>> good afternoon. britain it's 12:00 on monday, the 17th of june. i'm tom harvard, and i'm emily carver. this afternoon, nigel farage launches his party's manifesto in south wales , branding it a contract with the british. people stay with us. we'll be crossing live to reform uk's big announcement this afternoon. >> meanwhile, labour claims its net zero plans will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. but the tories attack their green pledge as a spectacular act of self—harm . spectacular act of self—harm. >> and we have a special report on the crackdown on gun crime. police say firearms are increasingly brought into the uk by criminal gangs. one mother

who lost her son, tells us of her grief and the pictures today dividing the nation after a police officer who rammed into a cow is removed from frontline duties. >> we're asking if he's guilty of cruelty or acted sensibly to protect the public. let us know . protect the public. let us know. >> now we've censored the images of this cow, of this horrific ramming, because we think daytime television really is not the time to see the actual running over that happened, but it does even even that sort of stilted image does show a pretty shocking scene. >> yes , certainly. it seems to >> yes, certainly. it seems to be a completely over the top reaction to a calf wandering down the street like that . i down the street like that. i

understand that they were looking to try and, you know, rescue this, move this cow along for hours trying to do something about it. and this is what they resorted to in the end. very dramatic footage that you can see there. now, i was listening to a call in this morning and it seemed as though every person and their dog had a different opinion on how you should deal with something like this. and i'm not going to pretend to be an expert, because i certainly am not. and we will be speaking to actual experts on this sort of thing. lots of people saying they should have called in a rescue vet, lots of people saying they should have got advice from farming farmers to try and do something about this . try and do something about this. was it necessary to do this? some people might ask, you know, if it was putting the public at risk in one way or another, the police had to act. but it seems the most, a bit of an abuse, doesn't it? it's certainly, to say the least. >> and cows are not violent beings . they're they're gentle, beings. they're they're gentle, they're stoic . and the ways in they're stoic. and the ways in which that you you should deal with them isn't, isn't by trying

to ram at them at 40 miles an houn to ram at them at 40 miles an hour. but, but i'll be speaking. yeah >>i yeah >> i mean, the question, i think, is not only is this cruelty or is this, you know, what they had to do, the question is, what should happen to the police officer because he's being investigated. he's being taken off frontline duties. should he, you know, do time for this? should he be prosecuted for this type of thing? should he end up in jail ? thing? should he end up in jail? we've had farmers saying that. now. >> have you had experiences with cows either moving them on or frankly, being threatened by them? send your views, post your comments, visit us gbnews.com forward slash your say. but all that to come after your headunes. headlines. >> tom thank you and good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the shadow chancellor is highlighting labour's plan to create 650,000 new jobs as a week of economic campaigning begins. rachel reeves will detail a strategy to inject £73 billion into a new national wealth fund , which the

national wealth fund, which the party says will create hundreds of thousands of well—paying jobs across the country. it could also see parts of boris johnson's brexit deal revised , johnson's brexit deal revised, including closer alignment with the eu's rules in some sectors and more rights for british artists working in europe . artists working in europe. reform uk will launch what it's calling a contract with voters later today after the party's leader, nigel farage, refused to call it a manifesto . the party call it a manifesto. the party is promising to freeze all non—essential immigration and take britain out of the european convention on human rights. there would also be a new tax for employers who choose to hire workers from overseas. earnings under £20,000 a year would be tax free, with extra funds made available by abolishing the government's net zero targets. today's launch comes a year after a poll showed reform ahead of the tories by one point, though other polls have since put the party behind the conservatives meanwhile, a reform uk candidate has resigned

after it emerged that he'd previously urged people to vote for the british national party. grant sinclair. for the british national party. grant sinclair . armstrong for the british national party. grant sinclair. armstrong had been standing in the same constituency as women and equalities minister kemi badenoch, but a report in the times highlighted blog posts he'd written in 2010, in which he'd written in 2010, in which he also used racial slurs . he'd written in 2010, in which he also used racial slurs. his name will still appear on the ballot because the deadline for nomination has passed. the liberal democrats say fuel duty relief should be expanded to 20 new areas to support motorists in rural communities. sir ed davey jumped on claims by the rac that fuel retailers are continuing to charge persistently high prices, despite falling wholesale prices , as the party's leader says rural motorists have been particularly clobbered by the cost of living. he's calling for the current scheme to be expanded, which sees retailers compensated for passing on lower pnces compensated for passing on lower prices to drivers . the defence prices to drivers. the defence secretary has conceded that an

election victory for the conservative party is now unlikely. grant shapps says he's a realist and won't pretend that the way ahead for his party is straightforward . but he told gb straightforward. but he told gb news working people will be worse off under labour with higher taxes coming after your home, your job, your car, your pension , all of which are areas pension, all of which are areas of taxation they have not ruled out raising. >> we know about the £2,094 that they intend to raid of every household budget, but yesterday we had their health spokesman say on tv that's just the start of it. it's not all in our manifesto, so we know that they're hiding stuff as well. so, look, i think there is a lot to be concerned about. starmer is the only other person who can conceivably walk into downing street, and they are planning the highest taxes this country will have ever known . will have ever known. >> a man has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following an incident involving a dog in south wales. police were called to blair way ,

were called to blair way, aberavon, at around 7:00 this morning after a 24 year old was injured. a dog, which has been confirmed as a pitbull and staffordshire terrier. cross has been sedated and removed from the scene by police . in other the scene by police. in other news, a man has been sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in jail for the murder of a former fettes college biology teacher in 2022. paul mcnaughton admitted to luring 75 year old peter coshan to a flat in leith, using a fake profile on a gay dating app before killing him. mcnaughton, along with his 65 year old flatmate paul black, then concealed the body for days before dumping it in a layby in northumberland and sir rod stewart appeared to be booed dunng stewart appeared to be booed during a performance in germany after he showed support for ukraine. the singer wore a blue sparkly jacket with an image of the ukrainian flag projected behind him as he performed his 1991 hit rhythm of my heart,

which he describes as a war song. but sir rod's show of support provoked loud booing from many in the city of leipzig. it comes after germany reportedly vetoed an eu plan to apply fresh sanctions on russia's lucrative gas sector . russia's lucrative gas sector. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts now it's back to tom and . now it's back to tom and. emily. >> well, welcome back to good afternoon britain. it's 12:08. yes >> lots of general election campaigning to get through today, but let's start with reform uk because nigel farage is in wales this afternoon to launch the party's contract with the people after he refused to call it a manifesto. >> well, new polling by survation, it's predicting that

reform uk are sets to win seven seats. this is pretty extensive polling more than 20,000 people across individual constituent sea level analysis. but let's cross to our political editor, christopher hope, to try to make sense of what's happening today because christopher, are reform uk a proper political party or just a protest group ? just a protest group? >> well, morning, morning or afternoon? both. >> yes. welcome to merthyr tydfil. i got my cup of welsh tea here, for you and. yeah, i think they are. they, they are want to be seen as a party of opposition today. so far nigel farage, the new leader, three, three weeks old, is saying he wants to challenge the prime minister in 2029. right now, they're looking at maybe getting , at best, a handful of seats, maybe seven, according to a poll today. as tom said, survation david ball, who's the co—deputy leader, told me last week three

but so it's tiny numbers, really tiny numbers . but the point but so it's tiny numbers, really tiny numbers. but the point is they're trying to get a kind of, a kind of momentum behind them, to try and be a real significant force in politics. in, in 2029. this here is the is their manifesto . so it's called, our manifesto. so it's called, our contract with you, they believe that the word manifesto was devalued because of all the broken promises by the other parties. so it's called our contract with with you. i can't say what's in it until 1:00, when nigel farage launches it, but it's been reported. it's going to have things like, we know they want to increase the tax free threshold to £20,000 a year from around 12,500 pounds, aboush year from around 12,500 pounds, abolish an inheritance tax cut waiting list to 0 in 2 years, tax relief on private health care and insurance . a new french care and insurance. a new french style nhs way of looking after our health as a country. scrap net zero. and so it goes on. it's almost a wish list of the tory rights. and that's, of course, who the party is going

after. they're trying to go after. they're trying to go after people who are disaffected by the leftward shift in the tory party. and hopefully for them , they won't hoover up them, they won't hoover up votes. >> and nigel farage is clearly trying to convince the nation that he's in this for the long run , saying that he wants to run run, saying that he wants to run for prime minister in 2029, he wants people to think that he is very much committed to not only leading the reform party in this election, but into the future . election, but into the future. >> so it is the way forward. >> so it is the way forward. >> that's the totally right. and he says that july the 4th election, now not even three weeks away, is a bridgehead in the commons to 2029. clearly all they want is 6 or 7 mps. and then, of course, a bit of chaos in the house of commons benches maybe walk out during big debates, make some noise, maybe even try . and it's been mooted even try. and it's been mooted but not denied by nigel farage. you may want to try and cross the floor and become some senior role in the tory party, but, well, that's for another day.

certainly not the last election we discussed that kind of thing, but yeah, they really want to be a problem. and they, they think that reform uk can become the new version of a tory party on the right . new version of a tory party on the right. but new version of a tory party on the right . but that's not the the right. but that's not the six, 5 or 6 years away from now. >> and christopher, if you don't mind me taking you over to the conservatives very briefly, reading lots about how some senior conservatives are saying that starmer essentially has been a bit too nice and he needs to go for the jugular if he's to win back some votes . win back some votes. >> and that's no surprise because, i mean, it has been quite, gentlemanly. we haven't had the kind of i think whether they can really realistically, dust down that list of, of people who the who starmer. keir, sir keir starmer as a barrister defended jihadis and the like. whether that has been a playbook written and discussed at length six months ago, whether that's all been part removed and forgotten by the public. but i think, yeah, they think if you're after him

personally, they think that that sunak first is starmer sunak wins. and certainly i think in most recent head to head sunak did win that. so they think, well, why don't they take advantage of that rather than allow him to not not to have that challenge ? that challenge? >> well, christopher, it sounds like there's quite a hubbub around you. so we'll let you, get back to, all of the preparations for this big launch, and we'll be back with you. of course, once the formula launches, taking place in less than an hour's time . than an hour's time. >> yes, indeed. well, labour has kick started a week of campaigning on the economy. this time, the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, is vowing to create 650,000 new jobs to, in quotes, make britain better off. >> this comes as the election race could take a ruthless turn. as emily was saying, reports are now emerging. conservative ministers are pressuring the prime minister to personally attack sir keir starmer. >> yes. joining us now is our political correspondent , political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, thank you very much . just to get

thank you very much. just to get your view on what we're hearing from conservatives , that they from conservatives, that they want rishi sunak to go on the attack to stop being so nice, to talk about what a labour government would look like and government would look like and 9° 9° government would look like and go go personal. on keir starmer . go go personal. on keir starmer. >> well, yes, because frankly , >> well, yes, because frankly, nothing else has worked. they've unveiled a series of tax cuts. you know, they've pledged another £0.02 off national insurance. all these policies that they've come out with, they think they've been bold, haven't shifted the polls and they've battered labour over tax rises. they've basically tried to scare people saying the labour party are going to cost you start saving . that doesn't seem to saving. that doesn't seem to have shifted the polls yet ehhen have shifted the polls yet either. so what are they left with? they're also, of course, trying to do the don't give them a blank check. they might get a huge majority. that's really, really bad. so now they're left with going personal, basically something which will not come naturally to the prime minister, who is many things. but, you

know, he's decent and hard working and going for the jugular is not his sort of natural forum, though boris johnson has been writing pieces, talking about starmageddon. there's been pieces talking about left wing socialist state, but they want rishi sunak to basically say to voters do not trust keir starmer, you can't trust keir starmer, you can't trust him and you can't trust him because he voted . he him because he voted. he campaigned twice to make jeremy corbyn prime minister. he sat in jeremy corbyn's cabinet. the reason he was able to become labour leader, let's face it, is because he did that. also. they want people to remember brexit. sir keir starmer championed a second referendum he would have dearly loved to see brexit reversed. now labour are saying that's all done and dusted, don't worry about it. but they hope that in raising this it will remind voters in the red

wall who possibly lent their votes to the conservatives back in 2019 to get brexit done in quote marks that maybe labour are not to be trusted with brexit, but will rishi sunak go there? and even if he does, is it going to work? because it really does feel like whatever they say , whatever they do at they say, whatever they do at they say, whatever they do at the moment, the conservatives people just don't seem to be listening. >> it is , quite a bold >> it is, quite a bold suggestion that rishi sunak goes for this more personal approach. it must be said that the labour party tried to go personal with bofis party tried to go personal with boris johnson, with boris johnson's personal and family life, i, i suppose it didn't work that well, but perhaps it was all priced in. there are, of course, rumours swirling in westminster about all sorts of things, but i don't know if necessarily going down that personal direction would bear much fruit .

much fruit. >> no, they did try at the labour party with boris johnson, and they also ran some attack ads about a year ago now saying ridiculous things, frankly, like , do you think that sex offenders should go to jail? rishi sunak doesn't. they got a lot, a lot of criticism for that. so i guess it depends how you do it. but certainly it is true to say that sir keir starmer did campaign for a second referendum, that sir keir starmer did support jeremy corbyn and that he , when running corbyn and that he, when running for labour leader, had a list of ten pledges making, as he said, quote, the moral case for socialism. and those have been either binned or rowed back on very, very , yeah, severely. so. very, very, yeah, severely. so. i think there is a definitely a question of trust. >> well, thank you very much indeed. catherine katherine forster there. joining us now is conservative philip davies, philip, just on that, on that

line of questioning there. is it time for rishi sunak, your leader , to roll up his sleeves, leader, to roll up his sleeves, put the boxing gloves on and get a bit personal? >> well, i think he's been rolling his sleeves up. i don't think anyone can deny that he's been doing that. >> but the boxing gloves, though, in politics it's a you know, i don't think it's a question about getting personal, i.e. making personal attacks on people's character and things like that. >> i don't really think people want to see that, but i think it's perfectly legitimate in election. at the end of the day, elections are choice, and i think it's perfectly legitimate for political parties to point out the failings of the others and the dangers of the others if they were to come into office. so, yes, we certainly need to do that, because otherwise people are sleepwalking into a socialist nightmare. >> of course, when boris johnson was still prime minister, he did once, famously at a session of prime minister's questions , say prime minister's questions, say that when keir starmer was director of public prosecutions, his organisation spent more time prosecuting journalists than it did prosecuting jimmy savile.

