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put those numbers into his software. you will not believe the potential that has to change this general election. plus slammed penny mordaunt, saying she would lose her seat and also looking ahead to the football that kicks off tonight. of course, euro 2020 for england. somehow our favourite scotland they kick off. they are 225 to 1 outside leaders. that hasn't stopped 200,000 scots boozing it up in munich ahead of that. 8 pm. kick—off. all of that p.m. kick—off. all of that coming up on the show get into its usual ways. gbnews.com forward . slash your sabre before forward. slash your sabre before we get started. it's your headunes we get started. it's your headlines and it's sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> martin thank you. good afternoon from the gb newsroom. at 3:02 your headlines. nigel farage says reform uk is now the opposition after a poll put them 1% ahead of the conservatives yougov 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. labour is still well ahead on 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14% with the greens on seven points. speaking a short while ago, mr farage said his party could change the dynamic on election day. >> they're still pumping out the same line that if you vote for reform you will get labour, but the inflection point means that actually if you vote conservative in the red wall, you will almost certainly get labour to a conservative vote in the red wall. is now a wasted vote. we are the challengers to laboun vote. we are the challengers to labour. we are now the real opposition . ian. opposition. ian. >> and responding to the latest poll, chief secretary to the treasury laura trott said a vote

for reform risks putting labour in charge, which would mean higher taxes. >> we know on their own figures that their manifesto would take the tax burden to a record high, but the truth is much worse. on top of that , we know that £38.5 top of that, we know that £38.5 billion black hole in labour's unfunded promises mean taxes will go up by an extra £2,094 for every working family in our country. so we know the size of the bill, but not how they plan to pay for it . to pay for it. >> meanwhile, specialist mental health hubs will be set up under a plan by labour to help get people back to work . it would 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 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 secretary wes streeting says getting the economy back on track will mean more for money health care. >> labour's manifesto is a fully costed, fully funded manifesto with promises that we can keep and promises the country can afford. we've got to get our economy back to growth. while we do that, we've spelled out specific measures that we will take in our manifesto and how we will pay for them, making fairer choices than the conservatives we don't want to see the burden of taxation rise. we can't tax and spend our way out of this crisis in the economy . we've got crisis in the economy. we've got to grow our way out of the crisis . crisis. >> in other news, nato is to have more control over the coordination of weapons for ukraine in an effort to safeguard supplies. in an event, a second donald trump presidency, the us and ukrainian president signed a ten year security agreement at the g7 summit last night, inching it closer towards membership of the

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looking to. let's get cracking. reform uk leader nigel farage has claimed his party was now the opposition to labour after a yougov survey put mr farage's party yougov survey put mr farage's party at 19% and the conservatives trailing on 18% in voting intention . in a dramatic voting intention. in a dramatic crossover moment. in the latest to blow tory hopes of returning to blow tory hopes of returning to government. so why don't we hear what nigel farage had to say a little earlier on today? >> and i'm putting it to you that i believe i can be that voice of opposition. i'm pretty clear and consistent in what i stand and what i for. stand up i'm not afraid of a fight. i don't bow to twitter pressure or the mob on the streets. i've taken on the european union. i've taken on the big banks , and i've taken on the big banks, and i'm pretty certain i can take on a labour government headed by keir starmer that will have almost no honeymoon period whatsoever, will inherit some very, very deep problems . and i

very, very deep problems. and i don't think has the radical solutions to sort the country out . out. >> meanwhile, nigel farage also challenged sir keir starmer to a tv debate on immigration. >> i would also very much like to do a debate head to head with keir starmer, and the reason is very simple. we think that this should be the immigration election because whether we're talking about rents , whether talking about rents, whether we're talking about housing availability, whether we're talking about access to gp services, whether we're talking about pressure on infrastructure, there is no aspect of our national life that is not touched by the massive popular asian crisis this country now faces directly. as a result of immigration policies that were started by labour but accelerated by this conservative government >> well, there's a whole heap there to analyse and let's do that in the studio with gb news political editor chris hope and

also the political correspondent at the spectator, james hill. welcome to the show, gents . welcome to the show, gents. chris, let's start with you. you were at this press conference earlier on today. in fact, you got the first question and it was feisty. it was forthright. it was fighting talk. tell us what was the atmosphere like in the room? >> well, there's a feeling of momentum around farage personally. he's added some tiger in the tank. i think of the reform uk party. it wasn't there two weeks ago when he wasn't a candidate. now he's the leader and wants to be you know, he's saying he's the leader of the opposition and all sorts of questions. he says he wants to get 6 million votes. when i asked him, i said to him, well, if you get that many and end up with 3 or 4 mps and the tories have fewer than that votes, but many more mps , what do you do many more mps, what do you do then? and that's a question i think he's facing. what does he do, a kind of trump and denounce the result of the election and look like he's anti—democratic? or does he say, right, let's channel this anger and push for proportional representation in 2029, the next election. but one, we are at the beginning , i

one, we are at the beginning, i think, of a six year program of over of taking over the right wing in politics in this country. he's looking at 2029, not so much this immediate election on july the 4th. >> now, he performed well at the tv debates thus far. he talks about ofcom basing its analysis, your suitability to take part in events on your performance at two previous electoral cycles. of course, reform hasn't taken part of them, so he feels that the bbc are keeping reform out of the show unfairly . do you of the show unfairly. do you think he's got a case for that? and do you think, actually, rishi sunak should take him on? >> he's got previous, i think , >> he's got previous, i think, in challenging the status quo. he's done that with the polling council. he's forced the polling council. he's forced the polling council to get pollsters to strip out reform uk and ask them as a distinct party rather than others. when they do polling, and that will help reform uk with its distinct identity with voters, and also to get a better feeling for how many people support him. but yeah, i think he is. next target is forcing these broadcasters and we're we're we're run or controlled

regulated by ofcom like the big three broadcasters are saying why can't i now debate directly with keir starmer? i am i'm leading, according to one poll, the second, the second party. and if i was sunak, i'd be tempted if you look at those numbers last night from yougov, if you add the number for reform to the tories, you get the same number 35% as as vote labour. if sunak debated with with farage behind closed doors, away from an audience , who wouldn't be an audience, who wouldn't be helpful to farage, not to sunak and sunak won like he beat liz truss in those debates in 2022. it might put a real rocket boosters under the tory polling. it's a massive risk, but frankly it's a massive risk, but frankly i think the tories need to do something now. >> okay, james keir, let's turn to you on that point. i mean, so far rish has been pretty dismissive is with a flick of the wrist. no, no, no, i'm not really interested in talking about reform. it's between myself and sir keir starmer. but nothing's happening. the polls are flatlining. the manifesto hasn't seen an uptick, had a disastrous e day. could this be

something that he should take on? >> i think that there's real calls right now for sunak to do something in terms of trying to be a game changer in this. you've got three weeks left of it. and i think that at least something like that would make him seem sort of brave and taking the fight to farage. and this is the key point right now, which is that if this is only the poll with only one bomb poll, which is the yougov showing that reforms ahead of the tories. but if there's others that the second and the third, then they'll add to this pressure. then it'll change the whole dynamics of the contest. the tory high command want to frame this as a two horse race between sunak and starmer. but of course, if farage is doing better on that then sunak, then there's obviously keir pressure to change all that. >> i agree with what chris was saying there. i think we forget sometimes that because he's had a few bad years, sunak wasn't seen as a great debater. but he is, you know, in 2019, he was the person who boris johnson sent to send out and represent him in the debates for the conservatives. he he took on liz truss and won in 2022. why not have someone who's actually been in government who could say, you know, nigel, you're a great campaigner, but actually you're not going to make the people's lives better. >> at what point do you think the men in grey suit starts

stepping in? the grandees in the party and say to sunak, you know, nothing is working in these polls. you've now got all of your policies out there. they are in, written in tablets of stone. in your manifesto, you've got to do something else, something risky. i think that'll be next week. >> i'm just not sure there are any men in grey suits left. >> i think, unfortunately, there are very few people who are respected across the party, i'm sure in private, and some grandees will be giving him advice. and i've seen danny finkelstein today, for instance, say, for instance, that there should be a debate where he takes on farage. but i think really, you know, we're down to the wire now. i've got three weeks to go. i'm not sure how much it's going to change, given how little the public seems to be listening to him. >> well, could it be the kind of flash moment that is required? because at the moment nothing seems to be working for rishi sunak. in fact, he seems to be on that downward trajectory. could that dramatic debate with nigel farage be what the nation needs to decide? finally, between the two? now let's move on, because shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds was asked earlier today about reform uk's polling rise and whether he was concerned whether it could take votes from the labour party. >> well, i think if you look at what we've seen in some of the big by elections, for instance, running into this general

election, you've seen labour genuinely win support from a whole range of different quarters, whether that's conservatives switching to us, whether it's people who were labour but then felt they couldn't support us and they've come back to us. >> so look, there's a there's always a lot going on in british politics. but the job for us is can we convince people, can we ask them to put their trust and support in to us have a mandate for change, to form the next government? and i feel very confident in the arguments. we're putting forward on that . we're putting forward on that. >> is that a point? i mean, don't forget, during the brexit party election 2019, one, i took part in the red wall. loads and loads of labour votes flopped into the brexit party. it's not just a situation where a conservative is flipping into reform , this is every voter for grab. >> i remember meeting you on the bus in dudley. yeah, when they were flocking around. they're cheering for farage. and you were there, but part of the farage team. and it was a striking, i think. and i was the only journalist with him all that period covering it for the telegraph at the time. but i think yeah, definitely, i think

there's a, there's a, there's a feeling i think and he was saying wasn't he. not at farage they're polling shown in the red wall. they are the party of opposition to labour. so he's always said he thinks he can hoover up some of those votes that jonathan can say that i'm not entirely sure it's right. >> jonathan reynolds says, james, do you think this, interesting flip of the conversation that nigel farage threw out there last night? he's he's he's judo thrown the line back of a vote for reform is a vote for sir keir starmer . back of a vote for reform is a vote for sir keir starmer. he's now saying a vote for the conservatives is a vote for sir keir starmer. >> absolutely. yes. he's got every right to. and you know look i think his talks about being the real leader of the opposition are a slight, perhaps a bit of chutzpah, you know, a bit of it. audacious perhaps. but look, this is the key point isn't it? which is that all, if all you can do is tell your voters, don't vote for us. we're better than the other guy. you know, the other guy is worse than us, which is effectively what a lot of the tory messaging has boiled down to. and you don't have a track record to stand on. don't be surprised if suddenly you get overtaken in the polls and that argument gets flipped on its head. and i suppose the key thing is, what do the 2019 tory voters voting

coalition have to go to the polls on? and the answer is not as much as they want it. >> i'll show by richard tice saying in that press conference. they are now keeping a tally of how many leaflets they're seeing without by tory candidates, without by tory candidates, without the word conservative on them, because they're just trying to say language, which may appeal to the reform. the tory brand is almost in some places, as he has said, a broken brand . brand. >> can i just add a quick point as well? i watched laura trott earlier on, responding to the labour manifesto. it was there were 18 labour tax rises, 58 billion higher. they're only planning to put taxes up. it'll be a fiasco. it'll be disastrous . it feels like project fear. >> well it was if i was there, i was there and i got the i asked a question, you know, is the footballs on this weekend. you're four nil down and the crowd are booing you. what do you do? do you sign up the striker from the other team? that's nigel farage she said no. so that was that one dealt with very quickly. but the point is about yeah they are they are trying to say, look what we're not hearing in the manifesto launched by labour yesterday. there's all sorts of other areas, mainly on wealth taxes, capital gains tax and pensioners and other things which may, may see some some raiding on them from in the future. and they point to the 1997 when gordon

brown did his famous pensions raid in 97, when that was not talked about in the labour manifesto, then so they they say it's been happened before. it can happen again. don't trust labouris can happen again. don't trust labour is what they say. >> but don't you think, james, that it's starting to feel so negative? i've, i mean people respond to positivity things . respond to positivity things. they only get better you know, get brexit done positive electoral messages. the conservative party just seem to be responding to the labour party with negative messaging. the country is about to get a lot worse. is that enough? at this stage? >> i don't think so. and i think you look at the track record as one of the two big issues, you know, immigration, they're being attacked from the right by nigel farage. and on the left is about taxation, which is that even under the conservative spending plans, the tax burden will go up over the next course of the next parliament. so this isn't a kind of low tax conservative party. i think what's striking is that if you look actually at the messaging that they're putting out on facebook and social media, four out of five tory attack ads are all about attacking labour and being very negative. for keir starmer. there isn't the kind of positive message we thought we might have around rishi sunak. and really right now it's a pretty bleak, apathetic election right now i

