plucky prime minister who a plucky prime minister who sincerely believes that with your help, he can defy the polls . next up, angela rayner says every town must take its fair share of asylum seekers and that, and then a senior member of sir keir starmer's shadow cabinet admits net zero will cost hundreds of billions of pounds and then dawn butler wants kemi badenoch to disappear. next up, junior doctors are queuing up to strike. is this a glimpse of life under labour? next up, prince harry has opened up about the grief of losing his mother, diana, in a publicity video. is it right for the prince to encourage others to confront their emotions or is it just another cynical pr stunt to whitewash his tarnished royal reputation ? and all eyes will be reputation? and all eyes will be on america tonight as joe biden and donald trump go head to head in their first tv debate. the last time they met four years ago, they wouldn't even shake hands and biden told trump to

shut up. man. who will win? will joe biden stay awake? that's all coming up between now and 6:00. well, to the show. always a delight to have your company. so our political editor, chris hoy, was in nottingham last night. our political editor, chris hoy, was in nottingham last night . my was in nottingham last night. my home city this morning sat down in a pub with the prime minister, who opened his heart to chris and put it to you. the gb news viewers. he said this people watching can make the difference. rishi sunak is defiantly saying he can beat the polls. he can turn this around and he needs your help to do that. 7:00 tonight is where that exclusive goes up . we've got a exclusive goes up. we've got a sneak preview of that coming up on the show shortly. get in touch. what do you think ? can touch. what do you think? can rishi turn this around? is it possible or is it simply too late? get in touch , late? get in touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. before we kick into the show, it's time for your latest news headlines.

>> martin, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories this houn afternoon. the top stories this hour. the number of metropolitan police officers under investigation over bets on the timing of the general election has risen to at least seven. the force says one, a protection officer assigned to the prime minister, was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in pubuc on suspicion of misconduct in public office. he's been bailed and is subject to restricted duties. a further six officers have been identified as having placed bets on the timing of the election. the met says the gambling commission continues to investigate those cases, but the met's directorate of professional standards is being kept informed at least five conservatives are being investigated by the gambling commission as part of its inquiry into bets. labour has also been dragged into the row, suspending one candidate after he was investigated by the regulator for betting on himself to lose his seat. sir keir starmer says a labour government

would work with whoever's in power in france on tackling migrant channel crossings. sir keir starmer and rishi sunak have returned to the campaign trail today after they clashed over illegal immigration and the betting row in a tv debate last night. the prime minister says the country is in danger under a potential labour government, with a leader who he says has no plan to stop the boats . plan to stop the boats. >> if starmer changes his mind on almost every major position that he has taken and times that we're living in, you need leadership which has the courage of its convictions. that's what ihave. of its convictions. that's what i have. you have to ask yourself why is he not telling you his plan for the country , what he plan for the country, what he wants to do? because he probably doesn't think they're going to like it when you hear it, right? we know, as you saw last night, those of you that were watching the debate, absolutely no answers about how to tackle immigration right? i've got a plan. we're bringing immigration down. we've got a plan to stop the boats. he would make us the soft touch of europe when it comes to that issue. >> sir keir starmer has told gb news today that the issue of

illegal migration is much more than just a border issue . than just a border issue. >> record numbers of people are coming here in small boats. he's lost control of our borders, literally lost control not only of the numbers that are coming, but also who's coming. and so this is not just a border issue, it's a national security issue. the deterrent is smashing. the gangs that are running this vile trade so that nobody, but nobody gets into a boat to cross the channel. the prime minister is simply interested in a gimmick. the rwanda scheme for people who've already arrived here a few hundred people. >> liberal democrat leader sir ed davey says the winner of the general election should pass an emergency budget to fix the healthcare system. the party says its manifesto pledges a £91; says its manifesto pledges a £9.4 billion spending package for the nhs, healthcare and social care. sir ed davey says he wants to see a budget, which would be much more targeted in scope than a normal one. >> everyone knows that having problems getting a gp, the care

system is in a mess. social care is not there for so many people. we have to start straight away. it's why the liberal democrats put it right at the centre of our manifesto, and why we're calling today for an emergency health and care budget . health and care budget. >> former newcastle united owner sir john hall has switched his sirjohn hall has switched his support to reform uk after previously donating tens of thousands of pounds to the conservative party. he was cheered on her to reform speech near sunderland, where party leader nigel farage was speaking. today farage said it was a privilege to welcome sir john into the family and said he'd made a substantial donation to the party's campaign. he said he feels the tories have let him down. >> the conservative party has let me down. there have been a failure for the last many years for the last 14 years, and they don't speak now, for my english is my way of life, which i feel is my way of life, which i feel is under threat. and i looked around basically who i could

find to support, to speak for me and the reform party. i feel and i feel it's the only ones who are going to speak and about saving my english culture. >> junior doctors in england are striking. for an 11th time in almost a year. the five day strike continues in their long running pay dispute with the government. they're asking for a 35% pay rise and say more industrial action can take place over the summer. if negotiations do not move forward in a timely manner. the bma said it's already held talks with the labour party. in other news, the mother of missing british teenager jay slater says some of the money raised by a crowdfunding appeal will be withdrawn to help with the search for her son. the appeal has so far raised more than £36,000. the for search 19 year old jay has entered its 11th day after he went missing in tenerife. it was his first houday tenerife. it was his first holiday without his parents. yesterday, spanish police deployed helicopters and sniffer dogsin deployed helicopters and sniffer dogs in mountainous areas of the

island and england's football squad has been training for their first knockout game against slovakia at the euros. the three lions topped their group before getting into the knockout stages of the competition. they will be without their midfielder phil foden, who had to leave training camp, to and return to the uk for the birth of his third child. it is still hoped foden will be back with the team by sunday, the day of england's last 16 match. those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you very much, tatiana. now we start today's show with our big exclusive interview with rishi sunak. and after his. this show ran a major opinion poll yesterday that predicted the tories could win just 60 seats

at the general election. the prime minister has told gb news that he's just 150,000 votes away from victory. >> but i'd say to everyone watching that those polls aren't destiny, but people watching can make the difference. >> and you can turn around a 20 poll point lead for the labour. >> there's other research shows it's something like 150,000 voters in key places will make the difference. those are the people that will be watching, right? if you're watching this show right now, you can make the difference . i get people's difference. i get people's frustrations with me, with the party. we haven't got everything right. i know that we haven't made as much progress as we would have liked, but this is an important election about your future. do you do not want labourin future. do you do not want labour in charge with that blank check to do what they want for your family finances ? go out your family finances? go out there, vote conservatives . there, vote conservatives. >> well, that was the prime minister sat down with chris hopein minister sat down with chris hope in a pub in nottingham. my home city, this morning. a prime minister at a pub table. we've all been there now. i'm joined by kevin schofield, who's the

policies editor at huffpost uk . policies editor at huffpost uk. kevin, welcome to the show. this interview goes at 7:00 tonight on gb news. that sneak preview there seems to indicate rishi sunak having a slight pivot of strategy in the face of such overwhelming odds. every single opinion poll kevin has the conservatives languishing way , conservatives languishing way, way behind. this seems to be a shift appealing to those wavering voters, those marginal voters, those, perhaps, who might be opting to go for reform, rishi sunak putting a plea out to them. the big question is, kevin, will it be enough to make a difference? >> i fear it will too be little, too late for the prime minister, and i think it would take an almighty collapse by labour, a huge, u—turn in public opinion. >> or maybe the polling industry has just called it massively wrong. for the conservatives to win the election from here, i can understand why the prime minister is maybe pinning his

hopes on undecided voters. and there obviously are a lot of undecided voters out there, but i think there may be more likely just to stay at home in the final analysis rather than, opt to, support rishi sunak. i was actually out on the doorsteps yesterday with a conservative candidate, and i was speaking to one who i would describe as a traditional conservative voter who basically said, i just don't like rishi sunak, but his concerns were about tax. they were about defence, you know, the things that traditionally should be strong ground for the conservatives. and yet he didn't want to vote for the tory party. and i think that is an example of the challenge that, mr sunak faces . faces. >> and, kevin, what we saw in this interview here as well was an admission that we haven't got things right at the conservative party, he said. i get people's frustrations with me, with the party. we haven't got everything right. i know that we haven't made as much progress as we would have liked, but. and the big bird seems to be echoes almost. kevin of 2019, things

will be far worse under labour. we've heard that card trick before, haven't we, abc? anybody but corbyn. will it work this time? they're betting everything on a similar strategy. it feels like to me . like to me. >> yeah they are. they've gone very negative in the last 2 or 3 weeks really. >> it's just been a purely negative campaign, basically trying to scare voters into not voting for labour. i think it's a much more difficult challenge for them than it was five years ago. keir starmer is clearly a very different labour leader than jeremy corbyn, who isn't even standing for the labour party anymore. in fact, he's standing against the labour party in his in his constituency in north london. so i think that's a difficult , attack that's a difficult, attack strategy for rishi sunak to pull off. and of course, we have the reform uk factor as well, which we didn't have at the last election when nigel farage, agreed a deal effectively with bofis agreed a deal effectively with boris johnson to stand down. a lot of candidates , brexit party lot of candidates, brexit party candidates as they were then,

and to give the tories a free run in lots of seats. they're not doing that. this time. so that's another barrier for rishi sunak to clear. and the longer it goes in the opinion polls don't shift, then i fear he's facing a real uphill struggle. >> and it feels, kevin, this 150,000 voters, that will be a bunch of tory strategists working out those marginal seats where there's just a swing of a few thousand could make that seat go. and of course, reform uk, as you mentioned, will be that deciding factor , perhaps in that deciding factor, perhaps in letting the labour party in. in fact, that's been a key strategy until now. vote reform get sir keir starmer. this is more of a direct plea vote tory keep sir keir starmer out. >> yeah exactly. and it's interesting isn't it. i think labour haven't denied that. they've effectively stopped campaigning in clacton, where nigel farage is standing, because obviously they would rather, a reform, candidate when, rather than a conservative candidate. so, so yeah , again,

candidate. so, so yeah, again, this is another challenge for , this is another challenge for, rishi sunak. i mean, he's pulling out all the stops . he's pulling out all the stops. he's tried every trick in the book since the campaign started . we since the campaign started. we had big policy announcements at the start that didn't, change the start that didn't, change the weather. as i say, in recent weeks, they've gone negative and another negative, poster out today. about don't surrender your family to keir starmer, they're just trying to scare voters. i think , into either, voters. i think, into either, voting conservative or just basically don't vote labour, but all the opinion polls suggest that it's not going to work. clearly. you know, we've still got a week to go. nothing. no vote has been cast , certainly got a week to go. nothing. no vote has been cast, certainly in the ballot box. as the cliche goes. but it would take an enormous upset from here. i think for rishi sunak to still be in number 10 come the 5th of july. >> and, we've just been joined by chris hope, our political edhon by chris hope, our political editor, who's just literally hotfooted it all the way from nottingham before we get him plugged in. kevin, you have to admit though, last night rishi sunak put in a great performance by every metric out there,

almost every commentator, everybody watching felt he had the upper hand in last night's debate. >> yeah, i think he did. well, i think that format suits him better than keir starmer, for sure. i don't think keir starmer is terribly comfortable. he looks uncomfortable in those tv debates. i thought the topics that were, discussed helped rishi sunak as well. immigration benefits, taxes, you know, they were all quite strong ground for him. and he hit his, his lines very well indeed. i thought keir starmer struggled on occasion, but you just wonder, one, how many people were actually watching and two, how many people were actually undecided going into that debate. and it will have changed their minds. i think most people by now are probably certainly most people tuning in already had decided which way they were going to vote, but certainly, yeah, he can take a bit of a morale boost, certainly from that performance last night, although weirdly, the opinion poll, the snap poll from yougov that came out right after it showed that voters thought it was a 5050 split. so, so it just shows you

a lot of it is in the eye of the political beholder. if i can get it out . it out. >> post uk and as you just said, i'm now joined in the studio by gb news political editor chris hope, who's literally hotfooted it straight from nottingham. so you're with the prime minister. you are sat in a pub with him, a very intimate setting. how did he. i always ask you? yeah up close and personal. how does he see him? the opinion polls are disastrous. he had a good night last night. how was it feeling? >> well, yeah, i think he had a good night last night. >> and picking up on kevin's point there, the yougov polling of 1700 people who watched , the of 1700 people who watched, the debate last night, they started off two thirds, one third against sunak, and by the end of the evening, they were 50 over 50. >> so he pulled back. >> so he pulled back. >> he basically put the two leaders on parity after that. >> that , event last leaders on parity after that. >> that, event last night and how many were watching? >> well, we don't know. >> well, we don't know. >> we'll look at the numbers today and how many were paying