that created a huge ferrari and many people came out to say, well, keir starmer was not personally involved in anything to do with jimmy savile. but of course it is true to say that the organisation he was ahead of might have missed the ball on that one. is that a legitimate topic of conversation ? topic of conversation? >> yeah, of course it's a legitimate topic of conversation because keir starmer, every five minutes trots out about what a wonderful job he did as head of the crown prosecution service and claims credit for every single prosecution that took place while he was there. so if he wants to claim credit for all the prosecutions that took place when he was there, surely he's got to accept responsibility for all of the failings of the crown prosecution service at the same time. so he's the one who's opened up that particular pathway. so, yeah, of course, that's a legitimate, area of criticism of keir starmer . he's criticism of keir starmer. he's the one who wants to be judged on his record at the crown prosecution service. >> should rishi sunak be saying that ? that? >> well, it doesn't really matter who says it. it needs to be said because it's because it's true. and so, it doesn't really matter whether rishi

sunak says it. i say it, you say it. it doesn't matter who says it. it doesn't matter who says it. it's something that people need to be aware of when they make their decision about the person. that is most likely as the as the polls suggest at the moment, to be the next prime minister >> of course, keir starmer says that that case never crossed his desk. that that case never crossed his desk . and there was a huge desk. and there was a huge furore when boris johnson mentioned that during prime minister's questions, when he was prime minister for though, it was seen as deeply tasteless because it's true that keir starmer personally wasn't involved in it, it was just his organisation that that missed the ball . the ball. >> well, yeah, well there's lots of the lots of the cases that keir starmer claims credit for. >> probably never went across his desk either. but it doesn't stop him claiming credit for them. and keir starmer was the one who said that boris johnson should take responsibility , that should take responsibility, that for everything that happened under his government. so if he wants to have it that way, he surely he's got to accept that everything that happened when he was head of the crown prosecution service was ultimately his responsibility, too. he can't have it both ways. >> and philip, just on the on

policy today, the conservatives saying that, labour's oil and gas ban on new oil and gas will create a 4.5 billion tax black hole. what's that based on that figure? >> well, that's based on the calculation of what the tax revenue would be if you don't decarbonise the, the oil and gas sector by 2030, which is what keir starmer wants to do . keir starmer wants to do. everyone knows that we're going to need oil and gas for many years into the future, even if you get to net zero. and so it seems absolutely crackers that he won't allow any new licenses to take place. and that's what that's it's going to that's clearly going to come with a huge cost. and basically we're seeing that, you know, you can't make a crab walk straight . the make a crab walk straight. the faces change. but labour still believe that you can tax your way to growth. >> that the only the i mean philip on that on that point. the conservatives have very much used oil and gas as a bit of a cash cow, have they not? windfall taxes after windfall taxes . taxes. >> well, yes. well we, we don't want to see the end to oil and

gas in the way that the labour party wants to see the end to oil and gas. so what i'm saying is, is that you can't have an end to oil of gas and then start trying to keep spending the proceeds. okay. >> well, philip, david's going to leave it there. we're going to leave it there. we're going to cross to keir starmer and hear what he's saying live in nottingham i believe. >> thanks, philip. >> thanks, philip. >> northampton. >> northampton. >> something back for doing that, whether that is, discounts on their energy bills or investment in the local infrastructure, but we can't hold back growth in the way that's happened the last few years. >> so we know and keir said this, we are going to sometimes have to do things that are unpopular that some people will disagree with. >> but unless we do those things, we're not going to get that wealth creation. we're not going to get that prosperity, and that means we're not going to be able to improve living standards or improve our public services. so we really have to focus on wealth creation, and that means reforming the planning system so we can actually get stuff built in britain again. >> so just to give you an example, in adapting the port for floating offshore wind, floating offshore wind, you'll have seen what's possible , some have seen what's possible, some country in the world is going to

get ahead in this game , and get ahead in this game, and other countries want to compete. i think we should compete. and i think we can win that race. and that will mean that we are the sort of primary builders , sort of primary builders, designers and engineers of floating offshore wind, which are an amazing pieces of kit. it will require work in our ports. of course, it will, but that's the attitude we should have, which is there is a there is a global competition for this stuff, we can get ahead of this , stuff, we can get ahead of this, and if that requires us to take tough decisions on planning , tough decisions on planning, then we'll take those decisions so that all of the available land here can be used, and be, you know, put to good effect in terms of the jobs of the future. anything you wanted to add ? no. anything you wanted to add? no. great good anywhere else? yep. by great good anywhere else? yep. by all means. far away. so you start. sorry you started. >> well, firstly, i i'm charles, i so we first started on about jobs and future jobs. >> so many people here are actually agency workers , and actually agency workers, and zero hour contracts, personally,

that flexibility works really, really well for me. and i wonder what the labour party's position is on, zero hour contracts. and also, if you were to allow them to continue, what additional safeguards would you put in place for us? >> well, i think with the zero hour contract, obviously, there are some across the country which are simply exploitative , which are simply exploitative, and i've met many people on a zero hours contract, who simply don't know how many hours they're going to do the next day or the next week, and that means that they are simply not secure in knowing what bills they can pay, in knowing what bills they can pay, etc. on the other hand, you're right to say in some cases that flexibility works , cases that flexibility works, and therefore our plan is to get rid of the exploitative zero hour contracts i'm not going to beat about the bush. we want to stop the exploitative zero hour contracts where people , don't contracts where people, don't know what's happening, but with the flexibility so that, people can have their hours regularised after a certain period of time, you know, over, 12 weeks or so, you know, over, 12 weeks or so, you would have the right to

demand and, the contract you need. but if you say this works for me, then you can carry on in the way that you are. it works for you, sir. does it? >> the flexibility works for me. yeah. really? i would like some. sometimes i would like additional hours , though. was additional hours, though. was that available to me? but that's a choice i've made. >> okay. and what? anything you want us to take out when i'm on the train later on. what do you want me to be thinking about? >> so i think protections, i think for people on zero contracts and agency workers, we fall into the we fall into the guise of, you know, if we're if we're sick, we're more likely to come into work. yeah. we don't get the same, protections as full time workers, and additionally , you know, where additionally, you know, where can we get called into work? we're expected to turn up for work the next day, but yet very little notice can be given to us for our days of work to be cancelled. >> yeah. no, that could be really. i had a family member who had no sick pay on her contract, and that meant in covid she had to use all of her houday covid she had to use all of her holiday to get because she couldn't afford a day off without pay, to get through, which meant she had no holiday. so that's the human impact that

that has anyone else with a question? yep >> how could we be an economic superpower again? >> right. do you want to lead on this? >> yeah. so if you look at our performance as a country in terms of the economy the last 14 years, we've been in the sort of bottom third of the most developed countries. and if we'd been just at the middle of that league table, our economy today would be £150 billion bigger than it is. that would be worth £5,000 for every family in britain. and it would mean that we would have had another £55 billion for our public services. so you know, economic growth, creating prosperity isn't just a nice to have. it is absolutely essential if we want to make sure that people are better off. and that is what keir and me and our plans are all about, ensuring that working people are better off. and you get that through growing the economy and you get that growth by encouraging businesses to invest here. and so we want to be a

pro—business and a pro—worker, government. and we think that the two things, the two sides of the two things, the two sides of the same coin, you can't be pro working people unless you're pro creating jobs and wealth creation in all parts of the uk . creation in all parts of the uk. and you can't be pro—business unless you're pro skilling up and making sure that young people are leaving school and college. university with the skills that are needed in the modern workforce today. so there are huge potential. there's huge potential in the uk economy , potential in the uk economy, whether it is, as keir says, in floating offshore wind, carbon capture and storage and green hydrogen, but also in industries like life sciences, our cultural industries, you know , we are industries, you know, we are a fantastic country. and i see when i go around the country , when i go around the country, brilliant businesses, fantastic workforce, doing amazing things , workforce, doing amazing things, but it is not seen in the gdp numbers and actually it's not seen in your wallets, is it? these last few years, people have had less money to spend and at the same time public services have been falling back. so we need to turbocharge our economy

again. and that means reforming the planning system, reforming how our financial markets work to get more money ploughed into help small businesses grow. and it means a government that is willing to roll up its sleeve , willing to roll up its sleeve, work with business, work with young people and the workforce so that we can really make the most of the massive opportunities that we've got as a country, but opportunities that have not been fully realised in the last few years just follow on from that. >> and this is party political, so take it with a pinch of salt. you'll make your own of this. but i think that in the last few years we've had a lot of chaos , years we've had a lot of chaos, division and chopping and changing. you know, it is it's politically funny that we've been through five prime ministers. we're on our second unelected prime minister. you know, we've had i don't know how many chancellors as you seven. but as you look in on politics, you must first think, what on earth is going on, but that chopping and changing it is a serious issue. i mean, it's not just me from the labour party knocking the tories the net.

what happens then is global investors look into our country and think that is not the environment, which i'm going to invest right now. the stability, the strategic thinking, the long term thinking is necessary for investors to invest in the future of our country. and that's why it's really important. i mean, it is a sort of party political point, but you will know this if a business is chopping and changing the whole time, can't make its mind up what it wants to do, the chances are it's not going to do very well. but if a business says, this is what we're going to do, this is the business plan. this is how we're going to execute it. and everybody understands what we're trying to do. it's much more likely to succeed. and so we need to get to that place of stability in our economy and in our politics, so that we're planning for five years and ten years, not just chopping and changing every few months as to what the real priorities are, where should we go next? yeah. behind us. you borrow that and then we'll take it back. >> thanks a lot, it back. >> thanks a lot , have you it back. >> thanks a lot, have you any plans to improve the relationship with the eu? and on

that basis also , getting rid of that basis also, getting rid of rid of a lot of the bureaucracy involved in importing because , involved in importing because, i'm talking about goods that we need to import and the amount of paperwork and hassle involved in doing it is causing a lot of grief for a lot of businesses. >> yeah. look, thank you for that question . you probably see that question. you probably see this more sharply than, almost anywhere else because you are, you know, operating a border effectively, we took a decision to leave the eu, so we're not going to go back in, but we think the deal we've got is botched. it's not good enough. and i think many businesses would say we need something that works better for us, because if you make it more difficult to trade, guess what? it's not so successful from our point of view. so we do think there's a better deal to be had. obviously, that will have to be negotiated. it does not mean going back in, but it does mean an improvement on what we've got for businesses . an improvement on what we've got for businesses. i think the

scope actually for improvement in other areas as well. on defence and on security, and on development and, and on research and education, etc. so yes, is the answer. we want to get a better deal because at the end of the day, we want you and those that are coming in and out of this port to be able to do as easily as is possible being outside the eu and not to make life harder because that means slowing down, less profit, more difficulty for businesses. put some businesses off and that means that it's an inhibitor. on growing our economy. thank you for that , anyone? yes there is for that, anyone? yes there is one coming around, but you can take this one. >> i. >> i. >> hiya. my question is on leaseholds. and what labour's plan is moving forward, with leaseholds . leaseholds. >> yeah. we want to reform and get rid of, a lot of the leaseholds. the long leasehold. you mean the leasehold owners? yeah. these homeowners. yeah, yeah. we want to turn this around , and make sure that the, around, and make sure that the, the rights, if you like, are

reversed so that are you a tenant somewhere and just buying a house that's leasehold, so. >> oh right. >> oh right. >> yeah. well we want to make it better for you and more secure for you. how long will you be. what's your leasehold that you'll be buying or the. >> it's 120 years. you'll be buying or the. >> it's120 years. yeah. >> it's120 years. yeah. >> yeah. well yeah we want to turn that around so that you get the better rights in this. yeah. it's very important where are you buying locally. >> are you planning on like banning leaseholds or, chaining common halls or something like that. >> yeah. we are , so that will >> yeah. we are, so that will make life a lot easier for you. great thank you. yep >> i'm an undecided voter at the moment , so i >> i'm an undecided voter at the moment, so i would like to say that i'm a hard working lady. >> despite that, i am having to take on a second job to meet my cost of living and i just want to know, why should i vote for you? >> why would you deserve my vote? >> because i am. >> because i am. >> i am terrified of my future and the cost of living just going up and up and up. >> so how can you convince me that that's not going to be the case under a labour government? >> well, look, thank you very

much and completely respect how hard you work and that you're an undecided voter. that's obviously for you to decide as we go into july the 4th, how you want to cast your vote. what i would say is we are determined to change our economy, to make sure we never get into a cost of living crisis like this again, because we know what it feels like, when i was growing up, we didn't have a lot of money. my dad actually worked in a factory. my mom was a nurse, and sometimes we couldn't pay our bills. in our particular case, we had our phone bill cut off. so i know what it feels like not to be able to pay your bills. and that's the position. too many people are in now. we're having to take on a second job or, you know, cancelling a holiday, not having a kids birthday in the same way, or even walking around the supermarket looking at the price of some of the stuff and deciding, well, i'm not going to do that this week. these they may not seem like big things, but they really bear down on people. so we have to change the economy to make sure that never, ever happens again. and that does mean tough decisions. so we've got a big plan for energy. renewable energy is cheaper , it renewable energy is cheaper, it is more secure and it will keep

your bills down for good, not just for a year or two. well, we can get going on that straight away. we want to set up great british energy, which will be a publicly owned energy company, so that where public money goes in, it comes back to the taxpayer. it will take time. i'm not if i stand here and say to you the day after election, i've got a wand in my pocket and i can wave it and you'll be fine. you wouldn't believe me and it wouldn't be true. but we can start on those plans straight away to make sure that your bills come down and the pressure goes down on you, whether that's food, whether that's energy. we need to stabilise the economy so that have you got a mortgage or are you renting . yeah. well, are you renting. yeah. well, again, you're probably for a lot of people are on a fixed rate mortgage. if they've had to change that in the last two years, their mortgage has gone up hugely by £7,100. that's a direct result of what liz truss did with the economy. i mean, you know, it had a massive impact on mortgages. we have to change that on your behalf. and the last thing i'd say to you is this. but it is important, politics is about policy and

what we're going to do to change. it's also about who do we have in our mind's eye when we have in our mind's eye when we make decisions. and i have in mind, in my mind's eye, working people like you who are struggling with the cost of living crisis. that is why we've done so much work on the economy and growing the economy. because in the end, creating wealth is the only way through this. but we'll be on it from day one. we've got the first things that we want to do on the first day in government. if we're privileged enough to come in, to serve, we will have you, in our mind's eye, working . serve, we will have you, in our mind's eye, working. i serve, we will have you, in our mind's eye, working . i mean, mind's eye, working. i mean, this is what's brilliant about coming out like this is thinking about you and the things that you've said when we are trying to make tough decisions for the country. we want to make sure that you're never put in that position again , i'm not going to position again, i'm not going to pretend we can fix it by the weekend after the election, because that's just not going to happen. but we can make sure that we create the conditions. so you'll never put in that. and you speak for millions of people, by the way. millions of people, by the way. millions of people in the same boat, there was a really struck by a

firefighter i met in milton keynes , a couple of months ago, keynes, a couple of months ago, he has now taken two extra jobs, but he still can't afford a mortgage. he can't afford to get a house. he just wants to buy his own home, get a bit of security. three jobs, and he still can't do it because of what's been done to the economy. thatis what's been done to the economy. that is the human impact of what we've had this last 14 years, look, you make your own mind up, but honestly, that's that's the mindset we bring to it. but honestly, that's that's the mindset we bring to it . anyone mindset we bring to it. anyone else? yeah. please, sir. >> thank you, you've mentioned great british energy and planning. >> where would you see a labour government having the most impact in the next five years on climate change and sustainability , on climate change? >> well, great british energy is going to be an energy company that will drive our work on renewables, so whether that's floating offshore wind, wind turbines, nuclear, hydrogen, all of these are the energy of the future. and we want to make sure that we've got a publicly owned

company that is not just driving forward that work, the production of energy and the investment that we need, but it's also getting the yield back, because at the moment, what happens is that very often companies from other countries are doing this, and therefore when there's yield to be had from it, it's not coming back to us in this country. it's going somewhere else. many of you will be probably paying your energy bills to companies that are actually owned by governments across the world, and not by our government, so we want to change that. i do think this is a massive opportunity, by the way. i think that there's a race now for pretty well every green job, that's going and we would be good at that. we've got the skills for that . we've got the skills for that. we've got the sort of workforce who would be good at it, but we just need to drive it through now, at pace to get the change that i think will bnng get the change that i think will bring lower bills that will bnng bring lower bills that will bring energy security, but also the next generation of jobs for the next generation of jobs for the future. rich, did you want to add anything to that? yeah >> so gb energy alongside the national wealth fund that we've

already mentioned, which is about leveraging in private sector investment because, you know, government has a big role in encouraging the private sector to invest as well. and then we've also made a commitment. and it sort of goes back to the point that you were making as well, to insulate 6 million homes during the course of the next parliament. and some of the next parliament. and some of that will be grants, some of that will be loans. but the best way to bring down people's energy bills is by, reducing the need for energy in the home in the first place. and all of those things are about bringing good jobs, paying decent wages. that's the way to make people better off good jobs, paying decent wages, getting people's energy bills down. so tackling the cost of living and also boosting our energy security and independence, because one of the things that we saw when russia invaded ukraine is that we are too reliant on countries, dictators abroad that don't share our values for our basic needs, as well as the importance of meeting our obligations to future generations to decarbonise the economy. but, you know, because of our industrial heritage , because of industrial heritage, because of our skilled workforce, because of our great universities and