think we'll see a low turnout, and i think we're going to see a lot more negativity in the coming three weeks. well i've been all of the manifesto launches this week, apart from the green party, lib dems, tories and labour. >> and you did feel optimism at labour's one and it didn't feel optimistic at all at silverstone. they made the attempt. they did a vague feeling of sunny uplands that wasn't there at the in silverstone. >> and now all eyes are on monday and that's the reform party pledge, manifesto, contract, launch, whatever it's going to be. and it won't be england, it won't be england. but you want to be there, i may, i may i may have a different job on monday. i can't say what it is. >> sounds exciting. thank you very much, james. chill, chris. hope kicking off the show. excellent stuff. now throughout the election campaign, we'll be heanng the election campaign, we'll be hearing from people across the united kingdom about what really matters to them. issues such as nhs waiting lists , the impacts nhs waiting lists, the impacts of immigration, the cost of living crisis and crime and policing. our reporters have been to meet voters from all four nations, and we'll be heanng four nations, and we'll be hearing from them regularly before polling day. and today, for the first time, we meet john from east yorkshire. >> my name is john dimoline. 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 is the criminal element. it's the it's the gangs , it's the 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 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, 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 , is not being invaded by the is, is not being invaded by the back door, but is losing what we what we are. i consider to be traditional core british values. i've never really been a big, politically motivated person. i've tended to not really bother. i've cracked on with business and thought, well, whoever gets in gets in. it says

i've got older, that i would be more inclined to vote, and my leanings now are, i just don't see that i could vote conservative, and i haven't voted for him for many , many voted for him for many, many years. and if i was going to lean any particular way , i think 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 . reform party. >> superb stuff. now don't go anywhere because up next we'll be hearing live directly from voters about what really matters to them. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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the voters. it is your views and opinions that matter the most in this general election campaign. let's cross now over to retford in nottinghamshire, part of the world. i know very well for today's people's panel. gb news east midlands reporter will hollis is waiting for us, will tell us what's making them tick in retford . in retford. >> yes, well retford is one part of the red wall brick. this is bassetlaw. it's one brick that labour hopes to be putting back into their red wall. but in 2019 it was unceremoniously stolen from the labour party by the conservatives in the biggest swing from that entire election, a 14,000 vote majority mining community. and we have a fantastic people's panel here. peter pemberton, who's a retired police officer. we've also got his wife here, angela pemberton , his wife here, angela pemberton, and she's a retired seamstress. and over here as well, we've got richard bennett and richard works in solar panel engineering. let's start off with you first here. peter, we've been hearing a lot about

reform today because nigel farage, the leader of the party, says that they're now the party of opposition for labour, who they say are likely to win the election. and he says he wants to be up there debating keir starmer and, and rishi sunak. is that something that you want to see as a reform voter ? see as a reform voter? >> i'd love to see that. i'd love to see the three of them, you know, arguing it out on tv , you know, arguing it out on tv, because i don't believe anything that rishi or, keir starmer are saying at the moment, because their policies, their mandates are very, very similar. but when you listen to what reform are saying, you know, they're saying that this country has got the money to do what we need to do. but those two people are spending it in the wrong places. and i think he's right. angela you're planning to vote for reform as well. >> what is it about the reform party that you two like? >> i haven't quite decided yet about whether i'm going to vote reform or conservative, but it's just that we need a complete change. we need a complete change. >> they've had 14 years of tory, and we need to change.

>> you guys are quite the opposite to over here. we've got richard who's planning to vote for labour. what is it about the labour party that wants you to means that you're going to put your trust in them, based upon, the green agenda, renewable energy . energy. >> you work in solar energy, don't you? i do, yes, yes. >> and i think there are some holes in their, in their, portfolio for that and their prospectus. >> but what i would like to see is, is people like myself having a conversation care, being open to have a conversation , to set to have a conversation, to set up local hubs because there seems to be a misunderstanding around renewable energy in a general setting. the general pubuc general setting. the general public have got that. it's either against or for, but there is no sort of education and involvement for local people to actually understand and be part of their local , renewable energy of their local, renewable energy changes which are taking place.

>> because when the solar farm is big enough, it tends to be down to central government that actually decides on that future without any input, i mean, they do consult , etc, but that without any input, i mean, they do consult, etc, but that means nothing at central government. >> great british energy is a part of the labour manifesto about having a publicly owned energy company. what is it? what else is there that could be brought to bassetlaw from that manifesto ? what is it you want manifesto? what is it you want to see change about this town or change about the area? bassetlaw. >> i want to see instead when they say public owned, i don't want it to just be public financed. >> i want it to say public owned means everybody in the public owns that. so by ownership, they always say to us, as we're growing up as kids take over ownership, over something, be involved. let's be involved. community hubs, local people , community hubs, local people, local views, all being listened to, all being understood, and local education around renewable energy . energy. >> angela, what is it that you really want for bassetlaw?

whether it is the labour party reform or the conservatives or anybody that gets in here and nationally, what is it that really matters to people in this area? retford and bassetlaw? >> retford? we need our own council back. we have been run by a certain . come on, help me by a certain. come on, help me out with the setup of the council in this area is that it is really, really top heavy with labour councillors like there's 37 of them and only 12 of the people. >> so everything that gets voted through is really top heavy with laboun through is really top heavy with labour. so i'd just like to see a lot more people involved as councillors here who have got more of an agenda that will talk to each other. we've got some brilliant people in this town, but they just can't get anything sorted because it's too top heavy with labour. >> well, in three weeks time you're going to have a chance to pick an mp a little bit of a while before you'd be able to get an election for the local council. but we do love elections here on gb news. thank you very much. our people's panel here in bassetlaw, the constituency . but this town, constituency. but this town, this is retford in the red wall. >> well ,

this is retford in the red wall. >> well, hollis, please pass on my respect to those individuals there. they really, really know their stuff. fantastic from the beating heart of retford place i know well and as we were in the bassetlaw constituency, here are the candidates standing there in the candidates standing there in the general election. it's brendan clarke—smith concert party, rachel sara reeves, the green party, frank ward, reform uk, helen tamblyn saville, liberal democrat, and jo white from the labour party . now it's from the labour party. now it's time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to make this summer really special. with over £16,000 worth of prizes up for grabs , that's £15,000 cash for grabs, that's £15,000 cash tax free and a whole host of treats on top. you've got to be in it to win it. and here's all the details that you need to enter . enter. >> it's our summer spectacular. three top prizes that have to be won. there's cash £15,000 in tax free cash to spend on anything you like this summer, plus a brand new iphone 15 with a set of apple airpods and if that

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first, it's your headlines with sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. it's 331. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your headlines nigel farage says reform uk is now the opposition after a poll put them 1% ahead of the conservatives. yougov 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 . labour is still well seats. labour is still well ahead on 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14, with the greens on seven points. speaking this afternoon, mr farage said his party could change the dynamic on election day. >> they're still pumping out the same line that if you vote for reform you will get labour, but the inflection point means that actually if you vote conservative in the red wall,

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they've got germany, switzerland, hungary, all sides that are going to be looking to get to the knockout rounds. of course for scotland it's their second european championship in a row that they had to wait 23 years to go to a european championship again back in 2021, steve clarke got them now to two consecutive back to back european championships. he's the first scotland manager to do that. and they're going to be hoping as andy robertson said in his pre—match press conference, to make sure that they don't have any regrets when it comes to leaving this tournament. when they eventually do bow out, they'll be hoping they'll be able to come back to cities like glasgow with pride on their chest. but we already have seen the pictures, haven't we? of the 200,000 scottish fans that are out in munich today , i mean, out in munich today, i mean, it's just a fantastic, fantastic atmosphere out there and there certainly is some tension building now here in glasgow . i building now here in glasgow. i mean, we're here with some people that are selling scottish flags as well. you've got people also as well at this pub here that are starting to get a few dnnksin that are starting to get a few drinks in martin, finishing work on a friday, ready for that match at 8:00 later tonight as

well. so it's certainly here where we are in george square going to be a fantastic atmosphere as those scotland fans really get ready for the match. i mean, they've got some big players in their team, you know they've got billy gilmour who's had a good season in the premier league. andy robertson of course, their captain, liverpool's left back, they've got some quality to be able to take on the germans today, but how are those scottish fans feeling ? well, we've been on the feeling? well, we've been on the streets of glasgow today finding out from them . are you feeling out from them. are you feeling then ahead of tonight's game? brilliant yeah. who do you think's going to win. how do you think's going to win. how do you think it's going to go scotland 2121. who's going to make the difference for you john mcginn. >> obviously the underdogs going into that game. but you know we get a result tonight. anything can happen i like to be optimistic that we might reach the knockouts. >> but realistically who knows. >> but realistically who knows. >> well i heard that lots of teams were playing against one of the top teams in the world. so if we can get a draw, it be a good result . good result. >> so a bit of pessimism , a bit

>> so a bit of pessimism, a bit of optimism from the scottish fans on the streets today. i mean, they have literally got nothing to lose. i mean this is the attitude that steve clarke, their manager, is trying to go in with, you know, as you mentioned, martin, they've not won against germany since 1999. so they've got nothing to lose. but the hosts have got everything on their shoulders. you know they are the home side in this tournament. germany. they know that they haven't won a major tournament since 2014. they've not looked competitive in a major tournament since they won in brazil back in 2014, a decade ago, but they've got the quality in their side as well. that could well frustrate that scottish defence. i mean, you've got verts, of course, who's just come off the back of winning the bundesliga and unbeaten season with bayer leverkusen. kai havertz, who had a great season with arsenal , havertz, who had a great season with arsenal, and of course, havertz, who had a great season with arsenal , and of course, the with arsenal, and of course, the veteran goalkeeper manuel neuer in goal, who's germany's number one at 38 years old. so they know that they've got some real quality to come up against tonight. scotland. but who cares? it's the european championships, there's a major tournament anything could happen.the tournament anything could happen. the atmosphere on the ground here in glasgow is getting a little bit tense. it will get even more tense as we

get closer to that match a little bit later on at 8:00 tonight. >> nice one jack. now scotland are 12 to 1 outsiders to win tonight. there are 151 outsiders tonight. there are 151 outsiders to win the tournament, but so were greece in 2004 and they went on and win it. jack carson. we have to believe in miracles. it's the hope that caless will come back to you throughout the show. to catch up on the latest there from glasgow jack carson superb stuff . now of course we superb stuff. now of course we can't talk about scotland without talking about the three lions, whose euro 2024 campaign kicks off on sunday against serbia at 8 pm. in germany. now can gareth southgate's man finally bring it home this summer after so many years of torture? well current question marks over just how we torture? well current question marks overjust how we might marks over just how we might line up against the serbs , who line up against the serbs, who could play alongside john stones at centre back, will trent alexander—arnold be the man to play alexander—arnold be the man to play in midfield alongside declan rice and our real madrid superstar jude bellingham ? much superstar jude bellingham? much excitement ahead. i'll be in the

