find these things in these cells. and this is carrying on because clearly that's happening. and clearly that's happening. and clearly this stuff is getting into the prison. well, the pfison into the prison. well, the prison service say they've got 75 full body x ray scanners across the male estate. >> so every single prisoner a male prisoner who goes into prison has that scan. and they say they've made about 45,000 discoveries up to october 2023. and they've invested hundreds of millions into that inspection service that speaking to former prison staff and judging by some of the coverage online about this issue, it does appear that that only goes so far. and there is a problem with corrupt prison officers bringing this stuff directly to prisoners and tiny phones that you can buy for, you

know , £15 on online or on your know, £15 on online or on your high street. they can go for up to £1,000 in prison, especially category a prison where there is that additional level of security and oversight by the prison service. >> so they've got money, they've got phones, they've got everything, they've got drugs, drugs. >> some of the footage is what's the point? some of the footage they're showing off, some of the footage they're showing off is quite pathetic in a way. they're saying, you know, we run our wings and they demonstrate how they're they're living what they say is a free life. but there's quite a lot of footage of them cooking meals in kettles. it's certainly not the comfy living, the high life, vision that they're trying to project on tiktok to say that they are escaping the oversight of prison authorities. but it is clear at the same time that there has been way too much freedom allowing for those those situations to arise. >> all right, charlie peters, great story. thank you for bringing it to us. i mean, it's just absurd, isn't it? if we do manage to get criminals in prison, they are enjoying, you know, the life of riley. it's just beggars belief. >> right? well, it's been a year since the nottingham attacks and we'll be joined by emma webber, the mum of barnaby, who was one

of three repeatedly stabbed to death. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> welcome to your latest weather update this morning from the met office here on gb news. it's a day for having the umbrella handy, but also having the sunglasses never too far away. a mixture of sunshine and showers. one of those days where the weather's chopping and changing every five minutes. some places starting off fine this morning, but the showers will get going from late morning onwards. right up and down the land, heavy showers moving through pretty smartly in the south with a fairly brisk winds, but some thunderstorms are possible . some decent spells of possible. some decent spells of sunshine between the showers, particularly further north. and when the sun's out, well, it'll feel a little warmer than it has done for most of this week. temperatures getting closer to average, but still a little below the average for this time of year, and certainly feeling cooler when the showers come

along. and still plenty more of those showers to come well into the evening. quite a wet day over the northern isles. more persistent rain here throughout with a brisk easterly wind across the mainland of scotland. there will be some sunshine , but there will be some sunshine, but as i said, be prepared for showers. not as wet as yesterday across northern ireland. here too, some good spells of sunshine, but the showers will come and go as they will frequently across england and wales. and when the showers come the temperatures will drop between them in the sunny spells. it shouldn't feel too bad, but certainly feeling very fresh this evening. if you're heading out and you will still need that umbrella handy. more showers to come and go through the overnight period, all milling around an area of low pressure. you can kind of see here from the graphics again , it here from the graphics again, it won't be as chilly as recent nights, and so temperatures in some towns and cities holding up in double figures into the weekend, it's little change. the low pressure is still dominating , which means again, it'll be a case of some sunshine , but also case of some sunshine, but also be prepared for heavy showers, some slow moving downpours over northern england, parts of

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gb news. way. >> very good morning to you. it's 11 am. on friday, june the 14th. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. with me, ben, leo and the lovely nana akua. >> right. well, so coming up, reform uk are on the rise . the reform uk are on the rise. the tories have been overtaken by nigel farage's party in an opinion poll. so just one of the polls for the first time. so do you think that reform is the

real opposition party and is labour the party of tax rises, the left leaning resolution foundation says the party's manifesto is not clear how sir keir starmer would pay for his pledges . pledges. >> that's despite sir keir saying this. >> it's been very , very clear, >> it's 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 . manifesto. >> booming booze prices, pubs and breweries across the country demand an immediate cut in beer duty, as it's three times that of the european average . of the european average. >> and in just a tick we'll be speaking to the mum of barnaby webber, the 19 year old, who was one of three people killed in nottingham last year by valdo calocane. she wants a public inquiry into the handling of the

. case. >> yeah, you don't want to miss that. she'll be live in the studio with her thoughts on what happened. i mean, it was a terrible case and all the sort of things that went wrong afterwards as well. >> yeah, really, really horrific. the one year anniversary, of course, since that tragic attack, three people died and barnaby webber's mother feels a big sense of injustice because , calocane the killer. he because, calocane the killer. he was sent to a mental institution instead of prison. she has lots of gripes, including the fact that he wasn't tested for drugs in the days after the killings. well, then he wouldn't have been able to claim diminished responsibility if he had been so. 50. >> so. >> all these things that appeared to go wrong, and then obviously, the behaviour of the police in the way they were talking about the investigation as well. but do stay with us. thatis as well. but do stay with us. that is coming up. you will not want to miss it. gbnews.com forward slash your say with your thoughts. but first let's get your latest news with sofia. >> nana. thank you. good morning. it's 11:02. >> nana. thank you. good morning. it's11:o2. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your

top story this hour. the prime minister says a vote for reform uk risks handing a blank check to the labour party. a new poll by yougov puts nigel farages party neck and neck with the tories . less than three weeks tories. less than three weeks before the election. the pollster says the close result represents a seismic shift in the voting landscape. but they also caution that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats. meanwhile, labour scored 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14, with the greens on seven points. specialist mental health hubs would be set up under a plan by labour to help get people back to work. it would see an extra 8500 new staff recruited to boost access to mental health support, depression and anxiety are amongst the top common conditions that force people out of work. while an estimated 1.2 million people are currently waiting for mental health

