gb news. >> hey. very good afternoon to you. and a very happy monday. it's 3 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. all across the uk. stopping the boats in 100 days and immigration freeze. slashing taxes and radically reforming the nhs. today, nigel farage launched reforms contract with the people but is it common sense politics or is it an unworkable, unaffordable pie in the sky.7 next, unworkable, unaffordable pie in the sky? next, almost all guns being used by criminals on london's streets have been smuggled in from abroad, and only 52% of shootings ever get solved. mark white shines a light on the underworld and shocking new figures show that 80 pubs are closing every single

month due to spiralling costs, taxes and punters tightening their belts. is it last orders for the great british boozer and a police officer from surrey has caused a nationwide beef when he ran over a cough. well, we'll speak to a journalist who performed a moving tribute and took the cough. a get well soon card . that's all coming between card. that's all coming between now and 6:00. now you will not want to miss this and just a few minutes time we'll hear live from nigel farage at his first interview since that contract was launched. but before that, your headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories this hour from the gb newsroom. nigel farage has launched his party's election contract , at which he describes contract, at 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 under £20,000 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 controlled 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 we say. you might not want to vote for what we say, but at least we do say what we mean. and we want to have an absolute radical rethink of the way in which our public services are run. and yes, that does include the national health service .

the national health service. >> 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 , southampton this afternoon, outlining plans to inject £7.3 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 , it's a tough 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 >> -- >> and sir rod stewart appeared to be booed during a performance in germany after he showed support for ukraine. the singer wore a blue sparkle jacket with an image of the ukrainian flag projected behind him as he performed his 1991 hit rhythm of my performed his 1991 hit rhythm of my heart, which he describes as a war song. but sir rod, a 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. carmelites. now back to gb news. carmelites. now back to . martin. to. martin. >> thank you tatiana. and now it's a very busy show today, so

let's get stuck straight into it and reform uk have unveiled what it says is the party's contract with the voters. it includes a promise to stop the boats in 100 days, a freeze on immigration, big tax cuts and a major reform on the nhs. now we're about to cross over to chris hope, who is with in merthyr tydfil with nigel farage. we're just waiting to get a link ahead of that. i've already had hundreds and hundreds of your essays on this very topic . let's kick off with very topic. let's kick off with tina, who says this bravery, strength , conviction for the strength, conviction for the people and not for big corporations. reform will make the uk great again. linda says this what i like about reforms approach is that it is clear and businesslike. i think most people couldn't care less about ideology. we want a competent government and ministers who care about us, the citizens first, and about traditional british values like truth,

honour and duty. maureen says this absolutely brilliant and inspiring. nigel farage ended by saying reform is a small party with big ideas and i would add to that they've got a lot of big talent, but dave says this it costs three times the amount liz truss spent on tax. nigel might say the right things, but can he afford it? this kind of economics could sink the country. dorothy quickly adds this my best wishes and glad tidings to reform uk and recognise the change of opposition can only be good for our country. i'm counting on them to do a good job, which i know they will. now, ahead of crossing to chris, let's just have a quick look at some of the details that came out in that contract with the people today. the headlines were stop the boats within 100 days by using international treaties that already exist. they simply need to be imposed.

already exist. they simply need to be imposed . and that includes to be imposed. and that includes towing boats back to france . towing boats back to france. now, that could cause a major international diplomatic incident. it seems nigel farage doesn't care. he thinks that's a price worth paying. next up, a net zero immigration policy that ostensibly means one in, one out and also a five year cap on benefits. anybody coming to britain, those ideas will land and resonate with a lot of people. let's cross now direct to our political editor, chris hope, who's in merthyr tydfil with nigel farage. chris, over to you . martin. to you. martin. >> yeah, well, we are waiting for nigel. finish his interviews . so yeah, i totally agree with your assessment of this document . it's called, our contract with you. i mean, in a sense, to me, it's the conservative party manifesto on steroids. some of the ideas which you hear repeatedly from often from the right of the tory party, they have adopted them and they say it's affordable. so far, the

institute for fiscal studies are saying that this is not affordable, and it's out, out by tens of billions of pounds a yeah tens of billions of pounds a year. but some of these policies, you know, are tax on employers who hire foreign workers. we knew about that freezing non—essential migration, returning boats to france, those arriving here illegally, 30,000 more members of the armed forces. that's not the national service that's fully fledged. our members of the armed forces, increasing the tax free income allowance from around 12.5 grand to £20,000, all public sector bodies to be forced to buy three quarters of their food , from local, from uk their food, from local, from uk suppliers, probably farmers in this in this sense, leaving the echr for poorer representation in the house of commons, having a patriotic curriculum in primary and secondary schools, including teaching of, of european imperialism and slavery as practised by european countries and in fact other

countries and in fact other countries around the world, not just the uk, which you do know that the uk is often making a big issue about our role in that as a country, but other countries are doing it too. so in many senses this is it's a wide ranging document. and when nigel farage does come over, we'll be asking him. my first thing will be say to him, who on earth is this aimed at? who are you thinking of when you think of, think of a reform uk voter, is it someone in the home counties of a tory former a tory party member disaffected by by rishi sunak? or is it somebody else? is it is it is it someone here in merthyr tydfil? we are here in merthyr tydfil? we are here in merthyr tydfil. don't forget, a place which has been ignored, some would say by the, by the devolved labour government, and, and it needs help and needs support and national recognition and maybe now, now gets it. and that's why maybe nigel farage is here. so i think there's a lot to talk about with with reform uk. it's about with with reform uk. it's a big moment for nigel farage. you only became leader, just, three weeks ago. but martin nigel farage is, is with me now

and i'll go to him now, nigel farage, this document here, this contract with you . who? who are contract with you. who? who are you writing for? who you aimed aiming it at, the great british pubuc aiming it at, the great british public who wants some hope? >> he wants some aspiration. those at the lower end of the income scale who can't make ends meet, those who are trapped on benefits and i mean trapped. they can't get off because you work for more than 16 hours a week. they take your benefits away. and we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at people who would like well paid jobs in the manufacturing sector by saying, look , we're going to be saying, look, we're going to be using steel and oil for years to come. why not manufacture in merthyr tydfil? >> who is your typical reform uk voter ? is it someone in home voter? is it someone in home counties angry with the left wing bias of some tory policies, or somebody else altogether ? or somebody else altogether? >> no, i mean your average a lot of our voters used to be labour voters, used to be labour voters and they've been on this journey. some have come through ukip and the brexit party, through the conservatives. in some cases at the last election.

onto reform. lee anderson is perhaps the best example of that. there are lots of people like lee anderson who just feel that this sort of metropolitan labour party isn't for them. and we're here, you know, as you say, in merthyr tydfil, we're here because, chris, you know, labour have run wales for 25 years. they pay more tax per head. there's more government spending per head. and yet the outcomes on health and education are worse. and that's a warning as to what a labour government might be a bit like the conservative government, just slightly worse. but also the point that here in wales, some of the crazy things that have happened, no opposition . the happened, no opposition. the conservatives are so divided, there's been no opposition just in the back of this document here, it talks about, £150 billion of savings per year. >> the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, which looks over all the main parties, has said in the last few minutes these sums don't add up. >> and they've said that about the labour manifesto as well. the conservative manifesto this you're out by tens of billions of pounds here. >> this will be difficult. >> this will be difficult.

>> yeah, this will be very difficult for any established or establishment group. this is going to be difficult. and i'll tell you why. this is radical. this is thinking completely radical is dangerous. >> liz truss is dangerous . >> liz truss is dangerous. >> liz truss is dangerous. >> well, liz truss didn't propose spending cuts here. we're proposing enormous spending cuts to fund what we believe is going to be a huge boost to the economy. and huge emphasis in here by the way, on things like small business, you know, 5.5 million men and women out there running their own businesses. i mean, they hate government because no one's on their side. and i think the most , the most radical thing in here. but i think the most exciting thing in here, and you mark my words, this will be popular within 2 or 3 years with everybody is we have to lift the threshold at which people start paying threshold at which people start paying tax from 12,500 pounds to £20,000. why make work pay? those people trapped on benefits can suddenly go to work and genuinely be better off. >> that was a lib dem policy back in the day in 2010. you remember danny alexander championed it. >> it was actually a ukip1 championed it. >> it was actually a ukip 1 in

2005. >> oh forgive me. yeah. >> oh forgive me. yeah. >> no, i've been on this for a long, long time. for a long, long, long time. for a long, long time. so number one, you get people off benefits and going back to work. number two, those on low incomes will actually be better off genuinely better off. and number three, you reduce the need for masses of unskilled migration. >> just on the practical nature of some of the things small boats pick them up, take them back to france. i mean, if it was that easy, it wouldn't be crisis. >> well, leave the echr. >> well, leave the echr. >> okay, so echr leaving first. >> okay, so echr leaving first. >> before that can happen, leave the echr establish a law that says that no one comes via this route , will ever be given route, will ever be given refugee status, and then if you have to pick them up and take them back for their own safety. >> and the issue there of, of migration, you you want to get back to back to zero in a couple of years. won't that be a huge problem for companies that rely on it ? on it? >> no, no, this is zero net migration, okay? it means skilled people can still come. people can go. of course . but people can go. of course. but overall, this increase in population of three quarters of a million every year, i think it's the biggest issue in the

election. it affects everything from rents to availability of housing to access to gp appointments. and i think the great british public are making that connection. and we're talking about it. everybody else wants to run away from it. >> and the history, the idea of a patriotic curriculum. >> i am just so sick to death of our youngsters being told that we are a uniquely bad country because we pursued slavery as if we were the only country in history. >> it was bad though, right? >> it was bad though, right? >> it was bad. yes and every other european country. and it's still happening in many parts of the world today. but why not teach them as well that we spent 40 years with the royal naval squadron driving slavery off the high seas, and that the british government spent more money stopping slavery than it ever earned from it. make sure kids get a sense of balance. >> there's a line at the back on page 23. it says here tax at 40. spend 10 billion a year. that's more than labour are taxing. they are 37 .7. 5% of gdp. your your tax your tax you might want to post in this country are bigger than labour. >> no they're not because no no

no they're not because we're cutting we're cutting, we're cutting, we're cutting because you're cutting spending at the same time. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> that's the point. we're cutting spending okay. >> and just, just finally you can win seven mps salvation. >> say no idea. >> say no idea. >> three last week david bull seven today. >> well good trend but i'm absolutely no that's your end game. >> just finally is it is it to take over the tory party a bndgehead. bridgehead. >> you say there isn't a tory party. >> there isn't one. >> there isn't one. >> come on, there isn't one. >> there is a tory party and suella braverman it. >> suella braverman and wants to marry me politically, you know. and david cameron says he shouldn't go near me. and lord heseltine thinks i'm like oswald mosley. >> no to gb views. will you ever be a member of the tory party >> i think it's extremely unlikely. >> it's not a no. then >> oh goodness me, these are the westminster games. you all play my ambition. >> i'm a gb news. i'm playing the game games. >> my ambition is for this party to establish a beachhead right into parliament and to use that to build a mass movement over the course of the next five years. i don't think the conservative party will reform itself. there are people in there that are friends of mine

who i'm close to. i very much hope they come and join me. who are they? well, you know who they are. i mean, they, you know, i mean, suella and people like jacob, they're in the wrong party. >> nigel farage, thank you for joining us today. and gb news thank you. nato farage. they're not saying he won't ever join the tory party. he's got friends on those backbenches who he wants to join him in the reform uk party on the on the green benches. >> well chris hope, an excellent start to the show from merthyr tydfil. thank you very much for joining us and thank you nigel. now to get more reaction to what reform uk has said, i'm now joined by sunil sharma, who's the chief operating officer with conservative friends of the commonwealth. thanks for joining us sunil. always a pleasure. so nigel farage there all guns blazing as you'd expect, saying there's no chance of him during there's no chance of him during the conservative party because the conservative party because the true conservatives are in the true conservatives are in the wrong party. basically saying sunil sharma, the conservative party is having a death rattle. it's time for the true conservatives to join reform. what do you say to that ?

