gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday, the 18th of june. >> i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver . emily carver. >> he's back. borisjohnson emily carver. >> he's back. boris johnson is getting behind the tory election campaign, urging voters to not give labour a generation in power. can the ousted prime minister rescue the conservatives and keir starmer has been forced today to deny that a labour government would hit premier league clubs with a tax on player transfers? >> but there's been a little bit of confusion within the party on whether to back this policy, and pro—palestine activists use crowbars, crowbars to smash computers and windows, targeting a company they accuse of having links to the jewish state. >> is it time to ban groups behind this sort of criminal

damage ? damage? >> and you may have seen both rishi and rishi sunak and keir starmer can agree on something. they're both calling for the 1968 beatles banger hey jude to become england's new football anthem. of course, afterjude bellingham's goal sent streams of the song back to the top of the charts , well, will it become the charts, well, will it become the charts, well, will it become the song of the summer ? the song of the summer? >> is it as iconic as three lions on a shirt ? and i suppose, lions on a shirt? and i suppose, doesit lions on a shirt? and i suppose, does it become a little bit , does it become a little bit, difficult if jude bellingham doesn't score any more goals ? doesn't score any more goals? >> well, he certainly will. i've got all the faith. and if you don't know the song, i mean, if you've been living under a rock, it goes a little something like this. we're gonna get a rendition. you're gonna get a little. yes you know, look out, x factor. hey, jude, don't make it bad. take a sad song. anyway, that's enough.

>> but anyway, round of applause. could that be the anthem? >> could that be the anthem of the summer? >> well , it's the summer? >> well, it's a do you the summer? >> well , it's a do you know >> well, it's a do you know what? it's nice to see both major party leaders finally coming together on something. perhaps perhaps this is the spirit of unity and patriotism that this country needs. perhaps this was the secret sauce behind the timing of the general election campaign. was it all because rishi knew that england were going to storm ahead and finally, finally win the euros? >> well, we need to get ed davey opinion and we need to get nigel farages opinion to all the parties. we could ask her, ask, ask all of them. the green party. i wonder what they think. gbnews.com/yoursay >> well, i'll be i'll be writing off my little piece of paper and send it on my carrier pigeon to carla and whatever the other one's called , it's funny, they one's called, it's funny, they have two leaders. anyway, we're going to be getting to all of that. and so much more in the show, so do stay tuned. it's jam packed and it's all coming up after your very latest news

headlines. >> tom, thank you very much. and good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom. a review has found that four detectives who ran the first investigation into the murder of stephen lawrence should not face criminal charges. it found there was insufficient evidence and no real prospect of conviction. it means none of the four retired detectives will be charged. stephen lawrence was murdered in 1993, in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation was harshly criticised and failed to bring anyone to justice. labour says it will bring face to face banking back to the high streets, with 315 new hubs in towns and villages, it would see staff from several banks sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures. the party says it's part of a broader plan to revive britain's high streets, which also includes cracking down on antisocial behaviour and support for small businesses. consumer group, which says more than 6000

branches have closed since 2015. shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds told gb news the hubs will address the changing role of the high street by sharing the costs of that premise. >> that's obviously a much lower cost to them than their individual bank branches, and what you see a lot of at the minute is banks exiting high streets. they don't want to be the last bank left on the high street, because they think that will put them into a position where they won't be able to be undue pressure to keep that bank branch open by coming together, delivering it in that way, it reflects how things have changed, but it keeps that essential service in there. and of course, high streets and town centres are changing, but they're still a really important part of people's local economy. their sense of identity in a place. we've got to do more to make sure they're vibrant places , centres of civic life and access to financial services and banking services is a really important part of that . important part of that. >> meanwhile, the liberal democrats are promising to spend £10 million a year to tackle sewage dumping by water companies. new quality inspectors would work as part of a newly created clean water

authority . sir ed davey says authority. sir ed davey says it's crucial that britain's water is cleaned up. >> there's nowhere near enough sewage monitors . we're calling sewage monitors. we're calling them sewage busters. we want to provide £10 million in our cost of manifesto. so our new regulator , the clean water regulator, the clean water authority, has the resources because we do need a tough regulator, as we're proposing , regulator, as we're proposing, with powers coming from other regulators. so we have a much stronger regulator , but they stronger regulator, but they need the resources to do the job. and we've seen on the conservatives cutting back the environment agency, where some of these monitors were, and we want to make sure the resources are there as well as the rules . are there as well as the rules. >> the leader of reform uk says the party has been let down by a company that was contracted to vet its candidates. nigel farage says a large sum of money was paid to the firm, which he didn't name, to look into the background of. it comes after reform was hit by a series of revelations about some of its candidates, with one person resigning after having previously supported the british

national party . three young national party. three young children are reported missing after they failed to return from after they failed to return from a day out at thorpe park. surrey police are looking for 14 year old candy amelia , who's nine, old candy amelia, who's nine, and malik, who's seven. they were reported missing just after 7:00 last night. the children were last seen walking towards staines town centre just after a 3:15 yesterday afternoon. police believe they may have travelled to london. they're urging anyone with any information to contact them or crime stoppers . to north them or crime stoppers. to north korea now, where the russian president is due to arrive for his first state visit in 24 years, vladimir putin travelled through the north of russia early this morning, where he's due to continue his journey to pyongyang. he'll hold a meeting with kim jong un, who he's praised for firmly supporting the invasion of ukraine. in a letter published by north

korea's state media, mr putin promised to build trade and security systems with the isolated country that are, quote , not controlled by the west . , not controlled by the west. sir ian mckellen is said to be in good spirits after he fell off the stage during a performance in london's west end last night. the 85 year old acting veteran was performing a fight scene in player kings at the noel coward theatre when he lost his footing and tumbled off the stage. the theatre was evacuated while sir ian was taken to hospital. he's expected to be back on stage tomorrow in time for another matinee performance . for the latest performance. 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 tom and . emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's

12:07, and before we launch in to the regular program, we've got some breaking news to bring you. >> us gb news can exclusively reveal today that the number of migrants crossing the channel since january last year, when rishi sunak promised to stop the boats , has now surpassed 40,000 people. >> well, this grim milestone figure was passed today after more than 600 migrants crossed the channel illegally throughout the channel illegally throughout the morning. the total number of arrivals since the prime minister made his pledge to stop the crossings has now reached more than 40,300. >> well, gb news sources have confirmed that more small boats are currently in the channel on what could be another record day of crossings this year. now, the previous record day of crossings was on the 1st of may this year, when 711 migrants reached dover . when 711 migrants reached dover. so there you go, 40,300 have now crossed since the prime minister made that stop the boats pledge. >> and this is of course, a gb

news mark white, exclusive report 600 this morning. it seems to be coinciding with the nicer weather we've been having. have we seen perhaps a suppression of vote crossings, as we've had a fairly grim june? well, clearly it's a little bit more sunny today. it was a little bit more sunny yesterday to are we going to get with the better weather? a larger number of crossings. >> and this is what mark white's been pointing out for months , if been pointing out for months, if not years, that when the government says you know, the numbers are going down, the numbers are going down, the numbers are going down, the numbers are going down because of our policy changes and the like. it could actually be that it's all down to weather. the seas are calm . seas are calm. >> of course, what rishi sunak might say there is that the rwanda policy has not yet literally got off the ground . literally got off the ground. thatis literally got off the ground. that is scheduled forjuly, that is scheduled for july, although looking at the polls, it might be that no plane ever takes for off that scheme specifically. but clearly this

is a problem that is growing not just for the united kingdom , but just for the united kingdom, but for the wider continent as well. and indeed , it's a global and indeed, it's a global problem. remarkable to see the numbers going into the southern border of the united states. millions, yes , yes, undoubtedly. millions, yes, yes, undoubtedly. >> but rishi sunak on the campaign trail saying that the flights will take off if the conservatives are re—elected. labour saying that the whole rwanda policy should be scrapped. waste of money, waste of time, not efficient, etc. etc. so this will i'm sure be put to rishi sunak today. and the prime minister, what is he going to do? the reform party yesterday saying that it would turn back the boats as a last resort, which which of course throws in another question mark to the whole fray of policy. let us know what you make of that. 40,300 migrants since rishi sunak stood up and made that pledge to stop the boats who do you blame? who do you blame? >> well, onto the election

campaign proper now. boris johnson has appeared on social media backing the tory party and specific conservative candidates ahead of the general election. >> yes, the former prime minister has endorsed certain candidates with a warning to voters over giving labour a generation in power. it's also been reported that thousands of letters signed by mr johnson been reported that thousands of letters signed by mrjohnson are on their way to voters this week. >> well, william atkinson is the assistant editor of conservative home. joins us now to dissect what is going on. because, william, this seems like a pretty desperate move, perhaps from a conservative party that unceremoniously defenestrated bofis unceremoniously defenestrated boris johnson only a few years ago. well, i think there's a very obvious reason for it, which is that whilst i think there's one poll recently suggested and boris johnson is as popular or is less popular amongst the general public than xi jinping and phillip schofield, the only group with which he is currently still particularly popular, are tory voters who switched to reform uk, where i think one poll suggested today he had a 40

point lead, so it doesn't surprise me that the conservative party in its current state of crisis, has once again called upon boris johnson to sign a few letters , johnson to sign a few letters, and pose for a few videos. but nevertheless, you know, one remembers that boris johnson is a considerable campaigner , a considerable campaigner, pretty much the best in the business. but one shouldn't allow his particular talents in that field overshadow the fact that field overshadow the fact that he was pretty hopeless. prime minister. >> well , prime minister. >> well, william, what's in it for him? >> is this a party loyalty at its best, or is there another motive , in a basic sense, boris motive, in a basic sense, boris johnson , is still sufficiently johnson, is still sufficiently young to think he can play a role in political life. you know, he still hasn't got over , know, he still hasn't got over, being, removed as prime minister, i would say he was the author of his own downfall. but there we go, in the way that he was. and i think he's still looking to have a career in politics. you know, he previously saved the conservative party when it looked like it was going to be finished off by nigel farage in 2019. i think it's a role that

he would quite like to play again. but the problem he obviously faces is that he isn't running in this election. he could have run and tried to win a by—election in uxbridge last yean a by—election in uxbridge last year, but chose not to, and it's very difficult to try and become the leader of the conservative party again if he remains outside of parliament. >> and yet and yet, if we're to believe certain briefings to certain newspapers, there are perhaps more liberal conservatives who think that pressing the boris button smash glass here, break glass for bofis glass here, break glass for boris after the election might be the only way to stop a certain nigel farage from coming in and taking over the conservative party in parliament. >> as i say, that's what they did in 2019. but i would also suggest that if the conservative party's response to every, crisis that it faces is to smash the glass marked boris johnson , the glass marked boris johnson, then we are pretty hopeless and intellectually braindead. you know , for one reason or another, know, for one reason or another, at some point we are going to have to actually move on from bofis have to actually move on from boris johnson, as a party. and i

say that obviously as somebody who voted for him to be party leader, he voted for him in 2019 and is a long standing boris fan , but nevertheless, as i say, for all his abilities as a campaigner , he was unable really campaigner, he was unable really to run number 10, especially once the vote leave team disappeared and also presided oven disappeared and also presided over, exactly. those sort of loosening of immigration restrictions and the like, which is the reason why the conservative party is currently haemorrhaging votes to reform uk, for all of his great abilities as a campaigner and a personality, boris johnson is not the solution to all of the conservative party's problems . conservative party's problems. >> yes, i guess there's a very large question mark over how popular boris johnson still is with conservative voters and the types of voters who might vote for reform instead, who voted for reform instead, who voted for him previously. i should say that nigel farage has come back at the suggestion that boris johnson could turn around things and snap up his vote, as he says, the conservatives have put themselves out of power for a generation. they're going to lose anyway, i guess the polling does suggest that, yes, certainly.

>> and as i say, you know, the conservatives, he is particularly popular , with particularly popular, with conservative voters who switched to reform, but he's also particularly unpopular with voters across the rest of the country. i think the conservative party's current plight is a bit like in that simon garfunkel song. you know, any which way we look at it, we lose, and whether boris johnson, sort of got on to the campaign trail in the last, two weeks or so . i don't think that's really so. i don't think that's really going to change a jam, you know, change it down. sorry the party is in such a sort of hopeless position at the moment that bofis position at the moment that boris johnson would merely be sort of adding lipstick to a pig i >> goodness me. well, with that metaphor, william atkinson , metaphor, william atkinson, assistant editor of the conservative home website. really appreciate your time and your thoughts on bringing back boris. let's get your thoughts in. >> we'll be coming to them very soon indeed . but first, there's soon indeed. but first, there's been a bit of confusion within the labour party as sir keir starmer was forced to rule out a 10% levy on premier league football transfer fees. >> it's a confusing one. this.

it comes as the shadow culture and sport secretary thangam debbonaire sparked reports that a transfer tax could be introduced under labour. >> yes, she said the party would look at everything proposed in a recent fan led review. when she was asked specifically about this transfer levy. >> but keir starmer then attempted to kill those reports this morning, claiming that such a levy was not part of labour's plans for football governance. but what's the truth here? and does no plans really mean we're not going to introduce this tax political speech anyway? >> let's discuss this further with political and economic commentator jamie jenkins. jamie what do you make of this? do you think there's a chance that a labour government would bring in such a tax on football transfers ? >> 7- >> yeah, 7_ >> yeah, well, 7 >> yeah, well, if keir starmer is coming out today saying they're not going to introduce this, that's probably the definitive answer. there but it just kind of shows the kind of the disarray in the labour party in terms of are they clear on what their tax plans are? i

think me personally, it would be a bad move to have this tax because the premier league is seen as one of the shining beacons of the uk and the engush beacons of the uk and the english premier league is broadcast all over the world, and a key part of that is attracting the best players from across the world. so if you've competing with the likes of the teams in germany, france and spain to get the best talent into the premier league attacks on players is probably not the way to go. in particular where the premier league is trying to get the financial fair play system. you know, into into kind of a good shape as well. >> yeah, it does seem interesting because to be fair, this isn't a labour only idea. this was a review drawn up by the then conservative mp tracey crouch, with suggestions for this extra tax on transfers and a football regulator to be created, as well . it strikes me created, as well. it strikes me as very, very odd that when you have a sector as successful as engush have a sector as successful as english football, something that if you go anywhere in the world, no matter which country you go to, if people think of the

united kingdom, they'll probably think of the queen and the premier league. it seems very odd to me that politicians want to sort of meddle with that winning formula. >> yeah, i think part of this, tom is coming from some of the smaller league clubs in the premier league. what it does is it generates huge income from the television deals that it has within the uk. but over the success of the premier league, as you've just alluded to, there, has meant that we've seen significant increase in the revenue from overseas broadcasters and what the premier league does is it distributes some of that money down the pyramid system to the smaller clubs, and there's always a challenge and a debate about how much that should be as the premier league's become fichen the premier league's become richer, you know , has the richer, you know, has the percentage go into the smaller clubs kept up with that? so that's where the negotiations go on.and that's where the negotiations go on. and that's where the english regulator's been suggested to try and oversee those things. but you're right, the premier league's one of the biggest success stories. you know, we've had over the last 30 years. i'm not sure it's an area that politicians should be meddling in. >> another tricky question for the labour party today is over.

