houn hour. really coming up this hour. really cracking show for you, top conservative official is taking a leave of absence amid new election betting allegations. in yet another fresh for blow rishi sunak, as the whole affair is now being compared to partygate . now being compared to partygate. can the tories really get their campaign back on track and then a power cut has caused chaos . a power cut has caused chaos. you see the scenes there at manchester airport with all flights from terminals one and two being cancelled. we'll be there live to bring you the update on that breaking story and is folk music too white.7 yeah, we're here again . one yeah, we're here again. one university has been given more than £1 million to investigate to how decolonise the art form . to how decolonise the art form. but this show is nothing without you and your views , so let me you and your views, so let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today by visiting gbnews.com forward

slash your say i remember now it's amazing and join the conversation or message me on our socials @gbnews. but first let's get the news headlines. it's once again the lovely tatiana . tatiana. >> dawn. thank you. a fourth conservative is reportedly being looked into by the gambling commission over bets allegedly placed on the date of the general election. the conservative party's chief data officer , nick mason, has taken officer, nick mason, has taken a leave of absence, according to reports , amid claims he placed reports, amid claims he placed bets on the timing of the election. the tories director of campaigns, tony lee, and his wife laura saunders, also being probed, as is the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary, craig williams, who's admitted to an error of judgement . admitted to an error of judgement. home admitted to an error of judgement . home secretary admitted to an error of judgement. home secretary james cleverly says he shares the prime minister's views on the betting scandal. >> my view has always been the case that people in government should focus on delivering for the people of this country ,

the people of this country, people who are officials of the party should be focused on returning as many conservative mps as possible, so we can form a government so that we can serve the british people and anything other than that is inappropriate . inappropriate. >> the labour leader has suggested that benefits offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work. sir keir starmer took aim at handouts from the state. in a piece for the sunday telegraph. he added serving the interests of working people means understanding they want success more than state support. his changed stance on welfare comes as the latest savanta opinion poll in the telegraph newspaper shows labour retaining its electoral lead over the conservatives the poll has labour on 42% of the vote and the conservative party on 19, but shadow education secretary bridget phillipson says that it's going to be a lot closer than people think, or that there are , you know, a significant are, you know, a significant proportion of voters who haven't made their minds up. >> and in 175 seats, different polling points to the fact that

those seats are just too close to call. so they could go either way. it could well be 100, a couple of hundred votes in either direction that could shape the outcome of that. and i'd just say if people want to turn a page in all the chaos and division that we've had over the last 14 years, then they have to vote for it. they have to make it happen. it's not enough just to will it.7 >> sir ed davey says the public has lost faith in the ability of ambulance services to meet emergency call out targets, which he's described as a scandal. the liberal democrats have pledged £50 million for an emergency fund to support ambulance trusts, in an effort to restore public confidence that a 9.99 call will get the emergency treatment they need. the pledge comes as new analysis of nhs data by the party found just over 85,500 category two call outs and over 27.5 category one call outs are estimated to miss their targets before polling day. these categories include strokes and heart attacks . all flights from two attacks. all flights from two manchester airport terminals have been cancelled after a

major power cut. it's caused huge queues and disruption to baggage processing. it's understood the power issues also affected a number of other buildings close to the airport. manchester airport has said all flights from terminals one and two are being cancelled until further notice, and passengers due to travel from those terminals are being advised not to come to the airport and to stay in touch with their airlines. a search operation in tenerife for a missing british teenager has now entered its seventh day. jay slater went missing after he travelled for a music festival to the spanish island on what was his first houday island on what was his first holiday without his parents. his mother issued a direct plea yesterday saying we just need you home. and just before he went missing on monday, 19 year old jay called a friend saying he was lost and needed water. a yellow heat health alert has been issued for most of england as temperatures are set to hit 30 degrees in parts of the country. the alert, issued jointly by the uk health security agency and the met

office, comes into force from tomorrow morning and will remain in place until late thursday afternoon. areas affected are the southeast, with the strongest warnings issued for that region, the east midlands, the east of england and east anglia . scotland are getting anglia. scotland are getting ready to take on hungary in their final group game of the euros football tournament this evening. thousands of scottish fans are getting into the mood in germany, singing their way into tonight's game, and not even rain can dampen the tartan army spirits and for good reason. as scotland's clash with hungary could see their team reach the knockout stage of a major tournament for the very first time. critics didn't give the injury hit scotland much of a hope after their five one opening thrashing by hosts germany in munich. but a one all draw with the swiss has placed them within reach of qualification . and some not so qualification. and some not so good news for tennis fans. andy murray will not play at wimbledon this year after undergoing surgery on a spinal cyst. that news coming to us from the atp tour. the 37 year

old was hoping to make a farewell appearance at the tournament this summer, but he underwent surgery today after withdrawing from his second round match against jordan thompson at queen's earlier this week. and for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or you can go to news.com . slash alerts. go to news.com. slash alerts. now it's back to dawn . now it's back to dawn. >> thank you very much, tatiana. looking lovely as always on this gorgeous sunny day. now let's get stuck into today's story, shall we, the tory betting scandal is being compared to partygate by none other than michael gove. as the conservative party's chief data officer, nick mason takes a leave of absence amid claims he placed bets on the timing of the general election. it comes as four others are reportedly being investigated by the gambling commission , including laura commission, including laura saunders, the wife of the tories campaign director. craig

williams. another conservative candidate has also admitted to an error of judgement after placing a bet on when the election would take place. ooh. right. joining me now is a gb news political correspondent, katherine forster catherine, hello. hi. another day , another hello. hi. another day, another betting story for the tories. what on earth is going on with that party.7 >> oh, no, not another one as that wise woman , brenda from that wise woman, brenda from bristol once said about, general elections. yes, here we go again. there's now four conservatives being investigated by the gambling commission over alleged bets that they made on the date of the general election. shortly before that election. shortly before that election was called. so we've got two conservative candidates , got two conservative candidates, running for election. they're still running for the conservatives at the moment. rishi sunak has not suspended them, one of them was married to the, director of campaigns who's

taken a leave of absence. and now today we hear that the conservatives chief data officer is also under investigation and has also taken a leave of absence . these horrendous absence. these horrendous headunes absence. these horrendous headlines for the prime minister just keep on coming. less than two weeks out from the general election, he is visibly furious about this . and today michael about this. and today michael gove, the levelling up secretary who's not standing in the next election, has compared this to partygate, which is really quite something. that's the sort of argument you would expect to hear from the opposite opposition. another stick to beat the conservatives with, but we've heard it from one of their own because michael gove has said to the sunday times, it looks like one rule for them and one rule for us that's the most potentially damaging thing, he said. it'sjust potentially damaging thing, he said. it's just not acceptable for those in privileged positions to use inside

information, to make additional money for yourself. and i think, you know, this has huge cut through. everybody understands that putting a bet on something if you've got inside knowledge is not okay. it's, you know, just more bad news. the conservatives at the beginning of this campaign, although they were 20 points behind, you know, had some hope that the polls would tighten, that their policies would go down. well, that things might change, that they might potentially be able to get to a hung parliament. but, you know, nothing has changed for them really, apart from some self—inflicted disasters like d—day. now at this and of course, the, the reappearance of nigel farage and what that has done to reform's poll ratings, which are increasingly beginning to beat that of the conservatives. so, you know, another really dreadful day, for the

conservatives and the prime minister, you know, saying, no, he's not going to suspend the candidates. there's an investigation ongoing . i think investigation ongoing. i think it's worth saying that he could do. but i guess he also doesn't know how far this goes . james know how far this goes. james cleverly, the home secretary, was asked on gb news by camilla tominey if there's any cabinet ministers that had placed bets. he said not to my knowledge, but it does feel like, you know, every day pretty much somebody else is under investigation . else is under investigation. >> well, wait for the headlines tomorrow. something i'm sure rishi is not looking forward to. katherine forster, thank you very much for bringing it up to us. up to date on bet gate, as we can call it now. i think after kate gate, why not bet gate, right. let's see what my wonderful panel make of this, a great panel for you today. i'm joined by mike parry and jj anna sewell obe to very fine young men who are already complaining about the heat they're getting. right. okay. you can you can stay here. right. it's nice and

coolin stay here. right. it's nice and cool in here, but don't you dare moan about the heat. i've been looking forward to this summer all week of it. right. okay. now let's talk about bet gate, shall we, boys, i know you're a bit of a gambling man, mr parry, aren't you? >> i'm not. really. no, i only i only gamble on his side. >> yeah, i only gamble on two horse races a year. that's the grand national and the epsom derby. okay. and apart from that, i keep my money in my pocket because the bookie always wins. >> yeah, well, congratulations. should be a tory mp, maybe. yeah, right . okay, so what do we yeah, right. okay, so what do we make of this now? is this arrogance, or is it stupidity coming from the tory party? at the moment? >> it's both. you see, when you look at the sums involved, £100 bet and a lot. and so stupidity and arrogance, the arrogant bit is i know something nobody else knows. so i'm going to go into a betting shop and i'm going to put money on and nobody knows what i know, and i'm so clever. but there is one allegation within the story that unfolds that somebody was putting

