. headliners. news. in a moment. headliners. but first, let's bring you up to date with the latest news headunes. date with the latest news headlines . and the prime headlines. and the prime minister has said tonight he is incredibly angry to learn about conservative figures allegedly betting on an election date. speaking tonight during a tv election special, he also said people should face the full force of the law if they're found to have broken the rules. the conservative candidate, laura saunders, and her husband tony lee, who's the campaign director for the conservative party, are both currently under scrutiny over those allegations. and it comes after another conservative candidate, craig williams, admitted to an error of judgement after he placed a bet on when the election would take place. well, the four main party leaders all took part in the election debate on the bbc tonight, but reform uk were left out of it , tonight, but reform uk were left out of it, placed instead alongside the greens in an additional show next week, the former leader, nigel farage, has instead been speaking to an

audience in blackpool in lancashire, where he criticised labour once their manifesto. >> last week. there were six key objectives . not one of them objectives. not one of them mentioned legal immigration, not one of them mentioned the population explosion in this country. not one of them mentioned the population crisis in this country. not one of them mentioned the fact that no one of them has shortage of houses because we need to build one new home every two minutes in our country. just to cope with the levels of immigration into britain. none of it mentioned reform uk leader nigel farage speaking earlier on this evening. >> now the economy and borrowers will now have to wait until august for the chance of an interest rate cut. as today, the bank of england held the rate at 5.25. the bank said it needed more certainty that inflation will remain low, but the minutes

from the bank of england's meeting hinted at the possibility of a rate cut in august, when they next meet, and bofis august, when they next meet, and boris johnson is promising an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing he says, account of his time in downing street in his time in downing street in his new book . it's called his new book. it's called unleashed. it'll be in the shops in october and will also cover his time as mayor of london. and just lastly, the actor donald sutherland, whose career spanned more than seven decades, has died at the age of 88. his many credits included the dirty dozen in 1967, the famous war comedy mash in 1970, and, of course, ordinary people in 1980, which won the academy award for best picture. well, recently he starred in the hunger games series of films. he was father to kiefer sutherland , who to kiefer sutherland, who announced his death tonight on twitter. donald sutherland is often cited as one of the finest actors never to have won an oscar. he did, however, win two golden globes and an emmy award. donald sutherland, who died

today. donald sutherland, who died today . that's the news. for the today. that's the news. for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts . scan the qr code on news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's time for headliners . for headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners your first look at friday's newspapers. >> i'm andrew doyle and my panel this evening are paul cox and cressida wetton. >> are you both doing well tonight? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> good. andrew, good to see you. >> you look very happy and cheerful. >> you always do, though. >> you always do, though. >> i think it's like. i'm just lucky i'm. because i'm not happy or cheerful. oh, really ? i just, or cheerful. oh, really? i just, i just i'm or cheerful. oh, really? i just, ijust i'm able or cheerful. oh, really? i just, i just i'm able to. or cheerful. oh, really? i just, ijust i'm able to. this or cheerful. oh, really? i just, i just i'm able to. this is the way my face looks . you've got way my face looks. you've got resting. lovely face. yeah. resting. lovely face. >> so you're actually this dark inside? >> yes. oh, it's quite terrible, andrew. >> it's like dante's inferno. >> it's like dante's inferno. >> it's like dante's inferno. >> it is, but on the outside it's all terrible. >> how are you? >> how are you? >> i'm very well happy to be

here alongside my smiley chum, paul cox . yes. paul cox. yes. >> i'm looking at you in a new light now. >> okay, well, let's have a look at friday's front covers before we begin. >> so the daily mail is running with corbyn. would have been better pm than boris. keir claims the telegraph has got starmer. >> corbyn better than johnson as pm. >> this seems to be the big story. >> the i have got betting farce derails tory campaign amid fears that more names will emerge. and the guardian new blow for pm as former tory minister says he will vote labour. the financial times has got flurry on bets on july election at places in run up to sunak's announcement, and the star here we go. those are your front pages . your front pages. >> okay, we're going to kick off with the i paul , you've got the with the i paul, you've got the details. >> yeah. the headline is betting fast derails tory campaign amid fears that more names will emerge . now this fears that more names will emerge. now this is fears that more names will emerge . now this is across all emerge. now this is across all of the papers. a lot of my notes

are taken from various papers. that happens to be the i. i mean, it's an ongoing first thing to say. it's an ongoing investigation. >> just obe the background briefly. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so essentially insiders were able to the best way i can do it is take something from the mirror actually rather than the eye. so data from smarkets, which is the industry leader for political betting, shows thousands of pounds being wagered either for and against the election. being in july, between may the 14th and 19th, when mr sunak announced on may the 22nd that the election would take place on july the 4th. this what this is insinuating is the people that have been arrested are close, their advisors or security, and it's not just the one guy anymore. no, there's three people and there and there's expected to be more. now, if this turns out to be true, it's like a ridiculous level of stupidity. yes, insider trading or insider betting other than nancy pelosi, very few people are able to get away with it. >> yeah, but of course, luckilly people who work for the government, they'll always get away with it, won't they?