the european union. rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, has come out to say that they would seek to renegotiate the current brexit deal, that they would seek closer alignment or deals in some areas. what do you make of this, and is it possible ? >> well, 7- >> well, i 7— >> well, i don't ? >> well, i don't think they're suggesting anything radical. i think one of the things the labour party do know in particular, you know, the red wall up in the north, where that's kind of what helped boris get his big majority in 2019, is there are a number of former labour supporters who voted for brexit, and they don't want to see any betrayal of the vote that was done there. so any closer alignment that kind of undoes any of the kind of the brexit votes came in. the labour party know that they may win this election. they'll be booted straight back out in the next election. but you can just see from the latest kind of european elections across the european union that there are many countries disillusioned with the european parliament. i think the european parliament. i think the european union should be looking to in towards itself as to what

it should be doing, rather than the uk looking to get kind of closer ties. obviously we want to work with the european union . to work with the european union. they've kind of tried to punish us with the brexit deals to ensure nobody else votes for it, but i don't think they're proposing anything radical. and if they did try and do anything on that, i think it'd be a big vote loser for them at the next election after the one coming up. >> it does seem that the sort of arguments that were being had in the summer of 2021, the chequers plan of theresa may, the, the, the policy that was eventually got rid of and then lost theresa may, her job as prime minister may, herjob as prime minister that seems to be basically what's being discussed here by the labour party . this idea of the labour party. this idea of dynamic alignment taking eu rules in various sectors to try and facilitate better trade in those areas. but of course, then taking away britain's ability to set our own regulations in those areas are, i suppose, in the short term you can see economic arguments for making it easier to trade with the european union operating under the same rules .

operating under the same rules. but on the other side of the ledger that takes away our ability to perhaps make better rules . rules. >> no, i think you're right, tom. obviously, part of the you know, it's a relatively short penod know, it's a relatively short period of time. you might think obviously the vote was was a while ago and we've had a quite a period of time. but we wouldn't have diverged massively in terms of rules anyway. and there's no incentive for manufacturers to start tinkering around the edges because they still themselves want to kind of trade with the european union . trade with the european union. so i think you're right. we want to have the opportunity to make our own rules. but ultimately, when you know, you start considering the wider thing, trade with the european union is still quite buoyant. that's not a massive impact for us in terms of brexit. some would argue it would be higher. but you know, we've had the pandemic and another and the cost of living crisis, which i say to all businesses there. so i think ultimately, you know, some common sense should prevail. get the trade going and the rules kind of argument. the thing is played out quite a lot in the political sphere, but i don't think at the manufacturers level, you know, the business level, you know, the business level as a massive difference.

>> yes . and of course, brussels >> yes. and of course, brussels won't want the uk to be seen to cherry pick some of the benefits of eu membership while being outside. thank you very much indeed. jamie jenkins , political indeed. jamie jenkins, political and economic commentator. now throughout the election campaign, we're going to be heanng campaign, we're going to be hearing from voices across the united kingdom about what really matters to them . yes. could it matters to them. yes. could it be nhs waiting lists or the impact of immigration, the cost of living and crime and policing? our reporters have been out and about in all four nations, listening to what you have to say. today, for the first time, we meet cyan astley , first time, we meet cyan astley, who lives in greater manchester. >> hi, i'm cyan astley and i live in south manchester, so the most important issue for me in the upcoming general election is that the next government sort out and get stability in housing, property and the economy. i work as a landlord and i have done for 25 years and it's just a mess at the minute. so as a voter in south manchester, i have floated between the lib dems and labour and those few choices in south

manchester, the conservatives never get in in this area. don't stand a chance on a national level. the conservatives, for me as a landlord and a property owner, have been unbelievably disappointing . i think they've disappointing. i think they've been disappointing for landlords and tenants, to be honest. they have not got their act together. what they've promised hasn't materialised . they've chopped materialised. they've chopped and changed their mind. they haven't followed through on their promises , they've made it their promises, they've made it confusing for everybody. so they've been useless actually on every front. the problem is, as landlords who had traditionally been supported by the conservative party, when labour gets in, you think, oh god, because they talk about rent controls, they talk about the fact that they don't like landlords . landlords have got landlords. landlords have got a really bad rap. so it makes me really bad rap. so it makes me really nervous. so it's quite confusing and i just. who do you vote for as somebody that owns property? i really like, don't know who to vote for because i don't know who will be the worst . and that's not to say i don't know who would be the best, because i don't think either of them will be good. >> gosh, there's a lot of undecided voters around, aren't there? >> huge degree, huge degree. >> huge degree, huge degree. >> well, coming up, a museum has

removed an african mask from display because it must not be seen by women . no words for seen by women. no words for that. >> it honestly i mean pitt—rivers curators removed the artefact in the interest of what they call cultural safety. >> what exactly is cultural safety and why can't this mask be seen by women? this is good afternoon, britain. we're on gb news. stay with

us. right. well, 1227 is the time. and a university of oxford museum called pitt—rivers have removed an african mask in their display. because the culture it came from forbids women from seeing it. >> i barely believable this, but then again, it is oxford. the mask made by the ligabue. the

lubo lubo igbo, igbo. oh, that's an eye. there we go. it's made by the igbo people in nigeria. and i'm so sorry for women looking at this because i've just broken . i've made a just broken. i've made a terrible cultural taboo. women avert your eyes. please look elsewhere. okay? i'm not looking. >> i'm showing the mask. >> i'm showing the mask. >> oh goodness me, i'm sure ofcom will now be on our backs for breaching all sorts of cultural problems , but of course cultural problems, but of course it would originally have been used in male only rituals in nigeria. right. >> so this follows new policies from the museum in the interest of cultural safety. now that's an interesting term, isn't it, tom? what what do you suppose that cultural safety means? >> cultural safety. it's i presume it means that people might get very angry if certain women or just any women, are allowed to see problematic and maybe they're just trying to avoid protest and avoid violence

, which seems like a pathetic thing. >> isn't it funny? it's supposed to be progressive , but then it to be progressive, but then it leads to things that are quite the opposite . anyway, let's the opposite. anyway, let's speak with historian and author martin whittock. he can tell us a little bit more about this. perhaps he can, educate us, martin, what is going on here? >> well, i know the pitt rivers museum quite well as some viewers may well do. it's internationally famous museum with a huge historic and ethnographic collection and what we're seeing here is a very complicated policy over what you do with something which has been historically gained in the past. >> i don't know the actual history of the actual provenance of this particular, set of masks, but clearly in the past, the pitt river collection has had it added to their collection , when it's come into a culture which is at odds with the culture that produced it, where it would give extreme offence in

order to present it. now, clearly these kind of things are present across a whole range of our collections, not just at the pitt rivers as well, but but in the british museum as well . and the british museum as well. and itend the british museum as well. and i tend to take the position that although this is very difficult and very sensitive, and i know it tends to produce very polarised responses , my feeling polarised responses, my feeling is twofold. i feel that if it's a if it's a continuous living community, i.e, for example, if there are people within the igbo today who would find that offensive, then i would say there is a for case not showing it because i would not want to distress or offend anybody else, whether they were of the igbo or any ethnic group, both here or abroad. if i think it's a historic culture that wouldn't approve, then i then i would not agree with it because i think the simple matter is in all times in history, there are different mores, different viewpoints, and we have to we have to show and explain. but i would be prepared if it could be

shown that we're talking about a living community that is offended by this, that i think there could be by lots of things. >> sorry, i'm offended by lots of things. >> yeah, i guess i guess the difference is between you and i as individuals, obviously, because where you and i get to go as individuals, if i were to say something to do something that you find culturally or ritualistically, you know, offensive, then that i hope i would stop, i think, i think the problem in this case was the people that made this never intended it to be in the pitt rivers museum. i mean, yeah, it has got there via a route that they would never have intended. and i would say if a modern living community finds it offensive and this would apply across the board. i mean, for example, i think there are some ethiopian coptic crosses that are owned by the british museum, which the contemporary ethiopian church say should only be viewed by priests. and they're not on display. i think the key thing is, if it's a living, a living, a living community today in this

country or abroad , who would not country or abroad, who would not have wanted that then? i think there's a case for it. but not that being a bit too culturally relative . relative. >> i mean, aren't we allowed to say or not? perhaps not culturally relative enough? are we not allowed to say that some cultures are better than others, and that perhaps intensely misogynistic cultures don't deserve the same sort of respect that enlightened liberal cultures do? >> well, clearly there's a real conflict here, because here am i as a, you know , a western as a, you know, a western liberal democratic historian, who wants to have free access of everybody, you know, regardless of gender, etc, to education. so, so clearly there is a clash here between my viewpoint , and here between my viewpoint, and another viewpoint. but i think when somebody elsewhere has made an artefact and it's come into my possession in a way that, i mean, i can't comment on the legitimacy of how we got hold of this artefact. and if that community is then deeply offended by it and that community is still around , then community is still around, then

i think there could be a case for writing about it, talking about it, but not actually displaying it to cause offence. that's my feeling. having said though, isn't it? >> because why have the artefact if you're not going to display it? >> well, exactly. i mean, to be frank about it, it means they probably i mean, i can't comment on the specific artefact, but i can probably guess they probably got it by circumstances which nowadays we regard as being culturally rather problematic . culturally rather problematic. you know, you've only got to think about things that, you know, were looted by british troops in west africa in the past, for example. so these things weren't always produced on the open market and came to us in a legitimate sense. sometimes they came in collecting forays, which we now have some concerns about. if somebody did it, you know , did somebody did it, you know, did it in reverse, reverse to ourselves . but if we are going ourselves. but if we are going to do this, we do have to have serious conversations . and it's serious conversations. and it's a wide ranging conversation because there are things clearly on display in art galleries that l, on display in art galleries that i, as a christian, find deeply, you know, deeply offensive . now, you know, deeply offensive. now, perhaps to some extent, i need to be involved in the conversation as well . so conversation as well. so whatever people conclusion they draw on this, it does open up a very wide area of conversation .

very wide area of conversation. it's not just about people in ex—colonial countries . we have ex—colonial countries. we have to think about ourselves in communities today and have a very serious conversation . but i very serious conversation. but i would say if it's offending contemporary communities , that contemporary communities, that i think there is a case for not displaying it. but i'm aware that in, you know, in multicultural britain, we all have to accept that sometimes we will be offended, and that's, that's life . but i do accept that's life. but i do accept your point about, about, you know, it's been requested by a specific community, and they are a living community and all of that. >> yeah, there are deeply misogynistic. i think that's i think that's i would not i would not invite a jewish friend or an islamic friend to a pork meal, despite the fact we live in multicultural, complicated england because britain. because i would know that that wouldn't stop a shop selling pork. >> not, nor would any jewish person or any sensible muslim in this country. >> i guess what i'm saying is that basically, i think we have to recognise the fact that even in multicultural britain, there

are some areas where we would say, i think this is going to give offence and i think we have to recognise that's a legitimate offence. yeah, that's my feeling. understood >> martin, thank you very much indeed, martin whitlock , indeed, martin whitlock, historian, author. always great to speak to you. we've got plenty more to bring you in just a moment, including whether hey jude should become the anthem of the summer. but let's get the latest . news. latest. news. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories. more than 40,000 migrants have now crossed the english channel in small boats since rishi sunak promised to end the crisis in january last year. gb news can exclusively reveal that the figure was passed today after more than 600 migrants made the crossing earlier this morning. in other news, a review has found that four detectives who ran the first investigation into the murder of stephen lawrence should not face criminal charges. it found there was insufficient evidence and no real prospect of conviction.

stephen lawrence was murdered in 1993, in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation was harshly criticised and failed to bring anyone to justice. labour says it'll bring face to face banking back to the high streets, with 350 new banking hubs in towns and villages, it would see staff from several banks sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures . today left by branch closures. today is the last day to register to vote in the upcoming general election, which takes place in about two weeks time. a social media campaign is urging first time voters to ensure they're on the electoral roll before the cut off at midnight tonight . and cut off at midnight tonight. and the russian president is due to arrive in north korea for his first state visit in 24 years. vladimir putin travelled through the north of russia early this morning, where he's due to continue his journey to pyongyang. he'll hold a meeting with kim jong un, who he's praised for firmly supporting the invasion of ukraine. for the

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>> good afternoon. britain. it's 20 to 1. well, racegoers attending the royal ascot will be hoping to get a glimpse of the king and the queen in one of the king and the queen in one of the biggest racing events gets underway . underway. >> yes. their majesties will be trying to cement themselves as champions of the sport if they're not already. just like her late majesty queen elizabeth the second. >> well, let's cross over to our royal correspondent cameron walker, who's enjoying enjoying the festivities and is looking rather dapper. >> look at him, cameron, what's going on today ? going on today? >> thank you . hi, tom. well, i'm

