>> well. >> well. >> good morning. 930 on monday, the ist of july. live across >> good morning. 930 on monday, the 1st of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good monday morning to you.so >> very good monday morning to you. so political shake—up in france. french president emmanuel macron is humiliated as the right surge in their first round of election voting. >> and that last gasp win for england, the three lions were just seconds away from going out of the euros. but up stepped jude bellingham and harry kane . jude bellingham and harry kane. >> and as we start election week, rishi sunak turns up the heat on reform uk as he battles nigel farage over millions of undecided voters lost without a trace the family of the teenager jay slater, left distraught as spanish police call off the search in tenerife and truth telling politicians the welsh parliament could make wilfully misleading the public a criminal offence in a vote tomorrow we'll have the latest .

have the latest. lying politicians who distort it. >> and we've got the former brexit secretary with us in studio. david davis. he'll have something quite interesting to say. i think, about those french elections, the general election and also what's going to happen in the welsh parliament. >> i want to hear from you this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay first, though, the very latest news headlines with tamsin roberts. >> beth and andrew, thanks very much. and a very good morning from the gb newsroom. >> it's 931. the far right national rally has taken more than 30% of the vote in france's elections, putting it on the cusp of forming government. the first round of voting is a huge setback for president macron, whose centrist alliance trailed in third place with just 20. if the current momentum continues, it could see the far right rising to power for the first time since the second world war. the final outcome will depend on

days of negotiations between parties before next week's run off vote, though many are now predicting a hung parliament well in the final week of campaigning here, prime minister rishi sunak is doubling down on his warning not to surrender to the opposition party. each party has ramped up its general election campaigning with increasingly bitter attacks aimed at persuading undecided voters. with labour still around 20 points ahead in the polls and just four days to go, the prime minister has explicitly warned of sir keir starmer's party heading for a super majority . heading for a super majority. energy prices will become cheaper from today as the latest price cap takes effect. the energy regulator's cap fell by 7% after a drop in wholesale prices. it means that a typical 12 month bills will be around £112 cheaper than they were a year ago, but bill payers are being reminded to send metre readings to their suppliers or risk not feeling the benefits of

those cheaper prices . and those cheaper prices. and england are through to the quarter finals of euro 2024, but only after an incredibly late comeback against slovakia to win two one. jude bellingham equalised in the 95th minute with captain harry kane heading home the decisive goal early in extra time. england will now play extra time. england will now play switzerland in the quarter finals in dusseldorf on saturday. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tamsin roberts more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce. good morning.

>> well they did it. they got through, no thanks to my support because i wasn't watching it. >> what the. i presume you're talking about the england game . talking about the england game. yeah, yeah. we got through to the quarter finals of euro 2024. of course, last night, a late comeback against slovakia. you know this, andrew, jude bellingham equalised. was it the 95th minute.7 i think it was. well kick over his head. amazing. >> yeah. brilliant about that. and harry kane got the decisive goal and harry kane got the decisive goal. apparently played us. the reason i didn't watch it. it will become obvious because the guest in our studio, david davis sir david davis, is now the former brexit secretary. i was having dinner with him last night and if you thought we were going to watch a football, you had a choice between jaw, jaw and a nice, roast lamb and booze or the football. >> and here he is. i can't believe you didn't watch the football, david. >> no, no, i'm i'm i'm a rugby player, not a football player. >> yeah, i understand it was something called a bicycle kick. is that right.7 >> right. yeah yeah. >> right. yeah yeah. >> which i could never achieve in a million years. >> no, there was an insurrection in the house where we had dinner

because it looked like we were going to have to watch the football. >> and i said, well, you can, but i went up on the terrace. david followed. so did everybody else. >> oh, well, there you go. >> oh, well, there you go. >> because actually it would we'd have been there all flippin night because these things do drag on if it goes into extra time. but we did. >> we did have a running commentary. we did from our hosts. we did. >> if memory serves me correctly, you said you were going to host the show in your england kit. >> if we get into semi—finals. okay. >> oh, i thought it was the. >> oh, i thought it was the. >> that'd be worth seeing. >> that'd be worth seeing. >> last night was the final. >> last night was the final. >> although i wish i hope we do. ihope >> although i wish i hope we do. i hope we do, so what were you talking about last night? what? what are the big political issues then? with. with four days to go the election, the french election? >> they talk quite a lot about the french election. >> yeah, we did. >> yeah, we did. >> we what? i said to david last night and i say it again. oh, for politicians who call early elections, which they don't need to, macron called an election. you didn't need to humiliated rishi sunak called an election early would be humiliating. >> well, we're looking to a bellingham finish, you see? yeah exactly. >> did you see is it likely the prime minister >> it's not over until the

whatever. >> but it's not over. and truth be told, about half the population have not made up their mind. i mean, that's that's what we're finding. >> well, you haven't made your mind up. >> no. yeah. you know, and as and all of the noises off, whether it's normandy or the other things that happened, have taken people away from talking about the big issues. and so what it means is this week is the week they're going to be talking about tax and issues like that, which is what's going to sway it. and do you think the tory tax charge against labour is getting through? it's beginning to stick. i mean, i've had people on a doorstep who said to me, well, i'm, i'm not happy with the government. i think i'm going to vote reform, but i'm worried about my pension and i'm worried about my taxes, so i'm probably going to vote tory. they literally persuade themselves in front of you. right. and there's quite a lot of that going on. people actually thinking about it, you know, and there are lots and lots i mean, this reminds me in a way, of 97, not because of the sort of the run of the polls, but because of the way labour's tactics have run into it. i don't know if i've ever told you, jeffrey robinson, i

remember you used to be a big supporter of gordon brown. yeah, a lot of his thinking for him. and he told me before the 97, i said, jeffrey, how are you going to meet these spending plans? you simply can't. he said, don't worry, my boy. we're going to put them all off balance sheet. i said, what do you mean by that? what he meant was they're going to do it on the never, neven going to do it on the never, never. something called pfi. yeah. that's right. and it turned out to be incredibly expensive. the government abandoned it. it looks like a labour government would readopt it. it means for every pound of investment, the public pays £5. that's what it comes down to. so you've got that you're going to have again what they did before. oh now we've seen the books. we're going to put the taxes up. and you had a little bit of all of that. a couple of weeks ago the guardian ran a story 12 tax increases in september. they'll say, now we've seen the books because the books are all public. this is just a well, that's what i want to talk to you about that, because that is what labour rachel reeves shadow chancellors. >> well, we don't know. we haven't seen the books. we haven't, but they they've got access. to what? everything. well well, firstly, the public at large has access to everything. >> the head of the ifs, the

independent organisation, the ifs has said the books are plain as a pikestaff. but even if they weren't in the last year, in the run up to an election, the official opposition has right to inside briefing. yeah, they can go to the treasury and say , tell go to the treasury and say, tell us what those if there was anything hidden, but there's nothing hidden . so it's simply nothing hidden. so it's simply it's simply a game really. and you know, we worry. i mean, i know people on a doorstep worry about their pensions, their savings. is that what the issues are? >> cost of living, mainly cost of living related pension savings. >> you know , cars, inheritance >> you know, cars, inheritance tax, those who are of an age and so on. so there's a whole series of these issues, all related to money, all related to money, that i'm hearing. anyway and, and i think, i think that's where, that's where the pivot is going to be this week. yeah, just looking across to france. ed davey particularly interested in your opinion on this with your brexit hat on of what you think this might mean for the

uk, the first of all, do you do you accept this definition that they are a far right party? >> well, they were a very far right party and they've they've managed to clean up their act to a large extent. but but they're still beyond the conservative party, if you like, in terms of being right wing , and i mean, being right wing, and i mean, the truth is, of course, this is just the first round. i mean, the french have this very complicated election process whereby you have two rounds and it encourages tactical voting. so truth be told, i don't think the most likely outcome is a le pen government. i think the most likely outcome is chaos is a sort of some sort of stalled hung parliament arrangement, because there'll be tactical voting on a corbyn easter party. the left wing party. i mean, the leader of it is very much like jeremy corbyn, and then you've got the sort of centrist group and they'll both be desperate to stop le pen, so you'll have a deal of tactical

voting. and broadly speaking, the voting is a third, a third, a third in terms of the balance of votes. it's more to le pen, but it's not a big difference. and so i think we're going to have a chaotic three years is what we're going to have out of france, which is problematic for everybody actually. it's problematic. it's certainly problematic. it's certainly problematic for the european union. remember, france and germany normally dictate what happensin germany normally dictate what happens in the european union. now you're going to have a missing head in germany. you've got schultz is weak because of the afd flush. so the whole thing is coming apart, you know. but that's that's the most likely outcome. the second most likely outcome. the second most likely is le pen gets a majority, which would would be no bad thing for us. i mean, we people like meloni in italy and le pen , although they're more le pen, although they're more right wing than me. and i wouldn't be voting for them if l, wouldn't be voting for them if i, if i had my way, the they are tend to be more friendly to us than some of the other countries. they're less they're less sold on the european project for its own sake. >> interesting, isn't it,

because these people coming in from the right at a time when britain is going to the left? >> well , so it britain is going to the left? >> well, so it is said so it is said. >> yeah. it feels like it's going to the left, the polls perhaps going to the left. is that going to cause a problem for starmer? because he's not going to have many natural allies. oh yeah, i think it will. >> i think it will. i mean, albeit they're driven by the same problems. i mean immigration, for example. immigration oddly, is a bigger problem for other european countries and for us. yeah. yeah. and, and those are the immigration and high taxes and high taxes, inability to pay the way. exactly. i mean, enormous demands on spending, which labour are going to give in to very quickly and leading to a very quickly and leading to a very high taxes leading to stultified growth. you know, all these arguments post brexit, you know, people say, oh , we're not know, people say, oh, we're not doing very well. we're doing a lot better than europe is in growth terms, investment terms and so on. because of high taxes. >> the election's got three days to go this is your 11th election, david. >> yeah, 10th general. 11th, because i had a by—election. 11th, 11th parliamentary election is it, has it been

frustrating that so much of it has been noises off for you? >> i mean, you say now that you'll focus on the bread and butter issues about tax, but, i mean, there have been noises off over the betting, which was a scandal. yeah. and the d—day has that been frustrating? yeah. the leadership screwing up it always. >> it always is. i mean, and it happens. it happens in a lot of elections, mind you. i mean, in the, in the infamous 2017 election, which we did so badly, there were three days on which i was planned to talk about brexit. we had a terrorist event. every one raisi just by just sheer bad luck. so for example, i was on the andrew marr programme on a sunday morning to make a big pitch on brexit, and it was the day of the london bridge , terrorist the london bridge, terrorist attack. so i spent an hour talking about that instead. so some that happens sometimes. but yeah, it's been annoying because, you know, we we've got a good case to make certainly, certainly on the sort of tax and spend side of things, you know, the inflation's come down

dramatically i mean just cast your mind back. imagine margaret thatcher would have given her eye teeth to cut inflation from 11% to 2% in six months, which is what we've done. but she never could in all her time , on never could in all her time, on the tax front, you know, the labour party is covering up a lot of things. everybody knows it. you know , it's coming out it. you know, it's coming out right, left and centre. >> but the tories have taxed this country. >> so it's but well there's a but there's a reason for that. don't don't forget you've, you've the tory party took over a country quotes no money left . a country quotes no money left. remember that what richard said is a huge debts after the banking crisis that was inevitable . but that sat there inevitable. but that sat there for a long time limited what we can do. then you got the pandemic furlough? absolutely necessary. and i know of nobody in any party who thinks we shouldn't have done furlough. you shouldn't have, as it were , you shouldn't have, as it were, propped up business while while pandemic was going on. that's cost £400 billion, something like that. so all told, you're you're up to about a trillion already in borrowing. and then of course, you've had ukraine

with all the costs that go with that too . so it's not because that too. so it's not because the tories want to put taxes up . the tories want to put taxes up. it's not because it's their instinct. it's because there's no choice . if you're going to no choice. if you're going to balance the books, the alternative is bankruptcy. and so they've done the responsible thing. but of course they carry the can. public doesn't say, oh, they say they're all excuses, they say they're all excuses, the public just says, you're in charge. it's on your watch. and that's that's how come we get the blame. but the truth is, it will get worse. even on labour's manifesto, let alone on what they don't say and what they do say. we'll have a higher tax burden next year, right? >> just stay with us a minute, david, lib dem leader ed davey has been on the campaign trail this morning in east sussex. let's have a look at what he's been doing now. the gimmick. so if you're listening on the radio, this looks to be ed davey doing a bungee jump. this morning, i presume that is. i mean, it's almost like we joked, didn't we, andrew? well, what's he going to do next? a bungee jump? >> well, no, he's done it.