multiple bets on, and we stress they're all allegations. yeah, these are all allegation. >> so we have to be careful because there is a criminal investigation of course. >> well of course, but what i'm saying is in the world of horse betting, which i've mixed with for years in my job as a sports reporter and all the big racetracks, you hear the stories all the time of people who will go to six different bookies and six different parts of the ground, so they don't drive the price down while they're putting money on something they think is a sure bet. and the other thing i'd say is, is also in my life as a sports reporter, i have seen football crash to the ground with debt because of the way they've been sucked into the betting world. so it's a very , betting world. so it's a very, very serious issue. but more than anything, i am absolutely disgusted with the stupidity of anybody close to government who even considered this, and the sheer arrogance that they thought they might get away with it. this is the thing. >> this is the thing i can't get my head around, right? jj, i mean, they're in trouble in acas

the tory party. i think everybody knows that by now. so what level what does it say about the respect they have for about the respect they have for a their boss? rishi sunak and b the conservative party in general, let alone the voters? >> obviously, i think if you look at the last 14 years, it's no surprise this is more tory sleaze. it doesn't matter who the boss is, whether it's sunak, bofis the boss is, whether it's sunak, boris johnson, liz truss, cameron, the tory party are now known as the party of sleaze. whether it's boris promoting chris pincher amongst all the allegations of him being a sexual predator, boris being told he's a sexual predator and saying to hell with it, i'm going to promote him anyway. or whether it's partygate, whether it's contracts for ppe going to their mates, they are a dodgy party and it's no surprise to me that you have parties like reform now with farage and richard tice coming forward and we, the public, saying we'd rather have farage and richard tice in charge than the corrupt government who continues to lie to us and continue to take us for mugs . for mugs. >> but is this worse than partygate? that's i mean, that's what we we're saying it is worse. it is. why would you say it's worse than because we. because even though partygate was, it was just a cake. it

wasn't. it meant it went much, much deeper than that. i think will admit that now. so why is this worse? because to me, partygate was do as we say, not as we do. and that was annoying when people were losing their loved ones. absolutely. >> with partygate and i condemned the tory party and johnson faux pas because my mother passed away with covid dunng mother passed away with covid during during that period and i was unable to go and see her in hospital. so i'd say goodbye to over the telephone. i will never forgive johnson for that. >> how, however , lots of people >> how, however, lots of people the rules were confusing. >> lots of people were going out and meeting friends and going for walks or having a barbecue at someone's house because the rules were very confusing. so with partygate, you can kind of excuse it a little bit because the rules were so convoluted and they were setting the rules, they were setting the rules, they were setting the rules, but it was still confusing , it was still confusing, apparently, even for them. however, with this, there's a reason why footballers are not allowed to put on bets on on anything to do with their profession. these people who've allegedly placed these bets, they know if they've done this, they know if they've done this, they know if they've done this, they know what they're doing, and they know that what they did

was wrong. so that's why we keep coming back to allegations. >> these are allegations are allegations i don't think i don't think, you know, the allegations here are worse than , allegations here are worse than, partygate because partygate was very extensive . very extensive. >> now i'm very sorry about your mother during the situation . erg mother during the situation. erg obviously that's horrible. but i think partygate was blown out of all proportion. i mean, some, you know, media outlets, newspapers and people who didn't like the tories got on it in big style, very, very big style. and i thought it got blown up to something. it really wasn't, you know, rishi sunak was fined for being in a part of a building he wasn't in, but he paid the £50 fine. i was what i would say here is this is i can't really disagree with jj about the sleaze inside the tory government, you know, because because somebody actually made a calculated decision , an i know calculated decision, an i know something somebody doesn't know, it would be to my advantage to cash in on this. nobody was trying to cash in on partygate. partygate was just a completely dysfunctional downing street operation, which was chaotic,

which was all over the place. the person in that room didn't know what was going on in that room, and the bloke who went out to get the wine in the suitcase didn't realise what he was going to do with it, and he got it was chaotic, whereas this was very specific and quite clearly it was designed to make people enhance themselves for a bit of political knowledge related . yeah. >> completely calculated as we, as we keep saying these are allegations, there are investigations rishi sunak so safe door. >> you're so safe. >> very clear. it's literally my job. yeah, but rishi sunak made it very, very clear. he is very angry about this and investigated and will take very firm action if the allegations are proven. but jj's also right about the footballing situation showing jj's right. i'm not. no no no no no. [10 [10 [10 110. >> no no no no. >> what i'm saying is i mean he's right, but i'm more right that i like to come in and see what i mean. and there's a newcastle footballer who's serving a ten month ban for getting involved in, in betting. they take it very, very seriously inside football and they should take this seriously.

if these allegations proved to need to be investigated under the 2005 gambling act, is a criminal offence to cheat at gambling or enable or assist another to do so. >> maximum penalty is two years in prison, who knows? but we have to move on now. if you're trying to escape the madness of politics, i really hope you're not going from manchester airport today because a power cut has our. well, it's chaos at manchester airport with all flights from terminals one and two being cancelled until further notice , and passengers further notice, and passengers due to travel from those terminals are advised not to go to the airport and to stay in touch with their airlines. oh god, you know how important holidays are at the moment. yeah, our gb news reporterjack yeah, our gb news reporter jack carson joins us now from manchester airport. i believe jack , it sounds horrific what's jack, it sounds horrific what's going on? >> well, as you mentioned , dawn, >> well, as you mentioned, dawn, that news that we've had in the last hour from manchester airport that all flights from terminal one and two are being cancelled until further notice now means that there are hundreds and thousands of passengers within that airport now stranded, wondering actually

what happens next. of course, we know that this power outage that manchester airport confirmed to us happened in the early hours of the morning. we know that there was a backup generator which kicked up into place, but there was a difficulty between trying to go back onto the mains network, trying to go to the power generator, and essentially what that did was massively affect the boarding card systems. the baggage screening. and that, as you can imagine, has caused a significant backlog and delays. so people that are arriving, you know, into the later early hours, 4 or 5 in the morning, were actually being met with huge queues of those people that are those passengers that couldn't get on their flights from anywhere between 2 and 3 this morning. i've spoken to one stranded passenger who arrived at the airport at quarter to three this morning. he's still here at this at this location where we are now at the end of the runway, trying to work out actually now how he gets him and his family off, off the ground and actually on away on their holiday. they've tried to rebook a flight, they say, which gets them into the, it gets them to

their destination at 2:00 this morning. but you can imagine dawn trying to balance those young kids and all these delays, is quite a problem. a lot of the people that were turning up to the airport, early in the early hours this morning had no idea, actually, that there'd been such actually, that there'd been such a power outage . we've been told a power outage. we've been told by quite a few people that have had those delays that actually there wasn't much help from the airlines and much support about really what exactly to do next. but they are working through this backlog. manchester airport apologised for that disruption. of course, terminal three is believed not to be such affected, but they , apparently affected, but they, apparently those passengers should check with their airlines exactly what is happening in terms of whether any of their flights have been affected by delays. but as i was mentioning, in terms of the baggage screening in particular, it does mean that there may well be some flights that take off from this airport without all the correct bags on board, and so now you're going to have that disruption for those people that have managed to get off the ground, but maybe get off the

ground, but maybe get off the ground without their bags in the hold. so a lot of the time it was only that cabin luggage that was only that cabin luggage that was being allowed on the flights. for those people now arriving passengers as well have also been disrupted because of these power outages . quite a few these power outages. quite a few flights have had to be diverted to other airports. and so advice there to if you are coming to pick someone up from arrivals to check because of the lack of space on the runway here, with so many flights grounded, with all these cancellations, jack, it just sounds absolutely horrendous. >> we'll be keeping in touch with you to see how the situation develops, and hopefully it will start to ease. so just to be clear, there is power back at those terminals now . how. >> now. >> yes. so there was power back once the power outage, you know, had happened because of the backup generators. and the power has now been restored . has now been restored. >> so everything's going to start moving, albeit slowly . start moving, albeit slowly. jack carson, thank you so much. and, we'll be keeping in touch on that story to let you know what happens and how it develops. thank you very much,

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rejoin the eu or is it a brexiteer fear mongering? oh, and by the way, happy brexit day to us. happy brexit day. it's what, eight years, eight years, eight years to the day that we voted to leave the eu and we are still talking about it . i still still talking about it. i still have, jj and mike with me. lucky me . hey, so who wants to go me. hey, so who wants to go first on this one? i think you went first last time. mike didn't you? i did, because you basically shut me down in flames. yes jj, happy brexit day. >> yeah. happy brexit day. look, 50, 56% of voters say brexit was bad for the economy. it probably was bad for the economy. it probably was. but just to presume that we can just jump back in. starmer becomes prime minister. it's almost a given, almost a certainty to presume that we can just go straight back into the eu. the eu is going to take us back. it's not a case of cool keir, you come bnng a case of cool keir, you come bring the bring back the brits. it's not going to happen. >> vote jj you've seen actually

the big problem hasn't he mike with us going anywhere near cap in hand back to the eu. what are they going to say. >> well they're going to charge us a lot more to get back than it cost us to come out. the problem with brexit is it's so highly political. nobody ever looks at the facts and assesses it. so for instance, if i tell you, since we left the eu's economic area 2020 are highly productive , has grown faster productive, has grown faster than the eurozone. and according to the oecd, very respected body, our overall economy has grown faster than that of france or germany , and there's no or germany, and there's no reason to think that that won't keep going on all goods. imports from the eu of eu have actually gone up faster than those from elsewhere in the world, because we have done deals with countries since we came out of brexit, and we've done deals around the world with commonwealth countries , with commonwealth countries, with pacific countries. i think honestly it's of financial benefit to us, and i think the facts are there to prove that our gdp decreases year on year by 4% because of brexit.