>> thank you. hi, tom. well, i'm stood right by the parade ring , stood right by the parade ring, and in just under two hours time, we're expecting members of the royal family and their guests to be processing around that ring in front of thousands of spectators. we're expecting around 47,000 people today. and in the last half an hour, ascot has released the carriage list. so in the first carriage we have the king and the queen and the duke and duchess of wellington. now the duke of wellington carried in queen mary's crown into westminster abbey during the coronation, which is the crown that queen camilla wore the second carriage. we've got the second carriage. we've got the princess royal, lady gabriella kingston, excuse me, who unfortunately lost her husband earlier this year , as husband earlier this year, as well as peter phillips and john warren, who is the king's racing manager, and some other guests in the third and fourth carriage as well. but of course, you remember those fantastic pictures last year of the king's horse, desert hero winning the king george the fifth stakes. it was just such a fabulous image. it looks like the king's king and queen kind of forgot they

were being filmed. there was such excitement in the ring as that horse crossed over the finish line and in the official programme, which was released this morning, the king and queen have written the message to the guests, welcoming everybody, but also talking about their immense pleasure and joy about seeing desert hero win . now desert hero desert hero win. now desert hero is going to be running again this year, but not until saturday. water is the horse to watch. apparently one another one of the king's horses because he's got the same trainer and jockey as desert hero, had last yeah jockey as desert hero, had last year. earlier, i spoke to nick smith of royal ascot's , director smith of royal ascot's, director of racing and public affairs, and he spoke about the tradition of ascot and why the king and queen love it so much. >> the current king is the 13th monarch to oversee ascot racecourse , started by queen racecourse, started by queen anne in 1711. a major historical milestone along the way, the royal procession came into effect in 1825, so we will be celebrating next year a 200th anniversary of the royal procession that was under george the fourth. and of course, the late queen was a passionate supporter of racing. and, you know, we're just delighted to

see the king and queen enjoying the sport and having runners here as well. >> the king and queen have a long way to go to be queen elizabeth ii's record. she had over 20 winners during royal ascot during her reign. she attended every year of her 70 year reign up until the covid pandemic in 2020. and then, of course, her poor health. we were expecting many members of the royal family this week and this weather is so much better than it was for trooping the colour on saturday, so it should be amazing . week of horse racing. amazing. week of horse racing. >> there's always a little bit sad when you go to the races and it's pouring with rain, but what a result. spectacular weather, good stuff and you look very nice in that pink waistcoat. love it. thank you very much indeed, cameron walker. enjoy the festivities as well. am i allowed to comment on his waistcoat , i allowed to comment on his waistcoat, i think yeah, i think you are. >> no. it's splendid. it's very, very good. but coming up, pro—palestine activists have used crow bars to smash computers, windows and all

sorts, targeting a company that they accuse of having links to israel. well is it time to ban groups behind this sort of criminal damage? we'll be discussing that

next. well. hello? >> it's 1247. >> it's 1247. >> good afternoon. britain. lots of you have been getting in touch about the museum conversation. oh, yeah. >> that one really got everyone going. i find it, i actually, i wasn't expecting martin whittock, who we've spoken to you before, a fantastic historian. i wasn't expecting him to say what he did in terms of saying, oh, maybe we should just keep it out of out of view to protect cultural sensitivities . i found that sensitivities. i found that quite a bit of a slippery slope, isn't it ? isn't it? >> when you start censoring things because you're worried it might offend one group, one

group in society, one group in the world? >> yeah. there are some cultures that still celebrate slavery. i don't think we should be holding those up. i mean, some cultures are worse than others. yes, essentially. >> so this museum decided that this mask, because the tribe that it belonged to originally it was only used for male rituals. so therefore it couldn't be seen by the female gaze, well , lots of people have gaze, well, lots of people have written in, nick has written in to say, oxford museum distorting our view on cultures by censorship and altering the narrative. >> imagine how much oxford distorts history with banned and censors books denying free speech and blacklisting those who dare to object. >> doctor margaret says, well, ladies, you know which museum to boycott if you feel offended. well, yes, i do find it a tad sexist, i'm not one to be perma offended, but, you know , claire offended, but, you know, claire says, i think cultural safety might mean cultural protection to protect the beliefs of that culture, which is justified to be understanding of their culture. but we shouldn't have

to work, you know, go along with all of this. >> helen says, i love being offended. water off a duck's back there. i've just offended ducks and john's taken a radical view, an idea. >> let's just close down all the museums, starting with those that benefit any taxpayer's money. that way we won't be offended by paying for this woke nonsense once. having paid for more than one child at university, i'm now actively encouraging my grandson not to apply encouraging my grandson not to apply for a place at university city. no it is. it is absolutely remarkable. i wonder if we can just see that mask one more time, because , because i'm just time, because, because i'm just very, very keen for those who are watching television, particularly, as many women as possible , just to look at it, possible, just to look at it, just to annoy the misogynists who do not want women to look on. let's face it, what is what is not an amazing piece of artwork, is it? i mean, it's a bit of wood with some paint on it, but there we go. i hope as many people are as offended as possible. >> well, look at you, mr feminist. who knew tom harwood

chief feminist? feminist in chief. perhaps. >> perhaps that is my new mantle i >> -- >> well. good stuff, well, also, we were asking about the song hey jude by the beatles of course, 1968, it was released, paul mccartney turns 82 today, but that's not the only reason you get to hear my lovely rendition of this song. i'm not sure if i want to sing it again. >> oh, you do you know what? i already own everyone on gbnews.com forward slash. your say was saying how good at singing you are. and some people were really quite pleasantly surprised . but this were really quite pleasantly surprised. but this is of were really quite pleasantly surprised . but this is of course surprised. but this is of course a remarkable moment because downloads of the song and streams of the song have shot up by 20% after, jude bellingham scored that only goal in england in his first match over the weekend. >> yes, and it's something that rishi sunak and keir starmer can finally agree on, and that is that they think it should be the anthem of the summer , what say anthem of the summer, what say you?i anthem of the summer, what say you? i did read one of you say that, he only scored one goal. doesn't deserve a song. harsh. >> well, to be fair, though, it

is 100% of england's goals so far in the euros. so? so maybe maybe that is deserving. although that might dilute. hopefully it will dilute as the as the contest goes on. >> well, moving swiftly on, palestine action. say they broke into a military supplier in kent because of its connections to israel . israel. >> get this a video posted on social media shows a so—called actionists in orange jumpsuits breaking machinery and throwing stock to the ground . now, seven stock to the ground. now, seven people have been arrested. >> well, joining us now is the senior adviser at the counter extremism project, ian aitchison. ian, thank you very much indeed forjoining us, ian, help us understand how someone goes from, joining a march, for example , and holding up example, and holding up a placard to deciding to venture into criminal activity like this, criminal damage of private property . property. >> well, i think in order to

understand what's happening here, we need to look at where this has emerged from. >> and this is part of a broader strategy, which is a couple of decades old, the boycott, divestment and sanctioning strategy known as bds, which has been , carried out by palestinian been, carried out by palestinian activists to draw attention to what they see as the oppression of palestinians in israel, what they see as the oppression of palestinians in israel , the of palestinians in israel, the occupied territories in gaza. so this is specifically, i think , this is specifically, i think, about, disinvestment. in other words, this is intimidatory action, criminal action, clearly, but is designed to, get investors in this company to run scared and to, to disinvest in companies that these activists say are complicit in, the war effort, which is taking place after the atrocity that was committed in israel on the 7th of october. so i think what's happening here is a cultural thing as well. >> it's a feature, i think , of >> it's a feature, i think, of a spreading impunity to , to spreading impunity to, to action, that we've seen over the, over the past weeks and

months, especially in relation to, the actions that are taking place on the streets where it feels like there's more and more space for criminal impunity, particularly , i think, for particularly, i think, for people who are, you know , drunk people who are, you know, drunk on righteousness to, to, to coin a phrase, they, they believe that, the, the means they are using are justified by the ends and therefore they can do more and therefore they can do more and more and more, you know, to , and more and more, you know, to, to prosecute their cause. >> i think that's very dangerous because, that never stops with the actions that we've seen . the actions that we've seen. >> and just bear in mind the actions that we've seen , in actions that we've seen, in relation to what the police have charged a lot of these, activists with, which is, aggravated burglary, carries a sentence of between 1 and 13 years in prison. >> so these these people , who >> so these these people, who believe they're they're the righteousness of their cause , righteousness of their cause, allows them to do effectively, you know, anything that they want, are facing , the

want, are facing, the destruction of their futures. >> i mean, of course, that depends on the actions the courts have taken. >> and i think the courts to be frank, are complicit in some of this impunity as well, because although it is very different in terms of what the action that's happened here, you only have to look back a couple of weeks where a knifeman outside a kosher supermarket, wasn't even given a jail sentence for a disgusting in h. >> and i'm afraid we're running up to the end of the segment here. but thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate your time and your thoughts. that's it for us this hour. but don't go anywhere. we're going to be debating something pretty special. should popstars stay out of politics? that's after the . weather. the. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. news. news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it should be another mostly dry day with some further sunny spells today, but there is a

thunderstorm risk for some of us, particularly across northern areas of the uk. that's where low pressure is closer to, but actually high pressure is building in from the south and west. there's a weather front though, approaching from the southeast , that could bring some southeast, that could bring some light rain just to the likes of kent through this afternoon, but i think most of it should stay away to the continent. but there is this thunderstorm risk, particularly across northern areas of england and down towards the midlands as well. we could see up to 20mm falling in a short space of time and a risk of hail as well, so it's a bit cooler today. we've got a northerly wind across parts of scotland and a bit more cloud around compared to yesterday. will cloud over through this afternoon after a fairly bright start to the day , and that start to the day, and that thunderstorm risk is going to continue into the evening as well. so this northerly wind across scotland means temperatures are only about 10 or 11 degrees at best. here and there will be some drizzly rain across the northern isles. but it's the heaviest rain that's likely across north western areas of england. as i said, we could see 20mm of rain. the risk

of hail lightning as well, but it should stay dry and bright for many southern areas. and in the sunshine it's still feeling fairly warm with quite light winds through today. now overnight tonight things will dry out. the thunderstorms will ease. so for many of us it will be a clear and dry night with plenty of clear skies developing and it will be a slightly fresher start tomorrow, particularly for parts of the nonh particularly for parts of the north west. we could see a rural grass frost, but for most of us we'll be at around ten degrees to start the day and there will be more brightness on the way for wednesday. wednesday is actually looking like a drier day on the whole. more widely across the uk there is a weather front approaching from the northwest through the day and that will bring cloudier skies to the western isles, the highlands of scotland and the northern isles , perhaps parts of northern isles, perhaps parts of northern isles, perhaps parts of northern ireland later on in the day. but for most of us, dry, bright and feeling fairly warm in the sunshine, temperatures climbing towards 23 degrees, that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> well. good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 >> well. good afternoon. britain. it's1:00 on tuesday. the 18th of june. >> i'm emily carver, and i'm tom harwood. >> an exclusive story to bring you on the small boats crisis. gb news can reveal that more than 40,000 migrants have crossed the channel since rishi sunak pledged to stop the boats. we're going to hear from the prime minister as well as keir starmer on this very shortly. >> well, those figures might mean rishi sunak needs help from this man. yes, the former prime minister boris johnson is getting behind the tory campaign, urging voters to not give labour an entire generation in power. but can boris rescue the conservatives >> yes, and there's growing concern for three children who went missing after a day out at thorpe park. we'll get the very latest from our reporter who's there in surrey .

there in surrey. >> now, at the end of the last houn >> now, at the end of the last hour, we were talking to the counter extremism expert ian aitchison , and he was saying aitchison, and he was saying some pretty profound things about how the sort of snowball effect of activism can sometimes go. and first, it's a march and then it's perhaps smashing something. but then what is next? and is there some sort of conveyor belt of, of greater and greater extremes in some of this movement? >> yes. and remember when michael gove set out his proposals to clamp down on on extremism? it was rumoured that palestine action might be one of those groups that the government might be looking to proscribe or ban or have tighter restrictions on. it's quite interesting having a look at palestine action, their social media accounts, they're very much

celebrating the criminal damage. they're very much celebrating all of the protests, the extreme protests. i must say. they're talking about the arrests that they've had . they're talking they've had. they're talking about which banks they've targeted. and the issue is, is this type of action actually having the desired effect for their campaign? because we've seen how barclays bank have changed what they're doing as a result of their banks being smashed up. >> emily, i've got i've got a question for you actually, like, is smashing a window not a violent action? >> i think so. >> i think so. >> is smashing up a computer not a violent action? >> i think so, tom. >> i think so, tom. >> well, i've been on the m15 website. m15 have a definition of terrorism. m15's definition of terrorism. m15's definition of terrorism. m15's definition of terrorism is the use of violence or threats of violence to influence the government or a governmental organisation , or to governmental organisation, or to intimidate the public in pursuit of a political, religious, racial or ideological cause. and what is this if it is not the

use of violence to intimidate the public or indeed this specific, organisation in pursuit of an ideological cause , pursuit of an ideological cause, is this not terrorism? >> well, gbnews.com/win your say, please do get in touch on that. say, please do get in touch on that . and i'm sure we'll get ian that. and i'm sure we'll get ian back very soon indeed. but it's your headlines. >> emily, thank you and good afternoon . the top stories more afternoon. the top stories more than 40,000 migrants have now crossed the english channel in small boats since rishi sunak promised to end the crisis in january last year, gb news can exclusively reveal that the figure was passed today after more than 600 migrants made the crossing earlier this morning amid improved weather conditions .labour amid improved weather conditions . labour leader sir keir starmer highlighted his party's plan to take swift action. >> i think the idea of processing claims as close to source as possible is a good

idea. >> we also need to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade because under this tory government, they've lost control of the borders and we will, you know, set up a border security command, a new elite command with new powers and resources to smash the gangs that are running the vile trade in the first place. because as you rightly say, a record number have crossed the channel this year already. and nobody but nobody should be making that journey across the channel >> in other news, a review has found that four detectives who first ran the investigation into the murder of stephen lawrence should not face criminal charges. it found there was insufficient evidence and no real prospect of conviction. it means none of the four retired detectives will be charged. stephen lawrence was murdered in 1993, in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation was harshly criticised and failed to bring anyone to justice. today is the

last day to register to vote in the upcoming general election, which takes place in two weeks time. a social media campaign is urging first time voters to ensure they're on the electoral roll. after a sharp drop in turnout among younger people . turnout among younger people. around 8 million people are estimated to be unregistered to vote. prime minister rishi sunak says it's essential that people do make their voices heard . do make their voices heard. >> the future of our country is at stake and we're living in the most uncertain times that we've seen in this country for decades, and that's why this election is so crucial. >> and people need to decide who has the clearest plan, who has got the boldest ideas to deliver a secure future for them. and as our manifesto sets out, we want to deliver tax cuts for people at every stage of their lives . at every stage of their lives. in contrast to the labour party that just wants to put taxes up . that just wants to put taxes up. and that's a very important choice for people at this election . election. >> labour says it will bring face to face banking back to the high streets, with 350 new hubs in towns and villages, it would see staff from several banks

sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures. consumer group , which closures. consumer group, which says more than 6000 branches have closed since 2015. meanwhile, the lib dems are promising to spend £10 million a year to tackle sewage dumping by water companies. new quality inspectors would work as part of a newly created clean water authority . sir ed davey says authority. sir ed davey says it's crucial that britain's water is cleaned up . water is cleaned up. >> there's nowhere near enough sewage monitors. we're calling them sewage busters. we want to provide £10 million in our cost of manifesto. so our new regulator , the clean water regulator, the clean water authority, has the resources because we do need a tough regulator, as we're proposing , regulator, as we're proposing, with powers coming from other regulators. so we have a much stronger regulator , but they stronger regulator, but they need the resources to do the job. and we've seen on the conservatives cutting back the environment agency, where some of these monitors were, and we want to make sure the resources are there as well as the rules .