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to ask there. and thankfully a man who can answer them has just joined been hours gb news reporter charlie peters. who got that scoop? charlie, why on earth is going on? how have they got phones inside prisons ? how got phones inside prisons? how do you get hold of this footage? and how on earth can such radicalised messages being be spewed from within ourselves ? spewed from within ourselves? >> well, how did they get the phones in? that's the big question on everyone's minds, no doubt. well, the prison service told me that mobile phones are absolutely not tolerated in prisons, and anyone caught with them faces extra time behind bars. currently, it's an extra 40 days if you're seen with a telephone, but there is a deluge of content online filmed by prisoners inside their cells, on their wings. i've been tracking this footage for a long time, observing hundreds of hours , observing hundreds of hours, which is available freely on many social media sites. but a lot of it is coming now on tiktok, a lot of small accounts that prisoners are setting up their own accounts, putting footage on there through smartphones. how are they getting in there now ? the prison getting in there now? the prison service say that they've got a

special forensic mobile investigations unit. they say that they link up with social media companies to prevent footage remaining on social media companies. they also say that they've got 75 full body x—ray scanners throughout the male prison estate. they've made up some 45,000 discoveries of all sorts of things, not just mobile phones. up to october 2023. and they're spending millions of pounds on this . but millions of pounds on this. but it's quite clear from the footage we've seen and from some of the stories coming out from prison officers, that this just isn't working. now, there are a couple of ways how they might be getting these phones into the prisons. first and foremost, they're smuggling them in effectively through their friends and associates. but more troublingly. and this is what some insiders have told me recently , is that corrupt prison recently, is that corrupt prison officers are likely working with prisoners on the take to bring these phones in a small phone that you could for buy £15 on the high street, a miniature phone that can go for thousands of pounds on a category a wing

prison . now, as far as i'm prison. now, as far as i'm concerned, when i'm looking at this footage of this particular clip of two men rapping about the israel hamas war that was actually uploaded at the beginning of this month. that's why i've brought this story forward now, because it's before it was just a few conversations. now they're speaking quite radical stuff on camera. now, in previous footage uploaded by that account, which has now been deleted by tiktok, we've seen interviews with murderers on the wing. i've checked out their convictions. many of them are lifers. they've got those serious sentences. so it's highly likely that this prison where this footage has been filmed is a category a prison. there are just nine of them in britain. they're meant to have the most secure measures. belmarsh prison in south london is notoriously known as hell marsh by people who've gone through it due to the strict regime there, but there have been problems at many of these prisons, lots of rioting, lots of people rising up against prison officers and indeed some of those concerns about corruption. >> and charlie, there's a whole

conversation there about retraumatizing, those who lost loved ones to murderers . if you loved ones to murderers. if you see a murderer rapping or making videos on tiktok and you've lost a loved one, that is a grotesque affront to the deceased and their families. affront to the deceased and theirfamilies. but affront to the deceased and their families. but the affront to the deceased and theirfamilies. but the bigger their families. but the bigger question, charlie peters, is this we speak oftentimes about the radicalisation that's going on within our jails. ian on within ourjails. ian aitchison , who recently quit as aitchison, who recently quit as a tory party member, had him on the show. he conducted the government's own investigation into radicalisation in prisons. if these people are able to make pro—hamas literature and pump it out into the mainstream, what does that say about the state of the mindset of people within our jails who seem to hate britain and this rap that we've just shown a small portion of on this program? >> they do flip between english and arabic. there are also some concerning lyrics there. the one of the men rapping says he does not condemn hamas and says what would you do if your mother and your child were being killed by bombs? referring to the ongoing

conflict. so some extremely stark and well , to be frank, stark and well, to be frank, illegal language. they're not condemning hamas, saying that you won't condemn the actions of that terrorist organisation. a proscribed terrorist organisation. we also see one of the men wearing a balaclava, making gun gestures with his hands. making gun gestures with his hands . notorious gang gang signs hands. notorious gang gang signs dunng hands. notorious gang gang signs during that rap. other footage that i'll be revealing later on this week also captured by similar accounts, also reveals people presume to be from the same prison, possibly the same wing , discussing how they're wing, discussing how they're going to pimp out their cells, how they're going to improve the standards of their cells. you've seen footage of prisoners begging and pleading with ringleaders in the prisons to improve their circumstances. this is very much giving the impression that the prison offers a prison. officers in some of these wings don't have the full control. some of the footage i've seen men getting their hair cut by other prisoners, having their rooms cleaned, a clear order of hierarchy among some of the prisoners. in some footage, they're wearing designer clothes. they've got sunglasses.

they're playing speakers out of their rooms . most concerning of their rooms. most concerning of all, they can film it all and broadcast it on social media whenever they want. >> astonishing stuff, charlie peters. excellent, exclusive and keep doing what you're doing . keep doing what you're doing. it's very, very important stuff. thank you very much. now the 14th of june is falklands liberation day, which commemorates the anniversary of argentine forces formal surrender to uk troops on the islands on june the 14th, 1982. our usual commemorations include a service followed by wreath laying and a military parade , laying and a military parade, where all falklands war veterans are invited amid tremendous scenes there. and to just point out that 907 lives were lost dunng out that 907 lives were lost during the falklands conflict, 649 argentinian and 255 british forces and three falklands now don't go anywhere, because the next hour we'll be discussing nigel farage's claim that reform or now the party of opposition, we'll speak to a tory minister for their thoughts on this. but

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gb news. >> hey, bro. good afternoon to you. and a very happy friday. it's 4 pm, and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . on today's show, as reform overtook the tories in an opinion poll today, their leader, nigel farage roared i'm in this for keeps and then dramatically challenged keir starmer to a debate on immigration. i'll be speaking with the conservative minister

about her reaction to this dramatic throwing down of the gauntlet and next hidden in the labour party manifesto are several radical overhauls of the british constitution that have alarmed legal experts . the alarmed legal experts. the proposals include axing the lords more power for mayors and a modernisation committee. all of which could prevent an event like brexit ever happening again. i'll be shining a light on this with a leading barrister and the euro 2024 football tournament kicks off tonight, with host germany facing the tartan army of scotland. we'll be hearing from scotland fans ahead of the big showdown, and that's all coming up in your next hour . once the show always next hour. once the show always a delight to have your company. well, what a week in politics. it's been and friday delivered the ultimate nigel farage throwing down the gauntlet to

the bbc demanding to be in the leader's debates to sir keir starmer demanding a debate on immigration, saying we will get 6 million votes. referring to the reform party there. is that possible? don't forget, 4 million votes in previous election equated to only one seat.isit election equated to only one seat. is it a storm in a teacup? is it something the conservatives should be afraid about? i'll speak soon to a conservative minister for their reaction and ask them, do you think rishi sunak should just take on nigel farage in a head to head debate? either to put him in his place or perhaps to come to some dramatic agreement together? get in touch. what would you do should that debate take place? gbnews.com/yoursay say. but before we get stuck into an hour's worth of superb politics, your headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good

afternoon. >> the top stories, nigel farage says reform uk is now the opposition after a pope them 1% ahead of the conservative party yougov says the close result represents a seismic shift in the voting landscape. but they also cautioned that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats. labour is still well ahead on 37, down one point, while the lib dems also lost a point, scoring 14% with the greens on seven points. nigel farage says his party could change the dynamic on election day. >> they're still pumping out the same line that if you vote for reform you will get labour, but the inflection point means that actually if you vote conservative in the red wall, you will almost certainly get labour for a conservative vote in the red wall is now a wasted vote. we are the challengers to laboun vote. we are the challengers to labour. we are now the real

opposition in responding to the latest poll, chief secretary to the treasury laura trott said it's a stark warning but a vote for reform risks putting labour in charge, which would mean higher taxes. >> we know on their own figures that their manifesto would take the tax burden to a record high, but the truth is much worse. on top of that, we know the £385 top of that, we know the £38.5 billion black hole in labour's unfunded promises mean taxes will go up by an extra £2,094 for every working family in our country, so we know the size of the bill, but not how they plan to pay for it . to pay for it. >> backing british farmers would be central to a plan unveiled by the liberal democrats this afternoon. the party's deputy leader is 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 strategy would also tackle rising prices on supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security. daisy cooper says british farmers play an essential role in the nation's economy . in the nation's economy. >> farmers have been completely sold out by this conservative government already. farmers are seeing that they've been undercut by farmers from abroad, so we think it is the right thing to do to renegotiate these trade deals and get a much better deal for our farmers . better deal for our farmers. >> now, 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 among the most common conditions that force people out of work . whilst force people out of work. whilst an estimated 1.2 million people are currently waiting for mental health treatment , nato is to health treatment, nato is to have more control over the

coordination of weapons for ukraine in an effort to safeguard supplies. as donald trump bids for a second term as us president, the us and ukrainian president signed a ten year security agreement at the g7 summit last night, inching it closer towards membership of the alliance. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion. mr trump has been a strong critic of the nato alliance, even saying he would encourage russia to attack any member that fails to attack any member that fails to pay its bills . leading pub to pay its bills. leading pub groups and breweries have written to three main political parties demanding an immediate cut in duties on beer. the letter appears in today's edition of the times, coinciding with the start of the euros football tournament. they say british drinkers paid 54% pence of duty per pint, compared to german or spanish beer lovers who pay less than £0.05. they're calling for an urgent, radical reform of business rates to bnng reform of business rates to bring the uk in line with

european average . and it was the european average. and it was the old testament that said laughter is the best medicine, so it's fitting that the pope held a meeting today with some of the world's leading comedians stars including whoopi goldberg, jemmy fallon and chris rock lined up to meet the pontiff at the vatican, striking a clownish tone as he began his speech, pope francis said comedy was an important tool to bring people together and thanked his guests for making god smile . for the for making god smile. 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 back to . martin. to. martin. >> thank you tatiana. now reform uk leader nigel farage has claimed that his party was now the opposition to labour after a yougov survey puts mr farage's party yougov survey puts mr farage's party ahead at 19 points and the conservatives trading behind by one point on 18. in voting

intention. in a crossover moment intention. in a crossover moment in the latest blow to tories hopes of returning to government . so why don't we hear what nigel farage had to say a little earlier on today? >> and i'm putting it to you that i believe i can be that voice of opposition. i'm pretty clear and consistent in what i stand and what i for. stand up i'm not afraid of a fight. i don't bow to twitter pressure or the mob on the streets. i've taken on the european union , taken on the european union, i've taken on the big banks, and i'm pretty certain i can take on a labour government headed by keir starmer that will have almost no honeymoon period whatsoever, will inherit some very, very deep problems . and i very, very deep problems. and i don't think has the radical solutions to sort the country out . out. >> well, now speak with the conservative health minister,

maria caulfield. maria, welcome to the show. always a pleasure to the show. always a pleasure to have your company. so nigel farage, there and typically feisty form as you'd expect, saying the reform party is now the real opposition. and he went on further to say a vote for the conservatives is now a wasted vote in the red wall, a vote for the conservatives in the red wall is now a vote for sir keir starmer. how do you react to that? >> well, yeah , there has been >> well, yeah, there has been one poll which showed that reform were one point ahead of the conservatives, but most polls show there significantly behind. and i think most even nigel himself would, acknowledge that they're unlikely to win many seats at all. and the choice that people have across this country on the 4th of july is who will be the next prime minister and it'll be one of two people. it will either be rishi sunak or it will be keir starmer. and we've seen with the manifesto launch from labour this week, that tax rises are on the cards . so people have to the cards. so people have to make a decision. can they afford a labour government, who have

plans to tax their homes, we've re—evaluation of council tax their cars by lifting that fuel duty freeze that we have kept over the years of our government and just tax more generally, you know , we're introducing tax know, we're introducing tax cuts, national insurance in particular, and for the self—employed and the triple lock plus. so the state pension will not fall into that tax threshold . so people have threshold. so people have a choice to make. and i know nigel and, you know, i'm a fellow brexiteer. i have a lot of respect for nigel, but we've got a serious choice to make now, who will run the country? and it can only be one of two people. >> well, nigel farage also threw down the gauntlet to the bbc, demanding to be in the leader's debates. based on this current polling, he also challenged sir keir starmer to head to head debate on immigration. do you think it'd be a good idea for the prime minister, rishi sunak, to go head to head with nigel farage and face the music directly? because it seems at the moment that mr farage is the

problem that isn't going away for the conservatives, perhaps the best way to put this to bed is to duke it out on the telly. >> well, you know, i think it's really important to have this debate about why, we have we're the only party at the moment who have got a plan to get down illegal immigration and to put the record straight, you know , the record straight, you know, until we left, the eu, in 2020, when boris came along, we were still obliged to deal with free movement of people, so we couldn't bring in the restrictions we wanted to. and it was boris who came in, who got brexit done . and within got brexit done. and within a few weeks of that election we were straight into covid. and so some of the work we wanted to do on immigration then was held back, but since rishi's come in as prime minister we're actually starting to get illegal immigration down. we've brought in an australian point system so we can decide who comes and works here legally. we've taken tough action on student, dependent visas, and we're already seeing just the figures are out this week that they are down 30. so thousands of fewer people are entering this country. and on illegal

