for a labour government waiting for a labour government before making that channel crossing. >> and speaking of labour, why won't they reveal by how much they plan to bring down legal net migration .7 also this net migration? also this afternoon, labour leader sir keir starmer announces a moral mission to tackle knife crime. but will we ever end this devastating social epidemic ? and devastating social epidemic? and tonight england are playing. is it time for bitter ex—players to pipe it time for bitter ex—players to pipe down and support the team ? pipe down and support the team? and last but not least, are we in for a long, hot summer? legendary tv weatherman john kettley may have good news for the nation . god knows we need it the nation. god knows we need it so i soa -- so a very busy three hours to come. >> all of the election.

>> all of the election. >> latest plus a preview of the england game. a brilliant way to contact the show is to head to gbnews.com forward slash your say. but first up, the news headunes say. but first up, the news headlines and sophia wenzler. for. >> mark thank you. good afternoon. it's 3:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom with your headlines. the gambling commission has passed information to the metropolitan police alleging that five more officers placed bets related to the timing of the general election. it comes after the conservative party withdrew its support for two candidates accused of placing bets on when the election would take place. craig williams and laura saunders are the subject of inquiries by the gambling commission. both will still appear on election ballots because the deadlines for nominations has now passed . the nominations has now passed. the king and queen put on a show of pageantry and pomp this afternoon as they welcomed the

emperor and empress of japan. they began their three day state visit at an event in horseguards parade , with the royal couple parade, with the royal couple greeting a line of dignitaries, including prime minister rishi sunak. princess anne isn't taking part in today's welcome while she recovers in hospital after being injured by a horse . after being injured by a horse. juuan after being injured by a horse. julian assange has touched down in thailand as his journey back to australia continues. the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk this morning and is due to appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands, a us territory in the western pacific. he's expected to be sentenced to five years, roughly the equivalent of the time he's already served in britain . he's already served in britain. he's expected to plead guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material, though his wife says he'll seek a full pardon . in other news, a full pardon. in other news, kenya's parliament has been stormed by protesters in a show of fury over planned tax hikes. attempts to disperse the crowds

using tear gas and even water cannons failed. police then cannonsfafled.poucethen opened cannons failed. police then opened fire, killing at least five people with dozens wounded and sections of the parliament building set ablaze . building set ablaze. demonstrators are now calling on the country's president , demonstrators are now calling on the country's president, william ruto, to step down. labour is pledging to half knife crime within a decade if it wins the general election. the party's plan includes creating a new cross—government coalition to work on solutions, as well as community hubs involving youth workers and careers advisers. sir keir starmer says cracking down on knife crime is a moral mission . mission. >> i was the chief prosecutor for five years and therefore i prosecuted many cases involving the use of knives and i've made it my personal mission to deal with this. it is a moral mission as far as i'm concerned , and it as far as i'm concerned, and it isn't a question of urban versus rural. in fact, i think there's more knife crime, sadly, in rural areas. or at least it's going up more quickly. and i think it's not fair on the

families we've been hearing from this morning to simply point the finger to somebody else. this is something which a government needs to take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for , on a cross—party basis, to for, on a cross—party basis, to make the change that we need. >> a yellow heat health alert is in force across most of the country, with temperatures set to exceed 30 degrees today. yesterday's high top 28 degrees in surrey, making it the hottest day of the year so far. that's almost certain to be surpassed today , with central london today, with central london expecting some of the hottest conditions . the rnli is urging conditions. the rnli is urging people to take care, with crowds expected to cool off in coastal areas. but forecasters are warning the heat won't last long, with showers and possibly thunderstorms predicted later tomorrow and the first ever samples collected from the dark side of the moon have arrived on earth. china has become the first country to successfully bnng first country to successfully bring back samples from the lunar far side. the re—entry

capsule of the change six probe touched down in the northern chinese region of inner mongolia this morning. it was carrying lunar soil, which was collected earlier in june. it will now be analysed by scientists as china continues its efforts to become a space and science powerhouse . a space and science powerhouse. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts . go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back to . now it's back to. mark. >> i welcome to the show mark dolan in for martin daubney. >> i welcome to the show mark dolan in for martin daubney . for dolan in for martin daubney. for a very busy three hours. >> we start with the claim from the tories that migrants are quite literally queuing up in calais. >> calais waiting for labour to win the election . sir keir win the election. sir keir starmer has said a labour government would scrap the rwanda scheme on day one, and home secretary james cleverly brought up quotes in yesterday's daily telegraph where migrants

said that they were worried about being deported and so were waiting for the result of the general election. some people did make the journey to the uk today, and reform uk leader nigel farage was speaking on gb news live from the channel, where he saw a small boat heading over there. he told us why today is such a significant day behind me you can see a white dinghy. >> there are 45 people on board behind it. you can see an escort vessel because that's what the french do. despite the £500 million we've given them, they literally, once these boats are afloat , escort them to literally, once these boats are afloat, escort them to our 12 mile line where they hand them over to border force. that of itself, i think, is outrageous . itself, i think, is outrageous. but the significance of this boatis but the significance of this boat is that this number on this vessel take it beyond 50,000 that have come since rishi sunak has been prime minister >> well, i'm delighted now to be

joined by our political editor , joined by our political editor, christopher hope chopper. >> let's start with this telegraph story. >> yesterday's paper, one of their journalists went to france, to calais and spoke to migrants who said they were waiting for a labour government. >> yes, it's a camp called the grant shapps camp in dunkirk. and they and they spoke to people who have fled war torn areas, they said. and they are waiting. some said to come across here when the new government is elected and they assume it's going to be a labour government. looking at the polls, few would dispute that if those polls are correct now, sir keir starmer has vowed to scrap this rwanda plan on day one of being in office. we do know that rwanda well, it seems rwanda, anecdotally , has led to a degree anecdotally, has led to a degree of putting migrants off from coming to the uk because we are seeing a building up of numbers in dublin, in southern ireland, from migrants going there to avoid the threat of, of rwanda. so it may well be that this idea of this, of this deterrent is actually starting to work and hence these migrants in calais are saying we're not going to come across . that was seized on come across. that was seized on

by rishi sunak last night in the tv debate. james cleverly, the home secretary, again today to show that the rwanda can work despite what sadiq khan sir keir starmer says . starmer says. >> is this a rare setback for labourin >> is this a rare setback for labour in this campaign? >> i think that they they're on a weak, weak spot on the issue of migration and even net migration might come on to that. >> but on illegal migration, what they're offering is really what they're offering is really what they're offering is really what the tory government has tried to do, which is work closely with, with particularly with france. we give them £480 million to establish , different million to establish, different ways of stop, to stop people coming across and more offices , coming across and more offices, 800 officers on the beach, joint command centre, detention centre, money being spent, our taxpayers money being spent in france is done. very little to stop the flow. by all accounts, yes , all they will do is more of that. >> some some are saying that labour's policy is more of the same, which is a failed policy. >> others would argue that actually the tories have made a horlicks of this particular issue, and that labour can only improve the situation. >> keir starmer points to the fact that he has a history as a

top lawyer of tackling criminals , and he's confident he'll smash the gangs. we wait to see, lbc this morning head to head between james cleverly and yvette cooper, who is the shadow home secretary, and she, on behalf of labour, will not put a figure on by how much labour will reduce legal net migration. is that significant? >> that hasn't changed. i asked that same question of yvette cooper when the party unveiled its manifesto in at the co—op hq in manchester. she she is saying why would we successive governments have tried to put a number on it? going back to david cameron in 2010, saying under 100,000, tens of thousands was a figure. they've never got near that. in fact, the number has gone down dramatically the other way. so they're not going to go play a numbers game as they always say it. that's clever politics, because we as journalists want to get a figure to tell our viewers and listeners what the figure is. if labour were in power, they won't go there, but they are forecast to get probably halving in net migration to maybe 300,000 in september. again, the further question why on earth has this

government gone for an early election when the figures on net migration are looking better? instead, labour can claim it's their win when it happens. >> indeed. and now betting gate continues . this time, five continues. this time, five further police officers implicated . implicated. >> yes, more than that, the gambling commission have sent the details of seven five met officers. forgive me to the met police saying we think these individuals may have bet money on the date of the election. that comes after another member of rishi sunak close protection team was arrested and with suggestions he put money on the date of the election. we don't know what these five have done or where they work. if they're part of the close team around the pm, or whether they're friends of those people who may have known more. so it just it keeps drip, drip, drip getting worse. we had an attempt today by the pm to get a grip on it. he said that craig williams and laura saunders, two candidates for the tory party, no longer have the support of the party at the election, despite the fact their names are now on the ballot paper. so you can vote for them if you want to. but they're not official tory

candidates. laura saunders, partner, is the director of campaigns. he's taking a step back, as well as nick mason, who's the chief data officer for the tory party. the problem is that it's drip, drip, drip getting getting worse, a feeling it's getting worse , even though it's getting worse, even though more names are coming out. we think as many as 40 people knew the date of the election. the gambling commission is now looking through all the debts placed, the bets placed. were any of them to do with these 40 people and the police? and so it goes on. >> the problem is, it plays into the narrative of tory sleaze. doesn't it? even though it's not the prime minister directly involved. i don't think he's been to paddy power. if he has been, we'll find out shortly. >> he says he hasn't. is that right? and not him? neither him nor his family. if he only only gambles on election dates, but not when they're going to be going. >> going early forjuly going. >> going early for july was very brave. and quickly, before we get to former labour minister bill rammell, are there implications for those two seats? those two tories that have been disowned by the party? do we know what their majorities are, and could that be significant not to handle bringing their majorities back to you at 4:00?

>> probably. >> probably. >> probably. >> probably not. great news for them. not a thought. >> well, craig williams, as i understand it from from colleagues who watch welsh politics, thought that his seat , politics, thought that his seat, montgomery and glendower, was the one the tories were most likely to win. i think bristol nonh likely to win. i think bristol north west was more marginal. and of course, other candidates that are standing and we'll see how it plays out. but i think this is not this is this is that you're looking down the screen. well, yeah. >> he's got a majority of 12,138 on the margin. >> so one in normal times you keep that seat. but in the current polls you don't . current polls you don't. >> being disowned by your party is not going to help, is it? >> i'm not sure why laura saunders is, but i think i think there's no question of the entire campaign. mark, the two things that have cut through have been the d—day early withdrawal by the prime minister and this story. and it keeps getting worse. the prime minister, chopper, stay with us, because we're joined now by former labour minister bill rammell. >> mr rammell, lovely to have you on the programme . you on the programme. >> great to be with you, can we talk about labour's policy to stop the boats? it's not working, is it? if stop the boats? it's not working, is it ? if people stop the boats? it's not working, is it? if people in calais are waiting for the 5th of july and for keir starmer to

become prime minister >> these are a few anecdotes. >> these are a few anecdotes. >> these are a few anecdotes. >> the reality is that the tories have completely lost control of our borders . control of our borders. >> net migration is three times higher today than it was when the labour party has left office. you know, 50,000, migrants crossing the channel since rishi sunak became prime minister. we want a serious government like we had when labour was last in office, where we worked with our international partners, we worked across the system, we speeded up the processing of claims , which is processing of claims, which is the biggest green flag to migrants coming to this country. and we dramatically reduced the numbers rather than the stunts of the rwanda scheme. and, you know , talk with a few people know, talk with a few people saying it's a deterrent if you look at the numbers, even were rwanda to be successful in its own terms, you've got a 1% chance of being sent to rwanda.

the people who've travelled halfway across the world fleeing for their lives , that really is for their lives, that really is not a deterrent. >> however, bill rammell the hates contradict you, but the irish taoiseach thinks that the rwanda plan is a deterrent because he pointed out several weeks ago that numbers are up in ireland as a result of rwanda. that's his quote, not mine . that's his quote, not mine. >> i think that's an indication that the irish are struggling to manage the migration crisis, and they're looking for other people to blame as a result of their actions . okay, let's bring our actions. okay, let's bring our political editor. >> go on, finish your point, bill. then i'll bring in chopper for a question. >> numbers are out of control. we need a returns and enforcement unit. we need better returns agreement with other international countries. we need good luck with. speed up the processing. we need border security. well, we did it when we last in government, security. well, we did it when we last in government , with we last in government, with respect, mark, don't say. good luck with that . we did it. we luck with that. we did it. we managed the situation when we

were last, and i know the weather's good. a hell of a lot better than it is today. >> i know the weather's good, but you've been on the pop early, listen, i think keir starmer is going to be the first prime minister ever to, to actually reject and end a policy which, even if it works, he's going to axe it, which is the rwanda plan. but let's bring in our political editor, christopher hope. christopher, what do you think? >> but that's my point, mark. i don't understand why even given the money has been spent hundreds of thousands of pounds sunk on this project. bill. bill rammell, why doesn't sir keir starmer, if he's prime minister in two weeks time, just say let's see if it works, because then he can just say, well, it works, let's move on because it is a stunt and it's incredibly not value for money. >> i think the figure is about 300,000 per migrant sent to rwanda. that is not a way to tackle this problem. and when we were last in government, mark you said, i've been on the pot. i was on the reality when we were last in government and i was a minister handling these

issues and the numbers were three times less than they are today. >> okay. where do you think we'll be with the illegal boat crossings in five years time? should labour win the election bill? >> i think they will have been dramatically reduced . when dramatically reduced. when labour was in power, we didn't have the illegal boat crossings. >> okay. do you want to give me a number? >> i've got a grip on the system i >> -- >> sorry. okay. so is that zero, is that zero zero illegal migrant crossings by 2029? i think we can get there. >> yes. >> yes. >> i tell you what. look after your health and i'll see you. i'll see you in five years time. >> i'll see you a lot sooner than that, brilliant. bill rammell, thank you so much. an interesting and spirited conversation with former labour minister bill rammell. thank you . bill, lots more to get through on the migrant crisis throughout the show, just after 4:00, i'll be joined by a former tory minister and get his take on that. and whether he thinks a labour government would try to reverse brexit, that is david

