these stories that date on these stories that really matter to you. cracking first hour. coming up, nigel farage has taken part in an interview with the bbc's nick robinson. the reform uk leader suggested that the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine by expanding nato. is he right or has he gone too far.7 this time? and has he gone too far? this time? and then another day , another and then another day, another protest in scotland, hundreds are taking part in a march in support of independence. we'll be there, live throughout the show, and the king may have to downscale his plans to visit australia and new zealand . i'll australia and new zealand. i'll have more details on this breaking story later. hey, but guess what? this show's not all about me. it's all about you and it's nothing without your views. so let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today by visiting gbnews.com forward. slash your site and join the conversation or message

me on our socials. we're @gbnews, but first, it's the glorious tatiana sanchez with your news headlines . your news headlines. >> dawn, thank you very much and good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the prime minister and the labour leader have both criticised nigel farage's comments, suggesting the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. rishi sunak says it was completely wrong after missing out on the bbc question time leaders special this week. the reform uk leader took part in an interview with the bbc's nick robinson. mr farage said the expansion of the eu and nato gave him a reason to tell the russian people they're coming for us again. rishi sunak says the comments play into the russian president's hands and sir keir starmer has echoed his comments. >> the farage's comments about russia and ukraine are disgraceful . i russia and ukraine are disgraceful. i have russia and ukraine are disgraceful . i have always been disgraceful. i have always been clear that putin bears

responsibility , his sole responsibility, his sole responsibility, his sole responsibility for the russian aggression in ukraine, and we have always stood behind ukraine and supported ukraine, and so far we've done it united across parliament. i've made it my business to ensure that the opposition stood with the government on this issue. so seriously, did we take it? and of course, with our nato allies . of course, with our nato allies. >> meanwhile, the conservatives say they're going to focus on the night time economy and secure the future of britain's pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues in its first 100 days of government. the tory party says a comprehensive review would be launched to look at licensing laws , planning at licensing laws, planning rules and other enforcements they say is holding back growth. it says the sector was disproportionately impacted by the covid pandemic and the war in ukraine, which drove up food, dnnk in ukraine, which drove up food, drink and energy prices. the prime minister says representatives for bars, pubs and music venues deserve more support for the work they put in to serving local communities. >> it's right that they get the

support they need. they've been let down by labour, whether that's here in london, where those types of venues are closing at a rapid rate with multiple job losses, or indeed in wales, where labour is hiking up their taxes, a conservative government will support all those venues to make sure that they can continue creating jobs and drive our economy forward and drive our economy forward and continue providing an enormous amount of enjoyment in our local communities. >> sir keir starmer is today pledging a fundamental reset to respect and dignity for the windrush generation. the windrush generation. the windrush scandal refers to migrants from the caribbean who started to arrive to the uk in 1948 to help rebuild britain after the war. sir keir says the conservatives have presided over a failing compensation scheme. the scheme has only paid out 2500 claims out of an estimated 15,000 people originally considered eligible for compensation . meanwhile, labour compensation. meanwhile, labour is pledging to put water companies under special measures as over 10,000 people have been hospitalised due to water borne

diseases under the conservatives rule. labour says they'll give the water regulator powers to block the payment of any bonuses to polluting water bosses until they've cleaned up their filth. they've also vowed to make water bosses who continue to oversee lawbreaking, face criminal charges , as well as end self charges, as well as end self monitoring and force all companies to accept independent monitoring to stop companies covering up illegal sewage dumping. shadow environment secretary steve reed says the tories have for too long let water bosses get away with it. >> there are beaches in bournemouth that get closed on some days in the summer because the level of sewage, raw sewage, is so high, it's dangerous . it's is so high, it's dangerous. it's dangerous to go in the water over the whole country . levels over the whole country. levels of raw sewage and our water are at record levels. the highest ever recorded. and yet the conservatives have let the water companies who are responsible for this just get away with it. so if there's a labour government elected on the 4th of july, what we will do is put the water companies under tough special measures .

special measures. >> the liberal democrats are setting out a plan to save chalk streams from environmental disaster . it streams from environmental disaster. it comes as analysis by the party found over 48,500 hours worth of sewage was discharged into chalk streams last year , more than double the last year, more than double the previous year. the proposals would see a public consultation launched within the first 100 days of a lib dem government, in which rivers and lakes could be awarded new blue flag status to protect them from sewage dumping. sir ed davey has ensured it won't cost the public to set up that new system . to set up that new system. >> actually, it's really, really quite cheap and we do a public consultation to start off so the pubuc consultation to start off so the public can be involved in it, and the blue flag status , the and the blue flag status, the applications are really quite cheap. i think it's about 425 from from memory pounds. so we're not talking a lot of money. what we're we have put investment because you need to get behind it is in a new regulator. we've called it the clean water authority. we're not happy with the way the regulators have been monitoring

and enforcing the law on the water companies. and enforcing the law on the water companies . they've been water companies. they've been allowing them to get away with this filthy sewage dumping and the search for a british teenager who went missing after a night out in tenerife has entered. >> now its sixth day. jay slater travelled to the spanish island for a music festival on his first holiday without his parents. but the 19 year old has not been heard from since. he called a friend shortly before 9:00 monday morning, saying he was lost and needed water. jay was lost and needed water. jay was last seen in the northwestern mountain village of masca . spanish police rejected masca. spanish police rejected an offer of support from lancashire police to assist in the search for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now it's back to dawn . to dawn. >> thank you very much, tatiana .

>> thank you very much, tatiana. right, let's get straight into today's story, shall we, right, sir keir starmer has doubled down on his claims. he'd never pay down on his claims. he'd never pay for private health care for his family members, even if they were stuck on a long waiting list and really needed medical care . the man hoping to be the care. the man hoping to be the next prime minister in two weeks time, sat down with gb news political editor christopher hopein political editor christopher hope in the. in the first of many interviews to come with party leaders on gb news, here's what he had to say , i, you know, what he had to say, i, you know, elected him to serve as prime minister. >> my job is to bring those waiting lists down, and i'm not going to the same time say, but for me, i'm going to jump the queue. >> that would be if you can afford, you can take the pressure off the waiting list by paying pressure off the waiting list by paying it for yourself. that's what margaret thatcher was said. no look, i'm not going to jump the queue when i was awaiting that. >> i'm going to reduce the queue.the >> i'm going to reduce the queue. the other thing i should say is this because there are different ways this question is put on acute care. people say, if your child was really ill. yes. on acute care the nhs is absolutely the best. so much so

the private hospitals refer into the private hospitals refer into the nhs. so right. >> joining me now is gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, hello. looking fantastic in your lovely vibrant red out there. nothing political about the colours wearing at all today catherine. lovely to see you now. i'm sorry, i don't believe a word of that. if someone i loved, my family member was really suffering, i would move heaven and hell to get care for them, even if it meant getting myself into lots of debt. what do you make of what his doubled down on keir starmer? >> yes, well, i think a lot of people will find it very surprising, but i think there's probably a couple of things going on here. the first of all is, of course, that this is a comment from a comment that he made, sort of off the cuff a couple of weeks ago in a debate saying that, no, he wouldn't use private health care, and he's doubled down on it. now, if he was to say, oh, well, i'd make an exception for my child, then of course he would be accused of

flip flopping, accused of u—turning. et cetera, et cetera . u—turning. et cetera, et cetera. the other thing, i think is that, of course, his mother was very, very seriously ill. and throughout his childhood and much of his life and was in and out of nhs hospitals and had, he thinks, fabulous nhs care . so thinks, fabulous nhs care. so the nhs is very close to his heart. his wife works in the nhs and, as he pointed out, if you are critically ill, the nhs is, he says, the best place to be. in fact, private hospitals refer patients on in those instances. but yes, certainly if it was a chronic condition and he says that he would make his children wait. but today he has been talking about the windrush general nation. of course, those are people who came from the west indies after the second world war. we had a huge labour shortage . the uk was very glad shortage. the uk was very glad to have them. and then of course , we had this scandal, didn't we, back in 2018 when it had emerged that the home office had

wrongly been detaining them and deporting them in some cases, when that should not have been happening at all. sir keir starmer has pledged, to reform the home office and, and make it up to these people. the wrongs that have been done to them. but he's also coming into some hot water today over the front page of the times story that jk rowling has basically said that she feels that labour have abandoned women and that she doesn't know that she will be able to vote for a labour government. now, bear in mind she's been a big supporter of laboun she's been a big supporter of labour, and also she's been a big donor for them in the past. so he was being asked questions about that. and i specifically asked him for gb news how when the labour mp rosie duffield had said that only women have a cervix, he had said that's not right and that shouldn't be

said. now that was a woman saying that when a man, tony blair, made a very similar point , saying a woman has a vagina and a man has a penis , and he and a man has a penis, and he said, i agree with tony blair. so i asked him very specifically what the difference was between those two statements. let's have a look at what he had to say. >> i think it's very important in all political debate that we treat all views with respect and all people with dignity, and that's what i've tried to do throughout this. i'm very proud of the progress that we've made as a labour party , as labour as a labour party, as labour governments in the past. when it comes to women's rights. i'm conscious that the battle on women's rights is never over. we need to make further progress in this country and i hope if we're able to win the general election, we will do so. but what i want to do is to ensure that we make that progress by persuading people to vote labour at the general election, turn their back on this government, usherin their back on this government, usher in a labour government to rebuild the country , but also

rebuild the country, but also use it as a reset moment where we can bring the country together and ensure that all debate is done in a respectful way that i think everybody wants and so i think there's a real opportunity here now to make some progress. but opportunity here now to make some progress . but compensation opportunity here now to make some progress. but compensation . some progress. but compensation. >> so immediately after that, i said that he hadn't explained the answer to my questions and he walked off. i was then spoke to by someone very senior, close to by someone very senior, close to him who said to me, the position on biological sex has always been the same. i did ask him about things like, you know, the use of the word chestfeeding or people who bleed. and you know what? some women will feel the erosion of the word women. he said that absolutely labour are against that. they think that's nonsense and they will be against that in government. but i do think this is quite problematic for the labour party

i >> -- >> well, it's problematic for at least 50% of the population, would humbly suggest katherine forster, thank you very much. a very feisty probing of keir starmer there and having a man mansplaining biology. to me is wonderful. katherine forster, thank you very much. much more on this story coming up later on because i'm angry with it. okay. now for all the best analysis and opinion on that story and much more, just go to our website, gbnews.com. now something else that might make you angry is nigel farage is under fire for claiming the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. in the reform, uk leader told the bbc the war was, of course, vladimir putin's fault. but the expansion of the eu and nato gave the russian president an excuse to justify it. let's take a look at what nigel farage actually had to say i >> -- >> we provoked this war. it's, you know, of course it's his fault. he's used what? but we provoked the invasion of ukraine. and very interestingly, once again, ten years ago when i

predicted this. by the way, i'm the only person in british politics that predicted what would happen. and of course, everyone said i was a pariah for danng everyone said i was a pariah for daring to suggest it. george robertson , former labour cabinet robertson, former labour cabinet minister who went on to become the secretary—general of nato, has in the last couple of weeks said the war is a direct result of eu expansion . of eu expansion. >> wow, what a week. hey. all right. joining me now is journalist and political consultant, emma burnell and political commentator suzanne evans. ladies, thank you very much for joining evans. ladies, thank you very much forjoining me in our lovely westminster studio . now lovely westminster studio. now i'm going to come to you first on nigel farage, because you were shaking your head all the way through that clip where he was talking there. what do you make of what he's actually said? >> i mean, i think it's extraordinary. we we've gone from a package on women's rights to this. right and it's the same bloody message. sorry, i nearly swore there. that's how cross i am. i've never thought of anyone in bad language, but they were asking for it. please give me a break. that is. provocation is never the right answer to these

sorts of things. putin was going to do what putin was going to do , and the idea that that trying to put in place some sort of protection, because we knew that that was coming is a provocation, is just so disgusting to me. and here's the thing. look, i, spoke out against jeremy corbyn, who was the leader of my party, a party i've been a member of for over 30 years. when he was disgraceful around putin and russia and i am so bowled over by some of the hypocrisy from those who said that i was right to do so then, but are now saying that, oh, nigel farage has got a point, hasn't he, suzanne, i mean, ukraine were turned down by nato many times, weren't they? so i mean, i'm not quite sure where the provocation in that is. we turn them down. what do you make of what nigel farage just said? there are a lot of people gb news viewers who have said he has a bit of a point here. he does have a point

now, nigel farage said he warned about this and he was absolutely right. >> he did. in 2014, he stood up in the european parliament and he said, look , if you allow he said, look, if you allow ukraine to join nato, if you allow to join ukraine, to join the european union, which which ukraine wanted to do , and i ukraine wanted to do, and i absolutely don't blame them for that. you know, they know what it's like suffering under communism. they are a newly established democracy . of established democracy. of course, they wanted to get into bed, as it were, with their more liberal neighbours, and i don't think farage certainly wouldn't. i don't think blame them for that either. the question is, he predicted this and now he was right. and at the time he was pooh poohed for it and everyone said, don't talk rubbish. he was right. he said, don't poke the russian bear. he will respond. and that is what happened. so you cannot blame farage for saying that? absolutely not. no. but the use of that word provoked i think is, is a very inflammatory one. and i think this is the problem really , this is the problem really, nigel farage, i've worked with nigel farage, i've worked with nigel farage, i've worked with nigel farage in the past very, very closely. he's one of the best read men i know on international affairs. and i think the problem is we very often try and paint these global

conflicts as quite simplistic. and they're not they're actually very, very complicated. the other thing i think i'd like to say about this is here we are, there's an outcry about what nigel farage has said about ukraine. putin is a real threat and a danger to global peace and democracy. there's no doubt about that. you've got him linking up with china, with iran, with north korea. you know, you've got the recent mutual defence agreement between russia and north korea . and here russia and north korea. and here we are faffing about something nigel farage says. so there's also a part of me that thinks this is purely a political jul, a fire poured on a on fuel , a fire poured on a on fuel, poured on a fire. really? this is not the most important issue here. the most important issue here. the most important issue here is not farage. and what he says about a single conflict and what he might have said in 2014, why is nobody taking this threat seriously? why are we not ramping up defence spending? that's what we should be doing. not faffing about, but what one one politician says emma burnell, i have worked with you for a long time now and i can honestly say i've never seen you look so angry.