migration, we're taking really tough action. you've seen the footage yourself of the rwanda plan , sending illegal migrants plan, sending illegal migrants to ireland because they don't want to come here because they're afraid of being deported. now, if sir keir starmer comes in, all of that, is scrapped and we're back to square one with, immigration at levels that we can't control. so there are reasons why over the lifetime of the conservative government, we've not been able to get to grips at the speed we would have liked. but since we left the eu back in 2020, we have made some radical steps that are making a difference and getting those numbers down. and what i would say to the british people is don't put that at risk. we've got a legal migration system which we can control about who comes and lives and works here, and they pay lives and works here, and they pay their nhs surcharge thousands of pounds a year to do so. and the illegal maria . so. and the illegal maria. >> maria. i'm joined. i need to interject, i'm joined in the studio by chris hope, our political editor. he's got a question you'd like to fire at you . you. >> maria. hello. great to see you again. a very, very quick question. just a basic maths

question. just a basic maths question. if you add 18 to 17, you get 35. the referendum reform uk is on 18, the tories are on 17. 35% is labour's lead in the polls. now why don't you do some form of arrangement, some deal with the reform party because currently, for all your talk of new policies, the punters aren't listening. you've got to start connecting to these, these 18% of reform uk voters to get on level terms with a reform with the labour party. >> well, nigel farage has been pretty clear that his mission isn't, to kind of deal with, issues like immigration. it's to destroy the conservative party you know, and i am saying to voters on my doorsteps that actually, if those people who are right wing , you know, who are right wing, you know, who believe that what we're doing in terms of , centre right, believe terms of, centre right, believe what we're doing in terms of immigration, they've got to stick with us because or else we've got a decade of socialism . we've got a decade of socialism. and that's, you know, the message that people have got. it's keir starmer or rishi sunak who will be prime minister after

july the fourth. and nigel farage has been pretty clear there's no deals on the table. he wants to eradicate the conservative party i think that's, you know, a shame because, you know, we are doing some good work in this space. we got brexit done. it might not always been to the 100% degree that some people would have liked, but we've been able to tackle a legal immigration since then. and the plan is working both legal migration in terms of, say, student visa dependents , other dependents that were, traditionally allowed to come here is ending. and on illegal migration, you know, we stopped, 36,000 people crossing the channel last year. our deal with albania has reduced the number of albanians by 90. >> okay, maria, people want progress, you know, they've got to make a decision because, nigel doesn't want a deal on the table and that's, something people have to make their decision on. now maria, nigel farage himself said there are 2.4 million reasons why he doesn't want to do a deal with the conservative party. >> and those are the numbers of people who've come into the

country by the front door and the back door. since the conservatives have been in power. but i want to pull you up on that point of brexit. you remember as a brexiteer project. fearit remember as a brexiteer project. fear it didn't work. nobody listened to the continual negative messaging . and yet negative messaging. and yet today laura trott's, responding today laura trott's, responding to the to the labour manifesto, it was so gloomy. 18 labour tax rises taxes will be £58 billion higher. this is unprecedented . higher. this is unprecedented. it will be disastrous. project fear doesn't work. where's the optimistic vision? where's the hope? where's that positive message that voters want to hear? because it just feels like it's degenerating into a slanging match. >> well, you a positive message that we can give in our manifesto. firstly, on immigration, we're seeing the numbers falling even without a flight taking off. we're seeing people moving to countries like ireland to avoid coming here and being deported . but for the being deported. but for the ordinary man and woman on the street, you know, voting for us as conservatives, you'll see that national insurance cut

going further with an extra thousand pounds a year. less national insurance that people will be able to pay pensioners . will be able to pay pensioners. with the triple lock guaranteed and a bigger increase , set for and a bigger increase, set for next year. the triple lock plus not going into that tax threshold band keeping more of that, that money that they have worked very hard for. if you look at what we're saying to, apprentices, young people, you know, more apprentices so you can earn a trade, not take on, tuition fees, help to buy being extended to, first time buyers. so if you're struggling to get that deposit together but can afford the monthly payments , afford the monthly payments, that will make a big difference to young people. if you look at the work that we're doing around, education, for example, that, you know, not not, you know , promoting people who want know, promoting people who want to make a choice about where they send their , their children they send their, their children to school. there's lots of optimism in our manifesto, but we do also have to be clear, if labour get in, it will mean more tax rises and people need to

make that choice. do they want to stick with the plan? that's meaning they're keeping more money, more of the money that they earn. or do they really want to put that at risk with keir starmer, who's not really being honest with the british people about how he'll pay for his promises ? his promises? >> okay. maria goldfield, health minister, we have to leave it there. thanks for joining minister, we have to leave it there. thanks forjoining us on there. thanks for joining us on there. thanks for joining us on the show. always appreciate your time. thank you very much. now let's get back to studio. chris, a quick bit of analysis to show that they haven't to respond all the time. now, isn't that a problem if you're responding to what labour do all the time, if you're responding to what nigel farage does all the time, you're constantly on a back foot and there's no opportunity anymore to get that positive message out . it feels like the conservatives are on the ropes. >> it does, and they've got to do something to get that poll figure going up somewhere. it's been around 2020 points really since mr sunak became the prime minister. there's a poll out just now from bmg for the eye newspaper saying that nearly half of tory voters want greater cooperation with nigel farage's party. and that's why you asked the question. look at the maths .

the question. look at the maths. yeah, maria caulfield, look at the maths. rishi sunak you get if you even take half that support away from the reform party. the tory party is back in the game. it's all to play for. there's two and a half weeks left until something like that happens. it's not going to happen. now we're talking about what happens if, say, reform uk become the second biggest party by votes counted , but they win by votes counted, but they win four mps. the tories are third, but win maybe 100 mps. how is that fair? will that be accepted by by by reform uk voters . and by by by reform uk voters. and that's why you hear nigel farage not ruling out joining the tory party as an mp coming, crossing the floor and tunnelling his way in like some kind of, virus and taking over the party. i mean, the what's happening right now is in a sense, you know , the is in a sense, you know, the tory party is like in jaws when they're chucking chum over the back of the boat, the orca, and it's being attacked by sharks like a, like a bait ball being attacked by by labour and the reform uk party and all sudden jaws comes from the deep, with the zigi in the corner of its

mouth and chomp . mouth and chomp. >> yeah, with a big, that could be what nigel farage does to the good ship conservative party. now quickly moving on, shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds was asked earlier today about reform uk's polling rise and whether he was concerned whether it could take votes from the labour party . the labour party. >> well, i think if you look at what we've seen in some of the big by elections, for instance, running into this general election, you've seen labour genuinely win support from a whole range of different quarters, whether that's conservatives switching to us, whether it's people who were labour but then felt they couldn't support us and they've come back to us. so look, there's a there's always a lot going on in british politics. but the job for us is can we convince people, can we ask them to put their trust and support in us to have a mandate for change, to form the next government and i feel very confident in the arguments we're putting forward on that. >> now, throughout the election campaign, we'll be hearing from people across the united kingdom about what really matters to them. issues such as nhs waiting

lists, the impact of immigration, the cost of living crisis and crime and policing. our reporters have been to meet voters from all four nations, all four corners of the uk , and all four corners of the uk, and we'll be hearing from them regularly before polling day . regularly before polling day. and today, for the first time, we meet john from east yorkshire i >> -- >> my name hm >> 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. we're involved in property, property maintenance , property property maintenance, property rentals. i think that immigration needs to be better 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. 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, 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 doon is not being invaded by the back door, but is losing what we what we are, i consider to be traditional core british values. i've never really been a big, politically motivated person. i've tended to not really bother. i've cracked on with business and thought, well, whoever gets in gets in. it says 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. >> fascinating stuff. i absolutely love those things. now coming up, could proposals in labour's manifesto, which includes axing the lords, more power for mayors and a modernisation committee, prevent an event like brexit ever

happening again? stay tuned. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's approaching 425. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. now, while most of the talk about labour's manifesto yesterday was focused on the economy and tax, we're now paying economy and tax, we're now paying attention to the constitutional elements because hidden in its pages or several radical overhauls of the british constitution that have alarmed switched on legal experts. proposals include axing the house of lords, more power for mayors and a modernisation committee, whatever that is. well, let's find out because i'm now joined by by the barrister and the writer at the spectator , and the writer at the spectator, stephen barrett, and a great friend of the show and a superb

scholar, stephen, this is alarming stuff . the devil is alarming stuff. the devil is always in the detail. we were obsessed with the tax, with the economics. and yet when you delve deeper, stephen, there are some pretty serious overhauls here of the british constitution, starting with the lords and going further. constitution, starting with the lords and going further . this, i lords and going further. this, i know, concerns you. share with us why ? us why? >> well, i don't think i can endorse or condemn this because that's a political action. >> but i think i should explain what the effects of it will be. and the first thing i want your viewers to know is that this is really a continuation of the post 1997 plan. this is very much gordon brown's vision. and there is a saying in politics which is beware an old man in a hurry. and it does look as though he's managed to convince sir keir to put into the manifesto all of his, ideas. they are chaotic. that's a statement of fact. this will create chaos. i don't think that can be doubted, that that's not a subjective opinion . it's

a subjective opinion. it's moving power from the centre to all sorts of random places where they can then clash. i mean, you mentioned mayors . why should mentioned mayors. why should a future labour mayor be able to veto an act of parliament that a conservative government wants to pass ? why should a future pass? why should a future conservative mayor be able to veto an act of parliament? that, and a duly elected labour government wants to pass they they are once again reaching for my, my truly the one thing in life that i suppose it is obvious i loathe, which is which is politicising the courts . so is politicising the courts. so they're intending to drag the poor judges into this and make poorjudges into this and make them part of this politicised nonsense. but really , it's just nonsense. but really, it's just utter chaos. no one will know who is in charge, so nothing will be able to change. and to be honest, martin, it's very difficult to avoid the fact that thatis difficult to avoid the fact that that is the point of all of this. i actually had a private conversation with someone who's on the team, and he admitted this is what they call entrenchment, which is the technical term for meaning that nothing ever changes if you engagein nothing ever changes if you

engage in entrenchment , you will engage in entrenchment, you will bnng engage in entrenchment, you will bring the entire system down. okay this is what happened in germany before hitler. the two parties turned into effectively one party. there was no way that and it didn't matter who you voted for, there was no effective way to get change. so there was an angry, shouty man. and although he was an angry, shouty man and a bit odd, so enough of the germans voters decided to give him a go . and decided to give him a go. and that's how the whole thing kicked off. if you if you entrench . and our constitution entrench. and our constitution knows this, by the way, our constitution is designed to stop entrenchment . realistically they entrenchment. realistically they ought the people doing this ought the people doing this ought to know what entrenchment causes. but it's no different than leaving a pressure cooker on forever. eventually, the pressure cooker will explode. you know, if you if you leave everything exactly the same, then the things that are problems will carry on being problems will carry on being problems and they'll never get fixed. and if they never get fixed, they'll get worse. and as they get worse, people get more and more angry and more and more upset. and this is when human societies collapse, you know,

they're walking around with the self—professed belief that they are experts and geniuses. they they think that they're plato's philosopher princes and that they're going to fix everything and create utopia. and i'm afraid, martin, all they're going to do is bring the entire thing crashing down. it's just it's not rocket science. this this is what happens if people can't get to change. >> okay, steven, may i ask you a question? say, for example , if question? say, for example, if we were to do something or attempt to do something again , attempt to do something again, like brexit, a referendum where the government, the powers that be, didn't like the outcome, would this new framework make it even easier to stymie the will of the people ? of the people? >> yes. and the government won't matter. the powers that be will be the people on the moral and ethics committee. it will be the people on the on the, you know, all these subcommittees, the non—elected will have power. everything over everything. this is this is a politicised civil servants dream. i mean, this is this is total domination over, over us all. it's actually

characterised in constitutional terms as a weak dictatorship. and i just i don't want to alarm anybody or appear as an alarmist. but if you create a weak dictatorship, which is what you've got, immediately in france after the revolution or what you got before stalin sort of killed everybody and rose to power, you get a period where there's a bureaucracy in charge. they tend to bicker and fight with each other, and eventually a strongman comes along and says, we're not having this anymore. i'm in charge. and that is that is a well—trodden human path. this is not alarmist. this is what humans do . the one is what humans do. the one shining light, martin, is that i think our constitution genuinely cannot have entrenchment. so if you got in a government afterwards, it could use acts of parliaments to remove all of this, all of this nonsense. they're trying to invent an idea called constitutional statutes, which the supreme court has just said, we don't have and we don't have them. so they'll have to invent them via an act of parliament. we'll repeal that one. now tim stanley made a very good point, which is that it's all well and good, me telling a future government that this is possible as law. what a future government will need is to, to

coin a phrase , martin, the coin a phrase, martin, the cojones to actually do this . you cojones to actually do this. you know, they'll need the political will to do this. and martin mentions the equality act, and he says that the equality act can't be repealed because they'll just go around saying that you hate equality. well, if that's the state of british society, that was so infantilized that anybody wanting to repeal a frankly dodgy or not that terribly well, working act of parliament just because it's called something nice . i mean, if we if we pass nice. i mean, if we if we pass an act of parliament saying first born children can, can be murdered, but we call it the fluffy bunny and kittens act. is it truly that we won't be in a position to repeal it? we need to, you know, they will require political will upon which i will always remain silent. but i will say as law, this stuff can be got rid of if they do it. >> stephen barrett food for thought as ever. excellent analysis. that's why you're the best in the business. thank you very much for joining best in the business. thank you very much forjoining me on the very much for joining me on the show. this afternoon and sharing your sage like advice. thank you . it's your sage like advice. thank you .wsfime your sage like advice. thank you . it's time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to make this summer really special. with over £16,000 worth