>> that's always proven. and who told you that, jj who told you that? the obr mate. yeah the obr guy goes on to a tv show two years ago and says, oh, the economy's hit 4% each year. >> i've never seen the facts to back that up. never. >> listen, i'll go about the obr say and that's what they said. that's what they say. 4% each yearis that's what they say. 4% each year is a decrease because tom moore growing faster than germany and france. listen, forget that for a second. let's talk about these great deals you say we've done. yeah liz truss did a deal with australia and new zealand to bring in, their lamb to this country, which actually ruins our farmers. farmers are being undercut. our farmers who are the backbone of this country are suffering because of deals that we have to do now with other countries, because we left the eu. that's no good when we are making our own people poorer. no, to spite our face. mike, that is the that is the case. >> it's a question of restructuring the whole of our trade deals around the world. that was never going to happen in the first 12 or 18 months. it's going to happen over 20 years. fishing is a 20 fishers fishing. >> well, of course it is. mcgregor mate, don't pay for your bills now. we'll take your

fork. you lose your land. but in 20 years we'll be doing much better. that's no good for them. now, is it? >> and look at the fishing industry as well. we already control more of our waters now than we did when we were in the european union. okay. and in 18 months time, providing the incoming labour government doesn't slash it, we'll own even more of our waters and be more in a bigger position to sell our fish around the world and be a major trading partner. >> people in this country cannot wait for 20 years. it's no good saying, don't worry, in 20 years time, we're going to be prosperous. did you think it would change overnight? >> yeah, i did, i did , i >> yeah, i did, i did, i genuinely i did. >> well that's why i did. i voted, i voted to leave because i thought it was going to be better for the country. so far, it's been worse off for the country. i regret voting for leave. >> you vote to go back now. >> you vote to go back now. >> i would vote if you were given a second referendum. >> would you vote to rejoin? absolutely i would vote to rejoin, even though, you know you're going to get a worse deal because they are not going to accept us going back on on a better terms if punitive to us, if it means that british people

are going to do slightly better than we're doing currently. >> i would go back in a heartbeat. there's too many people in this country who are suffering because of brexit. no, we were lied to. >> i would never want to go back into an organisation that doesn't have the power to elect people to run that organisation. the people who run it are just appointed and they're and they're faceless people who get up in the middle of the night and try and destroy british laws. right. so i don't want that. >> who voted for sunak? who put sunakin >> who voted for sunak? who put sunak in power? was that the british people? no, no, no, it wasn't you. you jumped in after truss was booted. >> you can't put the european leaders into power. >> trust in power. who did we vote for? liz truss. did we vote for liz truss? we didn't vote for liz truss? we didn't vote for rishi sunak. we get a chance to vote and we get a chance to vote on july 4th. granted. but we didn't vote for our last two prime ministers. >> so part of our political process, well, that's part of being in the eu mike. same same for gordon brown okay. and he managed to smash the country up pretty badly. no he did okay. yes he did. >> he did. he did better than sunak and truss as as much as i hate to interrupt this, this brilliant. >> please don't interrupt. yeah.

>> please don't interrupt. yeah. >> quite dormant. sorry >> quite dormant. sorry >> i'm just a girl sitting in the middle, you know, try my best to look pretty failing miserably. i know, but i'm going to go to someone that's actually much prettier. in any case, we're running out of time. i'm dawn neesom mrs. gb news sunday. these two are not going anywhere, but tatiana keeping tatiana waiting is waiting with your headlines here. she is. >> dawna, thank you very much. the top stories this hour. a fourth conservative is reportedly being looked into by the gambling commission over bets allegedly placed on the date of the general election. the conservative party's chief data officer, nick mason, has taken a leave of absence as, according to reports, amid claims he placed bets on the timing of the election. the tories director of campaigns, tony lee, and his wife laura saunders, are also being probed , saunders, are also being probed, as is the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary, craig williams, who's admitted to an error of judgement . the to an error of judgement. the labour leader has suggested that benefits offer less dignity to people than earning a living

through work. sir keir starmer took aim at handouts from the state in a piece for the sunday telegraph. his changed stance on welfare comes as the latest opinion poll in the telegraph newspaper shows labour retaining its electoral lead over the conservatives. the poll has labour on 42% of the vote and the conservatives on 19. a search operation in tenerife for a missing british teenager has entered its seventh day. jay slater went missing after he travelled for a music festival to the spanish island on what was his first holiday without his parents. his mother issued a direct plea yesterday saying we just need you home, just before he went missing on monday morning, 19 year old jay called a friend saying he was lost and needed water. a yellow heat health alert has been issued for most of england as temperatures are set to hit 30 degrees in parts of the country. the alert, issued jointly by the uk health security agency and the met office, comes into force from tomorrow morning and remains in place until late thursday

afternoon. areas affected are the southeast, with the strongest warnings issued for that region the east midlands, the east of england and east anglia . and andy murray will not anglia. and andy murray will not play anglia. and andy murray will not play at wimbledon this year after undergoing surgery on a spinal cyst. that news coming to us from the atp tour. the 37 year old three time grand slam champion was hoping to make a farewell appearance at the tournament this summer, but went under the knife today after withdrawing from his second round match against jordan thompson at queen's earlier this week . for the latest stories, week. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or you can go to gb news. comments. now back to dawn . comments. now back to dawn. >> thank you tatiana and my gentleman. panellists would like to apologise for keeping you waiting. they didn't actually. but hey, remember let me know your thoughts on all the stories

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forward slash election. party. >> welcome back to gb news pay attention gentlemen. welcome back to gb news sunday with me. dawn neesom on your tv, online and on digital radio with a very , very frisky panel. it has to be said, but they aren't . well, be said, but they aren't. well, you might be slightly friskier than him, but i mean, now they aren't. what they aren't doing is losing their work ethic because evidently britain is. despite there being almost 904,000 job vacancies in the uk, some employers are struggling with skill shortages, having given up on trying to hire british workers and adviser at the institute of directors, a group of senior business leaders told the telegraph. one of our members said they had 200 applications for one job, but only one was from a brit national. they approached the person and then they didn't even hear back. i mean, so come on, what is going on? do brits have a problem when it comes to work

ethic? mike parry i can hear you literally nodding along. you're nodding so hard. look the world has definitely changed from my day when, you know, when i was a young reporter, i worked at a petrol station at the weekends and in a bar two nights a week. >> i was saving up for my first car, a vauxhall viva, which cost me £330. okay, so i was i was working literally 24 hours a day. now the problem is, i think society has now got so comfortable and so wealthy. young people do not have that desperate desire anymore. in fact, i know some young people who literally seem to think that it'll come overnight if they keep looking at their laptops and look around the internet fame will suddenly descend upon them. but the idea of applying itself to a 9 to 5 job and then maybe doing other hours and building a career because they want instant reward , you know, want instant reward, you know, the idea of doing ten years as a lawyer or an accountant or something like that is honestly anathema to a lot of young

people. and i'm not putting young people down. what i'm saying is, is that the way i approach life and you approach life. dawn and jj , you're a bit life. dawn and jj, you're a bit youngen life. dawn and jj, you're a bit younger, but i'm sure you probably did as well. absolutely. is not the way that young people today approach life. they don't believe that you should work yourself to the bone to produce a cost of living and sorry, a standard of living, and sorry, a standard of living, and also so it's particularly prevalent amongst middle class families whose parents now, in my view, do far too much to support their children. i know one person who's 32, never had a job in his life, and his mother is still paying his mobile phone bill. right? and every time a new venture collapses back home and he's got a bed at home and absolutely no problem, there's no motivation there. >> yeah, i've got to agree with mike. dawn is bang on. he is bang on the money there, all right. it's that one over. okay gen z okay. gen z are the big problem here. and they've got two issues. one is they've got soft parents. our parents would not have said to us, oh, you can

do whatever you want. oh, everyone gets a medal. don't worry about it. everyone. everyone wins. no, our parents would have told us, you work hard, you go through education and that's how you get promoted. you want to. you want to work extra hours at work. that's how your boss notices that you're good, right? these kids today from their parents are being told you can do anything you want. oh, sorry. sorry, sweetie. your mental health is at is at risk. yeah. then then you can't work today. you have a sick day. you have a sick day. the parents have ruined them. and then also, they've been raised in a generation of social media and uber eats and deliveroo. everything's instant for them. when we when we were kids, you want to order a taxi for a night out, you book it early in the day and you've got to be at the specific spot to get that cab. now go on your phone, cab instant. you want you want takeaway? go on your phone. it's instant. everything is now, now, how. >> now. >> the whole mental approach to work from a young person is completely alien to me. so i'm not sacking them, saying you're a bad person. i'm a good person. the way they've come up, for instance, in a restaurant recently , i ordered a pizza and recently, i ordered a pizza and i complained there was nothing to cut it with. there was literally nothing to cut it