are there as well as the rules. >> the leader of reform uk says the party has been let down by a company that was contracted to vet its candidates. nigel farage says a large sum of money was paid to the firm, which he didn't name, and flagged possible legal action. it comes after reform was hit by a series of revelations about some of its candidates, with one person resigning after having previously supported the british national party . in other news, national party. in other news, three young children are reported missing after they failed to return from a day out at thorpe park. surrey police are looking for 14 year old candy amelia, who's nine, and malik, who's seven. they were reported missing just after 7:00 last night. the children were last night. the children were last seen walking towards staines town centre just after a 3:15 yesterday afternoon. police believe they may have travelled to london. they're urging anyone with information to contact them or crime stoppers . and the or crime stoppers. and the russian president is due to

arrive in north korea for his first state visit in 24 years. vladimir putin travelled through the north of russia early this morning, where he's due to continue his journey to pyongyang. he'll hold a meeting with kim jong un, who's he praised for firmly supporting the invasion of . ukraine. for the invasion of. ukraine. for the invasion of. ukraine. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or you can go to gbnews.com slash alerts. now it's back to tom and . emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:08 now. we're starting this hour with that breaking news we brought you in the past half houn brought you in the past half hour, gb news can exclusively reveal the number of migrants crossing the channel since january last year , when rishi january last year, when rishi sunak promised to stop the boats. but it's now surpassed 40,000. >> yes, this milestone figure

was passed today after more than 600 migrants crossed the channel illegally throughout this morning as well. >> rishi sunak has responded to these figures when speaking to journalists in north devon this morning about the general election. >> there is a deadline to vote. why is voting important? >> well, this election there's a very clear choice. >> the future of our country is at stake. we're living in uncertain times, so people need to decide who has got the clearest plan and the boldest ideas to deliver a more secure future. and the choice is crystal clear tax cuts at every stage of your life. if you're in work, if you're setting up a small business and self—employed , if you're a young couple wanting to buy a home, if you're a pensioner , or if you've got a pensioner, or if you've got a young family, the conservatives will deliver tax cuts for you. and in contrast, labour will just put up your taxes and that's not going to create any financial security for anyone. >> and on registering to vote, that's why registering to vote for any party is important. yes, absolutely . absolutely. >> because the future of our country is at stake, and we're living in the most uncertain times that we've seen in this country for decades. and that's

why this election is so crucial. and people need to decide who has the clearest plan, who's got the boldest ideas to deliver a secure future for them. and as our manifesto sets out, we want to deliver tax cuts for people at every stage of their lives , at every stage of their lives, in contrast to the labour party that just wants to put taxes up and that's a very important choice for people at this election. >> we're here in north devon, which is a very safe, normally a very safe conservative seat with over 20,000 majority. why are you here? is it because your campaign is not going as well as it should be? and are you disappointed that boris johnson isn't yet campaigning for the tory party? do you feel let down by him? >> well, i'm talking to people across every part of our country because i don't take any vote for granted. but specifically , for granted. but specifically, i'm here talking to fishing communities because we're the only party that cares about them. and that's why i'm here. and what you can see is we're taking advantage of our brexit opportunities to provide almost £1 billion worth of extra fishing opportunities for our fleets here. and if re—elected, we'll recommit to the £100 million seafood fund to support the sector in contrast, the

labour party didn't mention the word fishing once in their manifesto. and as we've learned today, we do a cosy deal with the eu as the price of their greater alignment, which would just mean giving more access to european fleets in our waters. that's a choice for fishing fleets and fishing communities at this election. >> and on boris johnson, do you feel disappointed he's not yet campaigning for your party? do you feel let down by him? >> well, it's great that boris is supporting the conservative party. i very much welcome that. he's endorsing many candidates in videos and letters which have been coordinated by the campaign. i know that will make a difference. and of course, every week he's making the case in his column and making sure that everyone understands that what a labour government would do to this country and why it's important that everyone votes conservative. and i'm glad he's doing that on small boats. >> 600 people have arrived today , 40,000 now since you promised to stop those boats , isn't it to stop those boats, isn't it time to apologise for this failure of your government? that includes children and babies today? >> well, it's desperately sad to see young children being put in

these very dangerous situations, making these crossings. it just illustrates why we have to stop the boats. something i'm determined to do and have a clear plan to do so if re—elected as prime minister, the flights will go to rwanda. we will build that deterrent, removing the incentive for people to come here in the first place. that is the only way to solve this problem. and in contrast, keir starmer would release everyone that we've detained. illegal migrants would be on our streets. they wouldn't be on our streets. they wouldn't be on our streets. they wouldn't be on the planes, which would be cancelled. there would be no deterrent . there'd be an amnesty deterrent. there'd be an amnesty for illegal migrants, would be the soft touch in europe. i'm the soft touch in europe. i'm the one who gets that. this is an issue. i'm the one that's got an issue. i'm the one that's got a plan to do something about it. keir starmer doesn't. and that's a choice for everyone who cares about this issue at this election. >> well, there we go. rishi sunak welcoming the support of bofis sunak welcoming the support of boris johnson in his columns too. >> yes. although not out and about on the campaign trail , about on the campaign trail, writing letters, sending little videos, writing columns , we see videos, writing columns, we see more of him. >> will we see more of him, sir keir starmer has also revealed his party's plans to tackle the small boats crisis here, processing claims as close to

source as possible is a good idea and you know, we've seen that in relation to ukraine and afghanistan that hasn't worked so well in the second of those examples. >> so we do need to take that action, but we also need to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade, because under this vile trade, because under this tory government, they've lost control of the borders. and we will, you know, set up a border security command, a new elite command , and with new elite command, and with new powers and resources to smash the gangs that are running the vile trade in the first place. because, as you rightly say, a record number have crossed the channel this year already. and nobody but nobody should be making that journey across the channel. >> keir starmer there, speaking from the opposite end of the same pub that rishi sunak was in. by the looks of it, i know they're in different places, but they're in different places, but they are remarkably similar. >> they wouldn't be caught dead together. >> no, but it's interesting. they're clearly using the same focus groups where where's best to stand to win over the middle ground in this election, in a

pub, in a pub , sometimes a cafe. pub, in a pub, sometimes a cafe. >> yeah. construction site. oh, they do love both keir starmer and rishi sunak had the hard hats on yesterday. >> keir starmer was an apport, rishi sunak was at a construction site there. they were sort of more high vis vests than you could know what to do with really . with really. >> this stop the boats pledge very difficult for rishi sunak to claim that the conservatives will stop those boats when 40,000 have crossed since, since his pledge . but then keir his pledge. but then keir starmer, a little light on detail when it comes to how they'll solve the problem. >> he says he's going to smash the gangs, smash the gangs. i mean, what more detail do you need ? need? >> well, there you go. onto the election campaign. boris johnson has appeared on social media. he's backing the tory party ahead of the general election. >> yes, the former prime minister has endorsed certain candidates with a warning to voters over giving labour a generation in power with a super majority. it's also being reported that thousands of letters signed by mr johnson reported that thousands of letters signed by mrjohnson are to be sent to voters this week. >> well, joining us now is

richard morley, deputy leader of rejoin eu party, richard, well, i'm not sure. do you have a thought on boris johnson? would he be able to garner some votes? he did, you know, get brexit done. >> well, i think the tory party is in such a desperate situation that when they have to call in bofis that when they have to call in boris johnson, they're plainly showing that they're, they're on the rails of defeat. and, anything that they can do, they hope will help them. but quite frankly, i don't think boris johnson will be able to help them at all. >> it's interesting, of course, because these letters that boris johnson is said to be signing are going to be sent to reform voters. clearly, the, the, idea here from conservative campaigners is to reunite the right because it's interesting looking at the numbers that the conservative that the labour party has on it looks like keir starmer is going to win this election, potentially on a lower share of the vote than boris

johnson achieved five years ago. and he's just going to sail to victory because of the split in the other lot. >> well, i think that is perfectly accurate. what you're saying and personally speaking, i think this is a very good thing. i think nigel farage has heralded the way towards a split in the original two party system, which britain has had for such a long time, and i think he's showing voters dissatisfaction with the continuation of simply either a labour party or a conservative party in power. and i think that's very important for britain to have other alternatives besides these two major parties. and i think, nigel farage is doing a damn decent job of showing the inadequacies of both the main parties. >> now, labour's rachel reeves has , said that she perhaps has, said that she perhaps potentially wants to shake up our deal with brussels. think brussels will be open to, renegotiating . renegotiating. >> well, i think what we've heard from brussels recently is

that it's not terribly keen on having britain back in the eu at the moment , having britain back in the eu at the moment, one hopes that situation will change, but i think we've got to do more than simply just apply to rejoin the eu. were we to take that political stance, we've actually got to make britain attractive again for the eu to consider our membership. and at the moment, we have to see what this election, pulls together. we have to see what the outcome is. but obviously we're going to have a labour victory and we're going to have a very substantial vote for reform, whether, of course, that actually transmits into seats for the reform party. that's another very interesting thing. >> just one little question before we before we finish up, what do you mean by more attractive? presumably we're going to have to offer more things to the eu. would that be freedom of movement in the schengen area more than we had before? would it be taking on the euro as our currency? >> i think political stability

is what will make britain look more attractive to the eu at the moment. of course, we've had a conservative party that has frankly gone through the most amazing adventure, shall we say, for the last five years in taking us out of europe, promising us so much that brexit would deliver plainly , it hasn't would deliver plainly, it hasn't delivered that plainly. the pubuc delivered that plainly. the public are now very dissatisfied with that, and it is still continuing to offer its phoney promises of being able to rescue the nation by spending this and spending that . and that, of spending that. and that, of course, is this makes britain look a bit of a joke country? >> well, things have not have not been rosy here, but i think our recession was slightly shorter than the recession that germany experienced. >> now it's hardly like politics is particularly uninteresting on the continent. is it? i mean, there's quite a lot of controversy over there. thank you very much indeed. richard morley, deputy leader of rejoin eu party. >> now three children have gone

missing after a day out at thorpe park. they were last seen walking away from the theme park in surrey on sunday. >> well, this is very worrying indeed. let's go over to our reporter charlie peters, who is at thorpe park for us, charlie, tell us exactly what we know . tell us exactly what we know. >> all right. >> all right. >> so yesterday at 317, as far as we understand it from surrey police, they said that three children left here at thorpe park from these main gates and went towards staines town centre . those children are malik, aged age seven, amelia, aged nine, and candy , aged 14. now candy, and candy, aged 14. now candy, the 14 year old is being described by surrey police as black, 160cm tall, slim and they said that she was seen wearing black jogging trousers , a white black jogging trousers, a white top, white trainers and was wearing also black glasses and bracelets on both wrists. now she left here at 317 alongside

the nine year old amelia, who was seen wearing grey jogging bottoms, a grey top with the word believe on the front and also wearing white trainers as she's described as european 110cm and also slim . now the 110cm and also slim. now the seven year old malik is her brother. >> that's what surrey police are saying. >> he also was part of the trio leaving here at 317 yesterday. he's also described as european 110cm and slim. he was seen wearing black jogging bottoms, black trainers and a green long sleeve top with stripes on it . sleeve top with stripes on it. now thorpe park say that they handed over their cctv footage of those children leaving at 317, but it wasn't until 7 pm. that surrey police said that they received a missing persons nofice they received a missing persons notice about the trio, and there are also some conflicting reports about where they might have gone, because the police force said that they were seen heading towards staines town

centre , which is about a 50 to centre, which is about a 50 to an hour's walk from this location , and they were believed location, and they were believed to have gone on to london. there are about seven trains an hour from staines to central london, most of them direct to waterloo. in just half an hour. some go via hounslow, but also there are some other reports saying that they went in the opposite direction towards chertsey, which is closer to the theme park here, where those three children spent the day yesterday. they've been seen, reportedly in cctv at a flower shop at 350 yesterday. well, surrey police are saying that if you have any information on these three children as to where they are at the moment, these three children as to where they are at the moment , then they are at the moment, then please contact us by quoting pr forward slash 4524. >> well charlie, thank you for that. >> well charlie, thank you for that . it's such an that. it's such an extraordinarily desperate story and we really hope that these, these three children can be discovered , really concerning discovered, really concerning stuff there. >> yes. well, coming up, we're going to be debating whether pop stars should simply stay out of

politics. why are we asking this? well, sir rod stewart had to defend his show of support for ukraine during a concert in germany last week. so we're asking, should pop stars stay out of politics, or is it their right to have their say you're watching good afternoon britain, we're on

gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:25. now. rod stewart was met by boos with boos from a german crowd while showing support for ukraine at a concert last weekend. he dedicated his song rhythm of my heart to kyiv as the ukrainian flag was projected on the screen behind sir rod. >> yes , while photos of the >> yes, while photos of the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy were also shown at the

concert, much to the dismay, apparently of booing fans. >> well, does this show more about rod stewart or more about the german audience? let's speak now with the showbiz reporter stephanie takyi, who thinks celebrities should not be staying out of politics? and political commentator emma webb, who thinks they should, emma, let's start with you. what's wrong with showing a ukrainian flag ? flag? >> look, let's let's first park the fact that i am pro—ukraine, i do to a degree agree with rod stewart, on this issue. so let's park that, because that's besides the point. but ultimately, you know, these these people have paid for over a over ,100 for this ticket. and they shouldn't be lectured or preached to , by the person that preached to, by the person that they're going to see. and it's also an issue within the, within the broader sort of political climate. look, we know that this is quite contentious in east german east germany, they're more critical than the rest of germany, a polling has found

that almost a half of them think that almost a half of them think that too many weapons are being sent to ukraine, so this is a contentious issue in east germany, where leipzig is. it didn't happen in hamburg. apparently not. the whole audience booed, some of the people in the audience apparently , applauded against apparently, applauded against the booers, so i think that this is a complex, complex political issue in the context of east germany, but also i think it creates this atmosphere where other artists feel that they, they, they're compelled to preach to their audiences , where preach to their audiences, where many people will have just paid for these tickets because they want to escape real life. they want to escape real life. they want to escape real life. they want to watch a musician performing their art. they enjoy, and they shouldn't have political issues shoved down their throats. >> i mean, stephanie is it is it, safer for artists just to, you know, get on stage, sing their songs , play their music, their songs, play their music, and just leave politics foreign affairs, geopolitics, you know, at the door ?

