gb news. >> in a moment. headliners. but first, let's bring you up to date with the latest news headlines. and today has been a record day for migrants crossing the english channel in small boats . gb news can reveal that boats. gb news can reveal that at least 750 illegal migrants arrived in uk waters today, surpassing the previous one day record of 711 on may the 1st. that means more than 41,000 migrants have now made the crossing since rishi sunak promised to end the crisis in january last year. that comes as an election debate program tonight took place with seven representatives from the main political parties on channel 4. reform uk's chairman richard tice addressed the record number of small boat crossings to pick people up out of the boats and take them back to france .

take them back to france. >> that will stop the deaths. that's the compassionate thing to do that will stop the illegal trade. under the 1982 un convention of law at sea, france has international obligations in order to pick people up and take back their failing in those obugafions. back their failing in those obligations . we're entitled to obligations. we're entitled to do that. that's the kind thing to do. it will stop people dying. >> richard tice will nigel farage says he'd abolished the tv licence fee, which funds the bbc. the reform uk leader was speaking during a town hall style event this afternoon. it comes as the bbc said it would allow reform to take part in an extra question time leaders special after mr farage's team complained that they hadn't been included . the prime minister has included. the prime minister has said it's his moral mission to cut taxes, as he continues to criticise labour's tax plans. rishi sunak made his comments ahead of official figures on inflation due to be released tomorrow. the tories said they were launching their plan to cut taxes tomorrow, pointing to their manifesto promises of tax cuts worth over £17 billion.

meanwhile, labour said today it's going to bring back face to face banking to britain's high streets, with plans to open 350 new banking hubs in towns and villages that would see staff from several banks sharing the same space, helping fill gaps left by branch closures . the left by branch closures. the consumer group, which says more than 6000 branches have closed since 2015, and the liberal democrats were campaigning today as well. they promised to spend £10 million a year to tackle the practice of sewage dumping by water companies. the new quality inspectors would work as part of a newly created clean water authority . and the russian authority. and the russian president has arrived in north korea this evening. that's according to russian state media. that's his first state visit there for 24 years. vladimir putin is due to hold a meeting with kim jong un, who he's praised for firmly supporting the invasion of ukraine before continuing on to

vietnam later in the week for further meetings with political figures. that's the news for the latest stories , do sign up to gb latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carl heneghan alerts . time now carl heneghan alerts. time now for headliners . for headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners your first look at all wednesday's newspapers. i'm simon evans tonight , joined by simon evans tonight, joined by two top comedians, the uncompromising leo kearse and his cordial companion steve allen. good cop, bad cop. >> yeah, i am compromised. you are. that's what you're implying. >> are you in all kinds of important ways. the kompromat . important ways. the kompromat. >> oh yeah, there are pictures, let's have a look at our front pages. then. tonight we have the daily mail kicking us off, as always, with a labour's secret tax rise dossier , we have tax rise dossier, we have telegraph britain 20 years

behind europe on cancer care . behind europe on cancer care. and an extraordinary hat to illustrate that guardian nhs will buy beds in care homes to cut hospital waits, say labour. the times starmer tax threat to savers with a chequebook, i news uk in secret talks over financial turmoil at it giant that could hit benefits and the nhs as a tongue twister. and finally the daily star. rise of the bog snackers well , those the bog snackers well, those were your front pages . and about were your front pages. and about rise of the bog snackers that's been well established for some years now. i watched that film . years now. i watched that film. it's wicked. this is better than it's a very cronenberg . it's got it's a very cronenberg. it's got a bit of body shock. but anyway, yeah, the guardian we're going to kick off with. despite that, it's the i've got the mail. oh have you got the mail? i'm sorry i've dropped one obviously. yeah. go for it. yeah. so basically the mail is leading with labour's secret tax raise

dossier. so this is the official manifesto submission from a group of mps which includes starmer proposing six raids from targeting family home homes to inheritance and wealth taxes. so this is , this is pretty much this is, this is pretty much laying out the labour now that they see that they're going to win, they're already seeing these really nasty things we're going to do . so you can't say going to do. so you can't say once we're in you can't say, oh, but we thought you were going to be nice. you said nice things when you're trying to get elected. so they're going to they're going to come for people savings. starmer has already said that working people don't have savings, which is absolute nonsense, stupid people don't have savings or people whose, you know, expenditure exceeds their income. so starmer is basically ushering in the end of private property . he's going to private property. he's going to he's going to come after if anybody's got savings, if you own a home, if you've got any form of wealth, he's probably going to come after ices as well. savings to be feels to me like a slightly old fashioned way of saying investments or any kind of money that you aren't going to be spending before the end of your paycheque. i suppose it depends. like some people

would picture an old fashioned savings account. yeah, but in other people. well there are isas and so on. but there are also other ways of saving , also other ways of saving, aren't there? but all all this stuff, any any sort of savings or investment is vital for a country because that's where companies that need capital to make capital investment and create businesses and create jobs, that's where they get their money from. it can't all come from the government because the government is useless. you'll be familiar with, with, john maynard keynes and his general theory. of course, this was the this was the primary proposition. >> yeah, however, your timeline is wrong in this. >> yeah, however, your timeline is wrong in this . this story is wrong in this. this story actually has the timeline the other way than you've just spelled it out. it's not that they think they're going to win. so now they're telling you some truths so they can say it later. this was a year ago that they came up with this document as one of the source documents for what would eventually become the manifesto. so it was nixed early doors before it even got to the stage of working out what's in the manifesto. and since then, the manifesto. and since then, the full document includes capital gains and council tax reform that are both been listed as ones that they will not be doing, and what's the other thing that you said, i can't remember savings. no well, isis,