>> yeah, i just i'm so angry >> yeah, ijust i'm so angry about this. nigel farage is running to be a legislator in our parliament. it is vital that we know what they think when they're voting on things like defence. absolutely. like making sure that we are standing up to aggressors. and when they say that those aggressors were provoked , that is simply not provoked, that is simply not acceptable in our legislation . acceptable in our legislation. >> do you want in your parliament? do you want somebody who is going to stand up against aggression and who understands? well, yes, that would be nice, i.e. not nigel farage. what farage does , because as i said, farage does, because as i said, he has a much clearer impact. i know him personally . he's a much know him personally. he's a much clearer impact on international affairs than most people in parliament. most mps in parliament, in my experience, have a very , very poor grasp of have a very, very poor grasp of international affairs and actually , i think, you know, you actually, i think, you know, you can be as well read as you like, but if you make the wrong conclusions from that, it doesn't matter which books you've read. i don't think what is the conclusion is the other thing i think that people are forgetting in this is that nigel

farage very clearly condemned putin in that interview and said he was wrong. there is a massive difference between saying somebody is wrong, but also explaining why they did something. and if we get to a situation where we are not allowed to criticise what international leaders do and this is why they've done it , i this is why they've done it, i think we're in a very sad state of affairs. >> everything before the but doesn't count and that, he said putin was wrong, but and everything before the but everybody knows that any apology everything before the but doesn't count. i'm sorry but he's saying it's provoked. that's the word that i care about. >> ladies, we are running out of time. unfortunately, do you think , suzanne, do you think think, suzanne, do you think this will damage, reforms , this will damage, reforms, chances of getting more votes? >> i don't, i'm afraid, because i think people who are going to vote reform think that nigel farage is picked on, abused are things are things that he say are spun out of all control . things are things that he say are spun out of all control. i think this is actually just invigorating very quickly. >> i mean, i think suzanne's probably right on that. i don't think it's going to shift the dial massively for reform at this election. in a week and a

half. i think in the longer term, if nigel farage is elected to our parliament and therefore held up to the kind of scrutiny that other parliamentarians are, i think it will damage them longer term. okay >> thank you very much, suzanne evans and emma burnell very feisty debate on a very, very, opinion dividing comment by nigel farage there. well, it wouldn't be a gb news political roundup without our deputy political editor, tom harwood. now, i didn't write that, by the way . tom, don't flatter way. tom, don't flatter yourself, who joins us now from the liberal democrats battle bus looking very , very england looking very, very england supporting there. tom, what's happening with the lib dems today ? today? >> yes, i have to say, it's a marked contrast to the labour party battlebus, which had the flags of all different nations competing in the euros here on the lib dem battle bus hurtling through the home counties. it's the england flags that we can enjoy. perhaps a little statement there, because of course the lib dems are focusing really on these southern seats, what they call the blue wall.

and their announcement today perhaps feeds into the geography of that. they're talking about saving chalk. so streams from sewage dumping. what are chalk streams? well, they're streams of water that are through chalk deposits. and that's mostly in the south—east of england . it's the south—east of england. it's highly targeted in these seats, these conservative seats that these conservative seats that the lib dems want to take. so today we've just been on a farm. i've been surrounded by chickens. ed davey has been picking up chickens and showing his rural credentials , as well his rural credentials, as well as talking about their policy for blue flag status for various streams, ensuring that dumping cannot happen. how might that be paid for? well a little bit less clear because of course that would be obligations upon the water companies. they'd have to build more infrastructure that might well end up going on people's water bills. unclear in terms of how all of that will be funded. but we're currently on our way to our next mystery event of course, we've seen ed

davey do so many events over the course of this election campaign. he's ridden roller coasters, he's fallen into streams off paddleboards, gone down steep hills on bicycles . down steep hills on bicycles. what might be next? well, we'll just have to wait and see. >> oh, thank. thank you very much. tom harwood , on the lib much. tom harwood, on the lib dem battlebus, talking about chalk streams , which no doubt ed chalk streams, which no doubt ed davey will at some point fall in or throw himself in. tom, thank you very much. try and stay dry right now . it's time for the right now. it's time for the great british giveaway and your chance to win over £16,000 worth of prizes. you could be our next big, big giveaway winner. and actually, i'm excited and here's how you do it. don't miss out on your chance to win our summer spectacular and have we got a prize for you? >> first, there's a totally tax free £15,000 in cash to make your summer spectacular. spend that extra cash. however you like. you'll also win a brand new iphone. apple airpods. and if that wasn't enough, a £500 voucher to spend at your favourite uk attraction so you

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the organisation's year of demonstrations continues . demonstrations continues. joining me now is gb news scotland reporter tony maguire to explain what the hell is actually going on. tony good afternoon. what's going on then ? afternoon. what's going on then? >> good afternoon. well indeed. this is the national demonstration for self—determination as put out by all under one banner. the organiser of today's events. this is the second of their marches this year, after a very successful march in glasgow in the springtime . now, a couple of the springtime. now, a couple of factors have made this, i think, a bit of a smaller footfall. one is that we're not in the biggest city in scotland, we're up in stirlingshire. i'm standing right now in the field of bannockburn, of course, the site of one of the great scottish victories , when king robert the victories, when king robert the bruce took it to the english army, the march today started at old stirling bridge. and that, of course, was the site of a famous win by william wallace .

famous win by william wallace. now. but today, lots of the marchers have just arrived here in the field , however, a few in the field, however, a few short because of course , the short because of course, the tartan army is over and the. sorry, a very loud speaker behind me and a lot of the scots overin behind me and a lot of the scots over in germany just now cheering on the national say the huge night for them tomorrow night, make or break against hungary. but here today the conversation continues and a lot of the discussions that i've been hearing in and around the site here have been whether the snp is still the right to party take independence forward. of course, there are three pro—independence parties up here in scotland the greens and the alba making up the other two and all under one banner feels a bit of a fib . truth be told, because of a fib. truth be told, because there are divisions in the yes movement, mainly as a result of the gender ideology and discussions that went on last year and kate forbes, the deputy first minister, i asked her

yesterday that john swinney came in and said that he fixed all the divisions within the snp would he do the same for the independence movement? we are not. >> thank you very much. that's tony maguire up in scotland for us and i'm actually going to wish all the scotland fans the best of time in germany and good luck to scotland, because i can do that and i know everyone's going to hate me in england, but thank you very much, tony maguire, thank you very much for that, right. i'm dawn neesom and this is gb news saturday and there's loads more coming up on today's show. but first, it's back to those news headlines with tatiana . with tatiana. >> dorner. thank you and good afternoon. the top stories . the afternoon. the top stories. the prime minister and the labour leader have both criticised nigel farage's comments, suggesting the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. rishi sunak says it was completely wrong after missing out on the bbc question time leaders special . the reform uk leaders special. the reform uk leaders special. the reform uk leader took part in an interview

with the bbc's nick robinson. mr farage said the expansion of the eu and nato gave him a reason to tell the russian people they're coming for us again. the prime minister says those comments play minister says those comments play into the russian president's hands, which the labour leader echoed the farage's comments about, about russia and ukraine are disgraceful . disgraceful. >> i've always been clear that putin bears responsibility, sole responsibility for the russian aggression in ukraine, and we have always stood behind ukraine and supported ukraine, and so far we've done it united across parliament. i've made it my to business ensure that the opposition stood with the government on this issue. so seriously , did we take it? and seriously, did we take it? and of course, with our nato allies . of course, with our nato allies. >> in other news, the conservatives say they're going to focus on the night time economy and secure the future of britain's pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues in its first 100 days of government. the tory party says a comprehensive review would be launched to look at licensing

laws , planning rules and other laws, planning rules and other enforcements they say is holding back growth. sir keir starmer has outlined his party's plans to tackle delayed compensation for those affected by the windrush scandal. the scandal refers to migrants from the canbbean refers to migrants from the caribbean who started to arrive to the uk in 1948 to help rebuild britain after the war. sir keir is pledging today a fundamental reset to respect and dignity for that generation . he dignity for that generation. he says the conservatives have presided over a failing compensation scheme, and that scheme has only paid out 2500 claims out of an estimated 15,000 people originally considered eligible . and the considered eligible. and the search for a british teenager who went missing after a night out in tenerife has now entered its sixth day. jay slater travelled to the spanish island for a music festival on his first holiday. without his parents. but the 19 year old has not been heard from since . he not been heard from since. he called a friend shortly before

9:00 monday morning, saying he was lost and needed water. jay was lost and needed water. jay was last seen in the northwestern mountain village of masca . spanish police rejected masca. spanish police rejected an offer of support from lancashire constabulary to assist in the search. or the latest stories? sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites. now back to dawn . dawn. >> thank you tatiana. now remember , let me know your remember, let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today. been some 51 so far. visit gb news. com forward. slash yourself and join that conversation or message me on our socials @gbnews. now there's loads more coming up on today's show. it's a cracker. what do england and scotland need to reach? last 16 in those euros ? stay tuned to in those euros? stay tuned to find out how the home nations can get to the euro finals.

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weekend. it's saturday. i hope you have a good one. by the way, it's football. we can talk about sport. yayi now the euros are in full swing. both home nations have now played twice and qualification into the knockout rounds hasn't been guaranteed for either england or scotland. england need to avoid defeat against slovenia in their final group game on tuesday night. i think it is. and scotland lose their final group match to hungary on sunday. that's tomorrow. they will finish fourth and be eliminated. oh. joining me now is sports supremo. i think we can call you aidan magee. aidan, what do you make of it so far? it's marginally exciting because england have been a bit rubbish really. >> they have. i mean, you know, look, they've got four points. the mark of a good side is that you can win when you're not playing well. but then i remember 2006, we were making excuses match by for match why england with that beckham side and the rooney and gerard , and the rooney and gerard, ashley cole, joe cole, michael owen, wayne rooney, etc. we were making excuses match by match for why they weren't quite hitting their straps until we got to the quarter finals. they

still didn't hit their straps and despite not losing, they got eliminated on penalties and everyone was thinking what happened to the golden generation? now fear that that we've almost reached that stage. now because the previous three tournaments were almost not free hits as such. but the squad was younger and i wonder where we've now reached a point where england expects and therefore now is the time to deliver. possibly the pressure is getting to them . that's why i really to them. that's why i really believe, and we haven't really considered that, because this squad didn't seem dogged by the problems of old in terms of like chues problems of old in terms of like cliques and division and things like that. but now we do. we you know, they're the pre—tournament favourites, certainly in this country. and i wonder whether it's just getting to them because there's no pressure like playing for england. there really isn't. i mean you can play really isn't. i mean you can play for united, liverpool, chelsea, any amount of clubs throughout europe . there's throughout europe. there's nothing quite like playing for england. if you win, if you win a major tournament with england, that's the big ticket. it's a bit like being the being andy murray, wouldn't it be in the first mail? >> yeah, well that's why we're still talking about 1966 because we haven't done it since. >> exactly, exactly. so i think it's pressure more than anything that's affecting people, players. i think that there's could be a problem with tactics. it could be a problem with personnel, could be a problem

with the manager. manager, have we got a vw driver. have we got vw driver driving a ferrari? >> let's start at the top shall we? i mean, we you know, if you watch that game and you couldn't work out what southgate was doing, some of the players, i mean harry kane almost came out and said, well we're not quite sure what we're doing , you know, sure what we're doing, you know, and he's blaming for, you know, southgate is actually blaming fatigue at the moment. so he's in the paper this morning talking about that. yes, i know, but he's talking about his players having played. some of them have played in excess of 60 matches. so i think i think i think there's i think there's method in the madness. i think that well, not madness that's unkind. they've got four points out of six, but i think he's trying to build a lead. he knows that the rest of the group is not as strong as it could be. they've got quite fortunate in that regard. they want to build a lead and sit back. now, it doesn't explain why they did it in the final against italy because they weren't. they had no reason to concern to conserve energy then two tournaments ago. but i can understand the rationale behind the players coming straight into this tournament from a long season . tournament from a long season. and it doesn't matter if you play and it doesn't matter if you play in the premier league, even if you play if you're harry kane. i mean, i think he played 62 games last season, scored 59. no, i think it was 4052 and i'm not sure. but anyway, he played