at the door? >> no, that's absolutely boring in this day. and age, we all have a right to freedom of expression , and even more so expression, and even more so when you're an artist and you've got a big platform where you can make a change. if you are actually a dedicated rod stewart fan, you would know that he's been talking about the war in ukraine over the past two years. it's something a subject that he feels about greatly , deeply. you feels about greatly, deeply. you know, he's even hounded, refugees from ukraine, build them a home, furnish them for them a home, furnish them for them to have a better lifestyle. so if you support rod stewart, you will know that when you go to his concert, it's rod stewart's concert. it means he decides what he's going to dictate about and what he's going to talk about and what he's going to sing about. and ukraine, unfortunately, has been one of those issues where it's yet to be resolved. and i think if you are a celebrity and you have a big platform in this day and age, you can't just be an artist anymore and not stand for anything. your real fans will appreciate that. and the ones

who are going to be critical. i guarantee you they will still go and see rod stewart at another concert because they appreciate his music. we can't just think celebrities and artists now are people who don't have any trail of thought or opinion on what's going on in the world. it's happened from the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and it's even going to happen even more so in this day. and age of social media. >> yeah, i mean, emma, if we park rod stewart because of course our government policy is to support ukraine and it's not, you know, the most, controversial necessarily, topic, not necessarily even political , one topic, not necessarily even political, one might argue. but let's have a look at, you know, what has happened with barclays. now they've suspended their sponsorship of all music festivals staged by promoter live nation. this year, because several acts took it upon themselves to pull out of the events in protest at the bank's investment links to arms companies that trade with israel . so essentially, artists are pulling out , . so essentially, artists are pulling out, putting . so essentially, artists are pulling out , putting pressure . so essentially, artists are pulling out, putting pressure on sponsors because of their

political opinions over the war in gaza. is that different, look, i think it's an atmosphere of art becoming politicised. and that's what you're seeing in, in the decision to pull out, you know, it's not just about the music anymore. everything has to be about politics. everything is political. and now stephanie's right. rod stewart does put his money where his mouth is. and he has been very supportive of ukrainian refugees, but having a giant picture of zelenskyy up behind you on stage or a particularly it's not maybe not so controversial here in the uk , so controversial here in the uk, but it is more so in east germany, i think that this is lecturing to , is lecturing to lecturing to, is lecturing to the crowd. and i do think , of the crowd. and i do think, of course, everybody, everybody has a right to freedom of expression, art lists also do have their opinions. but there's a time and a place and there's a way to do it. and what rod stewart did was a political stunt. it was hectoring. it was lecturing to anybody in the crowd who didn't agree with him.

it was using the platform to, to push a particular perspective on the crowd. and now that's not to say that, of course, he is entitled to his opinion and he's entitled to his opinion and he's entitled to his opinion and he's entitled to put his money where his mouth is and do whatever he likes in support of ukraine more generally. but actually what we're seeing here is, is a much broader issue. as you mentioned there, emily's with barclays bank of the politicised ation of art, and it's always a politicised down a particular, let's say, orthodox line progressive orthodox line, and i just think that in, in all of that, the art itself gets lost and fans are sick of it. they want to go to see the music. >> okay, emma, we're running out of time. so just a final word to stephanie. >> well, i just think, you know, in this day and age now, there's so much transparency. i think a lot of people tend to think celebrities are, you know, they're just kind of about show and tell. but i don't see it as lecturing. i see it actually informing people and making sure that both artists and both people who do go to this show,

ignorance is no longer bliss in this day and age. we all have to be aware of what's going on and if people have got platforms where they can speak about what's going on and they want to make a stand, they should have every right to do so . every right to do so. >> well, there you go. thank you very much. very interesting points made on both sides stephanie takyi and emma woolf. thank you very much indeed . let thank you very much indeed. let us know what you think at home about this. if you go to a concert and they start talking about geopolitics and foreign affairs and who they're going to vote for at the next election , vote for at the next election, what's your reaction? what's your reaction? you fed up with it all? it does seem to be i mean, glastonbury coming up. there'll be a lot of politics. they have the red tent. yes where, jeremy corbyn used to hang out and make his speeches. l, hang out and make his speeches. 1, well, i didn't go to the red tent. >> you didn't. tent. >> you didn't . you didn't. you >> you didn't. you didn't. you just have a bit of a curious. >> a little bit, yes, see what i think? jeremy corbyn was there making various speeches , and you making various speeches, and you were precisely the other end of the site. >> but does tend to be sort of the left wing bias, does it?

>> not with the celebrities. >> not with the celebrities. >> oh, goodness me. well, much more to come up on the show, including labour's confusion over their football transfer tax shadow minister will shed light on all of this. but before that, let's get your very latest news headunes. let's get your very latest news headlines . right. headlines. right. >> tom thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. more than 40,000 migrants have now crossed to the english channelin now crossed to the english channel in small boats since rishi sunak promised to end the crisis in january last year. gb news can reveal that the figure was passed today after more than 600 migrants made the crossing earlier this morning. prime minister rishi sunak says children are among those in the boats, which he describes as desperately sad and evidence for why the rwanda policy is needed . why the rwanda policy is needed. a review has found that four detectives who ran the first investigation into the murder of stephen lawrence, should not face criminal charges . it found face criminal charges. it found there was insufficient evidence and no real prospect of

conviction. stephen lawrence was murdered in 1993, in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation was harshly criticised and failed to bnng harshly criticised and failed to bring anyone to justice. the labour party says it will bring face to face banking back to the high streets, with 350 new banking hubs in towns and villages. it would see staff from several banks sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures . and left by branch closures. and today is the last day to register to vote in the upcoming general election, which takes place in about two weeks. a social media campaign is urging first time voters to ensure they're on the electoral roll before the cut off at midnight tonight, and the russian president is due to arrive in nonh president is due to arrive in north korea for his first state visit in 24 years. vladimir putin is expected to receive a warm welcome in the isolated country. he'll hold a meeting with kim jong un, who he's praised for firmly supporting the invasion of ukraine before continuing to vietnam later in

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>> right. it's 138. good afternoon . britain. and as part afternoon. britain. and as part of the election campaign, labour have promised to bring banking back to the high street. they're pledging to create 350 banking hubs over the next five years. >> they say that the closure of 6000 banks since 2015 has contributed to the creation of what's known as ghost high streets across britain . streets across britain. >> well, labour have announced that they will give new powers to the financial conduct authority and strengthen regulation to support the uk's largest cash machine network. >> we like cash. well, joining us now is sarah jones, the shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation. and sarah, it sounds lovely but frankly how would this work and would it cost the treasury money? well no, it's not going to cost additional money. >> there is already guidelines, as you've just alluded to for, that, support people having access to cash and banking services in our towns. >> we want to make that

statutory and work with the industry to make sure this can work. >> now, i think i don't think anybody will disagree with the fact that our high streets need change. we have so many high streets where the shops are closing , people are feeling closing, people are feeling insecure, they're not feeling safe, and we need to bring our shops and our businesses back. >> so we have a whole raft of measures alongside these banking hubs to do things like put more police on our streets in our town centres, guaranteed, and not taken away anywhere else . do not taken away anywhere else. do things like reform business rates and then a banking hub is really important for lots of people, particularly people who've got small businesses or people who are vulnerable. they don't necessarily use internet banking in the way that most of us do. they need somewhere to go so that they can do their transactions, have get some advice, get some support from real people. >> so , are the banks up for >> so, are the banks up for this? have they told you? have they told the, keir starmer. and they told the, keir starmer. and the labour shadow cabinet that they want to do this because at they want to do this because at the moment they're closing high

street banks. so where's the evidence to suggest that they're willing to put time, resources, money into these types of banking hubs? yeah. >> so these kind of hubs, you can pool resources . can pool resources. >> can pool resources. >> you don't have to have a bank for barclays, natwest, others are available, separately on the high street. >> so their costs will be much lower. >> and we have seen some of these banking hubs set up. they do exist in some parts of the country. we just want to do it at scale. so we've been talking to the banks. we've been talking to the banks. we've been talking to business, ever since keir starmer was appointed , as you starmer was appointed, as you can imagine, because we don't want to introduce things that are a surprise to business. we don't want to put them at a disadvantage, but it is really important that there is a presence on the high street. so these banking hubs, people share that space so that you can have, people there who can help, but you don't have the costs of a, of a high street bank that, that a lot of our banks have turned away from. >> no, no competition between different banks. just one state authorised central banking hub. it sounds a bit monopolistic.

>> it's not a state authorised banking hub. >> it's. it's a place where people can come and get support, which we know they need. >> i mean, my mum, for example, i'm sure you're similar. she can do so much on a on an app, but she can't do all of it. it's much better to have somewhere where you can go and see people face to face. >> yeah , well, sarah, i wanted >> yeah, well, sarah, i wanted to also talk about this confusion over a football tax. a transfer tax , because there transfer tax, because there seems to have been a bit of confusion in the labour campaign about this in the last 24 hours. firstly, your shadow culture minister, thangam debbonaire, said she was looking at this tax on football transfers in the premier league and in less than 24 hours later, sir keir starmer comes out to say that you're not looking at this tax. it seems like there's confusion in the campaign. >> no, we're not. there is there is no there is nothing that we are saying in terms of tax beyond what you will read in our manifesto . we have no plans for manifesto. we have no plans for a transfer. >> why did your shadow culture minister seem to think that there was an idea to introduce

this tax? >> i didn't see that interview. and of course , you know that we and of course, you know that we want to make changes in terms of how, football clubs can, can kind of thrive. and that will be her area of expertise and something that she's really keen to do. but we have set out in our manifesto that we will not be raising any taxes beyond what we've already said in terms of, you know, a proper non—dom , tax, you know, a proper non—dom, tax, oil and gas windfall tax and the vat on private schools. so we've been really clear about that. we have no plans, beyond what's in the manifesto already . we don't the manifesto already. we don't need to. we have our promised, and funded, okay. >> well, the ifs would disagree with that. >> they seem to believe that, all the various pledges and all the various, strategies may well lead more taxing , but i want to lead more taxing, but i want to ask you about the european union because, rachel reeves shadow chancellor. she's been talking quite a lot about, you know , quite a lot about, you know, tightening some of those ties, getting a little bit closer in

terms of cooperation with the european union. i mean, what makes the labour party think that we can renegotiate the deal with brussels? would they not accuse us of trying to cherry pick the good bits ? pick the good bits? >> just to your point there about the ifs, i mean, we are really clear. we are waking up in the morning thinking about how we grow the economy. we are not waking up in the morning thinking about how we tax people. it's growing the economy . our economy is too small. that is growing the economy. that is the answer to a lot of these questions that we're having. and on the eu, you know , we have our on the eu, you know, we have our absolute red lines. of course we do. in terms of, you know, we are not going back. we want to make brexit work. we're not going to have single market or customs union or any of those things. when i have conversations with businesses, which i do, which rachel does, which i do, which rachel does, which everyone in an economic brief and others do across the front bench, people say there are bumps in terms of how we can trade. there are issues where we want to , look at how we can make want to, look at how we can make things smoother. and of course , things smoother. and of course, that means we need to have conversations with our colleagues. and i think the kind of relationships we had with

europe, perhaps particularly under liz truss, where she wouldn't even say whether the french were friends or foe. you know, those kind of, you know, this is childish behaviour. we need to be grown ups, have a good relationship with our near neighbours as well as doing all the other things we want to do. >> i think people want a little bit more detail. i think people want a little bit more detail on what our relationship with the european union will look like under a potential labour government. i think that's a fair enough question to ask . fair enough question to ask. >> i think a relationship will, i hope, be a grown up one. be pragmatic based on how we can trade easily and make sure people can bring, investment into this country and bring investment and exports out of this country. >> just lastly, sarah. yes, could could you rule out then as, as of course, not being a member of the single market, could you rule out not being a rule taker from the eu when it passes new legislation, not automatically taking those rules? i think that's something that people are concerned might happen under labour. yeah. >> and i think look, this whole

brexit debate came back to people feeling like they wanted, control with our country. and we don't we don't disagree with that at all. we don't want to. can you rule it out taking rules . we will not be taking rules that that, you know, are not helping us. what i'm talking aboutis helping us. what i'm talking about is having a, a good relationship with our neighbours, a friendly relationship with our neighbours where we, can boost our trade and where we can help our businesses to thrive, not taking rules that aren't helping us. >> i see a little qualifier there, but i think we've all got there, but i think we've all got the no no qualifier. there, but i think we've all got the no no qualifier . okay. sarah the no no qualifier. okay. sarah jones, shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation , industry and decarbonisation, really appreciate the time. good to talk to you, i think in order to talk to you, i think in order to negotiate with the european union, they expect you to give up certain things. >> if you want to have a tighter relationship, a closer relationship, a closer relationship with the european union , then it's a, you know, union, then it's a, you know, anyway , how's the match of the anyway, how's the match of the day presenter gary lineker broken the bbc guidelines yet again? what has he done this time ?

right. it's 150. right. it's150. good right. it's 150. good afternoon. britain. now gary lineker appears to have broken bbc guidelines again. arguably after wearing his own range of menswear during coverage of england's euro 2024 opener against serbia. >> well , gary against serbia. >> well, gary was wearing a light green t shirt in the build up to england's match against serbia before putting on a sage jacket later in the night. >> the bbc guidelines read presenters or other individuals must not appear on air wearing clothing or using products or services which they have agreed been contracted to promote, advertise or endorse or in which they have a specific financial interest . interest. >> well, goodness me, it does seem that , in >> well, goodness me, it does seem that, in a >> well, goodness me, it does seem that , in a strict >> well, goodness me, it does seem that, in a strict reading of those rules, it would seem that that mr lineker has a

financial interest in the clothes in which he was wearing, but it could have been an innocent and honest mistake. >> well, he was wearing the green shirt and jacket combo. the daily mail says he was being modelled by mr lineker , this is modelled by mr lineker, this is on next's online store, and they retail at £16 and £55 for the for the combo that he was, he was wearing well but you know gary lineker, he likes to stretch the rules doesn't he. particularly when it comes to the rules around , talking about the rules around, talking about politics or showing political bias on air at the bbc, now he's wearing his own range. >> well, could it, could it be that it's just the clothes he had in the morning just didn't really think through them on, went off casually to his job talking about football. i mean, i mean , is that is that a i mean, is that is that a reasonable path ? reasonable path? >> well, he's previously told okay! magazine, i've always got my own clothes and i've always dressed myself on television. there's no wardrobe budget at

bbc sport, so we all dress ourselves. so there we go . ourselves. so there we go. >> i'm so sorry. >> benefit of the benefit of the doubt for gary . doubt for gary. >> there's no wardrobe. >> there's no wardrobe. >> there's no wardrobe. >> that is so i. you know what l, >> that is so i. you know what i, i was a little bit sceptical, but now i know that he has to pay but now i know that he has to pay for his own clothes out of his own salary. i am honestly, my heart bleeds it really, really does. i'm so sorry to have ever even thought about questioning, the issue here, the story here. my goodness. i think perhaps we could all form perhaps we could all form perhaps a collection for gary lineker to buy some clothes for himself. clearly. clearly, there's no wardrobe department. i mean , goodness me, he has to i mean, goodness me, he has to rely on the charity of shops. >> well, you know, there are fewer people signing up for the bbc licence fee, aren't there? so they've got to make these cuts. yeah. i mean, i don't know if the bbc used to have a wardrobe budget for bbc sport presenters. the poor guy is only on £13 million a year. >> i mean, how does he get by only. >> yeah, 1.3 million. i think that's 1.3 >> yeah, 1.3 million. i think that's1.3 million. >> it might. it might be 1.2.

