>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good morning. welcome. it's 930. it's friday. the 28th of june. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and michael portillo . michael portillo. >> breaking news overnight, donald trump takes on joe biden in a no. holds barred tv debate. biden stumbled and trump is accused of lying. we'll have the latest. >> if you watched any of that, we'll be bringing you all of that. that was quite troubling. the leader of the free world, then, david lammy attacks the tories. the shadow foreign secretary says that the conservatives are not the right class of people to be running britain . britain. >> reform uk's racist rant a

campaigner has been caught out on camera making racist comments about rishi sunak. nigel farage condemned it as reprehensible and police fear the worst as the for search j slater intensifies. >> emergency services focus their search in a remote part of tenerife . tenerife. so i'm glad we both got the orange memo. i think we look good. we match, don't we.7 beautiful. good. we match, don't we? beautiful. well, listen, we'd love to hear your thoughts. send us your comments. post them by visiting gbnews.com. forward slash your save. but first is your news with tatiana sanchez . your news with tatiana sanchez. >> nana thank you and good morning. the top stories. the us president sparred with donald trump last night in the first

televised debate in the race for the white house. with nearly two months to go until he's formally nominated as the democratic nominee , joe biden had hoped to nominee, joe biden had hoped to build more support for his re—election, but the president often struggled to counter donald trump's aggressive style, allowing the former president to make several false claims without being challenged . rather without being challenged. rather than quelling concerns about his age, joe biden's stilted and shaky performance has reignited concerns within his party over whether he ought to be their nominee. >> eligible for what i've been able to do with the with the covid excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden . >> thank you, president biden. >> thank you, president biden. >> in other news, the uk's exit from recession earlier this year was stronger than initial figures had suggested. the office for national statistics says the economy grew by 0.7% in

the first three months of the yeah the first three months of the year. the improvement was largely driven by the services sector, with stronger activity also seen in professional services and transport. it could be good news for the prime minister ahead of next week's general election. he's made growing the economy a key promise , and labour says those promise, and labour says those with a mortgage are paying around £200 more now than before. liz truss's mini—budget the party says it analysed figures from the ons showing that costs of owning a home have ballooned under the conservative party. the tories say the economy is improving and insists its plan is working, though . for its plan is working, though. for the latest stories sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's back to michael and . to michael and. nana. >> good morning. it's just coming up to 834 934 even. crikey. where am i? this is

britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with me, nana akua and michael portillo. who's in for ben leo now? now joe biden and donald trump traded blows in the first debate of the 2024 presidential election campaign. >> the democrats have now discussed replacing joe biden as the nominee, as he floundered against his competition in what was described by some as a disastrous performance. >> well, who knew ? our reporter >> well, who knew? our reporter ray addison reflects on last night's proceedings. >> it was a night many thought would never come . after repeated would never come. after repeated taunts from his predecessor, president biden agreed to go head to head with donald trump in a presidential debate . the in a presidential debate. the prime time face off, giving americans a vital opportunity to see the two white house contenders sparring over key issues before polling day . the issues before polling day. the pubuc issues before polling day. the public tuned in in their millions to see if biden could

cope, amid ongoing rumours that he's in cognitive decline, and it wasn't an ideal start for the incumbent president grinding to a halt over health care. just ten minutes into the debate. >> eligible for what i've been able to do with the with the covid, excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden . >> thank you, president biden. >> thank you, president biden. >> although biden continued to struggle, he did manage to score points focusing on trump's criminal convictions january 6th and his colourful past. >> what what what are you talking about? you have the morals of an alley cat. the only person on this stage is a convicted felon is the man i'm looking at right now. and the fact of the matter is, he is he's what he's telling you is simply not true. the fact is that there was no effort on his part to stop what was going on up on capitol hill and all those

people, every one of those who was convicted, deserves to be convicted in return. >> trump went hard on biden's foreign policy, criticising him over afghanistan , blaming him over afghanistan, blaming him for the war in ukraine and claiming that he could stop the conflict as soon as he was re—elected . re—elected. >> he did nothing to stop it. in fact, i think he encouraged russia from going in. i tell you what happened. he was so bad with afghanistan. it was such a horrible embarrassment . most horrible embarrassment. most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, republican pundits will no doubt focus on biden's speech, which at times appeared slurred and stumbling whilst democrats will claim trump is simply not fit to be president, peddling dangerous rhetoric over immigration and abortion with no candidate scoring a killer blow, it may leave the american public scratching their head, and those undecided still wondering who to vote for their next chance to decide comes when the candidates face off in september , just two

face off in september, just two months before the general election. >> ray addison gb news. >> ray addison gb news. >> well, our reporter ray addison joins us now. most interesting debate, possibly decisive. we were saying there that some in the democrat party are calling for biden to be replaced as candidate . that replaced as candidate. that would be a drastic move. how widespread do you think that feeling is in the democrats? >> well, i don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the timing of this debate is very, very interesting. it's the holding it in june that's it's never been done before. it's the earliest debate ever. normally they'd be in, you know, september and onwards, holding it in june. why is that relevant . well, we've got the democratic national convention coming up in august. so a lot of people believe that this was an audition for biden. this was a chance to put him in front of the american public, to see how he would fare and give them potentially time to replace him at the dnc if they had to. now, of course, if they'd waited till september, which is when the

second debate will be held. i mean , it's just too late. way mean, it's just too late. way too late to get rid of him by then. even now, it's a push. it's a big push. they will have to vote and decide that he has become incapacitated, but there does seem to be a wave of sort of comments coming in that does seem to be the direction that it could potentially be going on now. it would be easier if he just stood down. people are saying that maybe his wife, jill, doctor jill biden needs to jill, doctorjill biden needs to step in, put a little hand, hand on the shoulder and say, it's time for you to step aside, otherwise it was going to get very , very messy. potentially. very, very messy. potentially. >> it's i find it incredible that really only now as if they've opened their eyes and realised this man is in cognitive decline. we could all see it. it is no surprise to me, there was initial criticism of there was initial criticism of the hosts, wasn't it ? jake the hosts, wasn't it? jake tapper and dana bash and tapper and bash, as i like to call them, that they were sort of partial to biden. so and they had shown bias to him before in this particular debate . how was this particular debate. how was it conducted? did it seem biased in any way?

>> no, i felt like it was very clean and clinical. and i think part of that is because of the rules that joe biden insisted on with the mics being muted when the other person wasn't speaking. and i think that's actually been to biden's detriment because, you know, normally in previous debates, what we've seen is trump talking oven what we've seen is trump talking over, president biden or previously obviously was just the candidate, biden, but that has sort of exposed trump and led to a lot more criticism of him. but now and i think trump's had good advice here, he did a lot less of that. he just kept quiet. and you've got two minute just feels like a long time when you're struggling to find the next word for joe biden. he struggled a lot. we saw he ground to a halt within the first ten minutes. he didn't gnnd first ten minutes. he didn't grind to a complete halt again. and so actually, as i was watching it, as we had the live broadcast here @gbnews i felt he slightly improved somewhat as he went on, probably the meds kicking in potentially. and so i felt that he he didn't have as

disastrous a night as he did as he could have potentially had . he could have potentially had. however, seeing now a lot of democrats coming out briefing against him, it suggests to me that they knew how this was going to play out. of course , going to play out. of course, we've got to remember they've had him for seven days at camp david. >> yes, he was rehearsing. >> yes, he was rehearsing. >> rehearsing? they say he's got a cold. i think he's hoarse because he's been answering so many questions. and i think they knew from that rehearsal that tonight, last night, rather, was going to be a disaster. >> some channels have been emphasising that donald trump was not being fact checked. did you feel that trump was getting away with porkies during the course of the evening? yeah, definitely. >> they weren't picking him up on as many things as i've seen in in previous debates. i actually not a big fan of picking up the candidates on, because a lot of this is it's a it's a matter of opinion, you know , whether, you know, know, whether, you know, obviously he's saying there's like say, for example, one of the claims was he said was there's been a crime wave by illegal migrants who've entered

the country over the last four years. now, what constitutes a crime wave? you know, how many things, how many crimes do you need for that to be a valid point ? some people would say, point? some people would say, well, hold on, you know, a handful is enough, and others would say it needs to be a much bigger number. >> feeling that trump was getting away with vast generalisations or not, trump was doing what? >> what trump does you expect him to in fact, you know, he he was a lot more cogent than than biden was. >> that's not hard, is it? >> that's not hard, is it? >> well, biden, biden would start off on one point and go through 2 or 3 other directions. i lost track of him most of the time. i was trying to keep notes of his comments. i couldn't keep notes. >> i mean, there was the comment, the medicare comment, and then he was talking about rape. and then he started talking about murder. >> and he i mean, he talked about women being raped by their sisters. >> at one point, i didn't i just couldn't understand what he was trying to say. a lot of the time. and i, you know, i really tried to listen and pay attention and be fair and even handed to both of the candidates being raped by their sisters. >> he said that at one point,

yeah, it was there. >> was there was a lot of very weird comments that just sentences that just didn't make any sense. >> there was a sentence where it appeared to me that he kept saying trump when he meant putin. yeah, the headlines , putin. yeah, the headlines, across the united states were pretty grim today , were they not pretty grim today, were they not for the biden camp? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean , i >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, i just saw one, one headline on reuters where it's saying that world leaders are now preparing to have to deal with trump, you know, from when he wins in november, if he wins in november. but they're thinking that's the direction it's going to go. of course, there's still time, though. i mean, i think in general the consensus seems to be and i think 67% of people cnn's poll, exit poll, so to speak, after that debate was that 67 felt trump had clearly won. so that's a that's a that's a huge number. and that's even people who don't like trump have never voted for trump, would never voted for trump, would never. never voted for trump, would never . they're saying, okay, i never. they're saying, okay, i still won't vote for him. but he clearly won. others are saying, yeah, i can't for vote biden. now. as it stands, i think the democrats are going to have to

think very, very seriously about replacing him. who would they have? the vice president, kamala harris? her her rating is very, very low, even lower than biden. >> michelle obama, there was talk of michelle obama, hillary clinton , all these people. clinton, all these people. >> yeah, michelle obama has repeatedly said she's not interested, hillary clinton, i think, is very interested. she's about to publish a book , was the about to publish a book, was the timing of which is quite interesting. so she's going to be very much in the public, in the public eye. california governor gavin newsom, as well as a name that's often mentioned . and he's deputised for biden at, you know, as a speaker at events as well . so there's events as well. so there's a there's a bunch of different names out there. >> hillary clinton is a woman of immense experience. you couldn't find a more experienced person to be candidate. on the other hand, she is a proven loser for the democrats. it's, that that limits her attraction, doesn't it? >> absolutely. although i believe she got more physical votes than donald trump. however, obviously she ultimately lost him, but she will have learned a lot from that. and she i was about to say

that. and she i was about to say that she doesn't have the same problems that joe biden has. however, if we think back to that election, she she struggled quite a lot sometimes herself. some of her own behaviour was questioned. i think she fell over at one point. and in fact, the democrats considered, replacing her as well at one point, but realised it just simply wasn't practical at that time. you've got to ask yourself why the democrats allowed this to go on for so long. >> the fact that they've allowed joe biden to even go in for a second term, i mean, what kind of a party is that that would enable that? >> yeah, but what's so intriguing about what ray is saying is that they they hatched this plot. ray thinks to, i suspect, to expose him. >> well, i suspect that's right. i would absolutely i in fact, before you were saying that, i was thinking they've done it deliberately. they brought it in early because trump did chuck out the challenge. they're saying that i'll speak to him any time, any place, anywhere. so they took him up on it, but they took him up on it to give them time to replace the leader. i think that's absolutely probably what they did. >> they've been out in force leading up to this briefing for

biden. we've seen these videos recently from d—day and so on, where they've been calling them cheap fakes, not deep fakes, cheap fakes, not deep fakes, cheap fakes, not deep fakes, cheap fakes, but implying that these instances aren't real or legitimate, and casting doubt on it, saying that he's sharp. but i think we now have to question how true are those statements . how true are those statements. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> listen, ray, the thing about live television is it's harder to fake, isn't it? this. this must have been real. it must have been real. >> of course it was. it always is with joe biden. which is why it's so worrying. thank you very much, ray. ray. brilliant right. so up next, are the tories the wrong class to be ruling the country? what does that even mean? labour's david lammy thinks so. you're here with britain's newsroom on gb news