>> well, no, he's done it. >> i'm not quite sure what he's trying to raise awareness of. there david, your response is very dignified. >> david. >> david. >> no, i mean, this is the man the in theory, the lib dems would like to be the prime minister of the country. yeah, doing this sort of thing. it's nonsense. i mean, i'm afraid i have a gloomy view of ed davey. i always remember he was the man who was in charge during the post office. he was. and then he went off to work for the legal firm that the post office was employing. i wrote about it all. they gave me a very good quote. do all those terrible tactics. yeah, on on the postmasters and postmistresses . and i have one postmistresses. and i have one of the leading ones in my part of the leading ones in my part of the leading ones in my part of the world, janet skinner, you know, and the thing she says about what she's been through. so i can't forgive him for that. i'm afraid no matter. that's why he. no, no amount of books are about aren't that to distract from the post office scandal? remember when the post office scandal was going through its deepest arguments in parliament? he had to absent himself for weeks. he dropped out of a pm. >> a prime minister's question

did do you think, though, that lib dems are going to do quite well because people might be fed up with the conservatives, and they also don't feel particularly affectionate towards labour? they may feel that reform isn't in the sweet spot for them . so where lib dem spot for them. so where lib dem they may do well just because they may do well just because they aren't well. the main two parties they might. >> i mean the in the south, in the south, in the so—called blue wall , the labour is not the wall, the labour is not the challenge. the lib dem is the challenge. the lib dem is the challenge and it probably feels like a safe vote. you know, it probably feels, you know, you're not going to vote for it. but the truth is, anything other than a tory vote helps labour. you know, you may be sitting in in leaf in a leafy suburb somewhere in the south. if you vote, if you put in a lib dem mp, what you're going to do is effectively help labour. yeah, always. i mean, i remember in the infamous 92 election that the infamous 92 election that the point of change, one of the points of change was when paddy ashdown said we will not if we go into coalition, it will not be with the tory government. it

will only be with the labour government and quite a lot of my people said they said, wait a minute, i'm not going to vote liberal for that. well, that's in effect what we're seeing now. >> okay, david, stay with us, still to come, we're going to have an exclusive about a new bill, which will make it criminal offence to lie in the senate. you're

gb news. it's 950. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> well, we've seen lib dem leader sir ed davey bungee jumping today. but what are labour up to? shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth had this to say to gb news breakfast a few moments ago. >> there were lots of people who still deciding, lots of people still deciding, lots of people still weighing up their options. but honestly, if you want to change this country, you've got to come out and vote. labour voting for any of the other parties helps rishi sunak get re—elected. so if you don't want to switch on gb news on friday morning and hear that rishi sunak has been re—elected, if you don't want to wake up to

that vote, labour on thursday , that vote, labour on thursday, well, that's pretty straightforward, wasn't it? >> yeah , i was just laughing >> yeah, i was just laughing because i think, you know, labour arithmetic's always a bit dodgy, but that's certainly dodgy. >> voting for reform helps. rishi sunak. yeah, i don't think so. i don't think so . so. i don't think so. >> i don't think so. >> i don't think so. >> you know how how big a i mean , they are the insurgent in this election. how big a how much damage is it doing to the tory vote? do you think the reform. >> yeah, potentially a lot , if, >> yeah, potentially a lot, if, if, if you get the sort of full turnout the, the, the polls are predicting potentially a very large amount, it will make a lot of otherwise safe tory seats marginal or make them go labour. it won't it won't deliver more than a handful at most of reform seats. but it will deliver a labour government, which is ironic because, you know, people who people are talking about voting reform want lower taxes, not what labour will give them. they want tighter immigration, not what labour will give them.

they want a stronger defences. not so, you know, it's a sort of it's, mad really. but not so, you know, it's a sort of it's, mad really . but people it's, mad really. but people have got to make their own decisions, haven't they. >> yeah. what did you make of the rally? nigel's rally yesterday, david? 5000 people nearly in birmingham, it was a very sort of american presidential style kind of event, wasn't it , they had, the event, wasn't it, they had, the nigel was introduced onto the stage by a muslim businessman who, apparently was was a tory donon who, apparently was was a tory donor, as my understanding before. now, was he? i don't know, i don't know, zia yousef is his name. let's have a little look at what he had to say. >> this is a movement for british people of all races and faiths who love their country. a movement for those who want to see british values protected, who wish to see our culture celebrated. but let us be under no illusions. this mission will not be easy. quite the opposite . not be easy. quite the opposite. we will have to face down the entire political and media

establishment who hate us for what we love. >> that will have surprised a lot of people yesterday, because it very much swims against this narrative of nigel's party, doesn't it? >> well, i mean , i think he's >> well, i mean, i think he's trying to correct what's happenedin trying to correct what's happened in the last week to some extent. i mean, you know, i mean, unfortunately there are a number of, members of reform who have been shown plainly to be racist, i'm afraid. and so and so he's trying to correct that. he knows how dangerous that is to him. nigel's not racist, but but but but the way this is, the way he's put his party together has encouraged lots of people of that sort of that sort , and that sort of that sort, and nobody wants to see that. >> and it was one of the reasons, of course, why sunak went for an early election. david was because he thought, reform are not prepared. they don't have the money, they don't have the infrastructure and they don't have the candidates. and i think they've now admitted they've had to stand down. 100 candidates since january, 100 since january. >> wow, wow. i mean, i knew of a dozen in the last week or so, but the that case at the weekend of andrew parker, this this

actor obviously reform are looking into how this guy ended up on the channel four documentary. >> do you think they are firefighting forces behind the scenes trying to discredit? >> well, not in the way that nigel describes. look, clearly they're an anti—establishment party. but but no, there's no conspiracy to fit them up as which is what he was trying to describe. i think that's just nonsense. that's him holding off the problem . and i was always the problem. and i was always very plausible. so it sounds like it, you know , he sounds like it, you know, he sounds like it, you know, he sounds like he's he's he's not not the case. i'm sure i would be astonished. you could knock me over with a feather if channel 4 employed that man, which is what is what he's trying to say. >> i think the implication being that it wasn't channel 4. >> anyway, we've run out of time. david. lovely to talk to you. david davis. sir david davis, the former brexit secretary. >> right. we're going to be a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> and a very good day to you.

here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. some of us in the met office. some of us in the south and southeast will cling to on some fine weather today. elsewhere it is turning pretty cloudy and there will be some rain around in association with a frontal system that is gradually making its way south eastwards. this has already brought quite a bit of rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland, and is now pushing its way into parts of northern england, later central england and also across parts of wales. as we go through the afternoon. like i said , across afternoon. like i said, across southern southeastern parts, clinging on to some fine weather here, there will be some sunshine around, but turning a bit cloudier as we go through the day in the sunshine. not feeling too bad. temperatures just about getting into the low 20s. feeling cooler towards the north northwest as we go into this evening. and looking at this evening. and looking at this in a bit more detail across scotland, the front will have largely cleared away across these areas and so it's going to be a little bit clearer at times. some clear spells mixed in, but also a bit fresh. there could be some strong winds here as well. a bit cloudy across northern ireland as we go

through the end of the day, but looking largely dry. however, the front is going to be lingering across northern central parts of england and across wales, so some thick cloud and some outbreaks of drizzly rain clinging on to the fine weather across the southeast through much of the day. but as we go overnight, the cloud and the drizzly rain is going to arrive here. so turning a bit damp through the night across many parts of the south—east and also some eastern parts of england further west, some clear skies developing, a few showers, but most places largely dry. it's not going to be a particularly chilly night, temperatures generally holding up, especially across east and southeastern parts where we have some thicker cloud . any drizzly some thicker cloud. any drizzly rain across parts of east and southeastern england will gradually clear away as we go through tomorrow . otherwise, through tomorrow. otherwise, it's looking like a mostly dry day for many places. a few showers to watch out for, but also some bright sunny spells and then some more. persistent showery rain starts to push its way in to the far northwest as we go through later on. temperatures will be similar to today, but feeling a bit cooler where the cloud lingers in the southeast.

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>> good morning. it's10:00 on monday, the 1st of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with bev turner and andrew pierce. >> political shake—up in france. the french president, emmanuel macron, is humiliated. the right surge in the first round of election voting. >> and we won the seat. it was a last gasp win for england. the three lions were just seconds away from going out of the euros, but up stepped jude bellingham and harry kane as we start election week. >> rishi sunak turns up the heat on reform uk as he battles nigel farage over millions of undecided voters and truth telling politicians the welsh parliament could make wilfully misleading the public a criminal offence in a vote. >> tomorrow will explain .

>> tomorrow will explain. how. get in touch this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your safe first though the very latest news with . tamsin. latest news with. tamsin. >> bev and andrew thanks very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. it'sjust after gb newsroom. it's just after 10:00. the far right national rally party has taken more than 30% of the vote in france's elections , putting it on the elections, putting it on the cusp of forming government . the cusp of forming government. the first round of voting is a huge setback for president macron, whose centrist alliance trailed in third place with just 20. if the current momentum continues, it could be the far right rising to power for the first time since the second world war. the final outcome will depend on days of negotiations between parties before next week's run off vote, though many are now predicting a hung parliament here, political parties are appealing to undecided voters in

the final days before thursday's election, prime minister rishi sunakis election, prime minister rishi sunak is urging people not to give labour a super majority amid polls giving sir keir starmer a 20 point lead. but the labour leader says a clear mandate is needed to repair britain's economy, and warns apathy could lead to another five years of the conservatives shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth told gb news a vote for labour is a for vote change. >> there are lots of people who still deciding . lots of people still deciding. lots of people are still weighing up their options, but honestly, if you want to change this country, you've got to come out and vote labour voting for any of the other parties helps rishi sunak get re—elected. so if you don't want to switch on gb news on friday morning and hear that rishi sunak has been re—elected , rishi sunak has been re—elected, if you don't want to wake up to that vote, labour on thursday well, many within the conservative party are now attempting to persuade would be reform uk voters to think again. >> home secretary james cleverly

told gb news that voters have a clear choice to make. >> which of the two parties that can credibly form a government do you want to form a government? do you want it to be the conservative party? we have a plan. we are determined to bnng a plan. we are determined to bring down immigration or keir starmer's labour party, which is led by a man who said that all immigration legislation was racist . has the labour party has racist. has the labour party has voted against stronger border controls over 130 times, voted to delay the rwanda scheme, which is why it's not yet up and running. so that is the choice at this election . at this election. >> meanwhile, the liberal democrats say they'll spend £440 million a year on supporting widows and bereaved children. the party said it would aim to double bereavement support payments, citing years of cuts under the conservative government. ed davey described current provisions as heartless and short sighted. under current

rules, a bereaved family receives a lump sum of up to 3500 pounds, followed by a monthly payment of up to £350 for 18 months. energy prices will become cheaper from today as the latest price cap takes effect. the energy regulator's cap fell by 7% after a drop in wholesale prices. it means that typical 12 month bills will be around £112 cheaper than they were a year ago, but bill payers are being reminded to send metre readings to their suppliers or risk not feeling the benefits of those cheaper prices . jobcentre those cheaper prices. jobcentre security guards have begun a week long strike in an escalation over a pay dispute. the gmb said around 1500 of its members employed by g—4s will walk out. the union says 90% of guards are paid just the minimum wage. england are through to the quarter finals of euro 2024, but

only after an incredibly late comeback against slovakia to win two one. jude bellingham equalised in the 95th minute, with captain harry kane heading home the decisive goal early in extra time. england will now play extra time. england will now play switzerland in the quarter finals in dusseldorf on saturday, while those are the latest gb news headlines. i'm tamsin roberts 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 gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> time is 1005. this is britain's newsroom, live across the united kingdom with andrew pierce and bev turner. we are, of course, in the run up now to polling day on thursday. we want to hear what you have to say about the big issues. you know, where to send them to gbnews.com/yoursay.