reform. what do you say to that? >> i think it's really interesting and i think with nigel farage, i think probably the end goal is a united conservative front, which i think sooner or later will probably happen post this election, i think the, the big thing for reform, a lot of the ideas are saying, i know he said they're radical, but a lot of them are basic common sense. i mean, the personal allowance, you know, you know, it's gone up by £2,000 over ten years, which is, you know, astonishing considering the rate of inflation, considering how much, cost of living crisis, all the sort of stuff said to go up by £2,000 over ten years is a fairly sensible idea , so i don't fairly sensible idea, so i don't think a lot of the stuff he's actually saying is that radical. it seems very, to be honest, moderately sensible , i think moderately sensible, i think would be the, the idea very conservative principles and one thing reform have definitely showed is that they are full of different ideas , and it's different ideas, and it's something that the conservative party will definitely need, to take.i party will definitely need, to take. i think some of this inspiration from i think the big issue, if you like, with reform

in terms of when it comes to actually holding a proper opposition , is the fact that if opposition, is the fact that if you like, they are almost like a start up organisation in the sense that there are some clear teething problems , that you've teething problems, that you've seen it with some of the candidates they've selected, and some of the maybe some of the figures not quite adding up, which is, again, normal for a new group, a new organisation, and there's plenty of experience. people but i think what he said at the end was quite clear in terms of reform . quite clear in terms of reform. i think when he says reform maybe more himself than being establishing this conservative front, whether that's reform, conservative, i think he sees himself as the leader of the conservative, the conservative movement, if you like, in the uk, which i think isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world. >> but the trouble with that, sunil sharma, is that the conservative party is very divided. we've seen david cameron talking about dog whistles over the weekend, directly attacking nigel farage. suella braverman, on the other hand, as nigel said, more or less sending a love letter to him to join the party. already the daily telegraph is saying

nigel farage must believe in fairies and they're attacking his economics today. they're saying as trussonomics on steroids, so he's being attacked as well as welcomed by the conservative party is that the problem, sunil sharma? we just have a terminally divided party. >> yeah, definitely. i think, you know, i almost speak some similarities, almost to brexit party years ago, where they almost needed this push for the conservative party to really take brexit seriously and actually , in push towards that actually, in push towards that direction. and i think this is maybe could be something very similar, but the difference is the threat i think is, is far, far, more concerning for the conservative party in the sense of there's a very likelihood, chance that they won't be in power, coming, beyond july the 4th. so what does post july the 4th. so what does post july the 4th look like for the conservative party? you've got clear different factions within the group, and i think this election will be a massive indicator of what the members, what the conservative people in

this country. because, again, a lot of the policies are saying there, then i'm sure if you spoke to the average conservative voter or member, they'd probably agree with more than 50, if not closer to 100% of what, they're proposing. so i what i think would be fantastic is to take some of these policies, take some of these strong, conservative minded ideas , put it into to the ideas, put it into to the conservative party, because, you know, this is an old institution that has clear, has a better , that has clear, has a better, maybe due diligence process. it's a more expertise. there's more , you know, it's a much more, you know, it's a much bigger group that's been going on for a lot longer time reform is still a new start up organisation. we've seen it with some of the candidates. we've seen it with some of the figures not quite adding up, which is again i don't think you can knock them for that. it's they're so new in that sense. so i would love to see some of this. what they're doing being implemented within the conservative party. and i think post this election, i think there's a real opportunity for conservatives to really unite. like i said, i see this very similar to brexit party and that

in the end, you could argue that was so influential into what happened with boris johnson in terms of, his election, in terms of the seats that they won in places that labour never done . places that labour never done. and hopefully this could spark something similar. post july the fourth. >> okay. excellent input as even >> okay. excellent input as ever. sinner sharma, who's the chief operating officer with conservative friends of the commonwealth. thank you for joining us. it's always a pleasure. now some urge that almost all of the firearms being used by criminals on london's streets are being brought in from abroad. we've got a special undercover report on that. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

welcome back. it's 324. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. later this hour, i'll be joined by a pub landlord who's going to talk about the very worrying news that 80 boozers are shutting every single month.

now, before that, senior police officers have revealed that almost all of the firearms being used by london's criminals on on our streets or being brought in from abroad. and although firearms offences in london have fallen , half of all cases still fallen, half of all cases still go unsolved . well, our home go unsolved. well, our home security editor, mark white, has been taking an in—depth look at this serious issue . this serious issue. >> at this train station in luton , firearms officers move in luton, firearms officers move in on an armed suspect. he's got a flare, got a floaty . flare, got a floaty. >> now do you know, are you front are you front? front now. front front. now this is 20 year old tyrell mccoy. >> when officers searched him they found this handgun and ammunition . mccoy and other ammunition. mccoy and other members of his northwest london gang have now been jailed for drugs and firearms offences. >> i'm scared . had to think >> i'm scared. had to think about his last moments because i

think if i do , that's when i'm think if i do, that's when i'm going to hit that black hole and i might never, ever come out of it . it. >> jackie taylor knows more than most the heartbreak gun crime can bring. last year, her son tyrese was shot dead in south london. his killer has since been convicted. but for the family, their grief is all consuming. >> sometimes i sit down and i andifs >> sometimes i sit down and i and it's not even tears . i'll and it's not even tears. i'll just be sitting down and all of a sudden i can't breathe . and a sudden i can't breathe. and then i'm just like, come on, jackie, come on. none of us have ever been the same since that day. it'sjust ever been the same since that day. it's just horrible . loud day. it's just horrible. loud shouts, loud shouts . shouts, loud shouts. >> across the capital, police have raided dozens of addresses in recent weeks in a crackdown on the criminal gangs involved

in gun crime, arresting more than 50 and seizing dozens of weapons. the met's say firearms offences have fallen to a 15 year low in london, police , but year low in london, police, but many criminals still manage to acquire guns, often from other crime groups overseas. >> well, the majority of illegally held firearms here in this country come from abroad. but having said that, we often see, converted blank firearms which are legal. they're used for things like, you know, starting pistols, gaming, etc. currently we're seeing a converted firearms coming in from places like turkey. it fluctuates over the years. this south london criminal, danny butler, is now serving an 18 year jail term after officers searched his home and found six firearms. >> some, including a loaded handgun, were found in his young children's bedroom drawers . children's bedroom drawers. brazier the local search warrant

across the capital, police are continuing to pursue the gun criminals . continuing to pursue the gun criminals. but it continuing to pursue the gun criminals . but it is, it continuing to pursue the gun criminals. but it is, it seems, a never ending battle against those determined to carry these deadly weapons. mark whyte, gb news. >> superb report. there by mark whyte and for more on this, i'm now joined by the former metropolitan police detective, peter bleksley. peter, always a pleasure to have you on the show. let's start with the good news. gun crime at a 15 year low and it must hearten you to see boots through the door and those kind of raids. precisely the sort of old school policing that you were a huge fan of. but nevertheless, if we can't control our borders in terms of thousands and thousands of people pouring through peter bleksley, it's hardly surprised . bleksley, it's hardly surprised. thousands and thousands of firearms are coming in. >> yes, unfortunately. and they are on an almost daily basis. but yes, credit where it's due . but yes, credit where it's due. our police, the national crime agency and other people involved in law enforcement are on permanent red alert with regards

to firearms issues because of course, they create such havoc and cause such damage, which was sadly seen only last month when a nine year old girl in london was critically injured after she had been shot. so whilst firearms discharges are down, sadly we have in london and other cities seen a huge rise in knife crime which of course creates huge bloodshed. but once again , let's just be grateful again, let's just be grateful that the police are proactively putting those doors in and locking up bad people . locking up bad people. >> and peter, another very concerning statistic in this is that only half of gun crimes get solved. and as you know, that's often because of a wall of silence of the fear within communities. sasha johnson, you recall , in may 2021, a black recall, in may 2021, a black lives matter activist shot in the head in peckham, just down the head in peckham, just down the road from where i live, life changing injuries. nobody has ever been apprehended for that

case. peter bleksley how typical is that of people being simply too afraid to speak out against these criminals? in case there are recriminations against them? >> yes, i think we're all too familiar with that dreadful expression, the wall of silence. and it is built around many cases of people being shot . but cases of people being shot. but there's a bigger issue here in terms of overall policing. if you have great links with the community through beat bobbies, neighbourhood cops, community cops , call them what you will. cops, call them what you will. you do stand more chance of building trust and confidence in those communities and therefore getting someone to come forward. and also, let's not beat around the bush in the last 20 years or so, even longer senior uniformed police officers have demeaned the role of detectives hugely, and they've reduced it to the point whereby a university dropout who's watched two episodes of vera can become

straight into the police as a detective , and they're not detective, and they're not sufficiently trained, they're not sufficiently experienced. so it is no surprise whatsoever that only half of firearms offences in the met get solved . offences in the met get solved. the detectives are not experienced enough, well enough trained and the uniform cops are scary. of those detectives who were so often very streetwise peter bleksley. >> every time we're on the show, i'll say and we'll say it again. if we have more people like you on the beat, we'll have a fighting chance. thank you very much for joining fighting chance. thank you very much forjoining us. former met much for joining us. former met detective peter bleksley always a delight to have you on the show. and there's loads more still to come between now and 4:00, and we'll look back on the mixed fortunes for the nation's, the home nations at the european championships. as england started with a bit of a nerve racking win. but it was a very different story, of course, for scotland they were mullered five, one by germany and one headune five, one by germany and one headline branded them the shower of scotland. whoops. but first there's your latest news headunes there's your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez .

headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much. the top stories from the gb news room nigel farage has launched his party's election contract , 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 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 a party gathering that he wants to restore trust in politics. >> what we're for, 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 we say. you might not want to vote for what we say, but at 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. >> 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 britain. the labour leader addressed port workers in southampton this afternoon , southampton this afternoon, outlining plans to inject £7.3 billion into a new national wealth fund . he also vowed to 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, 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 to 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 14 years, nothing gets delivered . delivered. >> and sir rod stewart appeared to be booed during a performance in germany after he showed support for ukraine. the singer wore a blue sparkle jacket with an image of the ukrainian flag projected behind him as he performed his 1991 hit rhythm of my 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 reportedly vetoed an eu plan to apply fresh sanctions on

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three lions beat serbia one nil. it wasn't a great performance by england , however, but they did england, however, but they did a damn sight better than our friend scotland north of the border. they were mullered five one by germany on friday night. and remember , scotland have and remember, scotland have never got past the first stage in any major tournament, so his history merely repeating itself. well, i'm now joined by the sports broadcaster chris skudder. scuds. welcome to the show. always a pleasure. let's start with england. got to say it was squeaky bum time. we've all been there. we're one nil up, we sit back, we defend. i don't know about you, but almost gnawed my fingers off. >> yeah, we're all a bit nervous, weren't we? >> but you know, martin, the worst thing you can do in tournaments, world cups and euros is to start off with a five nil win. the teams that do that never win it. >> you know, you grow into the tournament, and you know, england looked fantastic for the first 20, whether it's the gareth southgate factor. dunno i think sometimes the players kind of assess the situation. they felt comfortable and then just allowed serbia to get on top a

little bit, but it was never really much danger. i think england weren't going to win that game. so i think it was a decent start all round. you grow into it. they've got two group games, they've got control of the group already because of the draw and the other one, and if they can beat denmark on thursday then they're pretty much well set and can concentrate on the knockout. so good start for me. >> i bet you though chris i had a feast of football over the weekend with my dad in nottingham and i've got to say italy, spain, germany , these italy, spain, germany, these teams, you say, oh, let's not get excited by a five nil victory. actually, i quite like a five nil victory. they look dangerous. britain. i've got to say, they looked a bit like the stevie g, the kind of frank lampard. let's sit back and defend. is that down to the gaffer . should we be defend. is that down to the gaffer. should we be just getting out and attacking more. >> yeah my concerns at this stage, martin, is that we haven't got a sort of settled team. we know the sort of core of the we know the defence isn't isn't great and it needs, you know, it's missing 1 or 2 people. but that sort of the attacking side is great. but,

you know, there's a lot of choices for gareth to make. people saying it's a luxury to have three great number 10s like bellingham and foden and palmer. but for me, i think that's a problem because you know, you can never win. really, if, problem because you know, you can never win. really, if , if, can never win. really, if, if, if he has choices to make and he can't really make up his mind and tries to squeeze them all in, the foden situation does concern me. you know, he's a fantastic player. but you saw bellingham. he's not going to be shifted from that number 10 role and rightly so. he's got this incredible winning mentality and rightly so. he was lauded today, but you know question is where do you where do you put foden now. and he's got palmer as well. and he just doesn't show for england what he does for manchester city. and i think that's because his mentality is a bit different and he enjoys being sort of told what to do by pep guardiola, one of the great coaches. when he goes to turns up for england. gareth doesn't really know where to put him or he's trying to get him in the team, but not in an ideal place out on the left. so that's a quandary , and i think it's quandary, and i think it's a problem, not a luxury. and they