isis, even by these attacks, isis, even by these attacks, isis that would be one way of, oh , in all the debates, starmer oh, in all the debates, starmer now says he's trying to make an economy that is wealth creating, which actually would increase savings. yeah, but but other than that, i totally agree. he is he has said that, you know, working people are those who don't have savings. >> and so to hit people who have savings, it is it's in the same sort of ballpark as private school vat or whatever. yeah. well that does seem to be a little bit reckless. yeah. >> i mean, although that's that's only like 7% of school kids go to those schools, more than 7% of people have savings. otherwise we wouldn't have an economy. yeah yeah. so i agree with that. >> so are they going to tax them or not? >> well no . by the looks of it, >> well no. by the looks of it, hostage to fortune, somehow the daily mail are spinning that they will. it's almost as if the daily mail don't like it's the secret tax raised dodi secret. that's why they didn't say it. >> oh, that's why you didn't know about it. well, you'll turn to, to balance out that partisan assessment now with the guardian, steve. >> so they go with nhs will buy bedsin >> so they go with nhs will buy beds in care homes to cut hospital wait . say labour. this hospital wait. say labour. this is a plan that. wes streeting

says because the bed blocking is causing not only a huge cost in financially, but in terms of lives, the number of beds that they can't have. useful. they'll use some of the nhs money to buy these beds in care homes, move these beds in care homes, move the people into there, get people in the actual hospital beds. well, this is some kind of crazy, untested scheme. no, it's the leeds teaching hospital started doing it. it's working really well. okay. and wes streeting is doing this a lot. having an idea that one hospital's got something that's working and then thinking, why don't we replicate this across the system? >> well, the obvious question is why have these care homes got empty beds? i thought care homes were fairly busy as well these days. >> some of them free up quite quickly, do they? >> what about the nightingale hospitals that were built over the course of a long weekend and never used? why can't they just. if it's all you want is a bed. if it's all you want is a bed. if you don't need actual medical equipment, why don't we just put some of those people need those football stadiums back for football stadiums back for football now, is that where they were or places like that and blackheath. wasn't it, so that they were handy for the burial mounds if necessary? wow. let's have a look at the telegraph here. so the telegraph does have the woman with an amazing hat. i wonder how many ostriches died for that hat. but the story

we're looking at is that we need a covid fine amnesty , he says. a covid fine amnesty, he says. the ex—justice secretary, sir robert buckland . so he oversaw robert buckland. so he oversaw the courts during the pandemic. so oversaw a lot of people getting arrested for covid related offences . yeah. and he related offences. yeah. and he says there should be an amnesty. we should just want to wipe the slate clean for more than 29,000 people who are given criminal convictions for breaking covid rules, i'd say give them a medal as well for daring to do the sensible thing and break the rules. the funny thing is they should. i absolutely agree, they should. i absolutely agree, they should give them amnesty. they should give them amnesty. they should have done it 20 years ago and it would have killed partygate as well, wouldn't it? yeah. do you know what i mean? 20 years i would have been two years ago. rather in 2020. they should have done it immediately. as soon as the partygate stuff came out, they should have done it. they should have just gone to know what it was all nonsense. and we apologise. yeah, they should have panicked because of partygate. >> i'm not saying they should be the rule for anything, like if a prime minister commits a crime, then we all get to do it. but as soon as the people who were making the laws and telling you to stick to these rules were shown to have been breaking it,

that's it. games off. >> as soon as neil ferguson was caught, everyone you know on the patio. yeah. do you remember him? yeah. the gate. and also she was called. she was called stats.i she was called. she was called stats. i mean, what are the chances of some guy who's really into numbers and stuff going out with a woman called stats? but yeah, i mean, and also i think we need instead of those people getting fined instead of the people who broke the covid rules, we need to start finding some of the people who are right. stazi creeps during dunng right. stazi creeps during during covid. i remember there comedian matt green. in fact, you're probably work with them. i probably shouldn't slate him, but he posted he was something about like his neighbours were having a barbecue and there was like seven people instead of six people. it's like, why do you stop twitching the curtains, you little grass? i was actually on with him last weekend, right? we had a chat about this and that, but that didn't come up fully enough. >> when i said that though, didn't she? she did. she she wanted people to spy on their neighbours. yeah, yeah. >> she didn't want matt green to do it though. certainly not why he was doing it anyway. it was not taking his orders from priti patel. he doesn't have enough tests. there's also there's it's funny though, we've got two stories on that front page. daily telegraph, the other one britain, 20 years behind europe on cancer care. and in a way they kind of they reflect the same thing, which is that covid created an awful lot of backlogs

of one kind or another, many of which just need to be cleared out now. and we need to get a fresh start. i mean, i remember must be nearly ten years ago now. was it new tree came in? was that ten years ago or the historic sex crime? i know 2 or 3 people who work in the criminal law, you know, judges and barristers and so on. so this ridiculous backlog of cases, some of them 30 years ago, you know, that, just blocking up the system and preventing us from actually deaung preventing us from actually dealing with crimes that are being committed now and that, you know, you need to disincentivize. right? yeah the activities of criminals rather than digging out 78 year old prep school masters who are did i can't remember. let's see a picture. yeah. anyway, finally ending the section with the daily star. >> steve, speaking of locking up the system , rise of the bog the system, rise of the bog snackers a quarter of gen z's admit to eating as they sit on the toilet. you know that phrase don't poop where you eat? yeah, which is a metaphor for not having an affair at work. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> turns out people are where they eat, so they're going to be a lot of affair based or work

based affairs. it says, let's hope they wash their hands first. i mean, think about this one. you wash your hands after you've done the paperwork. so is it actually okay? your hands should be as clean as before. you've gone anywhere near the toilet. if you're overthought this washing twice, why not? soaps cheap? yeah, knock yourself out. but a quarter of young adults luxuriating. >> presumably this is a chocolate bar rather than a sort of a chicken or a, you know , a of a chicken or a, you know, a chinese takeaway. got a double decker burger there? oh, he has , decker burger there? oh, he has, and that's quite i mean, that's quite a flimsy contraption. those things tend to fall apart in your hands. so i start picking up your bit. yes >> it's falling the gusset as well. yeah, but it's a one in, one out system. i'm all for it. >> what what is the incentive? is it just like trying to, like, minimise the amount of time you're away from the desk? i mean, i cannot quite see. i think it's made up. is it. yeah i know boffins, boffins making things up . that's the exteriors things up. that's the exteriors looked at coming up. we dip our toe in the water for sexiest mps. the return of boris and the kids. they're not. all right.