with. not a thing. so i said to the young lady, can you give me one of those roller cutters, please? yeah. and she looked at me. you know what? for well, cut my pizza up, you know, she went away and then the manageress came over, who wasn't much older than this young lady, i would say mid 25. yeah. and said, you've spoken too harshly to my waitress. honest to god . hear waitress. honest to god. hear the story. this is it. you've spoken to her? i said, no, i didn't, luckily i was dining with my sister, so i had a witness and who said, what are you talking about? yeah. anyway, it got to the point where we're not serving you now . eventually. not serving you now. eventually. luckily, the owner of the restaurant, it was a surrey pub restaurant. he lived next door and he had to come in and sort it out. but afterwards i spoke to him and he said, it happens all the time. >> they can't take criticism, the sense of entitlement in the job and everything's got to be right . right. >> i might be slightly older than the generation you're talking about, only slightly, by the way. but in their defence, they haven't had it easy about

they haven't had it easy about the pandemic. >> they certainly have. you can say the pandemic is are you going to say we all went through the pandemic, we all went through that, not just them. >> we weren't going through our formative years. we weren't going through education. we weren't developing relationships and friendships. so. so stop 18 months of lockdown has made them soft. >> that's what you're saying . >> that's what you're saying. >> that's what you're saying. >> blame on the pandemic, what they would say. >> it's no, that's no better than saying, oh, it's brexit is to blame. brexit is to blame. then there's something in that. >> it's been a massive expansion of the middle classes in this country in the last 25, 30 years. started with economic boom from thatcher. baby boomers got more and just became soft towards their children. it might have something to do with the fact that, you know, as a baby boomer, i had a pretty hard my dad had come out of the war, you know, growing up in a council house and all that kind of stuff. you want to give more to your children? fine. but i do think parents are abandoning their children unless they give them the idea. you've got to stand on your own two feet at some point. absolutely. >> jj, you've got a gorgeous little boy. i mean , obviously little boy. i mean, obviously he's not old enough to be going out to work yet. although chimneys are still available, what? i mean, you're going to

bnng what? i mean, you're going to bring him up how you were brought up by the sounds of it then? absolutely. so what do we do now with this generation that don't seem to be, as you know, had the same work ethic as some of us did? >> well, thankfully, they'll be surpassed soon. this generation of kids have got currently from age 25 to 16. those people are never going to become managers. they're never going to make it to that level. they'll stay. they'll stay level they're at because they don't want to work hard. they don't want to put in extra, extra hours. they think it's okay. they will look at us and they'd say, no, no, you're wasting your life. why are you working extra hard for you? you want to be more more relaxed, more chill? no. so those people are going to stay just coasting through. they will never achieve anything. very few of them will achieve anything and there's nothing. they are gone. that generation is ruined. i blame the parents and i blame social media. but the next generation after that, my kid is the next generation. they're being raised by people like us. they will be okay. >> it's almost cyclical. then basically they will learn from this generation what i also feel sorry for about these younger people is they don't know about the joy of achieving.

>> they don't know about the joy of doing work. i, at 13 got a newspaper round . for the first newspaper round. for the first time in my life. i had independent money. i didn't have to rely on my dad for pocket money. yeah, i could do what i want, go and buy my airfix kits and all that kind of stuff. yeah, they don't know the sheer j'oy yeah, they don't know the sheer joy of earning your own dosh and having your independence. >> i'm going to earn my own dosh now by telling you to be quiet, both of you, because you've run out of time. i'm sorry. i know they're very good, aren't they. i'm dawn neesom still dawn neesom. unbelievable this is gb news. and there's loads more coming up on today's show. now, this is another cracker one university had been given more than £1 million to investigate how to decolonise folk music. so is folk music too white? all of that and much more to come. this is gb news, britain's news channel and we have got a cracking debate coming up that you really don't want to miss, so don't go too far. see

gb news. >> lordy, lordy. hello. welcome back to gb news sunday with me. dawn neesom on your telly. online and on digital radio. now. i love this story. is folk music too white centric? the university of sheffield has been given 1.5 million of your money to look into the white centricity of folk music, investigate how to decolonise the art form, the researchers say they will take an unflinching look at the white centricity of folk at folk music repertory performers , and repertory performers, and there's a lot of long words in this and audience conducting field work to shed light on long standing vernacular singing practices. oh, bloody hell. sorry. language, dawn. sorry. i would apologise for that. but universities use such long language. basically. sheffield university vie been given 1.5 million of to money look into whether folk music, which was pretty much invented by white folk back in the day , is too folk back in the day, is too white. jj is reggae, too black. i mean, you know, exactly how much money do you want to look

into this one? >> this is mental, university of sheffield should be hanging their heads in shame. £1.5 million. this is why these universities have got to fulfil their their accommodation with foreign students to pay for this kind of ridiculousness. it's absolutely ridiculous. okay folk music, it's not mainstream. it's essentially it's an ethnic, ethnic type of music, mostly for of white people . we wouldn't of white people. we wouldn't need to invest £1.5 million into look, oh, is black, hip hop music? is that too black? yeah. no, you wouldn't do the same. it's ridiculous. it's a cultural thing. >> i agree that that clip that we've shown a couple of times now is taken in leadenhall market in east london. yeah, yeah. market in east london. yeah, yeah . no, you won't find yeah. no, you won't find anywhere more multicultural than leadenhall market, you know, because it's a big part of, of london and all the crowds seem to be enjoying it. i've been to lots of places where the old morrismen have suddenly turned up, you know , smashing the canes up, you know, smashing the canes and the bells and all that kind of stuff . yeah, in multicultural of stuff. yeah, in multicultural pubs, you know, because they are

all over this country and i've never seen anybody protest about, you know, any alleged, you know, two white and all that. and the other thing i would say is, and if we had a, you know, leader of a morris men group here now, do they bar black people from joining the morris man? of course, they don't know anybody can join whenever they want. but i think you'll find the natural instincts of some people is to go for, like you say, hip hop or reggae , something more mainstream. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> but people who live in little villages in the country where there isn't necessarily a great, diverse group of people living there like to, to do the morris men thing. and i would support them. it's part of british culture. absolutely. >> i mean, personally speaking , >> i mean, personally speaking, i'm not going to join a morris dancing group or a folk singing group. yeah, it ain't my interest. however, you're right, actually. >> see you out in that in the, you know , cindy yu. you know, cindy yu. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> if they turned up in my, my council estate in hackney. yeah. no one would be like, get out of here. you know, it's too white. no one would care. people are

like, oh, this is entertaining. yeah exactly. >> exactly. part of culture i've never seen before. >> yeah, precisely. >> yeah, precisely. >> what do you think without links into what you're talking about before, about young folk being wrapped in cotton wool and not being in the real world. yeah, but do you think of, like, you know, this navel gazing is being done in our academic, our, institutions , but ordinary institutions, but ordinary people on the street are going well , you see, jj people on the street are going well, you see, jj said earlier, the waste money, all that. >> who at sheffield university suddenly decided that this was an issue that needs investigating. yeah. and we're going to spend monopoly money. i mean, somebody there has got a job that is not necessary. yeah, yeah, my job is necessary. >> i've got to go. i've got to go. honestly, we're running out of time. oh, my god, these are so brilliant, but the most important thing this afternoon is what the weather is doing for you. let's have a look. and here's aiden with all the details. enjoy >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> hi there. welcome along to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a perfect summer's day out there for most of us, but there is some patchy cloud about and later on it's going to turn a bit breezy and cloudy across the far northwest as this frontal system approaches. otherwise as a ridge of high pressure for the vast majority, bringing settled summery conditions and plenty of sunshine . the best of the sunshine. the best of the sunshine. the best of the sunshine through the evening across northern and central parts of the uk, we've still got some cloud lingering around southwestern parts , and that may southwestern parts, and that may well thicken through the night, with some mist around coasts. but where we've got the clear spells elsewhere as well, temperatures actually staying up 14, 15, perhaps 16 celsius. a muggy night in places, especially across central and southeastern parts , and for southeastern parts, and for western scotland, thickening cloud outbreaks of rain and drizzle through the night with a freshening breeze. so it's a gloomy start. a damp start here, whilst for central and eastern scotland, southern scotland, as

well as for parts of northern england , a sunny start, northern england, a sunny start, northern ireland also seeing some patchy rain, a few light showers , those rain, a few light showers, those showers tending to fizzle out through the morning but for much of the rest of england into wales, it's sunny skies to start on monday. however, we do still have some of that low cloud affecting southwestern areas, particularly around the coast, with some mist in places now through the day , many places through the day, many places just seeing fine weather continuing with plenty of warm sunshine. there will be some areas of cloud still remaining across central parts and western scotland, seeing some drizzle at times, but where we get the sunshine in the southeast up to 28 celsius with the warmest day of the year so far. now monday evening brings further cloud and some outbreaks of rain, along with a strengthening breeze across the west of scotland. otherwise, for the vast majority, as we go through the middle of the week, it's going to stay sunny and increasingly hot. temperatures reaching 30 celsius in places looks like

things are heating up boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> thank you very much, aiden. now, just before we move on, a professor of music at the university of sheffield, going back to the previous story, has said our research highlights the different under—recognized communities who have helped establish cultural life in england . our aim is to break england. our aim is to break down the barriers for people to get involved in folk music. okay, lots more coming up in today's show. stay tuned. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news. britain's news channel. and you don't go too far because it's going to get even