>> i don't really know what we're about to find out. >> we're about to find out. >> we're about to find out. >> i thought the idea was that there were so much money being put on a july election that the people at what's it called smart markets, had had noticed and thought , markets, had had noticed and thought, hang on, we seem to be doing a lot of business on this bet and had then started to dig for it. so presumably anybody that placed a bet thought that that placed a bet thought that that was just their thing they were doing. and then of course, were doing. and then of course, we shouldn't . we shouldn't. >> we don't know for sure. no, we don't. >> and we absolutely have to emphasise, we don't know if there's any guilt here at all. so let's not allege anything. >> it's all allegedly what it does do is it does. >> the headline is right derailing tory campaign. i mean, it's not like it was on the rails. >> i don't know, it wasn't doing well. >> no. so but but it's a problem isn't it. >> it really is. and it's one problem after another with sunak. i mean this is really is it seems like when i first saw this story about the one guy who put the bet on or was alleged to have put the bet on, i thought, that's quite funny. it seems like a funny, silly little story, but now it looks like on top of the d—day thing, it's now it's more headline generating stuff. >> it's even more fun than that because the tories had an advert

saying don't bet on labour. it had a roulette table. with these two options saying you'll either get more debt or more tax, which they've now had to pull. yes, i mean, who what non—stop isn't it? >> okay, well let's move on to the front cover of friday's mail. cressida, what are they running with? >> corbyn would have been better pm than boris. keir claims. so this is starmer's extraordinary answer in tv grilling by voters. >> is it that extraordinary? i mean , surely he would have to mean, surely he would have to say that because corbyn was the leader when he was, you know, in the party? >> exactly, i think was it four years he was in the shadow cabinet? well, it's obvious, isn't it? i mean, why on earth were you working for the man if you didn't think that he would be a good pm? >> wouldn't it be weird if he'd have said, actually, i always thought boris would be better than my leader. exactly. >> but of course, it hasn't aged very well. it's not currently helpful to labour. no. >> and of course, starmer has sort of been really addressing the issue of anti—semitism within the party, which has been associated with corbyn supporters. so, you know, it maybe it doesn't look good, but i really think they're making too much of this.

>> oh, of course they are. and i think what he's, you know, what he's trying to do there is point out that whilst corbyn was never fit to lead our country, boris in his opinion, was so bad that even corbyn would have been better. so i think he can. i think he can frame it that way. of course, we all know that he wouldn't be. we'd probably still be in lockdown if, corbyn had beenin be in lockdown if, corbyn had been in charge. goodness only knows what what would have happened. >> am i being a snob here? but corbyn got two e's at a level. i just think that should disqualify you from being prime minister. nothing wrong with getting two e's at a level. what i'm saying is, i'd like my prime minister to at least have got three d's. don't you think? >> well, that's a good question. >> well, that's a good question. >> it's a good question , isn't >> it's a good question, isn't it? i think i need some time to think about it. i don't know, i mean, you might have somebody that's gifted in other ways or blooms later in life possible. >> they should lay bricks or put up scaffolding. shouldn't they? they shouldn't run the country. >> i'm not saying he should have been a labourer or something. and i'm not. i don't have anything against labourers or anyone who doesn't achieve well academically. i just want the prime minister to.

>> who do you think would be better than a labourer or boris for pm? >> what's your vote there? well, now i mean this. i'm a i'm the people's cameron. i'm a man of the working classes. i believe that a labourer would do better than some toff. >> but you know what a working class people really did? a lot of working class people really liked boris towards the beginning, when he was mayor of london, and still he was reciting ancient greek, but he was charismatic. >> we like characters and you like scholars. we like, we like just idiots , funny blokes in the just idiots, funny blokes in the pub. right. and that's what bofis pub. right. and that's what boris was . boris was. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so that's the official, statement from the people's gammon there, paul cox okay, i'm going to move on to the front of the guardian. paul. >> yeah, interesting story here. new blow for pm as former tory minister says he will vote laboun >> he's not going well, is it? no, it's i mean let's get on that bolsters. >> the guy's called, chris skidmore . yeah. unfortunately skidmore. yeah. unfortunately for him, the tories former net zero tsar has. and this gets to the nuts and bolts of it really has revealed that he intends to vote labour for the first time

because rishi sunak has been siding with climate deniers. now, we know that the term climate denier generally, for anyone who would become a net zero tsar, describes anyone who questions the legitimacy of net zero by 2030. yes, it's this all encompassing dismissing of anybody who questions any of the facts whatsoever . so by that facts whatsoever. so by that very measure, it's meaningless to use . fine. very measure, it's meaningless to use. fine. i very measure, it's meaningless to use . fine. i don't believe in to use. fine. i don't believe in the term climate denier because it's so broadly used. it's like racism and all that sort of stuff. yeah, so he's making a political point here. it obviously didn't work out. he was given a remit to push the net zero policy. yes there was a u—turn from from tories. he's feeling a bit left out . so he's feeling a bit left out. so he's going to vote for the. yeah. >> it's a very difficult thing to come back from isn't it, to say that you, you absolutely adhere to the idea of net zero and then it gets binned by your party and you have to what can you do? you sort of have to leave. you can't say, oh yeah, i didn't really mean it. >> yeah. but it does. it just

it's another bad headline isn't it. >> it's terrible. yeah. >> it's terrible. yeah. >> at this point, what could sunak do to make things worse. so he's going to vote labour i mean that would be amazing. what a headline that would be. i've just i've thought about it. i think the other guy's got better ideas. >> well maybe that's what we're here tomorrow. how much money has been put on labour? it will probably quite a lot actually. specifically by tory. >> right. given that the polls are all saying the labour have definitely got this in the bag, he may as well do that. it'd be really avant garde. it'd be really avant garde. it'd be really funny for him to campaign for the other side. well, you know, tune in tomorrow to find out. well let's see. okay. right. let's finish this section with the front of the star reluctantly. >> chris daily star here we go, apparently gary lineker, who is apparently gary lineker, who is a footballer, but also they're calling him here a clothes horse, which i think is referenced to his recent advertising of his own , next advertising of his own, next men's clothing range, he's accused frank lampard of being bald or he's pointed it out and everyone saying he's a terrible mate for doing that. >> i mean, it's such a non—story , but also why why did the star