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news now the shadow foreign secretary, david lammy, has claimed that the tories are not the right class of people to be running britain because of their pubuc running britain because of their public school smallness. >> he claimed that deputy leader angela rayner is someone who gets it and will resonate with people. so i'm sort of feeling that he's saying that more common people or something like that. common people or something like that . so do the conservatives that. so do the conservatives represent you? joining us now is the politics editor at huffington post uk, kevin schofield, kevin, do you agree with any of this language that they're the wrong kind of people? that sounds a bit wrong. class even know it's an odd thing for david lammy to say, think. >> i think you can take issue with your political opponents and ideas, with their outlook, with their policies, i think having a go at, at their background as a way of saying that somehow bars them from pubuc that somehow bars them from public office, i think is pretty low. i mean, sorry, i'm a slight

frog in my throat, i mean, you only have to look at the public have voted for inverted commas, posh people to be prime minister not so long ago , boris johnson, not so long ago, boris johnson, everyone knew that he was an old etonian. likewise david cameron. and yet they were happy to make them prime minister. so i don't think the british public see it that way . they look at people on that way. they look at people on their merits and think, if you are the best person for the job, then we'll elect you . regardless then we'll elect you. regardless of whether you went to a comprehensive school or a really posh private school. >> yeah, it's quite interesting, kevin, isn't it? i mean, people are complaining in this election that they don't see the charisma in either of the two major party leaders. and yet, obviously, they did find boris either because of or despite his etonian background, to be charismatic. i wonder also, though, whether any politician can really claim to be working class once they've risen to their position. i mean, i was looking at david lammy's cv, educated at lincoln's inn and harvard. i know that he was brought up by a single mother,

but doesn't his education kind of remove him from the class into which he was born ? into which he was born? >> yeah. i mean, it depends on your definition of working class. i suppose the people, if they're born in a working class household, do they remain working class for the rest of their lives , regardless of where their lives, regardless of where their lives, regardless of where their career takes them? i'm not too sure. i just think it's a comment that, that voters just that they just shake their head at, you know, they're not looking at really rishi sunak's, education. we do see polling, you know, that he's very wealthy. people know that. however, i think the idea that somehow, other members of the cabinet are unsuited for high office simply because they went to private school. i mean, there are some not many, but there are some on the labour front bench who were privately educated as well by david lammy's, thought process. does that mean that they somehow don't get it as well? and i know that, mr blair, for instance, he went to a very posh private school in

edinburgh, but i dare say that mr lammy was a very strong supporter of tony blair. so, you know, i think it's more to do with the colour of the rosette, on their lapels. i think that, that mr lammy takes issue with rather than their educational background. >> do you think that this smacks of this whole class system that appears to continue in the labour party, where they, it feels as though they are often despised? those people who have money, the vat on schools, for example, you heard the words of emily thornberry and people like that acting as though , well, you that acting as though, well, you know, they're upper class people. they can afford it. they should. it does feel a little bit like the labour party has a little bit of an issue with people who seem to be of an upper sort of middle upper class . yet keir starmer, he certainly isn't poor, is he? he keeps going on about his dad being a toolmaker , but yet he himself is toolmaker, but yet he himself is certainly not working class , certainly not working class, even though he says he is. do you think a labour party have a problem with this? >> it's interesting, isn't it, because i think what keir starmer has tried to do is to

make labour appeal to as wide a section of society as possible middle class, working class, i dare say upper class as well. you're right, the vat on private school fees rather jars a little bit with that. i think that's basically, keir starmer trying to keep the left of the party on side with that policy. and also, to be fair, we do see that it polls pretty well with the general public. so, so yeah, i'm pretty sure that keir starmer himself won't be terribly happy with what with what david lammy has said. because as i say, ever since he took over the job, he's tried his best to widen labour's appeal rather than make them appeal rather than make them appeal to a very narrow section of the country. >> now, david lammy has not featured much in this campaign, and maybe this is why he hasn't made another remark he made was he compared the tories to people at the end of the raj, and considering the ethnic diversity of the cabinet, which i think might be the envy of the labour party, that that seemed right, like rather a peculiar and possibly unfortunate comment to

kevin. >> yeah, you're right. i think sometimes david lammy, his mouth tends to sort of run away with himself a little bit. i think he gets maybe a little bit overexcited when he's when he's, when he's talking. and i think again, that is something that keir starmer and the labour leadership would probably shake their heads at when they see quotes of that nature. and you're right, it hasn't been seen a lot during the general election campaign, and maybe this may this new statesman interview may, may well explain why . why. >> thank you. kevin. >> thank you. kevin. >> good to talk to you. that's kevin schofield. yeah it is isn't it, that they sort of purport to be this and yet they are continue with this kind of talk. well listen stay with us. there's plenty more to come this morning, we're fast approaching 55 minutes after 9:00. this is britain's newsroom with me , nana britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and michael portillo. stay tuned. we'll give you the latest with your weather, which is next. right >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on .

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good morning. it's 10:00 on friday. the >> good morning. it's10:oo on friday. the 28th of june. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me. nana akua and michael portillo. >> well, breaking overnight, donald trump takes on joe biden in a no holds barred tv debate. biden stumbled and trump is accused of lying. we have the latest. >> then david lammy attacks the tories. the shadow foreign secretary says the conservatives are not the right class of people to be running britain . people to be running britain. >> reform uk is racist rant a campaigner has been caught on camera making racist comments about rishi sunak. nigel farage

condemned it as reprehensible and police fear the worst as the search intensifies for the missing teen, jay slater. >> emergency services focus their search in a remote part of tenerife . tenerife. i always find it odd that someone would say that it's the wrong class of people, because how do you define a class? what class of people does he think should be running the country? >> and do you change your class dunng >> and do you change your class during your life? if you're born into one class, do you perhaps move to another because of your education and your opportunities? >> because i think a lot of them think they're stuck in the working class mode. like keir starmer talks about being a toolmaker, rishi sunak keeps going back about his parents, how hard they worked, yet all of them are millionaires. i mean , them are millionaires. i mean, come on, you're the same class, right? we'd to love hear what you think. send us your views, post your comments gb news communal essay. but first, here's your news with tatiana

sanchez. >> nana, thank you very much. and good morning. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the us president sparred with donald trump last night in the first televised debate in the race for the white house. with nearly two months to go until he's formally nominated as the democratic nominee, joe biden had hoped to build more support for his re—election, but the president often struggled to counter donald trump's aggressive style, allowing the former president to make several false claims without being challenged. rather than quelling concerns about his age. joe biden's stilted and shaky performance has reignited concerns within the democratic party over whether he ought to be their nominee. >> for what i've been able to do with the with the covid excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare.

>> thank you, president biden reports suggest some within the democratic party are discussing ways in which joe biden could be replaced ahead of november's election , but no incumbent election, but no incumbent president has ever dropped out so late in a campaign. >> and there appears to be little agreement on what would happenif little agreement on what would happen if he did. some have suggested vice president kamala harris or california governor gavin newsom as possible replacements, but president biden has shown no sign of standing down, and there's no clear mechanism to force him to do so . in other news, a video do so. in other news, a video has emerged of a reform uk activist making racist comments about rishi sunak. activist making racist comments about rishi sunak . the person about rishi sunak. the person could also be observed engaging in islamophobic and generally offensive behaviour. in that video, which was obtained by channel 4 news. in another video, an event organiser was seen describing the lgbt pride flag as degenerate and suggesting gay people are paedophiles. reform's leader nigel farage says he's dismayed

by the comments, describing them as appalling sentiments . the as appalling sentiments. the uk's exit from recession earlier this year was stronger than initial figures had suggested. the ons says the economy grew by 0.7% in the first three months of this year . 0.7% in the first three months of this year. the improvement was largely driven by the services sector, with stronger activity also seen in professional services and transport. it could be good news for the prime minister, who has made growing the economy a key promise ahead of the next week's election . labour says those with election. labour says those with a mortgage are paying around £200 more now than before liz truss's mini—budget. the party says it analysed figures from the office for national statistics showing that costs of owning a home have ballooned under the conservative party. the tories say the economy is improving, though , and insists improving, though, and insists the plan is working. but shadow chief secretary to the treasury darren jones told gb news labour has a plan for the economy that working people can trust.

>> the labour party has been ahead of the conservative party for being the most trusted party on the economy, and that our shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, has been leading conservative chancellor jeremy hunt as the person most capable of stewarding the economy. going forward. so the labour party has a stronger , relationship with a stronger, relationship with the public today than any other party about managing the economy and making sure that taxpayers money is used well. and of course, we will make sure that's the case if we win the election next week by delivering that in office. >> but education secretary gillian keegan told gb news the situation with spiking mortgage rates is the same all over the world. >> mortgage rates and interest rates have gone up all over the world as a result, largely of the invasion of ukraine, which really spiked energy prices, which spiked inflation, and bank rates and interest rates are unked rates and interest rates are linked very, very tightly to inflation. they know that even if you're not an economist, most people know that. they look at

those rates and they look at them going together, which is why they know with it coming down to 2% that the bank rates will follow . everybody knows will follow. everybody knows that if you go anywhere else in the world, they've had pretty much a similar spike in inflation and a similar spike in interest rates. and it was a spike that now is under control . spike that now is under control. >> the conservatives will launch a plan for education reform today with a pledge to expand access to free childcare. it comes as the shadow education secretary admitted that labour's planned tax on private schools would apply to nurseries as well, which could mean fewer places for toddlers. the tories say labour's tax policy would see class sizes soar, while rishi sunak promised the conservatives plan would give children the skills they need to succeed in the future. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more with me 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 the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> good morning. if you just tuned in, where have you been? welcome. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom and on gb news with michael portillo and me nana akua now joe biden and donald trump traded blows in the first debate of the 2024 presidential election campaign . election campaign. >> before last night, many americans had expressed concerns about joe biden's age and his fitness for office. this debate didn't quite put those concerns to rest. >> eligible for what i've been able to do with the with the covid, excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat with, look, if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden. >> thank you, president biden. >> the pair traded blows over the january 6th capitol hill

riots. >> the only person in this stage is a convicted felon. is the man i'm looking at right now. and the fact of the matter is, he is he's what he's telling you is simply not true. the fact is that there was no effort on his part to stop what was going on up on capitol hill and all those people, every one of those who was convicted, deserves to be convicted. >> that says donald trump implied that joe biden was too weak to prevent putin's invasion of ukraine. >> he did nothing to stop it. in fact, i think he encouraged russia from going in. i tell you what happened. he was so bad with afghanistan. it was such a horrible embarrassment. most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. >> well, our us correspondent stephen edgington spoke to those in washington , dc for their in washington, dc for their verdict on the debate. >> who do you think won the debate tonight? >> i think in terms of opinion, biden won. but in terms of everything else, trump won and you're a biden voter. i personally am, even though i'm