fantastic entrepreneurs, there's every reason to think that we can succeed and lead in many of these jobs and industries of the future, but only if you've got a government that makes it a priority. and for us, we really see this as a priority. >> can i just give you two practical examples that really that really etched on my mind, these wind turbines that i mean, you know, the size of them, they're massive, huge amount of engineering, engineering and skill goes into them, the onshore version of this i saw just outside glasgow, there's 250 of them, slightly smaller because they're fixed and they're fixed in the ground. it's amazing thing to see incredible source of energy. when i went up there, i saw the ceo of the energy company and i said, how many of these 250 were built in the uk ? and he said, built in the uk? and he said, none of them. every single one was being towed in. we got to turn that around. we've got the engineering skills. we're able to do that design, and we can't simply live where we're not, you know, creating the conditions in which that can be done here. so i do think there's a real,

opportunity for us to get ahead in the in the skills that we've got. so thank you very much. we've got time just for one more. i'm being indicated. just one more quick one from anyone. yeah. by all means. >> thank you, that was great. by the way, in terms of, i saw a stat the other day that there's a 1.5 million carers as we stand here now. now, firstly, the amount that saves us as a group of people. so i suppose there's two parts to my question. what further support are you going to give those carers. but also there seems to be a massive opportunity there in terms of how do you bring them back into the workforce part time, i'd be really interested in your views . really interested in your views. >> two things about that that i think matter. first is, >> two things about that that i think matter . first is, whether think matter. first is, whether it's care workers or anybody else, there are quite a number of people who want to get back into the workforce, but they're struggling to do so for one reason or another, another example would be people who've

been on long term illness or sickness getting back into the workforce. what we've got planned for is a supported scheme back into work, for people, including things like trial, because some people will say, i don't want to do it because i've got to be all in or all out. and having companies that will say, we'll give a trial period, to for a few weeks or whatever it may be to someone to see how they get on with the hours and being back in the work environment. so a lot. i think there's a lot in this in terms of we went to see, siemens actually, you know, make the trains, just, up the road in, well, relatively up the road in crawley. they've got a supported back to work scheme. it was really, really good for people who wanted to come back, come from care, but others from, from care, but others coming back after, you know, illnesses or operations and that sort of thing. but on the on the question of social care, because this is really important, we've got a lot of people working in social care who are on fragmented contract s not particularly well paid with no career progression , so they

career progression, so they can't get on and they're often struggling with their bills , and struggling with their bills, and a lot of them leave as a result because the pay isn't good enough, they can't progress. and a lot of them leave to go to the nhs where they can actually progress. so we're constantly leaking people out of social care. and if we're leaking people out of social care, it means that we can't get people out of hospitals because they haven't got an environment to go back to. our hospitals are full and we've got all the problems with the nhs, so we want, a fair pay with the nhs, so we want, a fair pay agreement across social care, which will be the first national agreement which will put in place , put in place put in place, put in place decent terms and conditions and progression so that you can come into social care and you can get on in. so my sister's a care worker, so it's something that's quite close to home. but to create the environment which people come in and feel that they can progress their career in social care because it's a big, big issue in fixing the sort of wider health issues in the future. i'm really sorry we're running out of time . can i we're running out of time. can i just firstly, thank you for your

time. thank you for your. >> and there we have it, keir starmer and rachel reeves being questioned by port workers in southampton , standing in front southampton, standing in front of a lot of high visibility vests . vests. >> yes, indeed. quite a lot of interesting discussions there. i particularly found interesting the talk about zero hour contracts. there was a chap there asking about that. he's on one. he likes the flexibility and this is one policy area that seems to have been watered down. labour did say for a long time that they wanted to completely ban zero hours contracts. now they're saying you can maybe stick with a zero hours contract if you prefer it, but the company must. you know, provide the option of having a fixed contract in one way or another. this is very interesting because there's been a bit of a battle between business and the labour party over these labour regulations. yeah. >> well, shall we, digest some of what was said , but also talk of what was said, but also talk about some other stories involving the conservative party now delighted to be joined by anna mikhailova, the deputy political editor of the mail on sunday. and anna, we're going to

start with your story from the weekend, because it seems that that rishi sunak has dropped out of another event. >> he has this is the black and white ball, an annual huge fundraising event for the conservative party. >> there were some famous photos of boris johnson coming out of a few a few years ago , and every few a few years ago, and every year it's this glamorous event with with the prime minister as the main as the main event. donors have paid £1,500 to attend. it was all being planned months ago. the venue's booked, everything's ready. and then last week , donors started last week, donors started getting calls saying that rishi sunak has pulled out at the last minute, and they are absolutely furious. and it's one of those things that the party has already struggling with donations. it's already struggling to motivate people in its campaign. and it's just been seen as something that is so politically inept , and has drawn politically inept, and has drawn absolute fury from his, his , the

absolute fury from his, his, the people who are meant to be his main supporters. >> but i guess anna, if he was seen to be taking time out of the election campaign to attend this glitzy ball, the charge would be that he cares more about rich tory donors than he does about the public. >> well, that's what some people say. >> but to be honest, anyone who knows westminster just says >> but to be honest, anyone who knows westminsterjust says no. knows westminster just says no. it's a mistake. he should have popped it's a mistake. he should have poppedin it's a mistake. he should have popped in for a few minutes, he's not going because of the, a tv debate. but again, it's sort of not being seen as a real excuse, they it is a huge fundraising do. and they really, really need those donations. a lot of donors are already switching to reform , some are switching to reform, some are just, you know, have stopped donating in disgust. and, and i spoke to one who said, you know, this, on top of the unforced errors of the campaign is just not a good look. it's really hard to motivate conservative activists and volunteers at the moment, and it's just one of those things that for some people, was the highlight of their, calendar.

>> and it does seem that the conservative party must be sort of running on empty, running on fumes right now. there are reports after reports of the sort of last days of rome sort of atmosphere. there in cchq conservative campaign headquarters. has this had another effect, another hit on that morale? >> definitely . and it's some of >> definitely. and it's some of the people involved in it are the people involved in it are the precise people that he frankly needs on board, of course, you know, as you say, there will be people saying, why would he go to a ball? but those are labour supporters. those are not the people who's going to try and, attract . so overall, try and, attract. so overall, it's just another example of rishi sunak , frankly, just not rishi sunak, frankly, just not being that political. and also it also adds to the charge that's being made about him that he is getting. he's sort of getting through until the election , but doesn't seem to election, but doesn't seem to care about what happens to the party afterwards , and this seems party afterwards, and this seems yet another example of that.

>> well, thank you very much indeed. we'll have to speak again . we've got to go now. but again. we've got to go now. but anna mikhailova, deputy political editor of the mail on sunday. very interesting indeed, isn't it ? isn't it? >> well, coming up, we'll be diving deep into england's one nil win over serbia in the euros last night . nil win over serbia in the euros last night. could britain break? england? i say, could england bring it

home? >> well. 1250 is the time. good afternoon. britain. now a ten month old calf who was run down by a surrey police car on friday, is now being nursed back to health. that's according to the family who own the farm the calf escaped from. >> well, the surrey police officer who was driving the vehicle has been taken off front line duties until a full investigation is completed . investigation is completed. >> well gb news northern ireland reporter dougie beattie joins us now from county down who has some expertise in this matter.

dougie, i guess the question is what would you have done in this situation ? situation? >> well, i quite literally would have got a bucket, put some stones in it and shook it. the animal would have came over to me. you'd have calmed the animal down, put a piece of rope around its neck and took it to the nearest garden or grass verge that was there, and you would have just let the cow eat away. i mean, cows don't wander for miles and miles. i mean, i'm standing in a field now. there's 70 cows in this field , and at no 70 cows in this field, and at no time am i threatened by what's going on. these animals are about a quarter of a ton in weight. and when you actually watch the video of what happened there, he must have hit that animal at about 40 miles an hour because he pushed the animal right up the road and then ran overit right up the road and then ran over it again. this is a lack of education inside the police service of how to deal with rural, events and things that happen. it's not uncommon for someone to leave a gate open that has been walking in the

field with a dog or whatever, and the animal get out, or indeed for the animal to break looking for water or grass. i mean , if you go back to the 60s mean, if you go back to the 60s and 70s, most of these local bobbies would have been going along on a pushbike. i mean, they weren't going to ram the animal with a pushbike. and besides , for the obvious pain besides, for the obvious pain that this animal is in, once it was down, it couldn't get back up. it's obviously broke its leg or its hip, you know, the cost of that particular to animal the farmer is probably in the round , farmer is probably in the round, about £3,000. never minded the taxpayer with the jeep that he hit it with, you know, i in my days, you know, we have brought dairy herds up the roads with three of us running in front, one in front, one behind, and just pushing the cattle up the road. these are very placid animals . they don't deserve to animals. they don't deserve to be treated like that. and at no time did that animal show that it was in any way a threat to anyone. >> well, dougie beattie , thank >> well, dougie beattie, thank you for braving the horrific

danger of standing in that field with all of these highly docile animals, these stoic animals. i mean, you're clearly putting your life on the line for us there, dougie. we really appreciate it. >> i don't know, according to figures between 2018 and 2022, 32 people have been killed by cows. >> cows. >> i bet those were people being idiots rather than cows being dangerous? possibly, yes. >> anyway, england have beaten serbia one nil in their opening match at the euros. the three lions were far from their best. >> well, jude bellingham powered home with a header just 13 minutes, afterjust home with a header just 13 minutes, after just 30 home with a header just 13 minutes, afterjust 30 minutes. england held on to win the game, of course, but it was a nervy second half. let's hear what england fans in birmingham made of the performance, first off, i thought we played really well, and the second half we was, we were fighting it a little bit kind of thing instead of just taking it nice and cool. >> i'm never going to put too much on england because they've got this awful habit, as you

know, of messing it up , big style. >> and what do you make of jude bellingham's performance? >> very good, very, very good. >> very good, very, very good. >> particularly. he's a local lad. coming from hagley, west of birmingham . birmingham. >> he's obviously brings something to the team and it was a brave thing to put him in that position. and i think, i think it probably worked well. but, as i say, we need palmer in there because he's he's like bellingham. he's not afraid. if he gets the ball, he will do something with it . something with it. >> i think they're, they've got some good players, but they're all in forward positions. we've got virtually nothing at the back , i don't like the manager. back, i don't like the manager. >> i'm an aston villa fan. >> i'm an aston villa fan. >> i'm an aston villa fan. >> i never liked him when he was playing for us. and i certainly don't write him as a manager. >> all right, well, stick with us, because nigel farage will be announcing his contract with the people after the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> hello again. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. the rest of the day we'll see further showers for many northern areas, but some evening sunshine to come as well. but across the north that's where we've got low pressure in charge. it's bringing in a northerly wind as well. so here it still felt quite cool through today so far, and that cool feel will continue for the far north of scotland, but the showers will tend to fade away and actually there should be some late sunshine for many southern and central areas, even across the northwest as well. and then that will turn into a fairly clear night. tonight. could see some mist and fog around though. by tomorrow morning where we have seen any showers around and temperatures will be around 11 or 12 degrees, similar to this morning by tomorrow morning and some early sunshine as well, particularly across many central and eastern areas away from any of that mist and fog. but actually across the north of scotland. we've got this northerly wind dragging in some quite persistent rain through much of the night. so quite a cool feel here. but further south across parts of

northern ireland, parts of southwestern scotland, we could see a bit more in the way of sunshine, highs and temperatures around 13 degrees. first thing not too bad in the sunshine across the far south as well. once that mist and fog clears , once that mist and fog clears, it should be a fairly bright start to the day. but notice this very bright colour on the south and east. that's some heavy rain moving across parts of france and belgium that could clip parts of kent, sussex and towards essex in the southeast, possibly through tuesday afternoon. further north we could see some heavy showers breaking out across parts of scotland and northwest england, and there's going to be more cloud around tomorrow. the temperatures won't be quite as high around 19 or 20 degrees for many areas cooler than that. if you do get stuck under any more persistent rain, then through tuesday evening, many of those showers will tend to fade away. it should lead us into another fairly dry evening with some late evening sunshine, and there'll be more sunshine to come through the rest of the week as it starts to continue to feel a bit more like summer,

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gb news. >> well. good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 >> well. good afternoon. britain. it's1:00 on monday, the 17th of june. >> i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood. yes we're standing by because reform uk leader, nigel farage. >> he's in wales. he's going to launch his party's contract with the people . they don't call it the people. they don't call it a manifesto. it is a contract with the people here. we are. >> yes, of course they say that the word manifesto has become devalued because both parties, both major parties , tory and both major parties, tory and laboun both major parties, tory and labour, seem to have ridden back on various manifesto commitments. so this is a contract with the people, much in the same vein as newt gingrich in 1994 launched his contract with america that won the republicans back the house of representatives after decades

where they didn't have a majority. are reform trying to pull off the same populist tnck? pull off the same populist trick? well, there you go. >> the flag. there front and centre, well, to the left and right of the lectern, presumably britain needs reform. emblazoned on a turquoise blue, but yes, we know a little bit about what might be in this contract for the people. vows to protect british values . are scrapping british values. are scrapping the bbc licence fee. i believe fighting left wing bias in our institutions. >> and there are other things that nigel farage has said in these debates. for example, the two child limits on benefits spending , will that be lifted? spending, will that be lifted? will that promise that he said he'd like to see in those debates? well, will that be in the manifesto ? time will tell. the manifesto? time will tell. also, that idea of taking anyone earning below £20,000 per year out of income tax altogether, raising that threshold from 12.5 to £20,000. it's a very , eye to £20,000. it's a very, eye catching pledge, but it also but it also forgoes a lot of revenue

. how do they make that up? will their sums add up? >> yes . and interestingly, >> yes. and interestingly, they're doing this all in south wales. we were talking about perhaps that's got to do with them wanting to talk about labour's record in wales. >> it's interesting because they're clearly running against they're clearly running against the uk government, against the conservative party. but there are other parts of the uk that are other parts of the uk that are run by other parties. and reform uk has been saying all morning, well, if you want change, perhaps the change that you want to see is not best represented by a party, the labour party , that in wales has labour party, that in wales has higher taxes than in england, that has longer nhs waiting lists than in england that had tighter covid restrictions than in england. that has 20 mile an hour limits. blanketly imposed upon many urban areas, it's interesting sort of the incumbency effect might work against the round of applause. >> nigel farage is taking to the stage. let's listen . in. all

stage. let's listen. in. all right . right. >> okay . very good. okay. thank >> okay. very good. okay. thank you . gareth. gareth. you. gareth. gareth. >> hello. very good. thank you very much indeed. you're welcome i >> -- >> good afternoon everybody . >> good afternoon everybody. >> good afternoon everybody. >> well , >> good afternoon everybody. >> well, guess who's back . back >> well, guess who's back. back again . again. >> i did for not one moment think i'd be standing here in doing this ever, ever again. >> but i am, and i'm doing it.