he played between 50 and it's quite well paid for it though to be fair. yeah it does look it doesn't matter if you can't. the body can only take so much. it doesn't matter. you could double or triple their wages, their sports science behind this. so i can understand the rationale between building a lead and sitting back and then having more to go in the tank when you get to the knockout phases, however, we've got to the stage now where they haven't performed. in fact, they've got worse from the first game. yeah. and so and so. well, it's tournament football. karen walker made a good point after the game. you're playing against sides. i mean everyone wrote off denmark. i wrote off denmark myself and i looked at their midfield. pierre emile hojbjerg , midfield. pierre emile hojbjerg, christian eriksen and it was two players they managed to dominate in midfield and with of three, 3 or 4 players. so i thought that was outstanding. and so you know look hopefully, hopefully they'll come good later in the tournament. i find it difficult tournament. i find it difficult to believe that they will be this bad all the way through. but they've got to qualify first for the next round. >> exactly. so i mean you know southgate hasn't got long. what happens if we play as badly in this match. >> well i think well i think even if they lose they will on tuesday i think they could just sneak through. well i think nobody nobody on four points is

ever has ever not gone through. so that's the same. >> we have previous we normally win and then you draw and draw by finishing lower down the group. >> you can create problems with yourself for yourselves later on on the ground. i think they're called , no. if you finish called, no. if you finish second, i think it's germany. if you get third, if you get third, i don't know who we would get. i'm not sure. i've not worked out the permutations. nobody's really thinking about that. but but, you know, i just think the players are suffering a little bit of a little bit of a bit of rotation on their back. and i think that the england expects. >> come on. i was reading our, gazza's tweets earlier on, and you know, about sort of like, you know, about sort of like, you know, about sort of like, you know, when we had, terry butcher covered in blood and the pride and the fight that they had back then and it's like it does seem slightly lacking. they're too tired, they've worked too hard , you know, it's worked too hard, you know, it's all. any case, let's talk about scotland. i'll get carried away. >> yeah. look tomorrow they've given given themselves a real fighting chance of going through to the next round. now consider where they were this day last week. they were absolutely on the floor. they'd been thumped by the tournament host and the manner of victory, the manner of defeat, rather was rather disappointed was was disappointing for scotland. i mean they didn't seem to have any fight, any aggression . they

any fight, any aggression. they let down the tartan army, who, to be fair, stuck with them and then they go and produce a battling performance in the week against switzerland. and suddenly this game on again. and you know what? what difference a few days makes because now they're on the verge of making history. no scotland side in the history. no scotland side in the history of the national team has ever got out of the group. and i'm talking about sides that featured the likes of alan hansen, kenny dalglish, graeme souness, archie gemmill, all these players, fantastic players they had in the pantheon of scottish players down the years. they couldn't get past this stage now quite an ordinary scottish side by by comparison to some of those players we're talking about those teams. the teams that they featured could get through to the knockout stages , and that would be one stages, and that would be one hell of a hell of an achievement for them. and you think that hungary. all right. there are no mugs, as you said, off in the break there. but they've lost two games. if i was going to face anyone from that group, it would be them going into the last game if it meant qualifying. and let's say if it gets a four points, they would almost certainly go through well, i want them to do well. >> aiden, make like you're a tory betting man who's your money on to win, i'm i'm going to go for i'm going to go for spain, actually. right. okay. yeah. but my tip changes every

day. yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> okay. thanks. okay. >> okay. thanks. okay. >> that's our sporting expert aidan magee there who's changing his mind every day. but you know, it's football. anything can happen. thanks very much, aiden. cheers i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news saturday. there's loads more coming up on today's show. the king may have today's show. the king may have to downscale his plans to visit australia and new zealand as he continues to battle cancer . all continues to battle cancer. all of that and much more to come. this is gb news, britain's news channel and really best not go too far. by the way, loads more too far. by the way, loads more to come. >> we are proud to be gb news the people's channel and as you know, we always love to hear your views. now there's a new way of getting in touch with us @gbnews. >> com forward slash your say by commenting you can be part of a live conversation and join our gb news community. you can even talk to me, bev turner or any of the members of the gb news . simply go to see

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heydel—mankoo. thank you. one of my favourites, to talk about what's going on with charles. i mean, he seems to do so well at trooping of the colour last week. >> well, look, we have to say, of course, that these haven't been confirmed by buckingham palace or by his majesty's australian government, but it has been reported in the mirror. and of course, the king has had a very busy schedule of late. as you say. he was at trooping the colour. he was at the garter day service. he's been at ascot twice , he's been at cartier polo twice, he's been at cartier polo and of course next week we have the state visit of their imperial majesty the emperor and empress of japan. so he's certainly doing his best to be out there. but of course, his treatment has to come first, and he has to obey the advice of his doctors . so it's not necessarily doctors. so it's not necessarily surprising that his majesty is going to have to shorten and cut back what was supposed to be a two week trip to australia and new zealand in advance of the chogm, the commonwealth heads of government meeting in samoa, the trip to australia , if these trip to australia, if these reports are correct, was going

to be reduced to only six days. and as you say, new zealand completely omitted, which will be a great disappointment not only to his majesty, but also to new zealanders. there are more monarchists in new zealand than there are republicans. they you know, the king was last there as prince of wales in 2019, but they haven't had an official visit by their monarch since 2002. that's 22 years in australia that the prince of wales was last there as prince of wales in 2018, but they haven't had their monarch on their soil since the queen was last there in 2011. and, you know, it's important for the monarchy to be seen in these countries because in both cases, the largest group of people are have no interest whatsoever. they're indifferent to the monarchy because they don't see it around. and so it's royal visits that are really important in reaching out to all parts of the country, so they can see the monarchy in action. >> you would have thought, flying all that way. you may as well just pop over to new zealand. it's not that far, is it? i mean, you've gone all the way, which is tiring if you're being treated for cancer. yeah. no. >> well , i no. >> well, i mean, i'm not a medical person, so i don't really know. but in his it is

interesting that even in his six day trip to australia , they've day trip to australia, they've got a two day break within that six days for him to . so i think six days for him to. so i think this trip is being taken under a great deal of medical advice. and of course, the king also cancelled his trip to canada in may. so those are the three big realms after the uk, canada, australia and new zealand. and unfortunately, this hasn't been the greatest start in terms of securing that commonwealth realm link that the king believes is so important, so let's talk about something . i love this about something. i love this picture. by the way. this is the, prince of wales , his the, prince of wales, his picture, his birthday picture with the kids, i'd taken up in sandringham, i assume jumping over sand dunes. now, compared to the picture they took they put out for mother's day , which put out for mother's day, which was the kids standing out to sea. that was quite melancholy. this is just full of the joys. jumping over sand dunes in their shorts and somewhere looking absolutely lovely. what a lovely birthday picture and taken by catherine, we believe as well. yes, absolutely . yes, absolutely. >> we believe taken by her. and i think this is such a glorious

picture because it was the last few months have been nothing but doom and gloom and despair and concern and sympathy and here we've got, you know, it's almost as if they're looking through the other end of the tunnel. they can see the light at the end of the tunnel. you know, we've just had the princess of wales back at trooping the colour, albeit briefly. and i think this is such a happy and joyous photograph. and i think we can and also it just shows the new style of monarchy. could you ever imagine, you know , the you ever imagine, you know, the queen or prince charles even jumping in shorts and barefoot like that with the kids there? but i think it's great because of course, the monarchy is a family. you know, we've all got families and so we can relate to it so well through pictures like you rush off to jump off sand dunes though rafe the other. >> i know you're an expert like i am on this subject. william was actually at taylor swift with the kids last night. >> she's a jazz musician of some sort. >> she a popular beat combo type thing or bebop or something. >> yeah, but no 90,000 people. no a lot of that wembley last night watching taylor swift, she is selling out. she's doing amazing things for economy. and william was there with the kids. yeah >> well great. you know, as i said, you know, they are very

much, you know, the every family of this country, you know, and this is what swift mania. i don't know what it's called. swiftae you were a swiftae. they're all over the nation , and they're all over the nation, and there's no reason at all that there's no reason at all that the young the young royals can't be part of that. i think it's got a bit of a crush on her. >> he met her before and performed with her. so i think he's got a bit of a crush on her. and obviously catherine would have loved to have been there, wouldn't she? i mean, she gets dancing and, you know. yeah, she's just nodding knowledgeably. yeah, as bad as me are about taylor swift, aren't you? what more can i say ? aren't you? what more can i say? >> brilliant. go and see her. >> brilliant. go and see her. >> she's marvellous. thank you very much. rafe heydel—mankoo. thank you very much for that royal coverage there. now, this is gb news saturday. i'm dawn neesom and there's loads more coming up on today's show, but first, it's so important to weekends, isn't it? it's the weather. and here's aidan with all those details you need for a lovely hot, sunny weekend. please, ada, please. come on. please >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on .

solar sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there! welcome along to the latest update from the met office for gb news. some showers, especially across south—east england through the rest of today but dry for most and increasingly sunny skies through today and the next few days.in through today and the next few days. in fact, with rising temperatures . but for the time temperatures. but for the time being there is some cloud around and for western scotland. for northern ireland, that cloud thickens during the evening, some outbreaks of light and patchy rain and drizzle move in that rain and drizzle tends to sink south into northern england , parts of wales, south—west england as well. some low cloud around by dawn, some mist around coastal parts but clear skies elsewhere. some fog patches here and there and temperatures in the single figures. first thing in a few sheltered spots. but otherwise actually plenty of sunshine for the east midlands, east anglia and the south east. temperatures rising quickly through the morning. we've got this coastal mist and fog across south wales and southwest england. some drizzle over the

hills here as well, but for the far north of england, for scotland and northern ireland, we're going to see plenty of sunshine during the morning and temperatures rising quickly through the day . but for many it through the day. but for many it is essentially a fine day, albeit rather cloudy through the midlands. wales and the southwest during the morning and early afternoon . the sun will early afternoon. the sun will come through in many places, however , if you're heading to however, if you're heading to the coast, south devon, south cornwall, parts of south wales could be plagued by some low cloud and mist at times. where we get the sunshine coming through up to 25 celsius in the south—east low 20s elsewhere across the uk and plenty of sunshine as the afternoon comes to an end . meanwhile, across to an end. meanwhile, across western scotland, northern ireland again, some thicker cloud will arrive overnight, but that will tend to disperse by monday, which will be another largely fine day. and watch how the temperatures increase through next week up to 30 celsius by midweek. >> looks like things are heating

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headunes but first it's time for the news headlines again with the even more glorious this time around, tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> dawn, thank you very much and good afternoon. the top stories this hour, the prime minister and the labour leaders have both criticised nigel farage's comments , suggesting the west comments, suggesting the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. rishi sunak says it was completely wrong after missing out on the bbc question time leaders special this week , the leaders special this week, the reform uk leader took part in an interview with the bbc's nick robinson. mr farage said the expansion of the eu and nato gave him a reason to tell the russian people they're coming for us again. rishi sunak says the comments play into the russian president's hands. sir keir starmer has echoed those comments. >> the farage's comments about russia and ukraine are disgraceful. i've always been clear that putin bears responsibility , sole responsibility, sole responsibility, sole responsibility for the russian aggression in ukraine, and we

have always stood behind ukraine and supported ukraine, and so far we've done it united across parliament. i've made it my business to ensure that the opposition stood with the government on this issue. so seriously, did we take it and of course, with our nato allies , course, with our nato allies, the conservatives say they're going to focus on the night time economy and secure the future of britain's pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues. >> in its first 100 days of government , the tory party says government, the tory party says a comprehensive review would be launched to look at licensing laws, planning rules and other enforcements they say is holding back growth. it says the sector was disproportionately impacted by the covid pandemic and the war in ukraine, which drove up food, drink and energy prices. rishi sunak says representatives for bars , pubs and music venues for bars, pubs and music venues deserve much more support for the work they put in to serving local communities. >> it's right that they get the support they need. they've been let down by labour, whether that's here in london where those types of venues are closing at a rapid rate with multiple job losses, or indeed

in wales, where labour is hiking up their taxes, a conservative government will support all those venues to make sure that they can continue creating jobs and drive our economy forward , and drive our economy forward, and drive our economy forward, and continue providing an enormous amount of enjoyment in our local communities. i. >> sir keir starmer has pledged a fundamental reset to respect and dignity for the windrush generation . the windrush scandal generation. the windrush scandal refers to migrants from the canbbean refers to migrants from the caribbean who started to arrive to the uk in 1948 to help rebuild britain after the war. sir keir starmer says the conservatives have presided over a failing compensation scheme and that scheme has only paid out 2500 claims out of an estimated 15,000 people originally considered eligible for that scheme . meanwhile, for that scheme. meanwhile, labouris for that scheme. meanwhile, labour is pledging to put water companies under special measures as over 10,000 people have been hospitalised due to water borne diseases under conservative rule. labour says they'll give the water regulator powers to block the payment of any bonuses to polluting water bosses until

they've cleaned up their filth. they've also vowed to make water bosses who continue to oversee lawbreaking face criminal charges, as well as end self monitoring , charges, as well as end self monitoring, and force all companies to accept independent monitoring to stop companies covering up illegal sewage dumping . shadow environment dumping. shadow environment secretary steve reed says things need to change. >> it's the last general election. over 10,000 people have been hospitalised because they contracted water borne diseases while they were in the sea or after they went in one of our rivers. that's not just a bad stomach, that's getting so sick. they had to go to hospital andifs sick. they had to go to hospital and it's happened because the conservative party went completely soft on the water companies who are doing this. so if labour wins the general election on the 4th of july, everything will change. we'll put the water companies under tough special measures. so the water bosses who are overseeing this failure will face criminal charges . if they keep doing it, charges. if they keep doing it, they'll find themselves in the dock. >> the liberal democrats are setting out a plan to save chalk