not a fan of either voter. but if i had to pick, i'd vote biden. >> so did your mind change tonight after watching biden ? tonight after watching biden? >> it didn't, but i have significantly less faith than i ever did. why because he's getting old and i know they asked about that, and i personally don't believe him in his answer. but it's just a personal policy thing. i agree with biden more than i agree with biden more than i agree with trump, so i'm still going to vote for him. >> and what do you think of trump's performance? >> i think trump presents himself very well. i think you know, it's very easy to get caught up in the information because, you know, trump says one thing, biden says another . one thing, biden says another. but i think overall he did well. i mean, i'm glad that he was willing to come to cnn. >> what do you think of trump's performance ? performance? >> i think it was remarkably good. >> i did not start out as a trump voter, in 2016, i voted for hillary in 2020, i voted for vermin supreme. this time i'm

voting for trump . and i think voting for trump. and i think trump did an absolutely fantastic job in this debate, better than his previous one did. >> biden look old tonight was just like squinting the whole time. >> he's like this the whole time, and he's just like, you know, you could tell that he's like trying to think of what he's trying to say. and he's these long pauses. it was just awkward. who do you think won the debate tonight? >> donald trump? >> donald trump? >> absolutely. why he was the only one who actually could, a speak coherently and b articulate a record of success and a vision for the future . and a vision for the future. >> all right, well, let's speak to a spokesperson for the republicans overseas uk. jennifer ewing. jennifer, i mean , look who knew who knew exactly. >> i think we've been talking about it at this very desk, probably for the last year, it's not an age thing with president biden. it's a cognitive ability thing. there are plenty of people well into their 80s and even 90s that are more mentally

able to do the job. and let's not forget , trump is not that not forget, trump is not that much younger that the most shocking thing is the way the people on the left are reacting to last night. and either they're being dishonest or they realise they can no longer run cover for him, which is what they've been doing . and the real they've been doing. and the real losers, you know, the real losers. last night, or first of all, the democrats who have not been given a choice to pick somebody better in the in the primary. the second is the americans because it's a very close election. so i'd like a 50% chance of having a, you know, two good candidates. and third of all, we talk about all the time in london that america's election matters for the world. so we deserve to have two to good candidates going into november. and the people who have been lying about biden's cognitive abilities for the last month, six months, one year are are the reason we're in the situation we saw last night.

>> jennifer, i suppose joe biden, as a as an elderly man, could be supported in office by a good team. on the other hand, there is a question in a president of character and what joe biden managed to say during the debate was that his opponent is a convicted felon, and that he was the man who encouraged the january six lawless riot. so the january six lawless riot. so the character of trump is on the line , not just the cognitive line, not just the cognitive ability of joe biden . ability of joe biden. >> sure, i would understand what you're saying. if we're talking about looking for a husband or a spiritual leader, but what we're actually talking about is an election and the top three election and the top three election issues this year are the economy and inflation, the crisis we have at the southern border and the foreign policy disaster and trump polls better on all three. >> is it is a convicted felon the right person to deal with those three? >> well, nelson mandela was present, wasn't he? look, wasn't he . yes. he. yes. >> under a different sort of system. >> yeah. but you still have people who have been to jail or,

you know, potentially being candidates to run a country. jennhen candidates to run a country. jennifer, what's your answer? >> look , phelan. >> look, phelan. >> look, phelan. >> okay, let's be honest . let's >> okay, let's be honest. let's be honest, all of us. right? even though we're wearing the same colour, we can have different opinions. but i'm 75% of americans did not do not want to see the rematch of biden versus trump. okay, that's three quarters of the country. and yet here we are. so you have to make a decision. and actually even like that guy that stephen was interviewing that said, hey, biden might be old, but i like his policies. that's what i'm voting for. so people vote on policy. trump's 34 convictions, which is basically the same bookkeeping error written down 33 extra times. it's not 34 different ones, in an ideal world, yes, we'd go back to the days of reagan or somebody with more character, but that's not where we are. people are going to choose on the policies and, trump's convictions, if anything, have only helped him because people realise that the justice system has been weaponized against trump. and it's if we look back to about a

year ago march, desantis, who is running on the gop side, and trump were neck and neck. and then all of a sudden, the first new york case, the one we just had the convictions for the other day , that case came out other day, that case came out and trump shot ahead 30 points because people realised , wait because people realised, wait a minute, even if i don't like this guy, i want my chance to vote against him again. on november 5th. and it should not be to judges or a certain jury in a, you know, 90% beau biden jurisdiction to make the decision for the american people. we each get one vote, the same as saying a presidential candidate should be above the law, no, it's not saying he should be above the law. it's saying that in our constitution, the you only need to be above the age of 35 born in america and have been a resident for quite some time. so you technically can run from jail if on july 11th they put him in jail, i don't think they will because that will further

martrys him. but he could. look, i mean, is this an ideal candidate? no, but it's what we've got. >> but no other presidential candidate has been treated the way that he has been treated. so you have to accept that that's they have changed, almost changed the rules as far as he's concerned . but what does the concerned. but what does the democrats do now? that's the question. >> that's a great point. and, i believe and if you'll recall that this is the first time these, these debates were moved forward by about three months. usually we don't have them until september and october after both of the conventions, the democrats invited , trump to an democrats invited, trump to an early debate. so why did they do that? i genuinely think they were doing this, as, you know, as we say in football terms, a hail mary pass. like if he can get that to, oh, god, i knew you were going to say that. and i should not have pretended to be an american. you should have had greg swenson in here today doing the hail mary. but anyway, it means a last ditch attempt to see. and this was the test case. he really, really failed on a

human level. it's very sad to watch that. he should have been pulled out a long time ago. what do they do? they can either have him step down right now, which means kamala harris becomes president. that's a problem for them. her ratings are even lower than he, his r, number two, they go to the convention in august, and the delegates who have been sent there with a pledge to vote for him change who they're going to vote for and vote for somebody else, or three after the convention, people get in a smoke filled room and decide who they'd like it , whether it's they'd like it, whether it's governor gretchen whitmer of michigan, the governor of my home state, gavin newsom of california, they've got a decent bench on the democrat side. they really do. and i might not agree with the policies , but they're with the policies, but they're certainly more able. i mean, i think obama is enjoying his third term too much. so i think so he's pulling his strings then. i mean, you know, he always we have that quote of him saying, wouldn't it be great if i didn't have to be the president? i could just sit back. and i think actually , i back. and i think actually, i think he does this could come back.

>> no chance of changing both candidates, is there, even you say that. well we had our chance. >> we had our chance. the republicans, we had our chance. we had an actual primary. you remember, there was vivek, there was nikki haley, there was ron desantis, who a lot of us really liked. and, the people wanted trump. >> so can we can we show people because some people wouldn't have seen what happened overnight. sure, sure. sleep in the united kingdom. so we're going to play you a little bit of joe biden sort of stumbling, it's totally embarrassing. have a listen . a listen. >> eligible for what i've been able to do with the with the covid. excuse me , with, dealing covid. excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden . >> thank you, president biden. >> thank you, president biden. >> golly, that's painful. >> golly, that's painful. >> extraordinary moment. and. no, no fakes here. >> yeah. no. and look, it's one thing saying, okay, this guy's not going to be in a good enough

shape to serve another four years. i'm quite shape to serve another four you know, the leader shape to serve another four years. i'm quite worried got some good handlers and, you know, he can carry on. but we all deserve better than this. all of us. >> the world deserves better than that, my sympathy to you as an american. >> oh, why, it's a great country. no, no, to the world, but not too great. yeah, yeah, we'll be okay. we'll be okay in november 6th. don't you? yeah. nice to see you guys. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks for having me. >> see you. right. well, up next, you'll not believe what phrase a woke university boss is trying to ban on campus. stay tuned to find out. after this, you're with britain's newsroom on gb news

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newsroom with me. nana akua and michael portillo. >> we're joined now by broadcaster and journalist clare muldoon and former editor of the daily star, dawn neeson in the studio to go through the newspapers, so should we go with claire? should we start with you? reform uk? they're facing criticism after a campaigner was caught making racist slurs about prime minister rishi sunak, by an undercover journalist. a separate activist also found to have made homophobic comments. i mean, it's just ridiculous and utter abhorrent. >> the remarks that were made and they're documented on channel 4 reform have come out and they are insinuating that one of the leaders, one of the representatives of reform uk, that was captured on camera, was actually an agent, was actually an actor, and that channel 4 perhaps were not aware of that . perhaps were not aware of that. >> so no one knows exactly what was going on. but then, you know, as a member of the electorate, as a member of this public, as a member of, you know , the mainstream media as it is, you would hope that people are

reporting on the truth and the facts and dealing with facts. and that's the that's the incredible thing here, that this has actually happened. more so i would say to a certain extent than the remarks that were made, which are ghastly and abhorrent for anyone listening. >> what happened, what specifically happened in this particular. >> well, there were a couple of volunteers in reform, the reform uk party who have made very slanderous, racist and islamophobic remarks to certain members, not notwithstanding, only the prime minister but other factions of society, and they were openly discussing these issues. and it was it is disgusting. it was like, a bnp party down the pub or something. it's just that culture in britain that that precipice of denial of what's happening in the uk. and then to have it captured. >> yes, a very depressing, very, very horrible . but i think very horrible. but i think realistically, you know, during

a general election , parties get a general election, parties get volunteers coming in. they haven't a hope of vetting all those volunteers. and i just wonder, i just have a query in my mind, why did channel 4 go to this particular place and this particular party? now, supposing they'd gone to the labour party in a particular constituency, might they have found evidence of, of , anti—israeli, of, of, anti—israeli, anti—jewish feeling? do you think anti—semitic, they might very well have. >> they might very well have, because it's an open book. if you and i don't know, michael, do you really not know the people who are volunteering to host for you and work for you in a party? i would think they would have a good feeling about the people that they would recruit, or you would hope that they would. these are people standing to help get you elected i >> -- >> in. in my w >> in. in my day, if someone turned up to volunteer, my day is a long time ago. but if someone turned up to volunteer, you say, fantastic! we're so pleased to see you. there's a pile of leaflets going to

deliver them. there'd be no opportunity to know you. >> i think you hit the nail on the head there . it was a long the head there. it was a long time ago. do you think that? no i'm not being facetious, but do you think that might be the key? everything is so. everything's filmed now . everything is here how. >> now. >> but they're not experienced, are they? i mean, there's a piece they're warning people of doorbell cameras. you know, you've got a campaigner. it's like somebody who's never been on tv. sitting on tv doesn't know really the procedures. they don't understand that it might look easy, but there are things that you really know when doing it . it. >> nana we were talking about this on wednesday morning on gb news breakfast. there is no one out canvassing. there is absolutely no one doing any canvassing. very little leafleting , no one out in leafleting, no one out in person. and if you know, if you were to go into when you go into the poll, place and, on july the 4th, you will see a myriad of names, many of whom you cannot even put a face to, and you will not see the names of rishi sunak or, keir starmer. >> i think that's a really good point that i live in tower hamlets in east london. it's a foregone conclusion. who's going