need to sort that out for the for the game against denmark on thursday. >> so did chris skudder. thank you very much. and if it's squeaky bum time for england, it was well the bottom fell out of scotland's world. we'll talk about that next. let's quickly move on. we're about to cover a story that brings a tear to my eye, because 8080 pubs are closing each and every month. what can we do to save the great british boozer? i'm martin dalby on gb news, britain's

welcome back. your time is 347. i'm martin daubney , and is 347. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news now. 4:00. i'll have lots more on reform uk. while other parties have released manifestos, reform this afternoon has published what nigel farage has branded his contract act with voters because he thinks the word manifesto means lies. now, in the last few weeks , we've seen sir ed davey

weeks, we've seen sir ed davey go down a water slide, leap about on a trampoline and fall off a paddleboard into lake windermere looking for floating voters. well, today he's not been quite as adventurous. he's been quite as adventurous. he's been building sandcastles on a beach in devon. the liberal democrat leader dragged himself away from that activity to unveil a plan to give fuel duty relief to more people living in rural areas across the uk. >> well, at the moment, 21 areas around our country are quite remote. rural areas . they pay remote. rural areas. they pay 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 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 7 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. >> so the liberal democrats have come out with a policy that's friendly towards the motorists. shocker. well is it a good idea ? shocker. well is it a good idea? i'm joined now by the motoring journalist and transport campaigner quentin wilson. quentin, always an absolute delight to have you on the show. who would have thought that ed davey would channel his inner gilligan? this is precisely the kind of policy that people in france were getting so angry about. france were getting so angry about . this was called a far about. this was called a far right policy, standing up for motorists who are on the breadline in rural areas. it's a good idea, isn't it? what do you say ? say? >> well, he would be the third political party that suddenly chummed up to the motorist after years and years and years of calling two wheels good and four wheels bad. so look, this is an electoral sop. is it a good

idea? >> well, look at the moment the rural fuel duty relief allows retailers to claim back £0.05 duty on those areas that have this this , this subsidy because this this, this subsidy because it's difficult for, for them to get the petrol to these remote areas. >> therefore it costs them more . >> therefore it costs them more. >> therefore it costs them more. >> but the problem is it's these retailers that are putting up the price of petrol. now, the rac today said that we have the highest diesel prices in europe and margins for some retailers are as high as £0.18 a litre on diesel and £0.13 a litre on petrol. so if you want to bring the price of fuel down for everybody, then we've got to look at this market. the road fuel market is not efficient . fuel market is not efficient. >> i mean we've had the monopolies and mergers. people look at it and they say it doesn't function properly. >> and since asda's disappeared from the field of kind of suppressing supermarket prices to bring the rest of the industry down, we've seen this real rise in the price of fuel and that's what's affecting

consumers the most. so you know, it's a laudable aspiration for electoral reasons. but actually what we need to do is look at this industry and make sure those prices come down and are reasonable and competitive, and i'm going to double down on your grizzled cynicism, because the areas where this has been offered devon, cornwall, cumbria , shropshire, yorkshire happened to be areas where the liberal democrats might have a good sniff of picking up some swing seats. >> so call me a cynic. it does maybe, look like a bit of an electoral ploy, but in terms of motorists , how they will be motorists, how they will be wooed, how they their votes could be win with real, concrete policies. quentin has anything caught your eye out there that any of the parties are offering that actually ticks the right boxes? >> well, look, we like the stuff we're hearing from labour about about potholes that they're really, really going to take, take, take this in hand and do it whether they're able to,

because it's such a huge job with a £14 billion backlog, i, i just like the fact that now, after all these years and don't forget , i've been around doing forget, i've been around doing this for 25 years, to talking innumerable transport ministers who have come and gone and always been treated like a naughty schoolboy in the headmaster's office. and now suddenly we're getting the attention that the 50 million people in the uk with driving licences deserve. >> so what we've got to do is we've got to leverage this and make sure we choose the political party that really does , know what they're talking about. >> and b have strong , wrong, >> and b have strong, wrong, reasonable ideas of how they're going to make our journeys more reliable. >> the cost of motoring less , >> the cost of motoring less, and just understand that roads are essential to this country's productivity and our convenience. >> i want a party that does that for me, and i don't want electoral flimflam . what about electoral flimflam. what about the contentious issue of ulez schemes, clean air zones, taxes

on the poorest motorists like you?i on the poorest motorists like you? i know you care passionately about emissions and cleaning up the environment . cleaning up the environment. it's part of what you talk about a lot. but at the same time, clean air zones ulez schemes have been shown to impact the poorest, the most . is there any poorest, the most. is there any vote? is there any leverage in saying, let's get rid of these things. >> we've got to be flexible about this. >> and yes, it does affect poorer motorists and it shouldn't. and we do need to clean our air, our urban air particularly. and we need to encourage electric car use. but we also need to understand that, you know , lots and lots of you know, lots and lots of people can't afford electric cars. and we will be driving around in diesel and petrol cars for some considerable time. >> and there may be people who will never, ever drive electric car and that's fine. so it's a balance isn't it really, about reducing , balance isn't it really, about reducing, air quality issues in our towns and cities , our towns and cities, encouraging ev use where it's appropriate and proportionate and people can afford it, but also supporting the people who also supporting the people who also have to go to doctors, hospitals, schools, etc. in their combustion cars. so it's a balancing act. >> let's not throw the whole net

zero out with the bathwater. >> but let's help people who can't afford to get around the country . country. >> by quentin willson as ever, channelling common sense. i'll speak to you all afternoon. thank you very much for joining us on the show. always a pleasure to have you on. now nigel farage says he wants to reform uk to establish what he called a bridgehead in parliament, with a view to a full on assault in five years time. some polls say he could pick up seven seats. what's the reality? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. but before our next hour, it's time for your weather. let's hopeit time for your weather. let's hope it finally picks up. is your weather with annie shuttleworth? >> 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

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gb news. away. >> hey. very good afternoon to you. and a very happy monday. it's 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk on today's show. stopping the uk on today's show. stopping the boats in 100 days and immigration freeze, slashing taxes and radically reforming the nhs. today nigel farage launched,launched the nhs. today nigel farage launched, launched reforms contract with the people. so is it common sense politics or is it common sense politics or is it unworkable? unaffordable? pie in the sky? we'll have full analysis next with rishi sunak flatlining in the polls. nigel farage eating away at the conservative vote and sir keir starmer waltzing into downing street without even being tested. is it time to unleash

the big dog? is it time to bring back boris ? and a police officer back boris? and a police officer from surrey has caused a nationwide beef when he ran over a calf . we'll speak to a calf. we'll speak to a journalist who performed a moving tribute and took the calf. a get well soon card that's all coming up between now 6:00. once a show. always a delight to have your company. so we finally heard nigel farage's contract with the people. stop the boats in 100 days. net immigration frozen. a tax threshold lift to £20,000, taking 7 million out of tax, £2 million inheritance tax and a whole host of other radical ideas, as he called them. they've been lambasted by critics, saying it's trussonomics on steroids, but a lot of people are saying it's the kind of radical, common

sense ideas they want to hear. what do you think ? has this got what do you think? has this got your vote, or is it just another manifesto ? just something else manifesto? just something else politicians say but they can't deliver on? let me know your thoughts on the contract with the people, your views always appreciated. of course, if gbnews.com/yoursay but before the next hour is your headlines andifs the next hour is your headlines and it's polly middlehurst. >> thanks very much indeed, martin. >> the top story from the gb newsroom. reform uk has launched its election contract, described as a serious plan to reshape the way britain is run. >> reform leader nigel farage opted not to call it a manifesto because , he says too many voters because, he says too many voters have lost confidence in that term. >> mr farage outlined his plans to freeze all non—essential immigration and take britain out of the european convention on human rights and reform. >> uk would also introduce a new

tax for employers who choose to hire workers from overseas earnings under £20,000 a year would also be tax free, with extra funds made available by abolishing the government's net zero targets. mr farage says he wants to restore trust in politics. >> the great british public who wants some hope, he wants some aspiration. those that were lower end of the income scale who can't make ends meet, those who can't make ends meet, those who are trapped on benefits and i mean trapped. they can't get off because you work for more than 16 hours a week. they take your benefits away. and we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at people who would like well—paid jobs in the manufacturing sector . manufacturing sector. >> nigel farage well, 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 labour's plans to inject £7.3 billion into a new national wealth fund .

national wealth fund. >> keir starmer also vowing 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 starmer says the cap will remain for the time being , look, it's a tough 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 of damage has been done to the economy. so i'm taking the tough choice to say to people before they vote that these are some of they vote that 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 14 years, nothing gets delivered i >> -- >> well, responding to labour's economic pledge today, the prime minister, rishi sunak, said a government led by sir keir

starmer would only increase the tax burden . tax burden. >> there's still two and a half weeks to go in this election. i'm fighting hard for every vote because i believe we can win and there's a very clear choice at this election. >> it's having your taxes cut by the conservatives or facing significant tax rises with the labour party . labour party. >> now we know now the manifestos are all out. >> everyone's cards are on the table with the conservatives. >> we will cut your taxes at every stage of your life. and in contrast with labour, the tax burden is going up to the highest we've seen in our country's history. >> now, the liberal democrats say fuel duty relief should be expanded to 20 new areas to support motorists in rural communities. so ed davey jumped on claims by the rac that fuel retailers and petrol stations are continuing to charge persistently high prices despite falling wholesale energy costs. the party's leader says rural motorists have been particularly clobbered by the cost of living.

he's calling for a current scheme to be expanded , which scheme to be expanded, which sees retailers compensated for passing on lower prices to drivers. so ed davey says it'll be funded by tackling tax avoidance . all right, let's take avoidance. all right, let's take you live now to the shadow paymaster general , jonathan paymaster general, jonathan ashworth. he's responding to the conservatives tax plans in central london. let's listen in the words i pointed out that the money is simply not there to fund any new tax cut proposed in tory plans. >> now, as an aside, i have never known a general election campaign where a chancellor of the exchequer has been so hidden away. >> i've never known a general election campaign where a chancellor of the exchequer has done so few public media interviews. however, he has emerged with a bombshell revelation in his newsletter to

constituents in the marginal constituency he is fighting . constituency he is fighting. newsletter . number 273 confirm newsletter. number 273 confirm term's. what i was saying last week, namely that the tax cuts in the conservative manifesto would be funded from savings from, in his words, an enormous back to work programme, which i this case, mr hunt announced in the autumn statement last year and using the savings to fund the following. >> in other words , and there in >> in other words, and there in black and white, mr hunt is confirming that the welfare savings in the tory manifesto are in fact the welfare savings that they have already banked in the baseline and used to fund previous previous tax cuts. mr

huntis previous previous tax cuts. mr hunt is confirming, as i have pointed out , that the money is pointed out, that the money is not there because the money has already been spent and this newsletter for which mr hunt released to his constituents in recent days, totally shreds the tory manifesto and totally shreds any remaining credibility on tax and spend the tories once had. and to bring that point to you, i was going, i am going to var shred the tory manifesto , var shred the tory manifesto, just as mr hunt has shredded all of the commitments in this manifesto in his revelations in his newsletter to constituents in the marginal constituency, he is fighting so in a moment i'm going to put this in the shredder. just tell me when you've all got your you've all got your camera phones poised . got your camera phones poised. okay. this is the tory manifesto utterly shredded by by jeremy

hunt . hunt. there you go. it's a real shredder. so there we have it. the truth is, the money is not there. in the tory manifesto, their manifesto lies in tatters. and the reality is the billions of pounds worth of commitments that they have made in their desperate wish list. manifesto can only be funded through liz truss style borrowing, putting pressure again on mortgages and working people left to pay £4,800. more on their mortgage. and the tories must now level with the public. starting tomorrow, i'll explain where the money is actually coming from , money is actually coming from, or accept that your manifesto and with it, any claim to sound money has been completely shredded by mr hunt's

revelations . so i'm going to go revelations. so i'm going to go to questions , i believe i have to questions, i believe i have got, mr ben brown first fed. >> right. actually, ben brown is the other one, he is indeed. >> yes. ben. right, isn't it your own manifesto that has been shorn of credibility? the ifs looked through it the other day, and beyond the specific few. >> and that was jonathan ashworth, as we just saw, dramatically shredding a tory manifesto in a banksy style stunt. he was saying that a newsletter from jeremy hunt. newsletter 273, points out the tax cuts in the manifesto are actually already factored in. well, was it quite the gotcha, he thought. let's get reaction now to what jonathan ashworth had to say from our political edhon had to say from our political editor, chris hope. chris. well i'm back to the show. so there we saw it. jonathan ashworth dramatically shredding a manifesto . can you explain to us