but i mean, what's it to gary, well, there's new hope in the for search the missing mh370. malaysian airlines craft . malaysian airlines craft. >> yes. over 200 passengers went missing ten years ago when the plane mysteriously disappeared when flying over the south china sea on its way to kuala lumpur. but now newly discovered sound signals could bring us closer to solving this case. >> well , solving this case. >> well, delighted to solving this case. >> well , delighted to say. >> well, delighted to say. joining us now is doctor uzma qadri from cardiff university, who's been researching the disappearance of this aircraft. and first of all, what are these sound signals . sound signals. >> yeah. good afternoon. >> yeah. good afternoon. >> so these sound signals are , >> so these sound signals are, sounds that would propagate when you have an impact on the on the ocean surface , they they can ocean surface, they they can travel long distances, just as we see in the case of a previous crash, the f 35 a, which the signal travelled more than 3000km away, so the hope is to,

make field experiments along these what is called the seventh arc, which is the, the last communication with the, with the satellite, so these field experiments could give us some clue about the nature of the signals that we should be expecting from what is called hydrophone stations, which is basically an underwater microphones and doctor sarma, this was the most extraordinary mystery . mystery. >> ten years. >> ten years. >> absolutely. yeah. it has been , the largest aviation mystery of all times , there have been of all times, there have been lots of efforts by many, many people trying to, solve this mystery, hopefully with a little help from different, you know, different pieces from different,

different, parts of the world, from the acoustic side, from the satellite, hopefully that would, give us some clue on the actual, location and would this be the location and would this be the location of the so—called black box? >> would we be able to learn more about actually, what possibly went on ten years ago ? possibly went on ten years ago? >> i believe so, i mean, this is the one of the main points is finding the black box should expose, what happened on the, on the aeroplane , so that that is the aeroplane, so that that is the aeroplane, so that that is the hope is to find it, and then we can learn more about what actually happened. and finally give closure to the families . give closure to the families. >> well, doctor suma kadri, thank you so much for talking to us. and thank you for the work that you're doing. hopefully this mystery will finally be solved. really, really interesting stuff. there thanks. >> yes, very interesting indeed. >> yes, very interesting indeed. >> well, don't go anywhere because we've got plenty more on the latest from the general election campaign trail. of

coui'se. >> course. >> boris johnson writing letters, writing letters to potential reform uk voters. is he the conservatives? key to peeung he the conservatives? key to peeling off some of those people who might well split , the centre who might well split, the centre right vote or , in the words of right vote or, in the words of nigel farage, is it now the conservatives in some areas that are splitting the reform vote? well, it's not just letters that bofis well, it's not just letters that boris has been writing. he's appearing in campaign videos as well. but is it all too little, too late? >> yes. and nigel farage, we may have some updates for you on all of this vetting issue. candidates being accused of lots of liking posts and being friends with xyz person on facebook and the like. he's accusing the vetting company of not doing a decent job. curious >> it's a strange argument to make in the middle of a general election campaign that your candidates haven't been vetted well enough. but you know what? you know each their own will be getting to that and much, much more after this.

good afternoon. britain it's 2:00 on tuesday, the 18th of june. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver. rishi sunak has defended his rwanda plan after gb news exclusively revealed that more than 40,000 migrants have crossed the channel since he pledged to stop those boats. we're going to hear from the prime minister as well as keir starmer on this important issue very shortly. >> plus he's back. boris johnson is getting behind the tory election campaign, urging voters not to give the labour party a generation in power. can the ousted prime minister rescue the conservatives >> and is keir starmer planning closer ties to the eu? if he gets his keys to number 10? or indeed, is he planning to tax football as well? well there are

growing signs that labour wants to renegotiate the uk's relationship with europe, and maybe the premier league's relationship with itself. we're going to examine both those ideas and what they might entail well, this election seems to get more fascinating by the day, doesn't it? do you know what? the more this election goes on, the more the same i think it feels we're yet to see a significant breakage point in these polls. but i wonder if the news that we've broken in this show today, 40,000 people crossing the channel, will that recenter the focus of this election campaign, at least in the short term, towards what is going on in the channel and frankly, if keir starmer or rishi sunak have got a credible plan to deal with it, that's

very difficult , plan to deal with it, that's very difficult, isn't plan to deal with it, that's very difficult , isn't it? very difficult, isn't it? >> i mean, the prime minister rishi sunak, he'll say we've been trying our best to get this legislation through to get the rwanda flights off the ground. there have been many obstacles, legal and political obstacles put in our way. stick legal and political obstacles put in our way . stick with legal and political obstacles put in our way. stick with us and we'll finish the job. whereas the labour party will say, well, the government have a rubbish track record on this. look at these figures. we can only do better . only do better. >> and yet, and yet this is perhaps where manifestos matter here, because parties that don't, that policies that aren't in winning party's manifesto can be delayed by the lords. i mean, if, if the, if the rwanda plan was in the 2019 conservative manifesto, which it wasn't, then there wouldn't have been that long protracted period of the house of lords trying to sort of fiddle with it, delay it, water it down, all the rest of it, perhaps it would have been up and running by last summer rather than this summer. that's why what goes into these manifesto documents is so important , manifesto documents is so important, because in terms of the passage of legislation

through parliament, it can really, really affect that. >> well, gbnews.com forward slash your say is the way to get in touch. please do. but after the headlines . the headlines. >> emily. tom, thank you very much. and first to some breaking news. this hour with three young children who went missing after a trip to thorpe park have now been found safe and well . surrey been found safe and well. surrey police have now located 14 year old candy amelia, who's nine, and seven year old malik in london. they'd been reported missing just after 7:00 last night. thorpe park says it worked closely with police to establish the children's last known movements. police say they are now safe and thanked members of the public who offered their assistance . in other news, more assistance. in other news, more than 40,000 migrants have now crossed the english channel in small boats since rishi sunak promised to end the crisis in january last year. gb news can

exclusively reveal that the figure was passed today after more than 600 migrants made the crossing earlier this morning amid improved weather conditions. labour leader sir keir starmer highlighted his party's plan to take swift action. >> i think the idea of processing claims as close to source as possible is a good idea. we also need to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade because under this tory government, they've lost control of the borders and we will, you know, set up a border security command, a new elite command with new powers and resources to smash the gangs that are running the vile trade in the first place. because, as you rightly say, a record number have crossed the channel this year already . and nobody but nobody already. and nobody but nobody should be making that journey across the channel >> but the prime minister insists his government's plan is working and a deterrent is needed to kerb the number of crossings. >> it's desperately sad to see young children being put in these very dangerous situations,

making these crossings. it just illustrates why we have to stop the boats , something i'm the boats, something i'm determined to do and have a clear plan to do. so if re—elected as prime minister, the flights will go to rwanda. we will build that deterrent, removing the incentive for people to come here in the first place. that is the only way to solve this problem and in contrast, keir starmer would release everyone that we have detained . illegal migrants would detained. illegal migrants would be on our streets, they wouldn't be on our streets, they wouldn't be on our streets, they wouldn't be on the planes, which would be cancelled . there would be no cancelled. there would be no deterrent, there would be an amnesty for illegal migrants, would be the soft touch in europe . europe. >> in other news, a review has found that four detectives who ran the first investigation into the murder of stephen lawrence should not face criminal charges. it found there was insufficient evidence and no real prospect of conviction. it means none of the four retired detectives will be charged. stephen lawrence was murdered in 1993, in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation was harshly criticised and failed to bring anyone to justice. labour says it will bring face to face

banking back to the high streets, with 350 new hubs in towns and villages, it would see staff from several banks sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures. consumer group , which says more consumer group, which says more than 6000 branches have closed since 2015. meanwhile, the liberal democrats are promising to spend £10 million a year to tackle sewage dumping by water companies. new quality inspectors would work as part of a newly created clean water authority . sir davey says it's authority. sir davey says it's crucial that britain's water is cleaned up. >> there's nowhere near enough sewage monitors. we're calling them sewage busters. we want to provide £10 million in our cost of manifesto. so our new regulator, the clean water authority, has the resources because we do need a tough regulator as we're proposing, with powers coming from other regulators. so we have a much stronger regulator, but they need the resources to do the job. and we've seen on the conservatives cutting back the

environment agency, where some of these monitors were , and we of these monitors were, and we want to make sure the resources are there as well as the rules. >> the leader of the reform uk party says the party has been let down by a company that was contracted to vet its candidates. nigel farage says a large sum of money was paid to the firm, which he didn't name, and flagged possible legal action. it comes after a form was hit by a series of revelations about some of its candidates, with one person resigning after having previously supported the british national party and the russian president is now on his way to nonh president is now on his way to north korea for his first state visit in 24 years. vladimir putin is expected to receive a warm welcome in the isolated country . he'll hold a meeting country. he'll hold a meeting with kim jong un, who he's praised for firmly supporting the invasion of ukraine before continuing to vietnam later in the week . for the latest the week. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now back to

tom and . tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:07. now let's get straight to that breaking news. three young children who went missing after a trip to thorpe park have now been found safe and well. >> excellent stuff . let's go >> excellent stuff. let's go straight to our reporter, charlie peters, who's on the ground. charlie, tell us. >> hi there. so, yes, all three found safe and well in london after they were reported missing. >> after going to thorpe park in chertsey on a day trip yesterday. they were reported missing at 7 pm, but these three children had left the thorpe park area at 317. now, initially, surrey police said they thought that they had headed towards staines upon thames, an hour's walk left out of the exit from thorpe park , of the exit from thorpe park, but instead more conflicting reports were released earlier

this morning saying that actually they'd gone towards chertsey and they'd visited this florists in chertsey at about 350 yesterday. we've seen some cctv footage from the florists in the last hour and they asked for directions to chertsey train station , so it's highly likely station, so it's highly likely that's from there that they travelled into london yesterday evening. now we still don't know where they stayed in london last night and those three children, all known to each other on a day trip from milton keynes to thorpe park, the youngest two, amelia and malik. they were siblings and the eldest, candy , siblings and the eldest, candy, is seen in that cctv footage holding their hands and guiding them through the shop. now the police have said that they're found safe and well in london, but several more questions still need to be answered about how it took so long for them to be reported missing and how they managed to get to london without any supervision. >> charlie, is this a case of naughty children disappearing

off, or could there be something more sinister here? >> well, at this point, emily, we just don't know. and there's also been no mention of who they were on that day trip from milton keynes to thorpe park with. we've had no information in terms of families or supervision or who they were in the care of during that time yesterday, and how they managed just to leave thorpe park in the middle of the day yesterday, likely to be a busy day. so quite surprising that that was able to be achieved. also, the walk from thorpe park to chertsey. it's not easy. it's about 40 minutes. some of it's on an a—road. there's no pavement there, so to have three children walking down a significant road in such a manner would have attracted, i imagine , some attention from imagine, some attention from people driving by. but it was here and the floor is just behind me where they spoke to the people working inside and asked for directions to the train station. no more than five five minutes walk further away from here. now there are about

two trains an hour from chertsey into london. they take quite a while . it's well over an hour while. it's well over an hour and that likely would have played into the surrey police plan for getting a further bit of information as to where they could have gone. in central london, it stops in london waterloo, but they could have gotten off at clapham junction as well as london vauxhall in south london. so more information. i'm sure will be released later today from surrey police. but they are delighted to say, as you can imagine, that they've been found safe and well today in london. >> hugely good news that that has happened and it does make you wonder that perhaps it was just a flight of whimsy from children who can be explorative . children who can be explorative. >> and i hope so. >> and i hope so. >> hopefully they weren't running from anything . yes, running from anything. yes, thank you very much indeed. charlie peters, our reporter there in chertsey. but yes, on there in chertsey. but yes, on the face of it, good news. missing children have been found. >> did you ever go off exploring places growing up? >> no. i'd get scared if i got lost in the supermarket . lost in the supermarket. >> oh, i liked i like to go off on walks. >> so. yeah >> so. yeah >> good stuff. >> good stuff. >> no, i think i'd be mom, mom,

mom , where are you? mom, where are you? >> more independent now? >> more independent now? >> yeah . no. are you sure? yeah. >> yeah. no. are you sure? yeah. good, good. rishi sunak has defended his rwanda plan and his record on illegal immigration. >> yes. this comes after gb news exclusively revealed that the number of migrants crossing the channel since january last year, when rishi sunak promised to stop the boats, has now surpassed 40,000. >> well, the grim milestone figure was passed today after more than 600 more migrants crossed the channel illegally throughout the course of this morning. >> well, joining us now from the conservative battlebus is gb news political editor, christopher hope , christopher, christopher hope, christopher, this, number, this shocking figure was put to the prime minister >> looks like christopher is a little bit frozen there. >> i thought he was just standing still. >> i thought he was just, anticipating your question in a state of sort of, rigid anticipation . no. okay. we'll anticipation. no. okay. we'll see if we can, reconnect to christopher hope and see if that, labour battle bus. >> well, i can tell you what i

can tell you what rishi sunak did say in response to that charge about the 40,000, actually, no, i can't. let's go to olivia utley, who is, of course, on the campaign trail as well . well. >> she's been following the labour campaign trail. let's hope that labours , internet hope that labours, internet connection is better where they are. olivia what's keir starmer been up to ? been up to? >> keir starmer has been in basingstoke this morning where he's been talking to workers in a pub . he also did a little a pub. he also did a little round with the media where he was quizzed about that gb news exclusive story. the 40,000 migrants who've come over the channel since january last year. i asked him whether labour would consider a policy like rwanda, so an offshoring policy, and he gave quite a confused answer, he didn't rule out labour considering some sort of offshoring policy, but he said they work best when they're done closest to home. and he talked about ukraine and afghanistan before clarifying that actually, in the case of afghanistan, it didn't work very well at all. so