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extradition to the united states, who had accused him of spying. he paid almost £400,000 for a plane to fly him to australia. gb news viewers can see the plane that's believed to be carrying assange in bangkok earlier today. well, our reporter ray addison is outside the australian high commission. ray, what's the latest out ? ray, what's the latest out? >> well, we understand, mark, that that flight has now taken off from thailand, leaving around 17 minutes late on its way to the northern mariana islands. of course, a us commonwealth in the western pacific. and of course, those 17 minutes, that extra delay must have felt like a lifetime to juuan have felt like a lifetime to julian assange, who has, of course, been battling this case for the last 13, 14 years. these latest developments coming after he agreed with the us department of justice to plead guilty to one charge under the espionage act in exchange for his freedom .

act in exchange for his freedom. now, last wednesday, he signed a plea deal and then on the thursday, he there was then a bail hearing, which was held in private at the high court , just private at the high court, just around 50m from the australian high commission, behind me. that was held in private at the request of mr assange. and i'm guessing we can assume after years of wanting to bring pubuchy years of wanting to bring publicity upon this case in order to secure his freedom, he didn't want the wrong people to find out about this and put some kind of legal challenges in in an attempt to stop him. so he was freed from belmarsh yesterday afternoon after serving five years there. he was taken to stansted airport. he boarded that specially chartered plane that you just mentioned, departed the uk to refuel in thailand, and now he is on his way to the northern mariana islands. from there, it's just a short hop, skip and a jump to australia . now, tomorrow morning australia. now, tomorrow morning there time midnight our time.

he's going to appear in front of a us judge where he'll plead guilty to conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defence information. he's. then we understand, going to be sentenced to time already served and allowed to return to his home country . now, of course, home country. now, of course, that all comes after, thousands, hundreds of thousands of classified us military documents were released through wikileaks. it involved the us wars in afghanistan , in iraq. and they afghanistan, in iraq. and they believe that put the lives of us sources and agents at risk. he had faced 175 years in prison. now it's going to be time served, and he'll soon be on his way home. >> my thanks to ray allison. thank you. ray. that town is coming along nicely. let's get reaction from our political edhon reaction from our political editor, christopher hope, who hasn't got a tan, because you've beenin hasn't got a tan, because you've been in campaign buses for the

last few weeks. you helped report on that story. break the story just after the guardian broke it 14 years ago. you know, assange, first of all, to paraphrase shakespeare, is he a man more sinned against than sinning? i think so, i think i find it fascinating in julian assange, we would go and see him when he was holed up in ellingham hall in norfolk after, he was, there was a wrangle with, with law enforcement, he , with, with law enforcement, he, he had these access to these cables through his wikileaks website, which keen to publish them at the telegraph. it's shortly after mp expenses, which we worked as part of a team that worked on that. so we were trying to do this kind of transparency journalism, and i found him engaging, he was someone who never wanted for anything. he was just trying to get his information out there, and he wasn't profiting from it financially. >> no, he never did. >> no, he never did. >> not through us. and i was fascinated by this. i thought he was what's driving him, i thought was interesting. he felt that he wanted to get the kind of deep state, shine a light on parts of the deep, deep state we

don't know about it, wikileaks had access to, some files taken from prisoners in guantanamo bay when the when, osama bin laden , when the when, osama bin laden, when the when, osama bin laden, when they're trying to find him by by well, some would say torturing people there in guantanamo bay. i think he just he was a very interesting, figure. and it does draw a line under us of strange period in uk british justice when he was basically in a no man's land because he was hiding from or refusing to go to sweden to face other charges of a different nature. >> okay, chopper, you're coming back at four. we've got david davis. what a great booking for the show. former brexit minister will be megxit survive the next government. we'll talk about that and much more. plus the tories, the tories in disarray as well. so, christopher and i will tackle that with david davis live on the show at 4:00. box office viewing. you won't want to miss it, but next up, the latest in the search forj. the latest in the search for j. slater, the 19 year old from lancashire who's gone missing in tenerife . it's a devastating tenerife. it's a devastating story. it's being reported that rescue teams are now focusing their search in more remote

areas away from the main road, which was jay's last known location. let's get the thoughts of mike neville , who's the of mike neville, who's the former head of lambeth missing persons unit . former head of lambeth missing persons unit. mike, thank you so much for joining persons unit. mike, thank you so much forjoining us. what hope much for joining us. what hope is there now, mike, of finding this young man? >> well, it's tragic to say and i feel for his mother and father, but given the amount of days now and the temperatures and the unsuitable clothing and potential lack of water, that unless somebody has been looking after him or something, then i think this is going to end it with a tragedy. >> really. so they're looking for a body now rather than a person. but let's hope that something does go right, that he's collapsed and he's been found by somebody . you just found by somebody. you just don't know that these cases end in different ways, but given the remoteness and you can see the, the landscape there on the tv pictures that that these , police pictures that that these, police officers and park rangers and fire officers that they're searching for a needle in a

haystack, basically . haystack, basically. >> indeed. the conditions are terrible as well, aren't they , terrible as well, aren't they, mike? scorching temperatures and very rough terrain and freezing at night, you know, bearing in mind this is a lad who went out to a concert or a festival and was wearing clothing for that. >> we don't know what, substances or drink or whatever else he had. it's certainly when you watch the videos he's having a good time, but he looks like he may be drunk or whatever. so all these impacts on being dehydrated as well, making the wrong decisions, and of course, now the police will be very organised. they'll be they'll have the area gridded, i would imagine. so they're sending different teams out so they know that one grid has been searched and they're moving on to the next one, and there'll be a senior officer who's liaising with the government there, no doubt. and our foreign and commonwealth office's , and a commonwealth office's, and a senior officer actually in charge of the day to day searching and enquiries that's going on. >> mike, thank you so much for

joining us. i wish we had longer , but we'll come back to that story at four. that was the former head of lambeth missing persons unit, mike neville. well look we can only pray for a happy outcome. but as the days go by, the prospects worsen. and can you imagine what the family are going through? as i say, we'll return to that shortly. lots more to come between now and 4:00. and don't forget, at four we have the former brexit secretary, the one and only david davis, joining us on the show. plus, we'll hear from sir keir starmer, who teamed up with idris elba today as the labour leader, outlined his plans to tackle the knife crime epidemic . tackle the knife crime epidemic. so lots to get through. don't go anywhere. first, the news headunes anywhere. first, the news headlines and a good friend of mine, sophia wenzler. >> mark thank you. it's 331. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. craig williams says he committed an error of judgement but not an offence , and he but not an offence, and he intends to clear his name. both he and fellow conservative

candidate laura saunders are facing an investigation amid allegations of betting on the date of the general election . date of the general election. they now lost the support of the conservative party but they'll still appear on election ballots because the deadlines for nominations has now passed . nominations has now passed. juuan nominations has now passed. julian assange has touched down in thailand as his journey back to australia continues. the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk this morning and is due to appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands, a us territory in the western pacific . he's expected to be pacific. he's expected to be sentenced to five years, roughly the equivalent of the time he's already served in britain before returning to australia . the king returning to australia. the king and queen hosted a ceremonial welcome for the emperor and empress of japan this afternoon . empress of japan this afternoon. they.

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teamed up today in london. alone there are a staggering 67 knife related homicides in the 12 months up to june 2023. that's 67 deaths in a year from knife crime. of course, that doesn't even take into account the number of injuries which run into the thousands. let's take a listen . listen. >> prosecutor for five years and therefore i prosecuted many cases involving the use of knives. and i've made it my personal mission to deal with this. it is a moral mission as far as i'm concerned. it isn't a question of urban versus rural. in fact, i think there's more knife crime , sadly, in rural knife crime, sadly, in rural areas, or at least it's going up more quickly . and i think it's more quickly. and i think it's not fair on the families we've been hearing from this morning to simply point the finger to somebody else. this is something which a government needs to take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for on a cross—party basis to make the change that we need , and some of change that we need, and some of it we can get on with quite

quickly in terms of banning knives available online, some of it will take longer, but it's a moral mission as far as i'm concerned . i made a commitment concerned. i made a commitment to these families and other families that we will now move from the talking stage to the action stage , fair play to action stage, fair play to labour for wanting to do something about it, but will it work? >> i'm joined by ken haynes, who is the former chair of the hanngey is the former chair of the haringey independent stop and search monitoring unit. haringey independent stop and search monitoring unit . ken, search monitoring unit. ken, lovely to have you on the show. first of all, do you believe that keir starmer can end the scourge of knife crime ? scourge of knife crime? >> not with the proposal that he's put forward . he's put forward. >> i don't believe that goes far enough. i don't i believe that we've been here at dejavu, we've been here before, when he's rolling out, you know, people behind him . i'm just thinking, behind him. i'm just thinking, you know, it's probably disingenuous of the labour party to particularly reach out to

those, families that's been affected , who's had bereaved, affected, who's had bereaved, who's whose, son's has been murdered and have them as part of his , plans to say that of his, plans to say that they're doing something different. i hope he lives up to what he says he's doing because l, what he says he's doing because i, for one, will be there to ensure that something is done about this. if he really wants to make a difference, he has to include street barbers. he has to include haringey, independents assessment group as part of the of the change that he's bringing. otherwise it'd be the same old, it'd be just a gimmick as far as i'm concerned. >> ken hines why is there knife crime? what's behind it? >> there's no one reason, but i think what a common strand. i find that substantially amounts everyone that commits it is the low self esteem. they believe that they're in their day , that that they're in their day, that they're don't believe have the confidence in their own ability.

they feel they said that they accommodate issues, that they don't feel safe. so therefore they have to walk with something , and also you can find the environment . the environment can environment. the environment can include the lack of parental responsibility of supporting systems like from aunties and uncles and of course, the social, the negative effect that social, the negative effect that social media has , has on the social media has, has on the psyche of many people . because psyche of many people. because if you're throwing out a go viral when you see a lot of these disgusting, horrible things that happen out there, people thinking, well, i better protect myself. and it doesn't help when the media and the police then throws out the type of knife that has been found or is out there, because it just emboldened young people to think that that they've got to step their game up, thinking if this is what i'm carrying, it's not good enough. look what's going

out there. but primarily , i out there. but primarily, i would say to you, the majority of murders that's committed weren't committed by rambo knives or swords . it was knives or swords. it was committed by a knife that they that can often find in the kitchen. so again , it's by kitchen. so again, it's by changing young people's mindsets . what have the grace affect people like ourselves? the street barbers we go into these hotspot areas and what we do. yes, i've got a stab proof vest on, but it's not a stab proof vest in the sense that i'm scared to do what i'm doing is because young people identify, because young people identify, because what we say on, on, on our sleeve is what we do . we are our sleeve is what we do. we are just concerned parent. and this this is not just about black fathers. this is about fathers from across the board. so we're working with asian with, with turks, with albanians and with english. so whoever they are, if you're concerned and you want to be part of the street barber to make a difference, we welcome you a lot of focus on stop and

search as a good policy to end knife crime is it racist ? knife crime is it racist? absolutely. it's been far too long. it's came out of racist law called the sus law, and had been adopted since 1984. a stop and search. and you still have a lot of racial profiling. this is why you get disproportionately raisi that still runs through for the last 40, 50 years, that if you're black currently in haringey, you're six seven times more likely to be stopped. and searched than my white counterpart. the fact is, is not so much it's an institutionalised , thing that's institutionalised, thing that's happened. it's not on the individual level. it's institutional. and my thing is simply if we can have more professional and intelligence led stop and search, we will be getting better outcomes. at the moment, it's less about 1% of the stop and search may lead to

