gb news. >> good morning. 930 on wednesday, the 19th of june. this is britain's news. tom moore gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. very good morning. >> so good news. inflation has fallen in a boost for rishi sunak. inflation has fallen back to the bank of england's 2% target. >> and labour's war on savers. senior tories claim the labour leader, sir keir starmer, is planning to wollop savers and homeowners with tax rises and bods homeowners with tax rises and boris jets off boris johnson has decided he'll go ahead with his houday decided he'll go ahead with his holiday plans. >> after all, rather than help campaign for the tories and covid fine amnesty. >> the former justice covid fine amnesty. >> the formerjustice secretary >> the former justice secretary in charge during the pandemic wants the slate wiped clean more than 29,000 people who were given criminal convictions for breaking covid rules, and putin visits north korea. >> there was a red carpet welcome for the russian president as his meeting with

nonh president as his meeting with north korean leader kim jong un gets underway . gets underway. interesting and diverse show this morning. >> certainly is. >> certainly is. >> that's covid fine thing. obviously i feel really strongly about this. i think those people need to have the slates wipe clean. they can't be police officers, social workers, teachers. >> be the prime minister, too, because he got a fine , but he because he got a fine, but he hasn't got a criminal record for it. >> you're not you're not going to get the money back. it just means that they can have a clean record and quite right, too. gbnews.com/yoursay to let us know your thoughts this morning. first though, the very latest news with sam francis. >> bev and andrew, thank you very much. good morning to you. it's just coming up to 9:32. the top story this morning, as we've been hearing inflation has fallen to the bank of england's target of 2% for the first time

in nearly three years. most analysts were forecasting that drop, which is down from 2.3% in april. that's lower than germany, france and the united states. it marks the first time the bank of england's target has been met since july 2021. the conservative party says it will make a difference to how people feel about the cost of living. however, experts predict interest rates will still be held at 5.25, dampening hopes for an early summer rate cut. well, work and pensions secretary mel stride told us it's further proof the economy is improving. >> the bank of england, of course, through monetary policy and interest rates, is there to control inflation. but government has to do its bit on the fiscal side. so we have to work with the bank of england. so for example, all those, excess wage demands are higher than the rate of inflation that we've had to negotiate and, keep a lid on those kind of cost pressures is something that the government has actively done to make sure that we can help alongside the bank of england,

to bring those inflationary numbers down. >> and in other news this morning, a large poll is suggesting that the conservatives are on course for their worst ever election defeat, with labour on track for a majority of more than 250 seats. the survey of almost 20,000 people estimates sir keir starmer will win the biggest majority of any post—war government. ipsos is also forecasting that senior figures, including grant shapps penny mordaunt, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sir jacob mordaunt, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sirjacob rees—mogg mercer and sir jacob rees—mogg could all lose their seats in july. the poll also predicts nigel farage will become an mp for the first time. however, the data suggests it's still too close to call in 117 constituencies, which could affect the final outcome . for affect the final outcome. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the qr code on your screen or go to our website gb news. common alerts . alerts. >> good morning. 933 this is

britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> now, before we get stuck into labour's war on savers and inflation to falling to 2, let's take a look back at what our politicians got up to on the campaign trail yesterday a labour manifesto. >> there were just 87 words about farming. no commitment to food production and food security , no commitment at all 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 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 there's nowhere near enough sewage monitors. >> we're calling them sewage busters. we want to provide £10 million in our cost to manifesto. so our new regulator , manifesto. so our new regulator, the clean water authority, has the clean water authority, has the resources because we do need a tough regulator, as we're proposing , with powers coming proposing, with powers coming from other regulators. so we have a much stronger regulator , have a much stronger regulator, but they need the resources to do the job 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 . already. >> right. joining us now is the associate editor of the daily mirror, kevin maguire. right so kevin, what do we want to talk about. good news about inflation falling. can rishi sunak claim credit for this. >> yeah i think we should talk about inflation. it's a 2% now. first time in three years hit the target . unfortunately over the target. unfortunately over that three year period it's risen by 20.8% in all, which you would normally expect. not over three years, over ten years. he wouldn't take the blame when it went up because he it was in part or even large part because of what happened to world energy pnces of what happened to world energy prices with putin's invasion of ukraine. so if you won't take the take the blame or responsibility for going up, do you deserve the credit for it

coming down? that's that's his that's his problem. people just feel worse off. >> and he wasn't actually doing some interviews this morning. he wasn't really claiming that much credit for him. to his credit, i thought he might have come out this morning and gone. that's it. we've achieved what we wanted to do. and he didn't do that. >> i think that's because he's old. the economy is turning the corner. i'm a man with a plan. you know, things are better than you. you think it's just worn a bit thin because people have, you know, that 20.8% increase over three years is baked in you. you go to the supermarket , you. you go to the supermarket, pnces you. you go to the supermarket, prices are not going to be smaller. yeah. >> today going to feel it really. we're not. >> no that's that's his problem. that's the point. and it's forecast to go back up. yeah. later this year. right >> but and the fact is prices are still going up. they're just not going up as fast. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> although his figure of two the figure of 2% in britain compares very favourably with what's happened in the rest of europe and america. but what i find interesting is where is the chancellor of the exchequer, because you would expect the chancellor of the exchequer to be trumpeting these figures from the roof of the treasury, or.

now, look, we know jeremy hunt has got a huge fight on his hands down in his surrey constituency. oh, i'd love to know what the candidates now won't i? >> yes you will. >> yes you will. >> sorry about that. okay. >> sorry about that. okay. >> oh , so but the point he has >> oh, so but the point he has got a huge fight on his hands. >> but i think that. why are they keeping. wait, is it because the focus groups show the voters don't like him? >> probably. but i mean, even if he's busy doing his local campaigning, he can he's busy doing his local campaigning , he can still zoom campaigning, he can still zoom in to the media. this morning and take some sort of credit for him. he is deeply unpopular. >> yeah, yeah. well, the conservative campaign overall has been rubbish. yeah. to put it at, it's at its nicest and best. i'd use words that you, you know . yeah. you couldn't on you know. yeah. you couldn't on tv. i think , i think he is tv. i think, i think he is unpopular but also he vie the daily mirror has it today. he said, oh, we've got a superb record. no one would feel the conservative have a superb record over 14, 14 years. and i think the other reason is he kind of let the cat out of the bag. what's going forward now?

he said it would be irresponsible to say that the tories will definitely cut taxes, the overall tax take, because you don't know what's going to happen on events. but he also said that the 12 billion welfare cuts that are in the tory manifesto to justify reducing national insurance and some spending have already been announced. yeah. and that wasn't that wasn't the line they were having to pretend they were new fresh savings when they're already baked in to the figures going forward. >> but he's got an open door here. oh mate. starmer talking of letting the cat out of the bag kevin hang on. he said it clearly not taken out of context. he said when asked to define working people yesterday, he said people who can't afford to write a check when they get into trouble are so people who are savers who can afford to write a check, they're going to get whacked. yeah, that's what he means. >> yeah, i'll address that in three seconds. but with hunt i would come out to claim my

victory and answer those questions. you know, everything i've raised. why isn't here? answer them with starmer. i listened to that interview and it was rather like when he had the head to head debate with sunak. i'm saying, why don't you say that's not true about the £2,000, you know, the tory struggle? just to say i've just repeated the figure. yeah, so they've scored. but i think most people now accept it's untrue. why didn't why didn't you say he was flat footed in this interview? >> it's probably not true in this. probably going to be he was trying not to answer a question, to give a clear definition of what a working person is. >> now it's quite clear a working person is somebody who works for a living. you might be employed, you might be self—employed, you might even run a small business. if you're a captain of industry, chief executive of ftse 100 company, or you're a billionaire, self—made person. although no one's entirely self—made because we all need the cooperation of other people. but anyway, you might say they're different. but he was trying. he was trying. he he was trying. he was trying. he he was trying not to answer. and so he then went to a specific

group. now labour. labour now say he was given an example. he didn't describe it as an example. in the interview. he gaffed he gaffed. but there are, it's worth pointing out, just as we talk about working people, there are 8 million people in britain were no savings, and there are 21 million people who don't have £1,500 in the bank for a rainy day. >> he was asked specifically to clarify his remarks about working people. >> no, no, i listen and he said verbatim, when i say working people, it is people who earn their living rely on our services and don't really have the ability to write a check when they get into trouble. >> so what about people who have got savings? >> of course, if you if you had him here, he said, of course they're working people. am i going to put their taxes up ? going to put their taxes up? you'd say no within within income tax. national insurance and vat. >> it's really the cat out of the bag. it's not a gaffe. he's told the truth. >> no, i think you've made too big a jump. there i understand why the conservative party is doing it. labour also leap on any error or vagueness from from the conservatives. so, you know, no one can claim the moral

molehill in this battle . molehill in this battle. >> we saw rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, who was famously the memo which came out of newsnight, boring, snoring. reeves boring snoring today. but she was uncomfortable when pressed by kay burley on sky about this definition . about this definition. >> well, she knows because her leader gaffed and she can't say he got it wrong. that's not what he got it wrong. that's not what he did on this. >> kevin. in the leaders debate, it took him 38 minutes to challenge the tory line of a £2,000 tax bombshell. >> it has been more flat footed in situations than i expected. now he was a high flying lawyer. his kc was qc , director of his kc was qc, director of pubuc his kc was qc, director of public prosecutions. but it was said about him and i think it's coming out that he was always better at convincing the judge than the jury in a general election. it's the jury people watching now, it's the electorate. it's probably the only time in our lives that we're all equal. we all have one vote. every, you know, other people earn more money. you

might have better access to health care, education or whatever, but you're equal in an election when you have one vote, each concept of him as being slippery. >> starmer is as a potential, you know, as a voter . >> starmer is as a potential, you know, as a voter. and i don't know who i'm going to vote for. i feel like i want to understand his ideology and his vision . and a big part of that vision. and a big part of that is aspiration. hard work, the individual in relation to the state and when these issues which might allow us to crystallise how we feel about that, arise, he wriggles off the hook. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> because i don't feel he's being honest with you. see, you. >> you've picked up on something. i think it's a legitimate question because of his u—turns from the program, he got elected labour leader on and the policy program he's standing on that now. i think in opposition you can change your offer as long as people believe it and you're authentic. now he is the embodiment of achievement and getting on. all right. i'm going to, you know, do what he

always does. look, the son of a nurse and a toolmaker. yeah. in a grammar school. boy, you're in a grammar school. boy, you're in a house? yeah. he passed his 11 plus went went there. but, you know, the phone was cut off, but they had a ford cortina, the pebble dashed house. when you see it, it's small. and he went to university and he he made his way. he made his way in life with hard work, good luck , and with hard work, good luck, and clearly ability. so in one way, he embodies symbolises aspiration and how you can get on. but it raises these questions every time. and you're right. i was listening to the radio and i'm thinking, why are you answering this here? why are you answering this here? why are you doing you're doing it and it's because they're so haired, far ahead in the polls, and he's carrying that ming vase . he carrying that ming vase. he thinks all i have to do is carry on over this highly polished floor. do not drop it. >> why can't you just be honest? >> why can't you just be honest? >> yeah. no no. politicians, politicians are never less honest than during a general election campaign . and that's election campaign. and that's all parties. it's frustrating

and dispiriting . and dispiriting. >> and there's six weeks of it and people are shouting at televisions and radios up and down the country thinking, will you answer the well? >> well, i'm doing the same. >> well, i'm doing the same. >> you know, i'm just going to take a quick break. >> jo cox. staying with us. >> jo cox. staying with us. >> yeah. don't go anywhere. we're going to be talking about labour's plan to save your local pub. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. kevin mea dnnk me a drink last