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should visit food gov.uk for a full list of affected products . full list of affected products. nigel farage says reform uk is now the opposition after a poll put them 1% ahead of the conservative party. yougov says the close result represents a seismic shift in the voting landscape. but they also cautioned that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats . struggle to pick up any seats. labouris struggle to pick up any seats. labour is still well ahead on 37, down 1, while the liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14% with the greens on seven points. speaking this afternoon, mr farage said his party could change the dynamic on election day . on election day. >> they're still pumping out the same line that if you vote for reform you will get labour, but the inflection point means that actually if you vote conservative in the red wall, you will almost certainly get labour a conservative vote in

the red wall is now a wasted vote. we are the challengers to laboun vote. we are the challengers to labour. we are now the real opposition . opposition. >> leading pub groups and breweries have written to three main political parties demanding an immediate cut in duties on been the letter appears in today's edition of the times, coinciding with the start of the euros. they say british drinkers pay euros. they say british drinkers pay £0.54 of duty per pint, compared to german or spanish beer lovers who pay less than £0.05. they're calling for an urgent, radical reform of business rates to bring the uk in line with the european average . for the latest stories, average. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news complex. >> thank you tatiana. now, if you want to get in touch, simply go to gbnews.com/yoursay and i'll read out best of your messages a little later in the

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join us tomorrow morning for a very special programme. andrew pierce and ali costello will be presenting live coverage of trooping the colour from 10 am. tomorrow morning, live on gb news now. greencore group, who supply food retailers including including aldi, asda, amazon , including aldi, asda, amazon, boots, co—op, morrisons and sainsbury's, are recalling various sandwiches, wraps and salads over fears that they are contaminated with e coli and they say it hasn't been detected in the products. but this is a precautionary step or very worrying news. and i'm joined now by retail analyst and author of retail therapy why the retail industry is broken and what can be done to fix it. mark pilkington, mark, welcome to the show . a lot of big retailers show. a lot of big retailers there. this will affect a lot of

people watching the show. they'll get their sandwiches and their food products from those stores. how concerned should they be? >> i think very concerned. >> i think very concerned. >> i think very concerned. >> i mean, all the evidence is there's been a lot of outbreaks recently, outbreaks of, of not just e coli, but salmonella and other food type, diseases are at an all time peak. >> i think a ten year peak, there's a lot of evidence, that the, the security agencies raisi is not actually got the resources to actually be able to control these things as they did before. so it's another example of, you know, shortages in the pubuc of, you know, shortages in the public sector , meaning that public sector, meaning that basically the public is left vulnerable to these kind of, very scary outbreaks. >> and what particular types of products should people be cautious of? is it mainly chicken based products ? chicken based products? >> yeah, i think it's mainly sort of, it's the sort of fresh meat type, products , where e meat type, products, where e coli tends to, to be concentrated, but, you know,

just the fact that this sort of thing can get through, of course, they haven't admitted that greencore has actually got a problem , but i think they're a problem, but i think they're clearly worried about it. the fact that it can get through is deeply worrying and what's driving this? >> is it a lack of hygiene in the production ? i mean, where is the production? i mean, where is the production? i mean, where is the initial source contamination coming from? >> mark pilkington well, the truth is we don't know because i think there isn't the regulatory framework in place to be able to control it. >> i mean, it could be happening back in the in the raw materials in the production of the actual chicken , on the farms. or it chicken, on the farms. or it could be in the factories , it could be in the factories, it could be in the factories, it could be in the factories, it could be in the distribution system. we don't really know , system. we don't really know, all we know is that the they've got the shortages of staff and we, you know, we've got this all time high in cases. so unless we get more staff there, seems to me they're not going to be able to figure out what's where it's going wrong and rectify it . going wrong and rectify it. >> and mark greencore are, of course, saying that products haven't been contaminated.

nevertheless, they have issued a statement like this. there must be some cause for concern. in the meantime , mark, if people the meantime, mark, if people are watching this and they want to stay safe, what would you advise them to do? what's your advice of how to not contract coli? >> well, i think the first is to, to sort of stay away from these specific sandwiches from these specific sandwiches from these specific sandwiches from these specific retailers. >> and they've said that they'll return them, they'll asda have said that you can return them. i would say, yeah, at the moment you probably want to stay away from sandwiches until they've bottomed out. this problem . bottomed out. this problem. >> wow, that is hardcore news. well, thank you very much for joining us, mark pilkington. and you're the author of why the retail therapy why the retail industry is broken. what can be done to fix it? mark bilton, thanks for sharing your advice and helping people stay safe out there. thank you very much. now all eyes are on scotland tonight as they face hosts germany in the opening match of euro 2024 at the alliance arena in munich and scotland, whose preparations for the tournament have been hampered by injuries, are looking for their first win

against germany since 1999 and what a night it will be for them to finally do it well, is it? tense up north in the border in scotland? well, let's find out right away by crossing to glasgow and speaking with gb news reporterjack glasgow and speaking with gb news reporter jack carson. jack, it's a long shot there. 12 to 1 outsiders. there are only two teams on the park. it doesn't look good on paper, but football is about believing in miracles. is there belief there on the streets of glasgow ? streets of glasgow? >> well, there's belief, martin. there's tension . and there's a there's tension. and there's a lot of excitement as well. of course, ahead of the first game of the euros tonight, germany versus scotland, they know going into this they're the underdogs. but it's the underdog that you back in cases like this because they know they've got a team that's fully fit, that's raring to go. you know they had a bit of an injury scare earlier on in training in the week with andy robertson. of course, their captain limping off the training field. he's managed to be fit and ready for tonight. steve clarke knows how much of an important game this is, how much

of a momentous occasion this is because of course, it's the second european championship in a row that scotland have made it to. they had to wait 23 years until 2021 to get back to their first european championship. he's the first scotland manager, steve clarke, to take them back to back, and the atmosphere is really building here in scotland we've got we've got a flag seller here selling the saltire and loads of other flags for the fans tonight . there's fan zones fans tonight. there's fan zones and pubs of course, going to be full across the city later. we've got quite a few fans already here enjoying a bit of a drink, ready for the game. and martin, i want to introduce you to four year old noah, who might well be the cutest scotland fan in glasgow today. here he is. noah with his shirt on and his kilt looking the part noah , tell kilt looking the part noah, tell me who is going to win tonight? >> scotland . >> scotland. >> scotland. >> that's what we like. and what do you think the score is going to be? one nil, one nil from noah. there we go. that's that is the big that is the big support that scotland's got here. cute little noah with his kilt and his scotland shirt on.

but we have also martin bit out on the streets of glasgow today talking to all kinds of scotland fans. optimistic, pessimistic. take a listen to what they told us a little bit earlier on. how are you feeling then, ahead of tonight's game. >> brilliant. >> brilliant. >> yeah. who do you think's going to win. how do you think it's going to go scotland 2121. who's going to make the difference for you john mcginn obviously we're the underdogs going into that game. >> but you know we get a result tonight. anything can happen. >> i, i like to be optimistic that we might reach the knockouts, but realistically who knows. >> well lots of times we're playing against one of the top teams in the world. so if we can get a draw, it be a good result. >> so yeah, a bit of a mixed reaction there from the people on the street. noah thinks it's going to be one nil scotland. no, i think scotland are going to win. of course you said it martin 1999. when he got to go back to when scotland last beat germany. but the hosts know that the pressure is on their shoulders, their fans expect them to possibly go on and win

this major tournament. of course , it was 2014 when they last won a major tournament with the world cup, so the pressure is on germany. scotland got nothing to lose. we could well see an upset later on tonight. >> yeah. jack carson i think a fan behind you there was saying it could be one nil to scotland as well. apologies for the hand sign he gave. you know a little noah there, four years old. jack, i remember when i was filled with optimism and hope, just like him as a boy. many years have passed. many, many tears have gone into many beers since then. scotland expects jack carson excellent report. thank you for joining jack carson excellent report. thank you forjoining us live thank you for joining us live from glasgow. now we can see a live view in munich as fans arrive for the opening match of the euro 2024 tonight between germany and scotland, it's rumoured as many as 200,000 scottish fans are there . that is scottish fans are there. that is a lot of jocks, a lot of tartan army and maybe a lot of them won't remember the result. maybe that's their strategy. as i said, there are 12 to 1 outsiders tonight. germany are

1.25 to 1 to on win. this football, of course, though, is all about believing in miracles. scotland are 150 to 1 to win the tournament, but so were greece in 2004. greece went on to win that tournament. could scotland performed the same kind of miracle tonight? well, that is the build up in munich . kick off the build up in munich. kick off 8 pm. the world will be watching. i've got to say. good luck scotland. look at those boys there. and his missus there. they're getting ready for it. they're in the zone. good look, scotland and good luck. england. sunday night as well. superb stuff. all the excitement is building up in munich now. on the way, we'll be giving more scrutiny of the labour party manifesto as buried in that manifesto as buried in that manifesto is a commitment to stick by outlaw petrol and diesel cars by 2030, which a report has estimated could cost every household . in britain

every household. in britain £14,700. is the labour party waging a renewed war on motorists? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

now. yesterday in the labour party manifesto, they unveiled the pledge to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. they also detailed they'll bring back the original 2030 dates for becoming net zero. but this has been met with fierce opposition as motoring experts say this would cause drivers to face huge costs. well joining me now to discuss this is motoring journalist and broadcaster danny kelly. danny, we're just about getting used to motorists being milked as a cash cow. it seems things might get a whole heap worse if the labour party get in. >> martin, when i read this morning, keir starmer saying he was the party behind motorists, i nearly spat out my eggs

benedict over the kitchen table. if you look at the labour councils that have ulez, there's a common denominator. they're all labour, bristol, birmingham and of course london. they're on the side of motorists at all. he he advocates more low traffic neighbourhoods and he uses emotional blackmail by saying, you know , cars shouldn't speed you know, cars shouldn't speed past schools. and of course he's right. but what low traffic neighbourhoods typically are are a blanket ban on cars driving at all. so he's conflating a rather emotional story with something thatis emotional story with something that is completely separate. they're not on the side of motorists. martin, i can speak to you from a used car dealers perspective. people don't. and i am speaking generally here. people don't want to be pushed into electric cars. martin, the used car values of electric cars are plummeting, which reflects the general lack of appetite and concern . lives are saying that, concern. lives are saying that, look, we're on the side of motorists because if we're successful, we're going to scrap the latest doolas expansion in london. so i don't buy keir starmer's advocacy for the everyday man and woman, the mondeo man. if you like.