attention. >> lots of shouting. but i agree with kevin. kevin, there he definitely landed some blows, rishi sunak to me, he's a kind of pm transformed from the rather broken man i thought i met in scotland. >> scotland , forgive me in >> scotland, forgive me in scotland. on on on. on, monday at the tory party manifesto up there when he was asked five out of six questions all, all about the, the rishi sunak. you mean that i've touched you on the trains? my phone? no, but the point is, i think he's definitely somebody who's got his his mojo back. but whether it's his his mojo back. but whether wsfime his his mojo back. but whether it's time we're week six of this campaign, he's somebody who clearly, is now on top of his game. i think. but whether that will be enough to turn the polls around the strategy is interesting. >> just 150,000 voters can change their minds and let me beat labour. they're obviously looking at the marginals and they're trying to get those people who perhaps are thinking about staying at home, or perhaps wavering and going to reform uk to do as they did in 2019. anyone but corbyn was the

message there. now it seems to be anyone but starmer . the be anyone but starmer. the dystopian future of what might become if you don't vote for me, if you stay home, if you get tempted to play away, it's a it's a pivot of strategy. do you think it will work? >> it might work, he told us in this interview. >> it might work, he told us in this interview . and we've got this interview. and we've got the clip. if you haven't seen it yet, have you seen a clip? we have seen it. yeah, 150,000 votes in key places, he was saying that if he can just turn those around. and that's why he was talking so energetically, i think to gb news viewers, he told me in terms that he thinks that our viewers are watching. they can they can change this round for the tory party and it whether anyone is listening, i don't know. but i think he certainly felt that he has got the arguments to take on labour in a way which, which which the labour party is hiding away on what it plans to do about tax, according to mr sunak. >> and that i think, is an amazing plea. he says here people watching this is 7:00 tonight, your exclusive with the prime minister, people watching can make the difference. this is a direct plea to gb news viewers who the prime minister believes can swing this. >> it seems that way. i mean

elsewhere, and you'll see it all tonight. he talked about respecting gb news viewers. he pointed to in parts of the country. the channel's banned in one of the local parliaments. he thinks that's pretty dreadful. he respects the viewers and he thinks he's got a chance here to appeal. i wonder who else will be speaking to over the next few weeks? few, few . sorry. few weeks? few, few. sorry. few days. forgive me. seven day week. today's voting. it's all a bit late. maybe i'd thought last night he absolutely hit through, hit quite hard . night he absolutely hit through, hit quite hard. his night he absolutely hit through, hit quite hard . his question was hit quite hard. his question was so interesting because he was saying what would you do repeatedly to sir keir starmer? nine times he said on small boats, well, what would you do? how would you stop them coming over? where will you put all these new arrivals? and there wasn't really an answer from sir keir starmer, who kind of stepped back and twice appealed for some a chance to speak. and i think that kind of it did work in the room, but with lots of shouting, whether lots of voters have turned off, 1 in 5 of us, of course, have voted by postal vote already. so really it's only 80% of votes cast next thursday. >> well, chris, thank you for hotfooting it straight back from nottingham with the prime

minister to be with us and give us that wicked update. so over to you viewers out there. the prime minister is directly pleading almost with you. you can make a difference. he says. 7:00 tonight. you can watch the full exclusive, but in the meantime, let me know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay you can hear lots more from rishi sunaks interview with our man chris hope , and our votes 2024 chris hope, and our votes 2024 the leader's special 7 pm. tonight exclusively right here on gb news. great work, chris hope. now there's lots of raw news around today, including a touching conversation between prince harry and the founder of a charity that supports bereaved military children. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

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in our studio in westminster by gb news royal correspondent cameron walker. cameron so he gets an award. does he deserve it ? it? >> well, yes, another award. martin. this was dropped in the last hour . the person who's last hour. the person who's going to be presenting the awards to him is none other than tennis star serena williams, who is a friend of meghan markle, prince harry obviously set up the invictus games in collaboration with prince william and catherine, the princess of wales, as part of their royal foundation. but prince harry took it under his wing wing separately, and last month he celebrated the 10th anniversary back in london. it's anniversary back in london. it's an invictus games, an olympic style competition to help wounded veterans from various different countries with their rehabilitation through the power of sport and that's what he's being honoured for. obviously marcus rashford, for example, the english footballer for his campaign on free school meals dunng campaign on free school meals during the covid pandemic. he won the award during that year. so the reason he's got it is

because of the positive impacts on a quote on veteran communities through the power of sports. pat tillman, what the award is named after. he was a us war veteran. he was killed in afghanistan in 2004. prince harry, of course, served two tours himself. whether he deserves it , tours himself. whether he deserves it, martin, to answer your question clearly, the judges think that that is the case. of course, i think what we're seeing from prince harry over the last couple of months is him really focusing and his on his passion, which is helping veterans and helping families of veterans and helping families of veterans rather what we've seen over the last few years, which is him talking about himself and complaining about his life as a working member of the royal family. now cameron, nobody can deny the importance of the invictus games. >> what a what an amazing achievement. perhaps prince harry's finest achievement in terms of public relations. but the timing is what i'm going to query here, because back in britain, there's a feeling that harry's involvement with the games is becoming a distraction. now, a bit of a sideshow is he the positive attribute to the games that he once was? and that's a bit of a media circus.

does this feel like harry once again turning up to the opening of an envelope? >> yeah, there has been some rumours that there's been some, perhaps people in the veterans community who are a bit upset with the way that prince harry's kind of conducted himself over the last few years, of course, that's not been confirmed. but on the other hand, having someone like prince harry or another working member of the royal family with their fame can spotlight very worthy causes such as the plight of veterans and those who feel like they've been left behind and do not have enough support when they come out of the british armed forces. and that's something, as you alluded to, martin, that prince harry perhaps is arguably has done very successfully over the last decade. and if prince harry's name wasn't on the invictus games , would it have invictus games, would it have done so? well, that's probably the argument they'd make. but as you say, not everyone is happy about the fact that prince harry is involved, but he is clearly , is involved, but he is clearly, many people think he deserves it because he's getting this award in los angeles. >> cameron, tell us about another initiative out earlier

today. and that is prince harry opening up about his own personal grief. and that's with scotty's little soldiers and initiative, a charity to help. tell us more. >> yes. so this is a charity set up to help children who've lost a parent who served in the armed forces. so he had this very open discussion with nikki scott, the founder of scotty's little soldiers. she lost her husband in 2009. again, he was serving in 2009. again, he was serving in afghanistan, and it was about her having to break the to news her having to break the to news her two very young children that their daddy was no longer with them. and it was kind of like having the old prince harry back, because it was him shining the spotlight on, again the charity rather than himself and his his complaints. do we have a video? i think we do. let's listen. >> you've done is incredible . >> you've done is incredible. >> you've done is incredible. >> it is. >> it is. >> it is. >> i mean, truly inspirational. >> i mean, truly inspirational. >> and i know that word gets thrown around a lot, but it is. >> and to see the difference in the kids, there , especially some the kids, there, especially some of the ones that i've met before, previously in 2017. yeah, they're like they're like they're different people. you can see that they are still

processing their grief, but this community of support for them is everything. yeah. and that's that's amazing. yeah. >> and he would have wanted i know for a fact of course he would have 100. >> that's what i said in front of those kids. >> it's like it's so easy as a kid to think or convince yourself. reason is i wouldn't know. like i was 12. yeah. >> for you for an adult. but it seems to be the same, which is you convince yourself that the person that you've lost wants you or you need to be sad for as long as possible to prove to them that they're missed. >> yeah, but then the moment, then you, then there's this realisation of no, they really want they, they must want me to be happy. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and that was prince harry opening up cien. and also prince william has been talking about the earthshot prize. got a clip of that too. >> i felt for a long time that the climate debate and the environmental debate was getting very negative, very doom, and gloom, and i wanted to inspire that, that hope and optimism that, that hope and optimism that we could do stuff. >> and i knew all these people

existed. i'd met them through the work i do, and i thought, what could i do to give them a better platform, a spotlight, and also make them household names? >> i mean, charlotte , for instance. >> i mean, she's like queen of africa. >> i mean, she's amazing. >> i mean, she's amazing. >> i mean, i love her, she's incredible, and i love that you're filming that. >> we'll give you a round of applause and then you'll have it on the on the video. >> another viral moment, another rob burrow, and like, i said, you know, they they're out there and we just need to support them, back them, collaborate with them and give them the resources, and they'll do incredible things that will help all of us and future generations

>> ongoing e coli outbreak. according to the uk health security agency, it comes after a recent outbreak which saw 86 people hospitalised. according to figures released last week, a number of food manufacturers have recalled sandwiches , wraps have recalled sandwiches, wraps and salads sold in major supermarkets and retail chains over fears they are possibly unked over fears they are possibly linked to contamination. the

food standards agency says lettuce used in those products are thought to be the likely source of the outbreak . the source of the outbreak. the number of metropolitan police officers under investigation over bets on the timing of the general election has risen to at least seven, the force says. one, a protection officer assigned to the prime minister was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in pubuc suspicion of misconduct in public office. he's been bailed and is subject to restricted duties. a further six officers have been identified as having placed bets on the timing of the election. the met says the gambling commission continues to investigate those cases, but the met's directorate of professional standards is being kept informed. at least five conservatives are being investigated by the gambling commission as part of its inquiry into bets. labour has also been dragged into the row, suspending one candidate after he was investigated by the regulator for betting on himself to lose his seat . a metropolitan to lose his seat. a metropolitan

police officer has been charged over the alleged theft of money from a man who died after collapsing the force, says pc craig carter will appear in court tomorrow to face an allegation of misconduct in pubuc allegation of misconduct in public office. the charge relates to the theft of an unspecified amount from a man who collapsed in 2022. carter, who collapsed in 2022. carter, who works for the met's north area command unit, which covers enfield and haringey, has been suspended from duty. sir keir starmer says the labour government would work with whoever's in power in france on tackling migrant channel crossings. sir keir starmer and rishi sunak have returned to the campaign trail today after they clashed over illegal immigration and the betting row. in a tv debate last night, the prime minister says the country is in danger under a potential labour government, with a leader who he says has no plan to stop the boats . boats. >> starmer changes his mind on almost every major position that

he has taken and times that we're living in, you need leadership which has the courage of its convictions. that's what ihave. of its convictions. that's what i have. you have to ask yourself why is he not telling you his plan for the country , what he plan for the country, what he wants to do? because he probably doesn't think they're going to like it when you hear it. right? we know, as you saw last night, those of you that were watching the debate, absolutely no answers about how to tackle immigration right? i've got a plan. we're bringing immigration down. we've got a plan to stop the boats. he would make us the soft touch of europe when it comes to that issue. >> sir keir starmer has told gb news today that the issue of illegal migration is much more than just a border issue . than just a border issue. >> record numbers of people are coming here in small boats . he's coming here in small boats. he's lost control of our borders, literally lost control not only of the numbers that are coming, but also who's coming. and so this is not just a border issue, it's a national security issue. the deterrent is smashing the gangs that are running this vile trade so that nobody, but nobody

gets into a boat to cross the channel. the prime minister is simply interested in a gimmick. the rwanda scheme for people who've already arrived here a few hundred people. >> liberal democrat leader sir ed davey says the winner of the general election should pass an emergency budget to fix the healthcare system . the party healthcare system. the party says its manifesto pledges a £94 billion spending package £9.4 billion spending package for the nhs, healthcare and social care. sir ed davey says he wants to see a budget which would be much more targeted in scope than a normal one. >> everyone knows that they're having problems getting a gp. >> the care system is in a mess, social care is not there for so many people. >> we have to start straight away. it's why the liberal democrats put it right at the centre of our manifesto, and why we're calling today for an emergency health and care budget i >> -- >> former newcastle united owner sir john hall has switched his sirjohn hall has switched his support to reform uk after previously donating tens of thousands of pounds to the