and welcome back to headliners. i'm simon evans , still joined by i'm simon evans, still joined by comedians leo kirsty gallacher and alan leo. we crack open this section with the daily star, who have finally conducted the only poll that really counts. the one that has sexy mps draped all over it. yeah, sexy mps, if that's not an oxymoron. so they've done a poll to find out who the sexiest politicians are. and guess who the top two people are? nigel farage and suella braverman and the tories beat labour over all. is the sexiest party and reform uk is the third sexiest party. we could just replace elections with this . the replace elections with this. the thing is pretty much pretty much the same thing. so, yeah. so farage was number one in the men's side, followed by johnny mercer, and then keir starmer coming, coming in third. he's got that sort of 50s, 50s style and then 50 style inflatable dad . yeah, 50 style soviet economics and also jacob rees—mogg came fourth on the women's side , if while we still

women's side, if while we still have women until keir starmer gets in and, it raises them. so suella braverman was number one then it was, rosena allin—khan and then esther mcvey. yeah, and it's basically, this is a press release from illicit encounters . release from illicit encounters. com. oh, okay. so this is just an advertising. so it's life is too short to have an affair. the political version . yeah, yeah, yeah. >> have an affair with jacob rees—mogg. >> johnny mercer, is a bit of a matinee idol. i would never forgive him for , for, like, forgive him for, for, like, abandoning roger scruton in his hour of need. but you know, it's quite a rugged, handsome sort of army type. yeah, i'm not quite sure that i see the rees—mogg. i mean, he's sired seven children, i suppose. so it must be it simply statistical. >> the man's side of this is basically name recognition . if basically name recognition. if you're well known enough, you're on the list. the female side of it, i think they're missing priti patel back in 2017. >> i was going to say that there was a civil servant who got paid £25,000 for being bullied by her, and at the time i remember like thinking in those heels, i would have paid her to bully me.

so i can't help wondering if some of the votes for suella braverman are just people who got confused. >> could be that. >> could be that. >> but the whole thing is kind of sadistic. home secretary , of sadistic. home secretary, that one, you know, they're relatively interchangeable there, that seems like a selection option on the website. >> i narrow it down, but yeah , >> i narrow it down, but yeah, the whole thing is meant to be light hearted, but we actually had this conversation recently, and i, without really any human, were saying laura trott. >> she only got 60% of the vote, she more than 16. she'd be like 50. come on, have a look at laura trott. >> okay , i'm trying to remember >> okay, i'm trying to remember the name. there was one under there was a under john major, there was a underjohn major, a tory, she and her husband were both in the government at the same time. what was her name? bottomley. virginia bottomley. yeah. yeah, but angela rayner, i'm surprised. >> angela. eric morecambe . >> angela. eric morecambe. >> angela. eric morecambe. >> independent. now, steve and the tories have just remembered that they too once had a popular, jocular leader with the ability to cut through. >> boris johnson pulled into tory campaign with personalised letters to voters but may still

snub rishi sunak. letters to voters but may still snub rishi sunak . this is funny. snub rishi sunak. this is funny. this is like putting harold bishop back in neighbours. you're getting desperate for viewers. quick, get someone doing a cameo from three series ago. supportive letters from the ex—mp are due to land on doorsteps. this is boris johnson , and let's remember, this is bofis , and let's remember, this is boris johnson we're talking about. he's probably written some non supportive letters, one of each, and he'll go with whichever one he feels like is he is a man of principles, and if it's anything like his daily mail column it'll be about cheese. and it will cost half a million to pay him to do this. it says he's been parachuted in. he's not. he's still on holiday. they've just got him to, like, write a thing. and, you know, they've droned in. he's been droned in very much so, and a spokesperson said for mr johnson said he will not be drawn on whether or not he will mention mr sunak. so whether he's still snubbing this either way , snubbing this either way, newspapers managed to get 800 words out of this because they don't know or not whether he's going to be mentioned. is it a question to me as i forgive my ignorance? >> is he standing again? is he going to be a no, he's out of parliament altogether. did he stand down? in fact, already resigned so that they couldn't suspend him from the commons?

>> yes. okay >> yes. okay >> straight out. so has there been a by—election in his constituency, which i won't mention because of course, then i'll have to mention everybody else or whatever. but yeah, there has been, there was. yeah. okay. i'd forgotten. i couldn't remember whether he was technically still an mp. i can't remember if it went to the liberal democrats or something because of the heathrow issue around on the ulez. >> the ulez thing is. oh. i was about to say the name of the place. oh but don't worry if this doesn't work, there is an i a couple of years time, he'll be in the house of lords anyway, and then he'll be, like, sitting next to lord cameron, and, yeah, they'll carve up the place between and the telegraph. >> now, leo nigel farage played £144,000 to a vetting firm that led him down. gross. so number joke 144. oh, really ? are all joke 144. oh, really? are all your references from 1923? this is . anyway, i'll check that one is. anyway, i'll check that one on the air because it works . so on the air because it works. so farage. farage threatens a reform vetting firm with legal action, not a reform vetting firm. the vetting firm that did the vetting for reform or didn't do it . apparently, reform signed