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hour we've got coming up. i'm keeping you company on tv, onune keeping you company on tv, online and on digital radio. so coming up, sir keir starmer says benefits offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work, taking aim at handouts from the states animatori by the day. what do you make of that? and then a this is a horrible story, a power cut has caused chaos at manchester airport with all flights from terminals one and two cancelled. we'll be bringing you up to date on that breaking story, and dame emma thompson has shown her support forjust has shown her support for just stop oil by. is the jet setting star being slightly hypocritical ? all . but this show is ? all. but this show is nothing without you and your views, so let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're talking about or anything you want. have a chat about basically just visit gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation or message me on our socials @gbnews but first it

is those news headlines with tatiana . tatiana. >> dorner. thank you and good afternoon. the top stories this houn afternoon. the top stories this hour. home secretary james cleverly says it's inappropriate for party officials to have benefited from using inside information to bet on the timing of the general election. the conservative party's chief data officer, nick mason, has taken a leave of absence, according to reports. that's amid claims he gambled on the polling day date. the tories director of campaign , the tories director of campaign, tony leigh, and his wife laura saunders, are also being probed, as is the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary, craig williams, who's admitted to an error of judgement . it to an error of judgement. it cleverly says he shares the prime minister's views on the betting scandal. >> my view has always been the case that people in government should focus on delivering for the people of this country, people who are officials of the

party should be focused on returning as many conservative mps as possible, so we can form a government so that we can serve the british people and anything other than that is inappropriate . inappropriate. >> the labour leader has suggested that benefits offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work. sir keir starmer took aim at handouts from the states in a piece for the sunday telegraph. he added serving the interests of working people means understanding they want success more than state support . understanding they want success more than state support. his changed stance on welfare comes as the latest savanta opinion poll in the telegraph newspaper shows. labour retaining its electoral lead over the conservatives. the poll has labour on 42% of the vote and the conservatives on 19. but shadow education secretary bridget phillipson says that it's going to be closer than people think . people think. >> know that there are, you know, a significant proportion of voters who haven't made their minds up. and in 175 seats, different polling points to the fact that those seats are just too close to call. so they could

go either way. it could well be 100, a couple of hundred votes in either direction. that could shape the outcome of that. and i'd just say if people want to turn a page in all the chaos and division that we've had over the last 14 years, then they have to vote for it. they have to make it happen. it's not enough just to will it? >> all flights from two manchester airport terminals have been cancelled after a major power cut. it's caused huge queues and disruption to baggage processing. it's understood the power issue has also affected a number of other buildings close to the airport. manchester airport has said all flights from terminals one and two are being cancelled until further notice , and passengers further notice, and passengers due to travel from those terminals are advised to not come to the airport and to stay in touch with their airlines . gb in touch with their airlines. gb news spoke to an affected passenger, who says passengers were left in the dark for hours. >> well, we arrived and it wasn't. there was no disruption to start with. we're all queuing up. it were queuing up outside car park, and we went in and they said, you just, you know, holding pen basically until we

can get these further flights in first moved, but then no changed. and we were there for about 5 or 6 hours. just stood in terminal building. we never moved. >> what time did you arrive this morning? >> quite two. three in morning and we were there. i don't think they told us until what we were doing until about ten or something like that one half, nine or something like that. when the cancelled flights . when the cancelled flights. >> search teams attempting to locate british teenager jay slater have narrowed their efforts on small buildings close to where his phone last pinged in tenerife. jay slater went missing a week ago after he attended a music festival on the spanish island. it was his first houday spanish island. it was his first holiday without his parents. his mother issued a direct plea yesterday saying we just need you home. those conducting the searches today could be seen looking into blue barrels outside one of the small buildings , just before jay went buildings, just before jay went missing on monday , the 19 year missing on monday, the 19 year old called a friend saying he was lost and needed water to. in other news that scotland are

getting ready to take on hungary in their final group a game of the euros football tournament this evening, thousands of scottish fans are getting into the mood in germany , singing the mood in germany, singing their way into tonight's game, and not even rain can dampen the tartan army spirits and for good reason. as scotland's clash with hungary could see their team reach the knockout stage of a major tournament for the first time. critics didn't give the injury hit scots much of a hope after their five one opening thrashing by host germany in munich, but a one all draw with the swiss has placed them within reach of qualification , and some reach of qualification, and some not so good news for tennis fans as andy murray will not play at wimbledon this year. that's after undergoing surgery on a spinal cyst. the 37 year old, three time grand slam champion was hoping to make a farewell appearance at the tournament this summer, but the scot went under the knife today after withdrawing from his second round match against jordan thompson at queen's earlier this week. murray has suffered from back injuries in the past, having undergone surgery in 2013. for the latest stories,

you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or you can go to gb news khmaladze. now back to the lovely dawn . the lovely dawn. >> 0120, thank you much. very lovely tatiana , i love you more lovely tatiana, i love you more like it's a sunday. we can do this girl thing right? it's bonding. oh, okay. right. let's get stuck into today's stories. i've got two men champing at the bit to , here to get involved in bit to, here to get involved in these debates. right now, as you've been hearing in the headlines, the labour leader has suggested that benefits offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work. in a piece for the sunday telegraph , sir keir starmer took telegraph, sir keir starmer took aim at handouts from the state, saying serving the interests of working people means under standing. they want success more than state support . blimey. standing. they want success more than state support. blimey. is he right? well, joining me now to a deep dive, as we say these days into this one is gb news political correspondent

katherine forster catherine, if i'd have heard this from a conservative leader, i wouldn't be surprised . but this is a be surprised. but this is a labour leader saying this benefits britain. get off your backsides. go and get a job. >> yes, indeed, this is sir keir starmer. he's written a piece in the sunday telegraph today saying that he's going to put wealth creation front and centre and talking about the value of work and also benefits . it work and also benefits. it sounds like labour are toughening up their line on, welfare benefits, which of course have absolutely rocketed since the pandemic. course have absolutely rocketed since the pandemic . the welfare since the pandemic. the welfare bill is increasingly unsustainable as it is, and it's estimated that it's going to rise by £20 billion by 2030. the number of people claiming out of work benefits for long term sickness , etc, and is going up sickness, etc, and is going up very, very substantially. it's

costing a fortune and some 20% of cities like glasgow , of cities like glasgow, blackpool, liverpool etc. are on working age benefits, so they need to do something. the conservatives are already toughening up their rules, and it sounds like sir keir starmer may take a leaf out of their book. now he's spoken , and he book. now he's spoken, and he said that handouts from the state do not nurture the same sense of self reliant dignity as a fair wage. now, although , no, a fair wage. now, although, no, this is obviously an appeal to conservative voters, many of whom do seem like they are going to vote labour or possibly reform , but not conservative, so reform, but not conservative, so this will appeal to them. but i think also it's going to really annoy, quite a lot of people on the left, whether that's voters or some members of his own party, because he's coming in for a lot of criticism already

over the fact that the two child benefit cap that george osborne introduced a few years ago, labour have said that they would like to get rid of it, that basically they cannot afford to do so. now that is infuriate . do so. now that is infuriate. and many people on the left that say this is a real cause of child poverty. so i think this , child poverty. so i think this, this sort of language will certainly go down well with some, but it's going to really annoy some people on the left , annoy some people on the left, pictures of our c sir keir starmer there with rachel reeves , the shadow chancellor. >> what we haven't seen is pictures of him with angela raynen pictures of him with angela rayner. now, this sort of announcement and policy is not going to go down with angela raynen going to go down with angela rayner, who is his deputy, because she is more to the left of the party. she doesn't exactly hide it, does she? and she's going to think this sounds too tory. >> well, she might well . and

>> well, she might well. and angela rayner, as we've seen, is something of a free spirit . he something of a free spirit. he tried to demote her just a tried to demote herjust a couple of years ago. and in fact, not only did he not succeed in demoting her, she came out with a whole load of new titles. and also, she's not sort of willy ing to toe the party line if it doesn't suit her. we saw that literally a couple of weeks ago, and in all the row about diane abbott and she said, well, diane should be allowed to for stand labour if she wants to, which was very certainly not the correct line to take at the moment. but you know, at the time. but angela rayneris know, at the time. but angela rayner is very popular. she appeals to a lot of people and a lot of people that perhaps aren't that keen on sir keir starmer himself . so yeah, it'll starmer himself. so yeah, it'll be interesting to be a fly on the wall in some of those, discussions of course, she's got her workers rights legislation now. some say that's been watered down. it will be

interesting to see if and when as as looks likely they get into government. you know how far they will go on on some of those pledges . pledges. >> interesting times for us all. katherine forster, thank you very much for that. now let's see what my marvellous panel make of that. i have the lovely mike parry with me still and the even even lovelier. >> can i say that you can say that. well, actually, you know, equally lovely. >> oh my god, where am i going with this? jj anas sarwar obe. now, as i said to catherine, if i'd have heard this from a tory, any tory, over any amount of years, i wouldn't have been surprised. but this is basically a keir starmer, a labour leader saying benefits britain is broken. get off your backsides , broken. get off your backsides, go and get a job. yeah. is he making sense? is this what people want to hear? >> it might be what people want to hear, but it's absolute drivel. if you take this at face value, it's utter drivel. the sunday telegraph is the most right wing newspaper in this country, i think, and i'm really surprised that they just put it on the front, splashed it, and