>> well, because i mentioned jeremy hunt's constituency, we have up because of ofcom rules to send you the list of all the candidates. his constituency of godalming and ash . so they are godalming and ash. so they are graham, richard farage george. reform uk paul follows liberal democrat jeremy hunt , democrat jeremy hunt, conservative party. ruby tucker, green party james walsh for the labour party, harriet williams for the women's equality party, now the shadow chancellor rachel

reeves , has unveiled her plan to reeves, has unveiled her plan to save traditional pubs in britain and these include business rates being replaced with a fairer system and she hinted that beer duty might be frozen but not reduced . so is the labour party reduced. so is the labour party on the side of your local boozer? well, let's talk to the chief executive of the british beer and pub association, emma mcclarkin. good morning to you, emma . i hope they're on the side emma. i hope they're on the side of the boozer and they talk about changing business rates, but they keep telling us they're going to change business rates. but scan the labour manifesto emma and they will not. you will not see the alternative . not see the alternative. >> so it is great to hear that the labour party has decided to come out and fully support the great british pub. we need a little bit more detail on exactly how that plan is going to work. but the good news is, is that they have recognised the unique role that we play in this community across the country, in our society, economically, socially and culturally, and absolutely identifying that the cost of doing business for our great british pubs and our great

british brewers is too high. we need to see business rates reform, beer duty coming down, and we need to also see some discussion around the 80 on food and drink inside our pubs. is that it? >> that's your to do list. if you had your way , emma, those you had your way, emma, those would be the three areas that you need promises from one of the parties . the parties. >> absolutely. if we want the pub to be at the heart of our high street and the beating heart of our towns and villages, then we need to help them become profitable businesses. that's the number one thing we want to do. we hear about pubs being rescued by the local community. first and foremost, we want them to be successful businesses on their high streets, and so we need them to be identifying these top things and business rates. we disproportionately pay over 500 million a year versus our turnover as pubs and on our beer duty. you know, the host country for the euros is germany. we pay 12 times more for beer duty than they do for british and german brewers. and so we have to find a way that we say we recognise the role that the pub plays in our communities

are wonderful british beer. we've got to find ways to support them so they can remain profitable. >> how many pubs are closing and at what rate? emma i saw a very gloomy figure about 80 a month. or was it even 80 a week? >> that's right. it is really disheartening to hear that. still 80 closing every month and thatis still 80 closing every month and that is unacceptable , i find, that is unacceptable, i find, and we need to give them the recognition that they give so much back to their communities, not only in terms of jobs and the economy booster, the footfall to other small businesses, but that place where we meet, where we connect as humans . and that's what pubs do, humans. and that's what pubs do, you know, that's where you can go and celebrate life, commiserate life, stave off loneliness and keep you well, you know, in your mental health as well by having that conversation, someone taking care of you. it is that sense of community and we need to back it. so we need whichever government forms in the next parliament to come in and say this is the focus. we are going to pull out pubs and get behind our brewers to say they matter

to our communities and they can be a huge engine for growth. >> okay. thank you so much. chief executive of the british beer and pub association, emma mcclarkin there. what i find baffling is you will have both noficed baffling is you will have both noticed and kevin maguire is still with us when you go anywhere at the weekends. now the pubs are packed at restaurants are busy, people appear to have money to spend . appear to have money to spend. why aren't the businesses able to be profitable? >> because if you go on monday, tuesday, wednesday, probably thursday, they're not. and that is the problem. i know pubs now that only open my part of the week, but i thought every pub opening 11 till 11 every day is a complete waste. some some yes, but some some not. but then it's very difficult. if you run a business and you've got to pay for your building, your business rates all week, if you then you're only getting your income in essentially three three days. of course, it's ripe for reform. business rates. you're right labour don't spell out how they will do it. >> we've been banging on about it for ages, but the government, the treasury take in and i just just was listening. >> i was checking the figures,

taking about 30 billion a year in business rates, alcohol duties, about 12 billion a year. these are big chunks of money funding public services. so if you're going to cut them what you're going to cut them what you what you're going to cut, how are you going to or how are you going to replace it. but i think business rates you can change it. so it supports pubs, high streets and you make the amazons of this world, which is a very good service if you use it. but nevertheless they don't seem to be paying their fair whack of tax. >> the business rate. the problem is it's predicated on the on the building. >> yes. yeah. and it would be better linking it to turnover . better linking it to turnover. yeah. which would mean bigger businesses, more successful amazon and the like would pay a lot more. they would pay more. and then the smaller businesses you might have be running a little shop. it might be you, it might be you, you and your partner, the husband and wife team. you you need help. you know, they are community assets. she's right. i mean, the problem with drinking and there is a problem and the number of people anti—social behaviour linked to

it . a number of people dying it. a number of people dying isn't in pubs. it tends to be people drinking at home or kids in parks. >> that is the problem. the younger generation aren't drinking. this is the thing that my son's generation . yeah, well, my son's generation. yeah, well, early 20s and late teens, they don't drink , but if they don't don't drink, but if they don't want to, that's not a bad that's not a bad thing. not a bad thing. and truth for health. let's just quickly ask you, bofis let's just quickly ask you, boris johnson about to go on a second holiday. >> he'll be back the day before the general election. it means we'll almost certainly not going to see him on the campaign trail. is that because, in your view, doesn't want to be associated with the failure of the campaign? i think so, and he hasn't forgiven rishi for bringing him down. >> look, you know, his fans say he has is, you know, he has incredible powers. i mean, i'd question them now, but he's not lazarus, is he? he's not going to be able to get a tory party on its deathbed up and off. so i suppose he doesn't want to be tainted. and of course, sunak brought him down. he did. it's a it's getting your own back, chancellor. >> as soon as i heard it. yeah.

that was the end of boris johnson. >> yeah. success has many parents and failure is an orphan. and if you're boris johnson, why do you want to be associated with what will clearly be or very likely to be? >> we're very close to time. oh, great news that people who got fined during the pandemic are could have their slates wiped clean, according to robert buckland. >> yeah, but he's gone. sorry i won't know. he's a i don't want i don't know, you know, another list of. no no no no i've not mentioned anything. however however he was he was a justice secretary. he didn't do it then. i suspect it ain't going to happen. i'm not sure whether they should be wiped. that was they should be wiped. that was the law at the time. might have been unfair, but it was the law at the time. >> all right. thanks, kevin. all right. don't go anywhere. here's your weather with aidan. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello, and welcome to the latest update from the met

office for gb news. it's a beautiful start out there today, andifs beautiful start out there today, and it's going to be fine for the vast majority with warm sunny spells. one exception the far north and northwest of scotland, where it is turning cloudier and there will be some outbreaks of mostly light rain as the breeze picks up through the morning. otherwise, plenty of sunshine out there. the showers and thunderstorms that some spots received yesterday. a thing of the past. it's going to be settled as a ridge of high pressure builds in and in the sunshine, feeling pleasant enough. temperatures not far from average. it's no heatwave, but highs into the low 20s in the south. mid to high teens. further north. however, there is an exception to the mostly fine rule and that is across central and especially northwest scotland. you can see there for lewis and harris, outbreaks of persistent rain moving in the breeze, picking up as well. it's going to be a blustery night with that rain and the winds picking up across southern and eastern scotland. 1 or 2

showers, otherwise largely fine. northern ireland sunny spells to end the day, and plenty of fine weather across england and wales . it's going to stay warm into the evening with light winds as well. summer finally , across well. summer finally, across many parts of the uk into the early hours of thursday, the rain across scotland tends to ease. it's a relatively weak front, although a few spits and spots could turn up across the north coast of northern ireland as well as through the central belt. but for the vast majority it's a dry start to thursday. temperatures in some shelter spots in the single figures light winds. so a fresh start. but quite quickly it will warm up and there'll be plenty of sunshine on offer into the afternoon once again. for the vast majority , it's a fine day, vast majority, it's a fine day, however, for the south coast. just the chance that a few showers will turn up later in the afternoon where we've got the afternoon where we've got the sunshine feeling pleasant enough, temperatures a little higher compared with today, with highs of 22 or 23 degrees

gb news. >> 10 am. on wednesday, the 19th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me. bev turner and andrew pierce. >> inflation falls a timely boost for rishi sunak and the conservatives because inflation has fallen back to the bank of england's 2% target for the first time in three years. >> labour's war on savers senior tories claim that the labour leader , sir keir starmer, is leader, sir keir starmer, is preparing to wollop savers and homeowners with tax rises and covid fine amnesty. >> this is interesting. the former justice secretary, robert formerjustice secretary, robert buckland, who was in charge dunng buckland, who was in charge during the pandemic, wants the slate wiped clean for more than 29,000 people who were given criminal convictions for breaking covid rules. >> and the workers party of great britain, led by george

galloway, are launching their manifesto later today. sophie reaper has more . reaper has more. >> party leader george galloway says britain deserves better. we'll be hearing all about his party's plans as they launch their general election manifesto here in manchester. >> and justin timberlake mugshot the american star and actor was arrested and held overnight in the hamptons, for new york, driving while intoxicated. not like he can't afford a driver. hmm'hmm extraordinary. >> we're going to have kinsey schofield in the studio to talk about that. not very good, is it? he's got a very clean cut image. normally, justin timberlake apparently said, you know who i am? he didn't. i think he did. we'll find out everything from kinsey schofield. keep your thoughts coming this morning. gbnews.com forward. slash yourself first though. here's the very latest news with sam francis .

news with sam francis. >> bev and andrew thank you very much. good morning to you. it's just after 10:00. the top stories from the newsroom this morning. prime minister rishi sunak says news today that inflation has fallen to the bank of england's target of 2. it's proof the government's difficult decisions, he says, are paying off most analysts were forecasting that drop, which is down from 2.3% in april, lower than germany, france and the united states. it marks the first time the bank of england's target has been met in nearly three years. the conservative party says it will make a difference to how people feel about the cost of living. however experts predict interest rates will still be held at 5.25, dampening hopes for an early summer rate cut. well, work and pensions secretary mel stride told us it's further proof that the economy is improving . improving. >> the bank of england, of course, through monetary policy and interest rates , is there to and interest rates, is there to control inflation. but government has to do its bit on

the fiscal side. so we have to work with the bank of england. so for example, all those, excess , wage demands are higher excess, wage demands are higher than the rate of inflation that we've had to negotiate and, keep a lid on those kind of cost pressures is something that the government has actively done to make sure that we can help alongside the bank of england , alongside the bank of england, to bring those inflationary numbers down. >> mel stride they're speaking to us earlier this morning. well, labour's shadow chancellor rachel reeves, is warning the cost of living crisis isn't over . and she says prices are still going up. price rises have been very severe in the last few years. >> the cost of the weekly food shop up almost 30% since the last general election. people looking to remortgage this year paying looking to remortgage this year paying more than £200 a month more on their mortgage because of the conservative mini—budget. less than two years ago that crashed the economy and sent mortgage rates soaring. so the conservatives might want to say everything's okay. but i know for many people right across our

country, they're still struggling . struggling. >> a large poll is suggesting that the conservatives are on course for their worst ever election defeat, with labour on track for a majority of more than 250 seats, the survey of almost 20,000 people estimates that sir keir starmer will win the biggest majority of any post—war government. ipsos is also forecasting senior figures, including grant shapps penny mordaunt, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sir jacob mordaunt, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sirjacob rees—mogg mercer and sir jacob rees—mogg could all lose their seats in july. the poll has also predicting that nigel farage will become an mp for the first time. however, the data suggests it's still too close to call in 117 constituencies, which could affect the final outcome . the affect the final outcome. the snp is set to launch its manifesto later today, describing it as the most left wing offering from any party. the party's leader says they're going to push the next government in westminster to boost boost health care funding in scotland by £1.6 billion a yeah in scotland by £1.6 billion a year. john swinney says both

labour and the conservatives present a clear and present danger to the future of the nhs. well, it comes as the scottish government was criticised for missing a&e targets and cancer waiting times and time is running out for voters in england, in scotland and in wales to apply to vote by post, with the deadline set for 5:00 this afternoon . applications can this afternoon. applications can be made online at gov.uk. forward slash apply postal vote, postal voting has surged in popularity, rising from 12.7% in 2005 to now 21. that was in 2019, when completed votes must reach councils by 10:00 on polling day. in the evening, the 4th of july, and can be returned by post at council offices or at polling stations . spanish police polling stations. spanish police are searching for a british teenager who has gone missing in tenerife. jay slater , from tenerife. jay slater, from lancashire, was last heard from on monday morning. the 19 year old had called a friend to say

that he was lost with no water, and his phone was on just 1% battery. his last location showed he was in a mountainous region of the island, popular with hikers . and finally a with hikers. and finally a cinema has been forced to cancel the screening of a film, which was written by ai. after public backlash, the prince charles cinema in london's soho was due to host the world premiere of the last screenwriter, which was entirely scripted by chatgpt, but concerns were raised over artificial intelligence replacing human writers, which has been a contentious issue in creative industries. the film's creators say they had wanted to provoke debate on ai's impact on the arts. those are the latest headunes. the arts. those are the latest headlines . your next update in headlines. your next update in the next half hour. until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts.