>> a lot of you are getting in touch saying sarsi says stop calling the french party that obviously are leading the elections over there , far right. elections over there, far right. their policies are more socialist , but they're not socialist, but they're not ashamed to be french , it's ashamed to be french, it's because marine le pen is the daughter of jean—marie le pen, who was pretty, was a very hard liner, but she's completely disassociated from her father. they changed the party's name from national front to national rally , but it is a centre right rally, but it is a centre right party. i wouldn't call it far right. >> no. and also, here's another one. tony says. why are gb news saying that le pen's party are far right? do you use the term far right? do you use the term far left ever ? it's far left ever? it's disrespectful to the french people to make out they're all far right. please amend i but the other party but the other party that's got 28% of the vote, they are being called far left, but i don't know they are. >> david called them corbynite. david davis, but which would make them politically. >> it feels across the world, even particularly in europe, that people are being driven to

the extremes of what we might. i don't even think the right and left dichotomy paradigm means anything anymore in 20, and a lot of it is because of failure to deal with immigration and high taxes. >> and that is a big issue. why the tories are in such trouble in this country, because they've put taxes up far too high and they haven't controlled immigration, legal or illegal migration. >> you see, the thing is with with marine le pen wanting to clamp down on immigration so much more than macron, i'm interested in what that would mean for us, given their porous border , and on that french border, and on that french election, marine le pen has declared her party practically wiped out emmanuel macron after winning the first round of voting in the french parliament election. >> so le pen's national rally reached 33% of the vote. behind them, the left wing new popular front alliance on 28, leaving macron's ensemble alliance lagging behind on 20. what hoot. >> well, joining us now is french journalist and columnist

anne—elisabeth moutet. good morning to you. good morning. and elizabeth. so just give us the background to french politics at the moment, to us here in the united kingdom. why this result? what has given rise to this? perhaps surprising result ? result? >> it depends what you think is surprising . if it's the fact surprising. if it's the fact that the national rally came ahead, that is not surprising. that was expected. the pollsters were pretty good about this. and then you had this life size poll, which were the european elections, which is a pr system elections, which is a pr system election , so that you got really election, so that you got really a very close result to what we're seeing now today nationwide. but it's more that our system is, is, two rounds of, of elections in a first round where everybody runs and in a second round where you've got to sort of pick and desist and choose and that's what makes it so complicated. and also the fact that the, the left alliance

managed to sort of form itself, even though it's built of people who hate one another, basically because they realise that if they, you know, they would disappear if they were separate, they went to this fight separately and finally, the man, strangely enough, who holds the cards is the one man who caused the entire chaos. it's emmanuel macron, because he has put a situation in which we will have next sunday elections in which his people can either stay on when they came third or walk out. and he's told them to stay on or to walk out so that in any case, they can bar the way to the national rally. and he singled out the national rally , singled out the national rally, even though three weeks ago he said that the left alliance was anti—semitic. anti—parliamentarian anti—democratic and was was going to destroy the finances of france. but suddenly he decides that they are all right because everything is better than, quote unquote, the fascists and if,

if, le pen's party actually triumph on sunday, she won't be prime minister, it will be a young man we don't know very much about. >> he's 28. tell us about him, who he is and what he's like. >> oh , jordan bardella is the >> oh, jordan bardella is the great kind of the of the french. right. he went into politics aged 16. he doesn't have a university education. he comes from those very beaulieu, north paris, of places where you've got a great deal of immigration. he was very decided that the national rally, which was called the national front at the time, was something that mattered to him. and he's risen, meteoric meteorically, because he is very gifted. whether there is some some, you know, there's a depth of political thought behind this wonderfully sort of well composed and slick facade. we do not know. but certainly his speech yesterday saying when i'm prime minister, i will do this, that, and that was absolutely impressive. it was very

centrist. it was very, you know, i shall be the prime minister of every all french citizens and not just the ones who voted for me. it was it was really impressive, and he also has sort of suddenly he's he's sort of made everyone else in the political game look old, even gabriel attal, the prime minister, who's 35, and even emmanuel macron, who is such a young president seven years ago, what's your hunch ? what's your hunch? >> what's going to happen? will there be huge tactical voting to keep le pen out? >> we don't know . and that >> we don't know. and that really i mean, it is complete chaos. really i mean, it is complete chaos . my guess is that we, the chaos. my guess is that we, the national rally, will be short of a full majority . we have 577 a full majority. we have 577 constituencies. you need 289 mps, the spread gives them the possibility of getting 290 at the highest . and that's that's the highest. and that's that's to me it means a hung parliament. and the question in that case is how hung, if it's

only ten mps, they will find allies for practically any bill they try to pass on the sort of, you know, the separate elements on the right, in which case probably bardella will go. but otherwise he has said, i want to full majority or i'm not going there because i'm not staying there because i'm not staying there to be a sitting duck for every, every, sort of bad trick that mostly emmanuel macron and other people will launch at me. >> fascinating. >> fascinating. >> and what is if you just explain what is the, marine le pen's position on immigration? what does she intend to change? because there are some quite different suggestions , well , different suggestions, well, immigration, as every nation western nation in the world now knows, is very difficult to solve once you've got the people into the country. france has not just got a very large maritime border, it also has a fairly undefended land border because of the schengen agreement that we are part of. so in theory,

you're not allowed to check people's papers when they come from, say, germany or italy into france. we have slightly gamed that in france because, i think it was under francois hollande in 2015 when angela merkel decided to call people from syria to come. and lots of migrants, many of them not from syria, came to europe, and the result was that the french said, okay, there's this these are difficult to manage masses, and we didn't have cups and border guards between italy and france, but we had lots and lots of customs officers, and they were allowed to check customs. and so i won't say that it was it's not that so much that sort of break put a brake on, on mass immigration at that time, we still get about 500,000 new people every year. so it's we have a real problem, but, there's more that the france didn't look attractive , to, to didn't look attractive, to, to lots of migrants, sort of, you know, ferried over by people,

traffickers and told that this was a place where they would find jobs and france made herself unattractive by essentially two things. one is structural. we speak french , not structural. we speak french, not english. most of them learnt english, but not french . and english, but not french. and second, we did not treat migrants very well where germany had sort of, you know, housing and they had courses in german and they had courses in german and they had civilisation courses, a bit like the canadians, and decided that they would play the game and help people integrate that. there's nothing like that in france, really. you have you you have sort of subsidies , but they sort of subsidies, but they don't really guarantee a very, very good life. lots of illegal migrants just live in the streets and so the, you know, the bush telegraph essentially said , look, you know, this is said, look, you know, this is not such a hospitable country. it's not a very nice way of doing it , it's not a very nice way of doing it, and, and it's of course, it was all not, you know, it was not official policy, but everybody knew it was policy. >> okay. all right. >> okay. all right. >> thank you very much. marine le pen says that she wants she

wants a true to get out of schengen. and that would be a huge difference. >> huge. thank you so much. anne—elisabeth moutet there. commentator and columnist in france. let's go over to keir starmer. speaking in hertfordshire . hertfordshire. >> out here at hitchin football club, onto the middle of the ground, you may have noticed there's a bit of a theme in this campaign . walking out the tunnel campaign. walking out the tunnel onto the pitch is always a magical moment. and look, the sun is just about shining. this is the summer and we have one job which is to make this a summer of change. a summer of change. and whether you're a family, that's been battling with the cost of living crisis, with the cost of living crisis, with bills bearing down on you, or whether you're a business that struggled now for years with the damage this government has done to our economy or whether you've been serving our country in uniform or in your community, then this campaign is

for you. this fight for change is for you. but change only happens if you for vote it. now we have changed this labour party thrown away the protests have made this a party that says country first, party second. and what we seek is the opportunity to do the same for our country, to do the same for our country, to put our country back in the service of working people . and service of working people. and that's what this change is all about , because the choice is about, because the choice is stark . 14 years we've had of stark. 14 years we've had of chaos, of division, of failure. that isn't going to change. have you seen anything in their campaign that suggests that the chaos and division is going to change? it isn't going to be changing. so it'll be five more years of that, or to turn the page and start to rebuild our country with labour. but and there's always a but in a labour party speech, this , this is the

party speech, this, this is the final mile. these are the last hard yards. but the last steps are always the hardest. and we have to remember that people need convincing. there are undecided voters out there. every constituency is a fight and the polls do not predict the future . so we have to convince future. so we have to convince people, convince people that change is possible, convince people that if you want change, you have to vote for change and thatis you have to vote for change and that is what we need to do every hour and every day until 10:00 on thursday night. and thank you all for what you've already done in this campaign. thank you for all the work you've done over the last four and a half years alongside me changing our party. we further to go . we've got to we further to go. we've got to use every opportunity to get out there on the doorsteps and make our case for change. we've got a positive case to tell. the first steps we'll do in government, fixing our nhs, making sure we've got the teachers for our

children and young people, making sure we've got the police on our streets so everybody feels safe and secure. we have that positive argument and beginning to think we're the only positive campaign left on the pitch. every . but the pitch. every. but just imagine if you dare waking up on friday morning to five more years of the conservatives because if you don't go out and vote labour, if you don't for vote labour, if you don't for vote change, if you vote tory or for some other party, that could happen. and that is what we need to carry into these final hours and days of the campaign. that could happen. and it'll be even worse than before because they'll return entitled , they'll return entitled, emboldened thinking that they can do that damage to our nhs, to our economy . so imagine that. to our economy. so imagine that. and hold that thought. but also

imagine the difference if we wake up to a labour government beginning its work to change the country, an economy that works for everyone wherever they live, education for every child, whoever they are, whatever their background , public services back background, public services back working again in the way that people would expect. bringing our country together and ending the division . these are big the division. these are big changes for our country. the choice is stark. the prize is hugein choice is stark. the prize is huge in terms of taking our country forward, but it will only happen if you vote for it. change will only happen if you for vote it. so go out and vote labour on thursday. thank you so much . much. >> well, that was the former about to say the former leader of the opposition. it'll be

former leader of the opposition on friday when he'll be prime minister, looking at the polls. and we're joined in the studio by the former lord chancellor and secretary of justice, sir brandon lewis, and political commentator theo ashford, who's a very old chum. >> how are you ? lovely to see >> how are you? lovely to see you. good to see you here, you we were talking most way through the leader of the opposition speech, but he's they're desperately trying now to get the labour vote out because they're worried so far ahead in they're worried so far ahead in the polls. people might think, oh, don't need to bother. >> yeah. i mean, there's always a risk of that that people feel they can. i think if, if people are thinking about voting laboun are thinking about voting labour, their vote is likely to be quite motivated. it's the first chance in, what, almost 20 years for them to actually return a labour government if the polls are correct and i'm a realist, the polls have been pretty consistent all the way through. actually. the job, i think, is for us, for conservatives across the country. and this is where i've said a few times in the last few days, our members across the country are working their backsides off. they're doing a phenomenal job for the to party try and make sure they convince every last person who wants a conservative government, who

wants a conservative mp, if they think there's going to be a labour government to hold a labour government to hold a labour government to account, to go out and get those votes out and keep knocking on the doors and keep knocking on the doors and reminding people on thursday it really matters to use your vote and cast your vote for a conservative. and people across the country will be working their shoe leather off over the next few days to do that. what would you suspect? >> theo will be the sort of turnout on thursday? i feel like there's a there's a constituency of people who are very apathetic about politics, and there are those who are absolutely driven by being sick to the back teeth, frankly, of how their lives are at the moment. >> so i think to just to quickly to pick up on andrew's point, it's not just necessarily about labour voters who who think, i'm not going to bother turning out. >> there's also, i think, a danger for keir starmer and that's why he's bringing out the celebrities, the likes of elton john, so close to polling day that you see seepage over to the greens, potentially also the liberal democrats, because people look at the two candidates, labour voters, this we're talking about here and think, actually, i can't really see too much difference between keir starmer and rishi sunak and my i can have a protest vote if

i want to. and vote for the vote for the greens. and that's why keir starmer, i think , is keir starmer, i think, is working quite hard to try and ensure that that doesn't happen. as well as getting getting the labour vote out turn out. it could be, it could be low . but i could be, it could be low. but i think nigel farage has changed that a bit because he has given the conservative voters, especially those 2019 voters, an alternative that they can go and vote for nigel farage and they can punish the tories and that's something i imagine that brandon and other conservative candidates out on the doorstep have really have really struggled with that , actually, struggled with that, actually, where you do have good local candidates who champion their local community, who are there answering, replying to letters or trying to get in contact with the local authority or whatever it you know, ensuring the doctor's surgery that that somehow gets overlooked because people want to go out and, and just give the conservatives some, you know, vote against the conservatives as some kind of punishment. and you usually see that mid term. but i think we're going to see it on on polling day this thursday. >> is that the response on the doorstep? brandon >> well, i've been in a few

