>> good morning. 930 on tuesday, the 2nd of july, live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning to you. so postal vote chaos. royal mail is being blamed for failing to deliver ballots to voters in time for the general election. have you been affected? let us know . know. >> part time prime minister the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says he won't work. won't work past 6 pm. on fridays if elected. it's a nice idea in principle what to spend it with his family. but is it realistic? no. >> and with two days until the polls open, business secretary kemi badenoch asks wavering voters to stick with the tories , voters to stick with the tories, claiming all our lives depend on it . it. >> booze free britain a quarter of adults are now teetotal, with more younger people than ever avoiding alcohol. why is it the expense health? are they worried

about being drunk and disorderly on social media? >> and later this morning we're going to be speaking to the mother and brother of barnaby webber, the 19 year old, who was one of three people killed in nottingham last year by valdo calocane. >> of course we talked, we talked to emma on this programme just a few weeks ago. it was very moving, wasn't it? >> it really was. also gb news will be live in essex on election night as michelle dewberry and patrick christys host our gb news exclusive election night coverage. >> so if you want to be part of that audience in essex, you can apply now either by scanning the qr code on screen or visiting gb news.com forward slash . news.com forward slash. >> so we'd love to hear what you think. this morning i should have said essex. not always straightforward . those straightforward. those technological instructions are they? and if it's scanning the qr code , put the camera on your qr code, put the camera on your phone, take it up to the screen. this is my mom and dad if you're

watching, and then you will get through to the registration, we'd love to see you there now. also want to hear from you. >> i've never scanned a qr code. >> i've never scanned a qr code. >> doesn't surprise me. we'd love to hear your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. first though, the very latest news headunes though, the very latest news headlines with ray addison. >> thanks, guys. 9:32. our top stories. the postal affairs minister is said to be urgently investigating delays to the delivery of postal ballots. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail after criticising them for failing to deliver some votes in time for the general election. it comes after the government acknowledged that there were issues with the printing and delivering of postal ballot packs in some local areas. the prime minister will make a final pitch to voters today urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority ahead of a speech

in oxfordshire. he was up early this morning, meeting warehouse workers in bedfordshire. he toured an ocado facility and enjoyed a cup of tea in the staff canteen. on the penultimate day of the election campaign. he's expected to say that labour can be denied a supermajority if just 130,000 superm ajority if just 130,000 people supermajority if just 130,000 people switch their vote, while sir keir starmer says a big labour majority would be better for the country . labour majority would be better for the country. in an interview with the times, he said he needed a strong mandate so he can get on with the change. we need. sir keir says two of his key priorities include reforming the planning system and improving the economy. the lib dem leader is urging voters to help end the sewage scandal by kicking the conservatives out of office. sir ed davey is highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority in the next parliament. the regulator would have new powers to prevent sewage dumping. they also want to ban bonuses for water bosses until discharges

and leaks stop and turn water suppliers into public benefit companies . and finally, companies. and finally, hurricane beryl is strengthening into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern caribbean. the ferocious storm comes unusually early in this year's hurricane season . scientists say hurricane season. scientists say the rapid pace of its approach is likely due in part to the effects of climate change. at least one person was killed as the storm inflicted large scale damage across entire islands yesterday. it's now moving towards jamaica , where it's towards jamaica, where it's expected to batter the shoreline with life threatening winds and storm surge . those are the storm surge. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom and in fact, across the world on the app. if you're listening to us in australia, we love to hear from you. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pearson, bev turner. >> so before we get stuck into everything, we're going to look back at the political highlights of the last 24 hours in this riveting general election campaign. >> whether you're a business that struggled because of the damage that's been done to the economy or whether you've served your country in uniform or in your country in uniform or in your community, then this campaign, this positive labour campaign, this positive labour campaign is for you and the fight for change is for you. >> we've had two debates head to head, and anyone who's watched them will have seen that. keir starmer just them will have seen that. keir starmerjust simply them will have seen that. keir starmer just simply can't them will have seen that. keir starmerjust simply can't answer starmer just simply can't answer the question what would he do with illegal migrants that come to our country? he doesn't have a plan. >> britain is broken . britain >> britain is broken. britain

needs reform . liberal democrat. needs reform. liberal democrat. >> 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 and tell you love me and make me lose my shirt. >> that was a zumba class , >> that was a zumba class, apparently, zumba, zumba . is it apparently, zumba, zumba. is it zumba? is it zumba? >> we're both a bit gobsmacked. ed davey. and he's in his peach lycra. >> it's all designed to distract attention from his pretty awful role in the post office dispute . role in the post office dispute. remember, he was the one who wouldn't see mr bates, who inspired that amazing itv drama , inspired that amazing itv drama, which is finally got us all

talking about the post office and then, of course, subsequently when he was an when he was out of the commons, he took a job with a law firm advising the post office at the same law firm that was giving those postmasters and postmistresses a very hard time, very difficult for ed davey. but if you keep doing, bungee jumpers, people do bungee jumps. people don't ask those sort of questions, do they? >> well, that's just backfired on him rather, hasn't it, by the fact that you've done that so well done, backfired on him like a bungee rope, you might say. now, do you fancy a part time prime minister? listen to what sir keir starmer said on virgin radio yesterday about his work life balance on a friday. >> i've been doing this for years. i will not do a work related thing after 6:00 pretty well come what may. yeah some people think if you fill your diary 24 over seven and don't do anything else, that makes you a much better decision maker, i don't agree with that. i think you've got to make space. >> i just do you reckon like putin was watching that and he's like, right, okay, 6:00 on a friday, 6:02 to self invasion. extraordinary is it fair though,

to expect the prime minister to work around the clock? we're joined by the political commentator matthew stadlen and the political correspondent at the political correspondent at the spectator. james heale. morning, gentlemen. great to see you as always, james. maybe sir keir starmer, he's just making the point and leading the way to a work life revolution where we all get a better balance. >> well, i think that's very much what he's trying to do. and obviously he's very keen to spend time with his family. friday nights are important for him. but equally, also, you know, i think that it's allowed the tories at the end of this campaign to resurrect what they were doing at the start of it, which is talking about sleepy and all those kind of criticisms. personally, i don't think i have a huge issue with it whatsoever, but i do think that he probably shouldn't have said it, because i think that having such a concrete time block allows opponents to call into question things about his work ethic and the amount of time he'll spend on the job. >> that's arade dam what do you say to that? >> i think it's reminding people that keir starmer is a human being, like all four of us. and like every single person watching i'm a dad. and the idea

that i would completely neglect fatherhood if i became prime minister distant, distant prospect, though that might be all be relieved to hear, is for the birds. of course, he's got to spend a bit of time with his children, and equally, of course, he's not going to switch off completely at 6:00 in the evening. on fridays when he becomes prime minister. >> james, let's bring you in here. it's some labour people are trying to make. turn this into quite a grubby row, because they're making the point that keir starmer's wife, victoria , keir starmer's wife, victoria, is of jewish heritage. and her dad, who's 95, comes over to the family house on a friday night. they have dinner together, say prayers. i've got jewish neighbours i never see them after 6:00 on a friday, but i don't think sunak was being anti—semitic. i think he's just making the point. having been prime minister for 20 months, you can't make those commitments. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think we've learned, you know, from the last few years or so, politics certainly doesn't fall into neat times and categories, does it? i mean, boris johnson was woken at four in the morning to be told of the invasion of ukraine two years ago. look, he

can try and stick to those times, but i just don't think, you know, blocking off a bit of your diary is going to really work in office, not least because of course, the number of sort of scandals events we've seen in the last two years that have occurred on a friday, it seems friday, have been sort of have a propensity to attract a different headlines and scandals in recent times. so we'll see. i don't think it was anything like that. and i think that, you know, rishi sunak is someone who's been very hard working but also very family orientated. so isuppose also very family orientated. so i suppose each man will have their work life balance. but i think that you know, it, politics never works as conveniently as we'd all like it, as i'm sure all four of us can attest here today. >> yeah, matt, they've worked very hard labour under rachel reeves to try and attract the big business vote. the big corporations. will there be some executives with their heads in their hands going, oh no. if that's a glimpse of what we're going to be like under a labour government, or my employees are going to say, i'm sorry, boss, it's 6:00 on a friday, you won't hear from me until 8:00 on a monday. >> i very much doubt it. bev because the reason these people will be ceos, they'll be senior executives, is because they

don't work 24 hours a day. none of us can work 24 hours a day. you'd be completely burnt out. we want a prime minister who has just a tiny, tiny semblance of balance and reality in their lives because starmer is right. if you stop seeing your children in tyler, if you don't sleep, if you don't have any time at all for a little bit of leisure, a little bit of switch off time, then you're going to start making really very bad decisions. it'd be appalling for your mental health. so of course, chief executives work hard. of course starmer works hard, sunak works hard. but are you trying to tell me, is anyone trying to tell me that rishi sunak hasn't spent any time with his daughters over the last four to 2 to 3 years? anyone trying to 2 to 3 years? anyone trying to tell me that david cameron didn't spend time with his children? this is a total storm in a teacup. and if anything, i think it rebounds to starmer's favour. why because as i said earlier, it shows that he's actually a human being. like the rest of us. we don't want to be led by zombies. >> james heale, we're talking about bevere's racist chief executive, but they will be some of those chief executives concerned by some of what angela rayner wants to do. one of the

plans we know as part of the new deal plans we know as part of the new deal. no, you can't email, colleagues after 5:00 or 6:00. you can't email them at weekend . you can't email them at weekend. that if that became the law of the land, that's going to have a massive effect on companies. >> well, yes. and i think that's what some would be quick to make that juxtaposition right now. and i think that, you know, it'll be interesting to see how much of labour's package on workers rights actually survives into government. i know, for instance, the unions have been very assured and very much on side with labour in all of this, so we'll wait to see what that's really going to connect. and i think the relationship between the woman in charge of that workers rights package, angela raynen workers rights package, angela rayner, and the relationship with the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, is going to be the key fault line of the next government. i think that governments often fall between the relationship between number 10 and number 11. i think in this case, it could be between labour's deputy leader and labour's deputy leader and labour shadow chancellor and kind of what actually business wants versus what the workers want. >> can we just ask you both quickly about ed davis's shenanigans? i'd just like to know whether you think that's cutting through with the voters. matt i think you made some actually quite powerful points

in the introduction, because when i was watching ed davey bungee jump and in his in his sort of peach lycra, i have to admit, it brought a smile to my face. >> it was it was refreshing. but it is also true that he had some serious questions to answer over the post office scandal and we all remember that period earlier this year where he sort of disappeared for a while. what is an effective campaign that he's led? i think it is because i don't think we'd be talking about it right now if he wasn't bungee jumping and doing all these things, and it has brought a little bit of levity to what is obviously a serious time in politics. but i agree with andrew that there is a bit of a juxtaposition between the questions he needed to answer over the post office and the fun and games he's having now. >> it seems to be working in the polls. james, the lib dems are doing better than might have been expected six months ago. >> yeah, i'm just add on matthew's point. i think he's had a lucky campaign because this election was called early . this election was called early. it meant that he hasn't had to give evidence yet to the post

office inquiry, which is due, i think, later this month, which of course, i think again, would have raised all those old questions, that spectre of the post office scandal, which meant as you know, you said he disappeared earlier in the campaign, but i think it has worked in the campaign. and i think that unlike reform, whose vote is very sort of, you know, well, spread across the country, under first, past the post concentration is representation. the lib dems have concentrated their vote exactly where it needs to be in the south east, the south—west, there were 80 seats in 2019. they finished second in across the southeast. they're going to go and i think they're going to make big gains. and i think we're going to see them jump from 11 seats in 2019 to around 45 come election night, quadrupling their vote. >> okay. i think thank you. go on. >> matt, i just very quickly say i think the huge challenge for sunak and the tories is on the right. people aren't seeming to want to vote tactically. reform is going to steal. it looks like a lot of votes from the tories is on the left. i think there will be quite a bit of tactical voting that will help the lib dems, perhaps in some seats, but overall it will help starmer. >> okay. all right gentlemen.