>> 1006 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson bev turner. >> as you just heard in the news, this is an awful story. spanish police are searching for a british teenager who has gone missing in tenerife. >> he's jay slater, he's from lancashire. he was last heard from on monday morning. the 19 year old called a friend, say he was lost with no water and his phone was on only 1% battery. his last location showed he was in a mountainous region of the island, which is of course very popular with hikers. >> every every parent's nightmare. this, you know, only 19. it's probably one of his, if not his first holiday. it's his first holiday without his family. it's been out in a party overnight. he's missed the bus and he's rung his mate and said, i've got to walk home and it's 11 hours and obviously it's hot. and he said, i'm really thirsty. i've got 1% on my phone. so there's a search ongoing for him now. jay slater from lancashire . now. jay slater from lancashire. oswald. oswald i can never say that name. >> his mum's gone out there, which is what you would do, i guess, as a mum, wouldn't you? >> oh, you'd be straight out there. >> you'd be. you'd have your trainers on and you'd be pacing

around the hills looking for him. you just would. that's what you would do. >> so i mean, this has sort of got echoes of, nicola bulley nicola bulley michael mosley, of coui'se. >> course. >> but of course, this this this is a he's just a lad, >> but of course, this this this is a he'sjust a lad, a >> but of course, this this this is a he's just a lad, a young man. he's 19 years old. it's we will keep you posted, for news on that. right. our very favourite barrister is with us now, sam fowles to go through a few stories from this morning, particularly of interest to a lot of people watching this show. sam is 29,000 people who had covid conviction effectively dunng had covid conviction effectively during the pandemic for things like having some friends round in the garden and the police coming or, taking more than one walk a day. i mean, when you say these things now, you do realise it's the stuff of insanity. >> it's a strange time, wasn't it? and robert buckland is now saying that he thinks they should have their slates wiped clean. >> yeah, i think this is, this is really good from from robert buckland. it's a recognition that this was was a unique time and there were unique laws put

in place. and it was also really difficult to challenge these fixed penalty notices. i remember getting a call from a solicitor right at the start of the of the pandemic saying, look , i've had a few people, got a few clients and they've got these fixed penalty notices. they say they say they were, you know, unfair or unlawfully imposed . and what do you think imposed. and what do you think we should do? and i actually said, look, you're better off paying said, look, you're better off paying the fine if you try and fight this in court. even if i were to act for you pro bono, you're going to spend more on court fees than it would cost you in the in the fine. so >> so the principle, though, sam? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh, absolutely. but the but you know, the problem is if you lose on that principle then you've got a criminal record for , for a long time. and that's these 29,000 people. >> can i be clear here? are they criminals or is it a criminal conviction or is a fixed penalty? notice it doesn't give you a criminal conviction yet. >> and that's a really good distinction. so these 29 these i think were the criminal

convictions. so these are the people that boris sunak got for instance. so if you just get a fixed penalty notice in the same way, if you get a fixed penalty nofice way, if you get a fixed penalty notice for parking in the in the wrong place, for example, you pay wrong place, for example, you pay it straight away. that's not a criminal conviction. it's not going on your record. if you challenge it and you go to court, then you might get a criminal record. so that's what robert's talking about here. these wiping the criminal records off 111 caveat to my endorsement of this these are not all for the same thing. so some of these convictions yes are for going up more than once, having a few friends around. some of them are for organising a rave with a thousand people. so i think what i would really be encouraging is maybe something a little bit more subtle than just a complete , you subtle than just a complete, you know, a complete wiping the slate clean for everyone . maybe slate clean for everyone. maybe something that just acknowledges the different levels of offence that were committed here, and what were the most severe fines?

>> were the most severe penalties . >> were the most severe penalties. can you remember, sam? >> i remember some people certainly up to £10,000, i think. yeah, yeah, they were a lot of money and but they won't get the money back. >> but, but sir robert buckland's view is that the conviction should be wiped. it's off their record. yeah. >> and that's what he's targeting. so. and actually i think about recently about 40% haven't been paid anyway. but you're not talking about the not talking about the money. you're just talking about the record that goes along with you and that goes along with you and that can impact on things like future job prospects. it's something you have to declare. if you're going to the us and canada, you might be denied entry. and so this is it goes beyond just just paying a fine, which could be as low as £60 or as high as £10,000. >> just looking at some of the numbers here, the fines that were issued were worth £26 million in this country , people million in this country, people in their 30s accounted for the largest amount of fines paid at 6.9 million. those aged 20 or below paid out £3.3 million and

almost half of the fines, 12.4 million were raised by just five police forces. greater manchester, merseyside, lancashire, south wales and the met. there's definitely the northerners were slightly more rebellious during that period of time. good for them, i say. >> yeah, and my generation, people in their in their mid 30s, hasten to say not me, i've. >> yes, but who was given anything. yeah. >> who was statistically. >> who was statistically. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> very very very vanishingly small risk of being harmed by the infection. >> yeah absolutely. >> yeah absolutely. >> although for me i sort of i'm a little bit disappointed in my generation there because i think one of the things i was kind of really proud of with my generation is that we, we kind of dug in and looked after the people older and more vulnerable than us by sort of by making the sacrifice during lockdown. so i'm sad to see we're also the worst offenders because that's that sort of takes away from that, i think gives me faith, gives me faith, sam, that the next generation might be able to stand up to the overreaching state, but i, buckland, of course, would have had a big say

in, in, in the, in the, the levies and the fines and the because he was the justice secretary at the time. >> yeah. so he's almost trying to wipe the slate clean of his own work, if you see what i mean . yeah. >> and that's but again, i've been very praiseful of robert roberts ed davey. i'm going to praise him again. i think it's good to see politicians doing that and acknowledging that. look this was an exceptional time. this is god. i hope it's not something we'd do in in the everyday business of politics. >> makes me think if it it was time happened again, he would say he might take a different view potentially so. >> but but even if even if he were, labour wouldn't think this is right because it's saying that we we've moved on now. we don't we don't you don't need the deterrent effect of a criminal record to stop people breaking lockdown in 2024. do you. it's entirely irrelevant. there's no sort of there's no real public benefit from maintaining this, sort of this ongoing punishment of people. so and with the exception of that, some of the really extreme ones

and i think it's right that politicians recognise that and, and we just move on. >> now i broke the i know i broke the broke the rules frequently. >> good. >> good. >> and, i won't name who i did it with, but we, we just used to have a gin and tonic together. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> go for a walk us apart. but then we think one gin won't hurt. >> and that's the point. is one jim wouldn't. gin wouldn't have hurt. and that's why we the lessons. i still don't think we've learned the lessons from this period of time . of course. this period of time. of course. this this goes a small way, i suppose, to righting the wrongs of that period of time , but i of that period of time, but i would like i'd like them to go further. i'd like, i'd like you know what i'd like. sunak and starmer also to just tackle this issue when they're electioneering, they're getting away with it. and that's where this anger from the public, regardless of where you stood dunng regardless of where you stood during this period of time, the anger from the public about this issue is enormous. and it's now everyone's going, don't talk

about that. don't talk about that. let's just all move on. and there is some truth to that. but but it feels like it's in the campaign. >> and if you remember two ignored labour really, really went for sunak when he got his fixed penalty notice and he was frankly in the room for about one minute. i thought it was. i didn't think he should have got got the penalty in the first place, but they made political capital out of it. and when you look back in hindsight, should they have really i, i agreed with that actually, because i think in this, this time when we're all in this together, what we're all in this together, what we needed from the from our leaders was, was leadership was setting an example and was to be, you know, better than the average person in terms of those rules. >> and i think it was a real disappointment and a real betrayal , even if it was a disappointment and a real betrayal, even if it was a minor breach. we needed them saying, look, we have asked you to make enormous sacrifices and we are going to be the epitome of that, not right. and it sort of embodies this problem that everyone left , right, centre has everyone left, right, centre has with politicians of one rule for

you, one rule for us. >> he he came close to resigning over it. >> sunak me if you remember. he was he was he disappeared below the radar. and i suspect when he looks back now, he probably thinks i should have quit as chancellor. whole of history could have been written differently. well, he. >> i think he'd be having an easier time in this campaign, actually, if he wasn't tagged with the errors he made as as chancellor. >> well, everybody, let's face it, was somehow benefiting from that period of time in some sunak thought he was because he'd be the good guy with the picture of when the burgers eat out to help out, handing out the furlough money. the conservative party thought people will love him forever because of his generosity. well, people are smarter than that and we worked out the fact that our financial situation now is in a mess. our inflation or debt, half £1 trillion we spent for the public purse at that period of time. and people are cleverer than that. >> we knew it was a mistake and the endemic fraud in the furlough scheme, which has never the money's never been brought back. >> yeah. was it £11 billion fings >> yeah. was it £11 billion rings a bell, treasury minister resigned at the despatch box in the house of lords.

>> it was over that. >> it was over that. >> yeah. yeah, that was an astonishing right half. >> yeah, i think i can't remember his name. >> the treasury. was it lord sassoon i can't remember. i don't know, but did resign at the despatch box. he was so appalled by the failure to get the money back. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and it was a real i think just we haven't gotten over the it was astonishing in a way. an astonishing achievement to be that bad at responding to the pandemic. and i think there was there was a point where we had both the biggest economic downturn and the highest death death toll in the in the sort of advanced economic world. and there's a, there's a weird sort of achievement in being that bad at both ends. you know, other, other, other countries hadn't had such a big economic impact but had a higher death toll. other countries are the other way around. like, how did we mess up on both of those fronts at the at the same time, lord agnew, it was listening to the wrong people, i would say was a big part of it. >> listening to the wrong people, not having strong enough leadership to take tough decisions and, and, and bowing down, i guess, to a to a, a

press as well, that were all talking from one voice. it was a failure on of all of our major influences, partly, partly i think i think lack of leadership is it was so key there as well. >> and i think this we saw in in lockdown the sort of the populist faction really being found out in that the they promised the world just i mean, just a year earlier and no, not even a year earlier in that that 2019 election and suddenly they weren't campaigning on their home turf anymore. they were deaung home turf anymore. they were dealing with a very real problem. and they just they didn't take a decision. this is the really astonishing thing for me, is still going right back to the start of the of lockdown, where we had that four week penod where we had that four week period where we dithered and delayed and no one took a decision . i mean, the certainly decision. i mean, the certainly the, the scientific evidence that that i've read indicates that that i've read indicates that if we if we'd gone earlier in lockdown, not only would

abouti in lockdown, not only would about i think 20,000 fewer people died, but lockdown would have been much shorter and we could have been out after a couple of months. and as a instead we had a higher death rate. plus we were locked down for such a long time, convinced beverley turner. >> we can you know what, sam? >> we can you know what, sam? >> this i have a lot of information. i detail that just we never have time to get across on that. but that's not strictly true, but, sam, always great to see you. thank you so much. right up next, olympic cyclist sir bradley wiggins is facing huge financial difficulties and may have to sell all of his gold medals. remember, he won the olympics and the tour de france in the same year. and what a fall from grace. i feel desperately sorry for him. >> it really is. and he's brilliant sportsman, but clearly not a great businessman. >> yeah. this is britain's newsroom

gb news. six 1022. this is britain. are you swallowing your digestive ? you swallowing your digestive? andrew pierce? you went a bit early on them today, but early today. yeah, right. we're joined by former labour mp stephen pound and cheshire's answer to mick jagger. mike parry. >> thank you very much. this. >> thank you very much. this. >> yes, i, i see people look at me. >> they turn their face away just like their newborn baby. it happens every day . i look inside happens every day. i look inside my soul, my heart has turned to black. i see my red and it has been painted black. >> i might just fade away and take my home. >> helps . >> helps. >> helps. >> it's not easy. >> it's not easy. >> it's not easy. >> it's one of the hairy bikers. >> it's one of the hairy bikers. >> well, that was paul parry in the rolling clones singing paint it black. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> little walk down memory lane for you. >> there it got to 64 in the pop charts. >> if you don't mind you're

wasted i am wasted. it was called the rolling clones. >> i did it, as a promotion for a company called red letter day. >> you know what i mean? oh, yeah. and the money went to charity, but it was great fun, hanging out with the rolling clowns in a in a. >> have you still got those boots, i very much doubt it. if i have, i wouldn't admit to it. no. >> probably not. can you paint it black? can you compete with that, steve? well, i've recorded a p0p that, steve? well, i've recorded a pop song that's gone in the top. >> i was, i was rocky thrust, a rocky thrust. that was the stage iused rocky thrust. that was the stage i used to play in a band called craig manley and the virales. >> really, it's all coming out? >> really, it's all coming out? >> no, it's my trouser and steve. >> and stop right. >> and stop right. >> should we move on to the news? yeah. should we talk about candidates being suspended following social media posts, mike, this this is a labour candidate who's been suspended following reports that he shared pro—russian material in the aftermath of the salisbury poisoning in 2018. does it matter what he said in 2018, i think the only reason this story has come to light is because he's not going to win the seat,