streams from environmental disaster. it comes as analysis by the party found over 48,500 hours worth of sewage, was discharged into chalk streams last year. that's more than double the previous year. the proposals would see a public consultation launched within the first 100 days of a lib dem government in which rivers and lakes could be awarded new blue flag statuses to protect them from sewage dumping. lib dems leader sir ed davey has ensured it won't cost the to public set up that new system. >> actually, it's really, really quite cheap and we do a public consultation to start off so the pubuc consultation to start off so the public can be involved in it and the blue flag status, the applications are really quite cheap. i think it's about 425 from from memory pounds. cheap. i think it's about 425 from from memory pounds . so from from memory pounds. so we're not talking a lot of money. what we're we have put investment because you need to get behind. it is in a new regulator. we've called it the clean water authority. we're not happy with the way the regulators have been monitoring and enforcing the law. on the water companies. they've been allowing them to get away with

this filthy sewage dumping and the search for a british teenager who went missing after a night out in tenerife has now entered its sixth day. >> jay slater travelled to the spanish island for a music festival on his first holiday without his parents. but the 19 year old has not been heard from since. he called a friend shortly before 9:00 monday morning, saying he was lost and needed water. jay was last seen in the northwestern mountain village of masca. spanish police rejected an offer of support from lancashire police to assist in the search. for the latest story , sign up to gb news alerts story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites now it's back to the lovely dawn . lovely dawn. >> wow, yeah, i've just been sidetracked there by someone who's with me now talking about going to the very first

glastonbury. very exciting. anyway, thank you very much, tatiana , we're being serious tatiana, we're being serious now. let's get straight into today's stories , sir keir today's stories, sir keir starmer has doubled down on his claims. he'd never paid for private health care for his family members if they were stuck on a waiting list. the man hoping to be prime minister in two weeks time sat down with gb news political editor, christopher hope in the first of many interviews to come with the party leaders on gb news. here's what keir had to say, though, you know , elected him to serve you know, elected him to serve as prime minister. >> my job is to bring those waiting lists down, and i'm not going to the same time say, but for me , i'm going to jump the queue. >> that would be if you can afford, you can take the pressure off the waiting list by paying pressure off the waiting list by paying for it yourself. that's what margaret thatcher was said. >> no, look, i'm not going to jump >> no, look, i'm not going to jump the queue when i was awaiting that. >> i'm going to reduce the queue.the >> i'm going to reduce the queue. the other thing i should say is this because there are different ways this question is put on acute care, people say, yes, if your child was really ill. >> yes. on acute care. the nhs is absolutely the best. >> so much so the private hospitals refer into the nhs. so

>> right okay. joining me now is gb news political correspondent katherine forster. i'm not meant to be sitting here shaking my head, am i, catherine. sir keir starmer. even if his children were very, very ill and needed urgent medical care, he still wouldn't pay for private health care for them. i'm not entirely sure i believe him . sure i believe him. >> well, yes. and of course, this is a comment resulting to a comment he made a couple of weeks ago in a debate where he was asked , and he made a very was asked, and he made a very quick answer, that no, he wouldn't use the nhs for himself or his family under any circumstances . i think there's or his family under any circumstances. i think there's a couple of things going on here. first of all, of course, if he wanted to revisit that and say, okay, he might use it for his child or whatever , he would be child or whatever, he would be accused of flip flopping. you turning mr flip flop, you know, his, critics like to call him, so that would definitely happen. but i think the other thing, too, is of course, that his mother was very, very ill for a

long period of time, right from his childhood , and she was in his childhood, and she was in and out of nhs hospitals. he feels they did an incredible job of taking care of her. and as he said in that clip, he says, you know, if you are critically ill and nh hospital, nhs hospital is absolutely the best place to be and the private hospitals will refer into the nhs, it's a little bit difficult, different of course, for like a chronic condition. but no, he says, under no circumstance , would he under no circumstance, would he go there now? today he's been out and about in south london talking about labour's plans for the windrush generation of course, those were people who came from the west indies after the second world war. we had huge labour shortages. they were very, very welcome then. and of course the home office in 2018, it came to light that many of them had been detained, had even been , in some instances been, in some instances deported, and absolutely

shameful episode that cost the then , home secretary amber rudd, then, home secretary amber rudd, her job. then, home secretary amber rudd, herjob. now labour are saying they want a reset with that, they're going to do much better than the previous government on that. but also today, sir keir starmer has been getting into some difficulty about women and trans rights because j.k. rowling, that huge figure, has been a big supporter of labour, also a big donor. she's written also a big donor. she's written a piece saying that she feels that that labour have abandon island women, and that she isn't sure at all that she's going to be able to for vote them in just under a couple of weeks now. i asked sir keir starmer very specifically a question which was that labour mp rosie duffield, a woman, had said, only women have cervixes. and sir keir starmer had said , no, sir keir starmer had said, no, that's not, that's not right.

that shouldn't be said . but when that shouldn't be said. but when a man, tony blair, said , you a man, tony blair, said, you know, a woman has a vagina, a man has a penis. sir keir starmer said yes, i agree with that. and i asked very specifically what the difference was between those two statements. let's have a look at what he had to say to me in response. >> i think it's very important in all political debate that we treat all views with respect and all people with dignity. and that's what i've tried to do throughout this . i'm very proud throughout this. i'm very proud of the progress that we've made as a labour party, as labour governments in the past, when it comes to women's rights, i'm conscious that the battle on women's rights is never over. we need to make further progress in this country and i hope if we're able to win the general election, we will do so. but what i want to do is to ensure that we make that progress by persuading people to vote. labour at the general election, turn their back on this government, usher in a labour government, usher in a labour government to rebuild the country, but also use it as a

reset moment where we can bring the country together and ensure that all debate is done in a respectful way that i think everybody wants. and so i think there's a real opportunity here now to make some progress. but >> now, immediately after that, i said that i felt he hadn't explained. i didn't feel that he'd answered my question at all. but he walked off. i was then taken aside for a word with one of his senior advisers , who one of his senior advisers, who said to me, labour's position on biological sex has not changed, but i do think this is really quite problematic for the labour party as a whole. it's not just sir keir starmer who has, in the past struggled to articulate what a woman is, and certainly rosie duffield, one of labour's own mps, believes that labour has a woman problem . has a woman problem. >> katherine forster a very

feisty katherine forster. they're taking on keir starmer and trying to get him to mansplain female biology to us. thank you very much, catherine. appreciate that now. but all the best analysis and opinion on that story and much more. go to our website gbnews.com now rishi sunak a declines to rule out that a cabinet minister is involved in the tory gambling scandal. the gambling commission is looking into four figures with links to the prime minister over allegations they bet on a july election before it's announced, using insider knowledge. how on earth has this been allowed to happen under the pm's watch? and what are they thinking? the people that are supposedly loyal to him doing it in the first place. joining me now is former labour party adviser and writer scarlett mccgwire . she's the one that mccgwire. she's the one that went to the original glastonbury and mal online journalist lettice baranski. thank you very much for joining lettice baranski. thank you very much forjoining me. you didn't go to the original glastonbury. >> i'm afraid i didn't. >> i'm afraid i didn't. >> no, no, maybe your grandparents possibly. i mean, sorry, scarlett . yeah, scarlett sorry, scarlett. yeah, scarlett and i can say that sort of thing. right. thank you very

much. now, are you betting women? am i, am i better? >> oh, i have bet , i bet that >> oh, i have bet, i bet that harriet harman would be deputy leader of the labour party when the odds were very good. i did not have insider knowledge. i just thought she was really good. well, that's probably a good. well, that's probably a good occasionally bet on the grand national and never won. >> yeah, i mean, this this is just when the conservative party didn't need any more of a scandal. lettuce this comes up and bites them on the already sore backside . let's to be sore backside. let's to be honest with you for that, we know of, keir, rishi sunak hasn't done anything about it yet . he has hasn't done anything about it yet. he has dropped them from the party or punish them in any way . and now there is talk that way. and now there is talk that a cabinet minister might be involved . involved. >> i mean, these are exactly the kind of unforced errors that the conservatives just cannot afford to have at the moment. we've all seen the polls. they're 20 points behind. i mean, there is even some saying that rishi sunak might be at risk of losing his own seat. and when we see this sort of crisis that is now

just snowballing out of control from people who had the privilege to know this information allegedly in advance, and then they're still going behind their back. i think it really just shows that the conservatives are no longer acting as a team anymore. they're simply out for every man or woman for themselves , and or woman for themselves, and they're just sort of internally imploding. didn't we go to all this with partygate, scarlett? >> we're sort of like, you know, people that are supposedly close and all on the same team are actually not. i mean, this is tony lee, the conservative party's director of campaigning , party's director of campaigning, his wife, laura saunders, a tory election candidate , and craig election candidate, and craig williams, sunak parliamentary aide and a security expert who looks after them, who obviously heard it in the car wash. what on earth is going on? >> i think what i mean, i agree with everything that lettice said, but worse is what i think. this is really, really bad for politics, right? because what it means is that people think that all politicians are just are just in it for themselves. and

actually rishi sunak should i mean, you're absolutely right. he should have taken he should have said these people have no place in my party. they're not standing. you're sacked. i mean, the poor old policeman, right? is yes, of course. really is being having his collar felt whereas the others it's absolutely. i mean i was so shocked. i mean as a friend of mine said, if you put it in a novel, it would have been turned down. yes, absolutely. >> because no one could make this up. >> you can't. you just you just think surely they're not that stupid or, and greedy. >> i mean, it's the greed that's so steve tuckwell this amounts of money here, aren't we? >> no. >> no. >> and that's what sort of offensive about the whole thing is. it's sort of bets of earning a few extra quid on the side, but this just sort of stinks of the sleaze and scandal that people have had to put up with for the last 4 or 5 years, the last 18 months, all the conservatives have been doing is trying to distance themselves from that reputation that happened when we had owen paterson, neil parish, chris pincher , all the different

pincher, all the different scandals that happened and all this does is sort of show that they haven't learned anything. there's still this idea of one rule for them and another rule for us, and it sort of puts the idea in the public's mind. i mean, votes are landing on people's doorsteps today. i got my postal vote through the door today. my postal vote through the door today . one fifth of england will today. one fifth of england will have voted soon, and i posted mine this morning. yes, you're right, this is what people are seeing. this is the headline news and it comes also at a time when really what the conservatives would be hoping to see is that the headlines would be dominated, with the press media scrutinising labour's policies. but instead we're once again seeing another conservative scandal. >> and actually, to be fair , i >> and actually, to be fair, i mean, the, the, the lesser tories are absolutely incandescent. i mean, a former mp told me yesterday, i mean, not only was he furious , but not only was he furious, but actually he had people, even though he's fairly certain that the seat will be lost. people are going out there day after day. they're stuffing envelopes.

they're doing it for free. yeah. and then they find out that those in the know have been making money. so so actually it's i mean, it's really, really i mean, it's terrible for politics and it's terrible that people take such advantage. >> i mean, to be fair, i mean, rishi sunak has been blindsided by this. he's not here to sort of, you know, and he has said if they have been proven to do something wrong, then actually he will take action. but he hasn't taken any action so far. but you must he must be looking around him, lettuce and going , around him, lettuce and going, why are none of these people on board on the team ? why? why are board on the team? why? why are they, you know, queering the pitch even further ? pitch even further? >> i'm sure, i'm sure you only really had to watch the bbc leaders election debate to sort of see that people aren't listening . when he was trying listening. when he was trying there to get his points across his policies, people were laughing at him. they were talking about this betting, gambling scandal. they were bringing up the d—day issue, which happened these things should not be happening so close to an election. and as you said, tony lee, who is the elections campaign director, has now had to step down from it. two weeks

out from the election. i think that sort of just highlights how severe this situation has become and what we think is it's growing . growing. >> i mean, you said is there a cabinet minister? well, there'll also be a lot of other people. and actually, i was told that that craig johnson, who is his parliamentary private secretary, you know, the man you'd least expect, but always there every time you see him in party, you see rishi in parliament, there he is with him. and if i was rishi, i mean, ijust he is with him. and if i was rishi, i mean, i just feel rishi, i mean, ijust feel i can't trust anybody . i mean, can't trust anybody. i mean, that's the other thing is that is that that rishi now feels completely beleaguered. yeah. >> i mean, we have to be. we have. this is an ongoing investigation. nothing has been proven yet . proven yet. >> craig craig johnson admitted on television that he'd placed the bet. what? he didn't admit was whether he knew the date. >> well, yeah, i mean, it could it could be a lucky, incredible coincidence. this is how it works . so we don't know. it is works. so we don't know. it is an ongoing investigation. and,

you know, rishi sunak has said that the investigation will take place and anyone found guilty would be booted out of the party, which means it goes on and on and on. >> instead of killing it, right? yeah. >> i mean, they have a camera every time that a concert until he deals with the situation, every time he's on camera, any conservative representative will be asked this question. >> do you think we're quickly running out of time? but do you think it's just suspended? the names that have been mentioned so far? i said, that's it. >> and if anything, this is absolutely terrible. this is oven absolutely terrible. this is over. it's over. and instead, after the election, we're going to start. it's going to it's going to run and run. >> he doesn't have the time at the moment ahead of this election to not deal with it quickly. >> so doesn't have a lot of time,. to see. right. thank you very much, thank you very much, ladies, for that. indeed. now, this is a seamless link. okay. some gambling is okay. by the way, it's time for the great british giveaway . see what i did british giveaway. see what i did there and your chance to win over £16,000 worth of prizes. you could be our next big giveaway winner. and here's how. >> don't miss out on your chance