james heale matthew stadlen, thank you so much for joining james heale matthew stadlen, thank you so much forjoining us this morning. it's interesting that kiss is who's making the capital out of that keir starmer. >> well i mean the tories were initially now that now labour are really pushing back saying it's antisemitic. it's ridiculous to suggest that the prime minister was being anti—semitic. i don't suppose he knew for a second that, that the prime minister's sorry, the leader of the opposition's father in law , age 95, comes father in law, age 95, comes round for dinner and they they have a yeah, they reflect his wife's jewish heritage. you don't see his wife at the synagogue, and if that's what they do as a family, that's very nice . but i say again, it won't nice. but i say again, it won't happen when you're prime minister, sir keir, because it's not possible. and grant shapps made the point as defence secretary, most of the conversation he has about major defence issues are late at night . because you're talking to america. >> i'm sure they are. so he's obviously trying to appeal though, isn't he, to that young family working mum. the work you know. oh i get it. >> isn't it nice that he's at home with the kids rather than, you know, on the phone the whole time? yeah politicians. >> right. up next we're going to speak to one former traffic sergeant who is furious that no

party leader has mentioned smart motorways in their campaigning. we know that a lot of you at home feel as strongly as that about having them scrapped. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

>> it's 949. this is britain's newsroom. where gb news now. national highways claim smart motorways in terms of serious fatal casualties are the safest roads we can have. is that true? >> a former traffic sergeant is furious that these controversial roads have been have not been mentioned in this election campaign. and he joins us now. mike rawson , good morning to mike rawson, good morning to you, mike. good morning. >> good morning. good morning anthony. >> good morning. so how safe are these motorways mike. because i certainly have my heart in my mouth when i'm driving on one. >> well you're not alone i think many, many people are like you ,

many, many people are like you, beverly. they do worry. and it's interesting to see that national highways have had a recent advert. imploring people to use the nearside lane, perhaps they ought to realise that the reason people don't use the nearside lane is because they are concerned they might find a broken down vehicle in their path, and the danger that , is path, and the danger that, is associated with that problem . associated with that problem. >> we're just looking at some footage here, mike, from some dash cam. so just to explain to people, because they might not know what these motorways are, they don't have a hard shoulder. so in this footage here, a car has broken down and you just have to sit there like a sitting duck until possibly something hits you from behind. it's really dangerous. what is the government's official position on these now? because i thought at one point they'd said they weren't going to expand anymore . weren't going to expand anymore. >> yes, you're right, the prime

minister cancelled the 14 schemes that were in the pipeline , and that was the right pipeline, and that was the right thing to do , he did it and said thing to do, he did it and said that it was because people, had lost confidence in them. and also the they were very expensive. now, by cancelling those 14 schemes, they save £900 million. and the campaign against dangerous smart motorways is simply saying that that 900 million should be spent on reinstating the hard shoulder. the hard shoulder is always available when a driver has a problem with their vehicle. they don't choose where to have that problem. ideally, it would happen next to an emergency refuge area, but of course it doesn't. and if you can't drive your vehicle, then you are stuck in a live lane, we've had this election campaign, mike. nearly six weeks. we've virtually had to

look up who the transport secretary is. mark harper. nobody's ever heard of him. louise hague, the shadow transport secretary. she's been out and about, but all she talked about was why everybody's got to have electric cars, under a labour government. although, of course, she doesn't have one herself. needless to say, is it how disappointing is it that nobody has raised these smart motorways when we know what an impact they can have on people's safety when they're driving ? safety when they're driving? >> well, andrew, it is very disappointing in my book because people are concerned for safety and we know that 79 people have lost their lives as a result of this policy, and we don't know how many people have suffered life changing injuries. but there must be many. and i think there must be many. and i think the fact that the transport secretary and the shadow transport secretary have chosen to not even mention the policy. i think that's worrying because i think that's worrying because i think that's worrying because i think we should remember that

sir keir starmer just recently said he he wanted to reintroduce service into politics. that means serving the public, of course. and you don't serve the pubuc course. and you don't serve the public by a policy which actually costs lives. >> okay. thank you so much, mike, for joining >> okay. thank you so much, mike, forjoining us >> okay. thank you so much, mike, for joining us this morning. it's such an important point. former traffic sergeant mike rawson there, a spokesperson for national highways, has said the latest data shows that overall, in terms of serious or fatal casualties, smart motorways are the safest roads we have. >> we continue to meet our target to set signals within three minutes from the creation of an incident log or request for signals. i just don't buy it. you take away a hard shoulder. it is obviously idiotic and they depend on trust and i often do the journey from london down the m4 to see my mum and dad, and that became a smart motorway. >> took them over a year of roadworks to get there. when you're driving along it will

have an x in the in the box, the digital over this thing and it will say something like obstruction in road obstruction reported. so you get there and there's no obstruction . and so there's no obstruction. and so people are already the faith in them is just not there. we're losing trust in them. >> and also often the cameras don't work. that's right. which is a real problem. >> right. up next, if you haven't received your postal vote, let us know you're not alone. first, though, your very latest weather with annie don't go anywhere. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. a bit of a murky start for some southeastern areas this morning. elsewhere, though, it will turn brighter. however, some showers are on the way in the northwest later on today, so the rain from yesterday, all that cloud still hanging about across the

southeast through this morning . southeast through this morning. some drizzly rain as well for parts of east anglia down into kent. two behind it though for many western and central areas of england and up towards scotland, northern ireland, it will turn much brighter through the middle of the day. however looking northwest it will cloud over towards the afternoon with some rain and showers. temperatures around 17 to 21 degrees at best. little fresher than yesterday. through this evening we'll continue to see that rain pushing in from the north and west here. it's going to be a wet 12 hours or so, particularly across northwestern areas of scotland. quite a lot of cloud around. we could see some heavier bursts of rain in there across parts of northern ireland too. now a mix of clearer skies and some spells of showers across northeastern areas of england. but it will be clearer further south for much of wales. the south—west central areas of england too, and actually to the south—east, it will be a much brighter end today, end to the day compared today, end to the day compared to this morning through this evening. well it stays quite cloudy and wet across northern

areas and it will remain fairly dry across the south. but that dry across the south. but that dry weather will become more and more restricted to the far south coast as the night goes on. and we've got this cloudy, wet weather quite humid air moving in from the south and west. so temperatures will be around the mid teens across southern areas by tomorrow morning. but it's going to be a fairly damp start through wednesday and there will be quite a lot of wet weather, particularly across western areas of the uk. there will be some spells of rain across the southeast , but it should be much southeast, but it should be much dner southeast, but it should be much drier here compared to elsewhere . quite a lot of cloud around across the west. some hill fog and coastal fog two making it feel rather murky here. temperatures 17 degrees in the west, perhaps 20 degrees in the east. have a great day. see you later . later. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

>> 10 am. on tuesday. the 2nd of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pearson. >> bev turner post to vote. chaos the royal mail is being blamed for failing to deliver ballots to voters in time for the election. if you've been affected, we really would like to hear from you. >> part time prime minister the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says he won't work past 6:00 on fridays if elected . nice idea in fridays if elected. nice idea in principle, but is it realistic ? principle, but is it realistic? >> booze free britain a quarter of adults are now teetotal, with more younger people than ever avoiding the bottle. why is it the expense health? or are they worried about being seen drunk and disorderly on the dreaded social media? >> and with two days until the polls open, business secretary kemi badenoch asks wavering voters to stick with the tories, claiming all our lives depend uponit. upon it. >> and later this morning we're going to be speaking to the mother and brother of barnaby

webber, the 19 year old who's one of three people killed in nottingham last year by valdo calocane. >> and where else would you want to be on election night other than gb news? we are going to be in essex, michelle dewberry and patrick christys going to host our gb news exclusive election night coverage. >> so if you want to be part of that audience in essex, you can apply now either by scanning the qr code on screen or visiting gb news.com . news.com. >> we'd love to hear what you think this morning. send your views and comments to gbnews.com/yoursay. we'll have a look at them while we watch the news with ray . news with ray. >> good morning. it's 10:01. news with ray. >> good morning. it's10:01. i'm ray addison . the postal affairs ray addison. the postal affairs minister is said to be urgently investigating delays to the

delivery of postal ballots. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail after criticising them for failing to deliver some votes in time for the general election. it comes after the government acknowledged that there were issues with the printing and delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas. >> my understanding is local councils have sent out those postal ballots, so it is a royal mail issue rather than a local council issue, and what i would say to your viewers , if their say to your viewers, if their postal votes are arriving late, they can still take them to the polling stations on the day if they're worried that they won't get back in time. but there is concern in a few constituencies. not not all and not not not not a huge number that we're picking up. but, where there are, kevin hollinrake is personally, meeting with royal mail to try and get this resolved urgently . and get this resolved urgently. >> well, that was health minister maria caulfield. shadow health secretary wes streeting is urging the electoral commission to investigate and says there needs to be

accountability . accountability. >> this is extremely serious. accountability. >> this is extremely serious . we >> this is extremely serious. we have postal votes for a reason . have postal votes for a reason. often people choose to vote by post, not just because they have difficulty getting to a polling station on the day, but because there aren't going away on houday there aren't going away on holiday and they're not going to be around on polling day. so there are people i know because i've spoken to them in the last couple of weeks on the campaign trail, who've flown off on houday trail, who've flown off on holiday without having been able to vote in the election. and i think that's i think that's a disgrace, actually, the prime minister will make a final pitch to voters today urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority ahead of a speech in oxfordshire. >> he was up early this morning meeting warehouse workers in bedfordshire. he toured an ocado facility and enjoyed a cup of tea in the staff canteen. on this, the penultimate day of the election campaign, he's expected to say that labour can be denied a supermajority if just 130,000

people switch their vote. well, sir keir starmer says a big labour majority would be better for the country. in an interview with the times, he said he needs a strong mandate so he can get with the change we need. sir keir says two of his key priorities include reforming the planning system and improving the economy. former labour mp simon simon told us the tories are trying to convince labour supporters their vote isn't needed ever since they started doing it, i have always thought this tactic would work. >> i think it's almost bound to work if you can really convince people that it's a foregone conclusion , it's all over and conclusion, it's all over and the question is only whether labour win by a ridiculous, unnecessary margin. inevitably, some people are going to stay at home, and that's why labour now is so determined to say, no, no, you've got to get out and vote. you if you want change, vote for it. >> the lib dem leader is urging voters to help end the sewage scandal by kicking the

conservatives out of office. sir ed davey is highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority in the next parliament. the regulator would have new powers to prevent sewage dumping. they also want to ban bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks stop and turn water suppliers into pubuc and turn water suppliers into public benefit companies. and turn water suppliers into public benefit companies . the public benefit companies. the green party says it will abolish ofsted to reduce stresses and improve wellbeing if they win the general election. the party is also pledging to scrap tuition fees and provide free school meals for all children. meanwhile continuous assessments would replace sats testing . would replace sats testing. co—leader carla denyer described their education package as an a star offering . hurricane beryl star offering. hurricane beryl is strengthening into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern caribbean. the ferocious storm comes unusually early in this year's hurricane season . scientists say hurricane season. scientists say the rapid pace of its approach is likely due in part to the

effects of climate change, at least one person was killed as the storm inflicted large scale damage across entire islands yesterday . it's now moving yesterday. it's now moving towards jamaica, where it's expected to batter the shoreline with life threatening winds and storm surge . and finally, the storm surge. and finally, the royal mint has honoured team gb and paralympics gb athletes with and paralympics gb athletes with a new £0.50 coin. it comes ahead of the paris 2024 olympic and paralympic games. the collectable, which costs at least £12, features athletes against a backdrop of the union flag with a silhouette of the eiffel tower. the royal mint says they hope the coin serves as a special good luck token. right. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com

>> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> welcome back. this is britain's newsroom with me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, if you can't make a polling station on thursday, you won't be alone. and we wonder if you've already received your postal vote. >> so thousands of constituents are still yet to receive ballots ahead of the election on thursday, as royal mail is being blamed for the chaos. >> scotland. it's a particular issue because schools have already broken up, so a lot of people have gone on holiday already, so if their postal vote hasn't arrived, it's too late. yeah. >> well, lib dem leader sir ed davey had this to say to reporters about the crisis. >> i'm really concerned and we need urgently to look at this, a number of local authorities are opening their town halls to make sure people can get them. we obviously need to push royal mail, and we need to have contingency plans. it is a genuine worry . genuine worry. >> let's speak to our reporter theo chikomba, who's live from a

post office. now, good morning theo.so post office. now, good morning theo. so bring us up to speed on this story. do we know roughly how many people register for postal votes ? postal votes? >> well, if we're looking at the last election, i was reading this morning that there was a 20% increase in the 2019 general election, around 1.2 million people are using postal votes, and they were warning the postal service were warning and that this might be an issue when it comes to this election, as many more people are now using this service for a number of reasons. maybe they're going away on houday maybe they're going away on holiday or they simply can't make it on time. on thursday, with only two days left, this is an issue which the post office is being asked to rectify. the post office themselves. they're saying there is no backlog. however, we do understand from reports that there are around 90 constituencies across the uk which have which haven't had

their ballots arrive on time. they're having issues there regardless of the post office saying that there isn't an issue at the moment. and we do know some of these issues are actually in constituencies for cabinet members such as kemi badenoch. james cleverly and many others. now for people who haven't been able to receive them at the moment, they're being urged to speak to their local authorities to find out what the issue is so that they can get their ballots on time. there are also some concerns that those people who haven't been able to get them yet, that they may end up having to go to their local area to take their postal ballot with them in person, which is i suppose, not what they would have wanted to do. so it's an issue which is being looked into by the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, who we understand is speaking to some of those postal delivery services which are being affected. but we do know there are lots of people who've

been hired to ensure that this issue is solved. and the post office saying they're doing all they can to ensure people do get their ballots on time . their ballots on time. >> okay. all right. thank you. theo theo chikomba there. but if you presumably if you vote want to vote on thursday, it's now tuesday. you've got to get it in the post box today. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and to have any hope of it getting there. >> well you can actually take it to the town hall, but that rather defeats the object. >> it does doesn't it, if people because if your point is. >> yeah, but but the real problem is that people have already gone on holiday. >> that's right. and it's also students. so if you're say, a first time voter and you're back from university now you've finished for the summer, you like you say, you've probably gone overseas with your mates to get a cheaper holiday before the schools break up. >> and this election was called six weeks ago. it was a surprise election. so that but surely that gives the post office time. you think so? >> wouldn't you let us know, won't you? if you have been affected gbnews.com/yoursay. but up next, ed miliband says that labour will take the global lead on tackling climate change. we want to hear your thoughts on that. this is britain's on gb news.

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good morning. >> it's 1014. good morning. >> it's1014. britain's good morning. >> it's 1014. britain's newsroom with andrew pearson. bev turner. >> now former chancellor. kwasi kwarteng, a former labour mp. luciana berger, are in the studio with us. we're both having a little gossip. then about speculation of how many seats the conservatives might win in the election. come on, luciana, what's your number? >> no, no no no polls. >> the poll that matters is in two days. i wouldn't want to divulge what i. >> what i thought of it. well, i'm going to give a bit of weight. well, political. a tory is pretty gloomy. >> yes, it's going to be forecast. >> yeah, probably. >> yeah, probably. >> which might be affected by this postal vote fiasco. what a mess this is. do we know? just explain to our viewers which party might benefit if postal votes are not arriving in time. >> i think it affects all parties. i think it affects most importantly, the general public who are going to be able to exercise their votes for people that perhaps have already gone

on holiday, that didn't arrive, they didn't issue. >> in scotland, schools are shut already. >> absolutely. i mean, we've heard from some conservative candidates today. they've heard it on the doorstep. so very, very tricky. it's disproportionately impacting on constituencies in england . quite constituencies in england. quite a large number there. and some specific councils in london as well have said where it's an issue. but even if people are not aware on holiday, haven't received the postal ballot request another one. they still then got to take it on election day to guarantee that their vote is counted to a polling station. and we hear today that in order to do so, people have to present either their national insurance number or their passport. now, not everyone in this country has a passport. if people aren't in work, for whatever reason, they might have had a national insurance number. they might not be able to find it. you know, there's additional challenges at this time. also, this first election that we've ever had where people have to go and present this id. so i think lots of challenges for everyone, not just with this postal ballot issue, but people that are going to show up to vote won't have the necessary identification. >> i just wrote a letter on the

letters page of the daily telegraph kwasi, where it said another sign that nothing works in this country. >> well, look, i mean, i think lots of things i don't think it's particularly fair on this issue because, you know, you can't blame the government for the how the post office works. i mean, it's a it's a company that, with its own structures. and it should have responded to this in terms of what, luciana was saying, i think it will affect the conservative vote. i mean, i've stood in five general elections, and it was always understood that our vote was a slightly older vote. yeah. and generally was more reliant on postal votes. i remember standing in brent east and, ken livingstone no less, who had been mp there, said, oh, your postal vote. you know, the postal vote. you know, the postal votes are quite strong. your vote might hold up. so there was a connection in his mind between postal votes and conservative votes. so but regardless of that, i think this is a real scandal. so do i, because many people use postal votes because they because they've got mobility issues. there are instances i knew in my constituency where younger people who were looking after

older people had had postal votes because they couldn't leave them. and go to the polling station. there are lots of reasons why people have postal votes, and i think it's a real scandal that they haven't been able to get those votes in on time. >> who's going to be held responsible because there could be thousands of people on thursday saying, this is not fair. i can't go and vote. who do they complain to? >> i think firstly , it's a royal >> i think firstly, it's a royal mail issue and i know now that everything that goes wrong, we blame the government immediately . that's a sort of natural knee jerk reaction. but i think there are issues operationally with the royal mail who've known, as you said, for six weeks that there was going to be a general election. >> sorry to interrupt you. we've got to cross live to oxfordshire , where prime minister rishi sunakis , where prime minister rishi sunak is speaking. sorry, guys. >> can i just start by thanking dennis and mike for welcoming you here this morning, getting spent a bit of time with all of you and say thank you to all of you and say thank you to all of you for what you're doing because of businesses like yours and the incredible job that you're doing, we are now the fastest growing economy anywhere in the advanced world, faster

than france , germany, italy, than france, germany, italy, including even america and as you are demonstrating, we've also overtaken the netherlands, japan and france to become the fourth biggest exporter in the world. and that is down to the success of businesses like yours. so thank you very much for that. and congratulations. and also victoria , thank you for and also victoria, thank you for the warm introduction. well, there you are, victoria. i'll tell you, she works her socks off for you down in westminster. she's a very dear friend of mine , and i know she was born at the horton. and it's a point of massive pride for her to be able to represent her hometown. so will you just join me in saying thank you to victoria for everything that she does? right. let me get straight to it. i know there will be many of you who would have supported us in the past, who are a bit more hesitant about doing that this time around. and i get it right. i'm not blind to the frustrations that many of you will have. it's been a difficult few years for all of us with covid ukraine, and we certainly haven't got everything

absolutely right or made as much progress as we would have liked to . but on thursday, it's not to. but on thursday, it's not a by—election it's not a referendum about the past. it's a really important choice about our future as a country. and the choice you make will have enormous consequences for you and your family. and i'd urge you to think very hard about it. and you would have seen all the polls and what they're saying. and if you give a blank cheque or we end up collectively giving a blank cheque to the labour party, that is going to have a massive impact on you and your finances, your family, and indeed our country, and many of you will care about issues like making sure that we can control immigration. we won't get any progress on that. and you would have seen that if you watched the tv debates the other day, making sure that we invest in our security and defence, keeping everyone safe in a more uncertain world. again, that's not what will happen under a future labour government. getting to net zero, which of course we all care about. and i want to get there for my two

daughters. but we've got to do that in a sensible way that prioritises energy security and all of your family finances, and doesn't hammer you with extra bills. those changes i made would be reversed. and crucially , perhaps most importantly, given the few years we've had economically, it means that your taxes would go up by thousands of pounds, right? if we give labour that blank cheque, you won't be able to get it back and all of you are going to end up paying all of you are going to end up paying much more in taxes. and i don't want to see that happen. right. so when you think about voting on thursday, you know, if you vote conservative, it is a vote for lower taxes because i believe you all work incredibly hard and i want you to enjoy the benefits of that hard work and keep more of your for money yourselves to spend on what you want and to spend on your families. right? that's the kind of country i believe in. so we'll keep cutting your taxes if we're elected as we've done this yean we're elected as we've done this year, and we'll make sure that we cut taxes for people at every stage of their lives. not not just all of you that are in work, but those people are setting out on their own small

businesses, self—employed. we'll also cut taxes for them. for young couples wanting to own their own home, because that's something that many of us will have experienced. i want everyone to be able to fulfil that aspiration. so we're going to abolish stamp duty for first time buyers effectively and families, i think family, like for all of you, for me, is the most important thing in my life and we want to keep supporting families and expand the generosity of child benefit and then pensioners, because i believe that if you work hard all your life and you put in, then you deserve dignity and security in retirement. and even if many of you are not in that bracket today, you'll have parents, you'll have grandparents. you want to know that they're going to be looked after, which is why we're going to introduce the triple lock plus to make sure that the state pension is never, ever taxed. and again, that's not something that the labour party will do, which means for the first time in our country's history, pensioners face paying income tax on the state pension , which tax on the state pension, which i don't think is right. so there is an important choice and be in no doubt that a vote for the conservatives on thursday for vote victoria, vote for me and

all of us is a vote to lower your taxes and build on the progress we've made. and in conclusion, before i take your questions, i'll just say this that my grandparents came to our country with very little. and a couple of generations later here i am standing in front of you with the incredible privilege of having been not just your chancellor, especially through difficult time with the pandemic, but also now your prime minister. and that's why i love our country. so much. i'm so grateful to everything that it's done for my family. it's why i do this job, and that's why i do this job, and that's why i do this job, and that's why i work so hard to make a difference to all of your lives. in the same way that our country made a difference to my families and that's what you'll always get from me. so you know that i share your values about opportunity, about aspiration, about rewarding hard work and family. i want to make sure that we deliver financial security for all of you. and i will take the action that's required to do that. and most importantly, we will always stand up for you . will always stand up for you. stand up for what is right for you. stand up for what is right for our country. so that's the

choice ahead of you. on thursday, as i don't sleepwalk into something that you haven't thought properly about, think very hard about what it means for you and your family. very hard about what it means for you and your family . and in for you and your family. and in spite of all these polls say every vote matters. you can make the difference. you can vote to make sure there isn't a labour supermajority . and actually, superm ajority. and actually, there's supermajority. and actually, there's not an unchecked party in power with a blank check to do what they want. you can vote for lower taxes for secure borders and a more secure future for all of you. and your families. and if you re—elect me and victoria, it will be the privilege of our lives to continue serving you and trying to make a difference to all of you and your families. so thank you and your families. so thank you very much for having me this morning as the prime minister on the campaign trail, it sounded to me kwasi kwarteng like he was going through the motions. >> i think he must be very tired. i think he's probably looking forward to friday. all of this ending. yeah, but he has to make a closing argument. you know, he can't just suddenly pull out and say, look, i'm giving up. and i think he's he's shown quite a lot of energy, actually. he kept fighting.

reminds me of the leadership contest with liz truss. you know, he kept fighting even though he knew he was going to lose that, and in this instance, he's, you know, he's keeping going. >> just want to bring some breaking news. i want to hear from luciana. thought of rishi sunak talking there with the breaking news is that andy murray will not play singles at wimbledon, but has committed to competing in the doubles with his brother jamie. that's just, hot off the press. luciana. rishi sunak. they're trotting out a whole load of political cliches about people going to vote, and it looks like he's just trying to wring every last drop of enthusiasm that he can muster at the end of this. >> well, i think in terms of the spirit of what we just heard, i didn't think i didn't believe him. i thought he was just going through the motions, you know, i just it was , again, even just just it was, again, even just like, you know, hearing him, he felt like he was a he was on a kind of autopilot . but i also kind of autopilot. but i also listened to the substance of what he just said , and what he just said, and unusually, the very things that he was asking the public to consider him about the very things on his record where i

think and i think many of the pubuc think and i think many of the public think that he's failed. so he talked about taxes and not having increases in taxes. we have the most taxed country in the you know, that we've had in the you know, that we've had in the last 70 years. he talked about energy bills . i think about energy bills. i think anyone watching this will will know and have felt the pain of energy bills that we've seen. >> cut him some slack, though. that was ukraine was a major factor in that. >> and there's always geopolitical crises. but if this government had invested in whether it's the new power stations that we were talking aboutin stations that we were talking about in 2010 and actually generating energy in this country rather than importing it from abroad like the labour party says it wants to do by creating gb energy, we wouldn't have had an experienced the pain of the bills that we've all had across the country. >> i didn't anticipate a political debate, but, you know, to talk about importing gas and energy, and saying that's a bad thing. when labour are committed essentially to destroying the nonh essentially to destroying the north sea and withdrawing licences is crazy. okay so they're doing more to make us reliant on foreign imports of energy than any than anybody.