is he? isn't this one that the nsp is going to retain? they had no exactly seen as a potential win for labour at all. no absolutely. so i really think it's a bit of pointless sort of electioneering. you know what i mean? to try and, reflect on people's reputations rather than to affect what's going to happen. >> i think they're just trying to show that they're being tough. they suspended him immediately because this was reported in the aberdeen and the local paper, the aberdeen, whatever the journal is called up there, we'll check. it'll be an ep. >> it's e.p. thompson paper anyway. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but so this is labour trying to say we got the information. dc defended him immediately. >> yeah, but look the thing is you can suspend him. he's still going to stand. you can't take a person off the ballot paper. look what this is all about is actually what's happening with reform. reform? we suddenly got, you know, nobody knew. i don't think even rishi sunak knew that it was going to be an election in july the 4th. so suddenly you've got to find 650 candidates. and what happened is reform actually paid? i think a huge amount of money, massive amount of money to a

professional vetting organisation who quite demonstrably didn't do their job, over 100, £150, i think, but they £150,000, they said in their defence that they, they were expecting an election september, october, november. >> so they had all of the summer to vet reform candidates and then the election happens. >> and andrew, can i just refer you to i don't know if you read andrew pierce in the mail, but i do, you know, he he has well informed. is that right? i wish i knew who wrote it, but he's very good. look, within five minutes you can actually do due diligence on any human being in this country. >> i agree. >> i agree. >> and it's not just because you've got the contacts, it's because you've got the access to the internet. do you honestly telling me that they couldn't have actually run these people through the through the i tell you, you take one look at somebody with eye contact. >> you should be able to work out whether they're a bad or a dodgy, to be honest, if you're going to if you're going to clock somebody as a wrong and by the way they look, well, you know, i never would have got elected. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but we're talking about so this guy, the labour guy, that's the point. >> yeah.

>> yeah. >> he retweeted. so he reposted on his social media feed an article from rmt. it was about basically today, russia today. yeah. talking about the novichok, this article said it was never produced in russia but was never produced in russia but was in service in the us, uk and other nato states. so this guy retweeted that article six years ago. that is not a reason. >> but don't don't forget the other great scandal at that time. do you remember the leading british politician who said, come on, hang on, i want to get to the bottom of this a bit? well, he got into trouble for saying that, right. >> but this is. but my point is, and everybody's panicking about these reform candidates who? one of them was like 15 years ago, he made a daft comment. yeah, at an angry time on his life on twitter. are we honestly want to live in? do we want to live with a russia? >> does it not? >> does it not? >> also whereby you can't post anything which might come back ten years time? >> does it not also reflect on the party because, oh, these are the party because, oh, these are the people who are attracted to it, particularly in the reform case, you know what i mean? but they've they've found 45 who've got links to fascist. exactly you know, david cameron, lord cameron, for whom i have little time but didn't want to describe

a certain party as swivel eyed loons, didn't ukip racist and fruitcakes. yeah. that's right. yeah yeah. >> but look, in all honesty, if we're actually going to have the most boring , anodyne, whitebread most boring, anodyne, whitebread milquetoast wimps as mps , this milquetoast wimps as mps, this is the way we need to do absolutely what we want. if you never make a mistake, you never make anything. and when i think of some of the things, dear lord, alive, what i was saying back in the back in the 60s, let's not go there. >> yeah, well, the internet has caught these people out. >> yeah. of course. >> yeah. of course. >> yeah, but no, his point is much more important point with respect. what she's saying is it's not actually the discovery. it's actually the fact that you give validity and strength and you actually expunge somebody from their seat. you actually cancel them. >> do you any of us know all those years ago cancel culture because it's something you might not even have written yourself, but you might have in, in a moment, just gone through and thought, i quite like that article and just you're torn about rmt do any of us know about rmt do any of us know about any of the george galloway candidates yet? it was supposed to be running for his party. well, has anybody seen anything? >> well, hang on a second. don't. don't forget what

happened to monty panesar in this very seat when monty panesar political career as a workers party uk crashed and burned under the forensic probing. >> eight questions and he got seven wrong. well, you you probed him in public here on that particular and he disappeared from it. the next day he resigned. yeah i know we've invited him back, but you smashed a career in seconds. but you repainted his profile on the side of your car. but i mean that we've seen all parties that get into these. of course, don't they? >> of course. >> of course. >> yes, but reformers have had more than their fair share. >> well, reform are being more scrutinised by, by labour in the conservatives, particularly because they're frightened of them. >> i'm not going to argue with that. >> the other thing you find out as well, because i've read this over the weekend, is quite often the great british press reveal the great british press reveal the backgrounds of these people before the parties have even looked into what they're all about. >> richard tice is actually effectively said that, he said. we were relying on the press to do the job for us. >> yes, with monty panesar, it wasn't that he had said, i mean, he'd done a ipp was a very famous england cricketer, and it was, you know, he's like the

third highest spinner wicket. he's the man who took that famous stand in cardiff when actually saved the match. but the point being that he has done some pretty dodgy stuff. you think of the incident in brighton and the hotel balcony and the yes, let's not go there. but but what you expose something was not the fact that he'd got some dodgy tweets in the past. it's the fact he hadnt the past. it's the fact he hadn't got a flippin scooby doo, his own policies. >> he didn't even know anything about the constituency he was going to represent. >> i think could barely spell your old patch. >> indeed, i could have told him a thing or two about ealing. >> i think he didn't know. >> i think he didn't know. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh, we got to read a candidates list. >> right. because this is the aberdeen north constituency. that's not the full name of the constituency. gallery. it's called aberdeen north and something else. but anyway, they are. do you want to go first? >> charlie, abel. albert, charlie, abel for the alba party. yeah. >> kirsty blackman, the snp. >> kirsty blackman, the snp. >> desmond bowz for the liberal democrats, lucas grant, trade unionist and socialist coalition party. >> blimey. >> blimey. >> esme houston, scottish green party, kenneth leggett that's a good name for a politician . good name for a politician. >> reform uk okay, dawn smith, the scottish family party,

gillian tiburon, conservative party lynne thompson, labour party lynne thompson, labour party and can i just say, i mean, i have to say alex salmond would be very upset if he called it the alba party. >> it's the alba party. and that's of course, it sounds a little bit like alibi, but yeah, right. >> we're late for sam francis. you guys will be back. >> we all speak scottish gaelic here. >> here is the news with sam. >> here is the news with sam. >> we will. >> we will. >> very good morning to you. 1031 exactly the top story from the newsroom this morning. the rate of inflation has dropped to 2, ending a three year battle to slow price rises. most analysts were forecasting that drop, which is down from 2.3% in april. that's lower than germany, france and the us. it marks the first time the bank of england's target has been met in nearly three years. chancellor jeremy hunt says it shows the government's plan for the economy are working, that labour says people are still dealing with a cost of living crisis . a with a cost of living crisis. a large poll suggesting that the

conservatives are on course for their worst ever election defeat, with labour on track for a majority of more than 250 seats, the survey of almost 20,000 people estimates keir starmer will win the biggest majority of any post—war government. ipsos is also forecasting senior figures, including grant shapps penny mordaunt , gillian keegan, johnny mordaunt, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sir jacob mordaunt, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sirjacob rees—mogg. mercer and sir jacob rees—mogg. could all lose their seats in july. it could also see nigel farage become an mp for the first time. however, the data suggests it's still too close to call in 117 constituencies, which could affect the final outcome. spanish police are searching for a british teenager who's gone missing in tenerife. jay slater, from lancashire, was last heard from on monday morning. the 19 year old called a friend to say he was lost while hiking with no water, and his phone was on just 1% battery and vladimir putin's arrived in nonh and vladimir putin's arrived in north korea for the first time in 24 years. the country's

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gb news. welcome back. 1037. britain deserves better. apparently, that's the title of the workers party manifesto. as their leader, george galloway, unveil it in just under 1.5 hours. but what can we expect? >> well, joining us now to talk us through it is our north north—west of england reporter sophie reaper sophie morning a big moment for the workers party. they've got that. they had that one mp in george galloway hoping for to make more inroads. what are we expecting? the manifesto to talk about? sophie >> well good morning to you both . we've of course already heard manifestos from the labour party

, conservative party, various parties around the uk and as you say today, it is the turn of the workers party of britain to launch their general election manifesto from here in manchester. should also add, of course, the snp's are launching theirs in the next 20 minutes or so up in scotland, but back to manchester, as you say, the leader of the party, george galloway, has said that the title of this manifesto is britain deserves better. and he said about that a bold and comprehensive plan to redistribute wealth and power, rejuvenate our industries and ensure a future where the needs of working people are prioritised over the profits of the elites. now, of course , the the elites. now, of course, the workers party of britain was launched by george galloway in 2019 as an antidote to labour losing that general election that year. and of course , its that year. and of course, its ideology based on voters who perhaps feel they can no longer identify with the labour party or the direction that it's been taken in in recent years . george

taken in in recent years. george galloway saying the point of it was to build a new working class of politics in britain. and i think you can really hear that in how he describes what we can expect from the manifesto. a real emphasis on redistribution of wealth and the importance of the working class, working class person here in britain. he's also said that he's very confident that his party will obtain hundreds of thousands of votes come the general election in just over two weeks time. but i think given the changes to both parties and polling over recent weeks, it will be really interesting to see how that influences not just the worker party of britain's manifesto, but how george galloway delivers it a little bit later on here in manchester. >> there, of course, when george galloway unveils that manifesto and, we'll bring you all the latest. so we'd love to hear what you think. don't forget, send your views and post your views to where do we send them to gbnews.com/yoursay or say

we're still going to talk about bradley wiggins as well. >> and what a terrible fall from grace that is. >> you know him, don't you? >> you know him, don't you? >> do you know him a bit? i know his wife and he's i've met his kids. we've been on holiday with them actually, because i mean, one of the most successful sportsmen of all time. i haven't spoken to him in a long time. but, you know what the thing is about elite sportsmen like that, theyitis about elite sportsmen like that, they it is a it is a double edged sword to have that sort of mindset whereby you are that dnven mindset whereby you are that driven and that irrational in a way, wanting to push your body that hard is irrational. thank god we have people like that because they make the world of sport so entertaining and brilliant to watch. >> he won the tour de france and he won the london 2012 olympics in the same year, in the same yeah >> nobody's ever done that before. >> unbelievable athlete. incredible but that mindset that makes you so obsessive and addicted to the sport means that real life actually can often be quite difficult. >> and he's the house has gone, i think. >> yeah, it's obviously he's divorced from his wife cath now and they've got two teenagers, a

boy and a girl, and it's rich. it's really, really sad, i guess. >> also , when you're an >> also, when you're an international star, loved and feted , and then you retire from feted, and then you retire from the sport, it must be like an air balloon deflating. >> and what next? >> and what next? >> it is that it's about identity , vie. it's about who am identity, vie. it's about who am i and these elite athletes , i and these elite athletes, particularly in a sport in which you hurt yourself physically so much like cycling was, bradley was the best in the world. you you you often do it because you don't have a great sense of self esteem. you've got to hurt. you've got to want to prove you're always looking for approval. you're always looking to get adulation and gold medals and prize money. when that's taken away, then you're left asking , who taken away, then you're left asking, who am i? sometimes there's a huge void left over there's a huge void left over there . there. >> great sadness, isn't it? great sadness. and the talk is you might have to sell his medals . medals. >> that's just hope somebody would step in. i you know what? >> i'm not sure he'd be that bothered about selling his medals. >> how about for his kids? >> how about for his kids? >> i don't think he'd be that.