manifesto. can you explain to us if this is quite the gotcha moment you thought it looks it refers to a newsletter from jeremy hunt which appears to contradict the manifesto, but is there anything in it? >> well, yes. i mean, labour got hold of a newsletter that's gone to the people in surrey , where to the people in surrey, where jeremy hunt is campaigning and it talks there about the fact that he's saying there can be savings made from, the he already made last last year in the autumn statement there being spent again in the manifesto . spent again in the manifesto. and they're saying this shows that the only way to meet this target , this 15 billion, i think target, this 15 billion, i think it was from memory that the party was to save on welfare is by increasing borrowing. so it's an attempt, i think, to try and target and take apart the idea that we do know that, of course, that we do know that, of course, that labour will increase taxes if they get into power and the tories will, they say, reduce taxes overall , in fact, by 1% taxes overall, in fact, by 1% a year of gdp going over five years. so they're trying to eat

into that and say, well, this money is already being spent by jeremy hunt in the autumn statement. and here's the document that proves it. >> hey chris, we've gone from things that only get better to things that only get better to things that only get better to things that only get wetter to things that only get wetter to things can only get shredder. look, stick with us, chris, because we're now moving to on reform uk. and nigel farage has unveiled what he said is the party's contract with the voters. it includes a promise to stop the boats in 100 days, a freeze on immigration, big tax cuts and major reform of the nhs. well, chris hope has been with reform today in merthyr tydfil and he rejoins us now . tydfil and he rejoins us now. chris so you sat through that contract with the people, launch a lengthy announcement by both nigel farage and richard tice. extensive questions afterwards. what leapt out at you, chris? there's lots and lots of radical ideasin there's lots and lots of radical ideas in there as nigel farage calls them . calls them. >> yes, martin. well, for me, it really was a tory manifesto on

steroids . every really was a tory manifesto on steroids. every kind of tory idea you might have come across conservative idea in the past few years was kind of in there and then, then then amped up to the maximum. i felt, stop the boats by taking back illegal migrants. when they arrive here, take them back to france. after we leave the european court of human rights, the european convention of human rights. some quite clever ideas, maybe , cut, quite clever ideas, maybe, cut, cut funding for last ucs2 a two year degree, not a three year degree. so there less in debt by a third. when they leave 30,000 more members of the armed forces on the culture side, to teach about slavery in other countries , not just this country, this all of the idea that as we heard from nigel farage talking to gb news an hour ago to make people, our children, prouder of the country they're in on the taxation side, increasing the threshold from around 12,500 pounds. you don't pay tax out to £20,000 to make it more worthwhile to work than receive

benefits, was how mr farrow described it to gb news, when i interviewed him for your show an hour ago, martin, i was intrigued about the end game for nigel farage. he says this is a bndgehead nigel farage. he says this is a bridgehead to get some mps elected on the 4th of july. but what about him? what's his plan for the future? and this is what he said, chad, you say there isn't a tory party. there isn't one. come on, there isn't one. there is a tory party and suella braverman it. >> suella braverman wants to marry me politically, you know. and david cameron says he shouldn't go near me. and lord heseltine thinks i'm like oswald mosley. no to gb news views. >> will you ever be a member of the tory party? >> i think it's extremely unlikely. it's not a no. >> then. >> then. >> oh goodness me, these are the westminster games. you all play my ambition. >> i'm a gb news my ambition games my ambition is for this party to establish a beachhead right into parliament and to use that to build a mass movement over the course of the next five years. >> i don't think the conservative party will reform itself. there are people in there that are friends of mine

who i'm close to. i very much hope they come and join me. who are they? well, you know who they are. i mean, they, you know, i mean, so . and people know, i mean, so. and people like jacob, they're in the wrong party. >> there you have it. they're trying to find new friends in parliament, i should say, before ihand parliament, i should say, before i hand back martin, that the manifesto has now been is now being picked apart by the rivals, the institute of fiscal studies. they're saying they're against it. and michael gove says it's ridiculous for nigel farage to say he might. he might be prime minister he they say he's part of a great entertainment machine. that's michael gove . he's not someone michael gove. he's not someone who can govern this country. that's the verdict from senior tories today. >> well, chris, i hope lots of red meat thrown to us there. we'll sink our fangs into it. more in the next hour. chris hope, live from merthyr tydfil. thank you very much for joining us on the show. we'll have more. and what reform are calling their contract with voters, and in particular their plans to scrap net zero targets later on in this hour . and there's plenty

in this hour. and there's plenty of coverage on our website, gbnews.com. and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much . country. so thank you very much. now to a significant day in the royal calendar. as the busy royal calendar. as the busy royal summer period really kicks in today of course, is ga today, and the king and the queen have attended the annual service to mark the oldest british order of chivalry. and i'm delighted to say i'm joined by gb news royal correspondent cameron walker, who is in windsor, where it looks absolutely majestic. superb. the sun is shining on you, cameron. tell us more . you, cameron. tell us more. >> martin. they couldn't have asked for better weather today. a complete opposite to what it was for trooping the colour on saturday where we all got drenched. but the king queen, prince william and other senior members of the royal family alongside the knights and ladies of the garter, have just in the last 20 minutes or so processed in carriages from saint george's chapel behind me, all the way up to the upper wards of windsor castle, where the state apartments are. the garter is a

most noble order of the garter is the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in britain . order of chivalry in britain. for hundreds of years it was just limited to aristocracy, but nowadays it's anybody who's been involved in public life or have had or has given service to the crown or indeed to the king. there was only a limited number of spaces, 24 absolute maximum at a time, and four new knights and ladies were invested today, including lord andrew lloyd webber, who's composed musicals such as the phantom of the opera and jesus christ superstar. we have the duchess of gloucester , have the duchess of gloucester, a very senior working member of the royal family who's given decades of service to the country, and the king, as well as lord kakkar, a professor at university college london, and lord peach, the air chief marshal. even senior members of the royal family . some of them the royal family. some of them are not part of the garter. for example, the princess of wales and the duchess of edinburgh. they are not part of this noble order. as things stand guard stay itself happens every year, but there was a question mark as to whether it was going to happen this year because of the

general election. if you remember, buckingham palace said that each engagement would be assessed on a case by case basis because they didn't want anything to overshadow the general election, but because garter knights and ladies are chosen personally by the king without interference from the government or parliament, it was thought it was appropriate that today's proceedings could go ahead.soit today's proceedings could go ahead. so it started with the investiture ceremony , a ceremony investiture ceremony, a ceremony inside the garter throne room of windsor castle , then the windsor castle, then the procession down to saint george's chapel for a service. there's a private lunch as well, and then back up to the castle. the elephant in the room, though, prince andrew, duke of york, he is still a garter knight, but he is no longer a working member of the royal family, and he did not take part in any of the public proceedings. today going down to the castle where members of the public, hundreds of them, were queuing to watch the king and queen and other members of the royal family take part. prince andrew not there. it's thought he took part in the investiture ceremony, which is always in private, and indeed the private lunch. private, and indeed the private lunch . but of course this is all lunch. but of course this is all going on as there's a bit of a disagreement as to what's going

to happen with royal lodge. that's the 30 bedroom mansion prince andrew lives in. there's a bit of a difficult agreement between him and his brother, the king, as to whether he should move out. but of course, we don't have full details of exactly what's happening there, but they were all wearing their hats with white plumes and blue velvet cloaks as well. and this is just kind of a start, really, of a very busy summer for the king in particular. he's expected to be at ascot later this week. he's then got a state visit to japan next next week as well. and all of this while he's still undergoing cancer treatment . treatment. >> splendid stuff. thank you very much, cameron walker and loving god. i say loving your brand new tartan tie. great stuff, cameron walker there in windsor. always a delight. now it's windsor. always a delight. now wsfime windsor. always a delight. now it's time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to make this summer really special . with over £16,000 worth special. with over £16,000 worth of prizes to be snagged. and that's £15,000 in tax free cash and a whole host of goodies on top. now you've got to be in it top. now you've got to be in it to win it. so here's all the details that you need to enter. there's still time to win our summer spectacular with an

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are heading for electoral oblivion , and now one of the oblivion, and now one of the country's greatest political journalists says boris johnson should come to the rescue and save britain from sir keir starmer and nigel farage. we'll discuss that next. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's channel

welcome back. your time is 424. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. now later this houn this is gb news. now later this hour, we'll get more on what? certainly the most controversial story at the moment. and that's the police officer who hit a calf with his patrol car. but before that, the polls simply aren't getting any better for the conservatives. and one that came out over the weekend had them winning a pitiful 72 seats in next month's general election. now, if they all wiped out on july the 4th, would it be time for them to go back to the

future and bring back boris johnson ? what, if you recall, johnson? what, if you recall, seems like a lifetime ago now, but he won a thumping majority in 2019, but he was ousted, of course , as prime minister in course, as prime minister in 2022. i'm joined now by the journalist who thinks boris johnson should come to the rescue and save britain from sir keir starmer and nigel farage, and that's trevor kavanagh, who's a political columnist, of course, with the sun. trevor, always a delight. so i read your column this morning with much interest. is it time to bring back the big dog? >> well, i think boris isn't going to come back immediately, but once the election is over and the dust settles on the wreckage of the tory party, if the opinion polls are correct, thatis the opinion polls are correct, that is , i think that's when that is, i think that's when he'll come back and he'll need a safe seat. >> i think that someone will be to happy make one available to him. and he remains. to happy make one available to him. and he remains . whatever him. and he remains. whatever you think about boris johnson as prime minister he remains one of

the most potent vote catchers in the most potent vote catchers in the in the political world at the in the political world at the moment. so and certainly i think that he has never really gone away. i think that he's been thinking in his period of exile about just what he could do to get back in. i mean , what do to get back in. i mean, what else is he going to do with his life? >> well , what do life? >> well, what do you think motivates boris now? he must be earning a packet . he's away from earning a packet. he's away from the cut and thrust of daily politics, not having his life continually pored over and circumnavigate by journalists. surely life is much easier for him out side of politics. why would he be tempted back into the bear pit ? the bear pit? >> well, i think he's probably earning quite a good income from his freelance activities right now, and but, you know, once you've been in a position of absolute power, in the almost absolute power, in the almost absolute power, in the almost absolute power in downing street, it's hard to just become a newspaper columnist again. and, although i'm sure he's enjoying his position of being able to snipe from the sidelines

, especially against rishi sunak, who he blames for all his woes and the fact that he was brought down after delivering an 80 seat majority. i think that that also motivates him. a feeling of perhaps a revenge, quite understandably, against those ungrateful people who kicked him out after he took them to victory . them to victory. >> now, trevor, you say though, there's one fly in the ointment. and that fly, of course, is the shape of nigel farage. he also would like to be a future leader to rebuild the conservative party. and you intimate. perhaps bofis party. and you intimate. perhaps boris and nigel could do some kind of deal . kind of deal. >> yes. >> yes. >> the thing is about those polls you mentioned. if they were borne out by events and nigel farage and his reform party could end up with 6 or 7 seats in the commons, which is quite a grouping. i mean, that's not a single voice. it's a little bit of, it's big enough for the speaker to have to recognise them and give them a

voice now and again in the debate. so, i think that that would transform events if indeed this argument, armageddon scenario, ensued , were that to scenario, ensued, were that to be the case, i think that he would certainly make a pitch and is actually declared his intention to try and seize control of the remains of the conservative party and build it in his own image. and there are people within the party who very much are against that people led by, for instance, david cameron, who is not necessarily always an ally of boris johnson, but they are the sort of remainers, the wets, the people who , don't like wets, the people who, don't like the right wing lurch to the for, on immigration or net zero. interestingly both of which are issues that boris , embraces and issues that boris, embraces and which, nigel farage is ferociously, ferociously critical of. >> so you observe trevor kavanagh, a goliath of fleet

street . always a pleasure to street. always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you very much for joining have you on the show. thank you very much forjoining us. now, later in the show, i'll be paying later in the show, i'll be paying tribute to the good old british piint, which is exactly 200 years old today . but 200 years old today. but unfortunately, lots of pubs are currently struggling. and let's join our south west of england reporter, jeff moody. jeff just to give you some idea of the problem, 239 pubs have shut already this year. >> that's an average of 80 per month. well i've come to the bell month. well i've come to the beuinn month. well i've come to the bell inn in chittlehampton in devon. >> no sign of closing here. it's nearly always packed every time i come here, mark. >> but why do you think so many pubs are closing . it's just the pubs are closing. it's just the perfect storm. it's the cost of living , the cost of energy living, the cost of energy prices, the cost of from the suppliers . the wages have gone suppliers. the wages have gone up quite significantly in our industry and like in every industry, and i believe it's made it very difficult for pubs with a lot of borrowings or high rent to carry on functioning to the levels that they'd like to. >> i think people have got out