a knife being found that's unacceptably low figure. if i was a ceo of any company, and that's the sort of returns i'm bringing back, i will be out of a job and let alone if i was a, a job and let alone if i was a, a manager of a premiership football team, i would not last a season or half a season. my thing is simply this the police have got the tools. they have got the. they've got the, the, the other forms, like the, the working, the working knowledge , working, the working knowledge, meaning they've got something called procedural justice. procedural justice is a it's a cornerstone to having good engagement with with communities like mine are disenfranchised community and young people . all community and young people. all that speaks to is to say that we want fairness in the in the action. we want, transparency and why why are you doing something? we want to be given a voice to raise our concern in a stop and search action. and of course, we want you to do it impartially. so it means that you're not doing it as a on a

racial profiling thing. you're doing it as part of an honest broker , and you will gain broker, and you will gain confidence of communities. absolutely >> ken haines, whoever wins the election, i hope they've got your ear. that is the chair of the haringey independent stop and search monitoring group, ken haynes. thank you ken. we'll catch up again in the near future. something that's very exciting that i get to do on this show is to tell you about breaking news. and it's pretty serious for rishi sunak. one of the two suspected tory candidates who are under investigation for betting on the election date has taken to social media with an apology as the fallout continues around this scandal, let's take a listen, admitted an error of judgement , listen, admitted an error of judgement, not an offence and i want to reiterate my apology directly to you. >> i'm fully cooperating with routine inquiries for the gambling commission, and i intend to clear my name in all these things. >> due process is important and thatis >> due process is important and that is what sets the uk apart from other countries. and the commission must be allowed to do

its work. >> okay. craig williams , they're >> okay. craig williams, they're admitting an error of judgement, as was the wearing of that gilet. but the question is, will this political scandal continue for rishi sunak? it's a story that won't go away and it's surely the last thing he needs. i'll be asking, of surely the last thing he needs. i'll be asking , of course. a top i'll be asking, of course. a top tory party bigwig, former brexit secretary david davis, at 4:00. but let me bring you the full list of candidates now running in montgomeryshire and glen da. we have glen preston , liberal we have glen preston, liberal democrats, elwyn vaughan, social democratic party , craig william, democratic party, craig william, it says conservatives. it will say that on the ballot paper. but the tories have distanced themselves from their own candidate, oliver lewis , reform candidate, oliver lewis, reform uk, steve witherden, labour and jeremy brignall thorpe, greens . jeremy brignall thorpe, greens. okay, i think we could all do with a bit of light relief, couldn't we? and england's footballers have qualified for the next round at euro 2024

before tonight's game with slovenia . so is it time for slovenia. so is it time for former players like gary lineker to stop slagging them off? should old lineker old judges himself pipe down? or do gareth southgate's side need a kick up backside

with a labour government. effectively reverse brexit, i'll be asking the former brexit secretary, david davis at 4:00. lots to get through in the next two and a bit hours. it is the hottest day of the year in some parts of the uk. let me just say i've been on the met office app andifs i've been on the met office app and it's pretty chilly in lancaster. it's grey and rainy in glasgow, so the weather's not great everywhere , but certainly great everywhere, but certainly in the midlands and the south east. it's a bit of a scorcher and apparently lots of england fans have taken sickies today to

enjoy the sunshine before tonight's game with slovenia at euro 2024. it's not been a good few days for england, even though they've qualified for the last 16. gary lineker has been very critical of the side, but manager gareth southgate says he's taking no notice . he's taking no notice. >> we fully understand everything we do is going to be scrutinised so i'm very comfortable living that life and, but i don't need to engage in external because i'm my own biggest critic and i think our players are as well. so there's nothing to be gained from us that's going to help improve us. listening >> while england's game against slovenia is in cologne tonight. so let's head to the german city now and speak to a man that's got the best gig of the week, sports journalist ben jacobs. ben, what a what a moment, england are through so the fans can actually enjoy this game, can't they? well, kind of, but the point is, they've got to win

the point is, they've got to win the group. so from the side's point of view, they do have to answer some of their critics. gary lineker includes . but gary lineker includes. but regardless of how they play, if they don't win, the group and finish second, then it's germany in the round of 16 and that's a horrible game for england. on this kind of form. if they win the group, score some goals, build some momentum, then they avoid germany. they get one of the best placed finishers outside of the top two in the group, and their path to try and win this tournament becomes a whole lot easier for england fans. the team need to get the nation's pulses racing , don't nation's pulses racing, don't they? what do you want to see tonight that we haven't seen so far? ben? >> well, i think goals and killing off the game. >> so what they've done right so far is got ahead in both games. and then they've taken their foot off the gas. >> and in the opening game against serbia they were a little bit nervy at the end. >> but they kept a clean sheet. jordan pickford made one big save in particular in the second game against denmark. they got punished for going into almost second gear, being a bit defensive minded, being nonchalant at times, giving the

opposition more of the ball. so they've got to score goals. we need to see conor gallagher come into midfield and add some energy and dynamism . they've energy and dynamism. they've still got to sort out the left back situation. hopefully going forwards. luke shaw can be fit forwards. luke shaw can be fit for the business end of the tournament and we need to see the best out of phil foden as well. but ultimately what england fans want is not just a win but a performance that shows why england, before this tournament began , were billed as tournament began, were billed as one of the favourites. >> is harry kane slower than my toyota prius? >> no, i think that's unfair. what you have to note about harry kane is he lulls you into a false sense of security. sometimes he's not involved, sometimes he doesn't have that many touches, but usually when he gets a big chance, he puts it away. this isn't a problem with harry kane. this is about balance. and down the left hand side, it's been a problem . and side, it's been a problem. and in central midfield, as good as jude bellingham is behind him , jude bellingham is behind him, the trent alexander—arnold experiment simply didn't work. so that either means kobe, manu or conor gallagher, with the latter expected to start. and then are we going to see cole

palmer, one of the form players in the premier league zero minutes so far? so this is about gareth southgate getting the tactical calls right and ultimately showing that england are not just tournament seasoned but they're capable of exciting and winning games comfortably. and that's the kind of tone that's needed heading into the last 16, ben, i've only got a couple of seconds . do you think couple of seconds. do you think that the likes of lineker and shearer should pipe down and support the team? after all, they've won nothing for england ? they've won nothing for england? >> no. just briefly entitled to their opinion. they're working for host broadcasters . they for host broadcasters. they should be being pundits. but remember, lineker also did a podcast where he used a slightly more derogatory word. so maybe there's an argument that punditry is fine, but when they go over that line and start speaking more like a fan, that's where maybe they need to consider their words more. >> okay, ben , i'll let you get >> okay, ben, i'll let you get back to that. that stein of bitburger pils lager and enjoy the game tonight. home secretary james cleverly said migrants are queuing up in calais waiting for a labour government. he was talking on the day that the

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here, allowing things to turn a little fresher, more comfortable night for sleeping onto wednesday and it's another hot and sunny day for many. could be quite murky around the coast. in the south—west, some mist and low cloud may plague the beaches here, but for most of england and wales, dry and sunny. another place that's likely to be a bit grey early on eastern england, especially close to the coast and particularly parts of eastern scotland where we'll keep a lot of cloud through the night and even a little bit of rain is possible here. but for western scotland generally a fine and sunny start and probably a brighter day for northern ireland to come tomorrow as well, with more in the way of sunshine , many places the way of sunshine, many places seeing quite a bit of blue sky. then throughout wednesday and it will be another very warm day as well . still, the likelihood of well. still, the likelihood of thick cloud persisting over eastern scotland and at times there could be some rain here as well, and rain just threatening the far west of northern ireland by the end of the day. but a warmer day here with a bit more sunshine. the heat though really across central and eastern

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gb news. >> it is 4:00. i'm mark dolan in for the brilliant martin daubney. a busy two hours to come on a scorching day across much of the country, the immigration debate heats up in today's papers report that migrants in france are literally waiting for a labour government before making that channel

crossing. also why won't labour reveal by how much they plan to bnng reveal by how much they plan to bring down immigration? can sir keir starmer stop the boats ? keir starmer stop the boats? also, england are playing tonight. can they win? and is this the feel good factor that the country needs after the doom and gloom of the general election ? and are we in for election? and are we in for a long, hot summer? legendary tv weatherman john kettley may have some good news for. us. and as the betting gate scandal rumbles on, could things get any worse for the conservatives and is brexit safe in the hands of labour? if they win, i'll be asking. the former brexit secretary, david davis , in just secretary, david davis, in just a couple of minutes. i want to

hear from you throughout the show. send in your messages. gb news commun or save. but first, the news headlines and polly middlehurst. >> and the top story this hour former conservative candidate craig williams says he committed an error of judgement but not an offence. both he and laura saunders are facing an investigation now amid allegations of betting on the date of the general election. they've now lost the support of the conservative party, but they'll still appear on election ballot papers because of the deadunes ballot papers because of the deadlines for nominations , which deadlines for nominations, which has now passed. mr williams says he intends to clear his name, admitted an error of judgement, not an offence . not an offence. >> and i want to reiterate my apology directly to you . apology directly to you. >> i'm fully cooperating with routine inquiries for the gambling commission , and i gambling commission, and i intend to clear my name in all these things . due process is these things. due process is important and that is what sets the uk apart from other countries. >> and the commission must be

allowed to do its work now. >> pomp and pageantry were the order of the day today in central london, as their majesties the king and queen welcome the emperor and empress of japan, beginning a three day state visit. starting with a guard of honour in horse guards parade, the royals greeted the prime minister, rishi sunak, as well as other dignitaries there. princess anne isn't taking part in today's welcome . she's in today's welcome. she's recovering in hospital in bristol after being injured by a horse at the weekend. the other big news today, julian assange, has touched down in thailand as his journey back to australia continues. the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk this morning and is due to appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands. that's a us territory in the western pacific. he's expected to be sentenced to five years, roughly the equivalent of the time he's already served in britain. it's understood he'll plead guilty to a single crime of illegally

obtaining and disclosing national security material, though his wife says he'll seek a full pardon . kenya's a full pardon. kenya's parliament has been stormed by protesters in a show of fury over planned tax hikes , attempts over planned tax hikes, attempts to disperse the crowds using tear gas and even water cannon failed. police then opened fire, killing at least five people with dozens more wounded and sections of parliament set ablaze. demonstrators are now calling on the country's president to step down. a former engineer claims the post office tried to put words into his mouth when he attempted to disclose concerns that he had about the horizon it system. gareth jenkins worked for fujitsu for his entire professional career , and was professional career, and was regarded as a distinguished employee until his retirement in 2015. evidence he gave about the honzon 2015. evidence he gave about the horizon system was used in the prosecutions of many subpostmasters , which have since subpostmasters, which have since been quashed, but he told today's inquiry that he never

had oversight of all the systems bugs , and he relied on others to bugs, and he relied on others to supply reliable information on. labouris supply reliable information on. labour is pledging to halve knife crime within a decade if it wins a general election. the party's plan includes creating a new cross—government coalition to work on solutions, as well as community hubs involving youth workers and careers advisers. sir keir starmer says cracking down on knife crime is a moral mission. >> i was the chief prosecutor for five years and therefore i prosecuted many cases involving the use of knives and i've made it my personal mission to deal with this. it is a moral mission as far as i'm concerned. it isn't a question of urban versus rural. in fact, i think there's more knife crime. sadly, in rural areas, or at least it's going up more quickly. and i think it's not fair on the families we've been hearing from this morning to simply point the finger to somebody else. this is something which a government needs to take responsibility for. i will take responsibility

for, on a cross—party basis, to make the change that we need . make the change that we need. >> a yellow heat health alert is in force across most of the country, with temperatures set to exceed 30 degrees today. yesterday's high temperatures topped 28 in surrey, making it the hottest day of the year so far. and that's almost certain to be surpassed today, with central london expecting some of the hottest conditions. the rnli is urging people to take care on coastlines, with crowds expected to cool off on the beach. but forecasters are warning the heat won't last long. the showers and possibly thunderstorms predicted for later tomorrow , and finally, for later tomorrow, and finally, the first samples ever collected from the dark side of the moon have arrived on earth. china has become the first country to successfully bring back samples from the lunar far side. the re—entry capsule of change e—6 probe touched down on the northern chinese region of inner mongolia this morning that was carrying the lunar soil, which