but i might be wrong. but i don't think he'd be that bothered about selling his medals because often athletes like bradley see the medals as just. that's nothing. it's what i did. it's not who i am now. i've got to move on. they don't really have that a sense of feeling that they're ever good enough at what they do. and so the medals, in a way, they're just and i suppose because of the amateur status of the sport, he probably didn't make much money. >> oh, no , oh no, he was multi—millionaire. >> he's worth £30 million. cycling was is a very, very profitable sport. >> so it really he had a massive payment from his from his team, his international team. >> he lost £13 million. it was a very, very wealthy man, very wealthy man. and i do hope that cath and the kids are okay. i hope that they've gone. i hope that she's financially supported because of course, she gave up everything of her life to support him to win his his olympic medals and his tour de france victory . you give up france victory. you give up everything as a family. i mean, i'm talking obviously my ex—husband had two olympic gold medals. i know of what i speak. yeah, you know, it's not it's

not always a journey paved with gold. and those men are amazing at what they do. they're amazing human beings. and thank goodness we have them. but not easy to live with. a bit like it trained. trained me for sitting next to you. >> you should hear what he says about living with. >> yeah, well, my ex—husband is now standing as a tory candidate, so that's a slightly different constituency . different constituency. >> i have to name them. >> i have to name them. >> all right. up next, we're going to be speaking . this is a going to be speaking. this is a terrible story that's broken this morning to the former head of a pefsohs persons unit. as search continues for 19 year old jay

gb news. >> now, this is a very grim story. spanish police are searching for a british teenageh searching for a british teenager. he's just 19. who's gone missing in tenerife . gone missing in tenerife. >> jay slater, from lancashire, was last heard of on monday morning. he called a friend to say that he got lost whilst hiking with no water, and his

phone was a 1% battery. >> so we're going to talk now to the former head of lambeth missing persons unit, mike neville. mike, this is for any parents, the worst nightmare, isn't it ? his mum's already in isn't it? his mum's already in tenerife to help in the search. probably can't do much, but you can. she obviously doesn't want to be sat at home waiting by the phone. but what steps would will be, will be being taken because it's very hot. he's got no water and no phone and as you know, parts of that island are very barren, so not much opportunity city for shelter. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, i do hope this comes to a successful conclusion. and jay's found alive. but we see almost like the tragedy of michael moses played out here. this the actual when you look at the park it looks very similar environment . and of course what environment. and of course what we have got though is because he made that phone call. they may well be able to pinpoint an area. we know it's the park area there, so it's different in that way that we've got a tighter

area that where they can look. now the obviously the police will be directing all sorts of search teams that will be actual officers on the grounds with the dogs , then the use of, dogs, then the use of, helicopters and potentially drones, to, to view the, the parts of that. and of course, they'll have, experts to the park rangers who will know the particular tracks and, and the best places to, to look, and so i'm sure that the spanish police are putting a very professional and coordinated search, together. and, as i say, any chance of that getting cell sites analysis on his phone to actually pinpoint the location, that's probably their best chance. >> i guess . the fact does the >> i guess. the fact does the fact he's a teenager, he's19. michael mosley was 68, 69, nearly 70. being being a young man. will that mean he can survive for longer ? survive for longer? >> well, i'm no medical expert, but i think that would be that would be my hope that he would

be able to survive for longer. so he looks, when you see the pictures of him not so young, fit lad. so let's just hope that he's able to get out there. they may have found some, source of water, but, my prayers go to is, to his mum and the rest of his family that, the spanish police will find him, and, hopefully he's just dehydrated and they'll be able to treat him, we said he was hiking . he wasn't actually was hiking. he wasn't actually hiking. he was trying to get home. he'd been on a night out and a party on a beautiful island, which is exactly the kind of thing you should be doing at 19 years old and had missed the last bus home. so it was 8:00 in the morning when he rang his friend. he had 1% battery on his phone and he said , i battery on his phone and he said ,i need battery on his phone and he said , i need a drink of water, i'm going to walk home. and the walk back to his apartment was 11 hours. if he would have done that on foot , would the first that on foot, would the first point of looking might is inevitably going to be that route. correct. from where he was last seen to where he was

wanted to end up. and taking people along that route ? people along that route? >> absolutely. but as i understand it, the phone call was made at 815. it already set off in the middle of the night. i think this is the trouble. so i think this is the trouble. so i think this is the trouble. so i think he set off in the middle of the night to walk that distance, which as you say, is 11 miles. so of course, the, the park rangers will be able to estimate the distance that he'd be able to cover. and absolutely, they'll be looking at what's the, as the crow fly routes and go on that, and any that will be, searched by, officers and rangers and then they use the drones and the helicopter to search any other areas. but the good thing here is i think it's away from the sea. the danger is if people go in the sea, then that really is a problem. but he does appear to be on land in the island. yeah >> mike, how many people go missing every year in the uk? the numbers are astonishing, aren't they ? aren't they? >> the numbers are massive. there's thousands and thousands of people go missing. but when i worked on the run, the missing

persons unit, of course, the vast majority of those returned within a very short amount of time. there's very few people are missing for much more than a day or a couple of days. are missing for much more than a day or a couple of days . and day or a couple of days. and then very, very, very few who are missing for more than that . are missing for more than that. there's handfuls of people who actually vanish and never found again, so the chances of finding him are very high, and of course, this isn't a missing person in the type that you would have dealt with, mike, which sometimes people don't want to be found in your experience, i imagine those cases must have been very difficult to deal with. >> well, some there's a few people who do go, vanish and they don't want to be found. but they don't want to be found. but the vast majority of people, it's not like that. sometimes they're old, they're treating, they've vanished because they're missing and they're put in hospital or the like. there's very few, teenagers would vanish like this and vanish without a trace. so as i say, i'm very hopeful that they'll find him. >> so it's important as well these days of making sure your phone's charged up. mike. well i

think the lesson learned. >> you know, when we go to these places, we're british. we're not used to the heat, and it's the heat and the continent is incredible at the moment. so anybody of any age who's thinking of walking over barren areas or out of the way of civilised places has really got to think again, because i had a friend just come back from turkey. the heat is unbearable. >> and do you know what as well? i think it is a little bit. we've, we've become so reliant on our phones. yes, we have that actually we especially the younger generation, sometimes they lack a bit of common sense because we, they think, well if something happens, i can use my phone, not thinking, right, if i haven't got my phone, have i got water right? can i find shade? havei water right? can i find shade? have i told someone where i'm going to be? >> did he have a hat on? >> did he have a hat on? >> even all that stuff? that common sense survival tips and understanding about life that our generation has had because we had to have tempe to find a

phone box if anything went wrong. well, i was a young soldier, so i can admit to being daft. >> when i was a young man so i can forgive jay and anybody else that as a teenager does a silly thing. i just hope this silly thing. i just hope this silly thing that he's done doesn't result in serious injuries. so, you know, let's let's , let's you know, let's let's, let's hopeit you know, let's let's, let's hope it all turns out well. but having seen the greek police, i think the greek police did a, you know, relatively they were really dedicated to trying to find doctor moseley. and i think the spanish police, having worked with them, will be just as professional. >> yeah. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> i'm sure. okay. all right. good to see you. mike neville there. my youngest . she's i've there. my youngest. she's i've confiscated her smartphone at the moment . confiscated her smartphone at the moment. she's all sorts of reasons but it's gone. so she's going out to school in the morning. she's got a little brick with no , it's just a nokia brick. >> oh yeah. i remember them terrific phones and. >> yeah. but of course. and it's. so what's she not doing? she can't rely on it to look at a map. she can't rely on it to pay a map. she can't rely on it to pay with anything. and as much as i've had my heart in my mouth

thinking, i can't track her, i don't know where she is. it's good for both of us because she has to think, well, if something goes wrong, what do i do? >> yeah, which is what we had to do. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> think for ourselves. >> think for ourselves. >> yeah. and there's a whole generation who always have money. >> you'd always have change in your pocket. but the phone. yeah, yeah. >> let us know your thoughts. that's right. gbnews.com forward slash your say now now cry me a river. find out which famous pop stars been arrested for drink driving. do you understand the cw driving. do you understand the cry me a river reference? no, no, it's one of his songs, right? >> this is presumed it was, but i've never heard of it on gb news. >> justin timberlake. >> justin timberlake. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. it's a beautiful start out there today andifs beautiful start out there today and it's going to be fine for the vast majority. warm sunny spells one exception the far north and northwest of scotland,

where it is turning cloudier and there will be some outbreaks of mostly light rain as the breeze picks up through the morning. otherwise plenty of sunshine out there. the showers and thunderstorms that some spots received yesterday . a thing of received yesterday. a thing of the past. it's going to be settled as a ridge of high pressure builds in and in the sunshine. feeling pleasant enough, temperatures not far from average. it's no heatwave, but highs into the low 20s in the south. mid to high teens. further north. however, there is an exception to the mostly fine rule and that is across central and especially northwest scotland. you can see there for lewis and harris, outbreaks of persistent rain moving in the breeze, picking up as well. it's going to be a blustery night with that rain and the winds picking up across southern and eastern scotland. 1 or 2 showers, otherwise largely fine. northern ireland sunny spells to end the day, and plenty of fine weather across england and wales . it's going to stay warm into the evening with light winds as well. summer finally across many

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gb news. >> 11 am. on wednesday, the 19th of june. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner fay. >> good morning. thanks for joining us. so, a missing teen, the search continues for 19 year old jay slater from lancashire. he's gone missing on his first houday he's gone missing on his first holiday with friends in tenerife i >> inflation has fallen. it's a boost for rishi sunak inflation has fallen back to the bank of england's target rate of 2% for the first time in three years, and any moment now, the snp leader, john swinney, is going to unveil his party's manifesto. >> we'll bring that to you live , live. >> yippee do and covid fine amnesty. the former justice secretary, robert buckland, who was in charge during the pandemic, wants the slate wiped clean for more than 29,000 people who were given criminal convictions if they broke the covid rules. >> quite right too. now cancer scare crisis alarming new research shows cancer care in the uk lags 20 years behind

other european countries . why other european countries. why might that . might that. be? plus, mike parry and stephen pound will be back here in the studio with us to tackle some more stories from the morning. gbnews.com/yoursay say to read your messages. we haven't read any out yet this morning. it's been a packed show first, though. latest news with sam francis. >> bev and andrew, thank you very much. good morning to you. it's just after 11:00. the top story this morning from the newsroom. prime minister rishi sunak says that inflation has fallen to the bank of england's target of 2, saying it's proof that the government's difficult decisions are paying off. most analysts were forecasting that drop, which is down from 2.3% in april. that's lower than germany, france and the us. it marks the first time the bank of england's target has been met in

nearly three years. the conservative party says it will make a difference to how people feel about the cost of living. however, experts have predicting interest rates will still be held at 5.25, dampening any hopes of an early summer rate cut. well work and pensions secretary mel stride told us this morning that it's further proof that the economy is improving. >> the bank of england , of >> the bank of england, of course, through monetary policy and interest rates, is there to control inflation. but government has to do its bit on the fiscal side. so we have to work with the bank of england. so for example, all those, excess wage demands are higher than the rate of inflation, that we've had to negotiate and, keep a lid on those kind of cost pressures is something that the government has actively done to make sure that we can help alongside the bank of england, to bring those inflationary numbers down. >> mel stride they're speaking to us earlier. well, labour's shadow chancellor rachel reeves , shadow chancellor rachel reeves, is warning the cost of living crisis isn't over and says pnces crisis isn't over and says prices are still going up.