>> but we have no gas storage . >> but we have no gas storage. so do we kwasi we do. we've got rough, we've got rough, we i actually was involved in that when i was secretary for bays, but, we've reinvested in that. but i think what rishi sunak said last week about labour being a real danger to what's going on in the north sea, to having home grown home sourced energy, is a serious point . energy, is a serious point. >> we have to have an energy mix, but we don't have in this country as a proper energy mix and particularly as an island where we actually have natural resources that we could be harnessing. we should be doing so much more when it comes to the wind that blows, the sun that shines precisely wrong. >> actually, because if you compare british energy to french energy, we've got a much more diverse source of power. we've got gas. we've got, as you said, renewables, both offshore wind and onshore wind. >> we don't have enough of a mix we could do. >> i think we could do better. we've actually fallen down in the world. >> when you look at investment tables, you look at france. >> 70% of their electricity is from nuclear. so if anything goes wrong with the nuclear, they're at risk. you look at

germany, they were entirely dependent almost on russian debts, 50. >> i agree that we should include nuclear in our mix. but. but when was it that your government first started talking about a new nuclear power station? >> about 8 or 9 years ago? >> about 8 or 9 years ago? >> no, it wasn't. it was. i was the shadow energy minister in 2010. it was between 2010 and 2013, 14 years, 14 years ago. it was 14 years ago. we still don't have a new nuclear power station. we did the hinkley point deal. >> how many years know that it takes a long time to build a nuclear power station. but, minister, that's what we're doing. >> ministers hinckley could and should have intervened. i mean, this is about the state intervene. this is the state that we've seen that symptoms, this government doesn't kwasi have a point. >> you're shutting down a lot of home—grown energy. if the north sea, no more new licences, no more new licences. >> it's not about existing licences. no more, more important, no more new licence, no more new licences. >> there could be important energy. >> well it's a massively depleted country. it's a massively, massively depleted energy source. we've we've already extracted some left and you're killing it. >> yeah. by saying that no new lie—in jobs of course. >> and what we should have been

doing as a country is investing in the exciting new technologies which we've been doing. no, we haven't got no wind. >> we've got the second there's an international table. >> it's done by an organisation called pew. back in 2010, we were at the top of the table in terms of our investment in new energy technologies in this country, particularly harnessing those natural resources. we've completely fallen off the table because this country and this government have not invested in the way. the reality is creating those exciting jobs of the future. >> you've got your talking points, but the actual fact that is the actual facts. >> i followed it very closely with the second, we've got the second most largest deployment of offshore wind in the world, the offshore wind. >> you speak to anyone in offshore wind, they will say britain. >> i do not dispute that. it's a really important part of the mix, but what proportion is that of our overall energy generation? >> it's a huge proportion. it can be up to a third on on particularly windy days. >> let's just reflect on the fact that we've got tomorrow effectively the last day. and then people are voting on thursday. there are still by all accounts, a lot of people in this country who have not yet

decided even who to vote for on thursday, they don't think the tories deserve it, but they're not even sure that labour deserve to be there either. are these is the prime minister and sir keir starmer today , because sir keir starmer today, because we might be hearing from him in a moment. are they talking about the things that really matter to people with 24 hours to go? >> well, i think if you look at what the labour party is talking about today, it's the national health service, and from all the doors that i've knocked in, knocked on across the country over the last couple of weeks, thatis over the last couple of weeks, that is one of the key issues that is one of the key issues that has come up. we know that there are over 8 million people in this country who are on a waiting list for an operation. it affects 1 in 7 of us. it's impacting on people's ability to go to work and to provide for their families. our national health service is really on its knees. so the labour party talking about what it's actually practically going to do to change that, to introduce an additional 40,000 appointments a week, it's going to make a real difference. and that, for example, is one of the things that people do care about. >> are they being creative enough, though, when it comes to the nhs, labour's manifesto, it does look sound a little bit

like more money, more money, more money. >> but no, no no no i absolutely think that. >> and actually it's interesting because wes streeting is one of the more creative people on the front bench, but he's been very restrained on that. he hasn't really spoken about this particular issue. i think there are other issues as well. the nhs is crucially important. the immigration issues are very important issue and the real problem the tories are facing on thursday isn't what labour is doing. labour will probably get fewer votes and corbyn got in 2017, not only in terms of numbers but also as a proportion. they'll be lucky to get 40. the problem the tories face is reform. we've got we've got a totally split, split right wing and if the projections are right, we're going to have very, very few, relatively few conservative seats. and that will be largely as a consequence of this issue on the right. and, and i would like to see the prime minister direct a bit more of his attention on that, because the labour vote will be what it is. and it's and it's fallen over the course of the six weeks. >> and ironically, he could have a bigger landslide than blair on

a bigger landslide than blair on a sharply. yes. i mean, for a share of the vote. >> i've always been a fan of first past the post, but i can't deny that it comes up with anomalous and strange results. yeah, i'm pretty sure that reform will have far more votes than the liberal democrats, but the liberal democrats will have far more seats because their votes are more concentrated. and that's just a function of the system we have. >> yeah, right. kwasi luciana, thank you for now. you'll be back in a little while later, but first of all, the very latest news headlines with ray. >> many thanks. good morning. it's 1031. our top stories. the post rural affairs minister is said to be urgently investigating delays to the delivery of postal ballots. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail after criticising them for failing to deliver some votes in time for the general election. labour is urging the electoral commission to investigate, saying there needs to be accountability. well, some breaking news. a candidate for

reform uk has suspended her campaign and defected to the conservatives georgie david told the bbc that she's frustrated and dismayed by the party and accused the vast majority of candidates of being, quote, racist and misogynistic . of racist and misogynistic. of course, that is a developing story. we'll bring you more on that as we get it. the prime minister is making a final pitch to voters today urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority on the penultimate day of the election campaign. he's reminding voters that labour can be denied a supermajority if just 130,000 superm ajority if just 130,000 people supermajority if just 130,000 people switch their vote. well, meanwhile, sir keir starmer says a big labour majority would be better for the country . in an better for the country. in an interview with the times, he said he needed a strong mandate so he can get on with the change. we need. hurricane beryl is strengthening into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern caribbean. at

least one person was killed as the storm inflicted large scale damage across entire islands yesterday. it's now moving towards jamaica, where it's expected to batter the shoreline with life threatening winds and storm surge . and as we've been storm surge. and as we've been hearing, andy murray will not play hearing, andy murray will not play singles at wimbledon, but he has committed to competing in the doubles with his brother jamie. the two time former champion has been battling to recover from back surgery last weekend, but has run out of time with his first round clash against tomas macek scheduled for tuesday afternoon . right. for tuesday afternoon. right. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news

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>> welcome back. it's 1037. you've been getting in touch at home. dickie has said. oh, come on, luciana berger, tell us the

truth. and get real. no need to give new oil and gas licences. what happens when you tax energy companies, even more than the current 75? and companies like chevron leave the north sea and they're going to tax them even more. exactly. even more , more. exactly. even more, christine said. wow, you lot are unbelievable. i think she's talking to you, kwasi kwarteng. if you'd stop the boats, we would have had money to deal with the nhs vote reform, says christine, as per usual, where is the reform representative to give both an educational common sense? another one of our viewers, jeff there, we have got a reform story for you in just a moment. what else have you been saying? if anyone is on autopilot, says valerie, it is keir. my father was a toolmaker. starmer. the entire labour campaign has been about reading soundees campaign has been about reading soundbites from a weekly hand sheet. i can't believe people are buying their acts. no wonder so many people get scammed out of their savings in this country if they're swallowing the diatribes from labour, whose entire narrative involves slating the tories while having no genuine practical answers. >> well, they're just they're playing on the idea . you hear it

playing on the idea. you hear it all the time. 14 years of chaos , all the time. 14 years of chaos, 14 years of it's now the circus. if you notice chaos, wes streeting refers to time to end the circus. time to end the clown show. yeah. and they're playing on the fact that the tories haven't been brilliant, have they? in the last 14 years. and time for a change. it does happen. >> ben has said starmer is the biggest con man in britain who would ever trust such a man who's frightened to explain his policies, doesn't know what a woman's gender is, changes his mind like the weather, and furtively consorts with union bosses that are his paymasters. despite what the polls indicate, labouris despite what the polls indicate, labour is unelectable, electable, still infected with misogyny , anti—semitism. it will misogyny, anti—semitism. it will be insanity to vote labour to just punish the tories. well, a lot of you feeling like that . lot of you feeling like that. keep your messages coming this morning. >> do do now some more breaking news. georgie david, who was standing as a reform uk candidate for west ham and beckton. so that is what you would normally call a very safe labour seat, has defected to the tories . she that she is the tories. she that she is the

second reform candidate to do just that. she said. >> she said i'm in no doubt that the party and its senior leadership are not racist . leadership are not racist. however, as the vast majority of candidates are in. i'm sorry, i'm in no doubt that the party and its leadership are not racist. however, the vast majority of candidates are indeed racist, misogynistic and bigoted. i do not wish to be directly associated with people who hold such views that are so vastly opposing to my own, and what i for , stand so we have to what i for, stand so we have to read the full list of candidates to now, of course, in west ham and bechtum they are james edward as a labour party, lois austin, trade unionist and socialist coalition emily bigland, liberal democrats. rob callender for the green party, sophia naqvi for newham independence party, and holly alice ramsay, the conservative party. >> oh, there's more , oh, there's more. >> code shadow, shadow christian people's alliance and as was georgie david for reform uk . georgie david for reform uk. >> so that's, i mean, this is a

seat which, is a labour stronghold. so it will cause very little concern to reform leadership. but it's another it's another suggestion of, they didn't get the candidates right, but that was partly because, of course, the election was called so quickly. >> yeah. i mean, some of the leadership of reform have they have suggested and i don't know if there's any evidence of this, that some of these people stood for reform being truly tories at heart, knowing they would pull out at the last minute. but who knows? no doubt there will be an investigation into it. now. >> we need to go live because the labour leader, sir keir starmer, is speaking at a key campaign event in the east midlands. here he is pleased that with two days to go, we're running such a positive campaign i >> -- >> we're campaigning with a positive case to take to the electorate all about change and what a contrast to the increasingly desperate negative campaign that the tories are

running. they've literally got nothing to say to the electorate. as we go into thursday. we've got plenty to say because this campaign is about change. it's about turning the page and rebuilding our country. and whether you're a family that's been struggling with the cost of living crisis for months, if not years, with bills bearing down on you, whether you're a business that's been struggling locally and across the country with the damage that's been done to the economy, or whether you've served your country in uniform or in your community, this campaign is for you. the change that we're campaigning for is for you. we've got one job this summer , and that's to make it a summer, and that's to make it a summer, and that's to make it a summer of change and to have a labour government returned. on thursday, the 4th of july. and we're able to be so positive because we have changed our