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>> britain's election. channel. >> britain's election. channel. >> welcome back to gb news. beth mead dawn neesom on taxonomy. our name. it's a saturday. what do you expect on telly, online and on digital radio now? protest group all under one banner are holding an independence march in scotland today as the organisation's year of demonstrations continues. joining me now is gb news scotland reporter tony maguire to bring us up to date on what's happening. good afternoon tony, what indeed is happening will never end. >> good afternoon . well i am >> good afternoon. well i am here at the all under one banner march , which finished here on march, which finished here on the field of bannockburn. this tomorrow. believe it or not, it's the 710th anniversary of that famous battle where king robert the bruce led one of the few victories against the engush few victories against the english forces. and that is why here, and similarly down the road, where the march started on stirling, old stirling bridge was where william wallace fought

a famous battle. and again, one we didn't have all that many victories, but these two were indeed the more famous. however if the wind was anything like it is today, 710 years ago, then it would be quite a lot of embarrassed true scotsmen in the middle of that that battle, because it's blowing something strong today . but that hasn't strong today. but that hasn't stopped the festivities going on behind me. we've heard quite a lot of different acts. we've had speakers and people talking about poetry and some quite an interesting, almost a lecture on, you know, the history of the flower of scotland . now, of flower of scotland. now, of course, a lot of that flower of scotland getting sent over in germany, as the tartan army is over there, following the scottish national side, that all important third and final group stage match tomorrow night, which is very much do or die for the scottish team . but back to the scottish team. but back to independence, certainly during this election campaign, it's been quite quiet until this week

when it exploded into the headunes when it exploded into the headlines with john swinney. page one, line one of the scottish independence scottish national party manifesto a vote for the snp for to scotland to become an independent country. now yesterday, keir starmer was up in scotland and he very quickly put that down. to say that if he becomes the next uk prime minister, well, he's not going to allow a section 30 in order to get that referendum going, and of course, the other question is there are fractions in the yes movement and yesterday and the trail in glasgow, i asked deputy first minister kate forbes whether or not she thought that john swinney, after healing the divisions in the snp, could he heal the divisions in the yes movement? >> i joined john swinney's government because i was inspired by his vision to heal rifts, to reach out and to unite not just the party or the movement, but indeed the country. at a time of polarised , country. at a time of polarised, rising toxic discourse, we were

then plunged within a matter of weeks within, into an election. and so i accept that an election is not the ideal time to try and work together and to create that sense of unity, but in the scottish parliament and outside the snp is a minority government. we will only be able to work together and deliver change if we reach out across the yes movement and then across the yes movement and then across the constitutional divide itself. but my hope is that after the 4th of july, with a strong group of snp mps in westminster, we can restart that work to reach out across the movement and across the country . movement and across the country. >> now, certainly while the polls have shown a bit of a dip for the snp, believe it or not, the support for independence is holding pretty much steady at that 45 to 50. and that's given

a lot of people kind of cause for asking. as snp still the right group to be the tip of the spean right group to be the tip of the spear, if you like, for the independence movement , but independence movement, but nevertheless, at least the rain has stayed off here. and i imagine that there's going to be a lot of windswept hairstyles, a lot of worse than mine . lot of worse than mine. >> thank you very much. tony mcguire. and ending with a weather forecast there. and obviously, if scots people are wearing the traditional dress, good luck with that one. this afternoon. thank you. tony mcguire in scotland, well, i'm dawn neesom and this is gb news saturday and there's loads more coming up on today's show. but first, let's get the news headunes first, let's get the news headlines with tatiana . headlines with tatiana. >> dawn, thank you very much. and good afternoon. the top stories this hour. the prime minister and the labour leader have both criticised nigel farage's comments, suggesting the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. rishi sunak says it was completely wrong

after missing out on the bbc question time leader's special this week, the reform uk leader took part in an interview with the bbc's nick robinson. mr farage said the expansion of the eu and nato gave him a reason to tell the russian people they're coming for us again. the prime minister says the comments play into the russian president's hands, which the labour leader echoed . the conservatives say echoed. the conservatives say they're going to focus on the night time economy and secure the future of britain's pubs , the future of britain's pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues. in its first 100 days of government. the tory party says a comprehensive review would be launched to look at licensing laws, planning rules and other enforcements they say is holding back growth. sir keir starmer has outlined his party's plans to tackle delayed compensation for those affected by the windrush scandal. the scandal refers to migrants from the canbbean refers to migrants from the caribbean who started to arrive to the uk in 1948 to help rebuild britain after the war. sir keir is pledging today a

fundamental reset to respect and dignity for the windrush generation. the labour leader met with people who came to britain during that time, and their family members in vauxhall today, he says the conservatives have presided over a failing compensation scheme that scheme has only paid out 2500 claims out of an estimated 15,000 people originally considered eligible , and the search has eligible, and the search has intensified for british teenager jay slater, who went missing in tenerife . jay travelled for a tenerife. jay travelled for a music festival on his first houday music festival on his first holiday without his parents specialist dog teams have now joined police and firefighters in that search operation, which has entered now its sixth day. the 19 year old has not been heard from since he called a friend shortly before 9:00 monday morning, saying he was lost and needed water. he was last seen in the northwestern mountain village of masca . for mountain village of masca. for the latest stories, sign up to

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persons unit mike neville. mike thank you so much for joining persons unit mike neville. mike thank you so much forjoining me this afternoon. now this is everybody's worst nightmare come true to have someone just disappear into thin air. can you just paint a picture for us of what these situations are like and what happens in these situations ? situations? >> well, of course there'll be a senior investigating officer. they'll have a command structure . so you'll have a goal, commander, who's probably one of the most senior officers on the island. then there'll be a silver commander, something like a detective superintendent who'll be in charge of the actual investigation. and we'll be looking at all aspects of this. and then you have various people in charge of what they call bronze units, the inspectors. so there'll be an inspectors. so there'll be an inspector in charge of the sort of dog section and inspector in charge of the helicopters and other searches and drones and all these. they'll have a daily meeting if not more, and they'll be tasked to different areas or different areas of the investigation. and of course, you can see here the, the actual

the place to be searched is very, very difficult terrain, very, very difficult terrain, very steep and wooded. hence the use of dogs, because of course he could have taken a rest in any of those, wooded or bushy areas. you could have slipped and fallen down one of those ravines . so this is a very ravines. so this is a very difficult area. hence the use of things like the drones as well. so we can only hope for a positive outcome. but, i've got to be frank and say it's going to be frank and say it's going to be frank and say it's going to be it's that will be very lucky if he's still alive after all this time out there. >> yeah. because we know that his his mobile phone had run out of battery. he didn't have any water. he was attempting to walk back to his accommodation , from back to his accommodation, from a music festival. and the last sighting was of him at a bus stop where a local spoke to him and said, he said, oh, two hours for the next bus. i'm going to carry on walking, mike, how long will they carry on searching ? will they carry on searching? >> well, as far as i understand it, they're going to carry on until they find him, because

what you could imagine is that tourism is the main , economic, tourism is the main, economic, the economic site of the of this island. so they'll they really want to find him and show they're doing everything they can to, to make sure if he's still alive, that he's treated , still alive, that he's treated, and taken to hospital as soon as possible . so i don't see an end possible. so i don't see an end to it, because we know that he's he's not left the island. his mum's got his, passport. there's all sorts of social media, speculation and conspiracy , but speculation and conspiracy, but the police seem to be dismissing that, and they're really focusing on the fact that he was on his own and he was out walking in that remote area. it's been reported just just today that there was another sighting, but this was very late, you know, some, some several hours later, of a young man with two, two other men. but again, the police will be following that up. they'll be teams involved in gathering cctv , the road that goes through the area. people, of course, have got dash cams on their cars. buses have got cctv. so they'll be using every, technique in every investigative way to try

and find more images of him. see where he was. but as you've said, he had his mobile phone and that pings off the different masts. and they know the last location. so it does give them a start point, and that's where they'll be going outwards from . they'll be going outwards from. >> mike, obviously you mentioned his family . >> mike, obviously you mentioned his family. his mum is there and has his passport and obviously the that it must be absolutely awful what she's going through. how much support will be offered to the family and indeed his friends who he was out there with. >> right. so the foreign commonwealth office will be heavily involved and be working with the spanish authorities. and as i understand it, that the spanish police have refused an offer of help from the lancashire police. they said they've got enough resources . they've got enough resources. but the lancashire police have said a specialist officer has been deployed . so i can imagine been deployed. so i can imagine that's a family liaison officer and. >> and do you think ? i mean, i >> and do you think? i mean, i hate to ask this question, but how many people do go missing

who are simply never found again ? >> ?- >> very 7_ >> very few. >> very few. >> so when most people get thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands reported missing in the united kingdom , and most of the united kingdom, and most of them are returned home between 2 and 4 hours, very few are missing, for more than 24 hours. and so to vanish without a trace is very, very unusual. there's a handful of cases. the likes of madeleine mccann, for example . madeleine mccann, for example. yes. there's not very many that vanish for that amount of time, and obviously my prayers are with the parents. yeah. of course. absolutely. it might just quickly we're running out of time, how social media can be a wonderful way of tracking people down. we know that. but it also can have its downside . it also can have its downside. how, unhelpful is some of the stuff we are seeing posted on social media about this case? >> well, i think it's very, very unhelpful. >> i mean, the coroner of the nicola bulley case, if you remember, she went missing into the river. he at the inquest, he criticised how the social media conspiracy really did hinder, you know, and were unhelpful to

the police investigation. so you'd only hope if somebody's got real evidence, or a possible sighting, they'll put it forward. but you've got people hacking on to instagram sites, you've got people flooding a facebook page with conspiracy theories. these are these are really unhelpful. and i think the spanish police have talked about the, the awfulness of the background noise in this case. and as i've said, they really are focusing on him being , are focusing on him being, remote on his own rather than anybody , kidnapping. and that anybody, kidnapping. and that seems to be the most realistic theory at the moment. >> yeah. mike, thank you very much. and as you said, thoughts with his family and with his friends and that we hopefully get some good news soon and that's mike neville, former head of lambeth missing persons unit. thank you very much for joining us this afternoon, now, this is gb news saturday. i'm dawn neesom and there's loads more coming up on today's show. taylor swift. hey eras tour has arrived in london with a show expected to bring a £300 million boost to the capital. join us

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shot at dawn memorial in the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire. two months on and thanks to many donations from you , the gb news family of you, the gb news family of viewers, it's now been reopened to the public. our west midlands reporter jack carson went to see the result for himself. here's his report. >> in world war i, 309 men from britain and the commonwealth never came home because they'd been shot at dawn. the majority were killed for desertion, cowardice and sleeping at post, appearing at their court martials and told they'd brought shame on their country. these men had no opportunity to defend themselves and were executed by firing squad back in april, the national memorial arboretum launched a fundraising campaign to restore the memorial, which has stood for more than 20 years, with work taking place over the past few months . over the past few months. yesterday marked the official reopening with a service at the

site attended by members of the public. phillipa rawlinson is director of the national memorial arboretum. >> thank you to your viewers for their support for the fundraising campaign and thanks to the generosity of so many people, over 900 individuals have donated. we've been able to not only replace all 309 of the of the posts that represent those young men that were shot in the first world war, but also look at drainage and landscaping and access and interpretation for the site. so we've been able to do a full scale restoration of this really precious memorial. >> the centrepiece of the memorial is the young soldier, blindfolded and facing his execution . it was designed and execution. it was designed and sculpted by andy dickerman. he describes the restoration. >> so the sculpture itself, you can see it looks a lot brighter than the last time you saw it, so first of all, a really good clean and then this coating is it has a mixture of lime and polymers, also there's a waterproof coating over top of that. so it first of all, it

brightens it up. but then also it's, it's going to keep it looking nice, for a long time. keep the, keep the rain out. and this will be like a periodic thing that you will do from time to time . to time. >> in september 1916, private harry farr was ordered to the front. already suffering from shell shock. he was overwhelmed and refused his orders. he was court martialled and in a trial lasting only 20 minutes, he was sentenced to death. on the day of his execution, he faced the firing squad without a blindfold. janet booth is private farr's granddaughter, and was part of the public campaign to have those who were shot at dawn officially pardoned. >> when i asked my gran, you know , as where do you know where know, as where do you know where i could find harry's grave? and she sort of. she looked at my mother , and there was this sort mother, and there was this sort of look between them. and then she said , we haven't got a grave she said, we haven't got a grave because they didn't want he deserved one because he was shot as a coward and had let his

country down. we can come here as a family and pay our respects to him. and remember him. and also for all the other families . also for all the other families. it's somewhere to come and remember their loved ones. >> the restoration of this memorial is now complete, and it's future secured, so that the sacrifice of these men will never be forgotten. jack carson gb news, staffordshire . gb news, staffordshire. >> thank you so much, jack. you really can't believe that happened , can you? i mean, just happened, can you? i mean, just like, you know, kids who are shell shocked, basically being shot by their own comrades . just shot by their own comrades. just awful. now lots of you have been getting your messages coming in. please do keep them coming in really, really good gbnews.com/yoursay i'm learning this all the time . i keep this all the time. i keep forgetting it. lots of you talking about football and i've lost your name now. i think it might have been alan, but, suggest gary lineker to replace, southgate as england manager. not sure how you feel about that one. do let us know. meanwhile,

mel says. england players fatigued after playing up to 60 games of football. poor darlings , 60 minutes of 90 minutes over six months or so. these are supposed to be elite athletes who are pampered, trained by specialist coaches. the diets are second to none. don't you feel sorry for them? i'm getting the impression, mel, you probably don't, could a reason for poor performances just be as simple as the manager is playing players out of position, just to accommodate the egos, and include many of his stars as possible . well, gareth southgate possible. well, gareth southgate isn't here to defend himself, but let's see how he does in that third game. meanwhile, dave says, okay, i get that a lot of the england team are fatigued after a long season, but it's the same for the other nations in the tournament. really good point, dave. england just needs to play better and play in the right positions, also lots of comments coming on the jk rowling row with labour as well, this is from mike. mike coppo jk rowling is correct. anyone who values women's rights and wants to keep secure single—sex spaces should not vote labour. and that

is something we'll be coming back to later on. meanwhile while sandra says, when you spoke to katherine forster, our political commentator, earlier on, she spoke about her conversation with starmer. did she say that starmer walked off when she pressed him on a woman? is did she say someone else stepped forward to give a very lane a nondescript answer on his behalf? i hope you can get more detail when you speak to catherine later. well, sandra , catherine later. well, sandra, thank you for your message and we will be speaking to catherine. more on that. it is an important subject indeed. let's know all the stories we're coming today. your views gb views .com forward, slash yourself and join the conversation or our socials @gbnews. this is a gb news dawn neesom and here is the weather. are we going to the weather? yeah, the weather with aidan. hopeifs yeah, the weather with aidan. hope it's good for you . hope it's good for you. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there! welcome along to