to win the borough , and become to win the borough, and become our local mp again? but it we have had no contact with anyone canvassing whatsoever. so i mean either it's people have given up already, which i really hope isn't the case, or they just don't care anymore . i honestly don't care anymore. i honestly can't work it out, but i think there is a serious lack of engaging in voters with this one. i mean, this is this is a horrific story. it is. i kind of agree with what michael was saying as well, that, you know, these are people, volunteers. and to check everybody out with the speed of which reform announced they were standing. >> but the nigel nigel farage nigel nigel farage festival. >> yeah. so to be fair, yes, of course, which it totally is. but you do get a gauge of someone on first meeting. you know, i don't i don't think you can work out if someone's going to say something ridiculously racist and offensive to people on the doorstep. i think it's difficult to determine , but at least nigel to determine, but at least nigel has distanced himself from the comments and the parties and did so immediately. immediately. >> some other issues we've seen with parties recently. >> what's your what's the story? you pick ? you pick? >> yes, obviously this is the

ongoing story of jay slater, the 19 year old who went missing in tenerife on june the 17th. obviously the hunt is going on, but this is the latest development is that the family have turned to a tiktok sleuth , have turned to a tiktok sleuth, an internet sleuth, to help with the hunt , an internet sleuth, to help with the hunt, it's an internet sleuth, to help with the hunt , it's strange to an internet sleuth, to help with the hunt, it's strange to me what that means. >> well, even understand what that would mean. >> you're asking me about tiktok? i'm not exactly a tik toks. >> those wee sweets you used to get in the plastic. you could see tax. >> this is this is. this is a chap called paul arnott, a self—described tiktok explorer, and he runs an account on the video based social media app called down the rapids. >> it's been out in tenerife since saturday. now the spanish police are supposedly throwing everything out, but they're not giving a press conference, so we don't know what's really going on. they're not working with the british police and basically it does seem like there's an awful lot of theorists, shall we say, being put out on social media as to what's going on. and these

can only be hindering the search, i think, because there's so much, so many theories out there, conspiracy theories, many of them. >> and can i make a humanitarian point? i mean, i don't know whether this story is true or not, but there's a family out there that is suffering terribly. yes. and the press is in there every day having to find a new angle, a new story and here's this story that they're calling in a tiktok investigator. and i don't know whether this story is true or not, but i just feel that even if it were true, it smacks of abuse of this family. this family should be left alone and not pushed as well. >> this is the family that supposedly called this person i know, and supposedly i think as a jolly good word, there was quite a lot. >> there are so many theories around this. >> we do have to. hopefully they'll find there'll be some answers soon. but i want to move on to this story about a woke university, which has told students not to use the word illegal immigrants over fears that it could cause offence. apparently, the term is dehumanising and staff and students can say , undocumented. students can say, undocumented. instead, say says the guidance

so undocumented, margaret, rather than illegal. it's going further than that. >> nana you can't use the term elderly. you can't use the term oep. you can't say youngsters, you can't greet students in the morning by saying, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. if that was the way. oh, god. or or guy, you know, it's all very generic. it's all very fluffy and all very woolly, and it removes fats from descriptions. >> let's let's focus on this example . illegal >> let's let's focus on this example. illegal immigrant. which of those two is in doubt? immigrant. well, they've entered from outside the country illegal. it is not lawful for them to enter on a boat in the way that they're entering. exactly two facts. yes, exactly. >> and that was what i alluded to there when i said, you know, you cannot remove fact from description. you really ought to , not because then you're not describing the truth. it's the truth. >> well, facts trump feelings really, frankly. >> i mean, come on, nana of course, of course. coui'se, of course. >> course, of course. >> these people , why are they >> these people, why are they doing this? and i point to this. >> it's to make it more it's like a trigger warning, in a

theatre, you know , before theatre, you know, before a play, you know, it happens. people die on play. it's not real blood. do you think that we really have to be told that, you know, it's worse? that we have to be told to remove our mobile phones, etc? but all of this nonsense, and to be fair, to be quite frankly, with you, i have got kids have gone through tertiary education, my young , tertiary education, my young, my, my youngest daughter is graduating next week. my son has just finished at newcastle his first year and to be honest with you, i would abhor the fact that they'd be paying £9,250 a year to be taught nonsense like that , to be taught nonsense like that, because it's not forming them, it's not building them. it's not building their character with virtue. it's an absolute denial. >> what do they make of all this woke stuff ? sorry. woke stuff? sorry. >> let's bring dawn in for a second. dawn? what? what do you think of this story? >> i am going to play devil's advocate slightly here with the university. the university are saying the term illegal immigrant, even though factually accurate. michael, i agree, can be dehumanising and make people

think in a certain way about maybe we don't know, but maybe their fellow students to be sort of like tagged with this illegal immigrant. it might make you think one way about them when you might not necessarily need to do so. so i don't know whether they have any migrants at this university who are studying. and so i think they are trying to hashtag be kind, as we say these days . so i are trying to hashtag be kind, as we say these days. so i think undocumented, undocumented, well , i mean, well, i mean, it's also factually through their documents into the sea undocumented. well, we don't know how they lost their documents. it could be, michael to be fair, but i just think maybe they are just trying to soften the language. and i think for all of us to dial down the rhetoric when we're discussing some of these stories is and political stories at the moment in particular is not necessarily a bad idea . a bad idea. >> i don't know whether i mean, it's a fact, isn't it? if somebody comes here via a dinghy or illegally and they are from elsewhere, then it's factually it's factually accurate. of course, it's a bit it's all it's a bit like the gender stuff as

well. it's the same thing again. >> well it's ridiculous. i mean it's changing words, you know, to affect feeling and to make people feel more inclusive or whatever. i mean, i don't. >> great discussion, claire. dawn, thank you very much. i think it's time for some more news, isn't it, from tatiana sanchez. >> michael. thank you. the top stories this hour. the us president sparred with donald trump last night in the first televised debate in the race for the white house. with nearly two months to go until he's formally nominated as the democratic nominee, joe biden had hoped to build more support for his re—election , but the president re—election, but the president often struggled to counter donald trump's aggressive style, allowing the former president to make several false claims without being challenged. rather than quelling concerns about his age.joe than quelling concerns about his age. joe biden's stilted and shaky performance has reignited concerns within his party over whether he ought to be their nominee . nominee. >> before what i've been able to do with the with the covid

excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden , >> thank you, president biden, the uk's exit from recession earlier this year was stronger than initial figures had suggested. >> the office for national statistics says the economy grew by 0.7% in the first three months of the year. it could be good news for prime minister rishi sunak ahead of next week's election, who has made growing the economy a key promise . the economy a key promise. meanwhile, labour says those with a mortgage are paying around £200 more now than before liz truss's mini—budget. the tories say the cost of borrowing has increased all over the world, but shadow chief secretary darren jones says more people can trust labour to manage the economy . manage the economy. >> the labour party has been ahead of the conservative party for being the most trusted party on the economy , and our shadow on the economy, and our shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, has been leading conservative

chancellor jeremy been leading conservative chancellorjeremy hunt as the chancellor jeremy hunt as the person most capable of stewarding the economy. going forward. so the labour party has a stronger , relationship with a stronger, relationship with the public today than any other party about managing the economy and making sure that taxpayers money is used well. and of course, we will make sure that's the case if we win the election next week by delivering that in office. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i am 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 . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2639 and ,1.1816. the price of gold is £1,843.13 per

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>> ten 38.25. this is britain's newsroom. right. >> right. let's have a look at what you've been saying. yes. i'm sorry. >> no, not at all. gb views margaret says the ageism and ableism hurled at president biden exposes a major problem in

society. i watched some of it and thought biden did. well, if he's got a neurological diagnosis, such as parkinson's disease , and he has a full team disease, and he has a full team of advisers and decision makers, what do you make of that? >> oh, come on, margaret, really, he's the leader of the free world. whilst i appreciate and respect somebody who, if they're ill, even if they're ill, they shouldn't be running the united states. it's quite simple, really. i don't want them running it. >> he he has put himself in this position not only by being president, but by being a candidate in the forthcoming election. >> well, he probably didn't even realise what was going on. they just did it. and then suddenly he was in it. gary says my mum's 97 year old friend in a nursing home has more cognitive ability than biden. exactly. >> and jeff, on the same subject, says the united states has the same problems as the united kingdom. rubbish candidates, one from charlie says nigel farage is right. britain is broken. especially when you witness sunak and starmer beating each other up like cage fighters with punch drunk quotes. what do you make of that debate? the other day on

the bbc? >> the one between starmer and sunak? well, that was the that was the beginning of sort of sunak's comeback, wasn't it, and we saw this interview yesterday that sunak gave to christopher hope where he was very punchy, very aggressive , very together. very aggressive, very together. and that has started the debate the previous day. and i think a lot of conservatives must be thinking my goodness, if he'd done this six weeks ago, if, if instead of standing in the pounng instead of standing in the pouring rain outside downing street , he'd been in the pouring rain outside downing street, he'd been in the dry and punching away like that, maybe we'd be having a different election campaign. >> i don't know, i don't think so. i think too much water under the bridge. >> there's a lot. there's a lot of water under the bridge. >> too much gone on there, we've had a few reactions to david lammy's remarks. david lammy was saying that the conservatives are the wrong class to run britain. john says very concerning that you have someone like david lammy, who seems likely to be the next foreign secretary handling a trump administration. >> yeah. and jeff says usa has

done that one on me anymore. >> on, on on this point, we're talking about, you know, whether you could change class and whether it was a lack of charisma. and sue says boris was a character and he had personality and he was a buffoon and he was normal. neither starmer or sunak have that. ordinary folk feel that people can relate to. >> oh, it's true. it's there in black and white. you only need to watch them to see the totally unrelatable to most people in this country, which is quite sad really. but that's what we've got. and there are obviously other candidates as well, so people don't have to go for the two main ones. but, stay with us. gb news political editor christopher hope has spoken with rishi sunak. let's have a listen i >> -- >> people saw last night is keir starmer just >> people saw last night is keir starmerjust does not have a starmer just does not have a plan for government on the economy . no answers on economy. no answers on immigration. absolutely no answers. >> nine times you asked him on this i'll tell you what he's going to do. >> i've got a very clear plan for what i'm going to do with illegal migrants. they don't get to stay in our country. they should be removed. he can't tell

you what he's going to do on welfare. yeah. the guy thinks that you can't make a penny of savings from the welfare budget. that's just clearly not right. that's just clearly not right. that's why i want to build on the progress we've made. cut people's taxes. and last night, people's taxes. and last night, people could see the choice very clearly. i the only poll that does matter is on the 4th of july. right. and but what i'd say is, look, if those polls that you're talking about right end up happening on polling day, that means handing labour a blank cheque. blank cheque? you can't get it back. but i'd say to everyone watching that those polls aren't destiny, right? if i'm everyone's prime minister, i go to that nato summit increasing our defence spending to 2.5% of gdp, because this is the most dangerous time our country has faced in decades. we need to keep people safe. we need to keep people safe. we need to keep people safe. we need to get our allies to invest more. keir starmer is your prime minister. he goes to that nato wmmw minister. he goes to that nato summit. what's the first thing he's done? cut defence spending. when people are cheating at gambling it is illegal. we have laws against that . the gambling laws against that. the gambling commission investigate people who they suspect of doing that and they should do that. when i learn about all of this, i was furious. like everyone. everyone would be furious. you know , the

would be furious. you know, the idea that people would do something like that is just the antithesis of what public service is all about. i've been your prime minister, everyone's prime minister for 18 months. in that time, we've taken significant action. net migration was down last year. the first full year i was in office. and this year, thanks to the reforms that i've put in place, the number of visas we've issued is down by 30. that has never happened. and as i said the other night, if the if labour win the people smugglers and the criminal gangs are going to need a bigger boat, do not surrender our borders to keir starmer and the labour party. what nigel farage said about putin was completely wrong plays into putin's hands. putin is someone who has deployed nerve agents on the streets of britain just the other day, doing deals with north korea. >> finally, your message to for gb news viewers, they're watching this this interview here. they're worried about immigration. they're containing the economy around i mean can you can't labour do that as well. can't aren't labour

offering a more convincing case now than they have done in recent recent elections? >> well, the first thing i'd say is that the labour run welsh parliament have banned gb news turns. and i'll just say this right. i get that people are frustrated with my party, with me . it's been a difficult few me. it's been a difficult few years with covid, the war in ukraine, we haven't got everything right. we haven't made as much progress as we would have liked in some areas. but this is not a by—election. your vote can make a difference. this is a choice about our country's future and the impact it will have on your family finances. do not give labour a blank cheque to do what they want. do not surrender to them . want. do not surrender to them. >> all right. well, we can now cross live to hamilton west. scottish labour leader anas sarwar and deputy leader labour leader angela rayner are holding a rally . a rally. >> people so everyone can maximise their potential. every vote is to deliver gb energy, headquartered here in scotland, to bring down your bills and to create more jobs every vote is to maximise scotland's influence