refer to him as chris salesman? yeah, just a bit mean, isn't it? >> well, don't you just love it? the fact that he he has advertised clothing and crisps extremely successfully, by the way, the fact that they call him a crisp salesman and a clotheshorse just really tickled me. i like him. do they know they don't like him? and i think that's pretty much the. well, actually , you can probably you actually, you can probably you can ask someone in the street whether they like gary lineker or not, and depending on what answer they gave you, yes or no, you could tell you could probably tell what they who they voted for , what they believe in. voted for, what they believe in. >> it's he's become a very politically divisive figure , politically divisive figure, which is very odd, isn't it, because all he was doing was selling products to kids to make them fat. i mean, you know, that's all it is now. i mean, but this is interesting because the star obviously want to have a go at him. and so they'll find anything a bit of banter he's got with his friend i presume it was just banter. >> well it sounds like banter, doesn't it? if anything, i think mr lampard comes out of this looking a bit weak. i thought sportsmen were supposed to be into that sort of teasing and tomfoolery there. >> stony faced. i bet he didn't

know. he's just got resting. stony face. face. oh, really? >> okay. all right, well, look, that's all we've got time for at the moment, those are the front pages fully covered. but do stay for part two because we're going to delve deep inside

welcome back to headliners. i'm andrew doyle. i'm still here with paul cox and cressida wetton. this is your first look at friday's newspapers. we're going to kick off this section with the telegraph. the bank of england has been accused of playing politics. cressida >> that's right. bank accused of political decision to hold interest rates. so conservative mps have accused officials on the monetary policy committee of being unfairly and unduly swayed by the upcoming election. so the bank have decided to keep it where it is, which is at 5.25. yeah, and some of the tories are complaining and but the monetary policy committee saying it's got

nothing to do with it. that's nothing to do with it. that's not why we've done it. yes. >> and of course it's important that the bank isn't neutral on these matters. right? >> right. exactly exactly. >> right. exactly exactly. >> i fear that they're telling porkies actually, because it's a statement of fact that it was political. i really believe that. and i think that they've decided to leave it as it was to try and remain apolitical, because quite clearly, the next step is a quarter percent drop. and that would look favourably for one or other party, probably at the moment alongside the 2% inflation, target being met. it would look good for the tories and they can say inflation is coming down, interest rates are coming down, interest rates are coming down. so they've stayed out. the little i do know is that during the purdah period, a banking policy is affected by the fact that nobody can make these political decisions. therefore dropping it now would have been difficult. i don't know much more than that. i think they were damned if they do and damned if they don't. but i would like them to have done the drop anyway, because i think from i think they could have made the drop 2 or 3 months ago. yes, it's unrwa an economist, clearly, but the people who listen to that are feel like

this is something that should have happened by now. >> okay. well, we'll move on to the telegraph. now, state school gcse spaces. this is to do with rachel reeves constituency. >> yeah it is really interesting and this is going to come back several times i think during this campaign and after no state school gcse spaces in rachel reeves constituency as labour pledges private school tax rate. >> she hates private schools. >> she hates private schools. >> she hates private schools. >> she does appear to i don't know her history. i i'd safely bet that she probably went to one, but so apparently all 50, all 46, state schools in the city of leeds, which is she is the mp for are to full capacity for year 11 students with one just school accepting year ten pupils for the next academic yeah pupils for the next academic year. now, the trouble with the politics of envy and spite , politics of envy and spite, which i truly believe this attack on private schools is it's a very, very typical labour policy, old school labour policy. the problem with that is that they are ill thought out. yeah, because it just comes from

an ideology. we need to tax the rich. we need to tax the aspirational. why should they have advantage over the rest? >> well, that would be all very well if all of the schools were equally good. if you could make state schools, you know, fantastic. i'm wondering, you know , why we don't bring back know, why we don't bring back the grammar school system? >> oh, well, that would be fantastic. it kind of disappeared during our age, you know , we're a similar sort of. know, we're a similar sort of. yeah. gen x age group, born in the 70s. it kind of disappeared if you'd been born maybe in the 60s, you'd have had good access to grammar school. yeah. i probably wouldn't have gone anyway, because my 11 pluses would have been probably not been as great as they could be. i came to academia. that's a word i've only learnt recently . word i've only learnt recently. i came to academia, later in life. shall we say. >> yes, you're now a scholar. but back then you weren't. i was not. so this is the thing, crystal. i mean, it doesn't look good. no state school spaces here. i mean, what do you make of this? would you? i mean, well, we've just had emily thornberry saying, oh, we're going to temporarily make class sizes bigger. >> so what? and of course, that didn't go down well at all. >> so i have an issue with that because, you know, i used to be

a teacher and i taught at posh private schools, and i went personally to a state comprehensive school. and so i've seen the difference myself as a pupil. i had like there were 40 people in the classroom right then. i was teaching and there were 20. and the difference was immense, because when i was a pupil at school, we didn't listen to the teacher, we just mucked about and there was nothing the teacher could do about it, of course, but at at a private school i can see everyone. the teacher can stop them talking. you have to vote. it makes all the difference. >> i absolutely, i bet it does. and i bet you could even have larger numbers in a more disciplined environment. yes. which typically i believe private schools probably are. or let's talk about the michaela school, the brilliant katharine birbalsingh school where she's discipline issue. yeah. right. exactly so that's i love that example because it doesn't cost any more. it's just a different way of doing things, in the meantime, recently bridget phillipson, the shadow education secretary has said, no, no, don't worry about emily thornberry's comment about bigger classes. overall, the number of pupils is going down, which but that's like a longer