conservatives. he was cheered honour to reform speech near sunderland today, where party leader nigel farage was speaking . mr farage said it was a privilege to welcome sir john into the family, and said he'd made a substantial donation to the party's campaign. sirjohn said he feels the tories have let him down. >> the conservative party has let me down. there have been a failure for the last many ways over the last 14 years, and they don't speak now, for my english is my way of life, which i feel is my way of life, which i feel is under threat. and i looked around basically who i could find to support, to speak for me and the reform party. i feel tonight is the only ones who are going to speak and about saving my english culture. >> a man understood to be a member of the labour party, who was arrested in connection with the so—called westminster honeytrap scandal, has been released on bail. the met police says the arrest relates to an investigation being carried out by its parliamentary liaison and

investigation team, following reports of unsolicited messages sent to mps and others . junior sent to mps and others. junior doctors in england are striking for an 11th time in almost a yeah for an 11th time in almost a year. the five day strike continues in their long running pay continues in their long running pay dispute with the government. they're asking for a 35% pay increase and say more industrial action can take place over the summer. if negotiations don't move forward in a timely manner. the bma said it's already held talks with the labour party , the talks with the labour party, the mother of missing british teenager jay slater says some of the money raised by a crowdfunding appeal will be withdrawn to help with the search for her son. the appeal has so far raised more than £36,000. the for search 19 year old jay has entered its 11th day after he went missing in tenerife. it was his first houday tenerife. it was his first holiday without his parents. yesterday spanish police deployed helicopters and sniffer dogsin deployed helicopters and sniffer dogs in mountainous areas of the

island . in other news, kenyan island. in other news, kenyan police have fired tear gas at protesters and put up roadblocks on streets leading to the presidential palace as people continue to protest against the country's government, they have vowed to occupy state house despite president ruto's climbdown on proposed tax hikes that sparked a week of demonstrations, ruto is grappling with the most serious crisis of his two year old presidency, as the youth led protest movement has grown rapidly, demanding a political overhaul . and finally, england's overhaul. and finally, england's football squad has been training for their first knockout game against slovakia at the euros. the three lions topped their group before getting into the knockout stages of the competition. they'll be without their midfielder phil foden, though, who had to leave training camp and return to the uk for the birth of his third child. it is actually still hoped that foden will be back with the squad by sunday, and thatis with the squad by sunday, and that is when england face slovakia in the last 16 match.

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>> yay! welcome back. it's 350 now. last night's tv debates. keir starmer repeatedly refused to say what a labour government would do with the tens of thousands of migrants who are in the uk after crossing the channel. but today he's criticised the tories for failing to stop the boats and backed labour's plan to tackle the crisis. well, i'm joined now by gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine welcome to the show. we have you. so a feisty debate. last night, once again it turned to the topic of illegal immigration. once again, sir keir starmer sticking by his plans. it's about tackling this downstream rishi sunak wasn't convinced. tell us more . convinced. tell us more. >> no. good afternoon martin. i'm on the labour bus somewhere in cheshire. i think i've been on visits with sir keir starmer all day. but yes, last night was tncky all day. but yes, last night was tricky for him, wasn't it? on women's rightsj k rowling is

unconvinced. it looks like she's not going to vote labour for the first time in her life, but also on the small boats crossings, the prime minister saying again and again, you know, you've got no deterrence. how's it going to work with no deterrence ? work with no deterrence? actually having a laugh at sir keir starmer's expense when sir keir starmer's expense when sir keir starmer's expense when sir keir starmer talked about returns agreements, rishi sunak said what are you going to do? how are you going to return people to afghanistan? are you going to do a deal with the taliban? and people laughed. so today i got to speak to sir keir starmer and i asked him how they expect to stop these crossings without a deterrent, let's see what he had to say when i suggested to him that the prime minister says labour will surrender our borders. >> i'm not going to take lectures from rishi sunak about our borders. record numbers of people are coming here in small boats. he's lost control of our

borders , literally lost control. borders, literally lost control. not only of the numbers that are coming, but also who's coming. and so this is not just a border issue, it's a national security issue, it's a national security issue . the deterrent is smashing issue. the deterrent is smashing the gangs that are running this vile trade so that nobody, but nobody gets into a boat to cross the channel >> so he's saying that the deterrent is cracking down on the gangs to stop people coming in the first place. that really is easier said than done. i also asked him about possible processing in third countries. he did say that he was open to that, but i think this is a clearly a weak spot for the labour party. but today i have to say he's talking about education. we've been in a burton that's a seat currently with a 15,000 conservative majority, then went to pottery in stoke on trent south. now that's got a 12,000 conservative majority that went to the

conservatives back under theresa may in 2017, but has been a solidly labour seat since its creation. before that, and talking to starmer on the bus and seeing him at the pottery, he is really in a very, very good place because, you know, it is seven days till we go out to vote in the general election. okay. not a vote has been cast yet, but at the moment it looks like he is going to be prime minister in eight days time. and for all that, he tends to be very stiff and can be a bit robotic. you know, when you actually talk to him 1 to 1 and he's quite different. and i have never seen him, so relaxed and in such good form as he is this afternoon . afternoon. >> katherine forster, thank you for joining us there . from the forjoining us there. from the battlebus, the labour battlebus seems like a very, very positive place. thanks for joining seems like a very, very positive place. thanks forjoining us on place. thanks for joining us on the show , kathryn. now, a few of the show, kathryn. now, a few of the show, kathryn. now, a few of the stories i want to talk about

in the next hour about the labour party. are we seeing a sneak peek into what we might get? angela rayner today saying every part of britain must take its fair share of asylum seekers, next. dawn butler i agree with david tennant. she wants kemi badenoch to disappear. the true cost of labour's net zero targets could be over the hundreds of billions mark. lots and lots of question marks to be asked . now £15,000 marks to be asked. now £15,000 cash and a whole host of treats must be worn. and our summer giveaway and you need to be quick as lie—ins are going to close at 5:00 pm tomorrow. here's the details that you need to enter. >> it's the final week to see how you could win big this summer . £15,000 in tax free cash summer. £15,000 in tax free cash to spend on anything you like this summer. plus a brand new iphone 15 with a set of apple airpods. >> hi, my name is victoria. won i the spring great british giveaway. if you're thinking about entering, just enter and you never expect to win , but i did. >> you have to hurry as lines

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by now for our big interview with the prime minister, rishi sunak. and even though opinion polls are predicting that the tories will be thrashed in next thursday's general election a week today, the prime minister thinks he's just 150,000 votes from victory and is directly appealing to you for those votes. i'm martin daubney on gb news,

a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, rishi sunak has delivered a heartfelt plea to gb news viewers, saying just 150,000 voters can change their mind and let me beat laboun their mind and let me beat labour. one week from general election day , our man chris hope election day, our man chris hope sat down with the plucky prime

minister, who really does believe he can defy the polls. now. angela rayner says every time will take its fair share of asylum seekers. a senior member of keir starmer's shadow cabinet admits net zero will cost hundreds of billions of pounds. dawn butler wants kemi badenoch to disappear and junior doctors are queuing up to go on strike. is this a glimpse of life under labour? and all eyes will be on america tonight as joe biden and donald trump go head to head in their first televised tv debate. the last time they met four years ago, they wouldn't even shake hands. and biden told trump to shut up. man. who will win? will joe biden stay awake? that's all coming up between now and 6:00. once the show, it's an absolute delight to have your company. so our political editor sat down in a pub in nottingham,

my home city, this morning, sat down in a pub in nottingham, my home city, this morning , with my home city, this morning, with a defiant prime minister, rishi sunak , who said in a heartfelt sunak, who said in a heartfelt plea to gb news viewers, just 150,000 voters can change their minds and let me beat labour. he says the people watching gb news can make the difference, despite the fact that the conservative party are consistently 20 points behind in the polls, with no signs of that changing fortunes, the prime minister believes that there are enough people out there are enough people out there who haven't made their minds up yet, or more to the point, just as we saw in 2019 and that election . abc anyone and that election. abc anyone but corbyn, he believes if enough of those voters go back to the conservative party, they can keep sir keir starmer out of power. an exclusive interview goes out tonight at 7 pm. we've got a quick sneak preview of that. get in touch. do you think he can turn this around, or is that simply for the brs ?

that simply for the brs? gbnews.com/yoursay. but before all of that, it's time for your latest news headlines. and it's polly middlehurst. >> welcome along to the gb newsroom. and the top story this houn >> one person in england we understand has died linked to the ongoing e coli outbreak. >> that's according to the uk health security agency. >> and it comes after a recent outbreak, which saw 86 people admitted to hospital, to according figures released last week. >> a number of food manufacturers have had to recall sandwiches, wraps and salads sold in major supermarkets and retail chains over fears they could be linked to possible contamination, and the food standards agency is now saying lettuce used in products are thought to be the likely source of the outbreak. >> now the number of metropolitan police officers

under investigation over bets on the timing of the uk's general election has risen now to at least seven, the force says . least seven, the force says. one, a protection officer assigned to the prime minister, was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in pubuc suspicion of misconduct in public office. he's been bailed and is subject to restricted dufies and is subject to restricted duties now, but a further six officers have also been identified as having placed bets on the timing of the election. the met is saying the gambling commission continues to investigate those cases, but their directorate of professional standards is being kept informed and at least five conservatives are being investigated by the gambling commission as part of its inquiry into that betting pattern. labour has also been dragged into the row. it's had to suspend one of its candidates after he was investigated by the regulator for betting on himself to lose his own seat . sir keir to lose his own seat. sir keir starmer has said a labour

government would work with whoever's in power in france to tackle illegal migrant channel crossings. sir keir starmer and rishi sunak have returned to their campaign trail today after they clashed last night on illegal immigration and the betting row. in a debate last night, the prime minister says the country is in danger under a potential labour government with a leader who he says has no plan to stop the boats . to stop the boats. >> if starmer changes his mind on almost every major position that he has taken and times that we're living in, you need leadership which has the courage of its convictions. that's what ihave. of its convictions. that's what i have. you have to ask yourself why is he not telling you his plan for the country, what he wants to do? because he probably doesn't think they're going to like it. when you hear it. right? we know, as you saw last night, those of you that were watching the debate, absolutely no answers about to how tackle immigration, right. i've got a plan. we're bringing immigration down. we've got a plan to stop the boats. he would make us the

soft touch of europe when it comes to that issue. >> rishi sunak now, sir keir starmer has told gb news the issue of illegal migration is much more, he says, than a border issue. >> record numbers of people are coming here in small boats. he's lost control of our borders, literally lost control. not only of the numbers that are coming , of the numbers that are coming, but also who's coming. and so this is not just a border issue, it's a national security issue. the deterrent is smashing the gangs that are running this vile trade so that nobody, but nobody gets into a boat to cross the channel. the prime minister is simply interested in a gimmick. the rwanda scheme for people who've already arrived here a few hundred people. >> sir keir starmer , those are >> sir keir starmer, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm polly middlehurst back in half an hour with more for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts .

>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, polly. now we start with our big exclusive interview with the prime minister rishi sunak. and after this show ran a major opinion poll yesterday that predicted the tories could win just 60 seats at the general election, the prime minister has told gb news he's just 150,000 votes away from an unlikely, perhaps victory. now i'm joined in the gb news studio by our political editor, chris hope. chris, who's hotfooted it back from my home city of nottingham. he sat down with a defiant prime minister or the opinion polls seem to be harbingers of doom. however he thinks there's not a lot in it and specifically chris, he's he's got the rose between his teeth. he wants to get gb news viewers on team rishi. tell us more. >> he's wooing, isn't he ? >> he's wooing, isn't he? because i he's a different prime minister. minister to the one i met in scotland on monday, when

i felt he looked a bit broken, he gave a speech about the scottish tory manifesto, launched it , took questions, launched it, took questions, questions in a side room .just questions in a side room. just six questions. all five of the six questions. all five of the six were about betting and i asked one about betting and i just felt he felt like like, oh really? i'm nearly there. and just give me a break. and then suddenly he came out fighting last night in that tv debate on bbc one, battling now with sir keir starmer. and he carried that over in this pub where we have this, this interview today with gb news and it's on, on air tonight from 7 pm, and in that he's definitely got, he's got the bit between his teeth in a way which i haven't seen really this passion from him. i mean where that rishi sunak is been for the past five weeks, i don't really know . we're now the sixth really know. we're now the sixth week of the campaign and this time next week, this very day, next week, everyone is voting andifs next week, everyone is voting and it's all been and gone. but what he said was so interesting. he said, there are 150,000 voters. martin in key places. that will make the difference. let's have a listen to what i had to say. >> but i'd say to everyone watching that those polls aren't

destiny, right? people watching can make the difference. >> and you can turn around and 20 poll poll point lead for the laboun >> there's other research shows it's something like 150,000 voters in key places will make the difference. those are the people that will be watching, right? if you're watching this show right now, you can make the difference . i get people's difference. i get people's frustrations with me with the party. we haven't got everything right. i know that we haven't made as much progress as we would have liked, but this is an important election about your future. do you do not want labourin future. do you do not want labour in charge with that blank check to do what they want to your family finances ? go out your family finances? go out there, vote conservatives . there, vote conservatives. >> my favourite hobbies pubs and politics. can you explain to gb news viewers what rishi sunak means? 150,000 votes. why is he focused on such a narrow margin? >> the research obviously done and obviously rishi. rishi sunak is axa has access to information. we don't have, some of it's private information held by cchq. but he's talking about maybe several dozen seats that maybe several dozen seats that may go either way with a

thousand votes here, a thousand there. yeah. in previous elections, there have been the case of, i think it was 80,000 votes decided the election in 2017 or 2019. but you have so he obviously they've got data to say that if you can swing the swing the vote for the tory party in these seats , then you party in these seats, then you can you can make the difference. he's not saying beat labour. he may be he might be saying don't give them the blank check he's talking about which is which is this this three figure landslide. but fascinating. he's saying that and clearly the focus now in cchq in the final week is to try and target those 150,000 votes, which might mitigate what could be a annihilation of the tory party next week. >> and chris, presumably, there are two major barriers he faces . are two major barriers he faces. first of all, apathy. conservative voters who don't want to get off their backsides because they're so fed up. the second thing talk about the rows between the teeth. these voters are being courted by nigel farage and reform uk. his specifically reading between the

lines here, isn't he saying go with the conservatives, stick with the conservatives, stick with the conservatives, stick with the plan. this sounds like 2019. again, it was abc anyone but corbyn. now it feels like anyone but sir keir starmer. >> abs. yeah, that was a brake system i think, no, but he said that, didn't he ? we haven't made that, didn't he? we haven't made as much progress as we, we would have liked . that's an apology to have liked. that's an apology to people who have left the tory party and gone to reform or the labour party saying, stick with us.look labour party saying, stick with us. look at the programme. look, i want to do for you. look at my look at me bringing down net migration, halving it. look at me dealing with inflation. look at me looking, trying to get these, you know, the situation so the bank can cut interest rates. he's saying back me, i've got your back to voters here and an apology saying i did done my best, i haven't made much progress, i wanted to it's interesting. >> it's not painting a dystopian future like the battle against corbynism was . it's not, saying corbynism was. it's not, saying if you for vote reform, you'll give a blank cheque to sir keir was surrender, martin, as you say, much 17 times last night in

that debate. >> surrender implies an enemy. is that really who, sir keir starmer is? not really. but, you know, surrender. don't surrender all the gains we've made to the other side in this sense, laboun other side in this sense, labour. but the big word surrender what he's doing here, which some people might think is quite clever, is he's appealing to people individually to make them be the difference between sir keir starmer or not. >> the huge, huge question is chris hope, will it work? >> yeah. you don't want labour in charge with that blank check to do what they want with your family finances. will it work? well, it hasn't worked so far. frankly. the numbers we saw from the electoral calculus poll yesterday, the mrp poll are going backwards. so the question right now for rishi sunak is why will they listen to you now? mr sunak. but i guess they've from the beginning he's been saying to us isn't he, that elections are about choices and what they're trying to do. right, right here is make clear to voters, to viewers, to listeners, the choice that you've got next week. according to the tory party, if labour get

in, they will push up taxes. of course, the labour party say no. we won't and we will. we'll, we'll bring them down for working, working people and that find out now. >> electoral calculus poll for gb news. and the mirror pointed out that rishi sunak himself might lose his seats. many many senior conservatives in peril. well this is the heartfelt plea to gb news viewers directly. excellent work. thank you very much . will it work? well, let's much. will it work? well, let's ask that question now to the former sky political correspondent peter spencer , who correspondent peter spencer, who joins me on the line. peter, always a pleasure to have your company looking resplendent as everin company looking resplendent as ever in that wondrous pink kitchen of yours . peter, may kitchen of yours. peter, may i ask you this does to us grizzled cynics here feel a little bit like 2019? it was anyone but corbyn. abc now, as chris said , corbyn. abc now, as chris said, abs, anyone but starmer making a plea a heartfelt plea to gb news viewers. you can be the difference. will it work ? difference. will it work? >> he has got to be a better

performer than he was at the start of this campaign. >> no question about that. he's much better at talking into the camera and sounding like him, like he means it. >> and but at the same time, so has starmer. he's also become a lot more sort of prime ministerial and statesmanlike and was we saw that last night in the very shouty performance from rishi sunak and, starmer sitting back, setting back and saying, look, i think the viewers rather appreciate heanng viewers rather appreciate hearing what i have to say as well as for whether any of this is going to work , frankly. is going to work, frankly. >> i mean, the opinion polls tell the story. i mean, i take his point about a small number could make a difference because the opinion polls all indicate that there's a fair few, voters who, if they if they flip back from reform to the conservative party then the labour victory will be pared down considerably

from being a comfortable majority to being an absolute, evisceration of the tory party. but i, i do i can't help but but that think about a line from the importance of being earnest when one of the characters says this suspense is terrible, i do hope it will last. >> frankly, i think the nation is sinking, for god's sake. >> let's just get it over with. >> let's just get it over with. >> yeah, and with a week to go, peter spencer, it seems like there's been a change of gear because how many days have rishi sunak just been responding to the latest catastrophe within the latest catastrophe within the conservative party? the latest scandal? he hasn't actually been able to sort cross—examine sir keir starmer meticulously until last night. now by most people's reckoning, he did a really good job. he had sir keir starmer on the ropes. sir keir starmer on the ropes. sir keir starmer didn't have big questions, big answers to the questions, big answers to the questions of particularly migration. but as you said, with seven days to go, peter spencer and those polls seemingly cemented in with that 20 point gap, can such a herculean

mountain be climbed in just seven days? >> well, i mean, i think of something that that, the prime minister said a few days ago when he talked about his faith, his hinduism faith, and he said we had this concept called dharma, which is about focusing on the job in hand rather than rather than necessarily the outcome, which i'm sure is done a lot to fortify him throughout. but you mentioned the sleaze allegation, which was what it is over the potential for insider trading. that is to say, those people close to the prime minister who've actually been voting on the date of the election , and it is an election, and it is an uncomfortable echo for him of the sleaze allegations of the past, like partygate and the and the personal protection equipment for people with covid and so on. that's one point. the second point is the fact that it took him a whole week before he got around to stamping on people

strongly suggests, or rather confirms in the minds of many people. i'm sure he's not very good at politics. >> okay, peter, i'm joined in the studio by chris hope. he'd like to fire a question at you , peter. >> i just wonder what you felt about the tory strategy here. they've been talking a lot about polls and about the blank check. for labour. is that a mistake? i thought the pm was most effective last night in that two way debate, when he kept saying to sir keir starmer, what would you do? i mean, 9 or 8 times he said, what would you do about the asylum problem? how would you deal with it? i've got my idea, which is rwanda may or may not work. what would you do? i think the idea of what would you do to sir keir starmer was quite an effective attack line. i wonder why instead they took out polls in one hand. they took out the blank check in the polls. and then he says the only poll that matters is next week. it doesn't stack up. >> no it doesn't, but but but the fact does. but because he's absolutely right, that is the poll that actually matters, it was actually quite refreshing in some ways to see the, the debate

shifting back from who's winning and who's losing and sleaze and whatever to actually the sort of the lofty heights of , of what the lofty heights of, of what actually might happen to the nafion actually might happen to the nation and each individual in the nation when we have and i've got to say, when but when we have a new government and of course, starmer here is in a bit of a bind because of the fact that while he trades as and he clearly means it, that while he trades as and he clearly means it , that if he if clearly means it, that if he if he can somehow present, potential inward investors with a an impression of stability in government and competence in government, it might attract that inward investment which might actually have the effect of making us all a little bit better off, he's also got he has still got the problem about what he's going to spend, what money on what, and whether he going to raise taxes or whatever. and the reality is, until the books at the treasury are actually opened, he can't be sure what

he's up against. >> and pete spencer, just looking at that, we're getting hundreds and hundreds of emails and you all say it's coming in to us here @gbnews. this is a direct plea. now, this is a prime minister with the rose between his teeth. he wants to court. he wants to woo. he wants to mollycoddle people into voting for him. now, do you think that will work? there's an admission that we've made mistakes, but is there an admission that we can be different? or do you think people are so fed up they so want to change? they will be instead wooed by people like nigel farage? >> there is that danger, and it certainly has done huge damage to the conservative cause already. those there's there is already. those there's there is a slice of the population clearly, which is always voted conservative, and it sticks in their craw to vote labour. it's a cultural thing as much as anything else. but suddenly reform pops up to the right and they think, well, maybe we'll have a little crack at them, give them a go. but in the

scheme of things, i suspect that what all the best that that that the prime minister can hope for now is to avoid what the potential for what what might be termed an elective dictatorship. because if you get an overwhelming labour majority, well, frankly, they can do as they please. and he's up to a point trying to scare people into thinking, look, if you get that , who knows what they'll do? that, who knows what they'll do? they do what the hell they like. and devil take the hindmost. >> well, peter spencer, it's always a pleasure to talk to you and thank you so much for great fun, this general election campaign. thanks for joining fun, this general election campaign. thanks forjoining us and i hope we'll do it again soon. now you can hear more from rishi sunak's interview with our man here, chris hope, and our vote 2024 the leader's special. and that's exclusively tonight from 7:00 pm right here on gb news. great work from chris hope as ever. now £15,000 cash tax free and a whole host of treats must be won in our summer giveaway and you need to be

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channel >> this is gb news, the people's channel, britain's election . channel. >> welcome back. it's 425 i'm martin daubney on gb news now . martin daubney on gb news now. later in the show i'll tell you which country is charging farmers up to £80 for every single cow they own in their drive for net zero. now, if you can't get enough of big election rivals going toe to toe live on television in britain, well then you're in luck, because after rishi sunak and sir keir starmer clashed yesterday across the pond, the first us presidential debate takes place tonight. now joe biden, who remember, is 81 and 78 year old donald trump, are the two oldest candidates ever to try to become us president. now, the 90 minute televised debate will start at 2 am. uk time. i'm now joined by a.m. uk time. i'm now joined by thomas gift, who's the founder and director of the ucl centre

on us politics. thomas, welcome to the show. so it's four years since they last met. last time they wouldn't even shake hands and joe biden told donald trump to shut up man. since then, it's fair to say they're even less friendly. what can we expect tonight? >> well, i think that we can expect a shouting match, or at least a shouting match to the extent that these two politicians can muster. >> one of the things that might keep this debate somewhat civil is a mute button, which is not going to allow the opposing candidate to speak when one other candidate is speaking. >> and so we saw last time just lots of interruptions, lots of insults being hurled, and just very little discussion of actual substantive policy. i do think to an extent we're in for more of a food fight tonight. >> now, the interesting thing is that there's been a lot of conversation globally, but especially in america and particularly among younger voters, about the mantle

wherewithal of joe biden. all eyes will be on him. there's no escaping here. there's no autocue. there's no one to help him. do you think this could be a grave trap joe biden is walking into tonight ? walking into tonight? >> well, i think a lot of this depends on expectations. and donald trump has lowered expectations for joe biden to such an extent that i'm not sure if the bar is very high in other words, biden only has to perform reasonably well or show that he can tie a shoelaces and string a couple of sentences together. and i think by and large, that's going to be enough to say that he met the threshold of what he was expected to do if he goes beyond that, then that's a great night for biden. but there is a real worry here, particularly because so many progressives are still shouting for joe biden to step down and allow some alternative candidate to step up dunng alternative candidate to step up during the convention. if he gives a really cataclysmic performance tonight, those calls are only going to grow louder.