. so ian murray and the secretary of state's office for scotland will be there to the window to the world, creating more exports and giving more jobs at home. and i love that he's got his ange board up as well . and crucially , every well. and crucially, every single vote for scottish labour will help deliver angela rayner's new deal for working people. the most transformative change in workers rights in a generation and for workers across the country. there is no better guardian of their rights than angela rayner. she will deliver , yes, the end of deliver, yes, the end of exploitative zero hour contracts. yes, the end of the scandal of fire and rehire. yes. employment rights on day one. but she will deliver a pay rise for over 200,000 scots, including 140,000 women on low pay including 140,000 women on low pay and 40,000 young people. that's how you make work , pay that's how you make work, pay and lift families out of poverty . so friends, please give a very

warm hamilton and scotland. welcome to what i hope will be the next deputy prime minister. angela rayner. >> thank you , anas . hey guys, >> thank you, anas. hey guys, can you feel that wind of change is here? it's absolutely amazing to be here in hamilton and thank you , imogen, for that fantastic you, imogen, for that fantastic speech because i know you're a true, great voice for the people of scotland, and i know you'll be a fantastic mp for here. and abby, i'm so sorry. what? you've had to go through, but our new deal for working people and your voice and your story and your message will make sure that no other woman has to go through what you went through under the next labour government . and next labour government. and karen and simon spoke so passionately as well, about what the new deal for working people

is. and i just want to concentrate on that for a minute, because i know anas and simon and others have spoke about the importance of it, but for me it's personal, because when i was a young mum on the council estate, the only job that i was able to get because i didn't have any qualifications was in the care sector and when i went into the care sector, i first of all was in the private sector and we were on casual contracts in them days, zero hour contracts, and we used to have to condense our hours down to get even a minimum wage out of all the hours that we did. and we were poorly trained and under labour and in the council that i started to work for , we that i started to work for, we got minimum standards in care. the care workers that i worked alongside got equal pay because of god and brown's government, who i met gordon brown when he was prime minister and i met gordon brown yesterday, and i was talking to him about some of

these issues and whether it was a working tax credits, whether it was a sure start centres, whether it was those minimum standards in care that delivered not just for the people who we cared for, but delivered for the carers who were caring for those people. the girls i worked alongside , many of them were a alongside, many of them were a lot older than me. they left school without much qualifications as well and was told they'd never amount to anything their sons adult sons were there at their graduation at the university when they got their degrees as part of the last labour government . that's last labour government. that's why we're going to tackle the issue of low pay. we're going to tackle the issue , especially tackle the issue, especially with our fair pay agreements in social care , so people can have social care, so people can have dignity and care in their own homes. once again, it is personal to me because i know we can do this, and though the tories want people to believe we can't do this , but we can, and

can't do this, but we can, and the new deal for working people, as i've gone up and down the country , i've met many employers country, i've met many employers who say to me, and we're already doing this, it's not those employers that we have a problem with, it's the employers like p&0 with, it's the employers like p&o who treat their workers disgracefully . any good disgracefully. any good employer, any good business knows that you get your profit and you have a successful business. if you invest in your workforce and the next labour government will invest in those employers that want to do the right thing, because we're pro—business and pro—worker. right thing, because we're pro—business and pro—worker . so pro—business and pro—worker. so the new deal for working people will transform working people's

lives. it will lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. it will give people secure work and secure pay because that's the focus and the foundation for anyone to build a life. you can't get a mortgage and finance. you can't support your family if you don't know where the money's coming from, from one week to the next. that's why the new deal is so important. for many people. it will be a game changer. and anna says the work we're going to do to tax the oil and gas companies to tax the oil and gas companies to bring great british energy will not only secure our energy. so we're not at the mercy of dictators like putin for our energy needs, but it'll also bnng energy needs, but it'll also bring down energy bills. it will also give thousands of jobs to people up and down the country with a headquarters here in scotland, so that our young people are bringing the renewables and the technologies of the future to the uk. and when labour last left power in 2010, we had the lowest waiting

list on record in the nhs and the highest satisfaction record. now, today we have the highest waiting list on record for people waiting for operations, and we have the lowest satisfaction. we have many of our nhs workers desperately trying to deliver care under very difficult circumstances. that's why we'll end the non—dom tax status and we'll make sure we bring down those waiting lists and we support our public services and give people the care that they deserve . now, care that they deserve. now, i've heard some people say that we've not been ambitious enough, but you know what? the change that we can bring in less than a week says that we can have hope and optimism. and when i was that young mum on that council estate told i wouldn't amount to

anything, it was that labour government in 1997 that gave me hope and opportunity that said to me, actually, you know what? we can change and we can do things differently now, even within this campaign, general election campaign, we've seen the tories haven't changed self—service. we've only seen self—service. we've only seen self—service sleaze , scandal self—service sleaze, scandal after scandal, waste after waste from the tories. what we're going to bring back is the change labour party under keir starmer at the service of the people of this country . because people of this country. because what i've seen up and down the uk , visiting people, visiting uk, visiting people, visiting businesses is the optimism, the hard graft that people are doing every single day, the struggle that they have working people visiting food banks, what a scourge on our society that we

have working people having to go to food banks. and that to me is indicative of what the tories don't understand either, because they've said this is a lifestyle choice. but i can tell you there's nothing more humiliating. there's nothing more that makes you feel inadequate and a failure. if you can't provide for your family, even when you're in work, that is not their fault. that is the product of a stagnant economy and the high taxes that the tories have burdened our uk citizens with. that's why we've got to change that. we can't tax our way out of this situation. we have to have growth. and if we'd have had growth like that. >> angela rayner, the deputy leader of the labour party, she's speaking in hamilton talking about the new deal for working people , emphasising her working people, emphasising her working people, emphasising her

working class background, talking about bringing jobs to scotland. i'm slightly puzzled by this. at one moment, she said, we're going to tax the oil companies and we're going to make ourselves less dependent upon putin's oil and gas. i didn't quite follow that. >> and then she brought in the non—dom tax status after she talked about the nhs. >> i think she must be conflating the funding from that with that. i mean , i don't know with that. i mean, i don't know what was going on there, but she, you know, fair enough. she's, she, she wants to end something that she believes, hindered her when she was younger. so she talked about, what is it when you have when you don't i can't remember what she said now was that she's talking about a new deal for working people , so angela working people, so angela raynen working people, so angela rayner, accompanied by anas sarwar , speaking in hamilton at sarwar, speaking in hamilton at the moment, zero hours contracts, that's what she she wants to end. >> this is britain's newsroom on gb news days. check out the weather with alex for a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news .

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>> good morning. it's 11:00 >> good morning. it's11:oo on friday. the 28th of june. we are live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me. nana akua and michael portillo . portillo. >> breaking overnight, donald trump takes on joe biden in a no holds barred tv debate . biden holds barred tv debate. biden stumbled and trump is accused of lying . lying. >> then, here in the uk, liberal democrats are calling for that on children's toothpaste and toothbrushes to be scrapped, as they say that this will lower a&e visits for tooth decay . a&e visits for tooth decay. >> david lammy attacks the tories. the shadow foreign secretary says the conservatives are not the right class of

people to be running britain. >> then very sad news police fear the worst as the search intensifies for the missing teen jay slater. emergency services focus their search in a remote part of tenerife . part of tenerife. >> now we would love to hear what you think. send your views and post your comments , please. and post your comments, please. >> let's go ask you about vacuum toothpaste. do you think it will help people? i would have thought it was such a small amount that i can't think it makes the difference . it seems makes the difference. it seems like an interesting issue that the lib dems could bring up at this point. it's a new story, isn't it? but does that make the difference to whether you have tooth decay or not? i rather doubt that. >> i think just clean your teeth at first. here's your latest news with tatiana sanchez .

news with tatiana sanchez. >> nana. thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the us president sparred with donald trump last night in the first televised debate in the race for the white house. with nearly two months to go until he's formally nominated as the democratic nominee, joe biden had hoped to build more support for his re—election, but the president often struggled to counter donald trump's aggressive style, allowing the former president to make several false claims without being challenged. rather than quelling concerns about his age. joe biden's stilted and shaky performance has reignited concerns within the democratic party over whether he ought to be their nominee. >> well, from what i've been able to do with the with the covid excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden . >> thank you, president biden. >> thank you, president biden. >> reports suggest some within the democratic party are discussing ways in which joe

biden could be replaced ahead of november's election, but no incumbent president had ever dropped out so late in a campaign. and there appears to be little agreement on what would happen if he did. some have suggested vice president kamala harris or california governor gavin newsom as possible replacements, but president biden has shown no sign of standing down, and there's no clear mechanism to force him to do so. the uk's exit from recession earlier this year was stronger than initial figures had suggested. the office for national statistics says the economy grew by 0.7% in the first three months of the yeah the first three months of the year. the improvement was largely driven by the services sector, with stronger activity also seen in professional services and transport. it could be good news for the prime minister, who has made growing the economy a key promise ahead of the election , labour says of the election, labour says those with a mortgage are paying around £200 more now than before liz truss's mini—budget. the party says it analysed figures from the office for national

statistics showing that costs of owning a home have ballooned under the conservatives. speaking at a campaign event, moments ago, deputy leader angela rayner said labour's plan would give more support to working people, while the new deal for working people will transform working people's lives, it will lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. >> it will give people secure work and secure pay because that's the focus and the foundation for anyone to build a life. you can't get a mortgage and finance, you can't support your family if you don't know where the money is coming from, from one week to the next. that's why the new deal is so important for many people. it will be a game changer. >> well, earlier , education >> well, earlier, education secretary gillian keegan told gb news that increased mortgage costs are a global problem . costs are a global problem. >> mortgage rates and interest rates have gone up all over the world as a result, largely of the invasion of ukraine, which really spiked energy prices

which spiked inflation, and bank rates and interest rates are unked rates and interest rates are linked very, very tightly to inflation. they know that even if you're not an economist, most people know that. they look at those rates and they look at them going together, which is why they know with it coming down to 2, that the bank rates will follow. everybody knows that if you go anywhere else in the world, they've had pretty much a similar spike in inflation and a similar spike in interest rates. and it was a spike that now is under control . spike that now is under control. >> the conservatives will launch a plan for education reform today with a pledge to expand access to free childcare. the party will highlight a series of previously announced commitments, which also includes a ban on mobile phones in schools and a strategy to cut down on absences with a new register of students who don't show up. the tories say labour's plan to make private schools pay vat will lead to larger class sizes, but sir keir starmer says more teachers are needed in state schools and claims.