term issue. that doesn't help you if you've got an eight year old going to school now. >> it's also not true, is it? because population is growing and i know, birth rates are slightly dropping, but i think that's a nonsense. it's certainly going to be a nonsense within the time frame of this parliament and what they should be, because they seem to dislike aspiration. yeah. what they should be saying is a lot of the private schools have got it right, and we should be bringing the state schools up to that standard. schools in rural areas or religious schools that have got good funding. they're getting these things right because the smaller classrooms, someone like yourself, andrew, i'd imagine you would have been quite academic at school. one of the reasons you were playing around, you weren't really that's really interesting. but there are kids that would benefit at school. but of course, you know, they can't be seen in that 40, so they get bored. >> no, you're absolutely right. i think it's absolutely key. bnng i think it's absolutely key. bring the class sizes down. we'll have better education. but honestly and it will solve so many of society's woes if you can do this and if you implement a grammar school system, it means people from working class backgrounds can aspire like you say, there's this fear of aspiration definitely going on. bad news. anyway, we're going to

move on now to the daily mail. sir keir starmer was forced to deny labour plans. what's that , deny labour plans. what's that, keir starmer forced to deny labour plans to flatten the whole green belt to build houses if they win power ? after rishi if they win power? after rishi sunak exposes the party's real views on rural buffer zones. so a labour official has recently said something that keir is having to distance himself from and say no, no, it wasn't right. it was on the politico podcast or website and the pm was probably absolutely delighted. rishi drew everyone's attention to this. so the guy said, i don't care if we flatten the whole green belt, we just need more houses in this country. i don't have any context, but that's not a great that does not sound good. it doesn't sound good. >> flatten the green belt. >> flatten the green belt. >> no, and i think if a vote winner, that is, if lewis was spraying stonehenge . yeah, it's spraying stonehenge. yeah, it's along those lines for sure. and if lewis was here, he'd be at pains to point out that labour are the party of anti countryside . and you know, countryside. and you know, historically tories have been the opposite . and this is the opposite. and this is playing to that message slightly from the daily mail. i you know

i'm all for building houses. i actually think the problem is too many people not not build more houses but reduce the number of people. >> are you suggesting execution randomly? >> not suggesting that it's a goodidea >> not suggesting that it's a good idea though. and no, i genuinely think i don't know what the solution is, but i think that we are overpopulated now. people will say, well , now. people will say, well, there's massive you fly over the uk. if you've ever flown from southampton to edinburgh, as i've done a few times, you can see the whole of the country and it looks like there's a lot of land, but it's beautiful land for us all to enjoy a lot of agriculture. we need to grow food, we need to, we need to be able to grow wheat. we need to be able to enjoy the countryside. although it's racist, the countryside is terribly racist. >> racist? well, i'll tell you what. to counter your racism, let me give you another suggestion. china had a one child policy that worked really well. why don't we just do that? it's an idea. >> no unintended consequences there, i don't know. the thing is, i wouldn't worry too much because are they actually going to do it? kia has said they're going to build 1.5 million homes, and that is the last detail you get on the matter. and after that it gets quite

vague. >> yeah, i'm sure it does. well, he's good at that, isn't he, let's let's finish this section with the daily mail. it looks like the american election is a bit of a knife edge. >> well, yeah, i'm not sure we're learning anything here, but let me let me take us through it. biden surges past trump in latest poll by fox news. >> surge is a bit of an odd word. >> it's doing a lot of heavy lifting. yeah, and i'll show you why in a second. so this is by fox news. fox news. and this is one week after the first presidential debate. so the fox news poll, which was published on wednesday, showed a 50% of respondents said they would vote for biden and 48% said they would vote for trump. and that is a change of 1% because previously it you surge at 1% catfished, haven't we? >> we've been catfished by this article. it'sjust >> we've been catfished by this article. it's just a little bit of a nose ahead right. >> what i would argue though is it's neck and neck. it's essentially neck and neck. if a political opponent had been through what donald trump has been through in the last, let's just say six months or even six weeks and was still neck and neck with the other candidate, you'd say that was a huge win .

you'd say that was a huge win. >> well, look, there's something interesting about this. what the poll is also showing that all partisans haven't changed their mind whatsoever. in other words , mind whatsoever. in other words, the people who are, you know, staunch democrats will always vote democrats . staunch vote democrats. staunch republicans always vote republican. this election is going to come down to the floating voters. so the big question, krista, is to the extent to which the felony conviction is going to sway their minds. right? don't really know. >> well, we don't know. no, we don't know. but i am just surprised. surprised at this because i thought when we been talking a lot about the felony felony conviction recently, that that really showed up the justice system and, and was going to cause people because in the immediate days afterwards , the immediate days afterwards, trump was making all these amazing money in donations. and so we thought , oh, he's got it so we thought, oh, he's got it in the bag. >> it could mean that it would go the other way, and it would actually support his president. >> i was expecting yeah, we need to be aware of the polls though. and there's a tolerance issue here. 1% is well within the tolerance of inaccuracy with polls. you know, you can have a tolerance of 2 or 3% with a poll. i would say it's probably

at 50. i would say it will come down to what happens between now and november. >> what about the sentencing? you know, when trump if trump is sentenced to jail, which i have a feeling this judge is going to do because he's, you know, he started down this road, you may as well go there. i have the feeling the judge wants to be go down in history as the person who jailed donald trump, right? no, i do, because no, i think you're right. >> it just drives me mad when people want to make those kind of things their legacy. well, this is it. >> this is not justice. >> this is not justice. >> this is a judge who did donate to an anti—trump campaign, right? donate money, which means surely he should have recused himself. i mean, that just i don't care which side of the aisle you vote. you would obvious, isn't it? it's just obvious. you you'd imagine so. 50. >> so. >> and certainly within our judicial system, that would have been the case. >> but if that happens, if he does go to jail, he's unable to campaign. right. and then he loses the election . how can you loses the election. how can you tell anyone in america that that was a fair election? you can't i don't think you can. >> i just assumed up until i read this that in those circumstances he would have a huge a real surge in support is what i actually just got gone down by 1. yeah. so it's not