>> and thomas, in terms of the format, there's no studio audience that was at the request of the biden camp after a very rowdy cnn town hall event earlier, where trump was playing to the crowd and it kind of overpowered things . and what overpowered things. and what about cnn itself as a broadcaster? thomas gift. they're well known for their outright hostility towards donald trump. they can't stand the guy. are they really the right platform for a debate like this? >> right. well, both candidates actually did agree to this format. >> and so that's up to donald trump and joe biden, donald trump, a number of his surrogates have attacked some of cnn's anchors, including jake tappen cnn's anchors, including jake tapper, in the lead up and essentially saying that they're not going to get a fair fight because it's so biased, you know , that's in large part going to be in the eye of the beholder, which is the audience to essentially judge. >> are these questions fair? are

they impartial? >> and are they treating both candidates equally and thomas gift, as you would expect, the trump team are already being mischievous, spreading rumours that joe biden will need performance enhancing drugs to get through tonight's performance. >> but on a more serious point , >> but on a more serious point, thomas, how much of an impact do you think debates like this will have on the biggest night in world politics? november the 5th? >> well, certainly it's a high stakes debate. they're only going to be two debates. and so both candidates have been geanng both candidates have been gearing up for this for quite some time . some time. >> and it is important. at the same time, i think it's possible to overstate the extent to which this is ultimately going to drive votes . donald trump and drive votes. donald trump and joe biden are such well known quantities and they're such polarising figures , particularly polarising figures, particularly trump, in their own way, that i think most voters have actually made up their mind already. and as a result, they're going to assess this debate through their

own partisan lens. most candidates , most voters, if candidates, most voters, if they're on the right, are going to turn on fox news. >> if they're on the left, they're going to turn on cnn and they're going to turn on cnn and they're going to hear to an extent, sort of the echo chamber. >> and saying that their own guy won . woi'i. >> won. >> okay. well, thomas gb views, the founding director of the ucl centre on us politics, i'm really looking forward to it, mainly because our general election has been so blummin dull. thank you very much for joining us on the show. always a pleasure. so we're counting down to joe biden and donald trump's first in—person showdown of the 2024 election campaign. don't miss the us presidential debate live here on gb news at 2 am. this morning. now, lots more still to come between now and 5:00. migrants, trans rights net zero strikes will these issues all cause major problems for sir keir starmer if labour win next week's general election? the first is your headlines and it's polly middlehurst.

>> the headlines this hour. one person in england has died unked person in england has died linked to the ongoing e coli outbreak. that's according to the uk health security agency. and it comes after a recent outbreak which saw 86 people admitted to hospital, according to figures last week, a number of food manufacturers have had to recall pre—made sandwiches, wraps and salads, all sold in major supermarkets. retail chains as well over fears they are linked to possible contamination, the source of which is thought to be the lettuce. the number of metropolitan police officers under investigation over bets on the timing of the general election has risen now to at least seven. the force is saying. one protection officer assigned to the prime minister was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in office. he's been bailed and is subject to restricted duties, but a further six have been identified as having been placed

placing bets on the timing of the election . julia. doctors in the election. julia. doctors in england are walking out for the 11th time in almost a year. the five day strike continues in their long running dispute over pay their long running dispute over pay with the government. they're asking for a 35% pay rise and say more industrial action will take place over the summer if negotiations don't move forward. and the mother of missing british teenager jay slater says some of the money raised by a crowdfunding appeal will be withdrawn and released to help in the search for her missing son.the in the search for her missing son. the appeal so far raising more than £36,000. the for search 19 year old jay slater has now entered its 11th day after he went missing on holiday in tenerife yesterday. spanish police deployed helicopters and sniffer dogs in mountainous areas of the island, where he is thought to have gone missing . thought to have gone missing. those are the latest gb news headunes. those are the latest gb news headlines . for now, i'm polly headlines. for now, i'm polly middlehurst more in half an hour for the very latest gb news

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gbnews.com/electionparty. >> welcome back. it's 437. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. let's get more ahead of the general election. and two tory candidates and one labour candidates and one labour candidate have been suspended over betting allegations. and now liberal democrats leader sir ed davey has called for a review into gambling regulations to help restore trust in politics, i genuinely not a betting person. and what i think is important about this issue is making sure that, the rules are really clear for people, that lacks transparency at the moment. we need them clarified. and so it's not about how much i won or didn't win. >> i've lost most of the time. i bet, but it's about, making sure that the rules are fair. >> the trust is a big issue in this election, and we need to rebuild that trust on everything, including this issue. >> and the only way we're going to do that is if we have a

review of the regulations on gambling by the gambling commission. and what i'm saying from the liberal democrat perspective is we will implement those recommendations of such a review . review. >> a rare clip of ed davey not at an aquatic centre. now, if the polls are to be believed, then sir keir starmer will be prime minister in just eight days time. but i'm asking the question today are we getting a sneak peek at what's in store for us the moment he walks into 10 downing street? now deputy leader angela rayner sent a shiver down many spines by saying that every part of the uk must take its fair share of migrants under a labour government and high profile backbench mp dawn butler has criticised kemi badenoch after she clashed with the actor david tennant and the question there is will trans rights trump women's rights under a labour government and next? a leaked recording has emerged of shadow chief secretary to the treasury

darren jones saying reaching net zero by 2050 will cost hundreds of billions of pounds, and junior doctors in england are demanding a 35% pay rise and sir keir starmer says they'll talk to them on day one of a labour government. so will unions have sir keir over a barrel and demand their pound of flesh under a labour government? well to discuss these weighty topics, i'm now joined by the former labour mp, lord walney. welcome to the show, lord walney. always a delight to have your company. this election campaign has been typified by a lack of cross examination, a lack of analysis , examination, a lack of analysis, oftentimes of labour policy, because there have been so many tory mishaps, so many scandals going on. have we taken our eye off the ball that on key issues, as those i just outlined, we might not be getting a full picture of what we expect under the labour party. a lot of people fear that we might have socialism in disguise . do you

socialism in disguise. do you think that's going to happen? >> i think there has been a reasonable level of scrutiny, but you're right that that labouris but you're right that that labour is putting forward a policy platform that has the key early steps mapped out . early steps mapped out. >> but the challenge is, a number of which you have outlined in your introduction are huge. facing the country. >> and i think it is right that if labour do win, as everybody now expects, they are not exactly going to face a honeymoon from anyone. >> and to be fair to them, probably they wouldn't expect or want that they're going to want to roll up their sleeves and try and get involved in this. >> but i think people are going to need to realise really quickly that the size of the majority that they get doesn't in any way is not going to diminish the scale of the problems that they face, which have been building up in this

country on a number of fronts for many years . for many years. >> el tel moeen ali. of course, the last time we saw a landslide of this magnitude was the tony blair election in 1997, but there's a significant difference now, and that is we've got no money. britain's broke, we're potless. we're £2.7 trillion in debt. national debt has tripled since 2008. blair came in with a back pocket stuffed full of wonga . in those days, there was wonga. in those days, there was money to spend to make things better. we don't have that situation now. do you think a lot of people who think everything's going to suddenly become sunlit uplands are wonderful? next thursday might be for in something of a shock. >> yeah, well , it be for in something of a shock. >> yeah, well, it didn't feel like there was masses of cash splashing around when new labour came in. >> but certainly the economic picture was so much, so much more favourable and so that is going to constrain what the new what the incoming labour government is going to be able to do. actually, i think one of

the issues that we've got in across our public and political life is, is how low expectations are of politicians and governments. i don't think there are many people who are thinking that labour is going to come in and transform everything. they are many, many people are thoroughly sick of what they've been seeing over recent years. >> but i think a big challenge that the new government is going to have is trying to reconnect and restore a sense of faith and hope that politicians can roll up their sleeves and, and make a difference, which i actually think that all of this talk of a of a big labour majority being a problem for the country, actually, i think that the opposite of a, a very small , opposite of a, a very small, narrow labour majority is would be the kind of thing that could cause problems . cause problems. >> i hope that actually, by sending a really significant number of good new intake labour

mps into parliament, you will be able to give keir and the leadership the space to think through what really matters, what's really going to change things in the country, rather than ending up being in hock to some of the special interest groups that you mentioned. >> but then lord walney, the downside of a supermajority is nobody will be able to go in the way of putting new laws through. if you hear angela rayner on the one hand, saying, oh, we're going to get tough on the gangs, we're going to smash the gangs. and then today saying, actually, every part of britain will take its fair share of asylum seekers. well that's not what i thought i was voting for. and then we hear, no, don't worry, there won't be tax increases, we won't be poorer under labour and then you've got darren jones saying, actually the £28 billion figure of net zero is tiny quotes. tiny actually it will take hundreds of billions of pounds. is what we'll need. that's a massive sum of money that won't come from thin air. there's no magic money tree. the

biscuit tin is empty. there's only one way of raising that money. it's increased taxes. >> yeah, that does need to be an effective opposition in the country. >> and that's going to be a challenge, i think, for the conservative party after the election, to not do actually what labour did in opposition in in slow motion, the labour party veered off away from the centre ground , away from the public who ground, away from the public who had elected it under the new labour years into the margins of british politics. and the conservatives need to avoid making the same mistake because the new government is going to need that constructive criticism and opposition , and every and opposition, and every election ought to be fought with two credible parties of government in recent years that had not been the case with the labour party. and i'm so pleased that my part, my old party, has managed to get itself back into contention. but british politics works better when people have a

genuine choice, so the responsibility, i think, is going to be on the tories to make sure that they don't wander off into la la land after the election. >> or indeed, if we have this these kind of policies breaking through into the mainstream despite what we were promised, what will that mean for potentially a future resurgent resistance movement coming forward? loads and loads happen down the line. labour former labour mp lord walney , always labour mp lord walney, always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you very, very much for your time. thank you. thanks, bob. now about to talk about a very, very controversial story. a dutch volleyball player who raped a 12 year old british girl ten years ago is now set to play girl ten years ago is now set to play at the olympics next month. should that ever be allowed to happen. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

>> earlier on breakfast.

>> earlier on breakfast. >> now on day 11. in this search and still no sign of j. >> he'd spoken to some locals who had told him that they had heard that they had seen j drinking in bars in a resort called los gatos. i think what we saw last night from keir was a clear sense about the change that can come. >> if people vote for a labour government on the 4th of july and you've got a choice between rishi sunak fire and fortitude, which he showed, or keir starmer. >> keir starmer, a man without plan. >> you'll be delighted to know i found the tric award. we lost it. you lost it. well, i did actually from six. >> it's breakfast on gb news. >> it's breakfast on gb news. >> don't miss our big interview with rishi sunak and exclusive. he'll speak to our political editor chris hope, and our vote 2020 for the leader's special. and that's exclusively live from 7 pm. this evening. right here on gb news now. a dutch

volleyball player who was who raped a 12 year old british girl is set to represent the country at the paris olympics. steven van der velde was jailed in 2016 but despite the outcry, the dutch olympics committee has defended his selection well. i'm joined now by sports broadcaster chris skudder to find out more. chris skudder to find out more. chris this seems like an astonishing story. here's an individual who raped a 12 year old british girl when he was 19. how on earth should he be allowed to compete at the olympics with a criminal record like that ? like that? >> yeah. shocking case, major morality issues here. and martin, i guess it's where you stand on. should an offender be allowed to, a second chance after being found guilty and being punished? is there room for reintegration and rehabilitation now? the dutch olympic committee is down to

them. nothing to do with the ioc. i think the, the, the olympic umbrella would come and make a decision on this. but they allowed the individual association. that's what they always do to make their own decision. the dutch clearly think there's no case to answer, insomuch as they think he has now done what he has to do. i'll give you a couple of quotes. he's met all the qualification criteria, whatever that means, following an intensive , following an intensive, professionally supervised trajectory, i'll just take you back ten years. do you remember the footballer chet evans, who was accused of rape and eventually acquitted completely when he was looking to come back after he came out of prison , after he came out of prison, before he was found not guilty. and the football league said they took the same stance as the dutch olympic committee. they said, you know, we are not going to intervene here. they recognise the gravity of what he's done, but they value reintegration and rehabilitation and they allowed clubs, to, you know , employ him if they wanted. know, employ him if they wanted. but as you remember, there was a