research by the institute for fiscal studies says classes are unlikely to be affected by the tax . now an auction unlikely to be affected by the tax. now an auction led by items from the collection of diana, princess of wales, has sold for more than £4 million. it was billed at the most extensive collection of diana's personal belongings since she held her own charity auction in 1997, two months before her death. a pair of gowns were the bidders favourites, both which featured in her new york auction almost three decades ago and topping the sale was a magenta silk and lace evening jet dress, which was designed by victor edelstein, which diana wore in 1987, and it sold for 720,004 and a half times its original lower estimate . and some lower estimate. and some breaking news to finish this bulletin with the princess royal has now left south mead hospital in bristol, where she was being treated for minor head injuries

and concussion and is now at her gatcombe park home. she has now been released from hospital and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me 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 gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> well, at last some good news. the princess royal has come out of hospital. she had some sort of hospital. she had some sort of accident with her horse, but she's been in, what, 2 or 3 days, i would guess. and now she is out. she's very good news. her husband, was assuring us the other day that, that she was fine. and let's hope that's the proof she's left hospital. >> thank goodness. thank goodness for that , now we've had goodness for that, now we've had we've got quite a few messages from you. so we've read all our messages, actually, as it goes , messages, actually, as it goes, but. yeah. >> do you mind if i do you mind

if i just reflect slightly more on what angela rayner was saying? >> if you would? >> if you would? >> one of the things that puzzles me is the energy policy debate that's going on in scotland. i had a lot of experience going to scotland. oil and gas was so important to the scottish economy. thousands of jobs, absolutely leading the world in that technology. we're putting platforms into the north sea that, you know, at a scale that no one else was achieving. now, the policy of the labour party is not to issue more oil and gas licences and to tax the oil companies more heavily. what she was saying there was they're going to establish in, i think, glasgow a new thing called great british energy, which is going to be this , this, this agency, to be this, this, this agency, which is going to control energy policy. so i understand they're going to put some desk jobs into glasgow, but what about the jobs that they used to be in the yards and out there on the rigs and on the platforms and of course people are hoping that there'll be jobs in alternative energy sources. but so far, although we have this vast array of wind turbines, not many of those are being made in britain.

we are importing these wind turbines from china. by the way, importing wind turbines from china is not particularly good for the climate. so i'm not quite sure that all of this makes sense, but anyway. >> but she also talked about zero hours contracts, which she wanted to abolish and went back to her own childhood or when she was younger . to her own childhood or when she was younger. yes. and i sort of think that that's things have moved on. some people actually really appreciate zero hour contracts. i think. i'm not so sure that's a wise move. i don't know how the employers would see that as a way of going forward. and she wants growth. if you want growth, i don't know whether that's going to do it. >> andrew rayner was claiming to be pro—worker and pro—business. now we can turn to the liberal democrats because they are calling for vat on children's toothpaste and toothbrushes to be scrapped as they say that this will lower a&e visits for tooth decay issues. joining us now is our political correspondent , olivia utley from correspondent, olivia utley from cambridge. hello, olivia . tell cambridge. hello, olivia. tell us about this story. please >> hello. dentistry has become a

real frontline battleground of this campaign, and it's not really surprising. i mean, the statistics are shocking . 6 in 10 statistics are shocking. 6 in 10 children between the ages of five and ten who end up in a&e are there because of tooth decay and often other problems are found with dental health when they arrive at a&e. the labour party have obviously tried to get on the front foot on this. they've introduced they're talking about introducing their plan for supervised tooth brushing for primary school aged children, which the conservatives have criticised as unnecessary state intervention. and they've talked about ending the dental desert drought as they're calling it, by introducing 3000 new dental graduates into places which are really , really suffering because really, really suffering because of the lack of dentists. now the lib dems are trying to get in there too. now they are promising to scrap vat on children's toothpaste, and they say they would want to bring in this change within four weeks under an emergency budget. now, labour have shied away from

doing an emergency budget and we think that if labour do get into power, it will be actually quite a long time before we hear from rachel reeves. could it be that something like this from the liberal democrats changes labour's mind about that? will they decide that there is more urgency to some of their speciality plans to do with the nhs and dental health than they have previously thought? that's what the lib dems are hoping, especially in areas like this that labour, mp in cambridge has a majority of just under 10,000 and the lib dems are in second place. they're obviously very much hoping that policies like this will allow them to leapfrog labour and gain those swathes of seats across the south east, home counties, places like cambridgeshire and the southwest to where they're really hoping that they can pick up 50 to 60 seats. >> olivia , what is the feeling? >> olivia, what is the feeling? >> olivia, what is the feeling? >> does scrapping vat on toothpaste and toothbrushes for children? does it make a difference? does it mean that parents who presently are allowing their children's teeth

to decay would change their position or be able to take care of their children's teeth better? would it really lead to a reduction in the number of visits to a&e ? visits to a&e? >> well, i think that's a really, really interesting question. i mean, i think there are conservative backbench mps who've been arguing that even the sort of child supervising tooth brushing regime probably wouldn't make very much of a difference, because in the end, it comes to down parenting and parenting choices, and you can't force a parent to do what what you believe is right by that child. in some areas , perhaps it child. in some areas, perhaps it is simply a question of money, a very, very badly off parents live. it might be that they are unable to afford toothpaste and toothbrushes for their children, but one would have thought those would be examples on the very, very extreme end. and most of the time i suspect that it will not be a question about money and this 20% reduction in costs because of a reduction , because because of a reduction, because of the scrapping of vat, i

suspect, might not make that much of a difference. >> olivia utley, thank you very much. thank you very much. seems a bit of a populist policy for a very complex problem. people just simply need to clean their teeth more, i suspect. i don't know whether that will make any difference at all, but what do you think? gbnews.com/yoursay and also, if you'd like to join us on election night here, patrick and michelle, here they are to tell you more on election night. >> we are throwing a party, the gb news election night. >> watch party will be live from essex, and you are all invited on air from 10:00. >> we'll have familiar faces from across the channel. entertainment and lots more stuff as we keep our eye on all the results. as they come flying in. >> if you want to join our live election night watch party audience, scan the qr code on screen or go to gbnews.com forward slash election . party. forward slash election. party. >> it's going to be quite a night, but next up, the shadow foreign secretary, david lammy, has claimed that the tories are

not the right class of people to be running britain because of their public school smallness. >> he claimed that deputy leader angela rayner is someone who gets it and will resonate with people. joining us to discuss this is the author and broadcaster nichi hodgson. in the studio. what did you make of these remarks? let's think about their political impact. do you think that the labour party today will be thanking david lammy for opening up this front? >> no, because as we know, both parties and all parties have politicians from all kinds of backgrounds within them and you know, just because you're a member of the labour party doesn't mean you weren't publicly public, school educated or privately educated. i mean it it's something that gets levied against the tory party routinely and has been done for many decades. but i think what's more interesting to make as a point is that people's life experience fits them to be in politics, and we are still working to a very old fashioned model of thinking somebody hopefully does ppe at

oxford, and then maybe they work in banks and you know, there's this like this very standard way of getting into politics. and somebody like angela rayner, you know, she has the complete opposite journey. and as a result of that understands so many kind of aspects of life that the traditional model of politician can't. and i think what we should be focusing on is not which schools people go to, but it is their life experiences. and obviously people don't necessarily reveal what travails they've had to go through in their lives. you know , i think about, you know, ed davey talking about, you know, the care work that he's had to do for his mum and for his son. and then, you know, keir starmer is very reluctant to talk about his ill mum as a child, for example . and people can be example. and people can be private or not about those things . but i private or not about those things. but i think it's very important that people have had a very straightforward kind of life, probably aren't fit for office in that way . life, probably aren't fit for office in that way. i'm life, probably aren't fit for office in that way . i'm always office in that way. i'm always much more interested in someone that understands. maybe addiction issues or extreme poverty, or getting into debt or , you know, they're the kinds of people i want to i don't care which part they're in. i want them to understand people's

lives and what they struggle with. >> do you think this is a bit of a play on the whole sort of working people, working class? that's who we are. i mean, are you not sick and tired of them? you know, keir starmer is telling us he's a toolmaker. angela rayner is telling us that she was in care rishi sunak going on about his background and his family. we just want to hear about their policies. >> well, we do, but also i just don't think it's very smart to keep banging the same old drum. i think there's much more intelligent way to talk about people's fitness for office, and it's about empathy, actually, as well as being really good with economics or any of the rest of it. okay, you do need your own psychopath like dominic cummings to kind of, you know, push things through at a certain point. >> although he would argue that he's an expert, i think he would argue i don't think well, of course. coui'se. >> course. >> but, you know, what i'm saying is, like, you know, you need a mix of kinds of personalities across the board, but actually empathy is very rare and it is very, very important for people. and it doesn't matter what background you're from, somebody you know, born blue blood to, you know , in born blue blood to, you know, in the most extreme privilege who is empathic can truly understand what it's like to be broke, to be struggling.

>> can i put it to you that if you boarded an aircraft, you'd want to know that the captain had been trained to fly an aircraft? why is it thought objectionable that, you know, people go to eton and oxford and have been trained to rule, to govern ? why is that govern? why is that objectionable? >> well, because obviously we know that just going to eton doesn't fit you for office. and what i mean by that is it does train you. >> i mean, clearly lots of schools, lots of aspects of life can train you is what i'm, you know, somebody who's been in the army could be trained, someone who's been in prison could be trained because they might be on top of their gang in the wing, you know, why is it that if your background has been that route, it seems that there's some sort of objection, which is what's happening here in a sense that they're saying, oh, well, we are with the people and so on, so forth. >> why should that make you worse when you're actually being trained to do this? well because the issue is that's such a minority of the population, and that's what gets people's backs up. >> it's not that they're not fit to do it or that they haven't worked to do it, or they haven't got the skill. it's the fact that you keep getting vast swathes of people from these very tiny minority backgrounds

who are in power, and that that doesn't sit well with the british public, the people in power. >> now, sir keir starmer, he didn't have that background. angela rayner didn't have that background. i mean, did rishi. and there of the labour party. >> and that's the point isn't it. >> well not so much. but then rishi sunak didn't necessarily have that background either. so you know, a lot of the people from the parties have lots of different backgrounds. i just wonder why rishi sunak went to winchester and then worked in banking. >> so i don't think you can really say that he came here. >> he obviously was an ethnic minority, probably didn't have very much. so they had to fight for position to get where. so what he was, what has been brought up with sure. parents who fought very hard . who fought very hard. >> so i don't but but i completely agree with you and i want to interrupt you. but but you know, it's like you can't help the background. you're born , you're born into minorities. >> well, which also changes your experience of course it does. >> i'm married to a bangladeshi burmese man. >> who's your experience? it does be part of the if you're going to be looking at people in that way, they should be considering. >> i would completely agree. i mean, you know, my husband, his family came with absolutely nothing, you know, nearly destitute. and then my husband