then didn't get more sceptical about questioning what they've read. only a couple of weeks ago, sir keir starmer said i'm a socialist socialists believe in handouts to people in their country . okay, the welfare state country. okay, the welfare state in this country currently stands at £265 billion a year, right? already we know that more people get handouts from the government in this country than actually contribute to the tax burden. okay, that's the way it works. the other taxes come from business and all that kind of stuff. this is utter drivel, wasn't it gordon brown who invented universal credit and wasn't universal, wasn't universal credit. the idea that we'll expand the number of people in this country by millions who get a handout from the government, rather than having to get their money from their employer. i mean, the whole labour philosophy is to bnng whole labour philosophy is to bring more and more people into the public sector and to be more reliant on the government. and this is just utter drivel . and this is just utter drivel. and anybody who believes it must be

mad. i don't believe keir starmer on taxes. i don't believe in our relationship with europe and i certainly don't believe him on this. he's not going to shrink the state. he's going to shrink the state. he's going to shrink the state. he's going to try and expand it. and you only do that by giving people more handouts . that's my people more handouts. that's my view, really. >> we should sit on the fence, mike. honestly, i mean, you could actually be a keir starmer yourself. jj what do you make of this one, i think that actually this one, i think that actually this is the labour that we need. i'm not a fan of keir starmer. i call him keith because i like keir in my phone or it corrects it to keith. >> yeah, yeah yeah yeah. >> yeah, yeah yeah yeah. >> mine autocrats. it's something occasionally. >> so i'm not a fan of keith. but this is there'll be no one more happy to hear this than the working class. as a working class kid, there was nothing more annoying for me growing up as a child than seeing my mum and dad working as many hours as they could possibly fit into the day, and then the neighbour who wasn't working at all getting benefits but had the big tv, their kids had the newest football boots and a playstation and xbox, whatever else. so the working class will hear this and i'll think, good, it's about time that actually everyone started putting more effort in because we're having to struggle and work. so get these people off benefits. now, of course,

there are people in this country who need benefits and they should still be protected. they still need they still should be helped. i disagree with when he says that, giving out handouts will give people less dignity, but i think the problem we have in this country now is that there is less shame when i when we were kids. >> oh, that's a good point. >> oh, that's a good point. >> yeah, we were kids. >> yeah, we were kids. >> yeah, we were kids. >> yeah, it was like you wanted to work. >> your parents wanted to be able to go out and buy their own things, rather than being having to go and get your giro or whatever from from the government. there's less shame these days about it. i totally agree. >> but you know, labour believe in the client state. they believe that if they're responsible for people's lives, they've got more control over them and they and they can redesign society. you're absolutely right about what you say about the shame. but i don't care where anybody says i know from the life i lead. there are groups of people in this country who are very happy to live off the welfare state, who are very happy to take money from the government, go to any one of a number of pubs that i use on the way to work and back, and in town you see the same people there every day on the way to work. you know, you see the same, you see the same people

there every day. what i'm saying is if i go in at 1:00 after i've done a morning job or i go in at 7:00 at night after an afternoon job, the same people are there and you talk to the bar staff and you talk to the bar staff and you talk to the landlady. she says, oh no, no, no, no, they don't work. they literally live off the state. and people always attack me and say, give me evidence and all that. well, i'm sorry, the evidence is with my own eyes. i know these people exist. and the idea that labour will row back on that is utter nonsense. >> in case thomas defence, because he's not here to defend himself. >> okay, if you want to. or keith as we're now calling you, give us a call. you can come on any time. but you know, he said he is changing labour. he is moving making the more left wing. >> no. >> no. >> i'm sorry. yes i'm sorry he is. >> no, no is.— >> no, no he ain't. >> no, no he ain't. >> no, he is. »- >> no, he is. >> listen, the people my problem people. the reason i get criticised on social media is because people say to me, i'm not really a labour person because my labour has moved so far left that i now look like i'm a tory, right? keir starmer is not taking the party left.

the people who are left on this party, the corbynite supporters. yeah, they they are left, keir starmer is, is he's too close to jeremy corbyn, by the way. >> but but he didn't really know what sir keir starmer says and what sir keir starmer says and what he's actually evidence gives us of his history. >> he's very left wing. he's beenin >> he's very left wing. he's been in left wing labour. lawyers groups for years. he is very left wing, honestly, he's not left wing enough until you mentioned angela rayner once. okay now angela rayner is going to promote what she calls working people in this country, you know, and she's going to give them more, better conditions at work, you know, more benefits , more able to, one more benefits, more able to, one day at work and you've got all the rights, one day you've got the rights, one day you've got the more able to, you know, bnng the more able to, you know, bring pressure to bear on the employer who she sees as the antithesis, you know, of a civilised society. i just don't get it. you can't grow the economy . if angela rayner is economy. if angela rayner is going to introduce a whole new raft of red tape, which is going to strangle business.

>> just one very quick rant, okay? >> the reason that starmer is going to win the election is because he has convinced those who are more right leaning that he's the right person for the job. those of us who are more left leaning do not see starmer as being a true labour leader. i'm afraid it's not. i don't see it. >> we have to go. >> we have to go. >> thatcher, promote thatcher. >> thatcher, promote thatcher. >> so he's a right leader then? he's a right now. he's a right leader. talk. it's nonsense. nonsense. >> stop stop stop stop! blimey. right. for all the best analysis and opinion on that, even better than these two, go to our website, which is gb news. com. now, let's, go back up to manchester to find out what's happening at the airport with all flights from terminals one and two were cancelled until further notice, passengers due to travel from those terminals are advised not to go to the airport because of the power outage this morning, our gb news reporter jack carson joins me now from manchester airport to bnng now from manchester airport to bring us up to date on this story. jack, how's it going up there? what's happening ? there? what's happening? >> well, certainly what we've

noficedin >> well, certainly what we've noticed in the last hour since we've been here, dawn, is just how quiet now the end of this runway is. of course , we've been runway is. of course, we've been here this afternoon, had quite a few , you know, departing planes, few, you know, departing planes, arriving planes on this runway. but what we've noticed is just how quiet of course it now is with terminal one and two now saying, manchester airport that all flights for the foreseeable future, are now cancelled. and people, as you mentioned, are advised not to even come to the airport to stay in touch with their airline. now, this power outage was in the early hours of this morning. outage was in the early hours of this morning . so quite a long this morning. so quite a long time now since that it was around 132 that there was that problem, which they thought might have well affected a more general area. thankfully affected more just of the airport and a few local businesses. but we've spoken to people , you know, who are people, you know, who are turning up at three, four, in the, in the morning and arriving, not actually realising that this power outage had happened. and what's happened really now is this huge backlog

of flights, huge backlog of passengers, hundreds stranded within those terminals at the airport. now unable to get away on their holidays and on their business trips. now, manchester airport is the third busiest airport in the country, so you can just imagine the scale now of the disruption that's been caused. we know at manchester airport have confirmed to us that the main important systems that the main important systems that were affected were boarding cards and baggage screening . cards and baggage screening. they have apologised for that disruption, albeit how much of it is out of their hands, of course, but they have also said that that disruption, because of things like the baggage screening will mean that there will be some passengers on those flights whose bag, whose baggage, sorry, could not be loaded, and they will try to work with those airlines and of course, those baggage handlers to reunite their passengers with them. but earlier on, we did speak to a stranded passenger, danny butcher. take a listen to what he told us. >> well, we arrived and it wasn't. there was no disruption to start with. we were all queuing up, it were queuing up

outside car park , and we went in outside car park, and we went in and they said , you just in a and they said, you just in a holding pen basically until we can get these further flights in first moved, but then no changed. and we were there for about 5 or 6 hours, just stood in terminal building and we never moved. >> what time did you arrive this morning? >> quite two. three in morning. and we were there. i don't think they told us until what we were doing until about ten or something like that. one at half, nine or something like that. when the cancelled flights i >> -- >> well, danny left, the, where we are now about an hour ago to try and catch a flight that he's tried to rebook. but that's, of course, just an example of some of the disruption. you know, he got it 2:45 in the morning and still this afternoon he was still this afternoon he was still stranded. of course there are flights that are trying to arrive still into the airport. but again , if you are coming to but again, if you are coming to manchester airport to try and get somebody arriving into the airport, do check with the airline because of how many grounded planes there are and the lack of space, there

available because of those flights not coming in and out so much, there have been some arrival flights that have been diverted to other areas . so that diverted to other areas. so that is the advice if you are picking up anybody from arrivals. but the power has now been restored and that backlog is starting to be worked through here in manchester airport. >> brilliant jack carson live at manchester airport there. thank you very much. on the power outage that basically has caused chaos up there. so good luck if you are stuck in there trying to get away on holiday. much needed. we all know that or on a business trip even. good luck to you all, hopefully it will be sorted out sooner rather than later. now if you are trying to get away, this could help you. it's the final week of our summer giveaway, £15,000 cash and a whole host of goodies lie—ins close at 5:00 on friday, so make sure you don't miss out. here's all the details you need to win it. it's the final week to win it. it's the final week to see how you can win big this summer . summer. >> first, there's a totally tax free £15,000 in cash to make your summer spectac spend that extra cash however you like. you'll also win a brand new

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hypocritical here? all of that and much more to come. this is gb britain's news channel don't you dare go too far