but i come out of retirement and i'm doing it because i genuinely feel that britain is broken , feel that britain is broken, that nothing actually works anymore, that we're broken economically as our national debt explodes, as our debt repayments are now over £90 billion a year. interestingly the same amount as the education budget . but the same amount as the education budget. but of the same amount as the education budget . but of course, it's that budget. but of course, it's that generation that are going to have to pay for all of our mistakes for years to come. i feel increasingly we're broken socially and it doesn't matter what crime statistics the government quotes at us, we all feel less safe on our streets. and i think we've reached a point now where most crime even goes unreported . and i'm in goes unreported. and i'm in absolutely no doubt that we are in decline . culturally, we've in decline. culturally, we've begun to forget who we are, what our history is, what we stand

for. we've put up with the minds of our children from a young age right through university. frankly, being poisoned about what this country is and what it represents . and all of this represents. and all of this would be manageable if there were some clear political solutions . but i think our solutions. but i think our politics is perhaps as broken down as all of the other factors that i've listed. and i was very struck over the last couple of weeks. i've been involved in two, seven way debates with party leaders and main representatives one on the bbc, one on itv, which descended really into a shouting match between penny morden and angela rayner. between penny morden and angela rayner . and yet when you listen rayner. and yet when you listen to what they were arguing over, it seemed to me that the more they argued , the more they they argued, the more they seemed the same . we're going seemed the same. we're going through a breakdown of trust in

politics, where manifestos one one after another, can keep making, keep making the same promises and no one believes. now, frankly, a word that they say. which is why today, specific hinckley is not a manifesto launch . because if manifesto launch. because if i say to you, manifesto , your say to you, manifesto, your immediate word association is lie. and that is, i think, wholly unsurprising thing. there are also many millions of people out there, not just disappointed over manifestos, but a lot of brexit voters, millions of brexit voters, millions of brexit voters, millions of brexit voters out there genuinely disappointed. they believe that by voting for brexit. and actually the reason we saw the turnout on the scale that we did is we'd actually get a grip on mass migration into britain. we'd get back proper control of our borders , and none control of our borders, and none of that's happened. in fact, the very opposite has happened. so

there are feelings of disenchantment there as well . disenchantment there as well. they, of course, also run through our millions of small businesses who thought, well, at least the regulations, at least the rules will get easier. some people say to me, well, nigel, that's a failure of brexit. oh no it isn't. it's a failure of a sovereign government to implement the will of the people andindeed implement the will of the people and indeed its own manifesto . and indeed its own manifesto. and i also think there's a complete lack of leadership . i'm complete lack of leadership. i'm not, you know, going to say personally abusive things about keir starmer or rishi sunak. i'll leave leave that to the rest of the establishment to be rude about me because i couldn't care less. it doesn't matter . care less. it doesn't matter. i'm pretty used to it. i've even got used to people throwing things at me. but there we are. but there is a lack of leadership . people actually need leadership. people actually need some sense of being inspired, some sense of being inspired, some sense of believing that somebody up at the front that

believes in what they say, says what they believe, and is going to show a way forward for the country. and i don't believe we have any of that either. so i've come back into this because i think there is now the most enormous gap that exists between the two big westminster parties . the two big westminster parties. and i say westminster, because it is very much westminster and oxford university thinking that dominates these parties. a huge gap between that and the conversations that i hear being had by families and people around the rest of the country. i could see it before the brexit referendum. i could see this huge gap between our political class and the people and the brexit result. the shock of that result showed us that it existed. i now believe that gap to be even bigger than it was before that referendum . back in before that referendum. back in june 2016. so we've chosen to

launch our contract with you . launch our contract with you. now, look, we are not pretending that we are going to win this general election . we are a very, general election. we are a very, very new political party, and we would have much preferred this election to take place in october or november. i personally was a bit crestfallen initially by what rishi sunak said when he announced july the 4th. but we are running very fast to catch up and i genuinely believe that our campaign now has some momentum around the country. we've seen that in some of the opinion polls and particularly encouraging and increasing a rapidly increasing number of young people, and i'm talking the 18 to 24 year age group are now coming to reform uk's cause. so this is not something with which we're going to govern the country. that's not possible in this election.

although this election is for our party and for me, the first important step on the road to 2029, our aim and our ambition is to establish a bridgehead in parliament and to become a real opposition to a labour government. and i say that because i can't see sir ed davey providing real opposition , providing real opposition, because actually, on many fundamental policies, the liberal democrats and labour frankly don't vary very much. and i certainly can't see the conservatives providing opposition because they don't agree on anything they spend most of their days arguing among themselves , and they're split themselves, and they're split down the middle when it comes to policy . they're certainly split policy. they're certainly split down the middle in terms of their attitude towards me. goodness gracious. it had suella braverman virtually proposing political marriage over the course of the weekend, whilst at

the same time, lord cameron goodness me, they dragged him back. talk about back, back again. crikey we had lord cameron generally being fairly abusive and that sums up where the conservative party is. so we're a party that knows what we believe in. you know, we get the fundamental principles of what we're about. you know, we believe in the family, we believe in the family, we believe in the family, we believe in community. we believe in country . we know exactly what in country. we know exactly what we believe in and our aim is to provide clear, consistent and growing leadership during the course of the next parliament, but not just in the parliament around the country. to and it's my aim that we turn this into a big, genuine mass movement of people . and i believe that that people. and i believe that that is actually highly achievable . is actually highly achievable. so we've chosen to launch our contract in wales , which seems contract in wales, which seems highly, highly appropriate . highly, highly appropriate. after all, labour have been in

power here since 1997, so perhaps there are some lessons that we can learn from 25 years of labour government in wales , of labour government in wales, but perhaps what we might be looking forward to in just a few weeks time when sir keir starmer becomes our prime minister. in wales, taxes are higher . yes wales, taxes are higher. yes they are. council tax is higher on average about £500 per median property than it is in england. interesting isn't it, that when the question is being asked of starmer and others on council tax in england, they've precious little to say . so the people in little to say. so the people in wales pay more taxes and spending per capita is higher in wales than it is in england. there's more money being spent on you on public services than there is on the other side of there is on the other side of the bridge. and it's interesting to think, isn't it, in those debates i've been in all anybody seems to talk about is more

investment, more investment in the nhs, more investment in our pubuc the nhs, more investment in our public services by which they really mean they're going to spend more of your taxes. and perhaps that wouldn't matter if it led to better delivery. but the figures in wales are truly astonishing. gareth talked about this just a moment ago . you this just a moment ago. you know, waiting times in wales on the nhs are exactly 50% longer than they are on the other side of the bridge, education, which has drifted in wales rapidly in a leftward pc woke direction and you just look at the a, b, c, d tables on english, mathematics, any subject you like, you'll see that wales has fallen further behind england. not personally, that i believe england's very good and a labour government in wales reduces your freedoms, reduces your choices, ends right to buy and many other schemes which damage aspiration, particularly for young people

who want to get on and of course, the crowning glory of 25 years of welsh government in wales is the imposition of 20 mile per hour speed limits. well, it led, didn't it, to one of the most astonishing petitions you've ever seen. the percentage of welsh people that signed that petition. well, i've never seen a petition actually quite like it. although, of course, we're rather used to all of that with ulez and mr khan up in the other end of the country, in the other end of the country, in london. so it gives us some idea that in terms of outright policy , raisi labour is not very policy, raisi labour is not very different to the conservatives, it's just more incompetent . it it's just more incompetent. it just wastes even more money than conservative governments do. but here's the point about things going so badly wrong in wales. over 25 years there's been no

proper, clear, consistent opposition voice. frankly the conservatives in the senate have been feeble , to say the very been feeble, to say the very least. and that is the argument wales really gives us the perfect example of what i'm talking about . we need to have talking about. we need to have good, strong opposition that can mobilise people in very, very large numbers . so we know what large numbers. so we know what we stand for. we know what we're for , we're for control borders, for, we're for control borders, we're for promoting genuine economic growth. we're for helping the little guy , you helping the little guy, you know, millions of men and women out there trying to get on, trying to do their own thing. and yet a labour and conservative party that only ever listened to the giant global corporates, we're about trying to restore some trust in politics. you might dislike what we say. you might not want to vote for what we say , but at vote for what we say, but at least we do say what we mean . least we do say what we mean. and we want to have an

absolutely radical rethink of the way in which our public services are run. and yes, that does include the national health service . it's been very, very service. it's been very, very difficult to have any conversation about the nhs over the course of the 25 years that i've been involved in politics, without someone pointing and screaming, you want to privatise it all we want is an nhs that is free at the point of delivery, that actually works and how we get there. frankly, i don't think most people could give a damn about. so they're the things that we're going for. and of course we would like the state to take far less of our money than it's currently doing and will go on taking more and more. i'm sure i've said from the start, this should be the immigration election . i have no immigration election. i have no doubt about that. i think the population explosion in the impact that it's had on people's lives is the dominant issue. how can you discuss nhs waiting

lists without discussing the fact that the population has risen by 6 million people since david cameron came to power back in 2010? how can you talk about a shortage of housing where we need to build one new dwelling every two minutes just to cope with current levels of net migration? how can you talk about any of these things? so we believe this is what we should believe this is what we should be talking about. but of course the others would rather not discuss it. the conservatives are attempting for a fifth manifesto in a row to tell us they'll reduce the numbers . but they'll reduce the numbers. but then they told us in 2010 and 2015 and 2017, they'd reduced net migration to tens of thousands a year. they promised in 2019, with brexit controls, we'd massively reduce the levels of unskilled labour coming into britain . well, it's running at britain. well, it's running at getting on with net three

quarters of a million a year when you look at those that have come and stayed, it's incredible to think that 1 in 30 people on the streets of britain today have come here in the last two years alone . never before in years alone. never before in history have we ever seen literally anything like it. and as for labour, well, it's extraordinary that they launched their manifesto with their six key priorities, not even mentioning immigration, not even mentioning immigration, not even mentioning the impact on people's lives. so we want to have a proper, honest debate about it. and we believe that an overall freeze on net migration numbers is what we need for a few years to help us at least try to catch up. we also have to say it's only right and proper that you only get benefits in this country. once you've been here for five years, obeyed the law and paid your taxes. again, these are policies . these are

these are policies. these are policies that are discriminatory in favour of british taxpayers and british people . if you go to and british people. if you go to work in australia, you won't get benefits or dental care. you'll have to pay into the system for years and obey the law. we're doing what a good, sensible country should do . recognising country should do. recognising that the first duty of a british government is to its own people and not to anybody else. and as far as dover is concerned, well, i was going out into the channel four years ago, day after day, filming the small dinghies coming, predicting that vast numbers would arrive unless we change policy and started deporting people who came illegally. something by the way, that we used to do up until 2010, you know, the last years of the labour government, we were deporting up to 40,000 people a year who'd come illegally. we've lost our way. and part of the reason for that is a court in strasbourg that's become increasingly activist .

become increasingly activist. they've even interfered recently with the swiss government telling them they have an obugafion telling them they have an obligation under international law to maintain net zero policies. well, the swiss government have decided to ignore them. but we think the only way to really fully restore sovereignty, to decide who can come in, who can stay, is by leaving that european court of human rights. it is completely out of date. it's not serving the purpose for which we signed up to back over 70 years ago. but of course , this all leads on but of course, this all leads on to the cost of living crisis. rents are up by, on average, 20 to 25% across the whole uk since 2021 alone is it any wonder, with an exploding population, that rents are going up? so a freeze on overall numbers would at least begin to reduce the pressure ? and of course, one of pressure? and of course, one of the biggest bills that families

face and the lower your overall income is , the bigger this income is, the bigger this particular bill matters. it's energy . it's energy. it's energy. it's energy. it's whether you're filling your car or whether you're paying for your heating. and we have been following net zero policies championed by mrs. may, enthused and embraced by boris johnson. and now being virtually copied by the labour party. we're pursuing net zero policies that are self—destructive . just look are self—destructive. just look at what it's doing to industry . at what it's doing to industry. what's happening to steelmaking in south wales? it's going. but somehow government thinks that's good because we reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that we emit, but we don't. we just we just export the production of that co2 to as the goods are made somewhere else. in this case, i'm particularly talking about primary, not secondary steel . and then we import the steel. and then we import the goods back into our country . so goods back into our country. so we want to get rid of the

subsidies that are paid to green energy companies by loading taxes on the electricity bills of everybody in this country. and we've been doing this now for the best part of 20 years. but we also have to try and find out a way that people can be better off national government opposition, much of the media seems to want to bow down to the god of gdp, our gross domestic product rose last year. isn't that great? well, if you massively increase the population, it's perhaps not surprising with more people that the overall size of the economy would grow. but here's the key coinciding with record levels of migration into britain, we have now seen six consecutive quarters of gdp per head falling . we're getting poorer. the mass

import of cheap, unskilled foreign labour may work for your big multinational company, who want as cheap a labour as possible and couldn't give a damn about the social consequences. but it's not working , and we very much want working, and we very much want to be a party that is on the side of working people. and that is why i think this is perhaps the most transformative thing in this document, which, by the way, has been so excellently worked on for months and produced by richard tice. he deserves the credit for this. not me. i'm a johnny come lately when it comes to this document, but i think the most innovative thing policy that we've put out in here is to raise the level at which people start paying tax to £20,000 a year. why well, number one, it would take 7 million people out of the tax system altogether . a devilishly altogether. a devilishly complicated tax system . that

complicated tax system. that would be a good thing, of course, for those on low pay be a good thing for many pensioners who, if they have a small private income supplementing their state income, are being dragged into the tax system. not a very good policy for local accountants , obviously, because accountants, obviously, because they love the complexity, not a good policy for civil servants, because we could probably get rid of a few of a few with a mass simplification, like this, but also a huge incentive , a but also a huge incentive, a massive incentive to get people back to work. and i'll talk a little bit more about that right at the end. we also think inheritance tax and it depends where you live and what property values are. and this is not as relevant here as it perhaps is in the home counties. but you know, an average semi detached house in south london is now when the parents die attracting, you know , inheritance tax. this you know, inheritance tax. this was never designed for people in the middle. it was always designed for those at the upper

income scale . so we'd go to £2 income scale. so we'd go to £2 million on an estate before anybody paid inheritance tax. so simplification matters to us. but it's wealth creation , you but it's wealth creation, you know. labour have launched their manifesto talking about wealth creation . but i didn't see creation. but i didn't see a single thing in there that would create wealth. and that is because our political class is stuck in the global corporate mindset . i stuck in the global corporate mindset. i saw this in 20 years in brussels, where it was the influence of big businesses with their lobby that dominated the way, totally dominated the way that politicians thought this sort of unholy triumvirate, if you like, of big business, big banks and big politics, and we genuinely are on the side of the 5.5 million men and women out there running their own small companies , acting as sole companies, acting as sole traders who feel government is their enemy and it's their enemy, whatever the colour of the rosette . just look at these the rosette. just look at these crazy ir35 rules , how difficult

crazy ir35 rules, how difficult they've made it for self—employed people right across the united kingdom. think about what they did to corporation tax last year, putting it up by 30% and being surprised that many small and medium businesses now don't have as much capital, perhaps to reinvest or as much incentive to make profit as they had before . make profit as they had before. and the other group of people who feel betrayed by the lack of brexit delivery. there's the broader population who voted for lower numbers, but there's the business community who genuinely thought and hoped that by getting rid, by streamlining so many european union rules that their lives would get easier, they haven't. they haven't. the government blames covid because of covid. we couldn't do these things well. i would argue they didn't have to lock us down repeatedly . once was probably repeatedly. once was probably more than enough, but we have

not. and, you know, rishi sunak and others promised they'd get rid of thousands of eu laws. they simply haven't done it . and they simply haven't done it. and actually in some sectors, in some sectors , the regulatory some sectors, the regulatory authorities in britain have made life for men and women running small businesses even harder than it was during the time of eu membership. so we believe that genuine economic growth doesn't come from half a dozen giant multinationals. it comes from a simultaneous actions of hundreds of thousands of people. millions of people decide saying they're going to have a go. and of course, these people don't benefit on holiday pay. they don't benefit on sickness pay. these actually really economically, these men and women are the heroes of the country. they deserve encouragement. and the more people that do it, the greater the wealth that that we will create. and we need wealth , of create. and we need wealth, of course we need wealth. and one of the areas where we need to spend money is defence. i can't think the world has been in a

more perilous place at any point in my lifetime . i was born after in my lifetime. i was born after the cuban missile crisis. just to clarify , we only just the and to clarify, we only just the and frankly, this barmy idea of saying we're going back to national service. oh no, we're not at all we're going to do is take 30,000 young people and at vast expense, give them a year's training. what we ought to be doing is saying, look, training. what we ought to be doing is saying , look, there doing is saying, look, there were 100,000 people in the army in 2010. there were 72,000 people in the army. now, let's let's not recruit 30,000 part timers. let's actually recruit 30,000 people full time to be in the services. and a similar principle, of course, would apply principle, of course, would apply across the navy and the air force. and in terms of in terms of expenditure, look, we think government should push on to two and a half and then 3% of gdp as quickly as they possibly could. i think we've neglected defence very, very badly now in