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well, but for the far north of england, for scotland and northern ireland, we're going to see plenty of sunshine during the morning and temperatures rising quickly through the day. >> but for many it is essentially a fine day, albeit rather cloudy through the midlands, wales and the southwest. >> during the morning and early afternoon. the sun will come through in many places. however, if you're heading to the coast, south devon, south cornwall, parts of south wales could be plagued by some low cloud and mist at times , where we get the mist at times, where we get the sunshine coming through up to 25 celsius in the south—east low 20s elsewhere across the uk, plenty of sunshine as the afternoon comes to an end . afternoon comes to an end. meanwhile, across western scotland, northern ireland again, some thicker cloud will arrive overnight, but that will tend to disperse by monday, which will be another largely fine day. and watch how the temperatures increase through next week up to 30 celsius by midweek . midweek. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

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me know your thoughts on all the stories. we'll be discussing today by visiting gbnews.com. forward slash yourself and join that conversation or message me on our social @gbnews. but first, it's time for the news headunes first, it's time for the news headlines with tatiana . headlines with tatiana. >> dawn. thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the prime minister and labour leader have both criticised nigel farage's comments, suggesting the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. rishi sunak says whilst completely wrong after missing out on the bbc question time leader's special, the reform uk leader's special, the reform uk leader took part in an interview with the bbc's nick robinson. mr farage said the expansion of the eu and nato gave him a reason to tell the russian people they're coming for us again. the prime minister says the comments play into the russian president's hands, which the labour leader echoed the farage's comments about russia and ukraine are disgraceful. >> i have always been clear that

putin bears responsibility , sole putin bears responsibility, sole responsibility for the russian aggression in ukraine, and we have always stood behind ukraine and supported ukraine, and so far we've done it united across parliament. i've made it my business to ensure that the opposition stood with the government on this issue. so seriously, did we take it? and of course, with our nato allies , of course, with our nato allies, the conservatives say they're going to focus on the night time economy and secure the future of britain's pubs , bars, britain's pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues. >> in its first 100 days of government. the tory party says a comprehensive review would be launched to look at licensing laws, planning rules and other enforcements they say is holding back growth. it says the sector was disproportionately impacted by the covid pandemic and the war in ukraine, which drove up food, drink and energy prices. rishi sunak says representatives for bars, pubs and music venues do deserve much more support for the work they put into serving local communities. >> it's right that they get the

support they need . they've been support they need. they've been let down by labour, whether that's here in london where those types of venues are closing at a rapid rate with multiple job losses , or indeed multiple job losses, or indeed in wales, where labour is hiking up their taxes , a conservative up their taxes, a conservative government will support all those venues to make sure that they can continue creating jobs and drive our economy forward, and drive our economy forward, and continue providing an enormous amount of enjoyment in our local communities. >> sir keir starmer has outlined his party's plans to tackle delayed compensation for those affected by the windrush scandal. the windrush scandal refers to migrants from, excuse me, the caribbean, who started to arrive to the uk in 1948 to help rebuild britain after the war. sir keir is pledging today a fundamental reset to respect and dignity for that generation. the labour leader met with people who came to britain dunng people who came to britain during that time, and their family members today in vauxhall, he says. the conservatives have presided over a failing compensation scheme and that scheme has only paid out 2500 claims out of an

estimated 15,000 people originally considered eligible . originally considered eligible. the liberal democrats are setting out a plan to save chalk streams from environmental disaster for. and this comes as analysis by the party found over 48,500 hours worth of sewage was discharged into chalk streams last year, and that is more than double the previous year. the proposals would see a public consultation launched within the first 100 days of a lib dem government, in which rivers and lakes could be awarded new blue flag status to protect them from sewage dumping. lib dems leader sir ed davey has ensured it won't cost the public to set up that new system. >> actually , it's really, really >> actually, it's really, really quite cheap and we do a public consultation to start off so the pubuc consultation to start off so the public can be involved in it and the blue flag status, the applications are really quite cheap. i think it's about 425 from, from memory pounds. so we're not talking a lot of money. what we're we have put

investment because you need to get behind it is in a new regulator. we've called it the clean water authority. we're not happy with the way the regulators have been monitoring and enforcing the law on the water companies. and enforcing the law on the water companies . they've been water companies. they've been allowing them to get away with this filthy sewage dumping. >> the search has intensified for british teenager jay slater, who went missing in tenerife. jay travelled for a music festival on his first holiday without his parents. specialist dog teams have now joined police and firefighters in the search operation, which has now entered its sixth day. the 19 year old has not been heard from since he called a friend shortly before 9:00 monday morning, saying he was lost and needed water. he was lost and needed water. he was last seen in the northwestern mountain village of masca . and finally, the prince masca. and finally, the prince of wales celebrated his 42nd birthday at taylor swift's wembley concert last night. kensington palace posted a

picture on social media of prince william , prince george prince william, prince george and princess charlotte who were there with taylor swift as she took a selfie of them backstage ahead of her concert. swift then posted a selfie of herself with the prince and the children, and her boyfriend travis kelce . for her boyfriend travis kelce. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or sign qr code on your screen, or sign up to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's back to dawn . it's back to dawn. >> thank you very much, tatiana . >> thank you very much, tatiana. now let's get straight into today's story, shall we? sir keir starmer has doubled down on his claims. he had never paid for private health care for his family members. if they were stuck on a waiting list , the man stuck on a waiting list, the man hoping to be prime minister in two weeks time sat down with gb news political editor, christopher hope, in the first of many interviews to come with the party leaders on this channel. here's what keir had to say. i you know, elected him to

serve as prime minister >> my job is to bring those waiting lists down, and i'm not going to the same time say, but for me, i'm going to jump the queue. >> that would be if you can afford, you can take the pressure off the waiting list by paying pressure off the waiting list by paying for it yourself. >> that's what margaret thatcher was said. >> no, look, i'm not going to jump >> no, look, i'm not going to jump the queue when others are waiting that you're going to reduce the queue. the other thing i should say is this because there are different ways this cushion is put on acute care. >> people say if your child was really ill on acute care, the nhs is absolutely the best. so much so that private hospitals refer into the nhs. so well there you go . there you go. >> joining me now is gb news political correspondent katherine forster . catherine, katherine forster. catherine, thank you very much for coming back to talk to us. just to say, catherine, before we start, lots of love in the room for you today for tackling sir keir and not getting an answer . so today for tackling sir keir and not getting an answer. so bring us up to speed on where we are at the moment with it all. >> yes. so today labour want to

talk about windrush. they're pledging a reset. of course, there were many people came from there were many people came from the west indies after the second world war. we had a huge labour shortage. they were called the windrush generation after the boat that they came on, the first boat that they came on, and then there was this huge disaster really by the home office, which all came to a head in 2018 on that. in fact, the home office had been deporting people and detaining people that it had absolutely no right to do so . sir keir starmer is pledging so. sir keir starmer is pledging that if labour gets into power , that if labour gets into power, they will make that right in terms of compensation and reforms at the home office . but reforms at the home office. but sir keir starmer coming under some pressure today because the front page of the times is the fact that that huge author j.k. rowling, who has been a huge supporter of labour and also a donor , has been very critical donor, has been very critical over their stance on women's rights and trans issues.

specifically, she's basically said that she feels labour have abandoned women and that she is going to struggle to vote for them. in fact, it's not at all clear that she will vote for them. i suspect she may not. so, we were with sir keir starmer earlier at this windrush event, and i asked him a very, very specific question, which was, when a woman, rosie duffield, said, only a woman has a cervix. sir keir starmer said, no, that's wrong. that shouldn't be said. when a man, tony blair, said. when a man, tony blair, said a woman has a vagina, a man has a penis. sir keir starmer said oh yes, absolutely. i agree with sir keir. so what i asked him was, what is the difference between those two statements? can you explain pain? let's see what he said in response . what he said in response. >> i think it's very important in all political debate that we treat all views with respect and all people with dignity. and

that's what i've tried to do throughout this. i'm very proud of the progress that we've made as a labour party, as labour governments in the past . when it governments in the past. when it comes to women's rights, i'm conscious that the battle on women's rights is never over. we need to make further progress in this country and i hope if we're able to win the general election , we will do so. but what i want to do is to ensure that we make that progress by persuading people to vote. labour at the general election, turn their back on this government, usher in a labour government to rebuild the country, but also use it as a reset moment where we can bring the country together and ensure that all debate is done in a respectful way. that i think everybody wants. and so i think there's a real opportunity here now to make some progress. but >> so you heard there what he said. i told you what my question had been. i did say to him, you haven't explained this, but he'd already walked off. i was then spoken to by a very

senior member of his team who told me that labour's position on biological sex has not changed. now sure, they say that, but i do think that the issue of the simple question, apparently what is a woman has led to a number of labour figures tying themselves in knots over the last few years on the answer. and i do think that there'll be a number of labour supporters generally , many of supporters generally, many of them women, who are still not entirely clear on labour's stance on this. so i think some difficult questions for sir keir starmer, whether or not he wants to answer them . to answer them. >> foster, thank you very much for bringing us up to date on what's happening with keir starmer today . thank you starmer today. thank you catherine. joining me now is former labour party adviser and writer, scarlett mccgwire and writer, scarlett mccgwire and writer and broadcaster emma webb. thank you very much for joining me in the westminster

studio. ladies. isn't it lovely to be here? well, the main one, by the way, if you're wondering, is having a little revamp this weekend. so we are in, yes, the shiny westminster studio now . so shiny westminster studio now. so let's talk about sir keir starmer , shall we? scala, i know starmer, shall we? scala, i know you've been looking forward to this bit. jk rowling today has written a piece for the times saying that, she's accusing him basically of abandoning women . basically of abandoning women. what do you make of what she has said today ? said today? >> well, i'm a great admirer of jk rowling . i love her books. i jk rowling. i love her books. i what i feel is she's pushed herself into a corner where she just goes further and further , just goes further and further, so, so much so that that what worries me is there are a small minority of people who do not feel happy, who are dysmorphic , feel happy, who are dysmorphic, right? they're not happy in their in their gender. and some of them go as far as having, medical things so that they change. and are. and what's interesting is the only ones we

ever talk about are the men. but but there's quite a lot of women , who, who change gender into men . women who have their men. women who have their breasts cut off. all all of that . and instead of actually thinking about that, she i just thinking about that, she i just think she backs herself into a corner where you cannot change genden corner where you cannot change gender. right. and actually, instead of thinking, you know, let's just let's leave those people alone. i mean, that's let's they are they are i do not as a woman who has always been a feminist, i do not feel threatened by those people, partly because years and years ago there was a tory councillor who i used to work with, who was going through the change. and sometimes he'd come into the women's loo and somebody's going to the men. and none of us mind it . it. >> okay, anna, what do you make of it? >> the problem is that the legislation is bad. >> legislation on this doesn't leave women alone. and that's jk rowling's entire point. i find this whole thing with keir starmer, his comments in this interview, his comments on rosie

duffield on on question time the other night. i find it so infj's hating because it's just such a weaselly way of answering the question, because on the one hand, he's not saying yes, rosie duffield was right, you a man can't be a woman and a woman can't be a woman and a woman can't become a man, and that men can't become a man, and that men can't have service cervixes, etc. when he just said, well, i agree with tony blair because he's using this kind of rhetorical distinction between sex and gender. but the reality is that a man can't become a woman, and a woman can't become a man. a person might have gender dysphoria, and they might find that the best solution for them is in some kind of surgical remedy for it, but the reality is that jk rowling is completely right that the labour party have abandoned women because they are absolutely unwilling to commit themselves to, to, to, to not straying into, legislative solutions to this extremely divisive debate which would harm

women's rights and access to sex spaces. we're here, keir starmer , all the time talking about safe spaces, but he's not actually committed to protecting women's sex based rights. and this is also not just about women. there are lots of, homosexual public figures who have said that, you know, this is effectively trouncing the gay away. we've seen multiple reports on this , like the cass reports on this, like the cass review. this is a really serious problem . and keir starmer is problem. and keir starmer is behaving like a complete weasel, unwilling to commit himself to the common sense position while he's trying to sell himself to the electorate as being some kind of sensible future prime minister. i think it's nonsense. >> well, so this is i mean, this this happens in a tiny, tiny number of cases. right. and if you look at the cass review, what she said, which was really, really important is she said, no, quite rightly, no teenagers should not be given drugs. but actually this is a toxic environment. and what really worries me about it is it's

being used as a sort of gotcha thing instead of actually looking at the problem and, and what hilary cass said is there are real problems for teenagers. they are facing problems and what they need is proper counselling not to be ignored , counselling not to be ignored, to say this doesn't matter. and so what you're saying is that even after the even after a, a, a an operation that that you cannot change your gender. >> no, no, you can't change your sex. and i don't agree saying i don't agree with this distinction between sex and genden distinction between sex and gender. so people i think often gender. so people i think often genderis gender. so people i think often gender is used to effectively mean your personality and how you express yourself . but i you express yourself. but i don't believe that if a if a man is more feminine or a woman is more masculine , that that is more masculine, that that is a difference between sex and genden >> i'm not talking about men being masculine or feminine, but my point is that i don't agree with this distinction between sex. so what you're saying is that even you cannot change your biological sex. >> you can't. »-