of the habit of going to the pub because in covid obviously everybody stayed at home and people got used to drinking in their man caves, as it were, rather than coming out to the pub. >> do you think that's part of the problem too? >> i believe it, it it's the covid has accelerated. i think what was happening naturally over a over a period of time, i believe that the, the supermarket, the covid being at home, people got into that habit, maybe the netflix whatever at home. and i believe that that sort of accelerated what was happening slowly and naturally, if that makes sense . naturally, if that makes sense. >> and there's an issue with vat, isn't it? because i could go to a supermarket and buy a bottle of wine and pay 5% vat, but if i want to come and drink that wine in a pub, i'm paying 20% vat, aren't i? that doesn't seem very fair. >> not at all. the industry is trying very hard to get the government, whatever government it might be, to help to level up the supermarket and the pub, they're looking at, i think 12,

which would be a massive help to us, but it wouldn't be very popular with the people going to the supermarket. and i think the supermarkets run the country. so it might not be happening. >> so it would help the pubs, but it's not necessarily a vote winner. >> mark, thank you very much indeed. so the message really is simple support your pub before it's too late. >> suburbs off jeff and i'll be drinking a pint later on. 200 years old today. the great british pint. and there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00, as reforms say the government's net zero targets should be scrapped. i'll speak to a minister from the energy, security and net zero department in a few minutes who no doubt will disagree. but first, it's time for your latest news headunes time for your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst. >> thanks very much indeed. and the top stories this hour. reform uk has launched its election contract , described as election contract, described as a serious plan to reshape the way britain is run. reform

leader nigel farage opted not to call it a manifesto because, he says too many voters have lost confidence in the term. mr farage outlined plans to freeze all non—essential immigration and take britain out of the european convention on human rights reform. uk would also introduce a new tax for employers who choose to hire workers from overseas and earnings under £20,000 a year would be tax free, the party says, with extra funds made available by abolishing the government's net zero targets. mr farage says he wants to restore trust in politics. >> the great british public wants some hope. he wants some aspiration . those that were aspiration. those that were lower end of the income scale who can't make ends meet, those who can't make ends meet, those who are trapped on benefits and i mean trapped. they can't get off because you work for more than 16 hours a week. they take your benefits away. and we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at people who would like well—paid jobs in the manufacturing sector . manufacturing sector. >> sir keir starmer, meanwhile, 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 £7.3 billion into a new national wealth fund. he also vowed to drive down child poverty after warnings the number of children affected by the two child benefit cap will rise by a third over the next five years, but he says labour won't make promises it can't afford and the cap will remain . now responding to remain. now responding to labour's economic plans, the prime minister rishi sunak, said a government led by sir keir starmer would only increase the tax burden. >> it's still two and a half weeks to go in this election. i'm fighting hard for every vote because i believe we can win and there's a very clear choice at this election. >> it's having your taxes cut by the conservatives or facing significant tax rises with the labour party . now we know now labour party. now we know now

the manifestos are all out everyone's cards are on the table with the conservatives. we will cut your taxes at every stage of your life. and in contrast with labour, the tax burden is going up to the highest we've seen in our country's history. >> for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts . to gb news. common alerts. >> thank you polly. now, if you want to get in touch with us here @gbnews, simply go to gbnews.com/yoursay and i'll read out the best of your messages later in the show. i'm martin daubney on

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immigration on, immigrants aren't allowed to claim benefits for five years. £20,000 personal tax threshold to take 7 million out of tax and also to cap it all, £2 million inheritance tax threshold . a lot of people are threshold. a lot of people are saying this is the conservative party manifesto that you guys should have put out. >> if it all sounds wonderful . >> if it all sounds wonderful. doesn't it? >> if only it was practical in terms of delivering it. that's the that's the hard bit. >> i think the tax cuts alone would cost about £70 billion, and the reality is that would have to come off public services. so, you know, of course we want to cut taxes, but we will do so in a, in a responsible and prudent manner as we have been doing, but the idea that you can just suddenly, you know, slash £70 billion of pubuc you know, slash £70 billion of public expenditure without the pubuc public expenditure without the public seeing the difference in terms of their services. >> it'sjust terms of their services. >> it's just unrealistic, we also want to stop the boats, and we have a plan to do that. and that's why we spend a lot of

time pushing the rwanda bill through parliament has just been approved, and we're sorting out the final details of that. and and flights will start in the summer, assuming that we are re—elected. so, you know, many of those things we are already doing. but, most of the rest, i'm afraid, is just a pipe dream i >> -- >> but the flaw in that plan is that you haven't stopped the boats. in fact, the situation has got worse. only single person has gone to rwanda. that was of their own accord, a voluntary departure. and we're no nearer to getting any of those flights off the ground. so you can see why people, fancy something. it seems a bit more red meat. >> well, i can understand that, but you know what? what is nigel's plan to actually do that ? you have to pass legislation. you have to. >> you can't just wish it. wish the problem away. >> if it was so easy, we would already have done it. >> we've passed a number of pieces of legislation. >> you know, crossings are down by a third, this year we've put an end to, for instance, albanians and everything coming

to into the uk, but we need to take further action. and that's what the rwanda bill is. it took a lot of time and a lot of trouble. it was opposed by the labour party and the liberal democrats every step of the way. >> but we got it through parliament and the final, you know, processes are now being put in place. >> the final legal hurdles are being overcome and flights will start in the summer. but of course, that requires us to be re—elected . it's no good just re—elected. it's no good just announcing an end to boats. >> we would to love do that. >> we would to love do that. >> you have to actually come up with practical measures to deliver it. that's about what delivery is in politics. >> well, some people might say that saying stop the boats is an announcement that you will stop the boats, but let's move on from that. and if we can talk about your area of expertise, green targets again, the reform party today being very bold, very outspoken , saying we should very outspoken, saying we should scrap green levies, particularly on energy bills, which nigel farage, the reform party, say are making people net poorer, net colder in particular, they put a value on that. they say

net zero targets could save £30 billion a year for the next 25 years. and when voters are given the opportunity to vote on this, as we saw in uxbridge, where the conservative party when they're given the chance to vote to reject things like ulez, they seem to take it. we've seen the same across the european union last week, across the member states, those policies were rejected. do you think there could be some votes in rowing back on those targets for the conservatives >> no, i don't, and, you know, we have to i think it's important that we fulfil our international obligations , that international obligations, that we meet net zero, but we do it in a sensible and realistic manner. >> and, you know, the other side of this , one of the reasons why of this, one of the reasons why i support and believe we should be rolling out more renewable sources of electricity, solar panels , offshore wind, etc. is panels, offshore wind, etc. is because, first of all, it is now the cheapest form of generation. and secondly, it's about the country's long term energy security. you know, sadly, we are running out of oil and gas in the north sea. >> we want to see new licences

issued, which is another policy opposed by labour. >> but even if we do issue new licences, the amount of oil and gas we have is declining at a rate of 7 to 8% a year. and that makes us more dependent on imports from very unstable parts of the world. we saw that in the ukraine crisis, when gas prices went through the roof. so we need to have more home grown britain derived energy and the best and cheapest way of doing thatis best and cheapest way of doing that is in a slow transition towards renewables . and we now towards renewables. and we now have about 50% of electricity generated last year was from renewables in this country. so presumably if nigel wants to go back on all of that, he therefore is saying he wants to import more expensive oil and gas into the country. >> that will cost us a lot of money, and it will put our energy security at risk in the longer term. >> that is not a sensible policy moving forward. >> but there is another way, and it's one that reformers suggested. it's one that works in america, who've been largely insulated from the toxic shocks you mentioned internationally ,

you mentioned internationally, and that is being self—sufficient, energy sovereign. and we could do that in the form of shale with our feet. is that not something the conservative party may entertain? well firstly, we don't know that that is even possible in the uk. >> and lancashire certainly is not texas, and i think nigel should go up and discuss this with the residents who actually live in these areas about whether or not they want to see fracking underneath their, their, their houses, their, their, their houses, their, their communities. >> you know, the uk is a relatively crowded island. >> there are not massive open spaces as there is in america , spaces as there is in america, where there's only ever been one well that's been drilled in the uk to see if there was any potential for fracking. >> that caused minor earth tremors and actually damage to people's properties . so again, people's properties. so again, you know, reform is putting forward what looks , on the face forward what looks, on the face of it to be a simple and easy solution. but politics is more complicated than that. you know, you have to get people's consent and i can tell you that communities that might be, subject to fracking absolutely do not want it. and indeed ,

do not want it. and indeed, there's no evidence to say that it would even work if we tried it would even work if we tried it in the uk. so i'm afraid it's again, it's not as simple and easy solution . by far the best easy solution. by far the best and cheapest forms of power at the moment is solar power. it is. it is wind power and we are rolling it out, but it has to be donein rolling it out, but it has to be done in a gradual, sustained manner that will help to ensure our energy independence going forward . forward. >> okay. thank you very much for your expertise. thanks for joining us on the show. lord callanan , who's a minister in callanan, who's a minister in the department for energy security and net zero, thanks for your time. now. about to talk about the story. that's got many people up in arms over the weekend . and the police officer weekend. and the police officer who rammed the runaway cow with his patrol car. i martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 448. i'm martin daubney. welcome back. it's 448. i'm martin daubney . this is gb i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. at 5:00, we'll hear from nigel farage and find out

what he said when we asked him if he'd everjoin the if he'd ever join the conservative party. but before that, to one of the biggest talking points of the entire weekend, it's the incident that saw a police officer ram an escaped calf with his patrol car, and it happened in surrey on friday evening, as you can see now on your screens and surrey police had received reports that a cow was running loose. the police officer has been removed from frontline duties. well, i know just the man to talk about this story. it's gb news northern ireland reporter dougie beattie dougie, you're from an agricultural background. tell us more. you think the cop was in the wrong, don't you ? don't you? >> oh, definitely. oh, this. this policeman . it was either this policeman. it was either bad training or a very bad , snap bad training or a very bad, snap of the moment decision that he that he had taken. i mean, these cows i've been around cattle nearly all my life, and they are a very intelligent animal. they are. they all have their own little different characters as

well. you take them to the milking parlour. i can assure you, you get to know the cows pretty well because some like to be milked , some don't, you know. be milked, some don't, you know. i mean, they're no different than any of the rest of us. and when you look at these animals, they hurt the same. but they're also a business product. i mean, these animals are worth about £3,000. and when you take the police car that hit it, it's also worth about, well , it's also worth about, well, it's probably at about £3,000 worth of damage done to the front end of damage done to the front end of it. so it does make you wonder, was there not an easier way of dealing with this one way you never deal with animals that are on the loose is to put flashing lights on and put them into the middle of a town , or into the middle of a town, or anywhere else where there's lots of activity going about. i mean , of activity going about. i mean, you quite literally get a bucket, put some stones in it, shake it, the animal will come over to you, you put a rope around its neck and tie it somewhere until the farmer comes along or open a gate, even into someone's garden and let it in. because you can be sure if it had at the flowers or something in someone's garden, it wouldn't have been the what happened next

wouldn't have happened. and it is cruel. it is very cruel. what just happened to that animal? i have no doubt that that animal has a broken hip or a broken back leg, and that animal may have to be destroyed . have to be destroyed. >> dougie beattie, thank you for that. excellent stuff. as ever, there with a moving accolade there with a moving accolade there towards those cows in the background. to dougie beattie always a pleasure. thank you very much . now, will this very much. now, will this general election campaign be remembered for one that's been fought and won on social media sites like tiktok? well, former home sweet home secretary suella braverman is just one of many candidates. as you can see on screen, posting videos on the platform in an attempt to engage with voters, especially those who are younger. let's find out what's my next guest thinks about it, and i'm joined in the studio by the broadcaster, lawyer and futurist andrew eborn. andrew tiktok was a platform much derided , much platform much derided, much mocked, and now it's becoming a serious political force, especially amongst the young.