>> price rises have been very severe in the last few years . severe in the last few years. the cost of the weekly food shop up almost 30% since the last general election on people looking to remortgage this year, paying looking to remortgage this year, paying more than £200 a month more on their mortgage because of the conservatives mini—budget. less than two years ago that crashed the economy and sent mortgage rates soaring . so sent mortgage rates soaring. so the conservatives might want to say everything's okay, but i know for many people right across our country, they're still struggling. >> a large poll is suggesting that the conservatives are on course for their worst ever election defeat , with labour on election defeat, with labour on track for a majority of more than 250 seats, the survey of almost 20,000 people estimates that sir keir starmer will win the biggest majority of any post—war government. ipsos is also forecasting that senior figures, including grant shapps penny mordant, gillian keegan, johnny mercer and sirjacob johnny mercer and sir jacob rees—mogg could all lose their seats in july, while nigel

farage could become an mp for the first time. however it's still too close to call in 117 constituency, which could affect the final outcome and time is running out for voters in england, scotland and in wales to apply to vote by post, with the deadline set for 5:00 this afternoon. applications can be made online at gov.uk. forward slash apply for postal vote. postal voting has been surging in popularity, rising from 12.7% in popularity, rising from 12.7% in 2005 to now 21. meanwhile more than 600,000 applications to register to vote were submitted yesterday ahead of the national deadline . over half of national deadline. over half of those were aged under 35, more than 800 migrants arrived in the uk yesterday after making the dangerous journey in small boats across the channel that's the highest number for a single day so far this year. 15 boats were intercepted as they made the journey from france . the home

journey from france. the home office says it now takes the number of arrivals. so far this year to 12,313. spanish police are searching for a british teenager who's gone missing in tenerife while on holiday. jay slater, from lancashire, was last heard from on monday morning of this week. the 19 year old said he called a friend to say he was lost, had no water and his phone was on just 1% battery. his last location showed that he was in a mountainous region of the island, popular with hikers . island, popular with hikers. vladimir putin has arrived in nonh vladimir putin has arrived in north korea for the first time in 24 years. the country's leader, kim jong un, was seen laughing with the russian president . the pair agreed to president. the pair agreed to a mutual defence clause, which would see the countries help each other repel external aggression , and a cinema has aggression, and a cinema has been forced to cancel the screening of a film, which was written by ai. after public backlash, the prince charles cinema in london's soho was due to host the world premiere of the last screenwriter , which is

the last screenwriter, which is entirely scripted by chatgpt, but concerns were raised over artificial intelligence possibly replacing human writers, which has been a contentious issue in creative industries. the film's creators, though, say that they wanted to provoke debate on ai's impact on the arts. that's the latest from the newsroom. for now, your next update in half an houh now, your next update in half an hour. until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts . gb news. com slash alerts. >> right. do you know what i was thinking? do you know what i know? we're on the telly. you were thinking. >> you know what i was thinking? you >> beverly, there's no future for you in politics. >> well, well, well, i was gnpped >> well, well, well, i was gripped by that story in the bulletin about the movie. >> that's been cancelled because it was written entirely by ai. and what that might mean for writers and the industry. anyway, we might get on to that in a little while. 1106 with britain's newsroom, with andrew

pierce and the slightly distracted bev turner, we've also got former labour mp stephen pound with us and broadcaster mike parry. >> they want to talk about bradley wiggins, don't you chaps? >> well, i think it's worth talking about. >> very sad story. >> very sad story. >> it's an extremely sad story i've been keeping in touch with this. it first broke last week that he'd lost his £13 million fortune and declared bankrupt . fortune and declared bankrupt. that was found out by a daily mail reporter who tried to go to the barn, the converted barn in cheshire that he lives in, only to be told when he got there, no, he doesn't live here anymore. i'm sorry. this has gone into receivership and been seized by the mortgage company. however, it got worse this morning when there is an account of bradley wiggins having recently seemed to have been living in the back of an abandoned van. amazing. £13 million gone. nobody seen hide nor hair of him for a long time. and it's the most. >> i'm so sorry, matt. we have to interrupt you because snp leaderjohn to interrupt you because snp leader john swinney is to interrupt you because snp leaderjohn swinney is unveiling leader john swinney is unveiling the manifesto. we have to take it. here it is. >> i know you're all very

excited. >> people are worried about their future and the well—being of their loved ones. we are living in a period of rapid change where new technology , the change where new technology, the climate emergency and the implications of an ageing population will all have a profound impact on the way we live our lives in the future. given this atmosphere of turmoil more than ever , i believe more than ever, i believe political leaders and political parties need a set of values as a foundation from which to respond to those challenges. i believe people are crying out for principled leadership, which is prepared to argue for what it believes in. so today, as i launch the snp manifesto for the 2024 general election, let me set out the core values of the scottish national party that anchor our proposition to the people of scotland. we are a moderate, left of centre party in the mainstream of scottish pubuc in the mainstream of scottish public opinion, firmly rooted in the ideas of inclusion and internationalism. we will always put the interests of people in

scotland first, wherever our people were born, wherever our people were born, wherever our people have come from , and at people have come from, and at the very heart of our beliefs is the very heart of our beliefs is the principle that decisions about scotland should be made by the people who live in scotland. why? for the simple reason that no one else cares as much about this wonderful country , and no this wonderful country, and no one else will do a betterjob of one else will do a better job of taking care of it now and in the future than the people who live here. it is through independence, therefore, that we believe we can build a fairer country and the more prosperous economy we know is possible, not independence for its own sake, independence for its own sake, independence for its own sake, independence for the powers to protect our national health service and to help people through tough times is independence for a stronger economy and happier, healthier lives and independence for a better future for scotland. made in scotland . for scotland, it is in scotland. for scotland, it is those values that govern our overall approach and the content of this manifesto . so. so let me

of this manifesto. so. so let me outline the choice. the snp offers to the people of scotland at this election . first and at this election. first and foremost, we are the only party, the only party arguing for an end to the spending cuts. the arbitrary tory fiscal rules adopted by labour back in more eye—watering cuts, £18 billion of cuts. the snp manifesto argues for new, sensible fiscal rules that will end the cuts . rules that will end the cuts. reverse the £13 billion cut to scotland's capital budget and invest in public services, starting with the health service we will join with progressive politicians south of the border to press for greater funding for

the nhs and for the uk government to match the pay deals that we have given our health staff in scotland . that health staff in scotland. that would see an extra £16 billion for the national health service in scotland , and we would in scotland, and we would introduce a keep the nhs in pubuc introduce a keep the nhs in public hands bill at westminster. a legal guarantee for a publicly owned, publicly operated health service. the snp message on the health service is clear. it is simple and it will never change. the nhs is not for sale. voting snp . voting snp is sale. voting snp. voting snp is a vote to protect our public services and our precious national health service . national health service. friends, i've made clear the focus of my government will be to eradicate child poverty. the two child benefit cap makes things much, much worse . it is things much, much worse. it is the exact opposite of what the

uk government should be doing. introduced by an uncaring conservative government, it is frankly beyond me that the prospective labour government plan to keep this deeply damaging policy. snp mps will press for the two child benefit cap to be scrapped . the future cap to be scrapped. the future of the two child cap is a simple test. are you in government to help children out of poverty, or are you so morally lost that you push kids into poverty ? our push kids into poverty? our choice to abolish the cap is obvious , and it is driven by our obvious, and it is driven by our values, and we will assert that in the house of commons after this election. those values that demand the removal of the two child cap also drive the snp on

so many issues , not least so many issues, not least nuclear weapons. we will demand an end to the obscene waste of billions of pounds on a new generation of weapons of mass destruction . and while we're destruction. and while we're talking about waste. snp mps will demand that the house of lords is abolished. our values, scotland's choice is elected government, not ermine clad cronies. lift the two child cap , cronies. lift the two child cap, not the cap on bankers bonuses. bairns not bombs and investment not cuts . i believe those not cuts. i believe those choices represent the values that most of us share. they are scotland's values and a vote for the snp are a vote for this manifesto is a vote for those values for scotland . values for scotland. frames. every election is a

choice. over recent years, the outrageous westminster power grab has been designed to reduce the choices scotland can make for itself. that must stop the devolution busting internal market act must be revoked. westminster routinely passing laws in devolved areas without the consent of the scottish parliament must end for scotland's workers. we will support the end of exploitative zero hours contracts. the unacceptable practice of fire and rehire and we will fight to scrap the so—called minimum services level act, which is an attack on the right to strike, fighting austerity against westminster , austerity cuts for westminster, austerity cuts for the for our national health service, for better working conditions and against the westminster power grab working whenever we can with others to promote practical, moderate left of centre policies. that is what the snp are offering the people

of scotland at this election. we will stand up for scotland at westminster and we will put the interests of scotland first in the westminster parliament. but we know that the westminster system is broken, no matter how much we try to mitigate its impact. i think most people in scotland know that too. so our ambition is to transfer power from westminster and into the hands of the people of scotland, taking decisions in scotland. for scotland works using the limited powers of the scottish parliament has had a real impact on people's lives . the snp has on people's lives. the snp has introduced a more progressive tax system to help fund the nhs and other public services , as we and other public services, as we have delivered the best performing core a&e services in the uk for nearly ten years, we are helping with the cost of living through free prescriptions all day off peak rail travel and free bus travel

for young people . we have for young people. we have overseen a massive expansion in renewable energy and are already half way towards net zero. we have delivered many more affordable houses per head of population than england or wales . i know, however, that we must constantly strive to strengthen our work in transforming the lives of people in scotland through measures such as the scottish child payment. we are keeping an estimated 100,000 children out of poverty . that is children out of poverty. that is the snp in government at holyrood , working day in, day holyrood, working day in, day out to earn and re—earn the trust of people in scotland . now trust of people in scotland. now we will not always get everything right, but we will always, always put the interests of people in scotland first. the uk is going in a different direction. it's going in the wrong direction . far too often wrong direction. far too often the interests of scotland are ignored altogether. i've spoken a lot in this campaign about the

abc of westminster imposed austerity cuts, brexit and the cost of living crisis. scotland wanted none of that, but they were all imposed anyway, against our will. so today i want to introduce a d to that list. democracy with independence. people in scotland will always get the governments they vote for. that's how democracy should work. engaging and respectful persuasion , taking account of persuasion, taking account of everyone's view, working together wherever possible in the national interest. and it's through the power of democracy that we will win our independence . there is no other independence. there is no other way to do it. we must never lose faith in the power of the democratic voice of the people of scotland. in 2021, they voted for a scottish parliament with a clear majority for independence and for a referendum on the question of independence. that

democratic choice must be respected . at this election, we respected. at this election, we have the opportunity to reinforce the case for scotland becoming an independent country. it is the substance of the case that will take us there and that starts with the economy. scotland has resources and talent in abundance. we have extraordinary energy resources, a world class food and drink sector, an incredible tourism offering, brilliant universities, thriving financial services and creative industries. and we are at the forefront of the industries of the future, such as offshore wind power. since coming to office, the snp has grown both productivity and the scottish economy faster per head than the united kingdom . but most united kingdom. but most economic powers still lie with westminster , and the uk economy westminster, and the uk economy is failing. far too many people in an independent scotland. we could be back in the eu for the

first time as an equal member in our own right. we will be part of the huge single market which by population is seven times the size of the uk . we would enjoy size of the uk. we would enjoy once again the benefits of european free freedom of movement, vital for so many scottish businesses. our young people would have the opportunity again to study and to work freely across europe and in turn, we would welcome our fellow europeans to scotland. the snp has funded one of europe's finest programmes dedicated to the creation of high growth businesses, with a potential market of 450 million people in the single market. think of the massive opportunity for further growth . of course, for further growth. of course, an independent scotland, like all countries , would face all countries, would face challenges. success would not be guaranteed . that would be guaranteed. that would be determined by our own decisions

as a country and the choices we make. but when we look at independent european countries similar to scotland , there are similar to scotland, there are grounds for optimism and hope. countries like denmark, ireland and sweden are wealthier per head than the united kingdom. they are fairer with lower inequality. they have higher productivity. the key driver of living standards , and they have living standards, and they have lower poverty. so with all of our resources, all of our talent, with everything we have to offer and all of our ambition, why not at scotland ? ambition, why not at scotland? in an independent scotland, people would have a constitutional right to access a system of health care free at the point of need. the threat of

creeping westminster private privatisation would be over for good staffing in our health and care services would not be subject to a hostile westminster migration policy, and our public services would not be subject to disastrous westminster austerity policies. so never let anyone tell you that independence is separate from people's daily lives and concerns. it is fundamental to their lives and their concerns. it is about where decisions about scotland are made, decisions over our economy, our health service, our living standards. so on july the 4th, i am asking you to vote snp. i am asking you to vote snp to put the interests of people in scotland. first. i am asking you to vote snp for a future made in scotland, for scotland . made in scotland, for scotland. thank you very much . thank you very much. >> so that was that was john

swinney, the snp leader. he's not a dynamic speaker is he? no, not a dynamic speaker is he? no, not really. >> well to say. >> well to say. >> is it soporific, if we should say what stephen pound described him as. may i quote you, stephen? >> of course you can. yeah said he looks like an undertaker, explaining to you that he's lost the body. >> that's very well, actually , >> that's very well, actually, that's almost correct, isn't it? >> because the body politic of the party represents is lost, isn't it? it really is . it isn't it? it really is. it really is. >> we were talking about bradley wiggins. >> yeah we will and just tighten it up again like that. you've got to feel sorry for this guy. five olympic gold medals. he the first englishman. >> sorry not john swinney. oh sorry. >> no. >> no. >> bradley wiggins. no. bradley wiggins. first englishman to win the, tour de france . thank you the, tour de france. thank you very much indeed. and then blazed his way through great commercial deals to create this £30 million fortune, which now has literally simply vanished. it's a horror story . it has literally simply vanished. it's a horror story. it is. >> but isn't it interesting that bradley wiggins was a period he was the best known, most popular