do it. apparently, reform signed a contract with vetting com in april and paid it £144,000, which is how many farthings to weed out parliamentary candidates with extremist views. so they, they'd seen what happened to the green party and they wanted to make sure they didn't get any candidates being like that. but, yeah , they must like that. but, yeah, they must not shout heil hitler when they win. yeah so the contract said vetting.com would carry out social media checks on named individuals. but reform has been hit by a series of disclosures about candidates, including one who described hitler as brilliant at using personality traits to inspire people to action. and this is the thing, a lot of the exposes of the reform candidates, it's like a social media post from like 12 years ago that was sort of making it. you can see the point that they're making, but if you cherry pick certain letters and rearrange them in a different way, you can make him sound like a nazi. there was a guy, there was a book called the dark charisma of adolf hitler, written by, i think i'm going to say laurence reese, who is definitely a is a jewish historian, and he wrote a book

about the holocaust and so on. he's not approving of it. yeah, but but it is called the dark charisma of adolf hitler. and then somebody else quoted from that and said, i think we can learn something from this book, guys. and on his linkedin thing and was immediately sacked and everything. yeah, it's very you can understand why it's a third rail to even mention adolf hitler as you know, in any sort of learning. yeah yeah. >> hang on guys, let's not let's not judge this guy too harshly. yeah, it's an odd frame. >> so the company's co—owned by colin bloom, who's linked to the conservative party. he's been an adviser for the conservative party before. so i mean, i guess there's questions, you know, was this were they stitched up? were they stitched up or did this where was this vetting from? just a little bit lazy or were they not expecting people to dig back 12 years? you know, social media posts, i don't know, 100, 144,000, 12 years. it's all falling into place . falling into place. >> but it's the beautiful mind over there, the mighty renee retina is twitching. >> i do feel that that is a significant sum of money to just kind of, you know what i mean? >> yeah. i mean, for about five

grand, i would have googled their names and the word hitler and see what comes up and solved all of this. it's not that tricky, but the spinning, it is kind of, oh, we're the victims of some big scam. you're the victims of incompetence, and you've overpaid for it instead of making it look like there's some big conspiracy to somehow leave us with all of these , leave us with all of these, people standing who are a bit dodgy. the big question is, why have you got that many dodgy people standing for your party? one of the people were dead. you're not doing your checks. they're not that dodgy. i mean, like, well, the guy said, well, you know, actually, maybe we shouldn't have gone to war with hitler. we should have. we should have appeased him somehow. that conversation on here, and i find it it depends exactly the tone of voice in which he said it. >> but as i say, that was a debate that was had in the house of commons, and we were seconds away from having lord halifax as prime minister, who would have done precisely that? yeah. you know, there was a long pause, of which is recounted in several history books, when everything hungin history books, when everything hung in the balance. and then churchill decided he would take it on. >> they didn't have the benefit of hindsight during that debate, though. >> it was in 1941. this was not in 1936 or something. this is not appeasement. this is after the catastrophe at dunkirk and

the catastrophe at dunkirk and the war in norway, the battle of norway. this was like, yeah, yeah , it was quite obvious what yeah, it was quite obvious what had happened. yeah. the greater germany had been established at that point. i'm still thinking the and the front with russia was if not open, then certainly they were starting to unroll the shutters in 2024. >> if you're the reform party, do you want these people standing for you? it turns out no, because if the checking people would have checked, they would have got rid of him. >> but i think what we really need to do is change our culture from one in which social media posts are dug up from 12 years ago and misinterpreted it to make people look bad. very hard to do that. you pay a lot more than 144 grand to change the culture. staying with reform in the daily mail now, stephen, a counterargument to the anxiety over working from home. >> yes reforms uk code deputy leader. it sounds like the greens don't. it has said that it's a travesty that working mothers don't have any time for their children . this is doctor their children. this is doctor david bull, who suggested that children desperately need a parent at home. now you can say that children benefit from having parents near them. without that, immediately implying you're saying anyone else who doesn't fit that set is doing terribly.

else who doesn't fit that set is doing terribly . but that's the doing terribly. but that's the way the debates go. like, oh, how dare you! what about single mothers? what about people who work? he's not saying any of that. he's not. i've worked with david, i've done some jeremy vine's with him and some talk stuff with him. he's hardly like some regressive traditionalist. you know it openly gay. goes to pride all the time. he's not going to be sending us back to the 1950s. i think if you look at what he's saying, he's about actually, let's do the quote. it's about giving parents the choice to spend more time with their children. firstly, this is their children. firstly, this is the reform contract. it will never be a government policy. relax. you know, cool your jets . relax. you know, cool your jets. and then secondly, the choice is good. i've got that choice. i'm lucky that i get to choose to spend most of my days at home with my kids, and then come and work in the evenings and whatnot. the problem is, when you get in a situation where financially, you can't afford that choice, where both parents have to work , there's nothing have to work, there's nothing wrong with saying maybe that's doing some harm. >> yeah, well, you have to, as you say, try and give people the option. but at the same time , option. but at the same time, that isn't free. yeah. and this seems like a sensible policy. and even though you're saying it's got no chance of being government policy, i mean, reform might not get into government, but i think policy policies like this could be

stolen by smart governments. you know, they plan to support marriage through the tax system and front load child benefit between the ages of one and four. i mean, currently, the benefit system favours couples splitting up because then they get more money. so yeah, there's incentives. you're right. further woes of children in the guardian as well. leo. surprisingly, they're not blaming working mums. in fact it is instead privilege. yes. or an alarming lack of access to green space is fuelling the uk child obesity crisis, doctors warn. so child obesity is already a significant public health problem , but medics and public problem, but medics and public health experts say that poor access to playing fields and playgrounds at state schools is contributing to worsening and wider health inequalities , which wider health inequalities, which is leading to huge levels of obesity. and this is tying it. they keep hammering, they keep hammering, they keep hammering this thing. they say children, the top 250 english private schools have more than ten times as much outdoor space as those who go to state schools. it's like, yeah, that's because, you