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government ? government? >> yeah. before i get to that it's such fun . it's such fun. >> nigel farage is an old friend of mine, so i'm going to tease the hell out of him for winning a trick award. >> and i had decay to trick . but >> and i had decay to trick. but yeah, absolutely. >> the people have spoken, david just like they did with brexit. >> i did, i did i did see the, the, the quotations in the telegraph and actually they're pretty serious. >> i mean, it wasn't just 1 or 2. it was obviously a lot of people saying that we're not going to, get on the boats until there's a change of government, and you can see why, i mean, rwanda , to come back to rwanda rwanda, to come back to rwanda in a second. but also, he he's going to reverse our policy, which says you can't claim asylum if you come in illegally. it's a recent change in in government policy. and he says he's going to reverse that. so in all sorts of ways, he's going to make it easier for the people traffickers. and you know, this demonstrates, i mean, if ever you needed something to demonstrate that actually rwanda is going to work. this demonstrate that actually rwanda is going to work . this is one of is going to work. this is one of three clues. this, you know, the

fact that people are saying, i'm not going to go. and until the government's changed and therefore the rwanda plan is cancelled by keir starmer. secondly you may remember the issue with the, migrants going to ireland, when they when the, the rwanda bill completed its stages in the, in parliament. and thirdly, of course, the fact that at least 15 european countries are copying us. so actually, i think , you know, actually, i think, you know, people should start thinking about this and saying, well, you know, is , you know, is starmer know, is, you know, is starmer off his head wanting to cancel this policy just is about to actually have an effect. >> okay. so david, i'm going to reinstate your knighthood, by the way, sir david davis, of course i stand corrected. let's not forget that, let's, let's bnngin not forget that, let's, let's bring in our political editor, christopher hope. because of course, christopher, the issue is, you know, these are these are kind of, you know, rather enthusiastic words from david davis about the rwanda plan . but davis about the rwanda plan. but these illegal migrant crossings have happened on the conservative watch, haven't they? >> well, they really have. and, sir david. hello. i mean, why do you think it's going to be axed

by labour? is it a kind of can they not accept that it might work? and we are seeing evidence on a low level scale that it is deterring crossings to the uk from france and also we have the examples in dublin that you mentioned is it are they being spiteful, the labour party, because they could be cutting off their nose to spite their face, given all the money that's been spent on the project already? >> well, yeah, they're being i mean, they basically nailed themselves to the mast on this. i mean, they voted against or delayed this policy both in the commons and lords, over 100 times, i think it's 139 votes times, i think it's139 votes against, general policy and much of that's rwanda. so it's quite difficult for them to back off from it now that there's evidence that it's beginning to work. but their whole, migration policy is really flawed. i mean, it consists of trying to repackage things. the conservative government's already done , like the, the, the already done, like the, the, the sbc, i think they call it the sort of the border command

centre. we've already done that . centre. we've already done that. that's already in place. put more people in, put another thousand people in. it's this is 40,000 people. it's a very small change, all sorts of things like that. but, you know, i think cancelling rwanda and as well effectively cancelling the immigration act, which says if you get here illegally , you you get here illegally, you can't claim asylum, you've got to come here legally to claim asylum. those things are really, really powerful things, powerful mechanisms which have yet to bite. but i'm pretty sure will bite. but i'm pretty sure will bite if they're allowed to come into effect. and he and starmer said he's going to cancel it on the first day. you know, it's going to be the very first thing this government does. yeah >> david, you're the former brexit secretary, of course. and the theresa may. can i ask you a question? is brexit safe , under question? is brexit safe, under the labour party, we're told it is by a sir keir starmer they won't try and renegotiate the customs union and access to the single market. you're someone who knows how the workings of government work. is it safe or do you worry about it? >> well , the first thing to say

>> well, the first thing to say is ikea was my opposite number. remember when i was brexit secretary and he obviously hated brexit? you know, he hated the fact that it had happened and he was very nervous about taking it on because after all, it's the people's choice. it's not not the government's choice to have brexit, and he wants to he thinks he's going to get a sort of cheap, easy new deal with europe . and it's not going to by europe. and it's not going to by the back door and it's not going to happen. the european have already started to put the price on the table of any changes at all. i mean, he wants to do something like bring the chemical industry back inside the european regulatory regime. well, that's not that important as long as you don't give them the control over it. but what is important is they're going to ask for a new variant of free movement for young people for years, for any young european to come here and bring with them whoever they like, whichever dependents or parents, whatever they like, and we, of course, won't control them. that's, you know, a reopening of the free movement. they want to take back

fishing areas. and that doesn't just impact our fishermen. it also impacts, our, our marine protection zones. you know, we are world leader now in marine protection . and they're going to protection. and they're going to they want that to be given back so that they can they can bottom trawl, they can basically hoover up half the wildlife on, on the bottom of the, the north sea. these are really, really big things. and nobody's talking about well, other than your channel, nobody's talking about them. and they should be because them. and they should be because the british public be pretty cross if the end of a of a labour government, if that happens , we end up having given happens, we end up having given away a large part of the benefits of brexit. >> david davis, why is the prime minister, rishi sunak, so reluctant to talk about brexit or even sell brexit? because if you look at the numbers, the uk is doing pretty well. i mean, we largely avoided recession in the last couple of years. unlike germany and the eurozone, the imf have predicted that per capha imf have predicted that per capita growth growth in the g7, the uk will be number two, just

behind america over the next five years. we've just leapfrogged france to be number eight in the world for manufacturing, and we're number four in the world for exports . four in the world for exports. does brexit really need to be renegotiated ? because from where renegotiated? because from where i'm standing, it looks like it's going swimmingly. >> mostly it's going very well, you know, and we could sit here and swap stories about tech inward investment record growth in, in service exports and so on till the cows come home. i mean, there's just loads of them. i mean, what there are are some irritations mostly put in place by a sort of, an annoyed , by a sort of, an annoyed, franco—german axis who are just crossed that we in their view, were undermining their project, and so things like, you know, having to give your fingerprints at borders and those sorts of things, but you're not going to you're not going to change that, for, for anything less than a pretty sizeable price, as i've already said. so i think the trick for a sensible government rather than an ideological

government on this is to, take head on making the benefits of it. and, you know, i resigned from a conservative government because i didn't think they were doing enough of that. but even without that, as you say, it's a pretty good success. you know what? you know, just think how it would be if we put our shoulder behind that wheel and made it work, you know? >> well, definitely. i know there are i know there are small and medium sized businesses struggling with exports and my heart goes out to them. it is a nightmare for a certain number of businesses in certain categories, but the graphs don't lie. the economic growth is there. we've not had the brexit disaster. you know, a run on the pound flight of capital, a crash in the housing market, unemployment, unemployed, all of that. none of it happened, david davidson , by the way, i say that davidson, by the way, i say that as somebody that voted remain. but if something is successful, i will acknowledge it, listen, a couple have got two, two more, at least. things to get through before we let you go , first of before we let you go, first of all, inflation is now on target . all, inflation is now on target. 2% legal net migration is anticipate to halve in the next

12 months. the economy's growing. if the conservatives had called an election for november, they'd have won, wouldn't they ? wouldn't they? >> well, my advice was november. but, you know, i'm not the decision maker in this. i don't i don't know what other advice he got. what what other reasons he got. what what other reasons he had , and so i but i think the he had, and so i but i think the thrust of your, of your, question is right, that there are a lot of benefits just down the road . i mean, what i you the road. i mean, what i you know, what i really hope doesn't happenis know, what i really hope doesn't happen is what happened in 97, the incoming , adviser, economic the incoming, adviser, economic adviser to tony blair, announced once they were in downing street . this is the best, economy any labour government has ever inherited. and that meant they were there for a long time. and ihope were there for a long time. and i hope we've not worked , our our i hope we've not worked, our our feet off to, to deliver a, a really, really rather healthy, economy to a to a labour

government. i still haven't given up hope on winning. so don't don't get me wrong, but, that's that's a risk. and you know, i was i was around, in the, in the thatcher days and margaret thatcher would have been she would have given her eye teeth to have reduced , eye teeth to have reduced, inflation from 11% to 2% in pretty much six months flat. i mean , you look back at the mean, you look back at the history and how long we struggled to do that back in those days. so that's a pretty remarkable achievement. i just see before i came on that three banks are now talking about cutting their mortgage rates. oh thank god. you know, what it of course means as well under under under under treasury orthodoxy now is we also got more scope to cut taxes , you know, so all of cut taxes, you know, so all of these things i would love to have under our belt before we took the election, but we're doing it when we're doing it. and, you know, i'm, i'm of the old school here. it's just fix bayonets and advance. and what will be will be. and, you know,

it may be a lot better than these these ridiculous over mathematical polls are predicting. >> yeah. so, david, though you mentioned margaret thatcher and leadership, i suppose you can take from that. we've seen rishi sunak has finally withdrawn support for two of your colleagues fighting this election , craig williams and election, craig williams and laura saunders. why did he take so long to take action? i mean, the information about laura saunders broke, i think, last wednesday or thursday, four days, five days later, the leader, the pm, takes action. just why wait so long when you're haemorrhaging support on the doorsteps? we're being told by voters who are furious about the betting gate. and can i ask you quickly, have you ever bet on politics? >> well, let me answer the second one first. yes i've once in my life i've placed a bet and it was on the on the brexit outcome. and the reason was i was so annoyed you were. you may not remember this, but actually on the day of the referendum itself, everybody was predicting that it was going to go in.

remains favour. that it was going to go in. remains favour . yeah. and i was remains favour. yeah. and i was so cross. i went and found a bookies and put money, a fair chunk of money out there. i've only got 3 to 1, but i'm really cross because i could have got 13 to 1 later that day. but, but that's the only time in my life i've actually ever bet on a political event. indeed, the only time i've ever bet offer off a race course when i've been ianed off a race course when i've been invited or something. but. but the. i mean, i'm not, again , the the. i mean, i'm not, again, the way, rishi has dealt with this. and i'll tell you why. way, rishi has dealt with this. and i'll tell you why . and, and i'll tell you why. and, chris, you may recognise this. i had a look back the other day at how many of my colleagues, members of parliament had been accused of something which they were subsequently exonerated for, either in court or by a police investigator or by a party or a house investigation . party or a house investigation. and most of them, well, all of them had paid a price because people had forgotten innocent till proven guilty. they've forgotten that, you know , forgotten that, you know, particularly when it comes to politicians and all of them paid

a price, some of them completely paid with their careers, 1 or 2 who've gone out this time. so i am always in favour of just taking long enough to make absolutely damn sure that you've got it right before you take action on it. it was blair that started this habit all the years ago of, you know, convicting on allegation . and we've all got allegation. and we've all got into the same habit. it's a bad habit . we should let the process habit. we should let the process go through. and i know look the easy thing to do, the easy thing to do is to give in to the crowd . you say, right, you know, chop off his head. that's an easy thing to do in politics. the hard thing is to hold your nerve and say, let's just see what the truth is and then act. and that's what he's done. >> so, david, very briefly, a couple of seconds, if you can. thank you so much for your time. what is your best hope for the outcome on the 4th of july? what is a good result for the conservatives now? >> a conservative victory is a good result for me . good result for me. >> and what was it a numbers are we looking at here? a majority of one probably. >> i might get better than 13 to 1 odds. you never know. and i

mean i'll say one thing. i'll say one thing to you. and it's this all of these polls, these so—called mrp polls, it's a group of techniques. so—called mrp polls, it's a group of techniques . they're all group of techniques. they're all untested. you know, i would not get on an aeroplane that had technology as untested as these polls, and they have 10% gaps between them. i've had one pair of polls, both msps, predicting i lose here, that i think is improbable, but you never know, by 1% or win by 10. i mean, that's not a technology i will trust, i'll trust my nerve and my constituents better than that. and half of them have not half of my decisions, but half of people have made up their mind yet. so there's everything to fight for. >> so, david, really good to see you again. we'll catch up soon. sir david davis there, the former brexit secretary. let me bnng former brexit secretary. let me bring you the full list of candidates running in bristol nonh candidates running in bristol north west. caroline gooch, liberal democrats , ben smith, liberal democrats, ben smith, social democratic party laura saunders, conservatives although they have now disowned her candidature . scarlett o'connor,

candidature. scarlett o'connor, reform uk darren jones, labour and mary page, greens and let's go for montgomeryshire and glenda as well glyn preston, lib dems, elwyn vaughan, plaid cymru craig williams, conservatives oliver lewis, reform uk and stephen witherden, labour, jeremy northorpe, green party and of course , craig williams is and of course, craig williams is no longer the official candidate of the conservatives given the allegations around betting on the outcome of the election, it will say conservatives on the betting slip, but they have parted company for now. okay folks, lots more to get through. princess anne is still in hospital. is her condition more serious than previously thought? we'll find out

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esteemed royal commentator caroline aston . caroline, good caroline aston. caroline, good to see you. some of the papers is it some of the papers, caroline, are speculating that things could be more serious for princess anne than than previously reported, there is a suggestion of memory loss, are you worried about her state of health? >> well, concussions and nasty thing. and the side effects of it. i've had it myself. forgetfulness, tiredness . it forgetfulness, tiredness. it takes a while to get over it. and don't forget this hard working lady. the most hard working lady. the most hard working royal we have actually is in her 74th year, so it'll take her a while to get over this. and isn't there an irony in it? but an olympic medal winning equestrian has been well kicked or whatever by a horse and reduced to this when she wasn't even astride a horse , she wasn't even astride a horse, she wasn't even astride a horse, she was walking around her estate. i think the most serious aspect of this, though, is that that thinned down, slimmed down working royal family that the

king wanted is now so slim. it's pretty anorexic. the fates have conspired and that balcony load of royals that we see at buckingham palace is rather like a row of bowling skittles, isn't it? three knocked out. now, where do we go next? the fickle bowling ball of fate seems to be striking them out one by one. >> most definitely. it's been a really bad year for the royals, health wise. and as you mentioned , anne there, she won't mentioned, anne there, she won't be doing that trip to canada. she won't be at the banquet for the japanese emperor this evening . plus, she's an evening. plus, she's an important moral support for the king in the absence of queen elizabeth. isn't isn't she totally . totally. >> and i mean, as i say, we forget how old she is. rather like her mother, the queen, who was kind of ageless. we knew she was kind of ageless. we knew she was an elderly lady, but she was always out there doing things . always out there doing things. and the same is true of princess anne, who's totally non, no nonsense, get on with the job. just like her father, who she resembles an awful lot in attitude. he was a no fuss man.