looking. >> but as paul says, the polls, when have they ever been wrong? but always basically in 2016 for a start. well okay. so that's part two done. do stay tuned for controversy at the bbc prisons at breaking point and animal homosexual behaviour being . how terrible. stay tuned

welcome back to headliners your first look at friday's newspapers. so we're going to kick off this section with the daily mail controversy at the bbc. our favourite topic ? bbc. our favourite topic? >> our favourite bbc radio four star emma barnett has sparked a backlash after calling a pair of armed terrorists who kidnapped an israeli grandmother. men working for hamas. >> i mean, that's an odd euphemism, isn't it? isn't it? i still don't get why the bbc can't refer to hamas as terrorists , given that hamas are terrorists, given that hamas are terrorists. >> well, they are, and they've got no excuse . a spokesman from got no excuse. a spokesman from the campaign against

anti—semitism told the telegraph. ofcom has made it crystal clear that there is no rule stopping the bbc from referring to hamas as terrorists of course there isn't because they're a proscribed terrorist group. >> i would have thought just on bafic >> i would have thought just on basic accuracy standards, that it's like people on dating apps saying, you know, they're an entrepreneur and you find out they're a drug dealer. >> it'sjust they're a drug dealer. >> it's just not yeah, it's very hard because they refuse to. it says if they don't believe it, that they are a proscribed terrorist group because they say things like men working for hamas. it's like, i mean, for men working for hamas. also see largely peaceful fire bombing and axe wielding peace envoy . and axe wielding peace envoy. they're all the same thing, aren't they? >> men working for hamas? sounds like they're doing their grouting or something. >> yeah, like like you see the you know, when the careers officer comes in at school anymore to come in and say, you know, what would you like to do? you say, well, i'd like to i'd like to work for hamas, please. >> well, if you're, you know, if you build tunnels, maybe something like that, you could be like, well, to give the other side. >> kirsty young is saying that they don't want to anger hamas and they want to give them my

words, not hers. they want to give them decent coverage, you know, so that they don't get angry because they want access to hamas in order to be able to report what they're up to. >> but i thought you meant in case they complain. and i wrote some. no, you know, stern emails , points of view on a sunday. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the problem is we can't have the bbc only reporting things in ways that the reporters are happy with, because that's just that's a journalistic point , and that's a journalistic point, and i'm not sure it's valid when the bbc are the state broadcaster, because , as you know, we want we because, as you know, we want we want to have access to hamas. >> that's not an issue. have undercover journalists do do some serious journalism at the top level. don't don't placate them. they're entirely empowered by the way the west refused to condemn them. >> yeah, i just i come back to the accuracy point, i really do. i just i think anyway, look, let's move on now to the i just stop oil thereafter taylor swift now paul. >> well, this is the final straw for me. >> yeah, i know you're a huge fan. >> yeah, i'm a swiftae. just stop oil. target taylor swift's private jet and accuse her of

greenwashing. so the group told the i, which is that, reputable newspaper, the star purchase purchase of carbon offsets to make up for her private jet use was an attempt to buy her way out of climate emergency. >> she's saying because she does other things that offset, she can have a private jet that's dust in it. >> but that's what all celebrities do works, isn't it ? celebrities do works, isn't it? >> yeah, but she goes and plants a few forests or something like that. >> if you build a new house and you put enough energy saving light bulbs in, you get a point. i don't know the details, andrew, but i think that's what she's done. she's mega bought carbon. >> so this is in the i they are 13 to 14 paragraphs in before they mention that they targeted they mention that they targeted the wrong plane. oh did they get anywhere near that plane. because when i read this i read this story, i thought, i'm sure i heard something on twitter earlier how they got the wrong plane and they did get the wrong plane. whose plane did they spray? they're just some random posh guy, you know, wealthy business chap. >> now look, there they are, cutting through the gate at the airport. now, what i don't understand about this is just stop. and, you know, we saw them

the other day with stonehenge. just stop oil are an organisation that, as a matter of course, break the law. you know, they are an organisation that commit criminal offences as part of their raison d'etre. yes. now we in this country don't. we criminalise and arrest groups such as, you know, groups of gangsters say don't we arrest them if their organisation is solely there to break the law? >> you would think so. >> you would think so. >> what's going on? >> what's going on? >> what's going on? >> what is going on? i mean, they're just untouchable. >> i mean, can i just go to an airport and with some power tools and sort of saw my way through ? well, can i do. through? well, can i do. >> you've got orange paint. and it's not that they don't get arrested, but yes, i see what you're saying. they appear to be treated very nicely. >> but why isn't the organisation shut down by the police in the way that a gangster organisation would be infiltrated and shut down by the police? >> absolutely. and i think that's a class issue, i genuinely do. i mean, the peaky blinders didn't get away with it. >> is it because they're all posh kids? well, of course it is. >> most of them are. >> most of them are. >> and because the best lawyers right, they can get like oj's lawyers. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> yeah. the glove. yeah.