>> now, of course they will say that they want clean air, they want to hit those targets. but of course , all of this zealotry, of course, all of this zealotry, danny has a price. now the centre for economics and business research, they put a report out. they reckon that the updating of cars is going to cost £14,700 for every household. now, danny, people don't have that kind of money. and as another another thing that came out in this report is the devolution of power to council. so as you said, councils can put ltns in, councils can put ltns in, councils can put ulez in, central government won't get involved, not on my watch. the next thing you know, danny, they'll all want a piece of it. because guess what? motorists, they're always forced to cough up. >> of course they are. and 14,500 pounds is a lot of dough, martin. but a lot of people don't have if they're being forced to look at an electric car, just to revisit the 2035 going back to 2030 for the ban on internal combustion engines . on internal combustion engines. martin. it's unpopular. i'm speaking generally, but it is, of course, unpopular , the of course, unpopular, the potholes was interesting, martin, because labour say that

they're going to fix 1 million potholes. i've just got off the phone from my man at walsall council just down the road , and council just down the road, and he he laughed out loud at that because conservative central government have just handed walsall council £1.6 million just to fix potholes. and this was at the start of the new financial year. and that was april this year. motorists are being hit hard. ltns generally speaking, they're loathed by motorists, they're loathed by the emergency services. how often do we see stories of paramedics having to sprint down closed off roads, with stretches where they can't get the paramedic and the ambulance to somebody who's having a cardiac at number 74 acacia avenue. yeah, i don't buy that. they're on the side of motorists. >> okay. danny kelly, thanks for joining us. always a delight to have your company. thank you very much. now don't go anywhere because in the next hour we'll because in the next hour we'll be discussing nigel farage, his claim that reform are now the opposition party, the challengers . sir opposition party, the challengers. sir keir opposition party, the challengers . sir keir starmer to challengers. sir keir starmer to head debate, head to head debate on immigration. wouldn't you want to see that? i'm martin

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gb news. >> hey. very good afternoon to you. and a happy friday. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, as reform overtook the tories in an opinion poll today, their leader, nigel farage roared i'm in this for keeps and then dramatically challenged sir keir

starmer to a debate on immigration. our political edhon immigration. our political editor, chris hope, will bring us the very best analysis . this us the very best analysis. this next story, buried in the labour party manifesto, is a commitment to outlaw petrol and diesel cars by 2030, a new report has estimated that this will cost every household £14,700. the labour leader has also declared that low traffic neighbourhoods are a good idea . will labour are a good idea. will labour wage a war on motorists ? and wage a war on motorists? and here now is a view of munich as football fans arrive for the opening match of euro 2024 between germany and scotland. later tonight, we'll get all the latest from scotland fans, as well as the match draws closen there they are, the tartan army. all getting warmed up. that's all coming up in your next hour. once the show. always a pleasure

to have your company. what a week it's been in politics and today just got juicier. nigel farage claiming the reform party is now the de facto opposition, saying votes for the conservatives is now a wasted vote in the red wall. and a dramatic poll has just landed saying that 46% of tory voters want a pact between reform and the conservatives, and two thirds of reform voters agree. we'll have full analysis on that with chris hope shortly in the studio. get in touch. what do you make of all this? should there be a pact? should there be a deal, or should there just be a deal, or should there just be a tv debate between all of the leaders, including nigel farage, on both the bbc and with sir keir starmer on immigration? get in touch. the usual ways gb news. com forward slash your side. but before the next action packed hour, it's your headlines with tatiana sanchez .

with tatiana sanchez. >> martin thank you. the top stories this hour a range of sandwiches and wraps sold at several major retailers has been recalled due to fears of e coli contamination . some products contamination. some products made by greencore include aldi's chicken fajita triple wrap, amazon's blt sandwich and various lunch items sold at boots in a statement, the company said e coli has not been found in any of its products, but it's issuing the recall as a precaution . anyone concerned precaution. anyone concerned should visit food. gov.uk for a full list of affected products . full list of affected products. in other news, nigel farage says reform uk is now the opposition after a poll put them 1% ahead of the conservatives. yougov says the close result represents a seismic shift in the voting landscape. but they also cautioned that britain's voting system means reform may still struggle to pick up any seats. labouris struggle to pick up any seats. labour is still well ahead on 37, down one point, while the

liberal democrats also lost a point, scoring 14% with the greens on seven points. nigel farage says his party could change the dynamic on election day. they're still pumping out the same line that if you vote for reform you will get labour. >> but the inflection point means that actually if you vote conservative in the red wall, you will almost certainly get labour a conservative vote in the red wall is now a wasted vote. we are the challengers to laboun vote. we are the challengers to labour. we are now the real opposition . opposition. >> responding to the latest poll, chief secretary to the treasury laura trott said it's a stark warning but a vote for reform risks putting labour in charge, which would mean higher taxes . taxes. >> we know on their own figures that their manifesto would take the tax burden to a record high. but the truth is much worse . on

but the truth is much worse. on top of that, we know the £385 top of that, we know the £38.5 billion black hole in labour's unfunded promises mean taxes will go up by an extra £2,094 for every working family in our country, so we know the size of the bill, but not how they plan to pay for it . to pay for it. >> backing british farmers would be central to a plan unveiled by the liberal democrats this afternoon. the party's deputy leader is on the campaign trail in the east of england , 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 strategy would also tackle rising prices on supermarket shelves, ending food poverty and ensuring better food security . ensuring better food security. daisy cooper says british farmers play an essential role in the nation's economy. >> farmers have been completely sold out by this conservative

government already. farmers are seeing that they've been undercut by farmers from abroad. so we think it is the right thing to do to renegotiate these trade deals and get a much better deal for our farmers . better deal for our farmers. >> 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 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. whilst an estimated 1.2 million people are currently waiting for mental health treatment , nato is to have waiting for mental health treatment, nato is to have more control over the co—ordination of weapons for ukraine in an effort to safeguard supplies . as effort to safeguard supplies. as donald trump bids for a second term as us president, donald trump bids for a second term as us president , the us and term as us president, the us and ukrainian president signed a ten year security agreement at the g7 summit last night, inching it closer towards membership of the alliance . it aims to guarantee alliance. it aims to guarantee support for ukraine's war against russia's invasion. mr

trump has been a strong critic of the nato alliance, even saying he would encourage russia to attack any member that fails to attack any member that fails to pay its bills . leading pub to pay its bills. leading pub groups and breweries have written to three main political parties demanding an immediate cut in duties on been the letter appears in today's edition of the times, coinciding with the start of the euros football tournament. they say british drinkers pay £0.54 of duty per pint, compared to german or spanish beer lovers who pay less than £0.05. they're calling for an urgent radical reform of business rates to bnng reform of business rates to bring the uk in line with the european average . and it was the european average. and it was the old testament that said laughter is the best medicine. so it's fitting that the pope held a meeting today with some of the world's leading comedians stars, including whoopi goldberg, jemmy fallon and chris rock lined up to meet the pontiff at the vatican, striking a clownish tone as he began his speech, pope francis said comedy was an

important tool to bring people together and thanked his guests for making god smile . for the for making god smile. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comment kurtz now back to . martin. >> thank you tatiana. now let's get cracking on this final hour. reform uk leader nigel farage has claimed that his party was now the opposition to labour after a yougov survey put mr farage's party at 19 points and the conservatives trailing by one at 18 in voting intention in a crossover moment in the latest blow to tory hopes of returning to government. so why don't we listen to what nigel farage had to say a little earlier on today ? >> and 7- >> and i'm 7 >> and i'm putting it to you that i believe i can be that voice of opposition . i'm pretty voice of opposition. i'm pretty clear and consistent in what i

stand and what i stand up for. i'm not afraid of a fight. i don't bow to twitter pressure or the mob on the streets . i've the mob on the streets. i've taken on the european union. i've taken on the big banks, and i'm pretty certain i can take on a labour government headed by keir starmer that will have almost no honeymoon period whatsoever , will inherit some whatsoever, will inherit some very, very deep problems. and i don't think has the radical solutions to sort the country out well. >> meanwhile, nigel farage also challenged sir keir starmer to a tv debate on immigration. i would also very much like to do a debate head to head with keir starmer, and the reason is very simple . simple. >> we think that this should be the immigration election because whether we're talking about rents, whether we're talking about housing availability, whether we're talking about access to gp services, whether

we're talking about pressure on infrastructure , there is no infrastructure, there is no aspect of our national life that is not touched by the massive population crisis this country now faces directly as a result of our immigration policies that were started by labour. but accelerated by this conservative government >> well, what a week in politics has been. and chris hope joins me in the studio now. our political editor. me in the studio now. our political editor . and it somehow political editor. and it somehow peaked on the friday. nigel farage in feisty, forthright fighting form, as you'd imagine, 6 million votes. he claims the reform party can get where the real opposition penny morden will lose her seat. and yet , will lose her seat. and yet, rather than being at war, a new poll has just dropped . chris, it poll has just dropped. chris, it seems that the voters at least they want a deal, a pact . they want a deal, a pact. >> that's right. martin. yeah, i mean, a bmg poll for the i newspaper . half of voters, tory newspaper. half of voters, tory voters want sunak and farage to do a deal. they support greater

cooperation with farage 46% of tory voters. i was watching that that again, that language there from nigel farage. the real opposition. now, the challenge he's got, i think is he's been in opposition all of his life. he's never run anything in terms of being in power. and to be fair to keir starmer, he has created a party which could then slot in and run a government. could nigel farage do that ? no, could nigel farage do that? no, he couldn't and that's probably why he's looking at a six year plan. he's hoping at the end of that six years he will have a group of people he can think who can run a country because he hasn't got that yet. he always exists in opposition to something else and never saying how he would even show evidence that he could do it himself, because the metrics, of course, 4 million votes in 2015 precipitated into a single seat. >> they may do better this time. they may not, he says. >> 6 million, doesn't he ? i do >> 6 million, doesn't he? i do think, though, we are you know, we had we had all these manifestos, you know, monday, lib dems, tuesday tories , lib dems, tuesday tories, wednesday, greens, thursday, labour and it's friday. it's

quite quiet. one poll has given this, this , this idea that the this, this, this idea that the reformer in second place and he has leapt on it. farage with a lunchtime press conference with all sorts of policy ideas, looking fresh, looking new. i think he's going to find the next three weeks, not difficult, but he'll be under pressure. we're going to see his his manifesto on monday. i'm hoping to be there, somewhere to the west or west of where we are at the moment. and that could be a moment for him, because he will get tested then on policies. and if he can get through that unscathed, then the tories have will have a real worry. >> i think. and what about this throwing down the gauntlet to ofcom to the bbc? nigel farage wants the reform party to be involved in those leaders debates based on the polling. of course, the regulations are against that. >> the rules are because you need the base, they give you your right to appear or and your share of coverage on on ofcom regulated channels like gb news based on the last two vote share of the last two elections, he's saying, well, look at the polling reform. uk didn't exist. i think reform uk technically is a rebadged brexit party,

according to companies house. but even so, it didn't exist in 2019. so it doesn't allow for challenger brands until you've been there for ten years. that's not fair. that's not democratic. he would say. >> and chris, in that same poll you mentioned by bmg , just you mentioned by bmg, just dropped in this last hour, two thirds of reform voters would also like a pact, which is interesting because all of them were saying no more deals. nigel farage himself said no more deals. richard tice says no more deals. richard tice says no more deals. rishi sunak, when pressed no more deals today, two more tory ministers said no more deals. >> laura trott i said to her in a press conference gosh, it feels like last week. it was this morning. yeah, i said to her, look, listen, the euro starts tonight. you know, you're playing a game, you're four nil down. it's half time. the crowd are on your backs. they're booing at you. you want to sign up? the striker from the from the neighbouring best side nigel farage. she said no. although she wasn't a big fan of football i think she understood what i was talking about. yeah no, no idea of working more closely together. essentially the tory party is like a kind of like a