she's a no fuss princess royal and she will just be aching to get out of that hospital bed as soon as it's considered safe for her to do so and get back to doing what she's been doing ever since the diagnosis of her brother and of course, of the princess of wales , to get out princess of wales, to get out there supporting and doing her stuff all power to caroline aston. >> brilliant stuff. thank you so much for joining >> brilliant stuff. thank you so much forjoining us. we'll catch much for joining us. we'll catch up soon. royal commentator caroline aston. they're absolutely making that point that she's a critical figure in the royal family. are they paying the royal family. are they paying the price for that slimmed down format? well that's an interesting debate . we'll an interesting debate. we'll pick that up with grant harrold, former royal butler, after 5:00, before the end of the show, i'll before the end of the show, i'll be crossing live to tenerife on the ninth day of the search for missing teenager jay slater. where is he? what could have happened and what is the hope now of him being found? lots to get through. but first, your latest news headlines and polly

middlehurst . middlehurst. >> mark, thanks very much indeed.the >> mark, thanks very much indeed. the latest headlines this hour. the former conservative candidate, craig williams, says he has committed an error of judgement. but he says not in offence. both he and laura saunders are facing an investigation amid allegations of betting on the date of the general election. they've now lost the support of the conservative party, but they'll still appear on election ballot papers because the deadlines for nominations has passed. mr williams says he intends to clear his name also in the news today, a former engineer claims the post office tried to put words into his mouth when he attempted to disclose concerns he had about the horizon it system. gareth jenkins worked as an engineer for fujitsu for his entire career. he told today's inquiry that he never had oversight of all the systems bugs, and said he's truly sorry for the wrongful convictions

that resulted and the king and queen have been hosting a ceremonial welcome for the emperor and empress of japan. this afternoon they began their three day state visit with an eventin three day state visit with an event in horseguards parade this afternoon. the royal couple greeting a lie—in of dignitaries including the prime minister, rishi sunak, princess anne is unable to take part in today's ceremonial welcome . she's ceremonial welcome. she's recovering in hospital after being injured by her horse , being injured by her horse, although her husband says she's doing fine and julian assange has touched down in thailand as his journey back to australia continues. the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk this morning and is due to appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands. that's a us territory in the western pacific. he's expected to be sentenced to five years, roughly the equivalent of the time he's already served in britain before he returns to australia . and he returns to australia. and here in the uk, a yellow health alert is in force as temperatures soar across the

country . london's currently the country. london's currently the hottest part of the uk, with temperatures at around 929 degrees this afternoon , while degrees this afternoon, while it's 24 in manchester and 26 in cardiff. forecasters are warning it won't last long, with showers and possibly thunderstorms predicted for later on tomorrow. those are the headlines for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites . carmelites. >> my thanks to polly middlehurst, who returns at 5:00. if you want to get in touch with the show, gbnews.com forward slash your say. it's been a busy show and we haven't had feedback so far, so we'll get to that very shortly. this is mark dolan for martin and a busy hour and

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please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. good luck . good luck. >> okay, let's bring you some breaking news. and women and equalities minister kemi badenoch has hit back at doctor who star david tennant for telling her to shut up. the actor said that he wished that she would shut up when receiving an award at the british lgbt awards. take a listen. but i think, i suppose if i'm honest, i'm a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it, as long as they're not hurting anyone else, should merit any kind of special award or special special mention because it's common sense, isn't it? >> it's . >> it's. >> it's. >> it's. >> it is. >> it is. >> it is human decency. >> it is. >> it is human decency . we >> it is human decency. we shouldn't live in a world where thatis shouldn't live in a world where that is worth remarking on. >> however, until we wake up and kemi badenoch does not exist

anymore. i don't wish ill of her. >> i just wish her to shut up. >> i just wish her to shut up. >> what a brave move from this millionaire luvvy actor to wish dead of a government minister for expressing gender critical views. imagining a world where kemi badenoch doesn't exist . kemi badenoch doesn't exist. telling a talented woman of colour who has achieved a great career in politics to shut up. welcome to the world of woke. well, kemi badenoch has defended herself online. i will not shut up. i will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from safety. excuse me. prioritise applause from stonewall over the safety of women and girls . truly safety of women and girls. truly extraordinary stuff . i'm extraordinary stuff. i'm horrified by what just happened there. so that is a famous actor, a multi—millionaire who's been on the bbc. he's done

movies, he's done tv shows in america, you name it. he's a global household name and he's told british politician female told british politician female to shut up and imagine a world in which she didn't exist. you couldn't make it up, could you? let's get to your emails now and let's talk about stopping the boats. will labour stop the boats? clive says keir starmer has voted against legislation aimed at stopping illegal migrants over 100 times. all the measures labour are announcing to try to stop the boats are already in place . of course, already in place. of course, i should argue and should add that labour wants to scrap the rwanda plan because they think it's an expensive gimmick that won't work and they think it's unethical as well. of course it's all about opinions. what else do you have here? richard says typical labour, their answer to questions, talking about when labour were last in power. like there's any comparison to today , back when comparison to today, back when they were in power, there were not any as migrants on the move in the world as there are now , in the world as there are now, the last time labour in power, says paul, they were coming

across on lorries. labour will be no different to the tories . be no different to the tories. in fact, they will be worse. well, look, keep those opinions coming. gbnews.com forward slash your say , some pretty good your say, some pretty good weather in parts of the country today. is this a taste of things today. is this a taste of things to come or will the summer be over before it's begun? be finding out from weatherman john kettley

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britain's news channel. >> i'm mark dolan with you until 6:00. busy hour in ten minutes to come. the time now is 447. and at 5:00, i'll be telling you why. it is a landmark day. that's right. a landmark day in the migrant crisis. but first, some good news. today is expected to be the hottest day of the year in some parts of the uk and the uk. health security agency has issued yellow heat health alerts across most of england. but the question is will it last? are we in for a long, hot summer? who better to ask then? legendary weather forecaster john kettley. john, lovely to see you again. it's been a few years . what are you been a few years. what are you what do you make of the weather we're having at the moment? is it seasonally appropriate ? it seasonally appropriate? >> well, i would say it's long overdue, wouldn't you, mark? >> it's been such a terrible 12 months, really. we had a great june last year. then the rest of the summer. last year was

rubbish and it seems to have rained ever since. >> it's been cool on occasions, windy and really very disappointing i think overall. >> so we were due a warmer spell and we've now at long last reached temperatures of about 29, maybe 30 degrees in west london. >> today it's the hottest day of the year so far, but that's that's pretty small comfort, really. >> i think last year we got 32 degrees. >> in june. i'd say that turned out to be the best month of the summer. and it's only a few years ago, isn't it? >> two years ago or so that we got to 40 degrees, which is far too hot for us brits. >> so i think it's been long overdue. it's nothing special at all. i don't think we can get too carried away with it. mark >> no, i mean, what do you put the delayed summer down to? john well, if we talk about jet streams, we often do these days. >> we didn't used to. do, you know, 25 years ago, we didn't mention jet streams. it sound like an open university lecture or something, but jet streams these days, they do sort of dominate how the weather is formed around the atlantic ocean and across into western europe. so it's the jet stream that's been really in the wrong place. we've been on the chilly side of

it instead of on the hot side of it. of course, many parts of europe now are very hot. temperatures up to 32 to 42 degrees, 39 to 42 degrees. really. especially in turkey. so they got the hot weather over there in europe , they always there in europe, they always have. it's always been that way really. so we're just getting a little taste of it, but it isn't going to last. that was your question earlier on. it isn't going to last. there will be a change before the end of this week. >> and do we have any long term forecasts for the summer here in the uk? can we be optimistic that we've saved our best till last, and that we'll have a good july and august? >> well, i'm going to be optimistic. yes, i can always be optimistic. yes, i can always be optimistic. i know we've got these lovely pictures they're showing on gb news at the moment. are we in for a hot summer? it's very difficult to tell because it's a long summer ahead of us. we've still got july and august, but what happens generally if we get such a poor start to a summer, it tends to have some longevity about it. so we sometimes find that september is one of the better months of the year. so yes, every chance of some nice weather coming back, it will be

hot and cold days. there'll be wet days and windy days. it's just the way the british weather is. it's a it's whichever way the wind is blowing. but i've got my panama hat at the ready, so i think it could be that we're going to have some pretty decent weather still lying ahead of us. you've got your panama hat. >> you're not afraid to use it, is the fact that it's taken a while for the warm weather to kick in anything to do with the dreaded global warming and climate change? what do you think, john, not on my watch , as think, john, not on my watch, as you might say, mark. nothing to do. look i'm honoured. >> i'm honoured that you're using one of my catchphrases. i mean, what's your overview about the issue of the weather in relation to climate change? what's your what's john kirtley's world view on that? my view is much more tempered than some of the people who are in climate science, so i just feel that because i've been doing this job for so many years and it is a long number of years now, i seem to have seen it all before. i know we can't be blase

about it, and we see temperatures of 40 degrees like we did two years ago, and that was far too hot. it's possibly a sign of things to come, but you know, they do get a bit carried away as soon as you get a temperature up as high as that, they start thinking it's going to be the same every year. well it isn't. absolutely not. and we're not finished with snow ehhen we're not finished with snow either. there will be some cold, wintry weather still to come. and, yes, we're going to get some extreme weather, there's no doubt about that. it's always been like that. of course, when i was a very young boy, mark, in 1959, with a glorious summer , in 1959, with a glorious summer, in fact, it never stopped. it never seemed to rain all year. in 1959, so it's just the way things are sometimes, but we can't be blase about it. the climate scientists have got a point , but at climate scientists have got a point, but at the moment i just talk about a hint of global warming rather than climate change and, doom and gloom. nothing like that. >> well, a moderate position that won't work , will it? in that won't work, will it? in today's very polemical, divisive world. i mean, it's interesting that we had the summer of 76, which was a scorcher , and we had which was a scorcher, and we had those storms in october of 1987, which, of course, if they happen

now would be attributed to climate change. but they were not. >> no, absolutely. and let's not forget, 75 and 76 did occur. they were two hot summers with a dry winter in between. they did occurin dry winter in between. they did occur in a period of global cooling. television programmes were being made in the early 70s, talking about how we were heading towards the next ice age. it's, you know, people are making a living out of this. and, the globe is always changing. there are different fluctuations going on with the orbits and different things with sea temperatures and all this kind of thing. i'm just not going to go overboard with it. i've just got to be level headed, keep my feet on the ground, and hopefully we'll just talk about normal british weather. some good, some bad. but, you know, a lot of brits just prefer it this way, think. >> i think they do. and do you, do you approve of these warnings now? amber warnings , red now? amber warnings, red warnings. and what about those weather bulletins where the whole country is coated in a sea of red when it's only about 25 degrees? well i know, and that's

what we had this week, of coui'se. >> course. >> i mean, you've got to think that people have got underlying issues medically, they have to be very careful when you're talking about temperatures even as moderate as 30 degrees, which we're probably just about got today. underlying issues can really upset people's health, especially when you've got a hot spell. you've got to be very careful. keep drinking. keep drinking water. of course not. gin and tonic , but, keep out of gin and tonic, but, keep out of the hot sun for a few hours in the hot sun for a few hours in the middle of the day. it's what they've always done on the continent. of course they've had the siestas. they don't work over lunchtime . they come back over lunchtime. they come back and work towards the end of the afternoon and into the early evening. it just makes sense. and they know more about the weather being hot than we do in this country. i might tell you, mark, that my vet is from portugal and i was talking to him last week. he'd just been across into portugal and i said to him, well, what's what's it all about over there in portugal? are they are they very worried about these high temperatures? he said, no, not at all. he said it'll be 42 next week, but we know it's going to get hot. what we're worried about really is the dry weather

that comes along during the, the winters. so john, thank you so much more of that to come. >> next up , can labour stop the >> next up, can labour stop the boats . boats. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. hot one in places today. quite humid as well, but it's not sunny everywhere. quite a bit more cloud across scotland and northern ireland from an old weather front that is breaking up, but high pressure is dominant and most places set fair. balmy summer's evening across most of england and wales. a bit more cloud over northern england. 1 or 2 heavy showers breaking out here as well , and showers breaking out here as well, and there's a bit of rain across eastern scotland that should fizzle out . for most. should fizzle out. for most. it'll be a dry night. we'll keep lengthy, clear skies across england and wales, where it will be a warm and humid night, but clearer air across western