>> yeah. the glove. yeah. >> it didn't fit. >> it didn't fit. >> and also, you know, maybe they've got some some sympathy on the inside. something like that. >> maybe you think is that it. so they have a kind of establishment , so they have a kind of establishment, a popular so they have a kind of establishment , a popular view. establishment, a popular view. >> that's where they're from. they're all related aren't they? that's what it feels like to me. i think that they've totally eradicated any validity of their own cause . owi'i cause. >> own cause. >> yeah, it's very interesting to see jk rowling tweeted out after the stonehenge thing thing saying it now looks to everyone like you're working for big, big oil. yeah, because you're clearly turning everyone off your cause quite successfully. exactly >> you know, it's incredible. >> you know, it's incredible. >> it's so smug. they think they're being so radical. and they're being so radical. and the justification is always stuff like this. every moment has to have a radical. they see themselves as these radicals , themselves as these radicals, and you just think they're often comparing themselves to the suffragettes. of course , we know suffragettes. of course, we know that emily davison lost her life after hunger strikes being force fed, finally ended up under the king's horse . it's really not king's horse. it's really not the same, is it? no. >> and now going after taylor swift, they're just going to alienate their own. the young generation. just stop joy. people love taylor swift. paul,

sing me a taylor swift song . sing me a taylor swift song. >> i wouldn't like to, but. well, actually, she's asked me not to as she. yeah, because i'm so good that she doesn't want people to come to me. yeah >> of course. you know, that's a fair point. >> i forgot to tell you that there was a there was a whole letter that came into gb news. >> i'm just interested because i don't actually know any of her songs. no other songs. >> shake it off, i think shake it off hers. what does that mean? >> shake it off, shake it off. >> shake it off, shake it off. >> i assume it means, you know, like, dust yourself off and go again. i don't see it's a metaphor. i'm not a swift. >> it's not like what happens if a spider lands on your shoulder. >> it could be advice about how to deal with it. >> could be. is it an advice about dandruff? is that the song about dandruff? is that the song about dandruff? >> quite possibly. >> quite possibly. >> well, okay, i don't know. anyway, let's move on now to the guardian, a study finds this is about gay animals. >> gay animals. it is animal homosexual behaviour, underreported by science artists, survey shows. so this study has found that same sex sexual behaviour in primates and other mammals is widely observed, but seldom published . observed, but seldom published. now, obviously i'm from the countryside. i know there are websites that publish that kind of thing, but i don't think

that's what they're talking. >> there are some very special websites. you're right. >> well, so i've heard, so yes, it turns out that somebody knew this in 1911, george murray levick, he was an explorer with the scott antarctica expedition , the scott antarctica expedition, and he spent a lot of time watching male penguins. and he spent a lot of time watching male penguins . yes. watching male penguins. yes. having a nice time. >> too much time. some would say andrew, but he didn't want to put it in the literature for another 50 years. >> it was held back, sure, but that was in 1911. well, the thing about this is, i think pretty much everyone has known that homosexuality is rife in the animal kingdom for a long time. i remember a book called biological exuberance coming out in the 90s, which documented all sorts of homosexual activity amongst , sorts of homosexual activity amongst, various animal species. you know, there is no animal species that doesn't have homosexuality, but but i'm surprised that anyone's now claiming that's been underreported. maybe it was in 1911, but i think it's something we all know now. >> that's not a story, then, is it? >> we've all seen dogs at it. and you know, we know it happens. >> it's a lot of gay tropical fish. yeah. there there must be. yeah. and as some of us know, there's a lot of gay activity in

there's a lot of gay activity in the human, well, there's that as well here as well. >> and that's been going on since at least the greek times. i mean, they made it very popular, didn't they? the romans kind of indulged as well, articles about farmers complaining about all their sheep being gay, because it's not good for them, because they want more. >> they want more, more sheep. yeah. but they had so many gay rams that farmers were looking into. how could they, you know, force them. yes >> but it's still not a waste, though, andrew, because apparently in some species, for example, black swans, male male couples frequently court each other, steal eggs, raised chicks, and are more successful in ensuring the chicks survival than heterosexual swans . i don't than heterosexual swans. i don't think right. you might want a few gay livestock to keep things in order. >> do you remember when in the zoo in central park, they had the gay couple penguins who who had taken an egg and were raising it? yes, and it was a big thing. everyone talked about these gay penguins. no one talked about the fact that they'd stolen someone else's kid. evil gay parents, evil gay penguins . yeah, well, maybe. penguins. yeah, well, maybe. maybe. okay, let's move on to the telegraph . now. a nursery the telegraph. now. a nursery school in kent accused of indoctrinating children. well,

which school isn't exactly a nursery school ? nursery school? >> accused of indoctrinating. indoctrinating children by putting up pride flags. indoctrinating children by putting up pride flags . so this putting up pride flags. so this is west mead's community infant school , which is very is west mead's community infant school, which is very young children, of course, up to about sort of seven years old in whitstable, kent, has put up a large rainbow flag and ten smaller ones in its outer on its outer fence, as well as further flags in the classrooms to mark pride. >> and of course, we should emphasise this is the progress pride flag, not the original rainbow pride flag, which meant everyone's equal. it's all fine. this is the ideological progress. pride flag that basically says you can change sex. it's to okay mutilate and castrate kids if they're a bit different. it's that evil flag. >> it's the one with the black and brown colours in it. yeah, to tell you that black and brown people weren't allowed in gay pride previously . pride previously. >> apparently not. >> apparently not. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> i don't even know if that's true, but i mean, western children are now sort of saturated in sexual propaganda, which is not a euphemism. by the way, andrew, it's not good. but, i mean, i have no as, as as everyone i know, i have very

next to zero issue with inclusive education. but there's an age barrier here. we need children. in fact, we should allow children just to be naive. >> why would a child, when they're 4 or 5 years old? >> yeah, it doesn't matter. start talking to children about sexuality. talk. once they were towards their teenage years before that allow them not to be sexualised. i know all of our social media does it already, but for me this is just awful. >> it's very weird , you know? >> it's very weird, you know? >> it's very weird, you know? >> and yeah, it's very frustrating. it's some of the i mean, some of the parents are for it, some of them aren't, and they're talking about the reaction to this as being homophobic. it's like, no, it's really not. no, it's not homophobic. >> it's so weird to me when you see these tiktok videos of these teachers, mostly american young teachers, mostly american young teachers, non—binary , they thems teachers, non—binary, they thems with pink hair, you know, boasting about how they've been forcing the kids to call them thems and theys and all the rest and zeus or whatever. thems and theys and all the rest and zeus or whatever . and i just and zeus or whatever. and i just think this is all about your ego. well, it's nothing to do