>> this is gb news and we are britain's election channel. this vote may seem to be about the politicians in the media, but actually, it's about you. and we won't forget that. >> join us up and down the country as we follow every moment together. >> more than ever, it's important to hear all sides as you make your decision ahead of polling day. >> we're here for you. >> we're here for you. >> this is gb news the people's channel. >> britain's election . >> britain's election. channel. >> britain's election. channel. >> welcome back to gb news sunday with me. dawn neesom on your telly, online and on digital radio. hope you have a wonderful weekend out there. now, dame emma thompson has shown her support for just stop oil. the actress led thousands

of people on a march in london yesterday , saying she supports yesterday, saying she supports anyone who fights this extraordinary battle, the climate change she's talking about. but is the jet setting star being a tad hypocritical ? star being a tad hypocritical? i've still got the lovely jj and the even more lovely because i did the way around elianne so nice i might carry with me. i know no hypocrisy here, now look , i walked out of here after work yesterday straight into this march , someone with flowers this march, someone with flowers in their hair literally shoved a bannerin in their hair literally shoved a banner in my face saying though animal. i had no idea how to respond to that, so i thought polite way not to do it now. so what do we make of dame emma thompson ? as we know, jet sets thompson? as we know, jet sets around the world often first class actually back in just stop oil even to the extent that what they did to stonehenge the other day, which most people really angry about, she said that was to raise awareness, you know, i wish it was nearly to be done . wish it was nearly to be done. >> i don't want to sound rude here, but i wish emma thompson

would shut her mouth. the last thing i want is a multi—millionaire telling, telling us how we should be living our lives. she can go on and the process and say, yes, i support just stop oil. but then she goes back to £1 million gaff and she goes on £1 million yachts and does a private jet in around the world. but she'll tell us that we should. we need to stop, stop using oils immediately. no, i've got no time for it. i could find her a complete and utter hypocrite, mike. >> well, you see the thing with emma thompson? she's an incredibly bright woman. she hasn't just won oscars for acting. she's won oscars for writing scripts for , you know, writing scripts for, you know, films that have made record amounts of money. so and of course, she went to cambridge and she was either oxford or cambridge very, very bright lights and a very, very bright woman. so how could a bright woman. so how could a bright woman like that pretend she's supporting a bunch of brainless berks ? because that's all they berks? because that's all they are. yeah, i don't see just stop oil as anything else except a bunch of just just for clarity. >> just for clarity. before you ran on, it was an extinction rebellion march yesterday. but she was asked about just stop oil exactly the same. >> she said, yeah, they all sort

of the same group of protesters. >> you'll find the same people on all the same protests and all that. but i don't understand is, is that she's bright enough to work out that the idiotic protests, like spraying stonehenge, are completely counterproductive to the very serious issue of trying to keep the atmosphere clear. okay 1% in this country is all that comes out , you know, this country is all that comes out, you know, compared to china at 40, india 14, america 20. i mean, i just can't understand how she insults anybody who listens to what she's saying by saying these just are all people are good. we all know that they're very middle class people with nothing better to do. and she should not associate herself with them. in my view, she should be on the side of common sense, telling the just stop oil people, look, i think you should handle it a different way , but handle it a different way, but again, you've hit on it. the problem with very successful, very rich people is that they don't want anybody to dislike them for their success and their wealth. so it get down with the

protesters. i'm not an evil person. i'm a nice person. i'm down with you. but she makes herself look stupid, allying herself look stupid, allying herself to such idiotic, protests. i mean, look, she's not here to defend herself, obviously, and but she was spotted jetting to new york in 2019, just days after backing climate protests that brought chaos to london. >> yeah. complete hypocrite. >> yeah. complete hypocrite. >> and i agree. in a first class seat in a chair, but i don't i don't blame her for that . she don't blame her for that. she should do that. yeah. she might have had a meeting in hollywood for a new film. so get on your plane, get over there. but then don't start complaining about, you know, emissions into the air. >> however , i mean, playing >> however, i mean, playing devil's advocate again here now, emma thompson's interview yesterday and the march yesterday and the march yesterday has got us talking about the issue again. yes. no, surely . no it hasn't. no, no. surely. no it hasn't. no, no. >> it's got us talking about just stop oil. yeah it's not got us saying, yeah, actually the government should stop drilling for . for. >> no, you're absolutely right. exactly. >> it's got us all saying what a bunch of brainless pigs they all are. yeah. and when are we going

to do something about them? yeah, there'll be an occasion. it started a couple of years ago, didn't it, when they were getting protests and dragging them off the roof of, tube trains. yeah. there will be an explosion of fury against these people on an occasion when something will happen, you know, and if they start attacking things like stonehenge , that things like stonehenge, that will happen without doubt. there'll be a kickback, i'm sure. >> okay, well, who . should we go >> okay, well, who. should we go and get some news headlines with tatiana, this is gb news sunday. i'm dawn neesom, and here is tatiana with those very headlines. >> dawn, thank you very much. and good afternoon. the top stories this hour. home secretary james cleverly says it's inappropriate for party officials to have benefited from using inside information to bet on the timing of the general election. the conservative party's chief data officer, nick mason, has taken a leave of absence , according to reports, absence, according to reports, amid claims he gambled on the polling day date. the tories

director of campaigns, tony lee and his wife laura saunders, are also being probed, as is the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary, craig williams, who's admitted to an error of judgement. cleverly says he shares the prime minister's views on the betting scandal . the labour leader has scandal. the labour leader has suggested that benefits offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work. sir keir starmer took aim at handouts from the state in a piece for the sunday telegraph. his changed stance on welfare comes as the latest savanta opinion poll in the telegraph newspaper shows labour retaining its electoral lead over the conservatives. the poll has labour on 42% of the vote and the conservative party on 19. search teams attempting to locate british teenager jay slater have narrowed their efforts on small buildings close to where his phone last pinged in tenerife, jay slater went missing a week ago after he attended a music festival on the spanish island. it was his first houday spanish island. it was his first holiday without his parents. his

mother issued a direct plea yesterday saying we just need you home. those conducting the searches today could be seen looking into blue barrels outside one of the small buildings, just before he went missing on monday morning, 19 year old jay called a friend saying he was lost and needed water. and andy murray will not play water. and andy murray will not play at wimbledon this year after undergoing surgery on a spinal cyst. the 37 year old, three time grand slam champion was hoping to make a farewell appearance at the tournament this summer, but the scot went under the knife today after withdrawing from his second round match against jordan thompson at queen's earlier this week. murray has suffered from back injuries in the past, having undergone surgery in 2013. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comment alerts. now it's back to the wonderful dawn . wonderful dawn. >> oh thank you, double

wonderful tatiana. she is so, so lovely. honestly, she really is lovely. honestly, she really is lovely . now i remember. lovely. honestly, she really is lovely. now i remember. let lovely. honestly, she really is lovely . now i remember. let me lovely. now i remember. let me know all your thoughts on not tatiana by the way. i can guess what they are on the stories we're discussing today by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation. or message me or tatiana, even on our socials @gbnews. there's loads more coming up on today's show now. reform leader nigel farage zechiri is doubling down on his comments about the war in ukraine after facing a barrage of criticism from other party leaders. will a debate that and you don't want to miss it. all of that and much more to come. i am still dawn neesom is still gb news and we are still britain's news and you are not too far, are you? see you

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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 , 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 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. >> now let's see what my panel maker, this one, everyone on earth has got an opinion on what nigel farage says on friday night. so to be fair to the bloke, he certainly knows how to get publicity. jj, i'm going to come to you first now. i mean, it's lots of people are very angry about what nigel said . angry about what nigel said. what do you make of it? >> farage has a habit of saying things that are uncomfortable truths. sometimes term's, i think on this occasion i agree with the guy. interestingly do if you go back to the soviet

union where they put missiles in cuba, the us saw that as an act of war and demanded they remove those missiles from cuba . now we those missiles from cuba. now we have nato, which analysts have been saying for the last 30 years. analysts have been saying the more nato expands , the worse the more nato expands, the worse it's going to be for our enemies. nato wants to put their own missiles, us missiles, us soldiers along the borders of russia, and then we expect putin to not see that as an act of war. putin or putin wanted was to keep his borders sovereign. he didn't want to have the us, which for me, nato is just us. like it. it's a it's like a balaclava nato for the us, the us and nato. and they say , well, us and nato. and they say, well, we're not we're not america. we're part of nato. the us is the biggest funder of nato. they want to go and be as close as to russia as possible because they want world dominance. so i completely agree with farage in the sense that we provoked putin. should putin have attacked russia, sorry, attacked, the ukraine? no, of course not. should he have taken land from the ukraine? no but

i've said this before and i'll say it again. the only way this war is going to end is with people sat around the table saying to putin, okay, we will give you this small part of the ukraine and we will not allow, the ukraine to join nato. >> very interesting. >> very interesting. >> i mean, in the telegraph interview with nigel farage rodriguez, i am not and never have been an apologist or supporter of putin. his invasion of ukraine was immoral, outrageous and indefensible. so he's not saying yet putin was right, but he's saying the reasons behind it are maybe a bit more, what's the word? there's no there's no, there's no great nuance . nuance is the no great nuance. nuance is the word i'm looking for. that's it. yeah. >> but this is so historical that when, nigel farage comes out with a bland statement like that we provoked, we'd be in the west being nato and the western powers. i i, i can't agree with it whatsoever. now, jj said that i do agree i don't agree with it. and i'll tell you why. because nato are not an aggressive organisation . but we aggressive organisation. but we know that russia is an aggressive organisation because