places. i've been actually in a few fair few parts of the country and i will be over the next few days. that's the thing. in election you can be walking a marathon a day effectively, and it's quite mixed, i think. i actually think we could see quite a low turnout. i think there is an element of people over the last couple of years between having a lot of general elections in relatively short penod elections in relatively short period of time, and covid and ukraine and the war, you know, there's been so much politics generally. i think people are getting a bit fed up with politics and politicians, i think that's a real danger for turnout. i think there is an issue.i turnout. i think there is an issue. i think theo is right. i think and this is where the pm is, right. rishi has made this point a few times. this isn't a series of by elections. this is a general election. but i think there is a sense of people sort of thinking about their treating their own area, almost like you would a by—election and giving a message. and i would say to people, actually, as i know the home secretary , james cleverly, home secretary, james cleverly, was saying on, on, on tv this morning, this is a general election. if you want to have a conservative government that's going to bring taxes down and give people more opportunity in the future, you need to vote conservative. even if you think

there might be a labour government because of the polling we need to be able to hold them to account. and that means returning good conservative mps everywhere that we can. >> but based on the campaign, why would people vote tory? it's been useless. >> well, look, look, i'm not. i didn't design this gm election campaign. you don't think i'm. and i'm. >> i don't think, as i say, i've known you a long time. >> i don't think for a second you would have thought. it's been a good campaign. >> well, i have to say, i think there's been a series of things that if i was a candidate this time around, i would be pulling my hair out about having to be a candidate and going out against the backdrop of a series of things that we have seen from gambling through through a whole range of things as, as has been been well covered. and that's frustrating. and that is where it's frustrating for good candidates who are out in the streets doing good work. but it doesn't move away from the fact that, look, we have got this high tax burden. but what rishi has outlined is now that we have started to be able to pay back what happened through covid, we've got to get a lower tax regime. it's very clear labour will not have a lower tax regime. if you want a lower tax regime, you've got to vote

conservative. he has indicated that the reductions in national insurance show that people are getting lower tax than they were. if he wants to continue doing that, that needs a conservative government. >> you've covered a few campaigns in your time. just how does this compare to others that you've covered? >> it's the worst political campaign ever. and i was i was at a conservative event and the mood in the room was just it was dire and it was just everybody recognised. it'sjust dire and it was just everybody recognised. it's just been a terrible campaign. it was never rishi sunak campaigning, political campaigning was never rishi sunak's strong point. he's very good at numbers, he's very good at detail. i think he's actually been, you know, just impartially. i say this i think he's been quite a good chief executive of the country. yeah. and i think, you know, he's obviously got designs to go and be a chief executive somewhere else, perhaps in california after this, india after this. yeah. after this election . but yeah. after this election. but when it comes to political campaigning, it hasn't been a well run campaign. there's a lot of frustration. i mean, for one, one thing, i was speaking to somebody who was canvassing up in the north, north—east of england and they were saying just before the election, we got the green light on to money jul, a particularly difficult road where there had been a number of accidents in our constituency. i'm not going to talk about the

constituency because then it's just going to create all sorts of problems. but why , if we just of problems. but why, if we just plan this a bit better, then we could have had, we could have had an autumn election . we could had an autumn election. we could have got the got our candidate out in a digger with a hard hat high viz , laying the first, high viz, laying the first, laying the tarmac of this road and we could have done this right across the country in the local paper on the local news, and people would have just felt it would have just given us a fighting chance. and because i think there was just a frustration that it hadn't been thought through, little things like that that could have helped. and really, given the tories just some sort of hope tory candidate, some sort of hopein tory candidate, some sort of hope in this election hadn't happened. and that rishi sunak almost just because he looked at the broader picture when it comes to the economic numbers, sort of snapped his fingers and said, right, we'll go. we'll go now for that summer election. and it doesn't seem to have been particularly well thought through. and actually some more planning could have been done and altered. the result, maybe for the better. >> and, brian, you must have beenin >> and, brian, you must have been in the cabinet meeting when he told you that it was the

early election. >> no, i resigned, you've already gone. >> of course. >> of course. >> i stood down with rishi. >> i stood down with rishi. >> of course you did. >> of course you did. >> that's right. ten years in government, five and a half in cabinet was probably enough. so, no, i wasn't there, and i. but i know a fair few friends who were there, and i think it was quite a surprise to people. i think it was clearly a surprise to people, most people anyway . and, people, most people anyway. and, i think all the indications were that we were looking at an autumn election, which made a lot of sense for a whole range of reasons, about being able to set the field a bit. and, look, i actually think ultimately voting is a positive thing. you go out, you leave your home, you go out, you leave your home, you go in and you tick a box. they are physically positive things. you choose to do a party has got to give people a positive reason to give people a positive reason to do it. and i think having a bit more time as, as theo said, would have made a lot of sense. i think setting out how why younger people should vote conservative, being able to set out. we want to get infrastructure going, we want to build more houses that will create economic growth and opportunity for people. those kind of things, as well as having more money in your pocket because we want to reduce tax and more time to show that and

people to feel the benefit in their pocket would have made a lot of sense. but i think the pm clearly looked at this overall picture and took a view that now was the right time. and we'll see how that plays out on thursday. no logic to it at all, though. >> i mean, even if he'd waited until november, nigel farage would have been out of the picture in america. in america it would. yeah. working with trump, he would have he would have neutralised that threat to some extent. can you work out the logic there ? the logic there? >> i mean, it was it was based on those. it was based on those gdp numbers . no, it was the gdp numbers. no, it was the inflation numbers, wasn't it, rather than the gdp numbers, because the gdp numbers came out and they weren't as good as you as the conservatives were expecting. but inflation getting inflation down to target. and of course that was one of rishi sunak five promises. >> he hasn't just shows a complete lack of understanding of humanity. >> to think that the average voter is going to be so obsessed with the numbers and but the other thing the other but the other thing the other but the other thing the other but the other thing with inflation is it's pernicious because actually, you don't you don't take away the price rises that have already happened as result. >> yeah. we haven't got deflation. you don't have deflation. you don't have deflation. so you get inflation down. sure. but the pain that we

face, you know, with real terms, we're worse off than we were in 2021 is still there because we've had price rises of, you know, double digits, you know, 11.1% and it is higher. so people were really feeling that if you get inflation down, it's going to take some time for that to filter through. and that's why i can't really understand it. probably not even by november. but i think the point about farage being in in america is a very good one, by the way. just get him out of the way. you know, he can go and, you know, just help donald trump and then you take farage out of reform and as somebody as a conservative mp once told me, you know , richard tice banging you know, richard tice banging on about, you know , electoral on about, you know, electoral reform is like a pebble in your shoe. nigel farage banging on about small boats is a big problem. and, you know, you could if you could have neutralised farage richard tice all due respect to him and the rest of the his name. nigel. but he's not nigel farage and he isn't going to cause the problems that nigel farage is going to cause. the conservative party on july the 4th. >> is he also going to cause a problem for labour? nigel. >> yeah, i think he can actually

and i think if you look across look if you look across the country, there are seats in the past where particularly in the run up to the brexit vote, ukip and the brexit party were taking votes from labour. it's certainly where my constituency, as much as from us. the challenge now is, i think a lot of those people then voted for us in 2019, which is where we've got this big majority and with big majorities within that. so therefore there's going to be a lot of those people who might have voted labour in 2010 or 15, but have since then voted for ukip, or then the conservative party reform will be attracting those back. so people who might have voted labour in the past will probably voted conservative in 2019. and one of the things that's interesting with the polls is there's a very large number of seats where the margins, because of the reform vote, are actually very narrow. so i think we could see quite a big spread on thursday. it's quite hard. i think , to actually quite hard. i think, to actually predict the result. appreciate it. looks like a labour majority , but the scale of it is going to be depend on literally the next few days, the weather potentially on thursday. i think reform may well have peaked. it depends. i think people are very upset about what farage said

about putin. some of the racism issues they're seeing, and i think that could make the difference in up to 50 or 60 seats around the country, because it is going to be those kind of fine margins, sorry, gentlemen, we have to just read out because we saw sir keir starmer speaking in hitchin. here is a full list of the candidates there, ben angela mclean conservative party. >> charles spencer bunker, reform uk sid called or christian people's alliance william lavin green party chris lucas, liberal democrats and alistair stratton for the labour party . party. >> all right. thank you both. >> all right. thank you both. >> we'll see you shortly. gentlemen. turn to headlines now with . tamsin. with. tamsin. >> andrew, thanks very much. here are the headlines at 1031, the far right national rally party has taken more than 30% of the vote in france's elections , the vote in france's elections, putting it on the cusp of forming government. the first round of voting is a huge setback for president macron , setback for president macron, whose centrist alliance trailed in third place with just 20. if

the current momentum continues, the current momentum continues, the far right could rise to power. for the first time since the second world war. the final outcome will depend on days of negotiations between parties before next week's run off vote, though many are now predicting a hung parliament here. political parties are appealing to undecided voters in the final days before thursday's election, prime minister rishi sunak is urging people not to give labour a super majority amid polls giving sir keir starmer a 20 point lead. but the labour leader says a clear mandate is needed to repair britain's economy, and warns apathy could lead to another five years of the conservatives shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth told gb news a for vote labouris ashworth told gb news a for vote labour is a vote for change. >> there are lots of people who still deciding. lots of people are still weighing up their options. but honestly, if you want to change this country, you've got to come out and vote. labour voting for any of the other parties helps rishi sunak

get re—elected. so if you don't want to switch on gb news on friday morning and hear that rishi sunak has been re—elected, if you don't want to wake up to that vote, labour on thursday , that vote, labour on thursday, well, the average house price was up by 0.2% in june as higher mortgage rates keep many people out of the property market, it means the average cost of a home across the uk is just over £266,000, which is 1.5% more than last year, to according the index by nationwide, earnings growth has performed better than the property market in recent years, but it hasn't been enough to offset the recent spike in mortgage costs. >> well , those are the latest gb >> well, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tamsin roberts 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 gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts .

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>> welcome back. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pearson. >> well , we've got quite pearson. >> well, we've got quite an extraordinary story to talk to you about now, because a triple amputee war hero is launching a bid to become the first to sail across the pacific ocean non—stop. solo and unsupported. >> craig wood was blown up as a teenager by the taliban in afghanistan. but now he's hoping to change the perception of disabled people and raise money for other limbless veterans like himself. and craig joins us now.

morning craig. >> you are extraordinary because just the idea of doing it would would exhaust me. but you are planning to take up to 80 days to sail from la paz in mexico to japan. yeah. how many miles is that? or not? miles. let's do it in miles. >> miles ? nautical miles was my >> miles? nautical miles was my favourite. yeah, it'd be over 6000. amazing, amazing. >> and it will take you. how long? >> the minimum. it's going to take me is 60 days. it could be up to 80. yeah, and that's on your own. >> and you've done. you've done plenty of this before, haven't you? you've done lots of solo sailing. >> yeah, i've done quite a bit of solo sailing, but not as big as this. it is the world's biggest ocean after all. >> and why that particular route? >> i wanted it to be a challenge, not just for me , but challenge, not just for me, but for anyone. so any able bodied person can look at this and go, wow, that is difficult. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and so that was the main drive. >> and so that was the main dnve.thenifs >> and so that was the main drive. then it's become a bigger

thing than that now. now it's i'm raising money for charity and i can truly inspire people to change their perception on what is possible for disabled people. >> and if you don't mind, can we ask you what happened in in 2009, in afghanistan? what were the circumstances of your injury? >> i was on a normal routine foot patrol. about five metres in front of me, a commando ied was triggered and subsequently i became a triple amputee. both legs above the knee, left hand at the wrist, facial injuries, etc. etc. >> and you were in a induced coma, drug induced coma for two weeks. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so you come out of that and lesser people might just think , lesser people might just think, well, i can't go on anymore. this isn't the life i want to lead. and you've completely done the opposite. nearly 15 years later, i refused to live in self—pity. >> i think that being able to focus my life on rehabilitation and sports is where sailing came

into it. and without that, i don't think i would have had such a positive outlook and a new drive because you were already a sailor from your childhood with your father, were you? exactly. yeah. and so the thought was we might not be able to sail again until my dad gave me the paralympic development coaches email address, and then i became a sailor. >> it's amazing. >> it's amazing. >> and it took you four and a half years of rehabilitation . half years of rehabilitation. yeah. that's extra. you were at headley court, which i've written about many times. that helps lots of people whose bodies have been smashed up. >> exactly. the best rehabilitation centre on the planet. yeah, they've recently moved, but they are 100% the best. >> you've got a partner and young child. what is your partner think about you doing this? she's really supportive. >> is she? yeah. she understands that. it's. it's about more than just me wanting to go sailing. it's about trying to change people's lives and inspiring them to do better or go and sell their own ocean. essentially. yeah. >> did you meet her before or after you were injured? >> it was while i was sailing.