with the child's education, nothing to do with it. no. exactly. imagine going into that job. you need small children to validate your narcissistic sense of self. i mean, what kind of absolutely . absolutely. >> and the truth is, it's like your career, andrew. the flags are like your career . really? are like your career. really? what you want is to not have to have them. yeah. and what i mean by that is, you know, you could go back to playwriting if the things that we have to talk about ideally in a solved world, i don't want to say that any of this stuff , i want it all to go this stuff, i want it all to go away. if you really wanted proper inclusivity, you would be happy when the flags were over. they should be a temporary measure while everyone gets into the new way of thinking. but that's not that important ehhen >> no.is ehhen >> no . is it really? i mean, not >> no. is it really? i mean, not to bang on about being straight. i mean, it's absolutely obvious it is with all the ladies that you have or the notches on your bedpost every other day you come in here with a different woman. >> i know, you know, isn't it? it's insane . it's insane. >> but what can you do when you're the people's gammon? >> what a player. what a player. we're going to finish this section with the daily mail. and this is, jails at breaking point. that's never good for a

jail, is it, cressida ? jail, is it, cressida? >> prison governors warned jails will hit breaking point in july due to overcrowding. we've been heanng due to overcrowding. we've been hearing this story a lot. we keep hearing it's coming. it's coming , keep hearing it's coming. it's coming, basically, if you're thinking of getting into crime, now's the season for it. oh, great. >> i was thinking of shoplifting. >> well, if you do, andrew, you'll get not only 50% off your sentence, you'll now possibly get up to 57% off your sentence. so. >> and a duke of edinburgh award, no doubt. you're probably. you know, there probably. you know, there probably is a duke of edinburgh award now for selfridges then. smashing. yeah, that's the way, isn't it? just keep it under £200. yeah, i know that's tricky in selfridges. is it? spread it spread. >> you can't get a egg, can you? >> you can't get a egg, can you? >> probably not. no. i mean i'd be quite. there's, there is a lot of things going on here with this sort of, you know, oversaturation of the system and the way they, the way they allows inmates to be held in custody, police stations instead of in jails , as well as delaying of in jails, as well as delaying cases at magistrates courts. what they don't talk about is what crimes are being committed, which of those that are being held . it'd be quite interesting held. it'd be quite interesting if these are all serial killers. >> it's a problem. no, no, i

have read previously that if they are violent and sexual crimes, that the reduction reduction in sentence doesn't apply. but nonetheless, i mean, you can still be a victim of a burglary and it be very painful. no, they don't catch burglars. >> they don't bother with that. you've been reading the news for two years. >> i don't like this whole thing about you can steal up to a certain amount before they consider it a crime. and if they do start applying that to serial killers, we are in trouble. if they start saying you're allowed to, you can have two. after that, you're in. you're in there, mate. be awful. all right, well, coming up in the final section, we're going to be discussing the hunt for the perfect partner. mortifying hidden surveillance and carpool karaoke with putin and kim un. stay

welcome back to headliners. your first look at friday's newspapers. we're going to kick off this section with a bizarre story about american politics. >> paul, this is bizarre . >> paul, this is bizarre. mortifying. hidden surveillance footage captures republican

lawmaker secretly pouring water into a democrat rival's bag for five months. >> this is insane. >> this is insane. >> this is insane. >> this is insane . >> this is insane. >> this is insane. >> so we set up a spy cam in the end to catch this woman. it was a woman, wasn't it? it was. yeah. >> he kept thinking, why is my bag got water in it every single day or increase. i think it was like a couple of times a month and then it started to increase. and he's thinking, what's going on? >> this is like that film gaslight. yeah. this is how you drive someone mad with psychological torture. yes. every day all my bags wet again. does he start thinking it's ghosts? is it ectoplasm? like what? and then, you know, he gets his camera and it's just. it's rival political. brilliant >> she's just got this little plastic container and she just goes past pop and ruins his day. i mean, it's brilliant. i mean, it's awful. >> she is a psychopathic genius. yes, because she was driving him mad rather than, you know. yeah, exactly. >> i mean, she has apologised, but that's largely because she got caught. >> yeah. yeah, exactly. >> yeah. yeah, exactly. >> you know, she's going to go back and do a whole education on herself, but you know, like you say, i mean, i think it's mad. it says a lot more about i don't

know what who it says more about the fact he he just kept putting his bag there. yeah. that's stupid for a start. >> yeah. why didn't he realise something was wrong sooner? five months. five months of a wet bag? yeah i mean, that's mad, but she's like, she hasn't grown up from primary school yet. no she hasn't grown up. >> jul. >> jul. >> why is she even in politics? why isn't she in a home, being looked after, being fed bananas? because she clearly she shouldn't be in the adult world? >> no , she's not an adult >> no, she's not an adult ehhen >> no, she's not an adult either. either in an asylum or in the senate . right. those are in the senate. right. those are the two things. and she happens to have gone for the senate. >> how depressing. okay, well, let's move on now to this story. this is the times , lots of this is the times, lots of people getting married. cressida. >> apparently, marriage is up 12% after post—covid rush down the aisle. so obviously after covid, i don't know if you remember, we had a lockdown. oh, i remember that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> vague, vague recollection. >> vague, vague recollection. >> i don't think about it ever anymore. it's i'm happy about it now, yeah. nobody was getting married. and so then they came out of lockdown. i mean, i know they're supposed to be a lot of people who are desperate to get married who couldn't. but there must have also been a lot of people who went their separate ways. oh, no, the divorce rates