know, those kids, those kids parents have worked hard, got loads of money, send their kids to a good school. that's that's aspirational . the very least, aspirational. the very least, the left want to shut down private schools. why would you shut down private schools if they're so great and they provide all this green space to people? and also, the guardian wants to fill the country with everyone from the rest of the world who wants to come here and they're saying, oh, but we've got all this green space we can build on. that's going to mean there's less kids, less green space for kids to play on the irony is, of course, there is loads of green space, but it's just a bus ride away , isn't it? just a bus ride away, isn't it? or maybe a couple of hours away to get to it, but like 9/10 of the country is green space. it is sad that kids don't see much of it, but they're not just talking about the colour of the land that you stood on. >> this is about having the opportunity to play sports at school, which then makes a habit of doing something other than just sitting on your backside playing computer games, and therefore you go from being a fat kid to a fat adult if you don't do anything about it. >> so i mean, they're saying green space, but do they really mean, athletic sports, team sports and so on because that's different. getting out of breath and so on. i agree with you. but there is something there's a

psychological benefit to actually seeing, nature. there is definitely a psychological benefit, i think, from being like, really having quite a lot of space around you. i like it. it's a really good incentive to get rich. >> i think they're two separate issues, though, because i read a lot of that recently. are people saying getting out to nature is good for you? and i think what they're missing is, is getting away from people. it's good for you. that's why people love a field with no one in it, because there's no one in it. it's not about the greens, about the people. >> that's the halfway mark coming up. we have meanness of billionaires, a million new americans. and what's next for gary lineker?

and welcome back to headliners. so, steve, we will kick off this section with reports of some properly dickensian attitudes to the domestics. courtesy of britain's richest family. >> yeah, britain's richest family. the hindujas spent more on dog than paid servant. so they've been accused of family dog rather than as a snack ? yes. dog rather than as a snack? yes. and they also hadn't trained it

to. do you know, the footman work, but the egregious mistreatment of domestic staff in their lake geneva villa, £6.20 for an 18 hour work day. that's how you stay rich, guys. you got to cut back on your spending. they had a budget spreadsheet that was listed for dog expenses that listed seven k, so that's why they say they're spending more on the dog.the they're spending more on the dog. the staff had their passports confiscated to limit their freedom. to be fair , the their freedom. to be fair, the dogs didn't have a passport. that's one nil in defence of the indigent families, the lawyers said that the staff were treated respectfully and were given accommodation and were allowed on the couch , so there are still on the couch, so there are still many wins to be running. honestly, one of the points was like, yeah, it seems low paying £6.20 for a work day, but they also got food . i don't think also got food. i don't think you've made it that much better. how much food did they get through to only earn £6 for the day, and the lawyers also said that the they voluntarily came back to work again because, you know, when people are desperate, it really shows that they must absolutely love it, the lawyer then said they've changed the way they hire people . the quote

way they hire people. the quote was, you will not find a single employee who says they were hired by the family because they've been told what will happen. if they don't, they'll be fed to the dogs who probably eat really well. >> quite scary, are they? i mean, they've given accommodation of food. they're more like au pairs. are they than servants? >> or if you're working in 18 hour day, you don't have time to get home and get back again in the morning. so they live on site. >> it's very downton abbey, isn't it? really? yeah. yeah. >> with those prices, not just. >> with those prices, not just. >> is there a suggestion of human trafficking here? i mean, that's what it sounds like. if you're working for those kind of money in geneva. it's not this is not capable of being absorbed by the usual . is not capable of being absorbed by the usual. it is not capable of being absorbed by the usual . it says they held by the usual. it says they held their passports, i think. does it? yeah they held their passports. but i mean, why would you just just walk out ? i you just just walk out? i wouldn't care if you had my passport. i'm not doing this for £6. 20? are you nuts? i think they're very large work. you might not. you might not make it to the wall. i think this is nice. and also it's a sign of. i mean, this is diversity when we, you know, we want to import other cultures. this is, you know, this is what some other cultures are like. so this is good, but it's in geneva. right. strength yeah. it's our greatest strength. they're not actually doing it here though. this is in

their house in geneva. yeah. there is a part of me likes to see geneva drag through the mud like this . they're always like this. they're always lording it over us, aren't they? with various conventions and what have you. >> so it's bareskin the geneva giving it all that about convention. >> there's nothing in the geneva convention that says you can't do this, leo. it seems the american people has lost the government's confidence, and now the government is minded to dissolve that people and elect another . so president dissolve that people and elect another. so president biden has announced the most extensive expansion of migration into the united states during his time in office, by offering a path to citizenship for as many as half a million undocumented migrants. so this is i mean, when you read it like that, it sounds like this is this is terrible. the people who just, come across the border are just all going to be given an amnesty and all going to be given citizenship, because the way it feels and the way it looks to a lot of americans, especially maga republicans, is that it's just a sort of it's an unfair immigration system where,

people from europe and a lot of the civilised world are discriminated against because, you know, i can't go to mexico and walk across the border. well, you can of course, and many do. in fact, a lot of people, a lot of people coming across the border are chinese, apparently, rather not. not mexican and asian world, you know what i mean? oh, okay. like french stuff. why don't you do it? that would be interesting. sweden, three years in california. norway you could do it. why don't you do it where someone . family. i've got someone. family. i've got a family now, but they. but basically, it's, in this, it seems to mainly relate to , to seems to mainly relate to, to spouses. right? american citizens. so they've married into families once they crossed the border, or they've just, you know, they've gone there. and i mean, i guess there's saying this is going to protect you against the republicans getting in and then saying, you know, any spouses. so say, you know, somebody, somebody moved there and has a wife who hasn't got citizenship or whatever. yeah. then they're going to protect those families from being broken up. >> it's like a green card rehash. in fact, that film now