services, shadow health secretary wes streeting told gb news that poor health care is costing the country billions . costing the country billions. >> as the health secretary and i'm able to deliver those 40,000 extra appointments every week and the double the number of diagnostic scanners and 8500 extra mental health staff to cut the more than a million people waiting for mental health treatment, not only are we going to be able to get people back to health in lots of those cases, that means people back to work. so we've currently got 3 million people who are both off sick and off work in our country. not their fault they can't get the treatment, but if we get people off waiting lists, not only will we be getting them back to health, we'll also be getting them back to work. that will help drive economic growth. >> by backing, british farmers will be central to a plan set to be unveiled by the liberal democrats later , the party's democrats later, the party's deputy leader, daisy cooper, will be on the campaign trail in the east of england promoting her party's national food strategy. it would include financial help for farmers who are coping with expensive energy

and production costs. the party says. the strategy also tackles rising prices on supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security. the us, ukraine presidents have signed a ten year security agreement bolstering kyivs defence and inching it closer towards nato membership . the towards nato membership. the historic deal was signed on the sidelines of a g7 summit, which is currently taking place in southern italy . it aims to southern italy. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion. even if donald trump were to win november's us election. the gathering also agreed to continue a loan worth £40 billion, funded by frozen russian assets. campaigners from several movements, including the grenfell fire and infected blood scandal, are calling for new rules to ensure recommendations for public inquiries can't be ignored. a walk is taking place in west london later to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the grenfell tower disaster that claimed 72

lives. the first phase of a pubuc lives. the first phase of a public inquiry ended five years ago, but campaigners say some of its recommendations still haven't been implemented. the groups are now calling for a new body that would follow up on findings and ensure they're put into place . tesco has revealed into place. tesco has revealed a strong increase in the amount of groceries bought in the last three months. as inflation eases the uk's largest supermarket firm revealed the total retail sales grew 3.4% in may, compared with the same time last year. this came on the back of a 5% increase in food sales, with high demand for fresh produce helping to drive higher sales volumes . and as britain waits volumes. and as britain waits for grey skies to clear, greece is sweltering through its earliest ever heatwave as tourist sites have been forced tourist sites have been forced to close and elderly people are taking refuge at special cooling centres as temperatures in some areas push past 43 degrees. the deputy mayor in athens says emergency services are keeping a

watch for anyone experiencing difficulty . experts say greece difficulty. experts say greece has been severely impacted by climate change in recent years, with rising temperatures fuelling deadly fires and erratic weather conditions . and erratic weather conditions. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comment hurts now it's back to ben and . nana. it's back to ben and. nana. >> hello. good morning. it's just coming up to seven minutes after 11:00. this is a gb news. we are britain's election channel. i'm nana akua, this is ben leo. >> very good morning to you. thanks for joining >> very good morning to you. thanks forjoining us. let's cross to westminster now. where chief secretary to the treasury laura trott is responding to labour's manifesto taxes . labour's manifesto taxes. >> yesterday we saw a manifesto from labour that contained no tax cuts, only tax rises . tax cuts, only tax rises. >> they even warn of it in their manifesto . manifesto. >> to quote directly, they say they will give due warning of

tax and spending policies. it's a tax trap. manifesto from a labour party that has tax rises coded into its dna . labour's coded into its dna. labour's first, second and third answer to every problem is always the same raise taxes and as a result, the tax burden under labour on their own figures will rise to be the highest our country has ever seen . analysis country has ever seen. analysis by the independent ifs showed that under the tax plans in labour's manifesto, the tax burden will rise to 37.4% of gdp in 2829. this is higher than the level they will inherit higher than under the conservative plans and higher than the historic record of 37.2% in 1948. and this means that as we set out in the document we published today, taxes would be £58 billion higher under labour than under the conservatives over the next parliament. but

this calculation is just based on the formal tax rises labour have set out in their own documents , and i'm afraid to documents, and i'm afraid to tell you there's more to come . tell you there's more to come. analysis of labour's spending commitments, including 21 costings by treasury officials, labour's own figures and costings from other independent sources show labour have a £385 sources show labour have a £38.5 billion black hole in their plans over the next four years. that will require to labour raise taxes by £2,094 for every working family. tax rises , on working family. tax rises, on top of those set out by keir starmer yesterday . people in starmer yesterday. people in this country have had an incredibly tough time with their cost of living after the shocks caused by covid and putin's war in ukraine. we're just starting to turn a corner. the economy is growing , inflation is back to growing, inflation is back to normal and wages are rising. the last thing working families in our country need is labour's

£2,000 tax bill. but this tax bill is what they are going to get. if the labour party formed the next government . so we know the next government. so we know how much this tax bill is. the next government. so we know how much this tax bill is . we've how much this tax bill is. we've been talking about it a lot, but the question is which taxes are they going to raise to fill it ? they going to raise to fill it? it's very notable. and i'm sure you all seen what labour have and haven't ruled out when we, the conservatives, ruled out raising vat , we noticed that raising vat, we noticed that labour had not done so and we challenged them. why not? within hours, rachel reeves herself issued a statement saying labour does rule out raising vat. vat. they've also matched us on income tax and not raising employee national insurance, but thatis employee national insurance, but that is where they have very conspicuous stopped. we openly challenged labour to max the other match. the other tax guarantees in our manifesto. their response silence these conservative tax guarantees on

pensions , on family homes, on pensions, on family homes, on family businesses, on cars and on energy bills, have not been matched by labour. in fact, labour have explicitly refused to rule these out. you've all heard the interviews, for example , we've ruled out any new example, we've ruled out any new taxes on workplace pensions . taxes on workplace pensions. we've ruled out introducing new council tax bands and holding a council tax bands and holding a council tax bands and holding a council tax revaluation. we've also ruled out applying capital gains tax to the sale of people's main family homes , people's main family homes, which angela rayner last night explicitly and deliberately . explicitly and deliberately. think about that . for the first think about that. for the first time ever, people's family homes will be dragged into capital gains tax. can we be clear what this means? >> it would mean talking about labour's manifesto plans in westminster, claiming that, they well planning what she said about a tax trap, didn't she said she said it's a tax trap manifesto that have tax rises coded in their dna is what she