massive outcry and a lot of people got very upset at the prospect of him coming back into football. but of course, he had the last word because he was found not guilty completely. >> now , this individual was >> now, this individual was sentenced to four years in prison, only served 12 months of that at the time. the judge sentencing him said your hopes of representing your country now lie as a shattered dream that hasn't happened. he will represent the country the next point is this, chris, every olympian has to sign a document. it's called the athletes rights and responsibilities declaration and responsibilities declaration and point seven demands that they act as a role model. how can a convicted rapist be a role model ? model? >> yeah, indeed. i mean, you look at the olympic ideal, which has been around since 1894. i won't give you in latin, but it was it's basically, faster, higher, stronger. a couple of years ago, it was updated to be modernised to include the words together, faster, higher, stronger together . that to me stronger together. that to me has morality in it. educational

issues as well . and you'd have issues as well. and you'd have to say. yeah, that, you know, that that doesn't really fit the olympic ideal, does it? it was created 19th century by a guy who was a misogynist, pierre de coubertin, he didn't want women in the olympics. to start with, but it has been modernised now. so when you consider that, you know, the ioc have banned russia from the upcoming olympic games, apart from the ukraine war, of course , their drug problems of course, their drug problems of the past. but what they're doing, they're allowing some russians to take part if they can vet them and allow them to to, compete individually. so what is the difference there? they're allowing some russians to come in. >> okay, chris, i'm afraid we've simply run out of time. we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining to leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us. now stick around for our big interview with rishi sunak, it's an exclusive with gb news. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel. but before that, it's your weather with aidan mcgivern a brighter

outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news. >> news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. although it's not been hot everywhere this week, it is now much cooler across the uk with windy weather in many spots because of an unseasonably deep area of low pressure for june that's pushing into northwest scotland and that's where the strongest winds will be through the rest of the day, along with spells of rain in western scotland and northern ireland. showers for the north and east of scotland, northern england, north wales drier further south but certainly a downturn in temperatures overnight. much fresher conditions, more comfortable for sleeping. if you don't like the humidity , but 11 or 12 celsius. humidity, but 11 or 12 celsius. not exactly going to be chilly andifs not exactly going to be chilly and it's going to be a bright start across some southern parts and warm enough first thing in any sunny spells for southern parts of the midlands, east

anglia, the south and south—east of england. some patchy cloud there into north devon and cornwall. a few showers also likely to see 1 or 2 showers for wales and northern england. northern ireland and western scotland. showers rather than longer spells of rain and slightly less windy, but the wind and rain has transferred north so northwest highlands, orkney and then into shetland. that's where the wettest and windiest weather will be during the morning and into the afternoon. some shelter for eastern scotland, some breaks in the cloud, but for many it's a blustery and cool day with broken cloud and the best of any prolonged sunny spells really down towards the south and later the southwest, and where we get the southwest, and where we get the sunshine feeling pleasant with temperatures reaching 23 celsius. but where we've got the cloud, the showers and the gusty wind in the north 15 to 17 celsius at best. friday afternoon and into the evening, we're going to see further showers through scotland and northern england as well as northern ireland, with drier weather further south and

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gb. news >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. all across the uk. on today's show, rishi sunak has delivered a heartfelt plea to gb news viewers, saying just 150,000 voters can change their minds and let me beat labour. one week from election day. our man chris hope, sat down with the plucky prime minister, who sincerely believes that he can defy the polls. later on. all eyes will

be on america tonight as joe biden and donald trump go head to head in their first live tv debate . now, the last time they debate. now, the last time they met four years ago, they wouldn't even shake hands. biden told trump to shut up, man. who will win? and will joe biden be able to stay awake? and the danish government has introduced the world's first meat tax to help it meet emissions targets. but the tax, at £80 per cow is being blasted by farmers who say push up costs and favour cheap imports. how long before this mad cow tax comes to britain? that's all coming up in your next hour . next hour. welcome to the show. always a delight to have your company. now, our political edhon company. now, our political editor, chris hope, was in nottingham this morning, sat in a pub with the prime minister, rishi sunak, who poured his heart out gb news viewers,

saying just 150,000 votes could make the difference to help him keep sir keir starmer out of power, he made a direct plea to gb news viewers, saying you can make the difference . can you? make the difference. can you? are you convinced? would you want to vote for the prime minister, rishi sunak, to keep sir keir starmer out of power? last time it was abc anyone but corbyn. now he wants you to go for a bs. anybody but starmer. is that enough for you? get in touch , gbnews.com/yoursay. but touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. but before we tear into all of that is your latest news headlines andifs is your latest news headlines and it's polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon to you. well, the top story from the gb newsroom today. one person has died in england in the ongoing e.coli outbreak. it's linked to salad. according to the uk health security agency. it comes after

a recent outbreak which saw 86 people admitted to hospital. that's to according figures released last week. a number of food manufacturers have now recalled their sandwiches, their wraps, their salads all sold in major supermarkets and retail chains, over fears they're unked chains, over fears they're linked to possible contamination. the food standards agency says it's now narrowed it down to lettuce used in those products, and thought to be the likely source of that outbreak. more information on that coming into us all the time. we'll get it to you, of course, as it comes to us now, in other news today, the number of metropolitan police officers under investigation over allegedly placing bets on the timing of the general election has risen now to at least seven. the force says one protection officer assigned to the prime minister was arrested last week and has since been bailed. a further six officers have been identified as having been placing bets on the timing of the election. meanwhile, sir keir starmer says the labour

government will work with whoever's in power in france on tackling illegal migrant journeys across the english channel from france . sir keir channel from france. sir keir starmer and rishi sunak returned to the campaign trail today after clashing on illegal migration and the betting row in a tv debate from nottingham trent university last night, the prime minister said the country would be in danger under a labour government being led by a leader who he says has no plan to stop the boats. >> if starmer changes his mind on almost every major position that he has taken and times that we're living in, you need leadership which has the courage of its convictions. that's what ihave. of its convictions. that's what i have. you have to ask yourself why is he not telling you his plan for the country , what he plan for the country, what he wants to do? because he probably doesn't think they're going to like it when you hear it, right? we know, as you saw last night, those of you that were watching the debate, absolutely no answers about how to tackle immigration, right? i've got a plan. we're bringing immigration

down. we've got a plan to stop the boats. he would make us the soft touch of europe when it comes to that issue. >> sir keir starmer while sir keir has sorry, that was rishi sunak, of course. but sir keir starmer has told gb news that the issue of illegal migration is much more than just a border issue. >> record numbers of people are coming here in small boats. he's lost control of our borders , lost control of our borders, literally lost control. not only of the numbers that are coming, but also who's coming. and so this is not just a border issue. it's a national security issue. the deterrent is smashing the gangs that are running this vile trade so that nobody but nobody gets into a boat to cross the channel. the prime minister is simply interested in a gimmick. the rwanda scheme for people who've already arrived here. a few hundred people now, the former newcastle united owner, sir john hall, has switched his sirjohn hall, has switched his support to reform uk after previously donating tens of thousands of pounds to the conservative party >> he was cheered on at a reform

speech near sunderland, where the party leader, nigel farage, was speaking. mr farage said it was speaking. mr farage said it was a privilege to welcome sir john into the family, and said he'd made a substantial donation to the party's campaign . he he'd made a substantial donation to the party's campaign. he said he feels the tories have let him down. >> the conservative party has let me down. there have been a failure for the last many ways for the last 14 years, and they don't speak now, for my english is my a way of life which i feel is my a way of life which i feel is under threat and i looked around basically who i could find to support, to speak for me and the reform party. i feel and i feel it's the only ones who are going to speak and about, saving my english culture. >> now, junior doctors in england are walking out for the 11th time in almost a year. the five day strike continues in their long running pay dispute with the government. they're asking for a 35% pay rise, which labour has said is a non—starter. but the doctors say

more industrial action will take place over the summer if negotiations don't move forward. the bma said it's already held talks with the labour party and the mother of the missing british teenager, jay slater, in tenerife, says some of the money raised by a crowdfunding appeal will be withdrawn to help in the search for her son. the appeal has so far raised more than £36,000. the search for 19 year old jay slater has entered its 11th day after he went missing, while on holiday on the spanish island. well, yesterday the guardia civil the spanish police deployed helicopters above ground and sniffer dogs on foot in the mountainous areas around the island where the search goes on. england's football squad has been training for their first knockout game against slovakia at the euros. the three lions topped their group before getting into the knockout stages of the competition. they'll be without their midfielder, though. phil foden, who had to leave the training camp

yesterday and get back to the uk for the birth of his third child. good for him . those are child. good for him. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm polly middlehurst. i'll have more news for you in half an hour. see you then for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you polly. now we start with our big exclusive interview with our big exclusive interview with prime minister rishi sunak. and after this show ran a major opinion poll yesterday that predicted the tories could win just 60 seats at the general election, and the reform party on 18. well, the prime minister has told gb news that he's just 150,000 votes away from victory. and i'm joined now in the studio by gb news political editor chris hope. the man who sat down with the prime minister in a pub in my home city of nottingham this morning, quite a change of tack here. no longer talking

about a supermajority, no longer talking about don't vote reform because you'll get sir keir starmer now a direct plea, a pledge to gb news viewers that they can make the difference. >> what's happened here, i think, martin, is that the pm and his team have looked at the numbers. they've recognised that all of these big mrp polls coming back , in fact, some of coming back, in fact, some of those seats are affected by a few votes going here and there, low hundreds or maybe a few thousand. so he said to us earlier when we spoke to him on the back of that, of that head to head debate last night with sir keir starmer. we talked to him today in a pub in nottingham and he's very clear 150,000 voters could make all the difference. >> but i'd say to everyone watching that those polls aren't destiny, right? people watching can make the difference. >> and you can turn around a 20 poll point lead for the labour. >> there's other research shows it's something like 150,000 voters in key places will make the difference. those are the people that will be watching, right? if you're watching this show right now, you can make the difference. i get people's

frustrations with me, with the party. we haven't got everything right. i know that we haven't made as much progress as we would have liked, but this is an important election about your future. do you do not want labourin future. do you do not want labour in charge with that blank check to do what they want for your family finances? go out there and vote conservatives . there and vote conservatives. >> well, some immediate reaction to that. now i'm joined by the shadow employment minister , shadow employment minister, alison mcgovern. and alison, welcome to the show. so we had the prime minister there in a pub in nottingham, saying 150,000 votes could be the difference. has he got a point ? difference. has he got a point? >> well, voting does make difference. >> i agree with him insofar as thatis >> i agree with him insofar as that is true. i've been pounding the streets over the past, weeks. >> speaking to thousands and thousands of people, and there is a frustration with politics precisely because the past 14 years have been more chaos than the kind of things that people actually want. >> you know , i've heard a lot >> you know, i've heard a lot about the state of our a&e.