tuna, a bait ball of, of, of or a pile of chum in the sea. it's being attacked by rabid tuna fish or possibly a big fish. the big, even a big shark with a cigarette out of its mouth called what's his name again? >> yeah, that's it. farage could be the jaws to chomp . be the jaws to chomp. >> it's a very invidious situation for the for the tory party right now . party right now. >> lots to analyse. and let's now be joined by the founder and the ceo of electoral calculus, martin baxter. martin welcome to the show. a man with genuine insight, always delight to have you. now, martin, i know you have software your fingertips wizardry. you're capable of. i wanted to ask you purely in the realms of projection. 6 million votes. nigel farage is saying the reform party could get. of course, he would say that , course, he would say that, wouldn't he, if martin baxter? that were to happen . what would that were to happen. what would that mean in terms of seats for the reform party? >> well, at the moment we're predicting them to get about million. >> so that would be doing twice

as well as they are doing in the polls. >> and that would be something like, as well as they did at the eu elections back in 2019, where they got 30% of the vote. if reform got into the 30s, then yes , they would win a lot of yes, they would win a lot of seats. they would probably be the largest party, but we've got to remember that's not where they are at the moment. on our average , weekly poll of polls average, weekly poll of polls reform are at 15, 7% behind the conservatives taking an average over all the polls. i know we had 1 or 2 polls where or one poll where reform were ahead of the conservatives but that was that's not the trend. the trend is that the conservatives are still ahead. but reform have been gaining ground over the last few weeks as nigel farage has come into the frame . has come into the frame. >> now, martin, you understand polls better than perhaps anybody we have on this show. nigel farage richard tice they've been complaining that they've been complaining that they are suppressed in the polls because they are marked as other. they're not put forward . other. they're not put forward. they're not prompted by their name. is that a fair criticism , name. is that a fair criticism, and if that were to happen,

might we see an uptick in the actual numbers that reformer polling at? >> well, that's, that's one pollster that's, savanta that do that, and savanta were quite accurate at the last election, so i wouldn't want to say that their methodology is poor, but their methodology is poor, but the great thing about taking an average of the polls is you take an average of the pollsters methodology that yougov, as you talked about, see, have reform doing well, other pollsters have reform doing not quite as well. take the average. it gives you anidea take the average. it gives you an idea of where we probably are . and the average is reformer at 15, which is good for them. it's higher than the liberal democrats, but they won't really start to win a large number of seats until they get really into the high 20s of support. they need to be above 25, so that they, they will overpass the they, they will overpass the they will overtake the conservatives in terms of vote, much more easily than they overtake the conservatives in terms of seats. but at the moment, neither of those is happening. the conservatives actual danger at the moment is being overtaken by the liberal democrats in terms of seats and having ed davey as leader of the

opposition . so the conservatives opposition. so the conservatives are under attack from both the left and the right at the moment. >> martin is it's chris hope here in the studio with with martin here, so over 25 points in the polls, how many mps would that give nigel farage's reform? that clearly is what he's thinking. he's got to maintain a degree of momentum and get above 25. but what does that mean in seats in parliament and seats? >> it starts very slowly under first past the post. so i've got the numbers here 25. he's still only on three seats, but if he gets to 30, it's over 20 seats. and if he gets to 35, it's up to 40 seats, and then it would probably grow very quickly after 35. >> but martin. but what we one of the problems there sorry you say 35% and that's the figure which labour's on. according to the yougov poll and their forecasts, three 300 seats, not just 30 seats or 35. why is this system so weighted against the party like reform uk? >> i would say it's partly

because reform and the brexit party have had a strategy different say from the lib dems and the greens, who like to build up, support locally, build up local councillors campaigning strength and build up. those were hotspots of support , were hotspots of support, reform. support is quite high, but it's very evenly spread over the country. it's not so concentrated in particular places and that makes it very hard to win seats under first past the post because, for instance, the snp , who instance, the snp, who supporters all concentrated in scotland in terms of national vote share , is not very high, vote share, is not very high, but they can win a lot of seats in scotland or they did last time . so under our electoral time. so under our electoral system, it helps to have your votes piling up in in particular places rather than being evenly spread a little bit everywhere. >> but martin might, for example, very highly localised . example, very highly localised. his campaigns in specific seats be an effective way of doing. we see in by elections, for example , liberal democrats, incredibly effective when they just lump all their resources into one area. might that be something

the reform party could be doing, which might in a sense, go under the radar on the polls , well, i the radar on the polls, well, i we'd probably see it in local elections. so the lib dems and the greens, you you get advance warning through the local election strength reform did not contest the local elections, particularly, back in may. so they don't have that support to build on obviously in seats like clacton and boston, skegness, where they've got very high profile candidates , then yes, profile candidates, then yes, they can absolutely have local factors there, but we look very closely in our figures for where there's , you know, hotspots there's, you know, hotspots bubbung there's, you know, hotspots bubbling away for minor parties. we see it for the lib dems. we've seen it for the greens in brighton and bristol, but we're not seeing it particularly for reform other than where their high profile names are standing. >> okay, martin baxter, the ceo of electoral calculus , thank you of electoral calculus, thank you very much for giving us some common sense and some data there, there's lots of kind of excitement of course, but the reality is the system is very,

very stacked against the smaller parties. martin baxter , thank parties. martin baxter, thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us as ever. thank you. now, of course, yesterday was labour's big manifesto launch day. but what might the cost of it be? well, here is the chief secretary to the treasury, laura trott, making claims about labour's plans. >> yesterday we saw a labour manifesto that contained no tax cuts, only tax rises. we know on their own figures that their manifesto would take the tax burden to a record high. but the truth is much worse. on top of that, we know that £38.5 billion black hole in labour's unfunded promises mean taxes will go up by an extra £2,094 for every working family in our country. >> great stuff. now it's time for the great british giveaway

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now. labour has planned to reinstate the 2030 ban on the on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles. and this could place huge costs on the average driver. according to the founder of fair fuel uk , howard cox. and of fair fuel uk, howard cox. and the ban was meant to be introduced in 2030 by pm rishi sunak. but he pushed it back to 2035. in september last year. well, joining us now to discuss this is the social commentator jim dale. jim, welcome to the show. always a pleasure. all eyes have been on the tax costs, meanwhile dig a bit deeper into the labour party manifesto and lo and behold, the 2030 ban on petrol and diesel vehicles is coming back. a lot of people saying, jim dale, this is a war on motorists. >> yeah, you kind of hear it every election, the same thing. >> i'm old enough to remember the last election, the one before that. the war on motorists by either the telegraph or the mail. it's a it's a regular thing. it's not a

war on motorists. let's make it absolutely clear . it's a war on absolutely clean it's a war on pollution and it's a war on the climate crisis. that's the intention of it. so and by the way, this is not on existing cars. this is on new cars. so it won't affect anybody with a car that's petrol or diesel or hybnd that's petrol or diesel or hybrid or any of those. so this is a massive exaggeration. dufing is a massive exaggeration. during election time, that's what it's meant to be. >> no, because it means that every vehicle will need to be replaced . and if they're not replaced. and if they're not replaced, they may be taxed. for example, also in this manifesto is, keir starmer saying he thinks that low traffic neighbourhoods are a good idea. he'll devolve that power to councils. we already had angela rayner saying expect to see ulez in most towns across britain. the threat is jim dale . the the threat is jim dale. the threat is that existing vehicles will be taxed and they'll need to be replaced. and in fact, a report by the centre for economics and business research has said that this will cost £14,700 for every household by

2030 down the line, because you've got to replace your motor. >> yeah, not necessarily another red herring . i mean, the boss of red herring. i mean, the boss of ford, lisa franklin, is in favour ceo of society of motor manufacturers is in favour. so the motor would be because they'll sell new cars . they'll sell new cars. >> pardon? but they would be in favour of legislation. that means you've got to replace your car because they sell cars. >> it's not a case of replacing. it's when they are due to be replaced. so existing cars stay in position past 2030. if you've got an old car, that's the way it goes. and the rolling out of ulez into other other areas is already happening. that's a pollution measure. that's that's what i would fight for because pollution is a is a inherent, disease causing , symptoms. so disease causing, symptoms. so therefore this is, this is this is moving in the right direction. this is the this is look , this is going to happen look, this is going to happen whether you like it or not. and these are not my words. these

are nigel farage words. we're going to have a labour government, according to nigel farage. so, so whether they like it or not, the mail, the telegraph , the people that telegraph, the people that you've just quoted, it's going to happen is how it happens. and the 14,000 it's going to cost. it's just a just a massive red flag , that is just just bogus, flag, that is just just bogus, to be frank, with you. that's where it is. >> but but but, jim dale, the introduction of ulez has been proven to impact the working poor the hardest. they can't afford the new car rich people. they just buy a nice new ev. won't affect those at the top. it affects the working poor. it affects those who don't live in metropolitan areas, who don't live in places like oxford with its ltns people in rural areas who depend on their cars to get about, who can't afford a new can this impacts the working poon can this impacts the working poor, the poor, the hardest. >> yeah , that's the diatribe >> yeah, that's the diatribe that was put out by the, anti—eu i >> -- >> it's true. lam em >> it's true. in in london. bear with me , in london. and we saw with me, in london. and we saw the results there and other mayoral cities as well. so look

you're trying to sell the same thing that was sold in the mayoral elections in the, in the local elections. now we've got a general election. let's just see if it works, shall we? let's just see what happens on the 3rd of july. what comes out of that in terms of if it's such a big issue and it's not because of the reasons i told you. the big issue is, as i've said to you, about pollution and about the climate crisis , which are climate crisis, which are extremely real, the £14,000 that you're quoting is not real. and it's as simple as that much as the reform reason for climate change, volcanoes is not real. so i'll challenge nigel farage now to have a debate about his net, not net zero policy, because at the moment it's hardly been it's hardly been seen on, on, on media. and look across it and i'm thinking, when are we actually going to get a debate on one of the most important issues, which can include , pollution and cars, include, pollution and cars, etc? it needs to be there. i look forward to gb news making that happen on a round table with nigel farage and necessarily or richard tice, who

appears to run away from debates with me at the moment, either or ehhen with me at the moment, either or either. i'm quite happy to do that, and we'll see whether or not we can talk about volcanoes causing climate change, as we are at this moment in time, as they are. well both of those individuals might be a bit busy at the moment. >> jim . they might have other >> jim. they might have other things on their plate, but i'm sure down the line they'd be happy to take you on. i'd be happy to take you on. i'd be happy to take you on in something as simple as you claim about about ulez saving lives. there's only been one, death certificate that's had pollution on it that wasn't even put down to vehicle pollution itself. there have been multiple, sources that have said that ulez has had minimal impact on air pollution. cars are getting cleaner anyway, and the air is getting cleaner as we go along so we can all fish out the data we need . jim dale, we've got to we need. jim dale, we've got to leave it there, mate. we've got to leave it there. no doubt we'll have the same debate again another time. and i just think it doesn't. it just hammers the poorest . poorest. >> bring him on. >> bring him on. >> we'll have a we'll have a hammers the poorest who doesn't seem to bother you jim dale and

ithank seem to bother you jim dale and i thank you very much, mate. always a pleasure to have you on. there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, including all the build up to the excitement as euro 2024 kicks off tonight. yeah, you can see live pictures on your screen now that's the tartan army then moving their way into munich. can they pull off a miracle 12 to 1 outsiders. but look football dare to dream. the first is your latest news headunes. first is your latest news headlines . and here's tatiana headlines. and here's tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much . >> martin, thank you very much. good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom a range of sandwiches and wraps sold at several major retailers has been recalled due to fears of e coli contamination . some products contamination. some products made by greencore include aldi's chicken fajita triple wrap, amazon's blt sandwich and various lunch items sold at boots. the company says e coli has not been found in any of its products, but it's issuing the recall as a precaution. anyone

concerned should visit food gov.uk for a full list of affected products. nigel farage says reform uk is now the opposition after a poll put them 1% ahead of the conservatives. yougov 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. labour is still well ahead on 37, down one point, while the liberal democrats also lost a point. the greens are on seven. speaking this afternoon , seven. speaking this afternoon, mr farage said his party could change the dynamic on election day. >> they're still pumping out the same line that if you vote for reform you will get labour, but the inflection point means that actually if you vote conservative in the red wall, you will almost certainly get labour a conservative vote in