was saying. >> and under their own figures, that the tax burden would rise to 37.4. i think, she said , of to 37.4. i think, she said, of gdp, £58 billion. she said it would be higher than theirs. and actually , the analysis of actually, the analysis of labour's own figures show that there will be a 38.5 billion black hole. that's what she said. and she also pointed out the last thing working families needis the last thing working families need is labour's £2,000 tax bill. so she's rewritten the £2,000 that rishi sunak, yeah . £2,000 that rishi sunak, yeah. and they do keep doing that, don't they. they, they're still staying on it aren't they. >> they're sticking by at the tories. i mean james cleverly when he was up against wes streeting in the spin room the other night, he was sticking by the figure and as you said, labour's own costings document shows net tax rises of 8.5 billion in 2028 2029. but add that to the current obr forecast and attacks. a share of gdp rises to 37.4. that's the highest in history. >> interesting . and it's what >> interesting. and it's what they're not saying. so a lot of people want to know what will the how will they pay for that. but we want to know how all the

parties are going to pay for these promises. >> yeah, lots of questions still remain with a couple of weeks to go before the general election, one quick email from tug, you say off the back of charlie peters great story about prisons, you say, i thought that if you served jail time, it was to remove you from society and all the privileges of society. so why are criminals allowed phones and wi—fi? and, charlie, you say give joe biden credit. you're reading a gaffe into it. all he did was turn around to talk and two thumbs up to the paraguay. your interpretation is wrong. well, he was talking to no one. [10 one. >> no one. >> there was no one in front of him there, unfortunately. and then he had to be held, be brought back. that's the problem with it. yeah. interesting stuff. right? well, as ever, we want to hear your views on all matters that we're discussing this morning. >> yeah. and that's why we're sending our reporters right across the country, all up and down the uk to speak to you, the viewers. will hollis, our reporter, is in retford this morning. good morning. will, what's going on? >> good morning. good morning. yes. well this is retford, the red wall. >> bassetlaw is the constituency in north nottinghamshire. and why are we here today? well,

it's because this is an important place, particularly for the conservatives in 2019. snatching this away from a pretty hefty labour hold of 40. when the conservatives took this in 2019, it was the biggest swing during the election, 14,000 votes. so if labour want to win again nationally, they need to take back places like this. they've been in power here since 1929, nearly 100 years, where eddie's cafe here in the high street in retford, and we've got a couple of local voters from retford, we've got geoff hampson, who's a labour voter, and we've got lucy rose , voter, and we've got lucy rose, who's undecided. geoff, let's start off with you, because the spotlight really is on labour. how did you feel in 2019 when labour voters like you turned away from the party and voted for the conservatives? >> very upset, very upset, i think, corbyn had a lot to do with it. and a lot of people didn't like him. no way was he

going to vote for corbyn and his labour leader. sorry, prime minister . and since since 2019, minister. and since since 2019, it's just got just gone downhill . it's got worse and worse and worse. >> yeah. do you think that , as >> yeah. do you think that, as keir starmer says, the labour party is a changed labour party and they can win nationally as well as in places like bassetlaw ? >> 7- >> i'm sure sam ? >> i'm sure they can. yes. 7 >> i'm sure they can. yes. yeah. i've got a lot of respect for secure. i've actually met him. i've actually had meeting , i've actually had meeting, meeting with him and met him and he is a gentleman and he is true to his word. i'm sure he'll do much better as prime minister than sunak , who is who really than sunak, who is who really upset me with the, bringing national service back, being a veteran myself and training recruits, it's not that easy to bnng recruits, it's not that easy to bring national service back. all the instructors have gone the they'd have to train all new instructors to get. and then

plus the fact the 18 year olds, they want to go to university and the trade all the train. the only train they're going to get in the forces is how to fire a gun. yeah. >> so it's interesting to hear that as a veteran, you're not a fan of national service, or at least the conservatives plan for national service. lucy, we've just been touring a little bit about taxes. we've just had laura trott, the chief secretary to the treasury, criticising labour's plans for tax rises . labour's plans for tax rises. how do you feel about labour saying that they'd bring in some taxes in some areas to pay for pubuc taxes in some areas to pay for public services, but the conservatives saying that they dropped taxes so drop in taxes would be a lot better off for everybody around this area and other areas. >> definitely. >> definitely. >> yeah. why would it be better? what could it help for local people in retford if they had more money in their pocket? >> there's a lot of things that we could do in retford. there's parts of retford that need rebuilding , you know, and we rebuilding, you know, and we could all do that. the schools could all do that. the schools could do with a lot of help. we could do with a lot of help. we

could do with a lot of help with the flooding etc. yeah, yeah. >> retford experienced really bad flooding just before christmas time, october, november and you were flooded . november and you were flooded. how do you feel right now and do you think you've got the support that you need, which is not just a problem here in retford, but in lots of places around the country. >> yeah, we, we feel like we haven't got any support. there's, you know there's retford, bawtry, southworth , a retford, bawtry, southworth, a lot of the farmers around that area. bawtry was shut for such a long time. you know we're still some of our neighbours aren't in our home. i've only been back for weeks now and we haven't seen any sort of help. we need some support from everywhere. >> you're an undecided voter. what needs to happen for somebody to win your vote? right now we're talking a little bit about nigel farage's party reform overtaking the conservatives. they say that they're now the opposition to labour who are destined for power. what do you think about the reform party tempted when you're an undecided voter? >> i still really don't know. i really need to have a really good look at what's going on

with everybody. you know, at the minute they're all sort of throwing different things at you.so throwing different things at you. so it's really got to have a good, a good look at what's going on. >> jeff hampson you're a traditional labour voter that didn't turn to the tories. a lot of people are considering reform now after maybe thinking that the conservatives didn't get them, give them what they wanted . and do you think that there's that risk that maybe traditional labour voters that did go to the conservatives won't go back to laboun conservatives won't go back to labour, but will instead put their vote for reform instead? >> i think they'll come back to laboun >> i think they'll come back to labour, i honestly do we have a very good candidate in this area and who works very, very hard even now, leading up to an election, and i'm sure, i'm sure that we will there'll be more people voting labour. bear in mind it's an it's an ex mining community and mine the mining communities were traditional labour supporters and it's those people that keir starmer needs to win back. >> jeff, thank you so much lucy as well. we're here in bassetlaw