face, the most widely publicised face, the most widely publicised face anywhere in british sport. you know, he looked like somebody out of oasis, but he had that great look with the sideburns and the absolutely right. >> he was a mod, but he was absolutely everybody knew it. >> and i would have thought that that man has got an absolute golden future in front of him. >> yes, i totally agree. >> yes, i totally agree. >> it's a bit like i mean, we heard this, the sad news about kevin campbell. you know, the everton striker who who just died, who i think the man who scored 83 premiership goals and never played for england at 53 or 5054, he was, i know very, very young, but the point being that he was bankrupt when he passed as well, he got involved in in some investment thing which hmrc sued him for 3 million i think. yeah, yeah. >> so, so can we just say i think he's got eight olympic. >> he's got eight olympic medals, five gold, five goals. >> yes, exactly. >> yes, exactly. >> you're absolutely right. in three silvers. i think. extraordinary. yeah. and can we also please refer to him with his proper title. he is sir. sir bradley wiggins. can you believe that. you know, he was on one of those very rare men who got his knighthood while he was still practising his sport, like sir andy murray, you know what

mean? >> the unhappy childhood though, too, didn't he? oh, he had a terrible childhood. >> yes. >> yes. >> father was was an very courageous the way he she addressed it, haven't we, that he was abused by his coach. >> that's right. when he was 13. >> that's right. when he was 13. >> for three years. three years. >> for three years. three years. >> absolutely terrible. yeah. the last sighting of him was that he was walking up and down outside a house, which they think he might have been living in his rented chain, smoking cigarettes while on his mobile phone. and that's a webkinz chain smoking cigarettes. >> you can't believe that. >> you can't believe that. >> and that is an image that you think to yourself, my god, you know how sad it's that addictive personality. >> you get addicted to exercise, but then they can so commonly become addictive. >> i think so particularly. i mean, you know, you're a swimmer. you know how some people are fanatical swimmers. and i know, you know, people who get up at five in the morning and then they practice swimming laps with him. he must have given so much energy into that. you're quite right. it becomes an addictive personality. take that away. yeah. and what have you got? >> yeah, but he's also lost his family as well because the marriage has ended. yeah. there's young children in. >> it's so. well let's see i mean listen, the thing is about these sports, he's not lost his

children. if he can. >> i think he's got a good relationship with these sportsmen. sometimes. if they can channel that focus, he could probably bring his life back round again. hope so. well, you know, and maybe make a success of it again. >> well, we all hope so. but so the problem is they find out that once you climb off your bike, there's not a lot else you can do. do you see what i mean? thatis can do. do you see what i mean? that is a rule. once, once a boxer steps out of the ring, there's not a lot he can do. mike tyson found out that, you know, apart from punching people in the face a lot, he wasn't very good at doing anything else, you know. well, the great tragedy you think of joe louis, one of the greatest ever all time boxers. >> yes. he spent the last 25 years of his life as a doorman in las vegas. i mean, talk about psycho. i mean, chris hoy. he's done. all right. you know, he was probably our second. yeah, sir. >> chris hoy, too, wasn't he? you know, but laura, you know, they've done some very good at cycling. they have years of being feted. they're in a community. they're in a team. and then it ends. >> but it's very similar to when you come out of the armed forces. yeah. people, when you

spent your time in the armed forces every day, you know what rig you're going to have to wear, what you what you're going to do. you come out and you stagger out of the dockyard gates and you think, what do i do on your own? >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> the other issue is when you're as powerful and as famous as bradley wiggins, sir bradley wiggins and mike tyson, nobody says no to you. nobody ever says no. and they should have been saying no on a lot of occasions, a lot of issues. you see what i mean? and they're too frightened to because you might then get pushed to the edges of the, you know, the king of bradley, the king of mike tyson. you know what i mean? >> mike tyson might bite your ear off. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> james craig snell did very well after he retired because he had a wife that was always telling him no. right. moving on, how much is a beer going to be in 2040? mike? >> my god, i can't believe this story. it says that beer is going to reach £25. £25 a pint. what? by 2040? £25 a pint. >> now, what is it now, at the moment in london, if i go out of here and go into a pub, i will pay here and go into a pub, i will pay £5.50 for a or £6 for a pint of beer. now mr pound and i were just asking each other what was the price of a pint of beer when you first went into a pub and bought one on my in my case it was £0.17 when i was a student

in nottingham. there was a, there was a scruffy little bar at the end of the road called the grove hotel, and a pint of bitter was £0.17. >> what year was it? >> what year was it? >> was it 1718, 1972? yeah right. 1972. >> i mean, i hate to admit in public, but i actually remember buying a pint of double diamond. i remember double double diamond. >> works wonders, works wonders . yeah. >> and do you remember the party seven's christmas ? seven's christmas? >> yeah, christmas. was it a lager? no, that's the late. >> sorry. no. the ladies would always have a snowball. >> they would . or a baby shower, >> they would. or a baby shower, a port and lemon or a baby show. >> you were middle class. >> you were middle class. >> we were not. >> we were not. >> yes. those those cans, they came with their own handle and pump. >> listen, talking of talking of what we eat and drink, this is a terrible story in the front page of the guardian today about the fact that uk children are shorter, fatter and sicker because of this awful diet and poverty. >> so we're going to have all they're all going to get free breakfast when labour win the election. >> well, i hope it's a sensible, proper avocado on wholemeal

bread or something like that. >> it won't be. >> it won't be. >> it'll be sugary cereal. i bet you in the school. >> okay. >> okay. >> i mean, yeah, they need an egg. >> here's the here's the real conundrum, you know, and i know there's a problem here, you know, and i know that one thing the government could do is to actually force people to reduce the sugar and salt content. but the sugar and salt content. but the minute we do that, people say, oh, no, it's a nanny state. well, i rather like the idea of having a nanny personally. and i wish that, you know, we could actually have people. >> jacob rees—mogg . rees—mogg. >> jacob rees—mogg. rees—mogg. >> jacob rees—mogg. rees—mogg. >> no, no, i was thinking more juue >> no, no, i was thinking more julie andrews and that starched when i, when i saw this story, children getting shorter, fatter and sicker. >> i thought they were thinking of me when i was a kid . of me when i was a kid. >> are are you a fat child? >> are are you a fat child? >> no, i wasn't a fat child. but do you know why? because my mother fed me properly. and this is the point i want to make. play football every day. if parents took total responsibility for what they put into their children's body and made sure they didn't have too much pocket money to waste on all those sugary foods, we wouldn't need this now. my mum gave us.i wouldn't need this now. my mum gave us. i mean, you've got to remember my mum, like other mums, came out of the second world war. they had no money and every penny counted, of course.

so my mum could get, you know, three meals out of a potato, you know what i mean? >> and they were used to rationing, which went on to the early 50s when i was born. >> i was born with a ration book. how about that? okay >> now we waste unfortunately. and you know what as well, it is about guilty parents. we've all been there. when you feel guilty, when you're both working full time and the kids say, can i just have a takeaway or can i have a burger and chips? it's so easy to give it to them because you feel guilty . you feel guilty. >> you get instant gratification and it is so addictive. that's the real problem. >> we've never had a takeaway ever when we were kids, but nobody did in those days. >> no, because i was i was one of nine and i can remember one day we bought sugar puffs for breakfast and it was, oh, these are smashing. these are really nice. that's the last time you'll ever see them. correct >> back to cornflakes. >> back to cornflakes. >> yeah. but you know doctor david ball from the reform party got into a bit of trouble this week because he, he said we need to have a discussion about whether a parents should be able to stay at home and the reform policy about marriage tax breaks for married people . yeah, we do for married people. yeah, we do need to have that, that, that conversation. it's very controversial . i actually controversial. i actually support that around the idea that we should be having that

conversation. and i got a kicking on social media for saying that, because the trouble is, the assumption will be that it'll be the mum that stays at home. >> correct. >> correct. >> well, you know, if you read the beveridge report, the nhs was founded on the basis of the beveridge report. the beveridge report predicated two things. one is that women wouldn't work. yes so they'd stay at home, they'd look after the old. and they'd look after the old. and the other thing that men would leave school at 15, work until they were 65 and die when they were 75. yeah. and so that was everything was based on the fact that non—working women would take up the slack. >> and we used to respect women who stayed at home and looked after the kids. >> well, now it's almost a term of insult. oh, she's. yeah. and it's outrageous, a housewife. it's actually a derogatory term. yeah. which is why we tend to say homemaker. >> keir starmer gets into trouble about defining working person. does he not think a mum who stays at home with the kids is a working person? >> just on paid working person, right, right. >> will drive you mad that. >> will drive you mad that. >> thank you so much for that. sam francis is waiting for us. here he is with the headlines. >> very good morning to you. just coming up to 11:31. the top

story from the newsroom this morning . the snp has launched morning. the snp has launched its election manifesto describing it as the most left wing offering from any party. speaking at an event in edinburgh moments ago, scotland's first minister said his party will push the next government in westminster to boost health care funding in scotland by £1.6 billion a year. john swinney says both labour and the conservatives present a clear and present danger to the future of the nhs . inflation has future of the nhs. inflation has eased to 2% today, increasing the prospect of an interest rate cut within months. it's the first time in nearly three years that the figure's been at the bank of england's target. chancellor jeremy bank of england's target. chancellorjeremy hunt says it's chancellor jeremy hunt says it's because of the conservatives plans for the economy. but labour says the government has nothing to do with the figure . a nothing to do with the figure. a large poll suggesting the conservatives are on course for their worst ever election defeat, with labour on track for a majority of more than 250 seats. the survey of almost

20,000 people estimates that sir keir starmer will win the biggest majority of any post—war government . the uk has seen its government. the uk has seen its highest day for migrant arrivals so far this year. the home office says that 882 people made their way by small boat across their way by small boat across the channel yesterday. 15 boats were intercepted as they made that journey from france . it now that journey from france. it now takes the number of arrivals so far in the 2024 to 12,313. spanish police are continuing their search for a british teenager who's gone missing in tenerife. jay slater, from lancashire, was last heard from on monday morning. the 19 year old called a friend to say he was lost while hiking with no water, and that his phone was on just 1% of battery . and vladimir just 1% of battery. and vladimir putin is visiting north korea for the first time in 24 years. the country's leader , kim jong the country's leader, kim jong un, was seen laughing with the russian president. the pair have agreed a mutual defence clause,

which would see the countries help each other repel external aggression . for the latest aggression. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts . you can scan the code on alerts. you can scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts . com slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report vote. >> well. here's how the markets are looking this morning. the pound will buy you $1.2729 and ,1.1856. the price of gold this morning, £1,830.30 per ounce. and the ftse 100 is at 8186 points. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. >> lovely emily and tom are here. what have you got on the show this afternoon, folks? >> we're a bit worried this morning, aren't we? >> just a tad y. >> just a tad y. >> we're a bit worried about the

number of millionaires that are leaving the country. >> new numbers out today. 9500 millionaires left the country last year. what that is more than any country, save for china i >> -- >> and there's, believe it or not, a lot of people who are saying good riddance, good riddance, that with all the tax they pay here, well , quite. and they pay here, well, quite. and this is the problem. if millionaires are leaving this country, where do you think the tax burden is going to go ? it's tax burden is going to go? it's going to be everyone else. everyone else . everyone else. >> emily andrew, every millionaires a policy failure surely , surely we've heard all surely, surely we've heard all of those arguments. why on earth does anyone need £1 million? that's the argument that people make . but it's strange, isn't make. but it's strange, isn't it? well, i imagine happening under a conservative government, but i think it's because they know a labour one's coming to with the non—dom tax changes, which the tories have signed up to, changed. the tories changed the rules on non—doms . the tax the rules on non—doms. the tax burden is the highest it's been everin burden is the highest it's been ever in 70 years. and most perniciously, when we talk about the tax burden, everyone thinks that's sort of like the personal

tax burden . it has risen the tax burden. it has risen the highest on the highest earners. the people who earn the most pay more tax as a percentage of their income than before . and if their income than before. and if you look at, particularly the top rate of tax, 45% higher than anything under blair. yeah the threshold for that hasn't just been frozen . it's been lowered. been frozen. it's been lowered. everyone else has had frozen thresholds. so i understand i understand a lot of people will not be shedding a tear for the millionaires, but i'm thinking about the fact that it means everyone else is going to have to pay more and more tax. >> you know , top 1% pay 29% of >> you know, top 1% pay 29% of income tax, okay? they pay the most of other taxes too. i mean, we need these people in the country . we need people who've country. we need people who've got a bit of cash. and also they employ people . employ people. >> they run businesses, they own houses. >> they could be innovators and creating enterprising businesses. >> it's very sad. and i think the number will accelerate. >> and someone who might be happy about this is george galloway. he's going to be top of the show, launching his manifesto , workers for britain. yes. >> do we have any idea where