it seems as though labour is very much considering some sort of offshoring policy. it wants to show that there is some clear blue water between its policy on offshoring and the rwanda policy, but as yet it doesn't seem particularly clear what that difference is. he was also put on the spot a little bit about fuel duty . now. there about fuel duty. now. there seems to be some discrepancy here between what some cabinet shadow cabinet ministers are saying and what rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, is saying. wes streeting , who's a saying. wes streeting, who's a known car enthusiast, has essentially said that he thinks it is unlikely that the labour party would hike fuel duty. but rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, hasn't ruled it out. what is going to be labour's final answer to this? because it will be very , very important to will be very, very important to millions of motorists across the country and gb news viewers, most importantly, certainly will. >> well, olivia utley, one more question for you there because the idea that the european union might come and renegotiate some

elements of the brexit deal or the brexit deal in its entirety, that the uk could enter in what was perhaps a theresa may style chequers agreement, under the labour party has been floated , labour party has been floated, if not in terms in spirit by rachel reeves . rachel reeves. >> well, absolutely. rachel reeves has talked about potentially reopening the brexit negotiation in order to negotiate specifically about chemical regulations. now, that would be in to order give, she says, a better deal to the city of london. of course, that has got tongues wagging across westminster . the idea that westminster. the idea that labour might reopen, that negotiation suggests to some people, particularly brexiteers, that there might be some sort of route for england , britain to be route for england, britain to be end up rejoining the single market, something which brexiteers are obviously very, very reluctant to see happen. now rachel reeves and keir starmer have again and again ruled out britain rejoining the

single market. and they've said that, you know, we have left that, you know, we have left that , that etc. but if rachel that, that etc. but if rachel reeves begins to open that can then who knows how many worms could come sailing out west? >> yes, indeed. thank you very much indeed. olivia utley there, our political correspondent , our political correspondent, now, across the way to the liberal democrats , they want to liberal democrats, they want to clamp down on sewage dumping water firms. the party is pledging £10 million per year to deliver new water quality inspectors, as part of an ambition to recruit at least 100 so—called sewage busters . so—called sewage busters. >> sewage busters? i'm just imagining you're gonna call exactly . it's going to be a sort exactly. it's going to be a sort of big backpacks and sort of, i don't know, vacuum things and running for a potential new job for you, tom. well, there we go. i don't know, side hustle. anyway, let's see what ed davey has been outlining today. >> there's nowhere near enough sewage monitors. we're calling them sewage busters. we want to provide £10 million in our cost

of manifesto. so our new regulator , the clean water regulator, the clean water authority, has the resources because we do need a tough regulator, as we're proposing , regulator, as we're proposing, with powers coming from other regulators. so we have a much stronger regulator , but they stronger regulator, but they need the resources to do the job. and we've seen on the conservatives cutting back the environment agency, where some of these monitors were, and we want to make sure the resources are there as well as the rules. >> well, let's see how this would all work in practice. calum robertson, a federal board member of the liberal democrats, joins us now, calum isn't one of the problems here that we've got victorian sewage systems, we've got a growing population . they got a growing population. they get overwhelmed. it's hard to see how to fix this without spending tens of billions of pounds. >> hi. >> hi. >> thank you so much for having me, i can see see your point. this is about addressing some of the damages we can sort of control. and actually, the main problem we're seeing in, in our

research around the sewage issue that we brought to the fore as a party a couple of years ago, is, is that actually this is companies that have chosen to dump. they're under no obugafion dump. they're under no obligation to them. they can invest their profits in things like sewage treatment, etc, making that discharge safe, but they're choosing not to. so what this plan is this plan is about holding our water companies to account, making sure that they it's not about sort of the wider water infrastructure. it's more about holding those damaging water companies that are damaging environmental places on the coastline, such as eastbourne and eastleigh, portsmouth, and actually making sure that the seas and the rivers around these areas are fit for human, human use. because actually, what we're seeing is we're seeing basically excrement floating in rivers and the sea and being discharged and a healthy rate. and i think and i think the liberal democrats, we strongly believe that our country deserves better than that, our residents, our citizens , people who who go on citizens, people who who go on houday citizens, people who who go on holiday on our beaches deserve, frankly, better than having to

swim with the excrement . is that swim with the excrement. is that really what we're reducing ourselves to? and this plan is just the first of many steps in the pipeline , really, to fix the the pipeline, really, to fix the crisis that is being foisted upon us by, the water companies. >> i mean, this is an issue that a lot of people have been absolutely appalled by, people see our beautiful waters, our rivers or our lakes, etc. and they assume that water is going to be clean and clear to use. but no, sewage is in there, how do you go about recruiting these so—called sewage busters? are there lots of people in this country with the relevant skills to do this , or would this to do this, or would this require a big training scheme ? require a big training scheme? >> sure. so budgeted within the £10 million, it is sort of the infrastructure to really sort out, the entire , training out, the entire, training program, etc. to help those people really survive. and thrive within their new roles, so it's about the entire infrastructure, entire training

program , ed davey has not been program, ed davey has not been afraid of jumping into water, really during this election campaign. i think he's become the wettest party leader of all of them , repeat repeatedly, sort of them, repeat repeatedly, sort of them, repeat repeatedly, sort of paddle boarding, jumping off, going down, water slides, all the rest of it. there he is on a boat, i mean, but perhaps his actions speak louder than his words. he doesn't seem to be particularly afraid of the water that he's falling into so merrily. >> there he's an advert for our polluted waters that's about proving a point and actually really getting to the for our message about, sewage, i'm afraid. >> guys, i've got to go, because i've got. i've got a meeting, but thank you so much for your time. >> no, thank you, callum, thanks for joining us. federal board forjoining us. federal board member of the liberal democrats there. but, no interesting stuff. interesting stuff , stuff. interesting stuff, because ed davey has been, of course, pictured doing more aquatic things than perhaps any other party leader now less polluted campaign . polluted campaign. >> well, yes, less polluted water is something i think all of us can get behind. it's how you get there, isn't it? and as

you get there, isn't it? and as you mentioned, our infrastructure is rather outdated and that's one of the reasons. but, you know, a lot of people say these water companies have been making such massive profits. they've been giving out dividends to their shareholders and the like. and they haven't been putting enough into stopping these dumps. >> yeah, well, £10 million. it's spare change in the context of all government spending. it's nowhere near where what else has been spent in other areas. and i just wonder, isn't it miraculous whenever there's a general election, somehow we get these, these magic solutions that can fix all of these problems for relatively little money, yes. >> i don't mean to be rude, but, a sewage buster. i'm just imagining a man in, you know, one of those waterproof suits with a clipboard, sort of checking the checking the water with their pipette. >> don't see if £10 million. >> don't see if £10 million. >> i'm sorry if you're in that in that industry at home. >> tell me. tell me what it is actually actually like doing that job, because clearly it's an it's an important one. but but if yes, will they solve the actual problem?

>> if £10 million could have solved this, i mean, why hasn't this happened before? i'm deeply sceptical that the frankly paltry sum of £10 million, when we're talking about the billions thatis we're talking about the billions that is spent on all sorts of government expenditure and increases and whatever the rest of it, £10 million to sort out our waterways , i don't buy it. our waterways, i don't buy it. >> well, there we go. are you pro , the sewage busters? £10 pro, the sewage busters? £10 million to get some more sewage busters on the go. anyway, coming up, we're going to get reaction from a conservative about the return potential return. more of a return of the former prime minister boris johnson. could he turn things around for the conservatives

good afternoon. britain. >> it's 2:25. now. the prime minister, rishi sunak, spoke to

journalists in north devon this morning about the general election . let's take a listen. election. let's take a listen. >> today is the deadline to vote. why is voting important? >> well, this election there's a very clear choice. the future of our country is at stake. we are living in uncertain times, so people need to decide who's got the clearest plan and the boldest ideas to deliver a more secure future. and the choice is crystal clear tax cuts at every stage of your life. if you're in work, if you're setting up a small business and self—employed , if you're a young couple wanting to buy a home, if you're a pensioner , or if you've got a pensioner, or if you've got a young family, the conservatives will deliver tax cuts for you. and in contrast, labour will just put up your taxes. and in contrast, labour will just put up your taxes . and just put up your taxes. and that's not going to create any financial security for anyone. >> and on registering to vote, that's why registering to vote for any party is important. yes, absolutely . absolutely. >> because the future of our country is at stake, and we're living in the most uncertain times that we've seen in this country for decades. and that's why this election is so crucial. and people need to decide who has the clearest plan, who's got the boldest ideas to deliver a secure future for them. and as our manifesto sets out, we want

to deliver tax cuts for people at every stage of their lives , at every stage of their lives, in contrast to the labour party that just wants to put taxes up and that's a very important choice for people at this election. >> we're here in north devon, which is a very safe, normally a very safe conservative seat with over 20,000 majority. why are you here? is it because your campaign is not going as well as it should be? and are you disappointed that boris johnson isn't yet campaigning for the tory party? do you feel let down by him? >> well, i'm talking to people across every part of our country because i don't take any vote for granted. but specifically, i'm here talking to fishing communities because we're the only party that cares about them. and that's why i'm here. and what you can see is we're taking advantage of our brexit opportunities to provide almost £1 billion worth of extra fishing opportunities for our fleets here. and if re—elected, we'll recommit to the £100 million seafood fund to support the sector. in contrast, the labour party didn't mention the word fishing once in their manifesto. and as we've learned today, would do a cosy deal with the eu as the price of their greater alignment, which would

just mean giving more access to european fleets in our waters. that's a choice for fishing fleets and fishing communities at this election. >> and on boris johnson , do you >> and on boris johnson, do you feel disappointed he's not yet campaigning for your party? do you feel let down by him? >> well, it's great that boris is supporting the conservative party. i very much welcome that he's endorsing many candidates in videos and letters which have been coordinated by the campaign. i know that will make a difference. and of course, every week he's making the case in his column and making sure that everyone understands that what a labour government would do to this country and why it's important that everyone votes conservative. and i'm glad he's doing that on small boats . doing that on small boats. >> 600 people have arrived today, 40,000 now. since you promised to stop those boats. isn't it time to apologise for this failure of your government? that includes children and babies today? >> well, it's desperately sad to see young children being put in these very dangerous situations, making these crossings. it just illustrates why we have to stop the boats. something i'm determined to do and have a clear plan to do. so if

re—elected as prime minister, the flights will go to rwanda. we will build that deterrent, removing the incentive for people to come here in the first place. that is the only way to solve this problem. and in contrast, keir starmer would release everyone that we've detained. illegal migrants would be on our streets. they wouldn't be on our streets. they wouldn't be on our streets. they wouldn't be on the planes which would be cancelled. there would be no deterrent. there'd be an amnesty for illegal migrants, would be the soft touch in europe . i'm the soft touch in europe. i'm the soft touch in europe. i'm the one who gets that. this is an issue. i'm the one that's got an issue. i'm the one that's got a plan to do something about it. keir starmer doesn't. and that's a choice for everyone who cares about this issue at this election . election. >> well, let's speak with the conservative candidate, bob seely. bob listening to the prime minister there, i found perhaps the most extraordinary thing is that he's been visiting your colleague geoffrey cox's constituency , vie, with a constituency, vie, with a majority of 25,000 odd. does that tell us something about the shape of this campaign? >> i think ritchie's trying to get to many places, indeed, and he'd be very welcome to come to

the isle of wight and to see the great campaign we're fighting in the isle of wight west, i think rishi is trying to get around the country and great that he is doing so. >> and yet doesn't this show that , >> and yet doesn't this show that, according to >> and yet doesn't this show that , according to the polls, that, according to the polls, there are going to be very few seats left for the conservatives in a normal campaign? he'd be in the marginals. he'd be in seats with less than 10,000 majorities. but he's there in a seat with over 20,000 majority. >> right, tom, let's talk about substance, okay? >> you're talking about process here. i'm not responsible for rishi's plans or rishi's diary movements. >> what i am responsible is for fighting the best i can in the west wight . just like rishi is west wight. just like rishi is doing his best in the country. there is a very simple and very clear choice. .at the next election we are making progress on lots of issues that have been proving really difficult to make progress on, and if you look elsewhere in europe, you will see that other people are doing much worse than us on many of these issues. so the question is there is no there's not a choice between do you want to live in a happy, perfect world or do you want to be have the tories the issue is, do you want rishi and

the conservatives who are deaung the conservatives who are dealing with these issues and actually making some progress, or do we want to go back to square one with starmer? and as rishi said, who's basically they're not going to respect the progress that we've made, they're going to cancel the rwanda flights even before they take off. and all these problems that we are tackling are going to get much, much worse. >> so, well, one problem, bob, one problem that isn't going away , and what we've been away, and what we've been reporting on today is that number of channel crossings that are still being made, we've now reached the milestone of 40,000 since rishi sunak stood up and made that pledge to stop the boats. >> i mean, how can potential conservative voters trust that you are the party to handle that ? >> because we've passed a 7 >> because we've passed a series of laws, which means if you come here legally , you will be here legally, you will be detained and sent back. the labour party will scrap the labour party will scrap the labour party will scrap the labour party have voted against our , our plans for illegal our, our plans for illegal immigration. about 139 140 times in parliament. and we know that they will undo all the good work

that we've done. so the issue is not look, if the issue is, do you want to punish the conservatives by voting for reform ? >> reform? >> you punish the conservatives by voting for reform. >> but if you're angry now, you're going to be an awful lot more angry in three months time with keir starmer when keir starmer problem is, that isn't much of a threat , though, is it? much of a threat, though, is it? >> because the numbers have been so extraordinary and the government doesn't have evidence that the rwanda plan will work? a lot of people have been supporting the rwanda plan. it's been popular among the electorate , but it just hasn't electorate, but it just hasn't come to fruition. and there isn't that evidence . isn't that evidence. >> yes, that's a great point. >> yes, that's a great point. >> do you know why it's not come to fruition yet? it's because the courts have delayed it or that the labour party in parliament is delayed it. and we've been trying to get it through. and just on the facts of the matter, because they are very important albanians, 90% of albanians now are being returned because we've got a returns agreement in place . the number agreement in place. the number of small boat crossings is 30% down on where we were roughly last year. certainly compared to

a month ago. i don't know how the up to date figures for this week. so we're doing the best we can and we are making progress. we want to make more progress if we get back into power. the polls are not looking great at the moment , polls are not looking great at the moment, but what i know is that if people punish us because they don't think we haven't delivered all the answers, we're going to be going back to square one with labour. and actually all these problems that we're deaung all these problems that we're dealing with of illegal migration and legal migration are going to become. >> problem is, though, bob seely is that the prime minister doesn't look confident that this policy will work for the country because he would have waited for those flights to take off before he called the election. that's the fundamental issue here. people think they're being lied to about whether this policy actually would work. >> yeah, well, you're making a supposition. it's a that's not much of a question, but i go back to what we've done. we've passed a whole series of laws, which means that if you come here illegally, you will go back. the labour party are going to scrap those laws. so there is a clear choice that if we let

the labour party in the more people who vote, don't vote conservative, who are small c conservatives, the more we do that, the more that labour will be in and the longer that the labour will be in for. we have been making progress on really difficult, complex issues . we difficult, complex issues. we have been getting those numbers down when the numbers have been going up massively in the rest of europe, some in some countries they are increasing by 100, where we have got illegal migration down by 30. the problem is, if we get if labour get in, we go back to square one. that is the problem. >> okay, bob seely, conservative standing in isle of wight west, thank you very much for joining us. also standing in island fight west is the green party's cameron palin, reform uk's ian pickering, labour's richard quigley , the liberal democrats quigley, the liberal democrats nick stewart and the alliance for democracy and freedom . for democracy and freedom. rachel thacker. >> well, there you go, but we're going to get your headlines now. we'll be back in just a . tick.