labor party. we've pushed gesture to politics one side and we proudly say country first, party second. that is the change that we brought about in our party. that is the approach we take to this campaign and we are asking for the opportunity to change our country for the better and put it back in the service of working people. that is what this is all about. and the contrast could not be starker because believe you me, if you don't vote labour on thursday, if you vote for the conservatives or anybody else, then we could end up on friday morning with five more years of the same . we've had 14 years of the same. we've had 14 years of chaos and division and failure and have you seen anything in their campaign that suggests that they've changed? i've seen chaos and division and failure. i'd add, with a big end negativity , negativity. as we go

negativity, negativity. as we go into the last 48 hours. but that's what we'll be back on friday morning if we don't persuade people of the case for change and forget the polls , you change and forget the polls, you will know in constituencies like this, every single vote counts. many constituencies will go down to just a few hundred votes either way on the day. so every vote has to be earned. it's out there to be earned , and we have there to be earned, and we have to work our way through till 10:00 on thursday evening, making the case that if you want change, you have to vote for it. and i do believe the country wants change. you'll have been out on the doors. we've been campaigning for a long time now. i'm yet to meet a single person that said to me, look, keir, everything's great. please don't change anything. it's fine as it is. nobody but nobody is saying that people want change. but change will only happen if you vote for it. so we campaign through all the way to 10:00 on thursday in constituencies like

this across the country, with ambition for our country, with a plan. on day one, we'll roll up our sleeves and get on with the urgent work that's needed. setting up those 40,000 extra appointments in the nhs to get our waiting list down. recruiting the 13,000 police officers that we need in our neighbourhoods, making sure we got the teachers in our schools so that every single child, whatever their background, whatever their background, whatever their background, whatever their circumstances, gets the chance that they need to go as far as their talents will take them . as we rebuild will take them. as we rebuild our country with the nhs, not just back on its feet, but fit for the future with gb energy, a new publicly owned energy company keeping your bills down for good with energy security and the next generation of jobs, and the next generation of jobs, and making sure that across britain people are better off living standards, are going up, people feel better off because their public services are working. the nhs is working as they would expect , as they're they would expect, as they're entitled to. that is the choice

at this election. the choice between continuing as we are chaos, division failure that will all be the same. it'll be worse because they'll feel emboldened or turning the page with a smile, with a spring in our steps, which is how we've campaigned and rebuilding our country, starting from day one. that's a change worth having. but if you want change, you've got to vote for it. thank you very much. >> inspiring stuff. there yeah, for almost certainly our next prime minister can you imagine him on the global stage? sort of beside, i don't know, possibly donald trump maybe. >> well, you look charismatic and dynamic compared to joe biden. for god's sake, who wouldn't ? wouldn't? >> i just, wouldn't? >> ijust, i i'm just wouldn't? >> i just, i i'm just not sure. i'm not convinced that sir keir starmer has what i would describe as perhaps statesperson like qualities, she says, trying to be he might he might grow into not chauvinistic. >> he might grow into it. i mean, i don't know him very

well. i've met him a few times and i've always found him overwhelmingly dull. which is, and maybe he's just careful around you. >> andrew. >> andrew. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, people might say, well, look, boris johnson was charismatic and glamorous and interesting, and you could never call boris johnson dull, but was was he what people wanted? perhaps that's what people want. dull, safe, but i think he's going to be managerial, and, and if people are looking for transformation in the health service , forget it, because it's service, forget it, because it's not going to happen. i just spend more money to be just more money. bad money going after bad. >> you know what i worry about? i'm reading his his biography at the moment, keir starmer's biography. and i do worry that he even though he had a really tough upbringing, there's no doubt about it. his mother was incredibly ill for much of his life, and he was. he's been through a lot. it makes me think that if sometimes, if it doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. so i think there must be a strength of character about him, given his childhood. >> i think he's tough as old boots. >> i think he's tough as old

boots, but i do slightly worry that he might lack the backbone to take some very sort of tough love decisions. he might almost too be nice, in a way, to be prime minister, and i think when you are a compassionate man, which i would say, i think he is, you tend to blow in the wind with trying to keep everybody happy all of the time, and you just can't. and that's why i think he sometimes falls to the minority loudest voice on certain issues. >> but i think but i do think he's tough. he's been pretty ruthless with his shadow cabinet and he gets his way, and, we'll see. >> we'll be here on friday morning. by the way, we don't normally in britain's newsroom on friday morning, but as it's the election , we will be here to the election, we will be here to digest the results with all of us nine by 9:30. >> we're well and truly know how big the landslide is. >> yeah, yeah, we for will sure. moving on. new research has found that posts from ten accounts on social media spreading disinformation and hate have been viewed more than 150 million times ahead of the general election. >> they contain anti—semitism, conspiracy theories and even praise of russian president vladimir putin. >> so let's speak to campaign lead ava lee now, who's from the

non—governmental organisation global witness, who conducted this study . good morning to you, this study. good morning to you, ava. so i'm interested in this. tell us a little bit more about the detail of your findings. >> good morning. it's great to be here. so i think we all know that the online debate around politics, and particularly ahead of elections, can be really toxic, but i think when we go online, we believe that the views that we're seeing really held by other people, and what our investigation has shown is that potentially, you know, some of that's being influenced by actors who may be paying for these bots , or bot like accounts these bots, or bot like accounts that are really pushing specific agendas. so we did a snap election, a snap investigation in relation to the snap investigation and the snap election . and we have looking election. and we have looking very, very quickly found this small number of bots that were posting huge, huge numbers of times. so we looked at some key issues that were coming up,

particularly climate and migration followed some hashtags and made sure that those were really politically neutral. so we looked at both stop the boats as well as refugees. welcome and when we looked into those hashtags, we looked at the accounts that were tweeting most about them, and we looked for red flags. so some of those red flags included tweeting hundreds and hundreds of times. others included having, a username that was a string of numbers rather than a real name. and images or no image for a profile picture , no image for a profile picture, some images that looked kind of generated by ai, some images that looked kind of generated by al, or that were used elsewhere, or where people just had that kind of position of an egg, and what we found was really disturbing. it was really hateful content, really extreme islamophobia, extreme anti—semitism , extreme racism, anti—semitism, extreme racism, extreme homophobia, and transphobia, as you mentioned. and it was just getting viewed an enormous amount of time. so it's estimated that the just from these ten accounts that they would have been seeing over

150 million times in the last, in the last few weeks. so this small handful of accounts is having a really outsized influence . influence. >> who are global witness, if you don't mind me asking, >> who are global witness, if you don't mind me asking , who you don't mind me asking, who are you, we're an ngo. we do investigations globally. we look, at things related to climate change as well as impacts to democracy. and on behalf of who? >> sorry, ava, but on behalf on behalf of who do you have a political allegiance? >> no, we have no political allegiance. we, we get funded, really transparently. it's all available in our website, and we're always looking for more support. if anyone would like to support. if anyone would like to support us, so we're totally politically neutral. and we did the investigation in a completely politically neutral way. and actually the results that we found were politically neutral. we found these bots were supporting people across across the political divide . we across the political divide. we saw hashtags around labour losing, which is one that's been used by reform uk, as well as hashtags get the tories out, which is one that's been

traditionally and currently used a lot by the left, so, so yeah, it's not an issue that is happening on one political side or another. it's across the board and so your argument is what that, that these bots so people don't know what a bot is. >> it's basically a sort of a phone that doesn't have a human being attached to it, but is programmed to send out tweets on certain issues. i mean, this this is a problem. of course it is around the world. and as you say, every political hue is playing these shenanigans. some governments are even obviously doing this, what do you want people to take from this , well, people to take from this, well, i think it's really important that social media companies do a better job of cleaning up their platforms and making sure, that what people are seeing is real and genuine, you know, twitter has a policy in place saying that it doesn't want this type of, content that's being manipulated and these accounts that appear to be bots look like they could well be doing that by

their outsized influence they're having. so in terms of what you know, i think your viewers should be doing is when you go online, like think before you retweet that really hateful post, and really read what you're seeing because you don't know if that's coming from, you know, your neighbour , someone know, your neighbour, someone real or potentially it is a foreign, a foreign influence that's trying to spread division and hate across our society. i think that's dangerous. all the time, but particularly as we're going into an election right now that's happening in the uk, we know it's happening in france right now. the us will be going to the polls in four months, and more people around the world are going to the polls this year than ever before. >> just, just, just briefly, because we're under pressure one time. do you make this information available to these media platforms? who ought to know what's on them? but their argument may be there's so much they can't keep up with everything. do you make it available to them? and if so, what is their reaction? >> yeah, 100. the first thing that we did was contact twitter or x as they're now called, with this list of accounts , and ask this list of accounts, and ask them to investigate them and to

see what whether or not they are breaching their policies. we haven't heard anything back from x. >> okay. all right. >> okay. all right. >> thank you. isn't it. >> thank you. isn't it. >> thank you. ava lee there from the non—governmental organisation global witness i don't know, i would have liked to have a little bit longer than i think there might be two sides to that story. anyway. don't go anywhere. still, to come. is it really fair to call sir keir starmer a part time prime minister just for somebody who wants to clock off work on a friday at 6:00 and spend some time with his family? nothing wrong with that. is there? >> there is. if you want to be prime minister, this really is a dream on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb. news >> hello, very good day to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. there's a fairly good chance you'll see a bit of sunshine around today, albeit with a few showers around and some wetter weather on the way as we go through later today and into tomorrow. in association

with a system that is currently to the northwest of the uk. but for the time being, yes, there are some bright sunny spells around, particularly towards more western parts in the east, some thicker cloud, a few outbreaks of drizzly rain continuing, but most of that will clear away towards the southeast. otherwise a few showers here and there, many of us avoiding them, although towards the northwest of the uk it is going to be a bit wetter where we see any sunshine. it should feel relatively warm. temperatures getting into the high teens, possibly low 20s. a bit disappointing for the time of year as we go through into the evening, we are going to see northern areas turning increasingly cloudy. because of that system that's going to push its way in. showery rain will become a bit more widespread and there could be some heavier bursts, particularly across parts of scotland and northwestern parts of northern ireland. and that will gradually make its way south and eastwards. so as we go through the evening across much of england and wales, it's actually looking mostly fine. a few showers around, but there should be some late sunshine around two. however overnight that thicker cloud across northern

parts is going to push its way southwards and the outbreaks of showery rain , which could be on showery rain, which could be on the heavy side at times pushing southwards too. that being said, far southern parts staying dry through most of the night, turning cloudier and a bit wetter perhaps as we head towards dawn because of the unsettled weather, temperatures really aren't going to drop much, generally staying well above ten celsius. most places holding up in double figures as we go through tomorrow . then we go through tomorrow. then a wet start. for many of us, some of the heavier rain will clear away towards the east as we go through the morning. staying pretty cloudy through much of the day for many places with further rain coming in from the west, but there may be something a bit brighter but also showery, pushing into far north western parts later on. temperatures going to be similar to today, feeling a little disappointing for the time of year. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on news