tell us more. >> absolutely. it's all about generation z, basically from 1997 onwards. that's generation z, and that's how they get their news nowadays. and so if you're a politician, you want to reach the parts of the electorate that other politicians can't reach. you have to use their particular thing. so all sorts of politicians have started using it on that sort of basis. >> joe biden even started getting down with the kids. >> we've had great examples. we've had some appalling examples as well, and i think we've got a few trump. however, i'll give you some statistics. >> 1.5 billion monthly active users, if you have a look at donald trump. >> he had an interview very recently with his face off with logan paul. >> there he is. and he got an incredible 118.7 million people viewed that particular trailer. >> so it was huge concern . >> so it was huge concern. they've got about 62.2 thousand followers. >> labour got 200,000. but nigel farage, he's got like three quarters of a million followers. >> so it's working on that sort of basis. this is the conservative one, which was quite funny. and they got 1.7 million views. this is nigel farage talking about melons,

which is bound to in that carry on way . i got which is bound to in that carry on way. i got to which is bound to in that carry on way . i got to get them all. on way. i got to get them all. look at his face i love it. so that's what's happening. this is the way that you can get to the youth. the key is to do it right though, because it's no good just having the platform. you have to understand about the message and what's going to happen.the message and what's going to happen. the reason it's the same demographic, interestingly, is i'm a celebrity. so people who watch nigel and all parts of nigel didn't normally see that's what's going to happen. it's going to appeal to the same people on that sort of basis, which why people like matt hancock have also surprisingly very well on tiktok. whether that converts in terms of the electorate voting for them is a different matter. well, it has in the european elections. >> so le pen's party, the national rally, got a third of the vote. a young tiktok tiktok saw there jordan bardella 1.4 million hits. they reckon it swung the entire vote over there and reborn. thanks forjoining us. always a delight. now early, we saw a tiktok video from suella braverman, and it's only fair that we give you the list of candidates standing in fareham and waterlooville constituency . now, of course, constituency. now, of course,

there suella braverman conservative kevin chippendale , conservative kevin chippendale, higgins, reform uk andrew dean rejoin eu gemma furnival, labour bella hewitt, liberal democrat robert holliday, hampshire independents bas marie green, nigel and that's it. thank you very much. now nigel farage says he wants to reform uk to establish what he called a bndgeheadin establish what he called a bridgehead in parliament, with a view to a full assault in five years time, a radical set of ideas he called them. others say he must believe in fairytales . he must believe in fairytales. we'll have a full analysis of reforms, contract with the people after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel but now it's your weather and it's annie shuttleworth . shuttleworth. >> 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. 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, with temperatures around average by looks like things are heating up. >> boxt boilers sponsors of

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gb news. >> hey. very good afternoon to you. and a happy monday. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, stopping the boats in 100 days and immigration freeze, slashing taxes and radically reforming the nhs. today, nigel farage launched reforms contract with the people. so is it common sense politics or is it unworkable? unaffordable pie in the sky and a police officer from surrey has caused a nationwide beef when he ran over a calf at the weekend. well, we'll speak to a journalist who performed a moving tribute and took the calf a get well soon card. and today the great

british piint is 200 years old, and we'll raise a glass to an institution that no politician, not even the european union, has ever dared to meddle with. that's all coming up in your next hour . was the show always next hour. was the show always a delight to have your company ? so delight to have your company? so nigel farage is. reform party has launched their contract with the voters. he says it's filled with radical ideas, stopping the boats in 100 days and immigration freeze. no benefits for immigrants within five years of arrival. raising the tax threshold to £20,000, taking 7 million out of tax altogether. but its critics have called it a fairy tale. trussonomics on steroids. what do you think? is it the kind of politics you want, or would it bankrupt britain? get in touch the usual way. gbnews.com forward slash

your save. but before all of thatis your save. but before all of that is your news headlines with polly middlehurst . polly middlehurst. >> the main story from the gb newsroom at just after 5:00, reform uk has launched its election contract in south wales, described as a serious plan to reshape the way britain is run, the reform leader, nigel farage, said he wouldn't call it a manifesto because too many voters have lost confidence in them. mr farage outlined plans to freeze all non—essential immigration and take britain out of the european convention on human rights reform uk would also introduce 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 says he wants to restore trust in british politics. >> the great british public who

wants some hope, he wants some aspiration. those at the lower end of the income scale who can't make ends meet, those who are trapped on benefits and i mean trapped. they can't get off because you work for more than 16 hours a week. they take your benefits away and we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at people who would like well—paid jobs in the manufacturing sector i >> nigel farage. well, a new poll gives labour a 20 point lead with 41, ahead of the tories on 21, while reform uk trails on 15. but prime minister rishi sunak says he'll fight on and he intends to win. >> it's still two and a half weeks to go in this election. i'm fighting hard for every vote because i believe we can win and there's a very clear choice at this election. >> it's having your taxes cut by the conservatives or facing significant tax rises with the labour party . now we know now labour party. now we know now the manifestos are all out everyone's cards are on the table with the conservatives. we will cut your taxes at every stage of your life. and in contrast with labour, the tax

burden is going up to the highest we've seen in our country's history. >> well, sir keir starmer is promising an end to what he's called chopping and changing in government, which he says discourages investment in britain. he also vowed to drive down child poverty after the institute for fiscal studies 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, sir keir says the cap will remain for the time being , look, remain for the time being, look, it's a tough choice. i'll be clear about that . but one of the 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 what? after the event, as we've seen in the last 14 years, nothing gets delivered . nothing gets delivered. >> so keir starmer, will the liberal democrats say fuel duty relief should be expanded to 20 new areas to support motorists in rural communities? sir ed davey backed up claims by the rac that fuel retailers are continuing to charge persistently high prices despite falling wholesale costs. the party's leader says rural motorists have been particularly clobbered. he said , by the cost clobbered. he said, by the cost of living. he's calling for the current scheme to be expanded , current scheme to be expanded, which sees retailers compensated for passing on lower prices to drivers. so ed davey says it will be funded by tackling tax avoidance 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 7 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. >> it's ed davey now in scotland a man has been sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in jail for the murder of a former biology teacher in 2022, paul mcnaughton admitted to luring 75 year old peter coshan to a flat in edinburgh using a fake profile on a gay dating app, edinburgh using a fake profile on a gay dating app , before then on a gay dating app, before then 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 . in a layby in northumberland. sir rod stewart appears to have been booed during a performance in germany after he showed support for ukraine. the singer performed while an image of the ukrainian flag was projected behind him as he belted out his 1991 hit rhythm of my heart , 1991 hit rhythm of my heart, which he described 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 reportedly vetoed an eu plan to apply fresh sanctions on russia's lucrative gas sector . russia's lucrative gas sector. that's the news. for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts . alerts. >> thank you very much, polly. now we start this hour with reform uk and leader nigel farage has unveiled what he says is the party's contract with the people. reformers pledged to freeze immigration, scrap net zero targets, reform public services and will raise the minimum threshold of income tax to £20,000 a year. now mr farage stated reform uk plans to restore trust in politics. when our political editor, chris hope, has spent the day with reform uk in merthyr tydfil, the sun is finally shining on you

there, chris. so as we would say, lots of red meat thrown out to the voters. the point is, chris, the critics are already circling saying this is fairytale economics . it can't be fairytale economics. it can't be funded. the critics are circling chris, tell us more . chris, tell us more. >> that's right. hi. hi martin. that's right. well, i think he's in a sense he's like in jaws when you have, i think brody just just throwing throwing over some, some chum into the into the, water and see which, sharks start to circle. there's no question. this, document, this contract with you, with you, them reform uk is to me like a tory party manifesto on on, on on steroids. but, earlier i did speak after to nigel farage and asked him what is his end game, and he was very clear he thinks he can bring over some tory mps to join the reform party. he even named jacob rees—mogg and suella braverman . here's what he

suella braverman. here's what he had to say. chad, you say there isn't a tory party there isn't one. come on, there isn't one. there is a tory party and suella braverman it. >> suella braverman wants to marry me politically , you know. marry me politically, you know. and david cameron says he shouldn't go near me. and lord heseltine thinks i'm like oswald mosley. >> no gb news views. will you ever be a member of the tory party? >> i think it's extremely unlikely. it's not a no then. oh goodness me, these are the westminster games. you all play my ambition. i'm a gb news. >> i'm westminster games. >> i'm westminster games. >> my ambition is for this party to establish a beachhead right into parliament, and to use that to build a mass movement over the course of the next five years. i don't think the conservative party will reform itself. there are people in there that are friends of mine who i'm close to. i very much hope they come and join me. who are they? well, you know who they are. i mean, they, you know, i mean, suella and people like jacob, they're in the wrong party. >> there you have a list of people who neither parties targeting. but he's got a long way to get there. he's got the

election in two and a half weeks time, give or take. we will know if he's a one at the eighth time of trying and is now an mp, and that's his first bridgehead. he wants to build back into parliament. but those policies we heard about today, martin, stop the boats, take the boats back to france. a patriotic , back to france. a patriotic, curriculum lifting that level at which we start paying income tax at £20,000 a year. farage told me that was to try and get people away from relying on benefits, make work, pay. he talked about lifting the arm force by 30,000 of train members of the armed forces. none of this national service . in many this national service. in many ways, he's taken, i think what's there that the tory party are trying to do and just turn up the turn up the amp to the max in order to try and win, win support from that party. and, as he says, get a bridgehead to get back into parliament. and then his target isn't this election, but the one after. >> and chris, what's been extraordinary , but i guess extraordinary, but i guess predictable is that the

conservatives are now turning their, their, their scalpel, their, their, their scalpel, their guns onto the numbers, it's £141 billion of promised tax cuts. nigel himself said that these are radical, both good ideas. but the daily telegraph are calling it fairytale economics. they're saying he's a saloon bar, bore michael gove coming out saying this is simply not possible. as you'd expect, he certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons . the cat amongst the pigeons. >> he really has the institute of fiscal studies, the independent think tank, which does run its rule over spending plans, has said the sums don't add up at all. and they're saying that it's tens of billions of pounds out . don't billions of pounds out. don't forget, farage and richard tice are looking at £150 billion of cuts in spending, £5 in every £100, in the public sectorjust removed. and if you don't, don't take out the spending, you're fired, was what richard tice said. michael gove , of course

said. michael gove, of course he's a cabinet minister leaving parliament. he says it's ridiculous. nigel farage is part of a great entertainment machine. he is not someone who can govern this country . reform can govern this country. reform is a giant ego trip, he said. not a serious programme of alternate change. and the tory spokesman , he's been saying this spokesman, he's been saying this lunchtime this afternoon, a vote for reform risks living and delivering an unaccountable labour majority. and that would hand keir starmer a blank cheque to raise your taxes. the tory party had its eyes trained firmly on labour because they know the damage that the farage can cause. if reform starts to take off in the final two and a half weeks of this campaign. okay >> thank you chris. politics and the fast lane. but make sure you don't step into it . you stay don't step into it. you stay safe on that hard shoulder there, chris. hope live from the campaign trail in merthyr tydfil. been with nigel farage earlier on today. now to get reaction to what reform uk have said today. i'm now joined by darren jones who's the shadow chief secretary to the treasury. darren, thank you very much for

joining us on the show. now, i know you'd like to talk about job creation, a new labour scheme, 650,000 new jobs. but before that, if i may, i'd like to ask for some reaction to nigel farage's announcement. the reform manifesto pledged the contract with the voters earlier and specifically darren. he said he chose wales because it exemplifies what the country the rest of the country could look like if the labour party gets into power. and he mentioned in wales council taxes higher about £500 per household, higher spending per capita is higher. nhs waiting times are 50% longer. education wales is behind on every subject. you even have 20 mile an hour speed limits. nigel farage used wales as an example of what britain would look like under labour. what's your response? >> well , i what's your response? >> well, i mean, good to be with you, look, we should look at the reform manifesto for what it is. >> and it's largely fictitious. the independent economists have pointed out today, as you've

just heard there from, chris, that it's entirely unfunded. it promises tens of billions of pounds of spending without any explanation as to how it's going to be paid for. so you just can't take it with any credibility . and the thing credibility. and the thing that's surprising about this for, you know, you might expect that from the reform party, but it's exactly the same for the conservative party manifesto, because we heard today that jeremy hunt, the conservative chancellor has admitted to his own constituents that the money that had been put aside to pay for new promises in the conservative party manifesto does not exist, that the money is not there. >> the things they said they were going to raise money from, they've already tried to do that when they were in government and spent it already. so we seem to be in this world where whether it's the conservative party or the reform party or quite frankly, the green party they just seem to be coming up with these fictitious manifestos with noidea these fictitious manifestos with no idea how they're going to pay for it. the public deserve better . better. >> okay, so with that in mind, darren jones, let's talk about your new pledges, 650,000 new jobs to make britain better off. sounds fantastic . what kind of sounds fantastic. what kind of jobs? where do they come from?