really? a backpacker. she sailed across the atlantic with me. did she? yeah. >> how was that ? >> how was that? >> how was that? >> incredible. yeah. really? really good. yeah. one of our best sales we've ever had. >> how long did that? how long did that take? >> 22 days. >> 22 days. >> that's quick. >> that's quick. >> oh , that's quite long, >> oh, that's quite long, actually. for the atlantic, it's usually 14. >> okay, so from where to where. where was that atlantic journey. >> cape verde to brazil. >> cape verde to brazil. >> oh, wow. >> oh, wow. >> we arrived on the day of carnival. >> oh, amazing. amazing. and you want to raise money for charities on this trip, don't you? who are they? >> when i first got injured, one of the charities that i'd never heard of before was blesma. and they were there supporting my family immediately upon news of my injury. and then they came to support me after they've helped me with sales for my boat. they've helped me with housing, appliances, all of that good stuff. and it's unconditional. it's there for life . so they are it's there for life. so they are an amazing charity. they want to go into the sailing. i was looking around saying, oh, who can teach a triple amputee to

sail? i found turned to starboard. they give veterans a chance to gain qualifications through sailing and like myself, change their life and create drive and purpose. >> how can people support you? >> how can people support you? >> yeah, because they're all going to be watching this tv thinking, how do we do it? >> we have a crowdfunder if they want to help fundraise. for us, it's a, i think, crowdfunder for .co.uk forward slash, forward slash craig wood sales . and slash craig wood sales. and yeah, any help is yeah awfully appreciated. >> and you've got this three month window. so are you. are you getting are you training to get ready for it right now we're preparing the boat so that it's got all of the necessary requirements to go across the world's biggest ocean , where i'm world's biggest ocean, where i'm probably going to see waves as big as double decker buses and face winds that could rip out trees . trees. >> so we're preparing for all of that. and the boat's currently in panama having all that work done right . so yeah, we're done right. so yeah, we're getting there. >> and will you have a satellite

phone? can you can you ring the wife? >> yeah, i'll be a video calling the wife. the edge. yeah, yeah. and the kids. yeah, exactly. yeah yeah. >> so they get to where there's a three year old. want to come with dad? >> he does. it does? yeah, course he does. >> but he's not coming. >> but he's not coming. >> he's not. >> he's not. >> no no. bit too young. bit too young. yeah. >> well look it's amazing. >> well look it's amazing. >> it's an amazing story craig. so just so we find your crowdfunder and it's craig wood. >> craig wood sales. >> craig wood sales. >> craig wood sales. >> craig wood sales. yeah. great. well, look very best of luck. >> good luck. thank you. >> good luck. thank you. >> i think you're heroic. >> i think you're heroic. >> amazing. honestly, some mornings you wake up and you realise you're not doing an awful lot with your life, don't you? and you and you meet people like that. thank you. craig right. still to come, lib dem leader sir ed davey has bungee jumped into the election. we're going to hear from him next. this is britain's newsroom across the uk on gb.

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with andrew pierce and bev turner. we're going to cross now to the lib dem leader, sir ed davey, who's doing another stunt. >> i'm asking people to do something. many people do something. many people do something they've never done before, which is vote liberal democrat. this coming thursday. and we're finding a lot of lifelong conservatives considering us they don't want to vote conservatives. some young people who've never voted before. and we're saying do something you've never done. i've just done it. i've never done that before. so take the plunge, vote for health and care, which is our top priority unlike anyone else's. a vote for a proper economic policy, vote to end the sewage scandal and action on climate change. i think we've got policies that will trap people who were normally conservative. >> your personal story plays into an announcement today from the party that you would reverse a conservative cut to bereavement support payments. what's behind the what's the thinking there? >> well, liberal democrats have been campaigning on this, for some years now. the conservatives took away a lot of support for families, when they're bereaved, when they lose

a husband or a wife or a partner, and it's the children that suffer. and i thought it was a bad idea at the time. it's my first question when i became leader to boris johnson , we made leader to boris johnson, we made a little bit of progress, but they've got to do a lot more, to be fair to families who suffer bereavement. and it's the children that we should worry about. and i'm afraid the conservatives have heartless cuts to people who lose, a father or mother . and having father or mother. and having lost both my parents as a child, i know when my father died, my mother was totally dependent on the widow's payment. she got it was really important. and i just think, given how important it was to me and my family, i need to fight for others like me, just on the state of the election battle as it's going at the moment. your officials have put out some numbers in oxfordshire showing that you're quite confident on four, possibly five seats with some resonance. some of those seats in oxfordshire. are you saying that that bit of the

conservative blue wall, you really can break through ? really can break through? >> yeah, we're seeing an oxfordshire, but also cambridgeshire, hertfordshire, hampshire, surrey, sussex, quite a lot of the blue wall. traditional tory heartlands, we're seeing lifelong conservatives switch to us. we're trying to get them to take the plunge and, and many more join them. if they do, we can win. labour can't win in those seats and we're very grateful to labour supporters who are backing us to beat the conservatives. but actually it's those lifelong conservatives switching towards, which means in the blue wall, in places across oxfordshire, liberal democrats could win on thursday and just a little bit about, about inflation. >> well, that was her ed davey talking on the campaign trail. but we're going to talk about the football because it felt like, yeah, we're over here, actually, not over there because it felt like it was all over. but after a stunning overhead equaliser by jude bellingham it's overhead overhead overhead okay okay. >> overhead. was there any

football lie—in. >> were there were there. was it really only 85 seconds left of that turgid match left. yes. >> and you know what? i'll agree with you. it was it was turgid. did you actually go for this one? no. did you? >> i had it on in the kitchen on the radio because i, you know, and then i was pottering around again. if the key of having these matches on a sunday night, i'm afraid for mums who've got kids at school, it's very inconvenient. >> i was having dinner with some friends and it was on downstairs. right. but nobody watched it, right. >> okay, well, it was long and it wasn't very exciting, but the thing is, it's last gasp goals. i mean, it's that man there jude bellingham. he just turned 21 and he's one of the best players in the world. he wasn't playing particularly well. but you have anneliese harry kane next to him and he's the one that scored the winner. now both of them are great, great players and even when things aren't going well and they're not even looking as if they're playing very well, they're capable of something special at any moment doing there, paul. now there. now that is the goal. now that is i know that's that's pretty standard

for andrew on what sort of evening there in that sort of position there andrew is that just go down. that's the overhead kick. >> there is a head kick. >> there is a head kick. >> so that's the goal. so basically the ball was thrown in. it was pretty desperate that the ball was going to be thrown into the box, headed back and then he just leapt like a salmon. and with this wonderful goal into the back of the net. so with just about nine, well, they leaped. >> they beat tortuous, pretty tortuous image. >> i'm just trying to make it sound a little more exciting than it is to me. >> we barely beat the last team, who were 57th in the world. who was that? >> that was slovenia. >> that was slovenia. >> slovenia , slovakia. about >> slovenia, slovakia. about 45th in the world. >> very good. 47. >> very good. 47. >> there we are. so these are hopeless also round teams which we struggle to beat. >> slovakia are, a team made up, but they had two full backs played at the back. both of them are 37. so compared to like 21 year olds, they should be able to outrun them. they also had second division players that were playing. they should. england should wipe the floor with them. but it was slow, it was dull. but then for a moment

things speeded up. but it just was not enough. and now it's going to be switzerland on saturday. it's got to get better. >> wasn't the shocker that italy got kicked out though, at the weekend? by switzerland by switzerland, switzerland. >> it's one of those countries that you always imagine. well what do they do? what do they make? clocks and chocolate and they make ski a bit. but do they play they make ski a bit. but do they play football? actually they you do, they do yodel as well. and they have roger federer and william tell, and that's pretty much it sound amusing, but. and that's austria. it is, it's austria. >> but that was a quiz question, but but they are a very good football team and it's not. so that's going to be easy for england because switzerland played the sort of football we were to play forward, exciting, going for it , but it's just too going for it, but it's just too turgid and it's all down to the manager. i think at the moment. but he needs to just let just go for it. and there are moments when they did, but they're just few and far between and unless we do that, we won't do anything. >> i kept hearing commentators say, oh, jude bellingham looked exhausted. yeah. what does that mean when you're 21? and that's exactly. you can't be exhausted. surely you would think that, you? §§§?: wouldn't you? >> and he is the sort of player

he's gone through a very long season. it's very difficult for us to sort of go, well, you know they've got it easy. they're just kids and they play a bit of football. >> well that's right, i football. >> well that's right , i know >> well that's right, i know they're not. >> they're not down a blooming coal mine are they. >> it is true. but he did look exhausted . and you know what god exhausted. and you know what god you can't then question about the exhausted working out how to spend all that money. >> why was exhausted. >> why was exhausted. >> he's exhausted. >> he's exhausted. >> but what does that mean? why would he be exhausted? he's only played one match before this in this tournament, haven't they? was it two? >> no, this is two. yeah. there's been 2 or 3. 2 or 3. but it's often does have an effect. i've spoken to managers of teams that have got young players first time in the premier league and they're going yeah they're exhausted. i find it difficult to understand, but you would think they would feel fine and then play once a week. it's going to be okay. but he was exhausted. >> well he needs to stop playing on his xbox at night and get to bed early. >> do you think so? what? eight, 9:00? >> i'm sure that's what it is. yes what it is. you can feed that back for them. >> you know what? it's not that far off. you're not that far off. >> yes. this weekend is it

saturday? >> saturday we have switzerland. and, i'm busy. >> saturday we have switzerland. and, i'm busy . oh, now you can't miss. >> he'll be writing lots of words about the election result. we've got a general election thursday . thursday. >> 90 minutes out of your time. no. okay. >> i've still say if we get through to semi—finals, i will wear my. i will get an england kit. >> well , maybe we won't want kit. >> well, maybe we won't want you to wear an england kit, then. no, maybe it's too late. no, we've nick read. no, we've agreed the team like that. they'll probably feel the same way. >> oh, i definitely want to see him. >> and if we get in the final. >> and if we get in the final. >> if we get in the final, god only knows what i'm going to do. >> oh, my goodness me. right? this is the first time i've just wanted england not to make it anywhere just for the first time. >> thank you paul. now up next, parliament may be the first parliament in