grew a £5 million business and sold it a couple of years ago. oh, lucky you. >> he done. but he's fine. >> he done. but he's fine. >> me, one of those. >> me, one of those. >> he's one of those. >> he's one of those. >> he's one of those mad immigrant success stories. that doesn't happen very often. there are lots of people that just struggle forever. and the whole point about rishi sunak is that he did go to winchester, and then he did go into the kind of jobs that would create wealth for him. >> keir starmer his parents had a tough time, which he keeps going on about, but then he also did go to a grammar school. he also did get a bursary so he could carry on the grammar school. and so on, which is proof of his personal aptitude and hard work, isn't it? david lammy? where did david lammy go to school? didn't he go to harvard or something? >> he he went part of his education was at lincoln's inn and then at harvard. and that's rather the point. i would like to raise whatever class you're born into if you're successful in politics, are you not removed by virtue of your success? i mean, if next friday labour win the election, angela rayner will be racing around in a chauffeur dnven be racing around in a chauffeur driven car. >> she will, but it doesn't stop you remembering the things that affected you growing up. i wonder whether it. >> well, that's the same for all

of them. >> but it does. >> but it does. >> well, it is, but it isn't. i mean, it's like it is, you know, it is. >> rishi sunak what affected him growing up? he didn't have sky tv. well, yeah. >> because exactly. >> because exactly. >> which is obviously no hardship whatsoever. >> bottom line is no, but he's. but what he grew with a family who had to work really hard. >> but everybody has to work really hard. >> well, that's the whole point. you're agreeing with the point. >> well, i'm not, but i'm not, though, about working class in a different class of people. no, what i'm saying is that there's a difference between going without sky tv and feeling that shame and having torn bedsheets, for example, which is something my mum grew up with because she was born on a, you know, a very poor council estate, and they were ashamed. >> her parents were ashamed to let her auntie and uncle come to their house because the bed linen was torn. and one time the i'm just, i'm just anecdote to try and i'm just trying to me has had a very positive, you know, quite a posh up. >> of course he has. >> of course he has. >> but he's making the comments. >> but he's making the comments. >> but he's not necessarily saying that he, he's not exempting himself. he's just saying that actually if you live in these rarefied environments for lots of your life, you

probably don't really know what it's like to be struggling to find 50ft to put in the electric metre. well, he's a hypocrite then nichi hodgson all it is, isn't he? >> he's hypocrite. >> he's hypocrite. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so what's coming up? we're going to celebrate the good news that princess anne has left southmead hospital in bristol, where she was being treated for minor head injuries and concussion after an incident with a horse. this is britain's newsroom on .

gb news. >> good morning. if you've just joined us, where on earth have you been? it's just coming up to 25 minutes after 11:00. this is britain's newsroom. we are live across the united kingdom with me, nana akua and michael portillo. we're joined now by broadcaster and journalist clare muldoon and also former editor of the daily star. dawn neesom.

>> we have had this news in the last few moments that the princess royal, princess anne, has left hospital, which is interesting because, back on wednesday, her husband, tim laurence, was saying that she was recovering slowly, which perhaps was suggesting that she might spend some time in hospital. but the very good news today that she is out. gosh, the royal family has had a rough time. they real stories this yeah >> they really have came out of a clear blue sky. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no, absolutely. it really did. michael and it's good news. it's nice to have some good to news talk about. i mean, the princess royal, princess anne is 73, remember? because she's so out there and we all saw her on the trooping of the colour on that horse in the rain with the full regalia. and she's so out there and so fit and energetic and strong still that, you know. but if you forget how old she actually is and it's like, so she, she's been in hospital for five days, so it's quite a long time after. we're not entirely sure what happened, but an incident with a horse as they

describe it, whether it kicked her or she fell off or what we're not quite sure. but i mean, she is now finally out and, as i said, it depends on when she gets back to royal duties. as you say, michael, they're quite depleted at the moment, aren't they? for covering the role. >> all the things. it's been a really rough year. clare, do you have a reaction to this? >> well, only in the sense of it's a good news story. and that's really i'm really, really pleased for that. but she is one of the most hard working royals. and indeed king charles is slimmed down monarchy. her, convalescence, stroke, recuperation from this accident, will only have a further impact on the slimmed down monarchy. >> let's hope that she's back very soon and playing a very full part in public life now. we thought we ought to give you two a chance to react to the debate last night of biden and trump, dawn, do you have do you sometimes take a sort of counter point of view? are you going to tell us that joe biden had a great night? >> no, i'm not. i must confess my over. i mean, i like a lot of

people. i watched it live. my overriding sense coming out of it, and i'm being completely honest. michael was sad. i feel sad that the american political system is in such a state makes ours look sane, that joe biden, at 80, 81 years old and quite clearly not as well as he could be, is in that situation. so i was watching him. i thought he did better than i expected him to do, to be honest with you, because he lead on. >> well, no, no, no, wait, let me finish. no. no expectations. >> but that's the point i'm making . >> but that's the point i'm making. i did have low expectations because you saw some of the footage . certainly some of the footage. certainly when he was at the leader, the g7 the other day, and he really looked away with the fairies. and so i wasn't quite sure how someone obviously with his difficulties at 81, was going to stand and have a debate for 90 minutes. that's a lot of hard work. even if you are fully fit at 81. so i felt very sorry for him . but i think as i said, him. but i think as i said, i thought it was a car crash, but i thought he did better than i was expecting given the

expectations i have of them. and let's not forget that donald trump is 78 himself. >> i know and donald trump's articulacy or lack of it would not pass muster in a british election, would it? no, it wouldn't at all, however. >> i mean, the question is, who won? who lost like we have with our leaders debates in the hustings here you can define a man or a woman from how they project themselves on screen, talking to the electorate, telling people what they're going to do . they try to get going to do. they try to get people together, rally them up. there was none of that here, though. i don't think anyone won in that debate. i'll tell you who lost, though. >> nana they weren't there, so they had to be quiet and this and that and the mics were off and that and the mics were off and things doesn't matter. >> nana who the american people have lost. they really, really have. and a joe biden's wife. i don't understand how jill does not get a grip of her husband and say, look, darling, you cannot do this. you're not fit for purpose. take yourself off the ballot, please. >> but she seems to be she wants to be part of the whole thing anyway, by the looks of things.

>> well, she's derailing it as much as anyone. and kamala harris, her post interviews were, you know, almost as bad as don sitting on the fence there by saying biden wasn't as bad. you know , this story, though you know, this story, though important as it is, will probably not affect our viewers as much as the junior doctors strike. >> oh, yes, five days of junior doctors. >> yes, yes . >> yes, yes. »- >> yes, yes. >> how many operations and appointments are going to be postponed thanks to this? >> it's not even so much that because generally what happens is, as you know, more senior doctors stroke consultants have to come in and pick up the slack of those junior doctors who aren't running the wards of 300 people or something. this obviously has been in the diary for a long time. before the election was actually called, i would say, but they could have called it off. what is the optic of this here? there is absolutely no value of them striking. i think it's a dereliction of the duty for the fact that they are actually striking at this time. it's par for the course. it's a right of passage for junior doctors to work on this contract of them striking. >> now they know nothing can

happen. exactly. well, electioneering. so, dawn , why do electioneering. so, dawn, why do you think they're doing this? >> could it possibly be political, you know, when they first went out on strike, there were a few of them standing on the picket line with a very bad word. the tories . now, they word. the tories. now, they vanished quite straight away. but it did give you a hint as to where the bma, which has become an increasingly politicised union. i would say. but the strike began at 7 am. yesterday at my issue with the timing of this strike as well. this is within days when we had the cyberattack on the nhs blood donation service, and that has set operations, certainly cancer operations and things back as well . so for the doctors to well. so for the doctors to strike on top of that , when strike on top of that, when people are, you know, there's already a huge wait in at 7.2 million on the waiting list already. but on top of that, the blood durham, the blood cyber attack. it just it just means it to me. it feels like. well, hold on a minute. how much do you value your patients? >> how much do you care? i mean, they're in the caring profession

. the bma are there to fix people. the bma loved to politicise things and they love to be. >> i was going to say they to love talk about patient safety, but patient safety, you know, you may not die on the operating table because some other doctor is going to be there. but if your scan is postponed by three weeks, you know, you may be going to have treatment that is going to have treatment that is going to have treatment that is going to be more radical than the treatment you should otherwise have had. claire muldoon and dawn neesom, thank you very much indeed. thank you. it's time now for some more news headunes it's time now for some more news headlines with tatiana sanchez . headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> michael, thank you very much. the top stories this morning. the top stories this morning. the us president sparred with donald trump last night in the first televised debate in the race for the white house. with nearly two months to go until he's formally nominated as the democratic nominee. joe biden had hoped to build more support for his re—election, but the president often struggled to counter donald trump's aggressive style, allowing the

former president to make several false claims without being challenged. rather than quelling concerns about his age. joe biden's stilted and shaky performance has reignited concerns within his party over whether he ought to be their nominee . nominee. >> for what i've been able to do with the with the covid excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look , if we finally beat medicare. >> thank you, president biden . >> thank you, president biden. >> thank you, president biden. >> in other news, the uk's exit from recession earlier this year was stronger than initial figures had suggested. the office for national statistics says the economy grew by 0.7% in the first three months of the yeah the first three months of the year. it could be good news for prime minister rishi sunak ahead of next week's election, who's made growing the economy a key promise . meanwhile, labour says promise. meanwhile, labour says those with a mortgage are paying around £200 more every month than before. liz truss's

mini—budget. the tories say the cost of borrowing has increased all over the world. but labour says tax cuts announced by the prime minister could see rates rise yet again . and princess rise yet again. and princess anne has returned home after several days in hospital with minor injuries and concussion. the 73 year old was struck by a horse while walking on her estate in gloucestershire on sunday evening . yesterday, her sunday evening. yesterday, her husband, vice admiral sir tim laurence , told reporters she was laurence, told reporters she was recovering slowly after he visited her in hospital . and visited her in hospital. and those are the latest gb news headunes. those are the latest gb news headlines . for now, i'm tatiana 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 . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's

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going to be needing to hold any hands here at all. it's going to be a marvellous show. well, there's a lot to talk about. >> a nice change, because nana has been holding my hand all the way through. so. sophie, congratulations. what are you going to be dealing with today? >> well, i think as you'll have done for us, it will come right at the top of our agenda. but princess anne, coming out of hospital, i think as well. that will be big news for us. she spent those five nights in hospital, so we'll be touching on that. but as well, some fun stuff. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> glastonbury and the football. yes, i think the football. maybe i'll have to hold your hand for the football while i hold my hands up to having very little football knowledge. >> have you ever been to glastonbury? >> i haven't, no, actually, neither of us have. no, but we will be live in glastonbury and hopefully make it through the bit of signal desert that very often is there because the pyramid stage is now lit up and we'll have the first acts today, but also we're going to be touching on the general election campaign. >> oh, is it almost forgotten? >> oh, is it almost forgotten? >> there's a there's a, there's a, there's a little noticed report this morning that the labour party is planning a rally

in, in the days leading up to the date of the election, it's planned for this weekend and it's leading to all so many allusions to what happened. >> it's gonna be held in sheffield, sheffield, in 1992. >> it's not being held in sheffield. as far as we're aware. but of course, michael, you'll remember the 92 sheffield rally with neil kinnock shouting well all right i do, i do. >> do you know i was going around the doorsteps. it was an election where we the conservatives, because i was a conservative in those days we expected to lose. i was going around the doorsteps and so i wasn't watching what was going on on television. and suddenly i tell you, suddenly on the doorsteps, there was a change in attitude and people suddenly started saying, oh, you're going to win, you're going to win, you're going to win. and it was because of the sheffield rally, because of the sheffield rally, because neil kinnock had lost control and had done this. >> we're all right. we're all right . punching the air was the right. punching the air was the victory rally before the presumed victory, he had assumed victory, which is something which i think labour would be very careful not to do this time. >> but nonetheless they're holding a rally. >> they are with celebrity endorsements no doubt.