>> you can't. >> i'm talking about gender. i'm not talking about biological, but i don't i don't agree with you that you don't you don't agree. but but actually it what's really important is that under the equality act in things like women's refuges and you talk to women's aid and they they weren't there are there are places where only only women are allowed. there's no question about that. that's never that's never been an issue. right. and but there are trans women who who , who are, who do need who, who are, who do need refuge. and actually those people need separate help. that's that's that's what it's masmasmaswmflm about. that's that's that's what it's about . and it's not i mean, this about. and it's not i mean, this whole i mean, how often in seriously is there a women's place where, where, where you find a trans man walking in, i mean, or a trans woman walking in? it's just i mean, or a trans woman walking in? it'sjust i think mean, or a trans woman walking in? it's just i think this is something that's just been got at. and for most of us, it just never happens, jk rowling's argument would be that it's not about trans people. she fully supports trans people, but it is about women's rights and women's

rights being, erased , raised, as rights being, erased, raised, as it were. i mean, she's she's like, you are a feminist. and as always argued that this isn't about having a go at transgender people . this is about the people. this is about the erasure of women's rights and things that we have fought for a long time. you're a feminist, so do you not see where she's coming from on that one? >> no, i, ijust i just i coming from on that one? >> no, i, i just i just ijust >> no, i, ijust i just i just don't agree. i mean, what i do agree is, is where you have predatory men , right, who try predatory men, right, who try and pretend that this is what they are and those sort of those are the sort of, those sort of men are dangerous and they've always been dangerous and they're happening to use this thing. but but what, what i worry about is, is we're pulling in people who really want to be left. i mean, i remember, you know, being on gb news and talking about these two trans women who were discovered to be at a women's, women's institute, you know, and they were outed, and you felt these people just wanted a quiet life. they just

wanted a quiet life. they just wanted to live their lives as women . and everything was fine women. and everything was fine until somebody decided to out them. and that's what worries me about it is this outing of people instead of just live and let live , okay? let live, okay? >> and just very, very quickly , >> and just very, very quickly, emma, jk rowling's, as a just pointed out, is against predatory men. this will be abused by predatory men. so what would you say to, you know, to scarlett about the predatory men that you are? this i mean, surely that is what j.k. rowling is arguing for. >> well, i think it's i mean, there are there are two aspects of this. one is the obvious thing that if you have legislation that can be abused by predators, it will be abused by predators, it will be abused by predators. the other aspect is, is much more straightforward , which is that we're seeing the undermining of sex based rights, which is the basic basis of, of women's equality under the law, and also for, for, for people who are, you know , homosexual.

who are, you know, homosexual. it's also they see it as being the basis of their equal rights as well, because they see themselves as being same sex attractive, not same gender attracted. so so it's there's a whole host of problems here. but i think ultimately the issue is that keir starmer is being is being very much the politician . being very much the politician. and he's giving very weaselly answers and no assurances to women. answers and no assurances to women. and that's jk rowling's problem very, very quickly. >> i'm running out of time. just one last word from you, scarlett . do you think this will, as jk rowling is playing, put women off voting for labour? >> no, no, i mean, i think this is a tiny, tiny issue. thank goodness. okay, there are lots of opinions on this. >> it is it is to use the word that keir starmer seems to love a toxic discussion. it can be, but what do you think? are you are you agreeing with scarlett? are you agreeing with emma or somewhere in between? lots of views on this one, for all the best analysis and opinion on that story and much more, go to our website gbnews.com. now the

liberal democrats are setting out a plan to save chalk streams from environmental disaster. it comes as analysis by the party found over 48,500 hours worth of sewage were discharged into chalk streams last year. that's more than double the previous yeah more than double the previous year. it would, so it wouldn't be a gb news political roundup. i'm reading this out again, tom. consider yourself lucky it's not happening again without our marvellous deputy political ednon marvellous deputy political editor, tom harwood, who joins us now. are you in a chalk stream yet ? stream yet? >> i wish i could say i was standing knee deep in a chalk stream, but sadly, no, actually , stream, but sadly, no, actually, even more sadly, there were a horde of dancing lib dems behind me, but sadly they have just wrapped up in time for this interview. but yes, the liberal democrats talking about cleaning up chalk streams today, and it's all about putting more obugafions all about putting more obligations on water companies to stop sewage dumping. that's this blue flag status that they want to institute right across

the country. although i have to say, when i pressed ed davey on it a little bit earlier, he couldn't guarantee that this wouldn't mean water bills for average consumers would rise to fund some of these obligations placed upon companies. fund some of these obligations placed upon companies . although placed upon companies. although their argument, the lib dems say, is that bosses get paid too much and shareholders get too many dividends, and that could all do it. i'm not quite sure there'll be many economists who believe that signs every jot and tittle of where the money comes from, but of course, the lib dems have been talking about this issue throughout the course of the election campaign, probably more than any other party, although the labour party is also talking about sewage dumping today, it is clearly a big issue, particularly in this part of the world. and it's interesting that the lib dems choose to focus on chalk streams in particular. why? because the big chalk deposits in the uk all seem to be around the south—east of england. now that coincides with these so—called blue wall seats. conservatives conservative seats in the home counties. why might the lib dems

be focusing on chalk streams other than the fact that they're lovely? some people have called them in the past the sort of rainforest of england, but of course they're all in, conservative leaning seats. and that's really where the liberal democrats are targeting. we're seeing some pretty clear politics playing out here today. >> tom harwood. getting dangerously near to water with sir ed davey, who normally falls into it, slides down it, or does something with it. tom harwood, thank you very much for bringing us up to date on what the lib dems are doing now. it is time for the great british giveaway. no, we're not giving away tom harwood though you could try, andifs harwood though you could try, and it's your chance to win over £16,000 worth of prizes. you could be our next big winner. and here's exactly how you do it. >> don't miss out on your chance to win our summer spectacular and have we got a prize for you? first, there's a totally tax free £15,000 in cash to make your summer spectacular. spend that extra cash. however you like. you'll also win a brand new iphone, apple airpods . and new iphone, apple airpods. and if that wasn't enough, a £500

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soon. hey. welcome back to gb news saturday, beth mead dawn neesom on your telly, online and on digital radio. hope you have a wonderful weekend out there. summer's on the way, folks. and we are now going to talk taylor swift. yay! i don't know what i'm talking about, her eras tour has arrived in london and it's expected to bring a £300 million boost to the capital's economy. the pop superstar has already played shows in edinburgh, liverpool and cardiff and is headlining three sold out shows at wembley before returning for five nights in august. blimey, this woman doesn't stop, five nights in august. blimey, this woman doesn't stop , joining this woman doesn't stop, joining me now is showbiz supremo . she's me now is showbiz supremo. she's more than a reporter. she's a supremo. stephanie takyi steph . supremo. stephanie takyi steph. tony, you're a swiftie. >> i am a swiftae. i saw her once at british summertime ball.

probably. maybe about six years ago, and she converted me. all it took was one performance and i was just like, you were blessed. you got that? i got blessed. you got that? i got blessed you became a taylor. and i'm so upset. i'm not going to see her. actually, i might do. i'm going to try something. anyone's got a spare ticket, please? please. but £300 million to london. just eight shows. and why is that torn so greater london authority have worked out that each swiftae that goes to the gig is roughly spending £471 tickets. most of them are kids and they've got their parents to pay and they've got their parents to pay to see taylor swift. it's not often we see taylor coming to wembley and you know, she's had such a successful year with two double, with a double album out all of her collection of work. so when she is coming to the uk, it is going to be a big thing, especially in london, because she can bring the names. we saw keir starmer, but more importantly we saw prince william . william. >> i can't do the dance, i can't dance, oh my god, he was doing some. >> he was doing some dance moves to shake it off, but it was dad,

it was dad moves. but you know what? he was celebrating his 42nd birthday. >> not many kids get to do that though, so there is a backstage. >> and you know what? it's very much deserved. we know they're going through a tough time as a family, and i think it's so lovely that they've had this night out in wembley. and if you want to get a bit of a dance, taylor swift is the best person to do it. but dawn taylor and prince william actually go back, so. on basically ten years ago at a charity performance at kensington palace, they performed livin on a prayer with bon jovi . so i think prince bon jovi. so i think prince william has always been a secret swiftae soft spot is i think most people do , to be honest. most people do, to be honest. she's just the ultimate showwoman and, you know , for her showwoman and, you know, for her concert, three hours, three hours, work incredibly hard, doesn't she? >> i mean, i'm sort of like taking the mickey slightly, but because i'm a philistine, but i mean , she does work incredibly mean, she does work incredibly hard. all these outfit changes. ikeep hard. all these outfit changes. i keep seeing pictures of . i keep seeing pictures of. >> i don't know how they do it, but apparently when she's getting ready for her concerts , getting ready for her concerts, she runs on the treadmill and she runs on the treadmill and she performs all of her tracks

while she's on the treadmill. thatis while she's on the treadmill. that is how she's for prepared this concert. and this is where all this energy comes from. and it's just she's like a lean, mean, fighting machine . mean, fighting machine. >> and those outfit changes, i mean, how does she get to a show? >> i think she gets through about 14, 14 outfits. but, you know, for each one that she's done, each show she does, she always does something different. like last night she performed five new tracks, but i can imagine she done that because she knew royalty will be there and stuff. but again , you know, and stuff. but again, you know, this day and age when it comes to people relating to their artists, it's more best to see them on stage. and i think taylor knows that's what works for her. >> wow. so tonight she's tonight she's performing, tomorrow she's performing. >> and if you miss it, she's back in august for another five shows at wembley stadium where there's a will, there's a way for taylor. yes. >> and if you've got a spare ticket and i you know i wouldn't. i'll dress it. you know, together i want to be converted. yeah absolutely. that would be a night out and some pink tracksuits and we got it. yeah, we've got it. thank you. steph takyi. brilliant as

always. thank you, right as you just heard steph say, i'm dawn neesom and this is a gb news saturday. and there's loads more coming up on today's show. but first, it's tatiana, who is probably a swiftae as well. i'm guessing. but she's got the news headunes guessing. but she's got the news headlines for you. in any . case. headlines for you. in any. case. >> dawn no comment. the top stories this hour from the gb news room at the prime minister and labour leader have criticised nigel farage's comments, suggesting the west provoked russia's invasion of ukraine. rishi sunak says it was completely wrong after missing out on the bbc question time leaders special. the reform uk leaders special. the reform uk leader took part in an interview with the bbc's nick robinson. mr farage said the expansion of the eu and nato gave him a reason to tell the russian people they're coming for us again. the prime minister says the comments play into the russian president's hands, which the labour leader has echoed . the conservatives has echoed. the conservatives say they're going to focus on the night time economy and secure the future of britain's

pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues . pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues. in pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues . in its first 100 music venues. in its first 100 days of government, the tory party says a comprehensive review would be launched to look at the licensing laws, planning rules and other enforcements they say is holding back growth . they say is holding back growth. sir keir starmer has outlined his party's plans to tackle delayed compensation for those affected by the windrush scandal. the windrush scandal refers to migrants from the canbbean refers to migrants from the caribbean who started to arrive to the uk in 1948 to help rebuild britain after the war. sir keir is pledging today a fundamental reset to respect and dignity for that generation. the labour leader met with people who came to britain during that time, and their family members in vauxhall, he says. the conservatives have presided over a failing compensation scheme, and that scheme has only paid out 2500 claims out of an estimated 15,000 people originally considered eligible . originally considered eligible. and as you've been hearing, the prince of wales has thanked taylor swift for a great concert

as he shared a photo of the pop superstar taking a selfie with him and his children , prince him and his children, prince george and princess charlotte. watching the us singer perform at wembley stadium. prince william was also spotted shaking his arms to shake it off as he celebrated his 42nd birthday. swift posted her selfie with prince george and charlotte alongside her boyfriend , nfl alongside her boyfriend, nfl star travis kelce . for the star travis kelce. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites now it's back to dawn . to dawn. >> thank you very much, tatiana . >> thank you very much, tatiana. you can tell me about the taylor swift thing later in private. okay, now remember , let me know okay, now remember, let me know all your thoughts on the stories we've been discussing today by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation or message me on our socials. we're @gbnews now. there's loads more coming up on today's packed show. the bank of england has held its