people are going who are leaving? >> yes, mainly the united states of america , some are going to of america, some are going to dubal of america, some are going to dubai. yeah, some are going to paris , which is interesting, but paris, which is interesting, but isuppose paris, which is interesting, but i suppose it's close. yeah, but yeah, we do have there is a list and number one is the united states of america, particularly florida. >> okay. freedom. >> okay. freedom. >> the freedom state. >> the freedom state. >> yeah. it's not a coincidence. >> yeah. it's not a coincidence. >> no, no , the non—lockdown >> no, no, the non—lockdown state, ron desantis, if i was going to go anywhere, i'd go to florida. yes just just pack all my millions into my suitcase and i'll be waving you all goodbye, right, don't go anywhere. we're waving you goodbye. just. just for five minutes. we're going to be talking about this inflation falling two, 2. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> time is 1139. britain's newsroom with andrew turner. sending in lots of your views, your posts and comments. a lot

of people very exercised. yeah. about, lots of things. >> yes. well, jill has just said i know two millionaires who are leaving the country. >> they haven't left yet, but they will do if there is a labour government . richard said labour government. richard said labour government. richard said labour embraces us, embrace us, proles and our reliance on the state, this is another one, tony said . to be honest, if i was said. to be honest, if i was a millionaire, i would like to live somewhere more british. but unfortunately i'm stuck in manchester, england . manchester, england. >> that's your favourite? >> that's your favourite? >> that's your favourite? >> that's your favourite city? >> that's your favourite city? >> best city in the world, tony? how dare you? and david said surely everyone who owns a house worth more than £1 million is technically a millionaire. i was thinking that when emily and tom were discussing this, and they will go into the detail of it a bit more from midday, because, i mean the average house price in london. >> i'm going to google it. >> i'm going to google it. >> i'm going to google it. >> i think it's 350,000 now in london bridge house price in london, i think it is. oh it might be across. >> no, that's across the country. >> across the country. >> across the country. >> average house price in london is 700 715,750. so that's

clocking up towards a million. >> of course it is. so actually you don't you know a lot of people will have mortgages on those houses. but like you say, it's quite easy now to have £1 million of assets. if you live in london as in your property, is probably worth that, alex said. we're taxed to the hilt because of mass mass immigration at paying for people who are here illegally. barbara, this is a really good point. the expression is shooting yourself in the foot, clapping at millionaires, leaving the country. that's all labour voters who can't help being dim but labour mps are trying to run the country is a nightmare thought. that's barbara's opinion. >> and of course, in the 70s when thatcher got in, the top rate of tax was 98. can you believe that? >> i find that amazing. >> i find that amazing. >> so you kept 2. it was only for people earning an awful lot of money. but so that was why you had the, the people like mick jagger and tom jones all leaving the country because they didn't want to give the taxman

98% of their money. and the thing is, now, of course, we might talk about income tax being about 50% for the highest earners, but once you've then paid your tax on your fuel , your paid your tax on your fuel, your tax on your green tax on your on your utility bills, you paid your utility bills, you paid your tax on your bottle of wine . your tax on your bottle of wine. >> we're paying so much money to the government. >> we're taxed through the teeth, through the nose tax. it's appalling. >> absolutely . john has got in >> absolutely. john has got in touch to say short fat week kids , not enough meat and mum at work . now john i take i agree work. now john i take i agree with you on the meat thing but mum at work it just. can we just say parents at work . this is why say parents at work. this is why this issue is so controversial, because you presume that the woman is going to be chained to the kitchen sink. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and i think when david paul was talking about that, the reform guy, he didn't he probably could have said and i'm not saying mum could stay at home. i'm saying a parent i think he did. >> did he. yeah he did. right. >> did he. yeah he did. right. >> he talks about parents, and i think it's one of those issues

where it would be really great if working parents had the choice between the two of them, how they distribute that , that how they distribute that, that child care allowance or tax break or whatever it is, and decide who has time at home with the children because those with children do like to come home and have a parent there. at the end of the day. yeah, it's not a nice thing to say, and it's difficult to have purpose outside of the house. make money to pay all your bills and still look after the kids properly. it is difficult now. >> interesting. one of the things that came out in the interview this morning that the prime minister did, he did a phone in, he said he was pressed very hard on this. if they lose the election. and let's be honest, i don't think anybody evenin honest, i don't think anybody even in number 10 downing street any longer thinks they can win the election. will he stay on as an mp? and he gave an explicit guarantee that he would. well, i think i'm encouraged by that because tony blair quit as prime minister and left the same day, which meant nobody's looking after his constituency. now, you could argue when your prime minister, you're not really

looking after the constituencies, you've got people doing it for you. david cameron did exactly the same. theresa may carried on as an mp and she fought, the 2019 election, if that's true, what rishi sunak has said today, because he's got a house in california, remember? so he could very easy to move houses all over the world. >> yes, of course he has. mrs. >> hasn't she? but if he, if he loses the election which he will wins his seat and therefore steps down and continues to live in and look after that constituency of yorkshire for the next four years, i will have to eat some massive, humble pie. >> i think he will, because he's got two daughters who are in school now. you can take them out of school, but very disruptive for them. they're teenagers, but if that's true , teenagers, but if that's true, why don't we believe him? >> i think that's i think i do that that undermines such a strong stereotype about him being a technocrat with his eye on the horizon to go and live in california with his billionaire lifestyle and his i think it would be family running the digital id system in india. >> it would make him, i mean, if he if he goes back on it, that

would look terrible now, but no one will care. >> well, i think by that point i'm going to give me a backbench mp. >> i'm going to cut him some slack. i think he's true to his word here. he said it before, but he was explicit today. he was and said i am not. i'm going to i will serve the full term of a parliamentary term. i don't think he'll run again after that. i'd be amazed if he does. >> but what? >> but what? >> what a failure of communication, if that's true, what a failure of that department. if that's if that's who he is. well, that's not who we think he is. well, that's who he is. they have to convince us. >> but you could say a lot about the failure to communicate who the failure to communicate who the prime minister is because, look what's happened in the last four weeks. >> well, exactly right. still to come this morning, we've some good news about economy. things apparently could be

gb news. so inflation has fallen back to the bank of england's 2% target for the first time in nearly three years. and a boost to the conservative election campaign.

>> so, what do you make of this home? is it. is it going to change your mind? would you now think about voting conservative? >> so today we are talking to bill green from north devon. geen sorry. geen without var . geen sorry. geen without var. sorry, bill. that must happen to you all the time. i'm so sorry , you all the time. i'm so sorry, in beautiful north devon this morning , now you're a farmer, morning, now you're a farmer, bill. i believe . and so this bill. i believe. and so this news of the inflation coming down is. that is that. how do you greet that with, enthusiasm ? you greet that with, enthusiasm? >> well, i think yes, we all would, wouldn't we? i mean , would, wouldn't we? i mean, everybody wants to see inflation come down, a small amount of inflation, i think is, is often a good thing. i think it brings our inflation down below many of our inflation down below many of our major competitors , and i our major competitors, and i guess theirs will follow us down. i think our economy is running parallel to many of the world economies, and doing just as well, if not a bit better. so i think it's good news. i think it's good news for the government, good news for the country . i'm not sure it's good country. i'm not sure it's good news for labour and i'm sure

they won't present it as such , they won't present it as such, what is it like for being a farmer, bill? is it tough at the moment , well, it doesn't look moment, well, it doesn't look tough, does it, andrew? no, i mean, i love being a farmer. i live in a beautiful part of the world, i still work hard in my in my, in my late 60s, but, it's great. obviously, you know, we faced the same headwinds. a lot of other businesses, you know , of other businesses, you know, interest rates are higher than they were, but they're not going up. i think they're more likely to come down than go up, which is great. we've got some stability there, i'm as a sheep farmer . our stability there, i'm as a sheep farmer. our prices stability there, i'm as a sheep farmer . our prices have been farmer. our prices have been pretty good lately, cattle price is good. i think farmers on the whole are adapting well to the new situations . as we left the new situations. as we left the eu, where we have now, more emphasis on environmental payments and soil health and things like that, it's a transition, but farmers are very good at transitioning, and we've doneit good at transitioning, and we've done it many times over the generations . generations. >> do you feel optimistic, bill, about your industry ? if we're

about your industry? if we're looking particularly at a labour government ? government? >> i an excellent labour minister, farming minister actually a long time ago said to me that why do farmers vote tory when they always do much better under a labour government than a tory government? and i said, well, that's fine for the short time that you're in power, but unfortunately we pay for it afterwards , and i think that is, afterwards, and i think that is, is the case. you know, sometimes , policies that labour bring in might help farming or agriculture in the short term. but interestingly enough, in their manifesto, i think i'm quoting from probably the tories here, 37 words on the countryside and farming. so i've not got a lot of confidence a in that they've got a plan and b if they've got one it's going to be any good. whereabouts in north devon are you, bill? i'm just on the southern edge of exmoor. some of my land is the highest point in north devon, which is probably the best views in the

country, although other people are disagree, i'm sure. >> how lovely. >> how lovely. >> and is your day? does it start really early ? start really early? >> yeah, this morning, because i was going to do this interview , was going to do this interview, i had to plan around it. so i've been on the road with my tractor from 6:30, and i've just come in from 6:30, and i've just come in from cutting some grass for hay, hopefully another sun shining. i'll make it nicely and with a little drop of rain in the middle, yeah, so full day, but i mean, the weather's so nice . mean, the weather's so nice. what better place to be? and what better job? >> well, bill, i am heading down to croyde bay tomorrow, which is very close to where you are. there's a big music festival there this weekend, and. >> yeah, it's there, isn't there? yes. yeah. i'm yes. you know, watch out for my tractors. all i would say i will do. >> well i will, i will give you a wave. they actually clear the sheep off one of those fields looking over the beach just for the weekend at oceanfest, but glad to see the sun's out, bill. thank you so much for that talk,

bill, what's this? >> andrew, what bands will be at this festival? >> i don't know, it doesn't really matter. i swim in the sea a bit and i drink wine in the sunshine. i see my friends. >> so this is kevin maguire was on earlier, is an old lefty, and he was up in his part of the world. jarrow or north east tyneside , and a woman came up to tyneside, and a woman came up to him and said she's called red jen . and she said, andrew pierce jen. and she said, andrew pierce is your mate. andrew pierce is a complete cock. will you give him this? so here it is. >> i thought it's because you have a cock fight between you. >> the two of you? >> the two of you? >> no, she thinks i'm a complete cock.i >> no, she thinks i'm a complete cock. i said, well, it's a badge of honour. i'm going to keep that. my cats will probably think it's a real one. if you're listening on the radio. >> i just want to be really clear. we've got a picture of a chicken, a picture, a sculpture of a chicken is a chicken the same as a cock? >> i don't know, i'm not going to get into too much detail here. >> a male poultry bird . and on >> a male poultry bird. and on that bombshell, i think we'd better go to, emily and tom. but we'll see you tomorrow morning. have a lovely afternoon. >> see you . >> see you. >> see you. >> well, coming up on the show, a record number of millionaires

are leaving the country. what does that mean for the rest of us? and our tax burden? >> and a new report says children are getting shorter and fatter. but does the data really suggest that? or is it all just post smoke and mirrors? also, we're going to be going live to george galloway with his party's manifesto launch. >> yes, lots more to come after your weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. it's a beautiful start out there today andifs beautiful start out there today and it's going to be fine for the vast majority with warm sunny spells. one exception the far north and northwest of scotland, where it is turning cloudier and there will be some outbreaks of mostly light rain as the breeze picks up through the morning. otherwise, plenty of sunshine out there. the showers and thunderstorms that

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june. i'm tom harwood , and i'm june. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. some good news for rishi sunak . as inflation drops rishi sunak. as inflation drops to the bank of england target of 2. the prime minister says he can now cut taxes further. but is this too late to save the beleaguered prime minister? >> meanwhile , keir starmer faces >> meanwhile, keir starmer faces growing allegations that he's planning secret tax hikes. labour's manifesto states the party won't increase taxes on working people . but how exactly working people. but how exactly does he define working people ? does he define working people? it's interesting, isn't it? that definition of working people. keir starmer seemed to present it as almost, if you're on the verge of destitution, you are a working person rather than the entirety of middle england. and then there was a remarkable road back by rachel reeves this morning , the shadow chancellor,

morning, the shadow chancellor, who was seemingly saying that in