went up because. >> because all of a sudden you were there with your partner all the time. yeah. and the thing is, the key to a successful marriage is not being together very much. oh, without a doubt. >> if you see your other half once or twice a year, you're gonna laugh at most. yeah, you're gonna laugh for ages like that. yeah. it's really just a slightly mildly interesting story about how, you know, the queue got bunched up whilst things were shut down. there were some stats that amused me mildly . again, historically, the mildly. again, historically, the largest number of marriages between men and women used to be in their 20s. it's now in their 30s, between 30 and 34. that was it wasn't good for bigamists , it wasn't good for bigamists, was it? >> covid you couldn't because you couldn't play that trick. >> i had to choose like which wife i was going to stay with. >> yeah, i know, i know a few of your wives. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and they weren't impressed. >> and they weren't impressed. >> i just chose, the one that cooked the best. yes, yes, that was what i went with in the end. >> yeah, well, there we go. let's move on. now this is the star. now, what's this about, mr or mrs. perfect? paul, you've got plenty of them. yeah, well ,

got plenty of them. yeah, well, all on the go. >> it's a busy a busy time for me. i don't know where this is leading. hunt for perfect partner over as data's now set their sights on six out of ten lovers. >> what's wrong with six out of ten? >> well, just put me back five out of five. yeah? yeah, exactly. >> i mean, i mean, i thought all these kids were going on to, like, tinder and stuff. looking for a nine out of ten being really unrealistic. yes. well, you know, but then they realise, well, you're not going to meet anyone, are you? >> yeah. the more you read the story, the more you realise that social media is heightens people's expectations. it does what they are owed. but it says the poll of 800 adults who use dating apps found 55% are seeking a partner who isn't stereotype perfect. >> well, sure. why would you want a perfect partner anyway? i mean, it's a bit of a competition, isn't it? marriage you want to be. you want to be at least one above your partner. >> but the whole 1 to 10 scale is purely about looks , is it? is purely about looks, is it? >> yeah. you should get another couple of points. if you're rich i >> -- >> yeah. you don't think it's about looks. >> you think it's about chris? well, it's not about being funny or having curly hair because i'm telling you it is. i've been at

ten. funny. >> it's about being funny. do you know how you can tell every man on a dating app says, i'm really funny. you're going to have to be funny. is that true? >> is it to women like funny men? is that right? >> i believe that is. >> i believe that is. >> they like good looking, funny men, don't they? >> widely accepted even looking. and, you know what they say. they like men with beards. no, they like good looking men with beards. yeah >> also, the problem is there's an inverse correlation. is that the good looking men tend not to be very funny. >> yeah. does it need to be? do they? the reason i'm amusing is because nobody would look at me and i wanted attention, so i became amusing. >> okay, well, let's have a quick look at the sun. now. this is carpool karaoke. paul. >> yeah, bizarre carpool karaoke style video shows putin driving, giggling with, kim jong un. >> yeah, well, they're the new best mates now, aren't they? >> i mean, i'd still rather see the one with. i'd rather watch that, actually. the one with, james corden. >> oh, yeah. obviously that would be my view of this, but could be james corden's next career move. >> well, let's not put them on. let's put it on. >> is this a worry ? i mean, >> is this a worry? i mean, like, you know, third world war

and all that. if these two are now becoming lovers or whatever, then this is a problem, right? >> it's a massive problem. yeah. this is the fun face of world war ii. yeah, yeah, it looks like a bit of a laugh. it is. >> it is world war for the social media age, isn't it? that's exactly it. it's incredible. you can just imagine now hitlerjust incredible. you can just imagine now hitler just wrestling incredible. you can just imagine now hitlerjust wrestling a bear for social media. >> i really don't want these two getting on, you know, no shot of putin waving sadly through the plane window, saying goodbye at the end of it. >> oh, probably. >> oh, probably. >> oh, probably. >> oh, blimey. it's a real brief encounter moment. okay well, look, that's all we've got time for, but let's have another quick look at friday's front pages. so the daily mail is running with corbyn. would have been better pm than boris. keir claims the telegraph has got exactly the same story on the front cover. the i is leading with betting farce derails tory campaign amid fears that more names will emerge. the guardian has got new blow for pm as former tory minister says he's going to vote. labour the ft has got a flurry on bets on july election , and the star has got election, and the star has got a story about gary lineker and

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gb news. way. >> good evening and welcome to vote 2024 the people's decide with me. camilla tominey coming up on tonight's show, we're going to be discussing england's . well, i would say a draws a draw, but fairly disappointing performance against denmark with big sam allardyce. we're also

going to be speaking about the tory election betting scandal . tory election betting scandal. could things get any worse for rishi sunak? and i'll be taking on a just stop oil protester after that attack on planes at stansted . stansted. we'll also be joined by government minister covid kevin hollinrake and shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth , as general jonathan ashworth, as polls predict a tory wipe—out at the general election in just two weeks time. do get in touch with your thoughts on tonight's topics by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay but first, here's the news with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> camilla, thanks very much indeed. we begin this bulletin with some breaking news concerning the actor donald sutherland, whose career spanned more than seven decades. he has

died at the age of 88. his many credits included the dirty dozen in 1967, the war comedy mash in 1970 and ordinary people in 1980, which won the academy award for best picture . more award for best picture. more recently, he starred in the hunger games series of films. he was the father of kiefer sutherland and is often cited as one of the finest actors never to have won an oscar. he did, however, win two golden globes and an emmy. donald sutherland, who's died today. now, in other news, the bank of england held its interest rate today at 5.25. it is the highest level since 2008, and it's a blow for borrowers . but it could be good borrowers. but it could be good news for those with savings. the bank says it needs more certainty that inflation will stay low, but minutes from the bank of england's meeting hint at the possibility of a rate cut in august, when they next meet . in august, when they next meet. the conservative candidate,

laura saunders, who is facing