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pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. >> very good morning. >> so political shake—up in france. french president emmanuel macron is humiliated as the political right surge in their first round of election. >> voting and truth telling politicians the welsh parliament could make wilfully misleading the public a criminal offence. in a vote tomorrow we'll have the latest and lost without trace. >> the family of the teenager, jay slater, are left distraught as spanish police call off the search for him in tenerife. why might that be? >> and as we start election week, rishi sunak is turning up the heat on reform uk as he battles nigel farage over what he says are millions of undecided voters . undecided voters. >> we're going to be doing that, welsh parliament story any minute now, so don't go anywhere. i think it's interesting. it could set a very interesting. it could set a very interesting precedent. yeah, politics all around. should the uk actually gbnews.com/yoursay

to get involved first though, the very latest news with tamsin roberts . roberts. >> bev and andrew, thanks very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. it'sjust after gb newsroom. it's just after 11:00. political parties are appealing to undecided voters in the final days before thursday's election. prime minister rishi sunakis election. prime minister rishi sunak is urging people not to give labour a supermajority amid polls giving sir keir starmer a 20 point lead. but the labour leader says a clear mandate is needed to repair britain's economy, and warns apathy could lead to another five years of the conservatives shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth told gb news a for vote labouris ashworth told gb news a for vote labour is a vote for change. >> there are lots of people who still deciding. lots of people are still weighing up their options. but honestly, if you want to change this country, you've got to come out and vote. labour voting for any of the other parties helps rishi sunak

get re—elected. so if you don't want to switch on gb news on friday morning and hear that rishi sunak has been re—elected, if you don't want to wake up to that vote. labour on thursday . that vote. labour on thursday. >> many within the conservative party are now attempting to persuade would be reform uk voters to think again. home secretary james cleverly told gb news that voters have a clear choice to make . choice to make. >> which of the two parties that can credibly form a government do you want to form a government? do you want it to be the conservative party? we have a plan. we are determined to bnng a plan. we are determined to bring down immigration or keir starmer's labour party, which is led by a man who said that all immigration legislation was racist, has the labour party has voted against stronger border controls over 130 times, voted to delay the rwanda scheme, which is why it's not yet up and running. so that is the choice at this election . at this election. >> meanwhile, the liberal

democrats say they'll spend £440 million a year on supporting widows and bereaved children. the party said it would aim to double bereavement support payments, citing years of cuts under the conservative government. sir ed davey described current provisions as heartless and short sighted. under current rules, a bereaved family receives a lump sum of up to 3500 pounds, followed by a monthly payment of up to £350 for 18 months. the populist right national rally party has taken more than 30% of the vote in france's elections , putting in france's elections, putting it on the cusp of forming government. the first round of voting is a huge setback for president macron, whose centrist alliance trailed in third place with just 20. if the current momentum continues, it could be the populist right rising to power for the first time since the second world war. the final outcome will depend on days of negotiations between parties before next week's run off vote,

though many are now predicting a hung parliament, energy prices will become cheaper from today as the latest price cap takes effect. the energy regulator ofgem cap fell by 7% after a drop in wholesale prices . it drop in wholesale prices. it means that typical 12 month bills will be around £112 cheaper than they were a year ago, but bill payers are being reminded to send metre readings to their suppliers or risk not feeling the benefits of those cheaper prices . the average cheaper prices. the average house price was up by 0.2% in june as higher mortgage rates keep many people out of the property market, it means the average cost of a home across the uk is just over £266,000, which is 1.5% more than last year , according to the index by year, according to the index by nationwide earnings growth has performed better than the property market in recent years , property market in recent years, but it hasn't been enough to offset the recent spike in mortgage costs . jobcentre

mortgage costs. jobcentre security guards have begun a week long strike in an escalation over a pay dispute. the gmb said around 1500 of its members employed by g—4s will walk out. the union says 90% of guards are paid just the minimum wage . england are through to the wage. england are through to the quarter finals of euro 2024, but only after an incredibly late comeback against slovakia to win two one. jude bellingham equalised in the 95th minute with captain harry kane heading the home the decisive goal early in extra time. england will now play in extra time. england will now play switzerland in the quarter finals in dusseldorf on saturday. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tamsin roberts 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 gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> well, it's an interesting story. the welsh parliament, the senate could make it a criminal offence for politicians to lie to the senate or the public. >> they're due to vote tomorrow and if it goes through it will become the first parliament in the world to make this kind of legislation. >> plaid cymru that's the have proposed the amendment and barrister sam fowles has provided them with the legal advice. and he is, of course, a great friend of this program. so let's be clear. this would apply to is it anything that is said in the parliament building written in the parliament building or just if politicians lie in general, anything that's made public? >> so if any politician that makes a statement and by politician i mean someone who is an office holder or as a candidate for an office holder, if they make a statement of fact

and that statement of fact is false, well, then they could be banned for four years. now, we've been really careful with with how we frame this, because obviously we're not talking about opinions or him, you know , about opinions or him, you know, about opinions or him, you know, a politician saying, well, if you elect my opponent , then you elect my opponent, then they'll crash the economy. yeah, that's opinion. that's just speculation. sure. it's specifically statements of fact . specifically statements of fact. so things like i haven't ever taken money from a russian source, for example . that's source, for example. that's a hypothetical. i haven't taken any money from a russian source. and they get 14 days to correct it. and if they don't correct it , well then that could be a four year ban, what about election? >> we're in an election at the moment. what about in an election? literature. i read a lot of stuff that comes through my door. i think what a load of hogwash, now, is that just normal cut and thrust or if a politician in wales puts stuff in their election literature which you need to be knowingly

untrue, will they fall foul of this law? >> yes. i think they'll fall foul of it. and that's election literature, right? is something that's come up for all of us. we've all had things through our letterbox and gone , what on letterbox and gone, what on earth is this? so again, if it's just something like, well, you know, if you let my opponent then the party in government will have a supermajority and they'll be off the leash again, that's just sort of invective. that's what that's the cut and thrust. but if it is something specific, something saying, stating a fact, well then that could that could fall foul, could that could fall foul, could the result of this be though, that politicians become even more mealy mouthed because they are now worried about saying something? >> so for instance, with your your example of i never took any money from a russian source , money from a russian source, what if they therefore are so worried about this that they then carry out everything with. ihave then carry out everything with. i have never willingly taken money from a russian source. >> i really like the idea of a politician saying the russians forced the money on me, but you could say i or i or i never

knowingly, i never knowingly sorry is a better word. we i think we, journalists like yourselves. right? you draw that line every day, you know, between a statement of fact and a statement of opinion, because you're already subject to rules which say you can't make false statements of fact about people. you manage to do it without being mealy mouthed . you can be being mealy mouthed. you can be forthright. you can state a really strong opinion , really really strong opinion, really strong bit of analysis down the line, but you just get the facts right. and i don't think it's too much to ask for politicians too much to ask for politicians to just be asked to play by the same rules that everyone else plays by. >> why? why now and why? why is it applied which is a minor, one of the minor parties in the welsh assembly? why is this not come forward, perhaps from the labour party or the conservative party? is it stating the obvious because some of them have told porkies in the past? i mean, i'm cunous porkies in the past? i mean, i'm curious about it. >> well, good question indeed. and me too, because the this this came from did come from pued. this came from did come from plied . it's been kicked around

plied. it's been kicked around by some other parties in the scots and the, the westminster parliament. but the conservatives got behind it and they voted for it at the, at the previous stage. and that's how it got in the bill. unfortunately, currently labour are tabling amendment and amendment to delete it from the bill. so just so you know, it's 3030 in the senate at the moment. so labour have 30. everyone else has 30. currently the counsel general who is sort of like the equivalent of the justice for secretary the rest of us. he said he doesn't want it in the bill and he's he's tabled an amendment to delete it. i have been very sceptical about his his arguments for it, and i don't really understand what's behind it. >> well, he. sorry, andrew. you're going to say. well, what he's saying is that it hasn't been scrutinised. it hasn't had enough parliamentary scrutiny. and the rest of the bill was consulted on 18 months ago. but this has been bolted on at the end. it's wholly inappropriate, he says, to introduce an amendment of such significant

constitutional importance without the scrutiny. is he wrong? >> then ? yeah, i think he is, >> then? yeah, i think he is, because this has actually been debated by the senate at least three times already. so it was a the proposal, the substance of the proposal, the substance of the proposal, the substance of the proposal was in a previous bill earlier this year. so that was debated by the whole senate on the floor. and the adam price who proposed it. yeah. took took to heart what was said and said , to heart what was said and said, okay. i think about it carefully. i'll come back. i'll amend it. i'll bring you the new version in the in the next bill. and that's exactly what he's done. he's also taken legal advice from some of the most senior lawyers in the country , senior lawyers in the country, from lord hendy kc, from matt hutchings, kc, from joseph canning kc . these are, you know, canning kc. these are, you know, big dogs in the legal world. they thought carefully about it and i know he's spoken to the police as well. >> this is bizarre for the labour party, which is the ruling party in wales and has been for donkey's years opposing something which i presume most people in wales, most people in the country would think it's a

very good idea, 72% on the opinion polled this 72% of people support this. >> a law like this for me , i >> a law like this for me, i mean, obviously i'm not a politician, but for me it's a slam dunk, right? this is it's very rare that you get a law that so many of the country are just emphatically behind. and also it's so rare you get to address a sort of fundamental problem like this . 9% of people problem like this. 9% of people think politicians are going to tell the truth. only nine, only 9. that's a crisis. so this would make a criminal offence, but punishable by a ban of up to four years from standing for election or serving in the senate. >> you wouldn't go to prison for such a thing. >> no. you wouldn't go to prison. so basically it brings politicians onto the same lines as something like doctors or barristers, right? if i tell a lie in court, well, it's probably not going to be four years that i get banned for it.

it's probably going to be the end of my career. completely a lifetime ban . now, that's lifetime ban. now, that's admittedly that's not criminal, right? that's my regulator comes down hard on me . but there's a down hard on me. but there's a difference here, right ? that if difference here, right? that if i tell a lie in court, which i would never do, but if i did, it just affects what goes on in that courtroom. if an mp, if an mish or a politician tells a lie, it affects all of us. it just reduces everyone's confidence in the system and belief in politics. right. >> so and how what mechanism is it will be in place, to make this work. so the politician says x complaint is made that they've lied, who investigates it and who then decides how long they should be banned for. >> well , that's the cps, the >> well, that's the cps, the crown prosecution service and the in wales. >> is that in wales it's a separate organisation . separate organisation. >> in wales it's a, there's a cps for the whole country and it has welsh, it's welsh branch. now the it's the law specifically outlaws private prosecutions. right. so you can't have, you know, random

rich people who are just annoyed trying to get at politicians or make spurious complaints. so it'll it'll be the, the police, the independent crown prosecution service and then if necessary, the courts. and it's a, it's what's known as going to be amended to make very clear that it's what's known as an either way offence. so that means if you want a magistrates court to deal with it, they can deal with it very simply and very quickly. but if you want a jury very quickly. but if you want a jury trial where you get to choose that as well, so it's going to be up to the defendant to decide how they want things and things settled. >> the cps are on board with this. >> well, obviously the cps don't make political statements. no, but the police, the police have been asked, you know, asked about do you think you can handle this? yeah. and senior sources have said , yes, we do sources have said, yes, we do reckon we can handle this, well, it's interesting, sam. and the vote is tomorrow. >> the vote is tomorrow. are we going? >> if it's 3030? yeah. the who

has the casting votes? surely not. the first minister who's already lost the vote of no confidence ? confidence? >> no, i think that would be the equivalent of the speaker in the senate. the hope is, i think that it doesn't ever come down to 30, 30. and it's relatively rare that that that happens . my rare that that that happens. my huge hope is that we get you know, this shouldn't be about politics, right? this shouldn't be about right or left or you know, who's scoring a point, right or wrong . exactly. right or wrong. exactly. everyone getting together okay. >> thank you so much , sam. >> thank you so much, sam. >> thank you so much, sam. >> well, and let us know tomorrow what happens. >> we'll do. >> we'll do. >> thank you. right up next, what do you make of this inflatable boat that's surfed through the crowd at glastonbury over the weekend? it's a piece of banksy artwork. in fact, it's a bad taste. what are they trying to say? this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> 1118 britain's newsroom live across the uk with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> we are joined in the studio now by theo usherwood and emma woolf, morning to you both. write glastonbury. emma. my idea of hell. have you been. do you like him? >> using my idea of hell? i would pay what people pay online. i would pay not to go eve r. >> even >> what are you the same? >> what are you the same? >> i feel like we need balance. there needs to be somebody saying that they love going to glastonbury. but i'd never been. and i know i wouldn't. really doesn't, doesn't really appeal, but i know chemical lavatories, mud. >> yeah , yeah people. >> yeah, yeah people. >> yeah, yeah people. >> the only time i was tempted was when i knew dolly parton was performing, because i'm a bit of a dolly parton fan. >> yeah. oh, live music? >> yeah. oh, live music? >> absolutely. concerts? absolutely. but glastonbury. five days in a stinking field. >> hundred and 30,000 people or whatever it is. so this is what happened on the stage. i think it was on saturday night, wasn't it? was it last night, it was on saturday night, wasn't it? was it last night , this is it? was it last night, this is the migration boat, right? theo who was playing and what's this boat meant to symbolise? >> it's a bristol based band called the idles. and they have

lyrics in their song my blood brother is an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant, and as this song started to play, this video, this, this boat, and it's in a sort of, i guess they're stuffed mannequins of, migrants. it's one of the. it's a replica of a dinghy that we've seen, you know, crossing the channel. was sort of pushed across the audience a bit and i guess a sort of crowd. they made it sort of crowdsurf or the equivalent of crowdsurf or the equivalent of it crowd surfing . and it of it crowd surfing. and it i when i, when i saw it, i didn't realise but banksy the sort of the, the artist, i think he's done a lot of graffiti work , he done a lot of graffiti work, he then posted the video on his instagram page, which of course seemed to confirm that it was. it was him, it was him, and it was his particular. it was his particular stunt, i think. >> rather a tasteless , skimpy, tasteless. >> yeah. more virtue signalling from a crowd of young people at a music festival talking about palestine , not mentioning the no palestine, not mentioning the no vote music festival that happened on october the 7th. how