all day. if you do want to see the candidates you can find that on bassetlaw statement of nominations page for the local council. >> right. thank you will. and the full list of bassetlaw constituency candidates are as follows brendan clarke—smith conservative party rachel sarah reeves, the green party. frank ward , reform uk helen tamblyn ward, reform uk helen tamblyn saville, the liberal democrats and joe white, labour. >> okay, great. we're going to go back to westminster where the chief secretary to the treasury, laura trott, is responding to labour's manifesto some space for their own uncertain events . for their own uncertain events. >> like you said just then that they have to have some way of raising money if they have to. if a black swan event happens, like ukraine energy shock or covid and just quickly the euro start this weekend . if you were start this weekend. if you were a football team, you're four nil down the crowd are booing you. isn't it time to do a deal with a striker on an on a rival team and get nigel farage to do a deal with with the tory party and see off labour, just on football. i'm afraid i'm not the right person to ask, but but no, and then and then i think more

broadly on your what was your other question? sorry, i've got you put me off with the football so they you guys are that way. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no, what they're doing is they are pretending in a disingenuous way that they've got to wait to see the books. the books are there right? they're called obr forecasts. they're called obr forecasts. they can look at them. right. what they are doing is secretly planning a number of tax rises, which they have not got a mandate for. and that is outrageous. and we are not going to let them get away with it. okay. and final question from itv . the, martin bashir from itv itv. the, martin bashir from itv news, you say that keir starmer should have the courage and conviction to be honest about the clear choice the next government will face about whether to hike taxes or cut spending. and the spirit of that honesty, which would a conservative government do ? conservative government do? >> well, we've set out very clearly here today how we have a

plan in our fully costed manifesto to address the issues facing the country, but, crucially, to cut people's taxes. right. and that involves difficult decisions. government is not easy, but we have been transparent about those decisions . and what i'm putting decisions. and what i'm putting to you today is the same cannot be said for the labour party. they are planning to raise your taxes. they are planning by not ruling out capital gains tax on your primary home, to levy that tax . that is outrageous. it will tax. that is outrageous. it will be disastrous for this country and we won't let them get away with it. right? that is enough. i think, for me today. but thank you very much all for coming as even you very much all for coming as ever. it was nice to see you all and thank you . and thank you. >> okay. that was laura trott there in westminster. the chief secretary to the treasury responding to labour's manifesto plans. and we also got christopher hope's question in there as well. we're joined again this morning by former editor of the daily star, dawn neesom and author and broadcaster amy nicole turner. thank you for returning, what should we get stuck into first?

what about this one in the daily mail? jan moir she says that wes streeting and his tweet saying he wanted to push me under a train. this was for many years ago. he tweeted this . he's since ago. he tweeted this. he's since apologised, but she's talking about how, you know, it was a pretty nasty tweet to be frank, it was a nasty tweet in response to an incredibly nasty article that we need to not lose sight of. >> so jan, hang on. >> so jan, hang on. >> there's no there's no excuse for saying look on the. >> yeah, well, hang on a minute because actually he, he was he tweeted in response to an article about stephen gately . article about stephen gately. stephen gately's funeral had not even happened yet, and jan moir published an article heaped in prejudice saying there was nothing natural about stephen gately's death, which was just littered full of ill informed presumptions about gay men and gay men's lifestyles. now wes streeting would have been how many years ago is this? he would have been probably in his early 20s, a gay man living in london. and i'm not surprised. he was deeply, deeply appalled by this article because it was a disgusting article. okay, okay,

she should be apologising for the article. she says he had a non—apology in that piece. she stood by what she wrote. she stood by what she wrote. she stood by what she wrote. she stood by what she wrote, what she said. stephen gately's natural death was not even by a yardstick, natural. she's standing by her word. but she can stand by talking about she can stand by talking about she can stand by her work. >> to amy, amy, she can stand by her work. but wes streeting will potentially be our health secretary. okay, that kind of language. and that's not. that's not. let me finish . that kind of not. let me finish. that kind of language is really unacceptable. if you're going to be sending that on a on any sort of tweet. and then not only that, but let's talk about the other stuff that he said with regard to susan hall as well, that a vote for her was for white supremacists, a vote for white supremacists, a vote for white supremacists and racists. i mean, look, he's got form that's not acceptable. >> stephen hall also has forms. >> stephen hall also has forms. >> yeah, but we are talking about wes streeting or we're talking about wes streeting founded claim . no, but we're founded claim. no, but we're talking about wes streeting, a potential minister of state of health for this tweet. i don't think he should. he hasn't i don't think he's apologised . he

don't think he's apologised. he hasn't apologised for this one. >> about jan moir i really i was so surprised he apologised for that one for that, but not for susan hall. she should apologise for that article. that article upset so many people at the time . and his response? he wasn't a minister. i don't know what he was doing then. it was what, 12 years ago or something? yeah, he would have been maybe. >> i don't think that that gets you get a get out of jail for because it was 12, 12 years ago. and also the subsequent tweets and messages he sent have not been really acceptable. >> i just wish they'd all grow up, to be honest with you. i'm just sick of the whole lot of them just fighting like kids in a playground. i mean, it's like every day you wake up and one of them said something stupid either today or back in the past. i mean, you know, and it wasn't long ago. jo cox david amess i mean, the language around politics at the moment is just so. it's just so inflammatory. it'sjust inflammatory. it's just completely wrong. inflammatory. it'sjust completely wrong. in wes streeting defence, i do think he's one of the few labour people that admits that the nhs does need reform, and it's not worth just throwing loads of money at it. he said that in an interview the other day, he said he does talk a bit of sense occasion. well, exactly. >> i used to find wes streeting quite refreshing, but then he, when he got on the despatch box in the commons and laughed with