is old enough because the two things to qualify, you have to have lived there for a decade at the start of this week. too late. you missed it. and be married to an american citizen . so. >> but it will be a vote winner for the, latino, latina latinx community. say that though trump claims to get the, the vote from that community now , so maybe that community now, so maybe he's getting it. it's certainly going to be a vote winner for the democrats in the future. and this whole open borders policy is i mean, that's why they do it . that's why the democrats do it. that's why labour does it in the uk, because they know that those, those people that come in are going to tend to vote leftwards. that is so the expectation, although it's not always reliable, it's a lot of the more conservative and christian and so on. yeah and also a lot of conservative governments, keep keep the open border because they want cheap workers. they want people to workers. they want people to work at their geneva villa . but work at their geneva villa. but i mean, democracy in certain parts of the us has now become a basically a racial headcount. so it's not really democracy anymore. interesting steve, we move on now to local matters. he's the best paid presenter and has a hugely successful podcast production company. so why is

gary lineker reduced to wearing next for men on the telly , the next for men on the telly, the times goes with the headline, carte blanche. i loved her in lord of the rings. i have no idea why they put it down here. yeah, gary lineker, just put it in for no good reason. gary lineker sponsored clothes, irk bbc staff. they're under pressure to respond to accusations that the presenter turned up in some next kit, which he's paid to sell, endorse and all that stuff. he was wearing it whilst presenting euro 24. so a big audience possibly seeing this. normally i'm your resident lineker defender, where i'd be saying like, you know, just because you get some licence fee money, we don't know all your tweets, tweet whatever you like. but the rule is you can't wear stuff that you're plugging on a on a broadcast stick to the flippin rule. it's really simple. it was a £55 sage green jacket and a £16 knitted t shirt. yeah, that's the kind of stuff i can afford. why is he wearing my outfit when he's a millionaire? and the bbc spokesman said that they are regularly reminded of they are regularly reminded of the guidance in relation to

clothing, even if they're not doing proactive promotional work, just it shouldn't be wearing it. also we should stop lewis going on about his calendars. is that too much time ? >> 7- >> tufa? i 7 >> tufa? i would ? >> tufa? i would totally sign up for that deal. anything to add? yeah. not really. it'sjust. i mean, gary lineker, he's the perfect leftist. he avoids paying perfect leftist. he avoids paying his taxes, he uses his tweets as a sort of. it was used as a defence in court when he was in a court battle with hmrc. over £49 million of tax, he uses his tweets as a way to say like, look, i'm not just working for the bbc, i'm also a political activist. yeah, so a virtue signals, but actually isn't living a good life, whereas somebody like laurence fox, does the opposite of virtue signalling. but paisley's tax. so who's really the good person? well, people have decided it's gary lineker moeen ali leo. and as they say, if the cap fits. >> so it keeps working. that one, doesn't it? it came back for a second. hit that one. oh, i got it. i got it twice, so this morning's cat deeley halts the show to issue a grovelling

apology for an epilepsy joke. now, i was really looking forward to a good epilepsy joke. you know? >> i mean , you're gonna be disappointed. >> no, it's really rubbish , >> no, it's really rubbish, isn't it? yeah, i mean, i've i've heard much better ones , you i've heard much better ones, you know, like, about how to do washing and stuff , know, like, about how to do washing and stuff, but know, like, about how to do washing and stuff , but basically washing and stuff, but basically she posted a clip or a clip of her dancing was posted and people were mocking her, dancing . and she said, oh, i'm just having a seizure. yeah. and that was seen even though, like, seizures aren't purely epileptic things, my grandma was epileptic, so i'm allowed to say what i like about them, but, you know, seizures aren't just to do with epilepsy. there's a variety of mental conditions that can cause them. absolutely. >> having a fever, having a fever, febrile seizure. yeah. >> saturday night fever . >> saturday night fever. >> saturday night fever. >> well, i don't know if that's technically just an uncontrollable contraction of the muscles. >> right. yeah. yeah. so she's she's had to sort of issue an apology, but she hasn't really. it's just a few tweets and you know there's no journalism anymore. what it is, it's a similar thing. i made a joke at

the expense of a certain demographic who experienced a certain, slightly contentious medical condition, which i'm not even going to say now because it's not worth my time on on a radio four comedy program. and it was extraordinary. the deluge of tweets and demands for apologies. and i think what it is that these people, these people , you know, but there are people, you know, but there are pressure groups and so on who are just waiting for the opportunity to get some free pr, but at least you might have meant some pointed harm. >> because you're a comedian, there is no way you watch that and think, oh, i'll tell you what, cat deeley woke up that morning and thought, you know, i'm going to mock. yeah, yeah. no, it's just a comment. it's a deficit of humour. >> because, you know who hasn't been getting enough? james acas dubois. yeah. oh, yeah. the epileptic community. anyway, steve. the daily star described new drink driving legislation as a safety push. i'm sure that's not going to catch on, is it? that's just walk , so the uk that's just walk, so the uk dnnk that's just walk, so the uk drink drive limit could be shrunk to just one small drink after urgent warning. the knee jerk response to this is to think, okay, let's go in and complain about the government

telling us what to do . but telling us what to do. but medical groups want it. motoring groups want it a little. look onune groups want it a little. look online alcohol groups. they will plug online alcohol groups. they will plug the drinkaware website that actually says don't drink anything at all. if you're driving, it could cut it down to one small glass of wine a girls dnnk one small glass of wine a girls drink so no one's going be drinking at all. but honestly, i think most people don't drink anything if they're driving. in general, unless you live in the countryside and it's great to go for a trip to the countryside and see someone absolutely still get tanked up and think, oh, it's all right. the tractor only does ten miles an hour, so i'll be safe. >> that's true. i mean, it is a cultural thing. you're right. and it's also a generational thing. and i know my wife still refers to her family friends as the gin and jag brigade, but there was a thing. there is a thing in the kent—sussex borders where you know, it's understood. if you take a certain route, you probably won't be troubled. i think that is a much more. but then again, that's not totally unreasonable because you're much more likely to end up in the ditch yourself at your own expense than you are to run into a gaggle of teenagers on a, you know, who are huddled on a traffic island. i mean, it is slightly context. i'm not saying they can create laws. that would be. yeah. no, absolutely. well, you could have, you know, you've