we'll be back in just a. tick. >> emily. thank you. the top stories this hour as you've been heanng stories this hour as you've been hearing three young children who went missing after a trip to thorpe park have now been found safe and well. surrey police have now located. 14 year old candy amelia , who's nine, and candy amelia, who's nine, and seven year old malik in london. they had been reported missing just after 7:00 last night. thorpe park says it worked closely with police to establish the children's last known movements. police say the children are now safe and thanked members of the public who offered their assistance . in who offered their assistance. in other news, more than 12,000 small boat migrants have now crossed the english channel. this year. gb news can reveal that the figure was passed today after more than 600 migrants made the crossing earlier this morning . prime minister rishi morning. prime minister rishi sunak says children are among those on the boats, which he describes as desperately sad and evidence for why the rwanda policy is needed . a review has

policy is needed. a review has found that four detectives who ran the first investigation into the murder of stephen lawrence , the murder of stephen lawrence, should not face criminal charges. it found there was insufficient evidence and no real prospect of conviction. stephen lawrence was murdered in 1993, in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation was harshly criticised and failed to bring anyone to justice. labour says it'll bring face to face banking back to the high streets, with 350 new banking hubs in towns and villages, it would see staff from several banks sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures . left by branch closures. international news in the russian president is due to arrive in north korea for his first state visit in 24 years. vladimir putin's expected to receive a warm welcome in the isolated country . he'll hold isolated country. he'll hold a meeting with kim jong un, who he's praised for firmly supporting the invasion of ukraine before continuing to vietnam later in the week . for

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>> all right. well, 240 is the time. and coming up at 3:00 is martin daubney. he's joining us now. martin, tell us, what have you got on your menu today ? you got on your menu today? >> well, as you've been cogitating during your show, is it time to bring back the big dog? >> bring back boris rishi sunak has admitted boris will make a difference. >> by jove , they need one 12,000 >> by jove, they need one 12,000 small boat arrivals. >> this year alone, almost 40,000 since rishi sunak turned as prime minister. he might need

as prime minister. he might need a miracle . is as prime minister. he might need a miracle. is boris as prime minister. he might need a miracle . is boris that miracle a miracle. is boris that miracle man? plus nigel farage dramatically threatening to sue his vetting company after a number of damaging candidates have slipped through the net. he's saying it's a political institution stitch up vetting.com. is the company. it's a right old who threaten to derail the reform campaign. and also, is it time to bring down the drink, drive limit? the bma think so. they want to bring it down to as little as one pint of been down to as little as one pint of beer, amongst the toughest in europe . is that the right thing europe. is that the right thing to do in the name of road safety, or will it kill rural pubs plus france on the edge , pubs plus france on the edge, macron has wiped billions off the euro more than liz truss did in britain. yet you won't hear the bbc complaining about that, as he called a snap election. is it time to say au revoir to france's pint sized president? >> thank goodness me, martin, i was really interested in your thoughts about the idea of boris winning back reform voters,

because this is what the targeting of these letters is apparently all about in some of these, seats that the tories might lose, obviously he's still popular in the polls amongst reform voters, but arguably on some of the issues, like migration was quite a liberal prime minister >> yeah, i would argue that a lot of the hard, red, meaty brexiteers , those, those who brexiteers, those, those who went for the brexit party, who always wanted a harder brexit, who wanted stricter border control , who were always against control, who were always against net zero, who were always against wokery. i think a lot of them saw boris johnson for what he later became little more than a sort of liberal democrat in disguise. sure, he's got the personality, of course he can motivate. he makes us laugh. he looks great, but he's a campaigning machine. bert is he simply now too flawed? i think a lot of reform voters will think that precise thing. certainly that's what they say to me all the time. a lot of people are

thinking, boris is time in the sun. well, it's gone, martin, the timing of nigel farage accusing this , vetting company accusing this, vetting company of stitching him up, essentially , it's interesting at this point in the campaign , at this point in the campaign, at this point in the campaign, at this point in the campaign, at this point in the campaign. >> yeah. i mean, i spent my entire summer in 2019 vetting candidates, interviewing candidates, interviewing candidates , prospective party candidates, prospective party candidates, prospective party candidates for the brexit party. it was a very, very vigorous and rigorous process. we did out hundreds and hundreds of potentially damaging candidates. it takes time, it takes money, it takes resource. at the moment , of course, the reform party has less of that and a lot less time. a snap election called. so people do slip through the net. but that is why you outsource your vetting. £144,000 allegedly was paid. they still seem to slip through the net and nigel farage. the polls are going in the right direction. the contract, the manifesto is out and yet he's having to answer these questions about bad apples all the time . for that reason,

all the time. for that reason, you can understand his frustration. he's gone to war with them. it's going to be a very, very interesting story to watch. >> it certainly will be. well, martin, we'll look forward to your show. 3:00. we won't miss it, well, in other news, downloads for hey jude have risen by a huge 19, that was just in one day, so they may well have risen far more than that by now. after the england player, jude bellingham, scored the only goal in england's first match against serbia in the euros. of course . euros. of course. >> and there's finally something the tories and labour agree on, as both the prime minister and keir starmer are urging fans to adopt the 1968 beatles song as a new anthem in honour of bellingham. >> yes . so the question bellingham. >> yes. so the question on everyone's lips is will? hey jude become the song of the summer? well, if you're watching the england fans, they were singing it already very loudly with lots of joy. so i think it might well be. >> i'm reliably told there are some football clubs in, in in the uk that do sing this song anyway. do you think it works as

anyway. do you think it works as a sort of as a as anyway. do you think it works as asortofasaasa anyway. do you think it works as a sort of as a as a rousing tune for everyone? i suppose you've got the nah nah nah nah nah nah nah. >> da da da da. >> da da da da. >> yeah. sometimes sounds a little bit melancholy. it's a bit . bit. >> the thing is, it starts slow but then gets rousing. so i don't know, perhaps it doesn't have the oomph of something like sweet caroline. >> three lions on the shirt, three lions on the shirt. >> yeah. you can't beat that one. >> well, we're going to take a quick break. or are we going to show you something else? because england fans have been up to no good, they decided to show some french fans what they thought of them . them. >> we have a little surprise for the french fans. let's go . whoa the french fans. let's go. whoa >> for those watching on radio, you have two young england fans running up to french football fans there with two baguettes, only to break those baguettes in

the face of the french football fans and then run off, is this acceptable? is this just good banter? >> can't get behind this kind of loutish behaviour. absolutely two young ladies there, they should know better than to do that. and baguettes shouldn't be destroyed in that way. absolutely outrageous behaviour. and i've lost my sense of humour on this one. and i think they should apologise. and this is the problem with tiktok . it the problem with tiktok. it encourages people to be absolute hooligans. just so that they get click clicks. >> i thought your name was emily carver. i didn't realise it was emily carver emily carver well you want to be a francophile? >> no. france >> no. france >> lovely country, good country, good country , great cuisine, good country, great cuisine, energy, roads and, and health care. >> bad country on tax and labour market. >> what about music, art, cuisine? you're always on about the infrastructure and the economics, infrastructure and labour markets. i mean, that's that's the difference between you and ioc . anyway, coming up, you and ioc. anyway, coming up, racegoers are all set to watch

the first race of royal ascot alongside the king and the queen. we'll bring you the with our royal correspondent, who

>> good afternoon. britain. it's 10 to 3 now. racegoers and royalty are enjoying festivities at royal ascot today. >> yes, before arriving by horse and carriage, the king and queen wished fellow punters the best of luck in chasing the thrill of a royal ascot winner . a royal ascot winner. >> oh goodness me. let's cross straight to our royal correspondent and menswear aficionado cameron walker, who's enjoying the festivities and looking dapper while he does it. cameron, what's on today ? just cameron, what's on today? just look at the horse. >> thank you very much , tom. >> thank you very much, tom. well, a lot has been going on today. we've just had the queen anne stakes. the first race, a horse named sharon won that. the horses you may just be about to see in the distance. the other

side of the parade rings where i am. they are racing in the coventry stakes, which is the next race that's happened happening even. but in the last hour or so, the king and queen and other members of the royal family and their distinguished guests, processed around this parade wing ring in front of thousands and thousands of guests here at royal ascot ahead of the first race. and the first carriage, we had the king and queen and the duke and duchess of wellington, the duke of wellington brought queen mary's crown into westminster abbey dunng crown into westminster abbey during the coronation for queen camilla to wear the second carriage, we had princess anne, peter phillips , her son, as well peter phillips, her son, as well as lady gabriella kingston, who tragically lost her husband earlier this year. her first pubuc earlier this year. her first public appearance since that event and encourages three and four. we had guests and close friends of members of the royal family, including annabel elliot, who is queen camilla's sister. but of course it's been a very busy day as well. it's very important event in the royal calendar, royal ascot and the official programme which i have in my hands. the king and queen have written a personal message welcoming everybody to

royal ascot and also talking about their immense pleasure and joy about their immense pleasure and joy from last year, where their horse won. a desert hero won the george the fifth stakes and their reactions in the royal box were priceless . they almost kind were priceless. they almost kind of forgot, i think, that they were being filmed because they were being filmed because they were just so happy to see that horse win. also incredibly poignant because it was queen elizabeth ii poignant because it was queen elizabeth i! who actually bred that horse and i actually spoke to you earlier. nick smith, royal ascot's director of racing and public affairs. and this is what he told me about the tradition of ascot and why the royals love it so much. >> the current king is the 13th monarch to oversee ascot racecourse , started by queen racecourse, started by queen anne in 1711. major historical milestones along the way. the royal procession came into effect in 1825, so we will be celebrating next year , a 200th celebrating next year, a 200th anniversary of the royal procession that was under george the fourth, and of course, the late queen was a passionate supporter of racing. and, you know, we're just delighted to see the king and queen enjoying the sport and having runners here. >> well, the king and queen have a long way to go. if they're

going to beat queen elizabeth ii's record. during her 70 year reign, she had more than 20 winners here at royal ascot . but winners here at royal ascot. but the king and queen do have five runners. we believe running this week . royal ascot runs until saturday. >> well, cameron, i've got to ask, other than the king and the queen, what are we expecting of those? of the prince and the princess of wales? of course. the princess of wales still recovering from her illness, do we know anything more about her itinerary as the summer progresses ? looks terrific in progresses? looks terrific in great britain . great britain. >> well, the prince and princess of wales and years gone by have always been kind of regulars at royal ascot. it wouldn't surprise me if prince william came on one of the days. it is. it is his birthday, actually. later on this week. but as for the princess of wales, kensington palace, i believe , kensington palace, i believe, has ruled that out. if you remember when they when she announced that she was going to be returning to public duties with trooping the colour on

saturday, we were told that it was very much not a full return to public duties. she's taking it one step at a time, as she says she has good days and bad days of her chemotherapy, so we just have to give her the time and space to recover. >> absolutely. we'll have a lovely afternoon there at ascot. thank you very much indeed. cameron walker of royal correspondent. it was ellie costello last year who was at the ascot, if i remember correctly, and she looked fabulous as well . fabulous as well. >> whenever, whenever we send a correspondent to down down to royal ascot, they always, they always , they dress properly. always, they dress properly. >> they dress properly for the occasion. anyway join us at 12:00 tomorrow. we'll be back with more election coverage and other news, of course, but it's martin daubney next. he's going to be with you till six. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it should be another mostly dry day with some further sunny spells today, but there is a

thunderstorm risk for some of us, particularly across northern areas of the uk . that's where areas of the uk. that's where low pressure is closer to, but actually high pressure is building in from the south and west. there is a weather front though, approaching from the southeast, that could bring some light rain just to the likes of kent through this afternoon, but i think most of it should stay away to the continent. but there is this thunderstorm risk, particularly across northern areas of england and down towards the midlands as well. we could see up to 20mm falling in a short space of time and a risk of hail as well, so it's a bit cooler today. we've got a northerly wind across parts of scotland and a bit more cloud around compared to yesterday. will cloud over through this afternoon. after a fairly bright start to the day, and that thunderstorm risk is going to continue into this evening as well. so this northerly wind across scotland means temperatures are only about 10 or 11 degrees at best here, and there will be some drizzly rain across the northern isles, but it's the heaviest rain that's likely across north western areas of england. as i said, we could see 20mm of rain. the risk of hail, lightning as well, but

it should stay dry and bright for many southern areas. and in the sunshine it's still feeling fairly warm with quite light winds through today. now, overnight tonight things will dry out . the thunderstorms will dry out. the thunderstorms will ease. so for many of us it will be a clear and dry night with plenty of clear skies developing . and it will be a slightly fresher start tomorrow, particularly for parts of the north—west. we could see a rural grass frost, but for most of us we'll be at around ten degrees to start the day and there will be more brightness on the way for wednesday. wednesday is actually looking like a drier day on the whole. more widely across the uk there is a weather front approaching from the north—west through the day, and that will bring cloudier skies to the western isles. the highlands of scotland and the northern isles, perhaps parts of northern isles, perhaps parts of northern ireland later on in the day. but for most of us, dry, bright and feeling fairly warm in the sunshine. temperatures climbing towards 23 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

gb news. away. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, we floated the idea of a boris johnson comeback on this show yesterday . and now the former yesterday. and now the former prime minister is throwing his weight behind the tories general election campaign. but will he help rishi sunak, or will it backfire ? and there's more bad backfire? and there's more bad news for the prime minister today in gb news can reveal more than 12,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the channel this year alone. more than 41,000 have arrived since mr sunak vowed to stop the boat, and billions have been wiped off the paris stock exchange. and the euro has tanked to a 22 month

low after emmanuel macron