all his labour mps about the natcon event in brussels being shut down, the one that nigel farage was at, i just thought, come on, you know, people of the right side of the argument would back the left's right for free speech at all costs. but when it comes , you know, in reverse, comes, you know, in reverse, left supporting the right, they just seem to think it's a big you don't laugh at the left wing perspectives. >> you don't have a little giggle at our left wing perspective. >> i don't laugh, i don't ever laugh at opposition or lefties being shut down. no, i fully support it about being shut down, wasn't it? >> even if i don't agree, you might die for the right of free speech, but you do have a bit of a giggle at it from time to time. >> well, yes, but that's not what the point is. the point is, the point of it is. >> the point of it is saying no, no, the point of it is that he was mocking the fact that these that nigel farage was being shut down, and that's what he was mocking, which wasn't funny. >> yet on the, on the, on the right condemning it wasn't he we'd allow we don't mind any speech saying it suella braverman being abroad when she was supposed to be representing the people of fareham, he wasn't. >> he was giggling with his labour mps at the despatch box in the commons as conservatives, people like nigel farage were in

brussels being shut down by the police, the state, the belgian state shutting down free speech right. >> let's let's move on. right. what's our next story? what do you want to do? we're going to do tom kerridge underwear or tom kerridge. >> i'll do underwear. >> i'll do underwear. >> tom kerridge all right. you've let's start with you then. underwear. right. underwear. okay. this is a story from the daily star. it's fun. right. okay. we're going to have some fun, this is. boffins say people should stop washing their underwear and clothes off in a bid to save the planet. climate change? yeah. you know, you're going to get there. >> from what, though, yeah, from the global boiling. i mean, is it. >> how cold? any case, yeah. we are being told to . not rather are being told to. not rather than using our washing machines, we're just to air our pants. what? yeah, this sounds like a far . i what? yeah, this sounds like a far. i mean, to be honest what? yeah, this sounds like a far . i mean, to be honest with far. i mean, to be honest with you, amy, most blokes won't have a problem with this because 1 in 5 men, 1 in 5 men. ben, looking at you, 1 in 5 men admit to washing their underwear just once a week . 5% of men, 5% of once a week. 5% of men, 5% of men. how often are you washing? >> i do it once every two weeks. >> i do it once every two weeks. >> what ? >> what? >> what? >> your pants?

>> your pants? >> yeah, but that's washing them. what about you? changing? >> well, i wear changing. >> well, i wear changing. >> i wear them every day for two weeks. >> what? the same ones. >> what? the same ones. >> i'm joking. oh, every day, of course . course. >> you know, i'm not sure, because 5% of men do that. >> 5% of men wear the same underwear for 2 to 3 weeks. >> that's the same 5. >> that's the same 5. >> the same pants. nana don't get it. same pants for 2 to 3 weeks. >> i can't do that to save the planet. i don't think so. save us all, for goodness sake, wash them, amy. coming to you, tom kerridge. she said he's a workaholic. >> yeah. so he's done an interview with the ai in which he's said he admits that, running his restaurant empire, being a celebrity chef has made him into a workaholic. and quite often he'll go days without seeing his children. that's sad , seeing his children. that's sad, i guess. >> i guess success for success >> i guess success foi’ success comes . >> i guess success for success comes . success >> i guess success foi’ success comes . success comes at a >> i guess success for success comes . success comes at a cost. comes. success comes at a cost. but, i mean each to their own, i suppose, but i just, i really if it was a choice between my career or my kids, i'd have to choose my kids. >> but anyway, it goes without

saying that all working parents do feel a element of guilt all the time. it seems to come with the time. it seems to come with the territory, doesn't it? >> i don't know, when i go to work, i say, i love you people , work, i say, i love you people, thank god i'm going to do something else. see you later. go to your dad's. go to school. i enjoy my moments when i. i mean, i love my children. they're beautiful. they're so cute. but then i think, okay, i'm going to do my stuff now for me. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think it's a lot easier for stay at home mums like my wife. she stays at home and looks after the kids when they're not at nursery, it's so it's harder for them. yeah. i get to escape and come to work. for them. yeah. i get to escape and come to work . and, you know, and come to work. and, you know, my commute on the train is quite enjoyable. get to read or whatever , whereas she's stuck at whatever, whereas she's stuck at home with the kids the whole time. so. yeah. yeah. >> and how do you think your kids are feeling going. on my god, thank god he's gone. mum. hello, i obviously i've worked on newspapers my entire career, and i never wanted children, but doing the job i did, you couldn't have children. it's impossible with your male or female to dedicate yourself to that job 24 hours a day, seven days a week and have children. >> do you feel any regret to not having children? no, not at all. >> no, no, no.

>>— >> no, no, no. >> and the thing is, sometimes women are vilified for not wanting children. but i love my kids. i'm really glad i have them, but i get it. i'd have been all right if i didn't have children, but i'm glad that i have them. so i'm. >> what really annoys me is with women, it's always like, oh, can you have them? no one ever asks that to men. if you if your child is a man, it's like, fine, that's your choice. but as a woman. oh, are you sure? was there a problem? no there wasn't. you didn't want them. okay, but i'm sorry. >> i've got a couple of friends who get told off for saying that when they're looking after their own kids. maybe one friday night and the wife goes out, they say, oh, i can't tonight i'm babysitting babysitter. >> i say, well, go. there they 90, >> i say, well, go. there they go, kids. >> they're your own. >> they're your own. >> yeah, yeah, you're raising your own children . that's not babysitting. >> i have an ex who often says to me, oh, well, i'm doing you a favour looking after them. i said, that's half yours. that's half yours. i'm doing you a favour. i do 90% of it. >> someone on gbnews.com/yoursay pollyanna said ben doesn't wash his underwear. his wife does it? no >> it's true, that's true. >> it's true, that's true. >> true? it is true because i work and she doesn't. >> the kids all the time does the washing .