>> i've heard a lot about the frustrations that people have , frustrations that people have, in terms of the price of food in the shops and making sure they've got enough wages to cover their bills . so i think cover their bills. so i think we. sorry. excuse me. we need a we. sorry. excuse me. we need a we need politics to focus on and do those things that people care about, make people's day to day life better. and i think voting can make that happen. yeah, i just think the right vote is for labour to turn a page on 14 years of chaos, get a labour government in and start focusing on the things people actually need and want in this country. >> alison. >> alison. >> it's chris hoban here at the studio here with martin. did you think that on the debate last night we saw the most punchy rishi sunak we've seen of this campaign? he was saying repeatedly to sir keir starmer, what would you do? and eight times, what would you do about the burgeoning numbers of illegal asylum seekers in the country? i mean, the tory plan is rwanda, but the labour haven't got a plan on that. and that seemed to cut through , i that seemed to cut through, i think, on the debate last night, i think we saw a lot of i don't

know about punchy. >> i think we saw a lot of interrupting, which rishi sunak. i felt like he he obviously was trying to show that he, you know, the best form of defence is attack or whatever. well you know, that's fine. in the house of commons, we all see that week in, week out. but people are sick of politics being about point scoring. what we want is a proper plan for this country. and to be honest, people want as keir starmer politics to be returned to the service of ordinary working families in this country who've had it too hard for too long. you know , hard for too long. you know, last night i thought keir spelled out our plan. he said what we would do. rishi sunak kept interrupting him to try and, you know, put him off his stride, which he singularly failed to do . failed to do. >> alison, you're the shadow employment minister and if you were to get into power , social were to get into power, social security would be part of your remit. i want to ask you about the massive, massive benefits bill, the welfare bill that

britain currently faces. we have our highest national debt since 1961, £27 trillion in debt. the government borrowed a further 15 billion in may. we now spend an astonishing £25 billion per month every single month on benefits. now, a lot of people out there, they may be wrong. a lot of people out there think the labour party is the party of benefits of paying more benefits. what are you going to do to get to grips with this? simply unsustainable level of spending on benefits? >> well, firstly, martin, let me just say that the figures that you quoted there, over half of those that is the state pension. and so if you're suggesting is that the labour party is the party of having a good state pension for people that supports people into their retirement, then i absolutely agree with that. the other part of the spending that you mentioned there, the bit that is for,

people who are out of work who want to get into a job is a smaller part. and the bit that i'm worried about is the bit that's growing because of the ill health of the country. and that's where we need to take a totally different approach, because our country rishi sunak said he didn't believe that our country was sicker than it had been before, and i think that's just not the realistic opinion of anybody who speaks to people. we are . we have become more we are. we have become more unwell, so we need to get our nhs functioning properly. we need across the whole of government policy to help people live healthier lives. that means pubuc live healthier lives. that means public transport and crucially, in my area it means good jobs. so we should encourage everybody into work. i think work is for good people and make sure that those jobs that they do help them to sustain a good and healthy life. and i think that good work and good health are two sides of the same coin. so our plan is tackle the nhs crisis that we're in, get people into work, make sure they're good jobs that can can sustain

people with, you know, decent family finances and also good health. and i think that that is the way to return our public finances to better health. as well. >> and, alison, you're keen today to underline a strategy the labour party has careers advice for 1 the labour party has careers advice for1 million school pupils. how would that work ? pupils. how would that work? >> well, careers advice in our schools has been absolute chaos for the past 14 years. we used to have a service called connexions, which got shut down andifs connexions, which got shut down and it's been total chaos. we don't really know what's going on. we want to get the simple things working well again. so we've got £85 million that we've earmarked for a thousand careers advisers. crucially, though , our advisers. crucially, though, our kids have got to do work experience. we need to get children and young people to experience the world of work so that they can see the possibilities. so we will make sure that that curriculum is good so that it helps children have the confidence and they get that work experience so that when they leave school, they know what the options are and they can move into one of those

better jobs that i was talking about. and that's a massive part of our plan to get our country working again. >> okay. anas mcgovern, shadow employment minister. thank you very much for joining employment minister. thank you very much forjoining us here on gb news. thank you very much. thank you. now let's move on and get the thoughts now of the deputy political editor at the mail on sunday. anna mikhailova. welcome to the show, anna. so i don't know if you overheard there the shadow employment minister, alison mcgovern, talking about labour's plan to i don't think was very convincing to cut down on the benefits bill. but let's get back , shall bill. but let's get back, shall we, to rishi sunak's interview with chris hope, our political edhon with chris hope, our political editor, tonight, 7:00 pm on gb news. he reckons as few as 150,000 voters could be the tipping point. trying to get people, perhaps, who either are sitting at home on their sofas, apathy being the enemy or perhaps they've been wooed by a certain mr nigel farage. he's got the rose between his teeth, trying to court those voters. voters beg your pardon , to voters beg your pardon, to reform uk. do you think that

rishi sunak's policy this this new strategy is effective, that they can be the difference to stop sir keir starmer getting into power ? into power? >> well, i think it sounds like, mr sunak has been reading the daily mail the last few days because we have, we've been , or because we have, we've been, or the daily, our daily paper has been running three days in a row, very detailed breakdowns of seats where just a few votes can really make a difference, essentially they've done very, very detailed graphics of, i mean, you know, dozens and dozens of seats now where the swing is quite small between a conservative losing and a labour win. and of course, the big difference there is reform, as you as you correctly point out . you as you correctly point out. >> so i think it is completely plausible that not that many votes, by the sounds of it, could make a difference in, in the number of seats rishi sunak actually takes away on the night. but i don't think it'll stop.

>> keir starmer majority. i think that is the point to make. i think this is all about stemming the losses . stemming the losses. >> but it's certainly like like chris pointed out, a very interesting shift of strategy from the campaign for not so much trying to say, you know, don't do a supermajority and actually being a bit more, a bit being a bit more clued up, really trying to sort of speak to voters as they are usually quite sophisticated and say, look , we know you're angry, but look, we know you're angry, but don't vote reform because you won't. you're just going to get laboun >> yeah, but do you think that that's going to work, anna? because for those of us who fought in the 2019 campaign, i was a candidate. and that that election abc anybody but corbyn that was effective abs anybody but starmer does that quite have the same peril to it? i mean, you know the threat of corbynism was very, very real. but sir keir starmer so far he's managed to make himself a more moderate

labour candidate. does this reek of desperation? >> i mean , i of course, rishi >> i mean, i of course, rishi sunakis >> i mean, i of course, rishi sunak is throwing the kitchen sink at it now, but that is exactly, frankly, what he should be doing, he, you know, i don't know if we're going to discuss the debates, but if we do, he definitely did have a bit more fight in him last night, it was probably the kind of performance he should have been giving from day one, he's being a bit more aggressive. he is putting keir starmer on the spot. and i think this is, you know , speaking this is, you know, speaking anecdotally to candidates from all parties, door knocking , in all parties, door knocking, in the last few weeks, they have said that on the actual doorsteps, there are a lot more undecided voters that that certainly is a thing. and a lot of that is people are just so fed up with politicians, both conservative and all sorts that they! conservative and all sorts that they i don't think they have made up their minds at the same time. again, just to point out that almost certainly is still a

labour majority. this is talk . labour majority. this is talk. this is about stemming the bleed for rishi sunak for and the conservative party going forward, because the key issue here is reform has really made a dent reform. there are certain seats on where i've spoken to the tory candidates. there where the tory candidates. there where the reform candidate hasn't even done any campaigning, they've barely got a team together and they're still going to get about 10% of the vote, you know, not because of who they are , but because of who they are, but just purely reform on the ballot papen just purely reform on the ballot paper. people want to go want to vote for it. people are angry with the tories. >> okay. fascinating stuff. thanks for joining >> okay. fascinating stuff. thanks forjoining us. deputy political editor at the mail on sunday, anna mikhailova. and it's worth pointing out that that fighting rishi sunak, apparently we got a lot more of that in chris hope's exclusive with gb news tonight. and of course, you can hear lots more from rishi sunak's interview with chris obe, political editor in our votes 2020 for the leader special. and that's from 7 pm. exclusively. this evening right here on gb news now. the cracking chris hope exclusive . cracking chris hope exclusive. now i'm about to be joined by a government minister, and i'll

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the nhs, record nhs funding record, education funding. at the same time, we are the only party committed to bringing down taxes. we've been bringing down taxes. we've been bringing down taxes this year. we're committed to bringing down taxes over the course of the next parliament, and we're the only party that can be trusted with the country's borders. i think labour cannot be trusted on tax, cannot be trusted on borders , cannot be trusted on borders, cannot be trusted on borders, cannot be trusted on borders, cannot be trusted on welfare. so i put it as straightforwardly as that. >> but a lot of people would counter to that straightforwardly. mr hands, that we have the highest taxes since world war two. the conservative party are the party of high taxes. we have . we had of high taxes. we have. we had 750,000 people last year coming to our country. 750,000 people last year coming to our country . legally. to our country. legally. stopping the boats is a pipe dream, and only two people have gone to rwanda and they went voluntarily . we already have voluntarily. we already have open borders. how can things get any worse under a labour government? >> well, look, i think first thing i'd say is i think most people recognise the difficulty, the country went through in the

pandemic and putin's invasion of ukraine. all of those policies were supported by other parties and by actually by the people across the country. clearly, that has to be repaid. but only the conservatives have been cutting taxes this year, and only the conservatives are committed to cutting taxes over the course of this parliament. as well, arrivals, immigration arrivals have been falling. we've obviously got more work to do. but again, only the conservatives want to do anything about this. a vote for reform would just be a vote that helps keir starmer. labour voted against the legislation more than 100 times on immigration and labour themselves want to put up taxes. they haven't ruled out tax rises on inheritance tax, capital gains tax, extra council tax bands. we've seen the 20% new tax on independent school parents. you know, labour are committed to driving up tax to the highest point in our history. and that is just looking at the numbers in their manifesto , let alone what else

manifesto, let alone what else they could be bringing in if they could be bringing in if they had the kind of majority that keir starmer wants to have . that keir starmer wants to have. >> but a lot of people will be saying to that. mr hans, a lot of people who voted conservative day in and day out, if you look at all the conservative websites , newspapers, they say that they are very much going to go to the reform party because they feel that as lifelong conservative voters, they feel let down. they don't feel the conservative party is any longer conservative on borders, on taxes, on protecting our culture, on wokery, on net zero. and they don't think there is any difference between the labour party and the conservative party. how can you picture them, that you're going to be significantly different when people see very, very similar policies between the pair of you? >> well, i don't agree with that at all. the conservative manifesto doesn't include a single tax rise. it's all about tax cuts. the labour manifesto doesn't include a single tax cut. it's all about tax rises. you know, the difference on tax could hardly be stronger. when you go to the house of commons. you see labour day in and day

out voting against those crucial migration measures 118 times. they voted against those measures. there's a huge difference between the two. but if i might, this is all about looking forward to the next five years. you know, who do you want to have as your member of parliament over the next five years is not just about the past record. and there i think the real danger is a big majority for labour, a blank cheque will allow them to do whatever they like on tax, have open borders, and, and doing all kinds of other things that i think will be very, very damaging to our country. and a for vote reform is just going to make that more likely. it's going to make it more likely that labour win individual constituencies like mine, for example. you know, i'm only 1000 votes as i'm 1% ahead of labour in my constituency. if people started to for vote reform, they'd be making much more likely that labour would get another mp. so that's that's the picture going on up and down the picture going on up and down the country. a vote for reform is a vote for starmer.

>> and yet greg hands a poll for gb news and the mirror yesterday from. find out now on the electoral calculus said big names rishi sunak, oliver dowden, grant shapps, penny mordaunt, kemi badenoch, claire coutinho all set to lose their seats if this this polling carries through. so you talk about the future of the conservative party, who's going to be left to rebuild the conservative party if this happens ? happens? >> well, i don't think that is going to happen. i think the conservative party will do significantly better next thursday than those polls, a week or two weeks ahead of the election. are saying i think the conservative party will do better than those polls are saying, we just need to get more people realising that a for vote anybody other than the conservatives is another vote to put keir starmer into number 10. and i don't think that's in the interest of the country. i don't think it's in the interests of your viewers. i don't think it's in the interests of my constituents either. >> okay, it's a week today, the

big day. thank you very much for joining us. minister of for state trade greg hands. thanks for joining us here on gb news forjoining us here on gb news now. lots more still to come between now and 6:00. and i'll between now and 6:00. and i'll be joined by the friend of the show, michael cole , on a very, show, michael cole, on a very, very busy day for prince harry and prince william. but first, it's your headlines with polly middlehurst. >> the headlines this hour from the gb newsroom. one person in england has died linked to the ongoing e coli outbreak. that's according to the uk health security agency. and it comes after a recent outbreak which saw 86 people admitted to hospital, according to figures released last week, a number of food manufacturers have had to recall sandwiches, wraps and salads sold in major supermarkets over fears they're unked supermarkets over fears they're linked to possible contamination, which is now being connected to the lettuce in the sandwiches . in other news in the sandwiches. in other news today, the number of metropolitan police officers

under investigation over bets on the timing of the general election has risen to at least seven. the force says one protection officer assigned to the prime minister was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in a public office. he's now been bailed and is subject to restricted duties. a further six officers have been identified as having placed bets on the timing of the election, and junior doctors in england are walking out for an 11th time in almost a year. the five day strike continues in the long running pay dispute with the government. they're asking for a 35% pay rise, which even labour says is a non—starter, and say more industrial action will take place over the summer if negotiations don't move forward. and the mother of the missing british teenager, jay slater, says some of the money raised by a crowdfunding appeal will be withdrawn to help in the search for her son. so far, the crowdfunding has raised £36,000. that for search 19 year old jay slater is now into its 11th day