>> morning. 11 am. on tuesday, the 2nd of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so good morning. postal vote chaos. royal mail is being blamed for failing to deliver ballots to voters in time for the general election. have you been affected? let us know. >> part time prime minister the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says he doesn't want to work past 6 pm. on fridays if elected. nice idea in principle , elected. nice idea in principle, but how realistic is that? if you are in number 10? >> and after much speculation, andy murray has pulled out from wimbledon singles. but he says he's still going to compete in the doubles with his brother . the doubles with his brother. >> booze free britain. a quarter of adults are now teetotal, not me and bev with more younger people than ever avoiding alcohol. is that the is it the expense health or worried about being exposed on social media? >> and we're going to be talking to the mother and the brother of

barnaby webber. of course you will remember that barnaby was the 19 year old who was one of three people stabbed to death in nottingham last year by valdo calocane, and the family continued to campaign for. justice. so young people not drinking is very interesting. >> yeah, well , well, i was at >> yeah, well, well, i was at a mate's house very recently and her son is 18 and he was in the bedroom with his mates, and i thought they were doing, they were drinking diet coke. >> they don't drink. partly it is because everything that they do can be filmed and broadcast. yeah. and so they can't be relaxed on a night out in case they get drunk and say something silly and somebody posts on social media. and i think personally, i think that's really sad. there's something quite sad about that, that they just don't feel that they can just don't feel that they can just let their guard down. of course, it's good that they're not making themselves ill, they're not spending their hard earned money on loads of booze, and they're not ending up their

hard earned parents money on in the gutter. well, this is also true. let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though, the very latest news headunes though, the very latest news headlines with ray. >> thanks, guys. 11:02, our top stories. the postal affairs minister is said to be urgently investigating delays to the delivery of postal ballots. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail after criticising them for failing to deliver some votes in time for the general election. it comes after the government acknowledged that there were issues with the printing and delivering of postal ballot packs in some local areas. health minister maria caulfield told us mr hollinrake is personally visiting depots. >> my understanding is local councils have sent out those postal ballots, so it is a royal mail issue rather than a local council issue, and what i would say to your viewers , if their say to your viewers, if their postal votes are arriving late, they can still take them to the

polling stations on the day if they're worried that they won't get back in time, but there is concern in a few constituencies. not not all and not not not not a huge number that we're picking up. but, where there are, kevin hollinrake is personally, meeting with royal mail to try and get this resolved urgently . and get this resolved urgently. >> well, shadow health minister wes streeting is urging the electoral commission to investigate and says there needs to be accountability . to be accountability. >> this is extremely serious. to be accountability. >> this is extremely serious . we >> this is extremely serious. we have postal votes for a reason . have postal votes for a reason. often people choose to vote by post, not just because they have difficulty getting to a polling station on the day, but because they're on going away on holiday and they're not going to be around on polling day. so there are people i know because i've spoken to them in the last couple of weeks on the campaign trail, who've flown off on houday trail, who've flown off on holiday without having been able to vote in the election. and i think that's i think that's a disgrace, actually, a candidate for reform uk has suspended her

campaign and defected to the conservatives. >> jorgie david says she's frustrated and dismayed by the party, and accused the vast majority of candidates of being racist and misogynistic. she's the second reform candidate to defect to the tories in two days. the prime minister is making a final pitch to voters today, urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority. he was up early this morning meeting warehouse workers in bedfordshire . he toured an ocado bedfordshire. he toured an ocado facility and enjoyed a cup of tea in the staff canteen. then, on the penultimate day of the election campaign, he spoke to workers in oxfordshire, where he said labour can be denied a supermajority if just 130,000 superm ajority if just 130,000 people supermajority if just 130,000 people switch their vote. >> if we give labour that blank check, you won't be able to get it back and all of you are going to end up paying much more in taxes, and i don't want to see that happen. right? so when you think about voting on thursday, you know, if you vote

conservative, it is a vote for lower taxes because i believe you will work incredibly hard and i want you to enjoy the benefits of that hard work and keep more of your money for yourselves to spend on what you want, to and spend on your families. >> well, meanwhile, sir keir starmer says a big labour majority would be better for the country. in an interview with the times, he said he needed a strong mandate so he could get on with the change we need. sir keir says two of his key priorities include reforming the planning system and improving the economy . the lib dem leader the economy. the lib dem leader is urging voters to help end the sewage scandal by kicking the conservatives out of office. sir ed davey is calling on voters to help him, quote, topple conservative seats like dominoes. he's highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority in the next parliament, which would have new powers to prevent sewage dumping. the lib dems also want to ban bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks stop

and turn water suppliers into pubuc and turn water suppliers into public benefit companies. well, the green party says it will aboush the green party says it will abolish ofsted to reduce stresses and improve wellbeing if they win the general election. the party is also pledging to scrap tuition fees and provide free school meals for all children. meanwhile, continuous assessments would replace sats testing. co—leader caladenia , describing their caladenia, describing their education package as an a star offering . hurricane beryl is offering. hurricane beryl is strengthening into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern canbbean. as it moves across the eastern caribbean . the ferocious storm caribbean. the ferocious storm comes unusually early in this year's hurricane season, scientists say the rapid pace of its approach is likely due in part to the effects of climate change. at least one person was killed as the storm inflicted large scale damage across entire islands yesterday. it's now moving towards jamaica, where it's expected to batter the shoreline with life threatening winds and storm surge . those are winds and storm surge. those are the latest gb news headlines.

for now, i'm ray addison more in half an hour for the very latest gb news to direct your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> let's return to some breaking news now . andy murray will not, news now. andy murray will not, after all, play singles at wimbledon, but we'll still compete in the doubles with his brotherjamie. so compete in the doubles with his brother jamie. so we're compete in the doubles with his brotherjamie. so we're going to brother jamie. so we're going to talk now to the sports journalist ben jacobs. ben, probably no surprise after he limped out of the queen's tournament just a few weeks ago with back problems, he's had an operation, too. is that it now for andy as a singles player, do you think? >> well, i think what we know is that he's decided not to play in the wimbledon singles. so the farewell as far as all england is concerned, is in the doubles alongside his older brother jamie. and that will be a nice

sentimental moment. so the good news is we'll see him at wimbledon. the bad news is that he's out of the singles and then because he's retiring later this yean because he's retiring later this year, it may well be that his ability to play singles between now and then is few and far between. and this was a late call. andy murray had a back issue. there was a cyst as well that was operated on that was causing problems all the way down the right leg in terms of nerve pain, and it's the right decision. and in a statement from the murray camp, they've been very clear that he left it as late as possible and even did some warm ups with a view to playing in his singles opener, but just not able to recover on time. and i think there was a decision to be made. does he play decision to be made. does he play alongside his brother and get that last hurrah at wimbledon? or alternatively, does he push it in the singles, maybe have to pull out and then that may well have a knock on effect between now and the end of the year when he retires. so it's a sensible decision. it's a medical decision, but unfortunately there will be no andy murray in the wimbledon singles. >> it's been eight years. ben

since he won wimbledon, which is amazing. it doesn't feel like it's that long ago, does it? but that's he's been had injury on and off really even at around about that time. he's been a long time pushing his body. he's not going to want to retire sort of willingly, is he? he seems like the kind of character that would carry on for as long as his body would let him. >> yeah, i think that's the thing. and he has been thinking more recently and said this in interviews about his future and the impact of the body. when you stop playing and you don't ultimately want to go into post tennis and find that you've got lingering issues, and he's had so many operations, like you say , issues with the back, the knee, the shoulder and that's just because of the kind of underdog player that he started. as with stamina and grit and determination, doing a lot of running, sliding around on clay courts, for example, and the versatility that he's had and the sheer athlete that he is has turned him into the incredible player that he became. and that's a mixture of talent. and as i said before , stamina and

as i said before, stamina and grit and what murray has done is always given it his all, win or lose. and the irony is, is that in the wimbledons that he lost, we saw so many near fairy tales that inspired a nation . and that inspired a nation. and actually, when he got to the two finals against novak djokovic , finals against novak djokovic, 2013 and then milos raonic in 2016, he won those in straight sets. they were by no means comfortable, but it was a bit more routine than we thought. so murray winning wimbledon twice is a phenomenal achievement and he'll always have that and the other thing to note is we might still get one more fairy tale because he's never actually in these championships played with his brother before in doubles. so if they were to somehow find a way of winning that it would be an equally incredible story in a way of him bowing out in some style despite this injury problem. >> yeah, that would be a dry eye in the house. >> oh, it'd be brilliant, wouldn't it? thank you. ben. ben jacobs there. sports journalist. wouldn't it be nice for his mum? be lovely for his mum to see the two boys playing tennis together i >> -- >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and jamie's quite a formidable doubles player. >> yes, it was my kids sports

day yesterday. right. my >> is there a connection? >> is there a connection? >> i'm just telling you, it's one of them about to become a wimbledon champion. >> junior. >> junior. >> no, but one of them did win emma raducanu. >> no, but she did win three gold medals. very good at high jump, very long legs and very good runner. so watch this space andrew. give me a moment to gloat. >> very good. no, quite right too. quite right too. >> right. the lib dems have pledged to end the sewage scandal and stand up to polluting water companies. they plan to table a clean water bill in the new parliament. but is it enough? >> well, joining us in studio now is the founder of waterways protection, philip greenwood, who we've talked to before. philip. morning. morning, dave. this has been an issue. they've pretty much owned the lib dems in a sense. they've been banging on about it a lot, quite effectively, i would say how bad a problem is it? >> well, i mean, look, it's certainly true that the liberal democrats have seek to exploit as much political capital as possible out of the sewage crisis. and to be fair to the lib dems, you know, the they've

tried to table a couple of, acts to, to really try and improve, but actually when we look at the details of their manifesto, i mean , there is some concern. mean, there is some concern. look, there are some great things. yeah. it's good that the lib dems are trying to lead the way on this, or at least create the impression they are. they've got a clean water authority. so what ed is saying is, okay, let's have a new layer of bureaucracy. what he's basically saying is the epa is no good, ofwat is no good. he's basically saying off what is no good, off what is going to be the sacrificial lamb. it's all been it's all been decided off. what are going to take the fall? everybody knows it. then he wants to pretend that the epa is fine by increasing their funding increase. the environment agency . okay. but at the same time, he's basically setting up a clean water authority. so he's saying the aa is still okay, but we're going to have a new clean water, water authority. okay, fine. let's just do it. but it is just a separate layer of bureaucracy. i mean, the i think the epa could possibly do the

job, but okay, fine. let's let's just, let's the problem is the epa have a lot of powers that they refuse to use. i was at the river summit recently with philip duffy, the ceo of the epa. and, you know, he he was basically saying, look, there's only so much we can do because if we use the powers that we do have, which they don't, but even if they use the powers that they do have, the water companies will just take them to court and getting an emergency agreement to continue to work. and it will be business as usual. so what basically, philip duffy is saying he's he's he's legally stumped. so we knew we need new laws. and also if we look at some of the lib dem schemes as well, they're a bit light on detail. i mean they talk about protecting. they say they want to ban sewage pollution, but into bathing status waters. now the bathing status waters only account for a very small percentage of waters in the uk. if you think in the uk we've got like a thousand beaches or something, that's excluding all

the rivers and all the rest of it, but actual coastal beaches. now, let's say today we've got like 35 of them under bathing water status . when you start to water status. when you start to campaign just for no pollution or less pollution in bathing water status, you are given a green light to pollution in all of the other waters right across the uk. okay, it is a false dichotomy. it is not going to solve the problem. there's only one solution and that is zero pollution. so i'm sorry. yeah, but you simply saying that, you know we're just going to focus on reducing sewage pollution in bathing water status. it is just not good enough. and at the same time, they want to say everyone to have an access to nature to and clean water. well, how are they going to do that when they're only seeking to protect a very small percentage of the water? >> are you hearing enough from labour on this issue? >> as we go into the election, tosh from labour, i mean, it's very similar to the what you mean it's very similarly to the, the liberal democrats. i mean, they want to do this thing. they want to ban bonuses for directors. let me tell you all

today, these directors of the water companies are nothing more than they're just pa, we pay, you know, employee. thank you , you know, employee. thank you, thank you. beverly. that's literally all it is . they come, literally all it is. they come, they'll do their job and they'll take their wage and what happenedisin take their wage and what happened is in the banking crisis, we all remember the banking crisis. so all these guys know we can't. we can't pay the bankers any more. bonus. i was working in the financial sector and let me tell you, all they do is, you know, when a particular industry has pressure on it and they can't give out bonuses, they'll say, okay, well, you come and join us on our diverted bonus scheme. you'll get your bonuses somewhere. there's 1,000,001 ways to get around it . what ways to get around it. what labour and the lib dems need to do instead of, having a go at a water company's directors. and don't forget these water companies, directors. sometimes these are these are actually good people. if their bosses which are the financial institutions and other opaque networks okay. say to them, well, look, we're only giving you 50 million to spend on repairing the sewage network. what can a water director to do?