terms of our public services, be it policing , terms of our public services, be it policing, be it prisons, be it policing, be it prisons, be it the national health service, there's certainly a radical cultural rethink that needs to go on. i'd be fascinated going around the country in the last couple of weeks, talking to people, parents, particularly about their real fear of knife crime, growing fear of knife crime. and this is not from the 18 pluses. it's going right down in the teenage years. and we have no doubt that an approach to policing such as stop and search and don't worry if you're called prejudiced or you're doing something wrong, actually, you'll save lives . we're going you'll save lives. we're going to have to get much tougher on low level crime . and i mean low level crime. and i mean shoplifting. i mean, can you believe it ? you could all go out believe it? you could all go out and shoplift. it's fine up to £200 you can, nick, and no one's going to prosecute you. so i think a different approach culturally across crime and

policing. and with the big one, the nhs. look what we are going to campaign for is a genuine radical rethink. you know, we all grew up loving the nhs, being deeply grateful to the nhs. it was there and a fantastic thing . and i've been fantastic thing. and i've been trying to make these many of these arguments actually, i've been trying to make for well over a decade that we have to have a rethink. and i think perhaps back in 2015, when i led a different party in a general election, perhaps i was just a bit ahead of the curve. perhaps i was saying things that people didn't want to listen to, but i get the sense that they are listening now. we are not getting the bang for our buck, and there's a growing level of disenchantment that the health service simply isn't fit for purpose in the way that it, and not just the way that it used to be, the way that we want it to be. so let's look at other funding models. let's look at how the french do it. let's be radical in our thinking . and my radical in our thinking. and my final point is on benefits . now

final point is on benefits. now it's quite easy for those in work and working damn hard to say lazy scroungers on benefits. it's a sort of conversation you hearin it's a sort of conversation you hear in the pub, but actually there are a lot of people on benefits who do not want to be on benefits. they want to go back to work, but the system massively disincentivizes this because if they work for more than 16 hours a week, they start to lose the benefits and they lose more benefits than they'll earn in going out and getting money. there is a trap, a benefits trap, and that isn't good for people economically, and it certainly isn't good for people psychologically . and that people psychologically. and that is where raising the level at which we start paying tax to £20,000 a year really , really £20,000 a year really, really matters. this is something that would make work pay, that would make a massive difference to our

society , massive difference to society, massive difference to nearly every one of our community. and of course, for those on benefits who see it as a holiday , quite extraordinary, a holiday, quite extraordinary, isn't it, that you could have an onune isn't it, that you could have an online consultation and be signed off on the sick with depression? and that? by the way, i'm not, you know, i'm not i'm not knocking those that genuinely have mental health issues. of course i'm not. but what i am saying, it's a ludicrous that that can happen with an online consultation and we want to make it clear that for people that are thought to be fit and able bodied, once they've had two offers of a job, if they don't take one of those jobs, they lose their benefits . jobs, they lose their benefits. and i think, again, that is something that working people would agree with that outlines the broad principles of our contract that as a party, we're unashamedly patriotic. as a party, we believe that british history is a great thing and should be taught properly and with fairness and with balance .

with fairness and with balance. but as a party, we're radical. we're radical in terms of the way we want to change public services. we're radical in terms of the way the education system in this country needs to operate. we're radical in terms of our simplification of the tax system. we're radical in terms of our view on ways on issues such as the electoral system, the house of lords , our right to the house of lords, our right to a referendum. and you can be both . you can be traditional and both. you can be traditional and radical at the same time because we're proud of who we are, but we're proud of who we are, but we feel at the moment politics and government isn't fit for purpose . we want real, genuine purpose. we want real, genuine change to give us a better , change to give us a better, brighter and stronger future. and i promise you all, this is step one. our real ambition is the 2029 general election . but the 2029 general election. but this is our first big push . i've this is our first big push. i've been back in this job for a couple of weeks . i sense we're

couple of weeks. i sense we're doing really rather well. thank you. now thank you . you. now thank you. >> now . to. >> now. to. >> now. to. >> now, i was asked to do the easy bit today. i was asked to give you the vision. i missed the nice today. mr nasty is richard tice today . who's going richard tice today. who's going to tell you what taxes are going to tell you what taxes are going to go up and whether and where the savings are going to come from. richard. thank you. thank you . you. >> thank you nigel. >> thank you nigel. >> thank you nigel. >> thank you. well, a very good afternoon. >> it's great to be here. rarely been introduced as mr nasty. >> so all these bold plans and they are exciting and they are attracting huge appeal out on the stump. >> something's going on out there. it's quite remarkable. >> word is spreading about

reform uk. and as nigel just touched on some of these key policies are really gaining ground . ground. >> so how do we pay for them. well i talked about some of it last week. >> last monday . >> last monday. >> last monday. >> but here's the thing. >> but here's the thing. >> lots of people in the media say, oh, it's unfunded tax cuts. >> no , no, let's get this real. >> no, no, let's get this real. >> no, no, let's get this real. >> it's unfunded spending. that's what's got us into a right pickle . our fiscal deficit right pickle. our fiscal deficit in the last year to april, no one talks about it. we spent about 120 billion more than we earned . there's a few key big earned. there's a few key big things here. >> and unlike some of the other people in their plans, other parties , they're not honest with parties, they're not honest with you about the costs and how you're going to pay for it. >> we are, because it's set out in this contract. >> so last week i spoke about this issue of the bank of england paying your taxpayers cash on all the money that was

printed and it's about 35 billion a year based on current interest rates. >> it's quite hard to explain , >> it's quite hard to explain, but here's the point. it's about £700 per year. >> you know, you're making progress when within two hours of finishing that press conference last week, i was attacked by none other than the lobby group for the big banks, the vested interests, who seem to think that they have a right, the big banks to make big profits on the money that was printed to save them going bust really . let me repeat, we are really. let me repeat, we are the real party on the side of the real party on the side of the workers, not the labor party, what i call the cafe latte labour party. >> that's on the side of big business. >> so that's the first thing. >> so that's the first thing. >> when they printed all this money, they didn't tell us that when interest rates went back up , it would cost us an absolute

fortune transferring our money to the big city banks. they didn't tell us that, but that's what's happened. unfunded spending. the second big item, of course, is the cost of net zero. so when theresa may had a 90 minute debate back in, i think it was 2019 90 minutes to sign up to net zero, put it in legislation, no one said, well , legislation, no one said, well, hang on, how much is this going to cost? >> what's the spending? >> what's the spending? >> the truth is, even if they had that debate, they wouldn't have had a clue . you've got have had a clue. you've got people like the climate change committee saying it's 1.2 billion. >> you've got the obr saying it's 1.4 >> you've got the obr saying it's1.4 billion, you've got the national grid perhaps being a little bit more honest, saying it's 3 trillion, sorry, those are trillion numbers. the numbers are so big. 1.2 trillion, 1.4 trillion. >> the national grid says it's trillion. >> impossible to work out what

that means. >> 3 trillion i mean, is it 100,000 per household? no one talked about this spending the cost to get there. >> apparently it's going to save the planet and therefore the cost is irrelevant . really, this cost is irrelevant. really, this is real money. this is real cash. >> and it's all of our cash. and apparently it's going to be good for the environment. >> well , where for the environment. >> well, where i'm campaigning to be elected, one of the big debates is the implications , the debates is the implications, the consequences, which is happening now all over the country of this drive towards offshore renewable energy. but you've got to transmit that electricity. >> how are we going to transmit it? >> oh, i know big 50 metre pylons going hundreds of miles across the english countryside. >> how is that good for our environment? and who's going to pay environment? and who's going to pay for it ? so all of those who pay for it? so all of those who voted for this, they didn't tell us that, did they? they didn't tell us how much it would cost and how much it would blight the

engush and how much it would blight the english countryside. >> our environment . >> our environment. >> our environment. >> how is that good for the environment? we reckon that if you scrap net zero, then the saving to the taxpayer every year for the next 25 years would be in the order of £30 billion per year. what is that? that's about £600 per adult. >> that's what that is. >> that's what that is. >> £600 per adult. so £1,200 for a two person household every year after tax. >> this is real money. it's your money. and they didn't tell you they deliberately misled the british people about the cost implications of net zero. and as nigel quite rightly said, all you're doing when you're not reducing global co2, you're just shipping it somewhere else . shipping it somewhere else. >> and we're the mugs that are paying >> and we're the mugs that are paying for it and it's got to stop. >> and we're the only party that has the courage to say this is

unfunded spending. >> it's costing us a fortune. >> it's costing us a fortune. >> it's costing us a fortune. >> it's not going to save the planet, and it's got to stop 30 billion a year. >> now, the third big item and again, some of the press will attack us. one of the mainstream broadcast journals , newspapers broadcast journals, newspapers this morning tried to do an analysis of some of these costs . analysis of some of these costs. the thing was, though, because they didn't want to actually tell us the truth about these numbers . numbers. >> they just talked about in generalities . but we all know generalities. but we all know taxes have gone up to record levels . and yet the quality of levels. and yet the quality of the outcomes of public services has declined . that can only mean has declined. that can only mean that we're spending money badly. >> vie if taxes had gone up and the quality of public services had improved, no end and waiting lists had dropped to zero, you might say, well, money is being spent. >> well . >> well. >> well. >> so when i talk about waste in pubuc >> so when i talk about waste in public services, waste in public

spending, particularly in things like the nhs, i always get contacted within a couple of days by nurses, anaesthetists, surgeons, doctors who say, richard, thank heavens someone is actually telling it as it is, the waste is everywhere. >> it's extraordinary . >> it's extraordinary. >> it's extraordinary. >> and i've got a very simple slogan. >> it's what we do in business and we come from the world of business. >> we're fixers, we're sorters, we're doers. >> we make things happen . it's >> we make things happen. it's very simple. >> you've got to cut out the waste from the back office and invest it in the front office. that's how you grow a business. that's how you grow a business. that's how you improve the surplus that you make. that's how you improve the quality of your product. >> and that's what we've got to do with the public sector. instead we learn that since about 2019, there's an extra 600,000 people working in the pubuc 600,000 people working in the public sector , but productivity public sector, but productivity has gone down. >> so we have to be honest with people. and in the same way that

all of us struggling with our bills at home, we're saying, well, i've got to save £5 in 100, but you've still got to pay the bills. >> the rent, the mortgage, the food . food. >> so you've got to buy more wisely . wisely. >> that's what we do in business. nigel talks about small businesses. we're all looking at our bills and in business you say to your spending managers, folks , we've spending managers, folks, we've got to cut the cost, but we've still got to provide the product. >> so you've got to save £5 in 100. and bluntly that's your job. >> and if you don't, you're fired. >> i know it's tough, but these are tough times. and when the going gets tough, guess what the tough get going. that's the reality. and that's what's going to happen in the public sector. when they introduced the equalities act in 2010 and a well meaning well intended things like diversity, inclusion and equality, it sounds lovely, but they never told us about the cost of it, did they? they never

said it's going to cost hundreds and hundreds of millions every yeah and hundreds of millions every year. and productivity is going to go down as you move towards mediocrity . so i simply don't mediocrity. so i simply don't accept the nonsense that's talked by those in the treasury and in the main two parties who say you can't save any money in the public sector. it is utter nonsense . we know it's nonsense nonsense. we know it's nonsense because of those extra 600,000 people. >> we know it's nonsense because the size of the cake that nigel's talked about in the nhs, it's up to about 11% of the size of the cake. and yet waiting lists have gone down. >> that is the proof that we can spend money better. we can save money in the back office and invest it in the front office. and i know it sounds glib, but the numbers are big. but if you save £5 in 100 in wasteful pubuc save £5 in 100 in wasteful public sector spending everywhere, the quangos, the commissions, the local authorities, the government departments , it soon adds up. departments, it soon adds up. >> it's £50 billion plus or

minus. >> these are big numbers per adult. it's about £1,000 a head. this is real cash with which we can completely transform the way we run our economy. and as nigel touched on the tax cuts, in order that actually we can make work pay, we can make businesses grow , we can encourage risk grow, we can encourage risk taking . taking. >> let's remember, the biggest risk in life is never taking one. that's what small business folk do . folk do. >> those are the big savings. on top of that , if we get a million top of that, if we get a million people off benefits back into work , there's huge billions of work, there's huge billions of savings are another bugbear of ours, hs2. i mean, the prime minister scrapped the top end. prime minister, what are you going to do a forjob heaven's sake? just do it properly. just scrap the rest of it. billions more. their foreign aid. we know there's huge amounts of waste in foreign aid. we could reduce the amount we spend on foreign aid, sending, spending, saving

another 6 billion or so every yeah another 6 billion or so every year. these are huge savings . year. these are huge savings. this is a completely different way of running our economy . i way of running our economy. i believe it's achievable. we know it's achievable. that's why we put this forward and we know the current status quo. the main two parties tinkering at the edges. there's no growth. you can't tax your way out of this crisis . your way out of this crisis. >> we've got to grow our way out of this crisis. >> and this folks , is how you >> and this folks, is how you pay >> and this folks, is how you pay for it. we've got to stop paying pay for it. we've got to stop paying the interest on the printed money. we've got to scrap net zero, and we've got to cut out the waste in the back office of the public sector and invest it in the front line. if we do these things , then we can we do these things, then we can make this country grow again. we can afford to invest where we need to invest in growth , in tax need to invest in growth, in tax cuts, in defence and all the other things in this great contract. so i commend this to

you. reform uk commends this to you. reform uk commends this to you. this is how we pay for it. it can be done . no one's saying it can be done. no one's saying it's easy. the truth is life isn't easy. but if you're not prepared to get tough with wasteful spending, then we are heading towards a very bad place. >> that's what we're about. >> that's what we're about. >> that's what reform uk is about. and that's why reform uk is going up in the polls. >> word is spreading. >> word is spreading. >> people love common sense policies and a common sense approach to what we do. i commend this contract to you. thank you very much. so. you've had the nice bit. you've had the challenging bit, and then the next plan is we're going to take some questions from the press. there are then one to ones . there are then one to ones. we're also going to it's very important with a contract a contract is not valid of course unless you sign it. so we will be signing the contract in due

course. but nigel s2e1 questions . so who's first questions? alex thank you very much indeed . thank you very much indeed. >> that's brilliant. thank you so much. >> hello , mr farage, mr tice, >> hello, mr farage, mr tice, alex forsyth, bbc news you've got 24 pages here. you've talked about the costings , you've about the costings, you've talked about the spending. but some of the stuff in here, a freeze on immigration and nhs waiting lists down to zero, more police officers . you accuse police officers. you accuse other parties of broken promises, but isn't this really a list of unrealistic promises , a list of unrealistic promises, a list of unrealistic promises, a wish list rather than a serious plan? aren't you doing what you accuse others of, which is chucking out a whole lot of things that sound popular and the hope you get votes that you never plan to deliver on it is a promise that this is what we're going to campaign for over the course of the next five years. >> these are the principles. these are the issues. richards talked about the way we can pay for things, but this is what we're going to campaign for. i said at the very start, we are not going to be in government

this time round. but we are going to provide a voice of opposition. and this outlines where we're going to challenge labour on many of these things that we're discussing in this document. i mean, labour don't want to talk about these issues. so i think we've laid out very clearly where we stand philosophically, ideologically on a number of things, and this is what we're going to fight for. so no , i see no for. so no, i see no inconsistency with that whatsoever . it's very different, whatsoever. it's very different, isn't it, to promising you reduce net migration to tens of thousands a year in consecutive manifestos and then then not even trying to achieve it? >> chris hope . chris hope. gb >> chris hope. chris hope. gb news. two quick questions. you're here. you're here talking laboun you're here. you're here talking labour. you're here in merthyr tydfil, but why are your policies aimed at the tory voters? describe for us a typical reform voter and to richard tice on page 23, it says