where will they be and what will they pay ? they pay? >> sure. well, this number comes from our announcement today for a national wealth fund. this is money that we have allocated in the labour manifesto. over £7 billion. that will be invested alongside private sector businesses. and we know from talking to those private sector businesses that in certain areas , if we invest £1 of public sector money, you can get £3 out of the private sector business and these are in sectors where we've got to work together, for example, decarbonise the steel industry, where you still want steel jobs to be in the uk, not to lose them to overseas, helping with the car manufacturing processes and setting up new markets like hydrogen and tidal. and these jobs tend to be in industrial heartlands or former industrial heartlands or former industrial heartlands across the country, where there are not always many other employment opportunities . other employment opportunities. and that's why we think it's important to create these new jobs in those industrial heartlands. working with the private sector . and we've private sector. and we've calculated that that will create up to 650,000 of those jobs

across the country over the course of the next parliament. >> but darren jones, a specific reason that nigel farage chose merthyr tydfil was just down the road from port talbot . you talk road from port talbot. you talk about a manufacturing industry that's credible and sustainable. we have that. but the steel corporation there has closed down. that's ran by the labour party in wales, and it was closed because of carbon targets of net zero targets. you talk about arc furnaces. that's recycling steel. you're laughing away. but an industry closed, imports all but of steel . those imports all but of steel. those are the kind of jobs that they want. but they were closed because of net zero targets. presumably they'll be even more of those if the labour party got in. >> no, no, forgive me, i shouldn't laugh, but your question, if i might say respectfully, was was a little was a little wrong. the port talbot isn't run by the labour party. it's run by tata brothers , the indian company that owns it. and one of the reasons they closed the, the blast furnace was because the conservatives failed to do a deal with them in the way that we would do with

our national wealth fund. this is exactly an example where the labour government will work with businesses to protect and create jobs in those industries where we want to protect them. and it's not about carbon targets, because , you know, there aren't because, you know, there aren't any yet in the in the uk. the reason this was a problem at port talbot was because the tata business that owns it didn't see a viable future , a viable a viable future, a viable strategy, an industrial strategy in this country that showed that they could continue to make profits in that area to pay for their workers. that's exactly their workers. that's exactly the type of sector where the government needs to intervene alongside the private sector, as we will do with our national wealth fund to protect important jobs such as those. >> okay, so, i'll ask you again then. >> okay, so, i'll ask you again then . so 650,000 jobs, who then. so 650,000 jobs, who wouldn't want that? but what kind of jobs and where? just a little bit of detail. i think people would appreciate. >> sure. well, the sectors that we've prioritised in our national wealth fund is set out in our manifesto. it will be people that make electric batteries for electric vehicles . batteries for electric vehicles. it will be people doing, steel

production , often using electric production, often using electric arc furnaces or possibly hydrogen. in the future . so kind hydrogen. in the future. so kind of new types of processes for steel is about helping build out the capacity in our ports so that we can construct wind turbines that are big wind turbines, that then get shipped out into offshore wind farms. it's about working in industrial zones to try to create and store hydrogen for use in the electricity system. so these are kind of hands on, well paid, unionised manufacturing jobs , unionised manufacturing jobs, which are really, really important, for the uk economy . important, for the uk economy. and they're sectors that are vulnerable to investment going overseas if we don't play our part as a future labour government will do if we win the election with our national wealth fund . wealth fund. >> okay. superb. thanks for joining us. darren jones, who's the shadow chief secretary to the shadow chief secretary to the treasury. thank you very much for joining the treasury. thank you very much forjoining us on the show. much for joining us on the show. now let's get more on the labour party now. and our political correspondent olivia utley has spent the day with sir keir starmer. olivia, welcome to the show. so you spent the day on the campaign trail. we just

heard there from about 650,000 new jobs. we also saw the spectacle early on of jonathan ashworth shredding the tory party manifesto. it's been a busy day. tell us more . busy day. tell us more. >> it's been a very busy day on the labour battle bus. >> labour have been really keen to talk about this. >> 650,000 new jobs that the party claims it will create if it gets into power. >> those are 650,000 green jobs funded by this new national wealth fund, which the labour party would like to introduce. it's a model which it would be copying from other countries. essentially, for every pound of taxpayer investment, the party wants to raise £3 of private sector investment in the green industrial revolution. obviously rachel reeves and keir starmer have massively scaled down their plans for that green industrial revolution. once upon a time it was going to be £28 billion. now it's just that 7.3 billion. but they are hopeful that it can

create some new jobs. there was a little bit of confusion over whether those 650,000 jobs would actually be new jobs, because the labour party has said that it would not allow any new domestic oil and gas rigs in the nonh domestic oil and gas rigs in the north sea. and that, of course, would mean that lots of jobs ended up being lost. are those 650,000 jobs mainly just replacing jobs that would have been lost anyway? or are they new? we haven't yet really got a satisfactory answer to that. keir starmer is looking comfortable at ease as well. you might expect at the moment, but the only thing that's troubling him a little bit is this argument that's going on within his party about his decision not to promise to scrap the two child benefit limit. that's something which nigel farage has actually said that the reform party would scrap. and of course , there are plenty of people to the left of labour who really don't like the idea of this conservative policy staying on the statute book. i asked keir starmer about it earlier for gb news and this is what he had to say.

>> 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 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 . so there are every household. so there are things that we can do on a two child cap. look, it's a tough choice and 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. >> keir starmer is very keen to say at the moment that he won't

be changing his mind on this, but i think it's possible in the next two and a half weeks, with lots of pressure from his backbenchers and even possibly from his own shadow frontbench, that he ends up caving and ends up promising to scrap that two child benefit policy. that, though, is the real, is a fly in the ointment for keir starmer at the ointment for keir starmer at the moment. everything is looking pretty great for him. it looks like pretty plain sailing and he doesn't seem too perturbed by the reform manifesto launch today, even though actually reform are beanng though actually reform are bearing down on the labour party in some of their heartland areas in some of their heartland areas in the north. but with the sort of poll lead that keir starmer is enjoying at the moment, that doesn't seem to be too much of a problem for him. >> olivia utley fantastic up there. update there live from gloucestershire on the labour party campaign trail. thank you very much . it's party campaign trail. thank you very much. it's time party campaign trail. thank you very much . it's time now for very much. it's time now for a great british giveaway and your chance to win over £16,000 worth of prizes. that's 15 grand of cash tax free and a whole host of summer treats on top. now it could all be yours, but you've

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welcome back. it's 527. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. now senior police officers have revealed that almost all the firearms being used by criminals on london streets are being brought in from abroad. and although firearms offences in london have fallen , half of all london have fallen, half of all cases still go unsolved. our home security editor, mark white, has been taking an in—depth look at the issue at this train station in luton. >> firearms officers move in on

an armed suspect . >> firearms officers move in on an armed suspect. he's got a flare. >> gotta do do do do. are you front. are you front front. now you're front now this is 20 year old tyrell mccoy. >> when officers searched him, they found this handgun and ammunition . mccoy and other ammunition. mccoy and other members of his northwest london gang have now been jailed for drugs and firearms offences. >> i'm scared to think about his last moments . yes, because last moments. yes, because i think if i do, that's when i'm going to hit that black hole and i might never, ever come out of it . it. >> jackie taylor knows more than most the heartbreak gun crime can bring. last year, her son tyrese was shot dead in south london. his killer has since been convicted. but for the family, their grief is all consuming.

>> sometimes i sit down and i andifs >> sometimes i sit down and i and it's not even tears. i'd just be sitting down and all of a sudden i can't breathe. and then i'm just like, come on, jackie , come on. none of us have jackie, come on. none of us have ever been the same since that day. it'sjust ever been the same since that day. it's just horrible . jul day. it's just horrible. jul loud shouts, loud shouts . loud shouts, loud shouts. >> across the capital, police have raided dozens of addresses in recent weeks in a crackdown on the criminal gangs involved in gun crime, arresting more than 50 and seizing dozens of weapons . the met's say firearms weapons. the met's say firearms offences have fallen to a 15 year low in london, police , but year low in london, police, but many criminals still manage to acquire guns, often from other crime groups overseas. >> well, the majority of illegally held firearms here in this country come from abroad. but having said that, we often see, converted blank firearms, which are legal. they're used

for things like, you know, starting pistols, gaming, etc. currently we're seeing a converted firearms coming in from places like you know, turkey. it fluctuates over the years. >> there's south london criminal danny butler is now serving an 18 year jail term after officers searched his home and found six firearms, some including a loaded handgun , were found in loaded handgun, were found in his young children's bedroom drawers . the nora forster drawers. the nora forster archewell across the capital. police are continuing to pursue the gun criminals, but it is, it seems, a never ending battle against those determined to carry these deadly weapons . mark carry these deadly weapons. mark whyte, gb news. >> fantastic report there by mark whyte now there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, and i'll get more on what's certainly been the most controversial story of the weekend. and that's the police officer who rammed a calf with

his patrol car. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines. and it's polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> the top stories this hour from the gb newsroom . we can from the gb newsroom. we can tell you that reform uk has launched in south wales its election contract with the british people , describing it as british people, describing it as a serious plan to reshape the way britain is run. the reform leader, nigel farage, said he wouldn't call it a manifesto because too many voters have lost confidence in that term. mr farage outlined plans to freeze all non—essential immigration and take britain out of the european convention on human rights and reform would also introduce 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. mr farage says he wants to restore trust in british politics. >> the great british public who

wants some hope, he wants some aspiration. those that were lower end of the income scale who can't make ends meet, those who can't make ends meet, those who are trapped on benefits and i mean trapped. they can't get off because you work for more than 16 hours a week. they take your benefits away . and we're your benefits away. and we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at those people. we're aiming at people who would like well—paid jobs in the manufacturing sector . manufacturing sector. >> well, a new poll gives labour a 20 point lead with 41, ahead of the tories on 21, while reform uk trails on 15. but the prime minister, rishi sunak , prime minister, rishi sunak, says he'll fight on and he intends to win . intends to win. >> it's still two and a half weeks to go in this election. >> i'm fighting hard for every vote because i believe we can win and there's a very clear choice at this election. >> it's having your taxes cut by the conservatives or facing significant tax rises with the labour party. >> now, we know now the manifestos are all out. >> everyone's cards are on the table with the conservatives. >> we will cut your taxes at every stage of your life. and in

contrast with labour, the tax burden is going up to the highest we've seen in our country's history. >> the rac has accused fuel retailers of exploiting the focus on the general election by keeping their price margins persists high, the motoring group saying wholesale costs have fallen in recent months and there's no reason for retailers to maintain their current pricing on energy . it comes as pricing on energy. it comes as the liberal democrats call for a fuel duty relief scheme to be expanded to improve affordability in rural areas. those are the headlines for the latest to sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on the screen or go to gb news. comments . comments. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. >> take a quick look at today's markets and the pound, buying you $1.2689 and ,1.1835. the

price of gold , £1,824.12 and the price of gold, £1,824.12 and the ftse 100 closed the day today at 8,142.15. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thank you polly. now about to talk about the story. that's got many, many people up in arms these past few days and that's these past few days and that's the police officer who rammed a runaway cow cow with patrol car. i'm martin daubney on gb news britain's news

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you make your decision ahead of polling day . polling day. >> we're here for you. >> we're here for you. >> this is gb news, the people's channel >> this is gb news, the people's channel, britain's election . channel. >> welcome back. it's 538. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. now loads and loads of you have been getting in touch during the show. gbnews.com forward slash your say. let's go through a few of those. now of course politics has been the top issue of the agenda today, particularly the reform contract with the people. launch in merthyr tydfil by nigel farage earlier on. paul says this i'm struggling to find something i didn't agree with in reforms. new contract with the people, also on politics, gary says this. labour has announced that its national wealth fund will invest around £8 billion in various energy security projects. the trouble is, they haven't explained yet where the

£8 billion in the new wealth fundis £8 billion in the new wealth fund is going to come from. you know, i had the i had a minister on a moment ago and i simply said to him, you know, where will these jobs be? 650,000 new jobs. where will they be? what will they pay now? why? what's in it for me as a voter? and it still feels as though there was no specific meat on the bone, no specific detail came through on the topic of arms and guns. mark white, our home security editor, did a report fantastic report on the fact that the vast majority of guns, more than half, in britain , are coming from abroad. britain, are coming from abroad. now we're going to cross now to rishi sunak. he's on the campaign trail. let's join rishi sunak now . hi, everyone. hello sunak now. hi, everyone. hello hello, hello. >> how are you doing? very good. lucy, thank you for the lovely introduction. >> great to be with you. >> great to be with you. >> lucy is going to be a great mp for ely and east cambridgeshire, she's getting more investment in. she's

getting those potholes fixed and delivering better broadband . delivering better broadband. >> but also as my secretary of state for culture, lucy has made the uk the creative capital of europe. she's also supported grassroots football and rugby. and crucially, she's singly responsible for making sure that football comes home this summer. and chris, chris, it's great to be here with you too. >> you're going to be a fantastic mp. >> now, chris grew up on his father's or grandfather's farm, working hard has made this area the home that he loves and he will work his socks off for you. >> from opposing the crazy liberal democrat and labour idea to put congestion charging across cambridge and cambridgeshire, but also opposing the liberal democrats mad idea of the four day week at the council and supporting the cancer hospital. >> as we heard so passionately about chris is going to be an ex—mp. so let's get chris and lucy elected into parliament now

, look, i know look, i know the last few years have been tough covid, the war in ukraine. >> i know people are frustrated, but we are making progress and we have turned a corner. >> just look at what we've been able to achieve in the last 18 months. >> inflation back to normal, the economy growing faster than our competitors, immigration starting to come down, more investment in our security and the union secured. >> but this election is about the future, about the type of future we want, the type of country we want and as you saw in our manifesto just last week , in our manifesto just last week, we have got a clear plan, a bold set of actions to deliver a secure future for everyone across our country. and that starts with tax cuts , tax cuts, starts with tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts that are anchored in our values, tax cuts for people at every stage of their life. now, as conservatives, we want everyone's hard work to be rewarded.