are we going to jail a water director because he. because literally he's only been given £50 million. what you need to do is ban all the money being sent offshore to the owners of the water companies. that's what you need to do. and then and obviously use that funds legally ring fence all of our bill payers money to go into the network playing around with directors bonus is nonsense. >> well, you say it as it is. thank you. >> well it is i love i love your passion on this, philip. >> it's absolutely brilliant. whoever's in number 10 on friday, can you just first of all, write them a big, long letter and telling them what they need to know or send them this clip? i feel a much better informed, don't you? >> exactly. well done. >> exactly. well done. >> thank you so much. no problem. the founder of water waste protection, a man of passion, philip greenwood. they're right. earlier we heard from the labour leader, sir keir starmer, who was on stage. he was joined by candidate from the sherwood forest constituency. so what do we have to do, andrew? >> we have to say ask if robin hoodis >> we have to say ask if robin hood is standing as a candidate, but he's not. but david, dobby

is standing for the lib dems. she's a great trex. wait, the green party. helen rose o'hare. reform uk, mark spencer for the conservative party. jeremy paul spry, independent. lee waters independent, and michelle welsh for the labour party. >> up next, labour leader sir keir starmer has been criticised, saying he wants to finish work at 6:00 on fridays. he's been doing that for a very long time, apparently. is it too much to ask? we'll debate that. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

what is it? 1120. britain's newsroom live across the uk with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so let's cross live to labour leader sir keir starmer. he's not live, but he was talking just a few moments ago to gb news about postal vote delays. >> we cross each bridge as we get to it. i am concerned about

the delays and i think what needs to happen now is everybody needs to happen now is everybody needs to happen now is everybody needs to pull together to make sure the ballot papers get where they're needed so that people can exercise their democratic right to vote. so that's where my focus is at the moment. thank you. >> well, joining us in the studio is former chancellor of the exchequer kwasi kwarteng and former labour mp luciana berger. thank you so much. i guess there wasn't an awful lot more that keir starmer could say this morning on that issue. luciano but we've all got to pull together, we've all got to pull together, we've all got to pull together and i think just the fact that we're raising this issue for people to kind of be aware, to look out, you know, have they received it if they haven't to put the request in for a replacement? >> a bit late, isn't it? well, it is very late, but people can still get that replacement. so it's really, really very important that people put in that. okay. >> so you can put the request in. now if you haven't got your postal vote, but it does mean you will have to go to the ballot box on the day they said if you've got the replacement, you can hand it in at the ballot stations at the polling stations. >> but you do have to take

either your national insurance number or your passport with you. >> it sort of defeats the object, doesn't it? of course, checking your postal vote, polling station, of course, and for people that you know are on on kind of hours of work, which are kind of perhaps, you know, not traditional and also what has been really striking and why i think we're facing this problem in particular, is that there's over a million people that applied for the postal vote after the election was called. >> so those people that wanted to exercise their vote in that way, because they perhaps weren't expecting the election because they were going on holidays and now might not have the opportunity to do so. >> a big issue in scotland where schools have shut look, i think it's a minor scandal, frankly, because as i've said before, i think lots of people, for whatever reasons, rely on postal votes. >> a lot of the cases that i remember were people were very elderly people in their 90s. they had mobility issues, and they really wanted to get that vote in. and so if these votes aren't there, they're not being delivered. i think that's a big problem. >> does it raise this issue of whether we should be modernising this system completely now and going on to some sort of digital means of voting? is the technology there yet? >> look, i'm not sure it is, but

i think the issues around other forms of voting are associated with fraud and manipulating the vote. but, you know, i think it's quite weird that we're using essentially the same technology that we did 100 years ago. yeah, it really is for voting and maybe that will evolve. but there are issues in terms of the integrity and safety that need to be addressed. >> do you vote in person or how do you do it? >> i would always vote in person. i've never had i've never had a person. >> i like doing it. >> i like doing it. >> but we've been lucky, you know, i you know, i've generally beenin know, i you know, i've generally been in quite dense areas where the postal, the polling station was just around the corner and i was just around the corner and i was physically fit enough and able enough to be able to walk into the polling booth. >> i think we should be mandated to vote. luciano we are in. australians are mandated to vote. >> i'd be open to us putting that question to the country. i would actually support it. i think anything we can do to encourage as much participation as possible, i'll be going with my kids to the polling station on thursday morning for them to see. >> you had a category. none of the above. >> absolutely. and spoil your

ballot absolutely can spoil your ballot absolutely can spoil your ballot paper. i mean, that's one of the things that perhaps the pubuc of the things that perhaps the public don't get to see on election night when as candidates, you go through with the returning officer and look at all those spoilt ballot papers and people put some very colourful language, i'm sure not about you, though. >> never. so i'm very much a kind of, you know, individual liberty person. the idea of forcing people to vote seems to be a bit strange to me, and many people will say, well, i'm exercising my right not to vote. >> right. i want to tackle this story of today, this one about sir keir starmer luciano saying in an interview that, you know, he would very much like to clock off work at 6:00 on a friday, and nothing gets in the way of his family time, good or bad. >> so i'm glad that you've clarified that it was he was talking specifically and only about friday evenings, because i think some of the press today have kind of misrepresented that. and certainly some of the representations that we've seen from from conservative representatives, including grant shapps today, is has made out that he wants to clock off every day at 6 pm, he was in an interview discussing what he does to spend time with his family, that that is the time as

a family. they come together on a family. they come together on a friday evening. he's got, children in the early teens. that's the time when they often have a dinner together on a jewish wife, which is relevant to the conversation. >> do you think? >> do you think? >> well, just that that's when they come together as a family. some people in this country have have a sunday lunch, and i think his family come together on a friday evening. >> a 95 year old father in law tends to join them, i think, on a friday night. yes. >> and he's spoken about that in great depth and detail. yeah, but but but but but let's let's be very clear. you know, if, if labouris be very clear. you know, if, if labour is successful, no one is taking anything for granted. if labour has the privilege to represent the country, then isn't it. well you know, you've woi'i. >> won. >> well, come on, listen, listen, we talk about this. >> we've done this for weeks. we've done this for weeks. but the only poll that matters, people still have to vote. if people still have to vote. if people want change, they have to go and vote on thursday. and we've talked about that. >> i tell you to say no, no, no no— >> i tell you to say no, no, no no no no. [10 [10 110. >> no no no. >> listen, programmed to say this stuff. well, both kwasi and ihave this stuff. well, both kwasi and i have been candidates, you know, we've i've stood in four general elections. kwasi stood in five general elections. and

you know, from a candidate's perspective, the only poll that matters is on the election day itself. that's true. and yes, we can have all these polls that say all these different things, but actually people, if they want change, they have to go to the polling station. and particularly in light of this particularly in light of this particular challenges on the postal votes that we've just been discussing, which impact about a quarter of the country, 75% of the country haven't yet voted. and we still know there are many undecideds, the people that will go to the polling station and decide, i accept all of that. >> and actually there's always been surprises. the last 3 or 4 elections, i remember 2015, nobody thought we'd get a majority of the conservative, get a majority 2017. everyone thought theresa may would get a huge majority. she didn't. so there's always generally surprises, but the polls would have to be drastically wrong. yeah, yeah. i mean wrong in the way they've never been before for labour to not win on thursday. yeah. >> what about 6:00 friday night. so i think that was a very naive thing for him to say , partly thing for him to say, partly because when you're in government, things happen all the time. i remember when russia invaded ukraine, we had a cabinet meeting at six in the morning. yeah. nobody could could anticipate that . when

could anticipate that. when i was business secretary, we had energy crises. you had to deal with them. you had to have meetings on saturday mornings on friday night, whenever. so for him to say, i'm going to clock off every friday at 6 pm, i think was very naive . think was very naive. >> so what was he doing then? what was he if he could be my naive, it could just be, that he's appealing to the working parents. >> there's a few things. i mean, let's be very clear. of course, keir understands the responsibilities that come with being a prime minister, and we can look at his time when he ran the cps in this country of course, he knows what comes with that and he's been as leader of the opposition. he will have still been required to attend or be present or have briefings on cobra related matters. for example, i think separately, you know, it's a pretty disdainful i think, for the prime minister, who himself acknowledged only a few weeks ago in a radio interview how important it was for people, including keir starmer, to spend time with their families, that you can't work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. of course, there'll be urgent matters that come up and present themselves, but let's be

very, very clear who is the only person in this election campaign who's clocked off early is the prime minister. >> it's the d—day from d—day. >> it's the d—day from d—day. >> but it's true from d—day. i knew that was coming. >> i could see labour. i could hear that coming over the hill. right. >> you can go home to watch coronation street, though, did he? he went off to go and do more work. but that was a serious that was a serious matter on an international stage, both in terms of engagement with international leaders. >> we're talking about matters which are nationally important. and he acknowledged the mistake. >> i mean, he said the next day i made a mistake. >> you know, you have to be very careful when you have those accusations. and in fact, we just watched on this show a speech by the prime minister. i believe he was in a factory just, you know, an hour ago where he himself talked about the importance of family and having time. >> he's making the point, though, isn't he? i think kwasi it is naive if the if the leader of the opposition thinks for a second that friday night ritual in his family, which i understand why he wants to preserve it, it's not in a million years is that going to survive being prime minister in a 24 over seven media age with

he's got to talk to america at any time? >> of course. of course. he understands the responsibilities that come with the role. but i think it's also important to say that, you know, it's about how do you make the best decisions. and it isn't by working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. i mean, even when the 38 days that you were chancellor. did you ever take any time off to spend some time with your family dunng some time with your family during that time? and meal, or just a meal? >> i think i did, but but but that was probably what went wrong. yeah. >> i mean, maybe you would have made some decisions if you'd had some time. >> so i mean, beyond i think you make a serious point. i think people can actually go too much into detail and try and micromanage everything and, and be control freaks. that's been guilty. and actually, if you do that, i think that impairs a lot of the judgement you're making. but the point he made about the 6 pm. sorry to go back to that. i just thought that was incredibly naive. the idea that you're going to have one time every, you know, friday where you can clock off and spend time with your lovely family. i just don't think it's a is a reflection of modern life. >> before you go, i do want to ask you, the conversations that

will be going on in keir starmers house. now he's got two young, young teens. >> i think liz truss had two teenage girls. that's right. >> how how difficult is it for the family at this point, thinking they might be moving house at the end of. >> i think it's very difficult. >> i think it's very difficult. >> i think the transition into downing street itself is very difficult. i think liz wrote about that. it's quite it's not about that. it's quite it's not a modern house, put it that way, and there are lots of issues with it. i think you live in a goldfish bowl. i mean, i was there for 38 days and i didn't move my family because i knew even if it lasted two years, i only had she was one year old and i didn't want to disrupt my child's life in that way. but it is like living in a goldfish bowl. you've got media all all 24 over seven and it's difficult for kids. i think. and it's it will be difficult for them when they go to school on whenever it is on monday. and their dad is prime minister. >> yeah. and will they move school depending on where they live? >> i don't know about that. >> i don't know about that. >> so all of those things are difficult. yeah. and i think and i think it'll be quite surprising, i think to them how

much their lives will change. >> i think he's done well to keep you know we don't know. keir starmer children's names i think that's right. he's kept them out of the press. we don't see photos. >> there's their schoolmates will know. yes. and that's and that's that's the main issue really. i mean how they react to them. >> right. thank you both so much luciana berger kwasi kwarteng for your time this morning. right. rays here with the headlines. >> thanks, guys. 1131 our top stories . sir keir starmer has stories. sir keir starmer has refused to rule out the need for recounts if some postal votes are unable to be counted due to delays with royal mail, the postal affairs minister is said to be urgently investigating delays to the delivery of postal ballots. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail after the government acknowledged issues with the printing and delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas . a candidate in some local areas. a candidate for reform uk has suspended her campaign and defected to the

conservatives. georgie david told the bbc she's frustrated and dismayed by the party and accused the, quote, vast majority of candidates of being racist and misogynistic . the racist and misogynistic. the prime minister is making a final pitch to voters today, urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority. on this, the penultimate day of the election campaign, he's reminding voters that labour can be denied one if just 130,000 people switch their votes . the lib dem leader just 130,000 people switch their votes. the lib dem leader is urging voters to help him topple conservative seats like dominoes . sir ed davey is highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority in the next parliament. they also want to ban bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks stop and turn water supplies into pubuc and turn water supplies into public benefit companies. and turn water supplies into public benefit companies . and public benefit companies. and hurricane beryl is strengthening into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern caribbean .