they went into crimea, they went into georgia and we didn't stop them. so we should have known that he's not going to stop. he's going to go somewhere else. we had every right then to strengthen the nato borders, to start sabre rattling and turn your go no further. once we did that, then putin invoked what he always invoked as they're all after us, they're going to come and attack us. they're going to invade us. you've got to remember. and if you read into the history of, what putin's all about, he's the former head of the kgb . and he said the worst the kgb. and he said the worst day of his life was when the berlin wall fell and the russian soviet empire fell apart. he was determined from that moment on to put it back together again. we should have taken that seriously at the start, and we should have been reacting against him since. i also believe, sorry, just for a minute, that the ukraine invasion will not have happened if donald trump, trump had been in the white house and when the west have shown weakness like obama did in syria, unlike we all did for ukraine and georgia, he then got the message they've

got no backbone. i'm going to keep going. and for that reason , keep going. and for that reason, i think he's a very, very dangerous man. >> obama there in 2013, 2014, obama and the us interfered in ukrainian politics. they helped overthrow a ukrainian president who was pro—russia because the americans and nato didn't want to have. yeah, exactly. so they interfered in the politics. yeah. that is again provoking putin. then the russians see nato as as a leftover vestige of the cold war , the fact remains, the cold war, the fact remains, the cold war, the fact remains, the warsaw pact , all of that the warsaw pact, all of that area, eastern europe, they had to break up. yeah that's part of the warsaw pact. however, in the western world, we're saying, okay, you guys can't can't band together, but we're going to and all the propaganda we see on our televisions every, every way that we report on the war, it's always in favour of the west. if you if you go to places like, the continent, like africa, where russia is helping build communities and helping with, with, fight famine , etc, etc, with, fight famine, etc, etc, helping to promote the communism of china, they argue. yes but but yes, but those countries, those countries are benefiting

from russia and they support russia. and all they see is the western world. once again trying to control the rest of jj every cold war country has gone remarkably anti soviet politics since the break up of the soviet empire. >> why shouldn't ukraine have joined them? and why shouldn't ukraine have had some help from the west? who are not aggressive? russia are aggressive. we know that. we are not aggressive in the west. what we try to do is we try to keep world peace, whereas putin wants to keep invading countries. and what about the axis of evil? what about china ? what about what about china? what about iran? what about north korea to allow him to start building bigger bonds with them? we call it something else but china, the axis of evil. >> quick response. we are running out of time. >> the axis of evil. and yet, how many billions is the west spending to do business with china? china is basically running our government with all of that, with their technology and their cameras. >> they have to because they're the commercial powerhouse of the world. >> so you have to deal with them. either they're the bad guys or they're not the bad

guys. >> i didn't say that. >> i didn't say that. >> i didn't say that. >> i said the commercial powers of the world. that doesn't mean to say we have to accede to their political ambitions because they've got huge ambitions. >> nigel farage taiwan nigel farage has a point with what he said. >> well, i really i genuinely don't want to interrupt this debate, but i have to because we are running out of time. >> that was absolutely fascinating. i hope you found it as fascinating as i did, i'm dawn neesom gb news. i know there's loads more coming up on today's show now. why on earth has the v&a museum in london put out an urgent plea asking for more men to apply for jobs? there find out all of that. much more to come. gb news, britain's news channel put the on, but don't go far.

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gbnews.com/yoursay or say . gbnews.com/yoursay or say. >> oh lordy lordy. >> oh lordy lordy. >> welcome back to a gb news sunday with me dawn neesom on your tv online and digital radio. now lots of you have been sending your thoughts in. i'm sorry i haven't had time to read any of them out. it's so busy this afternoon, now talking of, we were talking about work shy brits earlier on, especially the younger generation, and. donald. hi, donald, why would you want to work when the government will pay you to work when the government will pay you to sit at home playing video games? meanwhile, james, on the same subject, says, both my sons went to university to get master's degree. the olders at manchester council planning department. the younger is an engineering company in bolton. my ex and i told them the hard work is learning and getting qualifications. nothing wrong with working hard is there and finally, mark on the topic of the eu because it's happy brexit day eight years, and mark says nobody voted to leave the eu for the economy. that was very much

secondary. additionally, brexit doesn't affect most people in the country at all, especially journalists . okay, as an journalists. okay, as an importer exporter, i am willing to take the hit and be out. strong words. mark. thank you very much. interesting. yeah. no. absolutely. right now we need more men in our lives. evidently. no, not me personally. definitely not me personally. definitely not me personally. after today, the victoria and albert museum is trying to hire more men to make the staff more reflective of the general public. according to their diversity and inclusion report, rolling eyes here, for january to march 2020 for the museum staff. comprised of 74. 8% women and 25.2% men, there diversity target is to increase male representation to 30% are now . well, i'm outnumbered by now. well, i'm outnumbered by men here. i've got more men in this room than than little old me. just a woman in here in the middle. so we need more men at the v&a. what do you make of this diversity and inclusion? jj? ”7 >> jj-7 >> it's nuts, jj? >> it's nuts, isn't it? it's ridiculous . >> it's nuts, isn't it? it's ridiculous. i don't get it. if you say to me that men are applying for jobs at the v&a and they're being turned away

because they're men, then i'd say , right, this is an issue we say, right, this is an issue we should be trying to get more men in. but if you just if men aren't interested in working there, what's the problem? yeah. and also if they want to make it completely representative of society, are we pretty much 50, 50 men and women in society? yeah. so they should. >> we slightly outnumber you? oh, we're just over 50. you're slightly. >> so they should make more than 30. this is just nonsense. >> it'sjust 30. this is just nonsense. >> it's just social engineering, isn't it? yeah, and it's worst, you know, somebody come. it's like the guy from sheffield university who didn't have anything better to do. somebody had nothing better to do. how many women have got. how many men? i told you, why don't we balance it off? what benefits will that bring the v&a? yeah, well, it doesn't matter. it's, you know, it's diversity , isn't you know, it's diversity, isn't it? and am i right in thinking george osborne had something to do with the v&a? >> or have i got that wrong, i think, yeah, i think you're i think, yeah, i think you're i think you're correct with that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh >> yeah. >> on is that the british museum? british museum. you know, the one where all the stuff was disappearing at the bottom and no one knows. >> that was. anyway, i apologise to mr osborne if he's nothing to do with it. also, i would say is that the v&a should concentrate on what it does best. it's one of the most famous museums in

the world. just keep up the quality of your exhibits and leave the nonsensical social engineering to somebody else . engineering to somebody else. how? what they don't say in this report is how things would improve if there were more men and less women. they don't say that at all, i don't understand. >> no it doesn't. >> no it doesn't. >> it'sjust >> no it doesn't. >> it's just a political bit of nonsense. >> i do occasionally frequent the v&a and they've opened one near stratford as well, i believe, as well. >> yeah. got up as well don't we. yeah, yeah. which is awesome. >> but i've never got into a v&a and thought, you know what? we need an ear. more geezers. that's right. yeah, yeah. i'm not i've not stood in there and thought a few too many women in here. >> you could say, for instance, couldn't you? we need more men in, primary schools because there is a, you know, a multiplicity of women and men . multiplicity of women and men. and i think, you know, the male role in bringing children up and all that. there's a positive element. >> i think that is a good point. but the v&a. >> but what positive element is that? >> it's not just and you won't be, it won't be. it won't be shocked to hear that it's not just the sex divide they're concerned about, they also said it's aiming for 20% of staff to

come from black, asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, but currently that number stands at just 17.2. >> jj well, they should take a leaf out of the, folk dancers. they get to those people in there as well. >> but again, you ask yourself if they and so they want to increase it by 1.8% on my maths. is that right? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so increasing the diversity, balance by 1.8% will massively improve the v&a. yeah. come on, tell us how. tell us how please. >> well, maybe if you get more men involved, it probably will turn a better profit. if you've got women in charge, it's always going to be a and i'm joking, i'm joking, i'm joking. >> make that clear . >> make that clear. >> make that clear. >> okay. on that note, i'm going to leave it because i've frankly had enough of men this afternoon , jj and the cob, mike parry, you have been true superstars . you have been true superstars. thank you so much for joining me. i have been dawn neesom , me. i have been dawn neesom, this has been gb news sunday, but don't go anywhere because there's loads coming up on the channel today in just a moment, it's fiery debate with nana akua

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sunshine. the best of the sunshine through the evening across northern and central parts of the uk, we've still got some cloud lingering around southwestern parts , and that may southwestern parts, and that may well thicken through the night with some mist around coasts. but where we've got the clear spells elsewhere , well, spells elsewhere, well, temperatures actually staying up 14, 15, perhaps 16 celsius. a muggy night in places, especially across central and southeastern parts , and for southeastern parts, and for western scotland, thickening cloud outbreaks of rain and drizzle through the night with a freshening breeze . so it's a freshening breeze. so it's a gloomy start. a damp start here, whilst for central and eastern scotland, southern scotland, as well as for parts of northern england, a sunny start, northern ireland also seeing some patchy rain. a few light showers, those showers tending to fizzle out through the morning . but for through the morning. but for much of the rest of england into wales it's sunny skies to start on monday. however we do still have some of that low cloud affecting southwestern areas , affecting southwestern areas, particularly around the coast, with some mist in places now through the day, many places just seeing fine weather

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