sad. that was a music festival where all those young people lost their lives and glasto, they don't mention it. they're not bothered about that. they're more bothered about palestine. and it's rare that i agree with james cleverly, the home secretary. but he said, look, small boats are a serious issue. people are losing their lives in the channel yeah, women and children risking their lives in the channel. and here we have people using it, basically using it to sort of look good, to burnish their credentials. banksy doing a bit. i think they were i think they were supporting the immigrants as they pushed the boat along. i think that was the idea of it, but it seems very tasteless. it does seem tasteless, doesn't it? >> if their aim was to raise awareness, i quite like banksy's artwork. >> when you've seen it on when you see it on the underground, you see it on the underground, you see it on the underground, you see it on walls. and i always find it quite amusing when he did, he did a piece of artwork on a road sign, and then somebody realised the value of it and it was gone within about half an hour. yeah, they'd nicked it, but, this one, i just, i think it's just off. he's, they've just got it wrong. he's, they've just got it wrong. he's got it wrong. he doesn't seem to. it seems quite conceited. yeah. and what was

the reaction of the crowd. >> were they bemused. >> were they bemused. >> well no, i mean they were theyi >> well no, i mean they were they i don't know if any of them could quite realise what was going on exactly. they were probably. >> but i absolutely loved it. >> but i absolutely loved it. >> oh, really? they loved it because it was. >> it was more of this virtue signalling that they're on the side of the immigrants. i mean, you read out the lyrics of the band, the idles. yeah. my brother is an immigrant, you know. it was they're not actually dealing with the with the issue at all. >> a pro illegal immigrant, asylum seeker, refugee statement. yeah. no. on first glance you might think it was the opposite, that it was slightly sort of trying to raise some sort of comedic value. >> no, no, they're supporting the immigrants. it's very much pro—immigrant. >> they were breaking the law . >> they were breaking the law. >> they were breaking the law. >> yes. whereas the rest of us who may be express concern about immigration are xenophobic, i take i take a slightly different view to that, andrew. >> but but it's, it's the suffering. you know, people are leaving their homes thousands of miles away. they're travelling across the continent and they're risking their lives. >> and the people who are profiting from this , profiting from this, profiteering from this are criminal gangs. they're the ones who are making thousands and

thousands of pounds out of people's misery. yeah, millions of pounds out of people's misery. it's an impossible. i mean, it's an impossible problem for the, you know, whether it's rishi sunak or keir starmer. >> i think a lot of them are economic migrants who could be quite happily stay in france or germany, or travel through a few countries to get here, quite a few safe countries to get to britain and then and then pay thousands to go. why are they coming here? because we're the land of milk and honey. we're a soft touch, many a young man. >> which actually leads us on in the story, really, about the french election , emma. french election, emma. >> because of course, this is a bit of a shock. the sense that people are being politically pushed to the extremes of you might say, the political spectrum. when you look at what marine le pen is proposing, it doesn't, doesn't, certainly doesn't, doesn't, certainly doesn't qualify as a far right. that that as far as i'm concerned, one of the issues is that you don't get benefits . you that you don't get benefits. you don't get free health care unless you are a french citizen. >> well, i think people like nigel farage and reform will be absolutely loving these events overnight. and, macron has egg

on his face, doesn't he? because he called this snap election. it was a gamble. she is now on 34% of this first round, and he could be losing. he could be losing up to two thirds of his 250 seats. yes. she's famously eurosceptic. she's anti—immigrant, but also some of her other policies are about putting france first. and of course, we have to sneer at that and say it's populist, because when trump says putting america first, when people like nigel farage talking about, you know, reminding us that the country that we are a great country and that we are a great country and that there is optimism and hope for the future somehow that's populist. so it's just it's stupid people, isn't it? >> but, theo, the peril of politicians calling early elections, they don't need to call . call. >> he did he learn nothing from across the channel? it was it was it was a gamble. >> macron you know, he saw that what had happened in the european elections, what he was hoping was he was going to be able to galvanise the left, the centre and the left of the country to vote to against vote against national rally. and it's backfired spectacularly, really hard. and, and i think the next few days, next two days because there's going to, there's a sort

of bartering protest process now between those on the right. the national rally need republicans to step down, support their candidates on the left. there needs to be some deal between jean—luc melenchon party, which is the equivalent of a jeremy corbyn style party on the left of french politics. and, of course, emmanuel macron's party. and it depends who can handle those alliances the best as to what happens in the second round. but absolutely, we're looking at jordan badia, the french prime minister, becoming the french prime minister. he's he's young, he's 28 years old and he's and he's and it's going to cause a huge amount of friction because you're going to have this party, parliament run effectively by this hard right party on domestic policies. and then macron sitting above it in charge of defence and foreign policy as the president. and it's going to be very difficult for the two to meet. and form some sort of governance of france. >> and it's going he becomes then a busted flush. yeah. if he resigned macron. yeah. who

becomes president. >> well you have presidential elections and that's why marine marine le pen hasn't stood. she's handed it over to her protege badia so that she can go for president. that's that's the tactic. and you would you would presume that if the if you were to see a replication of what's happenedin to see a replication of what's happened in these parliamentary elections , then she would elections, then she would become, you know, she would become, you know, she would become the president of france. and it would be a follow on from meloni in italy. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> good luck with the eu with that. >> emma, if we look forward to the consequences of what this might be, france tightens up their border to stop people coming in into their country. they inevitably will not therefore filter through illegally from the french beaches to here. well, i've keir starmer stood there taking credit for the fact that that's a really good point. actually numbers have gone down, but actually it will be the right wing parliament of france that has helped him to make that happen. >> it is a very good point. yeah. and therefore he, he he can claim the credit for it. he can claim the credit for it. he can claim the credit for it. yeah.i can claim the credit for it. yeah. i mean the irony. yeah.

well let's see what happens with marine le pen. quite. >> do you think, you know, this move towards the right that we're seeing across europe, but we're seeing across europe, but we're here, we might be potentially going to the left. emma, i can't help but feel this. the elephant in the room that for me, that a couple of good columnists actually, at the telegraph have written about is the fact that nobody's really talking about these elections as being a reaction to events of 2020 onwards, that sense of containment by the state in lockdowns means that people are looking for a party that is going to put the individual at the centre of the freedom rhetoric at the centre of their voting. they're so angry that the government was so big in their life during that period of i think you're right, i think lockdown actually does play a part, but i think it's more than that as or as well as that, i think it's years of the elites sneering at the little people, isn't it? >> it's years of being told not taking them seriously on migration, not taking them seriously on the things they actually care about, which is kind of their own country and their own people and their grandkids being able to get housing and their grandma being able to go and be seen in the

nhs. and the fact that they feel they're paying in and they're not getting anything out and that our borders are open to everybody and that we all need. and i think when you have years of that, i think lockdown also plays and all of that exacerbated of course, nhs queues, inflation, like all of the things that we're seeing of trickle down of that because i think theo, there's going to be very few governments left around the world who were in charge in 2022, 22. >> so i think what's interesting just about what's happened in france in particular is that under marine le pen and now jordan badia is that they have come. they've come from actually , if you think about marine le pen's father, jean—marie , pen's father, jean—marie, jean—marie le pen, you know, he was far right. no mistake about it. he described the holocaust as a detail of history. he did, and he's now he's infirm. he's he's not. he's left the party that goes back 13, 14 years. but what marine le pen has done is she's brought and with jordan bardella has brought this air of respectability, bringing the what was a very different party under her father more into the centre ground. okay. there are there are strong policies on

immigration and so forth. but actually it is okay. perhaps outside of paris, more so than inside of paris , for voters to inside of paris, for voters to feel that they can for vote national rally and nigel farage hasn't managed to repeat the same trick yet with reform. he's and that's why, if you look at the attacks on nigel farage, it's all about the respectability of voting for reform , the accusations about reform, the accusations about his candidates, the things that his candidates, the things that his candidates, the things that his candidates have said. what happened with that, filming , happened with that, filming, undercover filming that's been going on. and it's reform in this country is much more trumpian. whereas if you look in what's happening in europe with meloni and now with national rally, they are actually they've decided that actually to win and to win big and potentially take power, that they've had to move from the right into the centre ground and create a narrative where people feel it's okay to vote for parties, when

previously it was completely unacceptable. >> yeah. emma, what do you make of that? i mean, reform are i think they're called for an investigation into channel 4 for election. >> and did you watch the. i mean, i'm sure we all watched the birmingham, the rally yesterday with nigel farage, which was fantastic television and yes, he's he's trumpian and he's a showman, but also he's genuine and he's authentic. and because he's just talking about the things that are resonating with people, people are responding. and i think i see your point, but i think he is moving. i think a lot of people who would have seen anything to do with nigel farage as far right are now, or as on the right are now, or as on the right as on the loony right are now are now feeling okay about on thursday potentially voting reform. you know , normal middle reform. you know, normal middle class people. so they are moving that way. if you listen , if you that way. if you listen, if you ignore the trumpian showman bit and you listen to what he's actually saying in terms of the policies, they don't feel far right at all to many, many. >> but that's because the tories have given him so much room. yeah, i mean, the narrative. i watched his speech in clacton and he's, you know, farage farage is very interesting because what he does is as his

critics like to say, he just lies. but what he does actually, is he creates a narrative where he always wants to stay as close to the truth as possible. he drops in very questionable. you can call them lies if you want to , but he mixes the two. and to, but he mixes the two. and what's happened with the conservative party. and when you listen to his narrative about it being completely split, when you listen to his narrative about it being completely incompetent, he's able to use the failures of the conservative party to bolster his own narrative about what he offers or what reform offers . has he got the policies offers. has he got the policies to fix the country? no, it hasn't , but he's able to build hasn't, but he's able to build his base because there has been such ineptitude at the top of this conservative government. >> and what i think and i see myself as fairly apolitical, but what i see from there, from reform, is a sort of thread of belief system, a value system that i get if you give me an issue, i'm going to tell you how they feel about it. if you give me that same issue for labour and conservatives, it will kind of depend on the wind of the day, right? >> and just a new man in number 10, right? >> okay. we're going to give you

the full candidacy list for clacton here. >> we go again. don't you do that. >> first one jovan owusu—nepaul for the labour party giles watling, tory party matthew bentham, liberal democrat nigel farage reform natasha osbourne for the green party. >> that's it. that's thanks to the panel. >> thank you both. great to see you, theo. >> headlines for. you, theo. >> headlines for . tamsin. >> headlines for. tamsin. >> headlines for. tamsin. >> andrew and bev. thanks very much. here. the headlines at 1132 political parties are appealing to undecided voters in the final days before thursday's election , prime minister rishi election, prime minister rishi sunakis election, prime minister rishi sunak is urging people not to elect labour with a super majority amid polls giving sir keir starmer a 20 point lead. but the labour leader says a clear mandate is needed to repair britain's economy and warns apathy could lead to another five years of the conservatives shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth told gb news a for vote labour is a vote for change. >> there are lots of people who still deciding. lots of people are still weighing up their

options. but honestly, if you want to change this country, you've got to come out and vote. labour voting for any of the other parties helps rishi sunak get re—elected. so if you don't want to switch on gb news on friday morning and hear that rishi sunak has been re—elected, if you don't want to wake up to that vote, labour on thursday . that vote, labour on thursday. >> many within the conservative party are now attempting to persuade would be reform uk voters to think again. home secretary james cleverly told gb news that voters have a clear choice to make . choice to make. >> which of the two parties that can credibly form a government do you want to form a government? do you want it to be the conservative party we have a plan. we are determined to bring down immigration or keir starmer's labour party, which is led by a man who said that all immigration legislation was racist. has the labour party has voted against stronger border controls? over 130 times, voted

to delay the rwanda scheme, which is why it's not yet up and running. so that is the choice at this election. >> the populist right national rally party has taken more than 30% of the vote in france's elections, putting marine le pen's party on the cusp of forming government. the first round of voting is a huge setback for president macron , setback for president macron, whose centrist alliance trailed in third place with just 20. if the current momentum continues, it could be the populist right rising to power for the first time since the second world war. the average house price was up by 0.2% in june, as higher mortgage rates keep many people out of the property market, it means the average cost of a home across the uk is just over £266,000, which is 1.5% more than last year. £266,000, which is 1.5% more than last year . those are the than last year. those are the latest. gb news headlines for now, i'm tamsin roberts more in half an hour for the very latest