>> that's why we're going to keep cutting national insurance until we halve it for millions of people. >> we also believe in a culture of enterprise rewarding, supporting the risk takers who set up their own business, become self—employed , which is become self—employed, which is why we are abolishing national insurance for those who do that . insurance for those who do that. now we also believe in supporting families as conservatives, which is why we're going to cut taxes and make sure child benefit works better for hundreds and thousands of families. >> and we know how important it is to own your own home. we want everyone to get, which is why not just will we have a new help to buy scheme for all the young people out there who want to buy the home? we are also going to aboush the home? we are also going to abolish stamp duty for first time buyers . time buyers. >> but we also, as conservatives, believe in a country where if you work hard all in your life, if you put in, then you deserve support and dignity in retirement.

>> that's why we introduced and protected the triple lock. >> but that's why in the next parliament we will go further with a triple lock, plus taking pensioners out of paying income tax ever on their state pension, something that the labour party have failed to match. >> demonstrating once again that it is only the conservatives who will stand up for britain's pensioners. my friends. so be in absolutely no doubt a vote for the conservatives at this election is a vote for tax cuts, because that's what we need . now because that's what we need. now look, and we've seen we've seen the offering from the other lot in spite of all of these things that we're doing. >> they haven't matched a single tax cut. we know that they're going to saddle working families with a £2,000 tax bill, but it's worse than that . worse than that. >> the independent forecasts now show that under a future labour government , the tax burden in government, the tax burden in this country would rise to the highest it's been in our history. just think about that.

that's not what families can afford and that's what we're going to fight to stop. but it doesn't stop there. in spite of the increase in welfare that we've seen, particularly for those with ill health since the pandemic and the forecast for welfare for to continue growing unsustainably, unlike us, who will support people into work and reform welfare, the labour party don't think that you can save a single pound from our welfare bill. think about that. not a single pound. right? that's how disconnected they are from the values of working people . and i was outwith, people. and i was outwith, where is claire? i was out with our fantastic secretary of state, claire, today at a gas rig in the north sea. seeing the importance of the north sea to our energy security , to cutting our energy security, to cutting people's bills again, what would labour do ? they would ban north labour do? they would ban north sea energy, damaging our economy , damaging our energy security, rushing to net zero, and a wage that saddles families with thousands of pounds of costs. when it comes to migration , when it comes to migration, we're the ones that have got a clear plan. the only way to

fully solve this problem is to have a deterrent, so that people know that if they come to our country illegally, they won't be able to stay, which is why we will put them on planes to rwanda. what would labour do? they would scrap that scheme, release everyone from the detention centres and offer an amnesty, making us the soft touch of europe. right? that is what the choice at this election, my friends, is. and it's worse than that . it's worse it's worse than that. it's worse than that. instead of celebrating our success as a country, as a society, labour would introduce a divisive race equality act . just think we have equality act. just think we have the first british asian prime minister, the most diverse cabinet in our country's history. i think we're doing all right, actually. we and they have singularly failed to give reassurance to women and girls that they will protect their rights and their spaces . it is rights and their spaces. it is only the conservative party in this election that is going to

reform the equalities act, making it crystal clear that sex means biological sex, because that's what we believe in and that's what we believe in and that's what we believe in and that's what the country wants now i get asked, i can tell you, i get asked a lot about the polls, as you might imagine. and do you know what i say? i say the only poll that matters is one the on july 4th, and we are going to fight every day until that election. and it's important that we do, because if those polls were replicated at a general election , it would mean general election, it would mean handing labour and keir starmer a blank check, a blank cheque to do whatever he wanted, put up everyone's taxes completely unchecked, with no one to stand up to them and that's why this election is so important. that's why we need to fight so hard. because at this election , there because at this election, there is only one party that is going to deliver a government that cuts everyone's taxes, and it's the conservatives. there's only one party that is going to stand up for the values that our

country believes in opportunity, freedom , security, aspiration. freedom, security, aspiration. and it's the conservative party and it is only one party that has a clear plan that will take the bold action to deliver a more secure future for our country. and it's the conservative party. so let's get out there . let's fight hard. out there. let's fight hard. let's get everyone to vote conservatives. so we can stand up for britain. my friends. conservatives. so we can stand up for britain. my friends . all up for britain. my friends. all right . hey right. hey >> very nice . >> very nice. >> very nice. >> blasting out the music as you can see, he was speaking about the lib dems mad idea of a four day week in the council. there plus congestion charges across the county. i know it's been tough , he said, but he did say tough, he said, but he did say immigration is starting to go down. we've got a clear plan. keep cutting national insurance all the way and abolish stamp duty for first time buyers. triple lock plus, of course, he

was trotting through the manifesto pledges he did say the only poll that matters is the one on july the 4th. and i'll keep fighting for every single vote until then . he mentioned as vote until then. he mentioned as well that he was out on a north sea oil platform earlier on, and that labour would ban north sea oil due to net zero on immigration. he said labour would make us the soft touch of europe, and went on to say that labour would introduce a divisive equalities bill and they have failed to protect women and girls spaces . he said women and girls spaces. he said i want to make it crystal clear that sex means biological sex. under the conservative party, and he's just said, we cannot have. and he's just said, we cannot have . and a blank check to keir have. and a blank check to keir starmer many people feeling, of course, that when you mention things such as that you're ostensibly saying you are conceding defeat and the only thing that matters now is the size of the conserve of the labour party majority . see,

labour party majority. see, having selfies taken there with voters in demand as usual on the campaign trail. voters in demand as usual on the campaign trail . will it be campaign trail. will it be enough? will it be enough? of course, the reform party launched their contract with the people today in merthyr tydfil and directly hitting out directly hitting out at the fact that the tory party is broken , that the tory party is broken, nigel farage said divided. david cameron , on the one hand cameron, on the one hand accusing him of dog whistling of outright bias and then of course saying that , on the other hand, saying that, on the other hand, people like suella braverman, people like suella braverman, people like suella braverman, people like jacob rees—mogg. he actually said sending me more or less an open love letter to rejoin the party. can rishi sunak pull it out of the bag ? sunak pull it out of the bag? can he do that? that remains to be seen. now we know it's a monday, but you might want to grab yourself a nice cold beer after work today. that's today. the pint turned 200 years old. it's something that is a cornerstone of british culture.

and i got myself a jar here. now, according to the daily mail journalist robert hardman , it is journalist robert hardman, it is actually part of our national psyche . and he's joining me now. psyche. and he's joining me now. it's an absolute delight to have you on the show, robert. so 200 years old today . well, i'll years old today. well, i'll dnnk years old today. well, i'll drink to that now. you wrote a great piece in the daily mail. something of a love letter to the pint. over to you. well, i am very jealous, martin, because you've got one in your hand. >> i haven't, because i'm sitting in my office. >> i'm on my way to have one in a minute. as as soon as as soon as i'm off air. but no, i mean, it is. it is part of our, our psyche. it's part of the sort of cultural landscape. you know, you talk about going for a pint and it was exactly 200 years ago today that the government brought in something called the weights and measures act, because they wanted to, to standardise things, because at that stage , pubs were selling that stage, pubs were selling all sorts of different measures , all sorts of different measures, everything was being sold in different. there were different gallons , different pounds, gallons, different pounds, different ounces. >> they wanted to have one benchmark for the whole country.

>> and indeed, in those days, the whole empire, and they came up with an imperial gallon. >> i'll summarise it very quickly, but there were 7000 grains equalled £1 of water, £10 of water, distilled . of water, distilled. >> and, it was to be the measure of an imperial gallon, and one eighth of that gallon would be the pint. and there you see it. thatis the pint. and there you see it. that is the pint. that's still what we have today, there have been all sorts of attempts to, to, to get rid of it or to, to make it go the way of metrication , and so we still metrication, and so we still today, you know, metrication may be there in other walks of life. we've hung on to miles just, and we've hung on to our pint because, frankly , if i said to because, frankly, if i said to you, should we go for a litre? you'd think i'd gone mad. >> yeah. and, robert, you also mentioned i'm just over the way here on college green. you can still see some of the original metric measuring vessels on a wall. i didn't know that. tell me about that. i'd love to go

and see them . and see them. >> it's amazing. i had no idea. but there's this wonderful, little tower opposite parliament called the jul tower. it's where monarchs used to keep their treasure, it's now run by engush treasure, it's now run by english heritage. it's got a little cafe in the bottom. anybody can go in there, and it's set into the wall. is an original set of these imperial weights and measures. and you can see the actual benchmark for the pint, the bushel, can see the actual benchmark for the pint, the bushel , the the pint, the bushel, the gallon, the court. a court, by the way, is two pints, and these were there so that if anybody argued, here was if you like, this was the original. they're made of brass. no one could argue with them that is a pint, and around the world to this day, there are still, you know, many, many other countries that still still serve the pint, it's funny, isn't it, that we our cars, we talk about miles to the gallon, but we buy our petrol in litres, yes. we run marathons , litres, yes. we run marathons, but people talk about running a5k, you know, children today, my children certainly talk more in metric than i do . but the one in metric than i do. but the one thing that hasn't changed, and i

think you'd be suicidal for any politician to even think about it to change is the pint. so, this evening, i hope. and what better time we're in the middle of the euros. just have father's day. i mean, there is no excuse not to go and order a pint right now . how. >> now. >> well, i never need an excuse, robert. and the thing that i loved about your article as well is it's not just about a pint of been is it's not just about a pint of beer. it's about bringing the community together. 80 pubs a month, closing . we need the month, closing. we need the pints more than ever, robert. >> we do? absolutely. and if you talk to the british beer and pub association, who represent all the all the pubs and the breweries, i mean, they make this point that, you know, pubs are closing all the time, yet pubs are a central part of our community. now, once the pub goes, everything kind of just dwindles. you know, you take the pub out of a high street, suddenly footfall goes down, and of course there are lots of other things you can do. i mean, you don't have to go and drink alcohol or all sorts of things you can drink in a pub at a

central to any pub's existence is the pint. i mean, that's why when beer, beer, beer, beer taps in pubs , they're calibrated so in pubs, they're calibrated so that two pulls will deliver a pint . there's a great debate in pint. there's a great debate in the i didn't know this actually, until i wrote the article that particularly in in the north, people are much keener on having a thick head on their robert. >> robert, i'm gonna have to call time. i'm afraid i'll have to call time last orders on the show. but thanks for joining us, robert hoffman. and that's all from me for now. dewbs & co, of from me for now. dewbs& co, of course, is up next. don't forget, join us on breakfast tomorrow from six is breakfast with eamonn and isabel. then it's britain's newsroom 930 with andrew and bev and then tom and emily. good afternoon britain. then it's my mish from three. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. now it's your weather with annie shuttleworth and cheers . annie shuttleworth and cheers. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . the sponsors of weather solar. the sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello again. welcome to your latest gb news weather update

from the met office. the rest of the day will see some 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 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. 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, with temperatures around average by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

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uk to unveil their contract with the people . let's have a look at the people. let's have a look at it. also, do you reckon the labour party are telling the truth when it comes to what taxes they are going to raise? and speaking of the labour party, this great british energy plan , is it actually going to plan, is it actually going to make our bills cheaper or not? and last week was the turn of dawn butler. this week suella braverman what's going on with these tiktok dance rap videos ? these tiktok dance rap videos? is it a cringe fest or a special weapon to win votes ? you tell me weapon to win votes? you tell me

. lots to get stuck into tonight. but before we