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channel. >> welcome back. it's 538. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. denmark is moving forward with a world first carbon tax on agriculture. the danish government is planning on taxing farmers up to £80 for every single cow to encourage less meat consumption and to tackle climate change well. danish ministers hope the proceeds from the tax will be reinvested to help farmers to go green. well, is this an udderly mad policy or do policymakers to serve a pat on the back to discuss it ? i'm on the back to discuss it? i'm joined now by the agricultural policy analyst for the consumer choice centre bill viewers bill, welcome to the show. a meat tax sounds like yet another sinister nudge to make us all vegans. and what about the impact on the farming industry in denmark? >> oh, it's definitely going to

be a big one. >> i mean, the danish government just did this because they did poorly in the european elections. >> the green party did pretty well. >> so now they decided to make meat more expensive for everyone and make life harder for farmers i >> -- >> so this is one of those measures that sounds better in theory than it will be in practice. because just because you implemented a tax doesn't mean beef consumption will go down. and the most interesting example here is that in 2012, denmark implemented a tax on saturated fat consumption, back when that was the big enemy. >> and what did people do in denmark? for a year they bought their butter in germany. >> so what you're doing with these kind of taxes is you're shifting the co2 consumption elsewhere. so technically, on papenit elsewhere. so technically, on paper, it could very well be that denmark can say we will be successful with such a tax because people just buy that , because people just buy that, that meat from, from other countries. for instance, poland is a big exporter of beef. so one of those is one of those measures that on paper you can look green. but that doesn't mean in practice you did anything except fill the coffers of the treasury for the, for,

for half a year and then the other half a year. you say, oh, well, look at all green policies. they were effective. >> now, bill, the question is are the danish farmers going to take this lying down? we saw in france the farmers were revolting spraying silage at town halls. we saw in brussels setting fire to tires . setting fire to tires. precisely. these kind of initiatives caused a massive backlash across the eu. what do you think is going to happen in denmark? >> well, it's fascinating to me because we've had farmer protests in every eu member country ever since, the dutch government tried to get livestock farmers off of their balance sheets by getting by removing essentially their farms completely by trying to buy them out. and now the danish government looks at all those months of protest and thinks, oh, if only we could do the same thing, because farmers are definitely not going to take this lying down. the farmer representatives already have been calling for protests in the wake of this new tax. it will only start in 2013, but up until then, they will still be moved,

moments to revise it again. the fat tax in 2012 was removed after just 14 months by the same government. majority so i think it's one of those things that now you read the news that, oh, it will be implemented, but when it's actually silently abolished, nobody will talk about it anymore. >> and bill, anybody with half a brain knows that simply what happens is local farmers get forced out of business or prices go forced out of business or prices 9° up forced out of business or prices go up for consumers. and as a consequence, they simply import beef from brazil, from argentina, from countries that don't have any of these policies in place, presumably. does that mean that these greens in denmark, they have less than half a brain , it seems like that half a brain, it seems like that to me. and again, i don't think there's something necessarily wrong. i'm a free trader. i think it is good that we trade with other countries all around the world. and if you want to buy argentinian beef , that's buy argentinian beef, that's your prerogative. go and buy it. i think we should have more trade deals. however, making life artificially difficult for our own farmers and then being surprised that everything comes from abroad is one of those

things that we've been doing for way too long. and we always keep being surprised why it happens , being surprised why it happens, why are our farmers struggling? and the most important thing i think also is for consumers. we don't really understand what the real price of food is because on the one hand, you're taxing farmers and on the other hand, you're coming to the taxpayer and saying, we need to subsidise farmers because we have fewer each year. so what is the real price of food? it's really hard to understand it. we need a better system. we need to stop blaming agriculture for all the all the green woes that we think we have. i think we all want to protect the environment. what we need to do it in a way that protects the people, that make our food. it just seems so self—evident to me. and if anything, the european election results should have been an indicator that we need to break with those those green policies that we had for the last five years. >> it's fascinating stuff. let's see what happens. will those farmers in denmark have a major beef with their government? thanks for joining beef with their government? thanks forjoining us. bill was always a pleasure . now moving always a pleasure. now moving on, the high court heard today that prince harry deliberately destroyed potential evidence

relating to his phone hacking claim against the publisher of the sun newspaper. i'll have more on that after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 547. i'm martin daubney on gb news. now to the latest in prince harry's seemingly endless high court battles. and it's been claimed today that the duke of sussex deliberately destroyed potential evidence relating to his phone hacking claim against the publisher of the sun newspaper. well, joining me now to discuss this is a legendary royal correspondent, michael cole. michael, welcome to the show. a very , very undignified and very, very undignified and decidedly unrwa legal high court battle . limbering on and on. and battle. limbering on and on. and today, some very, very serious allegations came out. michael

tell us more. >> you certainly said it. >> you certainly said it. >> there , martin, the prince of >> there, martin, the prince of litigation has been back in his favourite place, the high court. but today it's been the turn of the counsel for the sun newspaper. and the counsel has alleged that , prince harry did alleged that, prince harry did something very, very serious that he destroyed, deleted, got rid of, certain documents in the shape of emails passing between him and jr. moehringer, who was the ghost—writer of his biography , autobiography, biography, autobiography, alleged autobiography. spare and also prince harry writing to very senior people at buckingham palace. >> now the sun says it wants to see those documents. >> this is the process called discovery before a trial, when all the cards are laid on the table. now it, of course, is an allegation. we don't know whether it is true or not. but

for his part, the senior counsel, the king's counsel for. no, he's not a king's counsel. is that in fact. but the barrister who represents his royal highness has come back and said the sun is just simply on a fishing trip, trying to find documents which it hopes will aid its case. and he also added it's very late in the day for them to be asking for this documentation. well, i don't really think it is that late in the day because the trial isn't going to start if it goes to court until next january, but as you say, the battle goes on. we have an extraordinary case where the king's youngest son goes to the king's youngest son goes to the royal courts of justice to hear have a case heard by one of his majesty's justices. a judge argued by king's counsel. and, of course, it is, as you say, a very extraordinary , very extraordinary, unprecedented, state of affairs . unprecedented, state of affairs.

and it's only one of several cases which the prince is bringing against the media. he's got his head down. he's charging, and he's not giving up i >> -- >> and michael cole, none of this, of course, can be cheap. here's a guy who bangs on about the cost of security. we see him on screen there with his wife, meghan. they say they don't have enough money to pay for their own private security, but they seem to have endlessly bottom pockets to take on litigation like this going around the world. >> martin, i've noticed there are two things that are never cheap lawyers and lobsters. they're always expensive. and of course, the law is open to everyone. just like the ritz hotel . hotel. >> but you're going to have to pay a >> but you're going to have to pay a very hefty bill at the end of it. >> and, i don't know where the money is coming from because they have a, the duke and duchess of sussex have a very expensive lifestyle in california. of course, they've had some big hitting, income from netflix and from other

people. but you can burn through a lot of money very, very fast indeed.the a lot of money very, very fast indeed. the question is, is it really dignified to be doing this? i mean, lots of people were hacked. have to tell you a secret , martin, i was hacked, secret, martin, i was hacked, i was hacked, i was one of the people who was targeted by the sister paper of the sun. the news of the world. and i settled my case for a modest sum of money. and i put it down to experience and they apologised, and i said goodbye , the prince, and i said goodbye, the prince, he wants to take on the media. he feels it's his his, his mission. his counsel said that, even though he knows that he might be burned by the fire from the dragon, he wants to slay the dragon, by which he means the media, the red top media, and the middle market media of newspapers in this country . newspapers in this country. well, it's a long slog, and i'm quite not quite sure what he expects to get at the end of it. is it monetary compensation? well, he's going to spend a

great deal to get probably very little . little. >> okay, michael cole, we have to leave it there. and i always knew that the world was your lobster. always a delight to have you on the show. now, let's get more ahead of that general election a week today and reform uk leader nigel farage told a rally today that something about our culture is directly under threat as a result of immigration. >> we accepted absolutely , since >> we accepted absolutely, since the late 1940s that immigration into britain can be a good thing . certainly the choice of food in most of our towns is rather better as a result of it . but better as a result of it. but what has happened over the course of the last 25 years is something entirely different . it something entirely different. it is mass migration on a level that in fact begins not just to divide and damage communities , divide and damage communities, and potentially to set people

apart from each other, which is dangerous. but also, i think a feeling that perhaps something about our culture is directly under threat, that sense of who we are and that this is a problem. and that's why i've said from the start, this really should be the immigration election . election. >> as nigel farage earlier on today. >> as nigel farage earlier on today . now, an exclusive today. now, an exclusive interview today, rishi sunak prime minister directly appealing to gb news viewers 150,000 of them, he said, is all it's going to take to vote for the conservatives to keep starmer out of power. here's what you've said in response to that, wendy. no way rishi, are we not changing this time? you do have a cheek. as a lifelong tory voter, i think we've been led up the garden path. no backbone on immigration. it's been dreadful. however william says this rishi smashed it last night. i must say i wanted to vote reform in, but i'd rather have the tories than labour any day. i might now go with rishi. linda says this so, so

disappointed with the conservatives. rishi sunak was great last night. he was so good. but it's too all late now and we will all pay for it. so keir starmer has simply been let in. what's a disappointment? and quickly lisa says this he's dreaming. smash the gang sir keir starmer does he really think that no other country has been trying to do exactly that for all these years? maybe sir keir starmer has a magic wand that we haven't seen yet. thanks to all your views as always. now that's all from me for now. but dewbs& co is next. six till seven of course. but don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast with stephen and anne, followed by britain's newsroom at 930, and then tom and everly with good afternoon britain from midday. then of course, i'll be back tomorrow at 3 pm. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. thanks for coming today. now it's your weather with aidan mcgivern. have a great evening .

mcgivern. have a great evening. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hi there and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. although it's not been hot everywhere this week, it is now much cooler across the uk with windy weather in many spots because of an unseasonably deep area of low pressure for june that's pushing into northwest scotland and that's where the strongest winds will be through the rest of the day, along with spells of rain in western scotland and northern ireland. showers for the north and east of scotland, northern england, north wales drier further south but certainly a downturn in temperatures overnight. much fresher conditions, more comfortable for sleeping. if you don't like the humidity , but 11 or 12 celsius. humidity, but 11 or 12 celsius. not exactly going to be chilly andifs not exactly going to be chilly and it's going to be a bright start across some southern parts and warm enough first thing in

any sunny spells for southern parts of the midlands, east anglia, the south and south—east of england, some patchy cloud there into north devon and cornwall. a few showers, showers. also likely to see 1 or 2 showers for wales and northern england , northern ireland and england, northern ireland and western scotland. showers rather than longer spells of rain and slightly less windy, but the wind and rain has transferred north so northwest highlands , north so northwest highlands, orkney and then into shetland. that's where the wettest and windiest weather will be during the morning and into the afternoon. some shelter for eastern scotland, some breaks in the cloud but for many it's a blustery and cool day with broken cloud and the best of any prolonged sunny spells really down towards the south and later the southwest. and where we get the southwest. and where we get the sunshine feeling pleasant with temperatures reaching 23 celsius. but where we've got the cloud , the showers and the gusty cloud, the showers and the gusty wind in the north, 15 to 17 celsius at best. friday afternoon and into the evening, we're going to see further showers through scotland and northern england as well as

northern ireland, with drier weather further south. and actually the weekend isn't looking too unsettled. the initial low pulls away. we'll see some cloud a few showers but otherwise mostly fine. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . sponsors of boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb

that was a question last night. the sunak v starmer debate harsh or fair? you tell me. and angela rayner says that she'll empty the migrant hotels in a year and make all councils take their fair share of migrants. what do you think to that strategy? will it work? would you support it ? it work? would you support it? also another doctor strike in the middle of a heatwave in the

middle of a general election campaign ? really? do you still campaign? really? do you still support this? and do you actually think it will be resolved by the incoming government? also do you think there should be a legal right for us all to switch off from work outside of work hours? your thoughts ? all of that and more. thoughts? all of that and more. but first, tonight, 6:00 news headunes. headlines. >> michelle. thank you. i'm polly middlehurst and this is the latest from the gb newsroom, where one person in england has died in the ongoing e coli outbreak. and it is, they think, unked outbreak. and it is, they think, linked to salad. that's according to the uk health security agency. it comes after a recent outbreak which saw 86 people admitted to hospital. that's to according figures released last week. a number of food manufacturers have had to recall their sandwiches , their recall their sandwiches, their wraps and their ready salads

sold in major supermarkets and