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studio for once. normally stood on a like a sort of windy riverside or somewhere for us. aren't you so? >> or usually in a course i was going to say, or outside a courtroom? yes. >> spend a lot of time there, and of course, emily and patrick have been off and got married this morning. you were at the wedding yesterday? >> i was at the wedding. >> i was at the wedding. >> it was magical. you know what? i know, emily, for the last two weeks, has been obsessively checking the weather forecast. i don't know anyone who knows the five day, ten day, 20 day forecast better than she did. and it was will it won't it? would there be rain in the morning? the morning we got there, it looked, oh no, it was a bit overcast. there were some clouds in the sky. it was a bit. it wasn't the magical sunshine of saturday, but. but then as it was, it was outdoors and as as emily, sort of appeared from behind a bush in her amazing gown. she did look started , gown. she did look started, started walking forwards, the clouds parted. >> oh, biblical. >> oh, biblical. >> and cascaded upon, everyone

there. it was like something from a movie. >> amazing. so in case he's a bit worse for wear today. sophie. yes. got on the show this afternoon. >> well, there's lots of politics around, but i think something we're all going to be keen to talk about is the football yesterday. not that impressive, really. was it from england? i know you were at the wedding, but you did catch a little bit of it, didn't you? >> i was, christian kelly, who is a journalist at the express, often comes on these programmes. was sitting next to me and he had his little iphone out there. i just sort of catching the glimpse of what was happening with with england. my goodness, it was it was a touch and go moment by the end. >> yes. not the easy match. i think we all kind of talked aboutin think we all kind of talked about in the build. >> well, slovakia, what an easy draw. and then that happened and it wasn't that great was it . it wasn't that great was it. >> so no it wasn't. >> we'll be taking all that in. >> we'll be taking all that in. >> yeah i think i think one of the things that rishi sunak hoped was there'd be a big optimistic summer. yeah, yeah, there'd be a, there'd be some national fervour and some optimism and everyone would be like. >> and lots of drinking. >> and lots of drinking. >> all the economy is rebounding. this is, this is going to ride rishi sunak home to an enormous comeback, a

political comeback like never before hasn't quite worked out that way. no, no. >> and if we win, it will give keir starmer the best boost to potentially if he's a winner next week. at the end of this week, the labour party always says that england has only ever won a major football tournament under a labour government, which is because we've only ever won one one, one. >> 1966 tom sophie, thank you so much. they will be here at midday. but up next, the police have called off the for search missing teenager jay slater in tenerife. but seems to raise questions than it answers. this is britain's newsroom

gb news. it's 1141. this gb news. it's1141. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> well, who saw this coming? jay slater's family are to meet with spanish police today because the police have called off the search for their teenagerin off the search for their teenager in that mountainous area of tenerife. >> the family say that they're going to continue to look at themselves after being left. what they say is disappointed by

a call for volunteers, which saw just six people turn out to look for the teenager over the weekend. >> so joining us now from montpellier is the journalist gerard cousins. gerard, was this a turn up for the book? because just a couple of days ago, it seemed that the police were intensifying the search with even more police officers on the on on the search. and then abruptly, it seems all over, it was, it was a surprise. i mean, as you say, they brought in the dog reinforcements from madrid, and i think it was the wednesday, tuesday or wednesday of last week, but i suppose i had a sense when they called, when they suddenly announced that large scale operation, for, for saturday, which turned out not to be so large after all. that that could be a final push. i wasn't expecting the police to say the following morning. we're calling it off, but. but that's what they did , so. so yes, it what they did, so. so yes, it did come as a surprise. >> do we know why? is it because they've decided he's, dead and

they've decided he's, dead and they can't. so. and it's such, in the terrain they're searching for, they could be looking for a needle in a haystack. effectively, gerard . effectively, gerard. >> no, i don't think they've decided that. i think the reason that they've called it off is simply that with the information they've got available, in terms of his last known phone location, they've searched and researched as best they can all the areas that he could be in. obviously, if he's carried on walking and done unexpected things once , once his his phone things once, once his his phone is off, his switched is switched to a completely different area of tenerife in whatever way he did , then they've not got that did, then they've not got that information to go and they cannot just simply blindly change municipalities and start searching in another area without something to go on. so i wouldn't, i wouldn't, deduct from this that they, they think

he's in that area, but dead because i think they'd carry on searching if they if that was the case. >> another thing that i find utterly baffling, gerard and i'm not alone in this, is that the two gentlemen that he went back to the house with the airbnb that was rented, the police say they've spoken to those people, but they are not anybody of relevance to the investigation. do we think that that side of the investigation is being handled correctly? surely that house will have been protected as potentially a crime scene, or have some part in his disappearance ? disappearance? >> yeah, i think it was a slight , the way he phrased himself, the mountain rescue expert was slightly unfortunate, he was asked for some clarification afterwards and he said, look, they've been spoken to by the investigators and have been ruled out in terms of having any link to the has been responsible for the disappearance. jay was obviously seen leaving the house alone, those two men weren't

with him at the time. and no one, no one has come forward to say they subsequently saw those two men with him. i don't know in what capacity those two men have been spoken to, whether it was you know, a long interview, in a police station, in tenerife or elsewhere in spain, but the police have been have been clear for them. these men are not involved in the disappearance of jay. and we're not yet being given the impression that in any way they're trying to entrap these two men as subsequently, they've said that on the record, you know, 2 or 3 times. >> okay. all right. thank you very much. gerard cousins there, journalist in marbella. i still think it's the one of the most bizarre. >> this is a weird case, isn't it? it really is . it? it really is. >> it really is. so there's a speculation over the weekend that jay slater was involved in stealing somebody's rolex watch was pursued for that. yeah. >> anyway, now still to come, balmoral castle, of course. >> that's where her majesty the

queen was when we lost her, is now open for visits from the pubuc now open for visits from the public for the first time, we're going to be joined by one man who spent plenty of time there. coming up, this is britain's newsroom on gb news

>> so the royal family is opening the doors of balmoral castle to the public and giving guided tours. today, for the first time in more than 170 years. and one man who spent plenty of time there is former royal butler grant harrold, who joins us now. >> grant, we know the queen loved balmoral and that's, of course, where she was in her final days, why was it so special? >> i think for many reasons. but most importantly, it was a family home. and it's where she spent a lot of time with her family. >> i mean, we all know the queen. obviously, monarchy was the first thing, but she always said that family was right behind that. and so time with family was important, whether it be at sandringham and balmoral, which were both properties that she privately owned. i think

people forget that if we suddenly no longer had a royal family, the royal family still owned sandringham and balmoral, so their private homes and very special, which kind of makes it even more surprising that king charles has decided to open the doors to the public. i was surprised when it was announced because i've for many years i've always said that morales, one of the one of the most private homes, you know, they've always been quite fierce about keeping it a private home, private state. you can visit the gardens at certain times of the year. you can see the ballroom as well. but to actually go in the rooms is really a big step for them. and i think it just shows you that the kind of future of the monarchy with, with properties is opening the doors and letting the public in to see them. >> yeah. you had a very special occasion in that ballroom because you saw a film in there, but i'm not too interested by who you dance with in that ballroom. >> in the film that i watched, the documentary, it was the queen dancing, and i remember thinking, i would love to dance with the queen. and about 12 years later, i was in that ballroom and got to dance with her in that room. so it was it was quite. >> was she not her full tartan

regalia? she was in a beautiful dress. >> she had a blue dress on which, similar to what she wore in the in the documentary that i saw, and they actually replicated the scene in the crown. i was very disappointed to see that brad pitt wasn't playing my oh, sadly . playing my oh, sadly. >> how how did that come about though? dancing with her, i basically put my name down to go to the ghillies ball, which i'd seen the documentary, and there was no possibility of just dancing with it. >> i actually danced with queen camilla before i actually got a dance with the queen, and i remember she said, you're very nervous. and i said, because i had this dream as a kid that i would get to dance with the queen. and she said, oh, grant, there's 130, 40 people here. it's not going to happen. and as soon as she finished, behind me was the queen and the music started and we went into into a real and she's a very it was a very good dancer. but i always remember she kept looking down to make sure that we were doing the right footsteps, you know, with, with the scottish dance she kept, she would tell you off, she would tell you off if you got your footing wrong, it was, it was it was it intimidating dancing with her or nerve wracking, nerve wracking,

nerve wracking, nerve wracking, nerve wracking, nerve wracking, nerve wracking thing i've ever done, really. but for me, it was a dream come true and i got to do it on other occasions as well. and it was just beautiful being in that stunning castle in that ballroom, you know, it was just an amazing for me. >> you went to a lot of the residences. was it your favourite, would you say? was it? >> yeah, absolutely. and funny enough, when i started working for the family, i was sent to scotland because they felt it was the best. that residence or i should say, which is where the king resides when he's up there. it was. it's where they're most at home and most relaxed. so for my training, i initially i was sent up there so that i could actually see them in a very kind of comfortable environment. and it was wonderful. i had so many great memories and so many great years up there with them, and they're completely isolated up there, aren't they? >> nobody sees them. >> nobody sees them. >> well, nobody sees them. but there was a couple of occasions i remember once doing a lunch with, with the now king, and we came out of this little cottage. we were doing this picnic, and as we came out of the house, this huge sightseeing bus suddenly appeared just to the side. and of course, everybody came out , and side. and of course, everybody came out, and i think they couldn't quite believe that

there was, you know , then the there was, you know, then the prince of wales, and he was very good about it. he just kind of waved to everybody and then just got in vehicles, and we all kind of drove off. but it is it's somewhere that they if they wanted to, they could be private. but sometimes members of the public did bump into even the queen and the present queen camilla. members of the public did bump into them and apparently i know for a fact that queen camilla actually said that queen camilla actually said that sometimes you see royals walking around on the estate and she didn't actually say anything. >> well, looking on the website, it looks like the afternoon tea sold out. certain tours have sold out. certain tours have sold out, but there are still 50 tickets available on the balmoral castle website, which is 1750 per adult. >> which do you think they might send us? a couple as we give them a nice plug so much. >> thank you. now before before we go, if you'd like to join us on election night and why wouldn't you? here's patrick and michelle 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

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cling on to some fine weather today . elsewhere it is turning today. elsewhere it is turning pretty cloudy and there will be some rain around in association with a frontal system that is gradually making its way south eastwards. this has already brought quite a bit of rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland, and is now pushing its way into parts of northern england , later central northern england, later central england and also across parts of wales. as we go through the afternoon, like i said, across southern, southeastern parts, clinging on to some fine weather here, there will be some sunshine around, but turning a bit cloudier as we go through the day in the sunshine. not feeling too bad. temperatures just about getting into the low 20s. feeling cooler towards the north northwest as we go into this evening and looking at this in a bit more detail across scotland, the front will have largely cleared away across these areas and so it's going to be a little bit clearer at times. some clear spells mixed in, but also perhaps a bit fresher. there could be some strong winds here as well, but cloudy across northern ireland as we go through the end of the day but looking largely dry. however, the front is going to be lingering across northern central parts of england and across wales, so some thick cloud and some outbreaks of

drizzly rain clinging on to the fine weather across the southeast through much of the day. but as we go overnight, the cloud and the drizzly rain is going to arrive here. so turning a bit damp through the night across many parts of the south—east and also some eastern parts of england further west, some clear skies developing, a few showers, but most places largely dry. it's not going to be a particularly chilly night. temperatures generally holding up especially across east and south eastern parts where we have some thicker cloud. any drizzly rain across parts of east and southeastern england will gradually clear away as we go through tomorrow. otherwise it's looking like a mostly dry day for many places. a few showers to watch out for, but also some bright sunny spells and then some more . persistent, and then some more. persistent, showery rain starts to push its way in to the far northwest as we go through later on, temperatures will be similar to today, but feeling a bit cooler where the cloud lingers in the southeast. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on monday, the 1st of july. i'm tom harwood, and i'm sophie reaper. three days to go before the day of judgement. and the gloves are off. the main tory attack line is to warn voters that labour can't be trusted with immigration. keir starmer, on the other hand, is telling brits not to risk another five years of conservative government elsewhere. >> ed davey is up to his old tricks, hoping voters will do something they've never done before and jump to the lib dems . before and jump to the lib dems. >> and balmoral castle is throwing open its doors for the first time to the public, royal fans will get an unprecedented behind the tartan curtains tour and an insight into the historic royal residence and a damp squib. >> festival goers sat on the ground at one of the emptiest crowds ever recorded for a

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