that you're putting up tax to 40% of gdp more than labour. why is that? or is that ? am is that? or is that? am i reading that wrong? >> well, how does that go? i mean , you talk about reform mean, you talk about reform voters or reform members . a very voters or reform members. a very large number of reform members are former members of the labour party, and they've been on that journey that millions did in this country, you know, from sort of 2010 on to now, i guess, lee anderson being perhaps a very, very good example of that. and i think actually what we're talking about here in terms of giving those at the lowest end of the income scale or those trapped on benefits, we're trying to find some answers, some solutions and things we can campaign for to try and make lives absolutely the best they can be. for those at the bottom of the spectrum. now, whether you regard that, chris as being a labour policy or a tory policy, i don't know. we just take the view that it's a right policy. it's the correct policy. and i actually think what's interesting is immigration. the

subject's always considered to be a right of centre debate across europe. increasingly it's something that parties on the left of politics are talking about as well. so i don't think it's, it's sensible to pigeonhole much of what's in there as being labour or conservative. but i do believe, as richard said, there's an awful lot of common sense , and awful lot of common sense, and these are the things we're going to campaign for. and i think they're going to gain widespread, considerable public support. >> thank you. just on your second point, chris. yes, there's a simple expression here, which is that smart tax cuts that create growth, pay for themselves over and over and oven themselves over and over and over. and if we get higher growth, then guess what? you get higher tax revenues . and the higher tax revenues. and the compounding effect of that over five to 10 to 15 year period is absolutely massive. and there's not enough discussion in this country about the benefits of growth. and there's no idea from

the main two parties about that. so what we put in there is an estimate . if you grow the estimate. if you grow the economy by an extra 1 to 1.5, then the extra revenues tax revenues would be about 10 billion. that's the reality . billion. that's the reality. we've got to talk about growth and the benefits. who's next? sam coates . sam coates. >> samke kyrees . >> samke kyrees. >> samke kyrees. >> mr farage, in your contracts, you're proposing to spend an extra £141 billion every year. >> that's about 30 times the amount that labour are going to spend or say they're going to spend or say they're going to spend ten times the amount the tories, three times the amount that liz truss promised to spend. and you did say that you weren't going to win the next election. >> but the scale of this, it's deeply unserious, isn't it? >> that's right. it's radical. it's fresh thinking. it's outside the box. it's not what you're going to get with the current labour and conservative parties, who are virtually indistinguishable, frankly, from each other, is this radical, fresh thinking on economics? yes. is it radical, fresh thinking on constitutional

change? yes. is it very radical change? yes. is it very radical change on the way our education system is currently bringing up our young children? yes britain is broken. britain needs reform. that's what we're here for. that's what we're here for. that's what we're trying to do. and richard has also suggested some very interesting radical changes to pay for it. but we're unashamedly radical. we want change. this isn't working and nobody has got political arguments in this election to i mean, it's basically immoral, the same. it is going to be a labour government. we all know that. i said that two weeks ago when i came back , when richard when i came back, when richard passed me the ball or the hand grenade that was fizzing or whatever or whatever it was, and, you know , and i said that and, you know, and i said that two weeks ago that that labour are going to win. this is about who the opposition is going to be and what we're talking about is what we're going to fight for over the course of the next five years. so no, no, there's no rowing back from me. no apologies from me on this

whatsoever. this would represent a fundamental transformational change within the british economy. >> but to be clear, for those who are watching on the live stream, sam, yes, there's some series of spendings costs, but we also outline all of the savings that i've just touched on there. so it's very important that you look at both sides of the coin. as nigel says, it's not working. people are getting poorer unless we change course. we are heading towards disaster. that's the point. who's next? yes >> hi. >> hi. >> emilio from politico . i've >> emilio from politico. i've got a question for mr farage, one of the main criticisms of you is that it's all well and good being a kind of protest voice, because it's not that hard. governance and even leading the opposition, like you're saying you want to do, is actually a much more complex thing. it requires delicate management. it requires negotiation and compromise. and although you might not like their decisions, rishi sunak and keir starmer, they both have experience running enormous, complex organisations that

require some of that compromise and negotiation . what do you say and negotiation. what do you say to people who might like you and think that you talk a lot of sense, but don't believe that you've got the attitude or the skill for the compromise of management required to be an actual opposition , opposition actual opposition, opposition leader, or even pm, rather than just a protester . just a protester. >> all right, well, look, i think, you know, we all have our personalities. yes, of course, i'm fairly decisive . i have an i'm fairly decisive. i have an opinion. doesn't mean i don't listen. doesn't mean i don't change my mind. doesn't mean i don't respect others. doesn't mean i can't work as part of a team. and many people i work with in politics, i've worked with in politics, i've worked with for many, many years. so i understand the point about compromise. but equally but equally, you know, you have to have a vision, you have to have a goal. and i've had that . i a goal. and i've had that. i mean, this this time, this time 30 years ago, i was campaigning in the eastleigh by—election in hampshire. all right. and i did it not because i wanted a career far from it. in fact, in the end, i gave up a good career because i wanted to pursue

goals. i wanted to pursue things that i believed in. and i've come out of retirement to do this for a similar reason, albeit it's not, as some would see it. the narrower point of self—government outside the european union. although i never believed it was, but some saw it that way. this is about the way in which the country is run, the way in which the country is managed . so yes, i can managed. so yes, i can compromise if i need to , but i compromise if i need to, but i also think, i also think i've had some long term views of politics, of society that have been right. so yes, i'm very confident. i'm very confident in what i say and what i believe in. and i think to give leadership, you actually need to have that. i'll tell you a couple more. >> yes. the lady there. hi >> yes. the lady there. hi >> hi. catherine jones from s4. see, you're here today in one of wales most deprived areas . are wales most deprived areas. are you giving people here hope at this election, or is it just a list of things to hate from immigration to devolution ?

immigration to devolution? >> that question is very closely unked >> that question is very closely linked to the previous question in this sense, this is not a protest document , this is not a protest document, this is not a protest document, this is not a protest vote. and it's been a common misconception. with all the campaigns that i run over the campaigns that i run over the years, i remember sort of in 2011, 12, 13, you know, every by—election we'd hear, well, that was a shock result, a shock result for ukip. the protest vote is growing. it was always a protest vote, as people are suggesting this is a protest vote. when you actually poll people that voted for parties i led back then or now , when you led back then or now, when you poll them and ask them, is it a protest vote? they say no, no, it's not a protest vote. we believe in what they're saying. we think they've got positive policy solutions for the future. so yes, of course we're in an area that has done relatively badly compared to many others, and we genuinely believe the biggest beneficiaries of the ideas we're outlining here will be people. and i repeat the

point, trapped on benefits who don't want to be there or on low incomes or with energy bills that they're struggling to pay. there is a lot more here, far more here for those at the lowest end of the income scale than there is for anybody else , than there is for anybody else, gurpreet, that we'll do one on ones and stuff. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> hi. thank you. gurpreet narwan from sky news, you say you want to find £50 billion of pubuc you want to find £50 billion of public sector waste every year. that's an enormous figure. where exactly do you plan to find those savings? and is this just code for cuts to public services? >> well, cuts to public sector . >> well, cuts to public sector. i mean, i mean, frankly, they're neverin i mean, i mean, frankly, they're never in the office anyway, are they?i never in the office anyway, are they? i mean, it's worked from home, you know, pop into whitehall a couple of days a week, no, i mean, richard's made that look . richard's made the that look. richard's made the point at length, eloquent plea earlier. if you're running a company and things are tight,

you say to your managers and middle managers , right. i'm middle managers, right. i'm sorry. this is the way it is. you've got to cut £5 and 100. in fact, in tough times it might be £10 and 100 or £20 and 100. and you have to find a way of doing that without affecting the product that we're selling to the public. this is not unrealistic in any way at all. and the sheer bloating, the bloating of the quangos, the bloating of the quangos, the bloating of the civil service that has taken place even since, well, let alone since 2016. since 2019, is just astonishing. and that's what we've had with the conservative government. we've had big government, we've had restriction of individual choices. we've had high taxation, record immigration and all. we're going to get with labouris all. we're going to get with labour is more of the same. so yeah , some of these things we're yeah, some of these things we're proposing are tough. but look, you know , the accumulated you know, the accumulated national debt is now 2.7 trillion. it was just under 1 trillion. it was just under1 trillion. it was just under1 trillion when the tories came to power. we simply cannot go on

like this. we're skint . power. we simply cannot go on like this. we're skint. i mean who who else would dare say that in this campaign we're skint, we're in real trouble. and the nonsense of economic argument we hear from rachel reeves and jeremy hunt never acknowledges the fact that both of them are expected to be in deficit next year by yet another £100 billion. so we're saying let's face reality . we have to have face reality. we have to have a slimmed down public sector, and we have to do that whilst maintaining services. >> last question, itv . and then >> last question, itv. and then we've got some one on ones. i think. yeah >> thank you very much. harry horton itv news you're proposing in this contract tax cuts , £88 in this contract tax cuts, £88 billion worth on a scale that might even cause liz truss to raise her eyebrows , and the raise her eyebrows, and the savings that you say will pay for these are questionable . for these are questionable. isn't this exactly the sort of economic policy that would cause financial markets to freak out? >> no, i don't think it is. and

to compare it to liz truss is wrong . yes, liz truss wanted to wrong. yes, liz truss wanted to talk about growth, but . but talk about growth, but. but nowhere in her proposal could we see cuts . on the one hand, to see cuts. on the one hand, to compensate for the giveaways on tax . that was the fundamental tax. that was the fundamental mistake that kwasi kwarteng made with that budget . we're not with that budget. we're not making that. and sure, you can question our numbers, but but actually i think in particular what richard has brilliantly illustrated with the interest being paid to the banks, the banks not being my favourite set of organisation lie—ins, i can tell you, and this is something thatis tell you, and this is something that is now picking up more and more economic approval. former deputy governors of the bank of england and others saying richard's on the right track with this. so, so no. and in terms of financial markets , well terms of financial markets, well of course the french bond market is very interesting. this morning . if you look at it. morning. if you look at it. look, i think an idea that says we want to regenerate the british economy, an idea that says we want to bring back manufacturing to our economy, an idea that says we have to accept the fact, whatever our view, we'll be using oil and gas until

2050. so why not produce our own in this country rather than importing it? i think all of these things actually would be quite bullish for financial markets, even if there was initially a bit of a political shock. but look, let's be realistic . i shock. but look, let's be realistic. i repeat shock. but look, let's be realistic . i repeat the point. realistic. i repeat the point. we ain't going to win this election. this is our first big election, but we are well on our way . if you believe the mrp, way. if you believe the mrp, polls, etc. at the weekend , polls, etc. at the weekend, we're well on our way to establishing, you know, that bndgeheadin establishing, you know, that bridgehead in the house of commons. and those mps that we do elect will be actually have on their shoulders the hopes and optimism of many, many, many, many millions of people . beer. many millions of people. beer. no doubt this campaign is going well. there is momentum out there. you only have to look at things like social media numbers to realise how well we're doing with a budget that's a fraction of the others, and that's because we've got you know, we may be compared to labour and conservative right now . we may conservative right now. we may well be a relatively small party, but we've got a very, very big message. great. thank

you very much, everybody. >> we're going to do some one on ones and appreciate you all coming. we're going to most first of all we're going to sign the contract. and we'd like some candidates to come beside us. yeah. behind us. >> but we'll just sign one of them. >> should we just sign one of them. yeah come. we get some candidates behind. come behind. that'd be great. get it done . that'd be great. get it done. too slow for everyone. yeah. >> have we got a sharpie? all i've got is that. yeah, that's. i'm not sure it's going to work. >> and as the press conference concludes, nigel farage richard tice and a host of reform uk candidates all sign what they're describing as a contract with the british people. >> yes. very interesting there. we heard from nigel farage, the leader, to kick things off. then we heard from richard tice with the costings, a bit of the money talk and then there we go. the press all around, lots of questions about how realistic some of the spending pledges are, about how realistic some of the tax cuts are. nigel's retort to that was that we're not running for government. we know

we're not going to win the election. we're here for the long run. we want to build up support and keep that momentum going. >> it is a bit of a free pass, isn't it? we know that in the best case scenario, reform uk want to provide an opposition in the house of commons not to form the house of commons not to form the government. and perhaps, perhaps that's behind some of their more ambitious pledges in this , in this document, whether this, in this document, whether it's the abolition of any income tax at all on anyone earning below £20,000 a year, of course, the threshold currently stands at 12,500 pounds a year. that's at 12,500 pounds a year. that's a big, big tax cut as is abolishing inheritance tax on any estate worth less than £2 million. these are large tax cuts, but they're accompanied by large spending cuts, 5% in each government department. is that achievable? well, i suppose the grand luxury of campaigning for opposition rather than government is perhaps we'll never know. >> and a huge amount on

immigration, of course, nigel farage has called this the immigration election. he says that he'll stop the boats within 100 days of taking office. he says that there'll be a freeze on net immigration. and again, they're putting forward this policy on taxing employers or if they want to bring in foreign workers. so there we go. we're going to speak to our political edhon going to speak to our political editor, christopher hope, who's beenin editor, christopher hope, who's been in the room. he asked a question to nigel, give us give us your reaction. christopher >> hello? both. yeah. the reform uk contract with you, press conference is now broken up. nigel and nigel farage, that is. and richard tice spoke there. normally we see on gb news screens obviously no one in their ears saying rap rap. they spoke for about 40 minutes. we've got a question at the end though. i think for me this document, our contract with you is like a tory party manifesto

on steroids. if you go through it, it is things which many people on the right of the tory party are just calling for, from rishi sunak, and he hasn't given them , things like the option of them, things like the option of a two year degrees for students to cut their debt, for example, 30,000 more full time armed forces, 25, of your marriage tax allowance to recognise marriage properly in the tax system , properly in the tax system, increasing the tax free income tax allowance to 20,000 from around 2 to 12.5 thousand. freeze non—essential immigration, bring down immigration, bring down immigration to net zero with just a couple of couple of years patriotic teaching in primary schools and secondary schools, teaching about other countries approach to imperialism as much as our own in this country. pay paid for by cutting welfare benefits by cutting 5% of every pound spent by the public sector, removing that altogether, firing civil servants who won't do it. i

mean, it's quite a dramatic statement here. i mean, they've been challenged in this press conference, but is it even realistic? is it a serious document? in fact, who is it aimed at? my question tonight is farage was who is this aimed at, we're here in merthyr tydfil, an area failed by the labour government here. but this is, i would say , policies aimed at the would say, policies aimed at the tory. right. but nigel farage told me, no, this is aimed at working class people who are worried about immigration, who want to get off benefits and aren't getting the help they require from the government . so require from the government. so i think fascinating. we'll be talking to nigel farage shortly . talking to nigel farage shortly. >> it's interesting, christopher, you mentioned this idea of teaching children about slavery from other countries. this patriotic curriculum requirement. how exactly would that work ? that work? >> well, there's not a lot of detail on how it's going to work . in fact, it's about, 100 words long. the section you're talking about, tom, essentially they want to ensure that, yes, you do

teach people about british britain's role in the slave trade imperialism , but also pair trade imperialism, but also pair that with teaching about importing european imperialism and also the teaching of non—european , slavery. so the non—european, slavery. so the point is that slavery was done by a lot of countries around the world in the past. it's obviously completely shameful and dreadful, but they're saying, let's give a whole the whole picture rather than just flagellate, the uk about its record . record. >> and i think they'll go down quite well with some people who are concerned about the curriculum as it is, christopher, big spending pledges , big tax cut pledges, pledges, big tax cut pledges, immigration. nigel farage saying that he'd be able to solve the channel crossings issue within 100 days of taking office by sending the boats back to france. i believe . france. i believe. >> yeah. that's right. he sent boats back to france. now, the way you the way you do that, that would be. we'll pull out

the european court of human rights that would lead to that. they then on the page one, it's on all about immigration. it makes it very clear there that we can take them back to france. it's not entirely clear how that would happen , but this is this would happen, but this is this is the policy of this, party. i was struck, particularly tom and emily. you might like this, that they will push tax up to 40% of gdp. if this happens. now, labouris gdp. if this happens. now, labour is often attacked for that. it's plans. the tories have got near to that in the in the mid 30s and as a percent of gdp this parties reform uk party view is that because the economy will be going so well it won't matter. we all feel richer . so matter. we all feel richer. so the fact it does send says, it does say here they're looking at taxing at 40% spend a £10 billion increase in tax. that won't matter because the economy is growing. >> sorry chris, am i understanding you correctly that the that because i think the labour party's plans take tax to about 37.5% of gdp, which is the

highest in the history of this country? not since 1688, when records began on tax, has tax been that high. is reform genuinely going to say that it's going to tax an even higher level of the british economy tax as a share of gdp, even higher than the labour party has promising ? promising? >> the answer that appears to be yes. i'll integrate it more with nigel farage shortly. that was the question i asked of richard tice just a moment ago in the press conference, and he said that with the economy going gangbusters under this reform, uk policy platform, will be paying uk policy platform, will be paying more tax. but the economy is bigger and growing better, so it won't matter. that's his point. >> so if gdp grows, christopher that, then that, then that absolute number of tax collection will be a smaller percentage that we might not actually meet. the 40 provides that, that the gdp grows . that, that the gdp grows. >> that that's the thinking as i understand it,