scotland and northern ireland here, allowing things to turn a little fresher. more comfortable night for sleeping on to wednesday, and it's another hot and sunny day for many. could be quite murky around the coast in the south—west, some mist and low cloud may plague the beaches here, but for most of england and wales, dry and sunny. another place that's likely to be a bit grey. early on eastern england , especially close to the england, especially close to the coast, and particularly parts of eastern scotland, where we'll keep a lot of cloud through the night and even a little bit of rain is possible here. but for western scotland generally a fine and sunny start and probably a brighter day for northern ireland to come tomorrow as well, with more in the way of sunshine , many places the way of sunshine, many places seeing quite a bit of blue sky. then throughout wednesday and it will be another very warm day as well . still, the likelihood of well. still, the likelihood of thick cloud persisting over eastern scotland and at times there could be some rain here as well, and rain just threatening the far west of northern ireland by the end of the day. but a warmer day here with a bit more

sunshine. >> the heat though really across central and eastern england, 30 celsius, maybe 31. >> in the capital, a bit more cloud keeping temperatures down across eastern scotland. and then in western scotland and northern ireland. we will start to see a change. cloud and rain edging in here from this deep area of low pressure . that's area of low pressure. that's going to bring a change as this weather front sweeps the warm air away and we all turn fresher by friday. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler as sponsors of weather on

gb news. away. >> well, it's a warm day across much of the country. but the immigration debate is definitely heating up in the election campaign. today's papers report that migrants in france are literally waiting for a labour government before making that channel crossing . also, why channel crossing. also, why won't labour reveal by how much they plan to bring down

immigration? whoever wins the election, does britain need a cap? meanwhile as you can see from those pictures, sir keir starmer announces a moral mission to tackle knife crime in the company of actor idris elba. but will we ever end this devastating social epidemic ? and devastating social epidemic? and england are playing tonight ? england are playing tonight? will the country receive some much needed cheer amid all of this election doom? we'll find out before 6:00. we also have labour thrown at women under the bus and a growing row between kemi badenoch and actor david tennant. sparks are flying . tennant. sparks are flying. we'll get more on that after the headunes we'll get more on that after the headlines with polly middlehurst i >> -- >> thanks emma

>> thanks very much indeed. yes, the top story today is that the former conservative candidate, craig williams, says he committed an error of judgement. but he says not an offence. both he and laura saunders are facing an investigation amid allegations of betting on the date of the general election. they've now lost the support of the conservative party, but they'll still appear on election ballots because the deadlines for nominations has passed . mr for nominations has passed. mr williams says he intends to clear his name, committed an error of judgement, not an offence. >> and i want to reiterate my apology directly to you. >> i'm fully cooperating with routine inquiries for the gambling commission, and i intend to clear my name in all these things. due process is important and that is what sets the uk apart from other countries. and the commission must be allowed to do its work . must be allowed to do its work. >> meanwhile, julian assange has touched down in thailand as his journey back to australia continues as the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk

this morning and is due to appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands. that's a us territory in the western pacific. he's expected to be sentenced to five years. that's roughly the equivalent of the time he's already spent in britain. it's understood he'll plead guilty to a single felony. that's a count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material . national security material. though his wife says he will seek a full pardon , a former seek a full pardon, a former engineer claims the post office tried to put words into his mouth when he attempted to disclosed concerns he had about the horizon it system . gareth the horizon it system. gareth jenkins worked for fujitsu for his entire professional career, and was regarded as a distinguished employee until his retirement in 2015. evidence he gave about the horizon system was used in the prosecutions of many subpost masters, which have since been quashed, but he told today's inquiry that he never had oversight of all the systems bugs, and he relied on others to

supply reliable information. kenya's parliament has been stormed by protesters in a show of fury over planned tax hikes, attempts to disperse the crowds using tear gas and even water cannon failed and police then opened fire, killing at least five people with dozens wounded and sections of parliament building set on fire. demonstrators are now calling on the country's president, william ruto, to step down. now pomp and pageantry were the order of the day today in london as their majesties the king and queen welcome the emperor and empress of japan, beginning a three day state visit, starting with a guard of honour in horse guards parade, the royals greeted the prime minister, rishi sunak, as well as other dignitaries there. princess anne isn't taking part in today's welcome. she's recovering in hospital after being injured by a horse at the weekend . labour is pledging to weekend. labour is pledging to halve knife crime within a

decade if it wins the general election. the party's plan includes creating a new cross—government coalition to work on solutions, as well as community hubs involving youth workers and careers advisers. sir keir starmer says cracking down on knife crime is a moral mission . mission. >> when i was the chief prosecutor for five years and therefore i prosecuted many cases involving the use of knives, and i've made it my personal mission to deal with this. it is a moral mission as far as i'm concerned . it isn't far as i'm concerned. it isn't a question .of urban versus rural. in fact, i think there's more knife crime, sadly, in rural areas. or at least it's going up more quickly. and i think it's not fair on the families we've been hearing from this morning to simply point the finger to somebody else. this is something which a government needs to take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for. i will take responsibility for , on responsibility for, on a cross—party basis, to make the change that we need. >> now. the weather's pretty hot today. isn't it? temperatures getting close, in fact, as 30

degrees in parts of britain, prompting a yellow heat alert. london is currently the hottest part of the uk, reaching 29 degrees. it's also very warm in cardiff, 26 there and in manchester it's 24. the rnli is urging people to take care on coastlines as crowds head for the beach to cool down, but forecasters are warning the heat won't last. showers possibly forecast for later on. even the chance of some thunderstorms . chance of some thunderstorms. shapps. that's the news. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash shirts . com slash shirts. >> and we start the hour with some fantastic news @gbnews. we have bagged three tric awards for the second year in a row. nigel farage has been voted news presenter of the year . nigel farage has been voted news

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surprised ? were you horrified, surprised? were you horrified, it all of the above, but also relieved because i knew that there was something amiss, but i didn't know what it was , and to didn't know what it was, and to be crystal clear, it's not like sitting opposite a man or a woman in a blue or a white coat with a stethoscope around the neck saying, i'm sorry, i've got some bad news for you. >> you've got cancer and you've probably only got six months to live. >> quite the opposite with dementia. >> the, alzheimer's is totally different argument, but with with vascular dementia, you can't cure it, but you can ameliorate it. >> we were chatting about what a lovely word that was early on. >> before before we started the conversation. so, for example, i've given up smoking . yeah, and i've given up smoking. yeah, and the nhs have been brilliant on that as well. >> the nhs have actually been brilliant throughout . brilliant throughout. >> oh well done alastair stewart. well done camilla tominey. she's on air with us at 7:00 tonight. maybe she'll bring that trophy with her. now to the latest on the betting scandal . latest on the betting scandal. and the conservatives have withdrawn their support for the

two candidates at the centre of this row . one of those this row. one of those candidates, craig williams, has said that he intends to clear his name. well, with me is our political editor , christopher political editor, christopher hope. and down the line, i'm delighted to welcome a conservative parliamentary candidate, former chairman of the party, jake berry. mr berry, welcome to the show . is this the welcome to the show. is this the final nail in the coffin for your campaign ? oh, no. your campaign? oh, no. >> absolutely not. look, i understand actually there's some breaking news that the labour party has just suspended one of their candidates, i believe, in central suffolk because of a gambling commission investigation that has literally just broken on in the last couple of seconds, so, so look, l, couple of seconds, so, so look, i, i understand why the public are really angry about this. this is just absolutely disgusting that people in public life are using inside information. conservative candidates apparently now a labour candidate and five police officers, i understand for personal gain, it's completely

unacceptable. i'm really pleased that the prime minister has suspended the two conservatives who are involved in this, and i hope now this gives us the opportunity to move on, to talk about some real policies in this election, because i can tell you, mark, that the people i'm talking to on the doors, yes, they are mentioning this, but what they really want to understand is if we see a labour party untrammelled by opposition with a majority of 2 or 300, what on earth are they going to do for their lives? and congratulations to the multi—award winning gb news who is shining a light on their appalling policies, increasing immigration and open door immigration and open door immigration policy, taxing your pension , and i hope now we can pension, and i hope now we can have the opportunity to discuss that , well, have the opportunity to discuss that, well, mr berry, you might have a potential future gig as a tv news anchor because you have broken that story in our behalf. but we can confirm that labour has suspended parliamentary candidate kevin craig after being told the gambling commission has indeed launched

an investigation into him, chopper, does that take the heat off the prime minister a bit? if a labour opponent faces a similar issue. >> well, it certainly helps the prime minister, i think, because of course, the idea being is his knowledge held by maybe 40 people around the prime minister before the election was called. so to hear that a labour candidate had heard similar things, i find that, you know, it's not what you might expect because given that we journalists had no idea about july the 4th, why would labour have any better idea? but it certainly takes the heat off the prime minister if he can say, look at labour. but but jake berry, i just want to ask you, has the prime minister been to you, to your seat yet to help you, to your seat yet to help you campaign? >> no, it hasn't been, no. we'd love to welcome her if he does. he's been up and down the country. but, nine days ago, you never know what might happen. look, chris, on the doorstep here. i mean, people are just really beginning to get really worried about what this labour supermajority could be. i mean, frankly , you know, it's if the frankly, you know, it's if the labour party has a majority of 2

or 300, it will be the closest thing to an elected dictatorship our country has ever known. and let's look at what they're going to do. we hear that migrants are queuing up in calais waiting for labour to roll out the red carpet. their stated policy is to allow, through a deal with the eu, 120,000 asylum seekers in a year. that's a city the size of carlisle. that's that's just people going to allow in. they have got no plan to stop the boats. that's a city the size of carlisle. and of course, also, chris, people are really beginning to be concerned about these tax plans taxing the state pension for the first time in history, up to £2,000 on an ordinary working family. and i hope now, as we move beyond this, this betting scandal, which has been a huge story, that we can start to shed a bit of light on the absolute calamity that a labour election victory is going to be for ordinary working people, particularly here in lancashire . particularly here in lancashire. >> the reason why i asked jake berry is because you were a former chairman of the northern research group, and the feeling

i've been on the road a lot with the prime minister. he's going to save seats. we with him in henley, he goes to seats where you wouldn't expect him to lose. and why is that? and do you feel as though he's abandoning the nonh as though he's abandoning the north in this very defensive conservative campaign ? conservative campaign? >> well, he's been, i believe , >> well, he's been, i believe, to accrington i think he's been to accrington i think he's been to bury to the most marginal conservative seats in the country , and of course, he spent country, and of course, he spent a lot of time in the north, not least because he is a northern mp. this is a really difficult campaign for the conservative party. but what i would say to your gb news viewers is that, your gb news viewers is that, you know, the polls i don't feel will be evenly reflected across the country. and it feels to me as i go round and talk to northern colleagues, that actually northern voters who voted for the first time ever, in many cases conservative, are probably more likely than some others to back us. i could take you out of my front door if you wanted to lose control of the show, i would take you on a camera tour of darwin to see the