got the ulez. you could have that. >> but for booze. >> but for booze. >> the reason i've been saying for some time , really seriously, for some time, really seriously, they have the technology. they could definitely do this. now. the 20 mile per hour limit could be time dependent, couldn't it? it could not be on, for instance, between midnight and 8 am. where there's no or whatever it is, all kinds of things like that could be a time dependent near schools. but of course, this is well, exactly. that's the that's the way to do it. but it is slightly i do think with drink driving, all joking aside, it's so much easier not to have any drinks at all now, isn't it? because it's quite low anyway. you see, it's easier to drive so the nerves go , just your shoulders drop and you're just a bit more relaxed . you're just a bit more relaxed. >> i can't believe that simon was joking about drink driving. i shall be sending a tweet. >> just one section to go and you will be fully briefed. stay with us for sexism at altitude. terms of endearment that require consent equal marriage for ladyboys. we'll see you in

well, welcome back to headliners for our final section . we have for our final section. we have the times now, leo. good news for anyone worried that heel walking was merely islamophobic. turns out it's sexist, too. yeah, yeah . so don't mansplain yeah, yeah. so don't mansplain or query her route. these are the new rules for male hill walkers. so male hill walkers have been offered new guidelines to make climbing scotland's mountains more comfortable for their female counterparts. probably put some flowers up there and a bit of carpet or something. soft furnishings. yeah, yeah. so they say don't offer to help them read maps or ask what route they're taking. and certainly don't call them darling or sweetheart. just let them walk off in the mist to be eaten by a bear. don't mention the slaughtered lamb. yeah, yeah. so, yeah, this is this is basically more. i mean, i can understand if a woman is hiking on her own and they say, like, you know, if you walk, if you're walking faster than or don't catch up with her, walk alongside her, she's just gonna be like, oh, god, you know what i mean? a lot of this sort of makes sense, and i can see how somebody could accidentally do

it without realising that they're being a little bit creepy. and it was interesting. i read into it. i think these these rules and suggestions and tips come from the wife of the guy who runs the mountain rescue outfit . so it's probably my outfit. so it's probably my temptation is to kind of go, well , don't temptation is to kind of go, well, don't come crying to me. if it turns out you were in distress . but if it turns out you were in distress. but i if it turns out you were in distress . but i suppose, do you distress. but i suppose, do you want to mean she knows her way around? yeah, exactly. well they also say if they do ask for help. yeah. give them some help. yeah but don't touch them below the waist. it's difficult though. yeah yeah, yeah. you need this stuff written down, don't you. >> but there's a bit where he actually asked a female hill walker. what can i do to not come across as weird? well, stop asking that. yeah. i don't want to hurt you. excuse me? you don't want to come across as weird , but i would never weird, but i would never penetrate you. >> non—consensually . can i just >> non—consensually. can ijust say i've been hill walking for 40 years now, but never on my own. never over any distance. always with some mates. yeah, and i can't. i mean, and that's me. i can't imagine many women go hill walking on their own. hill walking is not a good thing

to do on your own. to be absolutely honest, i think i did have a mate who was. he was ex—army and he managed to die, you know? seriously, that was about 30 years ago. but yeah. no, no, it is kind of. but he was, you know, he went out for a week. >> you again. i can't believe he's joking about hill death. >> yeah. i mean, this is , this >> yeah. i mean, this is, this is the munros in scotland, so, you know, munchies. you know, we like to think scotland is a rough and tough place. it's not like the himalayas. so, i mean, i do know people. i've been walking in the munros on my own. maybe not, you know. right to the top on all of them or anything, but. but yeah, i think anything, but. but yeah, i think a lot of them are quite well trodden, so you can walk on your own, and if you do break your leg, there's going to be somebody to shout out to. i went walking as a little celebrity anecdote, ed byrne is a huge fan of hill walking and the munros in particular. and we were at the edinburgh fringe. there's about 15 years ago. and he said, do you want to go for a hill walk? and i said, yeah, but i've got a show at seven. he goes, no, don't worry, i go overnight. and so we did. it was in august and we got up there just after midnight to the nearest munros, walked for about six hours, came off at like dawn, completely unpeopled. and i thought, why is it doing it like this? and as we got back into the car park,

somebody went, ed byrne! oh god, i can't believe it. can i have your autograph ? and i was like, your autograph? and i was like, that's why he does it in the middle of the night. basically >> lovely views. you didn't see a single one of them. >> if you see ed byrne on the hillside, do not approach him. do not ask him if he's below the waist. so no, darlings or sweethearts on the hill, steve, but you can sign away your dignity in old age. and i, for one, can't wait to hear sweet nothings bellowed into my heanng nothings bellowed into my hearing aid. >> care home residents, families being asked to sign permission forms so staff can call them pet names like love, darling or sweetheart. they're being asked to sign this way. really lives of those living at the norwood care house care home in middleton, suffolk, received these consent forms , what these consent forms, what a waste of time if i'm brutally honest about this. this is an older generation who can be called sweetheart without going meeting you and try and cancel an underpaid person who works in care. they've got thicker skin. plus, also, the paperwork means it's going to be tricky. you need to remember that doris doesn't mind being called sweetheart. john doesn't want any of it. linda, you can call her the n word, but only if

you're of the similar ethnicity to her. it's very. it's difficult. you could guess half of this anyway, but serious point. my parents were in a care home up until 2020 and it's horrible the amount of paperwork you've got anyway. you've got to sign the deprivation of liberty . sign the deprivation of liberty. that one is. it hits you when you've got to sign that one away. you've got to consider your do not resuscitate. don't bnng your do not resuscitate. don't bring some pointless little paper angle. do you mind if we call them sweetheart? yeah. do yourjob. they call them sweetheart? yeah. do your job. they will prefer it that way. of course they will. >> it's always very regional as well, though. isn't it? i remember there was that fella on in eastenders on the market. you used to call everyone treacle . i used to call everyone treacle. i don't know whether you get away with that. in other places, somebody might think, what is he implying there? i don't know, but . i think implying there? i don't know, but. i think most implying there? i don't know, but . i think most people can but. i think most people can understand instantaneously , even understand instantaneously, even in their old age, whether they're being diminished or dended they're being diminished or derided or somebody showing. absolutely. this is a few blue haired people who like to moan about everything. i've ruined this for people. telegraph leo the ever growing thicket of scottish tax legislation . next. scottish tax legislation. next. yeah. so people on more than £20,000 are considered high earners in scotland, according