>> that that's the thinking as i understand it , tax at 40% to understand it, tax at 40% to spend £10 billion. but the figures are eye—watering £150 billion worth of savings , this billion worth of savings, this will frustrate, i think, the tories particularly because these are things here that they could never say. and in a sense , could never say. and in a sense, reform uk is thinking the unthinkable , trying to go as you unthinkable, trying to go as you know, as i say, for me it's a conservative party manifesto on steroids. they've taken ideas which are infuriate tory voters and said, well, let's try and deliver them. >> well, thank you very much indeed. christopher hope, our political editor. there at the reform uk manifesto launch contract launch. >> sorry. yes and plenty there for chris to dig into with both richard tice and nigel farage. he'll be speaking to them, interviewing them a little bit later this afternoon of course, played out on gb news in all good times. >> get your views in. don't forget to get your views in gbnews.com forward slash your say. we'll have a little bit of time a little bit later to get to those. >> and meanwhile, the labour

party has been unveiling their plans to create thousands of new jobs. we'll get more on that from olivia utley. live on the labour battlebus olivia watts, laboun labour battlebus olivia watts, labour, saying today well, what labour, saying today well, what labour wants to be talking about today is its plan to create 650,000 new jobs. >> as a result of that green industrial revolution. of course, the labour party was talking about giving £28 billion per year to green issues that promise eventual disappeared. and what's left of it is this national wealth, £3 billion. the labour battle bus wi fi strikes once again, will be to try and get back to olivier award are on the labour battle bus, weren't you over the weekend? i was, i got given a big red water bottle that says change labour on it. how exciting! very good. do you know what the labour battle bus. they do keep you well fed and well watered. they've got actually quite a lot of alcohol

onboard. alcohol, alcohol on board the labour battle bus , board the labour battle bus, tins of ipa and lager. >> oh sure, i approve of that. >> oh sure, i approve of that. >> should there be a battle bus? i stuck to the espresso, but but my goodness, you should i wonder, i wonder if this is the labour party's secret trick to try and get good articles written about them. they just get journalists ever so slightly drunk. that's quite the accusation. i'm not suggesting that's what they do at all. of course, any and all drinking was obviously after people had filed their copy, but. right. >> well, seeing as we've lost olivia because of the awful reception, let's hear from the labour leader, keir starmer on his child benefit cap. >> look , i understand the >> look, i understand the importance of dealing with child poverty. >> and the last labour government had a strategy for deaung government had a strategy for dealing with child poverty. and we will have a strategy for deaung we will have a strategy for dealing with child poverty. and there are many aspects to that in terms of the bearing down of costs and the bills that are on every household. there are things that we can do on a two

child cap, look , it's a tough child cap, look, it's a tough choice. i'll be clear about that. but one of the things that we are not going to do as we go into this election is to make announcements about changes that we can't afford, because a lot of damage has been done to the economy. so i'm taking the tough choice to say to people before they vote, these are some of the things we won't be able to do because of the state of the economy. what i don't want to do is do what the tories are doing, which is sort of promise the earth without the funding. and, you know, guess what? after the event , as we've seen in the last event, as we've seen in the last 14 years, nothing gets delivered i >> -- >> now, this imam >> now, this is quite an interesting one. this two child benefit cap, because there are many left wing think tanks and commentators urging keir starmer to drop it and to drop this cap and reform uk saying that they will. >> and it's not just the commentators who are saying drop it. i discovered something over the weekend that was fairly astonishing. a labour commentator who actually has

been on this programme before, matthew torbett, was , is was on matthew torbett, was, is was on a different channel and posted to his linkedin page about abolishing the child benefit cap and raising doubling capital gains tax to raise around £15 billion was his assumption. and i spotted that morgan mcsweeney. now he's not a household name by any means, but he's the labour party campaign manager. he's the power behind the throne. the man more responsible than anyone else for the sort of keir starmer leadership project he liked that post on linkedin, saying double capital gains tax raise, £15 billion with that tax on investment and abolish the child benefit cap. and the big question mark is, is this what they are actually planning to do , even though it's not in the manifesto? well, it must be said he's since unliked that and told people within the labour party that it was a mistake that he liked that post. but it does raise questions. is there more

that the labour party is planning to do taxes, that they're planning to raise, spending that they're promising or preparing to carry out, that they're simply not talking about before the election? well, they haven't ruled it out, have they? >> they haven't they haven't ruled it out . they've only ruled it out. they've only ringfenced that national insurance income tax and vat , so insurance income tax and vat, so there we go. could capital gains tax be, be arisen soon? >> doubled . >> doubled. >> doubled. >> well, in other news, the liberal democrats are out and about. liberal democrats are out and about . ed davey has announced about. ed davey has announced help to rural motorists who he says have been clobbered by the cost of living. he's significantly expanding rural fuel duty relief to 20 new areas. that's his proposal. anyway. here's what he had to say . say. >> well, at the moment, 21 areas around our country, are quite remote rural areas. they pay less for their petrol , five per less for their petrol, five per litre less. we want to expand that. it was an idea that the liberal democrats brought in in the first place. and we want to expand it to another 21, and we'd consult on that , places

we'd consult on that, places like devon and cornwall will be high on the list. but other remote rural areas in scotland, in mid wales and shropshire and yorkshire and so on. but we consult on that to do it properly, it costs £7 million and in our costings we published when we launched our manifesto, we had many ways we were raising the money. one of the big ways is through tackling tax avoidance. we're going to invest £1 billion a year in the tax authorities so they can raise billion. >> they reckon they can raise more than that. but that's what we've put in. >> and this would come out of that money. >> ed davey unusually seen on a beach by a big body of water. what a surprise. >> we're all motorists being clobbered at the pump, i was accused of being a car supremacist over the weekend , supremacist over the weekend, someone dug up an old clip of me essentially saying that the cycle lanes aren't good value for money. sometimes and they said that, oh, tom's completely right on this. oh, tom harwood knows what he's talking about. and all of this. and i thought i'd just point out that i'm the

one who knows how to drive. >> i know how to drive an outrageous accusation. just because the it's a lie. it's a slander. just because the government doesn't let me drive doesn't mean i don't know how to drive. anyway, stick with us because we're going to be discussing that incidence in surrey in which the police drove oven surrey in which the police drove over, or drove his car. a police officer drove his car into a runaway cow. now he's been removed from frontline duties. is that fair? we're going to be having that debate as well as lots more analysis of the reform uk contract with the british people. all that to come. good afternoon, britain on

gb news. >> right now. over the weekend , >> right now. over the weekend, a calf that had got loose in surrey was hit by a police car. >> a video of the incident has caused a lot of upset on social

media. and the police officer responsible has been now removed from frontline duties. >> now, earlier today on gb news, presenter bev turner caused a bit of a stir. she said the police officer may be justified in his actions so we thought we'd get her back to debate this with dairy farmer bruce jobson. so was it right that this police officer has been taken off front line duties? bev, go on. >> i think my response to this this morning, which has made me desperately unpopular, i think because we are obviously a nafion because we are obviously a nation of animal lovers, is that you've got a situation there in a very urban environment. there are quite a lot of roads in that area which are actually 50 miles an hour. just around the corner. there's a couple of dual carriageways, and if that cow had made it onto one of those roads where a driver without the experience of a police officer might have hit it anyway and injured the cow, there could have been all sorts of people injured in a car pile up. i think it was a really difficult decision to make on the spot, but the fact that the police

officer has received such a lot officer has received such a lot of abuse for this and has had to have been stepped down from frontline duties, just feels like a complete overreaction . like a complete overreaction. when he was trying to keep the people safe, the public safe. unfortunately for the cow, he obviously had to be restrained in some way to neutralise the risk to the public. and for me, that's all this police officer was doing. >> well, let's throw that argument over to bruce. bruce jobson, you're a dairy farmer. what do you make of how it was all handled ? all handled? >> well, i think it was disgusting. quite simply. i've had messages from all over the world, through our network of dairy farmers and being an agricultural journalist, etc. but it was an overreaction. the police, not by the members of the public. bev. and in fairness, you know, this was a ten month old heifer calf. sterk, as we would call it, and, you know, it was being rammed by a police car or a jeep. i understand now . you know, that understand now. you know, that animal was in a state of shock. it was panicking . there's police

it was panicking. there's police lights, there's cars down. what was needed was a bit of patience and a bit of understanding , and and a bit of understanding, and it shows a lack of perhaps training. and if there's one thing that comes from this, guys, we should have something for each police force to be aware of. what can happen and what we can do. and i understand the concerns of what bev was saying, and i can agree with that. saying, and i can agree with that . last weekend we actually that. last weekend we actually my son and i went out and brought a bull back who had escaped onto the road. but we did it in a calm and measured fashion. this is not a calm, measured fashion, bev. and what i would say is this that that animal ten months old was, you know, she could have been killed. she could have had a stifled, broken. she could have. you know how it survived, i don't know, come back . don't know, come back. >> bev, come back to that point about how they should have been more measured. bruce. >> what what i don't know, because of course, we are in an urban environment here. and that police officer has probably never worked in a rural environment. there'll be nothing on his training that told him

how to contain a cow near a dual carriageway . what could he have carriageway. what could he have done, bev? what could he have done, bev? what could he have donein done, bev? what could he have done in that instance to protect those cars that you can see in the background? >> well, i can understand that, but you're absolutely correct. and that's what we've got to have. we've got to have a lessons learned. please sit down with veterinary people and maybe the nfu or somebody like that. you're absolutely correct. but this measure wasn't the appropriate measure. what should have been calm should have done bnng have been calm should have done bring the animal in closer , bring the animal in closer, switch off all the lights, get a calmed down, maybe if it'd been possible. dougie my great friend dougie beattie said earlier today. i think, you know, get a bucket with some stones and rattle it and she'll come to it. but the animal was panicked. bev.she but the animal was panicked. bev. she was in it. now, if you were being chased down the street by a car 40 miles an houn street by a car 40 miles an hour, i'm sure bev would have been running down the street right now. but the other thing is this. if that video had been seen, let's say it was a young farmer driving his 4x4 down the down the road and hitting a

vehicle , we'd have peta, we'd vehicle, we'd have peta, we'd have the rspca would have everybody who'd be taken to court now. well, is this bev? >> come back on that, bruce. you make a good point. but, bev. >> so if let me just give you another example then, bruce. because if it's a dog, let's say it's an american xl bully out of control running down the street. it's a threat to human life. would you think it would be okay for the police officer to hit that dog? >> well, that's a debateable issue, and i can understand if it was a threat to human life, but i think the cow was a threat to human life. >> i think the cow was a threat to human life. >> we disagree on that, bev, because the animal was panicked. i don't a ten monthly heifer, a ten month old heifer calf is not really not like a rampaging bull. that would be on the loose. now. it's a question of measures , a proportionate measures, a proportionate measures, a proportionate measure of what do the problem here, bev, is that the police haven't been trained . it's situation. >> bruce is the problem is the problem that bruce, you know

everything about these animals and you know exactly how to deal with them because it is your expertise. you are a dairy farmer. i guess what bev is trying to say is that the police are had to make a decision. after several hours , and they after several hours, and they didn't know what you know about. you don't need cow wrangling in feltham. >> you don't normally need to be able to lasso wild cattle around the state. come on. >> they were chasing this calf for hours. they presumably there is internet in the part of the world. they were they were driving around. does it take could could is it impossible to imagine a three second googling of how to calm down a cow? >> yes, tom, it's impossible to imagine googling how to calm down a cow when the 50 mile an houn down a cow when the 50 mile an hour, a316 is 20m away and you've got a cow running towards it at 10:00 in the dark. but even if you google it, what's it going to say? okay, let's go. >> let's go back to bruce. >> let's go back to bruce. >> now i just want to put i can understand where you're coming

from from. and i understand all the things you've put. it's a lack of training, a lack of understanding with the police. but i just want to ask you this question. where's the biggest threat to danger? we've had animal protesters , not just animal protesters, not just protesters, but just stop oil blocking roads , blocking blocking roads, blocking ambulances, stopping human beings from getting taking to emergency operations and hospitals, weddings and funerals . right now, the police response was to arrest anybody who was trying to clear somebody out of the way. now, is this two tier policing? but the main thing to go away from this today is we need to get the police to get together with vets and give some form of the police officer be punished for this , well, if it punished for this, well, if it was a young farmer doing that on a saturday night, i could understand him being arrested. personally speaking, i don't think so. i think it was a lack of training, he made a big mistake, or his superiors made a big mistake . we don't know the big mistake. we don't know the facts. i've got a lot of sympathy for him and his family,

you know, i do have, but we need to. the truth of this is, let's get back to educating our police force about how to work with animals in distress. >> that's what over the last word, i'm. >> i'm okay with two tier policing when they prioritise human beings over animals. i just call me old fashioned , but just call me old fashioned, but i think the safety of the human beings driving down that road should always trump the well—being of that cow , no well—being of that cow, no matter how sad and distressing that footage is. and it is really unpleasant to watch. i think that police officer had a split second decision to make for two hours. they've been trying to catch that animal in that area, and i feel for him. my heart goes out for him today. >> okay, well, that's the two sides of sympathy. >> i've got a lot of sympathy for him. i think we all agree on that. he was put in a situation which he's never been put in before. and, you know, i have that understanding. but was the response correct? i don't think it was let's move this forward. let's get this debate out. we

have someone like yourself who loves animals. i know you do , i loves animals. i know you do, i watch your program every day. and, you know, let's get the right proportion and let's educate the police and the pubuc educate the police and the public of how to, in a circumstance like this, how we can move this forward for safety of animals and for the general pubuc of animals and for the general public as well. >> fantastic stuff. bruce and bev, thank you very much for joining us. and i think everyone can take away from this. a fact that we have all learned now, which is if you see a calf or indeed a cow on the loose, get a bucket, get some stones and give it a jiggle . tom, there's not a it a jiggle. tom, there's not a laughing matter and you make me giggie laughing matter and you make me giggle, laughing matter and you make me giggle , anyway, let us know your giggle, anyway, let us know your thoughts. you're on team bev. team bruce , coming up is tiktok. team bruce, coming up is tiktok. the new battleground for the election campaign trail? we'll be ripping into some creative and some rather cringey attempts from various political parties. stay tuned .