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forward slash election. party. >> oh, welcome back to gb news saturday with me. dawn neesom on your telly, online and on digital radio. now we're talking money, but it's going to be crisp, sexy and full of impact, which is my favourite phrase ever , sorry. it annoys the team ever, sorry. it annoys the team in my ear though . the bank of in my ear though. the bank of england has held its interest rate at 5.25% this week, the highest level since 2008. it's a blow for borrowers, but could be good news for those with savings like that's all of us, isn't it? of course, the bank says it needs more certainty that inflation will stay low, but the minutes from the bank of england's meeting hint the possibility of a cut in august. but come on, i've got a clue what i'm talking about here. so what i'm talking about here. so what does it actually mean for the pennies in our pockets? joining me now is director and co—founder of renee, justin urquhart stewart , who's going to urquhart stewart, who's going to make it crisp and sexy and full of impact . can't do justin, of impact. can't do justin, what's going on? is this good news? bad news? >> no, it's actually it means things are heading in the right

direction. >> it would be nice if the bank of england did something like actually cut interest rates, but they've now given us a heavy hint, which means they'll be very difficult to row back on us unless the news is bad. now remember, more people actually save in this country than actually have mortgages and borrowings. so that's an awful lot of people. so particularly those who are slightly older, more people that say, yeah, really. and so a little move like that will, okay, you're not going to get much huge difference in your deposit accounts, but it's been going up accounts, but it's been going up a bit, right. also, it puts in that vital word that runs the economy confidence. give me a real confidence . that means if real confidence. that means if you can cut by a quarter percent, your your borrowing does go down. if it cut by a quarter percent. well actually what you've got then is probably more money actually flowing towards other forms of investment like stocks and shares and those sort of things. and also with rates, rates come down a bit. you start, people start thinking about moving house, and moving house is really important because when you move house, what happens? you know, the kitchen goes, the bathroom goes , the wiring needs bathroom goes, the wiring needs done, you will walk into a place and you have to spend a lot of money doing it up. that's good for the rest of the economy. so it's not just buying the

property, it's everything that goes with it. and that gives you a bit of people a positive impact. and that's that confidence and positive impact. actually, maybe one day of sun it'll help. >> indeed . this is a man who's >> indeed. this is a man who's just got a brilliant garden by the way, that he's worked out. and so that's why we were talking about gardening during the break. so now let me get this right now, rishi sunak is claiming responsible for this. it's, you know, the concern. all his promises , all his promises his promises, all his promises come into fruition. we'll get there. stick with him. would this have happened in any case, or is it down to any politician at all? >> it's very he has very little control over it. he's actually saying i'm going to cut inflation. you can't cut inflation. you can't cut inflation. it's everything else that happens , this inflation, that happens, this inflation, which is why it was so silly. with the bank of england pushing interest rates up, was nothing to do with consumer booms, which is what normally used to happen. those are old enough to remember the 70s and 80s. you had a consumer boom. people worrying put up interest rates to slow it down. that makes sense. there was no consumer boom this time. what was happening was you had a war in eastern europe. we had issues over trade coming through, left over from covid, a boat getting stuck in the suez canal. of course, all those

supply chains that remember that phrase they had just in time. yes i have just in time. what happens when actually the snaps and everything is no longer in time? it's delayed. and so once you've got that putting interest rates up doesn't actually affect that at all. so, you know, that was why inflation was coming through. so you had that has now started coming down because the demand has fallen back a bit. those trade routes secure. but they found a ways around it. yeah. and so what you then find is that actually as inflation nothing to do with the government has started coming down. we'll go down a little bit more. but be wary if there are nurses in the red sea, middle east with israel and also with, ukraine, it could easily go up a bit as well. so be wary. but at the moment the money's on a small cut. okay interesting. >> you mentioned savers because we've been hearing a lot in particular from keir starmer about and rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, about working people , how they're not going to people, how they're not going to cut taxes for working people . cut taxes for working people. now, i can't quite get my head around what they mean by a

working person. so does this mean, does that does that phrase fill you with confidence? do you understand what they mean? >> well, something could mean just about anything, doesn't it? working people sort of implies that you're going to be paying national insurance because you've got a job, you've got income tax. so making better for them, what they're trying to do is to encourage more people back into work, because post—covid, we suddenly find workers have already gone, not just because of brexit or everyone's looking after our cafes and pubs and they all vanished and they're not likely to be coming back. but what you then also found a lot of people saying actually , i lot of people saying actually, i can work from home, or i could actually give up work for the time being because one of the things i sort of got from it was that it's sort of like, you know, working people, people that just had their earnings and don't have, savings or stocks and shares. >> but interestingly, you say a lot of people do have savings. >> they do have and you can't necessarily live off them. but it may it does mean it's so urgent that i have to go and work full time for the rest of my life. now, there could be some light at the end of this. now, what the government needs to do, therefore, is not just about interest rates, but also make the tax simpler and more efficient, and make it so that there are incentives to people to save more and to invest more

in britain , not just in london, in britain, not just in london, but around all around. and where do you invest those technology centres, which are normally around the main universities, they spin out businesses. these are very good high tech businesses i bought you before. so we set up . so we set up. >> but you don't bore me. >> but you don't bore me. >> you make it. you make it understandable. even for a numpty like me who has no savings. but they've got. >> what we do is we set up more businesses in this country than france and germany put together. very entrepreneurial, and, you know, go back 50 years ago, we didn't do that. you know, being an entrepreneur was i think my mother used to say, oh my god, you want to go into trade, whereas actually now people see that that's the way to actually be constructed, make money. what we're bad at is then giving you the next round of finance to go for a small company, the medium sized company to large . what sized company to large. what happens is the americans come in and say, that's good technology. how about taking it to california? are close all of those there. so we could do a lot here without actually raising taxes by making it more efficient. >> okay, i'll tell you someone who is doing a lot here and i

know you're an expert on this subject, taylor swift. she's a single, single handed putting a bomb under our economy, isn't she? >> this is quite astonishing. and also producing all these albums, i have to say, i'm not a swiftae. i could even hum one of her songs, but! swiftae. i could even hum one of her songs, but 1 or 2 people, you were lying. >> you were singing them very well. during the break. but i mean, this is good. the feel good factor getting the economy going. i mean, sort of like, you know, people are spending a fortune on this. >> people do they? they want to enjoy themselves. they need some good weather help. but something like that. yes. it costs a lot to go and see it. but you'll go out, you'll go and have a meal. people will have some drinks and things like that. add to that as well. the euros, which always got to be careful because that's normally means we get knocked out quite quickly. yeah, but it does mean it's going to be a little bit again, more feel good. if by an astonishing chance we actually do end up winning it, that too will create more of a positive attitude. doesit more of a positive attitude. does it mean it affect the election necessarily? but it does affect the economy. remember that one word that runs the economy economy on this confidence. confidence confidence. confidence confidence and positivity? >> thank you very much. that's why we love justin. confident and positivity. thank you very much for coming in and making it

crisp, sexy and full of impact. sorry. okay, right. this is gb news still and i'm still dawn neesom, evidently. and there's loads more coming up on today's show after a miserable summer, you know, to start to the summer, you might have noticed, brits can finally expect things to pick up with temperatures across the country going up, join me in just a moment to find out when you can actually break out when you can actually break out the barbie and get that bikini on all of that, and much more to come. this is gb news, britain's news don't go too far, thank you very

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com forward slash your say. >> begum funny ou any case, it's. things are heating up here, this is gb news saturday. i'm dawn neesom and we're on your telly online and on digital radio. now, as i said, it's getting sizzling. britain is geanng getting sizzling. britain is gearing up for a potential heatwave next week as temperatures are set to soar to 30 degrees in some areas . now, 30 degrees in some areas. now, after a fairly miserable start to the summer, you may have noficed to the summer, you may have noticed it . brits can finally noticed it. brits can finally expect things to pick up with temperatures up across the country. joining me now is weather journalist country. joining me now is weatherjournalist nathan rao, weather journalist nathan rao, who weatherjournalist nathan rao, who is personally responsible for this wonderful heatwave we're going to have in the british summer. i've got a smile on my face today. i know i claim total responsibility for it, so what's what's happening and how long is it going to last and when can we wear our bikinis and put them back in the club for a winter woollies almost immediately. >> now, if you remember last week we were talking about arctic air coming over the uk. >> you were asking me when it was going to get better and it was going to get better and it was all very gloomy and i

mentioned that all we needed to hearis mentioned that all we needed to hear is the words high pressure. now as if by magic, high pressure has popped into the forecast and that is what's going to cause things to warm up from tomorrow. >> actually low 20s or mid 20s tomorrow in sunday, maybe even a bit warmer. >> but it's from monday onwards that they're looking at temperatures reaching the high 20s or even the low 30s in the south—east and the capital, which as everyone's been complaining about wanting the heat, i shall deliver low 30s, thank you very much. >> now, is that kind of normal temperature for this time of yean temperature for this time of year, or is it, you know, a heat wave, global warming or global boiling? we're all going to die horribly. >> do you know what? if you'd have asked me this question about ten years ago, i'd have said that was very unusual to see 30 degrees or in the low 30s. but we're seeing it pretty much every year now. so. so for what we're seeing in the last ten years or so. no, it's not. it's pretty normal compared to what we had in the last two weeks, which is pretty unusual with june being so grim. you can smile. it's okay. it's time to cast off your worries and your woes because it is going to get warmer. is it unusual? it is unusualin warmer. is it unusual? it is unusual in terms of the temperatures for june. the average average maximums, we'd expect to be about 25. but the

climate is changing. expect to be about 25. but the climate is changing . we are climate is changing. we are getting warmer summers. so these are the sorts of temperatures that we now start expecting when we talk about heatwaves. >> and i'm going to ask this question i know you can't actually tell me because you always say this to me, how long is it going to last? >> this very, very warm weather is expected to last until thursday. now that is five days from now . that's five days. and from now. that's five days. and as i always say, you can only tell with any certainty 5 to 10 days ahead. now on thursday into the friday and into next weekend, we're looking at high pressure and low pressure, sort of tussling with each other over the uk. and it depends where they sit. that will determine whether the hot weather continues or whether we get cooler weather in from the west. so i can only promise you with a little bit of a caveat of never really take a promise that a weather person tells you because there's always a chance. i never believe a word you say. >> no, honest with you. >> no, honest with you. >> so. but i can sort of promise you until thursday that we are probably going to get some very, very, very hot weather. and after then, fingers crossed summer has arrived. >> right? okay. you heard it here, nathan. real weather supremo has promised us. >> i didn't say, don't say

promise. i've sort of promised. promised with a caveat. okay, it's a journalist. promise. >> quickly. just quickly sweltering summers to threaten to burn up mid beds turret industry that doesn't sound good industry that doesn't sound good in the med. >> it's very, very hot over there. in fact, on a serious note, the temperatures are popping up note, the temperatures are popping up to 45 degrees across south—east europe. so on a serious note, if you're in that part of the world, temperatures are really, really cranking up there to the point where it moves beyond being just fun and very hot, where you should start taking a little bit of bit of caution. >> so brilliant, nathan, thank you very much. excellent as usual. say stay here and enjoy our heatwave, right . okay. well our heatwave, right. okay. well that's it. i'm afraid i've run out of time. it's time to get out of time. it's time to get out in the sun , you've been with out in the sun, you've been with me. dawn neesom on gb news saturday, thank you so much for joining me. really appreciate your company in our westminster studio. but don't go anywhere, though, because there's plenty more coming up on gb news today. in just a moment. it's fiery debate with a very hot nana akua. and at 6 pm. it's a saturday five. but first, we've just been talking about it. so drum roll please. for aiden with what exactly is going on with the weather this weekend. and

he's got graphs and everything to prove it. so get the barbecue ready, keep nana on the radio or watch telly in your garden. here's aiden with the weather for this weekend. thanks for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. have a wonderful day . have a wonderful day. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. news. news. >> hi there! welcome along to the latest update from the met office for gb news. some showers, especially across southeast england through the rest of today but dry for most and increasingly sunny skies through today and the next few days.in through today and the next few days. in fact, with rising temperatures. but for the time being, there is some cloud around and for western scotland. for northern ireland, that cloud thickens during the evening, some outbreaks of light and patchy rain and drizzle move in that rain and drizzle tends to sink south into northern

england, parts of wales , england, parts of wales, southwest england as well. some low cloud around by dawn , some low cloud around by dawn, some mist around coastal parts but clear skies elsewhere. some fog patches here and there and temperatures in the single figures. first thing in a few sheltered spots. but otherwise actually plenty of sunshine for the east midlands, east anglia and the south east. temperatures rising quickly through the morning. we've got this coastal mist and fog across south wales and southwest england. some drizzle over the hills here as well, but for the far north of england, for scotland and northern ireland, we're going to see plenty of sunshine during the morning and temperatures rising quickly through the day. but not for many. it is essentially a fine day, albeit rather cloudy through the midlands, wales and the southwest during the morning and early afternoon . the sun will early afternoon. the sun will come through in many places, however , if you're heading to however, if you're heading to the coast, south devon, south cornwall, parts of south wales could be plagued by some low

cloud and mist at times. where we get the sunshine coming through up to 25 celsius in the south—east low 20s elsewhere across the uk and plenty of sunshine as the afternoon comes to an end . meanwhile, across to an end. meanwhile, across western scotland, northern ireland again, some thicker cloud will arrive overnight, but that will tend to disperse by monday, which will be another largely fine day. and watch how the temperatures increase through next week up to 30 celsius by midweek. >> and that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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