£120 million that's been like, we haven't got time today. spent just literally outside my window in darwin town centre, people can look out their window and see, levelling up in action. and ihope see, levelling up in action. and i hope that people will come out and back that in the uk. >> i mean, christopher, many people watching and listening will be thinking, well, the country's broken . you know, country's broken. you know, labour are going to use their super majority if they achieve one, to get the economy growing, to stop the boats, to tackle legal net migration, to invest in the nhs, more teachers, end crime , especially knife crime, crime, especially knife crime, which has been announced today. many would argue that we need a government with a super majority to fix broken britain. >> yeah, that. that's right . to fix broken britain. >> yeah, that. that's right. i mean, that's exactly what labour are promising. and we'll wait and see whether , you know, they and see whether, you know, they can deliver on that. there's no question that that is what the labour are saying. they're saying there's been 14 years of this attempt by labour party to try and get across the problems which were set out there , and which were set out there, and they haven't been done. so i mean, there was a huge issue there with, with small boats,

arrivals, they've got plans to try and do work closely with law enforcement on the continent . enforcement on the continent. what is the big question about laboun what is the big question about labour, though, for many is what will they do on wealth taxes? will they try and put a new, new, council tax band in, or will they look to do anything on inheritance tax or capital gains tax. so there's lots of and we heard yesterday from the independent forecasters at the ifs that they are concerned about who and where will they raise money will also be some big big cuts to whitehall budgets coming up. >> definitely. i mean labour are feeling the heat regarding the protection of women's rights. you know, those sex based rights, female only changing rooms, the integrity of women's sport. we know that intervention from j.k. rowling, a former labour donor, i think she donated £1 million to the labour party in 2008. she's not sure if she can vote labour. she's cast out on keir starmers character. so concerns about how women are being treated or would be treated under a labour government , plus a question mark government, plus a question mark over whether labour would stop the boats . but there is the the boats. but there is the distinct impression out there that the public, notwithstanding concerns about labour, that

they've already made their minds up. what's your view about that? >> i just don't think the public are listening to what the tories are listening to what the tories are saying. the tories do have had a surprising manifesto out a couple of weeks ago . you look at couple of weeks ago. you look at areas like national service, the cheerful pension lock , which cheerful pension lock, which guarantee you won't pay income tax on your state pension after 2028 when it goes above the threshold . when you start paying threshold. when you start paying income tax. i think they are trying to do ideas, but i think the problem they've got is that people aren't listening. they're having an election, aren't they, mark? well, before the six months of achievements, possibly with some cuts in in interest rates, obviously controlling inflation that stays where it is. net migration was probably going to fall. maybe rwanda starts to work. give it a chance . all those opportunities have gone to nato summit in america when the uk can boast of 2.5% of gdp on defence, you've got a summit in a blenheim palace where rishi sunak would be cock of the walk and be the guy showing a new way for europe to work together with the uk. all

these opportunities have been chucked away by a prime minister on a on a bet , chucked away by a prime minister onaonabet,to chucked away by a prime minister on a on a bet , to use an awful on a on a bet, to use an awful term moment in politics of winning the election. when he was on a promise. really, the problem i've got is all the promise. they're saying, trust me to do this . and yet they have me to do this. and yet they have failed really to bring tax under control. we're at a post—war high because of the problems in ukraine, the war in ukraine hitting and energy costs and the covid pandemic , most definitely. covid pandemic, most definitely. >> by the way, jake berry, former tory party chairman , former tory party chairman, where is the current tory party chairman? because you'd expect him to be a very high profile figure at this time. >> well, he hasn't been and we are seeing increasingly an older old, the old guard being sent out by the tory party to defend them. david davis, didn't we today?i them. david davis, didn't we today? i was noticing in the, in one of the spin rooms that one of these, the, the debates i go to for gb news andrew mitchell. turns out these guys are elected in golden oldies . yeah, yeah, in golden oldies. yeah, yeah, but dad's army maybe, or statler and waldorf from the muppets staffing. what are they going to say? far. rubbish now it's a joke, but i think you are seeing

them rely on more ian duncan smith, some more of the older guard to defend. i think it really is all hands on the pumps to try and preserve a there role as a second party in politics at the moment. >> yeah, i mean it's kitchen sink time for rishi sunak. do you think there's anything left in his arsenal of weapons or is he, is he, you know, is he weaponless now? what do we think? there's days to go. nothing to lose . the art of war nothing to lose. the art of war famously says, beware the enemy that has nothing to lose. >> he has got nine days to go and something could happen. there could be something in the sunday papers about one of the top labour people. we don't know about that could change the debate. i'm not sure what it is and we're not sure yet, but i think it does look like that the polls are going in one direction. more polls to come and we'll see how they play out. but i think the polls are now dictating the debate on politics. and that's not great for the tory party. >> and you briefly, you've got the former party chairman telling us on this show, that a supermajority for labour would be really bad news for the country. that is, by definition, admission of a defeat, isn't it? >> yeah. we're hearing that, that he's not the only one. sir jake berry is saying that also had other other remarks from

senior cabinet ministers. they're trying to scare people to vote, not to not to vote or allow a labour government in their big. the problem is they've got reform eating away at the tory support chris, for great stuff today. >> thank you so much. let me give you those candidates for rossendale and darwen, tanya . rossendale and darwen, tanya. sorry. tayyab ali is the workers party candidate . workers party party candidate. workers party of britain, bob bold greens jake berry, conservatives rowan fitton lib dems andy mcnay, labour and daniel matchett, reform uk now the lib dem labour leader sir ed davey has given his response to the betting scandal engulfing the conservatives here's what he had to say. >> not before time . i'm >> not before time. i'm surprised it took them so long. >> you know, when someone knows something is going to happen and then places a bet, i think that's just immoral and we didn't need to wait around and debate it. >> it's the prime minister and the conservative party should have realised that straight away , and i'm afraid it says more about the conservative party.

>> they seem so much and so many cases to be in it for themselves. not for public service. and i think people are angry about this . well, it is angry about this. well, it is alarming. i think we should rush to judgement. >> there's investigation going on. >> i actually feel sorry for all those hundreds of thousands of police officers around the whole of the united kingdom who will say, you know, they're letting us down and i think, you know, the vast majority of police do a fantastic job. >> i just hope, people learn the lessons from this . lessons from this. >> interesting comments there from the leader of the lib dems , from the leader of the lib dems, sir ed davey. my thanks to jake berry, former conservative party chairman who joined us earlier. a very busy show. lots more to come. the royals have welcomed the emperor and empress of japan, who are on a three day state visit to the uk. but princess anne was unable to attend. we'll get the latest on her health and the importance of that rather special visit from the japanese emperor

next. okay, folks. lots more to get through. and a very big day for the royals. good and bad. let me tell you, the emperor and empress of japan received a royal welcome to the uk as they began their three day state visit, the couple were greeted with military pomp and pageantry before embarking on a royal carriage procession to buckingham palace . well, let's buckingham palace. well, let's cross live now to gb news royal correspondent cameron walker, who's at buckingham palace . who's at buckingham palace. >> good afternoon cameron. i i hope you're well and i hope you've got your sunblock on a glorious welcome for the japanese dignitaries. >> it's an important relationship. the uk and japan,

isn't it? diplomatic, historic and economic ? and economic? >> yes, it certainly is, mark. and it is britain at its best. really the british monarchy, the power of soft diplomacy, putting on a big military display of pomp and pageantry and treating the foreign head of state to a carriage ride. what can be better on a sunny summer afternoon? so the king and queen were at horse guards parade earlier today, while the king's son, prince william , went to son, prince william, went to pick up the emperor and empress of japan from their hotel in central london, then bring them to horseguards parade for their ceremonial welcome . there were ceremonial welcome. there were ten minutes late, but no, no matter. it was prince william's regiments , the welsh guards, regiments, the welsh guards, providing that guard of honour for the emperor of japan. he, alongside the king, inspected the troops on horse guards parade. both national anthems were played japanese and then the british one. there was also a 41 gun salute in hyde park to mark the official start of the state. visits before that,

traditional carriage procession from horse guards parade up up the mall to here where i am at buckingham palace. now, there was a question mark whether this was a question mark whether this was going to happen at all, actually, because of course you're in a general election penod. you're in a general election period . the prime minister was period. the prime minister was at horse guards parade, rishi sunak as was the foreign secretary, david cameron, and the home secretary , james the home secretary, james cleverly. because, of course, although they're no longer mps, they still hold that ministerial position. but official officials insist this is not a political state visit. in fact , a japanese state visit. in fact, a japanese foreign minister says it's all about forging friendly relations across generations. and it's not across generations. and it's not a traditional state visit in the political sense, because there's no meetings in downing street, there's no there's no speech delivered by the foreign head of state in westminster hall in front of mps. but what we do have is a pomp and pageantry in the hospitality inside the building behind me, buckingham palace. there is a huge state banquet tonight expected to be attended by senior members of the royal family. i can rule out the royal family. i can rule out the princess of wales and clearly princess anne as well. she remains in hospital this

afternoon. her daughter zara zara tindall. she has visited her mother in hospital . of her mother in hospital. of course she got she was injured on sunday night. she has concussion and minor injuries. her husband, vice admiral sir tim laurence , spoke to tim laurence, spoke to a well—wisher outside and he said he brought him. he bought the princess a few little treats from home. says she is recovering well and both of them are profoundly grateful to the medical team, hospital staff and emergency services for their expert care, and they are also deeply touched by the public's kind messages. and it means a great deal, of course. princess anne, the hardest working royal if you go by the number of engagements each year and the king going to have to entertain the japanese emperor and empress without her this evening . without her this evening. >> my thanks to cameron walker live from buckingham palace. well, let's get more on princess anne now . as cameron said, anne now. as cameron said, a very popular and hard working royal. let's get the views of former royal butler and grant . former royal butler and grant. harold is with me. grant, good to see you again . tell me about to see you again. tell me about the princess anne that you know. what kind of woman is she ?

what kind of woman is she? >> she's very much like her late father and mother. she's got part of both of them within her, because the way she is , the way because the way she is, the way she acts, her humour, the seriousness always reminded me of both her parents. >> and i think having this, happen. well similar to her brother, she will not like the fact that it's put her out of action. >> and hopefully it's only for a few days or a few weeks. but as you mentioned, she's one of the hardest working royals, and she enjoys what she does . enjoys what she does. >> so i think this will come as a bit of a setback for her, but it won't deter her by any means. and she also loves the horses. she loves the animals, i'm sure. i'm sure she's had a few confrontations with horses over the years. i doubt this has been the years. i doubt this has been the very first one, no. indeed i think she had, quite a few pratfalls in the years gone by. and she's an equestrian. she's performed at the olympics. she is quite the athlete . she's 73 is quite the athlete. she's 73 years old, grant harold. but notwithstanding sunday's

accident, she's not showing her years, is she? >> not at all. and in some ways, again, reminds me of her late mother, because i remember , when mother, because i remember, when i was within the household, when her mother was in her 80s or 80 onwards, and she never acted or behaved or seemed like her age, and, and i think it's safe to say the same with princess anne. they've got obviously, they've got a very young kind of, genes within them where they kind of keep going, which is amazing . keep going, which is amazing. >> most definitely. how important a figure is. princess anne in the court of king charles. >> she's quite important. i well, quite important, very important. i mean, obviously it's his his sister, she's the second born. the two of them have always been very close . and have always been very close. and i think that the, you know, she's she's very much a support for him. she always has been. and i see they get on very well. i think some people find that confusing because over the years i've been asked, are the family close, you know, as close to his siblings and he's very close to

them. and they also have always supported him and more so now than ever. and i'm sure you remember, even during the coronation, we saw some lovely scenes between the two of them, within the palace, before they went out in the balcony. and it was a bit of humorous interaction between the two of them, which is obviously lovely to see, most definitely. and we hope that princess anne will be back on her feet towards the end of the week, but probably not in the public spotlight for a while to come. grant i the thing is, i think i know that people have had similar things happen to them, and it of course it's a shock and a fright, and it does put them back. >> you know, obviously there's got to be time for recovery . and got to be time for recovery. and i think they're taking all the sensible precautions by bristol's not ferm . i'm sure bristol's not ferm. i'm sure you're aware it's not far from gatcombe at all. it's, you know it's relatively close. so i think it's a sensible precaution just to kind of keep an eye on her, obviously help with her recovery. i'm sure it won't be very long until she's back home, and i see that her husband visited today with some treats, apparently from home in a cooler

bag.so apparently from home in a cooler bag. so obviously they've taken a few supplies to her. but as i said, i'd like to think should be home soon, but i imagine with anybody that's had something like that happen, she will take a little bit of time off. but knowing what she's like and that determination, the same as her late mother and father, she'll be back to work in no time . be back to work in no time. >> well, let's hope there's a medicinal cocktail in that bag of treats. grant harrold, former royal butler. we'll catch up soon. thanks for giving us the latest on princess anne. who of course, we wish a speedy recovery. lots more to come. we've got the latest on the election betting scandal this time for labour, who have also suspended a candidate after he came under scrutiny from the gambling commission . well, this gambling commission. well, this drama rolls on. we'll get more reaction after the news headunes reaction after the news headlines and polly middlehurst. >> and the top stories this houn >> and the top stories this hour. labour has suspended the parliamentary candidate, kevin craig, after he became the latest subject of an

investigation by the gambling commission. it comes after former conservative candidates craig williams and laura saunders also faced investigations amid allegations of betting on the date of the general election, mr williams saying he committed an error of judgement but not an offence. well, both of those candidates have now lost the support of the conservative party, but they will still appear on election ballots because the deadlines for nominations has passed. in other news, today , a former other news, today, a former engineer claimed the post office tried to put words into his mouth when he attempted to disclose concerns he had about the horizon it system. gareth jenkins worked as an engineer for fujitsu for his entire career. he told today's inquiry that he never had oversight of all the systems bugs, and said he was truly sorry for the wrongful convictions that resulted . and as you've been resulted. and as you've been hearing, the king and queen hosted a ceremonial welcome for the emperor and empress of japan this afternoon, they began their three day state visit at an

eventin three day state visit at an event in horseguards parade, with the royal couple greeting a line of dignitaries including the prime minister, rishi sunak. princess anne isn't taking part in today's welcome. she's recovering in hospital after being injured by a horse . and being injured by a horse. and juuan being injured by a horse. and julian assange has touched down in thailand as his journey back to australia continues. the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk this morning and is due to appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands, a us territory in the western pacific . he's expected to be pacific. he's expected to be sentenced to five years, roughly the equivalent of the time he's already spent in britain, before returning to australia. and you may have noticed it's a bit hot today. well, a yellow health alert is now in force. temperatures soaring across the country. london currently the hottest part of the uk, temperatures reaching around 30 degrees. meanwhile, in manchester, it's 24 and in cardiff it's 26. forecasters though, are warning the heat won't last long. showers are on