the washing. >> well, she stays at home and i work. she doesn't? >> well, she does work. she works at home with the children. >> that's hard work. >> that's hard work. >> she won't like the sound of that. >> of course, she works very hard with the children. but i need to bend the first rule of holes. >> right. just stop digging. >> right. just stop digging. >> yeah, there's three of us. >> yeah, there's three of us. >> three kids. one here, mate. >> three kids. one here, mate. >> who booked? who booked? two women on the panel? it's three vie, one. >> well, fair enough. >> well, fair enough. >> i will accept you, but we won't wash your pants. >> okay ? oh, god. >> okay? oh, god. >> okay? oh, god. >> on that wife for that, remember? >> thank you. amy. thank you. dawn let's get your news headunes dawn let's get your news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> ben. thank you. from the gb newsroom at 1130. your headlines. the prime minister says a vote for reform uk risks handing a blank check to the labour party. the new poll by yougov puts nigel farages party neck and neck with the tories less than three weeks before the election. the pollster says the close result represents a seismic shift in the voting

landscape . but they also caution landscape. but they also caution that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats. means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats . meanwhile, to pick up any seats. meanwhile, labour scored 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point , democrats also lost a point, scoring 14. and with the greens on seven points, specialist mental health hubs would be set up under a plan by labour to help get people back to work, with an extra 8500 new staff. depression and anxiety are among the most common conditions that force people out of work . while force people out of work. while an estimated 1.2 million people are currently waiting for mental health treatment , backing health treatment, backing british farmers will be central to a plan set to be unveiled by the liberal democrats later, the party's deputy leader, daisy coopen party's deputy leader, daisy cooper, will be on the campaign trail in the east of england promoting her party's national food strategy . it would include food strategy. it would include financial help for farmers who are coping with expensive energy and production costs. the party says. the strategy also tackles

rising prices on supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security . ensuring better food security. and the us and ukrainian presidents have signed a ten year security agreement bolstering kiev's defence and inching it closer towards nato membership . the historic deal membership. the historic deal was signed on the sidelines of the g7 summit, which is currently taking place in southern italy . it aims to southern italy. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion. even if donald trump were to win november's us election. and for the latest stories , sign up to the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets . markets. >> the pound's value $1.2699 and

,1.1890. the price of gold is £1,829.38 per ounce, and the ftse 100 are 8132 points. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thanks, sophia. up at noon is good afternoon britain with tom and emily. hello to you both. what's on the show today? >> we've got a huge amount coming up. we do live events galore, galore. not least nigel farage and his first press conference. 1:00 the first press conference. 1:00 the first press conference after that astonishing yougov poll last night that showed reform one point ahead of the conservative party. yes, it'll be very interesting to hear what nigel farage has to say. >> he's saying he's the opposition now, a vote for the conservatives is now a vote for laboun conservatives is now a vote for labour, yes, i imagine he'll be he'll be enthusiastic. and yet diving into the detail of that poll, we actually find some more

very, very interesting elements that might inform the rest of this race. we're halfway through this race. we're halfway through this general election campaign as of yesterday. now, one of those numbers was the proportion of people who think that labour getting a big majority would be a good thing or a bad thing, even evenly split across the country, 38 to 38 now the rest don't know. but that suggests that there is the an even number of people who are, not enthusiastic about a big labour majority as who like it . but majority as who like it. but even more interestingly, amongst reform voters, that soars up to 80% 80% of reform voters do not want the labour party to get a big majority, which is why so many conservatives have been coming out. senior conservatives like sir geoffrey cox coming out and saying, do you want a one party socialist state? >> but you know, the labour party may well be one party, but there are lots of parties within that one party. they'd be like the conservative party when they

had their majority with the five families or however many they've got now. so what we can be guaranteed of is when one party has such a massive majority, they start fighting like cats in a sack amongst themselves. labour have got the unions, they've got the pro—palestine part of their party, socialist campaign group. >> i mean, there are, however, the question is when there is that scale of majority, there is an undeniably a big, big amount of power, especially in the first couple of years for the leader. so, i mean, even when bons leader. so, i mean, even when boris had his 80 seat majority, he lost some votes. if we're talking about a 300 seat majority, i mean, this is this hasn't been seen in the uk since 1931 when the government had a super majority. and actually it wasn't until after the second world war that that was dislodged. >> and, you know, what's even more incredible is the fact this has come after 2019, that thumping majority from boris johnson in just a few years, you know, a complete 180 rishi sunak this morning at the g7, commenting on the potential for a supermajority, saying that it would give labour a blank check to the country. so thank you. up

at midday and nigel is on what time? 1:00, 1:00. thank you. great stuff. >> well right. well it's been a year since the nottingham attacks and we'll be joined by emma webber, the mum of barnaby, who was stabbed to death whilst walking home from a out. you're with britain's newsroom. this is

gb news. good morning. this is a gb news on britain's newsroom. now, aslef, we want to hear what you. what you think. send us your views. post your comments. gb news. for com your say and some of your comments have. have come in. i've got this one here from john poulter . in. i've got this one here from john poulter. he in. i've got this one here from john poulter . he says it's john poulter. he says it's a we're talking about national service. one of the guys who, one of the people, we go to the people and find out what their thoughts are. and john porter said, it's pretty tragic hearing that a guy talking about national service proposal and how we don't even have trainers anymore, i suppose the young don't have any reference point,

while the older amongst us remember very different times and find much of what's happening, a pure tragedy , and happening, a pure tragedy, and then mark smith on that same subject said there'd be zero chance of conscription. nowadays, the queen's own gluten free fusiliers . free fusiliers. >> i like that gluten free free fusiliers. >> yeah, very good. my pronouns are he, him, she, her and all that nonsense. >> just one or from john says, come on, ben, who listens to logan paul? >> i mentioned he did an interview with the former us president, donald trump overnight, vladimir putin had been planning the invasion of ukraine since 2014, maybe. but, you know, the fact remains , you know, the fact remains, there were no wars under donald trump. he insists it would never have happened. the russian invasion of ukraine if he was in charge . he blames joe biden's charge. he blames joe biden's botched evacuation of afghanistan for putin being encouraged to invade ukraine. and should we just check out this float again from the g7? sorry, this clip from the g7, joe biden with all the world leaders, maloney, sunak, trudeau, macron, a parachutist, comes in and lands six of them applauding. well done . good