>> no, not that again. >> no, not that again. >> so there you go. i hate that classic. >> classic both very much. have a great show, sophie particularly have a great, fabulous debut . fabulous debut. >> brilliant right. all that and more at midday. up next we're looking ahead to england's next game in the euros, which is on sunday. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> it's pretty much exactly 1140. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with nana akua and michael portillo. >> right now, we send our congratulations to phil foden, whose girlfriend has given birth to a baby boy. bless him . to a baby boy. bless him. >> now, the england star rushed home for the birth, but we're relieved to reveal he's now back in germany , ready for the match in germany, ready for the match against slovakia on sunday. >> could this give the three lions the much needed boost to win the euros? joining us now

ahead of the knockout match on sunday at about 5:00 on sunday, a bit midway in between my show, which is annoying, is the former england footballer trevor steven trevor. is this, lovely to have you here. thank you very much for joining us. now, you played forjoining us. now, you played forjoining us. now, you played for england in the world cup in 1986. you famously in the game england versus argentina. does this have the whole sort of do you sense a feeling that england will emerge victorious? >> well, i hope so, we've not been great. i mean, that's for sure, we've not found a rhythm to, get our , our best game, our to, get our, our best game, our best form from our players. gareth southgate's obviously had criticism for that. but we are , criticism for that. but we are, and we do have a history of struggling in qualification, and we generally do get a bit better. i'm expecting quite a leap forward, i think from where we have been to what we're going to get, on sunday afternoon . but to get, on sunday afternoon. but i've got to say that i've never

seen such diverse permutations from all avenues, whether it's journalists or ex—players or punst journalists or ex—players or pundits or whatever, and fans are like, we can't settle on an 11 players to start this game. and different formations, etc, etc. so that's the worrying thing, is that we seem so all over the show as far as what our team selection might be on sunday afternoon, i just hope that gareth has got a clearer understanding of what's going to work and what's not. >> could that be partly because some of our most gifted players have been showing a lack of form? it's been criticism of both jude bellingham and of harry kane as being a bit a bit dilatory, at least since the first match. >> yeah, there's no doubt they're not having the impact that we thought that they would have. but when you look at the setup of the team, you've got a question. you know, particularly i think on the left hand side

with, kieran trippier playing as a right back or playing in left back position that is really causing us an issue because we've not got a natural flow and progression down the left hand side. and the basics, we are passing the ball to slow , you passing the ball to slow, you know, it's not magic. just move the ball quicker and let's see better movement and better , better movement and better, joining up between between our players, particularly in that midfield area. it's been so unbalanced. and i think for any , unbalanced. and i think for any, any team, you need a balance that works for you. we just haven't found it. i'm hoping that we stumble upon it, but people are even questioning whether jude bellingham should whetherjude bellingham should be in the team, and he's been the iconic leader for us. hasn't he really , i would suggest that he really, i would suggest that he really, i would suggest that he stays, but manoeuvre his position, bring him back with declan rice and phil ford and i would i would play because i'm sure he's on an emotional high. just having, had his third child with his with his partner. i've

got no issues with that. and phil's played the game so far and i think he's going to he's going to have a good game should he play on sunday. but i'm not picking the team. you know that's the thing. and harry kane as well , he's that's the thing. and harry kane as well, he's had as you said, may i call it , as well, he's had as you said, may i call it, over the years he's just delivered and he's delivered and delivered. unfortunately we as a team are just playing too slow, and he's struggling to get involved in the game. and but when the moment comes, i'm sure he will rise to the occasion. >> well, when the moment comes, it's like we're sort of waiting to get through the hard bit. then we'll suddenly show form. but unfortunately, that friendly against iceland was the beginning of it all and we haven't really looked good. what's your prediction for the scores then on sunday, well, i think england. england will win because we've got we are going to have to change. i had this outrageous, sort of idea before the tournament started, realising that luke shaw, our left back who walks into the team normally very unlikely to play. he hasn't played since february. let's put saka back at

left back and honestly, no one's even talked about that until now, i just think that that would be a good solution. end result. i'm hoping i can see two nil. if we get one, we'll get two, so two nil will be nice. >> i'm feeling a two. one coming along, trevor. steven, thank you very much . really good to talk very much. really good to talk to you. thank you. right. well still to come. we'll bring you an update in the tenerife police search for the missing lancashire teenager, jay slater. stay tuned. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

>> welcome back. we have some breaking news. tenerife police have called for volunteers to take part in the large scale search for the missing

lancashire teenager, jay slater. >> they are looking for civil protection agencies and mountain search volunteers to take part tomorrow morning. joining us now, senior global reporter for mailonline, nick pisa, joins us from tenerife. nick, they're calling on others to join in with the search. are they do they not have enough resources or is it the terrain so difficult to look through that they need to get more and more people on the ground to try and find him? >> i think it sounds like it's a question of both, really. >> i mean, they have been up there the last what are we, nearly 13 days into, into this search? they've been up there with drones, with dogs and with helicopters. and i have seen the civil protection teams, the mountain rescue teams and the police up there, but it is a massive area of terrain to cover . it's, it's a good 30 square mile. >> so they are looking for people who can come up there tomorrow. they've asked for them tomorrow. they've asked for them to be up there for 9:00 tomorrow morning, and they've also asked people before they set out, obviously, just to underline the fact of how treacherous this

terrain is, to leave their names and numbers with those officers who will be up there coordinating the search as well, because obviously, god forbid, we don't want to be looking for any other people who are up there, but they are stressing again that they don't just want any sort of johnny come latelys they do want people who do have some experience of the terrain up there, because i can tell you it is it is quite exposed, it's quite barren. it's quite windy up there and it is quite, quite a tricky terrain to search, nick, many people will know tenerife from their holidays, dominated by an enormous volcano, which obviously creates extraordinary terrain in itself and then creates extraordinary weather conditions with very different weathers on either side of the mountain. earlier reports we're talking about narrowing down the area of the search has the search area been narrowed, and if so, do you know why? >> well, let's focus on the first part of that question, because that's a very interesting point that you made there, because yes, people obviously think tenerife island, hot sunshine, etcetera. and yes,

thatis hot sunshine, etcetera. and yes, that is the case down at sea level at sea level, it's a good 30 c. but up where jay disappeared, it's 3000ft above sea level. it's about a thousand odd metres. and the temperature difference is about ten degrees. so during the day, it's not too bad up there. it's actually quite pleasant . bad up there. it's actually quite pleasant. but at night the temperature can drop to a degree or so above zero. and he. the last thing we know that he was wearing is a pair of shorts and a flimsy t shirt. so i think if anything it's the cold that might be an issue up there. and not the heat. but, but yes, to go back to your other point of your question, yes they are they do seem to be concentrating their, their resources and their , their search teams on that masca gorge, which is just below. and it's a gorge. it's just below the village where he was last seen at this airbnb with these two mystery british guys who the spanish police have questioned and who they allow to return back to the uk, which again has also raised some eyebrows, but obviously must have to give them the benefit of the doubt. if there's no

incriminating evidence, there's no reason why these men should be held in spain, it's going to ask us. well whilst they were searching for jay a couple ask us. well whilst they were searching forjay a couple of searching for jay a couple of days ago, they found another person who was lost and disorientated. how do we know anything about that person and whether they may have seen or heard anything, or have any idea about jay? >> yes. well, that's the gentleman. i actually spoke to him, shortly after that news came out. i managed to find him at his holiday. let and a guy had actually just come out for a bit of a hiking himself. he was on holiday and he was in the next door valley, and he was making his way up and then down, dropping down into the gorge where the police are searching. and now he'd done that. and then at the same time, he'd obviously seen the helicopters whirring around. and then the search teams came towards him, and i think there was a little bit lost in translation. there because they insisted that he come with them and that they take him back off the mountain and back to his car. but he told me that he was absolutely fine. he was an experienced hiker. he

was layered up as they say, hikers say when they go out, he had water with him. he had food with him. he had sticks with him. he insisted he wasn't dehydrated and that he was fine, but. and that he didn't need rescuing. and he said he found the whole thing rather embarrassing . embarrassing. >> nick. that's very interesting. nick pisa from tenerife , just warning us there tenerife, just warning us there about the dangers of misinformation in a situation like this , but nick pisa like this, but nick pisa undoubtedly will stay in touch with the situation and bring us any news when we have it. well, it's been an interesting morning, has it not? we've been debating that presidential debate. i think most people are saying that joe biden lost it. what are the consequences? it could be a highly consequential event if the democrats decide to replace their candidates, but it could be a positive thing for them to do that. >> i mean, i don't think he could get much worse than the situation they're in, and it could be a negative thing for trump if they do actually find somebody who people warm to other than joe biden anyway, it's certainly been an exciting morning to be on gb news because

this could be this could be a moment where the american election changes. >> could it be that the democrats do something that was thought absolutely impossible? >> well, that's it from britain's news from up next. it's good afternoon britain with tom and sophy . tom and sophy. >> we've got an update on the jay slater missing case. police in tenerife suggesting that they want as many people as possible to come and help search for the missing teenager. >> we're also going to be going over to the united states. could it be that joe biden is seriously swapped out at this late stage for someone else? we'll have the inside political track from across the pond . all track from across the pond. all that to come and so much more. even a little bit of live glastonbury for you. the main stage is kicking off today. all that's come after your weather. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of

up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news morning. >> welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a blustery day across the north today with quite a few showers around, although not as wet as yesterday for much of the south. dry and fine , although quite dry and fine, although quite a bit cooler than it was earlier in the week . certainly feels in the week. certainly feels pretty cool, with a frequent showers packing in across the highlands and the northern isles. scattering of showers coming and going through the day across northern england , some across northern england, some for northern ireland. but it won't be as wet here as yesterday afternoon, and the showers tending to ease off through central and southern scotland later as well. for much of the south. dry, fine, some cloud, but some decent spells of sunshine. the winds easing here as well, so mostly light winds. feeling quite pleasant in the sunshine but feeling quite cool with the showers and the gusty winds across the north, which will continue across certainly the northern half of scotland well into the evening. some sunny spells between the showers, the showers becoming fewer and further between across

southern scotland for and northern ireland. many places here will end the day dry and fine, along with much of northern england further south. it's a fine end to the day, but again, just that cooler feel compared to evenings earlier in the week as we go towards the weekend . well, the showers will weekend. well, the showers will continue through the night across the far north of scotland and out west. eyes on this massive cloud that is going to mix things up a little bit for the weekends . turning pretty the weekends. turning pretty cloudy across wales northwest england, parts of northern ireland with a threat of a little bit of light rain coming in here. quite a mild night for most double digits in towns and cities into saturday. and yeah, a bit of a mishmash. a fine day across east angle in the southeast. generally dry with sunny spells here. most of northern ireland, southern scotland also fine. still some showers across the far northwest northern england, wales , northern england, wales, southwest england a greyer day on saturday, much more cloud and there will be some rain at times , particularly for north—west england and northern and western parts of wales. temperature wise again, warmish across the

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on friday. the 28th of june. >> i'm tom harwood, and i'm sophie reaper. >> will joe go after a stumbling debate performance? democrats are now discussing the previously unthinkable, removing their presumptive nominee and picking a last minute new candidate. but is it all too late for them on this side of the pond, labour plans a pre victory rally with celebrity endorsements. >> the tories are hailing faster than expected economic growth. the lib dems are talking dentistry and the reform party is in hot water. after

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