to a tory candidate. so people who earn this pay more income tax than they would elsewhere in the uk at an intermediate rate of 21. i think it's 20% in the rest of the uk. and they also have, you know, higher rates than the rest of the uk. as you progress further up the tax bracket brackets. but i mean, it's, it's insanity, £28,000, i mean even, even for scotland, that's not, you know, a high earner in 2024. and it shows how you know, these people at the snp parties like that say that they're going to institute a progressive thing. that's just they're just going after the rich. they're never just they're just going after the rich. they're neverjust going after the rich. they're going after the rich. they're going after people who can't afford to move to the maldives. it's true. and they always just want more money. you know, they said that's the absolute. i think the thing about the tax code is by common consent, it's just become vastly over complicated in this country as well as scotland. and it just needs a huge overhaul, a flat tax rate, you know, just cut out so much of it, you know, and just allow people to work hard in order to enjoy the benefits of extra income. yeah. >> you know, but as soon as you did that you would have to start adding in things like incentives

or relief if you want to invest. and then it becomes complicated. >> again, i'm not saying it can be on a single sheet of a4, but it's about five foot tall now, literally. anyway, we've got about 20s to discuss the home of the ladyboys of bangkok becoming surprisingly late to the equal marriage party. steve. >> yeah, thailand passes historic bill recognising marriage equality, which for a nafion marriage equality, which for a nation that is known for some people having close relationships with ping pong balls, this seems quite late in the day. doesn't it? they say that by bringing this in, they'll be the third nation in they'll be the third nation in the area to do it, that it could change the area. but also, the article says brunei in 2019 introduced stoning by death for extramarital sex and anal sex, which, if you've been married for a long while, lots of kids, you're out of options. >> absolutely. it has to be said, it will bring new meaning to the term bangkok. anyway, the show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at wednesday's front pages . daily wednesday's front pages. daily mail labour's secret tax rise dossier the telegraph britain 20 years behind europe on cancer care . the guardian nhs will buy care. the guardian nhs will buy bedsin care. the guardian nhs will buy beds in care homes to cut hospital waits, say labour. the times starmer tax threat to

savers with a chequebook. the inews have uk secret talks over financial turmoil at it giant that could hit benefits and the nhs. and finally, the daily star have rise with the bulk snackers . please wash your hands. those were your front pages. that's all we have time for. my thanks to my guests leo, kirsten, steve and alan andrew doyle be back here tomorrow at 11 pm. with nick dixon and josh howie. if you've been watching at 5 am. for breakfast, stay tuned for more. otherwise, thank you very much and good night. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's staying fairly dry and fine as we head into wednesday . sunny as we head into wednesday. sunny spells for many of us. another dry day on the cards. spells for many of us. another dry day on the cards . however, dry day on the cards. however, across the far northwest there are weather fronts approaching , are weather fronts approaching, but for many of us, we've got high pressure dominating across the uk, and that's bringing all that dry and fine weather through this evening, though there's a risk of some heavy showers still continuing for

some northern areas of england. but elsewhere a dry and clear night to come. for many of us, we will see the clearest skies across the far northwest of scotland , northern ireland two, scotland, northern ireland two, where temperatures could dip down into the low single figures. but for most of us to start the day, we'll be at around 10 or 11 degrees, a little bit fresher tomorrow morning than this morning, but still plenty of sunshine around. let's take a closer look at how things look. first thing tomorrow. and actually where it's been quite cloudy across the far north of scotland lately. it's going to be a much brighter start tomorrow, despite the chillier feel, and that sunshine will be spread quite widely across the uk into northern ireland, northern areas of england, north wales. there'll be some cloud around here and there, but generally wednesday is going to be a fairly fine day and actually onshore breeze across the far southeast could bring a slightly fresher feel here. but for most of us, plenty of sunshine to come through tomorrow . sunny come through tomorrow. sunny spells into the afternoon cloud will bubble up a little bit that may allow the odd shower to break out here and there, perhaps across the southwest , perhaps across the southwest, but i think you'll be pretty

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with me. camilla tominey coming up on tonight's show, we're going to be covering nigel farage. his criticism of a vetting company it says hasn't done his job on reform candidates because it's in bed with the tories. we're also going to be discussing whether bofis going to be discussing whether boris johnson should return to the campaign trail, a help or a hindrance to rishi sunak. and we've got an exclusive gb news documentary about left wing extremism . extremism. we'll also debate whether the dnnk we'll also debate whether the drink drive limit is right. do you think it should come down? don't forget to get in touch by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though , here's the news first, though, here's the news headunes first, though, here's the news headlines with polly middlehurst i >> camila, thank you and good

evening to you. well, the top story from the gb newsroom tonight is that the prime minister faced questions from farmers today on a visit to devon rishi sunak . farmers today on a visit to devon rishi sunak. he argued that nigel farage wouldn't be able to deliver on any of reform's promises because, he said a vote for reform would only help labour. he said though it had been a privilege to understand the contribution farmers made to society before going to on warn that 40,000 jobs could be lost as a result of labour's manifesto. >> now, the contrast at this election is crystal clear because whilst we're going to do all those things for you, as david said in the labour manifesto, there were just 87 words about farming, no commitment to food production and food security , no commitment and food security, no commitment at all about the farming budget in the next parliament. forget about increasing it like we're going to do. they won't even say that they're going to protect it, right? like that is the choice for you at this election, which is why it's so important

that you come out and vote and