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candidate. it comes as kevin craig came under scrutiny from the gambling commission. well joining me now from the labour battlebus is gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine does this change the dimension of this story, given that a labour candidate is now in the dock for a similar alleged crime ? alleged crime? >> i think it does a bit. yes. mark. good afternoon from the m1. we are on the labour press bus at a total and utter standstill . and the reaction standstill. and the reaction here when this broke is shock and sadness, frankly. they didn't see this coming, but, kevin craig, he was up until about half an hour ago running to be elected as labour mp in central suffolk. and north ipswich. his name will still be on the ballot paper because it's too late to take him off, but he

has been suspended because what's emerging is that , the what's emerging is that, the allegations are that he placed a bet that's being investigated by the gambling commission now, not that he had inside knowledge of, the general election date. of course he wouldn't, because he was running for labour, but in fact, he had placed a bet on the outcome of the result in his own constituency, a bet, it seems , constituency, a bet, it seems, against himself winning now this seat was held by conservative mp dan poulter until very recently. of course, he crossed the floor. he, defected to labour not too long ago but wasn't going to stand again. but sir keir starmer has acted very, very quickly indeed in contrast to the prime minister, who took some two weeks from craig

williams, who had been a candidate, and his, parliamentary private secretary, to suspending him. but sir keir starmer last week, when rishi sunak was getting a whole load of trouble about this, said and i quote, if it was one of my candidates , they would be gone candidates, they would be gone and their feet wouldn't have touched the floor. so clearly , touched the floor. so clearly, sir keir starmer, having said that last week, had no choice but to act. and, just trying to read you the i've lost the statement, but basically labour put out a statement saying that keir starmer, leader of the labour party, upholding the highest standards for our parliamentary candidates as as the public, rightly expect of us, and that has why they've taken this action so quickly. but quite a turn of events . but quite a turn of events. >> well, i think keir starmer will enjoy plaudits, for catherine, his swift action on

this, as you say, immediately suspending the alleged , suspending the alleged, perpetrator of this, this crime, this idea of voting on the date of a general election , whereas of a general election, whereas rishi sunak has, of course, allowed this one to drag on and on, enjoy the m1 . it's an on, enjoy the m1. it's an excellent motorway. catherine and we'll catch up soon. gb news political correspondent live from the labour battle bus. katherine forster. there you go. listen, folks, lots more to get through. but back on the campaign trail today, sir keir starmer was speaking alongside actor idris elba in relation to the families of knife crime victims . the labour leader victims. the labour leader pledged to ban the online sale of zombie knives straight away if he becomes prime minister he said cutting knife crime was his moral mission . well, to discuss moral mission. well, to discuss this issue, i'm delighted to welcome retired scotland yard detective hamish brown . mr detective hamish brown. mr brown, thank you so much for joining us. what's the problem , joining us. what's the problem, the knife or the criminal holding it ?

holding it? >> well, absolutely. >> well, absolutely. >> it's got to be the criminal in the first case, i suppose. which came first? the chicken or the egg? >> but you've got to look at the criminal. >> certainly. try and take these most dreadful knives off the market, off the street. >> but it doesn't have to be a zombie knife. it could be a kitchen knife for that matter. so it must be the perpetrator . so it must be the perpetrator. and i, i know sir keir has been speaking to victims of crime and sadly , the next of kin of those sadly, the next of kin of those victims were , let's say, victims were, let's say, tragically, someone has died and i would support any, any support can be given to victims and next of kin and in fact, under the victims code, they're entitled to that, to be told what's going on.andi to that, to be told what's going on. and i think that's excellent. but it's much, much more than that. there has to be an education across the board, out in schools, out in colleges , out in schools, out in colleges, out in schools, out in colleges, out to teachers, out to the

general public, and indeed young people themselves. it is not cool to carry a knife. and the difficulty is , and particularly difficulty is, and particularly those areas which are troubled with, gang crime, that sort of thing. they say, well , i've got thing. they say, well, i've got to carry a knife because everyone else is so that's a culture thing to be got over. of course they're practical steps, rather like target hardening, like at schools . and i'm not like at schools. and i'm not sure if i like this, but, airport type tunnels, which you go through just to see if you are carrying a knife or something illegal. i don't really welcome that. i don't know if teachers will like it, but if needs must, so be it. and the last, effort must be the police. sensible use of stop and search. the public can blow hot and cold on this. that's a shame, because it's a very effective way of taking knives off the streets and arresting the right perpetrators. the police know what they're doing.

they know where to go to look for these things. so get on with it. i'm not going to make a political statement. that's not for me. but what i will say is anyone who gets into power, what i want to see is more support for the police in combating this most dreadful crime and get behind them. the law enforcement has the scaling back of stop and search caused knife crime to increase. >> would you say? >> would you say? >> hamish, i have no doubt that's precisely what has happened. it was a regrettable move. i say the police do know what they're doing. they know where to look, and if nothing else, it's a deterrent . if you else, it's a deterrent. if you know in certain areas, you're likely to be stopped, then you're not going to carry a knife. now, i know from different work i've done, even since retirement in the criminal justice system, that people hide knives in a particular area, but if they're going into a club or going to a particular venue, then the if they know they're going to be stopped and

searched, they just might think again, it has to be a positive move by the police. coupled with the other measures i have made , the other measures i have made, it's a combination of sincere effort by everyone and that's the general public as well. so so certainly let's get behind the police, get behind the teachers . i know there's teachers. i know there's a strike at the moment in the south of england about worrying about, their safety in schools . about, their safety in schools. thatis about, their safety in schools. that is dreadful. teachers must be looked after and certainly that education put messages out. it is not cool to carry a knife. it is not cool to carry a knife. it could be used against you. you're committing a criminal offence and you could go to prison and most definitely would you like to see longer sentences? >> do you think that that could help to curtail this awful scourge ? scourge? >> well, that's really got to be up to the courts. and they they impose the right sentences. they're community sentences as well, which can be pretty effective. curfews those sorts of things where you can curtail

people's behaviour . of things where you can curtail people's behaviour. but certainly it is up to the courts to impose the right sentence, say that they feel is appropriate . of course, they're appropriate. of course, they're bedevilled at the moment by the prison , overcrowding. it's prison, overcrowding. it's a difficult situation , but i'm difficult situation, but i'm quite confident the courts are pretty much on top of this and, give the appropriate sentence . give the appropriate sentence. >> hamish, i've only got a couple of seconds. is britain a more dangerous place to live than when it was? perhaps, say, 10 or 20 years ago? >> well, 1824 they brought out the vagrancy act because everything was going wrong in britain. and, they tried to clean it up. i think gun crime in some areas has gone down. in some areas it is less violent , some areas it is less violent, certainly better buildings, better housing, better education. so there are a lot of combinations of things, but it's a great place to live and move on from there. >> most definitely. thank you so much , hamish, there you go. much, hamish, there you go. retired scotland yard detective

hamish brown. retired scotland yard detective hamish brown . just two hours hamish brown. just two hours until england's game in the euros . we've got to avoid euros. we've got to avoid germany. will we

next? welcome back. well, the weather is pretty good in large parts of the country. and apparently lots of england fans have already taken sickies to enjoy the sunshine before tonight's game with slovenia at euro 2024. it's not been a good few days for england, even though they've qualified for the last 16. gary lineker has been very critical of the side. it's a family show so i won't directly quote what he had to say, but manager gareth southgate says he's taking no notice. >> we fully understand everything we do is going to be scrutinised so i'm very comfortable living that life and, but i don't need to engage in external because i'm my own biggest critic and, and i think

our players are as well. so there's nothing to be gained from us that's going to help improve us. listening to external criticism . external criticism. >> well, here's a bit of good news for gareth southgate and england ahead of tonight's game . england ahead of tonight's game. fc cologne's psychic goat has predicted england will beat slovenia . yeah that's right. slovenia. yeah that's right. this goat is the greatest of all time. you heard it here first. hennis. the goat says it is coming home. i don't think she means the milk. okay, coming home. i don't think she means the milk . okay, folks, means the milk. okay, folks, look more on the election now. and here are the candidates for the constituency of central suffolk and north ipswich . we've suffolk and north ipswich. we've got charlie kager, independent, kevin craig, labour. although now labour have disassociate with him as a candidate. they've suspended him based upon allegations of betting on the date of the election . tony date of the election. tony gould, reform uk. mike hallett, independent brett alastair mickelberg, lib dems dan pratt

green and patrick spencer for the conservatives. well, lots of messages coming in, gbnews.com/yoursay labour now has a candidate suspended for gambling , says grumpy grandad. gambling, says grumpy grandad. i said starmer would regret saying people's feet wouldn't touch the floor if they were accused of this. mike says all polls are election interference. they say no safe serve, no practical purpose at all, and how about this, mel says mark banning zombie knives is just for show. a damascus steel japanese style kitchen knife can be purchased from procook shops on the high street for £100. they'll cut through your forearm with ease. i know i have a full set in my kitchen . like many other kitchen. like many other families with kids around the country. well, mel, enjoy using those japanese knives, but hopefully only on the steak and the roast chicken, thank you so much for your company today. really enjoyed it. all of your messages. congratulations to my colleagues for winning three

tric awards on behalf of gb news breakfast camilla tominey and nigel farage. thank you to stephen, tara, matt and the team for bearing with me. it's been very fun doing this three hour show. i'm delighted to say that martin daubney will be back tomorrow at 3:00. don't forget mark dolan tonight saturday and sunday 9 to 11 for your big opinion. the take at ten mark meats and much besides. opinion. the take at ten mark meats and much besides . and meats and much besides. and don't forget the message board is up and alert, so let us know what you think about those three wins at the tric awards. gbnews.com forward slash your say. don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast with eamonn and isabel, followed by britain's newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev, and then tom and emily with good afternoon britain from midday . like good afternoon britain from midday. like i say, martin daubney is back in his hot seat tomorrow. come on england, it's coming home. we can do this.

forget about lineker and shearer. what do they know about. they've won. precious little good luck. england. it's time now for the weather. and alex deakin. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. hot warning places today. quite humid as well, but it's not sunny everywhere. quite a bit more cloud across scotland and northern ireland from an old weather front that is breaking up. but high pressure is dominant and most places set fair. balmy summer's evening across most of england and wales. a bit more cloud over northern england. 1 or 2 heavy showers breaking out here as well, and there's a bit of rain across eastern scotland that should fizzle out for most it'll be a dry night. >> we'll keep lengthy, clear skies across england and wales, where it will be a warm and humid night. but clearer air

across western scotland and northern ireland. >> here , allowing things to turn >> here, allowing things to turn a little fresher. more comfortable night for sleeping onto wednesday and it's another hot and sunny day for many. it could be quite murky around the coast. in the southwest , could be quite murky around the coast. in the southwest, some mist and low cloud may plague the beaches here, but for most of england and wales, dry and sunny another place that's likely to be a bit grey. >> early on. >> early on. >> eastern england, especially close to the coast, and particularly parts of eastern scotland where we'll keep a lot of cloud through the night and even a little bit of rain, is possible here. but for western scotland generally, a fine and sunny start and probably a brighter day for northern ireland to come tomorrow as well, with more in the way of sunshine, many places seeing quite a bit of blue sky. then throughout wednesday and it will be another very warm day as well . still, the likelihood of thick cloud persisting over eastern scotland and at times there could be some rain here as well, and rain just threatening the far west of northern ireland by the end of the day. but a warmer day here with a bit more

sunshine. the heat though really across central and eastern england, 30 celsius, maybe 31. in the capital, a bit more cloud keeping temperatures down across eastern scotland and then in western scotland and northern ireland. we will start to see a change cloud and rain edging in here from this deep area of low pressure. that's going to bring a change as this weather front sweeps the warm air away and we all turn fresher by friday. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler as sponsors of weather on

ended after apparently being accused of betting against himself. what on earth is going on in this general election campaign? also rishi sunak he

suggested that migrants are queuing up in calais for labour government. is he right? and get this a new poll shows that most europeans are pessimistic about their country's future. is europe on the brink of a decline? what would that look like? also, what did you want to be when you grew up? get this now, children, they've been polled about what they want to be.the polled about what they want to be. the answers are pretty shocking. it won't surprise you to know that influencer is one of the top ones. what even is that? also, of course, england playing tonight. we'll be bringing you some of the build up to that. also, i want to ask why is the mayor of london stop taxi drivers from flying the england flag? all of that and more. but first, the 6:00 news headlines. >> michelle, thank you and good evening to you. the top story

from the gb newsroom. labour has suspended parliamentary