applauding. well done. good stuff. joe biden, meanwhile, doesn't seem to know where he is and decides to wander off smirking before being clocked by maloney and macron. look at maloney and macron. look at maloney and macron . maloney in maloney and macron. maloney in the pink. oh, where's the president going? quick macron. >> he's not talking to anybody as well. >> maloney quite discreetly comes over. joe gives him a pat on the back. joe we're meant to be over here, my friend, and there we go. i mean, just you just wonder what's going on with joe biden. i do feel sorry for him. >> i don't at all. i feel sorry for the american people. i mean, that's the leader of the free world. the leader of their country has put on these shades as though he's on top gun. but where was he off to? i mean, this is just one of many gaffes. i don't get why people don't admit that he is not capable as admit that he is not capable as a leader, as as a leader of that country. and i think the people need to be honest about it and he should be removed. it's ridiculous. now, we were talking about wes streeting earlier , about wes streeting earlier, ella says, and she was talking about the language that he was

using. and she said, i think people are missing the point. wes streeting will be the next health secretary. totally unprofessional , not fit for unprofessional, not fit for government. >> you made as well. >> you made as well. >> this is the point we're making. it's the fact that he's making. it's the fact that he's making those comments. and yet he is potentially will be resigning over one of the most prestigious offices in the land, which is looking after our health, which is one of the things that the government spend the most amount of money on and affects all of us as well. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> as i said, i was, you know, i was quite fond of wes streeting. he did a really good interview on radio four some months ago, talking about his upbringing, and his his cancer battle and so on. but then there was just a, you know, the unsurfaced tweets. then you had the tweet about susan hall. voters called them white supremacists. and then, i mean, the big one for me was just laughing at the fact that that natcon event in brussels was shut down, you know, i say again, i will die for the right of people of all political persuasions to say what they think. and, you know , take up think. and, you know, take up their, their right for free speech. but it doesn't seem to go the other way. >> well, listen, i've got this

one here now, and it's one of the views that i'm almost sharing with you. >> it's about the leadership debate. this is from james garnier. he says, scrap these ridiculous leader debates. all they do is encourage those taking part to try to convince us who is the bigger liar, biggest liar. they would all qualify to take part in the would i lie to you program, and they would all be winners. we deserve better. yeah the seven way debates. i'm getting a bit. there's not enough time for each of them to talk properly. they're all trying to score points. somebody wants to try and get the applause. and i'm not hearing enough about what they're actually going to be doing. do you know what i mean? >> yeah. from what i saw last night, i felt, penny mordaunt was i mean, she was trying to every time she tried to contribute towards the debate, she was constantly cut off. that's what it seems like anyway, stephen flynn from the snp , going back to the euros, snp, going back to the euros, which kicks off tonight, of course , scotland are taking on course, scotland are taking on germany. he made a comment about would he support england when scotland weren't playing and he said no, which has sparked fierce debate this morning. i hope all our host nations do well whenever they're in international tournaments. i'm

english, of course, but it never seems to come back the same way. i don't have a problem with the scots, but it seems like they have a problem. >> some people might, you have a problem. >> some people might , you know, >> some people might, you know, listen well. listen, stay with us. we've got loads still to come, but more importantly, we'll be speaking to emma weber now. she is the mother of barnaby weber. barnaby was killed in nottingham last year. stay tuned. that is. up next, you're

gb news. good morning. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. now it's a year anniversary for the nottingham attacks, which saw barnaby weber and grace o'malley kumar stabbed repeatedly by valdo calocane as they walked home after a night out to celebrate the end of their exams. >> school caretaker ian coates was also murdered as he made his way into work and a year on, the families of the victims say they will continue to fight for justice and lasting change. >> well, joining us now is

barnaby's mum, emma webber, and lawyer acting on behalf of the bereaved families. neil hudgell. my bereaved families. neil hudgell. my emma, thank you so much and neil for coming in. morning. hi. i'm so sorry for what happened and i want to ask you, how do you even move forward after something like this? because it must be terrifying and awful. >> it's unfathomable and it's unimaginable , and sometimes how unimaginable, and sometimes how do you even get out of bed? is it's that difficult? but somehow you do. and i think it's parental instinct, i've got my son, charlie . i've got my son, charlie. i've got my husband david and my friends and family. and, you know, you've got to you've got to try and keep going. and it's all the old adages have put one foot in front of the other. get to the end of the day. that's all true. but what we didn't expect coming after this awful tragedy was all of the failings and the and the wrongdoings of various agencies. and that's that's just added another horrific layer of trauma , you know. but but, you know, we're a year on, wiser. and

thank god we've, we've got an offer of support from these guys because we need to be able to handit because we need to be able to hand it over properly to the people who really know what they're doing. we've just made a lot of noise, rightly so, and got this far. that's over. no pressure . so over to you. pressure. so over to you. >> yeah. so neil that your i mean the greatest sense of injustice is you feel is the fact that calocane has gone to a mental institution and not serving a custodial sentence in prison. that's because of a number of reasons. i mean, you have a concern that, for example, he wasn't drug tested in the immediate aftermath of his attack, which meant that if he was found to be on drugs, he couldn't have claimed diminished responsibility. is that right? >> that's part of the story , i guess. >> you know, the law around diminished responsibility , diminished responsibility, manslaughter, murder, insanity, all those things is incredibly complex. i think one of one of the key issues here is that the emma and the families feel that they were, and after the event,

thought when it came to the prosecution process, you know, victims rights . at the end of victims rights. at the end of the queue, there was a there was a rush in many senses for the experts to conclude , that this experts to conclude, that this wasn't a man with full intent and could not be guilty of murder. and their views were only really sought as a fait accompli and as part of that, they brought into, the reckoning and thinking there that there are issues that ought to have been explored and so on a pre—emptive basis. so, for example , all history or the example, all history or the recent history around potential drug taking, this is a man who refused to give intimate samples at the police station, showed considerable elements of premeditation, and that's just put one strand of a whole raft of. >> yeah , different things that >> yeah, different things that well, also gone wrong. >> the behaviour after. >> the behaviour after. >> yeah. the behaviour of the police officers themselves making comments which i don't want to repeat. no about two. it's about disgusting your