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piero. that's right. all around this desk, thursday morning, britain's newsroom. you'll be here? yeah i will be at henley regatta because, of course, thursday we can't talk about politics. so i'm going to be looking at lovely pictures of ladies in hats and talking to rowers and being on boats, and it will be marvellous. henley literary festival covering all that thursday night, election night. we have patrick. yes. and michelle patrick and michelle. >> election night party eight till ten. yes. in essex. hang on. >> before that, you've got me. i'm afraid . two hours of me on i'm afraid. two hours of me on saturday. on thursday night, six till eight. doing a big two hour debate in westminster with some of our best commentators and thinkers, not politics. we're going to have to talk about social issues thursday. then patrick and michelle in essex election party night. >> so that will be a lot of fun. >> so that will be a lot of fun. >> eight till ten, 10:00. all through the night. tom harwood will be who? >> camilla tominey and stephen dixon will be presenting the election results programme that will be here in paddington. mainly but then we've got reporters at loads of different

polling stations around the country, and i'll be sort of somewhere tucked away in the corner. talking to martin baxter, the data analyst , the baxter, the data analyst, the guy that runs sort of all of these number crunching things and we'll be having live data coming through to a brand new touch screen, which will show a map of the country lighting up with all the votes as they come in. >> and then friday morning, you and i are back on to digest it all. you will probably be writing columns non—stop for the first few days before that. yeah. emily, what's on the show today? >> what's on the show today? well, we're interested to talk about these reform candidates who have decided to defect to the conservatives, one of them saying that the party is full of racists, essentially. so. >> and richard tice tweeting already to say that it's nonsense and that she has been offered incentives from the conservative party to say such a thing. >> well, there's always two sides, isn't there, to every story. so we're going to dig into that one and see exactly what's going on. and will that impact how people vote on election day? also, andy murray, some sporting news for you. andy murray. it looks like his last wimbledon and he's pulled out of the men's singles. so we'll reflect a little on his career

and see what the very latest is. on that. >> yeah, no. so much to come. and of course it is again the penultimate day that we're actually allowed to talk about the election. so some looking back over what this campaign has actually looked like, how have we got here, how have we got here. >> and i've enjoyed the campaign. and how did the tories not move the polls? >> the polls at all? yes >> the polls at all? yes >> well, yes. rishi sunak tweeting away about mcdonald's breakfast wrap this morning . breakfast wrap this morning. >> is that what he's really. oh, i didn't see that. you'll have to stay tuned to find out what he was tweeting about this morning. right tom and emily, thank you so much. all that from midday next, we're going to be joined by the mother and brother of barnaby webber. >> you'll remember the 19 year old who was killed in nottingham last year by valdo calocane. this is britain's newsroom on gb news >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. very good day to you. here's your latest gb news, weather update brought to you by

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>> 1142. this is britain's news from gb news with andrew pierce i'm bev turner. >> so it's been just over a year since the nottingham attacks which saw barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates tragically lose their lives . tragically lose their lives. >> the families of these victims are fighting for justice and striving to keep their memories alive. and this week, taunton school is hosting an event to remember barney raising funds for the barnaby webber foundation, which supports young people facing challenges as well as supporting grassroot cricket clubs. who better to talk about it than barney's brother charlie and his mum , emma webber? hello. and his mum, emma webber? hello. hi. i saw you earlier. i whenever i see you, i think. how do you get out of bed in the morning? >> yeah, i think that too. well, isuppose >> yeah, i think that too. well, i suppose one of the major reasons is, is reasons is sat

next to me. yeah, but as you've been, you guys have been great supporters as so much has gone so wrong that we have to we have to right that and can't rest until that's done. but yeah, i don't know how you do it . don't know how you do it. sometimes you try and find a way, don't you? >> and charlie, you're 16. yes. just on your gcses. yeah. fingers crossed for the results. hey this is one of the first times that you've been out talking about everything that you've been through. how hard or how easy is it to talk about barnaby and events of the last year? >> i mean, i think it kind of like it gets easier than it was because, you know, you get practice and i've spoken to countless people about it. but, it's still it's still definitely difficult to talk about. >> i'm sure it is. emma, you do want, as we said in our introduction, keep keep the names of the three people who died that day, keep their names alive , and also channel this alive, and also channel this into some sort of good. so is that partly what's motivating you now?

>> i think so i think it has to be. we had so much, so many comments and so many people wanting to donate and do something. last summer. and we honestly had we had no capacity to know what we wanted to do. so we set up the foundation thinking, okay, so we've done that. thinking, okay, so we've done that . it's a thinking, okay, so we've done that. it's a it's a conduit that people can put, put, put their monies in. and we knew that we wanted it to reflect the, the person that barney was , the type person that barney was, the type of human being he was and the qualities he had. so that's why it's, it's to support any young people under the age of 18 with life challenges that can be anything physical, mental, financial, emotional, you know, school, anything like that. so we can support charities or individuals or families. but also his his absolute love of cricket. and we know ourselves living in somerset is a big cricket county, but it's expensive. you know , it gets expensive. you know, it gets pricey. it's hard to get young people in sometimes, and he'd be so chuffed if he thought, you know, there's going to be some

barnaby webber foundation bats given to young people to encourage them. >> you've got you've got the fundraising event on thursday at taunton school. what's going to happen that day? >> do you want to say can you remember. >> of course i can remember. it's oh, don't worry, i've got a teenagen >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> you know, they're just embarrass you that side, it's kind of like a, an auction evening and a celebration. >> so we've got loads of, well, not prizes. we've got loads of things that we're selling and stuff to raise money for the foundation. >> okay. on the night. yeah, it's. and online as well. yeah. >> so it's an evening of, of we have to make it a celebration. yeah. there's been so much dark andifs yeah. there's been so much dark and it's really hard to find much light. but we, you know, this is something that school have been amazing, good. good friend of mine, tanya, who's charlie's friend. he went to glastonbury with on sunday. she's been so amazing at organising it with the school. and it's sort of become a really big thing. and it's we've got alex jones from the one show who's hosting kindly for us. we've got timmy timothy forrester from one of the

antiques road trip programs. i think it is, but he's our auctioneer and we've got the most amazing auction lots and raffle lots that have been donated. charlie made me laugh. we were talking this morning before we went and said, can you remember what the auction? lots. he said, well, yeah, there's a hog roast. i said, that's probably not what we're going to lead with, but we have got yeah, we're in somerset, so it's relevant. west country. yeah. but there is like the coldplay of donated amazing lots. we've got you know shaun the sheep, you know the wallace and gromit. these are in bristol in 2015. yeah and the original artist, she's refurbing one that's been donated, that's going up for auction. we've got frank warren, the boxing promoters, giving us, tickets for two different events , liverpool football club have donated loads and loads. we've got gentlemen's intimate waxing, which i think will be popular with lady anything. everything. >> bev and andrew pierce, the details for that, won't you? >> i think the headmaster ought to watch out, listen, we'll just stay with us because we've got to take a quick break. but emma and charlie are going to stay with this is britain's

gb news. >> so we're still in the studio with barney webber's brother, charlie and his mum, emma webber. charlie, we've not spoke to you before. can i ask you? you were incredibly close to your brother. we've seen the lovely photographs of you with your brother, when you were told what had happened. >> yeah , i remember i was on >> yeah, i remember i was on a school trip and my teacher told me . oh, you've got to. you've me. oh, you've got to. you've got to go home. your parents are here. and i knew something was wrong because i hadn't done anything wrong to be sent home by this point. so i knew something had happened. and when i saw just mum and dad turn up, i saw just mum and dad turn up, i kind of knew a part of me that it was to do with barney, because if it was something that big and it wasn't him, he'd be there. and i remember sitting down on the, the side of the bus

and my parents or mum and dad telling me that there's been an incident in nottingham and barney has been killed, and i just it's like i remember the feeling. i can't really describe it as, like, you just feel very fuzzy, and i didn't. ijust broke down in tears and i didn't know what to do. i didn't know where to go. i was getting overheated. and it's just. yeah, it was something you can't comprehend, is it? >> and something that as a mother, you never think you're going to have to have that conversation. >> you should never have to have that conversation. and it's right up there with the top five most traumatic things that i've ever had to do. and all of them were last year, last june . and, were last year, last june. and, yeah, i, you know , i do think yeah, i, you know, i do think about it how how, you know , about it how how, you know, knowing that we were going to change his life irreparably within five seconds. yeah. awful. yeah. and yeah, i think people say that we're measured and we are trying to deal with this, to try and to move forward, but never, never fear that there's this white hot fury about what happened and the

failings. and that's why we're fighting so hard. but that's why it's also in some ways, a tonic to be here with charlie today and be able to talk about something a little bit brighter, you know, that we can maybe do something positive with the foundation. so yeah. yeah, it's been it's been quite. >> and you stayed very close to the other two families. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yes. yeah. very close. and immediately, with, with the, with grace's mum and dad, the mickey mouse, literally straight, you know, that evening, shinade and i, began a communication, and it hasn't stopped since then, and we've spent a lot of time with them. and it's not just. it's not just when we have these, you know, awful, traumatic meetings. we have to have with the government, with the agencies and, you know, our lawyers, etc. you know, we do genuinely enjoy their company and, hopefully they enjoy us too. i think they do. they turn up. so i think they do. but we just i can see why those, those kids, you know, were so drawn to each other because they're just such an

amazing family. and we didn't have the opportunity . and i will have the opportunity. and i will say this because i feel the police force were, instrumental in not encouraging to , us to in not encouraging to, us to deal with or speak with the coates family. and we didn't until january when we were in nottingham in the court and james and darren and lee were sat deliberately. i think they sat deliberately. i think they sat them opposite on right on the other side of the court. but of course we spoke and ever since then we've been in really close contact and i think they'd probably say the same. you know, we think that we feel like they're family and david and i were really honoured to be ianed were really honoured to be invited to james's wedding in april. the coates , are coming to april. the coates, are coming to the event on thursday night. are they? that's lovely. >> which is so lovely. they lost a dad, a granddad. >> they did. and it's like you say it's easy to sometimes focus on the youth , focus on the on the youth, focus on the beauty, focus on the, you know that tragedy. but but ian was an amazing man. he was weeks away from his hard worked for

retirement. and then this monster took him, and so i've met ian's grandchildren. i've obviously met his brothers and his family and. yeah. >> and in terms of i know the sort of things that you can't really talk about at the moment in terms of the legal side of things, but what wrongs do you want to see righted in terms of that journey so far? for, for this, as you say, this monster to be in a, in a mental institution as opposed to behind bars, still being able to his family claim benefits whilst he's in there life sentence what else? >> emma, we were , where to >> emma, we were, where to begin? i tried to be quick. there's there are enormous multi—agency failures, which is something, unfortunately, we're heanng something, unfortunately, we're hearing an awful lot in the news from inquiries. so we have to address all of those. and that's right . from 2020 onwards, when right. from 2020 onwards, when he was diagnosed, treated or lack of treatment within the within the health care system, the police contact prior, lack

of the missed opportunities, lack of doing anything, so we have to address all of that and we will. but i think what we do really need to, to talk about is, is how we can change and why we must change legislation and our criminal justice system is archaic. there's no support really, for victims. they say that at the centre in the heart, we're not. we're an appendix, appendix ? yeah, we are an appendix? yeah, we are an appendix? yeah, we are an appendix at best. i would say. so victim support is something to concentrate on. and i, you know, we have because we've made so much noise, we, we have had some doors open and we have to take that opportunity. >> we've got to leave it there. >> we've got to leave it there. >> we've got to leave it. charlie have a good summer. enjoy your gcses with flying colours. >> i know you will. yeah, hopefully. >> yeah. and good luck with the fundraiser on at taunton school. you. barnaby webber foundation will be back

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