stay tuned. >> emily. thank you. the top stories this hour. sir keir starmer is promising an end to what he's called chopping and changing in government, which he says discourages investment in britain. the labour leader addressed port workers in southampton this afternoon, outlining plans to inject £73 billion into a new national wealth fund. he also vowed to drive down child poverty after a leading think tank warned the number of children affected by the two child benefit cap will rise by a third over the next five years. but sir keir says the cap will remain for the time being , look, the cap will remain for the time being, look, it's a tough choice. i'll be clear about that . but one of the things that we are not going to do as we go into this election is to make announcements about changes that we can't afford, because a lot of damage has been done to the economy. so i'm taking the tough choice to say to people before they vote, these are some of the things we won't be able to do

because of the state of the economy. what i don't want to do is do what the tories are doing, which is sort of promise the earth without the funding. and, you know, guess what? after the event , as we've seen in the last event, as we've seen in the last 14 years, nothing gets delivered i >> nigel farage has launched his party's election contract, which he describes as a serious plan to reshape the way britain is run. he opted not to call it a manifesto because, he says, too many voters have lost confidence in that term. nigel farage outlined plans to freeze all non—essential immigration and take britain out of the european convention on human rights. there would also be a new tax for employers who choose to hire workers from overseas . earnings workers from overseas. earnings under £20,000 a year would be tax free, with extra funds made available by abolishing the government's net zero targets. mr farage told an audience in merthyr tydfil that he wants to restore trust in politics. >> what we're for, we're for control, borders , we're for control, borders, we're for promoting genuine economic

growth with for helping the little guy. we're about trying to restore some trust in politics. you might dislike what we say. you might not want to vote for what we say, but at least we do say what we mean . least we do say what we mean. and we want to have an absolutely radical rethink of the way in which our public services are run. and yes, that does include the national health service . service. >> as for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or go to gb news complex screen, or go to gb news complex i >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2670 and ,1.1824. the price of gold is £1,832.53 per

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>> well, a very good afternoon. britain to you now, martin dodi is up next, as always. monday to friday, 3:00. martin, what's coming up ? coming up? >> well, we'll have the full analysis of reforms. >> contract with the people. do the numbers add up to £141 billion a year? give away three times the amount of money that liz truss gave away. lots of giveaways for all £20,000 threshold. £2 million on the inheritance tax. lots of exciting stuff. but can the country afford it? can nigel farage stop the boats in 100

days? can he impose net immigration freezes? or is it simply pie in the sky? we'll have full analysis. also, a top political commentator , trevor political commentator, trevor kavanagh of the sun, says it's time to bring back boris rishi sunakis time to bring back boris rishi sunak is flatlining , nigel sunak is flatlining, nigel farage nipping at his heels. sir keir starmer is snoozing his way into downing street. is boris the tories last stitch secret weapon? bring back the big dog and finally the pint. the great british pint is 200 years old today, a great british institution that no politician has ever dared to meddle with. not even the european union will be raising a glass to the great british pint. >> well, cheers to that , martin. >> well, cheers to that, martin. this is actually full of beer. always has been, but thanks for thanks for joining us. always has been, but thanks for thanks forjoining us. and see you at three. >> well, there you go. sounds like a great show, but tiktok, it's become a bit of a fevered battleground this election. all parties are competing for the youth vote. >> yes. suella braverman launched her campaign on the app

tiktok over the weekend to much ridicule with this question for everybody who wants to go to the four seasons, orlando . four seasons, orlando. >> well, there you go. there's suella bravermans. musical hit. labour have been winning the tiktok war so far. they've got edhed tiktok war so far. they've got edited videos such as this one. >> quick, simple question why are there so many potholes kick are there so many potholes kick a pothole through rishi sunak's face? well, nigel farage is also an unexpected star on the social media platform . have a look at media platform. have a look at this video, which garnered over 6 million views. yes! he's back. >> guess who's back? back again. back again. she's back .

back again. she's back. >> it's not, he's not. not tuneful, is he . tuneful, is he. >> well eminem. you see eminem. great. great tune that . great. great tune that. >> well should we get an expert's view. because well, you're the expert . you're the expert. >> come on, tell me what you think. >> i, i think i think that the shorter, more comedic videos do the best here, and the parties that don't go into long spiels about policy and sort of turn viewers off, but just do quick hits , whether it's just a simple hits, whether it's just a simple message like i'm back or about potholes or whatever, those are the things that can really penetrate. if it's very, very short and humorous, they're on to a winner. the longer things, the things that are slightly off. mark not so dawn butlers didn't we, labour mp, last time labour candidate last time with her 21 days to go. >> yeah to go with a garage tune. 21 seconds to go. yeah. i

mean they're creative, you know , mean they're creative, you know, tiktok is the way to go. quite interesting how reform are saying that they're picking up votes with with the 18 to 24 year olds and generation alpha two, as well as, generation z, i have to say that 6 million views on that nigel farage tiktok was more than anything i've seen recently that the labour party has put out . there's a lot of has put out. there's a lot of eyeballs. that is a lot of eyeballs. >> but shall we get an update on the violence between england and serbian fans before the teams played at the euros yesterday? now for radio listeners, what we're seeing is pictures of tables and chairs being thrown by fans. >> yes, it got a bit violent, didn't it? joining us now is our reporter, charlie peters. charlie, describe the scenes. >> well, at 345 yesterday in western germany, we saw this violence throw up between serbian and english fans . now, serbian and english fans. now, some 40,000 england fans have travelled to germany for the euros this weekend, but 150 of serbs and english fans were caught up in this violence yesterday. tables being thrown

as you saw and chairs. and now the update from the german police this morning is that eight men have been charged and seven of them serbs and one engush seven of them serbs and one english fan, also charged by the german authorities this morning. now originally the uk policing football unit said that they were unaware of any english nationals , british nationals nationals, british nationals being involved in any of the police charges. but that's the update we've had from today. we also learned from the german police that one english fan was hospitalised with a serious head injury, but he actually discharged himself and then went on to the game to watch england win one one nil. now this happened yesterday . it's the happened yesterday. it's the first serious major bit of violence that's happened over the euros championship so far between fans and it comes on the back of quite a concerning number of incidents in germany this weekend. on friday night, an afghan national went on a mass stabbing spree in magdeburg, killing one and severely injuring two and

lightly injuring one other. he was shot dead by the police. there in western germany. in the east, sorry in the north, in hamburg , we also had east, sorry in the north, in hamburg, we also had an east, sorry in the north, in hamburg , we also had an incident hamburg, we also had an incident on saturday where a man armed with an axe and an incendiary device believed to be a so—called molotov cocktail, was threatening people in the streets. he was also shot by the police. he was not being killed by the police. he's receiving medical care. and it comes earlier this month after a known islamist was arrested at cologne airport after reportedly sending cryptocurrencies to an islamic cell, a terrorist cell in afghanistan . now, the german afghanistan. now, the german interior ministry has issued a statement over the weekend after these, this cacophony of incidents, both from a security and footballing hooligan perspective, saying that they have armed themselves against all possibilities and are ready to react to whatever comes but really, the first three days of this footballing championship , this footballing championship, it's exactly the kind of thing that the authorities wanted to

avoid. >> charlie, am i right in thinking you don't get this at the rugby, well, i don't, so i don't know if you get the mass rule of 150 people. yeah, but there aren't often at rugby matches known travelling hoougans matches known travelling hooligans attending now 1800 england fans had their passports confiscated before the championships kicked off because they're under football banning orders . but that's a process orders. but that's a process that the fa, the english fa and that the fa, the english fa and that football policing unit follow. other nations don't have the same strategies now as we understand it, several hundred serbian hooligans are known to have travelled to germany ahead of the competition, and they include fans from partisan and red star belgrade. now the ultras from red star belgrade, one of the biggest firms in the country. they're known as the strong boys. they've got not only links with football hooliganism but also racketeering , organised crime, racketeering, organised crime, political violence and gang

crime. so not necessarily the sort of punters that we're expecting. travelling from england, season ticket holders for sheffield wednesday and birmingham city, not well known for their involvement in organised crime and political warfare, so that might reflect sort of the different sorts of clientele at these championships versus what you might expect at the six nations. >> goodness me. well, charlie peters, thank you very much for bringing us all of that. now, just before we spoke about football, of course, we showed you that tiktok video of suella braverman . and it's only fair braverman. and it's only fair that we also show who she's standing against in the ferryman waterlooville constituency. >> so yes , suella braverman is, >> so yes, suella braverman is, of course running for the conservatives. kevin chippendale, higgin for reform uk, edward dean for rejoin eu, gemma furnival for labour, bella hewitt for the liberal democrats, robert holliday for the hampshire independents and bas murray for the greens. well coming up, it's garter day where the king and queen mark the oldest british of chivalry, will cross to our royal

>> good afternoon. britain is just coming up to 10 to 3. and i have to say, a lot of you have been writing in about what we were discussing a little bit of time ago . the extraordinary time ago. the extraordinary reaction of that police officer who ran out, ran over a car in an urban environment . an urban environment. >> yes, sir. frank's got in touch. he says what this police officer did to this car was cruel and totally unnecessary. ridiculous and unacceptable behaviour. mark asks. he says i still don't understand. in the two hours people were aware of this cow strolling through urban streets, nobody saw fit to call a vet. rspca or a local farmer. are people so stupid now? the surrey police did put out a statement. they said that they were told that the police officers had tried to call a vet and they couldn't find one, but they're investigating that to find out why they couldn't get in touch and what the reasons

were for that. and, you know, potentially they could have tried harder , and come to a tried harder, and come to a different conclusion times a cooler vet , but not time to cooler vet, but not time to google what to do if there's a cow on the loose. >> andrew has written in to say, as a retired keeper of livestock, the ignorance displayed today is quite appalling. the animal is a calf and should have been treated quietly , quietly corralled by quietly, quietly corralled by cars or people until an expert arrived. the calf was not a threat to human life . it's threat to human life. it's ludicrous to claim otherwise. has the police officer been referred to the rspca? >> well, there you go . there's, >> well, there you go. there's, and, you know, some people have said, you know , i agree with said, you know, i agree with bev, but i would say mostly not. i would say mostly people think that the police officer was, did a, did the wrong thing there, whereas hugh has written in to just say, please move on. >> yes. >> yes. >> well, i will say that some of you are fed up of talking about the cow. so we're going to move on because today is moo we're going to move on. yes. very

good. tom. now today is garter day, which means the king and queen will attend the annual service to mark the oldest british order of chivalry. >> well, joining us now is our royal correspondent, cameron walker. live from windsor castle. and cameron, what's going on today ? going on today? >> good afternoon, tom and emily. well, any moment now we're expecting members of the royal family and knights and lady companions of the order of the garter to process me up a ward of a castle where the state departments are down to the lower wards. here behind the gate. king henry vii's gate. behind me is saint george's chapel behind me is saint george's chapel, the spiritual home of the order of the garter and that is the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in britain. for new knights and ladies have been invested by the king this morning, including lord andrew lloyd webber, the composer of musicals such as phantom of the opera and jesus christ superstar, as well as the duchess of edinburgh, along standing member of the working royal family , lord kakkar, royal family, lord kakkar, a professor at university college london, and lord peachey , air london, and lord peachey, air chief marshal as well. but it's a relatively close small group

because senior members of the royal family, such as the princess of wales and indeed the duchess of edinburgh, are not part of the order as it stands. but buckingham palace has confirmed the king is attending, despite the fact he is still undergoing cancer treatment. but there was a bit of a question mark as to whether gas would be happening at all, because we've got the general election taking place and buckingham palace announced when we found out that the general election was taking place, that each engagement with a member of the royal family carries out will be on a case by case basis because they cannot distract from a general election. but knights and ladies are are kind of given out at the sole discretion of the sovereigns. so there's no government or parliamentary interference. there is a bit of an elephant in the room as well thatis an elephant in the room as well that is the duke of york. he remains a knight of the garter, but he's not expected to take part in the public procession down to saint george's chapel. but he was expected at both the investiture and the private lunch afterwards. but the procession, of course, it's very traditional. they'll be wearing

white plumed hats, dark blue velvet robes as well, and they will depart following the services of st george's chapel in carriages back up to the castle. so we're expecting the king, the prince of wales, the queen, among other senior members of the royal family and knights of ladies of the garter. so a very busy at the start of a very busy summer schedule of royal engagements . royal engagements. >> it was father's day of course, and, princess catherine released a beautiful picture of her family . her family. >> yes, she certainly did, emily. and it was the first time we've seen some kind of social media post from the royal children prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis saying that they loved their dear papa and wished him a happy father's day. the princess of wales took that photograph on the norfolk coast last month, i am told. and of course , it comes am told. and of course, it comes just a day after the princess of wales was at trooping trooping the colour, the first engagements she had carried out since christmas day last year.

kensington palace says she well , kensington palace says she well, she said, actually in a personal letter to the nation that she has good days and bad days with her, her chemotherapy . so it's her, her chemotherapy. so it's not a full return to public engagements. but it was lovely to see her on saturday nonetheless. >> it certainly was. and do we have any clue about what further engagements she will be making? obviously as you say, there are always going to be up and down days. always going to be up and down days . there's always going to be days. there's always going to be backwards and forwards. do we have any sort of clue about, is this the start of a slow return to public duties, or more of a one off? >> well, kensington palace has ruled out the princess attending the garter day and indeed royal ascot this week, but they have not ruled out further engagements before . the summer engagements before. the summer is out, but they're taking it very, very slowly and giving the princess the time and space to recover. so i don't think they're going to confirm anything until the princess is ready to carry out another engagement. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed. cameron walker of royal correspondent there from windsor castle . windsor castle. >> yeah. and a lovely sunny day

that it's turning out to be. if only it was this sunny on saturday. but you know, you can't have everything. >> yes. everyone with their umbrellas . the brollies >> yes. everyone with their umbrellas. the brollies out. i do love to see you know how people care so much that they're willing to stand in the rain and get absolutely sodden to see the royal family? it's rather nice. >> a marvellous british tradition. i've seen some people referring to the weather this month, not as june, but as january , well, it's nice today, january, well, it's nice today, i think. >> i think it's nice today. the sun has got his hat on. finally hit summer . hit summer. >> well, that's it from us this houn >> well, that's it from us this hour, but join us of course the same time again tomorrow. up next, martin daubney live with an interview of nigel farage. but shall we, before then learn just how sudden it is? it's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. welcome to your latest gb news weather update

from the met office. the rest of the day will see further showers for many northern areas, but some evening sunshine to come as well. but across the north that's where we've got low pressure in charge. it's bringing in a northerly wind as well. so here it's still felt quite cool through today so far, and that cool feel will continue for the far north of scotland. but the showers will tend to fade away and actually there should be some late sunshine for many southern and central areas, even across the northwest as well. and then that will turn into a fairly clear night. tonight we could see some mist and fog around though. by tomorrow morning where we have seen any showers around and temperatures will be around 11 or 12 degrees. similar to this morning, by tomorrow morning and some early sunshine as well, particularly across many central and eastern areas away from any of that mist and fog, but actually across the north of scotland. we've got this northerly wind dragging in some quite persistent rain through much of the night. so quite a cool feel here. but further south, across parts of northern ireland, parts of southwestern scotland , we could see a bit scotland, we could see a bit more in the way of sunshine,

highs and temperatures around 13 degrees. first thing not too bad in the sunshine across the far south as well. once that mist and fog clears , it should be and fog clears, it should be a fairly bright start to the day. but notice this very bright colour on the south and east. that's some heavy rain moving across parts of france and belgium that could clip parts of kent, sussex and towards essex in the southeast, possibly through tuesday afternoon . through tuesday afternoon. further north we could see some heavy showers breaking out across parts of scotland and northwest england, and there's going to be more cloud around tomorrow . the temperatures won't tomorrow. the temperatures won't be quite as high around 19 or 20 degrees for many areas cooler than that. if you do get stuck under any more persistent rain then through tuesday evening, many of those showers will tend to fade away . it should lead us to fade away. it should lead us into another fairly dry evening with some late evening sunshine, and there'll be more sunshine to come through the rest of the week as it starts to continue to feel a bit more like summer, with temperatures around average by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sperm . answers of

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