children and they, they the chief constable wouldn't let us. >> let me address them privately. so i thought i'm not i can't there's things you can't let lie. you have to address things. and i hope it makes them think differently in the future. but that letter i wrote, the open letter to those whatsapp officers is, you know, they're probably parents. most of them. right. you just think , you know, right. you just think, you know, just think before you do. i mean, the misconduct of officers , there's so much more to uncover that we're deeply unhappy with the investigation. there's clear massive failings and missed opportunities before the 13th of june, and that's unforgivable. they really do. two police forces have blood on their hands. >> what's gone wrong with them? for them to be so detached from humanity and empathy that they would say, yeah, even that way i think you end up with a depersonalised system , that, depersonalised system, that, certainly with when it goes wrong, it goes very badly wrong , wrong, it goes very badly wrong, and i think there's a lack of professional curiosity very

often within some of the public services now. and so we're talking about failings within institutions but also between institutions. so no one seems to join the dots up. no one seems to speak within each other because , you know, the real sad because, you know, the real sad reality here is that if two police forces had spoken to each other, if police forces had spoken to mental health, that three wonderful lives wouldn't have been lost. >> emma, you and other , families >> emma, you and other, families of the victims, you've become quite close over the last year. you've, you know, been fighting courageously together . yeah. can courageously together. yeah. can i ask you if you've had a chance, really, to grieve for barnaby? >> don't think so. i don't think so. and i think that the kumars and the cokes would, would say the same, because we've had to do this. well, we did. we didn't have to do this. we had a choice. but you know, we're not going to go quietly into the good night when something wrong has happened. there's a right and there's a wrong and even even the justice minister said to us when we spoke to him, we were raising our concerns at the

end of last year. he said, what's the rush? this calocane is not going anywhere. you know, this is his concern about the judicial system. so sorry, alex chalk, i'm naming you because you said it to us and he said that the system is flawed. he's called for change to homicide. we don't deny calocane mentally ill and, well, of we don't deny calocane mentally ill and, well , of course he we don't deny calocane mentally ill and, well, of course he is. but you said about the element of planning, this is somebody who apparently was in an extended psychosis, who managed to complete his 21 degrees in mechanical engineering. he had jobs , he had a flat, he got jobs, he had a flat, he got evicted from that. he caught trains. he took money out. he planned he had weapons that he had. he had weapons in that rucksack. he stockpiled him. >> and what should happen to him? short of the death penalty, which i'm sorry, that's. him? short of the death penalty, which i'm sorry, that's . don't which i'm sorry, that's. don't start me on that. he should. we know he did it. >> he shouldn't have been. he shouldn't have been out in the community. so that has to be explored, and lots of questions need to be answered. but he's he. there's an element. he knew what he was doing. yeah. so just to hospital order. just just being treated as a patient is not enough. there should be a penal punishment there. there's no punishment. that's a big p word that was missing through

the whole thing. with the weak prosecution, we felt. but it's going to happen again. it is going to happen again. it is going to happen again. it is going to happen again because this it's not just a one off. you're hearing it over and over and over again. how many knife crime, how many violent psychotic attacks have there beenin psychotic attacks have there been in this country? and they're escalating. and, you know, i hope that with with the change to the law and bringing it to the fore and sharing our hideous pain, we might there's one thing we can do on this world now is maybe make a bit of change. >> we hope so. i hope so, thank you very much. and also, neil hudgell, really good to talk to you both. thank you. >> thanks. thank you. >> thanks. thank you. >> that's all from us today. we're back next week . up next is we're back next week. up next is tom and emily. good afternoon britain a huge afternoon of news ahead live events. >> not least we'll be live in central london where nigel farage is speaking at a press conference for the first time since reform overtook the conservatives in one poll. >> and the euros kicks off today will be in scotland and germany with live updates . stay with us.

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over the northern isles. more persistent rain here throughout with a brisk easterly wind across the mainland of scotland. there will be some sunshine , but there will be some sunshine, but as i said, be prepared for showers. not as wet as yesterday across northern ireland. here too, some good spells of sunshine, but the showers will come and go as they will frequently across england and wales. and when the showers come the temperatures will drop between them in the sunny spells. it shouldn't feel too bad, but certainly feeling very fresh this evening. if you're heading out and you will still need that umbrella handy. more showers to come and go through the overnight period, all milling around an area of low pressure. you can kind of see here from the graphics . again, here from the graphics. again, it won't be as chilly as recent nights. and so temperatures in some towns and cities holding up in double figures into the weekend, it's little change. the low pressure is still dominating, which means again, it will be a case of some sunshine, but also be prepared for heavy showers, some slow moving downpours over northern england, parts of eastern scotland. in the south, a brisk wind tomorrow means the showers

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gb news. away. >> good afternoon. britain it's 12:00 on friday, the 14th of june. i'm tom harwood , and i'm june. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. nigel speaks at the reform party's first press conference since one poll found that fated crossover point with the tories now ducking into third place, one point behind nigel farages party. one earth is next in stall and labour tax attack. >> the tories come out all guns blazing on what they describe as labour's 18 tax rises , from

labour's 18 tax rises, from parents tax to pensions tax to family home tax. but what is the truth? we'll speak to both sides andifs truth? we'll speak to both sides and it's kick off for the euros 2024. >> scotland will play germany in a tense opening game. we'll be soaking up the atmosphere in both scotland and germany . both scotland and germany. >> right, well, vous vous vous. >> right, well, vous vous vous. >> get them in. what does this poll show , tom? okay, so reform poll show, tom? okay, so reform are now the second party in terms of vote share in one poll. >> what else? well, i think one of the things is that there have been a number of polls now where reform and the tories are sort of within three points of each other now, three points. generally, in a poll that surveys 2000 people, representatively, which is the industry standard, about three

points is the margin of error. so it