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being forced to stand outside the airport. in those massive , the airport. in those massive, snaking queues you can see on your screens now. or joining me now to discuss this is a travel and aviation expert , sally and aviation expert, sally gethin. sally, welcome to the show. always a pleasure . what on show. always a pleasure. what on earth is going on? i thought we'd got to the bottom of this 100ml rule. when it came in. it caused chaos, but we got used to it. now the bedlam is back. what's going on? >> well, the government may be hurtling towards an election, but passengers are not even able to take off on time from birmingham airport. it really is an unholy mess. and actually it's a combination of birmingham airport and the government making because the government suddenly announced overnight a week ago that it was reintroducing the liquids rule. and this was after birmingham airport had freed passengers from the liquids rule by introducing new scanners. so now we've got all these passengers snaking around the terminal, but

in reality , also birmingham in reality, also birmingham airport has redeveloped its departures hall and passengers are no longer able to get access into the building as quickly as they did before because they're going through a big renovation plan there, so it's a double whammy. it's like the summer season. the new scanners , hughes season. the new scanners, hughes chaos. >> sally, this seems like the definition of poking your nose in looking for trouble where there is none. we had a system that worked and as i understand it, sally, it's now moving to other airports too. i believe it might be impacting bristol airport as well . is it might be impacting bristol airport as well. is it going to spread everywhere? >> so the problem is, you know that airports themselves were caught on the back foot by that announcement. i mean, yes, they were trying to comply with the government's deadline to introduce these new scanners and introduce these new scanners and in the long run that will improve things. but the problem is it's confusing. i mean, not only did the liquids will come

into force, but there are slight tweaks to it as well. so if you remember, you know, you had to p0p remember, you know, you had to pop your tiny toiletries as they are called and 100ml each per per bottle in a clear plastic bag. and now airports having to put, you know, signs on their website to say, oh no , you, you, website to say, oh no, you, you, you don't have to put them in the clear plastic bags. you have to make them loose in your bag. but they do have to be under 100ml each. oh, and by the way, we can't tell you when because the government hasn't decided when it will rescind this ban yet again. so it's really confused, mixed messaging. and i've spoken to the airports association today and they're saying, you know, we're unfairly being scapegoat as an airports industry for the government's mixed messaging on this liquids rule. and the government hasn't even explained why it's doing this. it's saying there's not an enhanced, you know, terrorist threat or security threat. but we're going to introduce this. so why? we just don't know.

>> it sounds like an absolute chocolate teapot of a situation. i don't even understand the rules. you explain them to me clearly. there is there any way out of this madness? how are we going to get out of it other than turning up to your flights, what, two days early ? what, two days early? >> well, and that creates problems in itself, because if you turn up too early, that adds to more bottlenecks and congestion in the in, in some airports, you know, departures halls and so forth, all you can do is check the airport's website, make sure you rely also on your airline's information. if they do, say, turn up super early, then do that . have more early, then do that. have more stamina and nerves of steel and yeah, and you know also boeing has got two queues there as well . it did have before this liquids rule. so hopefully it's gone back to the one queue even if it is humongous at the moment i >> -- >> okay. sally gethin, thank you for trying to make us have some sense of what seems like an

incredulous situation . sally incredulous situation. sally gethin, travel and aviation experts. always a pleasure to have you on the show. now don't go anywhere because up next we'll be getting to your messages on the huge stories of the day. many of you have been in touch on this idea of a poll, a pact between the reform party and the conservatives. don't go anywhere. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

welcome back. and here is the view from munich . as you can see view from munich. as you can see now, fans arriving for the opening match of euro 2024 between germany and scotland kicks off at 8:00. there go the tartan army, as many 200,000 we heard are rumoured to be in munich. there, 12 to 1 outsiders germany odds on nailed favourite the hosts at 1.25 to 1, but of course football is all about miracles. football is all about

hoping. football is all about keeping the dream alive. there they go to face their destiny in munich. but is it as tense up there in scotland? well, let's find out now by crossing over to glasgow and joining gb news reporter jack cox . and jack, reporter jack cox. and jack, you've been joining us throughout the show. it seems to be getting livelier and livelier. of course, the odds are stacked against scotland, but we must dare to dream . but we must dare to dream. >> well, we love an underdog, don't we, martin? scotland know that this game is against them. not only because, of course , not only because, of course, they're coming up against the hosts of the tournament, germany, and they're their first game. they are the lowest ranked side in their group. game. they are the lowest ranked side in their group . of course, side in their group. of course, other others joining him in that group is switzerland and hungary. but they know that anything is possible . we're here anything is possible. we're here in george square. of course , in george square. of course, where lots of people are gathering. of course, you saw the flags that are behind us as well. and if we come over here, i mean, we've been here, of course, all day, martin. all afternoon. and this pub behind

me has got busier and busier and bufien me has got busier and busier and busier. take a look at already how many fans are out here enjoying themselves , grabbing enjoying themselves, grabbing a pint of beer to probably ease the nerves a little bit because they know how much of a momentous occasion this is. of course, because this is the second consecutive european championship in a row that they've managed to get to. steve clarke is the first scottish manager to be able to do that. they had to wait 23 years until 2021 to get back to a european championship, but they've managed to do it now. andy robertson, who's their captain, said in his pre—match press conference this week that he knows that they don't want to come away with without leaving everything behind, leaving everything behind, leaving everything on the pitch. they don't want to come back with any regrets. they reflected on that 2021 european championship performance . there's a bit of performance. there's a bit of a disappointment, but they know that tonight they're the underdogs. they haven't been in germany since 1999. they know it's everything to play for because of how much pressure is on germany as the host of this tournament , their fans are tournament, their fans are putting the pressure on them. but we've been speaking to

people here in glasgow to find out whether they're optimistic, whether they're pessimists about the match tonight. take a listen to what a few of them told us. how are you feeling, then? ahead of tonight's game ? brilliant. of tonight's game? brilliant. yeah. who do you think's going to win? how do you think it's going to go? scotland 2121. who's going to make the difference for you john mcginn. >> obviously the underdogs going into that game. but you know we get a result tonight. anything can happen i like to be optimistic that we might reach the knockouts. >> but realistically who knows . >> but realistically who knows. >> but realistically who knows. >> well we've heard that lots of times we're playing against one of the top teams in the world. so if we can get a draw, it be a good result . good result. >> of course, steve clarke and scotland are going to be bolstered by the fact that they've got a fully fit squad that they say is full and ready to go. of course, there was a few scares earlier in the week, andy robertson having to sit out of training earlier in the week, but he's managed to make a full recovery and julian nagelsmann, who is of course the germany

manager, saying that they have got a little bit of nervousness. he says that's a good thing. but of course, on such a big stage in munich tonight, when you've got 200,000 scotland fans over there , of course only 10,000 can there, of course only 10,000 can actually get into the game. martin if you want a little stat, 200,000 scotland fans essentially is equivalent to the population of aberdeen that's currently in munich. right now. the police there have tried to tell them to try and spread out a bit because of how overcrowded it is, but it's been such a good atmosphere both there and here in glasgow as these fans get ready for the first match of the european championships, there's all eyes on germany tonight, all eyes on whether scotland can pull off an upset. i think if you've got if you want an underdog, tonight is the night to back scotland. and who knows what could happen at 8:00 jack carson. >> maybe you've been on the dnnk >> maybe you've been on the drink as well. if you believe that there are 150 to 1 outside bars. but so were greece in 2004. they went on to rent the very best of luck to all scotland fans out there. let's face it, jack carson , if there's face it, jack carson, if there's a world cup for the pre—match

drinks, the tartan army would be the champions. live from glasgow jack carson always an absolute pleasure. good luck and of course we can't talk about scotland without talking about the three lions, whose euro 2024 campaign kicks off on sunday evening against serbia at 8 pm. also in germany, now , can gareth also in germany, now, can gareth southgate's boys finally bring it home this summer after so many years of abject misery? well, the current question marks over just how we might line up overjust how we might line up against the serbs. who could play against the serbs. who could play alongside john stones at centre back will trent alexander—arnold be the man to play alexander—arnold be the man to play in midfield alongside declan rice and, of course, our real madrid superstarjude real madrid superstar jude bellingham? much excitement ahead.8 bellingham? much excitement ahead. 8 pm. sunday night is when that kicks off. now the 14th of june is falklands liberation day , which liberation day, which commemorates, of course, the anniversary of argentine forces formal surrender to uk troops on

the islands on june 14th, 1982. usual commemorations include a service followed by wreath laying and a military parade, where all falklands war veterans are invited. now 907 lives were lost during that conflict 649 argentinians, 255 british and three falkland islanders. we should never forget . now also, should never forget. now also, you can get in touch with your views and your comments throughout the show, and the topic that's really got you going is the reform party going to 18 points and the opinion poll by yougov one point ahead of the conservatives on 17. now all talk is should there be a pact? a poll came out this afternoon by gmb saying 46% of the tories want a pact. two thirds of reform voters. is that the right thing to do? vicky says this collaboration between both parties is not as daft as it seems. two heads are better than one, especially in

politics. join forces and see off labour, nick adds this storm will have to come up some better than my daddy made screwdrivers. if he ever thinks he's fit to debate against nigel farage and christine says there's only one thing richard can do now to save his skin . get those flights off his skin. get those flights off to rwanda. but bren , bit more to rwanda. but bren, bit more pessimistic on that deal, says this . any sign of any alliance this. any sign of any alliance between reform and the conservative party then reform will not get my vote. announce your true intentions, nigel. you said no deal. and that is what i agree with. well, that's it from me today. but not to worry, because up next it's dewbs& co with emily carver standing in. thank you for all of your company this week and best of luck to the england team on sunday. and of course, best of luck to scotland tonight. let's bnng luck to scotland tonight. let's bring it home. let's have one of us be a winner. now that's all from me. i'll be watching it with my dad in nottingham on sunday night. it's father's day, don't forget, it's father's day and here's your weather with

aidan magee ian. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello and welcome to the latest met office weather forecast for gb news. those heavy showers dominating the country's weather over the next few days. gusty winds, some sunny spells in between the downpours. they'll be in short supply because low pressure is firmly positioned to the west of scotland. it's going to become slow moving over the next few days and it's going to continue to drive heavy downpours in from the southwest, with gusty wind as well. that's going to be particularly noticeable for the south—west of england and northern scotland. northern scotland subject to more persistent rain overnight, tending to ease later on. another band of more persistent rain moves into northern ireland, wales and the southwest , with some clearer and drier spells further east across england and central and southern scotland. however, temperatures not falling as far as previous nights because we've lost that

cold arctic wind, we've replaced it with low pressure and unsettled weather, so it's not going to be a pleasant start to the weekend. there'll be further heavy showers or longer spells of rain. the wettest weather there for saturday morning across north wales, parts of northern ireland, southwest scotland . some sunshine, though scotland. some sunshine, though for central belts into the grampians, highlands, western isles, the far north of scotland, shetland in particular, a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain, so very mixed conditions across the country on saturday morning and things don't really improve into the afternoon with further showers, building and just about anywhere could see a heavy downpour. even a thunderstorm developing into the afternoon. a gusty wind continues across the south and southwest. meanwhile, those showers will be interspersed by some sunny spells, but it's not going to feel particularly warm in the sunshine. highs of 17 or 18 celsius. now for saturday evening. we'll see further showers rotating around the area of low pressure, which by this

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show. i'm going to take it over to gb news royal correspondent cameron walker, who has an update for us. thanks, emily. >> yes, kensington palace has beenin >> yes, kensington palace has been in touch and they can confirm the princess of wales is expected to attend trooping the colour tomorrow, the king's birthday parade, alongside the

rest of the royal family, now the princess of wales has written a very open and honest and personal letter to the nation, and i'm going to read it out on her behalf. it reads i have been blown away by all the kind messages of support and encouragement over the last couple of months . it really has couple of months. it really has made the world of difference to william and me, and has helped us both through some of the harder times. i am making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days . on those bad days you feel weak, tired and you have to give in to your body. resting but on the good days when you feel stronger, you want to make the most of feeling well. my treatment is ongoing and will be for a few more months on the next. on the days i feel well enough. it is a joy to engage with school life, spend personal time on the things that give me energy and positivity, as well as starting to do a little work from home. i'm looking forward

to attending the king's birthday parade this